Today I'm joined by Laura Behnke, a TV sports reporter turned expectation-busting coach and women's empowerment advocate. Laura has coached hundreds of women on how to shake off the weight of society’s expectations and start living the life they deserve.

Laura has never followed a traditional path. Although she had enjoyed over 16 years of success as an award-winning television journalist, Laura still couldn’t help but feel like she was “behind.” The traditional timeline for women told her that she should have been married with children by now, and she felt miles away from where she thought she’d be. Was there something wrong with her?

While Laura’s story is unique, her experience is all too familiar for many women. It wasn’t until Laura began to celebrate who she was, honor her accomplishments, and welcome a future all her own that she was able to step into the life she had always dreamed of. She had her first boyfriend at 35, married at 38, started her own company at 39, and is now on an IVF journey at age 41. By embracing her own timeline, she was finally able to find happiness and peace within her own life path.

Now, Laura is on a mission to help other women avoid the same pitfalls, free themselves from expectations, and let them know that they are not alone on this journey. Laura and her clients work together to harness the power of individuality while normalizing taking a unique life path. In short, she helps women stop worrying about what they think they “should” be doing with their life and start living it.

We talked about:

- Her career as a TV reporter: what made her wanna be a tv reporter, was it she always thought it would be, has she ever not felt fulfilled by this job, and what was the thing that made her wanna quit it

- Her personal struggles: what was the thing that made you feel behind and why, how did you combat the bad days and the negative thoughts around that, how did this experience impacted your mental health

- First boyfriend at 35: if she had any mindset shifts that made her eventually find her husband, how can we make the most out of our single lives  while looking for what we want, how to own our own timelines, how did she turn this experience into her career and how to communicate our struggles to our loved ones

Laura's Website: https://thelifeactuallycompany.mykajabi.com/

Laura's IG: https://www.instagram.com/laurabbehnke/

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Today I'm joined by Kameron M. Buckner, Esq.,  licensed attorney, content creator, and influencer marketing consultant. Kameron began her career as an Associate Attorney practicing Employment Litigation, while simultaneously using social media to create content around fashion, beauty, lifestyle, as well as female professionalism and career building.

Kameron has built an engaging and organic audience with over 140,000 followers across her platforms @kameronmonet, working with brands from Dove to McDonalds to Ulta Beauty.

After realizing her social media expertise and license to practice law could provide value for aspiring “Lawyer Influencers”, as well as educate content creators about the power of contracts when signing brand deals; Kameron quit her 9-to-5 law firm job, founded The Legal Tea, and now lives what she calls the best of both worlds.

We talked about:

- Her career as a licensed attorney, content creator and influencer marketing consultant: when did she decided she wanted to be a lawyer and why, when she started social media and youtube, and how does she balances all of her jobs and keeps her mental health in check

- The Legal Tea: what's the legal tea, why she decided to found it and what she loves the most about it

The business side of influencing: What are some basics that influencers should keep an eye for when it comes to influencer contracts with brands, what are some ways that influencers can get screwed over with their contracts, can influencers make more money by changing some terms on their contracts, what’s your advice for smaller influencers just starting out working with brands?

Kameron's IG: https://www.instagram.com/kameronmonet/

Kameron's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSp52HvdllyUqLXsdwwOkTA

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Today I'm joined by Corey Rae, an activist, storyteller, and the World’s first openly transgender Prom Queen. Corey educates audiences about being trans, and uses her voice for the LGBTQIA+ community in helping individuals that struggle with gender identity, the transition process, coming out, or feeling like their most beautiful selves.

We talked about:

Her coming out story, life as a transgender woman: who did she come out to first, how was that transition, how her mom was her main supporter,  her thoughts on "being trapped in the wrong body", transgender role models and icons, how did she take care of her mental health during this process, and advice for people going through the same thing

Her work: her college story, how she's an activist, actress, consultant, model, producer, speaker, and writer who helps break social stigmas surrounding transgender women, how she decided not to be just one or niche down, what are some of the projects she loved from last year and what she's excited for the new year and main challenges and most fulfilling things from her work

Corey's IG: https://www.instagram.com/imcoreyrae/

Corey's website: https://www.coreyrae.com/

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Today I'm joined by Lucie Fink, a 29-year-old video producer, lifestyle host, stop motion artist, and digital educator. She has made numerous appearances on NBC’s TODAY Show as a Millennial spokesperson, discussing a wide range of topics relevant to her generation. From 2015-2019, Lucie worked at Refinery29 where she created and hosted their hit YouTube shows, Try Living with Lucie and Lucie for Hire. Today, Lucie is signed with United Talent Agency and creates entertaining and educational content for a global audience of millions across her various social platforms.

In this episode we talked about:

- Her college career: choosing to study medicine and be a doctor, and how and why did she pivot to video production

- Her first job after college: what did she learned there, what was her favorite thing and her least favorite thing about the job and how it ended up being the biggest networking opportunity for her

- Being the face of Refinery 29’s video team: how did she got the job, and how she started out there, what were her favorite video formats to create, and what were her favorite things about the job, being a video producer vs being in front of the camera.

- Her transition to working for herself: how was the transition and why she loved the way she decided to do it, what's her favorite thing, how to create a routine, building a team, signing with an agency what's her favorite thing about it

- Being a new mom: how did she announced her maternity leave to her team, how she has the best of both worlds now that she's off maternity leave, what's the privilege of working for yourself when it comes to being a new mom, what would she say to moms that feel guilty about going back to work

Lucie's IG: https://www.instagram.com/luciebfink/

Lucie's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-vrGETGeMRsOp26ASqMCA

Lucie's website: https://luciefink.com/

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Today's episode is the LAST from Women's March, 2022 edition.  As the name suggest, for the month of March, since the 8th is International Women’s Day, I’m going to be doing 4 women empowerment and feminism focused episodes, bringing different guests from different walks of life, to talk all about their experience with being a woman, feminism & women empowerment.   

For this last episode I'm joined by Madigan, cohost of Your Angry Neighborhood Feminist, a podcast where Maidgan and her cohost Keegan we explore the world through our personal feminist perspectives.  

We talked about:   

- The reason behind the podcast and the name, and if people had controversial opinions around it 

- Her dream guest and how people that knew the feminist icons they've talked about reached out to them to thank them, and how that made those icons more human for them, and how that's where she sees women empowerment at it's best 

- Her experience being a female podcaster talking about feminist issues, and how she thinks it would be different if they were men 

- Feminism for her and how white privilege plays a part on it, and how that makes intersectionality SO much more important  

- What we need to work towards to when it comes to gender equality 

- A beautiful poem about what her favorite thing about being a woman is 

Your Angry Neighborhood Feminists: https://www.instagram.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist/?hl=es

Madigan's IG: https://www.instagram.com/shesmadigan/

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Today's episode marks the start of Women's March, 2022 edition.  As the name suggest, for the month of March, since the 8th is International Women’s Day, I’m going to be doing 4 women empowerment and feminism focused episodes, bringing different guests from different walks of life, to talk all about their experience with being a woman, feminism & women empowerment. 

For this first episode I decided to bring on people from the Period Movement: Marcela Reyes, research coordinator at Period Guatemala and Alexis, president of the Period Chapter at Case Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio.  

We talked about: 

- What is the Period Movement and how did they found out about it and decided to get involved 

- Their actions towards menstrual education, advocacy and service 

- What's the difference between a national chapter, like Guatemala's and a university one, like the CWR one 

- What does menstrual equity mean and how long until we can achieve it 

- Where period stigma comes from and how we can help to combat it 

- Why is it important to stop the silence around period talk 

- The importance of education when it comes to menstrual equity 

- What are the main needs of each chapter and their initiatives for 2022 

- What's the most fulfilling part about being part of Period 

- What does feminism mean to them and who is a role model for them when it comes to women empowerment 

Period Guatemala: https://www.instagram.com/period.guatemala/ 

Period CWR: https://www.instagram.com/period.cwru/ 

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