All Up in It with coach SB Rawz

About Angela Fontaine | 8 ½ pieces of a Russian nesting doll, mom, coach, consultant As an ICF Certified Coach, Consultant, and ELI Master Practitioner, Angela possesses knowledge in multiple fields and industries. She has over ten years of experience focusing on transition and managing change in various sectors.  Angela believes that the strength of an organization lies in its ability to hold spa...

About Anela Seliskar Barboza | She/They/ʻOia, coach,  Anela is a Somatic, Transformation, and Leadership Coach and Mentor Coach. She is deeply committed to creating a safe and loving container for exploring questions of identity, culture, race, relationship to place/home, and resiliency as a means of personal transformation and healing. Anela’s perspective has been shaped by her experience as a di...

About Eric Larson |Coach, coach supervisor, musician, crying-on-the-inside clown By vocation, Eric is a Mental Health Coach and a Mental Health Coach Supervisor. He's been doing this for long enough that he starts to feel old when he thinks about it. By avocation(s): Eric is a sometimes singer-songwriter, sometimes theater artist, sometimes cross-stitch enthusiast, sometimes long-distance walker,...

About Sarah Hines | Firekeeper, grief advocate, parent, friend Sarah has spent 25 years serving those that end of life. She has learned so much from the people she has served and has determined that it's not grief we need to heal but our relationship to it, that community care is self-care and that death belongs in the hands of love. you can find her work at www.griefadvocacy.com Sarah highlighted...

Key moments in the conversation include… …how Kim describes himself as a human: Kim explains himself as a realist, someone who’s not “all that important” in the grand scheme of things – but in the same breath, it’s all about him! While Kim may not think himself very important, he strives to add value of his own to the world He may be messy, but that’s just being human! …what Kim is all up in: Afte...

To say that Mike Childress is all up in both grief and the evolution of his business would suggest that either of those are new and novel for him. After many years of friendship, what I’ve learned about Mike – and what he shares so beautifully in this conversation – is that though he is well-versed in both (having lost his father when Mike was 13 and started his business over a decade ago), he’s a...

***  About Dr. Hoda Kilani | Career literacy expert, podcaster, educator, mom Dr Hoda Kilani is a Certified Professional Career Coach and the President of Right Career Fit, a career coaching practice that focuses on education and career guidance. Hoda’s continued lifelong learning, career, research and volunteer involvements provide her with up-to-date expertise in career and educational project d...

About Karen Chase | author, speaker, brand designer, lover of cats and all four seasons For nearly three decades Karen has worked as a professional designer creating brands for national and international organizations, non-profits, and authors. She has spoken with nearly one hundred historical, corporate, and trade audiences in the US and Canada—both virtually and in-person—about history, branding...

About Jennifer O’Grady | she/her, coach, mom, white-skinned, multi-racial, cis-gender, hetero, neuro-typical Jennifer is a life-long Chicagoan, human raising 3 other humans and a lover of office supplies. Her oxygen is creating connection and collaboration which she cultivates through one-on-one coaching, facilitating The WELL (Women Engaged in Life) and offering safe space for all of life to be e...

About Rachel Winstead | a writer, educator, community builder, late-bloomer, and queer creative Rachel Winstead is a writer, educator, community builder, late-bloomer, and queer creative. She’s happiest when she’s researching, listening, and LEARNING. After spending most of her career in marketing roles and copywriting gigs, she recently accepted the position of teaching high school English. “Over...

About Ryn Bennett, MPH | sales professional, co-founder, former strongman competitor, TEDx speaker, writer/author Ryn Bennett, MPH, is a dynamic sales professional with a diverse background in social and behavioral health, process improvement, and technology. As a co-founder of Proposal Industry Experts (PIE), Ryn is committed to making the world of proposals more accessible, innovative, and inclu...

About Diane Wyzga | podcaster, storyteller, walker, and so much more (read in her own words)  The arc of my professional career stretches from serving as US Navy nurse, corporate businesswoman, speaker, educator, lawyer, litigation consultant, podcaster, and storyteller. The personal arc is that of a woman who backpacked across Europe, gone scuba diving on the Continental Shelf, learned to fly a p...

Cynthia Jefferson is the kind of person who sets the bar for her own growth and exploration and then sets about reaching it – only to reset the bar even higher. This is her way of working to *be* better – the doing will take care of itself from there.  These days, she’s all up in learning about caregiving as her parents age and her mom experiences Alzheimer’s. In this context, she’s practicing tak...

It’s not just in his coaching practice where Coach Lee Hopkins explores the complex and rich realm of connecting with oneself in order to more fully connect with others; for Coach Lee, it’s a way of life. (A favorite moment of mine in this conversation was when Coach Lee said that he already knows what it’s like to stand against a wall and watch others converse; now, to learn what it felt like to...

After witnessing so many of her LGBTQ+ coaching clients experiencing relational trauma in their workplaces, Kirsten Bunch signed up for an intensive program of study on the topic. Was the universe laughing or helping when, just as the course was starting months after she signed up, her partner of 18 years ended their relationship in a way that she described as including a “denial of [her] queer id...

There were some connection glitches during this conversation but since they didn’t interrupt the flow of conversation, Laura and I decided to let them roll. After all, this is an intentionally wabi-sabi project of being exactly where we are. Laura Guilliams got a jarring wake-up call some years ago when a trusted teacher referred to her longstanding people-pleasing tendencies as a God complex. In...

Valerie Williams has done a stellar job of controlling the controllable her in her life; her resume shows some of the pay-off. Recently, though, she’s been all up in an exploration around the limitations of her control… and the deep power of her influence.  *** About Valerie Williams | Therapist, Consultant in the communication, culture & DEIB spaces, Mom Valerie Miller Williams, is a licensed psy...

About Jordan Mercedes | Executive Professional & Personal Development Coach   It's not uncommon to hear Jordan referred to as a fire starter. She uses her coaching skills to connect with the core of leaders, she then invites them to bravely step into leading from the inside out. This means they step more powerfully into their purpose, their values and the other highly held convictions that make im...

In this conversation with Sheeshum Galle – financial educator, citizen of the world, integral part of the universe – we explored an intersection of the very worldly (especially finance and play) and the very philosophical including Sheeshum’s relationship with the universe and its role in her path.  *** More about Sheeshum in her own words: Sheeshum is an Indian working in the field of finance in...

In this All Up in It conversation with Chloe Johnson – new mum, youth development professional, service industry veteran, and citizen of the world – Cameron Terry – new dad, farmer, film school grad, and community commons advocate – and their 8-week-old baby Kora, we talk about the blend of community, curiosity, and shared values that led them to collaborate on an urban farm in the Blue Ridge Moun...

In this conversation with Mike Angelillo - father, husband, mountain biker, community gatherer, and long-time pharma salesman and leader - we talk about Mike's ah-hahs about his own big Why and the discomfort that goes with big, juicy, meaningful learning. *** Key Moments from the Conversation Mike describes himself as a seeker, eternal optimist, and by his social connections to family and friends...