Being Motherhustler

Linh Podetti is an outsourcing expert, wife, mother, and owner of the internationally recognized outsourcing business called Outsourcing Angel.

Linh Podetti was born in Vietnam and moved to Australia when she was nine years old. It was a tough childhood growing up as Linh struggled to get along with her strict parents, which led her to run away from home multiple times, becoming pregnant at the age of 19, and raising her baby alone as a single mum for many years. However Linh did not let adversity get in the way, she fought through her struggles and was able to eventually achieve success in all areas of life from the relationship, finance, health, and business.

Linh Podetti now has a team of over 80 around the world. She also manages several other online businesses including an animation video production business called Monkey Video Production and a digital agency called Red & Black Solutions.

The success and freedom provided by her businesses have also enabled Linh to focus on her passion for philanthropy. What sets her businesses apart is their commitment to reinvest profits to provide food supplies and job opportunities for people in developing countries – starting with the Philippines.

Linh Podetti now lives in Sydney with her three kids and husband Phillip, who is also another successful entrepreneur.

Tony Whatley is an entrepreneur, business mentor, best-selling author, podcast host, and speaker. He is best known as Co-Founder of LS1Tech, an online automotive community that grew into the largest of its kind. This website grew to over 300,000 registered members and was later sold for multiple 7-figures, in only 5 years. Amazingly… it was just his part-time side-business!

Tony shares his mindset and business strategies within his book, Sidehustle Millionaire. He also teaches entrepreneurs how to start, scale, and sell their business within his podcast and consulting brand 365 Driven.

Learn more about Tony all over social media @365Driven or www.365driven.com!

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Zack Peter isn't your average green-juice drinking millennial. As a writer, he has published a total of four books, with work featured on Yahoo!, Men’s Health, Bustle, POPSUGAR, People, and more. In between collagen-martinis, you can catch his signature wit and gift-of-gab as host and producer of the hit weekly podcasts, #NoFilter with Zack Peter and #Adulting: Life Hacks to Get Your Sh*t Together.

His work extends far beyond entertainment, spending the past decade raising awareness and funds for autism, even serving as the Executive Director for Jenny McCarthy’s foundation, in honor of his brother, Ethan.

He also helped launch several successful events and wellness conferences around the country, including The Autism Education Summit (a three-day conference of over 700 guests, held annually in Dallas); An Evening with Donnie Wahlberg (a benefit concert held in St. Charles, IL in 2016 and 2017; raising a total of $1.4M in funds for charity); and The Elevated Summit (a wellness event series hosting some of the country’s top health experts).

He often works as a regular event host/moderator at various wellness and culture events throughout the country and covers an array of topics from buzzy health trends to pop-culture/celebrity news and gossip.

Learn more at http://www.justplainzack.com/about or visit his social @justplainzack

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John Murphy is the founder of Make 100 Healthy, an organization that celebrates Living a Balanced Life.  His e-book, "Yes You Can Live to 100 Years or More!" was recently published, and he hosts the Make 100 Healthy podcast. John also leads a Free, 7 day “Achieve Life Balance” Challenge that explores the “The 7 Key areas of Living a Balanced Life."  He also offers a 30-day transformation project “Get Back Up for Good” to be Fit, Fine & Fun! And a 6-week boot camp “Journey to Health, Wealth & Happiness” - which gives his clients the opportunity to dig deep to create the habits that help ensure long-lasting sustainable change.  John truly loves what he does and never gets tired of hearing his clients say things like, “Your energy inspires me to explore new and exciting challenges, ”and he loves getting feedback like, "Thank you for motivating me to get out of my comfort zone and pushing me to enjoy new experiences! ”John's work has been featured on CBS Morning News and in the NY Times.  His impressive business portfolio was also profiled on The American Entrepreneur Series.  You may have seen him recently on Shop on TV Networks including QVC, and the Home Shopping Network, as he appears on-air with his incredibly successful product line, It's Exciting Lighting! Murphy's path to becoming an innovator and expert motivator started as CEO and principal entertainer at “The World - Famous Star DJ’s ”, the largest live DJ entertainment company in the country.  Star DJ’s hosted over 5000 successful events each year with over 150 live entertainers on its roster.  To learn more about John Murphy find him on social @make100healthy.  Follow Host + Founder all across Social Media @kareenmills. Podcast IG: @beingmotherhustlerpodcast Download and subscribe to the podcast here www.linktr.ee/kareenmills

Michelle Judson started Changewear after experiencing a disconnect in her mind, body, and soul.  After stage 3 breast cancer took so much from her, she created personalized intimate apparel that gave her back the connection to her body that she was missing.

Changewear is a community and place of belonging features products that connect us to our bodies, experiences and each other.

After a devastating divorce left Michelle as a single mother of three children she decided to look at starting over again as an opportunity by amplifying the idea that “It takes a village to surviving and thriving”.

Michelle welcomed her sister and her three nieces and one nephew into her home four years ago after her sister fled an abusive relationship leaving her and the children homeless. Michelle is proud to say her sister Samantha and her co-raised 7 children between them as they navigate new business ventures, going back to school, writing a book, raising children and laughing as they redefine all that a family can be.

Michelle has spent the past four years creating Changewear, learning about our bodies, how color affects 85% of our buying decisions and how giving back creates impact for all.

Professionally she speaks on three different topics.  Some of the titles are:

Touched By The Scars - it’s about her tale of being diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer and then being upgraded stage 3A cancer after surgery.

Another is titled 1x1 - She talks about her journey as an entrepreneur that has bootstrapped her company into reality.

And last but not least.. Slingshot - her powerful talk about connecting as a community to amplify our voices.  Michelle loves to unite women, create impact and inspire us to go farther and touch so many lives.  In short, she’s my kind of motherhustler!!

Learn more about Changewear and Michille on www.changewear.com or follow her page on instagram @changewear.

Michelle Judson started Changewear after experiencing a disconnect in her mind, body, and soul.  After stage 3 breast cancer took so much from her, she created personalized intimate apparel that gave her back the connection to her body that she was missing.

Changewear is a community and place of belonging features products that connect us to our bodies, experiences and each other.

After a devastating divorce left Michelle as a single mother of three children she decided to look at starting over again as an opportunity by amplifying the idea that “It takes a village to surviving and thriving”.

Michelle welcomed her sister and her three nieces and one nephew into her home four years ago after her sister fled an abusive relationship leaving her and the children homeless. Michelle is proud to say her sister Samantha and her co-raised 7 children between them as they navigate new business ventures, going back to school, writing a book, raising children and laughing as they redefine all that a family can be.

Michelle has spent the past four years creating Changewear, learning about our bodies, how color affects 85% of our buying decisions and how giving back creates impact for all.

Professionally she speaks on three different topics.  Some of the titles are:

Touched By The Scars - it’s about her tale of being diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer and then being upgraded stage 3A cancer after surgery.

Another is titled 1x1 - She talks about her journey as an entrepreneur that has bootstrapped her company into reality.

And last but not least.. Slingshot - her powerful talk about connecting as a community to amplify our voices.  Michelle loves to unite women, create impact and inspire us to go farther and touch so many lives.  In short, she’s my kind of motherhustler!!

Learn more about Changewear and Michille on www.changewear.com or follow her page on instagram @changewear.

Abbey McKenna is a Co-founder and Chief Editor at Ready Set Mom.  She’s also a Joint Director of a reduced impact Mining and Rehabilitation Company....totally an industry that belongs way on the other side of the spectrum.

She was born and raised in Australia and currently living in Bali, Indonesia, a kick-ass mum of 2 amazing daughters, addicted to 80’s rock, creating real content and impacting the world (in no particular order).

She has been a partnered mom, a single mom, a stay at home mom, a couch hoping mom, a stepmom, an entrepreneurial mom, and a business mom. 

She spent many years trying to be the perfect person, friend, and employee. Until one day, the BS of mediocre and normal became too much for her and she reached her ‘explosion’ moment.

She refused to hand over an earth that was being broken and not do anything about it. She couldn’t sit back and show her kids the way to live a miserable and average life.. she realized that if she wanted her kids to be awesome... she had to make herself awesome first.

Spending many months, money and moments exploring what she wanted to do; Learning and working with some of the best professionals in the online and personal development industry; Building a coaching system to transform the brains of other women to also break out of the ‘way life just is’ and create the life they want... she is now off on a new venture.

She is on a mission to impact the world by helping restore it to the way nature intended and by providing moms from all over the world with real and valuable resources to be the best moms they can be.

Abbey McKenna is a Co-founder and Chief Editor at Ready Set Mom.  She’s also a Joint Director of a reduced impact Mining and Rehabilitation Company....totally an industry that belongs way on the other side of the spectrum.

She was born and raised in Australia and currently living in Bali, Indonesia, a kick-ass mum of 2 amazing daughters, addicted to 80’s rock, creating real content and impacting the world (in no particular order).

She has been a partnered mom, a single mom, a stay at home mom, a couch hoping mom, a stepmom, an entrepreneurial mom, and a business mom. 

She spent many years trying to be the perfect person, friend, and employee. Until one day, the BS of mediocre and normal became too much for her and she reached her ‘explosion’ moment.

She refused to hand over an earth that was being broken and not do anything about it. She couldn’t sit back and show her kids the way to live a miserable and average life.. she realized that if she wanted her kids to be awesome... she had to make herself awesome first.

Spending many months, money and moments exploring what she wanted to do; Learning and working with some of the best professionals in the online and personal development industry; Building a coaching system to transform the brains of other women to also break out of the ‘way life just is’ and create the life they want... she is now off on a new venture.

She is on a mission to impact the world by helping restore it to the way nature intended and by providing moms from all over the world with real and valuable resources to be the best moms they can be.

Dawn Jensen-Beaudoin’s most important role in life is a single mother of three amazing children. Through so much adversity and struggles Dawn chooses to live life, not out of pain and victimhood, instead chooses to learn and thrive out of those life experiences. You can find Dawn often sharing her story as she believes testimony is powerful and if we grow through adversity and share those experiences it can give others the strength to do the same.

Dawn started in Sales and customer service over 30 years ago and has turned that passion for serving and blessing others into multiple businesses including sales and marketing, contracting and a cleaning business that employed single mothers. Her most recent endeavor into Real Estate has allowed her to help the first time home buyers realize their dream of homeownership when they did not think it was possible.

When Dawn is not hard at work she enjoys workouts at the gym and spending time with her children ages 21, 20 and 18. She is also an advocate of the second amendment and loves the outdoors.

Learn more about Dawn at https://www.facebook.com/dawn.jensen1.

Dawn Jensen-Beaudoin’s most important role in life is a single mother of three amazing children. Through so much adversity and struggles Dawn chooses to live life, not out of pain and victimhood, instead chooses to learn and thrive out of those life experiences. You can find Dawn often sharing her story as she believes testimony is powerful and if we grow through adversity and share those experiences it can give others the strength to do the same.

Dawn started in Sales and customer service over 30 years ago and has turned that passion for serving and blessing others into multiple businesses including sales and marketing, contracting and a cleaning business that employed single mothers. Her most recent endeavor into Real Estate has allowed her to help the first time home buyers realize their dream of homeownership when they did not think it was possible.

When Dawn is not hard at work she enjoys workouts at the gym and spending time with her children ages 21, 20 and 18. She is also an advocate of the second amendment and loves the outdoors.

Learn more about Dawn at https://www.facebook.com/dawn.jensen1.

BJ Stromme is a Northwest Native with a deep love of the woods and water, so any chance she gets, you will find her hiking or kayaking!

She has been an independent entrepreneur for over 38 years, so she knows the bumps and hurdles you need to get over to be successful.  She has started and run two businesses successfully, earning her top company recognition for years!  In her business POP Mindset (Power of Personal Mindset), she coaches Entrepreneurs how to read and communicate with prospects and co-workers better that will then result to networking effectively to maximize their efforts, therefore, increasing confidence in business, life and beyond.

BJ loves personal coaching, creating amazing retreats in beautiful places like Costa Rica and Cabo San Lucas.  She helps teams big or small create new ideas, provide them with tools and techniques so they can communicate better internally.  Some of these techniques will cut months - even YEARS off their learning curve!!

She created the personality profiling system called Are You My Flock.  It’s a very Fun and Effective Personality Profiling System that builds Success for entrepreneurs, mothers, and parents or any leaders and sales professionals.

Are You My Flock has brought many benefits to me personally and professionally and I know it’s brought so much value to some of the professionals I network.  And my all-time favorite become a better mother.

Learn more about BJ Stromme and POP Mindset on her Facebook @POPMindset where you may find more information about her work!

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Sharing to the world my journey about our transition from one house to another and the solution that we have in the interim because of the gap between selling the previous one to buying the next one.

We are currently hotel living and have been here for 4 weeks during the recording of this episode.  It's been challenging but never tough.  I grew up sleeping on floors growing up in the Philippines so hotel living for me is a luxury.

I also just turned 40 and on this episode I share what winning and truly winning means.

I hope you have fun listening to this journey!

Sharing to the world my journey about our transition from one house to another and the solution that we have in the interim because of the gap between selling the previous one to buying the next one.

We are currently hotel living and have been here for 4 weeks during the recording of this episode.  It's been challenging but never tough.  I grew up sleeping on floors growing up in the Philippines so hotel living for me is a luxury.

I also just turned 40 and on this episode I share what winning and truly winning means.

I hope you have fun listening to this journey!

Sara Coleman is a mother to 6 beautiful children and has dedicated her life to helping people of all shapes and sizes lose weight, get fit, and obtain the tools and data they need for optimal health and wellness. She brings over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry and is a CrossFit level 1 & 2 certified coach, personal trainer, and group coach.

Sara is obsessed with making health obtainable for all. Inspired by her two younger sisters with Down Syndrome, Sara created and developed Inclusive Fitness, a program that celebrates all abilities with group class formats for adults with physical and mental disabilities. Sara went through a divorce After 13 years of her primary role in life being a wife and mother in 2011. In 2012, Sara opened 3-46 Grit CrossFit, that she now co-owns with her best friend Chausse a facility dedicated to promoting functional fitness where people could learn how to train their entire body in a community that celebrated struggle and supported everyone's efforts to reclaim health. Through the chaos of owning and operating a business and navigating raising her kiddos, she's found fulfillment, humor, and the love of her life. Sara remarried in 2014 on national TV (Hotel Impossible, stormy wedding) To the love of her life Jesse Coleman. And in 2018 gave birth (19 years to the day apart from Sara's oldest son Cameron) To their son Maverick. Her children are her greatest joys in life, Cameron is 20, Tyler is 18 Riley is 15 her daughter Isabella is 11 her stepson is 7 and welcoming another son (Maverick) has been an unexpected savior in what was one of the most trying times of her life, her fathers passing.

Sara believes unhealthy food and fitness habits have created a disease and obesity epidemic in this country. Through her one-on-one work with clients, Sara observed the endless struggle involved with quick fixes, misinformation, and treating the symptom rather than disease. After her own father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Sara decided to make a change on a massive scale. She decided to create Grit Uprising to establish a movement of like-minded people who want to break free and harness their indomitable spirit. She has made it her mission to educate and empower people to reset the scales and reclaim their own right to health and wellness.

Learn more about Sara Coleman at http://346gritcrossfit.com/ or check her out on www.instagram.com/sararenee1 or check out www.instagram.com/346gritcrossfit.

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Amanda Eck is on her 2nd career, Interior Design.  She was in the Oil & Gas Industry but had a passion for design ever since she was a child.  Ten years ago she stepped out and launched Amanda Carol Interior, without a clue what she was doing but had the passion to do it.

Three years ago is where it got interesting.  Her husband and she hit the reset button on their lives after a life & marriage altering vacation to Canada.  It was an awakening moment for both of them.

Her husband quit his well paying corporate job in Houston to pursue his passion in Real Estate,  while Amanda shut down her design business in Houston.  They packed up their 3 kiddos to move to the most expensive city in the US, the Bay Area in California Leaving ALL of her family behind.   

They took a leap and moved to SF knowing NO ONE, but a dream and vision of building an extraordinary life.  She had to start her business from scratch after building a great client base in Houston.  Her husband had to build his business from the ground up.  So they are now both entrepreneurs learning to have a successful sexy marriage, raise their 3 amazing children (who are watching them go for their dreams), take care of their bodies, and work on their personal growth (through reading, listening to podcasts, online courses and conferences-that they do together as a couple.   It’s been the hardest thing they have ever done, yet the most rewarding. 

Learn about Amanda Eck and her venture on www.amandacarolinteriors.com or on instagra.com/amandacarolinteriors!

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Happy Birthday Linda!!!!!!  You, my friend, deserve to have a day for yourself and today is a tribute to you and only for you!  I love you with all my heart!

First and foremost, Linda is the mom of four beautiful children and wife to actor, Pooch Hall.  Throughout her 20 years of raising a daughter with Cerebral Palsy, Linda has had many careers and gained valuable experience in many different aspects of life.

As a Counselor in College settings, she learned a lot about the goals and aspirations of our young adults. As a Personal Trainer, she gained lots of physical hands on experience helping clients attain their health, fitness and rehabilitation goals.  As a Realtor, she learned about the housing market and how to help families achieve their dreams of home ownership. As a Stay at Home Mom, she realized the importance of parent involvement and the need to Advocate for our children.  As Founder & CEO of Djanai’s Angels & inClusion ClubHouse, she started Angel Awareness Projects for community outreach to teach children how to interact with those with special needs. She also created the Special Needs Family Prom as a community event to promote inclusion and give those who are differently abled the ability to be a part of social events they would normally be excluded from.

She hopes to continue to connect families with special needs and create a support system where we can help each other succeed in society and give our children with special needs every opportunity to live their best life. Her vision is to open inClusion ClubHouse a recreational center for families affected by a child(ren) with special needs, a space where there truly is something for everyone. 

Motherhustlers...please help me in welcoming THE Motherhustler mothering the world this week...a Special Needs Mama and Founder of Inclusion Clubhouse, Linda Baptista Hall!

Learn more about LInda and her mission on instagram.com/lindabaptistahall or instagram.com/djanaisangels or instagram.com/inclusionclubhouse.

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Yoana came to the US with her husband in 2015 all the way from Romania, after winning the Green card lottery.

She earned a BFA in Theater and Film from a very prestigious art school in Europe.

She won the Green card Lottery, and it was not intentional! It happened after her husband Mihai showed his uncle how to apply for the Lottery using all of Yoana's information to practice on, as his uncle was not tech savvy.  The lottery was submitted and validated and shortly after they had the lottery winning docs on their kitchen table right as they were returning from their Honeymoon one beautiful summer day in 2004.  They immediately decided to take the crazy ride towards something that they never experienced before, with no fears or looking back, even though they had a brand new business in place and their married life was just starting. Also, Yoana was an already recognized actress, but the American dream won and they started preparing for the next move.

In 2005, they landed straight to LA as her husband got a job offer from one of his dad's Romanian friends. LA was right on her alley as an actress, and she started working multiple gigs right away. She was Madonna's personal stand-in, worked with De Niro, Pacino, Christina Aquilera, Kumi Koda and many others. Being in LA was super cool at the time and her husband was doing really well in his job, and in 2007, she woke up one morning in their small 1 bedroom apt and told her hubby that her spirit wanted a baby.

Anais was born on 2008- January 24th and pregnancy was complicated. But she is 11 years old today, healthy and amazing!

Long story short, they ended up opening their own company in 2008 as brokers in transportation, their own firm that would become very successful, and Yoana stopped working as an actress as now she was a mom and the baby girl was her joy. All things were going well with the company and Anais growing beautifully but in 2010 and 2011  Yoana had 2 miscarriages- one at 3 months and other at 5 months.

They were devastated and decided they wanted to go away for one year, thus renting their newly purchased home, packing their car and leaving to unknown grounds in their car, with some clothes and nothing else. It was the only way she was going to be able to go through the emotional challenges that they were facing.

After 2 months, they ended up settling in the Raleigh area. Their brokerage company started losing money as the recession was just hitting their business as well and her husband decided to sell it.

Being left with barely anything in their savings after purchasing a home in NC as well, she started studying real estate. Why real estate? Because as they were house hunting, she was so passionate that her agent gave her Gary Keller's "The Millionaire real estate agent" book and in 2012 Dec- I started working as a realtor and never moved back to LA. 

Yoana ended up becoming one of the Top brokers in the Raleigh area and years later in 2014 had her baby boy- Phoenix.

Now she is building her business and growing as we speak.

Learn more about Yoana on her Instagram at www.instagram.com/yoananin or her real estate firm at www.theprosperousagency.com!

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Amy Lacey is the incredible woman behind the explosive start-up company, Cali’flour Foods. Following a Lupus diagnosis, Amy was forced to give up a lot of her favorite foods and completely revamped her diet.

Missing pizza – Amy hit the DIY online recipe scene and began perfecting what is now- her famous recipe for the cauliflower pizza crust. While heading up a massively growing start-up hasn’t always been easy – it’s nothing Amy can’t handle.  She has an entrepreneurial determination and strong gratitude practice that has built a multi-million dollar business out of a need to improve her diagnosis.

She recently became a best-selling author with her most recent cookbook Cali’flour Kitchen!  I can’t wait to get my copy that Amy is sending me!  In the meantime, let me tell you...It has 125 cauliflower based recipes and some of Amy’s top secret recipes revealed in the cookbook!

Amy believes in giving back and I’ve seen her give, give, give and pour pour pour to the community that raised her to become who she is.  In the recent wild-fire in Paradise, Northern California, she and her team fed members of her community using her own pizza crust.  Who knew a DIY recipe could turn into something even greater than just a business venture but a tool to feed those who need it the most!

Amy’s heart is bigger than BIG and she continues to give back to 501(c)3, non profit organization including my Woman of the Year Campaign benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  This motherhustler is something else and I can’t wait for you to hear her story!

But sisters, that’s not it!  She is giving away 3 of her cali’flour gift packs to 3 lucky listeners and audience so keep a wide open eye out on my instagram @kareenmills or Amy’s @heyamylacey for details!

Learn more about Amy Lacey on her Instagram @heyamylacey or visit Cali'flour Foods website at www.califlourfoods.com!

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Local networking is one of my favorite topics to discuss.  I've been doing it for the last 15 years.

The first 4 years of my local networking journey was very sloppy.  But the last 4 have been fulfilling, meaningful and productive.  I've learned a thing or two about how to effectively network.  I tracked ratios and measure lag effects.  I've also measure the average time of when someone comes running to me for the solution I have educated them with when they didn't actually need the service.

Because networking is effective I want to share some of my own secret sauce when it comes to local networking.

Enjoy this episode and YES, local networking works magic!!

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