A #1 Self-Improvement podcast, The Breakout tells incredible stories of personal growth with the smart, hilarious thought leaders from Abbracci Group. Every day, in big and small ways, we put ourselves in boxes. From jobs to relationships, to entire belief systems, many of us are living by rules that someone else wrote for us. On The Breakout, talent specialists and the founders of Abbracci Group, Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther, dive into the extraordinary stories of people overcoming self-doubt, pushing boundaries, and finding the courage and confidence to get what they want and achieve the success they were destined for. Every two weeks, our hosts sit down with inspiring change makers and experts who share ways that you can break through boundaries and shift your life into bold new territory, fostering personal development and a growth mindset. With a ton of humor and lots of care, Keri and Kelly also bring their own insights as change experts to every conversation. Their number one desire is that you do whatever the hell you want, and on The Breakout, Kelly and Keri prove you can escape expectations; best of all, they show you how...
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 13 hours 59 minutes
episode 33: How to Speak Up: Assertiveness, Boundaries, and the Beauty of Anger, with Cara Tuttle
“Anger is telling us something. It's often telling us that something isn't right or that a boundary is being violated”. Cara Tuttle is a lawyer, consultant, and educator focused on addressing sexual assault and harassment in higher education, and she wants us to explore our anger as a key tool in assertiveness training...
episode 32: Lifescaping: How to Dig Yourself Out of Entrepreneurial Trauma, with Monique Allen
“One of the jokes I have in coaching is, the surefire way to kill passion is to build a business around it, or marry it”. Monique Allen will tell you that entrepreneurship is it’s own special kind of trauma, and it needs a special kind of business coaching.
Monique is a professional gardener who has spent almost four decades in the industry...
episode 31: Walking Away: How to Leave a Promising Career and Make Your Life Your Own (Camino stories part 2 of 2!), with Christine Job
“I was expecting to feel a certain way about the accomplishments. But it wasn't fulfilling, and I couldn't understand why.” Christine Job was a talented law student and the first Black female president of her class. From an early age, her family had expected her to go into law, but despite her achievements she was terribly unsatisfied.
Christine’s early professional life was a series of fits and starts...
episode 30: Leaving Your Life: The Transformative Power of the Camino de Santiago (Camino stories part 1 of 2), with Writer and Entrepreneur, Kelli Field
One night, at the tail end of a vacation in Europe, Kelli Field suddenly hit a wall. “I just started crying and I just told my husband, I can't do it anymore”. After decades of working in a high earning, high stress career that took a huge toll on her health, she realized she couldn’t go back to work. Something deep inside her had finally said no. “My life had all the trappings of the American dream. Big house, expensive cars, long commute...
episode 29: Changing the Narrative: The Untold Her-story of Human Evolution, with Cat Bohannon, Bestselling Author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
“There’s this really old, really crap story that how we got here is about what the guys did. And women were just like some side character behind a hill, just like pounding some tubers, saying, ‘Oh, sorry guys. I see you're busy. I'm just gonna build the future of our species in my actual body’...
episode 28: How to Escape Monogamy: The Valentine’s Day Episode! Featuring Psychologist, Sex Educator, and Best-Selling Author, Dr. Joli Hamilton
Get ready for a Valentine's Day episode like no other. True to form, we're challenging some expectations, and today, it's that age-old ideal of “the couple”. Why is it still so glorified, and what are some ways to do relationships differently?
Psychologist and sex educator Dr. Joli Hamilton is one expert who wants to shake up the monogamy paradigm. In her practice, Joli helps people explore non-monogamy and the many ways it can be implemented in a relationship...
episode 27: Stuck In-Between: How to Defy Cultural Labels and Define Yourself (without all those rules), with Urmi Hossain
“I never felt I was Bengali enough. I never felt I was Italian enough…And because of that, I struggled to find my cultural identity”. Urmi Hossain is Italian by birth, and Bengali by blood, but there’s always been friction between those two identities. Born and raised in Italy to immigrant parents from Bangladesh, Urmi grew up at the center of a clash between Italian culture, strict Muslim parenting, and a society that wanted to categorize her one way or another...
episode 26: How To Save Your Kids: Kidnapping, Trauma, and Fighting the Odds...and Your Own Demons, with Author, Lizbeth Meredith
“Four years after I left – four long years of being stalked and having my tires slashed – my former husband took the kids one day and disappeared out of country.” That’s the beginning of Lizbeth Meredith’s years-long nightmare of searching for her two young daughters after her abusive ex-husband kidnapped them and took them to Greece...
episode 25: Resolutions Out of the Box: Expectation-Shattering Heroes from 2023, with Kelly Guenther and Dr. Keri Ohlrich (and some of our epic guests from the past year)
With every new year comes the resolutions: the promises of big change, self-improvement, personal growth, breaking bad habits, and even plans for complete reinvention. Whatever your goals for 2024, The Breakout is back to inspire you with powerful breakout stories, perspective-shifting leaders, and thought-provoking expert advice. So, as we jump into the season of new breakouts, Keri and Kelly decided to look back on some of their favorite and most powerful breakout guest moments of 2023...
episode 24: Sleighing It: Holiday Greetings and The Breakout’s Year in High Gear, with Kelly Guenther and Dr. Keri Ohlrich
2023 has been a big year with highs and lows for everyone. As the year draws to a close, Keri and Kelly are looking back at their breakout year with The Breakout (sorry, had to). The show has hit number 1, the audience has had huge growth, and they’ve been hard at work on their new book that dives into a lot of the learnings from the show...