Answering the Call to Do More with Catie Bouchard

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.

We Are NOT a Product of Our Mistakes — with Nicole Travolta (Revisited)

We’re revisiting one of the earliest conversations that helped shape A Splash More — and honestly, it feels even more relevant now. Nicole Travolta is an actor, comedian, and writer whose one-woman show, Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright, has toured across the U.S., Europe, and the U.K. In this conversation, Nicole opens up about shame, identity, financial struggle, and the pressure of trying to live up to a name, an expectation, or a version of yourself that no longer fits. We talk about mistakes, self-worth, rebuilding your life from the inside out, and what happens when you finally stop letting your hardest moments define you. This conversation is honest, emotional, funny at times, and deeply human — which is probably why it stayed with us long after we recorded it. 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.