You Flourish Podcast

About Sherry: Sherry Ristau is the Founder of Amethyst BOLD, a faith-based leadership company. She has successfully transformed two organizations through building great teams and boards and changed toxic cultures to ones that were positive, fun, and productive which raised millions of dollars for small to midsize businesses, communities, and nonprofits. Even after all her successes and 24 years as...

Peter Contreras works as a Project Manager and Consultant delivering IT projects for 25+ and now lives out his passion doing corporate speaking and coaching with lessons learned from work and life. Peter@ContrerasSpeaks.com

Sarah and her husband Nate live in West Fargo with their three beautiful daughters. When she's not chauffeuring kids from activity to activity, you can find her chasing her goals and having extra time at home with the family. Meeting new people, being a community cheerleader, and staying updated with new innovation are a few of her big passions. Since the new year, she has been navigating a ne...

Tanner Palm leads Operations and Product for a start-up called generAI. They are working to transform the marketing and advertising industry through AI. Their incredibly talented team will be releasing our first product, generGrade in spring of 2023 which will allow D2C Ecommerce brands the ability to predict the effectiveness of your video ads before you actually push the content. Building produc...

“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms” (1 Peter 4:10).  Amanda Torok has been shining a light on Gate City Banks culture for the past seven years. Her dedication to the mission of creating a better way of life in the communities Gate City Bank serves helps her to make a difference as a leader for team m...

Desri knows firsthand the power of faith, inspiration, courage, and drive to overcome life’s toughest challenges. Her own journey through a cancer diagnosis and survival taught her the importance of having a solid plan, the power of positivity, and the value of a supportive community. As a certified high performance coach, Desri brings her expertise in corporate and association leadership, entrepr...

About Brad: Brad Lindblad is a husband and father of three who serves as a Data Scientist in Fargo. When not spending time with his family, he mentors cancer patients and survivors and tries to get out hunting when he can. John 16:33 NIV “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Contact https://...

Kailer chose a career in real estate because he loves helping people through emotional times. Buying or selling a home is a huge moment in peoples' lives and he wants to be that person working for my clients, helping them through hard times and celebrating with them through exciting times. Prior to becoming a REALTOR, Kailer graduated from North Dakota State University with a degree in Veterin...

Paul has held senior production management positions at both the national and regional levels with national banks and mortgage companies. Experienced in origination, process development, and underwriting, he has a passion for assisting others in their professional and personal growth to achieve their own goals and objectives. With over 30 years of experience in assisting borrowers, Paul has the kn...

Blair is a commercial and residential real estate agent in Williston, North Dakota, and her story of trials, faith, and learning to pick herself up💪 and try again is nothing you want to miss! Blair's words, "As a mental health advocate who once struggled for over 25 years with addictions, depression and anxiety, suicidal attempts/thoughts, disordered eating, and divorce; my heart rooted...

William S. Cromarty is a former CIA officer and national security subject-matter expert in aerospace and satellite systems, space/counterspace weapons system counterproliferation, and aerospace-sector geopolitics. Drawing on years of undercover experience, William spearheads federal aerospace partnerships in support of America's most cutting-edge satellite and UAS programs. Prior to his former...

Sarah grew up in Dickinson, ND, as one of five children, and the only girl. This alone describes most of who she is and why she is the way she is today...  Sarah writes, "I have definitely had my doubts about faith in my life. And while I have taken steps back during various stages of my life, today, I am finding myself turning towards my faith more and more, and finding God more present in m...

Andrew brings over nine years of customer service experience and two years of financial services experience to his role at Starion Bank. He provides excellent insight to go above and beyond to take care of his customers at Starion Bank. Andrew believes one of the greatest privileges someone can have is the opportunity to serve others. Andrew takes the time serve his customers by getting to know th...

Joe grew up on a small dairy farm in Minnesota, and moved to Fargo for college to pursue a degree in the medical field at NDSU. During the college years, he experienced a profound conversion and have been working in various ministries since graduating.  Joe is also married with 5 kids and works at the St. Paul's Newman Center at NDSU in Development.  Connect with Joe

Christian is a former federal officer and national security expert in cybersecurity, regional, and transnational issues. At Mandiant, Christian is a red team consultant specializing in web application security. Christian has experience in comprehensively assessing web, mobile, and thick client applications as well as corporate enterprise networks for security vulnerabilities. Leveraging his backgr...

Christian is a former federal officer and national security expert in cybersecurity, regional, and transnational issues. At Mandiant, Christian is a red team consultant specializing in web application security. Christian has experience in comprehensively assessing web, mobile, and thick client applications as well as corporate enterprise networks for security vulnerabilities. Leveraging his backgr...

In 2017, Trina found herself navigating the life altering reality of divorce. Armed with a deeply held belief that beauty is harvested from the broken, Trina embarked on the journey of self discovery and healing. As a senior professional and single mom of two amazing kiddos, Trina lives and breathes work life integration. With enthusiasm, compassion and wit, she helps women shatter the belief that...

Like us all, Nicole Thorfinnson has had her ups, downs, and all arounds in finding her way through her faith. Growing up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Nicole was born and raised in the Catholic faith with her family by her side. As she moved through trials of life, God gave her the awakening moment she needed to know He was by her side always – which is the nudge she would need as life began to...

Hannah joined commerce in March 2020 serving as Credit and Venture Analyst for the North Dakota Development Fund. After one year in this role, Hannah was promoted to Venture Financing Manager where she is responsible for handling all new business for the NDDF. Hannah works with companies and private lenders to structure funding packages for businesses. She performs the due diligence and provides s...

Half of Emily's resume illustrates a sport medicine career, the other 1/2, more positions full of service. But her TRUE vocation is motherhood. She is intentional about investing my time on things that allow her to make a REAL & LASTING impact on people & humanity,  In a nutshell: She's a multi-passionate human (1w2) “YOLOing” to the fullest.  @ her core, the thing that fires🔥🔥...

Ali Arndt is the mother of 2 beautiful daughters, the program coordinator at KAYD Home Care, a leader in her church, and is joining our team at You Flourish!  Tune into this episode to learn more about Ali and how she stays positive and brings joy to everyone around her even when things don't fully go as planned!  Learn more about Ali's 6 week program: https://youflourish.co/resilience-m...

Life isn't about incorporating our faith into our work... it's about incorporating our work into our faith.  Glen Stevens, former pastor, is the founder and owner of The Mental Fitness Guy and his mission is to help leaders strengthen their mental toughness so they can optimize their businesses for revenue and profit. Glen is a trained mental fitness coach. He's also a certified Business Made...

Ryan is the founder of Cornerstone Speaking & Coaching, and he helps leaders  ✅ Increase Activity and Efficiency through proven and tested IDEAS and CONCEPTS ✅ Create more Revenue through an INTENTIONAL PROCESS. ✅ Bring more VALUE. ✅ Close more deals every quarter by ASKING the right questions???? In this conversation, we chatted about the importance of staying in the word and studyin...

Tune in as Dana shares about her journey and how she has helped others discover their true gifts and talents while she has personally gone on a self-discovery journey herself. You can find Dana on LinkedIn Dana has been a wife for 31 years, a mother for 26 years, a mother-in-law for 2 years, a grandmother for 6 months, and daughter of Christ for 52 years! Those 52 years have been full and blessed!...

About Jamie: Jamie is a mom to 2 amazing kiddos and a wife. She's worked in the corporate world, owned a childcare and learning center for 13 years, and she currently have a brand partnership in the health and wellness industry while also building a business as a coach and consultant. Listen in as Jamie talks about how she spent years keeping her faith and professional life in separate lanes, runn...