Badass Basic Bitch

Lucy Werner is the founder of The Wern , a PR, brand strategy, and graphic design consultancy based in London. Lucy specializes in creating affordable DIY packages for small business owners. Lucy’s no run-of-the-mill PR pro. She’s such an expert in her field, she wrote the book on it—literally. Her two books, Brand Yourself and Hype Yourself have helped to educate thousands with no-nonsense inside...

Meet your Season Two Host, Brianna Dunbar. Brianna was born in New York and raised by a single mom of 5 kids. Through her struggles with self-worth and battling an eating disorder for almost two decades, Brianna found herself packing everything in her Honda Civic and moving 3,000 miles to California where she knew no one, to chase an entrepreneur dream. She found her passion, voice, and used her s...

All good things come to an end, or in this case a handoff.  Exactly a year ago, the Badass Basic Bitch podcast was created in Courtney's backyard with two women talking about an idea. That idea turned into hundreds of thousands of downloads and listeners. We've been so blessed and thankful for each one of you!  Courtney is going to be focusing her time on her newly launched brands and Br...

Meet Laura Behnke, a TV sports reporter turned expectation-busting coach and women's empowerment advocate. Sounds like a mouthful but it's simple: she helps women embrace the realities of living a unique life on their own terms.  Her story may be unique but her experience is all too familiar to so many women. She has not followed a traditional path. She never had a boyfriend until she me...

As Salt-N-Pepa once said, "Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's talk about you and me.  Let's talk about all the good things. And the bad things that may be… Let's talk about sex.  In today's episode, the Baddie B's are busting open the most common myths on sex. 

Danielle Canty is from the UK but living in LA, she is the Co-Founder and President of BossBabe, which has grown to have 3.5 Million followers.  As co-founder and President at BossBabe, Danielle Canty has been the right-hand to the CEO in scaling the company from start-up to a multi-million dollar company in less than 2 years. Along the way, Danielle has developed industry-recognized thought leade...

Dr. Kate Balestrieri, Psy. D., CSAT-S, is a Licensed Psychologist (Clinical and Forensic)  in CA, FL, and IL. She is a Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist – Supervisor, and PACT II trained couples’ therapist. Dr. Balestrieri earned her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, and completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowship thr...

Dr. Tess Browne is a UK-based Chartered Clinical Psychologist, wellness enthusiast, closet creative, and blessed mama to two little boys. She is passionate about integrating her expertise in mental health with her own personal experiences as a human, to support women navigate the ups and downs of life. Dr. Browne specializes in helping women who have experienced trauma and maternal mental health i...

For some of us our moms are our other half, for others, you may not have that kind of relationship. Either way, our moms try to let us know the things we need to know in life. They tell us what we need to know to be successful. But what don’t they tell us? What are the things that our moms never told us? That is what we are diving into today. If you are a mom, you probably understand these points...

Mallory Fox is a former competitive swimmer, fitness and yoga junkie, wife, dog mom and pizza-lover. But one of her most well-known roles is the owner of Foxy FIT, where she gets to ask questions, facilitate a variety of evidence-based practice bodywork modalities, and help people just like yourself feel their best. Dr. Fox was in an accident that altered her life. Suffering from an invisible illn...

It’s so much easier to say “yes” than it is to say “no” but oftentimes we overwhelm ourselves by saying “yes” when we really want to say “no. Make sure to check out the Live on the BadassBasicBitch Instagram for a live Q&A session. This episode is all about Boundaries. What are they, how to set them, and how to stick to them. 

All too often, you hear “basic bitch” being hurled around like a slur. If you look it up in the Urban Dictionary, you'll see that a basic bitch is someone completely uninspired. Unoriginal. She's "unflinchingly upholding the status quo and stereotypes of their gender without realizing it." She's not special but she doesn't even realize it. Well, screw that. Who needs...

Lauren McGoodwin is Career Contessa ’s CEO, #1 power move advocate, and has a life mission to help women build successful and fulfilling careers on their terms. Lauren launched Career Contessa in 2013 out of her master’s thesis project to close the gap in career development resources for women. Career Contessa now helps over 2 million women each year with their careers through content, online lear...

Stacie left her 9 to 5 job and paved her own path. Listen to her bring us through her journey of not settling for the "norm" and how taking that dive into solution-finding and customer-centric launched her career, business, and health.  Stacie is the founder and owner of The Physio Fix which opened in 2017. Stacie earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Duke University in May,...

Whether you've moved to a new city, leaving a relationship, or graduating from school, you may find yourself looking around wondering, "Where are my friends?" Let's face it, making friends can be hard. Keeping good friends is even harder, but realizing it's time to move on from a friendship is the hardest. The Baddie Bs dive into their own experience of making new friends....

Francheska Yamsuan, born in the Philippines but raised in California,  took the Shark Tank stage by storm when she rolled on in on her bicycle known as the “Icicle Tricycle” with her Coconut Girl ice cream treats. The sharks got into a bit of a bidding war with the California girl.  She started her business in 2014. Francheska attended UCLA but dropped out because she “couldn’t focus on one thing....

The superheroes we need now? Entrepreneurs. Today’s economy is filled with valuable opportunities for entrepreneurs to create jobs and begin carving out a new landscape for business and commerce. No one’s saying that it’ll be easy, but it is possible to not just survive today’s economy, but also to thrive in it by weaving key fundamentals into your plans.  The only thing we know about today’s econ...

Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Appoorva is an Indian basketball player and coach. She played on the India women's national basketball team from 2010-2015. Both her parents were athletes, including her father, K. Muralinath, who played for the Indian National Men's Basketball Team in the 1982 Asian Games. With the stress of "stepping into her Father's shoes" and the passion t...

Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”  Everyone wants more grit. Most people believe that grit is something developed throughout someone's life when obstacles or trauma seeps its way into her/his life and if she/he can overcome it. However, that's not always the case. Let's explore, "What is Grit?" and "How can we get it?&...

Carly Brown is a holistic health coach, yogi, juice enthusiast, wife, and mother on a mission to contribute to a happier, healthier world. Inspired by her experience naturally healing thyroid cancer, Carly launched Alchemy Juice, a local juice delivery company in Austin, Texas, and an 8-week detox course, The Daily Detox, on her website carlybrownwellness.com . She loves spending time barefoot in...

Most of us spend our days working 40 (or more) hours per week. Around 1/3rd of your awake time is spent at this job working. So why do we often find ourselves working at companies that don't bring joy or fulfill us? What are the steps we can take to figure out what we really want to be when "we grow up?" and how do we undo a career path we thought we wanted to take? It's not si...

Chef Tara Khattar’s international career launched when she got accepted to the renowned culinary institute Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France. She later trained with Michelin-starred chefs like Jacques Chibois and Joel Robuchon.  Aiming to accelerate her career on a global scale, Tara enrolled at New York University to complete her Master’s degree in Food Studies. Ever since she has been living and breat...

Mom guilt and mom-shaming is definitely a thing. A real, scary thing. Shame is an emotion that makes us feel disconnected and small from others.  It leads us to feel alone in our pain as if we were the only ones who feel, think, or behave a certain way.  A feeling of isolation. Whether we shame ourselves or someone else, mom guilt and mom-shaming can be dangerous. So how do we fix it? We start now...

Disability Advocate, Amber Pierson, and mom of Kai, found her life turned upside down at 36 weeks pregnant. Going with her gut, she demanded a scan at a non-traditional time in her pregnancy, which exposed a huge problem with her baby boy Kai who was born with Hydrocephalus. Unfortunately, Kai's diagnosis didn't end there and was diagnosed with Epilepsy, Cortical Dysplasia, Dandy-Walker...

Let's talk about getting engagement with the Baddie Bs! Brianna said, "Yes!" in January this year and Courtney in May.  According to The Knot 2017 Jewelry & Engagement Study, 1 in 4 grooms report "meticulously" planning their marriage proposal "down to the last detail." And each of these grooms planned the perfect marriage proposal with meaning and thoughtful...