Meet Bridget

Asha Gabriel & Keshiia Rosenberg
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The best career conversations happen when women get honest. Meet Bridget is a career storytelling podcast hosted by besties Asha Gabriel and Keshiia Rosenberg. Each episode, a successful woman shares two stories: the career she built — and the teenager she used to be. The nitty gritty. The good and the s****y. When you can relate to a woman's story, her path becomes possible. 150+ episodes across 30+ industries, now in full studio video for Season 6. New episodes every week. Find us on all podcast platforms, YouTube, Instagram @meetbridget, TikTik @meetbridgetshow and at meetbridget.com.

  1. 4d ago

    "To Be Lost Is To Be Found" - Biet Simkin Glass, Spiritual Teacher & Best-Selling Author @guidedbybiet

    Content note: This episode includes open discussion of heroin and cocaine addiction and recovery, the death of Biet's infant daughter from SIDS, and multiple significant losses. Biet speaks about all of it from a place of healing and gratitude. If you are navigating addiction or grief: SAMHSA 1-800-662-4357 | Call or text 988. Biet Simkin was asked to name her career in one phrase. She said magic. She said it immediately, and she meant it. Asha first encountered Biet at an event through a mutual friend — an evening of women in a room, not talking much, making eye contact, understanding each other without words. She was so impacted by the space Biet created that she had to bring her on the show. In this conversation, they talk about what it actually means to do the work that Biet does: holding space for people at the threshold of their own transformation, coaching the person who is moments away from blowing up the life they have built, and why her work is as effective as heroin without the repercussions. She says that plainly. She means it. They also go back. Biet was born in Queens, New York, a month after her parents immigrated from Russia — conceived intentionally as a freedom child by a father who had cured himself of tuberculosis through yoga and fasting in the Russian woods. Her mother died of pancreatic cancer when she was six. She healed that grief with music and got signed to Sony at eighteen. At twenty-six she had a daughter who died four months later of SIDS. At twenty-eight she was a full-blown heroin addict when her father died. She has been sober for seventeen years. This is not an episode about suffering. It is an episode about what is built from it. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 171

  2. Sep 3 ·  Video

    "I Was Just Someone with a Journal and Feelings" — Michelle Peñaloza, Poet & Award-Winning Author

    Michelle Penaloza is a poet. She is also a farmer, a substitute teacher in a small town in Northern California, a James Laughlin Award recipient, and someone who first read her work aloud in a high school classroom while she was grieving her father. Her dad died when she was a teenager. The grief had no obvious outlet. A teacher made space for her in class, and she read. That was the beginning. In this conversation, Keshiia and Michelle talk about the life of a poet, what the creative process actually looks like from gathering to the book in hand, and what it means to build a practice out of listening to the world and writing toward what you find. They also talk about growing up Filipino-American in Tennessee in the 1990s, where there was virtually no representation, where people mixed her up with other Asian students constantly, and where she ran for student council with a poster that turned that confusion into a joke on her own terms. The grief of her father's death, the history of Philippine colonialism, the experience of being the only brown dot in a room and wanting desperately to connect with people who could not quite figure out what to do with her. Michelle's poetry does not separate any of these things. It holds them all. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode [#170]

  3. Aug 19

    "If You Are Stagnant, You Breed Disease" — MaKenna Bernardino, The Skullptress @makennabernardino

    MaKenna Bernardino, The Skullptress, is a body sculpting and lymphatic drainage practitioner who works in homes across LA and OC.  With her table in tow and a backpack full of tools, she works with a singular philosophy: Your body is NOT working against you.   Her job is to get stagnant bodies moving.  She works with women of every body type, shape and size, bucking the common misconception that body sculpting is solely to "make skinny girls skinnier".  Over the years, she has worked with countless women who have experienced major weight loss, post-operative clients, women in perimenopause, and women whose concerns have gone underappreciated or underwhelmingly overlooked.  She meets people where they are.   A fellow Redding native (like Asha!), MaKenna spent much of her youth, fishing, hiking, snowboarding, and playing competitive soccer.  To this day, it's still her happy place, heading back home to the mountains to decompress between awards seasons.  It's the same place that helped her hone many of the skills through her teen experiences.  From contracting mononucleosis and spending an entire summer bedridden to an eventual Hashimoto's Thyroiditis diagnosis, came years of self education and the continual pursuit of the understanding of her own body.   This episode dives into MaKenna's journey, and how the body and the wellness she had to fight for eventually became the foundation of how she treats and cares for other women now.   This one is warm, honest, and so so real.   If thyroid health or autoimmune disease is something you are navigating personally, your own advocacy matters. NAMI.org | Call or text 988 if you need additional support. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 169

  4. Aug 12

    "Same Style, Different Size" — Sabrina Chazen, Size-Inclusive Shopping Expert @sabrinachazen

    Sabrina Chazen is the creator behind The Carpool Catwalk and the hashtag #samestyledifferentsize. She is a size-inclusive shopping expert who sits in the top one percent of creators on LTK and the top one hundred on Shop My. Her Instagram is a full-time job and her DMs are how she does most of the real work of it. In this conversation, Sabrina and Asha talk about what it actually means to build a career around inclusive sizing, how the Carpool Catwalk got its name, and what Sabrina makes of the body positivity versus body neutrality conversation online and why she does not fully buy into either framing. Her position: two truths can exist at once. You can feel uncomfortable in your body and still wear the bathing suit. You can want to make changes and still go to Hawaii. You do not have to love your body every day. You also do not have to stop living. She also goes back. Sabrina grew up in Newport Beach, played water polo, was genuinely happy as a teenager, and found as an adult that she has received more negative attention about her size than she ever did as a kid. She was thrown off a podcast once for saying that. The host wanted a story about being bullied for her weight. Sabrina said: my story was happy. That counts too. She also talks about what she is learning right now through watching her daughter navigate middle school social dynamics, what loyalty means to her, and why she has never once, as the biggest gossip in Newport Harbor High School history, gone on the internet to talk about a stranger. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 168

  5. Aug 5

    MEAN GIRLS - On Social Aggression and Online Dynamics with Teen Therapist Christina King, LMFT

    We call it the Mean Girls episode. Christina King's first note is that she does not really believe in mean girls. She believes in mean behavior, which is different and actually more useful to know. In this conversation, Christina walks through what healthy friendships actually look like for teen girls, where closeness tips into enmeshment, and what is really going on when social aggression shows up in middle school. She explains why the fastest route to social inclusion is sometimes exclusion, how girls use cruelty to climb a social ladder they did not build, and why the same behavior looks different depending on whether it is relational or social in nature. She also gives parents and teens practical tools: the TALK acronym for navigating conflict, the three C's (curiosity, connection, correction, in that order), and the front stage and backstage framework for understanding why you have to earn your way into the real version of someone before they let you in. The digital piece gets its own section. Texts, social media, phone calls, the AIM era that Asha and Keshiia both survived. Christina's bottom line: when in doubt, put the phone down. A conflict that is escalating over text almost always gets worse before it gets better. Face to face is almost always the move. And the hardest thing she tells parents: the way to protect your kid is by giving them the skills to protect themselves. Going scorched earth on Katie is not one of those skills. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 167 Part 3 of 3 — Teen Mental Health Awareness Resources: NAMI.org | Call or text 988 @christinakingtherapy

  6. Jul 29

    "The Better I Do My Job, the More Lives We Save" — Erin McCarthy, Chief of Staff at CoreViva

    Erin McCarthy's career path goes: Harvard, McKinsey, woodworking apprenticeship in Belgium, sustainable furniture company in LA, Ruggable, professional volleyball in Norway, and now Chief of Staff at Coreviva. She is the first to tell you it looks a little chaotic from the outside. But she has also learned to trust the through-line: she kept going until she found work that actually means something to her every single day. In this episode, Asha and Erin talk about what it actually means to be a Chief of Staff, how that role looks different at every company, and why Coreviva, a preventative healthcare company with the most comprehensive full body MRI on the market, is the place she finally landed and did not want to leave. Asha shares that she has had a Coreviva scan herself and brought her own mom in, and they talk about what it really means to be proactive about your health rather than reactive. They also go back. Erin grew up in Manhattan Beach, was a self-described leprechaun at her first soccer practice, lost a little of her fearlessness in middle school when the popular girls stopped including her without any notice, and found her way back through volleyball, drama class, and a Harvard roommate situation that required her to go out on a limb and tell people she wanted to stay with them. Asha also shares that she had thyroid cancer in 2018. It is part of why she cares so deeply about proactive health and why this episode matters to her personally. The quality Erin named at the end: her body, and learning to love it. Her mom always told her she would. She finally does. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 166 Learn more about Coreviva: coreviva.com

  7. Jul 22

    "Strength Bleeds Into Every Single Aspect of Your Life" — Chelsea Leigh, Holistic Nutritionist & Women's Strength Coach @chelsleigh

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  8. Jul 15

    "71 Lines on the Card. 1,002 Ways to Win." — Jodie McCollum, Founder of Mahjong OC

    Jodie McCollum learned Mahjong in 2023 at a friend's house in Dallas. She came back to Orange County, taught a neighbor group as a dare, walked away from that first class completely invigorated, and thought: I wonder if there is a demand for this. There was. Within a year she had taught 175 classes, reached 2,000 students, built a team of nine, and started expanding to San Diego, LA, and potentially London. In this conversation, Jodie talks about what it took to build Mahjong OC from a Friday afternoon game into a real business, how her corporate HR and marketing background all came back to her at once after years on a shelf, and why she thinks Mahjong is having a moment not because it is trendy but because it gives women exactly what they actually need: a room, a game, a reason to stay, and a conversation that happens on its own without any pressure. She also talks about growing up across three countries, what it felt like to land in American high school at thirteen with a New Zealand accent and no friends, and how the girl who coped by keeping her world small ended up building one of the fastest growing community businesses in Orange County. The detail that ties everything together: she was once the new person in a room full of strangers who all knew each other. She never forgot what that felt like. Now she makes sure nobody leaves her tables feeling that way. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 164

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The best career conversations happen when women get honest. Meet Bridget is a career storytelling podcast hosted by besties Asha Gabriel and Keshiia Rosenberg. Each episode, a successful woman shares two stories: the career she built — and the teenager she used to be. The nitty gritty. The good and the s****y. When you can relate to a woman's story, her path becomes possible. 150+ episodes across 30+ industries, now in full studio video for Season 6. New episodes every week. Find us on all podcast platforms, YouTube, Instagram @meetbridget, TikTik @meetbridgetshow and at meetbridget.com.

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  • Creator
    Asha Gabriel & Keshiia Rosenberg
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    170
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Meet Bridget

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