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Haley Morgan Hunt joins Marnie and Alisa for a conversation about what happens when life doesn't go the way you planned it — and why that can be the best thing that ever happens to you. A singer-songwriter who landed a record deal at 16 and spent years building brands for professional athletes, Haley shares how a single visit to a juvenile detention center in 2018 changed the entire trajectory of her life.
That one visit became The Verb Kind, a mentorship organization now serving incarcerated and at-risk youth across multiple states, from Miami to Nashville. Haley talks candidly about identity, faith, service, pregnancy at 42, and why she believes God saved her from the fame she once chased.

Episode Highlights:
00:00 — Introducing Haley Morgan Hunt: philanthropist, businesswoman, and friend
00:45 — From senior superlative "Most Likely to Become Famous" to a record deal at 16
03:27 — Building brands for professional athletes and navigating identity after sport
05:58 — The 2018 invitation that changed everything: teaching at a juvenile detention center
09:07 — Founding The Verb Kind and expanding mentorship across three states
13:29 — Singing the national anthem at six NFL games in six weeks
15:18 — What it's really like walking into a detention center for the first time
19:28 — Why service resets perspective more than anything else
25:20 — Where The Verb Kind is growing next and how to bring it to your city
29:19 — Expecting her first baby at 42 and her boldest moment ahead

About This Week's Guest:
Haley Morgan Hunt is a singer-songwriter, brand builder, and the founder of The Verb Kind, a mentorship organization serving incarcerated and at-risk youth in juvenile detention centers and foster homes across the country. A former record-deal artist and national anthem performer, Haley has spent the last several years building brands for professional athletes while growing The Verb Kind into a multi-state operation. She lives in Orlando, Florida.

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This week, Marnie and Alisa welcome Kristen Weaver, life coach, founder of Dream by Weaver, and wife of NFL coach Anthony Weaver for a conversation about finding her own voice after years of putting everyone else’s needs first. Kristen shares how she built a platform rooted in encouragement and positivity, and what it really looks like behind the scenes of an NFL family’s very public life. The heart of the episode is Kristen’s story of her son AJ’s sudden, debilitating anxiety at age eleven and how the family worked through it together, eventually co-authoring a book, A Family’s Playbook to Coping with Anxiety. Kristen also opens up about the family’s recent return to Baltimore, AJ’s full-circle moment walking back onto the same campus where he once couldn’t step foot, and what gratitude looks like for a coach’s family starting a new season.

Episode Highlights:
00:53 — Who Kristen is beyond being a coach’s wife and mom, and where her positivity comes from
02:38 — Why putting herself out there on social media was terrifying at first
04:00 — Kristen’s “locker room” advice for getting clarity before chasing motivation
05:51 — What people don’t see behind the scenes of NFL family life
08:30 — AJ’s story: losing his ability to walk into school at age 11 due to anxiety
11:11 — Co-writing A Family’s Playbook to Coping with Anxiety with AJ
13:13 — Returning to the same Baltimore school where AJ once couldn’t set foot
19:55 — Anthony Weaver’s gift for connecting with their kids
20:40 — The championship game: AJ’s panic attack and his comeback to win it
29:48 — Where to find Kristen and the latest on the book

About This Week’s Guest:
Kristen Weaver is a life coach and the founder of Dream by Weaver, where she helps clients find clarity, confidence, and their authentic voice. She is married to NFL coach Anthony Weaver and is mom to AJ and Justice. Alongside AJ, she co-authored A Family’s Playbook to Coping with Anxiety, sharing the tools that helped their family navigate his anxiety diagnosis.

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This week, Marnie and Alisa sit down with Ace, known to her growing audience as “Ace the Money Game” a real estate investor and wholesaler who built a self-made career out of one of the hardest possible starting points. The hosts met Ace by chance, as their Uber driver during a Kentucky Derby weekend in Louisville, and what started as small talk turned into one of the most candid conversations they’ve had on the show.

Ace opens up about being kicked out of her home as a teenager, periods of homelessness in Phoenix, and time spent in prison and how those bench moments became the foundation for a real estate wholesaling business that crossed seven figures within five years. She talks about renovating homes as a kind of rebuilding metaphor for her own life, her plans to launch a construction company focused on affordable housing, and the mindset shifts that got her here.

Episode Highlights:
00:00 — Meeting Ace as their Uber driver during Kentucky Derby weekend in Louisville
02:24 — Ace’s bench moment: starting with nothing and his first wholesale deal in 2015
04:32 — How Ace became homeless after coming out to her mother as a teenager
06:42 — Where the name “Ace the Money Game” actually came from
09:03 — Reconnecting with her mom and losing her father in a tragic accident
11:40 — Why renovating homes feels like a metaphor for rebuilding her own life
14:08 — From wanting to be a trauma surgeon to discovering real estate
16:32 — The real story behind driving for Uber on Derby day
18:06 — Lessons Ace would share on stage at a Grant Cardone event
22:29 — Ace’s boldest goal: building a construction company and her own hotel brand

About This Week’s Guest:
Ace, known as “Ace the Money Game,” is a real estate investor and wholesaler who has done deals worth well over a million dollars since starting her business in 2015. After experiencing homelessness and time in prison, she rebuilt her life from the ground up, and is now working toward launching a construction company focused on building apartments, subdivisions, and affordable housing.

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