From fair trade fashion and modern dating to wellness culture, environmental health, and systems of power, these conversations challenge assumptions, embrace nuance, and remind us that real life is rarely as simple as the headlines make it seem.
Can the Purse You Carry Really Change Lives: How Fair Trade Fashion Empowers Women in Haiti
Stacy welcomes Julie Colombino-Billingham, founder of Deux Mains, to talk about fair trade fashion, ethical consumerism, and empowering women through sustainable business practices in Haiti.
Julie shares the powerful moment that inspired her mission, the realities of fast fashion, and how conscious consumer choices can create meaningful global impact. Together, they discuss fair trade manufacturing, women’s empowerment, sustainability, and why buying “better, not more” matters for both people and the planet.
About Julie:
Deux Mains was founded by Julie Colombino-Billingham, a humanitarian entrepreneur who turned the devastation and tragedy of the 2010 Haiti earthquake into purpose.What began as disaster relief has become a globally recognized Fair Trade Verified luxury brand and the only women-owned, solar-powered leather goods factory in Haiti. Each piece is handcrafted from locally sourced or upcycled materials, blending heritage craftsmanship with modern design.
With global partnerships including Nordstrom, the United Nations, and Eileen Fisher, and her upcoming memoir From Loss to Legacy (late October/early November 2025), Julie continues to prove that fashion can be both beautiful and transformative, redefining luxury as a vehicle for empowerment, purpose, and lasting change.
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MAHA’s Toxic Effect: What We’re Missing About America’s Health Movement w/ Lara Adler
See all show notes, references, and how to find Lara Adler at our special stand-alone article.
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The Epstein Files & Beyond: What Happens When Power Protects Predators?
Content Warning: While not discussed in graphic detail, this episode references child sexual abuse, trafficking, grooming, institutional abuse, violence, and exploitation. Please listen with care and take whatever space you need to protect your well-being.
What happens when conspiracy theories intersect with real systems of power, abuse, and institutional failure? Stacy talks with investigative journalist Nick Bryant and publisher Kris Millegan about the Franklin scandal, Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, media narratives, and the uncomfortable realities behind systemic abuse of power. They explore how misinformation, protection of powerful institutions, and political division can obscure accountability and why asking hard questions still matters.
About Nick:
Nick Bryant is an investigative journalist best known for publishing Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs and “Little Black Book” years before the case became national news. He spent seven years investigating the Franklin scandal, a child trafficking network allegedly protected by powerful institutions, which became the basis for his book The Franklin Scandal. Bryant has long argued that both the Franklin and Epstein cases reveal systemic failures by media, law enforcement, and political power structures to protect vulnerable victims. His latest book, The Truth About Watergate, reexamines the narratives surrounding the Watergate scandal.
About Kris:
Kris Millegan is a writer, researcher, and publisher known for his work exploring intelligence agencies, clandestine operations, conspiracy theories, and secret societies. Through his publishing house TrineDay, he helped bring controversial and underground political research to wider audiences, including America’s Secret Establishment and works examining the CIA, Skull & Bones, and U.S. political history. Millegan also organized CIA-Drugs Symposium events that brought together researchers, whistleblowers, and authors investigating covert government operations and drug trafficking allegations.
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References:
- The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant
- Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society
- One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb
- Compromised: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail by Henry Vinson
Are Women Burned Out…or Just Asked to Carry Too Much? Stress, Hormones & Sustainable Wellness
Stacy chats with Courtney Townley, host of the Grace & Grit podcast, author of The Consistency Code, and a certified life, nutrition, and strength coach, to delve into the realities of midlife stress, hormonal changes, burnout, and the pressure to “do it all.”
They explore why consistency matters more than perfection, how wellness culture often overcomplicates health, and the small, sustainable habits that can help women feel better without adding more to their already full plates.
Sometimes the next right step isn’t a complete life overhaul. It’s one small change you can actually sustain.
About Courtney:
Courtney Townley has been helping women around the world take better care of themselves with more consistency and ease for the past 20 years. She helps women mend their relationship with themselves so they can achieve deep health and deliver their best to the things that matter most to them.
Deep health, in her opinion, isn’t about following someone else’s set of rules and regulations for your life, it is about getting to know yourself better so you can lead yourself better.
She is the hostess of the highly-rated podcast, Grace & Grit, where she encourages women to expand the definition of health far beyond the topics of diet and exercise.
Courtney is a level 2 certified nutrition coach through Precision Nutrition, a certified strength coach via the National Strength & Conditioning Association and a certified life coach via The Life Coach School.
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