Living The Authentic Life

Join us on the Living The Authentic Life podcast with this week’s fabulously creative guest, Carla Valencia. Carla Valencia Design is the manifestation of Carla Valencia’s creative dreams and family history. Carla’s authentic journey is all about family - from using the old-world embroidery passed down by the women in her family to Carla’s partner in sewing crime - her father Carlos. From evil eyes to hamsas to snakes 🐍 and sacred hearts – flowers and Frida and the moon and stars – the ideas spill out through needle and thread, creating truly one-of-a-kind clothing and accessories meant to last forever. Carla dives in on her history of culture and collaboration creating modern designs based around the symbols that influence her and how it lead her to answer the question, “how do I know it’s real?”

Tis the season... the reason for the season. Join us as we cozy up with podcast guest, Brett Trapalino. We dive into finding joy amid the challenges of everyday life in 2020. She shares how faith itself can lead us on our journey through uncertainty and pain. When Brene Brown spoke of faith she said, “ I thought Faith would say, I'll take away the pain and discomfort. But what it ended up saying is, I'll sit with you in it.” I am thrilled for you to meet the person who not only sits with me in it, but helps me navigate through it, my friend Brett Trapalino.

With the current health crisis and 2020 rocking our worlds, it’s no wonder that there’s an increasing demand to find a high-level, customized approach to health & wellness. This week’s enlightening Living The Authentic Life Podcast we are getting the most exciting take on proactive, precision medicine with integrated wellness with our guest, the founder and CEO of the Sydenham Clinic, Aanchal Bhatia. The light-filled 5,600-square-foot Houston clinic, which wraps around a beautiful courtyard, uses an avant-garde approach to medicine backed by state-of-the-art science and doctors. Join us today as we dive deep on holistic wellness and hear about the life changing practices Aanchal has implemented at Sydenham Clinic from her fascinating studies with Mindvalley Education’s Life Book and Dan Buettner’s Blue Zones

Today's Living the Authentic Life Podcast guest Keli Rabon @KeliR is an investigative journalist turned stay-at-home mom and fabulous influencer. Join the Contessa and Keli as we delve into how we've been keeping ourselves entertained over quarantine and what we've been binging from HBO's The Undoing to Apple TV's The Newsroom. We go deep on our shared passion for fashion, home, and family fun, along with diving into the intrigue and complexities of the life of an influencer with the recent tragic passing of Houston influencer Alexis Sharkey.

Join us for Episode 25 with special guest Brett Trapolino. From offering crucial steps on fighting the many challenges of COVID to finding forgiveness in relationships on the path to internal and eternal peace, Brett shares her incredible journey through life with a purpose. She recently launched Keep Growing life coaching program to walk women through vulnerability to reach freedom in their life. Reach out to Brett at [email protected] to learn more!

Join us for a special Living The Authentic Life podcast episode with Harris County Division Chief of Adult Sex Crimes & Trafficking, Johna Stallings and Rebecca Beavers of Anti-Trafficking Alliance HTX and Private Investigator. A study from the University of Texas states 79,000 trafficked victims are minors. No matter how they got into "the life," as so many call it, getting out is never easy. Now, there is a little hope for the women lost to this underground world in Houston. The collaborative efforts between the DA's office, law enforcement and the private sector are working together to help curb the area’s growing problem of sex trafficking, tune in to hear about the crucial ways you can make a difference in our community.

Starting in her early twenties, today’s guest Lara Bell began her career in television and media where she fell in love with community relations. After being a Texas tastemaker in Houston’s media scene for over 20 years, Lara found the perfect way to combine her love of television with her love of the community by launching Swoon Media and moving into an editorial role. Since then Lara has become the authentic voice of the Memorial community, never missing an opportunity to connect and promote the area where she is raising her own family. Swoon, according to the urban dictionary’s meaning, is to be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy, and that is exactly the energy Lara brought to this week’s #livingtheauthenticlife episode 💯

Now as more students are remote and struggling to understand concepts, families need support but often feel lost when it comes to their kids’ future and education. Parents will not want to miss today's #livingtheauthenticlife podcast with chief educational consultant and founder of Firat Education, Ibraham Firat. This podcast guest can help you learn what to look for when choosing the right college, how to prepare and customize an education plan for each child’s individual goals. Join us as Ibraham shares how Firat Education helps Houston students find their purpose and how parents can utilize their tools when deciding the best fit school for their child

From flight attendant to pilot to model to influencer, today's podcast guest Sheree Frede of SheSheShow has truly done it all! This Houston influencer has attracted a large following as a beautiful, bubbly fashionista and the creative force behind the blog, SheShe Show. Whether we are talking fashion or lifestyle, SheShe has always been an adventurer all about creating her own lane and we can't get enough of her exuberant style and personality. SheShe’s message is simple - Don’t let style define your age…. And she doesn’t!

"Leadership is not what is convenient for you but when you are needed.” We were so honored to connect with today’s guest and future congressman Wesley Hunt. Wesley Hunt was born and raised in Houston, TX and is a proud alumnus of St. John’s School and the United States Military Academy at West Point. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy, Hunt spent 8 years in the Army as an aviation officer and rose to the rank of captain before being honorable discharged. Join us to hear Wesley’s incredible life story of how his family went from slavery to West Point in just five generations. Authenticity is rare in politics, but Wesley Hunt embodies what it means to be a true leader.