Motivate Me! with Lynette Renda

Live from the Road: Get a trip update! Where are we going, what are we doing behind the scenes!? If the trip seems crazy to you – don’t forget that the crew is doing something in each of the 50 states they have never done before, and they take part in multiple adventures while in Florida! How can you get outside of your comfort zone? http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Live from the Road: What happens when you get multiple strong women in one room? Love, compassion, judgement, understanding, appreciation. Witness the beauty and the roller coaster that is strong women. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Live from the Road: You never know who you’ll meet when you hire a car for a ride! Meet military member, driver, ballroom dancer  Kody Hopper ! Kody will teach you the importance of saying, “Yes!” to life and opportunities. Let his words challenge you!    http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Live from the Road: A hilarious, albeit eerie, mystery that has been plaguing the crew for ten states has been solved! On today’s episode: Lynette, her crew, her cousin, Alison, Freddie the hairless cat, and Alison’s creepy home decor adds to the eeriness of it all.   http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/ 

What happens when Lynette and the crew stop at an Alabama hot spot,The Hangout, and do random interviews with the staff about passion? This episode is testament to the idea that one’s passion does not need to be a full-time endeavor to be something that makes life more exciting, more meaningful, enriched.   http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Jessie Zenor and her business partner, Kait Sukiennik, opened the coffee, biscuit, and beer shop, Greenhouse on Porter, in order to create a sense of community in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. You can hear Jessie’s passion when she talks about how leaving her old job of home design has enabled her to wake up each morning and be happy about making people nourishing biscuits! Her advice to you:...

Corey Christy’s passion is a combination of community, art, and music and how these three things marry. He is able to embody all of this as the Marketing and Development Manager of the popular Walter Anderson Museum, and as a band member of Blackwater Brass. Maybe your passion bleeds into multiple roles, and the embodiment of them all is for what you have been searching.   http://5ed.8db.myf...

Live from the road: Public Information Officer Chris Vignes of Gulfport, Mississippi. Have you ever seen the coast of Mississippi? Chris will inspire you to put Mississippi on your bucket list! http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

There is no denying the passion of Public Information Officer Chris Vignes of Gulfport, Mississippi. There is no denying the passion of Public Information Officer Chris Vignes of Gulfport, Mississippi. He uses the power of voice for promotion. Are you the type of person who loves to talk, engage with others, connect people? A pursuit similar to Chris’ may be best for you! http://5ed.8db.myft...

Where do dueling pianists from the French Quarter in Louisiana go to take their breaks? In an apartment just off of Bourbon Street, of course. And the Motivate Me! crew was lucky enough to hangout with them there for a few minutes, to hear them sing some bars, and to ask some pertinent dueling pianists questions! http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Musician Emelie Guidry is just completely grateful that she has a career that allows her to play music. She is part of a team of dueling pianists in the French Quarter of Louisiana. She battles her shyness to interact with the crowd, but says when you are passionate about something, you go to greater lengths to keep it in your life in anyway that you can. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Sean Barros and Rand Owens took an establish New Orleans pizza place and put their own spin on it. They are passionate about creating a unique pizza experience with highly creative pizza concoctions. They acknowledge the intense workload, the equipment and staffing issues that arise, but they push past these obstacles, because the feeling they get watching people enjoy their establishment surpasse...

Darcy McKinnon, Executive Director at NOVAC, a community media arts center, gets to live her passion as a full-time career. Darcy oversees the NOVAC facility in New Orleans and they provide resources, such as the technology and training required to tell stories through digital media. Some films created are viewed on a small scale, while others are distributed to a larger audience, but making sure...

Artist Brittany Schall had a creative idea, she pushed through fears, and in the end, developed a portrait style all her own. Her drawings are life-like portraits of hair that omit a person’s face, yet, allows their identity to surface. She urges artists to takes risks that can sometimes only be discovered from failure, and she gives important copyright information that she wished she’...

Josh Hailey, an artist living in an artists’ community in New Orleans, is someone who takes an idea, big or small, acts on it, and completes it. Josh will inspire you to take your own ideas more seriously, to understand that they matter, and to see that you can change your life with it. Just look at his website and all of the projects he has completed to believe it. http://5ed.8db.myftpuploa...

Live from the road: The crew has made it to New Orleans where they are staying at a beautiful home in the midst of the 3rd Ward. Hosts Micah and Robbie sit down with the crew to discuss their passions: styling hair and concocting cocktails. This is an interesting episode about bringing new game to established arts, and loving the creativity in it. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Janice Hunter takes her responsibility to be conservative and preserve the environment seriously. While this was, originally, a passion of her mother’s, it has quickly become her own. Her way of life.  http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Meet Hanna Ellaham and Melodie McMath who, while owning separate businesses, joined forces to make their passions their careers. They will share with you how filling a need can uncover a passion, and how desire can inspire you to be creative in the acting out of it. The bottom line is: How badly do you want to live your pupose? To what extent will you compromise and collobrate to do that? http://5...

Meredith Johnson uses writing to get her thoughts on paper, to allow herself to be vulnerable, to create the person she wants to be in life. She journals daily, and puts her thought into poetry and fiction. Meredith shares that “It’s not about how good you are, it’s about putting pen to paper…” So many of us want to know: What makes a writer? Writers write, folks, tha...

Disc Golf vendor, Tyler Sonnier, from the company Geaux Throw Disc Golf Co sits down with Lynette at Magnolia Park during a Louisiana rain storm to share his passion for the game disc golf. If getting your passion into your life is challenging, Tyler suggests going about it creatively: start a business! He says facing the consequences of fitting a passion into your life are better than facing regr...

Live from the road: The Motivate Me! crew is caught in torrential rains in St. Martinville, Louisiana! They may not be able to start their interview with disc golf course owner Tyler Sonnier on time, but they are able to make some new memories trying out some local favorite foods in the Motivate Me! van: boudin and cracklin. Get exposed to some Lousiana cuisine in this unique situation that turned...

Carolyn Murray discovered her passion for comedy later in life. She discusses how she finds her material, and how she tricked herself into getting on stage the first time. She shares thoughts that had the potential to hold her back, and she performs a few jokes! The airport nearby, apparently, had a sense of humor as well. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Live from the road: Business coach Jason Treu and entrepreneur Alex Muse discuss everything that has to do with business start-up. What you need to know to start-up yours, and what they are doing to start-up a new one of theirs that will help everyone else with this process. If you are considering starting something new, tweet: @amuse. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Alexander Muse had a single-dad conundrum: cooking healthy food for his kids. That is until he found a healthy-cooking technique that is foolproof. Alex evolved from eating out too often, to cooking in the kitchen with his kids, to throwing dinner parties. Visit Alex’s blog to find out everything you need to know to take the anxiety out of meal preparation: https://medium.com/sous-vide http:...

Courtney Edwards has a marketing and branding background, and with her sister, she created a blog and a jewelry line. They saw a need and became the designers of a quality city skyline jewelry line. The two had always envisioned being in business and they turned this vision into a reality. What has your vision always been? Are you living it? http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/