Women share wisdom, wit, and grit in this empowering and inspirational podcast that airs on the first of every month. Listen as women share their trials and triumphs in stories of challenges overcome, barriers broken, stereotypes silenced, and dreams achieved. Find your own strength, healing, and motivation in their success—because if she can do it, so can you.
S2, E3: Kai Butler on Self-Worth and Changing our Narratives
With over 10 years in the education field, Kai Butler holds a B.A. in English from Old Dominion University. She taught as an English teacher, but after three years, she saw the need to deepen her theory and practice for helping inner city youth in the areas of social-emotional and academic support, as well as career exploration. She obtained her Master's in School Counseling from Howard University in 2011. She has served as a school counselor in the middle and high school sector in New York a...
1 Sept 2022
S2, E2: Lesley St. James on her Cozy Mystery Series, Publishing Company, and Writing Process
Lesley St. James is the author of The Jill Cooksey Mysteries, a cozy mystery series about a public relations professional whose clients never fail to misbehave but whose friends always have her back. In 2020, Lesley's first novel, The Sweet Scent of Death, won Richmond Magazine and James River Writers' Best Unpublished Novel Contest. Lesley then started her own indie publishing business, Madcap Mystery, and released the novel to the world, along with the sequel, Death of a Dolly Waggler. The ...
1 Aug 2022
S2, E1: Crystal Harrell on her #1 Best Selling Book, Motivation, and Education
Crystal Harrell is a #1 Best Selling author, Les Brown-trained speaker, and certified coach. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Public Health at Yale University and serves part-time as a 1st Lieutenant in the US Army. As an Academic Success Coach, Crystal has helped over 700 students successfully navigate through higher education using her virtual coaching company and education blog. Over the course of her academic journey, Crystal received over $670,000 in scholarship awards, including t...
1 Jul 2022
S1, E12: Lauren McManamay on Self-Discovery and Living Authentically
Lauren McManamay is a Registered Nurse, advocate for mental health and LGBTQ+ issues, and a current Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has presented on Veteran mental health issues at the West Virginia Nurses Association and has been interviewed on the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy for the Richmond Times. Lauren is a 14-year Air Force veteran, with multiple overseas deployments, and currently serves as a Flight Nurse in the Air...
1 Jun 2022
S1, E11: Jessica Bowser on Advocacy, Podcasting, and the Great Outdoors
Jessica launched Virginia Outdoor Adventures Podcast because she wanted to provide a platform for individuals to tell their stories, to share their connection to the outdoors, and to build a local community where the outdoors are for everyone. She also wanted to tell these stories through a conservation lens to encourage others to be stewards of the outdoors. As a Virginian and outdoor enthusiast, Jessica is passionate about featuring outdoor recreation and ecotourism opportunities close to h...
1 May 2022
S1, E10: Jessica Chenard on Healing, Hiking, and Memoir
Jessica Chenard is a writer of purposeful adventures, healing and legacy; hiking and writing give her a sense of creativity and purpose. She is a business owner, mother, wife, daughter, sister, community builder, and friend. Chenard is the founder of Her Hike Collective, an all-women's hiking community. You can find her hosting the group's quarterly hikes in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Chenard was motivated to write here memoir, Her Hike, after spending a decade living it. She hiked to heal fro...
1 Apr 2022
S1, E9: Joanna Lee on Poetry, Running, Entrepreneurship
Joanna Lee is the author of Dissections (2017), a co-editor of the anthology Lingering in the Margins (2019), and founder of the Richmond, Virginia community River City Poets. Her work has been published in Rattle, Parhelion, Driftwood and elsewhere, and has been nominated for both a Pushcart and multiple Best of the Net prizes. Having earned her MD from the Medical College of Virginia in 2007 and a Master’s in neuroscience from William & Mary in 2010, she currently co-owns (with her husb...
1 Mar 2022
S1, E8: Nanea Hoffman of Sweatpants & Coffee on Building an Online Community and Managing Anxiety
Nanea Hoffman is the founder of Sweatpants & Coffee, a social media platform, online community, and lifestyle brand focused on comfort, creativity, inspiration, and fun. She launched SweatpantsAndCoffee.com in 2013 as a place to explore the joys of everyday life and to foster meaningful connections. Nanea has been an avid builder of blanket forts since childhood, and her goal has been to make Sweatpants & Coffee the coziest corner of the Internet. She is also the creator of the ...
1 Feb 2022
S1, E7: Nicole Boyd and Narshara Cade on Black Girls Hike RVA and Making the Outdoors Accessible
Black Girls Hike RVA was founded in May 2020 by Nicole Boyd and Narshara Cade. These two friends and middle school teachers found joy in hiking and posted their adventures on social media. While on the trails, the two noticed a lack of diversity, especially among people of color. With a vision and passion for wanting to create a space for women of color to enjoy the outdoors, BGHRVA was born. Based out of Richmond, Virginia, Cade and Boyd lead local and regional hikes for women of color...
1 Jan 2022
S1, E6: Lisa Ellison on Mindfulness, Intention-Setting, and Writing
Lisa Ellison is a writer, speaker, and coach with an Ed.S in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a background in mindfulness. She regularly presents and teaches courses on the use of mindfulness in writing, writing about trauma, and all things memoir. A regular contributor to the Jane Friedman blog, her essays and short stories have appeared in HuffPost, Hippocampus Literary Magazine, the New Guard Review, Kenyon Review Online, and Brevity, among others. She's currently working on a memoir ...
1 Dec 2021
S1, E5: Tamsen Kingry, CEO of the Richmond SPCA, on Animal Welfare, Non-Profit Work, and Leadership
As the CEO of the Richmond SPCA, Tamsen Kingry oversees the development of the Richmond SPCA’s short- and long-term strategies to achieve maximum lifesaving. Before being named CEO in 2019, Tamsen was the COO for 12 years and in that capacity oversaw operational development, design analysis, evaluation and improvement; regulatory compliance; emergency preparedness; community relationship building; fundraising; communications; and program and service delivery. She is passionate about developin...
1 Nov 2021
S1, E4: Ellen Kanzinger on Pushing Your Limits and Living Your Dreams
Ellen Kanzinger is a documentary photographer and journalist based out of Charlottesville, Va. She currently works as the travel editor for Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine, covering outdoor recreation and environmental issues in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Whether it's climbing into the open cockpit of a hand-built airplane or biking 184.5 miles along the C&O Canal, she does whatever it takes to get the story. Ellen also volunteers as a transcriber for the Prison Journalism Project, an o...
1 Oct 2021
S1, E3: Valley Haggard on Following Your Writing Dreams
Valley Haggard has written in short and long-form all her life. She is a big fan of the postcard, the 6-word memoir, and drawers full of unfinished manuscripts. She has slept in tents, hostels, motels, couches, tool sheds, log cabins, bunk beds, and ship bowels for short periods of time, and the house she grew up in for much longer than that. She has lived in Virginia, New York, Italy, Colorado, Arkansas, and Alaska, holding jobs as a Waffle House waitress, Dude Ranch Cabin Girl, cruise ship ...
1 Sept 2021
S1, E2: Courtney Paulk on Long-Distance, Open-Water Swimming
Courtney Paulk, the first female president of Hirschler Law, discusses how long-distance, open-water swimming makes her a better lawyer and a stronger person. “The hardest thing is jumping off a perfectly good boat in the dark," Paulk says. " You just gotta get in and do it, over and over and over again. One arm and then the other arm until I get there."
1 Aug 2021
S1, E1: Anne Moss Rogers on Suicide Prevention and Life After Loss
Despite her family’s best efforts, Anne Moss Rogers's 20-year-old son Charles died by suicide on June 5, 2015, after many years of struggle with anxiety, depression, and ultimately addiction. Emotionally Naked motivational speaker and award-winning author, Anne Moss shares how she survived her son's death by suicide, and discusses the work she does to help others heal. Her newest book, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk, comes out in Au...
24 Jun 2021
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She is a writer who founded her own small press. She is not even a freshman in college, but is already a twelve-time world champion competitive target shooter. She swam across the English Channel. Want to know more about these women's stories? Check out Season 1 of If She Can Do It, So Can You! The first episode will air on August 1, 2021.
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