🎙️ Welcome back to Not Fully Qualified!

For this episode, Sara sits down with Irina Young, a certified purpose coach who spent 13 years in the corporate world at Google before leaving to build a more aligned path of her own.

Irina helps people reconnect with their authenticity, discover what truly matters to them, and find the courage to pursue work and lives that feel more purposeful.

In this conversation, we talk about the signs that it may be time for a change—like boredom, burnout, and that feeling that there has to be more. Irina shares what led her to leave her corporate career, how she found purpose coaching, and why nervous-system capacity can make such a difference when you are navigating uncertainty or making a major life decision.

Episode Highlights:
💼 Irina’s transition from a 13-year corporate career at Google to purpose coaching
✨ How boredom, burnout, and the feeling that there has to be more can signal a need for change
🌱 What purpose coaching is and how Irina found her calling
🧭 Practical ways to begin exploring your own purpose
🧠 Why nervous-system capacity matters when you are navigating change
💬 Tips for regulating yourself during uncertain or stressful seasons
⚡ A favorite “fail forward” moment from Irina’s career and entrepreneurial journey
💛 How life can shift when you choose a path that feels more aligned
📚 Rapid-fire questions, including favorite comfort food, favorite way to recharge, and favorite book

Whether you are feeling burned out, questioning your career, considering a big change, or simply trying to figure out what feels more like you, we hope this conversation leaves you feeling encouraged.

Find Irina:

🌐 Irina’s website:
https://irinayoung.com

📺 Subscribe to Irina on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@IAmIrinaYoung

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🎙️ Welcome back to Not Fully Qualified with Sara and Taylor!

For our first Season 2 interview, we’re sitting down with Jennifer and Joey Liss—a married couple, business partners, and entrepreneurs who have been married for 20 years.

Jennifer is a coach, breathworker, speaker, podcaster, and entrepreneur who helps coaches, creators, and business owners build a business that feels good, makes money, and works for their real lives. Joey works alongside Jennifer behind the scenes, and together they share what it has looked like to grow a business, a partnership, and a marriage over two decades.

In this conversation, we talk about how Jennifer and Joey began working together, the strengths each person brings to their business, and what it looks like to infuse more fun into entrepreneurship. They also share practical advice for couples who want to start a business together, including boundaries, communication, resolving disagreements, and reconnecting outside of work.

Episode Highlights:

💼 How Jennifer and Joey began working together

✨ What “infusing fun” into business looks like in practice

🤝 The strengths each partner brings to a shared business

💬 Boundaries, communication, disagreements, and reconnecting as a couple

💍 Marriage advice from a couple celebrating 20 years together

🌱 Building a business and life that feels aligned

⚡ A favorite “fail forward” moment, plus rapid-fire questions

😂 A classic Not Fully Qualified blooper at the end

Whether you are building a business with your partner, thinking about it someday, navigating marriage and career changes, or simply figuring life out as you go, we hope this conversation leaves you feeling encouraged.

Find Jennifer and Joey:

💛 Join Paid to Be You:

https://www.skool.com/you/about?ref=22b226cd487540d893c9588877a06a0d

🌐 Jennifer’s website:

https://jenliss.com

🎙️ Jennifer’s podcast, F**k Around & Get Paid:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tvtDcO6SiH3QYBwgAMxaX

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f-k-around-get-paid/id1846704323

Sara is a member of Paid to Be You, formerly called The Expansion Room, and highly recommends it for coaches, creators, and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to make money being themselves while finding a welcoming, fun community along the way.

Disclosure: The Paid to Be You link above is an affiliate link. If you join through it, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. We only share resources we genuinely enjoy and recommend.

Thanks for tuning in to Not Fully Qualified—where none of us really know what we’re doing, but we’re doing it together. 💛

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Welcome back to Not Fully Qualified with Sara and Taylor! In this episode, Sara shares an update on the podcast: Taylor will be taking a step back during a particularly busy work season. He’ll still join when he can, but Season 2 will primarily feature one-on-one conversations with some incredible guests—including an author, the founder of a community for dads, Sara’s brother, who is a financial advisor, self-development coaches, and more.

We hope these conversations leave you with something inspiring, encouraging, or meaningful to incorporate into your own life.

Episode Highlights:

🎙️ A Season 2 update and the new interview-focused format

✨ A preview of the inspiring guests and conversations ahead

🇹🇭 Thailand honeymoon recap: favorite memories, travel highlights, and a little glimpse into our post-wedding adventure

🍜 Taylor’s favorite meal: khao kha moo, or braised pork leg over rice, from the famous “Cowboy Hat Lady” at Khao Kha Moo Chang Phueak in Chiang Mai

🏨 A shoutout to Maladee Rendezvous Hotel, a peaceful and beautiful home base with thoughtful hospitality while exploring Chiang Mai

Thanks for tuning in to Not Fully Qualified—where none of us really know what we’re doing, but we’re doing it together. 💛

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Welcome back to Not Fully Qualified with Sara and Taylor! In this episode, Sara shares an update on the podcast: Taylor will be taking a step back during a particularly busy work season. He’ll still join when he can, but Season 2 will primarily feature one-on-one conversations with some incredible guests—including an author, the founder of a community for dads, Sara’s brother, who is a financial advisor, self-development coaches, and more.

We hope these conversations leave you with something inspiring, encouraging, or meaningful to incorporate into your own life.

Episode Highlights:

🎙️ A Season 2 update and the new interview-focused format

✨ A preview of the inspiring guests and conversations ahead

🇹🇭 Thailand honeymoon recap: favorite memories, travel highlights, and a little glimpse into our post-wedding adventure

🍜 Taylor’s favorite meal: khao kha moo, or braised pork leg over rice, from the famous “Cowboy Hat Lady” at Khao Kha Moo Chang Phueak in Chiang Mai

🏨 A shoutout to Maladee Rendezvous Hotel, a peaceful and beautiful home base with thoughtful hospitality while exploring Chiang Mai

Thanks for tuning in to Not Fully Qualified—where none of us really know what we’re doing, but we’re doing it together. 💛

If you enjoyed the episode, please follow or subscribe, leave a rating or review, and share it with a friend who might find it interesting.

Find us at @NotFullyQualified on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Instagram.

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Welcome back to Not Fully Qualified with Sara and Taylor! In Episode 19, we’re catching up after the holidays and reflecting on everything 2025 brought us — from getting married and welcoming our second puppy, Katsu, to leaving corporate jobs and prepping for our Thailand honeymoon.

Highlights:

- 🌟 Christmas + New Year’s recap (wins, fails, Yahtzee victories 🎲)

- 🐾 Puppy life: Katsu’s vaccinations, counter surfing, barking at strangers, AI vs real dog trainer

- 💍 2025 reflections: wedding milestones, personal growth, bold leaps

- 🧘‍♀️ 2026 goals: yoga teacher training, honeymoon, starting a family ✨

If you’re adulting through pets, marriage, career shifts, and growth—this is for you.

💬 Let’s keep figuring it out together. Comment below what you want us to cover next or if you’re also feeling “not fully qualified” lately.

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Welcome to Episode 17 of Not Fully Qualified! We’re Sara & Taylor — your hosts figuring out adulthood, relationships, and puppy chaos one week at a time. In this holiday episode, we dive into Christmas celebrations, Human Design crosses of incarnation, and how our unique strengths have helped us grow together in life and podcasting — plus raw life updates on wins, fails, and self-discovery.​

From Friendsmas and Christmas choir to Katsu’s sleep regression, stroller breakdowns, and vet advice on puppy socialization, we share it all. We break down our Right Angle Cross of Contagion (Sara) and Cross of the Unexpected (Taylor), personality insights, and how Taylor’s “C student get-it-done” energy balances Sara’s consistency for better collaboration.​

Highlights:

• 🎄 Friendsmas recaps, Citrus Choir, and holiday vibes

• 🐶 Katsu’s training setbacks + 25% more food needed

• 🧠 Human Design & Enneagram: Find yours free (links below)

• 💑 How personality types strengthen our partnership & podcast

Question of the Week: Have Enneagram or Human Design helped your relationships? Share below!

Free Human Design Tools (birth date/time/city required):

• Sara’s original: https://www.myhumandesign.com/

• Human Design expert Alexandra Cole: https://humandesignblueprint.com/

• Deeper dive? Ep. 14 w/ Kelly Tibbitts: https://youtu.be/7QUyRRvPZyQ

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Sara's self-development and spiritual coach, Cathy Heller: https://cathyheller.samcart.com/referral/36zQQdFN/dnHQ6Nhg37bD9NZ8

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#HumanDesign #Enneagram #PodcastCouple #PuppyTraining #HolidayPodcast #Relationships #Adulting #NotFullyQualified

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Welcome to Episode 18 of Not Fully Qualified! 🎉 We’re Sara & Taylor, diving into our pre-Christmas life update with holiday baking marathons, Katsu's wild puppy antics, epic fails, and our big plans for more exciting podcast guests in 2026. Disclaimer: This episode features real-time puppy chaos (including a mid-filming potty accident!).

In this episode, we chat about:

• Christmas baking: 6 cookies/bars in 2 days (5 new recipes — most wins!), butterscotch potato chip cookie disaster, and Sara's planning stress

• Puppy parenting: Katsu's socialization progress, sleep struggles, counter surfing, gravel eating

• Life fails: Late/unwrapped gifts, fridge leak drama, marriage license mess

• 2026 goals: More fun guest episodes + why we're off next week for personal/couple planning

If you love real talk about holiday chaos, puppy life, baking experiments, relationships, and adulting wins/fails, you’ll relate to this episode!

💬 Question of the Week: What's your biggest holiday win or fail this season? Drop your answers in the comments or vote in the poll!

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👉 If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, review, and share with friends who need some real talk and laughs.​

#NotFullyQualified #ChristmasBaking #PuppyLife #HolidayFails #AdultingWins #CouplesPodcast #DogParents #BakingFails #LifeUpdate #RealTalkPodcast

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We made it to Episode 16 of Not Fully Qualified! 🎉 We’re Sara & Taylor, finally back sharing a life update after chaotic weeks of puppy parenthood. This episode covers Katsu’s crate training, sleep and potty struggles (rough but improving!), separation anxiety, and play biting with Waffles — plus reflections on game-changing advice from our guest episodes 13-15.

In this episode, we chat about:

- Puppy parenting: Katsu’s training progress, Waffles interactions, and separation anxiety angst

- Guest reflections: Key lessons from episodes 13-15 (catch up below!)

- Life updates: Sara’s birthday, Thanksgiving highlights, and next holiday prep

If you love real talk about puppy training, couples life, relationships, and adulting wins and fails, you’ll relate to this episode!

💬 Question of the Week: When should Christmas/holiday decorating begin — November 1st, post-Thanksgiving, or December 1st? Drop your answers in the comments or vote in the poll!

Catch up on recent guests:

- Ep. 13 - Wedding Officiant Danny Moas, Financial Tips & Friendships That Last: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2R1PshQrPVzOJwsgvPRg2P?si=kf96Flk3Qna3DgDh3RPGng [attached_file:1]

- Ep. 14 - Enneagram & Human Design Deep Dive with Life Coach Kelly Tibbitts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/04kqdihMwewumHaiBcIviG?si=s0Y9ze9kS3uM26HHA675Bg [attached_file:1]

- Ep. 15 - Newlywed Relationship Tips & Pickleball with Charlotte Jukes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rAgULJLfUobggvFv1VdrS?si=LbfEey3jQwO18tLdgEnCPw [attached_file:1]

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Welcome to Not Fully Qualified Episode 15! We’re Sara & Taylor, joined this week by connection coach and somatic practitioner Charlotte Jukes, host of Pickleball & Partnership. Charlotte shares her journey from 30+ years in nursing to helping couples with somatic tools and energy work beyond traditional medicine.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Charlotte’s coaching path and somatic approach for couples

• The impact of pickleball on relationship dynamics

• Practical tools for nervous system regulation during conflict

• Relationship advice for newlyweds and engaged couples

• The power of joy, play, and space in healthy partnerships

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Connect with Charlotte Jukes: Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/conejukes⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/_charlottejukes/⁠ Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠ Text: 403 510 4589 Latest Podcast Episode: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pickleball-partnership/id1775742795⁠
👉 Like, subscribe, and share this episode with any newlyweds, long-term couples, or pickleball partners who are navigating love, conflict, and adulthood—one rally at a time.
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#NotFullyQualified #SomaticCoaching #RelationshipTips #Pickleball #NewlywedAdvice #CouplesCoaching #AdultingTogether

We made it to Episode 14 of Not Fully Qualified! 🎉 We’re Sara & Taylor, joined this week by life coach Kelly Tibbitts, host of the Live A Vibrant Life Podcast. Kelly expertly breaks down the Enneagram and Human Design, showing us how these personality tools can help you better understand yourself and your relationships—whether you’re figuring out adulting, communication, or partnership dynamics.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Kelly’s journey with the Enneagram and Human Design
- How she uniquely combines these frameworks in her coaching
- Sara’s and Taylor’s Enneagram (1 + 9) and Human Design types
- Practical tips to support your friends, partners, coworkers and yourself based on personality types
- How these systems have shaped Kelly’s 30-year marriage, family, and coaching style
If you’re curious about self-awareness, growth, and navigating adulthood with greater ease, you’ll relate to this episode!

💬 Question of the Week: Have you explored your Enneagram or Human Design type? What did it teach you? Share your story with us!

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📺 Watch on YouTube: Not Fully Qualified

📱 Connect with us on Instagram: @NotFullyQualified

🌈 Learn more about Kelly Tibbitts: ⁠https://kellytibbitts.com/⁠

🌟 Follow Kelly on Instagram: @coachkellytibbitts & check out her Live A Vibrant Life Podcast

👉 Like, subscribe, and share this episode with anyone who’s curious about self-awareness, growth, or simply navigating adulthood—one personality quiz at a time.

#NotFullyQualified #Enneagram #HumanDesign #LifeCoaching #PersonalGrowth #AdultingTogether

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