A boss has a title. A leader is made by how they show up when things go sideways. In this solo episode, Allie unpacks the real difference between leading and bossing — the same idea behind the video that's now been viewed over 2.5 million times — and gets honest about what's shifted for her over the last few months: building her Unfiltered Leader coaching program, missing the part of corporate leadership she actually loved, and why she's stopped pretending work-life balance is real.

She also breaks down mentor vs. sponsor, the "career lattice vs. ladder" idea she picked up from a recent guest, and what it's really like to navigate single motherhood, custody, and career reinvention at the same time — without the highlight reel.

Grab Allie's free ebook, "It's About Damn Time," at go.allietrimblelozano.com/damned-time-or

This week, Allie is joined by friend, fellow entrepreneur, and LaunchLab alum Ginger Braun for a conversation about what actually happens when you leave the corporate ladder behind — the identity crisis, the guilt, the delayed gratification of building something new, and the realization that "success at all costs" was never actually the goal.

Together they talk about the lattice effect (why your career doesn't have to move in a straight line), the difference between grit that builds you up and grit that grinds you down, and why the journey matters as much as the destination — even when your GPS takes you the long way.

Grab Allie's free ebook, It's About Damn Time, here: https://go.allietrimblelozano.com/damned-time-or

This week on Airing Out Your Vagina, I'm talking with Mattie Jones: foster care survivor, Army veteran, and CASA advocate. Mattie grew up removed from an abusive home, aged out of the system with nothing, survived a violent relationship, and found her footing in the military, where she also lost close friends to suicide. Now she volunteers as a CASA advocate, showing up for foster kids the way no one showed up for her.

This is a raw, unfiltered conversation about survival, cycle-breaking, and what it means to turn pain into purpose. Truth comes first, comfort comes last, and honesty is nonnegotiable.

Grab my free ebook, It's About Damn Time, here: https://go.allietrimblelozano.com/damned-time-or

Ale Ruiz spends her days as a bilingual perinatal mental health counselor helping moms through postpartum depression and anxiety. She's also the founder of Mom's Place, a maternal mental health counseling center in El Paso getting ready to open its first in person clinic.

So what happens when the expert on postpartum depression gets postpartum depression herself, twice, in two completely different ways?

Ale opens up about a near drowning and a cancer scare in the final weeks of her first pregnancy, the eldest daughter, perfectionist mindset that told her asking for help meant she was failing, and the burnout and out of nowhere panic attack that hit her the second time around, long after she thought she was "past it." This one is raw, real, and a reminder that no amount of professional training makes you immune to what motherhood puts you through.

Grab Allie's free ebook, It's About Damn Time, here: https://go.allietrimblelozano.com/damned-time-or

Allie sits down with nurse practitioner and hormone specialist Dr. Christy Blanco for a real conversation about perimenopause, menopause, and why so many women spend years being told to just push through it. They talk about the earliest signs the transition has started, the link between hormone loss and depression, why weight gain during this time isn't a willpower problem, testosterone therapy for women, PCOS misdiagnosis, and what to look for in a provider who will actually listen.

Grab Allie's free ebook, It's About Damn Time, here: https://go.allietrimblelozano.com/damned-time-or

Men have always had the golf course. Allie sits down with Lisa Hernandez, founder of El Paso Women's Network, to talk about why women need the same thing and why she got tired of waiting for someone to build it for her. The conversation moves fast from there: losing her husband suddenly, becoming an empty nester almost overnight, and the belief in her own unworthiness she had to torch to rebuild her life and income on her own terms. Grab Allie's free ebook, It's About Damn Time: https://go.allietrimblelozano.com/damned-time-or

Jo Rust doesn't just write books, she nearly didn't survive her own. The ghostwriter who helped bring "Airing Out Your Vagina" to life joins Allie for the first time on the podcast, and what she shares will floor you.

Jo opens up about growing up with undiagnosed autism and crippling social phobia, surviving childhood trauma and multiple suicide attempts, and losing people she loved to suicide, including her first love. At her lowest point, she made a choice: succumb, or do something so big and so scary it would force her to keep living. She chose the second option and became the first woman in history to navigate the entire African continent solo, 28,000 miles across 28 countries in just over a year, first by bicycle, then by motorbike after being mugged and robbed on the side of the road.

Now Jo is a mental health and human behavior writer, a ghostwriter, and a psychology graduate heading into medical school to study psychiatry, all while running her own business. This conversation covers grief, boundaries, the danger of letting other people's fears dictate your choices, and what it actually takes to rebuild yourself from the ground up.

Grab Allie's free ebook, "It's About Damn Time," here: https://go.allietrimblelozano.com/damned-time-or

If today's episode hit home and you're ready to stop shrinking to keep other people comfortable, this is where you start.

Y'all know the drill by now. We say the quiet part out loud, and today's guest doesn't hold back.

Amber Banda, an El Paso radio personality known for her voice long before anyone knew her story, sits down with Allie to unpack what it actually took to become the woman people now buy tickets to hear speak. Amber gets real about surviving childhood sexual abuse, growing up under an undiagnosed bipolar parent, a severe eating disorder that nearly killed her, and postpartum anxiety that pushed her to breaking point.

But this isn't a pain Olympics. It's a conversation about what you do with the wreckage. Amber turned her worst years into a mission: advocating for kids who don't have a voice yet, and refusing to let her pain go to waste. She and Allie talk body dysmorphia, spotting fake people from a mile away, why "don't downplay your trauma" is a survival skill and not permission to stay stuck, and how choosing to look for the good (the glimmers) rewires how you move through a hard day.

If you've ever minimized your own story because someone else "had it worse," this episode is your permission slip to stop.

Grab your free copy of Allie's ebook, It's About Damn Time, right here: https://go.allietrimblelozano.com/damned-time-or

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