Hosts Lisa Schauer and Elizabeth Holmes are joined for an informative and fun conversation with therapist Jocelyn Fitzgerald exploring self-care, routines and what resilience can look like during these challenging times. From tapping into your ancestral energy for support to how you can incorporate art therapy into your life, we’re finding lots of ways to reframe whatever it is that 2020 has left on our doorstep.

September 22nd marks the date there are 100 days left in 2020. Hosts Lisa Schauer and Elizabeth Holmes are in conversation about what that means to them and how they are approaching the final lap of 2020. From drastically different holiday expectations to how 2020 has changed their lives for the better, our hosts are exploring it all. Tune in and join their 100 Days of Happiness challenge.

In this episode, hosts Elizabeth Holmes and Lisa Schauer are delighted to have Gerry Ebalaroza-Tunnell join them in conversation. Gerry is the Principal Consultant and CEO of C3 Consulting and the Director of Equity of the Mukilteo School District. Gerry identifies as a Pacific Indigenous scholar and in this episode we explore how this transformational leader incorporates the Wayfinding tradition into her work. She shares her insight, intelligence, humor and heart with us and we learned so much. Tune in to hear how this self-declared “positive deviant” has found such beautiful ways to share her teachings and gifts with the world.

Hosts Elizabeth Holmes and Lisa Schauer are in conversation this episode about where they find themselves at Day 148 of the Washington Governor’s Stay Home, Stay Health order. Elizabeth reports in from the Oregon Coast amid a spontaneous mental health getaway with her daughter and Lisa shares some of the important discussions and decisions taking place in her family during the last five months. From the realization that we need to refine our understanding of the word “inclusive” to the redefinition of what happiness looks like, the ladies hold nothing back in this episode about looking for hope in this singular time.

Our guests for this episode are Amy & Nancy Harrington, co-founders of the Passionistas Project and so much more. Sisters and business partners, we spend our time talking about their paths from Braintree, MA to Hollywood and how they’ve leveraged their life experiences to create careers that feed their souls as they empower women through their Passionistas Project Podcast, Passionistas Project Pack and Pop Culture Passionistas offerings. We touch on meeting Oprah (OMG!), finding the courage to make big life changes and how the upcoming Women’s Equality Summit came into existence. As hosts, we had a great time talking with these brilliant, insightful women, and even got to pop in a Keanu reference. Tune in to learn more about this dynamic duo.

Pamela Skjolsvik was looking for a way to support fellow writers, in particular authors publishing debut works during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown when book launch events started to get canceled. Her idea? The 2020 Quarantine Book Club – her successful effort to bring together readers and writers who love books and want to connect and support each other. Listen in and hear Pamela’s story – how she faced her fear of death to write her first book, Death Becomes Us, who has been a key person in her writing trust tree and where she thinks this crazy ride is headed for author events and the publishing industry. Funny, insightful and an inspiring story about diving in and figuring it out – tune in for this special episode.

The Trust Tree Talks hosts are back for Season Two. We’re committed to embracing the discomfort of the “new normal” that we’re all creating in real time. Kicking off Season Two, we’re in conversation about how we’re adjusting, what new skills we’re adding to our repertoire and where this wild emotional ride is taking us.

We are in the moment of a long overdue reckoning on race in our society. And having a conversation about that is uncomfortable. Our hosts take a cue from their patron saint Brené Brown and get vulnerable where they are at in their learning, how their past has shaped their views and where they are seeing hopeful signs of progress. A powerful and revealing episode and just the beginning of an ongoing conversation about confronting our blindspots around diversity and inclusion.

Our conversation with Betty Sue Morris touches on her prior service as both a state representative and Clark County Commissioner, but we go much deeper than her commitment to public service. Although this episode was recorded prior to the COVID-19 emergency and the recent civil unrest, Betty Sue’s thoughts on tribalism and the importance of civility in politics are on point for these times. She also shares about her experience as a woman stepping into her power in the late 60s and early 70s. A woman of integrity and intelligence, we always learn something when we talk with Betty Sue.

We’re excited to premiere Trust Tree Presents Bella Voce Author Series on this podcast and to welcome our first guest, best-selling mystery author, Ellie Alexander. Ellie is the author of twenty-fours books spanning four different mystery series but is probably best known for her delightful Bakeshop Mystery series set in scenic Ashland, Oregon. Listen in for her advice to writers, how she’s created a “choose your own adventure” project to collaborate with her fans on a mystery and what’s been the best surprise about connecting with her fans. It’s a fun conversation with an author with much wisdom to share. Her next book in the Bakeshop series, Nothing Bundt Trouble, is scheduled to drop June 30, 2020, preorder yours today.