Travel & Transformation

Scared that starting a business means you have to become a different person? I'm proving that wrong today. I sat down with Cienia Railey, a travel business owner who's spent the last 10 years turning a chance conversation with a coworker into a thriving business, all while staying a self-described introvert who'd rather have headphones on and a book in hand.  In this episode, we get into the...

Scared to book your first solo trip? I'm solving the exact fears holding you back — feeling out of place, dining alone, staying safe — with everything I've learned from years of traveling on my own. Most of my travel has been solo. Not because I prefer it, but because when I had the time and money, my friends usually didn't. So I stopped waiting on other people. In this solo episode, I'm breaking...

You're having sex to keep him. You're having sex because you feel obligated. You're having sex because your body said yes even though your nervous system screamed no. And you still don't know what you actually want. In this episode, I'm talking with Jasmine C. Perry, author of "40 Sex Lessons from Me to You" and the woman who spent two years in tantra training after her 12-year relationship ended...

What do you want? Most women can't answer this question. And it costs them everything. I sent an email asking my community one simple thing: what do you want? From life. From your future. Who is your future self? Not everyone answered. And that silence told me everything. In this solo episode, I'm exploring why women struggle to voice what they want, and why that matters especially if you're singl...

You're doing what worked in your 30s. Nothing's changing. Your metabolism slowed. Your body's storing fat differently. And nobody warned you this was coming. In this episode, I talk with Dominika Asare, founder of Dominion Fitness and women's health expert, about why traditional weight loss advice fails women over 40 and what actually works when your hormones shift. With a background in biology an...

Kidney disease. Failed transplant. Twenty years as an end-stage renal patient while pursuing her medical career.  Dr. Kathryn Tapper, is a Wellness Leadership Speaker and Coach and survived what was supposed to break her. And in the process, she learned that healing and leadership aren't about doing more, they're about becoming different from within. We dive into identity, language, and why t...

Living a full life on the outside while feeling absolutely nothing on the inside isn't strength. It's survival. And there's a difference. Rachelle Luv Raku knew that difference intimately. Successful podiatrist. Mother of five. Holding everything together. And feeling none of it. Her wake-up call wasn't a breakdown, it was scrolling through her own photos and having zero memory of the joy she was...

Your life looks great on paper. But something's missing and no amount of achievement is filling the gap. The problem isn't what you're doing. It's who you're being. This week I'm taking you inside my five-day identity workshop, the same work I do with single professional women over 40 who are accomplished, capable, and quietly unfulfilled. I walk you through the full framework we used over those f...

If your job disappeared tomorrow, would you know who you are without it? Work should not be your whole identity. In this episode of the Travel and Transformation podcast, I talk with Dawn M. Hunter — JD, MPH, workplace culture strategist, and host of the Work Is Third podcast. Dawn spent 20+ years as a public health lawyer in public service before leaving a toxic work environment and building her...

What if the life you were supposed to build was never the one you actually wanted? In this episode of the Travel and Transformation podcast, I talk with Laura Ericson, group travel curator, content creator, and founder of a company built from nothing after divorce became the unexpected doorway to a completely different life. Laura didn't ease into this. She walked out of a 14-year career in higher...

What happens when you finally stop doing everything for everyone else and ask what YOU actually want? In this episode of the Travel and Transformation podcast, I talk with Jo Rose, empowerment coach, keynote speaker, and women's authenticity guide about what it actually takes to stop repeating the same patterns, choose yourself, and build a life that is genuinely, unapologetically yours. Jo didn't...

You’re exhausted. You can’t focus. Your body feels off. And people keep telling you to stay positive. What if it’s not “just a phase”… what if it’s grief? In this episode of the Travel and Transformation podcast, I talk with certified grief educator and transformational coach Suzanne Jabbour about a truth most people miss: grief is not just about death. Grief can come from job loss, burnout, a bre...

You’re doing everything right… but your body isn’t responding. Low energy. Stubborn weight. And the strategies that used to work suddenly don’t. In this episode of the Travel and Transformation podcast, I talk with Sharlene Styles about why intermittent fasting and traditional weight loss advice can backfire for women over 40. We break down what’s really happening with hormones, metabolism, inflam...

How do you build a successful business without losing your life in the process? In this episode of the Travel and Transformation Show, I sit down with Preeti Agarwal, a business leader with over 20 years of experience in real estate and fintech, to talk about what it really takes to build a business you love. From growing a company from 25 employees to over 2,500, to launching a boutique hotel in...

Have you ever felt afraid to do something… but knew you needed to do it anyway? In this episode, I’m sharing a few real experiences from my own life that all come back to one thing. Mindset. From going live on Facebook for the first time, to skydiving, to even just getting out of the house on a cold day. Each of these moments required courage, a shift in thinking, and a willingness to do the uncom...

You turned 40. Things started shifting — your body, your energy, your reflection. And maybe you've been managing it instead of changing it. In this episode, Tristin Allison Chiafullo — fitness trainer, lifestyle coach, and NASM-certified personal trainer — shares how she lost 40 pounds of excess fat, eliminated chronic pain, cleared her skin, and got rid of allergies she'd lived with for years. No...

You did everything right. The career. The hustle. The titles. And somewhere along the way, you stopped feeling like yourself. In this episode, Ashley DelBello is transformational coach and trauma-informed breathwork practitioner shares how 15 years in high-pressure pharmaceutical PR left her anxious, depleted, and "dying slowly on the inside." She talks about what it actually looks like to find yo...

You've done everything right. The career. The marriage. The house. The kids. And still something feels missing.  In this episode, Melanie Soloway shares how she spent decades checking society’s boxes, from apartheid-era South Africa to deputy Los Angeles. But it was divorce that made her go on a trip back home. Melanie talks about what humanitarian travel actually looks like and how it can re...

You know what to do. You're just not doing it. And it's not because you lack willpower. Courtney Townley has spent 30 years in the wellness space — from fitness trainer to fat loss coach to behavior change specialist — and she kept seeing the same pattern: women who knew exactly what the healthier choice was, and still couldn't make it. That gap between knowing and doing is what her new book, “ Th...

You don't need a divorce, a diagnosis, or a breakdown to change your life. Sometimes you just need to buy a one-way ticket. Pascale Landriault sold her house, gave away her furniture, and flew to Paris in her late 50s with no return date and no plan beyond eventually reaching Bali. Today, at 65, she's still going — and she wrote a book on what solo travel actually does to a woman from the inside o...

You're not stuck because life is hard. You're stuck because you're in the way. I just drove cross-country from California to Oklahoma, moved into a place a third the size of my old one, in a city where I know absolutely nobody—and then I showed up for my pop-up Zoom and not a single person came. And I'm here to tell you that every bit of it was exactly what needed to happen. In this solo episode,...

Belinda David, founder of Soul Treader and house sitting expert, looked in the mirror one day and didn't recognize the vibrant woman she used to be. Overweight, exhausted, consumed by corporate life and caregiving—she bought hiking boots and joined a meetup. That first hike nearly killed her. Today, she hikes 8 months a year across the world's most stunning trails and teaches women in their 40s an...

Serenity Lesley, manifestation coach and author of "It's Time to Manifest Your Vision," transformed complex PTSD into a thriving coaching practice by mastering one truth: manifestation isn't just thinking it—it's accountability, clarity, acceptance, healing, and then becoming it. In this episode, Serenity breaks down the exact framework for turning fear into fuel, reveals why "I am" statements can...

Amanda Hinman, functional medicine health coach and bestselling author, is back for part two where we get into the neuroscience of why 86% of people abandon their New Year's resolutions by January 21st—and it's not because you lack willpower. In this episode, Amanda breaks down what insulin resistance actually means for your energy levels, why your body might not be absorbing nutrients even from c...

You're exhausted. You've tried the salads, the workouts, the elimination diets. You're doing "all the right things"—and you still feel like garbage. Amanda Hinman, functional medicine health coach and bestselling author, reversed her own Hashimoto's diagnosis and helped her daughter heal from daily seizures by discovering what conventional medicine misses: your symptoms aren't the problem—they're...