Own Your Bold with Natalie Sinisgalli-Kettavong

The Rebel Flower Bomb. She is an unparalleled poetic force. She hails from Rochester, NY where she holds the title for the 2018 Roc Awards Best Female Poet. Her words combine metaphoric magic with bold imagery. Her poems represent the collision of pain and beauty that she has courageously bled through her pen and shares with her audience.
The Rebel Flower Bomb has been featured on television, in print, and on stage and radio. Fall 2017 she released a collection of poems entitled “The Heartbreak Series” filled with short poems, flowers, broken hearts, healed spirits, and love. She is her words blooming!
Topics discussed in this episode:

• The inspiration behind the name
• Knowing your worth as an artist
• What is takes to be a poet
• Empowering others with your words

RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Instagram: @rebel_flower_bomb
YouTube: The Rebel Flower Bomb
Facebook: The Rebel Flower Bomb

Hélène Biandudi Hofer is a broadcast journalist, a documentary filmmaker, and a media entrepreneur. She is the founder & CEO of HBH Enterprises, a production company and media group she founded which creates and produces solutions based short films and multimedia content about issues that matter, stories that often go untold, and the people that are effectively addressing challenges impacting our society.
Hélène is also the manager of a new project being spearheaded by Solutions Journalism Network called Complicating the Narratives. Her work involves helping journalists better report on controversial and polarizing problems. The project draws on the experience of experts in conflict mediation. Complicating the Narratives intends to help news organizations produce stronger, more inclusive reporting on divisive issues. The hope is that it will also help lead to a healthier political debate and a healthier democracy.
For nearly a decade Hélène reported for public television and radio. She anchored and produced the PBS news show, Need to Know, on WXXI Television in Rochester, New York, and contributed to feature reports for NPR. In the commercial news realm, she worked for CBS News President, Susan Zirinsky, at the CBS Primetime show 48 Hours Mystery. She began her career at WBNS 10TV in Columbus, Ohio.
Topics discussed in this episode:

• Storytelling Connects us
• Being heard and understood
• When to share my opinion & when to not.
• Conflict Resolution in business
• Good things start with curiosity

RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
HBH Enterprises Media Group : helenebiandudihofer.com
Instagram: @helenebiandudihofer
Solutions Journalism Network: @solutionsjournalism

Olivia Marie is a Rochester native, a proud protégée of Natalie's, and is currently chasing her dream in the City of Angels as a makeup artist and content creator.
Topics discussed in this episode:

• Managing insecurities when working in a saturated market *as a creative*
• Standing out in a big city - and keeping up!
• Allowing space to make mistakes as a young freelancer
• How to skip business school and learn for yourself?

RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

You can check out her YouTube channel Olivia Marie MUA

Instagram @olivia_marie_makeup

Jessica Gasbarre is the Engagement Manager for the Memorial Art Gallery where she works on creating re-imagined art experiences for guests. With her focus on fun, she brings in new and different audiences, provides museum-goers with meaningful connections to the collection, shares scandalous and sordid facts about art history that aren’t printed on the museum labels, and makes art accessible through her Instagram stories. In her spare time, Jessica enjoys reading books, being outside, looking at otters, and photoshopping images of herself with fellow art lover and collector, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Topics discussed in this episode:

• What does Jess Gasbarre do? Besides creating epic museum stories.
• Boobs, Art & Leonardo DiCaprio
• Removing the bore from art museums.
• The research behind her epic stories.
• Do you ever have censorship issues?

RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Instagram: @artstagram5
The MAG Rochester: @magrochester

Molly Larkin is a psychiatric RN and certified life coach in private practice working here in Rochester, NY, and online. She helps people around the world find freedom from disordered eating and body image struggles.
Along with her husband, Dr. Giampaolo Gallo, Molly runs Hummingbird Holistic Care, offering non-pathologizing psychiatric care, addiction recovery support, and practical mindfulness groups.
Molly works with women around food and body image but that's really just the beginning. Her mission is to empower women to take back their autonomy with food and to inhabit their bodies with joy. Food and body are the doors we walk through but once you start listening there, everything opens up. Witnessing and facilitating this transformation is the privilege of a lifetime!
Topics discussed in this episode:

• Removing the shame associated with body image
• Molly's real-life experience with food
• What we allow loses its power over us
• Being willing to be uncomfortable
• Your day job is financing your dream job
• What happens when you pursue weight loss head-on
• Health at every size
• Molly's journey towards Intuitive eating

RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
INSTAGRAM: @larkin.mollyWEBSITE: mollyklarkin.com
Podcasts:

• Food Psych
• Eat Confident
• The Mindful Dietician

Books:

• Intuitive Eating
• The F*ck It Diet
• The Body is Not an Apology

Websites/Blogs:

• Be Nourished
• Rachel W Cole
• Caroline Dooner