Fenom Podcast
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -The Fenom Podcast looks to spotlight phenomenal women that are living their best life. These discussions are led by Eliza Whiteman and include various topics such as women in business, athletics, health and wellness, education, in leadership positions and includes all conversations of what it means to be a woman in all aspects of life today.
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Elizabeth Raymond
November 12, 2020 16:55 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBElizabeth Raymond is Charlottesville born and raised. After attending the University of Virginia for her Bachelors in Psychology and Masters in Education, Elizabeth ventured into the world of entrepreneurship with her mom and sister, as one of the Co-Founders of NoBull Burger, "the true veggieburger". NoBull Burger produces and wholesales veggie burgers to over 400 grocery stores and restaurants throughout the country, all the while spreading the message of “when you eat good, you feel good ...
Gina Ward
October 23, 2020 19:36 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast I am talking with my good friend, Gina Ward. Gina is the founder of SHIFT2LEAD, a Leadership Development School. She’s a fellow Certified Baptiste Yoga Teacher and Studio owner. Gina’s story has something that I think we can all identify with, her life has been on a constant stair stepper of jobs, titles, accomplishments and approvals from others. She overworked herself in the effort to prove her capabilities and worthiness and I can see so much of my sto...
Michelline Hall
October 07, 2020 16:20 - 1 hour - 134 MBMichelline Hall is a Lynchburg Virginia photographer, entrepreneur, and arts advocate. I came across Michelline when someone shared a post of her “American Woman?” Art exhibit at Lynchburg’s Midtown Outdoor Art Gallery a couple of months ago and I was blown away at her amazing images of stylized portraits of Black and brown women that explore identity and culture. Her 10 photos hang on the side of a commercial building in Lynchburg’s Midtown. Michellin explains, “Art is essential. Represe...
Best of Season 1 Part 1
September 04, 2020 01:31 - 1 hour - 129 MBBest of Season 1, Part 1 is a collection of the snips and clips of our interviews from the first half of the year by Sarah Trundle, Jennifer Givens, Kristin Watson, Lizzie Clark, Chelsea Wilson, and Chris Steiner. These ladies give so much insight on being a woman- an athlete, a mother, a leader, a partner, a cancer survivor, an entrepreneur, and living their biggest life. Whether you know these emotions or experiences or not, this podcast is to share our truth and knowledge to rise together...
Dr. Leigh-Ann Webb and Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton
June 03, 2020 18:23 - 1 hour - 62 MBOn this episode of the Fenom Podcast, I am talking with two of my most accomplished guests I believe I had on here. Drs. Leigh-Ann Webb and Ebony Jade Hilton are pretty phenomenal women, they are board certified physicians at the University of Virginia as well as professors, consultants, entrepreneurs and authors. These ladies came together out of the concern to address the disproportionate impact COVID19 has had on communities of color. They created the children’s ebook called We’re Going...
Eliza Whiteman- Grease and Gasoline
May 29, 2020 01:54 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this episode I am discussing a topic that has been weighing heavily on me as a mother, business owner and leader in my community. I was listening to a talk a woman was giving recently, disussing her struggle with roles of women today versus what she grew up hearing. She said as she was growing up there was always this common way of thinking that women were to be the grease and not the gasoline to the big machine of life. That phrase- the grease and not the gasoline was a huge aha for ...
Bridget Baylin
May 16, 2020 16:23 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast I am talking with Bridget Baylin, the Director of M Health for The Seraphic Group. M Health provides online education tools for learning how to foster the body’s intrinsic healing abilities. They have an integrative care clinic here in Charlottesville called the M Clinic.She is also an Ayurvedic Health Counselor at the Clinic and provide workshops and classes on Ayurveda. In each of these episodes there is a different theme that emerges through the conv...
Kendall Barger
May 12, 2020 17:49 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast I am talking with Kendall Barger a a nurse in the medical intensive care unit at the University of Virginia who has been working tirelessly over the last 3 months with Covid 19 patients. I’ve known Kendall for a couple of years now as she has helped work the front desk at my studio, FlyDog Yoga. If I could clone her, I would. She’s a “What else can I do?” kind of worker, which is a rare character trait to find these days. Her work ethic can be traced to...
Nikki James Zellner
May 07, 2020 15:29 - 1 hour - 192 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast, I am going back to my Alabama roots with my former Daphne High School classmate, Nikki James Zellner. I always knew her to be a high perfomer- she was smart, friendly, creative, outgoing and I knew she was going to do big things in life…we went our separate ways and found our separate hardships and curve balls in life and reconnected when we found both of our journeys ending up in Virginia. Her early career had her launching 15 lifestyle magazines work...
On Gratitude- Eliza Whiteman
April 29, 2020 20:14 - 36 minutes - 67.9 MBIn this episode, Eliza gives a quick check in on the state of things in Week 9 of our quarantine with COVID 19. She talks about the ups and the downs, the ins and the outs we are all experiencing right now. Someone recently left a positive review comment for this podcast the other day which made Eliza appreciate being acknowledged and feel "seen". The emotional energy she felt led her to ask if it is possible that we can put our gratitude out to those that make a difference by inspiring or...
Lisa Shelton
April 21, 2020 20:09 - 1 hour - 168 MBOn this episode of the Fenom Podcast I am talking with a good friend of mine, Lisa Shelton, she’d definitely one of those people I can carry on a conversation with for hours on end. Her journey in life thus far has had many twists and turns at her own doing. She grew up in a very traditional, conservative home where she sought the approval of others and strived to be the best despite her actual interest in it. By her early 20’s she began to strike out on her own path by starting her career ...
Kelsey Gillan
April 13, 2020 21:12 - 43 minutes - 80.6 MBIn this episode I wanted to change things up and do a short series of 3 interviews from the frontlines of women entrepreneurs in the Restaurant and Service industry here in Charlottesville, Virginia. Each interview Ive ever had, there always seems to be an overarching theme and that was exactly what unfolded in each of these interviews- family, community, comfort and love which we undoubtably need at this time. Our small businesses are the backbone of our community-we are the first you go to...
Ashleigh Abrams
April 13, 2020 20:16 - 38 minutes - 71.6 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast, I wanted to change things up and do a short series of 3 interviews from the frontlines of women entrepreneurs in the Restaurant and Service industry here in Charlottesville, Virginia. Each interview I've ever had, there always seems to be an overarching theme and that was exactly what unfolded in each of these interviews- family, community, comfort and love which we undoubtably need at this time. Our small businesses are the backbone of our community-we ...
Shaina Allen
April 01, 2020 00:01 - 1 hour - 170 MBShaina Allen is a bold, visionary Director focused on telling stories that bridge perspectives and create impact. She is the co-founder of Evergrain Studios. Shaina’s first independent film The Rebound won the Kaiser Permanente Thrive Award and numerous Audience Awards and Jury Awards in it’s festival run, it has been used in multiple research studies, and was distributed on Netflix. Her latest credits include co-director of a new docu-series in production titled Moving Minds, Director of Ph...
Lizzie Clark
March 24, 2020 23:45 - 1 hour - 185 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast I am talking with Lizzie Clark the owner of Hot Yoga Charlottesville. We are talking on the state of our community in the midst of this pandemic and how we came together as two of Charlottesville’s leaders in yoga to be one of the first in our area to shut our studios down and take them online while trying to juggle our young children during a lockdown. Lizzie is the youngest of three and split her time growing up in Northern Virginia and then moved righ...
How Do You Lead When Disaster Hits- Eliza Whiteman
March 24, 2020 13:30 - 27 minutes - 51.3 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast, Eliza discussed how this pandemic is affecting her business and family. She talks about the hard pivot she and her husband made for FlyDog Yoga in fully developing their live stream and on demand classes to keep the studio going during this time but to provide a space for their community to stay in connection with our community to have familiarity and accountability to keep moving and breathing. Eliza talks about 5 things that she has focused on to stay...
Here and Now Meditation with Eliza Whiteman
March 23, 2020 18:18 - 16 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast, Eliza gives us a basic Here and Now meditation to help ground us, give us clarity and space to make room and see the possibilities and opportunities that allow us to create a new way of being.
Lisa Goldstein
March 17, 2020 19:09 - 1 hour - 197 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast I am talking to Lisa Goldstein, Lisa is a Board-certified Nurse Practitioner who has worked in a variety of in-patient and out-patient settings for the past 25 years. She has a Bachelors of Science from Syracuse University and a Masters of Science from the University of Southern California and will be pursuing her post-masters certificate in holistic nursing. She has spent her career working in women’s health, critical care and education with her primary ...
Chris Steiner-Wilcoxson
March 10, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBOn this episode of the Fenom Podcast I am talking with Coach Chris Steiner-Wilcoxson, the head coach of FIU softball, a mother of 3 and a force to be reckoned with. I grew up in the next town over from Chris and witnessed first hand her tenacity and passion she had in any sport she played. I had the privilege to play with her on some travel ball teams as well as Auburn University’s softball team. Out of college Chris began her coaching legacy as a head softball coach with high school softba...
Eliza Whiteman- Finding Flow On and Off Our Mat
March 03, 2020 14:33 - 31 minutes - 58.9 MBIn Episode 7 of the Fenom Podcast, Eliza discusses being in Flow. We can all relate to being stuck in various tasks, concepts or phases of life. Corporations, entrepreneurs, athletes, writers, artists, mamas, grandmamas and even YOU benefit from being in a flow state of mind and corporations and athletes spend big money in trying to enhance this state of mind. Flow was first coined as a lifestyle noun in 1990 by a Hungarian Psychologist who found 4 phases of Flow and wrote about how human...
Jennifer Givens
February 25, 2020 12:29 - 1 hour - 145 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast I am talking with Jennifer Givens, she is a UVa Law School Associate Professor, on the General Faculty at UVA law and the Director of the Innocence Project Clinic. Previously she worked as an assistant federal defender in the for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and as a senior staff attorney with the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center, where she represented death-sentenced inmates in post-conviction proceedings. An off hand comment i...
Practice: Wisdom of the Downward Dog
February 18, 2020 15:16 - 42 minutes - 78.9 MBIn this episode of the Fenom Podcast, Eliza reads her chapter for the book she contributed to, Practice: Wisdom of the Downward Dog. In her chapter, Getting Lost: A Homecoming, she discusses what it feels like to be lost within ourselves? Eliza explores how our journey in life is a series of ups and downs. She has discovered that getting lost is just as important as being found and that the practice of yoga provides space to tune in and listen to who we are and who we want to be. Which is a...
Chelsea Wilson
February 12, 2020 13:25 - 1 hour - 162 MBChelsea Shine Wilson is a College Basketball Analyst for ESPN and Raycom Sports. Chelsea is a former UVa Women’s basketball star and played under both Debbie Ryan and Joanne Boyle. She graduated from UVa with a degree in Sociology but it was an internship at Newsradio WINA that piqued her interest with sports radio and broadcasting. In 2013 Chelsea began her work as a color commentator for ACC Women’s Basketball as well as working for the Virginia Athletics Foundation. Chelsea met and marri...
Kristin Watson
January 31, 2020 18:54 - 1 hour - 201 MBOh the places Kristin Watson’s legs have taken her! On Episode 3 of the Fenom Podcast I am speaking with Kristin, she is the owner of Purvelo - a rhythm based indoor cycle studio with 4 locations in Charlottesville VA, Auburn AL, Chapel Hill NC, and Athens GA. Growing up she was the youngest on the block and her scrappy personality had her keeping up and playing all the sports with her older brother and the neighborhood boys. Soccer was her life until 7th grade when she joined track and fi...
Sarah Trundle
January 31, 2020 16:48 - 1 hour - 159 MBIn episode 2 of the Fenom Podcast we are talking with celebrated Charlottesville painter Sarah Trundle. Her paintings are rooted in abstraction, her many layered paintings range rom bold, geometric, brightly colored abstracts, to serene, monochromatic, minimalism. Her style explores the relationship between order and chaos, simplicity and complexity which makes patrons of art take pause and gain a deeper understanding of her work. This is a gift that all great artists have- the ability to st...
Eliza Whiteman
January 31, 2020 01:21 - 1 hour - 116 MBIn the first episode of the Fenom Podcast Eliza Whiteman introduces herself and discusses her "why" in creating this podcast. She discusses her life early on and pivotal moments that have created the foundation that she relies on today. Eliza talks about being an athlete, a military spouse, a mother and being a small business owner of FlyDog Yoga in Charlottesville, Va. Perhaps the biggest gift of her life was walking into a yoga class and learning how to hold herself up all on her own.