Airing Out Your Vagina

When I opened my first neighborhood hospital in El Paso, I hired a go-getter nurse named Michelle. Ten years later, she’s a family nurse practitioner who has opened a self-pay clinic with her husband, an ER physician, to serve the people the insurance system leaves behind. Michelle grew up in the small border community of Fabens, became a mom at 20, and built her career one degree at a time: socia...

Midlife crisis? Allie says no. In this solo episode, she makes the case that what women experience in their 40s is a midlife revolution, an awakening that changes what we want, what we tolerate, and who we choose to spend our time with. Allie just turned 48 (not 38, as she mistakenly said last week) and uses the milestone to talk candidly about how her priorities have shifted since her 20s and 30s...

Midlife crisis? Ally says no. In this solo episode, she makes the case that what women experience in their 40s is a midlife revolution, an awakening that changes what we want, what we tolerate, and who we choose to spend our time with. Ally just turned 48 (not 38, as she mistakenly said last week) and uses the milestone to talk candidly about how her priorities have shifted since her 20s and 30s....

I went back on antidepressants this summer, and I'm airing it all out. It's been two years since I published Airing Out Your Vagina: Being a Real Woman in an Unreal World and landed in the unemployment line less than a week later. In this solo episode, I'm getting honest about where I am now. That includes one of the hardest summers of my life: Depression, chest-crushing anxiety, an...

Growth doesn't always mean climbing up. Myriam Guerrero moved sideways through nearly every department at Workforce Solutions Borderplex before becoming its CFO, and that lattice career gave her everything she needed for the top job. Then she and her Army veteran husband bought a Tint World franchise "just for fun." Five years later, it's a top 10 store nationwide, they've...

Most people never get there. Dr. Tiffany Tajiri, PsyD, a former special operations psychologist, veteran, and founder of Freedom Rhythm, joins Allie to talk about why self-actualization is so rare, and how chronic stress, unprocessed trauma, and the pressure to be "palatable" keep most of us stuck. They cover the body keeping score, what a flow state actually feels like, why women are co...

Teresa Montes climbed from a 17-year-old receptionist to a general manager in the car business, an industry that's still overwhelmingly run by men. She joins Allie to talk about what she had to learn, unlearn, and toughen up to get there. They dig into leadership that actually works: why teaching your team beats micromanaging them, how to spot "weaponized incompetence" before it cos...

Hustle culture told us to fill the calendar, say yes to everything, and rest when we're dead. Iris Lopez calls that what it is: A trap. Allie sits down with El Paso radio personality and nonprofit founder Iris Lopez of Mija, Yes You Can. Iris went from a shy kid who couldn't sing in front of people, to local TV news, to out of work during COVID with food stamps and six months of rent in...

A boss has a title. A leader is made by how they show up when things go sideways. In this solo episode, Allie unpacks the real difference between leading and bossing — the same idea behind the video that's now been viewed over 2.5 million times — and gets honest about what's shifted for her over the last few months: building her Unfiltered Leader coaching program, missing the part of cor...

This week, Allie is joined by friend, fellow entrepreneur, and LaunchLab alum Ginger Braun for a conversation about what actually happens when you leave the corporate ladder behind — the identity crisis, the guilt, the delayed gratification of building something new, and the realization that "success at all costs" was never actually the goal. Together they talk about the lattice effect (...

This week on Airing Out Your Vagina, I'm talking with Mattie Jones: foster care survivor, Army veteran, and CASA advocate. Mattie grew up removed from an abusive home, aged out of the system with nothing, survived a violent relationship, and found her footing in the military, where she also lost close friends to suicide. Now she volunteers as a CASA advocate, showing up for foster kids the wa...

Ale Ruiz spends her days as a bilingual perinatal mental health counselor helping moms through postpartum depression and anxiety. She's also the founder of Mom's Place, a maternal mental health counseling center in El Paso getting ready to open its first in person clinic. So what happens when the expert on postpartum depression gets postpartum depression herself, twice, in two completely...

Allie sits down with nurse practitioner and hormone specialist Dr. Christy Blanco for a real conversation about perimenopause, menopause, and why so many women spend years being told to just push through it. They talk about the earliest signs the transition has started, the link between hormone loss and depression, why weight gain during this time isn't a willpower problem, testosterone thera...

Men have always had the golf course. Allie sits down with Lisa Hernandez, founder of El Paso Women's Network, to talk about why women need the same thing and why she got tired of waiting for someone to build it for her. The conversation moves fast from there: losing her husband suddenly, becoming an empty nester almost overnight, and the belief in her own unworthiness she had to torch to rebu...

Jo Rust doesn't just write books, she nearly didn't survive her own. The ghostwriter who helped bring "Airing Out Your Vagina" to life joins Allie for the first time on the podcast, and what she shares will floor you. Jo opens up about growing up with undiagnosed autism and crippling social phobia, surviving childhood trauma and multiple suicide attempts, and losing people she...

Y'all know the drill by now. We say the quiet part out loud, and today's guest doesn't hold back. Amber Banda, an El Paso radio personality known for her voice long before anyone knew her story, sits down with Allie to unpack what it actually took to become the woman people now buy tickets to hear speak. Amber gets real about surviving childhood sexual abuse, growing up under an und...

You've climbed the ladder. Checked every box. Earned the title, the salary, the seat at the table. And somewhere in the middle of all of it... you lost yourself. This episode is for the high-achieving woman who's not burned out from working too hard. She's burned out from performing a version of herself that no longer fits. Allie gets honest about what it really felt like to be a mu...

Somewhere between the corner office, the carpool line, and the third glass of wine, a lot of women in healthcare lose themselves completely. This episode is about finding the road back. Allie sits down with her friend and fellow healthcare executive Jeanine Loewen, a behavioral health professional whose career started in law enforcement and eventually led her to oversee psychiatric programs across...

What happens when the life you worked your ass off to build looks successful from the outside, but feels miserable to live on the inside? In this raw Season 2 episode of Airing Out Your Vagina , Allie Trimble-Lozano talks about corporate burnout, healthcare leadership, betrayal, rebuilding, boundaries, and the brutal realization that success, survival, and alignment are not the same damn thing. Fr...

Download my free mini-ebook: It's About Damn Time: The Self Check for Women Leaders Who Work Their Ass Off, Play By the Rules, and STILL Get Passed Over. Season One of Airing Out Your Vagina didn’t end the way it was supposed to.  There was no finale. No goodbye. No explanation.  Just a casual “see you next week”… followed by silence. Until now… In this raw and unfiltered Season Two kickoff e...

Download my free mini-ebook: It's About Damn Time: The Self Check for Women Leaders Who Work Their Ass Off, Play By the Rules, and STILL Get Passed Over. In this episode, I sit down with Ana Diaz for a conversation that feels both tender and powerful. We talk about grief. Not just the kind that comes from losing someone you love, but the grief that comes from losing a job, a role, a version o...

Download my free mini-ebook: It's About Damn Time: The Self Check for Women Leaders Who Work Their Ass Off, Play By the Rules, and STILL Get Passed Over. In this episode, I sit down with career coach and healthcare administration expert Ginger Raya for a real conversation about where healthcare stands today and what it means for the people working inside it. Healthcare is in a moment of strai...

Download my free mini-ebook: It's About Damn Time: The Self Check for Women Leaders Who Work Their Ass Off, Play By the Rules, and STILL Get Passed Over. I’m so honored to have been invited to speak at 1810 Taqueria Tradicional for the El Paso Women’s Network Galentine’s gathering. What an incredible evening spent surrounded by strong, driven, and authentic women who are building, leading, an...

Download my free mini-ebook: It's About Damn Time: The Self Check for Women Leaders Who Work Their Ass Off, Play By the Rules, and STILL Get Passed Over. I sat down with Melissa Rogers, a Nationwide VIP Matchmaker whose job is as fascinating as it sounds. She doesn’t just introduce people. She curates alignment. We talked about relationships through a leadership lens. The CEO’s guide to love....

Download my free mini-ebook: It's About Damn Time: The Self Check for Women Leaders Who Work Their Ass Off, Play By the Rules, and STILL Get Passed Over. In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend *Amanda North*, the voice behind The Narrated Life and someone who truly lives at the intersection of poetry, teaching, wellness, and creativity. Amanda is a poet, professor, wellness coach, an...