We are so excited to welcome award-winning author, Kathleen West to our podcast! Born and raised in Minnesota and a school teacher with more than 20 years’ experience, Kathleen is particularly interested in the topics of motherhood, ambition, competitive parenting, and the elusiveness of work-life balance. She is the author of 3 best-selling novels, which have all been published during a pandemic, with her most recent published in March 2022 called Home or Away. All of her novels are impressed with real life experiences. She is a self described grinder and as you will hear so unbelievably kind, witty, and inspiring. We explore the importance of normalizing failures, embracing human moments, and some of the life lessons for both adults and children alike.

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is My PowerPak- Cure Acute Myeloid Leukemia NOW

Let’s talk tailoring, alterations, and laundry. In this episode, we welcome Reza Ayat, the owner and tailor at Le Monde Tailor in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. You will learn what you can and cannot have altered or tailored, different ways jeans can be hemmed or changed, what fabrics work and do not work for alterations, how to properly wash or dry certain garments, how to remove a stain yourself (or not), and much more. Reza will share some of the important ins and outs of finding the right tailor for you, what you need to bring to a fitting or alteration, and when you should look elsewhere. Reza puts his relationships with his clients first: if it will be more expensive to alter a piece than the item's worth, he will be the first to tell you. 

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is SAVE. 

We welcome Dori Molitor, an inspirational and experienced coach, who’s own purpose is to help you find yours. She has a truly incredible story that reminds us just how precious life is. With 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, as the founder and CEO of WomanWise® and now an author of HAPPINESS MINDSET : 6 Secrets for Aging with Power, her mission is to empower women to bring your best self forward. She has a gift of helping women learn, discover, and know their innate traits and characteristics combined with their passion to become unstoppable. You cannot help but feel inspired, excited, and motivated to ensure that you are living your best life. Know yourself. Love yourself. Be true to yourself. We share this mission to love the View in Your Mirror!

Our Non Profit Spotlight is Second Harvest Heartland

Helain Pesis, co-owner of Continental Diamond, is a true gem. With a B.S. in Arts Education and Masters Certificate is Learning Disabilities, Helain has taken her passion for the arts and people, and joined her husband in the family business to bring her clients the best of jewelry over the past 28 years. As head buyer of all the jewelry and diamonds, Helain shares with us just what it means to have a “Jewelry Wardrobe”, how jewelry can be a representation of YOU and your brand, the trends in jewelry over time and today, and how the jewelry buying process can not only be a gift from others but one you can confidently give yourself. As Helain says, “there is an energy that lives in jewelry,” and we can agree that with the non-commissioned “dream team” from Continental Diamond, the clients not only receive honest opinions and education, but will find what is best for them.

Our Non Profit Spotlight is World Central Kitchen

This special episode has been requested many times by our listeners and clients! So your boarding pass is ready, let’s talk travel packing 101, the brands we love for luggage and carry-ons, and how to pack efficiently and effectively. Lisa Rubin gets many “emergency” calls on this topic as many of us wait until the last minute OR get overwhelmed when trying to pack our temporary lives into a bag(s).

So, this episode is the HOW TO on how to make packing for business, pleasure, or a combination trip not only simple, but easy and stress free. Ultimately, you will get to your destination and have no questions about what you packed, if you’re going to like what you packed, or feel a need to rush and go shopping because realized you packed all the wrong things.

"Burn the Candle, use the China" is Renae Keller's motto. She is a firm believer of organizing and decorating your spaces to actually use and enjoy what you have and not just for show. On this episode, she discusses the various trends of 2022 for home design, how Renae Keller Interior Design manages her clients, and stays up to date to provide the best to her clients. Renae is trusted by homebuilders, architects and homeowners to create an overall design while incorporating the important small details her client's find most important to them.

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Sanneh Foundation

Pam Borton is an extraordinary leader that we want to share with all of you. Our conversation addresses the importance of mental preparedness, resilience, authenticity, self motivation, and what it means to be #battletested. Her background stands apart with 27 years coaching Division 1 women’s basketball, including 12 years as HEAD COACH at the University of Minnesota in the Big Ten. There she led her teams to a Final Four. Pam uses her unique skills and unparalleled track record of success to help organizations and c-suite executives tackle today’s greatest challenges.
As a leading ICF master executive coach, professional speaker and author, Pam Borton is committed to taking C-suite executives, teams and organizations to the next level. Pam partners with industry leaders including Best Buy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cargill, Comcast, Discover, Hyatt, Mayo Clinic, Merrill Lynch, Minnesota National Guard, Mortenson Construction, NYPD, Penn State, State Farm, TCF Bank, US Coast Guard Academy, Wells Fargo, Workiva, Xcel Energy, and more. We have to brag about her and share that in 2019, Pam was inducted into the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Hall of Fame in Minnesota.

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is TeamWomen

Sasha Zoghi has an incredible super power of connecting with people and all things hair. She is a woman of many talents: a stylist, the co-founder of Revolution Salon in St. Louis Park, MN, an educator, and staple partner in Paris and New York Fashion Weeks. She started her career at the original Aveda Institute in Northeast Minneapolis in 1996. From there her talents and passion led her to become an Educational Director at a Premier Salon where she helped build and mold the technical skills and artistic eye of countless young stylists. It was after this experience, that Sasha and her husband co-founded Revolution Salon to continue her passion for continuing education of stylists of all experience levels while styling for her clients.
Sasha has also been an Educator for global hair product companies, currently with R+Co of Luxury Brand Partners, traveling coast to coast inspiring advanced haircutting and styling. Many of her days are spent in front of the mirror, and let’s just say you won’t want to miss this episode for your own view in your mirror. Learn from Sasha the trends, the how-tos, the what to use and what not to use, and how to look for your own stylist that truly fits YOUR needs.

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Planned Parenthood

In this episode, Pilar Gerasimo, an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author, is here to educate and enlighten us all on how to master the art of being healthy in an unhealthy world. Founding editor of Experiencing Life Magazine of LifeTime and co-host of a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment, Pilar shares with us so many ways we can enrich our lives to actually make personal changes in an achievable and sustainable way. Her information is digestible and relatable, especially in the world now, where people are reaching a point where their bodies and their minds are both breaking down - one she has coined “pissed off body syndrome”. Consider her approach a “Healthy Deviant” from the norm to live the best you and view in your mirror.

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Appetite For Change

Jayne Ellegard is passionate about empowering women to show up and own their financial journey with Courage, Confidence, and Wisdom! This episode will hopefully leave you inspired to further your own path or take that leap to invest in yourself within this bucket of your life! She has 34 years of high-net-worth wealth management under her belt, which she took and pivoted to entrepreneurship to fill a void to educate and help women better understand why she should invest in herself financially and be confident in her own financial knowledge. “You didn’t miss the class in school, there probably wasn’t one.” 

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Girl Scouts River Valleys

In this episode, we welcome Lisa Woodruff a productivity specialist, home organization expert and Founder and CEO of Organize 365. Lisa provides physical and motivational resources teaching busy women to take back control of their lives with functional systems that work. She is the author of many books, but one that comes highly recommended is the quick and easy read, The Paper Solution. It truly is remarkable what you can accomplish or how much time you can save when your papers or vital information are organized. One of the key takeaways from today’s podcast is the concept of ‘The Sunday Basket’ and how that can help you to not only save time in your everyday life, but also transform you from a ‘reactive’ person to a ‘proactive’ person. We hope you enjoy this wealth of information as much as we did–remember it just takes ONE step to get on the right path to reorganize a cluttered life.

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is The Smile Network

We start 2022 with three amazing young women who happen to be our daughters: Danielle, Laura, and Shelby.  Are they organized?  You bet!  As busy working mom’s they share some valuable time and frank, fun, real discussion on what it’s like to parent, work full time, be pregnant in the middle of a pandemic, and navigate life!  And of course we talk boobs: Lisa wouldn’t have it any other way!

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Camp Kesem. An organization near and dear to Lisa’s daughter’s heart, as she was on the founding team for the University of Wisconsin-Madison location.

A Special Edition to share Lisa’s Favorite Brands from head to toe including make up, bras, underwear, foundations or better known today as Spanx, nail polish colors, the Basic T-shirt, Jeans, professional suiting and clothing, shoes, handbags, and travel bags. This is an episode you surely do not want to miss: for the woman, for the spouse or partner, for the gift ideas, or simply to educate yourself on the quality brands available to make yourself the best version of you.

Marney Gellner, sports broadcaster from Bally Sports North, joins us for a time out from her sports world to truly make you laugh. Did you know that her dream job to this day is to be on SNL? She is a self proclaimed “people person” and that she is. On this episode, we dive deep into how to prepare yourself for your day from the subconscious conversations we all have in the morning, to the way we prepare for a trip, down to the dos and dont’s of laundry. Mixed within it all, we promise you will belly laugh. Perhaps this is Marney’s first unintentional introduction to her comedy series?

Our Non-Profit Spotlights are Timberwolves Fast Break Foundation & Twins Community Fund

Sonia Kashuk, the pioneer of “masstige”, a world renowned make-up artist, creative, editor, and founder, joins us to share her entrepreneurial journey and enlightens all of us on some much needed tips and tricks for make-up application as we age. For Sonia, ‘no’ doesn’t fit into her vocabulary. From the days of book signing with Cindy Crawford as the co-author of Basic Face, Sonia birthed the idea of affordable, accessible luxury makeup. She teaches us about “universal colors”, how and when to master the false eyelash, eyeliner, eyeshadow, and the true power of less is more when it comes to make-up. A cancer survivor herself, she is passionate about “rewiring” life’s purpose and has been an integral part of the non-profit, Cancer in Careers, to support women and men navigating their cancer diagnosis in the workplace.

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Cancer and Careers

Heather Brown, known for her curiosity and the Morning shows and Good Question on WCCO 4 local news of Minnesota joins Lisa and Katie to share a perspective on the world of journalism, broadcasting, and being a working mom. As women and parents, we can all relate to the phrase “it takes a village” and in this episode we share stories of what this really means and how we find our motivation and tools to work through the hills or mountains of life. Lisa talks with Heather about how she prepares her professional wardrobe and their shared love of Rent the Runway and their “memory” pieces in your closet. Katie and Heather discuss the “hacks” of organizing your space to make life a little easier.

Our Non-Profit Spotlight is Planting People Growing Justice

Ever had a question for your OBGYN that you were too afraid to ask? Let’s talk all things Women’s Health: the “Girls”, perimenopause, menopause, COVID, Sex and aging, sag, and dryness. We asked expert Terri Johnson, MD from OB/GYN West, with 34 years of experience all of these unanswered, sometimes very uncomfortable questions.

New season for all of us: pun intended! As we enter the season of galas, fundraisers or consider the colder months for many of our listeners, we discuss the key elements of your wardrobe, how to be flexible and creative with your backbone and special pieces, and how to find that “perfect” outfit for these affairs or season. As women, we will support you, compliment you, and always help you to find the best view in your mirror.