SisterUp Podcast

It's hard to believe season one is over. We are so grateful for this space - where women have shared their powerful and vulnerable stories with us.

We believe that we connect authentically when we share our most painful and joyous moments and speak our truths. In today's episode, we share what we learned from our guests, what others have shared with us, and what is coming up in season two.

Rachel Coleman is loved by children and families across the world. She's an Emmy-nominated performer who has affected countless lives through her Baby Signing Series, Signing Time on PBS, her music videos on Nick Jr., and hundreds of hours of content she has created to get American Sign Language into every household.

On her 45th birthday, we talk with Rachel about what she thought her perfect life was going to look like - including the white picket fence - and how getting pregnant as a teen and having children with special needs in her twenties would bring her a greater life than she ever could have imagined.

In today's very special episode, we are honored to speak with Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera.

At the age of 14, after becoming pregnant, Rosie married her boyfriend and dropped out of high school. In her twenties with three children, she decided to follow her dreams and enrolled in the police academy. She worked her way up through the ranks and in 2018 was elected as the first female sheriff in the state of Utah and only the second Latina sheriff in the country.

Join us for this powerful conversation, where Sheriff Rivera shares with us the change she is making in law enforcement, including making it more inclusive for women, and how her father's words "never give up" have been the driving force in her life.

In today's episode we talk with Joanna Smith, the CEO and founder of The Wave about what it takes to show up for yourself.

She shares with us how once she saw the inequality in her most intimate setting, her faith, she saw it everywhere. This awareness led her to become an activist for equality and eventually led her to start a co-working space for women and marginalized genders.

Join us as we talk about how to take action to show up for yourself in life.

We live in a culture that is consistently sending messages to women, and especially women of color, that they aren't good enough or don't belong where they are or deserve what they have.

In this refreshing episode, we talk with Nailah Blades about how she was taught from a young age to "take up space" and how spending healing time in the outdoors propelled her to start Color Outside, a safe place for women of color to come together, take up space, and explore the outdoors.

Imagine hearing those words, 'your child has a brain tumor'. Savanna Tate shares the story of her baby Hayes, one of her six children, and his fight with childhood cancer. She talks about how hope is what kept her fighting in those moments when she felt completely alone.

In this powerful conversation, Savanna shares how she found her purpose, amidst a parent's worst nightmare and how she continues to fight and support families battling childhood cancer through the HayesTough Foundation.

The trauma from our past can continue to impact our lives for many years after the event. In this episode, we talk with Bre Lasley about the night she was brutally attacked and nearly killed... and how that one night four years ago has carried trauma and healing in ways she didn't expect.

In the most heartfelt and vulnerable way, Bre shares raw details of her story and the moment she knew she had to learn to define her fight before it defined her.

This podcast includes graphic descriptions of an attempted murder that may be difficult for some to hear and may not be suitable for all ages.

Throughout life, we will have multiple times where we have to reawaken to who we were meant to be. In today's episode, Lyn Christian, Master Certified Coach and founder of SoulSalt, shares her own experience of awakening numerous times in her life to her true self.

She shares the moment when she came out to her three children, and how moments like that led her to her true calling as a Master Certified Life and Business Coach.

In this powerful conversation, you'll gain tips and insights into how to awaken to your own true you.

In honor of October's Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month, this special episode of SisterUp Podcast is a conversation with Monica Ashton, a leading reproductive and maternal mental health expert.

Monica talks with us about invisible grief and how it affects not just women but partners as well, and how it is not about moving on but moving through our pain that will bring us peace.

It is our hope that through this conversation we can add a voice to miscarriage and infant loss, that we can honor all of our sisters who are a part of this secret sisterhood and shine a light on a topic that should not be in the shadows.

In the first episode of the SisterUp Podcast, sisters and co-hosts Krista Parry and Lindsay Stephenson interview each other about their journeys. Krista shares the very first time she gives up her power as a ten-year-old girl, and how she learns to reclaim that power years later. And Lindsay shares how she had to retell her story in order to move forward.

(Trigger Warning: This episode includes a conversation about suicide.)