My guest today is Kristyn Ivey founder of For the Love of Tidy. She is Chicago's first platinum certified KonMari consultant. Kristyn is dedicated to teaching busy families, professionals, and creative entrepreneurs, how to let go of stuff and attract a truly abundant life. Educated in both engineering and interior design, Kristyn applies her project management background and innate creativity to transform homes with order and style all in harmony with the KonMari method, dedicated to Marie Kondo's mission to inspire the world, to choose joy. Kristyn helps clients declutter their way to becoming graduates of tidy and masters of life. Today, we talk about how to start the decluttering process, how clearing out your space saves you both time and money, and how to sustainably declutter during the COVID pandemic let's get started.

My guest today is Epiphany Jordan. She's a nurture by nature and profession Epiphany is on a mission to redesign human touch for better health and relationships. She's the founder of the Austin, Texas based Karuna sessions and the author of "Somebody Hold Me: A Single Person's Guide to Nurturing Human Touch". Today, we talk all about human connection, platonic touch, how we can get our touch needs met, how COVID has changed, how we interact with others and more.

My guest today is Sara Safari and author speaker and women's empowerment advocate. Sara is a postgraduate student in leadership and change as well as an electrical engineering professor. Sara is also an avalanche survivor and will soon be the first Iranian woman to climb the Seven Summits. Today, we talk about success, failure, stepping out of your comfort zone, and learning to overcome obstacles to climb your own Everest.

Today is a special episode because I've got a big announcement to make actually one of the biggest things to ever happen in my life. Bestowed Essentials was selected as one of the 15 winners of the Stacy's Rise Project™, which includes a $10,000 grant. Stacy's pita chip is a female founded brand with a history of helping women rise. Since 2017 Stacy's Rise Project™ has invested more than $600,000 in female founded businesses. And I am still in shock that my business is now part of this incredible project.

My guest today is Gabrielle Thomas. She's an entrepreneur creative director and wellness educator. Gabrielle helps women to trust themselves, build businesses and claim their seat at the table while getting paid, what they deserve. Today, we talk about what allyship means, why it's a verb, not a noun, how we can all use our voices to make a difference. And Gabrielle's latest project, Less Captions, More Action.

My guest today is Lauren Ornelas. She's the founder and president of the food empowerment project, an organization working to create more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one's food choices. Lauren has been active in the animal rights movement for more than 30 years in cooperation with activists across the country, Lauren persuaded Trader Joe's to stop selling all duck meat and achieved corporate changes within Whole Foods Market, Pier One Imports, and others. Lauren also helped halt the construction of an industrial dairy operation in California, and she served as campaign director with the Silicone Valley Toxics Coalition for six years. Today, Lauren and I are talking about ethical and unethical food practices, environmental racism, the impact our food choices have and so much more.

My guest today is Michelle Kuei. She's a certified confidence leadership coach who helps negative self talkers believe in their talents to reach full potential in a fulfilling, personal and professional life. Michelle is the author of the new memoir, "Perfectly Normal: An Immigrant Story of Making it in America". She owns her own coaching company and is a board member of the United Nations Association of the USA and a Clinical Pharmacist at USC's Keck Medical Center. Michelle was born in Taiwan and grew up in New York, but today she lives in Los Angeles with her Tabby cat named Buster. We talk about overcoming life's obstacles, what self-talk is and how we can use self-talk to our advantage.

My guest today is Kristen Manieri. She's the host of 60 mindful minutes, a podcast that launched in 2017 to share conversations about what it means to live a more connected, conscious and intentional life. She's a writer with more than a decade of experience and her work has been published in Huffington post, pop sugar, your tango, and the Gottman Institute blog as well as inflight magazines and blogs for international airlines such as WestJet and Virgin. In 2018 Kristen launched her course awakened living and is now taken countless woman through the process of becoming the conscious witness of their lives. As a mindfulness teacher, her goal is to help students become their sturdiest steadiest calmest selves.

My guest today is Linda Lattimore, a well-regarded expert speaker in the field of sustained leadership, a seasoned lawyer, C suite executive and business strategist. Linda released her bestselling book in 2018 titled "Solutionaries: You are the Answer." This book gives individuals a path forward to fill their heart accounts as full as their bank accounts. As the founder of both Solutionaries Academy and Cross Sector Institute, Linda offers training to change makers and forward thinking companies that understand the need and value of social innovation and conscious business. Linda's online class for change makers offers, videos, guides, and helpful hints for the topics we'll be discussing in this episode. And we have a special bonus for our Hippie Haven Podcast listeners. The first 50 listeners who sign up for Linda's online Illuminate class will receive a 40% discount. Use the code HH SOLUTIONARY when signing up for the discount.

My guest today is Toni Okamoto. She's the founder of Plant Based on a Budget, the popular website and meal plan that shows you how to save money by eating more veggies. Toni is the author of two books, the Plant Based on a Budget Cookbook and the Super Easy Vegan Slow Cooker Cookbook. She is also the cohost of the plant powered people podcast. And today Toni and I will be talking about how you can eat plant based on a budget.