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Michelle Penaloza is a poet. She is also a farmer, a substitute teacher in a small town in Northern California, a James Laughlin Award recipient, and someone who first read her work aloud in a high school classroom...

MaKenna Bernardino, The Skullptress, is a body sculpting and lymphatic drainage practitioner who works in homes across LA and OC. With her table in tow and a backpack full of tools, she works with a singular philosophy...

Sabrina Chazen is the creator behind The Carpool Catwalk and the hashtag #samestyledifferentsize. She is a size-inclusive shopping expert who sits in the top one percent of creators on LTK and the top one hundred on...

We call it the Mean Girls episode. Christina King's first note is that she does not really believe in mean girls. She believes in mean behavior, which is different and actually more useful to know. In this conversation...

Erin McCarthy's career path goes: Harvard, McKinsey, woodworking apprenticeship in Belgium, sustainable furniture company in LA, Ruggable, professional volleyball in Norway, and now Chief of Staff at Coreviva. She is...

Jodie McCollum learned Mahjong in 2023 at a friend's house in Dallas. She came back to Orange County, taught a neighbor group as a dare, walked away from that first class completely invigorated, and thought: I wonder if...

Two women. One supplement company. Zero plan to become best friends. Jewel Zimmer and Taylor Lamb co-founded Juna out of a simple frustration: neither of them could find what they actually needed. Jewel healed her...

Content note: This episode includes brief discussion of a history of amenorrhea and a stress fracture connected to undereating during the guest's teenage ballet years. It is discussed as a resolved part of her past. If...

No guest this week. Just us. We have been thinking a lot about the difference between vulnerability as connection and vulnerability as performance. About what it means to go through something hard in an era when...

Alec Treffers started What Alec Eats as a question, not a strategy. She was a freshman at Arizona State, had just blown out her knee playing Division I volleyball, and was quietly developing an eating disorder she had...

Shannon McLaren did not set out to become an interior designer. She set out to be in fashion. She studied business in London, worked at Stella McCartney, moved back to LA to become a celebrity stylist, and spent years...

<p > Content note: This episode discusses themes of substance abuse, grief, and loss. Resources available at SAMHSA.gov or by calling 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7). Crisis support: call or text 988.</p> <p >...

<p > Leland Drummond has spent over 20 years building other people's brands. Somewhere along the way, she figured out the only way to do that well is to understand yourself first.</p> <p > In this conversation, Leland...