Fuck IT ALL™

If I could tell my younger self one thing, I'd say - “Fuck it all. Don't live by these rules. Break out of that cage and do your damn thing! The world is waiting on you."  This where we start with this week’s guest, women-centered resiliency and life transition coach, Kimberly Smith. Kimberly has her own story of saying FIA as a corporate burnout turned entrepreneur (KLG for sure co...

This week, Katie asks Kacie, "What are three things you love as much as you dislike about yourself?" This is where the conversation starts. Tune in for 10 minutes of what we're thinking, loving, learning, unlearning - and sometimes, really, really not enjoying. Here's IAM Deep Dive #1,  please be kind. LFG,  K+K This is an IT ALL Media Production. If you like what you hear, fol...

Ever head down a path of should, should, should only to one day look up and ask, where am I? Or, even worse, who am I? This is where we start with this week's FIA Podcast guest, Kate Brewer. When your driving force is to show the world - and yourself - that you can make it, what happens when all the shoulds don’t feel right? How do we overcome our own limiting belief that to change course - c...

“Own your shit, and take it back, ladies.” This was the last line of our conversation, and the first one you need to hear today. Meet Gina Stogran - artist, community builder, and real-life practitioner of the FIA mindset. Gina is a 39-year-old artist, happily married and child-free, living in Florida, communing women around the power of art to change our lives. Gina openly shares her experiences...

Talk about the power of network. Katie knows Kate from DC. Kate - now in Kiev - knows Kelsey from LA. Kelsey in LA is from Atlanta. WE ARE IN ATLANTA. What is this world? Meet Kelsey Scott ; or, maybe just get to know her better. Kelsey is two-time Emmy nominated actress, writer, teacher, speaker and philanthropist.  In our 40-minute sit down we talk about the sacrifice required to pursue one&apos...

It's often in tragedy that we find our truest selves. And, that was where our conversation started with DC-based chef and restauranteur Emily Baran. In losing her brother only a few years into "real life," she was catapulted into a three-year journey to answer the calling to create community and belonging through food. Emily said good bye to the predictability of a stable government...

"Everything feels trivial next to the cries of Afghan women." - Elif Shafak  Today, in light of this week's events in Afghanistan, we are releasing a special episode of the FIA podcast. Through our network of extraordinary women, we were connected with Sahar Salahi , a first-generation Afghan American, whose family fled Afghanistan in the 1980s. In a real-time, authentic, and raw co...

Trudi Roth ( @itsthetrustory ) is a writer and meditation teacher living in Los Angeles. She left her high-power NYC job to raise a family in LA (by way of a NoCal suburb - whew!) The reckoning then came with leaving her city, her job, and finding herself as a mom and a woman with a calling to tell stories. She would write 2 novels over 2 years before she would call herself a writer.  As a 40th bi...

In Episode 4 of Season 3: Conversations with Creatives, KLG sits down with visual artist and mom of two, Melanie Newson . Melanie is celebrating her 40th birthday while also embracing a transition. She confronts the strong need to express her creativity in addition to the pressure to monetize it, resolving that we often need someone else to remind us that we are allowed to just do what makes us ha...

"I love being a woman. We're strong as hell... no, actually, we're strong as heaven." - Kate Belle As a part of Season 3 - Conversations with Creatives - KLG sits down with photographer, mom, wife, friend, and creative, Kate Belle.  Kate is an Australian expat currently living in Atlanta with a healthy dose of nomadic tendencies. She uses her art to capture real-life moments, a...

Where my Leo's at? Love us or hate us, you can't deny an inexplicable confidence and bias to own our power - even when everyone else may be thinking, " who the hell is this girl?!" This week's guest and fellow Leo, Ariel Danielle, sits down with KLG to talk about her insanely beautiful and powerful paintings, and why she loves women so damn much... something about being a...

They say good things come in threes. 1. New Company - Check 2. New Co-Founder - Check 3. New Season - Check Whew, and, now for 3 glasses of something strong. WELCOME to IT ALL Podcast  Season 3: Conversations with Creatives. This season is an exploration and conversation with women creatives who are using their creativity, art, passion and voices to redefine actively narratives. Episode 1 kicks of...

Elayne Fluker and I have two very important things in common.  We both are obsessed with helping women redefine and create their "it all;" AND we both can't follow a script to save our lives. Minutes in, what we both thought would be a conversation about leaving our full time jobs to live our creative callings, turned into a candid talk about Elayne's decision to start a family...

"What I should say - instead of he broke up with me  - is he set me free." UM, OK, Becca! Some of us RE-define our "it all," while others of us are bold enough to dream it up from the go. That's Becca Samson. I sat down with this former Googler, who answered her own restless discontent for something more by saying goodbye to a beautiful life - job, home, family, community...

Reflections between two sisters on their shared life, friendship, sisterhood and motherhood; and how have "it all" really comes down to the relationship you have with yourself. KLG sits down with her sister Alli Carlson for a deep dive into topics that are as familiar as each other, and others that they've never covered before. This episode is equal parts sentimental sisters and bad...

When the universe talks, you listen. When it screams, you sit your ass down and take it all in. This week it screamed to me, and whether I was ready or not, I became its captive audience. "Live the question," was a piece of advice I took away from my conversation on the Support is Sexy podcast, with the fierce and formidable, Elayne Fluker . Elayne will be a guest on the show in the comi...

What does it mean to be "a good" Asian woman? We take this topic head on with an intimate, real and raw conversation with Juinn Tan. Juinn is a divorced, thirty-something, modern Asian woman living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is a self proclaimed, "no bullshit marketer, professional shit shield and observer of people." She is also in the middle of uncovering what it means to...

This is a special episode. Every FIA listener should give it a go, because it will change your life for the better. Christine Igarta sits down with Kacie Lett Gordon to talk about her journey of “paycheck over purpose."  Christine is a former techie turned social worker, and shares her journey of self-discovery through career change, relationships, trauma and remembering that, "it's...

It's Women's History Month. In order to create the change we seek to create, we must first be educated in where we have a disadvantage. That's where this conversation goes, as Audrey Paris Giannini joins me for a second episode, "A Conversation About Money."   Full disclaimer, we are two white women of privilege having the conversation, and recognize that bias at the top o...

Do you ever meet someone that you just KNOW is exactly where they're supposed to be? Meet Audrey Paris Giannini ; this woman knows herself. No, like really knows herself. So much so that she relinquished herself from the golden handcuffs of public accounting to pursue and education and career in therapy.  The editing process is similar to therapy in that you resist going, but are happy once y...

Lorrie Thomas Ross describes herself as a not-sorry 40 something wife, mom and entrepreneur. She taught me the simple yet life-changing phrase, "for me," and shares her story of how she learned what does - and does not work - for her. Lorrie and I met as two women in a life design class. When I shared what I was working on, she immediately shot me a note, and said, "We have to talk....

Jen Singh is the founder of Understory , and self-proclaimed recovering "achiever." KLG sits down to talk about how when we prove to ourselves that we can do something, we are then empowered to ask - and answer - the question, "Do we want to do something?" For Jen this was true when it came to leaving her corporate job to become an entrepreneur taking on the sustainability indu...

What is work, and more importantly, how do you make it work for you ? I found myself wrestling with this question only a few weeks into starting a new company. My week left me feeling uninspired, overwhelmed and questioning what the hell I was doing? Halfway through I called an audible, and really asked myself what would make me happy. Before I could even process the thought I scribbled down, &quo...

I didn't know either of my grandmothers well; so I've always had an admiration - and candidly, fascination - with the grandparent relationship. I watch my Mom and daughter, and am bowled over by their dynamic. My past and future bound together with so much love. That's why when I was interviewing Amanda Mays for her episode, and she was fawning over her lovely Naunnie, the words wer...

Amanda Mays is the founder and creator of Pineapple Yoga. She shares her story of saying fuck "it all" to her lifelong dream of being an advertising executive - like her late mother - to instead lead a life of service and purpose as a yoga teacher. Yeah, leaving the city and salary wasn't easy, but damn, has it been worth it. Amanda lost her mother when she was in high school, and i...