66: Stepping Out of Shit and Into Your Power with Brianna Bowling

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have an amazing guest today, and I am excited to share this interview with all of you. Brianna Bowling is an entrepreneur who founded a software engineering firm in 1998, exited it in 2018, and has recently launched Retreat & Learn, where she offers retreats, training, and one on one business coaching. In 2020, she also launched a YouTube channel where she interviews subject matter experts on a wide variety of subjects ranging from business to death to sex. She is an avid volunteer including the Chairperson of Charles Regional Medical Center, a Board Member of the University of Maryland Medical System, Chairman of the Rural Task Force for Charles County, a member of the College of Southern Maryland Advisory Council, and a lector and choir member of her church. She is definitely one busy woman with a world of experience, and we talk about it all here today.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I begin by checking in on Brianna to find out how she’s doing during these crazy times, and then she shares her remarkable life story from her childhood years right up to current day. Along the way, she reviews her business career, the gift of growing up poor, the loneliness of entrepreneurship, and her case of ‘sudden hearing loss’ and how it impacted her life. Exiting her company, finding balance in her life including using her vision board, fortitude and living, and her sexual assault, perspective on being a victim or a survivor and how she came to this perspective are all discussed as well. Our conversation concludes with the power of witnessing healthy communication and some sage advice from my guest. As you will hear, Brianna is one incredible badass who has experienced and achieved so much in her life, and is the stronger for it. We can all learn a great deal from her powerful example brought to vivid life in today’s beautifully real and raw conversation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an effort to help you keep moving forward with your intentions and go