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Send us a text message about this episode! Gabrielle Touchette is a professional photographer based in Winnipeg, Canada. She started taking photos at age 13, mostly drawn to creative and documentary-style photography. Years later, she earned a diploma in professional photography and has been running a full-time portrait and commercial photography business since 2008. She also teaches photography t...

Send us a text message about this episode! Carro Ford is a B2B content marketing manager and B2B SaaS strategist with 12+ years of experience in creating long-form content programs, business guides, playbooks, case studies and demand-generation campaigns that translate complex products into practical growth narratives for business audiences. She is known for SEO strategy and content optimization,...

Send us a text message about this episode! Lauren Deborah (they/them) is a comedian known for their Cake It ‘Til You Make It series on Instagram. They were a State Finalist in Raw Comedy 2025, Australia's biggest comedy competition. Lauren’s podcast about coming out (on Spotify), My Dad Stole My Limelight , part of Vancouver’s 604 Podcast Network , has been seen live at Vancouver Pride, in iH...

Send us a text message about this episode! Tom Leach starts his 30th year as the "Voice of the Wildcats" for the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team in September 2026, and the next men's basketball season will be his 26th season. He is a six-time winner of the Kentucky Sportscaster of the Year award and two-time winner of the Eclipse Award for thoroughbred racing coverage;...

Send us a text message about this episode! Robyn Rabbeth Leach spent 20+ years in radio and television broadcasting working at WHAS in Louisville, WLAP radio and WLEX TV in Lexington, Kentucky. She is a Louisville native and graduate of Western Kentucky University. Robyn has been married for 38 years to Tom Leach, voice of the University of Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball and football. They are...

Send us a text message about this episode! Molly Sonsteng is a producer and experience designer who believes play is serious business. She co-founded Caveday, a community that helps people find deeper focus and a healthier relationship to work, and she runs Madcap Factory, a production house that builds games and experiences designed to bring more mischief into everyday life. Before any of that, M...

Send us a text message about this episode! Maria Zeta is the founder of Embody Your Human Potential, facilitating online wellness classes and guided lectures that assist women worldwide in finding their center and restore ease and balance. She designs and curates classes, webinars, talks, retreats, and other events that assist people in realizing their health, wholeness, and happiness needs. She t...

Send us a text message about this episode! Debra Locker Griffin provides big-city caliber public relations with small-town charm by applying the same inquisitive spirit that served her so well in television news journalism. Her three-plus decades of professional excellence have put her in the absolute vanguard of her field.  Based in Kentucky, Debra’s company, the Debra Locker Group , is an award-...

Send us a text message about this episode! Steven Puri is the founder and CEO of The Sukha Company , with the mission to help millions of people find their focus, achieve more, and have a healthy work life.  Steven is one of the few people on earth who has been a senior executive at two motion picture studios and also raised over $20MM in venture capital. He’s produced the digital effects for Inde...

Send us a text message about this episode! Jessica Dawkins, president and CEO of Historic Locust Grove in Louisville, Kentucky, has been a  museum professional and local historian for over 20 years.  She received a bachelor’s  degree in History from the University of Louisville and a master’s degree in Business  Communication from Spalding University, both of which were fully funded by the Jack  K...

Send us a text message about this episode! Shelley Thomas is an artist and CEO of The Mystical Creative LLC . She is a visionary composer-producer, photographer, astrologer, and Dream Fulfillment Coach. Through her multifaceted work, she creates exquisite custom music and photos for client visual media needs. As a coach, she helps people gain insight, clarity, and confidence, guiding them to heal...

Send us a text message about this episode! Katie Fussenegger serves as Executive Vice President of the Kentucky Derby Museum, where she helps lead one of Kentucky’s most iconic cultural attractions with vision, creativity, and a deep love for the stories of the horse. Before joining the museum, Katie spent more than a decade as President & CEO of ShelbyKY Tourism, where she built a reputation...

Send us a text message about this episode! Patty Pell is an 80-year-old new playwright. She has written snippets all her life, including poems, short stories, two children’s theatre programs, sales training videos, radio spots, and the finest, most talked about obituary tribute that the P-burg Sentinel ever published. Patty and her daughter, Laurie, wrote Momma Won’t Die based on the last weeks th...

Send us a text message about this episode! Patty McGee is a nationally recognized literacy consultant, speaker, and educator with a passion for transforming classrooms into spaces where language and learning come alive.  With decades of experience as a teacher, coach, and advocate for delightful literacy practices, Patty has worked alongside educators across the country, partnering to unlock the f...

Send us a text message about this episode! Kelly Erickson leads Wild Horse Heart Consulting & Creative, where she helps mission-driven teams turn complex ideas into clear plans, simple systems, and meaningful learning experiences.  At her core she’s a connector of people, ideas, and words, using sketchnotes and visual maps to align teams, invite collaboration, and make hard things easier to ta...

Send us a text message about this episode! Sara Lieberman is a writer and editor with over 20 years of experience in legacy media. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post, AFAR , Travel + Leisure , and more, and she's edited at The New York Post and The Daily Beast, as well as for a variety of nonfiction lifestyle books.  In her spare time, she practices yoga, get...

Send us a text message about this episode! Fiona Young-Brown is a writer and historian. Originally from England, she has lived in Lexington, Kentucky, for more than 20 years with her husband and rescue dogs. She is the author of more than a dozen books, including A Culinary History of Kentucky and Secret Lexington: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure . When she's not going down resea...

Send us a text message about this episode! Brian Powers is a legal marketer, a recovering attorney, a musician, and a podcaster. He is the Marketing Director of the McBrayer law firm, and he has been a freelance writer for such publications as Business Lexington and ACE Weekly in Lexington, Kentucky, earning a third-place Kentucky Press Association award somehow.  He lives with his wife, his three...

Send us a text message about this episode! Sandy Hausrath is a former scientist and recovering lawyer who now helps people find the right words as a freelance writer and communication coach. She’s written everything from ebooks, white papers, and research reports to manifestos, mission statements, and thought leadership articles. When she’s not working, she’s probably hiking with her dogs, admirin...

Send us a text message about this episode! Degna Stone is an award-winning poet and poetry editor. They are co-founder and former Managing Editor of  Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine, a Contributing Editor at The Rialto, and an associate artist with The Poetry Exchange. Currently, Degna is Project Manager for the Rebecca Swift Foundation, an organisation dedicated to the craft, creativity and wellbei...

Send us a text message about this episode! Sharon Murphy is a native of Lexington, Kentucky. She received a bachelor's degree in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy from the University of Kentucky. Sharon earned her Master of Public Policy, with a concentration in Social Policy, from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. After returning to Lexington in...

Send us a text message about this episode! Ed Commons is the cofounder, producer, director of Red Barn Radio , now in its 23rd season. As of early 2025, Red Barn has had 831 radio episodes and 190 TV episodes. Ed previously owned Chetwyd Records and House of Commons Films/House of Commons Communications , the first film production company in Kentucky. He was researcher-producer for the University...

Send us a text message about this episode! Originally from Chicago, Sam Bennett is an author, keynote speaker, consultant, and creativity/productivity specialist. She is the author of the perennial bestseller " Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day, " which Seth Godin called, “An instant classic, essential reading for anyone who wants to make a ruckus.”...

Send us a text message about this episode! Oli is a NeuroLanguage igniter, guiding you to language learning and elevation through the brain, the heart and the body. As a result, you will learn French and any other language with efficiency, joy and autonomy. Connect with Oli! LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/odierickx/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@OliFrencHoly BlueSky https://bsky.app/profi...

Send us a text message about this episode! Kimmye Bohannon is an Integrative Health Practitioner and Board Certified Holistic Health Coach. She helps people change the trajectory of their health to live better, longer. In 2012, she started drinking organic green vegetable juice and decided to start a business called The Weekly Juicery.  Twelve years, and over a million bottles of juice made later,...