The Authentic Audience Podcast

Krista speaks with the talented medium and intuitive healer, Sarah Sticklin, about spiritual bypassing, channeling, and tapping into higher levels of consciousness. Sarah clarifies the role of the psychic and points out that the best clairvoyants and mediums help their clients connect back to their own inner knowing rather than telling them what to do. She shares some actionable tips about enhanci...

Krista contemplates the future of work and the rise of hybrid working with Arian Lewis, the founder of Kiln, a flex office company that provides its members with an environment and a lifestyle experience that elevates their work life. They talk about the importance of community, collaboration, and the need to provide inspirational and vibrant office space in places where tech workers and creatives...

Krista chats with her interior designer Christina Higham, the founder of Sun Soul Style, about creating beautiful, soulful, and intentional spaces. Christina reveals how her personal sense of style is influenced by her love of art, fashion, and coastal living, and she details the steps of her design journey from student to stylist to creator of her own signature brand. Speaking as a satisfied and...

Clay gets behind the mic and asks Krista what she’s learned about money and business in the past year. They delve into mindset and marketing and chat about the imminent launch of their List Build Academy Program. As the co-founder of Authentic Audience, Clay recalls the launch of their Authentic Marketing Program in 2018 and compares his nervousness about their first launch with the confidence and...

Krista reflects on the changes that have taken place in her personal life and business over the past year. After experiencing burnout and a traumatic miscarriage, she credits rapid transformation therapy and energy work with helping her heal and become more open to the energy of receiving. Right now, she’s committed to letting go of what no longer serves her and moving forward with courage and car...

Krista chats with Kayla Brenda about her journey from super-conservative Christian teenager to professional dancer and sought-after Heels instructor. As a performer who has traveled the world and worked with artists such as Jason Derulo, Pink, and Trey Songz, Kayla shares her thoughts on the entertainment industry and the pressure it puts on dancers to conform to a particular body shape. Kayla and...

Krista is joined by botanist turned super-successful real estate investor Lee Ripma. In the four years since Lee started investing in rental properties, she has transacted over $100 million in real estate. As the creator of the VestMap app, which enables users to make data-driven real estate investment decisions, Lee is on a mission to empower people to build wealth through property investment. In...

Krista chats with Gen Z astrologer and cosmic coach Ocean Pleasant (aka Witchy Kid) about star signs, life choices, and TikTok. Ocean’s entertaining and informative content on TikTok and Instagram is currently helping to dispel astrology’s fusty, woo-woo image, and she is totally focused on making it fun, relevant, and accessible for a new generation. Her mission is to distill the ancient wisdom o...

Krista dives into witchcraft and magic with her guest Kiki Robinson. Kiki is an artist, a psychic, and a queer, non-binary, practicing witch. She believes that magic is our birthright, and through her tarot readings, mediumship, and sacred ceremonies, she helps people connect to their psychic gifts, reclaim their ancestral wisdom, and find clarity and healing. As a magical activist and a community...

Krista speaks with Helen Yu, the founder and CEO of Tigon Advisory, which specializes in driving growth and increasing profitability for tech companies. Helen reveals how her journey to scatter her grandmother’s ashes on Mount Everest taught her several important lessons about business and inspired her to write her recent book, Ascend Your Start-Up: Conquer the 5 Disconnects to Accelerate Growth ....

Krista speaks with her money coach and current muse, Natalia Benson, about healing her relationship with money and learning to use wealth for the highest good of herself and others. Natalia is a women’s empowerment coach and astrologer based in Arizona who fuses spirituality with practical tools to help women channel their inner goddess, create wealth, and become the biggest, brightest, most on-fi...

Krista shares the strategies that have helped her cope with her anxiety over the past year and describes how she’s gradually learning to stop feeling guilty about putting herself first and investing her money in self-care. She emphasizes that all of us experience feelings of depression, confusion, and inadequacy, and we should never feel ashamed to ask for support and do whatever it takes to impro...

Krista connects with Amir Paiss for a fascinating conversation about philosophy, music, and spirituality. Amir is a composer, musician, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner who facilitates healing through music. For Amir, music is the purest form of communication, connection, and healing. He sees it as the interface between music and spirit and believes it has the power to raise our vibration out...

Krista chats with Kelli Mason, the creator of Limitless Soul, a company that helps others expand their consciousness by becoming healthier mentally, physically, and spiritually. During the last year, Kelli has transitioned from hairdresser and healer to spiritual coach, communicator, and entertainer who shares the lessons she’s learned from her long-standing meditation and yoga practice through he...

Krista speaks with Jeni and Sandy of Marvelous, a human-focused tech company that specializes in helping people create and sell courses and coaching programs online. As two women working in a male-dominated industry, Jeni and Sandy are blazing a trail for women-owned tech businesses. They’re constantly unpacking what it means to run a tech company from a feminist perspective, and they’re committed...

Emory Hall shares her experience of pregnancy and describes the birth of her baby boy, Kailash. She laments the lack of honest conversations about the reality of pregnancy and reveals how unprepared she felt for the discomfort, nausea, and exhaustion she suffered from throughout all three trimesters. As a new mom, she challenges the pressure that society puts on women to bloom throughout their pre...

To honor Mental Health Awareness Month, Krista speaks about the need to heal and recover from the toxic work environments and problematic female relationships that have caused her emotional pain and led to burnout in the past. Right now, she’s acutely aware of the need to go inwards, soothe her soul, and create an energetic sanctuary where she can reconnect to her creativity and truly lean into wh...

Krista speaks with one of her favorite yoga teachers and closest friends, Susannah Freedman. Susannah has a Masters in Religion and Philosophy, and she teaches a rigorous style of Bhakti Vinyasa Yoga. They talk about why comparing ourselves to others is so detrimental to our well-being, and Susannah emphasizes that when it comes to self-care, we need to do what feels right for us rather than simpl...

Krista talks with Rhyanna Watson, the author of Brave, Beautiful, and Baring it All. Rhyanna is a mother, yoga teacher, and Instagram influencer who loves to engage with her online community. In this episode, Rhyanna opens up about her experience of sexual assault and post-natal depression and describes how, at her lowest point, she even contemplated suicide. Only the realization that her young da...

In Part 2 of her solo episode, Krista describes how her spiritual and self-care practices have helped her cope and recover from her miscarriage, and she sets out the recent changes she’s made to the structure of Authentic Audience.  Plus, she shares how her pregnancy has made her more aware of the passage of time and increased her determination to use her time effectively and wisely.  Sh...

In this profoundly personal solo episode, Krista talks openly and honestly about her miscarriage and reveals just how painful, messy, and traumatic the experience was. She describes how her initial disbelief at discovering she was pregnant quickly turned to excitement as she embraced the prospect of motherhood. However, she also speaks of her shock and distress when the doctor at her first check-u...

Krista sits for a second time with Gay Hendricks. Gay is a psychologist, author, and public speaker whose latest book, The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity, will be published in June. As a lifelong meditator, Gay knows that looking inwards, accepting the full spectrum of our emotions, and getting clear on what makes us happy can help us acc...

Krista interviews the other half of Authentic Audience, her husband, best friend, and business partner, Clay Ripma.  This month Krista and Clay are celebrating four years of being in business together, and they talk about the twists and turns their lives have taken along the way. They reveal how losing one of their major clients due to the pandemic forced them to diversify their business and...

Krista interviews Lindsey Simcik and Krista Williams, the hosts of the Almost 30 podcast. Lindsey and Krista are leaders, disruptors, change-makers, and vulnerable human beings who share their learnings and experiences through their podcasts, courses, music, and words. Today, they talk about how they manage to stay true to themselves and keep their community onboard as they change and evolve as pe...

Krista introduces her Authentic Selling Bootcamp and interviews her friend and mentor, Dan Austin, who is excited to be collaborating with her in this new venture. Dan is an entrepreneur, sales coach, and senior-level executive in business strategy with over 25 years of experience in the eCommerce and enterprise technology industries. His mission is to help people understand that selling shouldn’t...