Not Just Pretty Faces

Jill joined the Cedar Rapids Downtown District in 2007 to lead the newly established Downtown Farmers’ Market. In her 10 years as the Events Planner for the Downtown District and then Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance, she grew the market from 50 to over 200 vendors, created Market After Dark, and ran numerous other large-scale community events and conferences.    

In 2016, she joined NewBoCo as the Events Director to produce EntreFEST.  During her time at NewBoCo, the organization has grown its events offerings.  She became the COO of NewBoCo in 2021. Jill has enjoyed the opportunity to expand her work throughout the organization and help lead this impactful non-profit. She is grateful to be part of an organization that consists of so many dynamic, action-oriented, passionate people.   

Jill teaches musical theater at Dance Arts Iowa in Mount Vernon.  She currently serves on the board for Revival Theatre Company and previously served on the boards for The History Center and NewBo Market. She lives in Lisbon, Iowa with her husband Thad, son Hagen and furry baby Archie.

When asked how she was killin it in life, her response was: "Good question. I don't know that I am half the time. However, I work hard each day to do impactful work that will leave a positive mark on our community and work to support my co-workers in their important work." 

This is fair! I think most women don't know that they are killin it half the time, but we all work hard each day and I appreciate her complete honesty on this question! 

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Amanda Rae Campbell built a rapidly successful business - literally - from the ground up! She is a fitness and lifestyle consultant and owner of Tire Trained. She is empowering women daily to take charge of and step into their power. 

We talk about where she came from - Meal prep - and where she has gone - Studio owner and more! She knows that EVERYBODY can step into their power and fulfill their dreams!

Her Bio:

Amanda is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Lifestyle Consultant. She works with women daily helping them change their lives. Amanda takes a no BS, get out of your own way approach to lifestyle change. She believes that EVERY woman has the capability to step into her power and take control of her life.

Amanda spent 5 years in the social work field before realizing fitness and lifestyle transformation was her true passion.  She started with writing meal plans and workout routines for clients and moved into a focus on meal preparation.  After doing that for a few years, one day she had the idea to do workouts in her back yard.  Long story short, that turned into the empire we now know as Tire Trained.

Amanda is an unstoppable go-getter.  She comes with high expectations of both herself and her clients to help us all realize what stepping into our power and reaching our full potential can look like.

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Briana is a woman of Faith, the wife to an entrepreneur, and the mother of two phenomenal girls, ages 3 and 10. In her corporate world she is a respectfully courageous leader serving as the Support Operations Manager at a Unicorn Ed-tech company with presence in over 90% of K-12 schools in the US.  

While corporate is her jam, her heart is in small business. Co-owning the local restaurant, Vivian’s Soul Food, with her husband for the past five years created the path to her passion: Helping Small Business Owners and entrepreneurs step into their power. This year, she low key launched a business consultation firm, Briana & Associates.   

High key, Briana is wildly passionate about black & brown representation in the professional arena, breaking generational curses, and creating legacy.

Connect with her here!

Sam is a certified life coach and her background has consisted of empowering individuals and corporations for over 12 years as a Trainer. She models leaders across many facets of life personally & professionally. She has recovered and reclaimed her own bold and honest future post co-dependency and she has experience with living life with & without  boundaries for over 30 years. She is a courageous entrepreneur & founder with the dream of creating a world where people live honest lives.

If you want to connect with Sam, you can on all these platforms!

Kendra defines herself as an over caffeinated, hyper-focused, odd breaker, a dream chaser and a proud Slytherin. She grew up in and still lives in rural Iowa where life is honest and humble, and standing out as a influencer isn't exactly normal. She would not describe myself as normal; in the best way possible.  She is the CEO of You Conferences and a beauty artist that aspires to give our daughters a more inclusive world to grow up in while inspiring their mothers to use their voices to be the change. She is a hopeless creative, that enjoys the nuances of humanity and you can always count on her to put her money where her mouth is.   

Amanda - at the time of this recording - had just been elected to city council, so in addition to being the managing partner at Active Edge Sports Massage, Principal at Lundstedt Coaching and Consulting, contract coach at Accelerate ActionCoach, the NAWBO advocacy chair, she is now adding Councilwoman to her long list of experience! So you know we definitely talked about time management and self-care! 

We also talked about Imposter Syndrome and Confidence as a female leader. 

If you want to connect with Amanda you can find her on these socials: 

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Dr. Tracey is a Naturopath and an empowerer of spirit! She is located in Canada and she shares how she got started, why she does what she does and how it all ties together with Western medicine. 

Connect with Dr. Tracey below

https://traceyteasdale.com/

Angie is a Sober Leader integrating values and behavior to share Mindful Leadership and Mindful Recovery. It wasn't until she learned to authentically love herself that love was brought into her life, personally and professionally.

Grounded in research and guided by behavior, Mindful Leadership and Mindful Recovery programs blend the art and science of whole-person development.

You can reach Angie at any of the following:

Amy is a Realtor in Iowa and as the first guest, she set the bar pretty high. We talked about her journey to real estate, how life throws us curve balls and how the Universe will put people in our paths, close doors when necessary and provide everything you need. 

She is a 2nd generation realtor, and if you are one or are friends with one, you know there is no "clocking off" as an agent. Because of this, we also chatted about self-care and what that truly means for her. What it means to be #Donewiththehustle and why living our best lives is more important than living the "should" life. 

You can reach Amy at 

Amy@AmyEaton.com