Linda Castor, RN, LCPC, is a human I now call friend and sister after spending an unforgettable week of adventure and self-discovery together in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Linda and I will be featured together as authors in Shaman Heart: Sacred Rebel, a collaboration of journeyers sharing their truths that is scheduled for release in May.In addition, Linda's determination to help others is coming to life in the pages of a recent project, Brainwashed From Birth: How to Completely Free Yourself from Narcissistic Indoctrination,  a self-help book about healing and reclaiming life after narcissistic abuse in which she shares first-hand experience as a survivor and thriver and offers practical ways to help those struggling to fully recover. Through her powerfully crafted words, she teaches readers how to deprogram from the narcissist’s insidious brainwashing and reclaim personal freedom to manifest their greatest dreams and desires. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a very real mental health challenge, and many don't know they are in the midst of very troubling, damaging situations. In this episode, Linda dives into the definition of narcissism and shares hope for those who are recovering from abusive relationships and unwinding themselves from the control of their abusers. You'll find the conversation thoughtful and enlightening. Listen in.You can find Linda online at https://www.LindaCastor.com. Her background and magic are worth considering if you are seeking support! And if you've experiences and/or input to share with her of your own struggles and triumphs, please get in touch.Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

I'll tell ya what's next. This little chat is fresh off the Zoom Room floor. I found a new friend, her name is Toni Nagy. Lemme read you a little bit of what's online about this fantastic human who agreed to think out loud with me.Toni Nagy is a stand-up comic that’s quasi–radical, somewhat-existential, and mostly funny. Her comedy is like an acid trip, but with equal opportunity genital jokes. She’s also a writer, film-maker, sketch comedy creator, and co-dependent (if that's ok with you).  Toni is a filmmaker that has written/ edited/directed/and acted in over 50 sketch comedy videos that together have upwards of 1.5 million views. Cavelight Productions is her independent media company. She's a dancer. She dances like a - my words now - like a woman possessed with the spirits of awesome, free, empowering, engaging, YUM!I personally found her magic on Instagram - she has hundreds of thousands of followers across platforms...you'll find her...I did and fell in love with her crazy! Cuz she's crazy talented! I'm talking from the top of her head to the bottom of her toes. Lovely. And she's committed to being a good person.Toni and I connected this morning. Me in my cozy, colorful Colorado corner, while she piped in from her yard in New Hampshire. Besides an opening that is likely similar in feeling to being lost in the very deep woods and a super awkward left turn about BOOBS that I guess I needed to get off my chest 😬 I'd confidently say our first encounter was as meaningful and enjoyable as I anticipated.  She's great. Listen in. Find her online. Toni's the real deal. I'm really tickled to be able to think out loud with her.IG @toninagyFB @toni.nagyYT @toninagyBlog tonibologna.comSite cavelightproductions.comJust google her! NOW! OK, Ok, now listen...Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

The last time I saw my guest, January Riggin, was 30+ years ago in our tiny li'l hometown, and I'm fucking grateful to have the chance to #THINKOUTLOUD with this survivor, author, non-profit founder, and badass human in episode 14. It's time to #getreal.January's new book, Dark Side of the Moon Child, is her truth of long-term recovery. She is a survivor of sex trafficking, domestic violence, addiction, and the criminal justice system. She's mom to a 22 year old, and she'll soon be a grandma, too! Driven by "street-level passion," she founded #SOAP2HOPE, an SLC nonprofit that advocates for women, men, and teenagers who have been sexually exploited and sex trafficked.She's on my cast on purpose, and I invite you to listen in. It's fucking raw, my mic is wonky, and who the hell knows how to end these casts with any sort of...and who really fucking cares, like really? It's messy ON #PURPOSE. Fuck. I'll get to the fancy shit. In the meantime, #THISSHITMATTERSFIND JANUARY, HER BOOK, and HER NON-PROFIT ATjanuary@soap2hopeut.comhttps://www.facebook.com/soap2hopehttps://www.instagram.com/soap2hope/#speakup #traffickedinsilence #sextrafficking #sextraffickingawareness #mentalhealth #mentalillness #mentalhealthmatters #suicideawareness #selflove #recovery #healing #bedohave #congruence #truth #courage #vulnerability #tribe #connection #community #grateful #fuck #findyourvoice #ownyourstory #accountability #awareness #selfawareness #empathy #addictionSupport the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

…this life stuff…sometimes it’s hard. And when it’s hard, well, I look for input. I look for connection. I look for my tribe. I recently hosted a guest that I consider a part of my tribe. Cathy Huddleston is a horse and people trainer, educator, student, author, speaker, mentor and believer in acceptance of self and others. She accepts me. And her heart desires to help me. And I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, her heart desires to help you.As lifelong horsewoman and a co-facilitator in the experiences she offers in-person outside Kansas City, Missouri, or in some cases, virtually, Cathy wants to help you connect to your true self in a present state of being through the eyes of a horse. As a teacher, as a partner, as a friend, the horse is capable of walking with you as you seek congruence. Horses are 100% present and do not pretend to be something they are not. They work towards coherence with the environment and co-authored regulation of returning to a FULLY present state of being. Congruence. When your insides match your outsides. When your strange beauty flies. When the ‘what if’s die. And you return to yourself. “Through the Eyes of a Horse” is a children’s book Cathy authored to put words to this magic. It’s a unique story of how a little girl finds self-acceptance through the experience of seeing herself reflected through the eyes of a horse.Get to know Cathy with me, if even for just these few minutes of a cast. She’s an incredible soul who has a beautiful gift to share with the world by helping humans heal beside horses. We visit about the beauty of it all. The opportunity of relationships with the horses in our communities around us.  Having personally experienced healing through horses in 1:1 sessions, as well as family and group and significant other, I can only share life-changing stories. Others have stories, too. Listen to more! Horses Helping Humans is a podcast Cathy hosts to bring even MORE awareness to the magic of horses helping humans heal and grow and thrive.Finally, LINKS TO FIND CATHY are embedded above or down below!LinkedInFacebookInstagramWebsiteSupport the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Tina Green is a trained and practicing life coach, best-selling author, chef, mom, and massage therapist. I encourage you to read her story in Shaman Heart: Turning Pain into Passion & Purpose. She is also currently apprenticing with Master Toltec Teachers Jeremy Pager and Stephanie Urbina Jones to be a Sacred Journey Breathwork Facilitator and Transformational Facilitator of the Healing Arts.Tina brings her vital mother energy to all her work and draws from her lived experience of carrying a lot of shame, especially body shame, through most of her adult life. She has healed her shame and feels an immense amount of personal freedom and self-love. She is passionate about assisting others in cultivating their self-love. Find her this weekend hosting an online Toltec Sacred Journey Workshop!This chat is the first of many I want to share to celebrate what it means to live in our truths, to fight ourselves to find and defend our highest potential within. My former sister and brother in law, Tina and her husband, Jason, an ordained Transformational Minister of the Healing Arts, are beautiful humans living in Sebastopol, California, raising their two beautiful daughters. I’m proud to know them, and I’m grateful they are finding such peace in their own truths.These truths. Unique to each of us, buried under layers of years of strife. Don’t you notice them…everywhere…actually springing to life?!? In honoring our own truths, we infuse others with the energetic support to honor theirs.That’s something you can get behind, no? C'mon. Get curious. I dare ya. I am!Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

The first thing you feel when you meet my guest in Episode 11 is HOPE. He'll tell you, and he believes it: You are made to be healthy. Your body knows what to do. All. Of. The. Time.Dr. Ryan Pilsner is a beautiful human being whose WHY shows in everything he does. He partners with people of all ages, walks, ailments, accidents, and predicaments, in expressing their potential by aligning with their body's innate intelligence. I met him many months ago, referred by my dentist for lock jaw and, well, my dentist seemed to know I needed the help.As a human, Dr. Ryan is fully committed to the health and hope of his community. As a chiropractor, he thinks out loud with me about the Wellness-Illness Continuum, the ties between the mental and physical realms, and the mission to flip the script on how we think about our beautiful selves.The concept of self, work on the SELF, self-awareness, self-management…all of the SELF starts within - our bodies, our minds, our energy, our spirit. We are actually in the very beginning stages of understanding just how intricately linked and complex and BADASS the SELF is in mental, emotional and physical forms. It’s fascinating, just how powerful we as humans are, if we take the time to consider it all. What a world we’d be if we learned how to tap into our own PERFECTLY UNIQUE CRAZY BEAUTIFUL COMPLEX MAGNIFICENT COLORFUL WONDERFUL SELVES!Dr. Ryan Pilsner and his fantastic team can be found at Heart & Hand Chiropractic, 2601 S. Lemay Avenue, #9, Fort Collins, Colorado. Visit www.hnhchiro.com or call 970-377-3577.Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Ever cross paths with someone and instantly like their style? Ya just click? Ah, it's refreshing, right? Joel Sellentine is one of those people with whom I click. I dig his vibe. Why? During the work day, except from 1-2 EST when he is off limits, Joel is CEO of Karmajack, a Detroit-based digital marketing agency that kicks serious ass. He is a father, husband, mentor, and SO much more to a LOT of people.WHY?Joel is congruent. His insides match his outsides. I experience him as having great inner strength, self-awareness, presence. I'm not the only one who thinks this, either. Listen in, and you'll appreciate him, too, I guarantee it. We think out loud about the power of the mind to heal, the direction we're facing, tips, little nudges you can take in your favor to increase your mental fitness. Joel's good people. Find him and his people at https://karmajack.com/Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Holy Moley, this is EPISODE 9! Did I mention how much dang fun I’m having?It’s pretty obvious I’ve got a thing for humans with beautiful brains. Bryan Muñoz is a human I took a particular liking to early in 2021 when I found myself in a virtual course at a public university. I was on the hunt for a Salesforce.com Admin Super Badge, and Bryan was the very talented, patient, online instructor. We hit it off, and we have stayed in touch. As I’ve learned more about Bryan, I’ve learned to truly appreciate HIS magic. Bryan thinks about data like a chef thinks about ingredients. His mind can see pathways and logic that for me take pictures and long explanations. I visit with him for his informed perspective on privacy, on the obvious and not-so-obvious stuff that is happening as we are all expressing ourselves virtually. Data and technology aside, Bryan is also forthcoming with his own story, and we think out loud about mental fitness. He's worked hard to get where he is at today, and I value hearing of  his unique journey because it empowers my own. I'd love you to listen in.Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Meet Andrea Dratch (IG @andreadratch), an award-winning actor and producer known for her role as Lita in the award-winning feature film, Small Town Remedies, written and directed by R.W. Perkins, that was released in 2020 which she co-produced. Andrea is also part-owner of Film Locale, a production house based in Northern Colorado.She lives life as if a bear is chasing her every minute of every day. And this life of acting, producing, and living out loud? She chose it, she loves it, and she slays it! She's also human. She's a very creative human with an intriguing story and a funky, badass style I adore. In this extended cast, Andrea and I don't waste time getting real and discussing the concept of mental fitness, especially the work of forgiveness and reclaiming one's vision of herself. Sorry, folks, the cheese has to happen, but when you're thinking out loud with someone else about the in's and out's of this perfectly imperfect life we all attempt to lead, the cheese isn't so hard to swallow. In fact, it's downright enjoyable.Listen in! And follow Andrea! She's gifted, raw, and available for you to adore like I do.Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

In EPISODE 7 of Think Out Loud With Me, I am excited to be thinking out loud with a particularly awesome human being, Denise Elizabeth Byron, Creator of Sensuous Wisdom™ and Mentor for Wisdom Keepers & Leaders of a Soulful, Creative & Conscious Future. I met Denise just a few short months ago and have delighted in her magic a number of times. WE are going to enjoy some quick catching up and then get to thinkin’ out loud so you can hear firsthand what her magic is alllll about. It’s AWESOME!If you want to find Denise after the show, and I hope you do, please start here >>>DENISE ELIZABETH BYRONCreator of Sensuous Wisdom™ Mentor for Wisdom Keepers & Leaders of a Soulful, Creative & Conscious Futurewww.DeniseElizabethByron.com Please check out her community page, Ancient Cycles, Modern Magichttps://www.patreon.com/deniseelizabethbyronBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Lanaliz is a beautiful human being, and being with her is a warm, reassuring experience. She is a light worker who channels from her heart and leads every interaction with her passion for spirit and intuitive energy healing. Her voice will guide you into a world of wonder about the beautiful fields of energy and thoughts that surround every single one of us. In our visit, we think out loud about auras, energy signatures, the law of attraction, breathing, exploring triggers, speaking and acting AS IF, and more. Lanaliz juices me UP! and leaves me with several immediately actionable mental fitness tips. Creating and maintaining the highway to release means being your own “badass mental coach," she says, “practicing what makes the most sense for YOU.”You’ll hear several hot topics for follow-up. Don’t worry, Lanaliz and I will be thinking out loud together again soon!BONUS: GUIDED BREATHING MEDITATION Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Amy K is a badass, and I've invited her to think out loud with me about the concept of MENTAL FITNESS. She partners with people desiring to reach their full potential, and I have experienced firsthand her coaching magic. Listen in as we visit about mental fitness definitions, recovery time, drowning in waist deep water, and the direction we choose when we either stand up and actively move towards wellness or continue to splash around awkwardly waiting for someone to throw a rope or a bone or a dollar. This is the first of many conversations we'll enjoy with this wonderful human, 'cuz I think she has a LOT to share!Amy has mentored hundreds of people and teams since she began as a Professional Certified Coach in 2002, and her insight comes from walking side by side with humans of every sort, from C-suite executives to college students. She's got a unique style developed from a background in computer science layered with intensive work and training in communications, facilitation, strategic planning, management and leadership techniques. Amy's services include individual and group coaching, and she is the host of The Growth Moment, an awesome podcast that allows us to listen into real-time coaching sessions.Ultimately, Amy is a friend, and she is a very smart woman for whom I have a lot of respect. She is authentic in her pursuit of her highest Self, first and foremost. She has built a business, she has raised a family, and she has kept her wits while helping so many others keep theirs within safe spaces she has carefully created. I trust her input in my own pursuit of defining and practicing mental fitness in my own life.You can find Amy K Coaching at:www.amykcoaching.comwww.thegrowthmoment.comSupport the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Please meet Laurie Stolen, Director of Behavioral Health Services, as she shares more details on the leading-edge concept of Continuum of Care - core to the Larimer County Behavioral Health Facility that is currently under construction in South Fort Collins and slated for opening later in 2023. Be warned, your host is still in start-up mode, but she's catching on with her first guest! It's the conversation that matters, especially when it's around #mentalhealthmatters. This will be one of many chats on the subject. Laurie is someone I greatly respect for her insight on the topic!Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Set-up for future podcasts, this solo cast allows me to share a bit about how I approach my life and why I seek out the connection I do in TOLWM. My own story will unfold in conversations with others, and I can only hope to do the same for them from a very authentic, secure place.Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!

Listen in as Natalie launches her chat-cast, THINK OUT LOUD WITH ME, alone, in her basement, with her first guest, herself, against the rules, with nothing prepared but her courage, a google doc, an amateur podcast set-up, and the universe's assurance that those listening are ready to hear from her. Oh, and a stuffy nose. We can only go up from here!Support the showLike you, I'm a beautiful work in progress! I offer communications coaching, networking ideas, and damn good conversation. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN Get in touch!