The Let's Get Candid Podcast

Today I sit down, a week and a half after my law school graduation with a glass of wine + my emotions all over the place to really share how I'm feeling post grad. This isn't my first rodeo but something about this being my doctorate degree + the amount of personal growth I have accomplished alongside my degree has me feeling really proud + in awe of myself. I get candid on confidence, not being e...

Today I sit down with my G Big Taylor from back in my sorority days and we talk all about how she took her love of food and travel and built Taysty Travels! We share the story of how she came up with this name, a great lesson on branding too. Taylor is the self proclaimed Chief Eating Officer and she is so knowledgable on events, experiential marketing, media dines and just how to take a passion a...

Today I sit down with my law school BFF, my ride or die Yasmin, who is my law school mentor, one of the first people I met at UTK Law ever and the person that helped me get through it the last 3 years. We don't see each other everyday now like we used to but whenever we are together we have a blast reminiscing, gossiping and of course reflecting on law school and all the ups and downs of being a l...

Today I sit down with my friend Fiorella Bianchi, a licensed clinical social worker in Miami who started off as a theater kid and is now a major yogi and a beautiful resource for mental health, self care and healing. We talk a lot about her job as a social worker in a school setting, the various career paths one can have as a social worker and what it means to be a social worker. Its like a late n...

Today I sit down with my dear friend Scout Sobel, the multi faceted, inspirational founder of Scout's Agency, the best selling author of the Emotional Entrepreneur and the host of the Emotional Entrepreneur podcast and cohost of Okay Sis podcast with her sister Mady. I mean this resume! We get candid on all things mental health and how her bipolar disorder changed her life in the best way, led her...

Today I sit down with my friend Emily, co-owner of Hinter Company and founder of Bloom Class for a heartwarming and candid chat on everything from toxic relationships to following your gut and listening to your body to reimagining teaching to sustainability initiatives. She inspires me to continue being a multi hyphenate woman everyday and I loved hearing how she met her husband, how they started...

Today I sit down with my friend Kelsey and she gets candid on making the transition from corporate career to social media content creation with the support of her family, how she discovered her style and how she gets her super aesthetic feed! I love connecting with my friends and feeling like kindred spirits even though we've never met IRL - the beauty of social media friends, which we talk about...

Today I sit down with someone I look up to tremendously as a lawyer but also as a trailblazer! Darren is one of the top NIL and IP lawyers in sports and entertainment law today and getting to share his wisdom and hear it myself means the world to me. He shares how he wanted to be a sports agent, how that led him to law school and becoming a sports lawyer, starting his own firm and what it takes to...

Today I sit down with my friend Amanda Wan weeks before the launch of her company Wan Media to talk all about how she got into social media back in high school, her evolution throughout the last few years, her immigrant parents' take on her pursuing a non traditional career path and of course how Wan Media came about! She has been on YouTube since she was 15 and started her first podcast in 2019,...

Today I sit down with my childhood best friend Amber Plaksin and we go wayyy back from how we met circa 2008 to how we have evolved as individuals, to growing up together and always being each others constants even from a distance. We reflect on how our friendship has evolved along the way and the lessons we've learned about adult friendships throughout the years too so grab a glass of wine and ge...

Today my friend Kylie and I chat all about our passion for mental health and the incredible work she's doing with the Mental Health Project and how she wants to use her platform for good! She is an aspiring actress who just moved to LA to pursue acting and she shares how she got started and how she knew it was time to take the leap of faith! Kylie is also the owner of a social media management com...

Today I sit down with my friend Kate Delapiedra, a fellow content creator and entrepreneur who runs a mobile IV therapy company in Arizona. We talk all things IVs, running a business, the skills you need to do it, advice for business owners + tips for content creation, finding your aesthetic, making friends online and so much more. We even have a little girl chat about relationships and long dista...

Today I wanted to do a little mini solo episode on a topic that is near and dear to my heart. Something I have been really working on in therapy the last month is focusing and reframing on the bigger picture. But how do you know what that bigger picture is? That's a question I've been getting a lot in my DMs so I wanted to share more about it than on stories. The key is knowing your WHY. Why are y...

Today I sit down with Molly Kate, a body image mentor and expert and we get candid on how she went from studying to be an athletic trainer to her discovery of intuitive eating and her coaching women on their relationship with food and their bodies. We also talk about the history and layers of body image and diet culture in society as well as eating disorders, the spectrum of disordered eating and...

The episode you all have been waiting for!! I can't tell you how many times I've gotten asked lately how I met her, how I got my job at Rella and what I do there so today I can't wait for you to join me for a happy hour candid chat with Natalie Barbu! From starting YouTube over a decade ago, to industrial engineering at NC State, NYC, several businesses and now Rella we dig into everything she's l...

Today I sit down with my classmate and friend Bryce and we chat about how and why she decided to go to law school and why she chose UTK Law. This episode is part 4 of my academia series and where we leave off for now. But don't worry I have more coming soon! I'm so excited to chat with a 1L to get her experience, especially as she has navigated it all during Covid. She is also an entrepreneur with...

Today I sit down with my friend Tia and we chat about how her journey from growing up in Canada and almost making it to the Olympics led her to law school at Syracuse University in upstate New York. She shares what her experience deciding to do an MBA once she was already in law school was like, what it means to be an international student and how accidentally going viral led to having a platform...

I truly cannot believe its my final semester of law school and I graduate in less than 4 months !!!  I wouldn't be nearly half the person I am today had I not come to law school and in this week's episode I share why. I have learned so much and grown tremendously the last 2 1/2 years, I only wish you could see how much. I have documented a lot of it on my blog and IG though so there's that, b...

Today I sit down with my friend, fellow grad student and digital creator with a million things on our plate that we LOVE, Kaelyn aka The Redhead Academic. We chat all about her journey from a professional equestrian career through community college to Oxford to now Yale studying for a PhD in History and African American Studies. From all the pivots along the way to how her experiences inspired her...

Today I sit down with my friend Emily and we talk all about how putting herself out there online led her to self actualization and an all around evolution thanks to sliding into Lisa Gilmore's DMs. From starting her own beauty brand, Nu Beauty to discovering she wants more in life and leaving a long term relationship, to her plans for 2022 we go there! HIGHLY recommend following her on Tik Tok too...

Today I sit down with my friend and fellow Miami girl Sacha and we really go there about navigating a nonlinear path to career success, from playing the harp to wanting to be a doctor to working in PR and social media. Sacha also shares her story of experiencing loss at a young age and her beautiful story of how she found her partner through it all. This is a story all about perseverance, grit and...

Today I'm coming to you live from Breckenridge, Colorado on our annual family trip and I am so freaking excited for this episode! Join me as I reflect on all that I've grown in 2021, the lessons I learned and how far I've come personally, academically, emotionally and professionally. I also start a new tradition of giving the new year a word I want to embody and live for during the year. As I ente...

Today I sit down with Kayla Pomponio from Be Well with Kayla and we really got into gut health, where in our body our gut is, leaky gut, how she got into wellness and transitioned to a holistic wellness lifestyle and so much more. She is now a certified international holistic health coach and she teaches us all how to eat a balanced plate and how to listen to our bodies everyday on IG and on her p...

Today I sit down with a dating coach and we dive deep on how our childhoods really impact how we approach dating and life, manifesting a partner, a new take on dating apps and "you have to kiss a lot of frogs, to find your prince." We also dissect attachment styles and the difference between independence, interdependence and codependence and so much more. I'll definitely be doing part 2 with Gabby...

Everyone needs a study break right? Today in between family law outlines and when I should be either catching up on sleep or studying, I sit down to ramble about how I'm really doing lately. If you follow me on IG you know I'm very open about my struggles with mental health and I've shared recently that I started therapy again. I wanted to go in detail about all thats happening in my life and why...