In this episode of Cool People Doing Cool Things, Sarah sits down with business therapist, entrepreneur, and founder of The Uncensored Self, Ryann Gillen.

Ryann shares her powerful journey from a 15-year corporate career to building a million-dollar business — and why success didn’t feel the way she thought it would.

From burnout and misalignment to divorce, financial reset, and deep personal transformation, this conversation dives into what it really takes to rebuild your life and business from the inside out.

Together, Sarah and Ryann explore identity, energy, intuition, and the truth about success — and why creating a life that feels good matters more than chasing outcomes.

🔥 What We Talk About

• Ryann’s journey from corporate to entrepreneurship to seven figures
• Why hitting big financial goals didn’t bring fulfillment
• Rebuilding life after burnout, divorce, and financial challenges
• The difference between chasing success vs. creating it

• How most entrepreneurs unknowingly recreate corporate burnout
• The shift from “getting clients” → becoming a magnet

• Why content creation is art (not just marketing)
• The concept of the “energy game” vs. the “mind game”
• Letting go of timelines and trusting outcomes
• Identity work, self-trust, and becoming your “uncensored self”
• Why money should be the least interesting thing in your life
• The truth about alignment, intuition, and creating a business that feels good

💡 Key Takeaways

• You can achieve everything you thought you wanted… and still feel unfulfilled
• Success doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from becoming more aligned
• Your external reality is a reflection of your internal state
• You don’t need to chase clients — you can create demand through energy and authenticity
• The more you trust yourself, the simpler business becomes
• Outcomes are inevitable — how you feel while creating them is what matters

🧠 Quotes from the Episode

“Who are you when you're not being who the world taught you to be?”

“It’s not about getting clients anymore — it’s about creating.”

“Living my life makes me money.”

“Money should be the least interesting thing on the list.”

🔗 Connect with Ryann Gillen

TikTok: @ryanngillenofficial

Instagram: @ryanngillen

Facebook: ryanngillen

YouTube: @RyannGillenofficial

💬 Final Thought

If you’ve ever felt like you “did everything right” but something still feels off… this episode is your permission slip to do it differently.

Sarah sits down with her dear friend and intuitive, Kip Trout, for a conversation that will completely shift how you think about your home, your land, your belongings, and even your past relationships.

Kip is an energetic assessor of homes and land, a restorer of mid-century modern houses, and someone who blends intuitive gifts with grounded, practical application.

This one goes deep — in the best way.

🌾 Land, Ancestors & Stewardship
Kip shares a powerful story about working with land that held a strong Osage presence — and what happens when we ignore the energy already there. This is about learning to co-exist, not control.

🧚 Elementals, Fairies & Nature Energy
From glowing orbs to “sparkly commas,” Sarah and Kip share their personal experiences with elementals. If you’ve ever felt something in nature you couldn’t explain, this will click.

🏠 Your Home Is Alive
Kip explains how he forms energetic agreements with homes — and how your home can communicate with you (yes, really). It starts with awareness and gratitude.

⚡ Energy in Objects & Clutter
Everything holds energy. Kip breaks down why clutter feels heavy, how objects carry emotional residue, and how clearing energetic cords changes everything — especially with past relationships.

🔮 Raising Your Vibration (Fast)
Kip’s go-to tools:

• 528 Hz frequency
• Fresh flowers
• Incense
• Crystals (cleansed properly)
• Open windows + airflow
• Epsom salt baths
• Movement + shaking to reset your nervous system

🕯️ Clearing Energy + Mediumship
From homes that won’t sell to spirits that haven’t moved on, Kip shares real stories from his work helping properties clear stuck energy.

✨ Intuition Is a Skill
This isn’t just for “gifted” people. Intuition can be developed — and most of us are far more aware than we’ve been taught to recognize.

“Time is a manmade construct. Everything is happening at once.” — Kip

“You’re made to read energy. We’re just not taught how.” — Kip

“I make a contract with the house. I tell the house I will be its caretaker.” — Kip

“The minute you bring light into darkness, the dark can’t exist.” — Sarah

• 528 Hz frequency (Spotify/YouTube)
• Ashaka Incense
• 4096 Hz tuning fork
• Palo Santo + White Sage
• The Telepathy Tapes podcast
• Marie Kondo (home greeting practice)
• Andrew Huberman (light + nervous system)

Connect with Kip Here:
📧 [email protected]🌐 www.dandiforrigroup.com

Here's the updated show notes with her links added!

What does it look like when a former classroom teacher takes everything she knows, follows her military family across the world, and builds something that no one else is doing quite like this? Meet Jessica Bradley, founder of The Learning Room — an online academic intervention program that has helped hundreds of struggling students make real, measurable growth. Jess didn't just build a tutoring business. She built a lifeline for families who had been told to wait and see, for kids who had hit a wall, and for parents who knew something was wrong but couldn't get anyone to listen.

In this episode, Jess and Sarah dig into the real state of education in America right now, why so many kids are falling through the cracks, and what parents can actually do about it — starting today. If you have a kid in school, this one's for you.

Guest: Jessica Bradley, Founder of The Learning Room

🌐 the-learning-room.com📸 Instagram: @the_learning_room👍 Facebook: @the_learning_room

What We Cover:

• How Jess went from classroom teacher → military spouse abroad → fully booked academic interventionist — all within a year
• The eye-opening stats on where American students are right now (spoiler: 1 in 8 kids entering college need remedial math)
• Why Jess refuses to play the blame game — and what she says is actually driving the education gap
• The red flag most parents miss: the 8–12 month window between "I had a gut feeling" and "we have a real problem"
• Why the school's assessment tells you where a kid is, but Jess's assessment tells you why — and why that changes everything
• The IQ workaround: how smart kids can mask gaps for years until they hit a wall in 3rd–5th grade
• What "mastery" actually means vs. just getting through the material
• Why Jess built her program to be fully virtual — not because of COVID, but because her military families were moving and refused to lose their progress
• How The Learning Room's approach is fundamentally different from franchise tutoring centers (hint: it's not worksheets and iPads in a group)
• "Max's" story: a middle schooler at a 3rd grade math level who is now independently working through 6th grade curriculum — in 7 months
• What's coming next: small group sessions designed to keep the customization without the cost
• Free resources, state education grants, and how to find out if your child qualifies

Free Resources Mentioned:

• 📋 Free Reading & Math Checklists — [link]
• 📞 Free Consultation Call with Jess — [link]
• 🔍 How to find your state's sample end-of-year test: Google "[Your State] end of grade state testing sample test"

Grants That May Cover Services:Florida Step Up Scholarship, South Carolina, Arkansas, West Virginia, Arizona — and Virginia coming soon. Check your state for current ESA or education grant availability.

Connect with Jess & The Learning Room:🌐 the-learning-room.com📸 Instagram: @the_learning_room👍 Facebook: @the_learning_room⭐ Leave or Read Google Reviews

Spiritual Healing, Christ Consciousness & Living in Divine Alignment | ft. Barbara Dubis

Are you searching for spiritual healing, deeper connection with God, or a way to reduce anxiety and find peace? In this episode of Cool People Doing Cool Things, I sit down with spiritual healer and mentor Barbara Dubis to talk about Christ Consciousness, energy healing, and how to build a life rooted in love, faith, and divine alignment.

Barbara explains what Christ Consciousness really means — beyond religion — and how anyone can access this powerful frequency of unconditional love. We cover channeling, Reiki, theta healing, Creator energy, and what it looks like to make daily prayer and spiritual practice a non-negotiable part of your life.

In this episode we cover:

• What is Christ Consciousness and how does it relate to spirituality vs. religion?
• How to channel divine energy and open your heart to healing
• Why anxiety is a loss of spiritual safety — and how to restore it
• The connection between energy healing and physical health
• How to stay heart-centered in a world full of noise and fear
• Divine timing, aligned action, and trusting God's plan
• Group energy healing and the power of sacred community

Whether you're exploring spiritual healing for the first time, recovering from trauma, dealing with anxiety, or deepening your faith journey, this conversation will meet you right where you are.

Connect with Barbara Dubis:🌐 healinghandsoflightstl.com📱 @healinghandsoflight on Instagram, Facebook & TikTok

In this episode of Cool People Doing Cool Things, Sarah sits down with her first podcast guest, Dr. Erica Shick — therapist, dating and relationship coach, and all-around cool human — for a heartfelt conversation about healing, reinvention, grief, identity, and what it really means to come home to yourself.

Sarah and Erica talk about how they first met through a Facebook group for therapists, how Erica made the bold move from the Chicagoland area to St. Louis, and how starting over in a new city as an adult can become an unexpected path back to yourself.

Together, they explore Erica’s journey from landscape design to therapy, her passion for helping women heal from trauma, and the difference between counseling and coaching. They also dive into the art and science of therapy, how trauma can disconnect us from ourselves, why healing is about more than just intellectual insight, and how approaches like EMDR can help people reconnect with safety, capacity, and the life they actually want.

This episode also opens up a deeper conversation around spirituality, grief, and personal transformation. Erica shares how losing her husband changed her perspective on life, purpose, and self-connection, and why she now feels more committed than ever to helping women put themselves back on their own priority list.

This is a conversation about:

• healing from trauma and reconnecting with yourself

• starting over in a new city and creating a new chapter

• the overlap between therapy, coaching, and personal growth

• EMDR, nervous system healing, and why mind-body work matters

• spirituality, intuition, and honoring your own path

• grief, loss, and rebuilding life with intention

• why women need to love themselves more than they’ve been taught to

If you’ve ever found yourself asking who you are now, what healing really looks like, or how to build a life that feels more like you, this episode is for you.

Learn more about Dr. Erica Shick here:
https://www.mybetterwellnesscounseling.com/about-erica-shick-phd-lcpc

Follow Dr. Erica on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/better_wellnesswithdr.erica?igsh=YmV2NDlzMzJ5bmpp

Connect with her on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564889484696

Hi there, my name is Sarah Buehner. Welcome to my podcast!

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Most entrepreneurs and content creators overlook one of the fastest-growing media outlets that can skyrocket your impact — podcasting. But why is everyone — from experts to beginners — obsessed with it right now?

In this episode, Sarah Buehner shares why launching a podcast may be one of the most transformational moves you can make for your business and personal brand.

You’ll learn how podcasting functions as a work-hard-once system that builds trust, establishes authority, and nurtures long-term relationships — without the constant pressure to produce endless content.

Drawing from her own journey, Sarah explains how her first podcast attracted ideal clients and helped her stand out in a crowded digital world.

• Why audiences crave authentic, long-form conversations
• How consistent content positions you as an industry expert
• How podcast episodes continue working for you long after recording
• Why podcasts create bingeable, evergreen content
• The importance of owning your platform amid algorithm shifts
• Simple steps to start, from tech basics to mindset shifts
• Details about Sarah’s upcoming podcasting masterclass

In a time when misinformation spreads quickly and algorithms change overnight, your voice and platform matter more than ever. Podcasting gives you a sovereign space to share knowledge, build trust, and create a lasting impact — whether you’re a business owner, educator, healer, or creative thinker.

If you’ve hesitated to start or felt overwhelmed by the tech or strategy, this episode offers a clear path forward. Whether you want to grow a business, amplify your message, or share your passion, podcasting can become a powerful tool for connection and influence.

Sarah Buehner is a marketing and impact coach who helps heart-centered entrepreneurs grow their influence through authentic content and strategic systems.