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HerStory Podcast - Presented by Chamber Fayetteville and Be Freaking Awesome - Featuring Stories of Women of Fayetteville
by Be Freaking Awesome Podcast Producers
Every woman you admire has a story she almost didn't tell. The version where things didn't go as planned. The pivot that looked like a failure before it became the thing that changed everything. The moment she almost talked herself out of the room she was born to be in. Those are the stories that actually teach us something. The ones that make you feel less alone and more ready to go back out there and try again. That's what HerStory is about, and it starts with an invitation. Chamber Fayetteville's Women of All Generations returns on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, from 3 to 6 PM at the Fayetteville Town Center. It's an annual panel, celebration, and networking event that brings together women across industries and age groups for honest, meaningful conversation. This year's theme is "You've Earned This," and it's exactly what it sounds like: a pause worth taking. A room full of women who have worked hard, grown a lot, and earned the right to celebrate that together. The 2026 event features a
Episodes
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EP18 She Kept Going Anyway with Sami Kinnison and Angela Belford
From the very first episode, they have been here. Asking the questions, holding space, staying curious and just barely managing not to ask too many follow-ups during the rapid fire questions. Now it is their turn. In the finale episode of HerStory, Sami Kinnison and Angela Belford interview each...
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EP17 To Have Community You Have to Be Community with Shannon Hendrix
About two or three weeks after Shannon Hendrix left her corporate healthcare leadership career, her husband looked at her and said: I'm glad I got my Shannon back. She did not fully realize, until that moment, just how much of herself she had been spending. She took eight months off. She played...
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EP16 Small Beginnings Are Launch Points, Not Limitations with Tamara Phillips
Tamara Phillips walked into a bank every week for six to eight weeks. She was not a customer. She was just a woman who knew she wanted to work in banking and decided to show up until someone gave her the chance. Finally, a hiring manager called her and said: I am just tired of you coming in here...
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EP15 The Path That Found Her with Olivia James
Olivia James started her career thinking she wanted to be in public health. Then she did an internship at a community clinic, got introduced to the behavioral health department, and started paying closer attention to something she had been circling for a while. Then a tornado changed everything....
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EP14 You Have to Know the Story with Ashley Harris
Ashley Harris arrived in Washington D.C. at 21 years old with a PR degree and no room for fear. She was scheduling and managing the office of a congressman, surrounded by people who had been doing this for decades, and she just decided her words carried weight. That conviction has followed her...
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EP13 Running Toward What Matters with Meredith Lowry
Six years into a successful law career, Meredith Lowry looked up and realized she had no friends. The law school crew had scattered. Life had accelerated. And the woman who would go on to found a networking initiative for women entrepreneurs was sitting at networking events not knowing how to…
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EP12 Do It Scared with Mallory Files
Mallory Files started Ozark Charcuterie in her home kitchen five years ago because she needed somewhere to put her hands and her energy. She had no business plan for what it would become. She just started making boards. Today, Mallory is the founder and owner of Ozark Charcuterie and Wine Bar, a...
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EP11 The Woman Behind 4,000 Businesses with Chung Tan
Before Chung Tan started working in Fayetteville, the city didn't know how many businesses were operating inside its own limits. No registry. No emergency contacts. No way to answer the basic question: who is actually here? Chung Tan is the Director of Industry and Employment Services for the…
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EP10 What Keeps People Here with Lauren Allen
Lauren Allen will tell you, completely deadpan, that love is what brought her to Fayetteville. Her boyfriend was here. So she followed him. They're getting married now, so it worked out. But that one-liner is just the entry point into a conversation about what it really means to show up for a...
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EP8 What's the Next Right Thing with Tanya Mimms
Tanya Mimms graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1993, looked around at Northwest Arkansas, and decided she wasn't leaving. Back then, most people had to. There weren't a lot of jobs. The first people willing to take a chance on her were a car dealership. She got a job. She stayed in...
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EP7 Be Your Own Hype Woman with Natalie Abram
Natalie Abram grew up in Fayetteville, cheered at the University of Arkansas, planned weddings, worked events at Crystal Bridges and The Momentary, and is now the events and marketing manager at Lewis Automotive Group. She is 24 years old. She did not finish college. And she is one of the most...
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EP6 Every Path Leads Back with Takama Statton-Brooks
Takama Statton-Brooks spent 22 years in higher education. She loved it. She was good at it. She had a career that by almost any measure was working. And then her father passed away, and she remembered a promise she had made to herself that she hadn't kept. She had told herself she wanted to get…
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EP5 You Have to Look Up with Beth Pittman
Beth Pittman's dad gave her advice early in her career that she's spent the last two decades respectfully disagreeing with. He told her to keep her head down, work hard, and the company would take care of her. What actually happened was that a client she used to support in a legal capacity looked...
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EP4 The Mother-Daughter Business That Works with Julie and Cassidy Magnuson
Julie Magnuson didn't plan to end up in Northwest Arkansas. She just kept saying yes to the next right thing. Buying from promotional product vendors. Working for one. Moving to a new market for a colleague who needed help. And then one day, someone asked what it would take for her to stay, and…
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EP3 The Designer Who Designed Her Life with Brittany Phillips
Sixteen years into running her own firm, Brittany Phillips still gives young designers the same piece of advice: go find someone you admire and go learn. Not because she's repeating what worked. Because she lived it, and it's still the truest thing she knows. Brittany is the founder of Brittany...
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EP2 Publishing, Purpose, and Putting Yourself in Rooms That Scare You with Sydney Sullivan
She moved to Fayetteville in 2020 for school, got COVID, mono, and tonsillitis three times, and genuinely did not think she was going to stay. Fast forward a few years: she's the publisher of Fayetteville City Lifestyle Magazine, a published author, and one of the people most responsible for…
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EP1 Why We're Telling Her Story (And Why You Should Listen)
There are stories happening all around you. In the coffee shop, in the board room, in the carpool line. Women who built something, survived something, started something, lost something and kept going anyway. Most of those stories never make it past a quick handshake and a business card exchange....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every woman you admire has a story she almost didn't tell. The version where things didn't go as planned. The pivot that looked like a failure before it became the thing that changed everything. The moment she almost talked herself out of the room she was born to be in. Those are the stories that actually teach us something. The ones that make you feel less alone and more ready to go back out there and try again. That's what HerStory is about, and it starts with an invitation. Chamber Fayetteville's Women of All Generations returns on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, from 3 to 6 PM at the Fayetteville Town Center. It's an annual panel, celebration, and networking event that brings together women across industries and age groups for honest, meaningful conversation. This year's theme is "You've Earned This," and it's exactly what it sounds like: a pause worth taking. A room full of women who have worked hard, grown a lot, and earned the right to celebrate that together. The 2026 event features a
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Every woman you admire has a story she almost didn't tell. The version where things didn't go as planned. The pivot that looked like a failure before it became the thing that changed everything. The moment she almost talked herself out of the room she was born to be in. Those are the stories that...
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