A #1 Self-Improvement podcast, The Breakout tells incredible stories of personal growth with the smart, hilarious thought leaders from Abbracci Group. Every day, in big and small ways, we put ourselves in boxes. From jobs to relationships, to entire belief systems, many of us are living by rules that someone else wrote for us. On The Breakout, talent specialists and the founders of Abbracci Group, Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther, dive into the extraordinary stories of people overcoming s ...
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Introducing Say More with Tulaine Montgomery
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Today, instead of our usual episode, we're excited to share a podcast we think you'll love: Say More with Tulaine Montgomery. Tulaine is an entrepreneur, activist, and CEO of the venture philanthropy firm New Profit. In her show, she speaks with people who are deeply committed to making the world a better place, while also taking care of themselves…
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Casting Doubts: Unpacking the Electoral College System, with Maximina Juson, director of One Person, One Vote? (rebroadcast)
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With this crucial election right around the corner, everyone at The Breakout agreed it’s a great time to re-share this interview with Maximina Juson, the director of the documentary, One Person, One Vote? This is a beautiful film that examines America’s Electoral College Voting System, and who it really represents. The movie premiered in September …
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How to Do Whatever The Hell You Want: The Breakouts That Inspired the Book
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The day has finally come! Friends…our book is officially launched! Join us on today’s episode as we celebrate the book, vacillate from excitement to nausea, and look back on the incredible guests on The Breakout who inspired it all. One of our amazing guests once said, “all these rules that have been taught to us? They were not bargained for collec…
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How to Prove Them Wrong: Breaking barriers in swimming, with four-time Olympic medalist Cullen Jones
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Enter our Giveaway! Get in on it before it’s gone! Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is coming out October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And there are bonuses for you if you do! Our fabulous podcast listeners can win the deluxe new AirPods M…
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When Trauma is Everywhere: Making Invisible Victims Visible, with Manya Chylinski
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ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY! Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is launching October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And you could win if you do! A set of deluxe new AirPods Max headphones are up for grabs. Here's how to enter: 1. Pre-order the book on …
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How to Stop a Bully: Breaking the Silence with Women’s Rights Lawyer, Alreen Haeggquist
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GIVEAWAY ALERT!! Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is coming out October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And there are bonuses for you if you do! Our fabulous podcast listeners can win the deluxe new AirPods Max headphones. Here's how to enter…
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How to Do Nothing: Our Toxic Relationship with Work and What to Do About It, with Celeste Headlee
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GIVEAWAY ALERT!! Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is coming out October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And there are bonuses for you if you do! Our fabulous podcast listeners can win the deluxe new AirPods Max headphones. Here's how to enter…
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How to Be Shameless: Squashing Your Inner Critic, with Maggie Langrick
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“It was easy for me to say to people ‘your stories are valuable’ but when I would turn that lens on myself, I was tongue-tied and embarrassed.” As the founder of Wonderwell Press, a non-fiction publishing company, Maggie Langrick has been a champion of writers for years; in fact she was a huge influence in the development of Keri and Kelly’s upcomi…
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How to Seize the Day: A Practical Guide to Taking Action and Changing Your Life, with Best-Selling Author, Scott Allan
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“I think everybody has limitless potential to create whatever they want”. That’s the core idea that coach and best-selling author, Scott Allan lives by. Scott's made it his mission to "help people create the life they want to own". How does he do that exactly? With the extraordinary series of self-help books he's written, and by sharing his life st…
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How to Start Over and Ignore the Doubt (and the doubters): Dr. Cindy Starke on Finding Midlife Magic
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“You don't have to let your past define you. You can change in a heartbeat”. Dr. Cindy Starke is a firm believer that it’s never too late to begin again. Cindy is a physician and geneticist, and at mid-life she made the bold decision to leave her full-time hospital position and top-end salary to found a coaching program dedicated to empowering wome…
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Casting Doubts: Unpacking the Electoral College System, with Maximina Juson, Director of One Person, One Vote?
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“The electoral college is a real pain point for the electorate. They don’t understand it, and they don’t know why we have it in the first place…So that’s why I made this film.” That’s how Maximina Juson explains her motivation for making the extraordinary, and necessary, new documentary, One Person, One Vote? It's a film that takes a closer look at…
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Breaking out of the Cubicle: Rethinking Work and School for the Neurodivergent Community
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“It's amazing that we have this tunnel vision around what success needs to look like, even though our society is filled with people who are wildly atypical.” Dr. Matt Zakreski is a dedicated clinical psychologist who's made it his mission to help harness the often overlooked abilities of the neurodivergent community – that’s anyone with a brain tha…
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How To Save Lives: Flipping the Script on Addiction, with Sean Daniels
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“When I was trying to get sober, I couldn't find anything that had a sense of humor, and so I guess I at some point was like, well, then I have to write the thing that I can't find”. Sean Daniels is the hilarious, warm, and honest writer behind the hugely successful play, The White Chip, a comedy about addiction. Since its debut in 2019, The White …
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Breaking up with Alcohol: Reframing Recovery with Sisters in Sobriety, Sonia Kahlon and Kathleen Killen
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May is Mental Health Awareness month, and in this episode we're thrilled to shine a light on Sonia Kahlon and Kathleen Killen who host the fantastic podcast Sisters in Sobriety. We’re also talking about Everblume, an entirely unique alcohol recovery support community founded by Sonia. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, call or t…
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How to Speak Up: Assertiveness, Boundaries, and the Beauty of Anger, with Cara Tuttle
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“Anger is telling us something. It's often telling us that something isn't right or that a boundary is being violated”. Cara Tuttle is a lawyer, consultant, and educator focused on addressing sexual assault and harassment in higher education, and she wants us to explore our anger as a key tool in assertiveness training. After years of working on a …
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Lifescaping: How to Dig Yourself Out of Entrepreneurial Trauma, with Monique Allen
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“One of the jokes I have in coaching is, the surefire way to kill passion is to build a business around it, or marry it”. Monique Allen will tell you that entrepreneurship is it’s own special kind of trauma, and it needs a special kind of business coaching. Monique is a professional gardener who has spent almost four decades in the industry. Over t…
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Walking Away: How to Leave a Promising Career and Make Your Life Your Own (Camino stories part 2 of 2!), with Christine Job
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“I was expecting to feel a certain way about the accomplishments. But it wasn't fulfilling, and I couldn't understand why.” Christine Job was a talented law student and the first Black female president of her class. From an early age, her family had expected her to go into law, but despite her achievements she was terribly unsatisfied. Christine’s …
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Leaving Your Life: The Transformative Power of the Camino de Santiago (Camino stories part 1 of 2), with Writer and Entrepreneur, Kelli Field
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One night, at the tail end of a vacation in Europe, Kelli Field suddenly hit a wall. “I just started crying and I just told my husband, I can't do it anymore”. After decades of working in a high earning, high stress career that took a huge toll on her health, she realized she couldn’t go back to work. Something deep inside her had finally said no. …
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Changing the Narrative: The Untold Her-story of Human Evolution, with Cat Bohannon, Bestselling Author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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“There’s this really old, really crap story that how we got here is about what the guys did. And women were just like some side character behind a hill, just like pounding some tubers, saying, ‘Oh, sorry guys. I see you're busy. I'm just gonna build the future of our species in my actual body’.” That’s how the brilliant and hilarious Cat Bohannon i…
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How to Escape Monogamy: The Valentine’s Day Episode! Featuring Psychologist, Sex Educator, and Best-Selling Author, Dr. Joli Hamilton
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Get ready for a Valentine's Day episode like no other. True to form, we're challenging some expectations, and today, it's that age-old ideal of “the couple”. Why is it still so glorified, and what are some ways to do relationships differently? Psychologist and sex educator Dr. Joli Hamilton is one expert who wants to shake up the monogamy paradigm.…
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Stuck In-Between: How to Defy Cultural Labels and Define Yourself (without all those rules), with Urmi Hossain
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“I never felt I was Bengali enough. I never felt I was Italian enough…And because of that, I struggled to find my cultural identity”. Urmi Hossain is Italian by birth, and Bengali by blood, but there’s always been friction between those two identities. Born and raised in Italy to immigrant parents from Bangladesh, Urmi grew up at the center of a cl…
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How To Save Your Kids: Kidnapping, Trauma, and Fighting the Odds...and Your Own Demons, with Author, Lizbeth Meredith
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“Four years after I left – four long years of being stalked and having my tires slashed – my former husband took the kids one day and disappeared out of country.” That’s the beginning of Lizbeth Meredith’s years-long nightmare of searching for her two young daughters after her abusive ex-husband kidnapped them and took them to Greece. Living on jus…
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Resolutions Out of the Box: Expectation-Shattering Heroes from 2023, with Kelly Guenther and Dr. Keri Ohlrich (and some of our epic guests from the past year)
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With every new year comes the resolutions: the promises of big change, self-improvement, personal growth, breaking bad habits, and even plans for complete reinvention. Whatever your goals for 2024, The Breakout is back to inspire you with powerful breakout stories, perspective-shifting leaders, and thought-provoking expert advice. So, as we jump in…
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Sleighing It: Holiday Greetings and The Breakout’s Year in High Gear, with Kelly Guenther and Dr. Keri Ohlrich
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2023 has been a big year with highs and lows for everyone. As the year draws to a close, Keri and Kelly are looking back at their breakout year with The Breakout (sorry, had to). The show has hit number 1, the audience has had huge growth, and they’ve been hard at work on their new book that dives into a lot of the learnings from the show. It’s cal…
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How to Change the World, One Kid at a Time: From Medicine to Toys – Career Reinvention for a Better World, with Dr. Zee of InKidz
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“I lived in Southern California, born and raised my whole life. And I was bullied for being different”. That’s how Dr. Zabina Bhasin, better known as “Dr. Zee”, experienced her childhood as a South Asian American growing up in California. Today she is a child psychiatrist who is deeply committed to the health and wellbeing of children. Her work is …
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Derailed by Divorce: How to Shake it Off So You Can Shake it Up, with Stacie Shifflett
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“I didn’t want to be a leaf floating down a stream. I wanted control of the oars in this next phase of my life”. Stacie Shifflett has always led a bold life. She’s been pushing against boundaries and expectations since she was a teenager and she walked into the principal’s office to demand that she graduate high school early. She went on to several…
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How To Escape a Life-Sucking Career: Extreme Career Reinvention with Criminal Lawyer Turned Clown, Robert Markowitz
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“I was beginning to lose my ability to feel. I would go to movies just to be able to cry, because otherwise I didn't feel anything”. If you’ve ever felt dead inside and that your job was killing you, you’re going to want to hear Robert Markowitz’s reinvention story. Years ago, Robert was a very successful, and incredibly miserable, criminal lawyer.…
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Aftershocks: Why Disaster Leads to Personal Growth, with Cognitive Scientist and Disaster Specialist, Jolie Wills
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“The beauty of adversity is it creates these amazing conditions for growth”. Jolie Wills is a cognitive scientist and a specialist in disaster relief who wants us to rethink how we deal with disasters. In 2011, Jolie lived through New Zealand's worst earthquake on record. As she helped her community through the aftermath that included 5 years of de…
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What’s Holding you Back? The Surprising Reasons You’re Not Making Progress with Your Goals, with Erica Rooney
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“We have so much more in our own control than we acknowledge”. Erica Rooney knows there are big glass ceilings that are tough to bust through, but she also believes that sometimes we also hold ourselves back. Erica is a C-suite executive, speaker and podcaster who’s on a mission to help women break free of what she calls “sticky floors”. Those are …
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Why Conflict Happens and How Dealing with it Helps You Grow, with Conflict Expert, Carol Bowser
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“I like to say that I help people break out of the sucking vortex of ‘pissed off’ ”. That’s how Carol Bowser describes her role as a conflict management expert. Carol is a former employment lawyer but after years of practicing law, she found herself much more drawn to mediation. She realized that conflict, and breaking it down, was her real passion…
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Mindset Mastery Part Two! Dr. Brian Davidson Takes a Snapshot of Keri and Kelly’s Minds
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Are people born gritty and resilient, or can anyone learn to be that way? Dr. Brian Davidson says that the tools for success can be developed by anyone, we just need to know what needs improvement. We met Brian in our last episode, when he told Keri and Kelly about MindVue, the assessment tool and learning platform that he built which uses positive…
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Mindset Mastery: Dr. Brian Davidson Takes a Snapshot of Your Mind – Part One
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Brian Davidson is a psychologist and leadership expert who has always been fascinated by what drives successful people, and whether these same qualities can be taught to everyone. After years of research, he developed MindVue, an assessment tool and learning platform that first measures your mindset and then helps you improve it. But when he began …
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Becoming Brave: Building Women Up, with Jennifer Pestikas
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“When we start our corporate careers, no one gives us any tools on how to enter the working world as a female. And I'm coming back in my mid-forties to say, here's some of the resources I wish I would've had”. Jennifer Pestikas is a senior VP in financial services, but after battling burnout she realized how many other women also struggle with bala…
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Small Straws, Big Burdens: How Microstressors Derail Us, with Rob Cross
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Rob Cross’s latest book was supposed to be about how relationships have a positive effect on people’s well-being. But during one interview, he ended up discovering something else. When Rob asked his subject what had stopped her from doing what she wanted in life, she’d answered “just life, I guess”. And Rob realized it wasn't the big stressors, lik…
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Lost in Translation: Breaking Out of a Culture Clash, with Janet Livingstone
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“It's so beautiful to meet other people and work with them, because then we can see our own society with so much more clarity and perspective”. Janet Livingstone has a unique perspective on the bubbles we all inhabit. After decades living and working throughout Europe and Africa, she’s learned a thing or two about how our cultural expectations get …
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Fear-Free: How Grief Inspired Courageous Living, with Clint Hatton
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“I looked at the way Gabriel lived and, and he just didn't allow fear to get in the way of anything he wanted to do”. Clint Hatton’s son Gabriel was a bold kid who embraced life completely. So when he died in a plane crash at only 17 years old, Clint made a choice to honor his son by living fearlessly, and helping others do the same. On this episod…
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Weathering the Storms: Following a Path to Grit and Resilience, with Danielle Cobo
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A hurricane, premature twins, gallstones, a husband deployed to Iraq, a toxic workplace, and terrible grief; these are just some of the incredible stressors that Danielle Cobo has tackled in the past few years. But as difficult as all this was, it led to Danielle leaving her sales job, and following her passion. Today, Danielle is a change manageme…
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Love and Loss: Finding Meaning in Grief, with Kim Sorrelle
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In 2009, Kim Sorrelle was diagnosed with breast cancer. If that wasn’t devastating enough, four months later, her husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and passed away six weeks later. In that extraordinarily difficult time, Kim did something surprising: she decided she needed to embrace her own life even more, and went looking for the mean…
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Career Reinvention: From Job Loss to Job Love, with Liz Alterman
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Liz Alterman was at a comfortable place in life. She and her husband were enjoying solid jobs in their respective careers, supporting their three children, and paying their mortgage. And then just before the holidays, her husband was laid off from a job he’d had for 18 years. Six weeks later, so was Liz. That’s when she was forced to face a crossro…
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From Struggle to Strength: Overcoming Mental Health Challenges with Tyler Nehila
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“I didn’t want to be a statistic”, says Tyler Nehila, “I just kept trying to chase that improvement and that brought me to where I am now”. Diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar disorder in his teens. Tyler struggled for years to find his way. Now with the launch of his clothing company, Self Conquered Apparel, Tyler is starting a new conversation about …
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Finances Without Fear: Transforming Your Relationship with Money, with Beth Dana
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After years of working in the financial industry, Beth Dana began to notice something interesting. Despite the fact that money touches every aspect of our lives, many people have a limited understanding of our financial systems. Not only that, but those systems are rooted in a highly masculine, acquisition-focused mindset that is unhealthy in so ma…
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The Comeback Kid: No Compromises, No Limitations (not even cancer) with Fitz Koehler
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Fitz Koehler is a passionate fitness innovator, speaker, and author who's devoted her life to health and wellness. But when she was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer in 2019, her dynamic career as a motivational force was really put to the test. On this episode, Fitz talks about the many breakouts she's had, from calling out the diet indus…
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Beyond Brainstorming: Unleash Your Creativity, with Robin Landa
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“As children, most of us are creative”, says Professor, Author and Designer, Robin Landa, “but somewhere along the line, we start to believe that we’re not”. A range of societal perspectives have led to a narrow view of what creativity really means, and who we define as creative. In her latest book, The New Art of Ideas, Robin sets the record strai…
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Rewriting Your Story: Taking Control of Midlife with Lucie Quigley
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Five years ago, Lucie Quigley’s world was changing. Just as her son was leaving home to go to university, Lucie confronted an intense emotional crisis and survived what she calls her darkest day. To turn things around, Lucie had to ask some critical questions about who she really is. This is the third and final instalment of a three-episode run abo…
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What You Think You Know: Inside an Abortion Clinic with Patrice D’Amato
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During her 40 years as a nurse, Patrice D’Amato has seen a lot of things, but it was her years spent providing abortion care that had the biggest impact on her. She’s never thought of herself as an activist, but as the polarizing debate about abortion raged on, Patrice realized that the real problem is our perception. So she decided to do something…
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Saying Yes: Meirav Zur On Sharing Her Infertility Journey
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“This was a very big, well-constructed, covert military spy operation that we were on. I didn’t want anyone to talk about it”. That’s how Meirav Zur felt about her long, painful journey through fertility treatments. She’s an actor and writer who makes a living being open and vulnerable on stage, but for almost a decade, Meirav insisted that she and…
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Lessons From a Crash: Will Samson on Rebooting Your Life
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Contest Alert! Find details below after the episode summary! Will Samson is a successful C-Suite coach and social scientist but three years ago he had what he could only describe as “a life crash”. On this episode of The Breakout, Will shares what happened, the ways it reshaped his life, and how it formed his mission to disrupt the self-help indust…
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Join people and change experts, Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther on The Breakout, as they get advice and insights from change experts, and dive into the stories of people who have busted out of life’s stifling boxes and shifted their lives into bold new territory. Because when you can’t stay in a box any longer, Kelly and Keri are here to help y…
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Ep 75: Valerie Paris reCHARGED (rebroadcast)
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You may have heard that we’re changing things up. It’s true: we’re retiring ReCHARGE Your Life and dropping a brand new show very soon! In the meantime, we’re looking back on one of our favorite episodes from 2021: a beautiful and important story from our guest, Valerie Paris. Summary: Ideas. Ideas. Ideas. Valerie Paris shares with us her favorite …
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As things wrap up for the end of 2022, Kelly and Keri share a short and sweet holiday message…and an exciting announcement. Listen to find out more, and see you back here in January! Don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter at https://abbraccigroup.com/ Please subscribe, leave a review and tell your friends about our podcast. Learn more about the…
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