Grow To Be Free

By Kiani Williams

✨ Helping ambitious ladies pursue their dreams while finding peace, happiness, and maintaining a thriving mental health ✨

My name is Kiani and I burnt myself out at 22 😮‍💨

I fought through anxiety... more

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The podcast currently has 52 episodes available.

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August 15, 2022 How To Maintain Great Habits While Traveling
As the final episode in Season 4, we're kicking off a new series where I share the things I have learned while traveling and working full-time. I'm living in 4 different countries over the next 4 months (and hitting many more) which is a crazy new experience for me, so I'm here to recap the lessons to hopefully help you in your journey as well!

In today's episode, I'll give you my 5 steps to keep up your good habits and routines amidst your travel plans. If you have any specific requests when it comes to this series or future episode topics, please DM me on Instagram @growingtobekiani

Grow To Be Free will be back in about 6 weeks or so. Follow the podcast on your platform and on IG so you get notified when season 5 drops!

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July 31, 2022How To Reverse The Negative Effects of Stress | Avery Thatcher
Burnout, stress, UGH… what’s next?? We all go through it at some point, and we often don’t fully understand the affect it has on our body.
Avery is a former ICU RN turned speaker and trauma-informed yoga teacher. Her background in the medical field along with going through a few stress & burnout-induced medical conditions is what led her to shift her career to helping others prevent burnout and reverse the negative effects of stress.
In this episode, we talk about:
The biological and physiological things that happen in your body when you're stressed

3 stages of chronic stress

The difference between PTSD and CPTSD and the effects of it on our body

How to manage stress on a daily basis and with PTSD/CPTSD

How to give ourselves a break from burnout without falling into bad habits

What to do when you’re so burnt out and stressed that your self-care routine isn’t working

Self-compassion + compassion for others: how to look at emotions as information

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47min
July 18, 2022How to Build a Value-Driven Business with Work-Life Integration | Emily McDonald & Ankita Terrell
Building a business requires A LOT of work, but when it aligns with your values and integrates well with your desired lifestyle, it can be really fun.

Emily McDonald started Stylist LA out of a rolling rack in her living room in 2009. She raised venture capital and grew it to be a 7-figure business, before pivoting in 2020 to an online business.

Ankita Terrell was a fellow in venture capital and has worked across venture-backed startups, a massive analytics firm, and with non-profits. She’s directed millions of dollars of funding towards socially conscious businesses working with companies such as Google, Microsoft, S&P, and others.

Now they are both co-founders of My Founder Circle, a community that supports female founders while they start, grow, and scale their companies.

Our conversation fruitfully talks about their journey along with the topics below:
The importance of community as a founder

What is work-life integration and what does a successful mix of that look like?

What is a value-driven business and how do you create one? How does one establish their personal values?

Burnout as a business owner and how to avoid it

Strategies to help with overwhelm

Self-worth in business

How can we help women make more money?

Perspective on business pivots

Perspective on “failures”

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FOLLOW THE COMMUNITY ON IG: @myfoundercircle
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48min
July 03, 2022Finding Freedom from Diet Culture | Steph Genco
If you’ve ever thought to yourself “This food is bad for me”, “I need to eat less”, “I messed up because I ate too late”, or anything similar, this episode is for you.

In most cases, much of our mindset around food contains hard and fast rules that may be hurting our health and well-being as opposed to helping it.

Steph is a certified wellness & nutrition coach who explores the thought patterns and reasons behind why we eat the way we eat. I drilled her on all sorts of diet-related questions to get to the bottom of what is really going on behind our diet habits and what we can do to start healing this part of our lives.

In this episode we talk about:
What is diet culture?

How to shift our mindset around dieting

Debunking dieting myths and mindsets about: Good vs. bad foods, not eating late past 7pm, fasting

How to figure out what works for your body

Food journaling vs. calorie counting and macro tracking

How does our relationship with food develop?

Pros & cons of meal plans

Perspective on gut & health tests

Habits needed to build a healthy mindset around food

Questions to ask yourself when you’re having cravings

This episode is stacked, so grab some notes!

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CHECK OUT THE FREE DAILY WELLNESS JOURNAL PAGES HERE
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54min
June 27, 2022Are You Ready For (Future) Motherhood? How To Prepare Yourself for Being a Mom | Emily Hardy
This episode was filmed weeks and maybe months before the world started talking about Roe vs. Wade again. With that being said, this episode was never intended to be shared in light of the current overturning.

It’s a very sensitive time in the United States because at the time this episode airs, we are 2 days after the Supreme Court ruling.

This episode is about the transition of going from career woman to mom and all the bumps and hiccups along the way. Emily’s story briefly touches on unexpected motherhood and what that looks like, so I want to be clear up front that this episode does not intend to highlight any views or opinions about abortion, pro-choice, or pro-life.

I intend this episode to paint a clear picture for those of you who are not yet mothers on what it actually looks like to become one: The good, the bad, and the ugly from an ambitious woman who went through it all. I personally have never had the opportunity to fully ask a mom all my questions about the challenges of motherhood, so I know this conversation will be useful to you if you’re in a similar boat as me.

Coming out of this, my hope is that you understand more fully what the transition into motherhood is like and how you can better prepare yourself when the time comes.

In this episode, we talk about:
What it’s like becoming a mother unexpectedly

Handling the fears of becoming a mom

Post-partum depression and how it can look

The challenges of transitioning from career woman to mom

Establishing identity before vs. after having a child

Tools & resources to help you in the tough transition of finding yourself

How to identify your needs when you don’t know what you need

How to have your needs met when you’re a mom

How to still accomplish your dreams after becoming a mom

CHECK OUT EMILY'S 1:1 COACHING HERE
FOLLOW EMILY ON IG: @honestlyemilyrose
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53min
June 19, 2022How to Push Past Fear and Get Out of Your Comfort Zone | Karen Pepe
Do you get paralyzed when it comes time to take a step towards your goals? Are you worried about the uncertainty of tomorrow and how things will turn out?

These are all things I’ve struggled with in working on my dream life as well. I brought on positivity coach, Karen Pepe, to share her unique perspective on fear and provide mindset hacks to help you push past your fears and start working on your goals effectively.

Karen was born with a heart defect and has undergone 2 heart surgeries while having a thriving business and two young children. A lot of people might have given up or allowed their fear to rule their life, but Karen is different. Listen to learn how she has learned how to manage her fear and continue to step outside her comfort zone.

In this episode we talk about:
Karen’s story about going through 2 heart surgeries

Perspective on handling fear and uncertainty

How to categorize rational and irrational fear

Handling embarrassment around fear

Habits & routines to help you push past fear & achieve your goals

Mindset hacks for getting you out of your comfort zone
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39min
June 12, 2022Fighting Criticism & Doubts to Pursue Your Dream: A Digital Nomad’s Untold Story | Lori Konkler
Lori is a personal brand and business success coach for remote workers. She and her husband left their corporate jobs to become digital nomads and new business owners. After years of challenge and struggle in taking on their new lifestyle, they turned their businesses around to reach a level of financial success that matched their dream lifestyle.

Lori goes by The Xennial Traveler in the online world and helps remote business owners scale their businesses successfully to live the lifestyle of their dreams.

In this episode we talk about:
Why Lori became a digital nomad

The journey and challenges of starting an entrepreneurial and nomadic lifestyle

Handling criticism from friends and family

How to handle when you have doubts about your dream

How to stay on track and keep going when you have no idea what you’re doing

Common pitfalls when you’re first starting out as a digital nomad or entrepreneur

Why you might not be committed to your dreams or goals and how you can get through it

Advice for people who are hesitant to pursue their goals

FOLLOW LORI ON IG @xennialtraveler
JOIN LORI'S FB GROUP: Build and Scale A Profitable Business: Work from Anywhere
SIGN UP FOR HER GROUP PROGRAM: Remote Business Kickstart Course (thexennialtraveler.com)
CHECK OUT LORI'S WEBSITE: The Xennial Traveler - live life in your happy place
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46min
June 05, 2022How to Find a Style that Inspires Confidence and Resonates with Who You Truly Are | Yolandie Hamilton
Have you ever wondered why you’re not confident in certain types of clothes? Ever stare at your closet full of tons of clothes and say you “have nothing to wear”?

We all have done this at one point or another, and it all has to do with our psychology. Yolandie Hamilton is a personal style and confidence coach who helps people discover the style that makes them feel like their true selves.

In this episode we talk about:
Why Yolandie became a personal stylist

Why we judge others for their clothing

How to find a style that makes you more confident

How often should you re-evaluate your closet?

How to evaluate what to get rid of in your closet?

What should you do with clothes that have sentimental value when you don’t wear it anymore?

Why are women competitive when it comes to fashion?

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47min
May 29, 2022 5 Strategies for Sensitive People to Navigate Emotions in Social Situations
We all get triggered every now in then in our interpersonal relationships or everyday social situations. Especially when you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), this can be particularly tough to deal with and can leave you feeling stuck, confused, upset, and eventually - bitter.
Join me as I talk through some facts about HSPs and outline 5 strategies that you can use to navigate triggering emotions in social situations. Based completely off my personal experience, these strategies may help you grow and learn how to appropriately respond in the face of heightened emotions.
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31min
May 22, 2022Can ADHD Develop in Adulthood? + How to Be Productive Despite ADHD | Arianna Bradford
Did you know that women are less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD during childhood than men? Arianna is an ADHD productivity coach who found out she was diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood. After she discovered it, many things she experienced in childhood began to make sense.

As ADHD is becoming a popular topic and more women are seeking diagnoses, we’re talking about all the things you need to know if you suspect you may have it.

Below are the talking points we cover:
How Arianna discovered her OCD and ADHD

Does ADHD come on later in life or only early on?

How ADHD affects women in relation to men

Early signs and symptoms of ADHD

The mindset when you go in for an evaluation

The process of getting an ADHD evaluation

Impact of TikTok

Skills that people with ADHD can learn to make their life easier

What to ask yourself if you’re wondering if you should get a diagnosis

What does it mean to be “high-functioning”?

Medication, herbal supplements, etc.

FOLLOW ARIANNA ON IG @adhdprod
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WORK WITH ARIANNA AT theariannabradford.com
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