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The best career conversations happen when women get honest. Meet Bridget is a career storytelling podcast hosted by besties Asha Gabriel and Keshiia Rosenberg. Each episode, a successful woman shares two stories: the career she built — and the teenager she used to be. The nitty gritty. The good and the shitty. When you can relate to a woman's story, her path becomes possible. 150+ episodes across 30+ industries, now in full studio video for Season 6. New episodes every week. Find us on all podcast platforms, YouTube, Instagram @meetbridget, TikTik @meetbridgetshow and at meetbridget.com.

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November 12, 2026Episode 1791 hr 21 min

Autism Advocate Tiffany Sumner on Raising a Profoundly Autistic Child Alone After Suicide Loss

Tiffany Sumner has never had the option of performing strength. She's had to live it. She's an autism advocate, single mother, and member of the CHOC Thompson Autism Center advisory board in Orange County — building her public platform and her mission in the years following the loss of her husband to suicide in 2020, while raising two children, one of whom is profoundly autistic. Her son Ford, now 12, is level 3, nonverbal, and lives in a group home five minutes from home. A video she posted of Ford has 22 million views. She used that reach to change how first responders, school districts, and Orange County families understand autism. Asha and Tiffany go deep on what life actually looks like inside a profound autism family — 40 hours of ABA a week, three caregivers required for a public outing, IEP meetings that go to federal court, and the discovery that Ford may understand far more than anyone realized through spelling to communicate (S2C). They walk through the full resource map every autism family needs: the regional center, IHSS, IEP vs. 504, ABA, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and the difference between autism levels 1, 2, and 3. They also go into grief — the grief of a diagnosis, the grief of losing a spouse to suicide, and what it looks like to hold all of it while still showing up for her 15-year-old daughter Kennedy, who Tiffany calls her biggest hero. The teen section: Tiffany grew up in Newport Beach, was bullied for her weight through middle and high school, lost her grandmother to cancer at 15, and watched her parents divorce at 18. She went into survival mode early. She credits her mother — steady, always in her corner — with teaching her how to be the kind of mom she is now. Her closing answer: self-love. She spent years being torn down by people who made her feel like too much. Learning to be her own best friend — while everything else was falling apart — is what held her together. Follow Tiffany: @tiffanysumner CHOC Thompson Autism Center: https://www.choc.org/programs-services/autism/ Follow Meet Bridget: @meetbridgetpodcast ⚠️ Content note: This episode includes candid discussion of suicide loss, grief, violence related to caregiving, and the mental health challenges faced by parents of children with profound disabilities. Crisis & Support Resources Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988 | https://988lifeline.org SAMHSA Mental Health & Substance Use Helpline: 1-800-662-4357 | https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 | https://www.crisistextline.org Autism Resources Mentioned CHOC Thompson Autism Center: https://www.choc.org/programs-services/autism/ California Regional Centers: https://www.dds.ca.gov/rc/ IHSS (In-Home Supportive Services): https://www.cdss.ca.gov/in-home-supportive-services

November 4, 2026Episode 1781 hr 4 min

CMO at 33 Ashley Johnson, Visit Newport Beach @visitnewportbeach

Ashley Johnson walks in knowing exactly what she does and why it matters — which makes her the kind of guest who can go from Emmy wins to caviar rooms to the exact texture of a perfect Newport Beach Saturday without losing the thread. She's the CMO of Visit Newport Beach, which she runs like a standalone luxury lifestyle brand, not a destination marketing checklist. She built her career from entry-level coordinator at Visit Laguna Beach all the way to CEO at 33 — a moment she made happen by raising her hand and telling her board: take a chance on me, I know this better than anyone. Asha and Ashley get into what destination marketing actually looks like from the inside (22 programs in 12 months; a caviar room in a Nolita pop-up; the Rose Parade's longest float in history), the balance between protecting a community's identity and inviting the world in, and what it costs to shape a city's story when you live there too. The teen section: Ashley grew up in Irvine, played varsity softball, gave herself a job as her parents' office receptionist after school, became a dry cleaner manager at 16, and watched her parents divorce at 11. She's remained resilient through all of it. Her closing answer: enthusiasm. She tried to shrink it as a teenager so she wouldn't be too much. She's done shrinking. Follow Ashley: @missashleytayor | Visit Newport Beach Follow Meet Bridget: @meetbridget

October 28, 2026Episode 1771 hr 35 min

Jane Adler, "Jane Says" Substack Author & Jane Dough Baker @janemcgradler

Jane Adler is the kind of person who drops a confession on a dad at carpool pickup and then watches him call his wife from the parking lot. She doesn't do it on purpose — she's just wired that way. And this episode is proof that her wiring is, in fact, the point. Asha and Jane have been friends long enough that they had to consciously save something for the pod. What came out of it: how Jane became a writer when she was calling Substack "cringe" at a travel writing conference in Mexico; why she refuses to monetize her sourdough even when people beg; and what actually happened when she spent six days at a therapy retreat called On Site — not the big-ticket traumas she went in expecting to unpack, but the small things that didn't happen. The things that turn out to still be living in you. They get into middle child dynamics (Jane is the second of four, "number two of four, really the forgotten"), how the capability trap works — excel so much at not needing anything that you forget to figure out what you want — and the flamingo story she told her daughters to explain where she'd been. Jane's closing answer: hypersensitivity. She was called a crybaby. Now she walks into any room and connects with anyone. A conversation about writing, sourdough, therapy, signs from the universe, and the specific kind of humor that only comes from going through enough hard things. Follow Jane: @janemcgadler | Jane Says on Substack Follow Meet Bridget: @meetbridget

October 22, 2026Episode 1761 hr 23 min

Dr. Tran, DDS, MS, Functional Pediatric Dentist @drtracytran "The Money Does Come... If You Do the Right Thing"

Dr. Tracy Tran is a board-certified pediatric dentist specializing in airway-focused functional dentistry, tongue tie releases, and craniofacial growth and development — and she came to this work the same way she seems to do everything: by following the question no one else wanted to answer. This is a party episode. Asha and Keshiia are both here, and Asha brings something personal: Dr. Tran has worked with both of her daughters. Real outcomes, real results, and a lot of things her original pediatrician laughed off. Together they get into why the mouth is the window to the whole face, why the years between zero and three matter more than most parents realize, and why removing premolars might solve the crowding problem while creating an airway problem twenty years later. Dr. Tran walks them through craniofacial development with props — the tongue as the soft tissue that shapes the entire face, the way expansion at three looks completely different than expansion at eight. They also go deep on her: growing up as a middle child in a Vietnamese immigrant family in Michigan, the twin sister who was always the better student, the mom who told her not to announce she was in dental school until she actually finished, and the cumulative effect of mentors who showed up anyway. She talks about why she opened her own practice even though she never wanted one, the internal conflict of profiting from healthcare, and what it means to be booked until next April while worrying about the families who can't get in. She's doing something that didn't exist before she made it. Come listen.

October 14, 2026Episode 1751 hr 9 min

Afton Williams, Celebrity Makeup Artist to Lainey Wilson, Julianne Hough & more! @afton

Afton Williams has spent twenty years doing makeup for some of the most photographed faces in Hollywood. She's never had an agent. She doesn't want a product line. And until fairly recently, she wasn't sure anyone could even tell her work was hers. In this episode, Asha sits down with Afton — a celebrity makeup artist whose clients include Lainey Wilson, Sophia Bush, Millie Bobby Brown, and Julianne Hough — for a conversation that starts with the business of staying booked and ends somewhere much more honest: what it actually took to trust yourself in an industry that has no roadmap. They cover the control freak who built a career on relationships instead of representation, the Alo Yoga gig that quietly shaped her entire aesthetic, and the Love Island moment that finally proved to Afton that she could do this — if only someone would give her the platform to try. They get into comparison and what it took to stop letting it run her, the work anxiety that required EMDR to untangle, and why COVID was the best thing that ever happened to her career. And at the end: the quality she had as a teenager that she couldn't stand — her reflexive need to keep the peace — and how it quietly became the most important thing she does every single day. Afton is honest, self-aware, funny, and disarmingly genuine. This one is warm and runs long and goes somewhere real. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 175 Follow Afton on IG: @afton

September 30, 2026Episode 17452 min

@rowley.adventures Whitney & Cashy Rowley "If You're Scared, Do It Scared"

Whitney Rowley grew up in the shadow of a lot of greatness. Her dad was drafted by the Chargers. Her sisters were junior Olympians in downhill skiing. Her grandfather (who drove her to the ski hill every Wednesday because the ski bus didn't take snowboarders) was later inducted into the ski hall of fame. And Whitney was on the bench, in right field, unable to serve over the net, just trying to keep up with her last name. That experience is the root of everything @Rowley.Adventures stands for. In this conversation, Keshiia sits down with Whitney and Cash Rowley, the mom and daughter duo behind @rowley.adventures, to talk about what it actually means to raise a confident kid when you spent most of your own childhood feeling like you weren't quite good enough. They cover the origin of "if you're scared, do it scared," the first viral moment that made them wonder if this could be a real thing, what it looks like to be married to the guy who runs 90% of the content creation, and the moment Whitney had to let go of her own fear to let Cash fly. Cash, who is nine, joins the second half of the conversation. She just got back from Switzerland, where she did three jumps alongside Sean White. Her description of the experience: "scared but send." This one is warm, unscripted, a little chaotic in the best way, and the most honest thing you'll hear about what it means to parent without pressure. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 174

September 28, 2026Episode 1731 hr 23 min

Alexandra Taylor, PR Strategist & Founder of ATeam @atay_pollyp "If You Don't Like The Table, Create One"

Alexandra Taylor is the founder of A-Team Public Relations and Strategy Group in Newport Beach, co-founder of Civitas Prima, and the person Happy Dad called when they needed someone to trust with their brand. She spent twelve years on the publishing side of Modern Luxury Media learning how to sell value in a room before she went out on her own. In this episode Alexandra and Asha talk about: → What PR actually is now — not press releases, but network and trust → Why Newport Beach is a hyperlocal ecosystem that the rest of the country watches → Twelve years at Modern Luxury and what publishing taught her that nothing else could → The Happy Dad story: how a brand finds you when your reputation does the work → What it costs to be the person clients trust with the thing they can't hand to anyone else → Civitas Prima: what she built for young people in OC and why it matters → Growing up riding horses in Newport Beach before it was cool → The Montana ranch, the deer jerky lunchbox, and the kids who thought it was weird → Competitive figure skating, club volleyball, and getting burned by mean girls → The report card line that never changed: talks too much, too bossy → Watch me 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 173 Follow Alexandra: @atay_pollyp | www.alexandrastaylor.com Subscribe for new episodes every week! Follow Meet Bridget: @meetbridget | meetbridget.com

September 17, 2026Episode 17256 min

Founder of Casa Bahdi Studio, Franchesca Danino "I See People Through The Soul"

Franchesca Danino is the founder of Casa Bahdi, a semi-private body sculpting studio in Los Angeles. She uses lipo laser, cavitation, radio frequency, and EMS to help women with fat, loose skin, and muscle tone without surgery, injections, or weeks of recovery. She also takes the time to understand your lifestyle, your hormones, your history before she recommends anything. That combination of thoroughness and warmth, Keshiia said after her own session, is what makes the experience feel completely different from everything else in LA. In this conversation, Keshiia and Franchesca talk about what it means to build a practice around this kind of intimate, personalized body work — how Franchesca reads a client the moment they walk in, why the sessions become therapy without anyone planning for it, and what it cost her to take all her savings and start something she had never done before. They also go back. Franchesca grew up in Dallas with Soviet immigrant parents. Her mom is from Uzbekistan, her dad from Ukraine. She did not speak English when she started kindergarten. She grew up in a household where love was real but feelings were not always said out loud, and she spent years feeling like she was never quite good enough. She tried fashion. She tried skincare production. She kept learning and kept feeling empty. She discovered cavitation before her wedding, became obsessed, told everyone, and eventually took the leap. Looking back at everything — the beauty knowledge from Eastern European culture, the years in skincare learning how products are made, the PCOS that led her to the treatment that changed her body — she said: this was screaming in my face the whole time. She just had to find her way to it. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 172

September 11, 2026Episode 1711 hr 58 min

Biet Simkin Glass @guidedbybiet, Globally Renowned Meditation Teacher & Best-Selling Author "To Be Lost Is To Be Found"

Content note: This episode includes open discussion of heroin and cocaine addiction and recovery, the death of Biet's infant daughter from SIDS, and multiple significant losses. Biet speaks about all of it from a place of healing and gratitude. If you are navigating addiction or grief: SAMHSA 1-800-662-4357 | Call or text 988. Biet Simkin was asked to name her career in one phrase. She said magic. She said it immediately, and she meant it. Asha first encountered Biet at an event through a mutual friend — an evening of women in a room, not talking much, making eye contact, understanding each other without words. She was so impacted by the space Biet created that she had to bring her on the show. In this conversation, they talk about what it actually means to do the work that Biet does: holding space for people at the threshold of their own transformation, coaching the person who is moments away from blowing up the life they have built, and why her work is as effective as heroin without the repercussions. She says that plainly. She means it. They also go back. Biet was born in Queens, New York, a month after her parents immigrated from Russia — conceived intentionally as a freedom child by a father who had cured himself of tuberculosis through yoga and fasting in the Russian woods. Her mother died of pancreatic cancer when she was six. She healed that grief with music and got signed to Sony at eighteen. At twenty-six she had a daughter who died four months later of SIDS. At twenty-eight she was a full-blown heroin addict when her father died. She has been sober for seventeen years. This is not an episode about suffering. It is an episode about what is built from it. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 171

August 19, 2026Episode 1691 hr 12 min

MaKenna Bernardino, Elsa Hosk's Lymphatic Drainage Skullptress

MaKenna Bernardino, The Skullptress, is a body sculpting and lymphatic drainage practitioner who works in homes across LA and OC. With her table in tow and a backpack full of tools, she works with a singular philosophy: Your body is NOT working against you. Her job is to get stagnant bodies moving. She works with women of every body type, shape and size, bucking the common misconception that body sculpting is solely to "make skinny girls skinnier". Over the years, she has worked with countless women who have experienced major weight loss, post-operative clients, women in perimenopause, and women whose concerns have gone underappreciated or underwhelmingly overlooked. She meets people where they are. A fellow Redding native (like Asha!), MaKenna spent much of her youth, fishing, hiking, snowboarding, and playing competitive soccer. To this day, it's still her happy place, heading back home to the mountains to decompress between awards seasons. It's the same place that helped her hone many of the skills through her teen experiences. From contracting mononucleosis and spending an entire summer bedridden to an eventual Hashimoto's Thyroiditis diagnosis, came years of self education and the continual pursuit of the understanding of her own body. This episode dives into MaKenna's journey, and how the body and the wellness she had to fight for eventually became the foundation of how she treats and cares for other women now. This one is warm, honest, and so so real. If thyroid health or autoimmune disease is something you are navigating personally, your own advocacy matters. NAMI.org | Call or text 988 if you need additional support. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 169

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