The Badass Women of Central Park (Denver) Podcast

Deborah Byrne is originally from Honolulu, Hawaii.  She is a single mother to her beautiful, and amazing 7 year old daughter. She is currently Miss Central Park 2023. 

Deborah is Competing in the Miss Colorado for America Strong Pageant 2023 to show her daughter you can be anything no matter what stage in life you are at. 

She would like to use her platform to create a strong foundation for herself and her daughter. Her goal is also to to raise awareness about victims of  domestic abuse and awareness about children on the autism spectrum.  These causes are very near and dear to her heart!   

Bohne Leah founded Be Organized Method, a Home and Business Organization company, to serve others using the skills from her background as a fine artist and film department coordinator. Be Organized is a perfect blend of practical concepts, visual expertise, and Bohne Leah’s passion for affecting change in those around her. Her method is infused with concepts  that promote habit transformation and encourage clients learn actionable maintenance techniques. 

Be Organized thinks beyond the obvious role of immediate productivity in organizing. By helping individuals and businesses identify and adopt new systems customized to their specific needs, Be Organized offers clients a lasting return on their initial investment. 

Along with residential and corporate downsizing and resystemizing, Be Organized coordinates moves, designs closet and basement buildouts, helps seniors downsize, and teaches organizational training for kids. 

Jessica Kellem was born and raised outside Cleveland, Ohio. She moved to Colorado in 2014 after graduating from The Ohio State University to chase her childhood dreams of being a mountain girl.  After nearly a decade teaching special education,  Jessica is now making a difference in a new bold way. A single mom to a four-year-old, living in the Central Park community, Jessica is now a financial professional serving to build and protect families and businesses generational wealth. 

After her dad died in 2015, Jessica was thrusted into adulthood having to navigate a seven-year probate estate battle following her father's passing.  Her father's print company, at one time employing over a hundred full-time employees, dwindled to nothing.  She is using her painful experiences to educate families and businesses on personalized strategies to leave legacies they can feel proud of. 

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Stefanie Huff, MD, aka “Dr. Stef” (with an F!!), is a full-time emergency medicine physician, life coach, inventor, and a single divorced mom to two fun-loving kids, Mattie (11) and Max (9). 

In 2008, Dr. Stef left Omaha and headed to Denver and the mountains.  She lived in the MODA Lofts in the town center to be near the airport while she traveled the country as a locum tenens physician (I.e. traveling physician). Shortly after, she began working at Avista Adventist Hospital ER and continues to work in ERs within the Centura system. Dr. Stef is also certified in addiction medicine and obesity medicine, and previously owned and operated two medical clinics in Central Park.

Dr. Stef became a certified life coach after it helped her reclaim her life from physician burnout and a high-conflict divorce. She created her life coaching business, Figure Life Out LLC, focusing on co-parenting tools and mindset concepts to help working moms find peace and freedom from divorce and high-conflict co-parenting. To get coaching with Dr. Stef, visit her website www.figurelifeout.com or email her at [email protected] 

During COVID, Dr. Stef invented the “Icky Sicky Box”, a tissue box cover for dispensing and disposing tissues. The first edition of the Icky Sicky Box is ready for purchase in the near future, so stay tuned for how to purchase your own Icky Sicky Box!

When not doctoring or business-ing, Dr. Stef loves traveling with her kids, especially to the mountains to ski and hike. If you see Dr. Stef on walk with her dog Bailey, she may be recording one of her “Walk-N-Talk With Dr Stef” reels, which you can find on Instagram/TikTok/Facebook @figurelifeoutmd   

Kristen grew up in Ft Collins and began her love of photography as a yearbook photographer in Jr High.  She moved to the Houston/Galveston area for college and remained there until 2021.  Her sister and parents live in Conservatory Green and she had fallen in love with the neighborhood on family bi-annual visits. Their move was sparked by Covid and the desire to be closer to family, live the outdoor lifestyle Denver has to offer and raise their kids in this amazing community. Her husband kept his job and works remotely while traveling back to Houston a week out of the month.  

After having a successful branding and headshot photography business in Houston when she moved to Denver, she had to start again, from square one.  Building up new clientele from scratch has been a challenging and rewarding experience at the same time.  She is meeting tons of new people in the neighborhoods’ amazing networking and mom’s groups as well as the  Central Park Business Association (CPA). 

She loves meeting neighbors, learning their stories and sharing them trough personal branding photography.  She strives to be s go-to headshot &  branding photographer for not only Central Park, but all of Denver.

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Jennifer Jackson is a third generation Denverite with roots going back to the 1880s. She comes from a long line of entrepreneurs and has an entrepreneurial spirit of her own! She founded and ran a successful restaurant here in Denver as well as a career in real estate stemming back to the early 2000’s. Jennifer greatly values the experience gained during the last two decades in the “People Business”. She prides herself on her ability to understand peoples’ needs and wants; allowing her to make connections throughout the community as well as for her clients. In 2015, she had the honor of receiving the Matthew Shepard Foundation’s Dennis Doherty Community Leadership Award for her work within the community and non-profit organizations.

Jennifer and her family are outdoor enthusiasts and enjoy all that Colorado has to offer! She strives to represent the tight knit community of Denver and helping navigate newcomers who want to call Colorado their home!

Megan, an Alaskan native turned Colorado local in 2012, left Alaska in 2000 and went to college at Arizona State University getting a degree in Business and Communication. Before having children she was an Insurance Agent for 7 years and then stayed at home with her 2 kids for 4 years.  

She considers herself to have workout A.D.D. meaning she has never found a workout she could stick with until she found Barre. 

She started this business in July 2015 because she wanted to give her community and Denver a different option when it came to Barre and over the past 7 years it has morphed in to so much more!  A place that allows people to feel and be themselves, that think outside the typical small studio box and a place that people could achieve their goals each and every class.  She prides herself on her teaching style and creativity during every single class. Everything she does is outside the box, one step ahead and innovative. 

Lauren Ross is a licensed clinical social worker and leader in the field of school mental health. With over 22 years of experience in public education and clinical settings, Lauren is passionate about creating spaces of belonging, support and resilience for youth and families. Lauren currently works at Cherry Creek School District where she serves as a leader of the mental health team, with over 170 school psychologists and social workers.

In 2019, she trained under Brené Brown to become a Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator. She has brought this training to the public education and nonprofit sectors to build courageous leadership skills with the amazing humans doing hard and important work. In 2022 she shared the story of Project Village on the stage of TEDxCherryCreek, encouraging all of us to show up in social media space with greater courage, compassion, connection and community.

She lives in Denver, Colorado, with her amazing musical husband David, as well as their two children (Jade and Maya) and their schnoodle (Oreo).  

1) Link to TEDx talk video

2) Link to Project Village website

3) Link to youth mental health resource page: https://bit.ly/YouthMentalHealthResources

Gina moved from Madison, WI to Denver, CO in 2014 with her daughter Zena…who just happens to be a dog.  

She has twenty years’ experience in the mental health industry and a passion for understanding and taking care of people and animals.  Using her outgoing personality, she started to introduce herself to the community in Denver and specifically in Central Park where she was accepted with open arms…or should I say open paws, as a new woman entrepreneur.  

The people she started networking with taught her about the industry and also helped her realize her own ability. The concept of her company logo and slogan are a combination of the services she provides, as well as a reflection of her love of basketball and fur babies alike.  G-DOGZ PET SERVICES LLC, “Your Streets, Our Game”. She decided to start G-DOGZ Pet Services to offer the highest-standard of care, competence, and trust for her clients.

Jennifer Mathes owns Allstate – The Mathes Agency located in the heart of Central Park with her husband Rob.   She attended Ohio University and upon graduation moved to New York City to begin her career in the insurance industry.  After almost a decade climbing the corporate ladder in NYC, she left the city and her career, and moved to Pittsburgh.  In 2013, Jen moved to Denver with her husband and started their family.  She has lived in Central Park since moving here and loves this community.  Once her children began attending school she was eager to volunteer in their school and local organizations.  While enjoying getting to know other parents and people in the community she craved working again and ended up opening an insurance agency in the neighborhood in 2017.  She currently lives in The North End with her husband, two sons, dog and turtle.