This week’s fresh bonus episode outlines my thoughts on the holidays. How I’m feeling about food, family, gifts, and more. I also talk about some articles I’ve recently read as well as my tips for feeling like yourself when traveling. Happy Holidays! Talk to you again in January 2019!

Katie reads an article written for the print edition of The Fullest magazine on addiction - how she experienced her first hangover at age 27 and learned about the different ways self care means to her.

Kelsey is eloquent, dynamic, and oh so articulate so I always love chatting with her and especially loved this conversation, which ranged from friendship to her writing strategies. It's a rarity to have a repeat guest on the podcast, when someone returns it means I especially love talking with them.

CORPORATE TO FREELANCE, STRICT PARENTS, PHOTOGRAPHY, MENTAL HEALTH, HEALING ARTS, QIGONG + MORE WITH SEHER SIKANDAR

Seher grew up in Pakistani immigrant family in the Bay area, then attended business school. She attempted a traditional corporate job, but ultimately followed her passion to becoming a photographer. Now she views herself as an inter-disciplinarian; which we get into in this episode. We talk about leaving her corporate job, her transition to photography and her strict upbringing.

HUMAN DESIGN, ACNE, FAMILY, CONNECTION, PARENTING WITH JENNA ZOË

I had the most wonderful time chatting with human design reader Jenna Zoë. In this episode, I ask her everything I was curious about in terms of what human design is and how it can be useful, I use myself as an example, and talk about how it can be used in relationships and parenting for understanding the people in your life better.

AURAS, COLOR, SPIRITS, AYAHUASCA, MOTHERHOOD, FEMININE/ MASCULINE ENERGY IN BUSINESS + MORE DEBORAH HANEKAMP AKA MAMA MEDICINE

Mama Medicine is a beautiful space in NYC owned by shaman and healer Deborah Hanekamp. It wasn’t until I experienced one of her medicine readings that I fully understood her magic. Deborah is yes a talented healer with a beautiful aesthetic, but also a funny, grounded, extremely smart business woman, mother, and friend. I loved getting to hear her full, long story in this episode.

LOSS, WELLNESS, DIGITAL MEDIA, RELATIONSHIPS WITH BEAUTY EDITOR, WELL/AWARE HOST, AND AUTHOR LINDSAY KELLNER

Lindsay and my conversation spanned across so many topics including losing a parent at a young age, her eating disorder, her relationship to wellness, her robust career in digital media, her sage wisdom about romantic relationships (she’s been with her husband since college), and her new book Spirit Almanac. It’s a modern guide to ancient self-care which I love so much.

RELATIONSHIPS, LOVE, & RITUAL COOKIES WITH KATHRYN BUDIG & KATE FAGAN

Today's guests are power couple Kathryn Budig & Kate Fagan. I love their podcast, Free Cookies. I love their dynamic, their humor, and their relationship advice or as they call it, cookies. My love of them as a couple led me to get to know & love Kate and her work as well. We talk about the important book she wrote last year, What Made Maddy Run & her own impressive career as a sports journalist.

BONUS CONTEST WINNER EPISODE | STEPHANIE KIRYLYCH INTERVIEWS SIMI BOTIC FOR HER PODCAST RETHINKING IT

Stephanie is the winner of the contest for my podcast course: Let [a podcast] Out. This is the first episode of her new podcast: Rethinking It. We talk to Stephanie about her process in starting a podcast. Then, we'll hear Stephanie & Simi discuss becoming a less rigid, intuitive eating and living, vulnerability, social media boundaries, body image, how Simi dealt with the loss of a parent.

[SOLO] BURNOUT, MISTAKES, I’VE BEEN SELFISH + NEW DIRECTION

Today is a solo episode! I'm popping in to tell you about the burnout I experienced this year, how I’ve been selfish on this podcast, & the new changes I’m making to Let It Out. I look back over the past 6 years of this podcast and talk about some mistakes I’ve made. I run some new ideas by you, catch you up on how I’ve been feeling, & tell you a few things I’ve been liking & learning lately.

TASHA BLANK ON CREATIVITY, WISDOM, BODIES, SEX + FOOD CONNECTION, PSYCHEDELICS, DANCE & MUSIC

I'm so happy to have dancer and musician Tasha Blank on the podcast this week. In this epsiode, Tasha and I cover everything from eating disorders to psychedelics to music, dance, and creativity. I learned so much in this conversation I’ll probably listen to it for a third time.

SEPTEMBER FAVORITES UPDATE: FILMS, TV, FOOD, ANXIETY, FOOD, SKIN, HAIR, DETROIT ETC

An update from your host, me Katie Dalebout. + all of the things that are bringing me joy right now. From my favorite TV show (dawson's creek), to my current favorite podcasts, to what I've been reading lately.

SONG WRITING, MUSIC, CREATIVITY, BREAKUPS, & MORE WITH ACTOR & SINGER EMILY KINNEY (THE WALKING DEAD, SPRING AWAKENING, MASTERS OF SEX)

Emily was such a delightful, down-to-earth person with so much self-awareness creative spark. We talked about her experience moving away from her small town in the midwest to pursue her dream of acting and singing. Beyond her story and career we talked about her experience with therapy, body image, family, romantic relationships and breakups as well as her song writing and creative process.

CHANGING MODERN HEALTH CARE, THYROID HEALTH, HORMONES, GI TRACT, AND MOTHERHOOD DR. ROBIN BERZIN PHYSICIAN AND CEO OF PARSLEY HEALTH

Dr. Robin Berzin is changing modern medicine with her practice Parsley Health. Her company is a new kind of medical practice, that integrates lifestyle, nutrition, and wellness into mainstream primary care. Dr. Robin is a down-to-earth delight, she's a stylish busy mom, and in this episode she shares what she's learned about entrepreneurship, motherhood, and romantic relationships.

BALANCING FULL-TIME JOBS WITH CREATIVE PROJECTS, CULTURE & IDENTITY, NATURAL HAIR, MILLENNIAL’S STRENGTHS & WEAKNESS, BODY IMAGE AND MORE WITH CAT LANTIGUA

We talked about embracing natural hair, Cat's Afro-Latina culture and identity, and our millennial generation’s best and worst tendencies. We got into her great tips for finding balance between creating and consuming social media, how to find time to for personal creative projects with a full time job and still maintaining relationships, self-care, and a life along side all the busy that brings.

HISTORY, VINTAGE FASHION, TRENDS, FINDING A CREATIVE CAREER & YOURSELF WITH LAURA MCLAWS HELMS FASHION AND CULTURAL HISTORIAN

In this week’s episode we tell Laura McLaws Helms' full story of how she moved to New York from London to study photography and how she ended up in the career she’s in now. We talk about fashion trends, vintage shopping and personal style tips. We got into becoming a personal brand, podcasting vs. writing, authenticity in the age of social media, body image, and much more.

ANCESTRY & TRAVEL WITH FOOD, DIVERSITY IN WELLNESS, BREAK-UPS, SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS WITH CANDICE KUMAI (AUTHOR & YOUNGEST CONTESTANT ON TOP CHEF)

Candice Kumai and I sat down a couple weeks ago and discussed cooking as a career, her time on a reality TV show, her family's immigrant roots and how our individual ancestry impacts our food. We got into the lack of diversity in wellness, social media influencers, her complicated relationship with technology, her major breakup and how she got through that time, her new book, and more.

LONELINESS, MANIFESTING, BODY IMAGE, LAW-OF- ATTRACTION, AND ABUNDANCE WITH JESS LIVELY

I’ve known Jess Lively for years and our paths overlapped a few years ago. Most recently she's taken all of her work and created C-School, a live school in Australia where she now lives but is launching online this week. In this episode we talked about Death, loneliness, fear of not having enough time, body image and food, the law of attraction, time scarcity and time abundance.

PURPOSE, EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, SELF-CARE VS NARCISSISM, SPIRITUAL BYPASS WITH MASTIN KIPP

I met Mastin Kipp in 2014 at his book signing. He told me to stop consuming his work & the work of other self-help personalities & start focusing on my own creative work. Since then, I've spent less time developing myself and more time being myself. It was great to reconnect with Mastin & talk about the new direction of his work, focusing on helping people go deeper into their emotional trauma.

HOSPITALITY, CANCER, BODIES, THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY, & HEALING WITH LAURA WAGSTAFF

Laura is a host through and through. I loved learning about the hospitality industry, how she navigated a having rare cancer in the prime of her career, her experience with the medical industry, and how she used her cancer as a learning opportunity to discovering food as medicine, shifting her perspective on death, intuition, and listening to her body.

DR. FRANK LIPMAN ON INFORMATION OVERLOAD, TECHNOLOGY ADDICTION, THE IMPORTANCE OF MEANING FOR HEALTH, AND MORE

When I met Dr. Lipman for this interview, we didn’t focus our time talking about what foods to avoid. We talked about how the healthiest thing we can do for ourselves doesn’t have to do with food at all. With 30+ years of experience as a doctor, he’s discovered that having meaning in our lives helps us to be healthier.

MY FAVORITES *GRATITUDES + CHANGES & MY CURRENT THOUGHTS ON HAIR, MOVIES, TV, MUSIC, NATURAL BEAUTY

In this episode I not only share what I’ve been listening to, reading, watching, eating, and products I’ve been using–but I also got to reflect on what has been working in my life (long road-trips with my boyfriend) & what really has not been (making decisions). It was nice recording this because it gave me the opportunity to thinking through to what I’ve been loving and grateful for this season.

LISA SPIEGEL ON ANXIETY, THERAPY, MOTHERHOOD, CREATIVITY, SLOWING DOWN + MORE!

I met today’s guest therapist and co-founder of Soho Parenting Lisa Spiegel at an event she led The Wing. It was the day before I was leaving for a work trip and I felt overwhelmed and incredibly anxious when I noticed a room full of overwhelmed women just like me packed into the space to listen to Lisa speak about anxiety, tools to help manage it, and ways to prevent it.

KAYLEEN SCHAEFER ON FEMALE FRIENDSHIP, A CAREER AS A WRITER, CREATIVITY AND MORE

Rarely have I rationed a book—savoring every last chapter and not wanting it end. With today’s guest Kayleen Schaefer’s book Text Me When You Get Home I clung to every last line, not wanting it to end much like a good conversation with a best friend. I loved every ounce, from Kayleen’s vulnerability telling her experience, to her thorough historical research, to her pop culture analysis.

DANA COWIN ON UGLY FOOD, EVOLUTION OF FOOD CULTURE, CAREER TRANSITIONS, POWER OF STORY, FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS, AND MORE!

As editor in chief of Food & Wine Magazine for 21 years, a judge on Top Chef, a cookbook author, the host of the podcast Speaking Broadly, a chief creative officer at Dig Inn, just to name a few–on paper she’s clearly extremely accomplished. In person, she far exceeded her impressive resume she was present, welcoming, inspirational, wise, & warm when I visited her Manhattan apartment to record.

TREVOR HALL ON SATURN RETURNS, RELATIONSHIPS AS MIRRORS, SURRENDER, MUSIC + MORE!

Trevor's career in the music industry had a rocky start which included getting dropped from his label, living in a monastery, and making a hit album. We talked about music as a tool, meditation, surrender, learning vs. applying practices, saturn returns, using astrology for self-awareness, traveling, staying grounded, relationships as mirrors, culture, connection, indecisiveness, and more.

JENNA WEISS-BERMAN OF PINEAPPLE STREET MEDIA ON ALL THINGS PODCASTING, CULTURAL/MEDIA CRITICISM, THE VALUE OF INTERNSHIPS, PARENTING, AND MORE!

In this episode, we talk about risks of entrepreneurship, following your dreams…while also being realistic, criticism and how to use it beneficially, parenting, and of course podcasting, since she’s one of the greatest audio producers and storytellers of our time. Her company has produced podcasts with Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the New York Times.

CAMILLA RUTH MARCUS FOUNDER OF WESTBOURNE ON FOOD AS AN EXPERIENCE, COMMUNITY, ANGEL INVESTING, LOVE LANGUAGES AND MORE

Camilla inspires me in so many ways from her aesthetic and taste to her philosophy of entrepreneurship and community to investing, and of course in food. We talk about her education & career path, food as an experience, modern philanthropy models, how the restaurant industry can open doors for anyone, opening a restaurant, work/life balance. and angel investing.

KATIE DALEBOUT (ME) ANNUAL BIRTHDAY UPDATE HOSTED BY SACHA JONES

I started this podcast when I was 22. Last Monday I turned 28. I’ve changed so much over the last 6 years and most of that has been documented in the last 200 episodes. At 22 I thought I knew everything. At 28 I’m pretty sure I know nothing. Since I began this podcast my body, relationships, career, & even location has changed many times. The constant through all of this has been this podcast.

Claire is known for yoga yet we barely touched on yoga, instead focusing on her winding path to where she is now including an eating disorder in her teens, how she stumbled into the career she’s in now, and her decision to go to grad school for psychology. We talked about food psychology, therapy, the complexities body positivity, being an influencer and what that even means, self-love & more.

KATHLEEN SHANNON OF BEING BOSS ON MOVING, PARTNERSHIPS, MARRIAGE, PRODUCTIVITY, MONEY, REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS + MORE

Kathleen is one of the most supportive, vulnerable, and interesting people I’ve connected with. The podcast she co-hosts, Being Boss, has taught me so much. She recently moved to Michigan, so we started off chatting about moving. We talked about having ‘stuff’, partnerships (from husbands to business partners), motherhood, & productivity, and money.

JENNA ZAFFINO ON TRANSITIONS, MOVEMENT, MOTHERHOOD, INFERTILITY + MORE

I met Jnna on her visit to NYC last year and loved speaking with her about everything from pilates to motherhood, her struggle with infertility as well as navigating career transitions and finding spirituality that works for you. We talked about education empowerment, owning a business, the importance of white space, non-attachment vs. detachment, body image, fitness vs. wellness, and more.

ADAM J KURTZ ON COMMUNITY, ART, MARRIAGE, SOCIAL MEDIA, SELF-HELP, NEW YORK AND MORE

Adam's work is is honest, useful, & unique but relatable. When I met him to record this episode at his Brooklyn apartment, I was delighted to find out he was as great IRL as he seems on the internet. In this conversation we spoke about social media, moving to NYC, his career of both full time & freelance work, community, art, being yourself in your work, marriage, success, self-help, & more.

BONUS EPISODE WITH ANYA KASSOFF AND MASHA DAVYDOVA OF GOLUBKA KITCHEN ON HEALING WITH FOOD, CREATIVITY IN THE KITCHEN, MOTHER/DAUGHTER BUSINESSES AND MORE

I’ve been following their food blog since 2012 so it was the best getting to meet, interview, and taste something they made. We talk about cooking, design, blogging, essential oils, creativity in the kitchen, being a mother/daughter team, moving to America, and so much more.

KIMBERLY JOHNSON OF MAGAMAMA ON RETHINKING SEX, THE ME TOO MOVEMENT, PREGNANCY’S FOURTH TRIMESTER AND MORE

I met Kimberly Johnson,founder of Magamama, at an event she spoke at. Her talk was so inspiring & it really stuck with me. I had an eye-opening session with her when she was in NYC. After our session, we recorded this episode. We spoke about how she became a “Vagina proctor,” the Me-Too Movement, slowing down sex, painful sex, communication, pregnancy, birth healing, & her new book.

Lacy’s work is anti-self help while being the most helpful content I’ve stumbled upon. From her style & aesthetic to her message, her work is very meaningful to me. We sipped a tea infusion she made us (She's also an herbalist)& chatted about everything from food to style & design to relationships and finding partnership to authenticity, & of course debunking myths about manifestation.

DEENIE HARTZOG-MISLOCK [SEASON FINALE] ON CAREER CHANGES, FREELANCING, SELF-CARE, LOVE & MARRIAGE, BODY IMAGE + MORE!

Deenie tells us about how she moved to NYC to be a dancer & ended up with a career as a copy director & essayist. She’s worked for Vogue, written for Refinery 29, and been featured in the New York Time’s Modern Love column. Our conversation covers the uncertainty that comes with freelancing, relationships, marriage, and how she knew her husband was the one.

ABBI AND KSENIA ON THE FEMININE SIDE OF BUSINESS, BEING IN FLOW, EXPANDING + MORE

After a long intro with my boyfriend talking about long distance relationships, Valentine’s Day, communication I spoke with my friends Abbi and Ksenia about how they each found entrepreneurship, the feminine side of business, expanding into your best self, feminism, friendship, creativity, speaking up for what you want and more!

JILL GROPPER ON MINDFULNESS, PRESENCE, DEATH + MORE!

This week I spoke with one of my favorite people Jill on mindful living, grounding in presence, stripping layers, motherhood, body image, dealing with the tragic illness and death of her mother at a young age, mindful eating, embracing the divine feminine, motherhood and much more.

ANDREA OWEN RETURNS! ON LETTING GO OF CONTROL, INDECISION, FEELING FEELINGS, BODIES, HOW TO STOP FEELING LIKE SHIT, + MORE

Andrea is warm, genuine, and just the kind of friend you want to give you advice and that’s what she does in this episode. We talk about feeling feelings, decision making, body image, motherhood, publishing a book, female friendships, numbing mechanisms, the importance of letting it out, personal development overload, actually doing the work and not just consuming the advice, and more.

DAVIDA KUGELMASS OF THE HEALTHY MAVEN ON REAL HEALTH AND SELF-CARE, INTERNET FRIENDSHIP + MORE

Today’s episode is with my friend Davida the girl behind The Healthy Maven. In this episode she lets out her honest feelings around some big life changes she’s been going through. Davida dives into the importance of learning real health & self-care practices (more than in the kitchen & at the gym). I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I enjoyed having it.

WHITNEY TINGLE AND DANIELLE DUBOISE OF SAKARA LIFE ON FRIENDSHIP, BUSINESS & COOKING FROM SCRATCH + MORE

I read Sakara Life's online magazine and loved their branding but it wasn’t until I moved to NYC when I finally tried their delicious food. Turns out the founders are just lovely! We discuss access to healthy food, living a healthy life – the why, what Sakara means, starting a business from scratch, being busy vs. being efficient, what it’s like to work with your best friend and so much more.

DR. CYBELE FISHMAN ON AGING, HANDLING PIMPLES, DERMATOLOGY TRENDS + ALL THINGS SKIN

When I mentioned I was having a skin expert on the podcast in the listener facebook group I received so many questions. This episode is focused on the topic of skin. We talk acne: why it’s not just for teens, using natural remedies, how to handle a big pimple, winter skin, LED facials, micro pinning, rosacea, and skin trends. Dr. Fishman is so smart, experienced and knowledgable in her field.

TINA ESSMAKER OF THE GREAT DISCONTENT ON VULNERABILITY, EMBRACING SILENCE, CONVERSATION, FOLLOWING CURIOSITY + MORE!

I first became aware of Tina when I read her interviews in the magazine she co-founded called The Great Disconnect. They tell the stories of creatives. 2017 was a pivotal year for Tina when her marriage with her business partner ended. We discuss the lessons in vulnerability this gave her and the opportunity to redefine her career returning to her roots in social work.

DIVYA ALTER LIVE AT DIVYA’S KITCHEN ON AYURVEDA, FOOD AS MEDICINE, COMFY CHAIRS + MORE

Divya’s Kitchen is an ayruvedic restaurant that I love. This episode is a live conversation with co-owner and chef Divya recorded with an audience before we all had the most lovely brunch of lentil flour waffles and warming teas. We discussed the 5 elements in the world and how they manifest in our body, the importance of fresh food, and why Ayurveda avoids using garlic and onions and nightshades.