Own Your Awkward: Conversations on Authenticity, Growth and the Power of Being Different

Mariah & Byron Edgington are TEDx Speakers. Best-Selling Authors. Keynote Speakers. Contributors at: BizCatalyst 360°, Medium Digest, and Substack. Their company is Mandate To Elevate LLC, and because of their past careers, they are dedicated to lifting people up. Mariah is a retired ICU/ER/Flight Nurse who now coaches others to own their value and live their best lives. Byron is a retired hel...

Hanae is an impact tech entrepreneur and certified international project manager with 10 years of overall professional experience, including 5 years in social impact stewardship at a multi-award non-profit and 2 years of operational stewardship at a high growth tech startup. She developed a fluency across borders and sectors with an understanding of how different sectors (governments and internati...

Carla Howard is a Strategic Change Consultant, Professional Speaker, and a Dream Enabler. The thread that runs through her work is a love of personal and business transformation. Whether helping corporations manage change, delivering keynotes, teaching emerging speakers how to “Get Paid From The STAGE!!!”, or helping kind & ambitious women realize what is possible … Carla helps people move fro...

Most introductions for speakers are full of credentials, awards, accomplishments and other unexciting information. While she’s earned a few, let's say this for now: Everything in life is Powered By Connection. Connection is Ginger's jam. With fun & enthusiasm, she brings all of us to the table because the ultimate outcome of connection is belonging. She works with great leaders, teams...

Evelyn Knight is a 2 time TEDx speaker. She specializes in empowering women in business. Evelyn is a successful business owner that has mastered running an early childhood education business without giving up her life. Evelyn is authentic and engaging and has led several audiences through keynote speaking engagements, workshops and training series. Evelyn is the CEO and founder of Child Care Busin...

Sean Allison is a Medical Intuitive Chaplain and Transition coach. FOR THOSE AT A BEGINNING, IN THE MIDDLE, OR AT THE END OF LIFE, READY TO FIND A NEW WAY... Sean teaches spiritual and personal development at Journey Within in Lakewood Colorado. As a Death Dula He assists Families in helping loved ones prepare for the afterlife. Check out Sean Allison online: whenyoursidewalkends.com compassionspe...

Kevin B. Dull is an accomplished leader in the field of organizational development and HR, with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder of KBD Consulting, a highly regarded People Strategy and HR Consulting Firm, and Co-Founder of MgrWorkbench.ai, a cutting-edge HR AI Technology Firm. Dull's expertise in this field culminating in his role as the head of the Human Resources department fo...

Jeff Ikler is the Director of Quetico Leadership and Career Coaching. He works with leaders in all aspects of life to identify and overcome obstacles in their desired future. “Quetico” (KWEH-teh-co). He came to the field of coaching after a 35-year career in educational publishing, where he served as an editor, marketer, and eventually the head of all publishing disciplines. There, he was first ex...

Awkward is normal and here to stay! A childhood of watching Walt Disney animations, to graduating with a Commerce degree. Vrushali always thought the world was all inclusive. Talking animals was very real and normal to her. And studying well was just something all kids did! When she got a rude shock upon entering the corporate world, she went with the flow while awkwardly trying to get her thought...

Dr. Wettstein has practiced endocrinology for nearly thirty years. He is a diabetes, metabolic, and stress management specialist. He also works in energy medicine as a Licensed Bio-Well practitioner. He assists clients in improving their health and wellness by measuring their energy field, stress level, health status, and energy reserve via electro photonic imaging. He lives in Colorado with his w...

Martine Emmons is a Certified Transformational Life Coach. Martine also hosts her own radio program as well as coaching 1:1 under two large platforms. Martine spent over 20 years in the corporate world as a Paralegal and Executive Assistant and still enjoys helping her fellow entrepreneurs run their businesses as an Executive Virtual Assistant; and this includes helping people get TEDx talks. She...

This is episode 100! We have brought my good friend Marie Sonneman who hosts the Ordinary to Badass podcast to do a reverse interview. In today's episode she will ask me about my awkward, explore the roots of Own Your Awkward, and we will dig into the lessons learned along the way. I have spent years interviewing others to find out what their awkward thing is and explored how they have owned i...

Peggy has been a certified personal trainer, sports performance nutritionist, and personal and executive health, wellness, and life coach for over thirty years. Peggy is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, a featured contributor for BizCatalyst360, an international online magazine, and host of The Coach Peggy Show. Peggy also hosts wellness retreats. She spent over twenty years in corporate welln...

Through Spaceworks Tacoma, Jennifer facilitates the learning and professional development of creative entrepreneurs and artists with plans for long term creative/innovative businesses that benefit Tacoma’s culturally vibrant community. Jennifer is also a Spaceworks alum, graduating from the 2014 cohort and is the co-owner of SPUN Clay Arts Studio. She was the Hilltop Business Association Vice Pres...

Reuben Swartz is the founder of Mimiran, the fun CRM for independent consultants who love serving clients but hate "selling". He's also the host and chief nerd on the Sales for Nerds podcast. He went from a background in computer science and software engineering to sales and marketing consulting for the Fortune 500, while struggling with sales and marketing for his own firm. His miss...

Fran Gallaher is an Executive Leadership Coach and the founder of Really Flourish, LLC, as well as the creator of Shine: the Program in Intuition for Unconventional Leaders. Fran grew up seeing non-physical beings such as a knight in armor who stood guard outside her bedroom. Placed in a play room with her younger brother for most of the day, and discouraged from asking questions of her mother, sh...

Sarah Weaver is an entrepreneur and functional medicine nurse practitioner that specializes in mental, hormonal and gut health. started her career as an assistant team leader for AmeriCorps NCCC in Denver. Then, in 1999, she opened Full Circle Doula Care in Seattle, Washington, and later Fort Wayne. She was the owner and birth and postpartum doula, focusing on advocacy and education as well as dir...

Marcel Kuhn is a Swiss visionary speaker, author, coach, father, dreamer, and soul surfer who passionately explores the edges of his comfort zone and what it means to create an unthinkable reality through FLOW: Finding Love and Oneness Within. Marcel has spent over a decade immersed in personal development, traveling globally to work with top experts from coaches, speakers, and trainers, to spirit...

Joseph Hulscher was born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington, and began journaling the legend of this story as early as 2007. KCGB -The Boy From the Porch - My Dying Mom and Kurt Cobain is his first memoir. Joseph is the 2nd of 6 children, sharing the family home with four brothers and a sister. They are a part of this story as the memoir delivers an intimate retelling of interactions the famed gru...

Kevin Johnson is the proud founder of 4EVRGRN. His roots run deep in the Pacific Northwest. It was only natural to name his brand after this incredible region, a place that means so much to him. Their goal is to shine a spotlight on the Pacific Northwest and all its wonders, from its amazing people to its soul-stirring music, mouthwatering food, thrilling wildlife, and awe-inspiring landscapes. Fo...

Lisa David Olson is the (Practically) World-Famous Business Humorist; an interactive speaker, author, podcaster and performer who shares how humor saved her life. A multi TEDx Speaker who loves to guide others to their own talk, Olson is also a speaker trainer. She says she is a professional nag who will help you get your book started or your keynote ready for the stage. Her interactive presentati...

Michael Fowler serves as Executive Director & Senior Trade Consultant at the World Trade Center Tacoma. Co-founder of a successful trading company, Michael has more than three decades of experience assisting US firms access Asian markets. He speaks Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Chair Emeritus of the Pacific Northwest International Trade Alliance, Michael Fowler has served for several years on...

Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C., is a healer, high-performance coach & breakthrough speaker on a mission to help leaders heal and accelerate their deeper purpose of impact through wellness, leadership genius and speaking. As a former D1 and All-American, Jennifer, founder of Run Your Race Global, overcame years of debilitating depression to become an integrative physical therapist, entrepreneu...

Eileen is CEO of Ordinary to Extraordinary Life/OTELproductions, Co- Founder of OTEL Universe, Executive Producer/ROKU Channel Developer, Founder of The Core Thinking Blueprint Method, OTEL TALK show host, Breakthrough S.P.A.R.K. Coach, and Team Member at BIG Records. She is a published Author, and Internationally Syndicated Columnist. Support Eileen Bild online:www.oteluniverse.comwww.corethinkin...

Maria Wulf is a professional drummer and educator specializing in Jazz. She can be seen performing in clubs and giving clinics throughout the Pacific Northwest. She has spent her life awkwardly navigating and succeeding in a male dominated field while overcoming feelings of self-doubt and stage fright. Performing music includes being put in the spotlight, often at unpredictable times and situation...