Episode 52

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11th Mar 2025

From the NY Giants to the Last Frontier

In this episode, Lesa welcomes Olivia Atkin, a dynamic individual who hosts the podcast 'Achieving Success.' Olivia shares her inspiring journey that spans from working in professional sports with the New York Giants to founding Achieving Success, LLC, which includes a book division, a podcast, and podcast consulting services. They discuss the importance of finding and using one's voice, the varied career paths that can define success, and the unique experiences of living in Juneau, Alaska. Olivia also provides insights into managing professional and personal life transitions and emphasizes the value of networking and lifelong learning.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome

01:26 Olivia's Background and Podcast

07:31 Life in Alaska

17:32 Career with the New York Giants

25:17 Transition to Supply Chain and Business Ventures

28:32 Podcast Consulting and Final Thoughts

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Meet Olivia Atkin, a trailblazer in the podcasting world, whose show, "Achieving Success with Olivia Atkin," reaches listeners in 40 countries across all seven continents—making it the only podcast of its kind to achieve this global presence. Olivia, a dynamic entrepreneur based in New Jersey, empowers individuals to start or elevate their podcasts through expert guidance in strategy, titles and descriptions, uploading, SEO, and management for seamless success.

With a Bachelor’s in Business Management, a minor in Sports Studies, and an MBA specializing in Supply Chain, Olivia combines academic excellence with real-world impact. Her expertise shines through her certifications, including SHRM CP, CAPM, CPIM, and Green Belt Six Sigma, which she leverages to deliver exceptional results. As the leader of Achieving Success LLC, Olivia inspires others with her book, "Achieving Success in Career Development," and her TEDx talk, "Defeating Your Biggest Enemy...You!"

Through her innovative approach to podcasting, Olivia helps clients organically grow their shows, connect with global audiences, and achieve their goals with smooth, strategic outcomes. Her passion for empowering others and breaking boundaries cements her legacy as a leader in the podcasting industry.





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Welcome, listeners.

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I'm so thankful that you're here today.

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I have Olivia Atkin with me, and

she's someone that's kind of new.

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You're a new person that popped up in

my world, and I'm excited to get to

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know Olivia more for Several reasons.

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One is she's got a podcast

called Achieving Success.

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And Olivia, I did listen to some of

that today and I did really like it.

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You have some great guests on there.

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And so I would just, um, tell

my audience, if you're looking

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for some interesting stories.

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It's good life stuff too.

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I mean, it talks about business and

growth and, and I'm about that too.

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You know, even though I'm a little bit

more probably on the mature side, I still,

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I mean, it's still fun to grow and learn.

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And another thing that drew me to you was

you talk about having a voice in Olivia.

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You're so young and you have

a voice and that's so awesome.

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But I think about.

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I am just starting to find

my voice and I don't know if

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it's common for women or not.

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I just know what I've gone through and

I know that I have kind of been maybe

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a little bit afraid, maybe wanting to

people please and haven't used my voice.

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So I want to talk about that a little bit.

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Today too.

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But before we get into all

of that, Olivia, welcome.

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And please just share your story.

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Just tell us a little about you, what

led you to do this work and, and you're

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in New Jersey, which everyone's going

to know when they hear your voice.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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So one interesting fact I'll

start with is I currently.

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Um, go between New Jersey

and Juneau, Alaska.

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Oh

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Speaker: my gosh!

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Speaker 2: We're currently, yes, um,

which is an interesting story about

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owning your voice and your power, um,

in itself, because, never thought, a

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girl born in the South, grew up in New

Jersey, and then after college went back

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and lived in New Jersey, I never thought,

and refused to move out of the area.

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So Alaska was not even

on my visiting list.

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Um, let alone moving.

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Um, but my boyfriend

is the chief in the U.

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S.

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Coast Guard and he got stationed here.

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So we are here.

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Um, do you know Alaska?

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But it's a very fun journey and Let

me tell you when the times comes every

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few months I could go back to Jersey.

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I'm like, yes

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Speaker: Well, okay, so I didn't know

that I thought you were in New Jersey.

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So right now you're doing

this recording from Alaska

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I keep it New Jersey

at like for example on LinkedIn where we

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first connected Because typically, there's

stereotypes with Alaska in general, right?

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Um, oh, the six months darkness, six

months lightness, there's no real

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civilization, which I'm not, there's

some parts of that that are true.

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There's some parts that aren't, but

typically, just like in general, um, when

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people hear Alaska, they get preconceived

notions on your own capabilities,

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what you could do, what you can't do.

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And I'm like, We're going to

keep it to New Jersey because the

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lower 48, everyone kind of knows.

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Um, but yeah, so my story is I started

my business Achieving Success, LLC,

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which has a book division, my podcast

division, as well as podcast consulting.

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When I started my podcast,

Achieving Success with Olivia Atkin.

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That launched November 1st, 2022.

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So we're three years in, it's

been a wonderful journey, but for

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me, I'd written my book first and

that gets used at universities, I.

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Was teaching career development and

speaking about career development

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and working at Lockheed Martin

at the time, but to also give

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a little bit of backstory.

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I did not go to undergrad college

saying I'm going to be in supply chain.

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I'm going to do this and that.

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Actually went my undergrad degree

is business management with a dual

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minor in sports studies and law.

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I was the youngest intern to ever

intern at the New York Football Giants.

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And I worked in professional

sports for eight years.

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So if you would ask me, I always go

back to like that young professional,

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if you'd ask me then, my career would

always be in professional sports.

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And I was lucky enough that

halfway through my college career,

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I had that opportunity and I was

staying with the organization.

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So I didn't even need to worry

about a job or go like, I might not

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be able to work in this industry.

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But it got to a point where I was growing

and I was working for them, managing

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professional athletes and just going,

there's pieces of this I really enjoy.

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There's pieces of this I enjoy

and don't enjoy, but there's also

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pieces of this that when I look

at my future, is this sustainable?

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And that's when I then You know,

transferred into and went back to school

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and got my MBA with the concentration

supply chain because all these

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different factors you get to work on

in supply chain and the things I love.

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And by the time I graduate, graduated

with my MBA and start working at Lockheed.

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It's a degree of certification

in every business area.

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And the big thing I found was that when

you're talking, especially to young

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professionals, they think what they

go to college for, even by year two or

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three, and they might not be in love

with it, is what they have to stay in.

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And I'm like, that's not true.

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And if you talk to most people,

they don't enter or graduate with.

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A certain degree and specific the

specificity of that industry or whatever

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it might be that they enter and stay

that long term we change as individuals.

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And that really needs to be what

I think and why everything's

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called achieving success.

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Because success changes and it

should change because the one

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constant in life is change.

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And so for me, doing my business

and podcast is going wherever

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you are today, even if you're

in the thick of it, it is okay.

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And it's relatable.

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And it's finding your footing,

finding your voice, owning your story.

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That will take all those moments

of doubt, uncertainty, growth that

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you're having, and possibly even

issues other people don't know about.

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And be able to become the victor of

that and go, yes, this is where I am.

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And I'm proud of it.

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Speaker: Okay.

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I love this on so many levels.

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And I just have to say that I love

that you say success changes because

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I really didn't start doing this work

that I love until I was like 49 or 50.

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So I want my listeners

to know that this is.

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Any stage of your life.

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And I want to talk more about that.

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And I want to, I do want to

get more information on what

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you did in the sports world.

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Cause that's just intriguing

and I can't help it, Olivia.

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I don't know if you even want to

talk about Alaska, but you peaked my

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curiosity and I have to ask because they

have those shows like living Alaska.

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And I never looked down.

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I, like I watch and I think, wow,

what a beautiful beautiful space

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to live in and how different is.

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And can you just for a few minutes

shed a little light and tell me,

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is it dark for six months or not?

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Cause I'm in Wisconsin.

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I feel like we're kind of close

to Alaska, but you tell me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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So I could debunk some myths.

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I could give you some insight.

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So, I live in Juneau.

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So, Juneau is the most

southeast part of Alaska.

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Um, it does not have six months of

darkness and six months of whiteness.

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It, and I will go over the time span

in a minute, I also want to highlight

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Juneau is technically a rainforest.

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So we don't get massive dumps of snow.

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It's actually, I'm pretty sure from

something I've read when we moved

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here, it's the only rainforest

in the U S I could be wrong.

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Could be right.

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Um, so don't quote me on that.

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I'm just saying, um, But the way

in this section of June of Alaska,

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the sunlight works is the longest

month of the year is June, and

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it peaks at 18 hours of sunlight.

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We, we moved here in the end of June

and to give an idea of what that was.

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About 3.

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30, 4 a.

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m.

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is sunrise and sunset's

at about 11 o'clock.

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That's a little

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Speaker: crazy.

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Was that a little crazy?

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Speaker 2: It was, especially moving here.

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Um, so Juneau is also waterlocked.

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So the only way to get here is by boat.

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Um, and they have a ferry cruise line for,

if you're getting to different parts of

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Juneau and from Seattle as well as planes.

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So we got here on a boat cause

we had our truck and all of that.

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And we got off the boat because of

some delays at two in the morning.

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So we got to our house.

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We were moving into it.

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Two 30.

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We're pumped.

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We do a quick walk

through completely dark.

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And then we're just talking like

ants walking through everything.

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And all of a sudden I look at the window.

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I'm like.

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Is the sun rising already?

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Like, what time is it?

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I'm like, oh my god, it's 3.

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15 in the morning, like.

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What is happening where

the craziness really lies.

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You have to be careful with that.

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Um, because we moved here again

as part of the Coast Guard.

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So we packed a lot of stuff in our truck.

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Um, but like our bedding and stuff,

obviously the Coast Guard moved.

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So we were sleeping in the living

room on our guests furniture.

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We had bought when we were here

and We have a lot of windows.

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So you were getting, I'm a light sleeper.

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That sun's coming in

at four in the morning.

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I'm waking up thinking it's seven,

eight, you know, at Northeast

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time that 8am the day's going.

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Where it also gets confusing and plays

with you is we all have that time

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where it's like, okay, it's getting

darker, you know, days winding down.

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And when it's bright sun at nine 30

at night and You're, you know, working

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through the day and you look at the time

and realize what time it is, or you're

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sitting and watching TV going, Okay,

I can watch TV for a little longer.

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It's not that late.

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And you're like, it's 11 o'clock.

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Knowing that in a few hours, yeah,

it's getting dark now, but in a few

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hours, it's going to be light again.

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That's where it gets hard.

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The other aspect is,

let's do the flip side.

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So the shortest, um, month

of the year is December.

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The shortest day to give you

some comparison is, we just lived

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through this for the first time.

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The sunrise was 8 30.

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It might have gotten up to

like, 8 45 being the latest.

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Sunset was The shortest day 3 0 8 p.

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m.

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So you're not even done your day.

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It's a 6 hour chain.

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six hours and like 48 minutes,

I think is the shortest day.

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It might be a little less than that.

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You're not even done your work

day and you're looking outside and

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it's, you know, getting darker.

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Um, and so you have to

mentally be prepared.

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For that and get used to it because if

not, especially if you work at home,

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whatever your work environment, even if

you don't, you're leaving the house in

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the dark and you're coming home in the

dark and that really can play on you.

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Um, also being here as someone who grew

up in an environment where you can.

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Drive five minutes and there's

a Wawa in every corner.

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Um, you got Target ten minutes away.

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You've everything at

your fingertips, right?

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Um, and you can drive, where I

grew up in Jersey, you're, to give

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some example, you're 15 minutes

from Philadelphia in the stadiums.

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You're two, not even two

hours from New York City.

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You're an hour from Baltimore.

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You have the shores within 45 minutes.

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You can, you know, there's

so many things you could do.

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We have the smallest Costco,

um, in the world here.

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Um, we have two other supermarkets.

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Um, you, the only chain restaurants

you have here are Papa John's,

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Subway, and, um, McDonald's.

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Everything else is mom and pop.

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Um, so when you want to get things.

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You can't just hop in the car

and go, you can't just do things.

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That's that to me was honestly one

of the most difficult things because

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I like to have accessibility to

things, whether it's resources,

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being able to go, Oh, I need this.

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Let me go run out and get it.

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You can't run out and get it.

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Um, most of

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Speaker: the time.

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So do you, do you order from Amazon?

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Speaker 2: I do, but here's the thing.

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Everything from Amazon comes from Seattle.

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And 99.

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9 percent of the time, the U.

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Postal Service is going

to be delivering that.

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So let's say you order

something on Friday.

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Typically it's good and

it comes in three days.

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Sometimes it's a week.

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You have to kind of prepare

for that, but they'll tell you.

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Um, but let's say you order

it on a Friday morning.

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Delivery, three days out, will be Sunday.

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You're not getting it on Sunday.

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Speaker: The U.

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Speaker 2: Postal Service

doesn't deliver on Sunday.

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So there's those nuances.

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Um, and, you know, in Alaska, it's

really for outdoor people if you're

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going to live here long term.

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The outdoor activities.

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Um, the fishing's great.

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I've gotten into fishing.

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I'm not a big hiker.

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Um, the snow's here, so we

do still get snow in Juneau.

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Takes a little longer to gather.

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So like, I have a ski lesson,

like I do ski lessons now.

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Um, but there's a lot of pieces to it

that you have to go into with an open

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mind when it comes to living in Alaska.

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Um.

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being open to also helping others

understand what it's like here,

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because not that anyone tries to

have misconceptions about what it's

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like in Alaska, but some of the TV

shows depict things differently.

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Um, there's one that Alaska has

continuously, uh, I forget the name

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off the top of my head, but sued and

actually thrown the people in jail.

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Yeah.

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Because they're misrepresenting

Alaska so severely of like,

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Like what you could do hunting

and survival wise that they don't

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want that representation because

it's not actually accurate.

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But those are the things that Sadly, you

know, doesn't showcase what it's like.

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Speaker: Yeah, I think it's so interesting

and I can't, my mind goes to when we

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have our summertime here in Minnesota

and Wisconsin, I'm right on the border.

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It's like you are.

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Your life is just so full and it stays

sunny out and you feel so good and

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happy and you're so much more active.

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And, you know, in the winter, like now,

when you leave the house and it's dark

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and you come home and it's dark, even

though it's not as, as it is where you

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are, you, I, I tend to be less active.

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I tend to just kind of sit around.

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And so I just think I might

be like a crazy woman.

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If I lived in Alaska during

that June month, because I'd be

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like, you know, I'm like that.

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Speaker 2: So, um, in the summer when

we were here, I'm like, this is awesome.

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Like, again, I've, my boyfriend

has been fishing his whole life.

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He grew up in Florida.

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I got into fishing when he

was stationed in Florida.

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Um, so like fishing was

great being in the water.

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Like at nine o'clock at night watching

the boats go by like it's great.

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Um, But i'm mainly in the house now.

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So again, it's understanding Between

work and then it being dark and cold

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like What you could be doing and keeping

that in mind to not go stir crazy

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Speaker: Yep, and i'm and i'm sure

that I mean you just when those summer

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months come I feel like I don't even

want to work Just get me outside

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And I'm sure it's even more so.

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So, okay, thank you for, for fulfilling

my curious mind about Alaska.

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I love that.

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I love learning about that.

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And now I just want to ask a little bit

more about your career with the giants.

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Tell me, tell me about that a little

bit, because that's interesting too.

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Speaker 2: So I got in with the giants

and I always tell people the importance of

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networking and informational interviews.

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So a lot of people.

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Don't necessarily think of ever

building long term relationships

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or doing informational interviews.

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I reached out to the Giants when I

wanted to work there as, Hey, can I

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just do an informational interview?

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I'm not looking for a job.

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I don't, you know.

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Obviously an internship would be nice, but

I just want to learn about the industry.

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I just want to see what it's like.

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I want to, you know, be able

to get some of these questions.

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And through some conversations

that was able to happen.

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Um, and then I built a relationship

with, um, at the time the general

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manager was Jerry Reese, his assistant.

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And I continuously just

touch base with her.

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And, um, really just built that

relationship up and the following year.

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So it was almost a year was a

sophomore, and I get again we're

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going to email back and forth.

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She goes, I think.

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There's a department still

looking for an internship.

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And if they're not, I think the vice

president of that department would be

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more than happy to do another, like,

an informational interview with him.

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So she does an introduction.

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He says to me, Olivia, why don't you come

in and we'll have a meeting in person.

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We don't hire people your, your age.

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Typically, they've

already graduated college.

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But we'll talk so do that.

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Um, that was during lunchtime.

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So very interesting time because at the

New York Giants, everyone eats together

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at the same time, including ownership.

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So you're sitting down for an interview.

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And, you know, Jerry Reese is

coming in, the mayors are coming

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in, the players are coming in.

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And you're sitting down for an interview.

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At the end of it, he goes, you know what?

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Do you have your resume on you?

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Do you have your business card on you?

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There's a department I think is, I

know is still looking for someone, and

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I think you would be a good fit in.

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Ended up that being player

engagement, so I worked, and I

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ended up getting hired by them.

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So, I worked directly with the players.

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I did the rookie training camp,

um, helped people do relocation,

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do all the different events.

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So.

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really worked closely and made sure

player engagements, the support staff

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to the players needs and making sure

everything, you know, best it could be

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without getting into too many details.

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When my internship was up, which

was going into my junior year of

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college, they actually offered

me a job in the PR department.

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Cause again, With, at that time,

my degree I was getting and my two

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minors, I could do stuff in HR, I

could do stuff in legal, I can, you

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know, do these different departments,

and I built relationships with all

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the higher ups in those departments.

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And there were times where I would step

in during training camp and help the

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legal department with like, setting

up the forms and the folders that the

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players would need, and like, seeing

different aspects of the business.

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And I looked at them like, I still

need to finish my college degree.

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Like, I gotta go back to

school in a few weeks.

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I can't work here full time.

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I wanted to get that degree and finish,

even though it was a great opportunity.

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And I also low key knew my parents

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you come and work our game PR stuff.

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game day PR staff, you'd be the leader.

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the most of my remaining time.

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they needed support because of my

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relationships, no matter the departments,

they would call me to do them.

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there was no full time availability.

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I was just like, Okay, this is great.

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parents health insurance.

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I was in and really advocating and

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I built relationships with the players

that during that time I was managing some

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of the day to day activities with the

players, meaning their non profits, if

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they wanted to do a charity event, um,

one of my players during the time that I

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managed when he got traded was starting

a clothing line and I oversaw the start

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to finish of doing that clothing line

and approving designs and Doing all

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that different things that really led me

that when I went into supply chain and

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fundamentals to be able to talk about

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everything, understand things differently

because I worked in professional sports

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and then went to supply chain, which

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is two very different industries.

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over the time that I can leverage and have

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conversations about and I was recently

just on a call with a company that is

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a distribution platform for a podcast.

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and They are rolling out a system

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that should be way better for podcast

hosts and monetization wise and this

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and that And I got on the call and

i'm like, okay walk me through your

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process and procedure walk me through.

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How's this gonna work?

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How's that gonna work?

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well you're way more in depth wanting

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to make sure everything is actually good

and we're being held accountable and like

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know, the producers we brought in house

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to see if they want to beta test it.

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And like, yeah, cause all of this stuff

is important and if I'm not asked, I

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understand I need to ask it and what

the questions are, but I also care

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enough to go, okay, how would this work?

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Speaker: Right.

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Well, and I think, okay, this is, this

is going to kind of simplify what you're

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saying and it's something that I picked

up that I just kind of want to share

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with the listeners and I'm going to

throw it out at you, but what you're

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kind of saying is that nothing's a waste.

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And so if you are spending your time in

a career and you feel like you hate it or

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wow, that was a waste of time, that's not

true because everything is leading you.

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So take every opportunity and everything

in every area that you're in to learn

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and grow because you never know.

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And so, Olivia, so you agree with that?

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Does that sound, sound right?

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Oh, I 100

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And just, I know you

have another question.

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and left Lockheed Martin.

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Okay, so I'm no longer Technically in

the supply chain realm that we all know

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supply chain isn't everything we do.

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I stayed involved at the time.

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I was the president of the

Association of supply chain management

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for the state of Connecticut.

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I stayed the president and every year

I've still been elected the president.

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I also was sitting on the International

Board for the Supply Chain Management

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asking me if I would be willing

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to stay, and the answer was yes.

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I, no matter whether it's that or

something else, my friends have always

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asked me as a young professional, like,

that's not having to do with your job

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today, why would you do it, right?

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when it's going to come in handy.

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You never know.

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grow professionally wise,

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what that certification you

get today might not be handy.

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It might just be extra knowledge

that you have might be handy

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in five years from now.

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Well, in five years from now, when

you need to take that certification

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to get that job promotion and you

have kids and you have a life and

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you haven't been out of school.

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Trying to fit in taking that

certification can be way harder to do.

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conferences, speaking at the

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start an apparel company for the U.

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Coast Guard.

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For the men and women and their families

who support us every single day.

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Something that they could

just wear that's fun, right?

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And all of a sudden, all the stuff I

had been sitting in meetings about and

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been listening about and keeping up to

date played directly into what I was

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doing and the decisions I was making.

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things, past experiences would still help.

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and understanding and network

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that when that moment came up to

be like, yes, I want to do this.

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I call it's not side business.

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It's an additional business, but

we're going to go through with this.

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I knew all the people to talk to

and new people to consult with and

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make sure it got up and running.

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of even when it could seem like

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it might not be beneficial at all.

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Something can happen where it all pivots.

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to be afraid to go back to those

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connections that you have and connect,

you know, it's because I think about

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people my age, sometimes that's tricky.

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I haven't really been doing this.

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Everything that you just would be so

surprised If you really look at it,

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the experiences and the connections

that are going to mold you moving

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forward, you know, if it's something

you're thinking about, but Olivia,

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okay, so time is running out.

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I can't even believe this, but okay.

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So tell me you do this

great, successful podcast.

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You have an apparel company.

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Tell me.

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There's more.

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Did you say you wrote a book?

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I didn't know that.

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I thought I researched you.

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There's a

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So achieving success, LLC has a

book division, which has a textbook

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that gets sold in high schools and

colleges on career development.

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So you're.

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Resume building cover letter building,

but you can buy it online and on amazon

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and all the platforms So I do get people

who buy that as a workbook tool that when

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they're ready to change their career They

have those resources, but I do a lot of

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obviously my podcast and then podcast

consulting as well within my business and

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That's a big chunk of what I do is working

with people, getting them on the right

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podcast to share their voice and make

that impact, or working alongside hosts

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to either build their podcast from scratch

and make sure everything runs smoothly

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and work on those titles, descriptions,

the whole gamut, or if they already have

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that podcast, they're not play words

here, achieving the goals they've set

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on why they've implemented that podcast.

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I come in, I help build that strategy

out and then do the titles, the

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descriptions, the uploading to all the

platforms, the coding in the background.

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I had before our recording today of,

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okay, if this is going to be optimized

more for people in the industry.

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Let's see how it works and break it down.

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finding out the information and then being

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able to manage that, not just into the

best tools for all of us in the podcast

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space, but also as a workflow system.

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I very much oversee their workflow

so they don't have to, you know, if

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they have an editor, for example, go,

Hey, have you edited that episode?

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I got to check in with you tomorrow.

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Have you edited that episode?

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me and then get it to the next

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person that gets taken care of.

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what a great way to use your voice.

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And so if anyone's interested in

getting, you know, in hiring you for

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that work, we'll have your information.

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What's the best way to find you?

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Speaker 2: So you can find me

on LinkedIn by searching Olivia

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Atkin or achieving success LLC.

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I answer all the messages

as well as my email olivia.

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hackin at achieving success.

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com.

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I try to warn everyone.

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know, you know, it's It is me.

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I will answer them.

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my website, achieving success.

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com.

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And like I said, we'll have all that in

the show notes, but Olivia, thank you

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for sharing all this information and

thank you for the work that you're doing.

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Speaker: It's so fun.

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I love chatting.

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It's one of my favorite things, so it's

been a pleasure and I have a feeling

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I'm going to be talking to you more, so

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Speaker 2: everyone, she will

be on my podcast and listen to

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both sides of the conversation.

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I'm looking forward to it.

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Thanks so much, Olivia.

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About the Podcast

Saddle Up Live Podcast
Welcome to Saddle Up Live, a transformative podcast tailored for women aged 40 and beyond, where courage, God’ s grace, and a touch of sass are the driving forces behind conquering life's challenges. Join me, Lesa Koski, as I take you on a captivating ride through the multifaceted aspects of womanhood in this vibrant stage of life, covering everything from my journey through breast cancer, the intricacies of marriage and the joys of motherhood to the exciting adventures of grandparenting.

In each episode, we saddle up for candid conversations about God, health, relationships, family dynamics, and the beautiful chaos that comes along the way. But here's the twist: Saddle Up Live goes beyond navigating the highs and lows of life; it's a platform dedicated to sharing what we have learned along the way. I want to help women thrive through it all. Together, we'll uncover actionable strategies for personal and professional development, providing you with the tools and inspiration needed to blaze new trails and seize every opportunity that comes your way.

Moreover, we're committed to helping you suffer less and live more fully. Through our discussions on God, health, wellness, and mindfulness, we'll explore practical techniques for managing stress, cultivating resilience, and embracing a holistic approach to self-care.

So, whether you're looking for practical advice, heartfelt stories, or simply a supportive community of like-minded women, saddle up and join us on this exhilarating ride. Because at Saddle Up Live, we believe that every woman deserves to thrive, flourish, and live her best life - no matter her age or stage.


Bio: I am a wife, a mama, a grandma and an animal lover. I am blessed to be serving people from my barn office. I am obsessed with learning and communication. I love sharing what I learn with all of you! There is nothing more gratifying than holding people's hands through difficulties and sharing all the joy around us!
I am a recovering attorney who was mostly a stay at home mom; who adopted one and birthed two, ridden the bumpy marriage ride for 32 years. Found my passion at 50, learned how to control my mindset and anxiety and have built an amazing business in the last 6 years. I have journeyed through motherhood, weddings, grandbabies, entrepreneurship and menopause with grace, tears and laughter. I now I will share my story through breast cancer with you. I want to help women suffer less, know God loves them and they are worthy!! I am here to help you and I know all about what you’re going through.

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