Finding Fearless

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week I reconnected with my dear friend, Stacy Kildal to talk about what it took for her to go from employee to entrepreneur. Stacy is the owner and operator of Kildal Services LLC, a consulting company that specializes in offering Quickbooks training and bookkeeping services to small to medium size businesses. In addition to her consulting firm, Stacy is one...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! There is nothing that inspires me more than a woman that knows her own strength, which is why I am so excited to have Sami Sweeney on the pod! A former gymnast and cheerleader, Sami has become Seattle’s very own Pure Barre powerhouse, owning 6 locations in the area. In the past year, Sami has expanded her domain even further, launching herself headfirst into both...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have Adrienne Rabena on the podcast! For those of you that don’t know Adrienne, she is powerhouse yogi entrepreneur and founder of The Craft: Art of Yoga Teaching as well as the creator of the Bohemian Barre Method . Adrienne owns two mind-bogglingly beautiful studios the Seattle area (one in Phinney & one in West Seattle ). In addition to her own...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have the pleasure of chatting with Reyna Marrufo.  Reyna is a 21 year old Latina writer, blogger, activist, and entrepreneur. With the internet as her main medium, she dropped out of college to pursue a calling that she couldn’t keep quiet. Whether she is podcasting, writing, creating content on Youtube, or leading personal development workshops in he...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have the powerful and AMAZING Lindsey Behringer on the show!   Lindsay is an entrepreneur, mommy, and an outspoken advocate on social media. After the birth of her daughter, Isabel, she quickly discovered that the bras she could wear while nursing fell into 1 of 2 categories: sexy or beige. Lindsay's frustrations in trying to find a bra that felt...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have Edi Osborne on the pod!  For Edi, there has been a realization and a reckoning that after 25 years of working with accountants, she wants to make a shift to working solely with conscious entrepreneurs that are looking to change the world for the better.  In this episode, Edi and I cover: - Our need to change shape as women in order to create chan...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have the JOY of talking with Jeny Rae : yoga teacher, youth program director, and founder of Shakti Strong.  In her work with Circle In Truth, she is focused on facilitating safe spaces for people to truly own and reflect upon their stories. In her work as a yoga teacher, she is single handedly creating a new way for women to practice that empowers th...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week I chat with Seattle area makeup artist & sugaring specialist, Jaye Hill .  Jaye is the founder of Beauty by Jaye. Her beauty philosophy centers around her goal to highlight every client's unique and inherent beauty, and she focuses on creating looks that allow client's to feel comfortable, proud, and beautiful in their own skin.  In this ep...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have the pleasure of speaking with Jenna McDonald, founder and owner of Passion For Practice, a global yoga business based off of Bainbridge Island, WA.  Jenna and I ask ourselves and our audience many questions, inquiries stemming from some of my underlying knowledge of Jenna’s deep yoga lineage, and also my own curiosity as to the path that lead her...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! Chatting this past week with one of my oldest friends, Allegra Lowe, it became clear to me that the key to overcoming this obstacle is to not give any power to these outside influences. I have always been impressed by Allegra’s willingness to go after her goals despite the opinions of others, especially when it came to her career. Most recently Allegra has embarke...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week I spent time chatting with my cousin, Jax Cassady, about what it has been like for her to experience and wrestle with misogyny within her career and across vastly different industries.  Along the way, Jax and I talk about: - The wage gap  - The rise of Trumpism  -  What it takes to hold your own in a company that only sees your value as necessary to fulf...

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have my dear friend and former colleague Martina Chavez. In our conversation Martina opens up about what it took for her to go from bankruptcy to business ownership, and how strategic trust and intentional choices have played a paramount role in her growth within the tech industry.   Martina and I both started our journey as “women in tech” at the sam...

I realized nearly a year into this podcast that it was pretty crucial to set the stage for why this kind of work came into being. Truth be told, we’re living in the era of podcasts. The medium is definitely all the rage these days. But the medium is a means to a much more important end: telling stories . I use to think of myself as a writer. Growing up, academically speaking, I was always known as...