The Rainy Day Collective Podcast

It's team wee! This week Maggie, Misty, and Nikki are in the house chatting things like the realities (and attainability) of starting a business, in addition to travel, dreams, weird hobbies/obsessions, and our big retirement plans...  Grab a glass of sweet tea or lemonade and hang out with us! After the show, let us know what your thoughts are on the randomness of this week's team hang! #pod...

Lizzi Cutler, a healing arts trainer who focuses on the mind, body, and spirit is our guest this week. Lizzi is passionate about helping to destigmatize and release shame/judgment around sexuality so women can thrive. She considers herself a SEXPERT and we suspect she is really on to something. Misty and Maggie had the chance to hang out with Lizzi and, in the process, we had a really raw conversa...

Happy Wednesday! For this week's team chat, we are joined by author, podcast host, and long-time friend of the Rainy Day Collective–Leisa Greene!  We chat about entertainment, television, summer movies (think In the Heights and Dirty Dancing). Things get a bit serious as we delve into the topic of friendships. This week was a FUN, well-rounded conversation with heart and a lot of laughter. #d...

In this week's episode, Misty and Nikki sat down to talk with Mental health ninja Kelly Travis. In the business of creating realistic goals, Kelly shares how she came to this place in life where she helps others create attainable goals while prioritizing mental health. Kelly is a wise woman and there is something for everyone to take from this episode.  Important Links:   Kellytravis.net...

Happy June 23rd, 2021! We are BACK with season four, and right out of the gate this episode takes us down a bit of an unintended rabbit hole into beauty standards, shame, oppression, perceptions of women, dating in today's world. Really, there is SO MUCH in these 45 minutes, complete with a challenge at the end.  We are all in this thing together! Sometimes it's talking about things that help...

In the season three finale of the Rainy Day Collective Podcast, Misty sits down with Collective Team member Veronica. Veronica is the founder of the women's empowerment endeavor A.I.M: Amazing Incredible Me , and comes from a background in the Fashion Industry. It is in the telling of her story when Veronica shares that on her birthday (September 11th, 2001) she was going to school in NYC. Hearing...

Misty, Maggie & Nikki are sharing experiences they've had within women's healthcare. No big world solutions come, but even sharing the stories can help us feel less alone. If we've learned anything from recent Wall Street events it is that when we gather together, BIG CHANGE can happen.  #womenshealthcare #womensissues #PCOS #infertility #mammogram 

I had the privilege to sit down and connect with my beautiful friend Angela Devlen. This soul is a plethora of wisdom, the amazing things she says in this chat alone will prove that! She talks about her business, The Founder's Circle and the AMAZING life adventures she has had! Important Links:   IG: @angeladevlen & @ thefounderscircle.co Website: www.thefounderscircle.co #womensupporting...

Alison Hughey is a music therapist with great insight, taste, stories to share and is all around just a great guest! We talk music, the kinds we love but also, the power of it! Misty and Nikki thoroughly enjoyed themselves! Important links : -Facebook Group: Compose Your Self Care Community -Instagram: www.instagram.com/composeyourselfcare -Free Prompts for using music you love to manage stress +...

Nikki is the Collective's ray of sunshine and positivity and it was an absolute joy for Misty to get to hang out and tap into Nikki's beautiful energy! 

We are SO EXCITED that this is our 100th episode of the Rainy  Day Collective Podcast! What an incredible journey it has been. We've had the amazing honor to hear stories and make connections with over one hundred women, through this show! To mark the occasion we wanted to not only bring another story to light, belonging to another bold and brave woman, but we wanted to honor that January is...

The year is 2020. It's the start of the pandemic... Dreamer and Doer Brittany Rose decides to launch an online business catered towards Gingers. Brittany is FABULOUS, and both Misty and Veronica were so lucky to get to hang out with her and hear her story!  Important links:  Rise of the Gingers  

Maggie and Misty had the privilege of sitting down with author Tiffany Clarke Harrison. This is the PERFECT episode to start off the new year, as Tiffany is an advocate for intuition and offers some amazing wisdom, perspective and "food for thought" during the conversation!  Important links:  website: tiffanyclarkeharrison.com IG: @tiffanyclarkeharrison If I Fell by Tiffany Clarke H...

Jessica Jacquez sits down with Misty to talk about the vitality of our story. Earlier this year, Jessica published her memoir Point Me to the Skies, where she embraces her brave as she unearths and shares some deeply hard and personal things.  Important Links:  Website: https://jessicalynnjacquez.com Instagram: @jessicalynnjacquez Link for Point Me to the Skies  

Chantal is here, hanging out with Misty. The conversation delves into some surface level holiday stuff before diving deeper into the truth about therapy. What is it? Why? It's a good chat. 

Probably the most consistent theme, here at the Rainy Day Collective, is the sharing with you stories of women who have navigated some unimaginably hard things. Becky Sexton is here to tell her heavy story of loss, and yet- and yet, she has an incredibly honest and peaceful way of letting the light in. Her story, as a woman, daughter and mother is one to both give us pause and guide us through our...

Maggie and Misty are joined by indie author KC Loesener, who opens up about journey as an introvert, and how that path led her down the road of not only publishing Horror genre fiction, but also coaching other introverted authors as well. With a background in psychology, KC talks about growing up Jamaican in Philadelphia, and what attracts her to write horror, with strong female leads...  Imp...

If we could harness Amy Chan's (Breakup Bootcamp) energy for you, we totally would! Chantal and Misty got the chance to hang out and chat with Amy and it was a fantastic conversation. We talked about her program, Breakup Bootcamp, and the story of how her journey got her there. We had good chats about self love, coping mechanisms. You'll just have to listen! It was great and you'll love it! ...

In a team meeting, before the start of the current midseason premiere, Maggie opened up and told a beautiful story about her grandmother. Months later, Maggie and Misty came together for a little Thanksgiving episode, to introduce listeners to the women who were Mitzi & Bertha Mae, they grandmothers. Passed on, but loved and remembered always, this episode goes out to strong grandmothers every...

Kicking off the week that is Thanksgiving week, Maggie and Misty had the distinct pleasure to hang out with Tracy and Tonya, host's of the We're Not Weighting Podcast. We chat body image, the dangers of dieting and pick their brains about the their own journeys and experiences. There is something here for everyone. We do not promote any specific way of becoming one's best self, here at the Collect...

We are kicking off the Holiday season in style! Misty is joined by her good friend Karen Harrison, as she welcomes Mary Carver to the show. Mary is a contributing author with {in}courage , and the host of The Couch Podcast, where she delves into many tv and movie related topics, though Hallmark may be her specialty!  Important Links:  Karen Harrison Website Karen Harrison on Insta Mary's...

Maggie and Misty are joined by returning guest and Collective favorite- Katie Allen, where we sit down to candidly discuss this myth of sisterhood, how it's possible we lost it in favor of competition and catty behavior, and how to gain it back... 

Maggie and Misty had the opportunity to sit down and connect with April Leiffer Henry, Pregnancy and Birth Story author, advocate and community leader. With October being Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month, we wanted to engage in a conversation about why women struggle to grieve these horrific losses in ways that are supported. What came of it is a healthy exploration of this topic. Importa...

October is Pregnancy, Miscarriage and Stillbirth Awareness Month, and to honor that, Chantal and Misty sat down to chat with Ashley Cherie. Ashley has been through a lot, in this life, and she is choosing to take that pain and pour into the lives of others. She is incredibly empowering and inspiring! As a Bereavement Doula, chaplain, speaker and self love motivator, Ashley's energy is CONTAGIOUS!...

Maggie & Misty get the opportunity to sit down with author C. L. Walters and chat about a wide array of important topics! Things like teenage sex, purity culture, the problematic and yet still beloved John Hughes films, of the 80's, and her GORGEOUS new YA book release The Stories Stars Tell . It's a great chat, it's a fun chat, most of all- it's an important one!  Important info:  ...