The Authentic Audience Podcast

In today’s episode, Krista invites her Operations Manager and right-hand woman, Katy Annulli, to talk about what it’s like to work for Authentic Audience and to tell listeners about her own business, KMA Organizing, which provides comprehensive virtual and in-person organizing services. Katy and Krista first met through Thumbtack, where Krista (feeling overwhelmed by the practicalities of running a business) had posted an ad for an admin assistant. Krista was immediately impressed by Katy’s air of calm confidence and Katy quickly realized that Krista could benefit from her ability to bring order into chaos. Three years later, Katy (whose discreet personality and practical expertise are the perfect foil for Krista’s vision and intuition), has become an integral part of the Authentic Audience team.

As a professional organizer and a small business owner, Katy’s mission is to support women by giving them the skills and the structures they need to run their businesses more efficiently. You can hire her to set up a bookkeeping system and instruct you on how to maintain it. She can help you with records management, office organization, and digital and physical decluttering. She can even help you to organize your living space to create a calm and clutter-free environment.

Connect with Katy: 

Website: kmaorganizing.com

Instagram: @kmaorganizing

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Krista talks to designer and creative leadership coach, Majo Molfino, about taking aligned action and building creative confidence. As the author of Break the Good Girl Myth, Majo understands the need for women to do some important inner work to recognize and reject the outdated beliefs and behaviors that stifle their potential. However, she also takes a practical approach to creativity and, through her Ignite coaching program, she helps women to take targeted and effective action to publicly express their creative purpose. She explains how to build creative confidence by letting go of perfectionism and encourages women to have the courage to overcome their fear of failure and fully commit to bringing their ideas to life.

Connect with Majo:

Website: majomolfino.com

Instagram: @majomolfino

Break The Good Girl Myth Book: majomolfino.com/book

Ignite Program: majomolfino.com/program

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Krista explores social conditioning, people-pleasing, and codependency with Kylie McBeath, a certified holistic wellness coach and the co-founder of Zura Health. As a former perfectionist and reformed people-pleaser, Kylie describes her vulnerable journey home to herself and explains how she found the courage to stop following the path she felt was expected of her. She talks about her divorce, the toxic effects of codependency, and learning to trust her intuition and have faith in her own abilities. Today, she supports other women who are no longer content to live their lives according to the limited scripts they’ve been given and are ready to step fully into their truth and their power. Through her work as a coach, writer, and wellness advocate, Kylie encourages women to break free from the constraints of social conditioning, abandon their people-pleasing behaviors, and concentrate on being kinder and truer to themselves.  

Connect with Kylie: 

Website: kyliemcbeath.com

Instagram: @beingisbeautiful

Zura Health Website: zurahealth.co

Zura Health Academy: zha.mykajabi.com

Zura Health Instagram: @zurahealth

Zura Health Podcast: zurahealth.co/podcast

Mine‘d App: apps.apple.com/us/app/mine-d-self-help-motivation/id1493129501

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Krista talks about transformation and healing with Samantha Skelly, the founder of Pause Breathwork and Hungry for Happiness. Samantha describes how she used breathwork to recover from an eating disorder and how, as her relationship with food evolved, she decided to shift her focus from helping women who struggle with disordered eating and body image issues to creating breathwork programs that are designed to relieve anxiety, release suppressed emotions, and develop intuition. 

Samantha’s enthusiasm for breathwork has enabled her to build an authentic and intimate connection with her clients and she is a passionate advocate for the practice, which she believes is unparalleled in its ability to still our minds and connect us back to our bodies. Samantha also explains why some self-help practices aren’t helpful and she criticizes the current tendency to focus on simply shifting mindsets rather than adopting a more holistic approach to facilitating positive change by strengthening the mind-body connection. At Krista’s request, Samantha ends the show with a live demonstration of a simple but powerful breathing exercise. 

Connect with Samantha:

Website: samanthaskelly.com

Instagram: @samanthaskelly

Hungry for Happiness Website: hungryforhappiness.com

Hungry for Happiness Book: hungryforhappiness.com/hungry-for-happiness-book

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Today Krista talks with life coach Kelsey Lettko about her mission to help people live full, happy, and purposeful lives. Kelsey’s goal is to see her client’s truth, hold their vision, and design a path to bring that vision to life. She helps people remember who they are and make the transition from an unfulfilled life to one filled with purpose, authenticity, and joy. Before becoming a coach, Kelsey trained as a dancer, a yoga teacher, and a Reiki Master, and she also just happens to be Krista’s little sister. 

However, unlike Krista, Kelsey is quiet and intentional; an extroverted introvert who loves to talk and connect with people but who gets her fuel from being alone. After completing her yoga teacher training in the Hawaiin jungle, Kelsey decided to start trusting her intuition and create a life that was truer to herself and her values. Today, she teaches online yoga and dance classes from her home on a boat in California, and through her coaching programs, she helps people connect with their power and work towards fulfilling their potential. Kelsey’s desire to be of service inspired her to overcome her natural shyness and she urges other shy girls to give themselves permission to expand, take up space, and start living fully engaged and authentic lives. 

Connect with Kelsey: 

Website: kelseylettko.com

Instagram: @kmlettko

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Krista speaks with poet and storyteller Luka Lesson about his poetry, his activism, and his inspiration. Luka provides insights into his writing process and describes the role that critical thinking plays in the creation of his poetry. As an Australian of Greek descent, he talks about how his work is influenced by the epic poems and rich mythology of Ancient Greece and how poetry enables him to connect with himself and the wider community. Luka believes that the best poetry comes from a vulnerable and uncomfortable place and he explains how his skills and experience as a performance poet help him to help others find their voice and express themselves through the spoken and written word. He is currently working on a hip-hop version of Homer’s Odyssey, which will be performed in English and Greek, and was influenced by Krista’s favorite musical, Hamilton. 

Prior to the outbreak of Covid, Luka traveled the world performing his poetry, running educational workshops, and offering poetry retreats in his ancestral village on the Greek island of Rhodes. Now, for the first time, he has created an online course, Spoken Word Poetry 101: Amplify Your Voice, which starts on the 9th of January.

Connect with Luka:

Website: lukalesson.com.au

Patreon: patreon.com/lukalesson

Instagram: @lukalesson

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Krista connects with Anastasia Gerali, a rapid transformation therapist who helps women heal from trauma, let go of destructive patterns of self-denial and self-abandonment, and bridge the conflict between their conscious and subconscious desires. In this episode, Anastasia describes her personal transformation from sustainable footwear designer to therapist and life coach and reveals why she no longer links her purpose to any particular project or mission but simply aims to be the highest and most expansive version of herself. They talk about the reasons why the traditional masculine business model too often leads to stress and exhaustion and Anastasia gives some advice about healing rather than recovering from burnout. Anastasia also explains how rapid transformation therapy, (a hybrid of traditional hypnotherapy and neurolinguistic programming), works and how it can help release trauma and low-vibration energy that has been stored deep in the subconscious mind.

Connect with Anastasia: 

Website: artofalignedliving.com

Instagram: @artofalignedliving

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Krista speaks with Julie Weigaard, co-founder and CEO of Ruby Cup, the first menstrual cup brand to incorporate a social mission into its business model. Ruby Cup are pioneers of the Buy One Give One program for menstrual cups and every cup they sell is matched with a donation to a girl or woman who does not have access to safe period products. In addition to donating cups, Julie regards delivering menstrual health education as an important part of her mission. She is keen to tackle the taboos and stigma that exist around menstruation and wants to normalize the conversations about periods. Julie sets out the economic, environmental, and health benefits of using menstrual cups rather than tampons or pads and explains how they can help women manage their periods, save money, and avoid contributing towards the waste caused by single-use sanitary products. She also describes how her decision to run Ruby Cup as a business rather than as a nonprofit has enabled it to have a greater global impact. 

Connect with Julie:

Website: rubycup.com

Instagram: @rubycup

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Krista’s guest this week is Louisa Ziane who, along with environmental campaigner Tristram Stuart, co-founded Toast Ale, a company that turns surplus bread into beer. Louisa explains that the practice of making beer from bread originated in ancient Mesopotamia and reveals that the idea for Toast Ale came from a visit to a brewery in Belgium that produces a beer using the unsold bread from a local bakery. Toast Ale is a certified B Corps and a social enterprise that donates its profits to charities that are focused on transforming the food system. 

Louisa’s dedication to the cause means that she is strongly in favor of a circular economy where companies turn the waste streams from their production processes into marketable by-products. She also encourages individuals to buy only what they need and to eat everything they buy.  As the person responsible for managing Toast Ale’s commitment to people, planet, and profit, Louisa discusses the challenges of scaling up a purpose-led business whilst remaining true to its principles and getting across a serious message in an effective and light-hearted way.

Connect with Toast Ale: 

Website: toastale.com

Instagram: @toastale

Twitter: @ToastAle

Facebook: @toastale 

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