A Day In Her Life

Episode 153: A Day In Her Life with Alison Hall - Inside Edition Correspondent and Breast Cancer Survivor

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] Alison Hall doesn't know where her day will take her — and that's the point. As a correspondent for Inside Edition, she might get a call at 7am sending her to Long Island for a court hearing, spend the afternoon at the FaceTime set doing virtual interviews with sources in California, or hop on a flight to London. Her workday ends with show tape between 3 and 5pm, then she bikes home in the same blazer she wore on camera. In this week’s conversation, Alison shares how her mom's breast cancer diagnosis when she was 14 planted the seed for journalism, how an on-camera interview about Olivia Munn led to her own early-stage breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy, and how she protects the rhythms that keep her grounded — 5:30am oat milk lattes, Citi Bike commutes, and the exact same Monday-through-Friday dinner she's eaten for six years. What We Cover: * The path from story coordinator to on-camera correspondent at Inside Edition over 12 years * Her 5:30am mornings, oat milk latte on the couch, and "the brick" — the device that finally got her off Instagram at night * How interviewing a doctor about Olivia Munn's diagnosis led her to her own early-stage breast cancer (and the double mastectomy that followed) * Why she bikes to work in a dress and blazer and feels like the 10-year-old version of herself every time * The exact Monday-through-Friday dinner rotation she and her husband James have eaten unchanged for six years * Pizza Friday from Gelso & Grand in Little Italy, the wine-shop ritual, and how she completely eliminated FOMO from her life * The practice of noticing "glimmers" — tiny moments of joy that's reshaped how she moves through New York * Why Saturday mornings alone in Central Park with her Bernese Mountain Dog are non-negotiable Connect with Alison: * Instagram: @alisonhallreporting [https://www.instagram.com/alisonhallreporting/] * TikTok: @alisonhallreporting [https://www.tiktok.com/@alisonhallreporting] * Substack: Between Headlines with Alison Hall [https://betweenheadlines.substack.com/] * Watch: Inside Edition weeknights and weekends Listen and Review Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-day-in-her-life/id1676700021] - Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6dqV5AhULcp0yi5Cb1DudQ] - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5lpOsifLJoO4BNEnwywEw] More A Day In Her Life @adayinherlifepod [http://instagram.com/adayinherlifepod] adayinherlife.com [http://adayinherlife.com] adayinherlife.substack.com [http://adayinherlife.substack.com] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock

Episode 152: A Day In Her Life with Kathryn Humphries - PR Consultant and Co-Founder of All You Need Method

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] Kathryn Humphries turned down a buying position at Bergdorf Goodman to bet on a one-woman PR agency run by someone she'd just met — and that gut instinct shaped everything. From interning in Ralph Lauren's celebrity dressing department to running social media at Gap, she built a career across New York's fashion world before moving home to Houston, meeting her husband, and co-founding All You Need Method with her former boss Carla — a PR membership that teaches small business owners how to land their own press. In this honest conversation, Kathryn shares what her days look like working from home with a four-year-old in school and an eighteen-month-old with a nanny downstairs, how she structures her work around her circadian rhythms and childcare around her workload, and the weekly routines that keep her family moving. What We Cover: * Her morning rhythm: programmed coffee at 6:00am, couch snuggles with both girls fighting over space, and getting a four-year-old dressed and out the door by 7:15 * The daily smoothie she never skips — Kelly LeVeque's protein-fat-fiber-greens formula with "a lot of peanut butter" * How a Canyon Coffee blog post about circadian rhythms changed the way she structures every workday (mornings for writing, noon to 2:00 for calls, done by 3:00) * The career path from Ralph Lauren's celebrity dressing department to Teen Vogue to Gap to starting her own PR consultancy in Houston * A secret love of acting — complete with an agent in Austin, NYU student films, and classes she still takes as a parent * Her nanny Miss Lucy's game-changing move: cooking dinner during the baby's nap a couple days a week and how she flexes her childcare based on her workload. * Reading Harry Potter to her four-year-old with some creative editing of the scary parts — and a chamomile tea ritual her daughter now mimics with hot water, honey, and milk * Sunday mornings at Central Market — the Texas grocery store experience with balloons, fresh fruit, a great playlist, and the whole family strolling the aisles Connect with Kathryn: * Instagram: @kathrynwhumphries [https://www.instagram.com/kathrynwhumphries/] * Company: @allyouneedmethod [https://www.instagram.com/allyouneedmethod/] * Substack: Open Book [https://kathrynworshamhumphries.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock

Episode 151: A Day In Her Life with Chassity Evans - Influencer, Blogger, and Debut Novelist!

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] Chassity Evans woke up one morning with a fully formed novel in her head. She hadn’t taken a single writing class, had never planned to write a book, and was about to board a flight to the Bahamas — but by January 6th she was writing chapter one, and a little over a year later, her debut rom-com Pink Sand Summer [https://amzn.to/4w9IzQJ] was finished. Now the Charleston-based content creator (formerly behind Look Linger Love) is balancing a 16-year career in blogging with a brand-new identity as a novelist — all while raising two teenagers and keeping her evenings wide open for whenever they actually want to hang out with mom. In this honest conversation, Chassity shares what her unstructured days look like as a content creator who deliberately avoids schedules, how she wrote four to five days a week (sometimes eight-hour stretches on Friday nights) while keeping it feeling fun, and why she’s traded evening socializing for the daytime. She also opens up about the surprising shift of parenting older kids — how she went from counting down the days until she wouldn’t need a babysitter to realizing she wants to be home more than ever. I loved hearing from Chassity what her days look like as mom of older kids! What We Cover: * How Chassity’s debut novel arrived as a “dream download” one morning — and the year-long writing journey from chapter one to final edits (January 2025 to January 2026) * Her deliberately unscheduled work routine — and how she keeps everything feeling fun * The unexpected parenting flip: going from needing babysitters for date nights to wanting to be home in case the kids feel like talking * Navigating year-round travel lacrosse with her 14-year-old son Fletcher (and watching for signs of burnout) * How writing changed the way she reads — from “pure candy” to paying attention to the rhythm of every sentence * Her self-care staples: Peloton strength classes with Callie, walking the treadmill while watching Netflix, and reheating yesterday’s leftovers at 10:30am * Building Pink Sand Summer into a multi-book universe set on Harbor Island, a place she discovered on Pinterest in 2012 Connect with Chassity: * Instagram: @chassityevans [https://www.instagram.com/chassity.evans/] * Website: chassityevans.com [http://chassityevans.com] * Substack: Chassity Evans [https://chassityevans.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips] * Book: Pink Sand Summer (out May 12th) [https://amzn.to/427HQ4Z] Listen and Review Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-day-in-her-life/id1676700021] - Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6dqV5AhULcp0yi5Cb1DudQ] - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5lpOsifLJoO4BNEnwywEw] More A Day In Her Life @adayinherlifepod [http://instagram.com/adayinherlifepod] adayinherlife.com [http://adayinherlife.com] adayinherlife.substack.com [http://adayinherlife.substack.com] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock

Episode 150: A Day In Her Life with Rebecca Matchett - Serial Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Synchrony

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] Rebecca Matchett co-founded Alice and Olivia at 23 with zero fashion experience, now she's building Synchrony, a social platform for neurodivergent adults, and navigating life as a mom of three in downtown Manhattan — including sending her oldest to college in California this fall. In this honest conversation, Rebecca opens up about the pattern that's defined her career: jumping into industries she knows little about and figuring it out as she goes. She talks about what it's really like to run a startup while managing three kids' travel hockey schedules (they're apart most weekends), why she sets five alarms every morning just to remember to check her calendar, and the bittersweet reality of watching her firstborn choose a school 3,000 miles away. What We Cover: * How a dinner with a fellow mom turned into a tech startup addressing the gap in social services for neurodivergent adults * The Alice and Olivia origin story — and what happens when you make pants out of upholstery fabric (spoiler: they chafe) * Why Rebecca deliberately chose sports-heavy childhoods to push back against the "Manhattan private school kid" stereotype * Running a three-founder startup where communication happens across text, Slack, and email at all hours (there is no end time) * The college application process with a Division I-level hockey player — and why visiting schools changed everything * Her 13-year nanny who's transitioned from childcare to home management (and why they'll never let her go) * Using AI to plan a last-minute Portugal trip, review legal documents, and pressure-test business partnerships * The joy of watching three kids speak fluent Chinese to each other — while their parents have zero idea what they're saying Connect with Rebecca: * LinkedIn: Rebecca Matchett [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-winn-matchett-6356481/] * Website: joinsynchrony.com [http://joinsynchrony.com] * Instagram: @joinsynchrony [https://www.instagram.com/joinsynchrony/] Listen and Review Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-day-in-her-life/id1676700021] - Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6dqV5AhULcp0yi5Cb1DudQ] - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5lpOsifLJoO4BNEnwywEw] More A Day In Her Life @adayinherlifepod [http://instagram.com/adayinherlifepod] adayinherlife.com [http://adayinherlife.com] adayinherlife.substack.com [http://adayinherlife.substack.com] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock

Episode 149: A Day In Her Life with Hannah Pitner: Spanish Linguistics Professor and Language Business Co-Founder

Tell us what you think!!! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2149323/fan_mail/new] This week, we're sitting down with Hannah Pitner, a professor of Spanish Linguistics in Memphis and co-founder of Lingua Viva, an online language collective she launched with her business partner while juggling a full-time teaching load and a one-and-a-half-year-old son. Hannah shares what it's like to get in movement in between pour over coffee pours at 6am, teach four to five college classes a semester, and build a language curriculum that started on a construction site. In this conversation, Hannah opens up about the winding path from barely making it into college to earning a PhD in Applied Linguistics, leaving a teaching job during COVID to work as a barista, and the moment she realized she could turn years of freelance language trainings into a real business. We talk about journaling morning pages in silence before her son wakes up, navigating a sudden daycare closure with almost no notice, splitting household duties so she never touches a dish, and why logging her outfits on a private Instagram account for seven years has become her daily creative practice. What We Cover: * Why she wakes up at 5:40am to squeeze yoga, journaling, and a pour over into one hour before her son gets up (and why even 10 minutes of quiet alone time changes her entire day) * The journey from interpreter to barista to PhD candidate—how COVID created the unexpected window to apply, and what it's like teaching four to five college classes while running a business on the side * How Lingua Viva started when a construction company building an addition to St. Jude needed Spanish safety training, and Hannah found herself in a hard hat creating curriculum for middle-aged men * Wednesday night at-home date nights where she and her husband JT read one chapter of a book together each week (currently: Hunt Gather Parent) to talk about something other than work and logistics * How their daycare suddenly closed, the scramble to find a new one, and why a trial week on spring break (and lots of balls) made her son’s transition seamless * The Curated Closet practice: logging her outfit on a private Instagram account every single day for seven years as a daily creative outlet that takes almost no time * Why she's finally learning to outsource (starting with marketing after four days of Meta ads nearly ended everything) and let herself ask for help instead of always being the one offering it Connect with Hannah: * Instagram: @linguavivacollective * TikTok: @linguavivaco Listen and Review Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-day-in-her-life/id1676700021] - Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6dqV5AhULcp0yi5Cb1DudQ] - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5lpOsifLJoO4BNEnwywEw] More A Day In Her Life @adayinherlifepod [http://instagram.com/adayinherlifepod] adayinherlife.com [http://adayinherlife.com] adayinherlife.substack.com [http://adayinherlife.substack.com] Episode Music - For Days - Tom Deis via Shutterstock