Dan Fowler

Building a “People Company” that Happens to Make Shoes with Dan Fowler, Founder – Reunion Shoes

“We walk through life together with people who’ve been dealt a difficult hand,” explained Dan Fowler. It was such a simple thing, so humbly stated, it stopped podcast host, Laura, in her tracks! This simple sentence personifies who Dan Fowler is, how he thinks about and cares for people, and how and why he’s building his business, Reunion Shoes, in New Orleans. Reunion Shoes happens to make and decorate (for lack of a better description of the artwork his team sends into the world) simple canvas sneakers. That’s the outer expression of what’s going on. Inside, however, lives are changing. Dan is working under the umbrella of the Restoration Initiative, a non-profit incubator, providing space and support for small businesses committed to creating social good before other, more common business

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Experience Builds Resilience with Tabitha Hollimon, Chief Clarity Coach

If you’re familiar with the concept of Adverse Childhood Events (ACE score) and their impact on how children navigate life and become adults, you’ll be astounded by Tabitha’s story. She’s been through too many of those experiences one would hope to never encounter: Abusive father, divorce (her parent’s, and later, her own); raised by a single mom, who passed when Tabitha was only 15; teenage pregnancy; loss of faith… the challenges sound so overwhelming. And yet, they do not define who Tabitha Holliman is today. She’s not only survived, she’s thriving. She truly is the personification of resilience and is on a mission today to help other women grow into their personal resilience, as well. Today, she’s a happily married mother of four. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in

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Cesar-Ramos

Consistently Asking “What Don’t I Know?” is an Accelerant with Cesar Ramos, Project Controls Professional

When you talk with Cesar, you recognize quickly he’s an expert in his field. He’s worked in the Oil & Gas industry for decades and he has the technical side of his work down pat! But he hasn’t rested on that expertise. About halfway into his tenure, he realized there was a lot more going on in his workspace that hadn’t been addressed in his education or work experience to that point. With a desire to help his colleagues understand the real implications of all the data they all collected, studied, and made decisions from, Cesar started studying, again. The missing pieces were connected to sociology and psychology; essentially, the insight into understanding the human dynamics and how to use that to improve work environments and outcomes. Laura and Cesar

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Build Habits that Allow You to Simply Respond with Joe Sinnott, Executive Coach and Podcast Host

Joe Sinnott has led and interesting life, and it’s early, yet! Originally from New Jersey, he found himself living on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, as an engineer fresh out of college! While it wasn’t just as he’d expected, the experience gave him several significant blessings. First, the company he worked for very serious about safety, as one would hope, especially in that line of work. But the training Joe went through instilled some foundational thinking practices within him that extend far beyond just safety and still impact who he is today and how he shows up. Second, he has one of those great “How I Met Your Mother” stories to share with his children! Because his job required that he be geographically distant and somewhat isolated,

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Build the Discipline to Create and Stick with a Healthy Eating Plan with Ricki Heller, PhD, Holistic Nutritionist and Healthy Eating Coach

I haven’t met a person yet who hasn’t had some kind of struggle with developing and sustaining healthy eating practices, and Ricki Heller is no exception. As she describes it, she grew up with the ultimate junk food diet – TV dinners, mac & cheese, and lots of baked goods. Which was fun until it wasn’t! Eventually, she developed Candida, which is an overgrowth of a naturally occurring yeast we all have in our bodies. At normal levels, this is ok… overgrowth, however, can make you very, very sick, as Ricki experienced and describes in today’s episode. It was truly debilitating. Her path forward was either an extremely restricted diet or be very, very ill. What would you choose? Surely, this is one of those “when life gives you lemons,

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Jennifer-Sherwood

Perfectionism, the Inner Critic, and Breaking Through with Jennifer Sherwood, Coach, Speaker, Writer

Do you recognize this person? Relentlessly driven, often exhausted, setting extremely high expectations for herself (himself), never quite meeting them, unhappy, frustrated, short, and at the end of it?!! That’s close to how Jen Sherwood describes her previous existence. In this episode, Laura and Jen dig into some of the pressures we all seem to face in life, and those particularly experienced by women – media representations of what it requires to be beautiful, healthy, young, attractive, polished, professional, etc… It’s unrealistic, sometimes damaging, and not conducive to living a healthy, satisfying life if we allow ourselves to get caught up in those expectations, measures, practices. While Jen was that perfectionist, never-quite-meeting-expectations, young mom twenty years ago, she finally woke up one day and decided she wanted to feel better.

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