Margs and Mindset

Send us Fan Mail A perfect chocolate cake can be a celebration, but it can also be a blueprint. We start with a story about marking our third year of podcasting the only way we know how: with something delicious, shared, and unapologetically enjoyed in community. That turns into a bigger conversation about why “pretty and proper” expectations keep so many of us from fully receiving joy, and how sm...

Send us Fan Mail You ever leave a weekend away and realize you’re not the same person who packed the bag? That’s what keeps happening to us after the Goddess Gathering, and this time we finally put words to why. It isn’t about having a perfect schedule or doing “enough” self-work. It’s the rare kind of women’s retreat where you feel safe enough to be fully human, and somehow that turns strangers i...

Send us Fan Mail Time speeds up quietly, then all at once. One minute we’re mapping out a whole year, and the next it’s mid-October and we’re asking how we got here, what we’ve actually built, and what we want to carry forward. With margaritas in hand, we talk about the strange mix of pride and whiplash that comes when your calendar is full, your goals are landing, and you can feel a season ending...

Send us Fan Mail The weather app says rain at 4:00 pm, the venue wants to move everything inside, and the bride only wants one thing: get married outside with the water behind her. That’s the kind of moment where destination wedding planning stops being a cute idea and turns into real event coordination. We’re sharing the full story of our Clearwater, Florida wedding weekend, from getting flown ou...

Send us Fan Mail Three years ago, publishing a podcast felt terrifying and we re-recorded our first episode more times than we want to admit. Today, we can decide to hit record with minutes to spare and actually trust what comes out of our mouths. That change is not luck. It is consistency, practice, and choosing to show up even when our brains try to talk us out of it. We pull back the curtain on...

Send us Fan Mail A three-day business retreat sounds like strategy, notebooks, and networking until you’re sitting in a room trying to write what your legacy is and your throat literally hurts from holding the truth back. We’re fresh off the Insight Room Immersion Retreat hosted by Raeanne Lacatena and her team, and we’re processing out loud while it’s still tender, messy, and real.  We start with...

Send us Fan Mail Your home can be beautiful and still feel wrong for the life you’re living. We’re talking about what happens when you hit that moment and realize a renovation isn’t really about a brighter bathroom or a new layout, it’s about alignment, identity, and building a space that supports your future self. We share a real-time renovation update from the casita redo, including how a simple...

Send us Fan Mail Overwhelm is sneaky because it feels like a warning sign, but what if it’s actually proof you’re expanding? We’re coming off a full late-summer pivot into back-to-school routines, and we’re talking candidly about what it looks like to be mom entrepreneurs when life is busy, the business is booming, and the kids still need you in the middle of it all. We break down why this summer...

Send us Fan Mail A weekend can be “too much” or it can be proof of what you’re capable of and we’re living that in real time. We’re heading into a first for us: back-to-back events, flipping our space at Slate, grabbing the kids and suitcases, then getting on a plane and landing close to 10 p.m. with a party start time of 9 a.m. the next morning. It’s four parties in three days, plus travel, plus...

Send us Fan Mail THIS ONE COMES WITH A GIVEAWAY!! 150 episodes sounds like a milestone, but for us it feels like evidence. Evidence that you can start shaky, say yes before you feel ready, and build real confidence by showing up anyway. We’re celebrating with a fancy margarita and a lot of gratitude, then pulling back the curtain on what 150 weeks of consistency has taught us about entrepreneurshi...

Send us Fan Mail A one margarita limit, a grown-up friend dinner, and a five-year business glow-up all lead to the same question: what changes when you finally let yourself become the person you’re building? We’re reflecting on how Homemade Events ROC didn’t just give us a career in event planning, it gave us community, adult friendships, and a new way to measure a “successful” life through memori...

Send us Fan Mail A tiny moment can change the temperature of an entire day and you do not have to pretend everything is fine to feel it. We’re joined by Sarah Shellard, founder of Just Joyful Boutique and creator of the Daily Glimmers Gratitude Journal, for a grounded conversation about joy as a practice, not a performance. Sarah also runs Joy Speech Language Pathology, so we get a rare look at ho...

Send us Fan Mail Your stomach hurts, your calendar is full, and the old version of you would still push through because “that’s what high performers do.” We start there and trace how one small decision to honor the body opens up a much bigger conversation about mindset, self-trust, and sustainable success. If you’re tired of living by a ruminating to-do list, this one will feel like a deep exhale....

Send us Fan Mail You can hit a lifelong goal and still feel completely wiped out. That’s the honest thread running through our conversation with Erika Sorbello, owner of Gallery Salon in Rochester, New York, who’s back on the mic with us after a huge shift: she officially moved into a custom-painted space at One Public Market and purchased the building she’d been chasing for years. It’s a mileston...

Send us Fan Mail A dream starts with penguins in a parking lot, then flips into owls the moment you get closer and months later an intuitive massage therapist describes the exact same penguin-to-owl vision without any context. We sit with that mind-blowing “how could she know that?” moment and unpack what it reveals about intuition, healing, and the kind of connection that doesn’t fit inside a nea...

Send us Fan Mail Fourteen women. One house in the woods. Four days that somehow feel like a whole new chapter. We’re fresh back from our second Goddess Gathering weekend, and the first thing we want to tell you is the truth most people skip: right before we left, we panicked. The doubt crept in, our bodies begged us to stay home, and we still packed the car and went because growth always seems to...

Send us Fan Mail Two days can change the way you run your business and the way you run your life, but only if you’re willing to get honest first. We sit down with margaritas in hand, still processing a three-hour VIP day with our business coach that left us feeling like different people. The surprising part was not a shiny new tactic, it was the inner work that cracked everything open: naming the...

Send us Fan Mail We thought we were hosting a simple content day for vendors to get fresh brand photos. What actually happened was a full-body reminder that community is the real growth hack, and that the best business strategy sometimes looks like a room full of women telling the truth over good food. We talk through how we pulled this off fast (three weeks fast), why our masculine energy had to...

Send us Fan Mail The scariest sound isn’t metal on metal, it’s fragile vintage teacups crashing forward when you slam on the brakes and realize how close you just came to a real accident. We’re kicking off Friday with margaritas and a story that’s way too fresh: a reckless turn, a full car of one-of-a-kind vintage teacups and plates, and that split-second moment where your body goes straight into...

Send us Fan Mail A hurricane, a climate change speech, and a pink margarita might not sound like the start of a photography career, but that’s exactly where this story leads. We sit down with Britten Nicole of Britten Nicole Photography, the artist who shot our branding content day and made us feel more like ourselves on camera than we ever thought possible. If you’ve ever dreaded being photograph...

Send us Fan Mail Your knees crack after the gym, you blink, and your “baby” is suddenly 10. That’s the kind of emotional whiplash we’re sitting in today: the very real physical shift of aging in our 40s paired with the even bigger parenting shift of raising kids who don’t need us the way they used to. It’s tender, it’s messy, and it’s also strangely beautiful. We talk honestly about what it takes...

Send us Fan Mail Two margaritas used to be a harmless night out. Now it’s a full-body message we can’t unsee. We’re talking perimenopause, alcohol tolerance, and the moment you realize your “normal” needs a serious update. Not from shame, not from rules, but from finally listening to what your body is saying and choosing what actually supports your health, sleep, mood, and energy. From there, we s...

Send us Fan Mail Five years ago we were just hoping a family would say yes to a party proposal we built in Canva. Now we’re celebrating a fifth business birthday with a full-blown brand shoot, a cake that made our jaws hit the floor, and the kind of gratitude that only comes from doing the scary thing and not stopping. We talk through the milestone from the inside out: how time moves like a blink,...

Send us Fan Mail A vacation is supposed to feel like relief, not like a second job with 37 browser tabs and a dozen deadlines. We sit down with repeat guest Kim Della Porta, who made a bold career pivot from mom health coach to travel planner, and she tells the honest story of what pushed her to change lanes, what she was afraid it would “mean,” and why this new path finally took off. We get pract...

Send us Fan Mail Mother’s Day hits different when your life has chapters you don’t want to erase. We’re sipping margaritas, adjusting to mic stands that somehow make us feel like beginners again, and then we get honest about the real mood behind the holiday: gratitude, love, pressure, and memories that still have weight. We talk about what it’s like to celebrate being a mom while also carrying com...