All Over Again

“I think we need to remind ourselves sometimes, especially those of us who've had that trauma as a child, were conditioned as children to be like, ‘Oh, this is what life is going to be like. They’re in charge.’ But when we are an adult, we realize, “Actually, no, we're in the driver's seat.’ Your inner child can sit in the passenger seat and you say to yourself, ‘You can chill. I got this. We don'...

“All of my experiences led me to this point… I love the parts of my story that are messy and could be thought of as a failure, because you cannot grow without failure—you just can't. That is how you get there.” Katya Libin is the founder of Katya Libin & Co, a leading innovative and founder first holistic executive coaching practice for leaders looking for a paradigm shift through the Divine Femin...

I always say, being an auctioneer is not dissimilar to stand-up, you just kind of get beaten up by the crowd, until the point where you almost create this Teflon skin. And you really try to figure out what works. And what started to work for me was  being myself,  Lydia Fenet is a two-time author, podcast host of Claim your Confidence, and the founder and CEO of the Lydia Fenet Agency, a boutique...

“I get we're not going to know all the answers. But that, to me, is not a reason to not have the conversation.”  As the daughter of a Japanese immigrant, Misasha used to represent leading intellectual property tech and entertainment companies and complex commercial disputes. Now, Misasha uses the power of storytelling, the lenses of history and law, combined with psychology and belonging, and prac...

“I feel that personally, I had to go through these deep, deep levels of [loss] so that I could help people in the future from having to do that… A lot of what I went through was with purpose, which helps on the other side of it.”  Caryn Johnson is the co-founder and CEO of Bond, an innovative line of supplements that reimagines hormone and reproductive health. Inspired by her experience with her a...

“I don't believe that anything in my life was an accident. And I feel like every single hardship and stepping stone brought me here.” Keri Murphy is the CEO and founder of Inspired Living and is committed to empowering people all over the world to “dream it, live it, be it”. Kerri is an entrepreneur, international speaker, business mentor, and video marketing expert. Keri’s company specializes in...

“If someone can't imagine that one woman could do all the things, then that's a lack of imagination on their part, not a lack of competency on mine.” Hitha Palepu is a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, investor, author, content creator, and mother. She's the CEO of Roshan Pharmaceuticals and the creator of Webby honored #5SmartReads, a daily news curation shared on Instagram stories and on a weekly ne...

“I've always found success by sticking to who I am as a person and applying that in different directions.” Aliza Licht is an award-winning marketer and author of the books On Brand and Leave Your Mark. She is also a consultant, host of the Leave Your Mark podcast, and she has recently found space as a Jewish activist in the face of the staggering rise in antisemitism. Once upon a time, Aliza was t...

“The goal in life is not to achieve this imaginary ideal that's really sort of unclear, but instead to define and discover what wholeness means to you.” I sat down with Claudia Chan, Founder and CEO of S.H.E Global Media, Transformational Speaker, NY Times Celebrated author, Podcast Host, Cultural Change Expert, and Creator of Inner Circle & the How We Rise “Whole-Life Leadership” Method.  Claudia...

If there is one thing Mita Mallick will tell you, it's that finding success in her journey as a writer, a storyteller, and podcast host, as well as a changemaker reimagining inclusion (also the name of Mita’s first book), didn’t happen overnight. Mita’s superpower has stemmed from learning to truly accept that rejection has been her gateway to becoming unstoppable. Mita will be launching “Reimagin...

“We wait until people get sick or we wait until there's a problem, but there's no preventative medicine in this country. ”   Laura has always had a deep love for food and for helping people, which naturally led to her career as a registered dietician. But when Laura’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer, a glioblastoma brain tumor, Laura saw the stark effects from the lack of preventative medic...

“There isn't always a happy ending. But there are sometimes, and for me, I just had to try.” Stephanie is a true quadruple treat. A self-made CEO, a serial entrepreneur, an advocate for women’s health, and an inspiration to us all. By remaining resilient and relying on community and crowdsourcing data, she has built a life and a career through relentless innovation and following her instincts. Fro...

“In terms of men's mental health, there's a lot of issues with guys feeling alone and strange, depressed and anxious and they don't have the resources to talk about it. “   While still in his residency, Dr. Justin Houman began to notice the concerning lack of productive discussion and support around the issues men face with their hormonal, sexual and mental health. He also witnessed that the quick...

“We all experience hardships, we all go through things. We all have our experiences and stories, but I think it's time we stop shaming each other. Everyone needs to put their shame shooter away and chill out.”   Branded as “Mess USA” when she was scandalously outed publicly for substance abuse addiction as the crowned Miss USA in 2006, Tara Conner couldn’t have predicted then that in time, the jou...

“The first step that you take (when diagnosed) is very important because it starts to lead you down a road that you can't start over again.” - Jamil Newirth    In 2012, doctors told Jamil Newirth he had 17 months to live. The then 32-year-old law school graduate was diagnosed with a glioblastoma brain tumor, a rare and highly lethal form of brain cancer 11 years later, I sit down with Jamil Newirt...

“When you're a chef, you know that what you're doing is going to have a profound impact on the people that you are feeding. I'm always very aware of that.” - Chef Michel Nischan  When Michel’s older son was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes, he realized he had to change the way he fed his family, which soon led to him changing the way he fed the customers in his restaurant. Later, when Michel reali...

“We're all energy. That's what we are. We spend a lot of energy on the physical body. But if we could get back to our energetic body… when our energetic body isn't healthy, our physical body eventually isn't healthy.” - Julie Eisenberg Julie herself admits that she didn’t like her mother and that later led to her having strained relationships with her own daughters. When her daughters started to s...

“When unexplained infertility came through, it was kicking up all of the same stuff. It was kicking up, ‘this is my fault. I fucked up. How did I get this wrong? I'm broken. I'm failing, I'm failing—failing life, I'm failing as a woman, I'm failing, failing as a female being. I'm failing my husband, I'm failing my family.’ All of (the childhood trauma) would get kicked back up.”  - Jaycee Gossett...

“I think most people spend their lives, like, hoping they never have to lose people. You know what I mean? They're like, ‘Oh, God, I hope that doesn't happen.’ I'm, like, the story of so many things people wish they never would have to go through.” - Biet Simkin If there’s one thing Biet Simkin knows, it’s loss. Not only did she lose her mother as a child and her father as a young adult, she also...

“Necessity is the mother of invention. So I ended up creating what I didn't have.” - Nefertiti Austin, author of “Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America”. Motherhood isn’t cookie cutter and neither is the path to it. Many choose the path to adoption to expand their family because they feel called to do so. However, single black mothers who choose to adopt outside o...

“What also helps me is making sure that I am investing time in my baby, which is Luminary, my nieces and nephews, my partner's grandchildren. That's filling that hole. And I think over time, maybe that hole doesn't go away, but the pain is lessened a little bit by talking about it.” - Cate Luzio on being childless not by choice After five rounds of IVF, Cate Luzio realized she needed a break––from...

“I really felt in those moments, like, the fact that this is still happening to me, feels like there's a reason, and I'm going to give it purpose. And I'm going to actively take this story and turn it into a positive one.” - Adriana Carrig on bullying For Adriana, being bullied throughout adolescence and into college became a fact of her life. But it was nothing in comparison to the infertility sh...

Andrea was diagnosed with probable infertility as a teenager and assumed it would take her a little longer than expected to get pregnant. However, it was “a lot longer” instead, and after suffering a miscarriage, she learned that getting pregnant wasn’t the issue, her uterus was. This led her on a journey to sharing her story and creating an entire media platform called pregnantish, so that other...

Hilary Phelps, Michael Phelps’ sister discusses alcohol use disorder and how it impacted her life including her swimming career, and after being 15 years sober, how it continues to influence her life including motherhood, her recent divorce and losing her father. Hilary shared why the term Alcohol Use Disorder rather than Alcoholism is more appropriate and respectful, and how she believes that her...

Welcome to the All Over Again Podcast. I’m Nathalie Carpenter, women’s health and fertility advocate, dot connector, purveyor of spotlighting off-stream topics and former corporate brand warrior. Each week, join me in candid conversation with an inspiring public figure, who boldly shares their real life stories of adversity, impact and what they did next… And if they would do it All Over again, kn...