LET IT OUT

I've closely followed Jenna and watched listened as her career has expanded from director of audio at BuzzFeed to starting her own company Pineapple Street Media.  In this episode, we talk about risks of entrepreneurship, following your dreams...while also being realistic, criticism and how to use it beneficially, parenting, and of course podcasting at length, since she's one of the greatest audio producers and story tellers of our time. Her company has produced podcasts with Hillary Clinton's campaign and the New York Times.

We talk about her robust and meandering education and career path, food as an experience, modern philanthropy models, how the restaurant industry can open doors for anyone, accidentally plant based food, opening a restaurant, work/life balance, angel investing, intuition, relationships and love languages, mentorship, women in business , and way more. I loved having this cozy, long conversation with her in beautiful cozy apartment surrounded by her family, friends, and snuggly dogs and hope it's the first of many.

I started this podcast when I was 22 years old. Last Monday I turned 28. I've changed in both extreme and subtle ways over the last 6 years and most of that trajectory has been documented in the last 200 podcast episodes I've recorded. I think we change extra quickly in our twenties, at least that's been my experience. At 22 I thought I knew basically everything. At 28 I'm pretty sure I know nothing. Since I began this podcast my body, my relationships, my career, and even my location have all changed drastically many times--the one constant through all of this for me has been this podcast. Recording conversations with people who fascinated me and asking them questions about whatever I was currently wrestling with taught me more than I ever anticipated. When I listen back to the episodes I can always tell what I was grappling with or contemplating based on how I guided the conversation. Over the past five years and 200 plus episodes we've covered  topics I've personally been curious about or wrestling with--things like body-image, sex, entrepreneurship, feminism, writing, moving, and creativity. I've learned so much and been so inspired by everything I've learned from hosting this podcast. This week since it's my birthday, I take a break from hosting and my dear friend Sacha Jones takes over and interviews me. This has been an annual tradition on the podcast where each year during the week of my birthday I spend the week as the guest and use the time to catch up with everyone listening. Think of this episode as a "state of the podcast" of sorts where I'll give updates not only on my personal life, but also I reveal the big project I've been working on since January and the future of this podcast including what you can expect in the coming months for Let It Out. Hope you like it!

She's known for yoga yet we barely touched on yoga and instead focusing on her winding path to where she is now including  her eating disorder in her teens, how she stumbled into the career she's in now, all the way up to  her decision to go on to grad school for psychology. We talked about food psychology, the value of therapy, the complexities body positivity, being a social media influencer and what that even means, sustainable self-love, comparison in social media and beyond, journaling and writing, and much more. I loved meeting Claire and I think you will too. 

She recently moved to the state I recently moved away from Michigan, so we started off chatting about moving, having ‘stuff’, big life changes like a move and eventually get into talking about partnerships (from husbands to business partners), motherhood, and get into talking about productivity, money, and even real estate investment, and her rental business.

This week's guest is a delight. I met her on her visit to NYC at the end of last year and loved speaking with her about everything from pilates and the fitness industry to motherhood and her struggle with infertility as well as navigating career transitions and finding spirituality that works for you

I could have spoken to him for hours but in this conversation we spoke about social media, moving to New York, his meandering career of both full time and freelance work,  community, art, being yourself in your work, marriage, success, self-help, and more. 

I've been following their food blog since 2012 so it was the best getting to meet, interview, and taste something they made. We talk about cooking, design, blogging, essential oils, creativity in the kitchen, being a mother/daughter team, moving to America, and so much more. 

I spoke with Kimberly Johnson of Magamama on rethinking sex, the fourth trimester of Pregnancy, the Me Too Movement, slowing down, feeling feelings, the intricacies of vaginas, and way more.

We sipped a tea infusion she made us (Lacy’s also an herbalist) and chatted for hours about everything from bodies and food to style and design to relationships and finding partnership to authenticity, envy, feeling feelings, labels, boundaries, and of course debunking myths about manifestation. She’s the real deal; kind, genuine, smart, articulate, and beautiful. I loved this episode.

Deenie has worked for Vogue, written for Refinery 29, and been featured in the acclaimed New York Time's Modern Love column. Our conversation covers much more than merely her career path to becoming a successful writer-- on the  we talk about the uncertainty that come with freelancing and traveling and how she handles lacking routine and self care, and my favorite part of the conversation which was where we talked about relationships, marriage, and how she knew her husband was the one. Be sure you're subscribed on iTunes and on my email list so you know when we're back with a new season of Let It Out until then enjoy this long meandering episode.

After a long intro with my boyfriend talking about long distance relationships, Valentine's Day, communication I spoke with my friends Abbi and Ksenia about how they each found entrepreneurship,  the feminine side of business, expanding into your best self, feminism, friendship, creativity, speaking up for what you want and more! 

This week I spoke with one of my favorite people Jill on mindful living, grounding in presence, stripping layers, motherhood, body image, dealing with the tragic illness and death of her mother at a young age, mindful eating, embracing the divine feminine, motherhood and much more.

We talk about  feeling feelings, decision making, body image, motherhood, publishing a book, her big ‘upper limit problem’, shame, female friendships, numbing mechanisms, the importance of letting it out, personal development overload, values, social media, connection, comparison, relationships, actually doing the work and not just consuming the advice, and more. At one point she says she wants to adopt me as her little sister and all my dreams came true, give this episode a listen for that alone. 

In the episode we discuss access to healthy food, living a healthy life - the why, what Sakara means, starting a business from scratch, passion vs. mission, the joy factor, mind-body connection, finding balance in life, being busy vs. being efficient, what it's like to work with your best friend and so much more. Enjoy the episode.