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Welcome to You Are Here, the podcast where we have conversations with people who have courageously taken the road less traveled. In each episode, we will navigate stories from people who have chartered their own path and hear from experts who can help us navigate all of life’s different seasons. Whatever path you are exploring in life, we are here to meet you where you are - and where you’d like to be.
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Welcome to Heavy Topics With Lightweights, a podcast that explores what many are thinking, but only the tipsy would say. Best friends Aja Dang and Laura Varney take happy hour to a whole new level on this weekly podcast. Expect unfiltered discussions about politics, popular culture, sex and real life struggles all by our candid hosts and their guests.
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*Thank you to today's podcast sponsor, Riverside. Riverside is the platform I use to record and edit this podcast and I love it so much! If you go to https://creators.riverside.fm/RachelRhee and enter code 'youarehere' you will receive 15% off your order.* Maria McCool shares her journey of building her hair care brand Calista and scaling it throug…
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*Thank you to today's podcast sponsor, Riverside. Riverside is the platform I use to record and edit this podcast and I love it so much! If you go to https://creators.riverside.fm/RachelRhee and enter code 'youarehere' you will receive 15% off your order.* Jason Shen, an outlier coach, shares his personal pivot story and discusses the importance of…
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*Thank you to today's podcast sponsor, Riverside. Riverside is the platform I use to record and edit this podcast and I love it so much! If you go to https://creators.riverside.fm/RachelRhee and enter code 'youarehere' you will receive 15% off your order.* Alice Hu was formerly in PR, social media, and e-commerce, before delving into the woo woo re…
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Jason Nellis is a Chief Product Officer who has taken many turns in his career. He moved cross country to follow his dream of becoming an actor and some how found his way into being an early employee at Hulu. He not only shares his career path and provides advice for anyone going through a career transition but he also shares his personal journey w…
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✨Episode mentions: Dr. Becky's Low/No Tox Products: https://bit.ly/3Rgi2Pb ✨Guest contact: Dr. Becky ND Instagram: https://bit.ly/3yK5l8C ✨You Are Here digital resources: You Are Here newsletter: https://bit.ly/48BJk8Z Notion job tracker: https://bit.ly/3Fxn5El ✨Let’s connect: You Are Here Instagram: https://bit.ly/46Lf2iZ Rachel’s Instagram: https…
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Matt Kantner leads the Creative People Marketing and Brand Creative departments, where he partners with top companies throughout the US to help build out their marketing. Before joining Creative People, he held various marketing roles within the e-commerce and retail landscape, including Vans and Macy’s. In today's episode, Matt shares his insights…
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Amanda Kuda is an alcohol free life coach and accomplished author who has taken her own journey with alcohol and now lives a life not only free of alcohol but one that is more aligned and fulfilled to her life's purpose. She supports other ambitious, high-achieving women to do the same. As she says, if the topic of being sober curious speaks to you…
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...and we're back! After a month off, Rachel Rhee is back and sharing quick insights she learned from the break. There's always a lesson or discovery in everywhere you turn. ✨You Are Here digital resources: Notion job tracker: https://bit.ly/3Fxn5El ✨Let’s connect: You Are Here Newsletter: https://bit.ly/48BJk8Z You Are Here Instagram: https://bit.…
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This is a 'best of' compilation of snippets from a handful of episodes. The podcast will resume on May 16th with new episodes. For now, enjoy this look back! ✨Let’s connect: You Are Here newsletter: https://bit.ly/48BJk8Z You Are Here Instagram: https://bit.ly/46Lf2iZ Rachel’s Instagram: https://bit.ly/3EKrofp Rachel’s LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3rNH…
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Carolyn Hori is an intuitive coach and archaeologist of the soul. She shares her journey from a career in commercial real estate to following her intuition and purpose. Listeners will learn actionable steps to tap into their inner voice and find their true path. ✨To connect with today’s guest: Carolyn Hori LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3POgpaK Carolyn H…
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Hello! This is the first time I'm experimenting with a "rewind" approach where I'm resurfacing an older episode. It's actually one of my more popular solo episodes so it seemed to resonate and it also seems this might be a timely one since the end of the first quarter is here! Let me know how you think about quarterly planning for your life. ✨You A…
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Lauren Baptiste is a burnout consultant and coach who supports consultants, lawyers, and accounts beat the burnout. With clients ranging from leaders at Ernst & Young, NFL, Warner Music, amongst others, she too has personal experience into burnout when she was a consultant in Big 4. Learn her story from burnout to breakthrough and gather insights o…
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**TRIGGER WARNING** This episode does contain triggering topics around bullying, death of a parent, and graphic details around suicide. If you are sensitive to these topics, please do not listen to this episode and take time to support and care for yourself. Support resources are linked below. Mike Kim is the creator of Some Neat Place, a kindness …
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Maria Von Losch is a personal brand strategist, coach, and communicator at heart. She has pivoted multiple times over the years but her core has always come through in all that she pursues. She shares realness in what she has struggled with and also actionable exercises and insights for those that may feel fear, insecurities around aging, and limit…
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Dating and Relationship Coach, Loretta Chak, shares the common challenges and desires of those who she has been a coach or matchmaker for. She discusses transitions in - and out of - relationships and the power in vulnerability, communication, and expressing your needs. She also begins to answer questions on some of the dating questions you had! ✨T…
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Rachel Rhee shares a life update and what's upcoming for her and the life lessons that she learned from kidney cancer. She was diagnosed in 2018 with Stage 2 renal cell carcinoma and thankfully while her cancer is gone, she walks away with lessons from this period in her time that continue to bring renewed perspective. She shares this in hopes it w…
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Tarek Kholoussy is a former New York hustle culture working professional who left it all behind to travel the world, lean into adventure and social impact initiatives ultimately founding Nomads Giving Back and Nomads Skillshare, a leading global impact community for nomads, inspiring you to give back & learn the skills to live the life you imagined…
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This week, the podcast host, Rachel Rhee, dives into the workplace phenomenon, burnout. What is burnout, what are the triggers for burnout, what symptoms or indicators are there for burnout, and importantly, how can we heal from burnout? ✨You Are Here digital resources: Notion job tracker: https://bit.ly/3Fxn5El ✨Let’s connect: You Are Here Instagr…
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In this episode, Peter Ahn shares the pivotal moments in his professional career that have led him into becoming a tech sales coach that supports startup founders scale their business from 0 to their first $1 million in revenue. He also dives into his personal experience around representation in sales leaderships and executive meetings. What it’s l…
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It can be hard being in a transitionary time of change but it's also an opportunity to discover possibilities. Rachel Rhee shares tangible tips to lean into as you explore a career change, career transition, or even a layoff. ✨You Are Here digital resources: Notion job tracker: ⁠https://bit.ly/3Fxn5El⁠ ✨Let’s connect: You Are Here Instagram: ⁠https…
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In this week's episode, Rachel Rhee, shares three journal prompts to get you started in creating and designing a meaningful life. She shares an invitation to join in on a life roadmap workshop, signup below! ✨You Are Here digital resources: Notion job tracker: ⁠https://bit.ly/3Fxn5El⁠ Life Roadmap Workshop + Newsletter: https://bit.ly/48BJk8Z ✨Let’…
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In this episode, skincare brand founder, Indie Lee, shares her journey in starting her brand and the personal connection she has to it. She shares her incredible path from finding out she had a brain tumor, to finding out how that originated, to creating one of the most purpose-driven brands in skincare, tune in to hear Indie Lee's why. ✨For 20% of…
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In this episode, the founder and CEO of women’s healthcare company Almond, Tara Raffi, shares her journey from management consulting at one of the leading, competitive firms, McKinsey, to deciding to pursue a path in founding a women’s health company that modernizes the OBGYN experience. She shares her struggles and insights into how she got to whe…
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Jordan Friendly is a social media director, lifestyle content creator, and podcast host. Jordan created her own social media agency and created her own, wellness-related social media content before going back to full-time employment as a social media director at a subscription platform. In this episode, Jordan discusses balancing her transition to …
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Your host, Rachel Rhee, is back with a solo episode this week discussing the art of “soft ambition,” and how dedicating yourself to your work does not have to take away from living an enriching and meaningful life. While reflecting on where she is ending her year, Rachel dives into the importance of prioritizing your well-being while still pursuing…
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Laura Widney is the creator and Chief Innovation Officer of Soaak Technologies, a frequency therapy and holistic wellness company dedicated to leading the way in health tech innovation. Laura advocates for the importance of sound therapy to maintain balance in your life through transforming Soaak Technologies into its own digital platform, Soaak Ap…
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Megan Shekleton is a trained coach with over 300 hours of coaching experience with additional certifications in transformational life coaching, breathwork, meditation, and subconscious mindset modalities like NLP, EFT, and Hypnosis. With Wider Visions, Megan’s intention is to provide others support and guidance to grow into their most expansive liv…
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Makeda Haughton (“Keda”) is a Jamaican-American educator, world-renowned traveler, and acclaimed author who uprooted her life to teach English in South Korea in 2018. Through her life’s work, Keda has learned the art of embracing change and leaning into your life’s calling, wherever it may take you. Keda's inspiring journey includes founding her ow…
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Claire Guentz is a multi-faceted lifestyle blogger and entrepreneur who transformed her life around from nurse to full-time lifestyle blogger, real estate agent and aligned inspiration. Claire has mastered the art of the pivot by creating several of her own businesses that empower people to live a brighter and fuller life, including the women’s saf…
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Brandon Shindo is a Japanese-American licensed clinical social worker and mental health expert. With his own practice, K&B Therapy, he focuses on providing mental health care specifically to the AAPI and POC professional and college student community. He aims to destigmatize mental health care for these communities through care, conversation, and c…
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Keith Linton grew up in the projects in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. He knows what it's like to live meal to meal, eating government cheese. With his resilience and strong mindset, he dreamt bigger for himself. As a form of silent protest, he found his way into the Los Angeles Police Department and became a respected and accomplished police off…
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In this week's episode, the pod is taking a different approach and talking about the transitions in life that happen for a woman. Dr. Jaclyn Tolentino and I touch on topics such as aging, fertility, perimenopause, and menopause. Whether this content resonates with you directly or not, there is something for everyone as we also discuss simple wellne…
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Your host, Rachel Rhee, is back for a solo episode to chat about quarterly life planning. We all think about quarterly planning in the corporate world but can we take this concept and implement into our personal lives? Here's some simple steps on how to start thinking about the dimensions and focus areas of life and some reflection tips to set ours…
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Lola Adewuya is the founder of The Brand Doula, a brand development studio that introduces experience-focused strategy and design to businesses in order to establish brand recognition, industry leadership, and impact. Lola went from a highly competitive role at Google to finding herself unexpectedly laid off. With some reflection and inner work she…
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Valerie Alvarez is a wellness entrepreneur and blogger who discusses her journey in what took her to move from San Francisco, California to Madrid, Spain. She now lives a life that's aligned to her dreams and shares actionable tips and insider insight into what you need to think about if you're curious about moving abroad. She also shares her passi…
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Sara Baumann is an Iranian-American multimedia artist who rose to web3 fame through her Women & Weapons art collection, which has sales volumes north of $17 million. Listen to her speak about having a growth mindset, learning as much as possible, and being innovative. We also share snippets of how to think about marketing your product, brand, and b…
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David Kim is a congressional candidate running in District CA-34 in Los Angeles. He is an attorney that turned his law background and expertise into an opportunity to advocate for parents and families in Los Angeles. His mission as a human and through his campaign is to empower people and to provide the support they need to live a fulfilling and he…
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Your host, Rachel Rhee, will take you through what you can expect on the podcast this season. If you are seeking more alignment and fulfillment in your life then this is the podcast for you. We can have limiting beliefs come up for us in various areas of our lives and Rachel is sharing one of hers - maybe it's one that you can relate to. LetFollow …
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Welcome to You Are Here, the podcast where we have conversations with people who have courageously taken the road less traveled. I'm your host, Rachel Rhee, and in each episode, we'll be exploring stories from people who have followed their own path and are living life on their own terms.As our lives evolve, our needs shift so we’ll also be bringin…
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*UPDATE: we have taken down our last episode with Shana Yao. We do not want to spread any misinformation regarding COVID. Can you believe we've made it to the end of season 2? We started this season because we were in a pandemic and sadly we end this season *STILL* in a pandemic. We've talked about a wide variety of topics in season 2 but the only …
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Today we are talking to our friend Megan Jackson about race relations in America. We originally wanted to speak to Megan about being in a multiracial relationship and how she's feeling raising her child in our current political climate but it quickly progressed into something so much more. We hope the horrible audio doesn't district you from this c…
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The interview we had with a sheriff didn't quite work out so today we drink! Laura gets very drunk on her Arizonian vacation and Aja gets drunk trying to get to Laura level drunk. We talk about ex boyfriends, our fun party days and what our new normal is. *trigger warning* We do jump into the episode quite intensely with a conversation about pedoph…
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At Heavy Topics with Lighweights, we pride ourselves on talking to people with different life experiences and beliefs as us. Today we are so excited to talk to our friend and life coach, Jo Encarnacion. For the past two years, Jo has been involved in a polyamorous relationship with her husband Jon, and her boyfriend Chris. We explore what ethical n…
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We work hard to graduate school, find a meaningful job and be in a fulfilling relationship but as we go on living our lives, our chances of getting pregnant decrease every year. Egg freezing... let's talk about it. Whether we like it or not, some of us are at an age where this is a serious topic of conversation (and worry). We are so lucky to have …
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The fact that Black people are STILL fighting this battle is absolute insanity. But we are currently in the middle of a movement towards changing the landscape to a more free and just society. Today we talk to Michael Ojo - a professional basketball player and photographer. Michael has been photographing the recent protests against police brutality…
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And in the most random podcast yet, we deep dive into how our parents shaped the way we look at relationships; Aja tries to convince Laura to dabble into the reality TV genre and we ask the question WHY WOULD YOU GET PLASTIC IF YOU CAN TELL IT'S PLASTIC SURGERY?! Basically the standard conversation ebb and flow of two drunk best friends. To try Bet…
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We've had many people on our podcast who have overcome tremendous odds, but no one like TJ. TJ is a spinal cord injury survivor. He was paralyzed from the neck down from a car accident and basically willed himself to walk again. We know millions of people are going through tough times right now but TJ proves that a positive mindset can change anyth…
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Remember the times of spa days, date nights and dining in? Welcome to January 2020, when we recorded our original first episode of the season. We decided to still use this episode in the season because it updates you on whats been going on in our lives since last year. LOTS of updates and some tea. You'll definitely want to grab some wine for this …
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Today we are joined by one of our best friends Amanda Nguyen. Amanda is a health economist on the research team of GoodRX and is breaking down what COVID-19 means for our finances - both on a global and personal scale. Many of you sent in question for Amanda to answer and we did our best to get to all of them. Below you can find the resources we ta…
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Can you imagine a world where women... run it? The pandemic has shown major flaws in the political system and some still believe women are incapable of leadership roles. Yet, New Zealand, Taiwan and Iceland, all lead by women, have coronavirus related deaths under 10. This episode isn't all about lack of female representation in politics (truth be …
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