Before We Get It Right

Are you a little woo-woo? Or maybe you're secretly curious about it but aren't quite ready to admit it. 😉 This week on Before We Get It Right, we're getting into all things woo-woo: aura readings, psychics, mediums, crystals, energy, and those moments that make you wonder if the universe is trying to tell you something. Leah shares her experience attending a metaphysical convention wi...

October hits and something shifts. The calendar quadruples overnight. The schedule goes from manageable to impossible. And somewhere between the fall activities and the Halloween costumes and the Thanksgiving planning and the Christmas shopping, you lose the thread of actually enjoying any of it. In this episode Leah and Katherine get honest about what the holiday season really feels like for moms...

Four anonymous confessions from real women (and a personal bonus from Leah herself) about the stuff that lives quietly in the back of your mind but rarely makes it out of your mouth. The mom who has started lying about her ambition because liking her work makes her feel like a bad mom. The one who broke down crying in the school pickup line because another mom looked put together and she had not f...

Summer ended. Fall started. The calendar flipped and everyone around you seemed to shift into routine mode and you are standing there going — wait. I did not get the memo. In this episode Leah and Katherine sit in the in-between. That specific feeling of being between seasons, between answers, between the version of yourself you were and the one you are becoming. Katherine tells the story of being...

n 2020 Jen Buchheit was a stay-at-home mom trying to get through the days indoors with her daughter. She started making crafts. She started an Instagram account. She called it Studio Rosie. Today she has 1.3 million followers, a published book, and a platform built entirely around whimsical crafts made from stuff around the house. But the more interesting story is everything in between. In this ep...

Rachael Stark has spent most of her adult life in public service. Nine years in the Army National Guard, public safety policy, reserve police work, law enforcement spouse. She got really good at showing up, staying capable, and keeping everything moving. She also got really good at functioning when she was not actually fine. And for a long time she did not know those were two different things. In...

When Erin Fahs from La Forme Pilates tells us we need to have someone on the podcast, we listen. And she was right. Yvette Pelikan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist, ADHD Clinical Specialist, and has spent 23 years working with children, teens, and families in her private practice. She believes every child has the right to feel loved, safe, and heard — and she has ded...

Just put yourself out there. Simple, right? Not even a little bit. In this episode it is just Leah and Katherine getting honest about what putting yourself out there actually feels like from the inside. The embarrassment when something you worked hard on lands with almost nobody. The waiting for validation that does not come the way you expected. The wondering why people are not finding you yet. T...

In 2015, Ali Reff walked away from eight years in agency PR, including her dream client, her dream agency, and the position she had spent years working toward, and launched an online boutique from her bedroom in Chicago with 13 products. Today, Alice & Wonder is a full Chicago lifestyle brand with multiple storefronts, a children's boutique called Mini Wonder, original apparel lines, a warehou...

Check out Sustainable Haus HERE * and use code PODCAST10 for 10% off. What if the secret to building a loyal business was talking customers out of buying things? Janette Filbert Spiezio is the founder of Sustainable Haus, one of America's largest independent refill and zero-waste retailers- and she built it on a radical idea: trust is more powerful than a sale. After 30 years in corporate America,...

What happens when you study one thing and build something completely different? Serena Cavallo graduated with a nutrition degree and is now going into her seventh year running Cavallo Creative Co. - a full-service creative marketing agency helping local businesses come to life through branding, websites, social media, photography, design, and advertising. And she built it almost entirely by teachi...

What do you do when the life you planned isn't the life you're living? In this episode Leah and Katherine get honest about the universal feeling of watching your plan unravel — and the question nobody tells you how to answer: how do you know when to keep pushing and when it's time to pivot? This is a conversation about grieving the dream you had, releasing the guilt of changing your mind, navigati...

Katherine sits down with neighbor and real estate agent Danika Holt, former college basketball player, Miss Wisconsin USA 2019, and mom. They talk about career transitions, identity, and why you can have it all, just not all at once. If you're a mom navigating a big life change or feeling the pressure to do everything at the same time, this conversation will hit home! Connect with Danika @danikani...

We're back with another round of Messy Middle Confessions and this batch might be the most honest one yet. Four anonymous submissions from real women about the things that live quietly in the back of your mind but rarely make it out of your mouth. The woman who misses liking her husband and doesn't know if it's a season or something more. The one who realized somewhere along the way her entire per...

What does it actually look like to walk away from the career you've spent years building to pursue the dream you can't stop thinking about? This week on Before We Get It Right, we're joined by Erin Fahs—founder of La Forme Pilates, mom, community builder, and former Fortune 500 global operations leader for an honest conversation about taking risks, redefining success, and building a life that feel...

Grief is something every one of us will experience, yet it's one of the hardest things to talk about. In this deeply personal episode of Before We Get It Right , Katherine shares what it's been like to navigate a lifetime of loss. Together, we have an honest conversation about what grief really looks like—not just in the moment of loss, but in the years that follow. We talk about how grief changes...

Sometimes you need a deep conversation. And sometimes... you just need to laugh. This week, we're putting the organized planned episodes away and doing something a little different. No big life lessons, no carefully planned topic—just a rapid-fire round of completely random questions that somehow turned into stories, confessions, questionable opinions, and way more laughter than we expected. From...

This week on Before We Get It Right , we're talking about boundaries—but probably not in the way you're expecting. Because this isn't an episode about becoming cold, cutting people off, or saying "no" to everything. It's about something much deeper: learning how to protect your peace without losing yourself in the process. We dive into the real reasons boundaries feel so hard, why so many women st...

This week on Before We Get It Right , we're joined by Nicole, creator of @peaceofmindmama, audiologist, content creator, mom of two, and a woman learning how to navigate hard seasons. What started as a conversation about wellness, motherhood, and finding peace quickly became a powerful discussion about grief, identity, postpartum struggles, faith, and learning to let go of control when life doesn'...

At one point, Shannon Warr had what many entrepreneurs dream of building: a fast-growing online brand generating $3.6 million in annual revenue, a massive social media following, influencer partnerships, and a business that appeared wildly successful from the outside. Then everything changed. In this episode of Before We Get It Right, Shannon shares the story behind Clad & Cloth's rise, t...

We're back with another round of Messy Middle Confessions — and this batch might be our most honest one yet. Six anonymous submissions from real moms about the stuff that lives in the back of your mind but rarely makes it out of your mouth. The toddler mom who loves her kid and desperately needs more than a three hour break. The wife who resents her genuinely good husband and can't fully...

This week on Before We Get It Right , we’re talking about something so many women feel but were never really taught to understand: hormones, cycle tracking, energy shifts, and why you might feel like a completely different person from one week to the next. We’re diving into the four phases of the menstrual cycle, how hormones can impact creativity, anxiety, confidence, motivation, motherhood, rela...

Self-love has become one of those phrases that gets tossed around so much it almost loses meaning. Bubble baths. Face masks. “Treat yourself.” But what if real self-love is actually much deeper — and much harder — than that? In this episode, Katherine and Leah have an honest conversation about what self-love actually looks like in real life, especially for women and mothers who have spent years ty...

This week on Before We Get It Right , we’re talking about something so many people are craving right now: real community. Not the “like your Instagram story and keep scrolling” kind of connection, but the face-to-face, sit-around-a-table, laugh-with-strangers-until-they-don’t-feel-like-strangers-anymore kind.  From the rise of “grandma hobbies” like embroidery, baking, crafting, and knitting to th...

In this episode of Before We Get It Right , we’re talking about something every mom, business owner, and human being experiences: criticism. The kind that sneaks into your thoughts at 2am, shows up in a comment section, comes from people you love, or, in Katherine’s case recently, came through a couple of negative Amazon reviews that unexpectedly tanked sales for an entire month. We’re having a re...