Earn Your Happy

In This Episode You Will Learn About: What is possible through breathwork Fulling your desires How to feel our feelings fully How breathwork works How integration is required for sustainable change Getting started with breathwork   Resources: samanthaskelly.com Instagram: @samanthaskelly Read: hungryforhappiness.com/book pausebreathwork.com   Show Notes: Samantha Skelly is a 7-figure entrepreneur, an amazing speaker, a best-selling author, a wellness coaching expert, and a great friend of mine. She discovered breathwork by mistake, but she loved it — and it completely transformed her life from the inside out. Now she wants to share with the world what we are all capable of through something as simple as breath.   Question Highlights:   How did you get into breathwork? How do we balance being ambitious while being chill? What are the steps you need to do with breathwork? How does breathwork work? Why are people getting frustrated with personal development work without actually making progress? What are you working through right now? Can you tell us about your new book?     Guest Bio: Samantha Skelly is a 7-figure entrepreneur, sought after international speaker, best-selling author, and wellness coaching expert. She founded both Hungry for Happiness, a movement that helps people experience true transformation and happiness through trained certified coaches who utilize emotional and energetic coaching techniques, and PAUSE Breathwork, which has a mission to unite humanity by helping people breathe, feel, and thrive. Samantha has revolutionized the weight loss and self-help industries by examining the individual and underlying causes of food, body, and self-love issues. She has shared her mission on an international platform, with appearances on Global TV, Shaw, NBC, CBC, and BBC, and she’s also been featured in various publications, such as Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Elephant Journal, and The Prevail Project. Samantha continues to spread her message and transform the lives of tens of thousands of people through her programs, worldwide international retreats, motivational speaking engagements, the popular Hungry for Happiness podcast, and her best-selling Hay House book, Hungry For Happiness.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Giving kids opportunities to learn Creating programming for kids Raising awareness for charity efforts The good that comes from helping others   Resources: pencilsofpromise.org Instagram: @pencilsofpromise   Show Notes: In this episode, I want to highlight someone who has been a huge influence in Chris’ and my life, Tanya Ramos, the CEO of Pencils of Promise. Chris and I have found so much meaning and purpose in working with Pencils of Promise. We talk about why it’s so important and how you can get involved.   Question Highlights: How did you get started working with Pencils of Promise? What does Pencils of Promise do for the kids? What is a question you wish more people would ask you? What keeps you up at night?   Guest Bio: Tanya Ramos is a leader of color who has devoted her career to improving educational opportunities and life outcomes for young people in the most low-resourced communities around the world. A tireless advocate for educational equality, she currently serves as the CEO of Pencils of Promise, a global nonprofit, and has successfully guided the organization to international recognition as a key player in the philanthropic world.  Her and the star-studded list of Pencils of Promise supporters have been interviewed and featured about the cause on multiple media platforms including Forbes, CBS This Morning, Towne and Country and Fast Company. Tanya received her Master of Science in Urban Policy and Management from New School University and has been honored with the Annie E. Casey Foundation Award for exemplary work in underserved communities.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Showing up through burnout How to push through difficult times Giving yourself rest   Resources: instagram.com/drinklitepink Show Notes: Welcome back to Questionably Awesome! Today, Evans and I are going to be answering your questions around burnout.   Questions: @andreazabka How do you keep pushing through when you're definitely burnt out but have no choice but to show up?   @shannonshannonkweinstein Are there early signs of burnout that can be detected before it gets to total burnout?

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Focusing on the short term and the long term Doing it for yourself first Being consistent Knowing yourself Finding what you can do consistently   Resources: Text 2021 to 310-421-0416 to see if our mastermind is the right fit for you   Show Notes: After hitting 600 episodes and 25 million downloads on Earn Your Happy, Chris and I unbox the lessons I’ve learned since starting that have kept me motivated and led to major wins all around starting this podcast.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Being committed to long-term success The importance of execution The five traits of execution Finding a mentor Accelerating your side hustle Studying your competition Doing what you love every day   Resources: kimperell.com Facebook: facebook.com/kimperell Instagram: instagram.com/kimperell Twitter: twitter.com/kimperell instagram.com/drinklitepink   Show Notes: If you aren’t getting rejected constantly, you are not asking enough questions. We usually think of rejection as a bad thing, but it’s a good thing—it’s how you know you’re moving forward, how you get out into the world, and how you grow stronger. Kim Perell has so much wisdom and has changed my life already. She’s going to show us how we can execute on our dreams, tell us it’s possible to achieve them, and share with us the steps to get there.   Question Highlights: What’s been true for you as an entrepreneur in order to achieve success? What should people implement first when they have a great idea? Do you still have a mentor? What do you do if you don’t have an audience before building a product? Where do you go when you know who you want to get advice from but you don’t have something to offer them? What’s the vision that’s exciting you right now?   Guest Bio: Kim Perell is an award-winning entrepreneur, investor, and bestselling author, who has made headlines for her transformative story of a startup entrepreneur to leading tech CEO and prominent angel investor.   Laid off at her first job out of college at an internet startup that went bankrupt, Kim began her journey as an entrepreneur from her kitchen table and grew the company to over $100 million in annual revenue.  Kim went from broke and unemployed to selling her first company and becoming a multi-millionaire by the time she was 30 and selling her last company for $235 million. A great believer in paying it forward, Kim’s passion is to help others achieve success.   Kim is an early-stage investor in over 80 start-ups, 16 of which have successfully been acquired by some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.  Kim’s first book, The Execution Factor, The One Skill That Drives Success, is a national bestseller, designed to help others achieve success in business and life by mastering execution.  Kim’s achievements as an entrepreneur have been widely recognized.  She has been named one of AdAge’s Marketing Technology Trailblazers, Business Insider’s Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising, is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Association of Female Executives. Kim has been profiled by The New York Times, Forbes, CNN Money, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc Magazine, Business Insider, and The Huffington Post. Kim has been featured on CNBC, Fox Business, MSNBC, hosted Good Morning America’s Side Hustle Showdown, a week-long competition for aspiring entrepreneurs to win capital for their side hustles, and was a guest on Good Morning America’s Kidventors special featuring kid inventors under 13 years old with their inventions.  Kim regularly appears as a judge on  Entrepreneur Magazine’s Elevator Pitch series, where entrepreneurs have 60 seconds to pitch a business idea to a boardroom of investors.  Kim graduated magna cum laude from Pepperdine University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. An avid traveler (more than 70 countries visited), she and her husband live in San Diego, California, with their two sets of twins.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Following universal truths in life Faith and patience Pushing through resistance Growth under pressure   Resources: instagram.com/drinklitepink   Show Notes: There are universal truths that, if you follow them, you will have a good life and you will just feel so much better. In this episode, I share the universal truths I’ve uncovered that have helped me to live a great life.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Not holding back from the universe Getting inspired instead of jealous Learning how to trust again Being vulnerable   Resources: instagram.com/drinklitepink   Show Notes: Welcome back to Questionably Awesome! Today, Evans and I are going to be answering your questions around trust.   Question: @jennlivingston27 Once your trust is broken in a relationship, how do you work to trust again in future relationships?

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Why Lite Pink is only using female investors How investing can make you big money Believing in your own dreams Educating others on investing   Resources: instagram.com/drinklitepink   Show Notes: While raising capital for Lite Pink, I have made it a priority to only raise money with women investors. It’s so important to create the space for women to invest in other women, to learn about investing and participating in each others’ businesses. And it’s important that when you are building your business you stay true to your values and build it the right way instead of the fast way.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Pursuing your interests Building up your business on the side How to know when to go all in and what to do when it’s time Staying organized when self-employed Getting comfortable with networking How to handle social media marketing   Resources: thebigkidproblems.com Instagram: @bigkidproblems Listen: thebigkidproblems.com/blogs/podcast   Show Notes: Sarah Merrill is the kind of girlfriend who you can’t wait to hang out with again because she’s just so much fun. She’s the hilarious comedy writer and creator of “BigKidProblems,” where she pokes fun at the absurdities and struggles of growing up. She shares how she went about starting her blog and website, how she narrowed in on the parts she loved doing the most, and how she pivoted from running it on the side to going full time with it.   Question Highlights:   Tell me all about BigKidProblems Why did you stay so long at a temporary job? What did you focus on to grow BigKidProblems? What would you say for someone who is working from home and needs to feel organized? How do you network when you’re not comfortable with it? What do you see people doing wrong on social media?     Guest Bio: Sarah Merrill is the comedy writer and creator of "BigKidProblems," a wildly popular Instagram account turned Blog and Podcast all about the daily struggles of growing up and navigating through the adult world. From tiny apartments to living on tinier paychecks and (ugh) the dating, Sarah uses a mixture of wry wit, pop culture references, and relatable experience to connect to and help her half-million followers navigate through the ups and downs of contemporary adulting. Whether you are twenty-two or sixty-two, there is no use in fighting it; we all have Big Kid Problems. Through her social media fame, Sarah has appeared three times on the Emmy Award-winning Steve Harvey Show and spoken at various conferences and Universities about growing a business through Social Media. A collection of her original jokes were published by Andrews McMeel in 2020. 

In This Episode You Will Learn About: How being comfortable with uncertainty leads to success Surrendering to your circumstances Experiencing the feelings of the life that you want   Resources: instagram.com/drinklitepink   Show Notes: I’m the kind of person who likes certainty. I can eat the same thing every day, I can do the same workouts, and take the same walks—even if I know that’s not great for me. There are of course benefits to having routines and habits, but when you start feeling like you can’t survive without those rituals, it can start to force you into a rut. If you’re feeling stuck or not creative enough, it could be that you just need to switch up the energy.