Jody LaVoie, the founder of Widows in the Workplace, joins host Meg McKeen on this episode of Bound & Determined. Through the learning and healing experienced following the tragic loss of her spouse and partner, Jody now supports women navigating their own relationship with work, family, grief - and themselves. As many continue to evaluate the place "work" fits in our "life," Jody highlights the need to think creatively about the meaningful ways we can support - and show up for - the employees who choose to work in our organizations.

Precious Norman Walton is a champion for education - and change - in the insurance industry. In this episode, Precious shares her wisdom about the skills we accumulate in our lives and careers - they're transferable, even if you can't see how - and what a less conventional career path might look like when we align those skills with our talents and beliefs. An expert storyteller, Precious and Meg chat through our relationship with failure and perfectionism - it's complicated!

Together with host Meg McKeen, Jenn Walsh shares strategies for finding and using your voice in the workplace - a coach can help! - and what it looks like to take the lead with your clients, too. We chat through the agent/producer and service personnel dynamic and wrap up with a reflection on the unique opportunity service professionals have to succeed in a sales role. One of the smartest conversations to date!

Licensed therapist Lauren Martin joins host Meg McKeen for a candid conversation about burnout. If you’re feeling it, know you’re not alone. Since burnout can be sneaky - that you’re headed for it might not be so obvious to you or those you love. Lauren reminds us that navigating life with and after burnout can be tricky, and requires us to inventory our energy - and in some cases, redraw our boundaries - but it’s possible.

Host Meg McKeen shares more about her digital nomad lifestyle, answering the questions she's asked most frequently. Have a listen to learn more about the logistics and the lessons she's learned in her nomad life.

The infamous Dustyne Bryant and Cat Ferris join host Meg McKeen to share their thoughts on the emotions we feel - good and bad - when we tell our stories in public ways, and the boundaries we must set to keep our most sacred stories - and relationships - safe. We talk about the challenges - and opportunities - we face in building relationships in this virtual world, proving that so much is possible.

Our bodies are in a constant state of change - and never is this more true than in the time leading up to and during menopause. Carrie Mapes and Patty Pappas, co-founders of Hello Again, join host Meg McKeen to shed light on this not-often-enough talked about topic, and share the wisdom they've gleaned through aging, and how they're changing the experience other women have as they age, too.

Jaimie Selwa joins host Meg McKeen for a real conversation about the challenges many women face as they navigate their journey to motherhood. Jaimie shares more about her own career path, which led her away from insurance - and the path she's created today to support other women on their infertility journey.

Abi Potter Clough joins host Meg McKeen for a candid conversation on the topic of change. Abi has made lots of changes in her life and career and helps Meg to sort through her own mixed emotions as she navigates change, too. Together they redefine success and the expectations of others, and those they have of themselves.

Nikki Brandt joins host Meg McKeen to share more about the hunch that grew to become her thriving business - one that is challenging the way we recruit and nurture professionals in the insurance industry.

Erin Bahadur joins host Meg McKeen to explore perhaps the most complex relationship we have - the one with ourselves. Erin shares more about her journey through addiction - and recovery - and how that experience has influenced the way she's navigating motherhood today.

You've met Elisa Stampf before - and she's joining host Meg McKeen again, but this time to shine a light on the harassment she experienced as a woman working within the insurance industry, and how it's fueling the work she's doing to change to that experience for others.

Michelle Valiukenas, the founder of The Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation, joins host Meg McKeen to share more about her mission to change the experience of loss parents - and so bravely shares her experience with loss, too.

Meg McKeen reflects on her decision to embrace her silver hair, including the learning she did about the process itself - and herself. Just like her decision to sell her home and things and take her business on the road, it’s been a journey!

Ania Caruso joins Meg McKeen on Bound & Determined℠ for a rich conversation about the importance of our building our support systems - and our resilience - and navigating rejection and taking risks before we feel ready.

What if we could change the experience women have when they sell insurance - and when they buy it? Kim Beach joins Meg McKeen to share more about InsureWomen - and the mission she is on to do just that.

Maria Goy, Co-Founder & COO of Spot, joins Meg McKeen on this episode of Bound & Determined℠ to share more about the mission she's on to show up authentically in her life - and in her work. Maria shares more about the clarity she gained in a dark moment and how her Korean-American heritage has influenced the path she is on today.

Kristy Sanford, a small business insurance agent, joins Meg McKeen as they talk about success in insurance sales - it has less to do with selling and more to do with listening - and the important distinction between being content and being happy.

What lies at the intersection of our work and our values? And of our actions and their outcomes? Megan Bock Zarnoch joins Meg McKeen to share more about the work she does to create values-driven cultures in insurance organizations.

In this episode, Sharon Carter asks - and answers - the age-old question "If not now, then when?" Sharon is a life insurance agent, but she is so much more than the title she wears.