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EP 23: On-the-Go – The GROW WIWO Team · Crafted Connections

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_04: Hello! Welcome to Crafted Connections.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm Kaelin Calhoun, and this is a podcast all about storytelling and building genuine community.
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  SPEAKER_04: Here we'll dive into the art of storytelling, unpack strategies for making meaningful connections, and hear from incredible humans who are using their story to create impact.
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  SPEAKER_04: So grab your favorite beverage, settle in, and let's craft some connections.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_04: Hello, welcome back to Crafted Connections.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_04: I'm so grateful you're here.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's what I say, it's what I feel, and I'm always just having lots of fun on the mic.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_04: So it's great to have you.
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  SPEAKER_04: I collect stories from folks in my network and in my community, and I and I share them.
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  SPEAKER_04: I also kind of tell my own experience of uh enhancing my storytelling, enhancing marketing, like leaning into my business, uh life stories, kind of inspo stories, what have you.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_04: But it's all circled and surrounding stories, right?
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm a big believer that community is built through connection, and connection is built through storytelling.
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  SPEAKER_04: And so, you know, in order to have a strong community, you gotta lean into your stories.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_04: And that's that's what I do here.
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  SPEAKER_04: I I get on the mic, I interview people, and I share my own.
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  SPEAKER_04: So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for being here.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I hope that you enjoy this episode.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_04: We are doing something just a tiny bit different for the next week and a half here on Crafted Connections.
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  SPEAKER_04: So typically I'll release an episode every Thursday-ish, and it'll be either a solo episode where I'm speaking on a topic related to storytelling, related to business, related to lifeing, or I will interview a guest and we will have a lovely conversation.
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  SPEAKER_04: We'll talk about their story, we'll talk about their their situations, they'll talk about we'll talk about their experiences to kind of connect you with them, to connect them with you, to, you know, connect them and me a little bit more.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's just a lovely time.
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  SPEAKER_04: But for the next week and a half, we are going to do something I'm calling an on the go episode.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_04: So back in April, I attended the Grow Conference.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I am the fractional chief content officer for Grow We Wo, which is a women's organization that's all about empowering women, changing the status quo of what it's like to be a woman on this planet in this world.
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  SPEAKER_04: There's a lot, especially in the professional space up against us.
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  SPEAKER_04: So building community around that and and learning together, succeeding together, collaborating together is where it's at.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_04: So I've been able to do that with them for, oh my gosh, what is it, September?
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_04: So it's been nine months now.
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  SPEAKER_04: Nine months I've been working with them, doing some really, really fun things for the women in our community.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I brought my podcast equipment to the Fort Wayne conference this year, 2025.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I set up a booth and I interviewed women and I asked them a few questions.
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  SPEAKER_04: First off, tell us a little bit about yourself, right?
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  SPEAKER_04: That's always a good go-to.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's what we do here.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then we went into, you know, what's a pivotal moment you had in your life?
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  SPEAKER_04: What's a pivotal experience that impacted you?
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  SPEAKER_04: And then finally, we discussed how they defined alignment.
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  SPEAKER_04: So the conference theme for Fort Wayne this year was living in alignment.
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  SPEAKER_04: So of course, I had to ask them, how do you define the word alignment?
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  SPEAKER_04: And it was really fun seeing and hearing all the different answers that I got.
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  SPEAKER_04: So today I'm gonna kick off this like week-long stretch of little mini sodes where I'm gonna feature all the individuals that I interviewed that day back in April.
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  SPEAKER_04: But today we're gonna start with the with the grow team.
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  SPEAKER_04: So the folks behind the planning of the conference, the founder Brittany, Carmen, who basically is like the organizational human behind everything.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_04: You know, we've got lots of ideas.
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  SPEAKER_04: We are a very passionate team, a very inspired team, and passion and inspiration comes up with lots of ideas, and we really couldn't keep it all together if if Carmen wasn't organizing us and getting these these cats in order.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then we have Jill, who is, you know, our money mind, and she is frankly a mentor to all of us, which is really, really cool.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_04: And then, and then Margaret, who dots the I's, crosses the T's, all that jazz.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, you know, I always like to joke that Margaret's my favorite because honestly, she is.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_04: She really is just wonderful, wonderful, wonderful human.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_04: We call her out a little bit in this episode because she basically says goodbye as though it's a phone call.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, and so, you know, we have a little fun with that.
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  SPEAKER_04: I threw it at the end.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's just a fun thing to play with.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_04: And then we have Corey, and Corey is Corey is a soul.
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  SPEAKER_04: I mean, we all have souls, right?
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  SPEAKER_04: But like she is a capital S soul, and uh she really uh brings heart to to what we're doing and and reminds us that it's it doesn't have to be the way that it always has been.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_04: I I know that Britney as the founder really brought in the like changing the status quo idea and and really does stick to that in the big vision, right?
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  SPEAKER_04: But Corey on the regular basis reminds us to not fall back into the status quo and and to be able to hold that space for us all is flipping magical.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_04: So, anyways, I love these women.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_04: There were about, gosh, I think I did about 14 interviews that day.
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  SPEAKER_04: After this episode, I'll do little mini ones of all the other, I think eight or nine individuals that I that I interviewed that day.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I think it'll be really fun to kind of hear people's different definitions of alignment and to share stories on the go.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I hope you enjoy.
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  SPEAKER_04: Take a listen and uh see you on the other side, my friends.
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh Brittany, what's your name?
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  SPEAKER_04: Brittany Scott.
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  SPEAKER_04: Can you give me one to two sentences of who you are?
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm the owner and founder of Grow.
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  SPEAKER_02: Boom.
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  SPEAKER_04: Can you tell me a story or a moment that was extremely impactful in your life?
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  SPEAKER_04: An experience that you had.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think one of the things that had the biggest impact on me was when I quit my job as a teacher and went to live in the Netherlands because I know Joe cried every day the first three months I was there and had multiple people being like, You can go home, like it's okay.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, No, I'm gonna do it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then it got really great, and I loved the rest of the time, and that was a really pivotal time for me to realize that I can do hard things and has translated really well into a lot of other areas of my life, and it it might suck for a while, but it's always gonna get better.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_02: What does the word alignment mean to you?
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  SPEAKER_02: I think for me it means all the aspects of my life are going in the same direction.
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  SPEAKER_02: So personal, professional, health-wise, all the things.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think a lot of people participate in jobs that don't bring them fulfillment or joy.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_02: And I happen to do all things that bring me like fulfillment and joy.
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  SPEAKER_02: So my work aligns with my personal values and beliefs, and I think there's so much satisfaction, life satisfaction in that, and I think it's highly underrated.
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  SPEAKER_04: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_04: Can you tell me a little bit about what we're doing today, what this is?
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the very first the inaugural grow conference in Fort Wayne, and we've got some great speakers from the local Fort Wayne area.
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  SPEAKER_02: We brought in a keynote from Milwaukee.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're sitting here in the vendor hall, which is all lit up in green and is amazing.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we have on brand, on brand.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, on brand.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the vendors are honestly awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's great stuff to sell, there are great services.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and really today is just about collaboration and connection so that the relationships people start building today last beyond today.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_04: Now you said inaugural grow conference in Fort Wayne, but it is not the inaugural Grow Conference.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_04: It is not.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_04: You go to many different cities and uh help women connect with each other so you can change the status quo of what it's like to be a woman in the world.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_02: We started in Muncie, so this will be Muncie's third year.
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  SPEAKER_02: It'll be Anderson's second year, with the goal being to take it outside the state of Indiana in 2026.
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  SPEAKER_02: Big picture goal that it becomes a nationwide event.
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  SPEAKER_02: So just give us a couple years.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: Just a few years.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_04: Give us a few years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Give us a few years.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be fine.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_04: Well, thank you for having me here to to conduct some interviews.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm excited to dive in.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_04: The people I've spoken to so far are so lovely and so interesting.
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  SPEAKER_04: And it's funny because we're all here, you know, with similar goals, but like the answers people are giving me are so far and vast and wide.
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  SPEAKER_04: So it's really fun.
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  SPEAKER_02: It seems to be a really perfect group, like a wide variety of experiences and expertises, but all aligned and like going the same direction.
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  SPEAKER_02: People want to grow, they want to collaborate, they want to connect.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like the perfect group of women.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_04: It really is the perfect group.
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  SPEAKER_04: The Fort Wayne conference today's theme is living in alignment.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I've been asking people what alignment means to them, how they define it, all that jazz.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I love it.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, I'm Corey Ray Kovax.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love that.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_04: Can you give me one to two sentences about you?
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, oh my gosh.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: I am a vibrant human being who is here on this earth to help women remember their sparkle, their light, and really lean into their wellness so that way they can feel and live into their best life.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so can you give me a short story or a moment in your life where you found was very impactful?
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I remember there was this moment, and it was kind of a an hard moment for me when I was at my heaviest weight.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember looking in the mirror and I was feeling so disconnected from myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was kind of doing that thing that we do when we stand in front of a mirror and we like pinch all of our things.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember just feeling so sad and even frustrated that life had gotten so hard and that I had gotten to the point where I was in my health.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember in that point, something just washed over me in this beautiful moment, and I felt this voice kind of rise up inside of me, and it was my body that was asking me to love her.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: And so when I leaned into that love, and I remember I was crying, and there was just this moment, and it was so beautiful that I realized that my body was not my enemy.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: She was here to walk this life with me together.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: And when I leaned into that space, then suddenly I was able to rise more into my health and bring devotion into my wellness practices.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: And that is how I kind of started my wellness journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I look back at that moment and it was so pivotal for me to not only rise in my own health, but to help share that philosophy with others so that way they can feel better and really lean into devotion when they when it comes to their wellness practices.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_04: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_04: What does the word alignment mean to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about knowing your values and then living through those values.
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  SPEAKER_00: That when you understand that this is what I'm about and my actions speak for that, then I truly am feeling in alignment with myself and the world around me.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_04: Perfect.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much, Corey.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_04: I appreciate you.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_04: Hey y'all.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_04: You know I love telling stories, gathering stories, and finding a way to help people connect their story with the people that will get it.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_04: And that's what my story strategy sessions are all about.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_04: So over at Calhoun Creative Consulting, my strategic storytelling firm, we do one-on-one and or facilitated workshops in relation to really honing in the strategy around your story.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_04: It's a bit of messaging meets content creation, meets storytelling.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_04: And then how do we put that out in the world?
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_04: How do we show up regularly?
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_04: There's a bit of mindset work around it, right?
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_04: To actually tell your story, whether you're launching something new or trying to rework your brand or just feeling a little foggy on how to communicate with your people.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_04: This is how to get clear.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_04: We'll dig into things like your narrative, how to uncover what matters most, maybe map out a few content pillars while we're at it.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_04: You'll also get a recording of our session so you can revisit the conversation anytime you like.
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  SPEAKER_04: Let's shape a story that actually feels like you.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_04: So book yours today.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_04: There is a link in the show notes.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_04: And hey, while you're at it, use the code podcast, all caps, podcast for 25% off your session.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_04: I would be honored to spend time with you and suss out your story.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_04: Let's dive back into the episode, shall we?
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_04: When I interviewed Margaret, I said, Margaret, you're my favorite.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_04: She's like, I love you, Kayla.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_04: And I said, I love you.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_04: She says, Okay, bye.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_04: Like great.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_04: I love you bye.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_04: And then that's it.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_04: Brittany had a great idea to put it at the end of the episode.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_03: I love you bye.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think that's good.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_04: You ready to dive in real quick?
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, to the deep end.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_04: What's your name?
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_03: Carmen Nikkei.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_04: Nice.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_04: Um I never knew how to say Nikkei out loud and now I know.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_04: That's so fun.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_04: Like a free fly.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_04: Delicious.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_04: Can you give me a little a few sentences about who you are?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think I can fit all of who I am into a few sentences.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_03: And that can be it.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_03: That can be the answer if you want.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_03: I'll say this.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_03: I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_03: I have worked really hard to remove myself from a toxic relationship and put only the things that bring me joy in my life.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_03: I am intentional about the people I date and the friendships I create.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_03: I'm intentional about the jobs that I have.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_03: And I have quite a few jobs.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, but it's it it does seem like all the things like light you up when you're doing them.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: They do, they do.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: And it's been really awesome to see that it's taken me several years to get to this place.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_03: Um but the intentionality and hard work and like stating my goals out loud and pursuing them and telling people what I'm trying to do and reaping the rewards of that and feeling so happy.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_04: I could dig I could keep digging, but we don't have that kind of time.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_04: So there are two questions I'm still gonna ask you.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_04: And the one is kind of about like a moment or a story of that you had a significant impact in your life, and maybe a pivotal moment or something that's just been very significant over the course of your life.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_04: But what you were just talking about aligns a little bit more with the second question, which ironically is how do you define alignment?
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_03: I have a mentor who does this physical movement where her forearms are vertical, both vertical forearms, and she brings them together in front of her body so that they're perfectly in line with her spine.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_03: And I feel like that's a really beautiful physical movement for the word alignment.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_03: And it also kind of depicts like a gathering almost of like everything that is in my vicinity is coming like into the center, yeah, right.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um and it is kind of like what I was just talking about, where it's the job, the relationships, the family, the entertainment, the rest, all of those things that you're incorporating into your life, they f feel good.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_03: And life doesn't always feel good.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes things are bad and sometimes things are stressful, and sometimes things are hard.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_04: No, but I I like the explanation of like physical movement, right?
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_04: Because you some of your jobs involve like expressing yourself physically, you know, and physical comedy, and and and that's such a big part of you.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_04: And it's it's interesting how everybody's definition of alignment has been completely different.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_04: Some I'm just like mind-blowed, kind of interesting.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_03: Some not mine.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_04: Some have been mind-blowing.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_04: I'll let people decide whether yours was or not.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_04: That's not for me to decide.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_04: That's true.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_04: It's for the listeners.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_04: Uh final thing, as I mentioned, is there a story or a moment that uh stands out to you when I asked this question that was impactful for you and and kind of defines uh where you are today?
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_03: I'll say when I when I signed up to take a clown workshop in 2015, it's interesting because I took that workshop immediately afterwards, the teacher asked a small group of us to devise a show with her.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: So then I spent a year devising a show and performing in in in New York City.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: And I didn't dive into clowning immediately.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_03: But it it has been a thread through my life for the last nine years, and it's you know, in 2020, i i it was the thing I turned toward.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_04: That's goosebumps in my hair follicles energy.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_04: Great.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you for sharing that.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you for your time.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you for asking.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_04: Is there anything else you want to add?
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, these I usually just cut people off at the end of this.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, just like stop talking.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'm gonna stop recording that.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_03: I would like to say I love you.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_04: I love you bye.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: I love you, bye.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Jill Tremble.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: Tell me a little bit about you.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: Who are you?
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: Two to three sentences.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm an entrepreneur and I am a collaborator uh with women, not a competitor.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it is my life mission to lift women up in a way that tangibly impacts the gender pay gap.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: I love that very much.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, that's why we're here.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: How do you define alignment?
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: Alignment, I think the definition changes as you progress through life.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_04: I've been thinking if I had asked, if I'm asking any of these women two weeks from now what alignment means, they're gonna change their answers because it it's so situational and also specific to the individual.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: And I do feel like alignment is something that seems more attainable for the younger generations who are entering careers and entrepreneur endeavors.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm hopeful that alignment is more of a prevalent focus throughout their journey as opposed to maybe women in my generation who were not in all invited to consider their alignment.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, thank you so much for your time.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Caitlin.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you, Jill.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, what is your name?
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_05: I am Margaret Tilley.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_05: And can you give us a few sentences about who you are?
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_05: Sure.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_05: I am a business owner and chief administrative officer at um Elevate Claims.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_05: It's my company.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_05: I am a mom.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_05: I am involved heavily now in Grow, and I'm very excited about it.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_05: Awesome.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so uh can you tell us a moment or story or time in your life that has been impactful on you?
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_04: Impactful how?
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_04: However you want it to be.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_05: No, seriously.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_04: No, I'm I'm and to be fair, I'm doing this to everyone.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_04: It's the same question, and it's not an easy one, and I am editing it, so don't you dare worry.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_05: That is that's fair enough.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_05: So my career started um in 2004 when Hurricane Ivan hit Pensacola, Florida.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_05: I was actually bartending, trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life, and woke up one morning and the building I was working in was gone, and I had to figure out what I was going to do.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_05: And my brother knew an insurance adjuster and said, Hey, I think he's looking for help.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_05: Do you want to talk to him?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_05: And I said yes.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_04: That to me defines the phrase uh rejection is redirection.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_04: You got rejected by that building and you were redirected.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_04: And it's your trajectory.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, you would not be here because the company you own, you co-own it, you know, like it with a with a friend who was an insurance person and now you you know does.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_05: I would have never even known this industry existed.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_05: I learned a very valuable lesson to say yes whenever possible to opportunity.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_05: Even if I don't think it's going to work out in the long term because you never know.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_04: That's a really, really awesome lesson.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_04: Would you mind telling me what the word alignment means to you?
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_05: Alignment to me is the process of removing friction.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_04: I'm getting the best answers.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_04: I've only asked three people and they've all been so amazingly different.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_04: That's so cool.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_04: You don't even have to expand.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_04: Wonderful.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much, Margaret.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_04: You're my favorite.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_04: We know that.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_04: I love you.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_04: It's on recording now.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_04: I love you too.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_04: Bye.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_04: Yay.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_04: Bye.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_04: So there you have it.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_04: Just a bunch of a bunch of cuties founding and growing a women's organization.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_04: I'm so honored to be a part of it.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_04: I'll be sharing some some of my own experiences uh as I do this little series of of all these stories on the go.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_04: And it has been women like these women that you just heard that have put me back together.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_04: I know I've shared, especially last episode, the intersection of uh marginal gains and your Dululu era.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_04: I shared that like I really had a beautiful Dululu era that was a lot of throwing stuff at a wall and a lot of tripping and falling and failing, frankly.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_04: Failing that I would not have been able to put myself back together from without women like the ones you just heard, right?
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_04: Women like the ones I met at the Fort Wayne conference, ones I'm going to meet at the Anderson conference and speak to and connect with.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_04: And, you know, just women outside of those circles as well, uh, have really, really put me back together.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm super pumped for this series.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_04: I hope you enjoy and find yourself in some of these stories.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_04: Yay! Thanks, friends.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_04: Crafted Connections is lovingly produced by Calhoun Creative Consulting, a strategic storytelling firm dedicated to helping people and brands tell their stories in a way that resonates.
• 21:57
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• 22:04
  SPEAKER_04: Keep creating, keep connecting, until we meet again.