The Blair Badenhop Show

Samara Zelniker is the founder of Mindfulness Matters, a platform dedicated to empowering leaders to reach their infinite potential. She's been featured as a leadership expert in Forbes, Business Insider, and Focus TV. With over a decade of experience teaching yoga, meditation and mindfulness, she incorporates tools in Eastern ancient wisdom and modern Western science to help you individuals and businesses thrive. Through a curated and personalized program, Samara works with her clients to highlight innate talents and nourish a practical application of core strengths. As a result, clients are guided towards a deeper understanding of self, and a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment. This is done through 1:1 coaching, management training, team off-sites and international retreats. In this episode, Samara shares the sequence of unusual events that led Samara to fall in love with yoga, become a teacher, and start Mindfulness Matters, her bold decision to shift from a career in fashion to a brand new one in wellness, and how she leaned on both her intuition and practicality, why keeping her head down and staying in her own lane is what empowered her to get clear on her unique value and vs. getting caught in comparison and paralysis, why she recommends not being shy about leveraging your own personal network to initiate the beginnings of your business—and what it looked like for her to do just that, the brilliant strategy that helped build her relationships with HR executives in order to land clients in the corporate world, the 3 core marketing techniques that she swears by and how they have played a key role in the growth of her platform, and so much more! To learn more about Samara Zelniker and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Aarona Lea is the author of the intuitive oracle set 'The Moon Deck' which has reached thousands of women globally and been featured in publications like Goop, Well+Good, MindBodyGreen and others. As an entrepreneur for the past 20 years, she has a depth of experience in the realms of meditation, yoga, intuitive ritual, alternative therapies and more. She leverages her experience and training to facilitate empowering workshops and trainings and leads sacred circles and retreats worldwide, offers private & group Intuitive Oracle Readings. Beginning her healing path as a child, this curiosity about emotional health & intuition began a life-long journey of study, practice, & ritual where she explored the shadowy depths of healing trauma, recovered from chronic bulimia, and is now helping to normalize conversations around emotional and spiritual wellbeing. In our conversation, we chat about her journey to healing from bulimia through her yoga practice, and why she felt inspired to both become a yoga teacher and health coach, why intuition has always informed her decisions and led her to the perfect next step in both life and in business, her yoga teaching career, traveling the world, hosting retreats, and what she did to pivot when this business stopped growing, what inspired her to write an oracle deck and why it took years for her to finally launch what is now known as the Moon Deck, her process for creating the deck, crowd-funding for it, and building the brand so that it became a coveted personal growth tool and ritual, why she prefers steady growth over speedy growth and measures her success by how many lives she impacts, not how much press she gets, and so much more! To learn more about Aarona Lea and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Joanne Schneider is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Kindbody, a network of beautiful tech-enabled fertility and wellness clinics designed to improve access and convenience for women's healthcare. With locations in New York City, LA, and San Francisco. Aside from being one of the first to create a one-stop-destination of this nature for women, Kindbody also builds all of their own software in-house to reduce the cost of care for their patients and modernize the experience. Joanne has been leading product and engineering teams her whole career starting at Google in the Bay Area, and most recently at Flatiron Health, a cancer technology company. Joanne and I had this conversation at the end of 2019 way before COVID-19 became a worldwide pandemic. What's amazing is that in New York City, fertility care has been deemed an essential healthcare service, so KindBody's clinic has remained open and actively seeing patients. They also offer virtual consultations. Which means that women who are still on their fertility journeys can get incredible support even right now. I could not admire Joanne and her co-founder Gina more, and I'm really excited to give you a peek inside this incredible company. To learn more about Joanne Schneider and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Jenny Sansouci is the author of The Rebel's Apothecary: A Practical Guide To The Healing Magic of Cannabis, CBD, and Mushrooms. She's a certified Health Coach and creator of the wellness blog Healthy Crush, where she's been writing since 2008. Jenny is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and has been trained by functional medicine doctor Frank Lipman, MD in New York City. She is based in Brooklyn, New York. Jenny and I have known each other since 2011 when I started working at IIN. And we became friends through IIN's Ambassador/Affiliate program— something that was a core part of my job there. I remember feeling so in awe of the life she'd created for herself, blogging fulltime and living with so much freedom. Ever since, I've watched her grow and expand and deepen her love for plants and their medicinal magic. I was so incredibly moved by her relationship with her dad and how she's showed up for him as he's navigated Pancreatic cancer. In this episode, she shares how she got her start blogging before it was even a thing— and what inspired her to shift from sharing her personal life to creating a platform devoted to wellness, her secret strategy to not only monetizing her blog, but optimizing SEO so it showed up on the first page in Google, how she leveraged affiliate commissions and advertising to fund her blog and earn enough to leave her full-time job, what it was like to travel the world as a digital nomad, how she made it happen, and why she's spent the last few years more grounded and close to home, why her dad's stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis was a huge turning point for her not only personally but professionally, how her deep desire to help her dad led her to study CBD, Cannabis, and medicinal mushrooms and applied them to her father's treatment plan, and so much more! To learn more about Jenny Sansouci and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Throughout her career, Kristin McGee has been a pioneer in making yoga more accessible. She helped launch the Peloton yoga program and is currently instructing with them. She's also starred in over 100 yoga and pilates videos including MTV workout videos, Bethenny Frankel workout Videos and her own personal brand of yoga DVD's. She has privately trained celebrities and has written books about the value of yoga in everyday life. She has appeared on Live with Kelly and Ryan, Good Morning America, The Today Show and has been featured in Health, Shape, Vogue, and Women's Health. As a busy mom of three boys, Kristin strongly believes that just a few minutes of yoga a day can bring more balance and harmony to your life. Kristin's classes will ground you, challenge you to focus on the moment and connect your mind, body and breath. Kristin and I have known each other—mostly from afar for years. As you'll hear in the episode, she is incredibly kind, genuine, and a total open book. And I've admired the way she brings her authentic self to life in her online presence. In this episode, her journey to finding and falling in love with yoga, and why she decided to become a teacher and leave behind acting , what it was like to make $10-$15 per class at the start of her career, and why staying humble led to so many serendipitous collaborations, clients, and more, the sequence of events that led to her becoming Steve Martin's private yoga and Pilates instructor and how that ignited her brand's visibility in a big way , why she's been fearless in turning her ideas into reality and how that has empowered her to secure opportunities with brands like MTV and Peloton, how she's seamlessly blended her life as a mom and yoga teacher on social media, and has become such a beloved resource for her audience, what it's been like to juggle motherhood with a thriving wellness business, and so much more! To learn more about Kristin McGee and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Kelly Leveque is a holistic nutritionist, wellness expert, and celebrity health coach based in Los Angeles, California. Her business Be Well by Kelly grew out of Kelly's lifelong passion for health, the science of nutrition and overall wellness. Guided by a practical and always optimistic approach, she helps clients improve their health, achieve their goals and develop sustainable habits to live a healthy and balanced life. She is extremely passionate about the science of human nutrition, and studies the latest research, evaluates competing theories and reads everything which has always put her ahead of wellness trends before they're in the media. Prior to starting her business, she in the medical field for Fortune 500 companies like J&J, Stryker, and Hologic, eventually moving into personalized medicine, offering tumor gene mapping and molecular subtyping to oncologists. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California and completed her Post Graduate Clinical Nutrition education through UCLA and UC Berkeley. She rounded out her education with a number of other certifications including health coaching through The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, 200-hour Yoga Instructor training, and as a personal trainer through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. In this episode, Kelly shares why she fell in love with the science of nutrition and how her love of research made her an invaluable resource for friends before she turned her passion into a business, what it looked like to build her nutrition business as a side hustle with a demanding fulltime job, the things she invested in, how she grew her audience, and more, why being humble, generous, and focused on service was so key to building awareness about her work in the beginning, and why she highly recommends starting before you're ready, the detailed story about how she got her first celebrity client, and how that created a ripple effect to become a go-to nutritionist for many others, why she says it's so important to trust yourself, keep learning, and keep trying and get over the fact that you don't need to know everything, and so much more! To learn more about Kelly Leveque and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Jessie De Lowe is a manifestation coach, art therapist, certified yoga instructor and Co-Founder of the lifestyle + wellness platform How You Glow. She has dedicated much of her life to the study and practice of alternative healing and now helps others enrich their lives through an array of therapeutic mediums. Jesse leads by example, living a high-vibration, love-filled existence with her family by the sea. She is passionate about guiding others to do the same, to find their own version of bliss and soul alignment through her offerings. And she is also the host of a relationship + love podcast called Madly Forever. In the episode, she shares how she found her way to art therapy, manifestation work, and co-creating the popular content platform, the adorable story about how she met her How You Glow co-founder Tara Sowlaty, the little wins that put their brand on the map and why it had nothing to do with a strategy, why she has always taken a "relaxed hustle" approach to business building and what that looks like in action, a peek inside her manifestation process, what it's like to integrate business and motherhood, and so much more! To learn more about Jessie De Lowe and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Gabby Bernstein is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back and has written six additional bestsellers, including Super Attractor which just launched in September 2019. She was featured on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday as a "next-generation thought leader" and The Oprah Winfrey Network chose Gabrielle to be part of the "Super Soul 100" a dynamic group of 100 trailblazers whose vision and life's work are bringing a higher level of consciousness to the world. The New York Times identified her as "a new role model." She appears regularly as an expert on The Dr. Oz Show and co-hosted the Guinness World Record largest guided meditation with Deepak Chopra. Additionally, Gabrielle has been featured in media outlets such as ELLE, OWN, TODAY, Marie Claire, Health, SELF, Women's Health, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, the covers of Success Magazine, Experience Life Magazine and more. So, I came across Gabby Bernstein back in 2008 while reading an article in the New York Times. But I didn't fully get into her work until 2011 when I was going through a terrible break-up. From her books to her live events to her guided meditations, her work has played a significant role in my own personal growth, and I'm so honored to have her on the show to share all kinds of business wisdom with you. In this episode, she shares the life event in her 20's that made her fearless in the pursuit of her work as a spiritual teacher, what it was like to start a business before social media existed and why word of mouth was the secret to her growth especially in the beginning, what it looked like to transition from coaching clients to exclusively make a living speaking and writing books, why she was forced to come to terms with her workaholism 10 years into business, and what it looked like for her to finally build a team, why she says focusing on service has been the secret to her success and global impact, the 7 blocks that we must get over in order to become what she calls a "Super Attractor", and so much more! To learn more about Gabby Bernstein and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Dara Dubinet is a raw food expert and popular YouTube host turned lifestyle intuitive. Using the magic of astrogeography, the north node, and her intuitive hits, she helps her clients navigate everything from career choices to life purpose to relationships to choosing the perfect location on the planet to live and thrive. She's the creator of two powerful life navigation tools: Astrogeography (the astrology of place) and Life Direction, which anyone can purchase online. Her work has been featured in Glamour Magazine, Departures Magazine, on the Balanced Blonde podcast, and the Expanded podcast with Lacy Phillips. As someone who has been a lover of astrology since I was a pre-teen, I was excited to learn something so interesting from Dara—that our north node is a huge asset in clarifying life purpose and that where you live impacts your ability to live our your life purpose. As you'll hear, Dara is such a wealth of knowledge about this and she was kind enough to show her work in action by sharing insight about me and my life purpose. To learn more about Dara Dubinet and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram

Paula Mallis is the founder of WMN Space, an LA-based healing oasis and gathering space for women. Her expertise as a doula, a facilitator of women circles, along with her extensive training in Spiritual Psychology, inspired her to create an environment where women are supported on their own unique journey to cultivate their intuition and more. WMN Space has been featured in the New York Times, Goop, Well & Good, Chalkboard Mag, Vogue, and others. As you'll hear, Paula built a thriving business without a strategy. Instead, she leaned completely into her spiritual practice and intuitive guidance to make every decision. Over and over again, she tuned in and took action until WMN Space became what it is today. In this episode, she shares why birthing her daughter was the catalyst to her shifting from a career as an actress and model to personal growth entrepreneur, what it looked like for her to start building a community for women and how this passion project grew beyond the walls of her living room into its own brick and mortar oasis, why she built every piece of her business intuitively, leveraging her heart and spirituality vs. strategy, her step by step process for moving through self-doubt, upset, self-judgment, and limiting beliefs in order to step into her purpose more fully, the imperfections and missteps she's taken along the way and how getting honest with herself inspired a real shift in her business and led to more growth and profit, and so much more! To learn more about Paula Mallis and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes. Follow Me On: Facebook Instagram