Conversations With Colie

As a child, you take great care in how you prepare and present your food before sitting down to enjoy it. Your siblings think you are strange but as you grow you make a career out of teaching communities all over the world to take pride in sourcing, preparing, and consuming food in a mindful process. That is how Chef Karen Ricks lives her life. She has spent time all over the world with different...

You are a young girl in the projects of Toronto and you have a home life that is unsafe. You and your sister, gather the courage to get help. And it's not the quick fix that you hear about. You would almost rather be back home because it was familiar. You are not carrying your life in a trash bag. That was Elizabeth’s early life but she did not let that define her entire path. Now she is inspiring...

You didn’t have a large traumatic event that would contribute to the feelings you carry. You are a perceptive child and you have feelings of not fitting in most of your young life. Leslie was that child. Even though she came from a loving family, who had no addictive predecessors in their family history, Leslie struggled with identity issues, popularity issues, body and eating disorder issues and...

Sarah Ballard was a College Nursing student when I met her at a job we shared. We saw in each other the same quality and I have followed Sarah since. Since then she has become an ATL elementary school teacher and now she teaches in Bangkok Thailand. I follow her on all platforms and her joy , the beauty of her surroundings compelled me to reach out and say “ Can We Talk? “ She and I get into how s...

Janet Fugate was a nurse in a DV situation and dealt with cancer. All of which she overcame. Then she realized that maybe she wanted to take a 30-day break from the 5 o'clock somewhere vibe she had fallen into. That is how Bliss Beyond the Buzz was born. She is now a coach for those who want to reassess their relationship with alcohol. In our conversation, we examine health and wellness and do com...

Your Childless Not By Choice. What is that? Are there more people out there in the same situation? Come to learn that Coach Naomi Giedel is one in a population of many. She and I discuss the pros, the cons, the stigmas, the grief, and the uninclusive places single people run into all the time. How does our government include married over single people? Especially since the pandemic, there is a who...

You're a Midwestern teen, then you are moved to the polar opposite of Florida. You cannot identify with the people around you so you cope by turning to drugs. Not just any drug but opiates. You become hooked and all you can think about is when you're getting high next. You do terrible things like steal from your own family. Then during another prison sentence, an inmate makes a sideways comment “...

Who are the Jones anyway? That is one of the questions I had for Eileen Joy, Money Coach, Podcast Host, and Single Mom. Eileen found herself divorced and having to start all over with a young son. To make matters worse the divorce took all the assets she had leaving her with less that most people make in a week. Listen as Eileen went from a Mom who didn't really understand money to a Mom Who Money...

You are a senior in high school—you are curvy, flirty, and vivacious. Every conversation is what is your body count? Meaning sexual partners. When you tell people zero, you are looked at oddly, left out of conversations, and you feel like an outcast sometimes. It doesn't mean you are not solid in deciding to wait to have sex it just makes your conversations with your peers feel awkward. Some shun...

You are born with special abilities and you know it, your abusive mother knows it and forbids you from accessing that ability. You grow up loving your mother at first to deep down despising her. You do what is needed to set yourself up for success and you find yourself in a less than ideal marriage, trying to be the best mom and badass woman you can….then…Adderall is prescribed and wow you can do...

You are young, have your whole life ahead of you, work in the medical field, promote pharmaceuticals to those you care for, and then fall ill. It is more than your average illness, your symptoms are significant and damaging. Your tests show normal results. People are starting to doubt you during some of your ailments and then baffled by the ones that are undeniable. You see doctor after doctor and...

You have your whole life ahead of you. You are intelligent, at the top of your class and you have been accepted into a prestigious company to work an amazing job at the beginning of the technology boom. You and your spouse are both very successful but there is just one major flaw. You are in the throes of addiction. How far will it take you and at what cost? This is author T Rose’s story. She foll...

You lose the person closest to you. Your mother, for most of us the people we are closest to are our parents. For some of us, the loss of our mother can be a deeply impactful loss. It brings forth a sense of grief that feels unfathomable. When we go through life it's often our mothers we go to for sharing, advice, help and so many other things. Caroline felt this exact way when her mother transiti...

You go through life struggling with food and body image issues. It isn't until you are well into adulthood that you are diagnosed with PTSD then it all begins to make sense. Even as a two-year-old the trauma surrounding your father's murder set you on a path where you used food to cope. This is precisely what it was like for Melissa Rohlfs although she couldn't remember how that directly affected...

When we are young we believe marriage is forever. For Dawn, like most of us that was not how it shook out. Dawn moved away at age twenty to join her new husband who was stationed in Hawaii only to have her marriage turn upside down after a couple of years of happiness. She moves on and finds another love to marry and start a family with. They start a business and everything should be unicorns and...

You are newly married, you turn 40 and as a person in the medical field, you know what comes with it. Mammogram time. No problem you think, until you are laying there, and you realize that there is cause for concern. You try to remain calm, having transcribed countless results you know this often happens. But not to you. Pretty scary right? That was exactly how Wendy felt at that moment. But at th...

You are 18, you are in college, this is supposed to be the best years of your life. You host a party in your home, the usual college stuff. Someone gets sick and you discover the result in your bathroom. Seems innocent enough so far. However, this sets off a chain reaction in your brain that will put you on a path that you will have to endure for longer than even you can fathom. That is Evander's...

You are an entrepreneur who has created a business solely online. What you do every day is network to bring more people to your business and them to others. These people rely on you to work your magic. Your business has networking in the name so it is necessary for you to be present right? You notice, however, that you are attached to your phone. You cannot leave the room without making sure you h...

You are a single mom living out her dream. Then that dream turns into a nightmare. You meet some friends and you hit it off. The whole group is your kind of group. You hang out and one girl asks for your help making something so you go back to her home. She gives you a glass of water and suddenly everything changes. You don't feel right and you gather yourself to get out of her house. The girl mak...