Karla M. Jay is the award-winning author of When We Were Brave and It Happened in Silence and her newest book, The Puppet Maker’s Daughter, which is also up for several awards.

I talk with Karla about her writing process, the importance of stories and why we can't learn from history.

Originally from the east coast, she makes her home in Salt Lake City. Over the years she has written in several different genres, but currently is focused on historical fiction. When she's not writing, she's reading, gardening, playing with her dog, or traveling to new places to try to find a story that has never been told.

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Parenting with joy is about self-care, mindset and letting go of the need to control every damn thing.

The more you step back, without stepping away, the happier your kids will be. Give them some space. Give yourself some space.

Everyone breathe.

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Roy Biancalana is a #1 best-selling author, a certified relationship coach and a spiritual teacher. His mission is to work with individuals who desire to attract a lasting, conscious relationship.

As well as coaching clients directly, his website offers high-quality, video-based, interactive e-courses that address the most relevant relationship issues facing people today.

I talk with Roy about how we sabotage ourselves in relationships over and over, until we figure out that WE'RE the problem. Move out of fear and toward love. 

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Ashton Palmer is a full-time swim coach, working as the head age group coach of Wasatch Front Fish Market, Utah's premiere club swim team.

She also coaches the Cottonwood High School swim and water polo teams.

Ashton has two swimmers in her program who are transgender and have been banned from competing. I talk with Ashton about the ramifications of such a ban, and how we can support these young people. 

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I know you've been eagerly waiting for TWO weeks to get these five tips that will make your life happier, lighter and less judgey. 

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There are so many ways to practice spirituality. Whether your path is organized religion, a connection to the earth and nature, or communion with spirits, learning to understand each other, and respect each other, is vital to connection and love. 

Today's guest, Acadia Darkwood, is a practicing hedgewitch. She works actively with spirits in meditation and spellwork. She was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah but has lived in San Diego and Hawaii. Acadia is a psychic reader, utilizing Tarot and Oracle cards to connect with Spirit.  She currently resides in Salt Lake City and offers readings at Crone's Hollow in Murray.

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Look around you. Are you at work? At home? On a beach? In an office?

Are people having fun?

There's always that ONE person who stresses over ALL THE THINGS.

Is that person you?

Here are five (out of 10) tips to help not take yourself so seriously.

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I talk with Terry about her work to educate children, teens, educators and parents about the dangers of human trafficking. Yes, it's happening in Utah. And everywhere else. 

After years of work with non-profit organizations dealing with youth homelessness, Terry Palmer learned about human trafficking during a service project, where a trafficker approached and tried to groom her 14-year-old daughter. “He seemed really nice” stated Terry’s daughter, after the project,

“if I’d been homeless, I would have gone with him”. After researching the vulnerabilities of homeless youth and young adults, Terry went to work for Backyard Broadcast, a youth peer-to-peer education, and prevention program. Terry is a member of the Utah Trafficking In Persons (UTIP) Committee, currently chairing the Youth Subcommittee. She is also a founding board member of Aspen Magdalene House, a home for women who are survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Terry attended the University of Utah studying Business-Finance before moving to the Bay Area, where she worked for Bank of America. She moved back to Utah to help care for her mother and raise her three children, Ashton (28), Madison (25), and Preston (20). She worked as the local service coordinator

for Youthlinc and has served in several capacities with the Utah Parent Teacher Association. She also serves on the Ulster Project Board. Terry has been with 3Strands Global Foundation for two years.

Natalee Falk talks to me about literally finding her voice. Although she's been singing and performing since she was 2 years old, she didn't truly discover her real voice until recently. Listen to how she found herself - and where she goes from here.

"My story starts at the departure from the life I was 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 to live, and the success I was 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 to be. 

When I moved to Nashville 8 years ago, I had no idea that the career I was about to launch and spent my childhood and young adult life pursuing with my sister, would instead be coming to an end. After the split from my sister, and another foundation falling underneath me when my parents divorced at the same time. I spent an agonizing 8-year continuum of grief - letting go of who I thought I was and was supposed to be, so that I could discover who I was and was 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 to be.   

What I found was a neglected girl underneath…on the endless treadmill - desperate to be felt and seen… and heard her whole life. But singing without a say. A voice without any choice. Living by the agenda that my parents and the music industry had for me. After a journey of unlearning all that I was raised to believe about who I was an artist, a girl, a daughter, a sister… I learned that the departure from my old life would not be the story that I was supposed to tell. Instead, this new story I would tell would have to be my 𝑜𝑤𝑛. And in many ways, finding my voice…. for the first time."