LET IT OUT

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This week's guest is Heidi Baker, designer and founder of the California-based clothing brand OZMA. In this light conversation, I spoke with my most talented, stylish, and laid-back friend about starting her career designing denim for Levis, her time spent living in a yurt in Topanga canyon, and eventually starting a clothing line in LA. We covered learning to surf and what that has taught her abo...

This week I spoke with Virgie Tovar. She's an author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a course designed to help women who are ready to break up with diet culture. We met through our mutual friend Isabel Foxen Duke and became fast friends. In this episode we cover fashion and identity, the intersect...

This week I brought back one of my favorite people, Andrea Owen. She's an author of several books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries. In her third appearance on the podcast , we cover trauma healing, writing process, handling conflict, how personal growth relates to community growth, confidence, indecision, how patriarchy hurts everyone, addiction, relati...

Show notes: -Sign up for the In Process summer session here - You can book a free consultation with Katie here , and if you don't see a time that works for you please email her at katie@letitouttt.com  - Sign up here to get the show notes sent straight to your inbox Special thanks to our sponsor, Northwest Cherries ! 'Tis the season to add delicious, nutrient-packed sweet cherries to your shopping...

This week Jessamyn Stanley is back on the podcast. Highly sought after for her insights on 21st century yoga and intersectional identity, she is an internationally acclaimed writer and leading voice in wellness. She's the founder of The Underbelly, host of the podcast Dear Jessamyn, and the author of two books I love. We spoke about owning your shadow, cultural appropriation of yoga, body acceptan...

Show notes: - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera - Don't Let it Get You Down by Savala Nolan - Make Some Noise by Andrea Owen - Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance  by Jessamyn Stanley - The Power by Naomi Alderman - Check out Katie's Write Kit - You can book a free consultation with Katie here , and if you don't see a time that works for you please email her at katie@letitouttt.com...

In the first part of this episode, I speak with Dana-Maxx Pomerantz, a certified mindfulness coach and founder of the Be Happy Project Instagram account. With the project, Dana-Maxx's mission continues to be to uplift her community by sharing content that inspires inner happiness, self-worth, and growth. In this conversation, we talk about what happiness really means and how to cultivate it, grati...

Show notes: - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera - Check out Katie's one-on-one Creative Clinic - You can book a free consultation with Katie here , and if you don't see a time that works for you please email her at katie@letitouttt.com - Sign up here to get the show notes sent straight to your inbox *** Submit questions for our upcoming Q&A episodes via our Instagram account by...

Dr. Patti Kim is a Naturopathic Doctor and Acupuncturist in Los Angeles. She's like your GP but with a twist, a doctor who specializes in natural medicine, treating the body as a whole and a doctor who will actually spend time with you to get to the root causes of why you might be feeling ill, in pain or out of balance. She’s also my close friend, one of my favorite people to be around. She will r...

This week, I sat down with my friend Crystal Fawn, a second-generation psychic and spiritual coach. Crystal and I met many years ago in NYC and now both call LA home. She talks about what it was like growing up with a psychic mom, her own experience of motherhood, and how her spirituality informs different aspects of her life. Our conversation covers energy work, balancing service with self-care,...

This week I caught up with my friend Cat Lantigua. We met in NYC many years ago and she did the podcast back then. Now she’s back with a conversation that covers all she’s learned in the last few months including: navigating leaving her full-time job and the transition to being a freelancer, experiencing burnout, managing energy, hitting low lows, honesty in communication, navigating change (inclu...

This week I spoke with Ashley Neese, a renowned breathwork teacher and author. She has studied with some of the world’s leading masters in yoga, meditation, medical intuition, and somatic therapy. In this conversation, we explore how she helps guide people back into their bodies where they learn beyond the cognitive mind how to cultivate resilience, develop relational intelligence and trust their...

This week I talk to Aileen Xu a content creator and entrepreneur in creativity, personal growth, and lifestyle design. We met years ago when she had me on her podcast and met up when I visited LA. In this episode we catch up and talk candidly about the overlap in challenges with lacking confidence in work, astrology including Saturn returns, turning 30 and getting older. We also get into mental he...

Ellen is the founder and CEO of Hedley & Bennett, an apron and workwear company, whose signature ampersand logo can be seen on top chefs around the world. Born and raised in LA to a Mexican mother and English father, she felt a strong connection to Mexico and ended up moving there when she was 18. Today we talked about what she learned being a 24-year-old line cook who told her head chef she could...

In this episode, I invited 3 of my longtime friends and collaborators Laura, Maria, and Eva to chat. We had a candid conversation about how we all connected through the last nine years of this podcast, what episodes have stuck out for us, what we've learned as a result, and what we've learned since. We cover eating disorder recovery, connection, creativity, journaling, and how connection is key. J...

Every year my dear friend Sacha Jones comes back on the podcast around my birthday for a conversation. She is one of the most creative, wise, and gentle people I know and I always love speaking with her. Our annual catch-ups end up being time capsules of what we've learned the past year both from the podcast and from what's happened around us. Like most people, Sacha and I both had a wild year per...

Loré is one of my favorite writers. We originally connected when she reached out to interview me for The Creative Independent. She has written about intimacy, identity, and interconnection for The New York Times and Man Repeller. She also facilitates writing workshops and has a monthly newsletter called All The Reasons I've Cried Lately. In this week’s episode, we get into dating and bond over the...

This week I spoke with two guests, Becca Millstein and Caroline Goldfarb. Living with each other at the beginning of the pandemic and observing each other's eating eventually led them to a business idea: a tinned fish company called Fishwife. This week we talk about the stigma associated with eating foods that people scoff at, working with close friends, and transitioning careers. Becca's backgrou...

This week one of my favorite authors returns. Kayleen Schaefer is a journalist and author of Text Me When You Get Home, she also wrote the bestselling Kindle Single memoir Fade Out. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Vogue, and many other publications. Her new book, But You’re Still So Young , is out now. It follows eight people struggling to make the leap to...

Mari Orkenyi and I became fast friends. Our conversation really came alive in the second half and I didn't want to cut anything out, so this is part two of last week's episode. Mari is a Contemplative Educator, Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher and Writer. Her work lives in the space where Contemplative Practices, Buddhist Psychology and Western Psychotherapy intersect. As a native Brazilian immi...

Mari Orkenyi and I became friends the moment we met. Our conversation flowed and I didn’t want to leave anything out so I decided to break it into two parts. Mari is a Contemplative Educator, Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher and Writer. Her work lives in the space where Contemplative Practices, Buddhist Psychology and Western Psychotherapy intersect. As a native Brazilian immigrant with Hungaria...

This week I spoke with my friend Helen Phelan, a body neutral intuitive pilates instructor and founder of digital pilates and mindful fitness platform, Helen Phelan Studio. As an ex-professional dancer and eating disorder survivor, Helen's approach to exercise is based on her lived experience that diet culture keeps people stuck in a bad body image loop that makes them dread movement despite its m...

This week I brought back on the podcast for the third time, a friend of mine, writer, and host of the One Part Podcast, Jessica Murnane. Jessica's second book Know Your Endo helps people who experience endometriosis feel less alone. In this conversation we catch up, chat about making it through hard moments, and having to keep moving while feeling things intensely. She's one of the most empathetic...

This week Naomi Powell, founder of The Lifestyle Edit, returns to the podcast. Naomi is also a mom, and since our last conversation she's expecting her next baby! This week is the next episode in our HappyThankYouMorePlease series where guests bring three prompts: something they're happy about, something they're grateful for, and something they're craving more of. In this conversation we hear Naom...