Margs and Mindset
Barlyssa have been taking on life's challenges side by side, discovering what works and what doesn't. We're not just addressing past wounds, but also picking up handy skills and strategies along the way to steer our journey forward. We're convinced that no one should have to pilot through these experiences alone. With a common objective, we pondered the most impactful way to extend out support to women of color tackling generational traumas and experiences in solitude. It turned out that launching a podcast is the best conduit to build a supportive community that engages in raw, real and open dialogues that yield authentic growth. But, add tasty margaritas and some laughs for a good time because a good laugh can overcome more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than people realize.
Episodes
155 episodes
The Insight Room Immersive Retreat
A three-day business retreat sounds like strategy, notebooks, and networking until you’re sitting in a room trying to write what your legacy is and your throat literally hurts from holding the truth back. We’re fresh off the Insight Room Immers...
When Your Home Stops Fitting
Your home can be beautiful and still feel wrong for the life you’re living. We’re talking about what happens when you hit that moment and realize a renovation isn’t really about a brighter bathroom or a new layout, it’s about alignment, identit...
Build A Bigger Plate
Overwhelm is sneaky because it feels like a warning sign, but what if it’s actually proof you’re expanding? We’re coming off a full late-summer pivot into back-to-school routines, and we’re talking candidly about what it looks like to be mom en...
Chosen Chaos
A weekend can be “too much” or it can be proof of what you’re capable of and we’re living that in real time. We’re heading into a first for us: back-to-back events, flipping our space at Slate, grabbing the kids and suitcases, then getting on a...
150 Episodes Deep
THIS ONE COMES WITH A GIVEAWAY!!150 episodes sounds like a milestone, but for us it feels like evidence. Evidence that you can start shaky, say yes before you feel ready, and build real confidence by showing up anyway. We’re celebrating ...
We Create Core Memories
A one margarita limit, a grown-up friend dinner, and a five-year business glow-up all lead to the same question: what changes when you finally let yourself become the person you’re building? We’re reflecting on how Homemade Events ROC didn’t ju...
Daily Glimmers with Sarah Joy
A tiny moment can change the temperature of an entire day and you do not have to pretend everything is fine to feel it. We’re joined by Sarah Shellard, founder of Just Joyful Boutique and creator of the Daily Glimmers Gratitude Journal, for a g...
Pour Into Yourself
Your stomach hurts, your calendar is full, and the old version of you would still push through because “that’s what high performers do.” We start there and trace how one small decision to honor the body opens up a much bigger conversation about...
The Real Entrepreneur Life with Erika Sorbello
You can hit a lifelong goal and still feel completely wiped out. That’s the honest thread running through our conversation with Erika Sorbello, owner of Gallery Salon in Rochester, New York, who’s back on the mic with us after a huge shift: she...
When A Penguin Turns Into An Owl
A dream starts with penguins in a parking lot, then flips into owls the moment you get closer and months later an intuitive massage therapist describes the exact same penguin-to-owl vision without any context. We sit with that mind-blowing “how...
The Goddess Afterglow
Fourteen women. One house in the woods. Four days that somehow feel like a whole new chapter. We’re fresh back from our second Goddess Gathering weekend, and the first thing we want to tell you is the truth most people skip: right before we lef...
Moonwater and Mindset
Two days can change the way you run your business and the way you run your life, but only if you’re willing to get honest first. We sit down with margaritas in hand, still processing a three-hour VIP day with our business coach that left us fee...
Content Day
We thought we were hosting a simple content day for vendors to get fresh brand photos. What actually happened was a full-body reminder that community is the real growth hack, and that the best business strategy sometimes looks like a room full ...
RIP Tea Cups
The scariest sound isn’t metal on metal, it’s fragile vintage teacups crashing forward when you slam on the brakes and realize how close you just came to a real accident. We’re kicking off Friday with margaritas and a story that’s way too fresh...
From Climate to Camera with Britten Evans
A hurricane, a climate change speech, and a pink margarita might not sound like the start of a photography career, but that’s exactly where this story leads. We sit down with Britten Nicole of Britten Nicole Photography, the artist who shot our...
Aging Hits Different
Your knees crack after the gym, you blink, and your “baby” is suddenly 10. That’s the kind of emotional whiplash we’re sitting in today: the very real physical shift of aging in our 40s paired with the even bigger parenting shift of raising kid...
One Margarita Rule
Two margaritas used to be a harmless night out. Now it’s a full-body message we can’t unsee. We’re talking perimenopause, alcohol tolerance, and the moment you realize your “normal” needs a serious update. Not from shame, not from rules, but fr...
Five Years Of Making Magic
Five years ago we were just hoping a family would say yes to a party proposal we built in Canva. Now we’re celebrating a fifth business birthday with a full-blown brand shoot, a cake that made our jaws hit the floor, and the kind of gratitude t...
Vacation Shopping with Kim Della Porta
A vacation is supposed to feel like relief, not like a second job with 37 browser tabs and a dozen deadlines. We sit down with repeat guest Kim Della Porta, who made a bold career pivot from mom health coach to travel planner, and she tells the...
Big Girls Use Mic Stands Now
Mother’s Day hits different when your life has chapters you don’t want to erase. We’re sipping margaritas, adjusting to mic stands that somehow make us feel like beginners again, and then we get honest about the real mood behind the holiday: gr...
What If Success Is The Scary Part
Five years into business sounds like a celebration until someone calls your company “mature” and you realize… oh, this is the livelihood now. We’re sipping margaritas and telling the truth about what that milestone brings up: pride, pressure, g...
Ebb + Flow
A grapefruit margarita at 10:30 AM sounds like chaos until you hear the point behind it: we’ve built a life where we get to choose our mornings. That little moment turns into a bigger conversation about entrepreneurship, time freedom, and why y...
Back To Homeostasis
Eight courses will do that thing where you show up thinking you’re just going to eat, and you leave remembering who you are. We’re fresh off a North Carolina family vacation and the end of four back-to-back trips, and our bodies are begging for...
One Year All In with Aubre Fox
Getting laid off can either shrink your world or crack it wide open. We sit down with returning guest Aubre Fox exactly one year after she gets pushed into full-time entrepreneurship, and the timing is almost too perfect: the day we record, we’...