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Send us a text message about this episode! Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the creator of The Aura Color Wheel: A System to Identify Your Soul’s Purpose through Your Soul Aura Color .  Her book with Hay House Publishing, The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul Aura Reveals Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons , will be published in July 2025. Helen is the author of Flowing...

Send us a text message about this episode! Dierdre Barnes is the proud owner of F.L.Y. Girl Candles, based in Louisville, Kentucky. F.L.Y. stands for “First Love Yourself.” This mantra is deeply woven into the fabric of the brand. It reflects Dierdre’s own journey and the ethos of F.L.Y. Girl Candles. Each candle is named to inspire self-care and self-love. The candles are thoughtfully created wit...

Send us a text message about this episode! Suzanne L'Heureux, Diving Deep Coaching , is a certified Master Jungian Life Coach with specialized training in Mindfulness Coaching and Positive Intelligence. For the last two decades, Suzanne has been on a psychospiritual path of awakening, rooted in Buddhism and mindfulness practices, while studying with several spiritual teachers, most notably, J...

Send us a text message about this episode! Mackenzie Wilmoth is a songwriter, singer, and musician. Her musical journey began at just 12 years old when she received a guitar for Christmas, sparking a passion that led to her self-taught prowess in both playing and songwriting.  Her debut single "know your name" in May 2016 set the stage for an impressive trajectory. In 2021, she released...

Send us a text message about this episode! Abby Laub serves as director of strategic communications for Asbury University . She holds a B.A. in journalism from Palm Beach Atlantic University. Prior to working at Asbury, she owned a photography and media business, and wrote prolifically for magazines, newspapers, and nonprofits.  She published a photography book with Jon Carloftis, titled Jon Carlo...

Send us a text message about this episode! Buffy Lawson was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and began entertaining from an early age. After graduating from high school, she moved toNashville, Tennessee. She began by singing demos for aspiring songwriters and soon started writing her own songs, which led her to a staff writing position at several publishers in Nashville. Her voice caught the ear of pr...

Send us a text message about this episode! Jenny Leigh Hodgins is the founder and CEO of YourCreativeChord , where creativity and inspiration meet transformation. With over 30 years as a performing pianist, vocalist, composer, and educator, she guides individuals in nurturing creativity and transforming challenges into opportunities for a fulfilling life. Her 37-year Buddhist practice blends pract...

Send us a text message about this episode! George Jreije is the Lebanese-American author of the Shad Hadid fantasy series, the upcoming Bashir Boutros series, and the upcoming graphic novels Tarik’s Bazaar Adventure and Lilo and the League of Librarians, all with HarperCollins. He has written horror and science fiction short stories published in collaboration with UNICEF and others. He is a featur...

Send us a text message about this episode! Jess Janz is a writer, community facilitator, and creator of Dinner With Strangers, which brings 20 people from different walks of life to share their stories over a meal. Her work examines identity, connection, and what binds us all together. Jess has hosted events for Wealthsimple, lululemon, Altea Active Club, The W Hotel, and Writers Collective of Can...

Send us a text message about this episode! Juliana Piesco is a versatile multiartist whose work spans visual arts, performing arts, and literature. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Juliana studied both Law and Arts at the Universidade de São Paulo. Over the past year, she has embraced a nomadic lifestyle, journeying across all Brazilian states and aspiring to explore every Latin American country. Julian...

Send us a text message about this episode! Megan Tusing is an actor, award-winning audiobook narrator, producer and coach raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, now based in Brooklyn. She developed a love of storytelling and a passion for language at a young age when first introduced to William Shakespeare (theatre camp nerd here!), which eventually led her to pursue a career in acti...

Send us a text message about this episode! Renee Puvvada is a nonfiction book marketing consultant, author, and adventurer from Atlanta, Georgia. She has always loved writing, and she started her entrepreneurship journey selling self-published books online. Her most successful book to date about rainwater harvesting ( Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead , available on Amazon ) sold 10,283 copi...

Send us a text message about this episode! Christina Noll is a marketing manager with over 25 years of experience in content creation, strategy, and management. Currently, she is a project manager with WG Content, a healthcare marketing agency based in Cincinnati. Previously, she was the global strategic messaging manager for Lexmark International. During her time at Lexmark she also served as the...

Send us a text message about this episode! Liza Holland is owner of Holland Management Services and host of the “Education Perspectives” podcast. She specializes in communications and systems thinking, with a focus on bringing change to education by connecting business and education to create a school experience that better prepares students for the information age we live in today. She does this...

Send us a text message about this episode! Neil Kesterson has been a sound designer for film, video, television, radio, audiobooks, theatre, games, web, and multimedia since 1985. His very first sound design job was to recreate the Bell X-1 rocket plane breaking the sound barrier, of which pilot and aviation legend Chuck Yeager said was the most realistic depiction of the historic event he had eve...

Send us a text message about this episode! Vince Edwards has worked for Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, banking, and financial institutions. In 2006 he started his own consulting firm, Empire Builders. As a business consultant, Vince has worked with companies from every industry and level. He has helped raise millions in capital for these companies. He has served as CEO, COO, CIO and CMO along...

Send us a text message about this episode! Sofia Hussein is  the founder and editor-in-chief of DINYA magazine . She is a creative powerhouse driven by her love for music, photography, and design. Raised in a multicultural family, Sofia's upbringing bestowed upon her a diverse set of influences that enriched her artistic perspective. With a background in fashion and costume design, Sofia purs...

Send us a text message about this episode! Henry Chien is a writer bringing investing insights to empower individual investors.   A former equity research analyst, Henry has a decade of Wall Street knowledge. His work has been used by the world's largest trading desks and investment funds, including J.P. Morgan, Citadel, Credit Suisse, and Bank of Montreal.   Henry’s work has been featured in...

Send us a text message about this episode! Hanna Wheeler is a Belgian Canadian living in Toronto, where she works as a copywriter and translator from Dutch into English. You can find her at her desk by the big window or in one of a dozen of her favorite coffee shops in the city (her favourite in Canada). As a translator, she has worked on both fiction and nonfiction, from historical biographies an...

Send us a text message about this episode! Donna Ison is a playwright, award-winning performance poet, and the author of two novels, with a third on the way. She also produces activist theatre, including the upcoming "The Art of Audacious Aging." She currently serves as the managing editor for Eyes On Eyecare digital magazine.  Kathie's note:  When did I meet Donna? Early aughts, I...

Send us a text message about this episode! Natalie Ferris is a marketing strategist, direct response copywriter and the founder of Story Strategies . She's been obsessed with storytelling since second grade, when she used to skip recess to hide in the classroom closet and write "novels." It wasn't until her first years in the working world that she discovered the power of story...

Send us a text message about this episode! Carla King is an adventure travel author, journalist, blogger, speaker, and writing and publishing coach. In 1995, Carla pioneered the art of the internet travelogue (now called blogs) with stories about breakdowns in small towns all around the USA from the saddle of a Russian Ural sidecar motorcycle. Other trips on unreliable indigenous motorcycles took...

Send us a text message about this episode! Lisa Van Hoever is a writer and the designer behind Local Color Branding . Through Local Color, Lisa accidentally fell into small-business marketing as well, which is where you’ll find her delving into the world of digital advertising, communications automation, content marketing, and the like. In her former life, she served as an executive assistant in t...

Send us a text message about this episode! Amanda “Mandy” Ralston is a founder and CEO, award-winning entrepreneur, international thought-leader, and 25-year veteran practitioner and subject matter expert in behavior analysis and autism. She has been certified as a behavior analyst since 2002. During her career she has founded two clinics that provided applied behavior analysis services to hundred...

Send us a text message about this episode! Jin Maley (they/them) is a classically trained actor who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2012. Jin portrays the Communications Officer Ensign Kova Rin Esmar in Star Trek: Picard . Their other television credits include Silicon Valley, Shameless, As We See It, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Criminal Minds , and Bones . Their film credits include...