The Blair Badenhop Show

Welcome back to another episode of my mini-series, #OnTheRise, where I feature an entrepreneur in the early stages of business building to give you insight into how they achieved significant growth and success. And today we have the amazing Jess Suchan joining us. Jess is a Holistic Health & Wellness Coach who guides her clients to find a life of bliss, free from fad diets, over-exercising, and bu...

Sarah Larson & Mason Levey are the co-founders of the New York-based fitness hot spot, Y7 Studio which has 13 locations around the country. After many years of struggling to find a yoga class that she loved, these two put their heads together and decided to invent a fitness experience that broke down the traditional barriers of yoga. Their classes combine 60-minutes of intensity with heat and stre...

Cameron Rogers is a very freckled 28-year-old living in NYC with a big appetite for all things food. After working on Wall Street for 5 years, she decided it was time to wave goodbye to the corporate world and pursue her blog, Freckled Foodie full-time. Since then, she's worked with notable companies on creating content, dozens of individuals to achieve a healthier and more balanced lifestyle and...

Satya Scainetti is the founder and designer of the global wellness brand, Satya Jewelry. As a philanthropist, yoga teacher, and Reiki healer, she's has integrated her three loves--spirituality, yoga, and giving back--into one beautiful business. What started as a jewelry company, has grown into a multi-million dollar consciousness-raising empire that creates adornments and experiences that connect...

Alison Wu is the stylist, recipe developer and lifestyle blogger behind Wu Haus. Since starting her blog in 2016 as an outlet to share her passions, she has received international recognition for her vibrant dishes and warm aesthetic. Named by Well + Good as one of the next gen of wellness, Alison also loves to curate and host national and international events, retreats and experiences that promot...

After years of using severe prescription acne treatments, Priscilla Tsai realized that traditional approaches to fighting skin concerns were unsustainable, unhealthy, and stigmatizing. Instead, she wanted to find a solution that would create long-term yet gentle results for her skin, mind, and body. After tackling her hormonal acne with superfoods instead of chemicals, she quite literally made her...

Natalie Zises is a Binge & Diet Recovery Coach who specializes in helping women let go of the diet-binge cycle and find peace around food for life. I've had the pleasure of knowing Natalie since 2017 when she enrolled in my business mentorship program Your Wellness Brand. In this episode, we chat about how she's worked with over 40 clients in just the first year and a half in business—and how she'...

McKel Hill Kooienga is the Founder and CEO of Nutrition Stripped, a trailblazing mind-body health company that supports the well-being of people around the world. In this episode, she shares what it was like to take Nutrition Stripped from passion project to full-time business, why she makes it a priority to understand what her audience wants, the key steps she took along the way to grow a social...

Dr. Nicole LePera is a Holistic Psychologist who views mental and physical struggles from a whole person perspective and works to identify the underlying physical and emotional causes. In the episode, Dr. LePera shares how her own dark night of the soul inspired her to shift her practice to incorporate the mind, body, and spirit, the role sharing her story of healing has played in her becoming a h...

In this solo episode, I talk about the exciting reason I've decided to take a hiatus from the show, when I'll be back with new episodes, and where you can stay connected with me during the hiatus. I also talk about which episodes released in 2019 that I think you should revisit or be sure to listen to for the first time while waiting for new episodes. To learn more about the resources mentioned in...

Alexandra Roxo is a transformational mentor, healer, and writer who is passionate about empowering women. In the episode, she shares why she was ashamed to call herself a coach, what inspired her to help women express their gifts, how doing deep inner work was key to becoming the kind of leader she needs to be to facilitate transformation for her clients, how she organically grew her business on I...

Erin Telford is a Breathwork facilitator and healer, acupuncturist, Reiki Master, herbalist, and a teacher of David Elliott's Level One Breathwork Healer Training. In the episode, she shares how a painful heartbreak led her to become an energy worker, how she bootstrapped her business by leveraging $40,000 in credit, what happened in year one that led her to a 6-figure income, how we can all lever...

Danielle Beinstein is a Psychological Astrologer who offers a unique blend of East and West coast sensibility, providing her clients with intuitive and pragmatic guidance as they navigate their life's journey. In the episode, we discuss her shift from media, politics, and tech to astrology, how she integrates psychology and spirituality into her work, how she grew her business without any real mar...

Jesse Israel is a social entrepreneur, public speaker and meditation teacher who helps people become the leaders they're meant to be. He founded the social meditation community Medi Club and the mass meditation movement The Big Quiet. In the episode, we chat about what it was like to transition out of the music industry and into meditation, why he has taken an "attraction" approach to building com...

Alisa Vitti is an integrative nutritionist, leading hormone expert, PERIOD COACH, the best-selling author of WomanCode, and the CEO behind FLOliving.com. In the episode, you'll hear her journey with PCOS, how she started her first business as a health coach, then founded a clinical practice, and then founded FLO Living, her experience as one of the first to start the conversation about women's per...

Liz Moody is an author, editor, podcast host, and the former Food Director at Mindybodygreen. In this episode, we discuss how quitting her full-time job to write her first novel led her to the wellness industry, her insider tips for how to pitch an editor, how she juggled a demanding role at MBG while also growing her blog, starting a podcast, writing a book, and more, why it's important to build...

Deborah Hanekamp is the creator of Mama Medicine, a healing center and digital platform where she facilitates Medicine Readings. In the episode, she shares why she was drawn to the spiritual and divine from a young age, how she funded her shamanic and medicine trainings in Thailand and Peru while running a yoga practice, the serendipitous moment with the New York Times that led to massive business...

Clara Artschwager is a Modern Dating & Partnership Coach who specializes in helping career-driven women shift their approach to pursuing long term partnership. In this episode, we discuss why she's always been fascinated by relationships but was embarrassed by the desire to become a dating coach, what it was like to shift from a career in tech and cut her salary by 60%, how she landed writing gigs...

Brittany Mullins is a holistic nutritionist and the mastermind behind Eating Bird Food, a wellness platform where she shares recipes, workouts, wellness articles, travel adventures, and more. In this episode, Brittany shares what it was like to start a blog in 2008, the revenue streams that enabled her to turn her passion into her sole source of income, how her approach to content has played a rol...

Amy Smith is a certified confidence coach, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. As the founder of TheJoyJunkie.com, she moves individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-love. In this episode, she shares what it was like growing up in a religious home that stifled her authenticity and self-expression, what led her to pursue coaching as a side hustle, her transiti...

Shane Heath is the Founder and CEO of MUD\WTR, a company that creates products and experiences to optimize one's mind, body, and ritual. In our talk, we chat about how getting physically and emotionally uncomfortable gives you an advantage in business, when he realized he was on to something, what it was like to produce his product while working fulltime, the role one mentor played in giving him t...

Jessica Murnane is the creator of the One Part Plant movement, author of the One Part Cookbook, host of the One Part Podcast, and founder of Know Your Endo. In the episode, she shares how her own challenges with endometriosis led to starting her wellness platforms, why building genuine relationships and making face-to-face connections is her priority, the roles her book and podcast have played in...

Krissy Jones & Chloe Kernagen are the co-founders of Sky Ting, a popular collective of yoga studios in New York City.  In the episode, they share what it was like to open their first location in Chinatown, why their focus on creating community was key gaining a cult following, how they use the principles of yoga to guide their business decisions, what it's been like bootstrapping the operations of...

Jessica Corbin is a Holistic Health + Performance Coach, Speaker, TV Host and Co-Founder of the wellness technology company REVITA5. In the episode, she shares the event that led her to drop a TV career and take her business full-time, why it's important to put your stake in the ground and get specific with your niche, why it's key to balance stepping into your authority AND being ok with not havi...

Developmental Psychologist and Life Coach, Dr. Sasha Heinz, is an expert in Positive Psychology, lasting behavioral change, and the science of getting unstuck. In the episode, Sasha shares why hiring a coach inspired her to become one, the various iterations of her brand, what it looked like as she found her footing in the first few years in business and how she had to get out of her own way, the...