The Hats We Wear

In this episode, I speak with Holly Curby who is a writer, podcaster, public speaker, and leadership/life coach. It is her passion to help encourage, inspire, and equip others to intentionally live a life full of purpose. She wears many hats and shares she has trusted her intuition to guide her to or away from certain jobs and that life has unfolded in a way that supports her. She's navigated rais...

In this episode, I speak with Synthia about her path as an intuitive practitioner. It began during a challenging time when she faced pregnancy-induced heart failure (Peripartum Cardiomyopathy). This pivotal experience led her to explore the profound effects of trauma on the body and opened her world to numerous alternative healing methods. Through her personal healing journey, she found peace, cal...

In this episode, Aeoliana discusses her hats as a mom, wife, employee, and part-time podcast strategist. Although she runs her business part-time, her hope is to eventually take off the employee hat and wear her entrepreneur hat full-time. As a podcast strategist, she helps females launch their podcast and gives them heart-centered strategies to help them maintain a sense of balance to avoid burno...

In this episode, I had a great time discussing intuition with Jennifer who is an author, energy healer, and intuitive leadership/soul care coach. Listening to the quiet whisper of her intuition saved her life when she called in sick on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. She explains that everyone has intuition but some are more intentional about following it than others. Every invention...

In this episode, Meghan discusses her work as a neurodivergent specialist. After years of working in the education system in various leadership roles in special education, SEL, climate and culture, and in the gifted program, and after her two children identified as gifted, she realized that she too was neurodivergent and that her needs were not being met as an educator. She stepped away from the s...

In this episode, Lisa discusses her journey to becoming an improvisation comic, podcaster, speaker, and author. Oh yeah, she also works for the police department in records and dispatch! Growing up with an alcoholic and abusive mother meant a roller coaster of ups and downs not knowing which mother she was going to encounter at any given time. This led to her love of Carol Burnett, who she credits...

In this episode, Tiffany discusses how she was able to discover herself after years of wearing a mask. Married with three children by the age of 21 had her solely identifying as a mom and wife. She found herself, a few years later, navigating life as a depressed single mom that didn't know how, or feel safe, to express how she felt inside. When her kids were grown she experienced a traumatic e...

In this episode, Elizabeth and I talk about all things energy!! Her main hats are as a mom, wife, and multi-business owner. She experienced conflict between the business and mom hats and had to learn how to navigate spending time with her children and doing what needed to be done for her business. She has gotten to the point where she is better able to recognize and balance the hats that are impor...

In this episode, Patsy shares how and why her work as an image stylist took the front seat of her beauty business. In her nonprofit, Elevating Women in Transition, she works with women helping them up-level their image and align it with who they were born to be at a soul level. She helps her clients find their color type so they can then determine their color palette; which is what feels and looks...

In this episode, Rika discusses the burnout she experienced wearing too many hats. The conflict between her job and mom/wife hats prompted her to make the decision to step away from her career and start her own business. Her mission with Workplace Culture Hub is to help corporate leaders manage the culture of the workplace by bringing awareness to the harm workplace gossip has on the well-being of...

Trigger warning: In this episode Jill, an entrepreneur with four businesses and the author of "Liberated," discusses what her life became as a result of being sexually molested at the age of 4 and how she found her way to living an amazing life. At the ages of 7-12 she began acting out sexually and at the age of 12 she recalls feeling like a molester and pedophile after one specific inci...

Linda is the CEO of The Guild Associates, a family-owned association management business for over 90 years. In this episode, she discusses her path to becoming the CEO, all the hats she has to wear on a daily basis, and how she's grown as a result. Over time, she learned how to manage the responsibilities of work with time for herself and her husband. She recognized the importance of building...

In this episode, Catherine discusses how she navigates the hats associated with being a mom and a coach. After studying sociology in university, she worked as an education and employment coach which ultimately led her to starting her own coaching business. She does three types of coaching: strengths alignment, clarity on your calling and purpose, and general life coaching. She sees her role as a c...

Michelle is a paraeducator that works with students with disabilities, disability writer, blogger, and photographer. In this episode, she discusses how she has and is navigating the world with a learning disability. Although she has a weakness in mathematics, she has strengths in writing and the arts that she has fostered and chooses to focus on. She loves working as a paraeducator because she und...

In this episode, Aghogho shares how, growing up, she felt like she didn't fit in and was always looking for her place. Being Nigerian, she felt pressure to become a doctor or engineer. She attended nursing school for a short time but knew she was meant for other things so she walked away and became a high school science teacher. She, now, has two children and has found joy in helping others th...

In this episode, Lance discusses the joys and struggles associated with the hats he needs to wear as CEO of his recruiting business, LeFort Talent Group. With over two decades of experience in the creative tech industry, Lance developed a deep understanding of the talent needs and challenges of this dynamic and evolving sector. As the President and Founder of LeFort Talent Group, he leads a team o...

Janet Schoen is a trauma survivor, devoted wife, and mother of three. After facing her own challenges and struggling to find her place in the world, she discovered the power of healing and embracing authenticity. As a Best Selling Author and certified coach, Janet is driven by her desire to help other trauma survivors and women facing life's hurdles. With her captivating storytelling and pract...

In this episode, Daniel talks about his journey to awakening and becoming the beacon of light for souls entering and leaving this realm. He started seeing spirit at the age of 3 but it wasn't until just before his 50th birthday that what he was seeing jumped to the next level. Not understanding what was happening was the motivation to seek out help from mediums and paranormal experts. With new...

Brenda is a certified midlife women's life coach. She loves helping women connect, find success, and discover joy through friendship. Her mission is to support women who have lost themselves in their roles as wife, mother, and professional and help them connect to their passions, purpose, and people. Through her coaching, workshops, retreats, podcast, and book, she helps women connect and comm...

In this episode, Suhaiba discusses being a woman in a male-dominated field and the part she plays in running the family business. In 2020, she stepped out on her own and started a consulting business called The Full Circle Business in order to help other contractors with their systems and processes in order to streamline their businesses. When working with a client, her goal is to make the systems...

In this episode, Domikah talks about her life as a semi-retired mental health nurse practitioner and current mental health wellness coach. She is recognized for her expertise in supporting high achieving women in overcoming stress, burnout, and overwhelm. Her focus is enabling these women to embrace life, show up more mentally resilient, and get the most out of every day. With over 11 years of exp...

In this episode, Karen discusses being a mom of 4 children that she homeschooled, an artist, art teacher, author, and coach. As an educator at the collegiate level, she found there were no art books that adequately grabbed the attention of her students so she wrote one! Her life's passion has been to help others tap into the right side of their brain; their creative side. She feels if the righ...

In this episode, Brenda discusses her path to becoming the CEO of Sterling Tea, a successful business based in Texas, and E-Success Network, a new business she and a partner started to help women entrepreneurs find and maintain success in their businesses. After a 12-year career in medical sales and a successful massage therapy business, Brenda fell into the world of tea and hasn't looked back...

In this episode, Kris discusses her life as an author, mother, wife, and former employee of 25 years in the corporate marketing arena. After getting laid off from her job this last time, the financial uncertainty of having to rely solely on the proceeds of her book sales led her to make the decision to do the work necessary to become a life and business coach to women over 40 looking to make a cha...

Carey is an author, speaker, and vision leader. In this episode, she discusses the path that led her to becoming what she and others call a "vision expert." One way she found success navigating her struggles in life was by writing down her vision for her future. Through the death of both her husband and son, she realized many lose hope because they don't know where they are going in...