Ep. 106 with Holly LaBoda | Founder/CEO - Formula L

Ep. 106 with Holly LaBoda | Founder/CEO - Formula L

You Can Do Anything But You Cannot Do Everything If your company’s revenue depends on one heroic leader, one star rep, or a handful of “can’t lose” accounts, you do not have a growth strategy. You have a fragile setup that will crack the moment the market shifts or life gets real. Holly Laboda joins us to talk about building a sales operating system that creates consistent results without constant babysitting, and why “system-led growth” beats “hero-led growth” every time. We trace Holly’s path from global experiences with Emirates Airlines to corporate leadership at CH Robinson, then into entrepreneurship with Luminaries Consulting and her next chapter as the founder of Formula L. Along the way, she opens up about the reality of launching a business while going through IVF, the isolation of miscarriage, and what it takes to keep moving when your personal life and professional life collide. The honesty here is paired with practical insight: you can do anything, but you cannot do everything, so you have to decide what matters and build the systems to protect it. We also get tactical on what great sales leadership looks like on the ground: strategic rapport building rooted in real curiosity, having tough conversations without pulling punches, and “eating the frog” before it grows teeth. Holly shares how she thinks about pricing, value-based offers, ethical boundaries, and why confidence is often the only thing standing between a founder and the number they actually need to charge. If you lead sales, run a services business, or you are a mom building something from scratch, this one will give you language, structure, and permission to stop being the linchpin. Subscribe for more conversations like this, share it with a friend who needs steadier growth, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. Connect with Holly: Website: Formula L [https://www.formulal4.com/home] LinkedIn: Holly LaBoda [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollylaboda/] Contact the Host, Kelly Kirk: * Email: info.ryh7@gmail.com Get Connected/Follow: * The Hue Drop Newsletter: Subscribe Here [https://kellykirkryh.myflodesk.com/x5tblt3m70] * IG: @ryh_pod [https://www.instagram.com/ryh_pod/] & @thekelly.tanke.kirk [https://www.instagram.com/thekelly.tanke.kirk/] * Facebook: Reclaiming Your Hue Facebook Page [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561237598631] * CAKES Affiliate Link: KELLYKIRK [https://cakesbody.com/KELLYKIRK] Credits: * Editor: Joseph Kirk * Music: Kristofer Tanke  Thanks for listening & cheers to Reclaiming Your Hue!

EP. 105 with Paula S. | Owner, Princess Paula Consulting

Be The Ferrari And Build A Life That Fits Some conversations start as fun and end up telling the truth you didn’t know you needed. Kelly sits down with Paula, a professional speaker, AI trainer, MC, podcaster, and the woman behind “Be The Ferrari,” a keynote built around identity, confidence, and the freedom of realizing you are not for everyone. Along the way, you’ll also hear how a simple yes turned into an unexpectedly joyful side life as Mrs Claus, booked out a year in advance, because real entrepreneurship is often stranger and better than the plan. We go deeper into what happens when motherhood comes first and life forces a pivot: divorce, blended family dynamics, adoption, and the long tentacles conflict can leave behind. Paula shares what she’s navigating now, including estrangement, and how she keeps moving forward with prayer, counseling, and community.  Content note: the conversation includes suicidal ideation and the impact suicide has on the people left behind, plus the practical tools that help when isolation and shame get loud. On the business side, we talk organic networking, building a trusted referral network, spotting marketing “shoulds,” and pricing yourself like you mean it, especially for women entrepreneurs who have been trained to ask for less. If you’re a mompreneur craving alignment, a faith driven business owner searching for purpose, or a speaker ready to claim your value, this one brings both heart and strategy. Subscribe for more conversations that help you reclaim your hue, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a quick rating and review so more women can find the show. Connect with Paula: Website: Princess Paula Consulting [https://princesspaulaconsulting.com/] LinkedIn: Paula Skoviera [https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulaskoviera/] IG: @princess_paula_consulting [https://www.instagram.com/princess_paula_consulting/] Tiktok: PrincessPaulaConsulting [https://www.tiktok.com/@princesspaulaconsulting] Contact the Host, Kelly Kirk: * Email: info.ryh7@gmail.com Get Connected/Follow: * The Hue Drop Newsletter: Subscribe Here [https://kellykirkryh.myflodesk.com/x5tblt3m70] * IG: @ryh_pod [https://www.instagram.com/ryh_pod/] & @thekelly.tanke.kirk [https://www.instagram.com/thekelly.tanke.kirk/] * Facebook: Reclaiming Your Hue Facebook Page [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561237598631] * CAKES Affiliate Link: KELLYKIRK [https://cakesbody.com/KELLYKIRK] Credits: * Editor: Joseph Kirk * Music: Kristofer Tanke  Thanks for listening & cheers to Reclaiming Your Hue!

Ep. 104 with Christi Cossette | CEO, Cossette Transformation Coaching

Fulfilled And Limitless A bright blazer turns into a big conversation about identity, ambition, motherhood, and what success is supposed to feel like. I sit down with Christy Cassette, a corporate finance transformation leader and executive coach, and we get honest about the hidden weight so many women carry: leading at work while also managing the mental load at home, often without the support men routinely receive. If you’re wrestling with burnout, confidence, or that quiet feeling that you’ve outgrown your current season, this one will land. We talk about designing a values-driven life instead of living by someone else’s definition of success, plus the practical systems that make “balance” possible: hiring help, planning content a month ahead, setting boundaries, and treating career moves like a mutual fit rather than a permission slip you’re begging for. Christy also shares how prayer and discernment shape her decisions, why rejection can be redirection, and what it looks like to keep walking toward a calling before you know exactly how it will unfold. Then the conversation goes deeper. Christy opens up about learning in utero that her son has Down syndrome, the intense pressure she faced to abort, and how her family’s story rewired her views on purpose, performance, and what a “fulfilled life” actually means. Expect candid stories, mindset shifts you can apply today, and encouragement that doesn’t sugarcoat the hard parts. If this resonated, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a lift, and leave a review so more women can find these conversations. Connect with Christi: Contact the Host, Kelly Kirk: * Email: info.ryh7@gmail.com Get Connected/Follow: * The Hue Drop Newsletter: Subscribe Here [https://kellykirkryh.myflodesk.com/x5tblt3m70] * IG: @ryh_pod [https://www.instagram.com/ryh_pod/] & @thekelly.tanke.kirk [https://www.instagram.com/thekelly.tanke.kirk/] * Facebook: Reclaiming Your Hue Facebook Page [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561237598631] * CAKES Affiliate Link: KELLYKIRK [https://cakesbody.com/KELLYKIRK] Credits: * Editor: Joseph Kirk * Music: Kristofer Tanke  Thanks for listening & cheers to Reclaiming Your Hue!

Ep. 103 with Olivia Hornig | Co-Owner, Lakes Sotheby's

A Shared Goal System Turns Marriage Into A Team Sport You can love your family and love your ambition and still feel like you’re failing at both when the calendar is packed and the phone never stops. That tension is exactly what we get honest about with Olivia Hornig, co-owner and leader at Lake Sotheby’s International Realty, as we talk through what it really looks like to build a business with your spouse while raising kids, navigating grief, and staying grounded when the market shifts under your feet. Olivia shares her path into real estate entrepreneurship alongside her husband Jeff, including the behind-the-scenes reality of division of labor, growing pains, and the quiet leadership required to keep the “back end” of a business running. We talk about hiring help before burnout hits, why a 90-day trial can save you heartache, and how real estate leadership changes when you commit to an agent-driven culture built on kindness, responsiveness, and real support. We also dig into brand alignment and why the Sotheby’s network and reach can elevate opportunity in ways people don’t expect. We go personal too: matrescence and identity shifts, the control we think we have until motherhood humbles us, and how faith practices like Bible study, prayer, yoga, and meditation can become real tools for time management and peace. Olivia also shares a simple tradition that keeps their marriage aligned year after year: handwriting goals together across family, business, travel, and giving. If you’re a mompreneur, a woman in real estate, or anyone building a life and a business at the same time, hit play and take notes. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a quick rating and review so more women can find these conversations. Connect with Olivia: Email: Olivia.Hornig@lakesmn.com Contact the Host, Kelly Kirk: * Email: info.ryh7@gmail.com Get Connected/Follow: * The Hue Drop Newsletter: Subscribe Here [https://kellykirkryh.myflodesk.com/x5tblt3m70] * IG: @ryh_pod [https://www.instagram.com/ryh_pod/] & @thekelly.tanke.kirk [https://www.instagram.com/thekelly.tanke.kirk/] * Facebook: Reclaiming Your Hue Facebook Page [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561237598631] * CAKES Affiliate Link: KELLYKIRK [https://cakesbody.com/KELLYKIRK] Credits: * Editor: Joseph Kirk * Music: Kristofer Tanke  Thanks for listening & cheers to Reclaiming Your Hue!

Ep. 102 with Maggie H. & Kelly C. | BIOHARMONY HEALTH

Perimenopause Made Livable You can love medicine and still be crushed by the way it’s practiced. Kelly Casserly and Maggie Hildebrand are OBGYNs, moms, and co-founders of BioHarmony Health in Edina, Minnesota, and they don’t sugarcoat what full spectrum obstetrics can demand: overnight call, chronic sleep deprivation, and a “push through” culture that follows you from residency into real life. We talk about how that pressure shows up at home, how identity gets tangled in a title, and why motherhood can be the wake-up call that forces a hard, honest re-evaluation.  From miscarriage grief to pandemic-era fear, they share the moments that made them realize something had to change. That change wasn’t a sudden leap, it was a plan: mentorship, building systems, learning the business side, and shaping a clinic model that gives women more time and deeper care. We dig into perimenopause symptoms that often start long before hot flashes, including anxiety, irritability, brain fog, sleep disruption, weight changes, joint pain, libido shifts, and the simple but powerful line so many women say: “I don’t feel like myself.”  We also get practical about what integrative menopause care can look like when it’s still grounded in evidence based medicine: lifestyle pillars (nutrition, movement, sleep, stress), targeted supplements, thoughtful hormone therapy, and labs that help rule out thyroid or adrenal issues while also watching long-term risks like cardiovascular disease. If you’ve felt rushed, unheard, or overwhelmed by social media health advice, this conversation offers a calmer path forward.  If this resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s struggling, and leave a review so more women can find real perimenopause and menopause support. Contact the Host, Kelly Kirk: * Email: info.ryh7@gmail.com Get Connected/Follow: * The Hue Drop Newsletter: Subscribe Here [https://kellykirkryh.myflodesk.com/x5tblt3m70] * IG: @ryh_pod [https://www.instagram.com/ryh_pod/] & @thekelly.tanke.kirk [https://www.instagram.com/thekelly.tanke.kirk/] * Facebook: Reclaiming Your Hue Facebook Page [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561237598631] * CAKES Affiliate Link: KELLYKIRK [https://cakesbody.com/KELLYKIRK] Credits: * Editor: Joseph Kirk * Music: Kristofer Tanke  Thanks for listening & cheers to Reclaiming Your Hue!