A grounded look at personal struggle turned into practical nonprofit support.
This episode follows a nonprofit trying to support young people, with the focus staying on the adults who keep showing up and the structure around that work.

Kellie Hoover and Leah Williams
50 episodes listed below
PRESS PLAY
Welcome to the Women of Fort Mill Podcast – your weekly dose of connection, inspiration, and empowerment for women who live, lead, and thrive in our beautiful Fort Mill, SC.Hosted by Leah Williams and Kellie Hoover, this show goes beyond business spotlights. We're here to help you grow personally and professionally, through real conversations with local women who are making a difference.Each week, we bring you inspiring stories from local female business owners who are breaking boundaries, lifting each other up, and making a real impact. Whether you're looking to level up in business, master your health and wellness, or...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kelly and Leah connect entrepreneurship and career change to motherhood, health, identity, and the practical realities surrounding women's work.
Kelly and Leah approach business through the lives built around it. Their conversations connect entrepreneurship and professional change with motherhood, burnout, money confidence, and the strain of maintaining a working life when health or identity feels unsettled.
Sound bowls enter the business conversation just when your hustle pep talk has worn thin.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded look at personal struggle turned into practical nonprofit support.
This episode follows a nonprofit trying to support young people, with the focus staying on the adults who keep showing up and the structure around that work.
A grounded discussion of people-pleasing, money, and the clarity that comes from naming what is keeping someone stuck.
Kelly and Leah keep the focus on how people-pleasing can spill into money, boundaries, and self-trust. The strongest part is the way they connect the habit of smoothing things over for parents, spouses, clients, and everyone else to the harder work of being honest about what…
A motherhood reset framed through boundaries, self-trust, and the search to feel like yourself again.
The episode follows a hard turn into motherhood, with postpartum depression, a colicky child, and the sense that an old version of confidence no longer fits.
A plainspoken look at guilt, presence, and the cost of trying to be everywhere.
This episode centers mom guilt and keeps it tied to the practical arithmetic of work and home that gives it force. Kelly's memory of missing her daughter's first step while she was in Las Vegas for a pharmaceutical meeting lands with real emotional weight, and Leah answers it…
A crisis episode that treats resilience as a habit, not a slogan.
The episode keeps its focus where it belongs: on what it means to keep going when a brain tumor, surgery, and the risk of blindness are all on the table. The pressure of showing up for young children gives it a grounded tension, and it never slips into easy inspiration.
Practical routines for calmer mornings, grounded in real family life.
The piece centers on time management at home and the appeal of calmer mornings, fewer frazzled moments, and a steadier pace for the household.
A grounded conversation about growth, money, motherhood, and the relationships women carry.
This episode takes a clear look at how personal growth, money, motherhood, and the relationships women work to protect can all collide at once.
A practical family conversation about guardianship, grace, and the support systems that help parents carry responsibility.
The episode centers on practical family planning, especially the need to name both temporary and permanent guardians in legal documents before a crisis forces the issue.

Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.

Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.

Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.

Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.

Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.

Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Leah Williams introduces Mara Campolungo as a wedding officiant, community mentor, and executive director of The Sandbox, a nonprofit that has served over 5,000 families facing complex medical journeys.
This episode segment introduces the hosts and their podcast, focusing on personal stories of overcoming financial struggles and empowering women in business and life.
Kelly and Leah frame balance in Women of Fort Mill Podcast as a moving target, not an equal split, with Kelly saying one quadrant may get 75% while the others get 7.5%.
Leah Williams and Kelly Hoover use the Women of Fort Mill Podcast to talk about “seasons of growth” and the decision to pivot, pause, or push.
Kelly Hoover welcomes Amy Casey of House of Colour Waxhaw, who says she spent over 25 years as a teacher and college professor before opening her business on October 1 last year.
Women of Fort Mill, South Carolina focuses on Kelly Hoover’s time-management system for moms, including a Sunday reset, paper planning, Google Calendar, and a $5-a-month DAC board in the kitchen.
Adrienne, founder of Torchbearer Tachyon in Cornelius, says a 2020 surge of COVID anxiety pushed her from breathing and meditation into acupuncture, network spinal, and then tachyon.
Leah Williams speaks with Helen Armstrong and Jen Payer of Divine Health Alliance in Weddington, North Carolina, as part of her "Moments That Made Me" series on the Women of Fort Mill podcast.
Kelly opens with a personal confession.
Kelly and Leah open with a question that leaves room for honest reflection.
Kelly and Leah talk with Dr.
Kelly Hoover opens the Women of Fort Mill podcast by shifting the show toward real-life conversations with co-host Leah Williams about women, money, and confidence.
Leah Williams interviews Keonta Ramsey, Director of Growth for Climb Fund, about how the nonprofit CDFI helps South Carolina small businesses when traditional banks say no.
Women of Fort Mill Podcast returns with a Part 2 conversation on time management focused on “owning your mornings” and building a routine around self-care, hydration, and planning.
Diana Ryskowski says a layoff after 20 years in corporate marketing became the push that led her into sound healing, a wellness podcast, and a future wellness center.
Tristan Hunkin, founder of Hunkin Law, explains how she moved from teaching business to ninth through 12th graders to graduating from Georgetown Law and building a virtual legal practice.
This episode of the Women of Fort Mill Podcast features hosts Leah Williams and Kellie Hoover discussing self-care, financial confidence, and the podcast's mission to empower women through honest conversations about business and life.
Hopelessness is where this episode starts.
Kelly and Leah spend the episode on the quiet ways women lose themselves while trying to keep everyone else comfortable.
The co-hosts open with a frank look at how motherhood can unsettle a woman’s sense of self.
Kelly and Leah explore how motherhood fundamentally shifts identity, triggering confidence loss from loss of control, perceived failure, and physical change.
Kelly and Leah, co-hosts of Women of Fort Mill podcast, unpack mom guilt—the universal experience of guilt many mothers carry.
Kelly and Leah, hosts of Women of Fort Mill podcast, candidly discuss navigating major life crises.