Strong, Not Small: Katie Lilly on Strength Training, Community & BÜNDA

Strong, Not Small: Katie Lilly on Strength Training, Community & BÜNDA

This week on A Splash More, Hayley sits down with Katie Lilly, founder of BÜNDA Strength + Stairs, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, community, motherhood, and the power of helping women discover their strength. Katie shares the story behind building BÜNDA and how her vision evolved from creating a workout to creating a movement. Together, they discuss the realities of entrepreneurship, balancing ambition with family life, and the importance of building spaces where women feel supported, challenged, and connected. A large part of the conversation also explores the science behind strength training and why so many women spent years believing it wasn't meant for them. Katie breaks down the benefits of building muscle, the misconceptions that have kept women out of the weight room, and why strength training is one of the most powerful tools for long-term health, confidence, and longevity. This is a conversation about purpose, perseverance, community, and redefining what strength looks like for women today. This episode is brought to you by our friends at BÜNDA Strength + Stairs. While we're excited to be building a partnership with their South Bay community, BÜNDA's impact extends far beyond Southern California, with studios across the country helping women discover their strength through movement, connection, and community. Their classes combine strength training, conditioning, and community in a way that keeps you coming back. Whether you’re getting back into fitness, looking to build strength, or just want an hour that’s completely for you, BÜNDA has something for every stage of life. Visit http://trainbunda.com or stop by one of their studios and tell them A Splash More sent you

Answering the Call to Do More with Catie Bouchard

This week on A Splash More, Hayley sits down with Catie Bouchard, founder of Pen & Napkin, an organization that transforms empty spaces into fully furnished homes for individuals and families navigating significant life transitions and rebuilding their lives. After years of witnessing the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, Catie found herself asking a question she could no longer ignore: What am I supposed to do with what I'm seeing? That question became the catalyst for a movement rooted in compassion, dignity, and community. In this episode, Catie shares the journey from recognizing a need to building a nonprofit with the support of volunteers, donors, corporate sponsors, and an ever-growing community of people committed to making a difference. But she also opens up about the realities of balancing a mission-driven calling with the demands of motherhood and family life, and the difficult decisions that come when your heart wants to do more than your season of life allows. Together, they discuss purpose, service, community, and what it means to make an impact without sacrificing the things that matter most. This is a powerful conversation about following a calling, embracing life's limitations, and discovering that meaningful change doesn't always require carrying the entire weight alone.

What We Carry and Who We Carry It With - Meghan Judge, Host of Judging Meghan

This week on A Splash More, Hayley sits down with Meghan Judge, creator and host of Judging Meghan, a Top 25 Mental Health podcast ranked among the top 1% of podcasts worldwide. Drawing from years of conversations about grief, loss, healing, and resilience, Meghan shares what she's learned about navigating life's hardest seasons and finding a way forward when so much feels outside of our control. As the conversation unfolds, it expands beyond grief and into one of the most influential factors in our mental health: our relationships. Together, Hayley and Meghan explore the beauty, complexity, and occasional heartbreak of female friendships, discussing how the people closest to us can shape our healing, challenge our growth, and impact our overall well-being. Honest, insightful, and deeply relatable, this episode is a reminder that while we can't always control what happens to us, we can be intentional about who we walk through it with.

How Family Dynamics Shape Who We Become — with sports reporter Sara Civian

Sara Civian is a sports reporter, podcast host, and one of the most recognizable voices to emerge from hockey media — known for her quick wit, sharp perspective, and ability to build a career in traditionally male-dominated spaces. But in this episode, we explore something much more personal. As cousins from a loud, close-knit Italian family — separated by 12 years and shaped by very different birth-order experiences — we talk about the identities that form inside families long before we fully understand ourselves. Together, we explore ambition, personality, visibility, humor, family dynamics, and the subtle ways childhood roles can follow us well into adulthood. This conversation is thoughtful, funny, layered, and deeply reflective of how family systems shape the way we move through the world long after we leave home.

Healing Your Past to Become the Parent You Want to Be — with Bryana Kappadakunnel, LMFT (Revisited)

We’re revisiting one of the early conversations that helped shape A Splash More — and honestly, this episode feels even more relevant now. Bryana Kappadakunnel is a licensed marriage and family therapist, founder of Conscious Mommy, and author of Parent Yourself First. In this conversation, we talk about emotional regulation, generational patterns, motherhood, identity, and the pressure so many women feel to hold everything together while quietly neglecting themselves in the process. Bryana shares such a grounded and compassionate perspective on healing — not just for our children, but for ourselves — and how self-awareness can completely change the way we show up in our relationships, parenting, and everyday lives. You’ll also hear Bailey in this episode, as this conversation was recorded during the early chapters of A Splash More while we were still discovering what this show was becoming and the kinds of conversations we wanted to create space for.