A Fresh Story

A Fresh Story, season 4, episode 6 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. These stories may be of grief, but they are also of hope, resilience, and most of all, unconditional love. As a reminder, be gentle with your heart, and if you are not able to listen to this episode at the moment, we understand and we are holding you...

A Fresh Story, season 4, episode 5 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. These stories may be of grief, but they are also of hope, resilience, and most of all, unconditional love. As a reminder, be gentle with your heart, and if you are not able to listen to this episode at the moment, we understand and we are holding you...

A Fresh Story, season 4, episode 4 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. These stories may be of grief, but they are also of hope, resilience, and most of all, unconditional love. As a reminder, be gentle with your heart, and if you are not able to listen to this episode at the moment, we understand and we are holding you...

A Fresh Story, season 4, episode 3 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. These stories may be of grief, but they are also of hope, resilience, and most of all, unconditional love. As a reminder, be gentle with your heart, and if you are not able to listen to this episode at the moment, we understand and we are holding you...

A Fresh Story, season 4, episode 2 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. These stories may be of grief, but they are also of hope, resilience, and most of all, unconditional love. As a reminder, be gentle with your heart, and if you are not able to listen to this episode at the moment, we understand and we are holding you...

A Fresh Story, season 4, episode 1 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. These stories may be of grief, but they are also of hope, resilience, and most of all, unconditional love. As a reminder, be gentle with your heart, and if you are not able to listen to this episode at the moment, we understand and we are holding you...

Olivia and Jenny share a quick update on their lives, the future of the podcast, and what you'll be hearing in October.

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 20 We had the chance to talk to Ashley Mason about her fresh starts in life, including having the bravery to leave a toxic relationship at a young age, to supporting her mother through her last days of life, and how she lives with grief. Ashley is so full of positivity and gratitude for her experiences, and we were honored that she felt safe enough to share her sto...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 19 Why are friendship breakups so heartbreaking and hard to untangle? We talked to our dear, wonderful, and witchy friend Maddie Eisenhart about her fresh starts in life, including getting married young, parenthood, career changes, and untangling herself from a co-dependent work relationship. We laughed, we may have even barfed, and a good time was had by all! If y...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 18 We had the chance to talk to CEO, and working mom, Kelley Higney! Kelley is brilliant, lovely, and so passionate about changing the world with her product, Bug Bite Thing. We chatted with Kelley about her career change, making fresh starts, being a working mom, becoming a CEO, and of course…going on Shark Tank! Kelley Higney is the founder and CEO of  Bug Bite T...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 17 We had the chance to talk to Adam Marx all about networking, human nature, relationships, and so much more! Adam is funny, honest, and we had a fantastic convo about career changes, networking when you don't feel like networking, music, and families. Adam Marx is a networking & branding consultant, speaker, tech founder, startup advisor, journalist, &amp...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 16 We had the chance to talk to esthetician Jennifer Adell. We chatted about the connection between our skin and our stories and spirituality; how she built a community on social media, and why she believes in empowering women to age proudly and beautifully. As a licensed esthetician for more than twenty years, Jennifer Adell has fostered a unique practice that inc...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 15 We chatted with SiriusXM talk show host, entrepreneur, podcaster, and mom, Nicole Ryan. What happens when a fresh start is forced upon us in life? After surviving a car accident, Nicole had to rebuild her body, mind, and life, and start fresh with a grateful perspective on life. We talked about Nicole’s career in entertainment and radio, being a working parent,...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 14 We talked to comedian and advocate Laura High about everything from her divorce to being donor-conceived, and everything in between. Laura chatted with us about the end of her marriage, finding her home on the stage, and meeting her new husband. We talked about her advocacy work for donor-conceived people and how she is shifting the cultural narrative in the way...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 13 We had the chance to talk to podcaster and entrepreneur Matt LeBris about growing up and marching to the beat of his own drum, finding his community, how he jumped into podcasting, and his journey through mental health. We talked about why it’s important to have mentors (and be a mentor), how we can learn more about our own mental health, and the beauty and magi...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 12 We had the chance to talk to author L’Oreal Thompson Payton about why we need to stop waiting for perfect, and embrace our identity as we step out of our comfort zone and into our power. With guest co-host Rob Abney, we talked about growing up in the early 2000s, the process of writing a book, embracing our nerdy selves, and so much more! L’Oreal Thompson Payton...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 11 What’s the relationship between crisis control, public relations, and divorce? Well, a lot! We had the immense pleasure of chatting with the fantastic Pop Culture and PR Expert Molly McPherson about communications, social media, public relations, and how to navigate our inner resilience during our own personal crises. It’s a beautiful conversation about the inte...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 10 How does major trauma in our childhood change the course of our life? We chatted with friend of the podcast, Matt Gilhooly about his major life shifts, including losing his mother in a tragedy at a young age. Matt has since turned his grief into the award-winning podcast The Life Shift Podcast, where he talks to people about their own personal life shift moments...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 9 We had the best time talking to award-winning luthier Jayne Henderson about her fresh start into the world of building instruments. We chatted about her relationship with her father, her major career pivot into the world of luthiers, being a female founder and working mother in a predominantly male industry, and how becoming a mother changed her outlook on life....

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 8 We had the best time talking to award-winning writer and community builder, Rachel Sobel. Rachel is authentic, raw, honest, and hilarious as she shares about her divorce experience, meeting her second (and final) husband, having daughters, building community, and how to support people going through a divorce. Rachel is so loving, gracious, and supportive, and we...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 7 We were honored to talk to one half of the Grammy-award winning duo The Okee Dokee Brothers, Joe Mailander, about his fresh starts in life, including sobriety, their journey in music, and how they compose songs to address real life issues for little ears. We chatted about why music is so important for families, their goal to get families outside, and how we can h...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 6 We chatted with author, blogger, lifestyle expert, mom, and innovator, Jordan Reid, founder of Ramshackle Glam. We’ve known Jordan for years, and we were honored to have the time to sit down with her and chat all things influencer world, what happens after you stop influencing, all of her fresh starts in life, a fresh start into parenthood, mental health, divorce...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 5 A very special guest on this mini-bonus episode: Wyatt, Olivia's son! Wyatt leaves us with a few wise words and makes us laugh. A career in podcasting? Unclear, but this is a start!

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 4 We chatted with marketing expert and mom Megan Miller about the experience of her young son being diagnosed with cancer, and their journey together, as well as her background in entertainment, opera, and experiential marketing. We talked about how life and parenting is all about creating experiences for people, and what that means when life gets tough. It’s a bea...

A Fresh Story, season 3, episode 3 Friend of the podcast, Rob Abney is back! And this time, to talk about relationships. We dive into what it means to be a partner in a relationship, how you know you’ve become a “we,” and what that means for our personal and shared identities. Rob is a marketing executive with over 15 years of experience helping small businesses, startups and large household brand...