Crafted Connections

Episode 74: Unbecoming and Recalibrating with Leslie Bailey
 Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun

Leslie Bailey and I were building businesses in Indianapolis at the same time. She had Indy Maven, a media company for women, and Maven Space, a coworking space where so many solopreneurs and business owners found their people. I was growing my former business, and our circles kept overlapping. 

We both ended up stepping away, leaving the city, and slowing way down.

I’ll be honest... I didn’t plan for this conversation to land here. I swapped it at the last minute with my episode with Jessie Wilde, a fellow boat dweller who gave me a peek at what my future might hold. Only after did I realize this one is the perfect final interview for the show. 

Leslie is fresh off a move back to her childhood home in Michigan, recalibrating, and talking about it openly while she’s still in it. She’s writing about the whole thing on her Substack, Unbecoming.

What we really get into is how you know when it’s time to step away from something, and how you find your way back to the reason you started. For Leslie, that’s writing. For me, it’s editing video. Same love for storytelling, different tools.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How a geographic move can quietly turn into an identity shift
• Leslie’s “full cup” that turned out to be full of other people’s stuff
• Ending the coworking lease, then realizing writing was the only part of Indy Maven she still wanted
• The weight of being the 100% owner, even with a great team and community behind you
• The girl boss era and all the mixed messages about betting on yourself
• Why nobody could have told either of us to stop sooner
• Making the rest of life easier when a season is going to be hard anyway

A few moments that stood out:

• A birthday card from Leslie’s mom, found years later, telling her not to take life so seriously... and the bright yellow walls in her childhood home that prove her mom meant it.
• Leslie writing an entire business plan for a general store on vacation, putting numbers to it, and thinking, “Nope. Not doing that.”
• Her take on burnout, and on the season of carrying everyone else’s weight until you can’t anymore. She expresses that it only feels lonely because so many people don’t realize they’re in it yet.
• Throwing herself one going away party — "here’s where I’ll be, come if you can" — instead of a hundred coffees she didn’t have capacity for.
• Choosing to slow down at 42 instead of looking back at 72 wishing she had.

If you’re somewhere in the messy middle, maybe not quite ready to say it out loud yet, I hope this one feels like company. And if someone came to mind while you read this, send it their way.

After 20+ years in media, marketing, and hospitality, Leslie walked away from all of it, and she’s writing about what comes next on her Substack, Unbecoming. If this conversation stirred something up, her writing is a good place to sit with it for a while.

substack.com/@thelesliebailey

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Episode 73: SOLO - 4 Things Closing my Former Business Gave Me
 Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun

For a long time, the question I kept asking about burnout was how do I get past this? Recently, that question changed. Now I’m asking something different... what’s here now that wouldn’t be if everything hadn’t fallen apart?

So I made a list. And when I looked at it, it sorted itself into four things: deeper friendships, letting go of control, making things out loud, and room to move.

This isn’t a silver-linings episode, exactly. It’s more about not letting the hard things be the whole story. I also share what’s next for me, because Crafted Connections is wrapping up, and I’m putting my energy where my life is headed.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why “what has this given me?” feels so different from “how do I get over this?”
• The winter I spent living in my high school friend’s backyard duplex, and how it rebooted the way I show up as a friend
• How I reset my coffee meetings from transactional to relational
• Letting go of control (still working on it...) on the boat, with Phil, and with collaborators
• Accidentally building a location-based business when I always wanted one on the move, and now getting a second shot at it
• How committing to personal creative projects shook the perfectionism out of me
• Why Crafted Connections is wrapping, and where my creative energy goes next: Kate and Hilly and Calhoun Edits

I started this show in that same backyard duplex, trying to find my way back to creating. By the time we wrap at 75 episodes, it will have done its job. I’m proud of the number, but I’m prouder of the heart I put into it and the healing that resulted.

So here’s what I’ll leave you with: what’s on your list? What wouldn’t have happened for you if a hard thing hadn’t? If you’re in the middle of something that feels like failure right now, maybe this is a gentler question to sit with.

Two more episodes to go.

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Episode 72: The Magic of Moving Through Uninformed Optimism with Jessie Wilde
Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun

People ask me all the time how boat life is going. The honest answer is… it’s a lot less adventurous than you’d think. Right now we dock in a marina on the Great Lakes for the summer, put the boat in storage for the winter, and I can count on my fingers how many times we’ve actually taken her out. So this week I brought in someone who’s really living it.

Jessie Wilde and her husband Josh have lived on the water for over ten years, and they’ve spent six of those sailing up and down the East Coast. A friend from the film world introduced us when Phil and I were just starting our boat plans, and our overlap is a little uncanny. Boat life, documentary work in the natural sciences, a near-sacred morning routine... she’s who I hope to be, about six years down the road.

This one is a turn in our burnout recovery series. After a few weeks in the valley, this conversation is about finding the joy again. It’s about adventure, the slow and unglamorous parts of chasing a dream, and what you learn about yourself when you keep going anyway.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Jessie’s sunrise ritual and my back-deck mornings with Gonzo 🐶
• A first boat that sank on its maiden voyage, and a two-year Caribbean plan that didn’t go as planned
• Four years at the dock before they finally left Hampton, Virginia
• Sailing to the Keys and up to Maine in 48-hour weekend hops while working remotely
• Marina life vs. life on the move, and an honest conversation Phil and I had about it
• What happens when one partner makes infinite backup plans and the other just wants to focus on fixing the engine
• The memoir Jessie has been writing for six years

A few moments that stood out:

• The highs are higher and the lows are lower. A brutal day on the water, then going to bed thinking there’s nowhere else you’d rather be.
• Giving yourselves an out. Jessie and Josh agreed either of them could call it after two years, no hard feelings... and they kept choosing it.
• Pulling into the exact slip they spent years trying to leave, and how strange it felt to be back
• How do you voice your needs if you don’t even understand them yet? Sometimes you have to hit your limit to find out.
• Jessie saying it’s cool to watch me struggle, because she knows I’m going to get through it. I needed that one.

If you’re sitting at the dock on something right now (not quite what you signed up for, not ready to give it up either), I hope this one reminds you that the timeline was never really the point. We’re always in process. That’s kind of the whole thing.

Connect with Jessie Wilde on LinkedIn and Instagram at @jessiewilde

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Episode 71 - SOLO - Be Open to Creative Solutions
Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun

“I’m open to creative solutions.” That one sentence helped me move through my most challenging career experience yet, and today we’re digging into how.

Two weeks ago, I left you in the valley in fall 2023. This week is the climb. It’s the baby steps and the small, unglamorous things I did to slowly inch my way out. It wasn’t a straight line, and it took a lot longer than I wanted. Honestly, I’m still pitter-pattering up the mountain, stopping for water breaks along the way.

This is the part of the story I couldn’t find anyone talking about when I needed it: what you actually do while you’re in it. It covers selling our house, moving onto a boat, losing two dreams at once, and learning that slow really is fast.
In this episode, we talk about:

• Why my mantra wasn’t “manifest $100K,” and why something broader felt more believable
• The small win I’m proud of: getting out of bed before 10 a.m. every single day
• A friend’s hard question (“What if you sell your house?”) and why it was part of the answer, but not the whole answer
• America’s Great Loop, and how a decision can be an adventure and a financial one at the same time
• Putting the boat in storage, closing Teardrop Pictures, and soft-launching Calhoun Creative Consulting in the same season
• Trading some of my manifestation content consumption for practical, cause-and-effect guidance
• Leaning on mentors and family, even when it felt embarrassing

A few moments that stood out:

• Looking up at the crown molding in our blue house, terrified… and quietly relieved
• “It doesn’t really matter how fast you make choices, but it does matter how the choices feel.”
• Steering the boat out of the channel slowly, and realizing recovery works the same way
• A DM from a high school friend that gave us a place to land

If you’re somewhere in the middle of your own climb right now, this one’s for you. You don’t need the giant leap. Just the next small step… and a little openness to whatever creative solution shows up.

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Episode 70: Ego Off, Value First with Jill Trimmel
Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun

In November 2023, I was a brand-new solopreneur with more debt than I knew what to do with and just enough in the gas tank to get to Muncie. My friend Brittany Scott of GROW had gifted me a ticket to her very first women’s leadership conference, and I wandered into a breakout session on failure... and how to make a fail plan. That’s where I met Jill Trimmel. I’ve held on to her as a mentor ever since.

Jill is the CEO of Elevate Claim Solutions. She came up through the corporate insurance world, often as the first woman in the role and the only woman at the table. She knows her numbers in a way that’s honestly a little dazzling. But underneath all of that, she’s a people person through and through. We recorded this conversation back in the spring, and it’s actually the one that sparked this whole fall series.

We talk about choosing experience over the bigger paycheck, how to hold onto your value when it’s time to negotiate, and why sometimes the goal is just to still be in business at the end of the year. Then Jill gets really honest about her own burnout, and about Margaret, the business partner who wouldn’t accept her resignation.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Jill’s path from Enterprise Rent-A-Car to Manhattan’s financial district and back home to the Midwest
• Why she took pay cuts on purpose, more than once, and usually came out ahead
• Keeping a “kudos folder” and tracking the numbers that prove your impact
• Negotiating for the value you’ve created, including asking for that six-month review
• Why mentors don’t always have the full picture, and why the consequences are yours to own
• Finding your “Margaret,” the person who’s strong where you’re not
• Scaling an eight-figure company on a $25,000 line of credit, through multiple lawsuits
• Hiring slow, firing fast, and leading without your ego in the driver’s seat

A few moments that stood out:

• The story of an adjuster asked what you do first at a total loss fire. His answer: you give out hugs.
• Jill saying her value comes from seeing the value in others. That one stuck with me.
• “Your ego is not your amigo.” I laughed, and then I thought about it for a week.
• Hearing her name the voice that kept saying “you need to do more,” and admitting she wishes she’d learned to be easier on herself sooner.

If you’ve been keeping score against yourself lately, I hope this one feels like permission to ease up a little. You’re doing better than you think.

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Episode 69 - SOLO - When the Thing You Built Falls Apart
Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun

What do you do when the thing you built your whole identity around falls apart?

The burnout series officially starts today, and I'm going first. This is my most recent story of burnout. I say "most recent" on purpose, because I'm a full-throttle kind of person and I'm not going to pretend it won't happen again. It's the story of Teardrop Pictures, the business I started in 2016 and poured everything into, and the season where I tried to grow it faster than it could hold.

This one's a little heavier. I talk about chasing a seven-figure business on a timeline I picked up from a podcast, assembling a team I'm still proud of, and then having to let them go. But mostly it's about the moment when nothing fit anymore and I had no idea what to do next... and the fact that I kept waking up anyway.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Building my business one coffee chat at a time in Indianapolis
• The 2020 online business boom, and getting caught between two very different "this is how it's done" worlds
• Setting a seven-figures-in-three-years goal that my actual numbers never supported
• Having three coaches at once (and why more input isn't the same as more progress)
• The magic of a first hire who was chasing down unpaid invoices by week two
• Hiring three people in under six months, and a business that wasn't built to carry that weight
• Letting go of all three in the summer of 2023
• Six figures of debt, a lost of most the business income, and the question of how you even begin to rebuild

A few moments that stood out:

• Realizing I was doing to my business exactly what diet culture had me doing in my twenties: trying to follow every rule at once
• Twenty-seven people applied to work for something I built. I'm still proud of that, even knowing how it ended.
• The week I let my team go, my power went out for almost a week. A text that said "I just want you to have your power back" landed in a way the sender never intended.
• Feeling like years of good work and relationships had been erased by a few months of falling apart

If you're in your own valley right now, or you've been in one and never quite said it out loud, I hope this one keeps you company. You don't have to know the whole way out. You just have to keep waking up and trying.

Next week, I'm sitting down with a mentor of mine to talk about her own business stories, and how this is a season so many of us move through.

P.S. If your videos are stuck in your camera roll, head over to @calhounedits for quick editing tutorials, or book a free 30-minute consult here: [link]

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Episode 68: SOLO - We're Back!
Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun
We're back! After a summer away, Crafted Connections returns, and it feels good to be here.
I stepped away in July because I was chasing Thursdays… producing every week without ever stopping to ask what this show was really about. When people asked me, I couldn't explain it. So I gave myself Q3 off, leaned into another Slow Girl Summer, and let the answer find me.

In this episode, I'm walking you through why I took the break, what the summer actually looked like, what you can expect from the show now, and a first look at the series starting next week. It's the story of the hardest experience of my working life, and I'm finally ready to tell it.

We talk about:

• Why I stepped away, and what a produce-produce-produce mindset was costing me
• Slow Girl Summer, round two: back deck mornings, 10-to-3 workdays, and long run-walks in the park
• Why I didn't need a result at the end, just a fuller cup
• What Crafted Connections is now: creativity, business, and the very human process of building a life around the work you love
• Why failure and the in-between belong in these conversations too
• A first look at the fall burnout series, and why recovery is the real question

A few moments that stood out:

• Realizing I couldn't explain my own podcast… and that the fix wasn't more brainstorming, it was space and time
• Getting a little obsessed with a cormorant swimming half in, half out of the water, and wondering if it's the subject of my next documentary
• We all know how burnout happens. How we come back from it is the question I've been carrying for three years.

Before next week, sit with this for a minute. Where have you been feeling a little burnt out? And what would your own recap of this summer look like? We're going to dig in together.

P.S. If your videos are stuck in your camera roll, head over to @calhounedits for quick editing tutorials, or book a free 30-minute consult here: [link]

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BONUS Episode! - We're Taking the Summer Off (Back October 1st) 

Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun 

Short and even sweeter this week: I'm taking a summer break from the podcast. After Slow Girl Summer aired, I kept thinking about it. What if I actually gave her a run for her money? 

Pausing the podcast felt like the perfect way to do that. I love this show. I love getting on the mic, asking questions, hitting people up to be guests. And I've also spent a year and some change chasing that Thursday 7 AM deadline. It's time for a little breather. 

After more than a year of interviews and solo episodes, I want to step back, look at everything I've made, and come back with a clearer, more defined mission. The original plan for this podcast was to reignite my creativity and it frickin worked, y'all. Now I want it to have even more purpose behind it. 

I'll be back — October 1st, just in time for Q4 

If you've been listening for a while, or you're pressing play for the very first time...thank you. Truly. Your support means everything, and I can't wait to come back this fall with some really thoughtful episodes and some really cool people. 

Subscribe so the October return lands right in your feed, and come hang with me on Instagram @CraftedConnectionsPod in the meantime. 

Have a wonderful Slow Girl Summer.

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Episode 67: SOLO - Bring Back Slow Girl Summer

Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun

A year ago, I set an intention for a Slow Girl Summer and I shared it with you publicly. I had no idea it would become my most downloaded solo episode. But here we are, a summer later, and I'm thinking about it all over again.

In this episode, I'm replaying that original Slow Girl Summer episode in full, and then coming back to share how the last year actually went and what I'm doing differently heading into summer 2026.

Because here's what I've learned: intention doesn't mean perfection. It means iteration. And the fact that I can look back at last summer and say "it was better" feels dang good.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:
- The original Slow Girl Summer intention: what it meant, why it resonated, and why I needed it
- The difference between setting goals and setting intentions
- What "intentional and aspirational" actually looks like in practice (and in real life, not just in the journal)
- The old pattern of working 12+ hour days and how I've genuinely started to let go of it
- Three gentle practices I'm bringing into summer 2026: considering ROI (not just financially), receiving support, and letting myself get lost in the work
- Letting creativity run without spending all your energy worrying about whether it will work out
- Life on the boat and the significance of slow mornings on our back deck

A FEW MOMENTS THAT STOOD OUT:
- "Slow Girl Summer is both intentional and aspirational." That line from my journal still gets me. Room to grow, not a standard to meet.
- The Latin test story: I've been postponing joy in service of productivity since high school. 
- Receiving support is its own skill. Whether it's letting Phil handle the boat projects, or finally sending a voice note to a friend asking for support.

If you've been waiting for a sign to slow down this summer, this one's for you.

P.S. If your videos are stuck in your camera roll, head over to @calhounedits for quick editing tutorials, or book a free 30-minute consult here: [link]

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Episode 66: Why You're Already Braver Than You Think with Julie Kratz

Hosted by Katelyn Calhoun

This one digs deep into my entrepreneurial origin story. Julie Kratz, founder of Next Pivot Point and a thoughtful voice on allyship and inclusive leadership, has been in my life for over 10 years. She ran a goal-setting workshop in January 2016 that set me on the path to working for myself. So getting to sit across from her (virtually) and dig into both our journeys was simply magnificent.

We talk all about pivot points. Julie is someone who has lived this work, not just taught it, and that comes through in every single thing she says. This conversation goes deep on what it means to be an ally and why mid-career feels so heavy for so many women right now.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:

- How one workshop in 2016 helped shift the trajectory of my career (and why it still resonates a decade later)

- Julie's own pivot from corporate America to building Next Pivot Point and what prompted it

- What is the definition of "ally" from Julie's experience and expertise

- The mid-career reckoning so many women are hitting and "what's next?"

- The connection between relationships, belonging, and happiness (backed by real research)

A FEW MOMENTS THAT STOOD OUT:

- "What's happening on your very best days?" - Julie's reminds us that the right reflection questions are often the simplest ones

- The sunk cost conversation

- The honest admission that she doesn't know exactly what her next pivot is yet and how that feels like a relief to hear

If this episode landed for you, send it to someone who's been in a pivot point lately. Or someone who's helped you through one. That feels like the right move.

Connect with Julie:

LinkedIn: Julie Kratz

Newsletter + free allyship starter kit: nextpivotpoint.com

P.S. If your videos are stuck in your camera roll, head over to @calhounedits for quick editing tutorials, or book a free 30-minute consult here: [link]

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