Brave Enough to Be
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -Brave Enough to Be is a podcast where we explore what it means to be brave enough. Where we put personal growth into practice — not necessarily through buying another program or punishing ourselves for not being perfect — but through the presence and peace of mind to understand (and implement) the brave steps we can take to live authentically. Each week, host Jenna Britton shares insights and interviews to help you — and herself — figure out how to be brave enough (whatever that may mean for you) and live as the most courageous version of yourself.
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28. Brave Enough to Be On Hiatus | Just Jenna
July 15, 2020 07:00 - 6 minutes - 3.57 MBYou might remember that I took a “break” from the podcast in April. (A break during which I recorded and worked on seven new episodes!) In today’s “episode” (it’s a mini one, clocking in at around five minutes), I explain why we’re taking an indefinite hiatus from the podcast this time. I love this podcast and I love that you listen in every week! It’s a true labor of love, and I know this time away will help me better focus my time and energy on my long-term goals (like writing a book...
27. Following Your Whimsy & Living as Your Full Self | Christina Cato
July 08, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 36.2 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by indie author and maker, Christina Cato. As an author, Christina enjoys writing romance, sci-fi/fantasy, dystopian fiction, but is open to whatever stories pop into her head: From steamy romance to historical thriller, she goes where the characters and stories take her. She has three published novels on Amazon, but has written one more, and is currently starting on her fifth book — a fictional tale based on her recent experience getting COVID-19! Christ...
26. On Boundaries, The Bachelor, and Being Yourself | Taylor Nolan
July 01, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by mental health counselor and advocate, Taylor Nolan. Taylor is a Seattle native who appeared on Season 21 of The Bachelor, where she popularized emotional intelligence, and then was on Season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise. Since appearing on The Bachelor franchise as a reality TV personality, Taylor has expanded and transitioned her brand into being a podcast host. In December 2017, Taylor launched the Let’s Talk About It with Taylor Nolan podcast. As an ...
25. Finding Your Power & Prioritizing Play Through Authentic Imperfection | Camille Kelley
June 24, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 30.5 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by coach and healer, Camille Kelley. Camille is a queer coach and healer for business owners, creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders looking to release the stress, overwhelm and burnout of the “hustle” and step into flow and fun so that they can experience more magic, play and excitement while creating bigger and better results by doing less. Camille uses a unique mix of EFT/tapping and creativity practices along with traditional coaching with a focus on sel...
24. Creating Community, Finding Joy, and Balancing Motherhood While Building a Business | Nailah Blades Wylie
June 17, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 31.5 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by coach and community builder, Nailah Blades Wylie. Nailah is the CEO of Color Outside, a curated travel company for ambitious women of color who are ready to create unapologetic, soul stirring lives through outdoor adventure. She started Color Outside as a safe place for women of color to come together and unlock where they're feeling stuck so that they can fully step into their joy and shine. When she's not leading adventure retreats or consulting with bra...
23. Brave Enough to Do Better | Just Jenna
June 10, 2020 07:00 - 50 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this week’s solo episode, I do my best to address what’s going on in the world following the murder of George Floyd (and Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and . . . ), sharing more about my experience and offering some thoughts and next steps I’ve been exploring. As a biracial American woman, I live in a Black body and I benefit from a whole lot of privilege, including white privilege. I think that's important to start with because it obviously influences everything I have to say and how...
22. Practical Steps to Stop Self-Sabotage, Shift Your Mindset, & Start Showing Up for Yourself | Brianna Wiest
May 27, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutes - 32.1 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by author and poet, Brianna Wiest. Brianna has built a worldwide readership through thousands of published articles and tens of millions of views. She is a senior contributor at Forbes, a top contributor at Medium, and writes and consults for national publications. Brianna is also the author of five books — and her latest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery is being published in June 2020! Her dream is to use the power of wor...
21. Forging Resilience & Connection Through Deliberate Discomfort | Felicia Sullivan
May 20, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Felicia Sullivan. A marketing executive and novelist, Felicia has been building brands and telling stories for decades. She's the author of The Sky Isn't Visible From Here (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Publishers) and Follow Me Into The Dark (Feminist Press). Currently, she's roaming around California with her tabby cat, Felix — and that’s just one of many reasons I was so excited to talk with her today! I first became familiar with Felicia’s work when ...
20. Going Pro in the Game of Life | Karissa Kouchis
May 13, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Karissa Kouchis. Karissa, also known as "KK", is a Tony Robbins National Speaker. She advises and consults with Fortune 500 companies, teams, groups, and organizations on the areas of Peak Performance, leadership, organizational behavior, psychology of achievement, and sales mastery. KK has brought her high-energy training to over 500 events for companies like Salesforce.com, Zoom Video Communications, Keller Williams, Beautycounter, Equinox, Fox Sports...
19. Pointing Your Inner Compass Back Toward Your North Star | Shirin Eskandani
May 06, 2020 07:00 - 48 minutes - 28 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Shirin Eskandani. Shirin is a life coach, public speaker and writer who specializes in mindfulness and mindset work. She has been a featured wellness expert on the Today Show and Cosmopolitan Magazine, and prior to building her successful coaching business, she was an award-winning opera singer, performing at Carnegie Hall and The Metropolitan Opera. Certified by the International Coach Federation, Shirin’s holistic approach to transformation is influe...
18. Brave Enough to Take a Break | Just Jenna
April 01, 2020 07:00 - 27 minutes - 15.9 MBBig news on the podcast today: I’m taking a break! I’ve decided to take the month of April off from releasing new episodes, for a couple of reasons — all which I talk about in today’s episode, of course — but mostly because I needed more space. Yes, in this moment in time where I seemingly have more space in my life than I ever have before . . . I need more. I assumed when this all began — when we first found out that we were pretty much forced to stay inside and cut back on all of the a...
17. How Curiosity, Cancer, and Chakras Can Change Your Destiny | Dr. Monikah Ogando
March 25, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Dr. Monikah Ogando. Dr. Monikah is CEO and Founder of the award winning firm CEO Mastery, an executive and leadership development firm working with exceptional leaders who want to elevate brand position, engage their people, and increase profits while honoring their true purpose. In addition to Dr. Monikah’s success with CEO Mastery she took her first company to rank as one of Inc 500's fastest growing private companies in the United States. She is the ...
16. Brave Enough to Rest | Just Jenna
March 18, 2020 07:00 - 19 minutes - 11.5 MBThis solo episode was inspired by something that’s been on my mind recently — why I’m so resistant to rest. While the rapid spread of COVID-19 has kept me indoors and created newfound space in my schedule, I’ve started to recognize how desperate I am to fill that space with productivity — new projects, more work, online classes, a new workout — instead of giving myself the opportunity to pause, get present, rest, and reassess who I am and how I want to show up for myself and my communities...
15. Changing Your Mind to Change Your Life | Laura Gevanter
March 11, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 36.1 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Laura Gevanter. Laura Gevanter is a PSYCH-K® Facilitator, a Conscious Alignment intuitive Coach, a workshop leader, and retreat host. She has a Psychology degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Life Coaching certification from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching in New York City. And she has completed the Basic, Advanced and Health & Wellness PSYCH-K™ workshop trainings. Since 2006, she has been working with clien...
14. How to Commit to Your Creativity | Kara Cutruzzula
March 04, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Kara Cutruzzula (rhymes with Methuselah). Kara is a writer in New York who works across many different creative platforms. As a journalist, she's been a writer and editor for The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Billboard, Tasting Table, and MONEY magazine. Her writing about work, productivity, and creativity has been featured in the New York Times, TIME, Medium, and other publications. She also writes plays and lyrics for musical theater, and is currently a m...
13. The Power of Empathy in Parenting & Police Work | Lisa Governo-Hurd
February 26, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 33.3 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Lisa Governo-Hurd. Lisa is a retired LAPD Police Detective, a wife, a sister, a friend, and a mother to two wonderful children — one of whom is me :) Today my mom and I talk about what it was like being a single mother in her early twenties, how she parented two very different children in a way that allowed us both to develop into our own people, and why she believes that parents shouldn’t demand respect from their children. We talk about the intuitiv...
12. Brave Enough to Look Underneath | Just Jenna
February 19, 2020 08:00 - 19 minutes - 11.2 MBWelcome to the second solo episode of Brave Enough to Be! On today’s episode, I’m sharing what I originally thought this episode would be about — why I’ve been so resistant to wearing my hair in it’s naturally, wildly curly state — and then, dive deeper into what’s underneath that resistance instead. Beyond that, I talk about the reasons underneath why we do anything that no longer feels good to us (or don’t do the things that do feel good). Throughout the episode, I share: Why it’s so ...
11. Digging Deep to Know & Share Your Truth | Jessica Ciencin Henriquez
February 12, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Jessica Ciencin Henriquez. Jessica is a writer (yes, I very clearly have a podcast guest type), editor, and teacher who is best known for her personal essays and narrative journalism, with pieces that have been featured in the New York Times’ Modern Love column, Self Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Time, and Parents, among many others. Her essays have also been featured in multiple anthologies, including: Oprah's Little Guide to The Big Questions. She ...
10. Building Your Bravery Muscle | Kerry Graham
February 05, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes - 32.7 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Kerry Graham. Kerry is an incredibly invested teacher and a great writer — and she is one of the first followers of this very podcast who wasn’t my best friend or my mom :) Kerry is also a writer, with work appearing in several publications including the Huffington Post and Thought Catalog, and a weekly collaborative newsletter she founded called In This Together. Today Kerry and I talk about why bravery is a discipline — and how she builds that muscl...
9. Turning Your Pain Into Purpose | Octavia Sisley
January 29, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Octavia Sisley. Octavia and I first met as riders at RevCycle, a cycling studio in Los Angeles. We later worked together in the studio, often folding towels side-by-side in the early 5am shifts. A little over two years ago, Octavia’s body began to suddenly and rapidly shut down. She quickly found herself blind, paralyzed, and suffering from constant chronic pain that doctors couldn’t explain. While she was eventually blanket-diagnosed with fibromyalgi...
8. Learning to Write, Live, and Love Through Loss | Katie Hawkins-Gaar
January 22, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 32.3 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Katie Hawkins-Gaar. Katie is a former journalist, freelance writer, and the author behind the popular bi-weekly newsletter, My Sweet Dumb Brain. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Glamour, and more. Just a few years ago, Katie experienced — and continues to experience — the incredibly tragic and sudden loss of her husband and, as she explains in today’s episode, she began writing, journaling, every day as a way of processing and co...
7. Getting Unstuck & Taking Action Toward Living Your Best Life | Jen Underwood
January 15, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 35 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Jen Underwood. Jen is a storyteller, a magician of words, and a connector of humans. She does individual and group coaching with people who are ready to face the places they are stuck or avoiding action and fight for the life of their dreams. As Jen says, being stuck sucks. And she loves working to support people with living a life filled with purpose, happiness, and courageous vulnerability. Jen has a Masters in Clinical Counseling and likes to comb...
6. Brave Enough to Be Visible | Just Jenna
January 08, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes - 15.3 MBIn today’s solo episode, I’m getting personal. In sharing my word for 2020, I’m also sharing: Why I chose this word (hint: it harkens back to some childhood issues) What being visible means to me (think authenticity and vulnerability) How I’m leaning into it (I’ll be posting a lot more selfies this year) And why all of my personal lessons might be valuable to you too. Just doing this episode on my own was a practice in leaning into visibility and vulnerability for me — and while it...
5. How to Be Your Authentic Self through Human Design | Erin Claire Jones
January 01, 2020 08:00 - 54 minutes - 31 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Erin Claire Jones. Erin Claire Jones is a leadership coach specializing in Human Design. She helps leaders and teams step into their highest potential by offering them the self-knowledge and tools to perform at the top of their personal and professional games. She has consulted for startups all over the world, built companies supporting executives, partnerships and small teams to operate more harmoniously and effectively, and conducted research on leade...
4. Being Brave Enough to Serve Something Bigger Than Yourself | Laura Peña
December 25, 2019 08:00 - 49 minutes - 28.2 MBIn today’s episode, I’m joined by Laura Peña. Laura is the founder of She is the Universe, a global platform designed to amplify the voices of teenage girls from around the world. For the past year, Laura has put nearly every part of her life on hiatus and has been traveling the globe, creating a video docuseries for She is the Universe. She is on a quest to capture and share the stories, dreams, hopes, struggles and triumphs of 111 teenage girls of all shapes, sizes, colors, languages,...
3. Writing (and Living) a More Empowering Story for Your Life | Stephanie St. Claire
December 18, 2019 08:03 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MBIn today's episode, I'm joined by Stephanie St. Claire, a writer and personal adviser, whose words and work have had a significant impact on my life for several years now. Like many of us, Stephanie has been through a lot in her life — but what sets her apart is how she learns and grows and teaches from her experience. In this episode, Stephanie offers insight and tangible tips into how we can create our lives — as opposed to just letting life happen to us — from a place of intention and c...
2. Taking Baby Steps Toward Brave Enough | Adrian Granzella Larssen
December 18, 2019 08:02 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MBIn today's episode, I'm joined by Adrian Granzella Larssen, a friend, client, and my former editor at The Muse. Today Adrian reminds us that the bravest steps don't happen all at once — they're usually a cumulative series of small steps adding up over time. She also offers tangible insight into how she took the brave step of taking a year off to travel the world. In today’s episode, we talk about: What it was like to be the first employee hired at The Muse, and work there through the fi...
1. How to Navigate Big Change and Be a Proactive Participant In Your Own Life | Liz Zuluaga
December 18, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBIn today's episode, I'm joined by Liz Zuluaga, a commercial-editorial and branding photographer based in Seattle, but originally from Los Angeles (like me!). Today Liz shares why following your soul’s calling is so terrifying (hint: it’s supposed to be!) and offers her top tips for being brave through hard situations. In today’s episode, we also talk about: Liz’s journey to becoming a full-time commercial and branding photographer How she used her last full-time job to fund her trans...