Unapologetically Me

This episode came from realizing that something I called “self-care” was actually costing me more than I wanted to admit.     I’ve spent years talking about living unapologetically - building businesses, raising kids, and helping women step into confidence. But I hadn’t fully questioned the expectations I’d absorbed around aging and appearance.     Instead of chasing youth, I s...

This episode was inspired by a pattern I see all the time. Women come into my community thinking they’re behind… thinking they need a massive deal or a perfect strategy to get started. So I invited the coaches from The Society of Entrepreneurial Women to share their real stories - not the highlight reels, but the   first   deals. The messy ones. The small ones. The ones that gave them co...

  🎙 Raising a child with autism can feel overwhelming, isolating, and full of unknowns. What happens when the support you need doesn’t exist? Dr. Stephanie B shares her journey of building a clinic for her daughter, navigating the challenges of parenting, and finding herself along the way.     From creating a strength-based autism clinic to franchising it to help other families, to...

What do you do when everyone says your idea won’t work… and the market you’re choosing seems like a “waste of time”?     Most people back down. Destiny Rowell didn’t.     In today’s episode, we get into how she went from a single coffee truck to a multi-state franchise, even though she didn’t start with experience, connections, or a love for coffee.     What she did h...

Think big city rentals are too expensive or impossible to cash flow? Think again. Co-living is quietly changing the game for real estate investors, letting them maximize income from homes that might otherwise sit empty.     In this episode, we break down the strategy that takes a standard single-family home earning $1,600/month and turns it into $4,700/month through smart layout changes,...

There’s a moment in every entrepreneur’s journey when you realize the strategy you started with can’t take you where you want to go. In this episode, Beth Kolk opens up about that exact turning point. As rental arbitrage became harder to profit from, she and her husband recognized the shift early and transitioned into co-hosting long before the market pushed them in that direction. Today, that piv...

What does “enough” actually mean, and why do so many high achievers feel like they never reach it? In this episode, I sit down with Amberly Grant - real estate investor, FIRE expert, and financial independence strategist - for an honest conversation about the pressure to always do more. We talk about how childhood shapes your money mindset, why the goalpost keeps moving, and how productivity can t...

Not everyone wants to quit their job. And honestly? That might be the smartest thing you can do. This week’s guest, Sarah King, is a genetic counselor, mom of two, and real estate investor who’s built serious wealth - without walking away from her career. She’s smart, steady, and totally over the idea that success only counts if it’s risky or loud. Sarah and Heather talk about what real financial...

Straight out of high school and already flipping houses. No degree, no plan - just figuring it out one deal at a time.     What started as one flip turned into eighty. Dominique Gunderson built her real estate business completely remotely, managing teams in another state, working with contractors she’d never met in person, and raising money through real relationships instead of pitc...

When you hear “Miss Nevada,” you probably think crowns and cameras - not an attorney, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist running multiple companies. But that’s exactly who Lisa Song Sutton is.     In this episode, Heather Blankenship sits down with Lisa to talk about how a law career and a batch of alcohol cupcakes turned into five successful businesses, including a venture capital fun...

What if you could make fifty thousand dollars in real estate… without even owning a property? In this episode, Heather Blankenship sits down with Zeona McIntyre, a real estate investor, author, and midterm rental expert who built her freedom by doing things differently. Zeona started out renting her spare room on Airbnb, made $50K from an apartment she didn’t even own, and turned that small experi...

What if one moment shattered everything you thought your life would be?     For Kathy Fettke, that moment came when her husband was suddenly diagnosed with melanoma - and doctors told them he might only have six months to live. Two little kids. A mortgage they could barely keep up with. No plan B.     But instead of breaking, Kathy turned that fear into fuel. She used her tiny...

I still can’t believe we pulled this off. Twenty-five women gathered at my house for a tea party that turned into so much more than food and flowers. We had homemade dips, Red Lobster-style cheddar biscuits, Trader Joe’s blooms, and all the laughter that happens when women who love business and life show up in one space together.     As we prepped and cooked, the conversation got real. W...

What if the key to financial freedom wasn’t rentals or flips, but a strategy almost no one talks about? That’s exactly what Candace Horne discovered. After her divorce, she rebuilt her life as a licensed therapist and mom, but she wanted more than just stability. She wanted freedom and flexibility. That search led her to one of the most overlooked corners of real estate - mortgage note investing....

In her fifties, Herry Cordoba reinvented her life - losing 40+ pounds, scaling an Airbnb business, and dreaming up a women’s wellness retreat. In this episode from the   Unapologetically Me Podcast , Herry shares how hitting rock bottom after a knee injury sparked a health transformation, how she and her husband used their W2 jobs as a “superpower” to launch short-term rentals, and how commun...

She built a $120 million real estate empire in just four years… and then realized it was destroying her. In this episode, I sit down with Jen Ullrich, a real estate entrepreneur who scaled RV and mobile home parks into a massive portfolio while secretly burning out from 100-hour weeks and 120 days a year on the road. The hustle that made her millions also broke her. So Jen walked away. She put her...

What would it take for you to walk away from a 6-figure career that everyone else thinks is “perfect”? For Olivia Tati, the answer came after years of burnout, $25K in credit card debt, and a realization that the life she was building wasn’t the life she wanted.     In this episode, we sit down over brunch and unpack her wild journey: from chemical engineer in oil & gas ➝ paying off...

What happens when everyone tells you your business idea is crazy? For Tiffany Frank, it meant pushing forward anyway and proving everyone wrong. In a small town of just 37,000 people, she built Crave - a late-night dessert shop that turned into a thriving, multi-location business best known for its skillet cookie and safe, family-friendly atmosphere. In this episode of   Unapologetically Me &...

What if your backyard could pay your bills? That’s exactly what happened for Jen Reelitz. What started as a simple love for planting fruit trees turned into tours, plant sales, and eventually a full-time business that replaced her income in just six months. In this episode, Jen opens up about the leap from a decade-long nonprofit job into entrepreneurship, the surprising demand for food forests, a...

Heather Blankenship is catching up with her childhood bestie, Amber Mooneyham - and let’s just say, this convo has everything. We’re talking 13 years of running a women’s boutique (and the not-so-glamorous reality behind the “cute clothes all day” fantasy). Amber spills on slow season stress, wild buying trips to market, and why she cheers on her competition instead of seeing them as rivals. Then…...

Ever wonder how to build a brand, run a business, and be a present parent - all at once? In this episode, we’re cooking lunch and talking shop with Lauren, founder of Brand Good Time, a branding agency that helps disruptor brands stand out with bold, human-centered messaging. We dive into Lauren’s journey from corporate burnout to full-time entrepreneurship, how an unplanned pregnancy reshape...

Dr. Rachel Gainsbrugh went from $500,000 in student loan debt and working 5 jobs… to retiring her husband with just two short-term rental properties.     In this episode of The Unapologetically Me Podcast, she shares how she broke free from burnout, why she chose furnished rentals over flipping or wholesaling, and how she leverages her background in medicine to thrive in real estate - wi...

What happens when the fitness coach with the dream body, dream business, and dream life… realizes she’s completely empty inside? Kathryn Nash built a wildly successful fitness brand, led a 14-person team, and coached women around the world. But behind the abs and accolades was a silent inner war. In this episode, she gets brutally honest about the identity crisis that changed everything - and the...

No One Cares About Your Product… and Shelby Clement is here to tell you why. In this episode of the Unapologetically Me Podcast, Heather sits down with marketing and branding expert Shelby Clement - a former corporate marketer who walked away from the oil & gas world and built a 6-figure social media agency with zero ad spend. They unpack the truth about why most content doesn't convert, how t...

She went from NFL cheerleader to Fortune 500 exec to building multiple companies - and did it all without compromising her faith. 🙏 In this episode, Kelly Roach shares how her corporate background shaped her leadership, why hiring for values matters more than résumés, and how she scaled a business while homeschooling and prioritizing family. We talk about building culture, letting people go the r...