Journey To There

Which came first the partnership or the friendship? What are the personal and professional impacts..either way? Our guest, Jessica Rhodes & Margy Feldhuhn, share how they co-create together in business and life. In this episode: Advantages of having a business partner vs being a solo entrepreneur. What happens to your perspective when you shift from being someone’s employee to being someone’s business partner? Learn 3 reasons why having a business partner can make you a better business owner. Your best friends and business partners. What happens when the sh*t hits the fan at work? How can business partners utilize each others strengths to fill gaps in the weak areas? Why are venture capitalists afraid of partnerships and spouses that work together? Why you should sign a business pre-nup before official business partners? Takeaway: There is no better way to problem solve than to bounce ideas off someone else and get their perspective. If you don't have a business partner then seek out an accountability p

There's nothing more rewarding than seeing other women break down the barriers of fear, and realizing that they are worthy of all their deepest desires. Our guest, Rachel Joy is a Lifestyle Designer, helping women create the life and biz of their dreams. It's her job to guide women how to manifest their dreams into reality. In this episode: ~ How do essential oils work effectively in Holistic Health Healing? ~ There's nothing more rewarding to me than seeing other women break down the barriers of fear, and realizing that they are worthy of all their deepest desires. ~  Let’s talk hustle vs Align.  Does exterior world reflected my inner world ~ How to tell your old stories to stop talking to you. Replace the language ~ Why are morning rituals so important to personal and business growth ~ The only way to effectively change your state is by changing your physiology. How do you change your physiology, you may ask? Resources: Rachel Joy is a Lifestyle Designer, helping women create the life and biz of their dream

Everyone is looking for the magic pill but taking the long road leads to better results not only in weight loss but also in life. Our guest, Jessi Culyer, is a wife and a mom of 3 kids who is passionate about helping women figure out the missing link in their health. In this episode: ~ Do your homework on nutrition and understand what it is that you're taking in. ~ Did you know sugar is 8x more addicting than cocaine? ~  Shop the perimeter of the grocery store not the internal aisles. ~ If you think of your entire life as a puzzle. There are different pieces of the puzzle that all have to be there in order for you to be healthy. ~ There is a lot of misinformation and confusion about the food industry and in the weight loss industry. This is mainly due to the fact they are large profit centers and the confusion is by design. ~You’ve got to do more than just sit in front of your computer and sniff lavender all day to be healthy Takeaway: Think about decisions that you make out of habit - At any point you're fe

Barrie Risman is widely regarded as one of Canada’s most highly skilled yoga educators, teacher–trainers and mentors. She conveys the essence of the wisdom teachings of yoga with exceptional clarity, insight, and relevance to students of all levels and from all walks of life. Yoga classes can be intimidating. It is ok to admit it. Barrie shares her experience of  her immersion into the practice of yoga. From 1997-2003, Barrie served as a full-time staff member for the SYDA Foundation in India and the US, immersed in the study and practice of all the traditional yogic disciplines. Can yoga increase your sex drive? Spiritual Yoga practices vs Physical Yoga practices or can you do both? How do you get past the physical challenges if that is what is blocking you? What is the one important thing to do before you begin a yoga class? The word YOGA refers to a state of union between body, breath and mind but it also refers to everything we do to connect to that state. What exactly is HOT yoga? The importance of teach

Michelle Pippin, Founder of WOW (Women who WOW!) shares her powerful drive behind supporting women entrepreneurs while focused on building her own business. In this episode: Go big or go home - is more than just about the money. It is a mindset. Exploring the myth of NOT selling in entrepreneurship. WHY IN THE WORLD should we pay ourselves LESS than a company would pay us? WHY wouldn’t we go into business determined to make FAR more  than we’d ever make elsewhere? After all… we get to choose. What factors to consider when setting your prices? Just say no. Some business opportunities are not always a fit for your GROWTH. You choose your industry. If it doesn’t work out. You have the choice to make a change. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Journey to There Community today: journeytothere.com Twitter Instagram Facebook Pinterest

Traci returns after an unexpected podcast sabbatical and she has some explaining to do! A candid conversation about aging parents, dominating personalities, shutting down and coming back.  What caused her to shut down? How are things now? She shares behind the scene personal circumstances which led to old behavior habits of avoidance, people pleasing, isolation and how getting to the other side was more challenging for this time than ever before. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Journey to There Community today: journeytothere.com Twitter Instagram Facebook Pinterest

Journey to There is debuting it’s new series of Ladies Room episodes. These episodes are designed to dig deeper on issues you feel like you would want to talk about with your girlfriend. Those questions and topics you would only feel comfortable asking a really close friend. Traci kicks off the premiere “Ladies Room” episode by hosting her long time best friend of 35 years. Tammy Jacobs and Traci met in high school and have shared life ever since. Russ plays the best friend version of the newlywed game with Traci and Tammy to see how well they really do know each other! Listen as they discuss how shared experiences boost bonding and why that is important. Traci and Tammy successfully navigated working together in a highly competitive work environment. How did they do it and stay such close friends? Traci and Tammy’s keys to success to long term friendships? Respect. Respect personally, professionally. Respect each others relationships and respect each others confidence. Take time for each other. Challenges of

Living simply is not always easy. It is not a destination it is a journey. Before you even begin to  simplify you will need to identify how you define simple, where your life is complicated and explore why you seek simplicity in the first place. Humans have the tendency to over complicate the simple. About 5% to 7% of adults in the U.S. are pursuing some form of voluntary simplicity, according to Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute in New York. Simple is relative. Everyone’s definition is different. You need to know where your life is complicated before you can simplify it. How do you know when enough is enough? What does embracing simplicity mean to you? Why are you seeking simplicity? What are some steps large or small you can take to live more simply? How is your debt load? In a study published in 2000 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Alabama found that people with a high ratio of credit card debt to income wer

Can I ask you a question? Traci sits down to do her morning journal and an episode is born! It starts with a conversation with herself and then evolves into a fun experiment for you! Listen as she reads out loud from her journal pages and then proposes...Can I ask you a question? IN THIS EPISODE: I have a thought provoking but fine experiment for you to try. How I came about this experiment was actually a happy accident. You may know that part of my new activities I put it into my schedule this year includes writing and journaling 3 pages every morning before I check my email This morning when I went to do my page is something fascinating happened and I thought I would share it with you and see if you want to give it a try and see if you've found it to be as insightful as I did. When I do these pages I just sit down and the are completely blank. I just write the first thing that comes to my mind. This morning the first thing that came to my mind was... Can I ask you a question? which is feels a little odd whe

Well...That's Awkward. Having those difficult conversations help take care of you, your finances and your friendships! We teach people how to treat us whether it is in how we run our business, choose our relationships or maintain our boundaries. There are choices in how we choose to react to other people’s comments and opinions. A surefire tip on how not to take things personally. Leave toxic relationships. Don’t try to change them. It won’t work. Period. What is the one question that shuts down “scope creep”? How would you like to pay for that? Have you ever considered using a an autoresponder email as a response to all of your emails instead of just using it when you are on vacation? There are things in relationships that you have to discuss and if you don't discuss them you are opening up yourself to things happen like resentments and expectations which lead to you getting disappointed. Traci teaches Russ the appropriate way to apologize. HINT: If you use the word ‘but’ after the “I’m Sorry” it negates the

Traci opens up raw, unedited and solo about how her reflections on last year led her to realize how joy matters. YOUR joy matters.  You'll hear true confessions, requests for accountability and how she plans to stay focused on her joy this year.  : [00:00:23] I guess I've been doing a lot of thinking. It's that time of year of course with the whole New Year's kicking off a new year often means reflection and sometimes even big commitments to change. I am not a fan so much of the resolutions but I do find that it is a great time to just take a look at what I can celebrate as accomplishments for the past year and also where I could tweak here and there for improvement. But you know this can be a slippery slope for me I need to be mindful that it's not all about what I can do better but more about recognizing what I did do well and recognizing also some areas where I can open up for more learning more play for sure and most importantly more joy. I think the message that I hear resonating with me in these last en

Technology addiction? Sugar habit? Trying to remove your own barriers to growth? Identify the why and then you will know when the triggers happen so it is easier not to indulge. Learn how to define the difference in will power and discipline. Genetics vs Will Power. Hear the points and counterpoints of this age old debate. Learn how to identify the triggers of the bad habits you are trying to change. Discover one action to implement for successful big change for the long term. Tips on a recruitment tool which will get your employees started out the right way. They key is that it ensures they avoid bad habits from beginning. Gain insight on the value of community in effecting successful change Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Journey to There Community today: journeytothere.com Twitter Instagram Facebook Pinterest

In This Episode:  Money is still the number one subject people don't talk about. It's the last topic in any relationship; whether it's with your husband, wives, significant other or even your friends and family, even your closest loved ones. Get an education and learn tools so it makes that conversation more easy to have and so you feel more confident having it. We're all human. We all have money. We all have to learn how to be with money. There's this misconception that if you're facing a money challenge or concern you're the only one going through it. Financial planning is not an age specific situation. Even if you didn't do this planning from the start in your early 20s you can still rewrite your story. There's a misconception that you only do financial planning when you have a certain amount of income or a certain amount of assets. It's not true. Start to see your money as a relationship that you're going to have for the rest of your life. It takes a little pressure off and hopefully a lot of anxiety and

In This Episode:  What do successful people have in common? What do they do differently? Do they know something we don’t? Live your life unconditionally. Build up your Emotional Fitness resilience. Ruts occur when we lose our hunger.  Change your thinking and you change your life The road to failure and the road to success is the same path; Success is only further along the way. You’re either moving forward or you’re moving backward. Either way you are moving so make choices to move forward. Just take 10 minutes at the end of your day and at the beginning of your day to relish in creativity. Possibility Thinking. Often it’s our thinking—not reality—that keeps us stuck where we are. Dwelling in possibility can also be one of the most exciting ways to spend your time. Creative Thinking Not all thinking needs to produce major results to better your life. Over time, creative thinking can make your days more experimental, fun—and a heck of a lot easier. Reflective Thinking Allow your past learning and experiences

Your email is "everyone else's to-do list for you." And if you allow your inbox to set the tone for your day, you're guaranteed to spend a huge chunk of your time on other people's priorities….All I was doing was other people's work all day long, and I never actually got to the things that I wanted to accomplish." - Ashton Kutcher One recent Pew survey found 80 percent of Millennials sleep with their phones. No wonder then that another poll showed 40 percent of Americans of all ages check their phones within five minutes of waking. By the time they've brushed their teeth, more than 80 percent of people have grabbed their gadgets. And this isn't just the addled and unsuccessful -- another survey found that half of top executives start their day with email. Psychologist Benjamin P. Hardy suggests a small amount of writing not only in the morning but also before bed, to tap into your subconscious in order to answer some of your life's trickiest and most pressing questions. "This simple routine will help yo

The New media rules. There are no rules. And if you don't evolve with how things are changing you will get left behind. Journey to There is throwing down a challenge! There should be a national authentic media day where all of the all of the anchors and all of the co-hosts all of the people on ABC NBC, Fox News and  CNN wake up in the morning, brush their teeth, get in their car go on camera raw and unedited. No Makeup- No Stylists. We dare you to do that! We are all walking around with too many expectations of people to meet us where we were versus just respecting where they are. Truth vs Training is so important to break down because whether you're getting ready to be on CNN, do a Facebook video or just walk into a room of peers at church or a movie theater or whatever. We all have a tendency to want to put on this mask of what we think other people feel like we should be like, act like,  walk like and talk like. A revealing story on how Peter Shankman, founder of HARO (Help A Reporter Out) revealed a huge

  Traci DeForge is interviewed live on the Motivational Monday podcast with Abigale Otchere. Abigale poses many question to Traci around, What is the why behind the work you do? What you consider to be your zone of genius? Bring Strategy and Execution together. Integrating both Strategy and Execution into the work I do with my clients. According to a research published in Harvard Business Review, only 8% of consultants can create strategy and execute the deployment of the strategy. What is the one thing you wish you knew then that you know now? How to say No. No is  complete sentence. That it is ok to say no. That no can lead to yes in ways you never thought possible. What is one of your darkest hours? Walk us through that story? Traci shares the details of What would you congratulate yourself for now? Really learning the benefit of putting things on the pause button. Putting a decision on hold until you get clear with your head, heart and gut. Current passion projects you're working on? PODCASTING! It is cl

Meet our Guest Celinne Da Costa, Italian- Brazilian nomadic dreamer with infinitely more curiosity than time. Traci wants to tell her 17 year old self to meet Celinne and travel the world. Celinne wants to introduce Traci and Celinne to her mom!! Celinne pushes Russ Waaaaay outside of his comfort zone with stories from her teen years. What is the difference between being responsible and the business badge of honor? 3 tips to become your own life architect starting today. Traci DeForge Takeaway - Redefine Responsibility. Your responsibility is to show up for yourself so you can show up for others. Spend your time to find out what it is that you really want instead of checking off a list of things that aren’t even what we want to do. Write down your fears and break them. Instead of saying I can’t afford ask yourself How can I do this? Once you make the decision. Take action in incremental steps which open the possibilities for you so the opportunities come to you which enables you to stay on the journey you set

Live from Los Angeles, CA with Gina Delvac, producer of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend! Gina and Traci discuss honoring the feminine way women do business and how Call Your Girlfriend started out as a fun podcast and turned into a “happy accident” yet successful small business. How to prioritize valuing the financial piece of working with your girlfriends. Gina shares how the “girlfriends” on the show settle conflict with their sound founding principle of not tearing anyone down. Have you heard about the female founder who hired a fake male CEO while raising capital for their business? Harvard Business school groups made up of friends prove to be the most unstable in founder turnover rates of nearly 30%. Gina gives us the key to the success of the Call your Girlfriends partnership. Traci DeForge Takeaway: Own your strengths and seeking people that value that in you. That is the type of person you want to get into business Be committed to the respect of the relationship is the core to the success of any fri

I was recently in LA for two podcast conferences and spent time with some amazing entrepreneurial women. One of my favorites is Jan McCarthy, Artist & Host of the podcast Entrepreneurial Voice. It was a blast to visit her art studio where she records her shows live from LA. Enjoy! Traci DeForge talks directly about workaholism. It is the only addiction where you get accolades instead of intervention. Find out how an email address morphed into a successful business. The combination of art and business are equally as important as the intersection of personal and business growth. TAKEAWAY: Find out your why.  What would you be doing if money was no issue? Can you describe yourself in 6 words? Mine is….Influencer for impactful and creative change. QUOTES “Work-alcoholism is the only addiction which brings accolades not intervention.” - Traci DeForge “Light up and then shine your light out into the world.” - Traci DeForge Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join the Journey to Th