The daughter of the first American killed in combat in the War on Terror returns to SmartHER News to tell the true story of her father – his work for the CIA and the mysterious American he encountered in Afghanistan before he was killed – providing fresh reflection on a big story that few are talking about.

Pepperidge Farm is one of the most well-known baked goods companies in the world, and it all began with a Connecticut housewife named Margaret Rudkin. In the midst of the Great Depression, Rudkin turned a loaf of bread into a booming business. 

Inspired by her youngest son’s health impediments, Rudkin set out to provide a healthy alternative to the over-processed breads that dominated grocery store shelves, and then she kept going. She went from baking thousands of loaves out of a barn in her backyard to building her own factory, was a prodigious product developer (think Goldfish and Pepperidge Farm Stuffing), sold her company to the Campbell Soup Company for what would be 237 million in today’s dollars, and became the first woman on its board of directors. 

Our guest, historian Edie Sparks, is the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at the University of the Pacific and the author of Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century.

#013 – It's hard to say how or when we begin to disconnect from our bodies, but no doubt it is an epidemic that millions of people suffer from. Often times we are not even aware it has happened until we begin to experience physical or emotional pain. Perhaps this is more of a Western phenomenon or the result of living in a technological age, but we are often taught that logic, thinking, and science reign supreme. When in reality, all of us have a deeper intuition and inner knowledge that is already dwelling within.  On this week's episode, I spoke with one of my best friends, Brendan Miller, about his journey of reconnecting with his own body and what it means to live more deeply from the heart. We explored a wide variety of topics from movement, dance, self-compassion, and a whole lot more.  

About Brendan:

When he's not dancing or drumming, he is the Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of 2Gather, a plan for a trustworthy and democratic new digital commons. You can read more about the project here: https://2gather.one. He lives happily with his wife in wild and free Venice Beach, CA. 

In this encore episode of Third Act, we speak with Lauren Lane—who believes unrelenting passion is the driving force behind success as a social media influencer. As a former Hallmark Art Director, Lauren made a huge pivot in her career to her third act as a professional cook and social media influencer. In this episode, Lauren shares tips on social media influencing and inspires us with her self-taught mastery of photography and food styling.

Are you a wedding planner who loves design? Or do you thrive in logistics? Perhaps you enjoy both sides of the planning process.

Yet, regardless of which skillsets fall in your wheelhouse, you can’t do it all. Ultimately, it helps to bring in support, which is why this guest shares how you can affordably outsource in a way that highlights your brand.

So, be sure to tune in for this podcast episode!

Calder Clark is the owner and Creative Director of Calder Clark, a full service consulting and design firm. With over 22 years of experience, she now focuses on producing a limited number of exclusive weddings and events each year, as well as serving as a sought-after national speaker. Additionally, she is recognized as a top planner by the following publications: Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Martha Stewart Weddings, Southern Living, and The Knot. 

In this episode, Calder explains the role of vision in guiding the way that you manage the design and logistical details of event planning. Specifically, she offers practical advice for how you can outsource specific areas in order to level up and step away from doing everything yourself.

Here are some of the key points that Calder discusses:

• How she applies her superpower of creative vision to event planning
• The way she reverse-engineers projects so that she can learn the designs
• Her tips for tapping local resources to level up in either design or logistics
• The importance of having your marketing convey both what you really do and what you offer
• Why you should, by the same token, aim to tell your brand story in a single project
• Her story about target markets and drawing like-minded clients
• Her #1 piece of advice for wedding professionals

To hear Calder’s interview, you can press the play button above. And be sure to subscribe to our podcast in iTunes.

We want to say a special thank you to Calder for sharing these insights with our Timeline Genius community.

Please take this information, act on it, and carry on the journey toward fulfilling your dreams!

Show Notes:

• • Contact Calder Clark
    
  • Get a quick free demo with Timeline Genius! Or contact our Business Development Manager Brooke Bowenschulte at brooke@timelinegenius.com. (She loves hearing from you!)
    

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The radiant Ceta Walters is an incredible mom of two sons, lifestyle blogger (Clark and Stone) and most recently and officially a breast cancer SURVIVOR! Her strength has never shined through more than in the past few years in her battle with cancer. She fought and she won and she is here to remind us all to “feel it on the 1st”; prevention starts at home with monthly self exams. She shares her journey and inspires us to show up for anyone going through this and to stay in tune with our bodies for ultimate prevention.

Links:

• Clark and Stone
• Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation

Did you know, how you experience bloating can say a lot about what is going on in your gut? Bloating and distension can give us clues as to what is going on in your gut and how to best help!

This week I interview Tamara Duker Freuman, RD on IBS symptom language and why it’s KEY to understanding what a patients bloating means. Plus, we cover different gut disorders and how bloating and distension present with each – getting clear on how to discuss bloating with patients so you can ‘sleuth out’ what is going on!

Tamara Duker Freuman is a registered dietitian and is nationally known for her expertise in digestive health and medical nutrition therapy for gastrointestinal diseases.  She works out of East River Gastroenterology & Nutrition (www.eastrivergastro.com), a private Manhattan-based practice known for its expertise in disorders of the gut-brain axis and specialized diagnostics.

In addition to her clinical work, Tamara is a high-profile nutrition writer whose advice on healthy living and dietary management of digestive disease has been read by hundreds of thousands of people each month.

Tamara is the author of one of my favorite books – The Bloated Belly Whisperer. If you haven’t read it, you absolutely need to. Today, she is here to talk to us about everything bloating related.

We talk about:

• Tamara’s background and how she became interested in digestive disorders
• The difference between bloating and distension and why they occur
• How bloating and distension relate to IBS symptom management
• The symptoms of constipation-induced bloating
• The symptom of upper gut bloating / early onset bloating 
• Functional dyspepsia what it is, and how it is different from IBS
• The symptoms of impaired gastric accommodation
• Whether bloating is always related to food
• If ‘I feel bloated’ is the new ‘I feel fat’ and what people should know about the intersection of body image and bloating
• Body dysmorphia, how to identify it in patients and the different treatment approaches to consider

Connect with Tamara on her website at www.eastrivergastro.com on Instagram @tamarafreuman or on Twitter or on her Facebook here as well!

Today we are excited to talk to Matt Bernstein, the founder of Ape Co Movement School, a movement school based in Colorado with locations in Denver and Boulder. Matt is a former professional firefighter and ski patroller, as well as a long time student of Ido Portal. He considers himself a life-long learner, playing as many instruments as he can, moving daily and finding as much ease as possible in the struggles of daily life. As a husband and father, he is deeply devoted to finding new ways to enhance the lives of not just his family and children, but to every human being who crosses his path.

What we talk about

• The importance of meeting people where they are at when teaching or sharing information of any kind, and making things relatable and accessible.
• How movement and its concepts are delivered is actually more important than the programming or movement content itself.
• Understanding the long-game in our movement practices, and seeing them as a long term life quality investment rather than following the “quick-fix” and “magic pill” promises.
• The richer your movement practice, the richer the benefits become — spanning beyond your physical prowess but especially influencing things like emotional and intellectual intelligence.
• How movement teaches us how to reach beyond the status quo and go after the big dreams we once believed were not possible.
• Understanding movement as a gateway to unlock what’s hidden and unresolved in our psyche — and while it may not always be the medicine, it certainly opens us up to finding solutions to meet these lost parts of ourselves.
• The expansion our internal landscape feeds directly into the expansion of our movement capacity, and vice versa.

Resources 

• Evolna’s Virtual Portal 14-Day Free Trial
• Evolna’s website
• IG @evolna_
• Facebook
• Our host’s IG @mariejanicek

Get in touch with Matt

• apecomovement.com
• IG @boulderbernstein @apeco_boulder @apeco_denver

Thank you for tuning in! Please leave a review and share with those you think would enjoy listening!

In This Episode You’ll Hear About:

• Why Stephen didn’t feel like he was cut out for corporate life and what that led him to do instead throughout college
• How he met his wife and Co-Founder, Allison, and started working for her family in oil and gas
• What led to Allison discovering the health benefits of apple cider vinegar and the desire to make it taste better
• What turned their first iterations of the product from a hobby to a business and why it was a huge game changer 
• What hard lessons they have learned and what they have learned through the fundraising process
• What it has been like to grow their team from two to 50 people in just 18 months and what they have learned about leadership and team dynamics as well as  the importance of building relationships with those on your team
• Where you can find Poppi and what’s next for them in terms of flavor profiles

To Find Out More:

drinkPoppi.com

Quotes:

“{Allison} read that drinking apple cider vinegar could really help to detox and reset her body. So that’s where this whole concept really came about.”

“‘How do we figure this out? How can we take this product from our kitchen and put it into a manufacturing facility and meet all of the qualifications and have all of the policies in place? How do we get it done?” So we just got to work. We just jumped right in.”

“Looking back, I would have raised capital sooner. But that kind of just that wasn’t the way that I was thinking about it. So we just made do with what we had.”

“Early on we had talked to some of these co-packers, and their capabilities weren’t there. They weren’t willing to work with the product that was unpasteurized. A lot of them didn’t want to work with vinegar because they felt like it would contaminate their lines. So being where we are now, obviously we just weren’t talking to all of the right people.” 

“It was like, “Get equipment, let’s scale it. Let’s continue to grow sales and then reinvest in the business and continue to kind of bootstrap it.’”

“I wasn’t building on building a brand or taking it to market or putting together a promotional calendar to incentivize trial and do all of these other things to try and get people to try the product and build the brand. So I mean, that was honestly the biggest thing that I think halted our growth.”

“The good thing and the bad thing is that Poppi is just been blowing up. At this stage of our business, we’re growing faster than Vitamin Water did and Bai did.”

“When you become a family and you’re all pulling in the same direction, you don’t mind picking up the slack for the other person because you know, when the tables are turned and you need someone to pick up the slack, they’re there for you.”

“It’s all about Poppi being a mission-driven company rather than a maintenance-driven company.”

“Making money should be a result of doing something good.” 

“I try not to have an ego because I want people to be able to speak up. And if it’s not the best idea, know that we still love and respect you and are just excited that you’re bringing ideas to the table as opposed to, you know, feeling like you’re shamed because it wasn’t the idea that we went with.”

“Throw yourself in so far that the only path is forward.”