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What if becoming a grandparent wasn't something that simply happened—but something you actually trained for?

In this episode of Carrie On, Carrie Murray sits down with wellness pioneer Kristen Coffield, founder of The Culinary Cure and creator of the growing Active Grandparenting movement.

Long before hydration, functional fitness, and food-as-medicine became wellness buzzwords, Kristen was teaching women how everyday habits could transform their health. After surviving an overwhelming decade that included cancer, menopause, financial hardship, family loss, and caregiving, she rebuilt her life one habit at a time—and discovered that resilience begins with the smallest daily choices.

Now, with millions embracing healthier aging, Kristen is helping grandparents become stronger, healthier, and more present for the people who matter most.

In this conversation, you'll learn:

✔️ Why hydration is the foundation of every health goal

✔️ How functional fitness keeps you independent as you age

✔️ Why thyroid disease is so often overlooked in women

✔️ The surprising science behind the "Grandmother Effect"

✔️ How to build stronger relationships with your grandchildren—and their parents

✔️ Easy healthy recipes anyone can make

✔️ Why active grandparenting benefits every generation

Whether you're already a grandparent, hope to become one someday, or simply want to age with strength and purpose, this conversation is packed with practical wisdom.

Fire Points 🔥

• Hydration is the foundation of resilient wellness.
• Your habits determine your future health.
• Functional fitness matters more than looking fit.
• Grandparents can improve children's confidence, resilience, and emotional wellbeing.
• Active grandparenting may help grandparents live longer and healthier lives.
• Food should heal—not complicate—your life.
• The early years are when grandparents build lifelong bonds.
• Boundaries and communication are essential with adult children.
• Small daily habits create extraordinary long-term results.

Mentioned in This Episode

• The Culinary Cure
• Active Grandparenting
• Functional Fitness
• Food as Medicine
• Resilient Wellness
• Lemon Water Hydration Practice
• Menopause & Midlife Wellness

Connect with Kristen Coffield

🌐 ActiveGrandparenting.com

🌐 TheCulinaryCure.com

📸 Instagram: @KristenCoffield

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Broadway doesn't just entertain us—it shapes culture.

This week on Carrie On, Carrie sits down with award-winning musical writer Nico Juber and Tony-nominated director Kristen Hanggi to explore who gets to tell the stories that influence generations.

From women breaking barriers behind the scenes to the business of Broadway, the conversation dives into creativity, entrepreneurship, representation, and why musical theater still has the power to change lives.

You'll also hear the inspiring stories behind:

🎭 Millennials Are Killing Musicals

🌈 Winner

🎶 Why musical theater matters more than ever

Whether you're a theater lover, creative entrepreneur, artist, producer, or simply believe stories can change the world, this episode is for you.

In this episode:

• Why women still struggle behind the scenes on Broadway

• The surprising business side of musical theater

• How storytelling shapes culture

• Why representation on stage matters

• Creating art that changes lives

• Building new opportunities instead of waiting for permission

• The future of Broadway

Fire Points:

• "The people telling our stories are creating our cultural values."
• "If I don't give this 100%, I'll regret it for the rest of my life."
• "Women don't need permission—we need new models."
• "Theater has the power to change how people see themselves."
• "Stories nurture us."
• "We're not waiting for Broadway to change—we're building what's next."
• "Representation isn't just who's on stage—it's who's writing the stories."
• "Art and business have to work together."

Follow our guests:

Nico Juber

Website: https://nicojuber.com

Millennials Are Killing Musicals: https://millennialsarekillingmusicals.com

Instagram: @stuffnicolikes

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Broadway doesn't just entertain us—it shapes culture.

This week on Carrie On, Carrie sits down with award-winning musical writer Nico Juber and Tony-nominated director Kristen Hanggi to explore who gets to tell the stories that influence generations.

From women breaking barriers behind the scenes to the business of Broadway, the conversation dives into creativity, entrepreneurship, representation, and why musical theater still has the power to change lives.

You'll also hear the inspiring stories behind:

🎭 Millennials Are Killing Musicals

🌈 Winner

🎶 Why musical theater matters more than ever

Whether you're a theater lover, creative entrepreneur, artist, producer, or simply believe stories can change the world, this episode is for you.

In this episode:

• Why women still struggle behind the scenes on Broadway

• The surprising business side of musical theater

• How storytelling shapes culture

• Why representation on stage matters

• Creating art that changes lives

• Building new opportunities instead of waiting for permission

• The future of Broadway

Fire Points:

• "The people telling our stories are creating our cultural values."
• "If I don't give this 100%, I'll regret it for the rest of my life."
• "Women don't need permission—we need new models."
• "Theater has the power to change how people see themselves."
• "Stories nurture us."
• "We're not waiting for Broadway to change—we're building what's next."
• "Representation isn't just who's on stage—it's who's writing the stories."
• "Art and business have to work together."

Follow our guests:

Nico Juber

Website: https://nicojuber.com

Millennials Are Killing Musicals: https://millennialsarekillingmusicals.com

Instagram: @stuffnicolikes

Kristen Hanggi

Website: https://kristenhanggi.com

Instagram: @hanggilove

Podcast: Let's Play: The Create Podcast

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This is one of those conversations that stays with you.

Host Carrie Murray sits down with Dr. Akilah Cadet — founder and CEO of Change Cadet, Forbes Next 1000 entrepreneur, public health practitioner, and author of White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World — for a frank, unflinching discussion about the systems white women navigate, enable, and can choose to disrupt.

In this episode:

• The Supreme Court's recent rollback of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — what happened, why it matters, and why it was predictable
• The through-line connecting the end of affirmative action, the end of DEI, and now voting rights
• How white women's comfort with whiteness has shaped election outcomes — and continues to
• The crucial difference between being an ally and being an accomplice
• The upstream/downstream framework for thinking about activism and prevention
• Why critical thinking — not social media — is the most important tool we have right now
• What it actually looks like to get comfortable being uncomfortable

Dr. Cadet also shares a preview of her next book, connecting narcissism to supremacism, and reflects on the role her late grandmother continues to play in her daily life.

About Dr. Akilah Cadet: Dr. Akilah Cadet is the founder and CEO of Change Cadet, a consulting firm helping organizations embed belonging into their culture, strategy, and storytelling. She is a Forbes Next 1000 entrepreneur, one of San Francisco Business Times' Most Influential Women, and the author of White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World (February 2024). She is also the host of the Humane Rights Podcast.

Resources mentioned:

• 📖 White Supremacy Is All Around by Dr. Akilah Cadet — available wherever books are sold; signed copies at changecanet.com
• 🎙️ Humane Rights Podcast — available on all podcast platforms
• 📲 Instagram: @changecanet
• 📬 Substack: The Change Cadet Action Network

Connect with Carrie Murray:

• Instagram: @carriemurray
• YouTube: Carrie On! with Carrie Murray

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What if the moment your life cracked you open… was actually the beginning of becoming yourself?

In this deeply honest episode of Carrie On!, Carrie sits down with Natasha McCrea to talk about love intelligence, fear, divorce, self-worth, reinvention, and what it really means to stop abandoning yourself.

From surviving painful relationships and becoming a self-described “love addict,” to creating a one-woman show, stepping onto a pageant stage in midlife, and helping women reconnect to themselves — Natasha shares the raw truth behind standing in your power.

This episode is for every woman who has ever:

✨ Felt disconnected from herself

✨ Stayed too long in spaces that no longer fit

✨ Struggled to receive love or help

✨ Wondered if it’s “too late” to reinvent herself

✨ Needed permission to choose herself first

Because maybe this isn’t midlife.

Maybe this is your queen era.

🔥 FIRE POINTS

• “Fear is the opposite of love.”
• “You don’t give from your cup. You give from the overflow.”
• “Most women don’t change when they’re inspired. They change when they’re cracked wide open.”
• “Disconnection is a trap.”
• “You were born knowing how to receive love.”
• “We all have galaxies of magnificence.”
• “Standing in your power means choosing yourself daily.”
• “You don’t have to earn love.”

💻 CONNECT WITH NATASHA MCCREA

🌐 Website: Natasha McCrea Official Website

📸 Instagram: @natashamccrea

🎙️ ABOUT CARRIE ON!

Carrie On! is hosted by Carrie Murray and explores reinvention, self-discovery, advocacy, entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment, and navigating life before, during, and after midlife.

New episodes every Wednesday.

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“What do I need?”

Then actually listen to the answer.

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Because you are not too late. And you are not too much.

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What happens when self-help becomes a sales funnel? In this episode of Carrie On!, Carrie sits down with Debra Eckerling — author, speaker, goal strategist, and The Book Proposal Expert — for a bold conversation about guru culture, coaching scams, publishing myths, and how to actually own your voice in a noisy world.

From the rise of “guru-itis” and pay-to-play coaching programs to the truth about traditional publishing versus self-publishing, Deb pulls back the curtain on the industries profiting from insecurity — especially targeting women in transition.

This episode isn’t just about writing a book. It’s about finding your message, trusting your instincts, and building a life that feels authentic to you.

In This Episode

✨ The difference between real expertise and performative coaching

✨ Why “guru culture” exploded during the pandemic

✨ The hidden business model behind many coaching programs

✨ Traditional publishing vs. self-publishing

✨ Why your voice and story matter more than perfection

✨ How Deb helps thought leaders land book deals

✨ The power of community, connection, and authenticity

✨ Why vulnerable women are often targeted by “transformation” marketing

✨ How to identify your unique message and platform

✨ “Find the who’s for your how’s” — and stop trying to do everything alone

Connect with Debra Eckerling

📚 Website: The Book Proposal Expert - https://thebookproposalexpert.com/

📲 Instagram: @TheDebMethod - https://www.instagram.com/thedebmethod/

🎙️ Podcast: GoalChat Live

📖 Book: 52 Secrets for Goal Setting and Goal Getting

Connect with Carrie

🎙️ Subscribe to Carrie On! on YouTube: Carrie Murray YouTube Channel

📲 Instagram: @_carriemurray_ https://www.instagram.com/_carriemurray_/

🌐 Website: https://www.carrie-murray.com/

If this episode hit home, send it to the friend who’s drowning in “expert advice” and trying to figure out what’s actually true for them.

And if you’ve got a book idea sitting in your Notes app, your journal, or quietly haunting you at 2am… maybe it’s time to stop waiting. 👀

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What does love actually look like after 40, after divorce, after decades of putting everyone else first? Carrie sits down with Dr. Wendy Walsh — psychology professor at Cal State, Emmy-nominated co-host of The Doctors, and CNN relationship commentator — for one of the most honest, funny, and science-backed conversations about love, dating, and intimacy you'll hear this year.

Dr. Wendy spent 20 years as a single mother before finding love on the apps in her 50s — following her own advice. Now happily married to Julio, she's here to share exactly what worked.

In this episode:

• Why your marriage didn't fail — it culminated (and that's okay)
• The unconscious contract formed between the first text and first sex
• Why delaying intimacy is the single most powerful dating move a woman can make
• Dating app paradox of choice — and why matching with fewer people gets better results
• The menopause power shift and why midlife women are biologically built for leadership
• Honest talk about sex, erectile dysfunction, and intimacy after 40
• The gas station love story that will make you believe in romance again
• Gen Z's attachment crisis and what parents need to know
• How to navigate politics in dating without making it a dealbreaker

Fire Quote: "There is this myth in our culture that we will meet a soulmate somewhere in our twenties and be happily married until death do us part. In fact, that is the most atypical form of human pair bonding that exists on the planet." — Dr. Wendy Walsh

Connect with Dr. Wendy Walsh

🌐 Dr. Wendy Walsh Official Website

📸 Instagram @drwendywalsh

🎥 YouTube – Dr. Wendy Walsh

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📸 Instagram @carriemurray

🎥 Carry On! YouTube Channel

💼 LinkedIn – Carrie Murray

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⚠ TRIGGER WARNING

This episode contains discussion of:

• Sexual assault

• Suicide and suicidal ideation

• Mental health struggles and psychiatric medication

If you or someone you know needs support, please reach out to the National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.

Episode Overview

In this powerful episode of Carry On!, host Carrie Murray sits down with Angie Peacock — U.S. Army veteran, trauma-informed coach, and featured subject of the documentary film Medicating Normal. Angie shares her raw, courageous story of surviving overmedication, psychiatric drug withdrawal, and years of medical dismissal, and how she ultimately found her way back to herself through community, agency, and self-advocacy.

If you've ever been told 'this is just how it is' — this conversation is for you.

FIRE POINTS:

• Prescribed meds instead of being heard
• Went from 1 to 18 medications in 2 years
• Overmedication can mimic mental illness
• Withdrawal was worse than the original trauma
• 4.5 years of severe withdrawal symptoms
• Doctors dismissed her lived experience
• Feared being honest → would be given more meds
• First validation: “It’s a side effect, not you”
• Medicating Normal helped save her life
• “We’ve medicalized human emotion”
• Lack of informed consent in mental health care
• 1 in 4 women are medicated
• De-prescribing can take years, not weeks
• Healing requires agency, not compliance
• Your symptoms may be signals, not sickness

Connect with Angie Peacock

Website: https://angpeacock.com

Instagram & TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/angpeacockmsw

Van Life & Adventure: @beinghuman_rv on Instagram

Connect with Carrie Murray & Carry On!

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@carriemurray

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What happens when technology can create the “perfect” version of you… but it’s not actually you?

In this deeply personal and powerful episode, I sit down with my dear friend and longtime photographer Kathy Schuh — a woman who has documented my life, my family, and my evolution for over a decade.

Kathy doesn’t just take photos. She sees women. And today, we’re diving into what it really means to be seen in a world obsessed with filters, AI-generated perfection, and unrealistic beauty standards.

From the emotional impact of being in front of the camera… to the rise of AI and what it means for identity, connection, and confidence… this conversation is a truth bomb every woman needs.

Because here’s the thing: You are not a “before.” You are the moment.

What we cover!

• Why women avoid being in photos — and why that matters
• The dangerous rise of AI-generated beauty and “perfect” images
• Why you’re not “unphotogenic” (and whose job it actually is)
• The emotional transformation that happens during a real photo shoot
• AI vs. human connection: what we’re gaining… and losing
• The “analog comeback” and why real is becoming luxury

💥 Key Takeaways

• You are not a “before.” Stop waiting to be worthy.
• It’s not your job to be photogenic — it’s the photographer’s job
• Filters and AI are quietly reshaping how women see themselves
• Real photos aren’t just images — they’re emotional experiences
• Your presence in photos is your legacy

💛 Connect with Kathy

📸 Instagram: @kathy.schuh

🌐 Website: kathyschuhphotography.com

📅 Book a consultation and get in front of the camera (yes, YOU)

✨ Let’s Keep You Visible

If this episode hit something for you…

If you’ve ever thought “I’ll take photos when I lose weight” or “I’m not ready yet”…

👉 Take my quick 2-minute quiz: “Why Are You Hiding?”

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What if the way you speak… is actually shaping the power you hold?

In this episode of Carrie On!, I sit down with voice and leadership expert Samara Bay to unpack the truth about power, voice, and why so many women still feel invisible—even when they have something important to say.

From Hollywood dialect coaching to coaching women running for office, Samara shares how voice bias, internalized stories, and fear-based conditioning keep us small—and how to break free.

This conversation is for every woman who has:

• Held back in a meeting
• Second-guessed her voice
• Felt “too much” or “not enough”
• Or wondered… who gets to hold the mic?

Spoiler: It’s you.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Your voice is not the problem—the rules you were taught about your voice are.
• “Power” has been conditioned to sound one way—and it’s time to rewrite that.
• The shift isn’t just confidence… it’s moving from fear to love when you speak.
• Your story isn’t self-indulgent—it’s a gift to others.
• Public speaking isn’t just a skill—it’s an embodied experience.

If this episode hit you—drop a ❤️ in the comments and tell us:

👉 Where are you still holding back your voice?

And if you’re ready to stop shrinking:

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✔️ Share with a friend

✔️ Start speaking—messy, bold, and fully YOU

🔗 CONNECT

Follow Samara Bay for more on voice, leadership, and rewriting the rules of power.

🌐 Website: www.permissioninc.co

📚 Book: Permission to Speak

📸 Instagram: @samarabay

Follow Carrie:

🌐 Website: carrie-murray.com

📺 YouTube: @carrie_murray

📸 Instagram: @carriemurray