Grit & The Gravel Road: Recent Episodes
Don Mamone, Kaci Brown & Shannon Busse
People are turning to entrepreneurship in huge numbers. But the life of an entrepreneur is hard. And sometimes it feels like you’re facing a dead end. But it’s only the end if you STOP. When you keep going, leaning into the power of community to help you navigate the doubt and fear, you step into a new chapter and see that unleashing your potential is also lighting the way for others.
Join Don Mamone, Kaci Brown, and Shannon Busse as they talk about business, life, and all things human. Bold, transparent, and highly entertaining, this is Grit and the Gravel Road!
What happens when you choose to change direction? In this week's episode, Shannon figures out how we get to take this experience from the traumatic times and the times when we feel like we have no choice but to apply it to our lives consistently so that we can be this productive individuals with focused attention on the now, all the time. Sometimes it's not a priority on our list to do the inner work, because we're running around, we're putting out the fires, and we think we're fully present. But we're not really fully present, because we're really just reacting instead of choosing. And we opened up this whole year of grit in the gravel road, with the early foundation of you get to choose. And here we are a full year later, standing strong in that same foundation of what you choose for your focus, and where this present moment is going to take you. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they finally reach the finish line and discover the starting gate.
In this week’s episode
- The power of being in the moment
- The word that comes to mind when we talk about trauma
- Choosing what direction to go in
- Figuring out how that fits into who we are, and who the people are around us
Links and Resources The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
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When life circumstances hit us, do we start to make rational decisions? Or do we lean in and choose and take complete ownership of our experience? In this week's episode, Kaci shares her story of taking full ownership of what you want and the joy of creating it. Sometimes when life served stuff up to us, it's hard, ugly, difficult, and that ugly cry that you need to get through in order to continue. And other times, it's like a release of joyful or conflicted emotion that brings forth those tears. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they help you tell your stories and have that impact.
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In this week’s episode
- The value of interrupting the normal
- The power of choice is the key
- The power of storytelling is that that moment can impact so many people
- “I’m in charge of my experience!”
- What you allow and expect of yourself, the bar is raised
- Don’t take yourself too seriously, let go and lean into the ride
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How do you measure a year in your life? In this week's episode, Don shares their intention to show their most authentic self with the world by sharing their story, journey, and experience with unconditional self-love and unapologetic authenticity. When we're not comfortable in our authenticity, and our identity, other people's joy and comfort in their authenticity, and identity oftentimes trigger us. The freedom that Don found in that is, where people's opinions of them really just don't matter. We get to acknowledge someone else's right to have an opinion to do things differently. It is an opportunity to give someone a different experience and when we carry that out into the world, it's a beautiful ripple effect. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they look back at their past selves with a new perspective.
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In this week’s episode
- Leaning into Unconditional Self Love & Unapologetic Authenticity
- Stepping fully into who you are and how you can serve
- Unlocking a peace, joy, and contentment in life that you never knew was possible
- Commit to doing better for yourselves
- Start noticing the times when you “check yourselves”, treat yourselves less than or ignore your heart but listen to the voices in your heads
- Experience that life-changing moment when what you thought was your Kryptonite becomes your SUPER POWER
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How do you choose a story that represents an entire year of growth, fear, beauty, betrayal, joy, and slowly rebuilding trust in yourself and others? In this week's episode, we're talking about Shannon’s story with a beautiful representation of commitment, responsibility, and learning to trust ourselves. When you submit to the process of transformation in your life, stop resisting, and find your center—that is, when you identify your anchor moments, stories, and core values—you will find yourself with just a feeling of gratitude for the journey and the way it has changed you. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they share how often they are so close to their goal and they hit a wall.
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In this week’s episode
- Don’t control the journey of others, let them be responsible
- Let others help you carry the load, Set your own pace
- If you get stuck, it’s ok to backtrack to find your way
- Stopping to rest or reset is not the same thing as quitting
- Finding the people who can see the goal through the trees when you can’t
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How do you celebrate your Thanksgiving? In this week's episode, we're talking about Thanksgiving traditions. There are a lot of people out there that hear all of these beautiful Thanksgiving traditions that people have and the joy that goes into them. We celebrate it in different ways and for some, maybe that's not what Thanksgiving looks like for them. Or maybe they don't feel the same way towards those ideas and those things and it's okay to find joy in the way other people see tradition. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they acknowledge that it's not about the what, and where, it's about the who.
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In this week’s episode
- Thanksgiving
- Recognizing that you can choose something different
- Creating new traditions
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In this week's episode, we want to open up with a global concept that brings about in us a great deal of emotion and that's the idea of gratitude. Gratitude isn't something that the three of us feel it's something that the three of us are. And that means that we've all been through things in this last 12-month journey that we so intimately shared, that required that we be grateful for even the messy, dirty, ugly, unfortunate, painful anger-inducing things in our lives, you get to find the opportunity to be grateful for those. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about how it hits differently when you're grateful for everything because they exist in a place of gratitude being something that they are, and not something they feel or experience.
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In this week’s episode
- Gratitude
- Perspective of gratitude
- State of being
- Being grateful not only for our blessings
- Looking beyond the surface level
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This week's episode features a person who's committed to authenticity and honest communication, Marcus Lemonis. We're going to talk about communication and the authenticity of being in the moment in realizing that you're about to have a hard, conflicted, and confrontational conversation. How do we have those conversations? How do we speak to one another and make these conversations possible and productive? Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about how they manage to have difficult but have to happen conversations in love and support for people.
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In this week’s episode
- What happens when you know who you are
- Being committed to authenticity
- When being honest in your communication becomes a habit
- How do you get out of your own way to have the conversations that aren't easy to have that you should, can, or want to?
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In this week's episode, what we've learned is not always black and white. It's not always an either-or sometimes it's both and. There's something where we put pressure on ourselves to conform to what's expected. And many times, it's appropriate, to dust yourself off, get back on and keep going. That's where grit comes from. That's where we realize there are certain things that make us stronger. But there are different ways to have experiences that make us stronger. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they figure out why and what's next when they get knocked off the horse and sitting on the ground in the dirt with scrapes and bruises.
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In this week’s episode
- How our mental health impacts everything
- Giving ourselves grace through the storms of life
- Holding onto the hope that something is on the other side that will make the journey worth it
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What is it that one thing that you want to do, that you want to experience? In this week's episode, we're talking about how visualizing “It” can make “IT” happen. It doesn't become about the money anymore, it's about realizing what you truly want out of life. There is one thing that we are constantly running out of, and that is time. Kaci, our storyteller for this week's episode is teaching her kids that it's not instant gratification, but it is realizing that we are all worthy of the dreams that we have. We can work right here, right now, to start making moves to make it a reality sooner rather than later. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about how they break free of being afraid to commit to these crazy actions boldly and how they do not give them permission to do it, but facilitate them giving that permission to themselves.
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In this week’s episode
- Deciding to go after it (no matter what “IT” is or how big or daunting) is the first step in making your dreams a reality. “Calling Your Shot”
- Declaring it with no ability to see how or when exactly it was going to happen
- How do you plant a flag that says, "I'm going to do this thing" when it feels so Herculean in the effort?
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In this week's episode, we're talking about how much effort we put into putting these masks on ourselves. Maybe it's a mask of needing to be the good person, to be the person that doesn't cause any inconvenience for anybody else, even though that mask is actually harming us and is preventing us from getting the care and the support and building the life that we need or want to build for ourselves. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about authenticity and the personas we create and utilize to hide our true selves when we’re fearful of the consequences of being ourselves.
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In this week’s episode
- All our fears in this boil down to one thing, the fear of losing belonging
- Our deepest desire is to be valued, loved, understood–in essence to belong
- How do we dig deep enough to find those masks?
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In this week's episode, we're talking about finding your purpose and people seeing themselves in your story. When we find these hugely symbolic moments in our story and life, those are the things that connect us to everybody else. If it's told from that perspective, it leaves room for them to join you, they get to connect it to their lives, and they will get so much more out of a story and create that deep human connection. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they open the door to talking about purpose and opportunity for advocacy.
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In this week’s episode
- Clear Intentions
- Asking For What You Want
- Going After It With All You’ve Got
- Allowing yourself to have a voice
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In this week's episode we're talking about specifically knowing what kind of support you need, confidently and clearly communicating it, is empowering. With people that don't align with your core values, we will sidestep a lot of miscommunication and a lot of emotion. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they explore how past behaviors could be to listen with a smile, say thank you, and never ask for support again- or clearly explore and ask for what you need.
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In this week’s episode
- Advocating for yourself and for the actual support that you need
- Loving a person the way that they need to be loved in any given moment
- This isn't helpful, how do I communicate that to them in a loving way?
- When you advocate for yourself, guess what shows up?
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This week's episode features Rhonda, the solid earth to Kaci’s fire. And together, they speak intuition and foundational strength to growth-oriented entrepreneurs. But most importantly, they listen deeply enough to understand exactly where every one of their coaching clients is in their business and where they truly want to go. And they coach into that space in a highly personalized, highly empathetic but kick-you-in-the-ass-when-you-need-it kind of way.
Expect jazz hands. And tears. And if you think you’ve experienced this kind of coaching before, think again. There’s NOTHING else like this in the market.
They launched their business from a single dinner conversation. Because they saw how hungry people were for this flexible and human-centered approach. And then they outlined it on a single google doc. Three days later, Rhonda had it built out.
Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they discuss awareness and taking the steps that are leading them on that path that they actually want to be on.
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In this week’s episode
- No amount of money can cover up an unfulfilled soul
- Signs before you reach burnout
- Passion and Purpose matter
- How are you making decisions?
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Book: The Dip - Seth Godin
Book: The Big Leap - Gay Hendricks
Everyone has an opinion on the fall season, and now is the great time to pause and be like, what team are you on? Team Pumpkin Spice Latte or not? Fall is a season of cozy fires, smores, fluffy socks, and snuggly blankets. And Pumpkin Spiced Latte’s have carved out their own unique little spot.
Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they share their favorite thing about fall.
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In this week’s episode
- Team Pumpkin Spiced Latter or Not?
- The favorite costumes that your kids have had
- Fun things about the fall and holiday season
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In this episode, Kaci shares that It wasn’t about someone else telling her what her gift, focus, or superpower could or should be. It was her listening to the calling of her soul and the truest desires of her heart. Committing, and going all in with ruthless focus and determination on the one thing.
Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they deep dive into when there's a loop of an inner voice that goes against all of the routines of life that you've created and survived for and serving other people. What happens when you do listen to that little voice? And you take action on that one thing?
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In this week’s episode
- Bold leaps of faith
- Listening to ourselves when we speak
- Presence of mind, awareness, and knowledge that not every voice in your head is you
- Pivotal moments in finding that clarity
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In this episode, Shannon shares how important it is to consistently find your Anchor Story and use it to bring in the feeling of groundedness, the feeling of not just being completely at the whims of disillusionment, uncertainty, fear, or scarcity, but digging deep to find or create what that next anchor story, so that you can feel that peace of drifting on the water instead of just the fear. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about how important Anchor Story is and how it can create guidelines for them and a way in which to see and express their world.
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In this week’s episode
- Anchor stories
- What happens after a big milestone
- What to do when you lose your anchor story
- The thing you learned, it never leaves you
- The scars of a season or a burden that we're carrying with us
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In this episode, Don discovers one of the most compelling reasons why they have what they have as far as the gift of gender expansiveness, and how they can serve a group of people. We talk about when we are out, it invites people in, and it creates a space in which they get to be exactly who they are and they get to love that person unconditionally. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about authenticity, transparency, and vulnerability.
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In this week’s episode
- Rise of An Advocate through authenticity, transparency, and vulnerability
- How showing up invites others to do the same
- When you stop judging yourself you will refuse to judge others and no longer worry about those that will judge you
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Join us in this week's Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast episode as Don talk about the beautiful twists and turns of life that always seem to put what we need right in front of us regardless of, if it would have been a willing choice or not. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about how life has a way of surprising them.
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In this week’s episode
- Sometimes what we think and see is not always what it is or how it will be
- How life has a way of surprising us
- Manifesting and willing it to be
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Join us in this week's Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast episode as we talk about how it's important to recognize that there's nothing wrong with having fears and it's time for you to face this so that you can release it. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they face their fears, what it does to them, and where it renders them.
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In this week’s episode
- The fears we carry with us
- Circumstances that make us face the fear
- Choosing how we respond
- Withdrawing vs letting the right voices in
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Join us in this week's Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast episode as we talk about fully stepping into your true zone of genius, and letting go of the good to get to the great. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they embrace their weaknesses and shine the light on strengths in themselves and others.
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In this week’s episode
- A powerful intention with Dimitri
- Others Love Me and Want To Support Me
- Fully stepping into your true Zone of Genius
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Join us in this week's Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast episode as Don shares the story of finding joy in all seasons and how they manage their work in the middle of a vacation. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they share the life that they love to live that exists in the boundaries of the commitments that they create.
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In this week’s episode
- Making time for joy
- The people that matter
- Standing for each other and adapting
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Join us in this week's Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast episode as Shannon shares her story of her Mother's day and how the parent's role wasn't the answer to solve the problem, it was being there as a support system for her daughter to be empowered, recognized and validated. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about what they'll do as parents when something in their lives needs a direct focus, and needs to be heard, How do they do it? How do you get rid of distractions?
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In this week’s episode
- Seeing the big picture
- Having a long-term perspective
- Listening to the right things
- Knowing what you're fighting for
- The power is in the telling
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Join us in this week's Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast episode as Don talks about how they created an environment in which they were able to create episodes, and it didn't have to be complicated. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about stepping into creative whitespace and removing that noise and friction to allow the organic conversation to guide them to what they really want to talk about in the podcast.
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In this week’s episode
- Creative White Space
- The Right Way to Do Something
- Letting Go Of “Working Harder”
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This episode is going to be a bit of a bumpy ride, as we are navigating a lot of pain and understanding as a human race and world with some things that are going on in real time. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about how they cope and how they continue to educate.
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In this week’s episode
- Seeing commonalities rather than differences
- Ignorance
- Emotionally reactive, thinking part of our brain goes offline
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Join us in this week's Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast episode as Shannon talks about accountability, acceptance, Moana's story and how she lost her internal compass and heart in her direction. What are we missing in that gap of choice to leverage our power towards something else? Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about taking those steps, making those decisions, honoring who you are, and doing it no matter how hard or daunting it is.
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In this week’s episode
- The aftermath of Shannon's notebook story
- Stop being afraid of other people’s opinions
- The quicker that we can release the importance of someone else's opinion, who does not care about our well-being or success in life, the freer we will be.
- Working towards something, not away from something
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Join us in this week's Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast episode as Kaci talks about the roots retreat. Roots were built on the foundation of purpose and gratitude. A significant shift into a commitment to a soul-filled and aligned business model to support a life defined on our own terms- freedom, impact, self-love, forgiveness, flexibility, and simply living a life fulfilled and joyful. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about letting go and letting life lead them and knowing that every opportunity is a lesson to unfold.
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In this week’s episode
- Stepping into the way that we live our lives and the choices that we make
- The propensity, we have a right to tell ourselves stories and assign meaning to things that happen is rooted in our identity
- Giving yourself the grace to accept and acknowledge
- How do you shift the reaction?
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Join us in this week's episode of the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast to talk about the moments that make you who you are. We are built from the little moments that we live through and collecting those moments that matter to us and creating meaning from them, that's what shapes us. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about how they flip and turn the events to get into a place where they are starting to love life again and appreciate those little moments even if things are a challenge when they’re in the mud, weeds, and muck.
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In this week’s episode
- Faith-building or faith-breaking moments
- Taking the leap when you’re not ready
- Seeing your own power to effect change
- Stepping into advocacy/leadership
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BOOK REFERENCE:
- The Power of Now
- The Untethered Soul
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck
Join us in this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast to talk about advocacy and education. It's not about marketing or sales, it's about advocacy to conspire with people, you want to see you win and walk with them. You become an advocate for the support, journey, and education that they need. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about how they incorporate their advocacy into serving their audience and how can they expand their purpose in their lives of being an advocate.
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In this week’s episode * Understand them on a human level
* Intention to Connect (ROI- return on intention)
* Where are they at, where do they want to go
* Champion Them
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In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, join us to talk about finding grace even when you are hurt. Forgiveness is not the first step. There are a few steps that need to happen before we forgive, step one of them is placing the accountability where it belongs. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about accountability, forgiveness, and how forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting the lesson life taught you or not acknowledging someone else's responsibility or accountability that goes with it.
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In this week’s episode * The first step is putting accountability where it belongs
* Any principle devoid of empathy can become toxic, even forgiveness
* Sometimes forgiveness comes with boundaries
* Don’t air anyone’s dirty laundry fallacy
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Books Referenced * The Shack
Join us in this week's episode of Grit & The Gravel Road as we dive into learning to let others learn from their failures and what happens if you just give people the space to experience their own voice and their own leadership, even if they're still uncomfortable, and you create that environment where it's okay to fall, it's okay to get a scraped knee, you have enough loving support around you to help lift you back up. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they talk about being a catalyst and how they discovered concepts and ways in which they can have an impact on other people's lives.
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In this week’s episode * Lifting others by stepping up and finding their feet again by leading through the storm
* Letting them fail to find their way- letting go of “getting it right”
* The power and independence of truly trusting yourself to put in the reps, learning something new, and winning in your own way.
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Books Referenced * Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
* Abby Womback - Leading From the Bench
* Blessings Of A Skinned Knee
In this week's episode of Grit & The Gravel Road, we discuss the feeling of not belonging, longing for community, and how we realize that we're all misfits. We're all misfit toys in our life. We're all deserving of love. We're all deserving someone that loves us and wants to play with us. Join Kaci, Don, and Shannon as they discover that they come from different walks of life but share the same heart, brain, and soul.
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Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * Loving ourselves allows us to love and celebrate the uniqueness of others
* Not so much fitting in with similarities but being accepted for who you are.
* Looking for a group of people that will accept you exactly the way you are
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Book: Untamed and The Untethered Soul
In 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸's episode on the 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 join us as Don shares the story about Jeff - The most fantastic Taxi Driver in the history of Taxi Drivers, and how relationships and connections are the paths to success in business and in life. When we surround ourselves with people who have the same kind of commitment, integrity, alignment, and intention, our joy is magnified. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * Your mission field is where your feet are
* How you do one thing is how you do everything
* Every person has value
* Zero competition and yet still driven and committed to being the best
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In 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸's episode on the 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 is all about rebirth and growth in nature is a result of violent processes. It's okay for violent processes to come through our lives, for trauma, grief, or the loss of someone or something that we thought was important in our life. We can trust that that process will allow us to find new growth and find new paths and ways of being and allow ourselves to be open to new experiences that we wouldn't have been able to welcome into our life previous to that time. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * The necessity of clearing out the old tangled mess
* Staying open to new possibilities & not retreating into what feels safe/familiar
* The dangers of encasing ourselves in armor
* Finding deep meaning in unexpected places
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Last week we talked about alignment. In 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸's episode on the 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 is all about intentionally slowing the pace of life, creating the life you want NOW, and accepting the realities of boundaries. We always have that amazing experience where we are recognized and acknowledged, sometimes head down, grind it out. Hustle culture is not always the solution. It's really not. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * Creating the life you want NOW
* Leaping into a 3-day work week
* Accepting the realities of boundaries
* Protect & Renew Your Energy
* Life is here in the present and I want to be present, not caught in a loop of hustle
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In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, we're going to discuss gifts and how gifts are not something that you have to give, it is something that you are and share. Don shares their story of the movie Encanto and how they answered Frankie's question. We are gifts that we share with the world rather than having a gift that we give to the world. Because when we share our gifts they become limitless. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * When a gift is something you have/give is it’s a burden
* When we share our gifts they become limitless
* What is it that we do to lean into accepting, acknowledging, and battling back those demons of consistent comparison?
* Competition and comparison aren't always negative, they can sometimes push us and fuel us.
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In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, we're going to dive in and dissect the value that you bring. But before we get into the value that you bring to the table, with your offers, and solutions in the way that you connect and serve, we want to make a very clear distinction that it is not equal to your worth as a human, you are priceless. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * Finding the moments of clarity and tipping points
* We're going to dissect the value that you bring
* Realizing life is worth more than a blip of a payroll
* Stepping into clarity with premium offers
* Discover the resistance and a lot of stories that you might be telling yourselves that keep you stuck in that gap and unable to step into the premium offer space
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In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, we discuss what it means to truly stand firm, and send up a beacon of light that is everything that you are, and everything you want to stand for. Then we get to talk about what the impact of that is. Because if there's any doubt in your mind that you could or should do that, the first message you get from someone is you're doing the right thing and you're exactly where you're supposed to be. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * Figuring out what your beacon is
* Helping you understand what it means to truly stand firm
* The filter is not about you filtering yourself, it's about having the filter that people fall through.
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In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, we discuss discovering your trigger into taking the first action steps into momentum. What is that force that will compel you forward, despite all of the voices in your head and what you tell yourself? There's something that will move you forward that feels more painful than your ego, uncomfortability of stepping out and being willing to be seen. It's more painful to watch someone struggle, to see someone in need, or to know that you have a solution that you are essentially depriving someone and keeping them in that loop. What is that force? Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * Finding the force that will compel you forward, despite all of the voices in your head
* Standing in the gap
* Recognizing that business is a business, it is designed to serve people, but also to serve them to put food on the table to pay their bills to allow them to live the life that they want to live
* What power are we giving to certain voices to give ourselves a way out versus an honest conversation
* Comparison
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In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, we discuss navigating the next level of business that intentionally supports your vision of your life RIGHT NOW. We get to build the life that we want to live and run the business that we want to run, be the parent and spouse that we want to be, and most importantly, be the person to ourselves and with ourselves that we want to be. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * Take your time to pause and listen
* Acknowledging how hard it can feel to receive support and ask for support
* We have the permission to indulge and that it doesn't come at a huge sacrifice, and that we get to build it however we want
* Surround yourself with people that support the life that you want to live
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In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, we discuss how triggers tether us to patterns we’re doomed to repeat unless we break the cycle and point us to the areas where we need to grow, they are internal, not circumstantial. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * The power of the pause–assessing, getting to neutral, not falling into emotional reactivity
* We can’t change them without awareness and radical responsibility (we own our entire reaction, start to finish)
* Getting to a place where we can choose a different way of being
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In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, we share the story of Shannon's Journey and how she discovered three amazing gifts in her life. It's so important to dig deeper and don't live at the surface level. Because you're going to miss out on all of the amazing connection, understanding, and empathy that can happen when you dig down deep into that kind of bedrock of common human emotion. Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * Tapping into the river of common human emotions–storyteller brings only half the meaning, the rest comes from the audience (but you start with you)
* The course is set, even if the navigation is at a subconscious level. Just because they can’t see the alignment doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
* Finding the proof that they are who they want to be in their stories
* They don’t see the potential in their story…finding the rally cry
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In the new episode of Grit & The Gravel Road, we share the story of Don entitled, "Why did God make me bigger than all my friends?" and "The Man in The Mirror". Your journey to identity freedom will ignite joy in all areas of your life and change your existence for the better when you unburden yourself of all that fear, guilt, shame, doubt, and judgment imposed by the world and reinforced by you.
In this week’s episode * All The ways influences and experiences develop and impact our thoughts and perceptions about how we see the world and how the world sees us. + Internal (Self-Constructed) versus external (Society) + How deeply rooted they become & how hard they are to change * One of the most impactful symptoms of living apart from true self-acceptance is the development of self-limiting beliefs.
Links and Resources gritandthegravelroad.com
Book: Brene Brown - Braving the Wilderness
Video: LinkedIN Spot “This is Professional”
Book: Lady Clementine
In this episode, we discuss the perspective of designing the life you want to live and acknowledging that we get to be who we want to be without the world putting some mean, nasty, unacceptable label on us. We are going to save the people swimming towards us without drowning ourselves
In this week’s episode * No more self-sacrifice * Not a trend, fad, or quick fix * Creating the life we want to live while still serving our audience
Links and Resources donmamone.com shannonbusse.com kacibrown.co
In this week's episode on the Grit and The Gravel Road Podcast, Don shares their story of corporate budgets, SOPs & spreadsheets, and how they acknowledged that in order to scale, outsource, create a cohesive and consistent experience that exceeds expectations on every client's opportunity, Don had to go back to being a process nerd and "spreadsheet geek".
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Join us every Wednesday as we discuss business, life, and all things human.
In this week’s episode * F This S * Being a business owner does not mean doing it on your own * How it facilitates outsourcing * Kaci and meal planning * Commitment, intention, and focus * Impact without Personal Presence
Links & Resources: gritandthegravelroad.com donmamone.com shannonbusse.com kacibrown.co
In this episode Kaci shares a story about a dear quiet soul and creative genius friend, Malena Southworth and how Malena’s offer changed but her mission didn’t. The biggest thing for entrepreneurs to realize is when you jump in, when you take a leap, your mission and your heart is what will carry you. Everything else will figure itself out.
Links & Resources
donmamone.com
shannonbusse.com
kacibrown.co
Learn More About The Entrepreneurs We Talked About on Today’s Episode
Melena
Nina
Join us to hear the story of Emily and her love of Grumpy Cat and how Grumpy Cat says no and we all need to embrace the power of no and the ability to choose. There is power in acknowledging and releasing the things that we don’t want so that we can more fully embrace and build a life full of the things we DO want.
In this week’s episode * Embracing the power of NO * Resistance vs. Choice * Saying NO to Fear * Defining what success looks like
Links and Resources donmamone.com shannonbusse.com kacibrown.co
In this episode, we discuss the pressure to not stop, not look, not listen to others and why it’s so important that we don’t give in to that pressure. Being human is messy and emotional and those are the exact things that forge the most powerful kinds of connection.
In this week’s episode
- Huge fear of putting themselves out there in a vulnerable situation
- Being comfortable with vulnerability
- Sharing is never the wrong answer
Links & Resources
donmamone.com
shannonbusse.com
kacibrown.co
Book Reference: Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
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In the sixth episode of Grit & The Gravel Road, we share the story of a 3-day live event, a benevolent effort by Kaci & Jorge to propel people forward through imperfect action. People boldly step out of their comfort zone and dare to do business and life differently. In this week’s episode
- Showing up and being vulnerable during the Impact & Influence Live Event
- Finding happiness when you stop comparing yourself to other people
- Doing something for the sake of enjoying it
- Shifting your mindset to overcome struggles
Links & Resources
donmamone.com
shannonbusse.com
kacibrown.co
Book Reference: The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
Instagram | @gritandthegravelroad
In this episode, we take a deep look at the role comparison plays in our lives and businesses. When we’re so caught up in recreating the apparent success we see in other people, we sometimes forget to ask ourselves if we even want that same success for ourselves. Our journey is rooted in choice and intention, the spaces where multiple roads branch out before us, leading to different possibilities. In this week’s episode * The dangers of comparison without insight * The power of radical acceptance and the clarity that comes from it * Shrinking the circle of control to create momentum * Sometimes the only control we have is how we react
Links and Resources
donmamone.com
shannonbusse.com
kacibrown.co
Join us to hear about Kaci’s Tale of Two Kitties and how her family accidentally brought double the joy into their family by being open to an unexpected opportunity. Things don’t always turn out the way we expect, and the ability to embrace the messy and imperfect allows us to find things more powerful and more beautiful than our expectations. And through that, we get to step into a more powerful position of leadership in our lives and businesses. In this week’s episode * Embracing unexpected opportunities * Seeing beauty in the messy and imperfect things of life * Leadership grace and allowing your team to co-create solutions * Pet stories galore!
Links and Resources
donmamone.com
shannonbusse.com
kacibrown.co
In the second episode of Grit & The Gravel Road, we share the story of the podcast name we almost chose and why we’re so glad we pushed through to find the name that was truly meant to be. This is our rally cry for overthinkers everywhere. We get to choose the story we tell and the meaning it has in our lives.
In this week’s episode
- Getting out of your own way
- Pushing past mediocre to find what you really want
- Expectation vs. inspiration and the flexibility it takes to embrace it
- Understanding when overthinking is productive and when it’s not
Links and Resources
donmamone.com
shannonbusse.com
kacibrown.co
Welcome to the first episode of Grit & The Gravel Road. We acknowledge that life can be hard and we accept that we each get to do the work that it takes to set goals, achieve greatness and have a massive impact on the world around us. We are all determined to get from where we are to where we want to be and that is a very individual and personal journey. Nevertheless, we are all on that same path and therefore never alone. Join us each week as we discuss business, life and all things human.
In this week’s episode
- Who we are
- What you can expect we will be chatting about each week.
- Why we decided to start this podcast
- How it just may be the most important thirty minutes of your week and change your life
Links and Resources
donmamone.com
shannonbusse.com
kacibrown.co