31 episodes
Passion Stories with Free To Flourish Rachel Fry with Free To Flourish
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Welcome to the Passion Stories Podcast, a conversational series that features people who have made career transitions into work they feel fulfilled with, or started their own passion business. We talk about when they decided to make the change, why they do the work they do, what helped them overcome obstacles with the transition, and any tips that they would give to others sitting on the idea of making these big changes. People from the environmental, social change, health and wellness, and creative industries come on to share their story in hopes to inspire others to go after their own professional dreams. Rachel Fry is a Psychology Trainer, Teacher, and Coach. Her work is focused on helping people with mental performance, leadership development, and career growth. She has her own company, Free To Flourish, and partners with different organizations, companies, universities, and athletes to support their leadership and teams. Rachel has a behavioral science master's in Applied Positive Psychology and experience in multiple sports as a high performing athlete. She is also a VP and leads the Professional Development team of a DC environmental nonprofit organization. For more on her work and to connect with Rachel: www.free-to-flourish.com
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The Island School Founder: Chris Maxey
Some of you might know that I worked at a school in The Bahamas for a few years. Most of my family and friends thought I was just teaching SCUBA diving to kids. When in reality, teaching diving was about 10% of my job, the other 90% was teaching human ecology, designing curriculum, coaching, advising, and generally keeping students alive on a remote island.In all seriousness though this unique experience had a profound effect on the trajectory of my career. I was working in a place surrounded...
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Professional Footballer for Nigerian National Women's Team: Yewande Balogun
Yewande is a professional football player where she started her career playing at the University of Maryland as a goalkeeper. Yewande came on the podcast last November to talk about her journey with pursuing football professionally. She left the sport after finishing in college and went on to pursue other career endeavors. Yewande talks about what made her decide to go back and play professionally even though she had doubts that it was 'too late'. She shared that her dream was to be called up...
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Life Coach: Shikina Tellis
Thinking of making a big career move into more meaningful work, but aren't sure where to start, or if it even might be possible? Tune into this episode to hear how a former military employee left her military career and became a life coach.Shikina Tellis is a Life Coach and founder of TWS Coaching and Consulting Group LLC. She helps professional women over 35 who are frustrated and attempting to do it all, find harmony in their personal and professional lives.In this episode, Shikina talks ab...
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Girl Up, Youth Leadership Development: Maren Roberts
If we stop and think about where the gender gap and gender inequity starts, it really starts with how we are treating young girls in our society. Do we give them the same opportunities as men? Do they have the same support? In the U.S., since the 1970's, we have had Title IX in place to ensure that girls are given the same opportunities as boys at the youth level. However, not all countries have these same laws in place, and Girl Up is looking to address gender inequity across the world. In m...
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Community Based Seafood Activist: Feini Yin
Feini Yin talks about their work with Fishadelphia, a community based program in Philadelphia that brings high quality local seafood to the city. Feini also works with the North American Marine Alliance as a media coordinator.Feini talks about their Chinese roots and how eating seafood was a big part of their childhood and their feeling of 'home'. Feini also talks about how they have navigated their career in the seafood industry and how community led advocacy work has been succes...
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Founder of Momo's CBD: Mo Payette
Mo Payette, Founder of Momo's CBD company, came on the podcast and talked about her long career in the natural products industry and how she transitioned into having her own chocolate cbd company. She talks about the benefits of her ethically sourced cacao and combining it with cbd and what continues to motivate her to do this work. You can check out MOMOs CBD range of products including, cbd chocolate, gummies, dog treats, and more! Consider checking out the Passion and Purpose program if yo...