In this episode, I sit down with Fashion Designer Allison Izu.  Allison has two children, ages 9 and 7. We talk about how she manages her time and priorities and how she juggles her very full plate. We have a spirited conversation about “doing it all”, and we chronicle her journey from the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC to coming home to Honolulu. We discuss the many iterations of her business and the obstacles she encountered along the way. She also talks about how synchronicity and a particular “a-ha moment” led her to where she is today. Allison created a simple system called “Live ..read more

If you have a student-athlete in the 8th, 9th, or 10th grade (and they’re interested in playing sports in college), this episode is going to be super valuable for you. In this episode, I talk to Certified Financial Planner Shellane Ogoshi. Shellane graduated with honors from Hofstra University with her B.A. in International Business with a minor in Finance.  She obtained her MBA with a concentration in Finance shortly after that, while coaching Division I and Division II Women’s Volleyball and working full-time. Shellane has also attained the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and Certified Investme ..read more

In this episode of the podcast, we sit down with Meditation and Yoga Instructor Annemaree Rowley of Cool Calm and Collected. After discovering yoga and meditation when she was 16, Annemaree embarked on a path where she realized her passion and purpose was to teach yoga and meditation to others.  She was educated at the highly esteemed Sivananda yoga schools in Europe and India before starting her business, Cool Calm and Collected, over 20 years ago in Melbourne, Australia. Today, Annemaree has a global audience of over 10K followers on Insight Timer.  Her meditations are soothing, instructiona ..read more

On the show today, we have Debbie Aurelius of Peppermint Fish. Debbie is a professional communicator and specializes in digital communications. Debbie’s path to Peppermint Fish wasn’t linear in any way. Her first career was in commercial insurance and after a while, she ended up in Learning and Development, and eventually, in digital communications. After commuting three hours (one-way) to her Corporate job for a year, she decided to open up her own digital communications agency. At Peppermint Fish, she helps clients with end to end processes on producing podcasts, webinars, and courses. I ask ..read more

On today’s show, we have a conversation with working mom Chloe Bass, whose overarching mission in life is to help others. This is evident in the work she does, both at her 9-5 and in her side hustle business. By day, Chloe works for an NGO ensuring food safety and empowering women around the globe. After earning her undergraduate degree (she double majored in Biblical Studies and Communications), she worked in foster care in New York City, where she discovered that she enjoyed working with women from other countries. She then went on to earn her advanced degree in International Administration ..read more

Our guest on the show today is Marketing Consultant Mary Czarnecki.  Mary has spent her entire career marketing for Corporate giants like Johnson & Johnson and WebMD.  For her side hustle, she takes the stuff she learned on-the-job and helps entrepreneurs market like a boss. If you've ever struggled with not having a clear picture of who your audience is, identifying your ideal client but not knowing what to do next, and starting your personal brand by choosing color palettes and a pretty logo as the first step (hint: this is not where you should start), then you need to listen to this epi ..read more

On today’s show, we’re going to explore five essential pieces of advice for working moms, and especially for working moms with a side hustle. I truly believe these are foundational and absolutely critical to your success! We discuss how as working moms, we often operate with the mindset of time being scarce or non-existent because we're so busy!  But what ends up happening is that the meaningful stuff we want to get done falls by the wayside.  We also explore getting over the guilt of being a working mom and what science and research have to say about the impact of working outside the home on ..read more

Our guest on the show today is Marlis Huebner. Marlis earned her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of Cambridge, is married to a fellow scientist (who she met at the University) and is a mom to two children, ages 9 and 6. The Huebner family put roots down in their native Germany after “country hopping” and living in the United States for two years. After her daughter was born, Marlis said: “things really started to fall apart”. She was struggling to find a balance with all the things that go with being a working mom—trying to be the best Manager at her Corporate job, and the best mom ..read more

I had a wonderful time interviewing mompreneur Rachel Turner of Hello Sleep. A few years ago, after getting her second child sleeping through the night before her maternity leave ran out, Rachel thought she might be on to something. Rachel knew she could help others with her knowledge and decided to strike out on her own as an Infant and Child Sleep Consultant. She loved the idea of helping tired parents get more rest so they could be more present and available. She completed a sleep consulting certification program and remains certified to date. Rachel opens up about how she got her first cli ..read more

On the show today, we have Carina Groombridge from Carina Groombridge Coaching. Carina is an Engineer in the Aerospace Industry and works a traditional 9-5 in the office. After she had her daughter, she realized she wasn’t passionate about engineering and began searching for another career. She wanted to show her daughter, by example, that she could do whatever she wanted to do in life. But Carina felt that she wasn’t living true to her own advice. She first discovered sleep coaching and life coaching, and further down the road, she had a “lightbulb” moment while talking to a fellow coach. She ..read more