Rising Tide

We live in a culture that glorifies hustle and ambitious achievers find themselves frequently battling burnout. Life feels over-scheduled and week(s) can slip by as you go from one thing to the next leaving little or no time to check in with yourself. You are so busy doing that you don't have a chance to ask yourself if this is what you even want. On this episode we will cover: Why  it is so hard...

Imagine you are the breadwinner of your household and for the last 9.5 years you've poured everything into a startup that grew from 8 to 800. Then the housing market crashes and almost overnight everything you built is crumbling around you.  Not to be defeated, you boldly decide to pivot your career and take on a new challenge. For the next 13 years you build something from the ground up, creating...

Have you ever felt like you didn't quite belong? Or maybe you had lots of interests and didn't see the point of limiting yourself to just one thing.  Then you will love today's guest. Meet Kt McBratney. Kt  is the co-founder of OwnTrail, a platform that offers tools, connection and support for you to take control of your personal and professional journey, figure out what fulfills you and then buil...

Women in the workplace are facing a difficult reality. There are tremendous forces working against you. Too often the blame is placed on women to improve and get over their imposterism, there is backlash when you show up authentically, or women risk burning out due to unpaid labor responsibilities. This might be our reality but it doesn't have to be our fate. Today I'm joined by Dr. Kimberly DeSim...

Have you ever felt stuck at a job? It’s not great but it could be worse. Or maybe you find yourself questioning if you have done everything in your power to make things better. Have you ever had trouble determining if your job was just difficult or it was actually toxic? Over the last year I have been on a quest to answer this question and the answer I discovered was not what I expected. On this e...

Liz Brunner had a distinguished 28 year career in television where she served as the co-anchor for the #1 rated 6 pm newscast at ABC-TV's WCVB and conducting exclusive one-on-one interviews with prominent figures, including President Barack Obama. Despite her tremendous success, Liz couldn't help noticing in her profession that the men were getting older and the women were getting younger. She had...

Fear. This powerful driver within us  can either keep us small or be leveraged to help us grow.  As an  actress, film producer, and entrepreneur, Rebecca De Ornelas is very familiar with fear. For the first 13 years of her career she let fear take the leading role. Rather than trusting her intuition she found herself following whatever others thought she should be doing. Despite learning she was g...

Leslie Douglas spent the first 5 years of her career driven by external forces. She chased what the world tells you to chase. Better money, better title, more notoriety. Over this time she would work for 5 different companies in 3 cities, searching for where she belonged. Although she was a highly sought after sales professional she found herself frustrated by always bouncing from one thing to the...

At a young age, Nadira Artyk knew she had a perspective and voice to share with the world. At 9, she saw writing as an outlet for her voice and submitted an article to the national newspaper for children in the Soviet Union and officially became a published writer. Fast forward several years, Nadira joined the BBC where her work shined as a journalist interviewing political leaders, celebrities, a...

Growing up we were fed a steady diet of the linear career path. We were taught to get an education, figure out our career before graduating or else you are behind (or worse...a failure), make sure to use your degree and get a good job, and then make sure to climb the management ladder. Sound familiar? Except the concept of a linear career path is an illusion. Or is it? What if instead of real care...

There are moments where life makes it undeniable that things have fundamentally shifted. A reckoning that this truth you have been denying for weeks, months, or years will no longer be pushed aside. For Kacie Gordon, this moment came on a routine commute home from work. After that moment life as she knew it would never be the same. On this episode, Kacie shares an inside view of her self discovery...

What does success look like? It's easy to look from the outside at someone who has reached a level of success in their life and think they've got it all. Nicola Buckley left a a career in corporate America to build her dream company. She was the picture of "having it all" and achieving a level of enviable success in her company. But she was far from the dream. She was grappling with severe anxiety...

Imagine planning a road trip. You’ve picked your destination, packed your things, told your friends and family of your adventure, and days before you set out you realize it’s the wrong destination. Instead of delaying the trip, you opt to set out on the journey trusting that the destination will reveal itself in time. This is the story of Melissa Craig’s career. Melissa went to under and post grad...

In November 2021, The Skimm brought to light the necessity to create paid family leave policies. By 2022, we were seeing #showusyourleave all over our LinkedIn feeds in response to The Skimm's call to companies to share their leave policies. Companies were joining in on the movement and modernizing their policy. Incredible progress has been made to mirror what life is today. But we are far from ma...

The gender pay gap is a topic of discussion that's become more and more common thanks to women like Meggie. Palmer As she personally experienced the disparity in pay between men and women, she took to her network and experience as a journalist to make a difference bigger than herself. Meggie founded PepTalkHer, a company on a mission to close the gender pay gap and get 50/50 men/women in leadershi...

Sexual harassment effects 1 in 4 women in the workplace. Even scarier, 56% of women experience retaliation for reporting it.  The experience of harassment in the workplace is a chapter of Lisa Bowman’s story. She had the dream career. She was a highly sought after and award winning marketing executive. In 2015, the CEO of United Way approached Lisa about being the EVP and Chief Marketing and Commu...

If life has ever thrown you a curveball, you’ve struggled to own who you are and what kind of impact you want to make on the world around you, this episode is for you.  Kristin’s story reminds us that even when we don’t know where our path is taking us, we can still take the next move in front of us. After an unforeseeable event that changed their lives overnight, Kristin shares how she chose the...

At a point in her life when she had a failed business and had to declare a personal bankruptcy, Christine Rogers found herself looking inward and asking herself the hard questions: What got me here? What inherited beliefs do I have that I’m operating in without thought? Who am I? How do I want to build my future from here?  That was in 2009. Today, Christine is the COO and President at Aspireship...

At 27, Kristin made a decision that would change the course of her life. She launched her first tech company. With no knowledge of how to build a software platform or support network, Kristin relied on her passion, resourcefulness, and ability to learn what she needed to know.   Over the next 6 years Kristin poured everything into the success of her company. She raised $2.5M in venture funding and...

Titles are labels. Labels are boxes. Job titles can help us to quickly identify what role a person fulfills. They give context. They're also dangerously comfortable boxes when we rely on a title to define who we are and what value we bring to the table. On this episode I discuss the dangers of using job titles as labels and strategies to help you from keeping yourself in a box.  Podcast References...

It's 2008 and Aly Merritt is rapidly climbing the ladder on her way to becoming the managing editor of a major print publication. She has found her calling and is going all in on this career. Then almost overnight Aly watches as the print media industry collapses. Facing a crossroads of pursuing a dying industry or reinventing herself, Aly set out to find a new career. It would be another 5 years...

Tiffany Castagno's story is one of bravery, self doubt, and ultimately stepping into your power. A story of realizing that the struggle to fit in meant instead she was born to stand out. and After years as a billing specialist, Tiffany earned her BA and Masters in HR to launch her new career. What followed was a winding journey where she experienced the power of mentors in helping her craft her ca...

Imagine this. For  13 years you maniacally pursue your dream job, relishing every moment. You love the work, you are not just good but great at what you do,  and you continue to climb higher continuing to move closer to achieving your dream. Until one day you realize this no longer your dream. This is Lauren Ready's story. On this episode, Lauren takes us through the long transition of separating...

Are you living your potential? Is it a struggle to answer that question? Maybe it's something you haven't stopped to consider in a long time. That ends today. I'm on a mission to empower you with the tools you need to realize your potential. But first, we have to start with where you are today. On this episode, I give you four ways to quickly identify that you are not living your potential and sha...

It's officially 2022 and with the change of the calendar year comes a focus (maybe even a pressure) on setting goals for the coming year.  Initially the idea of doing this is exciting but quickly that excitement gets replaced with anxiety. Throughout your career you've been conditioned that effective goals need to be SMART. What happens if you sit down to work on your goals and realize you can't t...