Curiosity with Kristen

Michelle Griffin has written multiple books, hosts multiple podcasts on branding yourself on LinkedIn and is the founder of the Brand Therapist and Standout Women Media, which is a training and development platform that accelerates female entrepeneurs to grow their visibility, personal brands and thought leadership to move their message, mission and businesses forward. Her message of "Owning...

Along with a successful career in starting his own companies, selling them, running a venture firm and slowly retiring, Marco has also successfully taught over 1500 people to drop the rope and wake surf in San Diego, CA. Considered as one of the best in teaching wake surfing (If not the best!), I've had the privilege of surfing with and knowing Marco since 2017 when he taught me how to teach...

Episode 26 is with Asia Mape. Asia is a 4-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and Sports Television Producer. She has worked for all the major Sports Networks: Fox Sports, ESPN, TNT, NFL Network, and NBC Sports. She’s covered the most high-profile sporting events in the world, including five Olympics, multiple NBA playoffs, and 2 Super Bowls. She’s interviewed hundreds of athletes and has helped te...

Christy Teglo  worked in corporate America for over 15 years until age 36 when she decided to sell her home, quit her job and hike the John Muir Trail solo, finding clarity for her life and inner courage to pursue that life. Since then, she has travelled the world supporting herself through real estate and other ventures. Christy wrote a book about her experience on the trail, called "Weather...

This is a must for women leaders! Kelly was Director of PR and Communications for 13 years at Sprint Nextel Communications before starting her leadership and life coaching business in 2018. Kelly helps women leaders in Fortune 500 achieve a life that exceeds their professional success through mindset coaching. Her insights on women leadership, careers, how to achieve your long range goals with emo...

As the Chief People Officer at Hala Systems, Lamya oversees all aspects of talent acquisition, management, and development, as well as cultural integration, employee engagement, and wellness. She is passionate about using her skills and expertise to create a positive impact and support the global community. In addition to her role at Hala Systems, Lamya is an active mentor, advisor, and board memb...

My friend Dora is badass! As a graduate of Cornell's MBA program, she started her career in management consulting before she paused to raise her 3 kids with her husband Sam in the East Bay. She then started a clothing line called Season Tees and among other things became passionate about Ironman triathlons. Her first was in 2007, pushing her 2 yr old across the finish line with her other 2 yo...

Keith Byers founded the Company in 2019 with his wife, Jennifer Byers.  Initially Team Byers saw an opportunity to grow a Travel Trailer business and leveraged Keith's knowledge as a Hydrovac Operator to see the missed and needed inventories on the sites he was working for PG&E.  Keith’s innate ability to capitalize on business synergies and proactively leverage his honed selling skill se...

Named both Top Speaking Coach of the Year and Top Motivational Speaker of the Decade , Public Speaking Confidence Coach Marjorie Saulson is still going strong at 82 and intends to be the most fabulous +100 babe you ever met! Author of the #1 international bestselling book, Empowering Business Owners to Overcome Speaking Fears Whether You’re Talking with 1 Person or 1,000, she is also one of 50 wom...

Heather Olson won not only the Gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta Georgia in front of the home crowd but they also received a perfect 10 score! It was the first time in history for artistic swimming, previously known as synchronized swimming, to compete as a full team in the Olympics. Heather recounts her years growing up and the dedication and perseverance it took to become number on...

Happy holidays! This episode is a great one to ponder and reflect on 2023. It shares insights for your end of year career checklist. I've been so grateful for all the pivots in my career and the people that have helped me along the way. This is a great one to share insights to explore if you want to uplevel where you are at, whether it be position, salary, company, whatever. Good tips to help...

Today, we have a remarkable individual with us. Someone deeply passionate about cultivating business growth, instigating positive change, and sparking greatness in others. With a commitment to helping individuals achieve their highest potential, Andrea Hoban is a true force in the realms of leadership and personal development. Some fun facts I learned after our podcast is Andrea opened for Pauly S...

Yvette Huygen has spent her career in PR and internal communications. She was Director of WW PR and Internal Communications for 15 yrs for a $2B tech company with 10K employees in more than 80 countries for over 15 years, then worked almost 5 years at a company from 2017-2022 that made Covid tests. She had the unique opportunity to be on the ground floor through the pandemic along with navigating...

Joey Klein is the founder and CEO of Inner Matrix and author of the book Inner Matrix. Inner Matrix helps high achievers inside the art of science and personal mastery. He helps people train and rewire their nervous system, thought strategies and learn to feel emotions to create a new way of moving in ones career and life. Someone who wants to see their life better and is willing to take action to...

Linda Calhoun is an entrepreneur, activist, and community leader based in San Francisco, California.  A graduate of Boston University with a B.S. in Mass Communication, Linda's career path led her to work in international policy coordination, media, technology, and data management. Her work has met the unique and increasingly important intersections of STEM and Social Justice. Linda is the Fo...

Mitch Brinton is the CMO and Co-Founder of Elements Meals, which makes freeze-dried, single serving macronutrient food for athletes and others who need a quick healthy meal. He has started multiple successful start ups, from his first one in college called MobiLube, a mobile vehicle maintenance company with a friend. 3,500 clients later, they sold their business. Mitch then co-founded an internet...

Catrina Simbe is Managing Partner and CEO of Pinpoint Talent and founder/ philanthropist of Tyler's Grace Foundation (www/tylersgracefoundation.org). She has spent the last 20+ years in recruiting, running successful divisions and mentoring staff. She worked for both a large publicly traded staffing/consulting firm and as entrepreneur/ co-founder and now CEO of boutique staffing firms. Catrin...

Mariana was born and raised in the province of Heredia, Costa Rica, the heart of the coffee land. Growing up, she was always surrounded by coffee plantations and loved learning about coffee from a young age. This inspired her to build her career as an Agricultural Economist. Coffee has been a part of her life. She got several degrees, started her career in corporate then pivoted when moving to the...

Beth Harkins authored her first auto-biographical novel, The Possibility of Everywhere: Casablanca to Oklahoma City, Katmandu to Timbuktu, which shares a women's adventure, travels and so much more. She wrote her first novel at age 76 and has transformed herself, her career and purpose in helping to share women's stories. Starting as a Pan Am flight attendant and travelling across 66 cou...

Kimberly Craighead is a conservation biologist, has her PhD and is co-founder of Kaminando, which studies wildlife conservation of jaguars in Panama. She splits her time between Northern California and Panama and is living out her dream job and life. This episode not only shares her career, but also her journey in life to get to where she is now. Enjoy! https://kaminando.org/ https://www.linkedin....

Episode 8 on Curiosity with Kristen is Amy Schrier, founder of CATALYST.cm, an online platform about travel and purpose bringing articles and videos to life about social issues and global destinations, as well as showcasing volunteer travel and other unique sustainable travel opportunities. Amy is a serial entrepreneur of media ventures, which also includes BLUE ( www.bluemagazine.com ), which was...

Shira Ronan, founder and CEO of Spectrum Consulting,  is a trusted CEO Advisor, facilitator, board director, and angel investor.  From her early years in Israel, including working in the Israel Defense Forces as a Psychometric and Psychological Assessor for the Intelligence Corp, to going to grad school at NYU on a full scholarship and building her life here in the US.  Today, she coaches highly t...

Kristin Gault has pivoted in her career from working at Cisco for 14 years in progressive management roles while reinventing herself from accounting to operations, shared services, customer service and more! Kristin shares her journey after leaving Cisco, being laid off after a year and her ongoing job search journey. Kristin also became an expert on how to leverage LinkedIn, while supporting othe...

Lee McEnany Caraher, CEO and founder of Double Forte, a national public relations and digital media agency, plus author of 2 books (Mellenials and Management- The Essential Guide to making it work at work & The Boomerang Principle). Learn how she went from Corporate America to starting her own PR firm along with her ability to embrace change and pivot multiple times, including during Covid.  h...

This episode is personal to my family as we have worked with Sean. Wanted to share to help other parents as we navigate in helping our amazing teens and kids.  Enjoy! Sean Donohue is a globally known Family Coach, founder of www. ParentingModernTeens.com and hosts The Sean Donohue Show podcast. Sean loves to help parents connect and solve painful patterns and raise mature, emotionally intelligent...