Becoming

She built a thriving business, navigated motherhood, and faced unimaginable challenges, but life had more lessons in store. In this episode of Becoming with Nicole Toudoze , Laura Maly , co-founder of Wonderist Agency - Dental Marketing , shares her journey from starting an agency at a kitchen table to leading an Inc. 5000 company, all while navigating divorce, adoption, and her daughter’s life-th...

He seemed to have it all: a thriving career, accolades, financial success. But behind every achievement was a man who had been performing life for the wrong reasons. In this episode of Becoming , Eric Gallegos , VP of Growth in InsideDesk , opens up about the awakening that shifted everything. From performative living and chasing external validation to isolating himself and facing hard truths, Eri...

Before the guests, there was this. Episode 0 is my story, the one that made this show necessary. One of my most trusted people, Chelsea Maldonado, sits down with me to ask the questions I'd never been asked publicly. And I answer all of them. I share what my life looked like before my awakening: the performative, self-sacrificing version of me who looked like she had it together but was quietly fa...

She said yes to writing a children's book with no agent, no publisher, and no plan. Just a conversation, a calling, and a Google Doc. That book ended up in the hands of a HarperCollins publisher, and the illustrator they brought in? She's now a full-time children's book illustrator too. In this episode of Becoming, I sit down with my dear friend and neighbor, Cameron Vickrey , co-author of My Love...

She started filming makeup tutorials in her daughter’s nursery with no plan, no following, and no idea where it would lead.  That woman is now the founder of BK Beauty , one of TikTok’s most viral beauty brands, ranked in the top 500 of the Inc. 5000 for the third year in a row. In this episode of Becoming, I sit down with my friend Lisa Jauregui for a conversation that every woman and mother need...

I spent most of my life building an identity around what everyone else expected of me.  I looked successful on the outside, but inside, I was empty. When everything crumbled, my marriage, my sense of self, every aspect of the life I had created, I stood in front of the mirror and didn't recognize the woman looking back.  Who had I become? That question broke me open.  The truth is, I had buried my...