It Stays Here

Andrew Heidt of Visit Boise shares the financial literacy lessons nobody taught us, from compound interest to index funds. Then we talk work, who leads next, and how Boise is growing. Andrew's money education started on his dad's sailboat in Maryland, with a book on saving and investing. He points out that schools teach math but not financial literacy, and he wishes they did. He shares h...

Paige Dinger can tell you exactly where her calling began: in a courtroom, sitting through a verdict that changed the direction of her life. She was a high school history teacher turned stay-at-home mom at the time. Today she is the Executive Director of Faces of Hope in Boise and Meridian, Idaho, a one-stop triage center for people facing domestic violence, sexual assault, and abuse, and her advi...

What is life really like as a firefighter wife? Lauren Fitzpatrick, wife of firefighter Darren Fitzpatrick, joins Katiuscia for an honest conversation about the side of first responder life we don't always talk about—the spouse and family waiting at home. Lauren shares what it's really like to balance marriage, motherhood, work, and an entire household while her husband is gone for long...

Chief Travis Ruby has spent 26 years in law enforcement and more than 30 years coaching youth soccer, and he believes leadership works the same way in both: people rise to the expectations you set for them. As Chief of Police for the City of Eagle, Idaho, he sits down with Katiuscia to talk about what it really takes to lead well, from the soccer field to the police department. His path was never...

Chase Tomseth has spent 21 years as a personal trainer and a decade as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, and in that time he's learned the biggest barrier to getting fit was never the workout — it's the story we tell ourselves. In this conversation, Chase and Katiuscia dig into what actually drives lasting change: why “I can't” is almost always “I don't want to,” why the bathro...

This is one of the most personal episodes — because my guest is my mother, Pina Colucci. Pina is the oldest of five, first-generation American, and grew up in a close, traditional immigrant family. She married young — and after years of abuse, she made the decision to leave for her daughter, raising her as a single mom while she rebuilt everything from scratch. What followed was decades of rebuild...

Detective Brendan Kirkpatrick has spent 32 years in law enforcement — the last six investigating financial crimes for the Ada County Sheriff’s Office in Eagle, Idaho — and the scams he sees every day are more sophisticated, more emotional, and more widespread than most of us realize. Brendan pulls back the curtain on the fraud epidemic hitting Americans of every age: imposter scams that impersonat...

Imposter syndrome followed Nicole Cormier from a grade school classroom to the boardroom — until a breakdown on a mountain highway forced her to rewrite the story she'd been telling herself since childhood. In this conversation, the Change Management Consultant with Unleashing Leaders traces imposter syndrome back further than most people are willing to go: to a childhood on an Idaho farm whe...

Chief Tracy Basterrechea has led the Meridian Police Department for six years, with 30 years of law enforcement experience behind him. When a young officer on his team died by suicide, it changed everything about how his department approaches mental health — leading to a legislative fight to get PTSD covered under workman's comp, and a deeper commitment to officer wellness and resilience that...

Every life has a sliding-doors moment — a small, almost forgettable decision that quietly becomes a career pivot. For Travis Jones, it started with growing up three miles outside a town of 170 people in rural northeastern Oregon: a graduating class of 21, and a family that ran cattle, timber, and a construction business to make it work. This is a small-town-to-big-city life story that then went fu...

Mike Campos is a mortgage lender with Origin Point Mortgage — and a full-time convert to small-town Idaho farm life, still discovering the Treasure Valley right alongside Katiuscia. He and Katiuscia — both calling Star, Idaho home — pull up a chair for an unfiltered, old-friends catch-up about acreage, Highland cows, and everything that comes with trading city life for a tractor. This is a deep, c...

Karyn Stuart spent a lot of her career running weight-loss centers for other people — a Jenny Craig region, managing various centers, working with thousands of clients — before her own body stopped playing by the rules she knew. In this conversation, Karyn, Director of Leadership Programs at the Boise Metro Chamber, opens up about her Hashimoto's thyroiditis diagnosis, the punishing collision...

Sergeant Justin Elliott has spent almost 25 years in law enforcement with the Ada County Sheriff’s Office — and over ten years on the Ada County Crisis Negotiations Team, where he has served as team lead since 2021. He came to this career on September 11th, watching the towers fall and deciding he wanted to be one of the people running toward the chaos, not away from it. He still is. Justin opens...

Anita Overall is a Senior Global Sales Account Executive with Delta Air Lines, where she has built her career — and her life — for almost 20 years. Anita and Katiuscia talk about the career pivots and relationships that got her there: the mentors who took a chance on her, the friendships that started as strangers at an airport gate, and the community that showed up when her family faced a health c...

Darren Fitzpatrick is a Fire Apparatus Engineer Paramedic with 16 years in EMS and 11 in the fire service — and for a long time, he made sure no one knew when he was the one struggling. Darren opens up about first responder mental health, the moment things caught up with him, wildfire season, the calls you never forget, and one birthday party that made it all worth it. Pull up a chair. This is a c...

Carmen Goicoechea didn't set out to become an expert on slowing down. She was doing the opposite — racing through projects, managing family life, and never truly stopping. Then a trusted colleague handed her a book, and everything shifted. In this conversation, Carmen walks Katiuscia through what she learned from “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry” by John Mark Comer — and what she discovered...

He's been in Star since 1993, has deep roots going back to Idaho's late 1800s, and carries a political legacy that runs through his family's DNA — but what drives Mayor Trevor Chadwick isn't legacy. It's people. In this episode, Katiuscia sits down with Mayor Chadwick to go well past the résumé — the personal story behind why he does what he does, and the city he's bu...

Some people just make a place feel like home. Brandon Tarpley is one of them. In this episode, Katiuscia sits down with her longtime friend Brandon Tarpley — Account Manager at the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce — for a conversation that goes far deeper than networking tips or business cards. Brandon and his team at the Chamber have spent years helping nearly 2,000 member businesses find their pe...

Craig McCarroll spent 8 years as a Marine in the elite First Recon Battalion and 6+ years of high-stakes contractor work— then spent years in the dark. Infidelity during deployment. PTSD. Contractor life's hidden toll. A moment where suicide felt close. He doesn't hide any of it. What came next was a different kind of mission — DMT, ayahuasca, ibogaine, 5-MeO, and MDMA-assisted therapy c...

Katiuscia sits down with her longtime friend Maddy — videographer,  photographer, branding and social media strategist, and owner of Madeline Elise Productions — to talk about the real side of building a creative business. They cover burnout, pricing without apology, why difficult clients make you better, authentic social media, and what it actually means to show up as yourself — messy, real, and...

What if the conversation you had to walk away from could finally continue? Welcome to It Stays Here — hosted by Katiuscia, where intentionality meets curiosity. Each episode is an invitation to go deeper: past the surface, past the resume, and into the real story. Katiuscia sits down with fascinating people to explore the moments, choices, and experiences that shaped who they are today. After 30 y...