Enter The Vault Podcast

When a guest sends me their bio and included is their marketing guide entitled "Your Recipe for Success," you know it is a podcast that is meant to be!! Brian Scott is an entrepreneur with a 40-year history and passion for creating unique solutions for businesses based on understanding their needs and challenges. He is currently the President and Co-founder of Le Tour de Spice, which hel...

What is WOOO and why are we talking about it? For this week’s episode, Ed Howie, one of the most experienced business branding strategists in the world and the host of “Howie Grow a Brand” Podcast will be joining us to explain just that! Ed has spent over 30 years creating, developing, and launching brand concepts for mainstream companies, including renowned organizations such as Chick-fil-A, H-E-...

LIVE for the Oregon Association of Health Underwriters attendees. Joining me on stage is Stacy Carmichael & Sally Marsh, RHU. We are engaging in conversations about the experiences of young women entering the benefits industry, the ever-evolving legal regulations, the effects of technology on our work, and strategies to draw more people from different backgrounds into this field. We are discus...

Did you know that your personal style has an impact on the psychology of the buying process? I am over the moon to have Gregory Jerome of Gregory Jerome Image Consulting join us this week to discuss the Power of Image! Let’s be clear, image is a part of how the world perceived and processes us. This doesn’t mean a return to the 1950s and 1960s style of dressing, although how amazing did they look?...

Within a period of two and a half years, Joe would live through the molestation of his only grandchild by her paternal grandfather, the murder of his only daughter by the same man, and the loss of his wife to lung cancer. The final straw was losing guardianship of his granddaughter to her father, who was arrested and pleaded guilty to charges related to his actions before and after his daughter&#3...

What do you do when you get the news that you have been diagnosed with cancer? Do you lie down and give in? Or do you fight like hell? If you are Branwyn Lee, you fight like hell! And do it with an amazing attitude and spirit. She has spent 20 years in the employee benefits industry, so you would think that navigating her healthcare journey would be easy. Well, you would be wrong. She encountered...

What does pizza have to do with building community, and why am I focusing on it, other than the fact that pizza is delicious?? This week’s guest has followed his own path, and it was always centered around food, starting with his mother and learning to cook at her side. He has taken a long and interesting path to found Veraci Pizza and now, APIZZA Littly Italy located in Tacoma, Washington. Not on...

Fun Fact - women were not required to be included in U.S. clinical research until 1993!!   It is no wonder that so many women in this country are both, under-treated and over-medicated.   Kristine Scheer of K2 Strategies will join me for this episode as we look at common issues, including equity and equality for women's access, receiving, and paying for healthcare in this country. ...

Is it any wonder that when we want to get to know someone better, the first thing we want to do is to share a meal with that person?   Food connects us in so many ways!   This week’s guest, Allison Farcus of Saute’ & Soiree, spent much of her career in corporate America, but her real passion has always been cooking and entertaining.     As a result, she started Saute’...

Why does the state of our physical surroundings have such an impact on our mental health and ability to perform? Join me this Thursday as I talk to Jolynn Jones with JoLynn Jones Coaching about how she helps people gain control of their physical spaces through decluttering and organization to begin taking control of other areas of their lives as well. JoLynn is professionally trained as an Ontolog...

Are You Saving for a Sunny Day? While retirement savings are wonderful and employer matches make them even more attractive, what happens when you have to choose between putting money aside for retirement or groceries?  Or your children’s school trip?  Or going to the doctor?   That is where Rachel Fox and The Sunny Day Fund come to the rescue! Funds put into a 401(k) or IRA are ofte...

Are you familiar with Direct Primary Care (DPC)?     If not, you are in for a treat as Erin Kallock, MD joins me to help you understand more about this innovative alternative payment model improving access to high-functioning healthcare with a simple, flat, affordable membership fee.     No fee-for-service payments.  No third-party billing.  The defining ele...

Launching Season 3 of Recipe for Success!   My guests for this season opener couldn’t be more fitting.  Grayson & Marie Hogard are the owners & founders of Grove Cookie Company.    I first came into contact with Grayson via LinkedIn when he reached out and asked if I would be interested in a free sample of their cookies. I mean, have you met me??    Within a f...

Lauren Rilling is a financial coach for Christian Entrepreneurs.     She works with business owners to show them how to apply the principles of success to their financial circumstances.     By helping you price your services commensurate with the value you provide, you can find the freedom and mental energy to serve your customers amazingly well so you can thrive as w...

Does affordable, high-quality imaging sound like an oxymoron to you?     Imagine scheduling an MRI, Ultrasound, PET scan, or other popular diagnostic imaging and getting the price up-front at a fraction of the price you would pay elsewhere!    This can be your reality if you have Green Imaging available in your area!     Cristin Dickerson founded Green Imagi...

What do you know about stress?     Do you know how to create a different perspective on stress?   Do you know what habits to start today to decrease stress?   Me neither, but our guest this week, Jessica Harrington, is going to share a few of her tips for stress-reducing habits.   Jessica is a coach, leads workshops, is the host of her own podcast, and is passionate a...

Aging & Changing in the Public Eye - it is not as easy as it sounds!!   In today's society, so much of our lives is spent either looking at ourselves on social media or a virtual call that it can mess with your head a bit!   Earlier this week, I shared a post about how it impacted me, and the response was overwhelming in that others are feeling the same way!     So the...

Whether you are a patient or caregiver, the moment you hear the dreaded ‘C’ word, your life changes.   Forever.    Your power is stripped away as you react to your new normal of tests, treatments, doctors, and medications. A cancer diagnosis puts you into a reactive state.  Andrea Wilson Woods decided to do something about it after losing her 15-year-old sister Adrienne, to sta...

We often hear the phrase "Be the change you want to see in the world."   This week's guest, Kristi Birkeland,  has built her career around not only enhancing the employee/employer experience through a variety of strategies including community engagement.     She has taken this passion and funneled it back into her community and as result is now the President/CEO of United...

There is a lot of buzz around building "company culture," but how do you actually do it?     Nakeishia Simic joins the show this week to share her experiences in human resources and organizational development on how they have impacted her current role in creating exciting new programs to engage current employees and attract new talent.   In this time of "War for Talent" and "Th...

Deb Ault always brings the fire to any room she enters and I am beyond thrilled to have her join me for this episode!   Deb has been a Registered Nurse for over 30 years and is lovingly referred to as "Nurse Deb" in the industry. Now she is the President of Ault International Medical Management, AIMM.     She has built a team of Nurse & Doctors that help patients navigate b...

Did you know that there is a Society of Happy People?     There is and Pamela Gail Johnson is the founder of it as well as three globally celebrated happiness holidays!  Who doesn't need more "happy" in their life?     Pam is the author of the book "Practical Happiness:  Four Principles to Improve Your Life."  In it, she shares these principles and how...

Are you or one of your family members an ostrich?     Do you stick your head in the sand and avoid uncomfortable conversations about what happens AFTER you die?    If that sounds like a heavy conversation, then you need to meet Lynn Lambrecht!  Her background is in aviation emergency response and worked on two serious plane crashes in her 20s and then later 9/11. &nbs...

How can employers and employees truly embrace "wellness" and incorporate it into their culture and lives in a meaningful way?   Enter Olivia Pare' with Castlight Health to show us the way!  She has spent the past 15 years in the wellness and population health management space.    Not only is she passionate about the health and wellbeing of others, she truly "walks the talk!" &n...

One of the great things about hosting your own podcast is when your guest is also one of your good friends.     Kalli Ortega is not only a dear friend but a true difference-maker in both the benefits industry and her community.     After spending many years in the benefits industry as Vice-President and Managing Partner of a large regional insurance agency, she took a...