The Breakout – Unleashing Personal Growth

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By: Dr. Keri & Kelly – Personal Growth Essentials

A #1 Self-Improvement podcast, The Breakout tells incredible stories of personal growth with the smart, hilarious thought leaders from Abbracci Group. Every day, in big and small ways, we put ourselves in boxes. From jobs to relationships, to entire belief systems, many of us are living by rules that someone else wrote for us. On The Breakout, talent specialists and the founders of Abbracci Group, Dr. Keri Ohlrich and Kelly Guenther, dive into the extraordinary stories of people overcoming self-doubt, pushing boundaries, and finding the courage and confidence to get what they want and achieve the success they were destined for. ...

How to Do Whatever The Hell You Want: The Breakouts That Inspired the Book
#45
10/09/2024

The day has finally come! Friends…our book is officially launched! Join us on today’s episode as we celebrate the book, vacillate from excitement to nausea, and look back on the incredible guests on The Breakout who inspired it all.

One of our amazing guests once said, “all these rules that have been taught to us? They were not bargained for collectively. We did not actually agree to them”.  She was actually talking about monogamy, but for us, that sentiment applies universally to every expectation we live by. It’s also a sentiment that serves as the startin...


How to Prove Them Wrong: Breaking barriers in swimming, with four-time Olympic medalist Cullen Jones
#44
09/25/2024

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Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is coming out October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And there are bonuses for you if you do! Our fabulous podcast listeners can win the deluxe new AirPods Max headphones.

Here's how to enter:
1. Pre-order the book on Amazon at this link between August 14th and October 8.
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When Trauma is Everywhere: Making Invisible Victims Visible, with Manya Chylinski
#43
09/11/2024

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Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is launching October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And you could win if you do! A set of deluxe new AirPods Max headphones are up for grabs.

Here's how to enter:
1. Pre-order the book on Amazon at this link by October 8.
2. Post a podcast review on your favorite listening app
3. Post your book receipt on Facebook or Instagram using the hash...


How to Stop a Bully: Breaking the Silence with Women’s Rights Lawyer, Alreen Haeggquist
#42
08/28/2024

GIVEAWAY ALERT!!
Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is coming out October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And there are bonuses for you if you do! Our fabulous podcast listeners can win the deluxe new AirPods Max headphones.

Here's how to enter:
1 Pre-order the book on Amazon at this link between August 14th and October 8.
2 Post a podcast review on your favorite listening app
3 Post your book receipt on Facebook or I...


How to Do Nothing: Our Toxic Relationship with Work and What to Do About It, with Celeste Headlee
#41
08/14/2024

GIVEAWAY ALERT!!
Keri and Kelly’s new book, Whatever the Hell you Want: An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life’s Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations is coming out October 8th, but you can pre-order it NOW! And there are bonuses for you if you do! Our fabulous podcast listeners can win the deluxe new AirPods Max headphones.

Here's how to enter:

Pre-order the book on Amazon at this link between August 14th and October 8. Post a podcast review on your favorite listening appPost your book receipt on Facebook or Instagram using the h...


How to Be Shameless: Squashing Your Inner Critic, with Maggie Langrick
#40
07/31/2024

“It was easy for me to say to people ‘your stories are valuable’ but when I would turn that lens on myself, I was tongue-tied and embarrassed.” As the founder of Wonderwell Press, a non-fiction publishing company, Maggie Langrick has been a champion of writers for years; in fact she was a huge influence in the development of Keri and Kelly’s upcoming book, Whatever the Hell You Want (coming in October!). 

But while Maggie was helping everyone else find their voice, she was actively repressing her own, because, as she tells us, she felt like it was “weird…...


How to Seize the Day: A Practical Guide to Taking Action and Changing Your Life, with Best-Selling Author, Scott Allan
#39
07/17/2024

“I think everybody has limitless potential to create whatever they want”.  That’s the core idea that coach and best-selling author, Scott Allan lives by. Scott's made it his mission to "help people create the life they want to own".  How does he do that exactly? With the extraordinary series of self-help books he's written, and by sharing his life story.

In the late 90’s, Scott was working as an electrical engineer on the west coast of Canada when he decided to turn everything upside down. “I've got to do something with this life”, he decided, “I didn't come this...


How to Start Over and Ignore the Doubt (and the doubters): Dr. Cindy Starke on Finding Midlife Magic
#38
07/03/2024

“You don't have to let your past define you. You can change in a heartbeat”. Dr. Cindy Starke is a firm believer that it’s never too late to begin again. Cindy is a physician and geneticist, and at mid-life she made the bold decision to leave her full-time hospital position and top-end salary to found a coaching program dedicated to empowering women at that tricky second-half-of-life milestone.  

Despite huge pushback from her partner and a lot of fear and trepidation, Cindy made the leap. She tore down societal boundaries to reinvent her life, and now she helps h...


Casting Doubts: Unpacking the Electoral College System, with Maximina Juson, Director of One Person, One Vote?
#37
06/19/2024

“The electoral college is a real pain point for the electorate. They don’t understand it, and they don’t know why we have it in the first place…So that’s why I made this film.” That’s how Maximina Juson explains her motivation for making the extraordinary, and necessary, new documentary, One Person, One Vote? It's a film that takes a closer look at something that lots of Americans rarely question: the electoral college voting system.


If you’ve been listening to The Breakout for a while now, you’ll know that we love guests who...


Breaking out of the Cubicle: Rethinking Work and School for the Neurodivergent Community
#36
06/05/2024

“It's amazing that we have this tunnel vision around what success needs to look like, even though our society is filled with people who are wildly atypical.” Dr. Matt Zakreski is a dedicated clinical psychologist who's made it his mission to help harness the often overlooked abilities of the neurodivergent community – that’s anyone with a brain that works differently from the average or neurotypical person. 


Growing up as a gifted kid, Dr. Matt was neurodivergent himself. and saw firsthand how rigid practices in schools and workplaces can stifle the growth and talents of people in...