This podcast features conversations with real people going through real things happening in life all around us. The interviews contain honest, respectful discourse about the invisible battles people are fighting right next to us that don't make our Instagram and Facebook feeds. The goal to shed light on hidden issues that many of us are dealing with in secret, and how kindness and understanding can truly break barriers. Life is about more than politics and Twitter battles. Hopefully, we can ...
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S4: Ep 10 - Kia Guarino, Executive Director of Pro-Choice WA on taking action post Roe V. Wade
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In the nation's biggest Covid pivot, Roe V. Wade was overturned on June 24th and I knew that I wanted to address it as the last episode of season 4. Kia Guarino, Executive Director of Pro-Choice Washington, the only agency in WA State whose sole focus is on "political and legislative adovcacy for reproductive freedom in WA State," sits down with me…
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S4: Ep 9 - Cassie Walker Johnson on the Covid pivot of cancer
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Today we're talking about the most personal of Covid pivots. My podcast sponsor Cassie Walker-Johnson is with me today to discuss her covid pivot of a breast cancer diagnoses. Cassie is my friend. She is a successful real estate agent, she's a mom, a wife, an incredible connector and networker and in December of 2020 she got a call that 1 in 7 wome…
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S4: EP 8: Zach Brittle on the Covid pivot of Divorce.
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Today, we're talking about a Covid pivot I've seen lately - divorce. Strange that being locked in a house with your partner would make you questions your life's choices... Because I'm hearing anecdotal evidence about more people splitting this year than in the past, I decided to do some research on whether or not what I was hearing on the street wa…
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S4: Ep 7 - Erin Quick, CEO and founder of PairTree on modernizing adoption
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Erin Quick is the CEO and Co-Founder of PairTree, a company that is modernizing the adoption process. Erin is a powerhouse - she's founded three successful startups, she's a Puget Sound Business Journal 40 under 40, she's a marketer and branding professional, and maybe most importantly, Erin is also a mother. When Erin's fertility path led to adopt…
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S4: Ep 6 - Dr. Lelach Rave pivots from medicine to politics
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The last two years have me wondering "why on Earth would anyone rational go into politics?" The political landscape seems toxic at the moment and because we need rational, intelligent people to run, I think a lot of us wonder who in their right mind would do it? Dr. Lelach Rave reached out a couple of. months ago because she decided to leave a succ…
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S4: Ep5 - Emily Cherkin, The Screentime Consultant
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Emily Cherkin, The Screentime Consultant and I had one of the most thought-provoking conversations to date on the podcast this week. If you are someone who has concerns and questions about whether or not to toss your child into the world of social media, don't move. You need to hear this. Find Emily Cherkin on her website On her YouTube Channel And…
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S4: Ep 4 - Nathalia Gorosh stands on her own
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Founder and Owner of The Pilates Hub, Nathalia Gorosh, sits down with me to discuss how her new business came to be. It's a conversation about partnership, trust, and learning to listen to your own instincts. She shares her story and includes tips on how to be a smarter business owner, and why knowing and trusting your vision is the key to success.…
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S4: Ep3 - Erin Skipley on manifesting destiny
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Keeping in theme with Covid pivots, Erin Skipley, founder of Contour + Ink and LA Makeup artist shares her story of manifesting her dream studio in Beverly Hills and keeping it alive during 2020. She changed course and is now a top instructor in her field of restorative beauty. Erin is a hustler - it's not that she doesn't have imposter syndrome, i…
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S4: Ep2 - Dr. Ashwin Rao on modern Sports Medicine
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Dr. Rao is so much more than just a physician. He's a visionary. I've heard him described by his peers as a "legend." A "Genius." and "the coolest person ever." True story - these are words used by doctors, his peers and his patients. He's made a career choice reflective of his own values, and continued learning in his own right with his newest ven…
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Kristi Lord and Lindsay Droz, co-founders of L'Avant Collective sit down with me to discuss their posh plant-based cleaning product company, share their philosophy and mindset, and reveal their secret to keeping resilience through Covid. RIFOMF listeners get a 20% discount code - 1st ever!! Go to www.lavantcollective.com use code RIF20 to score you…
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S3: Ep 8 - The Seattle Burnout Coach Lori Prutsman
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It’s been a long ride for season 3, people. This is actually going to be my last podcast for this season and I want to go end on this episode specifically because of the topic. Burnout. This is a personal episode for me because I’m processing my own burnout at the moment. In September, when my kids went back to school, I suddenly had some silence a…
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S3: Ep 7: Dr. Kate Monahan, PhD, CFLE
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Today’s topic deals with the one thing that has been literally in front of my face non-stop for the last 18 months. My children. Dr. Kate Monahan Phd, CFLE is a Developmental Psychologist and an expert in childhood development. Her company Parent With Science is dedicated to helping parents through their journey with advice based in science, not tr…
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S3: Ep6 - Gabe Galanda on Indigenous Human Rights
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Todays topic is a broadstrokes lesson on Indigenous Human Rights with activist and attorney, Gabe Galanda. There was a story on the news last week that followed the re-naming of the Indiana pro baseball team from the Chiefs to the Guardians - and now that I have this conversation under my belt, I understand the importance of it in an entirely new w…
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Ryan Oftebro and I recorded this episode a little over a month ago - I’d wanted to interview Ryan over a year ago about this topic because Ryan is Principal and CEO of Kelly-Ross Pharmacy group here in Seattle. Kelly-Ross remains one of the few independently owned pharmacies in our area and Ryan, as the incoming president of the WA State Pharmacy a…
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Adia Callahan happens to be my pilates instructor. She’d been absolutely kicking my butt for three weeks before I found out she had a podcast and a life coaching business which I obviously wanted to learn all about. As women in our mid-40’s, we have a chat about how this new life phase impacts our general fitness and wellness, and we cover quite a …
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Mayoral candidate Casey Sixkiller gives us 80 minutes of himself. He's a resident of my neighborhood, someone who is in my community and right in front of my face. Casey came on the show to tell his story, tell us about what a campaign looks like, his basic plans, and tell me why he decided to run. And I did what I do - ask simple questions I think…
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S3: Ep2: Assistant Attorney General Kyle Wood and Rebekah Covington
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In this episode, I’m going to cover a topic that I find extremely uncomfortable, especially as a mother of a young daughter. This week’s subject is human trafficking. This topic is so layered, with so many different faces, and I wanted to tackle it because as parents and just as humans, we cannot continue looking the other way when we drive down th…
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2020 National School Social Worker of the Year Carrie Littlefield-Syvertsen on Our Children Re-Entering School
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Carrie Littlefield Syvertsen is the 2020 National School Social worker of the year. She was recognized last March and her chance to be on a national stage with the leaders of the US Government recognizing her and her contributions was cancelled. So instead of going to DC for her awards ceremony, she was quarantined with two small children and havin…
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Are you hesitant to receive the Covid-19 vaccine? You're most definitely not alone. Approximately 30% of healthcare workers are hesitant as we've learned in the last month, so it seems reasonable private citizens would have similar fears. So let's talk about them. Dr. April Randhawa has been a part of the Covid-19 vaccine trials since they began. S…
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Aaron Wright is on the show today. He's the author of Thirteen Doors, which is due out on January 26th. Aaron’s family dealt with a big topic right in front of my face - navigating the Davis, CA public school system in an attempt to get an IEP for his autistic daughter.
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An open, honest conversation about menopause with Gennev Chief Medical Officer and Director of Menopause at Swedish Women's Clinic, Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su.
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This week, I chat with Jennifer Porter, owner and founder of Satsuma Designs. She’s a triple threat: smart, witty, and committed to lifting up her community.
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Rob Turner is different from me as you’ll hear in this interview. He served our country in the Army, then became a police officer in Virginia. Following the murder of George Floyd this summer, he released an episode on his podcast Fat, Drunk and Stupid about that was raw, apologetic, and extremely vulnerable about the incident from a police perspec…
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Today is the day after the election and I had a new episode set to go, but it didn't feel right to put it out. So, instead of releasing that episode, I decided to re-release an episode about peace. More specifically about a peace activist named Kwabi Amoah-Forson. Back in March, when I spoke to Kwabi, he was running a cereal drive for students afte…
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On today's episode, I sit down with Liz Berry, State Legislative candidate for District 36 to talk politics, what it takes to run for office, and why we need more women in elected positions.
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Ellen Kuwana is a one woman non-profit. She's proof that one good intention can snowball into a movement. Wegotthisseattle.org has fed over 18,000 frontline healthcare workers and raised over $75,000 under her watch. We discuss the next phase of her organization and Covid fatigue ... turns out we're all tired.…
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As still a bit of a rookie podcaster, I’ve tried to listen to a bunch of different genres as homework to learn the trade. Per usual, I’m drawn to the podcasts that I can learn something from - produced by truth-tellers. I found the podcast Assorted Goods through Twitter, the motherland of podcast promotion. What I first liked was the style of the t…
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Welcome to season 2 of Right in Front of My Face - the podcast talking about big things happening right in front of us. I’m incredibly proud to be announcing the next season of my humble podcast considering a year ago, I didn’t even know what a podcast was. And all of the sudden I feel like I’ve found a calling - what a miracle. I also, after almos…
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Vanessa Sturgeon is a CEO, a wife, and a mom of three boys living in Portland. Her family is white, upper class, but still a bit non-traditional as they adopted their youngest, Jackson, from the Congo when he was four. She reached out to me right when my podcast started and asked if she could come on and try to educate parents on how to talk to the…
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Larkin Temme is the young principal of Holy Family Bilingual School in White Center, just 10 miles south of Seattle. We are separated by a short stretch of I-5, and a long stretch of socioeconomic circumstances. The students at Holy Family are diverse, bilingual, and from backgrounds very different than the kids in Northeast Seattle. I wanted to he…
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Ep 012 - Checking in with Dr. Drake
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I wanted to circle back with Dr. Drake after a couple of months to get her pulse check on Covid-19 and where we’ve arrived after two months sheltering in place. The week after our last interview, she co authored an op-ed that was published on TheHill.com. The two epidemiologists outlined what I thought was a really smart plan to create a reserve ar…
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By the time this podcast comes out, it will have been a week since we’ve all found out that our kids won’t be going back to school. We’ll be 3 weeks into sheltering in place, and feeling one more week’s worth of depletion, anxiety and helplessness. Or maybe that’s just me. This way of life isn’t getting any easier for me or my kids. I see them lone…
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The mission of Right in Front of My Face is to shed light on big things happening right in front of me. I’m coming in hot with a bonus episode because I want to contribute something in this pandemic, and what I feel like I can contribute is staying calm and finding facts. I put out a call on my personal Facebook page to ask if anyone knew an epidem…
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I first saw Dave Mampel at a 5 year old’s birthday party last summer. He was the entertainment - called himself Daffy Dave, and he mesmerized a group of kids in a way I’d never seen. He was magical, hilarious, and completely entertaining. And when I saw that he was teaching a magic class at a community center this winter, I immediately signed up my…
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If you lived or went to school in Seattle in the late 90's you may very well know my guest this week. Ronan O'Mahoney, one of the founders of the band, Left Hand Smoke, sat down with me to discuss the uncomfortable topic of anxiety. I wanted to get his take on this particular issue through his lens as a performer, but what came out of our time toge…
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Ali was 40 by the time she'd met the love of her life and decided it was time for a baby. Like so many women before her, she struggled to carry a pregnancy full-term so visited the specialists at Seattle Reproductive Medicine to explore her options. She and her partner agreed to try a round of IVF, and this interview is Ali sharing her ride on the …
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Extra interview - what's really right in front of my face? My 8 year old son, Luke. Take 15 minutes to hear about life through his eyes. His positivity and life goals may might make you re-evaluate what your next career move should be.
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Meet Marjorie. For years, Marjorie has been a staple at the Ballard Farmer's Market with her "Psychic Readings" stand outside the Ballard Inn. Marjorie's gift is real and, while I have received readings from her, this episode is not a reading. For the next hour, Marjorie takes us through the journey of her life - she explains what it was like to gr…
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Meet Stevie. Stevie is many things: a talented massage therapist, a yogi, and a mom-to-be. She has also been a sugar baby. According to Wikipedia, a sugar baby is "a person who receives cash, gifts or other financial and material benefits in exchange for company. It usually includes sex or intimacy." Yep. It sure does. Stevie educates me all about …
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Meet Tan. Tan is a 4'10" package of hilarity. Always gregarious, Tan's career as a Seattle freelance videographer has boomed because of her immense talent and bubbly personality. Dig a little deeper though, and at Tan's core is her childhood experience as a Vietnamese refugee who endured a terrifying boat journey to Malaysia and survived 2 years of…
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Meet Angel. On the surface, Angel comes off like a glamorous yoga teacher - zen, fit, and beautiful. If you talk to her for a few minutes though, she will openly tell about how she's 16 years sober, a recovering heroin addict, and taking life one day at a time. Angel's story is almost unbelievable, as her life now is quite far from what it once was…
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Meet Erica. Erica is a boisterous, kind, ray of sunshine. I knew her for about a year and a half before she shared with me that her wife of 11 years decided to re-assign genders and make the transition to a man. Our subsequent conversation about this life transition was transformative for me. Sitting down with someone who is not like me and having …
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Meet Lauren. Lauren is a young, married, mom of two, staying at home to raise her kids. You likely see someone like her right in front of your face every day. You’d never know from looking at her that she carried a secret - her marriage was falling apart. This is a success story about her and her husband’s attempt to heal their marriage and keep th…
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Welcome to Right In Front of My Face - the podcast that talks about real things happening to real people right in front of us every day. I'm honored to present this first episode featuring the story of my cousin Joe coming out in a small city in Washington. He opens up about his own journey of discovery and subsequent path to love. Joe is an advoca…
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