Welcome to Season 2 of Five Word Life Story - a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

Today's guest is Michele Wang. Originally from NYC, Michele now calls Las Vegas home. She started her YouTube channel discussing her work as a hand knitwear designer in 2016 and switched to beauty-related content in 2017. Now a full-time influencer, Michele focuses on luxury beauty, fashion and lifestyle on YouTube, Instagram and her blog.

Connect with Michele:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMicheleWang

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themichelewang/

Blog: https://themichelewang.com

Michele's Five Word Life Story: WIP, Community, Uncomfortable, Wanderlust, Journey.

Date: November 8, 2024

Five Word Life Story is produced and hosted by Hillary Rea

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Welcome to Season 2 of Five Word Life Story - a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

Today's guest is Rob Lawless. On a mission to spend 1 hour, 1 on 1, with 10,000 different people, Rob Lawless sees the world from an incredibly unique perspective.Over the last 9 years, he’s met over 6,500 people across 90+ countries, sharing their stories on his Instagram, @robs10kfriends. Rob has been featured on "On Air with Ryan Seacrest," "Your Morning," the TODAY Show, and even the Kelly Clarkson Show. Rob's inspiring project showcases the value of intentional, human connection and how every human interaction holds the potential to change your life.

Connect with Rob:

• Instagram
• Speaker Website
• Project Website
• LinkedIn

Rob's Five Word Life Story: Adventure, Curiosity, Gratitude, Speaker, Return.

Date: November 1, 2024

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Welcome to Season 2 of Five Word Life Story - a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

Today's guest is Jessica Snow. Jessica's bright creativity and magical voice have made her a beloved meditation guide in her hometown of Los Angeles. Since 2012, she has guided hundreds of events with many thousands of people, written four books, and created a deep library of more than 130 original audio meditations (which people have pressed play on over 115,000 times!!!) and created a counter-cultural space for thinking and dreaming on Substack. Jessica’s main aim is always the same - to reunite us with the wellspring of divinity and magic that exists in us all. Her art is our magic-filled experience.

Connect with Jessica:

Her website: youaremagicla.com

Subscribe to her Substack newsletter: jessicasnow.substack.com

Jessica's Five Word Life Story: Californian, Nature-lover, Magic-maker, Magnetic, Radiant.  

Date: September 27, 2024

Things/people mentioned:

• Brooke Forry's 5WLS episode
• Jen Ata's 5WLS episode
• Jeremy Hartwell's 5WLS episode
• Tara Lenich's 5WLS episode
• Whitney Howard's 5WLS episode
• Vipassana Meditation
• The Art of Living by S.N. Goenka

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Welcome to Season 2 of Five Word Life Story - a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

Today's guest is Brooke Forry. Brooke Forry is a graphic designer, entrepreneur, and podcaster who loves seeking new creative pursuits. In 2010, Brooke co-founded Curious & Co. Creative, a boutique branding design firm where she is still the Creative Director, creating striking visual brands that help small businesses stand out from the crowd. In 2019, combining her design background with her lifelong love of stationery and planners, Brooke spearheaded the launch of the Balance Bound Planner, a line of paper products that help busy people get organized and prioritize self-care. Brooke also co-hosts the Good Enough-ish podcast with professional organizer Amanda Jefferson where — using their different perspectives, strengths, and experiences as busy entrepreneurs & moms — the two friends share tips, deep thoughts, and laughs as they attempt to manage the juggle of life’s ISH and find joy along the way.

Connect with Brooke:

IG: @curiousandco / @balanceboundplanner / @goodenough.ish

Web: www.curiousandcompany.com  / www.balancebound.co  / www.goodenoughish.com

Brooke's Five Word Life Story: Sensitive, Intuitive, Expressive, Creative. Collaborative.

Date: September 27, 2024

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Welcome to Season 2 of Five Word Life Story - a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

Today's guest is Elise Hu. Elise is a Los-Angeles based journalist, podcast host and author who spent more than a decade at NPR, as a correspondent and host, and worked as a television correspondent for VICE News Tonight. Today, she’s the host of TED Talks Daily, one of the world’s most listened-to podcasts, and a co-host of Forever35, a women’s focused show about the ways we take care of ourselves. As an international correspondent, she reported from more than a dozen countries and opened NPR’s first-ever Seoul bureau in 2015. Her experiences in Seoul inspired her debut non-fiction book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital. Prior to NPR, Elise helped found the nonprofit digital startup, The Texas Tribune, and spent more than a decade as a television news reporter. She’s an alum of the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Journalism school, the co-founder of the podcast production company Reasonable Volume, and a mom of three daughters.

Elise's website: elisehu.com,

Elise's Instagram: @elisewho

Elise's TikTok @whoelise

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Elise's Five Word Life Story: Seeker, Connector, Giver, Receiver, Creative.

Date: September 12, 2024

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Welcome to Season 2 of Five Word Life Story - a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

Today's guest is Jen Ata. Jen is a longtime healer, teacher and creator of Tidal Heart Healing. A lover of the Divine, she moves through the world with compassion and aliveness as her guides. Her work witnesses others find their healing in love and connection to Spirit, assisting to remove any energies and stories no longer serving. Also a mother and activist she weaves these together in her journey as a human moving towards liberation.

Jen's website: www.tidalheart.com

Jen's Instagram: @tidalhearthealing

Jen's Five Word Life Story: Love, Wildness, Silence, Community, Liberation

Date: August 23, 2024

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Welcome to Season 2 of Five Word Life Story - a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

Today's guest is Liz Femi. Liz is a Nigerian-American writer, a 2024 Pushcart Prize winner in poetry, and a 2025 Sundance Episodic Virtual Lab fellow. An avid storyteller, Liz wrote and performed Take Me To The Poorhouse, which earned a Duende Distinction and an NAACP Theatre Award nomination. A recipient of Writeability’s Right to Write Award, her work has been published or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly, Good River Review, Wild Roof Journal, Stone Poetry Quarterly, West Trade Review and elsewhere.

Liz's website: www.lizfemi.com

Liz's Instagram: @lizfemi

Liz's Five Word Life Story: Bold, Adventure, Experiments, Soft, Re-foundation

Date: September 6, 2024

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Welcome to Season 2 of Five Word Life Story - a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

This is the first episode of our brand new season!

Today's guest is Jeremy Hartwell. Jeremy is a lifelong learner, passionate about optimizing holistic wellness using the latest research in fitness, nutrition, neuroscience, and psychology. As a cast member on Season 2 of Netflix’s Love is Blind, Jeremy experienced working conditions which he believes were unacceptable and uncovered an industry wide practice of abuse and exploitation spanning decades. He is the founder of the UCAN Foundation, a nonprofit organization acting as an advocacy and support network for reality TV cast members. He has deep expertise in corporate strategy and consulting and holds an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Connect with Jeremy on Instagram.

Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn.

Learn more about the UCAN Foundation.

Jeremy's Five Word Life Story: Reborn, Optimism, Open-minded, Courageous, Counter-cultural.

Date: August 16, 2024

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Welcome to Episode 9 of Season 1 of Five Word Life Story, a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

This is a bonus episode where Hillary shares the audio from her Creative Mornings PHL talk from July 26, 2024.

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Learn more about Creative Mornings here: https://creativemornings.com

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Learn more about Andrew Gormley - videographer and filmmaker: https://www.andrewgormley.com

Music in this episode is courtesy of Epidemic Sound.

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Welcome to Episode 8 of Season 1 of Five Word Life Story, a podcast where five words change your life and how you see it.

Today's guest is Whitney Howard. Whitney is a seeker, teacher, mentor, entrepreneur, creative free spirit, twenty-year veteran of corporate America, evolutionary astrologer, music nerd, devotee of the natural world, and gratefully sober human being. Her current focus is being fully alive, grounded, and present. When she grows up, she aspires to write books for a living, become an amazing surfer, and sing in a rock and roll band. She is a Leo Sun, Virgo Moon, Scorpio Rising and she was born in 1976, the year of the Dragon. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and two bonus daughters.

Learn more about Whitney here: https://www.starlandalchemy.com

Follow Whitney on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/starlandalchemy/

Whitney's Five Word Life Story: Grateful, Alive, Family, Safe, Visioning

Date: June 28, 2024

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