You Flourish Podcast

About Sherry:

Sherry Ristau is the Founder of Amethyst BOLD, a faith-based leadership company. She has successfully transformed two organizations through building great teams and boards and changed toxic cultures to ones that were positive, fun, and productive which raised millions of dollars for small to midsize businesses, communities, and nonprofits. Even after all her successes and 24 years as a CEO, Sherry still never felt good enough and fell into the spiral of comparison, craving recognition from people who never gave it. As Sherry grew in her leadership, she learned she was not the only woman struggling with never feeling good enough. She now helps professional and executive women who struggle with doubt in themselves and discouragement through her signature GEM process where women come together under God’s guidance, capture their victories, and create greater impact for their families, businesses, and communities.

Sherry is on a mission to empower 5,000 professional women to come together every week to reflect and refuel growing bolder in faith and as a woman called by God to fulfill their purpose. Connect with her here:

Peter Contreras works as a Project Manager and Consultant delivering IT projects for 25+ and now lives out his passion doing corporate speaking and coaching with lessons learned from work and life.

Sarah and her husband Nate live in West Fargo with their three beautiful daughters. When she's not chauffeuring kids from activity to activity, you can find her chasing her goals and having extra time at home with the family. Meeting new people, being a community cheerleader, and staying updated with new innovation are a few of her big passions. Since the new year, she has been navigating a new role as a stay at home mom and wife. As this is uncharted territory for her, she's excited to see where this new path takes her. 

Tanner Palm leads Operations and Product for a start-up called generAI. They are working to transform the marketing and advertising industry through AI. Their incredibly talented team will be releasing our first product, generGrade in spring of 2023 which will allow D2C Ecommerce brands the ability to predict the effectiveness of your video ads before you actually push the content.
Building products, scaling start-ups, developing community, supporting founders, and a good cup of black coffee is where Tanner finds joy.
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Desri knows firsthand the power of faith, inspiration, courage, and drive to overcome life’s toughest challenges. Her own journey through a cancer diagnosis and survival taught her the importance of having a solid plan, the power of positivity, and the value of a supportive community. As a certified high performance coach, Desri brings her expertise in corporate and association leadership, entrepreneurship, real estate, and survivorship to help others achieve their full potential through custom high performance coaching programs. Training under the world’s #1 high performance coach, at The High Performance Institute, Desri is a highly motivated leader and certified coach, who builds and retains high performance teams by recruiting, developing, engaging, & inspiring skilled professionals. With a passion for leading people and creating high performing teams, Desri is committed to helping individuals take charge of their personal and professional lives and move forward towards success.

About Brad:

Brad Lindblad is a husband and father of three who serves as a Data Scientist in Fargo. When not spending time with his family, he mentors cancer patients and survivors and tries to get out hunting when he can.

John 16:33 NIV

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

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Kailer chose a career in real estate because he loves helping people through emotional times. Buying or selling a home is a huge moment in peoples' lives and he wants to be that person working for my clients, helping them through hard times and celebrating with them through exciting times. Prior to becoming a REALTOR, Kailer graduated from North Dakota State University with a degree in Veterinary Technology and went on to veterinary school at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. He was pulled away for various reasons and found my way to real estate. He is working to be a top-tier Realtor known for honesty and authenticity in addition to his industry knowledge, and he believes that a lighthearted attitude can make the best out of stressful situations. Kailer has a deep love for quality people, quality conversation, and quality relationships!

Paul has held senior production management positions at both the national and regional levels with national banks and mortgage companies. Experienced in origination, process development, and underwriting, he has a passion for assisting others in their professional and personal growth to achieve their own goals and objectives. With over 30 years of experience in assisting borrowers, Paul has the knowledge and expertise to help each borrower structure the perfect mortgage solution to achieve their goals. Utilizing an advisor’s approach to all his customers' situations, he helps them find the best solution to achieve their objectives and long-term goals. Paul believes in the customer for life relationship, treating each one with the best service possible. He is am experienced Certified Speaker/Trainer/Coach with a demonstrated history of working at the executive level. 34+ years of sales and staff production management in the financial industry. "Everyone is a leader, and to be a great leader you have to be a learner. Never stop educating yourself"

Blair is a commercial and residential real estate agent in Williston, North Dakota, and her story of trials, faith, and learning to pick herself up💪 and try again is nothing you want to miss!
Blair's words, "As a mental health advocate who once struggled for over 25 years with addictions, depression and anxiety, suicidal attempts/thoughts, disordered eating, and divorce; my heart rooted passion and mission is to offer a place and community connected with local businesses and individuals where those who are struggling can find the true light and healing through God and Jesus, our ultimate healer and friend." ❤️

William S. Cromarty is a former CIA officer and national security subject-matter expert in aerospace and satellite systems, space/counterspace weapons system counterproliferation, and aerospace-sector geopolitics. Drawing on years of undercover experience, William spearheads federal aerospace partnerships in support of America's most cutting-edge satellite and UAS programs. Prior to his former national security role, William served in the emergency management and Silicon Valley tech sectors with specialization in radio communications systems. William holds degrees from New York University and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, has performed NASA Astrobiology field research in austere regions, and is currently pursuing additional post-graduate studies in small satellite engineering at the George Mason Volgenau School of Engineering.

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Sarah grew up in Dickinson, ND, as one of five children, and the only girl. This alone describes most of who she is and why she is the way she is today... 

Sarah writes, "I have definitely had my doubts about faith in my life. And while I have taken steps back during various stages of my life, today, I am finding myself turning towards my faith more and more, and finding God more present in my life each day."

Joe grew up on a small dairy farm in Minnesota, and moved to Fargo for college to pursue a degree in the medical field at NDSU. During the college years, he experienced a profound conversion and have been working in various ministries since graduating. 

Joe is also married with 5 kids and works at the St. Paul's Newman Center at NDSU in Development. 

Christian is a former federal officer and national security expert in cybersecurity, regional, and transnational issues. At Mandiant, Christian is a red team consultant specializing in web application security. Christian has experience in comprehensively assessing web, mobile, and thick client applications as well as corporate enterprise networks for security vulnerabilities.

Leveraging his background in both cybersecurity and national security, Christian consults with clients directly to manage their information security risk. Additionally, Christian has served as an invited speaker on cybersecurity topics at a number of events including PMMC 2022, the DC Cybersecurity Professionals meetup, Johnson County Community College, and National University.

Christian earned his MS in Cyber Security, specializing in ethical hacking and penetration testing, from National University in 2019. Prior to his national security role, Christian completed a BS in Computer Engineering with honors and a minor in Global Intelligence and National Security. In 2023, Christian earned his designation as a Certified Red Team Operator.

Additionally, Christian is a competitive age group triathlete, Spartan and Battle of the Lions athlete, as well as avid half marathoner. He is passionate about health, fitness, and helping people achieve their health and performance goals.

Christian is a 2023 TriDot Ambassador.

Christian is a former federal officer and national security expert in cybersecurity, regional, and transnational issues. At Mandiant, Christian is a red team consultant specializing in web application security. Christian has experience in comprehensively assessing web, mobile, and thick client applications as well as corporate enterprise networks for security vulnerabilities.

Leveraging his background in both cybersecurity and national security, Christian consults with clients directly to manage their information security risk. Additionally, Christian has served as an invited speaker on cybersecurity topics at a number of events including PMMC 2022, the DC Cybersecurity Professionals meetup, Johnson County Community College, and National University.

Christian earned his MS in Cyber Security, specializing in ethical hacking and penetration testing, from National University in 2019. Prior to his national security role, Christian completed a BS in Computer Engineering with honors and a minor in Global Intelligence and National Security. In 2023, Christian earned his designation as a Certified Red Team Operator.

Additionally, Christian is a competitive age group triathlete, Spartan and Battle of the Lions athlete, as well as avid half marathoner. He is passionate about health, fitness, and helping people achieve their health and performance goals.

Christian is a 2023 TriDot Ambassador.

In 2017, Trina found herself navigating the life altering reality of divorce. Armed with a deeply held belief that beauty is harvested from the broken, Trina embarked on the journey of self discovery and healing.

As a senior professional and single mom of two amazing kiddos, Trina lives and breathes work life integration. With enthusiasm, compassion and wit, she helps women shatter the belief that success has to come at the cost of fulfilling life.

Like us all, Nicole Thorfinnson has had her ups, downs, and all arounds in finding her way through her faith. Growing up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Nicole was born and raised in the Catholic faith with her family by her side. As she moved through trials of life, God gave her the awakening moment she needed to know He was by her side always – which is the nudge she would need as life began to throw curves in her direction. She believes these ups and downs have only grown her faith in God, and brought her the confidence she needed to continue learning about her faith. She is now a resident of West Fargo, North Dakota, loves her job at Bobcat Company in their marketing department, and spends lots of sunny summers at the lake with her husband and dog.

Hannah joined commerce in March 2020 serving as Credit and Venture Analyst for the North Dakota Development Fund. After one year in this role, Hannah was promoted to Venture Financing Manager where she is responsible for handling all new business for the NDDF. Hannah works with companies and private lenders to structure funding packages for businesses. She performs the due diligence and provides support to companies from application to board presentation.  

Prior to joining Commerce, Hannah founded Pathway Ventures, a student-run venture capital fund focused on investing in companies in the Midwest. She served as Head of Business Development and helped raise $100,000 for the fund.  

In 2018, Hannah co-founded Women in Business, an organization with a mission to create of community of women who support each other in their careers. She grew this organization to over 120 members in two years and it continues to impact the lives of women today. 

Hannah graduated Summa Cum Laude from North Dakota State University with B.S. degrees in both Finance and Economics. Hannah grew up in Paynesville, MN and currently resides in Fargo. In her free time, Hannah can be found reading at a coffee shop, exploring the outdoors, or enjoying live music.  

Half of Emily's resume illustrates a sport medicine career, the other 1/2, more positions full of service. But her TRUE vocation is motherhood. She is intentional about investing my time on things that allow her to make a REAL & LASTING impact on people & humanity,  In a nutshell: She's a multi-passionate human (1w2) “YOLOing” to the fullest.  @ her core, the thing that fires🔥🔥 her UP is helping YOU level UP^ to be THE ABSOLUTE BEST YOU can be.

On this episode, Emily shares her story of how she found herself living out God's purpose for her life. She talks about her career journey and how it brought her to Fargo, ND - A place she never would have expected, but a place God needed her to be. 

Ali Arndt is the mother of 2 beautiful daughters, the program coordinator at KAYD Home Care, a leader in her church, and is joining our team at You Flourish! 

Tune into this episode to learn more about Ali and how she stays positive and brings joy to everyone around her even when things don't fully go as planned! 

Life isn't about incorporating our faith into our work... it's about incorporating our work into our faith. 

Glen Stevens, former pastor, is the founder and owner of The Mental Fitness Guy and his mission is to help leaders strengthen their mental toughness so they can optimize their businesses for revenue and profit. Glen is a trained mental fitness coach. He's also a certified Business Made Simple coach. He believes that when he helps a small business leader succeed, he's helping them make our world a better place.

Tune in as Dana shares about her journey and how she has helped others discover their true gifts and talents while she has personally gone on a self-discovery journey herself.

About Jamie:

Jamie is a mom to 2 amazing kiddos and a wife. She's worked in the corporate world, owned a childcare and learning center for 13 years, and she currently have a brand partnership in the health and wellness industry while also building a business as a coach and consultant.

Listen in as Jamie talks about how she spent years keeping her faith and professional life in separate lanes, running parallel on the same highway.  Several years ago she recognized how that wasn’t working and connected the two together. She now integrates her faith and her professional life on a daily basis. She has business meetings with God, where she looks to him for guidance in daily tasks and big projects.  

She prays for her teammates and customers….those she is currently working with and those she has yet to meet.  The more she integrates them together the more successful she is with both areas of her life.

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We are thrilled to be hosting our 2023 Women's Goal Setting Summit on January 13th, 2023 in Fargo, ND. Tune into this episode to learn more about it and why YOU should be there! 

Do your daily decisions and the community you choose to surround yourself align with your priorities and values?

Kelly Edwards is an experienced Mortgage loan officer who has been riding the stress wave of working in the mortgage industry during the global pandemic. 

Then, the last 6 months have slowed down with interest rates changing. Finally things are speeding back up.

Listen in as Kelly shares her story about how to navigate different seasons of our life when the pace is fluctuating.

Hannah lives in Fargo with her husband, Tyler, and their daughter, Harper (October 2020). She was raised in East Grand Forks and spent most of her time growing up playing soccer, figure skating, and babysitting her cousins. She attended NDSU (Go Bison!) and earned her degree in Management Communication with a minor in Public Relations. Hannah currently serves as the Senior Marketing Specialist at a credit union in town and while she thoroughly loves her job, her favorite part of the day is picking up her daughter from daycare. When she’s not hanging out at home with Tyler and Harper, she enjoys reading, working out, golfing (when weather permits) and spending way too much time shopping. She’ll never turn down a margarita, fried pickles or a competitive card game with her large extended family.

In this episode we uncover the power of prayer and understanding that God is right there next to us all the time. We have a tendency to think certain situations are the end of the world, but with God we can make it through anything. Do you think of things in absolutes? If so, this episode is for you! 

Join us in this episode with fitness and faith guru, Michelle Cody, the studio director at Fly Fitness! In this episode we talk about how to bring faith into our secular culture and create an environment of love, understanding, and hope. 

Michelle is a mom of 4, a mimi to 3 sweet grandbabies, and has been married to her husband Troy for 30 years!! 

A note from Tracy: Hi, I'm Tracy and I am The Revived Mom and it's my mission to help other moms to become The Revived Mom too. I believe in helping women dust off their Christian faith by learning how to read God's Word without feeling overwhelmed and ditch religious rules for a relationship with Jesus.  I believe in the power of nutrition by adding in the good for you stuff while still enjoying the fun for you stuff.  I believe that that if a woman wants to be a stay at home mom and make money for her family she has the power to do that with the right tools. Together we are creating healthier families - one mom at a time.

Carrie Haugen is a connecter of people through her role as the Campus Recruitment Manager at Eide Bailly. She graduated from NDSU in 2018 with a degree in Human Resources Management and works remotely from her home in Hawley, MN. She loves connecting to others and learning their stories, which is why she pursued campus recruitment as a career. Her husband, family, friends, and Golden Retriever are the light of her life. In her spare time, she loves reading a good book or listening to a podcast, spending time at the lake, or exploring a local park.

We've decided to change the name of our podcast to You Flourish Podcast, because we want to focus on how as leaders we can help people flourish in all areas of their lives, but especially their faith lives. 

We will continue to drop a new episode every Tuesday, so tune in to see what our new name and new season is all about. 

Grace Klassen graduated from North Dakota State University in 2022 with a BS in Journalism and minor in political science. She just started a new role in tech sales in Fargo at Onsharp, Inc. Grace loves all thinks pink, iced coffee, and Jesus! 

In this episode the Grace's chat about the importance of friendship and community, especially at work. We also talk about what to do when you feel lonely and how to ask God for his help with that. Tune in to learn what we had to say! 

On this episode we discuss what it really means to set expectations and how we can still hold ourselves accountable while also giving ourselves grace. Join Grace and Aleasha Orth, personal banker at Bell Bank, in our conversation!

Change is so hard. 

Grace and I made a BIG decision to change the name of our company from The Burnout Prevention Project to You Flourish Company. 

We are thrilled to be able to share with with our listeners.

Tune in today, to hear about how hard navigating this change was and also some tips for when you are wanting to make a change.

Karli Moch is back for another episode! She is the Director of Mission Development at BioGirls, an amazing non-profit in town that strives to build self esteem in young girls. 

In this episode we talk about the importance of relationships and how sometimes we let our work or the tasks that need to be done take importance over the people we are with. 

Do you often find yourself comparing who you are and what you do to other people? It is so easy to fall into the mentality that everyones life is better than yours, and social media does not help with that! 

In this episode with Kayla Kallander, we discuss the pressures of "keeping up with the Jones's", and how that can tear you and those around you down! 

What happens if you go through a hard transition and you feel like you've lost your identity... 

We all put our worth in the things we do and the people we are with, but what about putting our identity in the only thing that matters... God. 

Tara is the Director of Executive Operations at Dakota Medical Foundation in Fargo, ND, but she is also a loving servant of God and those around her. In our conversation we talk about the challenges of having hard conversations with those we care about... especially in the workplace. How does Jesus want us to act? 

Do you get annoyed easy? We are completely in control of our emotions, but sometimes we let the little things get to us. 

In this episode, Kelsey and Grace dive into how to to lean into our faith when we get annoyed and frustrated. What would Jesus do? 

Nadine has grown up and lived in Fargo, ND her entire life, and is very fortunate to be close to her home and her mom. She has been married for 12 years to her husband Chris, and they have 2 adorable daughters, Carleigh and Charlotte. She has been a graphic designer for the past 20 years and has LOVED watching marketing really take the massive change from traditional to digital. Nadine recently started a new position at Moore Holding Company as the Senior Marketing Automation Specialist. In this episode she dives into how she has leaned into her faith in this huge life transition. 

As a Leadership Development Coach at Trevero and Head of Community Development at Fjell Capital, Carissa Geske has the opportunity to connect with so many amazing people. Her fire for God and drive to be present and caring is undeniable. Join our conversation as we talk about the freedom that is found when you create habits, and the power of connection with everyone you meet. 

Emily got her MBA from the University of Mary, where she was able to integrate her Catholic faith with her professional studies. Currently, Emily works as a Talent Development Consultant at Noridian in Fargo and empowers employees to learn and grow. Emily is energized by planning events, growing her faith community, and connecting with passionate people. Emily's favorite new role is a mother to her 4-month old baby James.

When is the last time you said, "I'll be happy when....." (fill in the blank)?

I (Kelsey) admit I say this ALL the time. I'll be happy when I hit that next work goal, weight goal, income goal, when this or that happens....etc...

Motivational Speaker and Author Teresa Lewis takes us through a deep, authentic dialogue about how to have gratitude and calm amidst difficult times.

In 1873, a man named Horatio Spafford had gone through so many trials and tribulations and the only thing that gave him peace was the Bible verse 1 Peter 4:12.

Kay is the founder of Fargo Fit Friend, and she uses her love for movement and wellness to spread knowledge and excitement throughout our community. She is launching a brand new series called Flowmotion on May 1st!