A Splash More

Born and raised on California's Golden Coast, Chloé has built a thriving career as an independent artist, songwriter, actress, and storyteller whose music has reached hundreds of thousands of listeners around the world. But long before performing at iconic venues, earning Grammy consideration, and building a loyal global audience, she faced a life-threatening illness that left her isolated as a child.
In this episode of A Splash More, Chloé shares how songwriting became her outlet for healing, helping her process experiences that often left her feeling misunderstood and alone. She opens up about navigating assumptions others made about her appearance as a child, finding her voice through music, and learning how to transform pain into purpose.
Hayley and Chloé also bond over their shared experiences in the music industry, discussing the realities of building a creative career while staying grounded, authentic, and connected to what matters most. Together they explore resilience, gratitude, manifestation, creativity, and the importance of creating a life that feels aligned with who you truly are.
This conversation is filled with warmth, wisdom, and the kind of perspective that reminds us there's always light to be found, even in life's hardest seasons.
You can find Chloé and her music using the links below:
Website
Instagram
Youtube
Spotify
Apple Music
This episode is brought to you by our friends at BÜNDA Strength + Stairs. While we're excited to be building a partnership with their South Bay community, BÜNDA's impact extends far beyond Southern California, with studios across the country helping women discover their strength through movement, connection, and community.
Their classes combine strength training, conditioning, and community in a way that keeps you coming back. Whether you’re getting back into fitness, looking to build strength, or just want an hour that’s completely for you, BÜNDA has something for every stage of life.
Visit http://trainbunda.com or stop by one of their studios and tell them A Splash More sent you

This week on A Splash More, Hayley sits down with Katie Lilly, founder of BÜNDA Strength + Stairs, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, community, motherhood, and the power of helping women discover their strength.
Katie shares the story behind building BÜNDA and how her vision evolved from creating a workout to creating a movement. Together, they discuss the realities of entrepreneurship, balancing ambition with family life, and the importance of building spaces where women feel supported, challenged, and connected.
A large part of the conversation also explores the science behind strength training and why so many women spent years believing it wasn't meant for them. Katie breaks down the benefits of building muscle, the misconceptions that have kept women out of the weight room, and why strength training is one of the most powerful tools for long-term health, confidence, and longevity.
This is a conversation about purpose, perseverance, community, and redefining what strength looks like for women today.
This episode is brought to you by our friends at BÜNDA Strength + Stairs. While we're excited to be building a partnership with their South Bay community, BÜNDA's impact extends far beyond Southern California, with studios across the country helping women discover their strength through movement, connection, and community.
Their classes combine strength training, conditioning, and community in a way that keeps you coming back. Whether you’re getting back into fitness, looking to build strength, or just want an hour that’s completely for you, BÜNDA has something for every stage of life.
Visit http://trainbunda.com or stop by one of their studios and tell them A Splash More sent you

This week on A Splash More, Hayley sits down with Catie Bouchard, founder of Pen & Napkin, an organization that transforms empty spaces into fully furnished homes for individuals and families navigating significant life transitions and rebuilding their lives.
After years of witnessing the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, Catie found herself asking a question she could no longer ignore: What am I supposed to do with what I'm seeing? That question became the catalyst for a movement rooted in compassion, dignity, and community.
In this episode, Catie shares the journey from recognizing a need to building a nonprofit with the support of volunteers, donors, corporate sponsors, and an ever-growing community of people committed to making a difference. But she also opens up about the realities of balancing a mission-driven calling with the demands of motherhood and family life, and the difficult decisions that come when your heart wants to do more than your season of life allows.
Together, they discuss purpose, service, community, and what it means to make an impact without sacrificing the things that matter most. This is a powerful conversation about following a calling, embracing life's limitations, and discovering that meaningful change doesn't always require carrying the entire weight alone.

This week on A Splash More, Hayley sits down with Meghan Judge, creator and host of Judging Meghan, a Top 25 Mental Health podcast ranked among the top 1% of podcasts worldwide.
Drawing from years of conversations about grief, loss, healing, and resilience, Meghan shares what she's learned about navigating life's hardest seasons and finding a way forward when so much feels outside of our control.
As the conversation unfolds, it expands beyond grief and into one of the most influential factors in our mental health: our relationships. Together, Hayley and Meghan explore the beauty, complexity, and occasional heartbreak of female friendships, discussing how the people closest to us can shape our healing, challenge our growth, and impact our overall well-being.
Honest, insightful, and deeply relatable, this episode is a reminder that while we can't always control what happens to us, we can be intentional about who we walk through it with.

Sara Civian is a sports reporter, podcast host, and one of the most recognizable voices to emerge from hockey media — known for her quick wit, sharp perspective, and ability to build a career in traditionally male-dominated spaces. But in this episode, we explore something much more personal.
As cousins from a loud, close-knit Italian family — separated by 12 years and shaped by very different birth-order experiences — we talk about the identities that form inside families long before we fully understand ourselves. Together, we explore ambition, personality, visibility, humor, family dynamics, and the subtle ways childhood roles can follow us well into adulthood.
This conversation is thoughtful, funny, layered, and deeply reflective of how family systems shape the way we move through the world long after we leave home.

We’re revisiting one of the early conversations that helped shape A Splash More — and honestly, this episode feels even more relevant now.
Bryana Kappadakunnel is a licensed marriage and family therapist, founder of Conscious Mommy, and author of Parent Yourself First. In this conversation, we talk about emotional regulation, generational patterns, motherhood, identity, and the pressure so many women feel to hold everything together while quietly neglecting themselves in the process.
Bryana shares such a grounded and compassionate perspective on healing — not just for our children, but for ourselves — and how self-awareness can completely change the way we show up in our relationships, parenting, and everyday lives.
You’ll also hear Bailey in this episode, as this conversation was recorded during the early chapters of A Splash More while we were still discovering what this show was becoming and the kinds of conversations we wanted to create space for.

We’re revisiting one of the earliest conversations that helped shape A Splash More — and honestly, it feels even more relevant now.
Nicole Travolta is an actor, comedian, and writer whose one-woman show, Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright, has toured across the U.S., Europe, and the U.K. In this conversation, Nicole opens up about shame, identity, financial struggle, and the pressure of trying to live up to a name, an expectation, or a version of yourself that no longer fits.
We talk about mistakes, self-worth, rebuilding your life from the inside out, and what happens when you finally stop letting your hardest moments define you.
This conversation is honest, emotional, funny at times, and deeply human — which is probably why it stayed with us long after we recorded it.
You’ll also hear Bailey in this episode, as this conversation was recorded during the early chapters of A Splash More while we were still discovering what this show was becoming and the kinds of conversations we wanted to create space for.

Jamie Lovelynn may seem like someone who has it all together on the outside but in this conversation, she opens up about the struggles that existed underneath: disordered eating, stress, perfectionism, loneliness, and the fear that life wasn’t unfolding the way she hoped it would.
We talk about relationships, feeling disconnected from yourself, and the pressure so many women carry to keep performing even when they’re overwhelmed internally.
But more than anything, this conversation explores the connection between creativity, healing, and the nervous system and how creating beauty, expression, and meaning in small everyday ways became part of Jaime’s path back to herself.
This episode is vulnerable, honest, and deeply human.
Content note: This episode includes conversations around mental health and disordered eating that may feel sensitive for some listeners.

If you’re in your mid 30s or 40s and starting to feel a shift, this conversation is for you.
In this episode, I’m joined by integrative nutritionist Uma Naralkar, who specializes in hormonal health and helping women better understand and support their bodies through different stages of life.
She breaks down a simple but powerful way to understand what’s happening in your body: a “tripod” made up of nutrition, movement, and mental health.
Because during perimenopause, when one of those pillars is off, everything can start to feel off, including how you feel in your own body.
There’s so much quiet shame around this stage — the changes, the weight shifts, the feeling of not quite recognizing yourself — and so many women are left trying to piece it together on their own.
But this isn’t just about understanding it — Uma also shares real, practical tools to help support your body in a way that actually feels doable.
This is the kind of conversation more women need to hear sooner.

What happens when the thing that once defined you, the thing you worked your whole life for, no longer feels certain?
In this conversation, WNBA player Angel McCoughtry opens up about the parts of her career we don’t usually hear about — the rejection, the uncertainty, and the quiet moments of not knowing what’s next.
We talk about what it’s really like to be a woman in sports, the realities of equal pay, and the added weight of navigating it all as a Black woman. But more than that, we talk about identity and how disorienting it can feel when the version of yourself you’ve always known starts to shift.
There’s honesty here about mental health, about starting over, and about the pressure to hold it all together when things feel unclear.
And in the middle of it, there’s also something lighter — a reminder that even in the hardest moments, there’s connection in being real. Even if that means…a splash more tears.