Episode 40 - Andi Vann is the founder and owner of Pure Bliss Desserts, wife and mom who LOVES to bake. She turned her passion for baking into the most popular dessert destination in Bellingham, Washington and has won the Best Dessert in the Best of the Northwest every year since opening their shop

Andi is also passionate about building up people and working with people who are goal and growth oriented.

Episode 39 is with Susan Santoro, an Air Force Veteran, military wife, mom, entrepreneur and volunteer. She has always been passionate about being organized and keeping things simple. When her husband kept getting relocated every year she found it hard to get new jobs each time so she decided to create her own job and created Organized 31.

We talk about our love of bullet journaling but how we both keep it super simple (even though there are plenty of beautiful bullet journal pages you can do).

Episode 38 is with Deanna Mason - a homeschooling mom of 2, wife, entrepreneur, founder of Refreshed Moms and an inner city missionary. After running a successful non-profit organization and magazine, all while homeschooling, she crashed and shut it all down. After several years of rest she wants to help other moms learn from her mistakes. She is now doing business coaching to help women include self care to make sure their businesses thrive.

Episode 37 is with Jenny Berk - an eating psychology counselor, body image specialist, entrepreneur, mom and wife. After earning her masters in counseling psychology she spent years working in the dieting industry for a national weight loss company. Several years ago she realized her personal philosophies about food and our relationship to food differed from the companies so she branched out on her own. She helps people understand what is at the root cause of why they are eating what they eat.

Episode 36 - Nicole Cook is a clinical nurse specialist for Cardiac Services BC, an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, a clinical instructor at BCIT, mom of 2 incredible kids, daughter and friend.

Nicole is passionate about cardiovascular nursing practice and helping to develop quality health care. She feels fortunate to be in a meaningful career and loves her job.

Both Nicole and I have the privilege of being nurses and love our careers.

Episode 35 is with Taylor, a registered massage therapist, co-founder of the Relationship Project, a hiphop dancer and multi-passionate. She is filled with energy and loves sharing her passions with the world and brining joy to others.

We talk about the importance of pursuing what you love, being a hummingbird vs a jackhammer, not trying to be all things at all times, and the freedom of not choosing just one career path.

"Balance isn't a destination or an achievement. It is achieved with motion."

In Episode 34 I talk with Crystal Hollman who is a brand photographer, mom of 2 girls - one of whom is a cancer survivor, wife and friend. Several years ago she needed pictures for her own website and realized there was a need for photographs for small businesses that reflect their brand.

Crystal is passionate about helping businesses take their brand to the next level. She brainstorms with people to create images that will best reflect their brand and what they are trying to accomplish.

Episode 33 is with Olivia who is a wife, mom, blogger, photographer, fashionista and traveler who lives on a farm. She has many passions and manages to hone them all into her stunning blog Posie and Pine. She shares openly about building her brand, why she doesn't like the term "lifestyle blogger" (even though that's what she is!), and how focusing on her priorities caused a big shift in her business last year.

In episode 32 I talk with Shannon Vistisen who is a graphic designer, outdoor lover, wife, mom and founder of Littlest Sidekick Outfitters.  Shannon is passionate about being outside and raising her son to enjoy life. In order to help him enjoy the outside she knew she needed the right gear for him, but ran into the same problem as many people - quality kids gear is quite expensive and they grow out of it so quickly! So she created a new model to help families get quality gear, without the crazy price.

Kay Richardson is a occupational therapist, entrepreneur, author of What a Woman's Gotta Do, speaker, business coach and mom.  She has overcome so many barriers and now loves to share her knowledge and experience to help others take what they are passionate about and turn that into business and sales.

"There is nothing that you can't learn to do."

Some of the things she does NOT do include her kids laundry and all of the dishes.