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Be the Dream

Karaleigh Garrisonwww.karaleighgarrison.com
Be the Dream is your guide to authentically sharing your voice and stepping into the life you’ve always wanted. Whether through music, speaking, or creative expression, this podcast helps you own your unique sound and make an impact. As a Lighthouse for aspiring vocalists, Karaleigh Garrison illuminates the path to fearless self-expression, helping you tap into your most vivacious voice. Through powerful interviews and expert insights, you’ll gain the confidence to be heard, be seen, and Be the Dream.
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Episodes

Behind the Scenes of the Seeking Sunshine Album!

Today is a special day- Karaleigh’s debut album “Seeking Sunshine” is finally out for the world to hear! Make sure to check it out on Spotify, Apple Music, or your favorite music streaming platform, or to better support the artist, buy the album on Bandcamp or ITunes! Bandcamp link: https://karaleighgarrison.bandcamp.com/album/seeking-sunshine Favorite takeaways: 1. I was just sure that I couldn’t be a mom and sing, and yet there was this fire in my soul that I couldn’t put out. 2. Maybe it’s fi...

May 23, 20231 hr 7 minEp. 57

Do What You Can With What You Have with Rebekah Hope

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the unstoppable Rebekah Hope. Author, Speaker, and Relationship Coach, Rebekah is originally from a small Amish community in Northern Michigan. Having experienced various types of abuse as a child and feeling trapped in an environment that nearly took her life, Rebekah chose to leave the Amish life behind at 17 years old, including everything and everyone she knew, and traveled across the country with only the clothes on her back and a few dollars in her pocke...

May 16, 20231 hrEp. 56

The House That Built Me with Rebecca Williamson

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the amazing Rebecca Williamson. Rebecca tells the story of the 1800’s era home her grandparents preserved that served as a childhood inspiration. When she lost her grandmother and husband within 6 months of each other as an adult, she bought the place on a whim and started a wedding venue. It has been an unforgettable adventure. Favorite takeaways: 1. Passion is so important. It light you up and gives you energy no matter what else is going on around you. If y...

May 09, 202354 minEp. 55

Don't Give Up Just Yet: Miracles Are On Their Way (Live Keynote Concert)

Don’t Give Up Just Yet: Miracles Are On Their Way was a Virtual Keynote Concert that was live on April 27th, 2023 where Karaleigh combined her love of storytelling and music to inspire and uplift. Favorite takeaways: 1. It’s time to reframe- reframe and retrain your brain. It’s time to look for the good- you know that you should! 2. Wait- maybe it doesn’t have to look the way they said it did. Wait- maybe it’s not too late to change your mind or change the world. Don’t give up just yet- wait. 3....

May 02, 20231 hr 2 minEp. 54

How Podcasting Changed My World with Rayson Choo

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the epic Rayson Choo Rayson Choo is dubbed as The Celebrity Whisperer. What he does is he picks the brains of the best entrepreneurs you have in this world, such as Gary Vee, Grant Cardone, etc. to find out from them what are some of the simple and effective steps that millennials can take to experience success in the swiftest and most effective way possible. He does that through his podcast "The Raygacy Show". The millennials who have listened to the podcast ...

Apr 25, 202357 minEp. 53

Learning How to Trust Yourself with Kath Grimmitt

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the lovely Kath Grimmitt. Kath is an intuitive branding designer for people who help people. Her approach to branding and building brands is more holistic and based on staying connected and true to your values so that you can help people in your own unique way by being yourself! Developing tools and confidence to help others using your magic. Formerly a fashion designer, Kath has navigated the intense world of the fashion industry, running her own fashion labe...

Apr 18, 202358 minEp. 52

Finding Purpose When Your Dreams Don’t Come True with Rianna Hijlkema

Join Karaleigh in a remarkable interview with Rianna Hijlkema. Rianna is a multi-passionate serial entrepreneur living a nomadic life for the past 11 years. Traveling to 40+ countries and working on four continents has taught her to approach life (and business) with resourcefulness and resilience. But, nothing could have prepared her for involuntary childlessness. The rollercoaster of emotions is hard to grasp for the outside world. Nowhere could she find women who understood the challenges she ...

Apr 11, 20231 hr 24 minEp. 51

The Science of Feeling Good with John Slocum

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the incredible John Slocum. John is a complex trauma and stroke survivor who has used the power of breath and the mind to heal himself without the need for medications or supplements. He has written a book called "The Science of Feeling Good," in which he discusses the evidence-based methods that he used to heal and how others can use them to feel good instantly. Favorite takeaways: 1. To really find out who we are, we must recover from childhood trauma. 2. It...

Apr 04, 20231 hr 11 minEp. 50

How Adventure Therapy Can Change Your Life with Scott & Nancy Kiesling

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the adventurous Scott and Nancy Kiesling! Scott & Nancy are relationship coaches. They use their unique method of adventure therapy to help people overcome their self-doubt and fears and build an ultimate relationship with themSELF first, so they can then attract in the love they’ve always desired. After two years of marriage, Scott was involved in an accidental explosion at work, resulting in a brain injury, hearing loss, and vertigo. This drastically cha...

Mar 28, 20231 hr 1 minEp. 49

Overcoming Jealousy with Shanenn Bryant

Join Karaleigh for an interview with the amazing Shanenn Bryant. Shanenn is an ACA (an adult child of an alcoholic) and understands the adult challenges that come from growing up in that environment. After many years suffering from jealousy and insecurity in relationships, she is now a life coach and the host of the Jealousy Junkie podcast, helping others overcome jealousy, build confidence and reclaim their self-worth. Favorite takeaways: 1. We underestimate how much we can grow and what the fu...

Mar 21, 202358 minEp. 48

Seeking Sunshine When Surgery Doesn’t Go as Planned with Nicki Joiner

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the resilient Nicki Joiner. Nicki has lived in eight states since graduating highschool. She has two degrees and two certificates in relevant fields of study and is a seasoned facilitator in her local community, an award winning entrepreneur, and leverages both formal and informal training to deliver engaging keynotes and workshops. Nicki has lost 95 pounds after having gastric sleeve surget eight months ago, where she experienced severe conplications and chea...

Mar 14, 20231 hr 5 minEp. 47

Live Your Dream Life with Noelle Peterson

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the awe-inspiring Noelle Peterson. Noelle is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and women step into their identity and power so that they can create the life they desire. She is the author of Dream Life Planner: Move From Tired and Overwhelmed to Free and Empowered, co-author of Achieve Wellness and the pretty half of the Smiling Coaching Couple. Noelle helps women awaken their dreams and design a path to reach them. Favorite takeaways: 1. You can’t give a...

Mar 07, 202356 minEp. 46

Enhancing Communication and Relationships with Ann Visser

Join Karaleigh in an amazing interview with Ann Visser. For over 20 years, Ann has been equipping individuals and organizations to communicate in a way that aligns with their values so they can lead their families and their teams into a better life. She’s a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker and trainer at 4Better 4Ever. Ann has spoken to diverse audiences including marginalized women, married couples, businesswomen, business leaders, students, churches, Staff and addicts in recovery, an...

Feb 28, 20231 hr 6 minEp. 45

Resilient Sunshine with Alissa Shirk

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the amazing Alissa Shirk! Alissa Shirk has been a resilience coach for ten years, and the host of her own podcast, "disSOLViNG fear", for a few months now! Her work, helping others build their resilience and dissolve fear, has in turn helped HER to seek sunshine during challenging times in her own life. Alissa believes that we often discover our OWN power, when we use our power to help someone else. She truly "found her sunshine" as a result of helping others ...

Feb 21, 20231 hr 4 minEp. 44

Rock Your Kindness with Tracey Ferrin

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the incredible Tracey Ferrin! Tracey is the Best-Selling author of Up Struggle, a motivational speaker, content creator, the host of Rock Your Kindness podcast that is presented by Love What Matters, and a proud cancer Thriver. Across all platforms she has over 670k followers with TikTok being her largest. She uses her platforms to have fun, be a REAL model, and giveback. With the help of her TikTok community she raised over 40k for a Wendy’s employee and 90k ...

Feb 14, 20231 hr 32 minEp. 43

Dare to Self-Care Workshop: Day 5

Join Karaleigh in an extra special episode- Day 5 of the Dare to Self-Care: From Burnout to Bliss Free 5 Day Virtual Workshop. This was recorded Live in the SHINE: Self-Care for Burnt Out Moms Facebook group. You can register for the workshop here: karaleighgarrison.com/selfcareworkshop. Doors to my 90 day 1:1 Coaching program are now open! DM me and we will hop on a clarity call to see if this program is the right fit for you.

Feb 10, 20231 hr 8 minEp. 42

Dare to Self-Care Workshop: Day 4

Join Karaleigh in an extra special episode- Day 4 of the Dare to Self-Care: From Burnout to Bliss Free 5 Day Virtual Workshop. This was recorded Live in the SHINE: Self-Care for Burnt Out Moms Facebook group. You can register for the workshop here: karaleighgarrison.com/selfcareworkshop. Doors to my 90 day 1:1 Coaching program are now open! DM me and we will hop on a clarity call to see if this program is the right fit for you.

Feb 09, 20231 hr 13 minEp. 41

Dare to Self-Care Workshop: Day 3

Join Karaleigh in an extra special episode- Day 3 of the Dare to Self-Care: From Burnout to Bliss Free 5 Day Virtual Workshop. This was recorded Live in the SHINE: Self-Care for Burnt Out Moms Facebook group. You can register for the workshop here: karaleighgarrison.com/selfcareworkshop

Feb 08, 20231 hr 15 minEp. 40

Dare to Self-Care Workshop: Day 2

Join Karaleigh in an extra special episode- Day 2 of the Dare to Self-Care: From Burnout to Bliss Free 5 Day Virtual Workshop. This was recorded Live in the SHINE: Self-Care for Burnt Out Moms Facebook group. You can register for the workshop here: karaleighgarrison.com/selfcareworkshop

Feb 07, 20231 hr 15 minEp. 39

Dare to Self-Care Workshop: Day 1

Join Karaleigh in an extra special episode- Day 1 of the Dare to Self-Care: From Burnout to Bliss Free 5 Day Virtual Workshop. This was recorded Live in the SHINE: Self-Care for Burnt Out Moms Facebook group. You can register for the workshop here: karaleighgarrison.com/selfcareworkshop

Feb 07, 20231 hr 12 minEp. 38

Seeking Sunshine After Addiction with Sarah Ibrahim

Join Karaleigh in an amazing interview with Sarah Ibrahim. Sarah is The Inspiration Queen, inspiring other women to truly live their best life. This begins with reconnecting women with who they REALLY are (not who they appear to be), identifying their soul purpose and then going on to create and manifest a life they love. In May 2021, having come clean about her own 20-year cocaine addiction, Sarah began to shine a light into the world of addiction, using her own lived experience to help others....

Jan 31, 20231 hr 1 minEp. 37

Your Dreams Can Change the World with Meegan Winters, AbleVu CEO

Join Karaleigh in an incredible interview with Meegan Winters. Meegan was born in Lansing, Michigan, and graduated high school from Mason, a little town just south of there. She is married to a wonderful husband and has two teenage boys. Meegan received her Bachelor’s Degree in Special Education from Central Michigan University, a Master’s Degree in Special Education with a focus on Autism from Oakland University, and an Administration Certification from Penn State University. Meegan has worked ...

Jan 24, 20231 hr 4 minEp. 36

Thriving After Abuse with Ashlee Hoelck

Join Karaleigh in an interview with Ashlee Hoelck. Ashlee is a certified coach and owner of Phoenix Rize Coaching where she inspires women who have endured toxic or abusive relationships so that they can heal and thrive. She draws from her personal journey of healing from 12 years of debilitating physical pain caused by emotional trauma from an abusive relationship. Ashlee is also the host of the podcast Thriving After Abuse. Favorite takeaways: 1. Your body will just keep getting louder and lou...

Jan 17, 202353 minEp. 35

Finding Hope and Healing as a Single Christian Female with Shareta Green

Join Karaleigh in an interview with Shareta Green, an author and mentor who helps single Christian women find hope and healing. She says, “It’s been on my heart for a number of years to mentor rejected Christian single women who feel like a failure to find fulfillment in Christ in faith, healing, and self-worth be restored so they can walk in victory. After going through the pain of 30 years of rejection, insignificance, failure, broken-heartedness, and hopelessness, the time is now to help othe...

Jan 10, 20231 hr 8 minEp. 34

Seeking Sunshine in Motherhood, Creativity, and Living Your Dreams with Mel Findlater

Join Karaleigh in an interview with Mel Findlater. Mel is a mom of 2 and loves connecting moms with their big, audacious dreams through coaching, community, and creating a space of playful possibility. She believes that what the world needs most is moms who are flourishing, as it is us that will make the biggest impact. Favorite takeaways: 1. We need, as humans, to be connecting with other human beings. 2. That connection, that love of learning, and just being able to find some of those resilien...

Jan 03, 20231 hr 14 minEp. 33

Seeking Sunshine in Hell Year with Rach Wilson

Join Karaleigh in an interview with Rach Wilson, a relationship coach for couples with special needs children. She shares her story of going through Hell Year, where her son didn’t sleep and she was in a level of burnout most can’t even imagine. Favorite takeaways: 1. All the way through Hell year, as hard as it was, in the back of my mind I’ve always had the belief that this is happening for a reason. I may not know what it is right now, but somehow I’ll use this information, somehow this will ...

Dec 27, 20221 hr 43 minEp. 32

Chaotic Christmas with a Heartbeat of Peace

It’s almost Christmas! Today’s episode is a special solo episode where Karaleigh talks about where she’s at and uses her life to teach valuable lessons. Favorite takeaways: 1. I love seeing the sunshine in the sadness. 2. What does the snow tell you? It tells me to slow down. 3. The lesson for me this season is to slow down. 4. It’s time to slow down and just trust. 5. Give people what they need instead of what you need to give. 6. God knows better than we do, and if we can just kind of follow t...

Dec 20, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 31

Turning Pain Into Positivity with C.A. Kanooble

Join Karaleigh in an interview with Cristy Ann Kanooble, an author, comedian, host of the Hoe on the Go Podcast and founder of the Mentally Kill Project. Favorite takeaways: 1. I don’t just look for sunshine, I am the sunshine! 2. I feel like once you’ve seen the darkest parts of human nature, you really have no choice but to see the light after that. 3. Clearly I was meant for something more. 4. Learning who we are is sunshine. Learning how to process our emotions, learning how to become better...

Dec 13, 20221 hr 15 minEp. 30

Seeking Sunshine in Poverty, Homelessness, and Resilience with Nadia Jean

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the incredible Nadia Jean, who shares her story of poverty, homelessness, and how she got back on her feet and thrived as a single mom with special needs kids. Nadia Jean is a mother of 3, two of those children are diagnosed with Autism. After overcoming major trauma and living homeless as a single mother, she built her life back up by investing her time in personal development & began studying counseling, Positive Psychology, and NLP. She is a qualified B...

Dec 06, 20221 hr 9 minEp. 29

Creatively Living Your Best Life with Kristi Nellor

Join Karaleigh in an interview with the incredible Kristi Nellor! Kristi Nellor is a Soul Consultant for inner and outer beauty, a reinvention strategist, empowerment and mindset coach, creative director, artist, maker, designer, and creativity catalyst for companies, teams and individuals looking to transform their impact, messaging, mindsets, and lives. She is also an inspirational speaker, international best-selling author, and podcaster with a focus on saying yes to yourself and living your ...

Nov 29, 20221 hr 35 minEp. 28
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