IT IS YOUR STORY TO TELL WHEN YOU ARE READY! In Episode 61 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show, titled THE ESSENCE OF BEAUTY (LINKS IN THE COMMENTS), please meet an absolute dynamo and my guest Cari Kenzie. An incredibly successful entrepreneur, amazing speaker, trainer and coach qualified and ran the Boston Marathon in 2013. The domestic terrorism bombing that took place as she was in the recovery tent had profound effects on her life and she UNPACKS HER FINISH LINE on the show with me. Come listen, download, review and share this incredible show and get a 30 minute free coaching session with Cari by mentioning “Shining Brightly”

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Cari Kenzie is not just a coach; she's a life-changer. A survivor of the Boston Marathon Bombing, her story is one of incredible resilience and unyielding strength. This experience, combined with her success as an entrepreneur who built and sold a multi-million-dollar marketing empire, makes her a force to be reckoned with in the speaking and coaching world. Cari brings a dynamic energy that transforms audiences. With a blend of raw honesty and insightful strategies, she doesn't just speak; she ignites change. Featured in Entrepreneur Magazine and Runner's World, Cari is the go-to expert on overcoming adversity, sparking creativity, and driving success. Her sessions are a powerhouse of practical wisdom, infused with an edge that cuts straight to the heart of challenges. In the coaching arena, Cari is a Quantum Healer and Intuitive Business strategist. She doesn't just guide; she revolutionizes. Her approach is direct, personalized, and ruthlessly effective in helping you conquer your limitations and seize your potential.

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Hello, it's Howard Brown. It's the Shining Brightly

Show. I got another good one I seem to every week. Isn't that

strange? So I have to tell you that I love athletes. And I love

people that want to make real impact for themselves, for

others and in their communities. And I want to welcome Cari

Kenzi, Cari, welcome to the shining, brightly show. Hey,

thanks, Howard. You are smiling up a storm and I love it. I got

to tell people about you because we just recently got introduced

I say you got a pop on my show. I had to have her. I had to do

it. We just We bonded we clicked it's happened and and that's how

it works is that we find people and I want to I want them to

share their voice just so wide and shine their light as shining

brightly tells you to do. Alright, Cari Kenzie is not just

a coach. She is a life changer. You're going to learn how she is

a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing. Now listen,

I'm a kid from Boston. All right, I can say it correctly. I

packed my car. She was there in 2013 a decade ago. We're going

to hear about it. It's the deets. Her stories of incredible

resilience and yielding strength. This experience okay

with many others that were there that day is life changing. And

combined with her success as an entrepreneur. She built and sold

multimillion dollar Marketing Empire businesses and makes it

she's a force to be reckoned with in speaking in the coaching

world as well but learn about that. Kara brings a dynamic

energy she transforms audiences with a blend of raw honesty,

insightful strategies. She doesn't just speak she ignites

change. That's what I love. She has been featured in

Entrepreneur Magazine Runner's World, she is a go to expert on

overcoming adversity, sparking creativity and driving success.

Her sessions are powerful and practical wisdom. They're

infused with an edge that cut straight to the heart of your

challenges. No messing around with this girl. In the coaching

arena. She is a quantum healer, intuitive business strategist.

She doesn't just guide she revolutionises. Her approaches

direct, personalised and ruthless and effective helping

you conquer your limitations and sees your potential. Oh my god,

I can't wait to dig in on this one. So very welcome. We just

read the bio, but tell us something that, you know, give

me a fill in some more detail there. Tell me something you

might not know about? Yeah. Oh my

gosh. Well, I absolutely love coffee. And

first when you asked me this question, I was like, You know

what? Not everybody knows that. I sat in a birthday cake when I

was four years old. How fun is that? You

wait, wait, we back backstory. You're at a

birthday party.

So I'm at a birthday party. I don't even

remember whose birthday party it was. It was not even my cake. It

is somebody else's cake. I'm at a birthday party. I'm playing

with my aunt uncle's dog who I absolutely adored, who I swear

was probably taller than me at this time. And freaked me out

for some reason. And all of a sudden, I take off running

because now the dogs chasing me playing I think I'm going to be

eaten. So I run over to everybody and I climb up on the

picnic table and they turn around and they sit down real

quick. And then I realise I've just sat number thinking bottom

in the cake at age four

So right so So either they were laughing their

butt off at you or they're yelling at you. It

was a lot of laughter the dog thought it was

a great. Oh,

I'm sure but everyone eats much cake or they

went to the cupcakes as backup or cookies. I wanted coffee. My

passion. I love it. So just quickly. Do you slow drip? Do

you use a carrot cup? What you do for you grind your own beans?

Yes,

I am a like gotta grind my own beans. I'm a pour

over coffee type of girl. Yep. And I will either do it black or

I will do it bulletproof style, which means I'm gonna add a

little butter, little MCT oil, maybe a little stevia. And it's

like a perfect little latte with all the fuel I need for the day.

Awesome. Well, I make iced coffee. So I actually

take the grounds that I make up and I pour that with water in a

pickle jar. And then someone from Babson College invented

this called brew BRUW, he sold the company to snarky tea, but

it's the best little venture is to pickle jars in a filter. You

let it sit for 24 hours in the fridge, you can't get out and

then you filter it and it takes all the grounds out of it and

you get pure coffee and another pickle jar. And I do that always

the night before. And I wake up and I have my own cold brew.

It's just the coolest thing. Now like if you want to add cream or

stevia or whatever, you can do that too. Yeah, but also I grind

up the different types of beans and stuff like that. So it's

cool but I love my coffee. It's that's our we're aligned as they

say in so many ways. So you know I have to tell you when we were

introduced by we're going to shout out to Rachel Rose right

yes, Maggie Cook Big shout Yes, absolutely love them. Is that I

just your energy I mean, you're just a force to be reckoned

with. I was so taken when I watched your videos and your

presentation. I just love it. We're very similar. We give, we

just pour in, we pour in. And so give me some backstory here.

Take Take me back a little ways before we get to the Boston

Marathon. Tell me a little bit more about, you know, get

getting getting there before that.

Okay. Well, Midwestern girl, I say I'm a

Midwestern girl with a big city spirit. Nobody can ever imagine

that I live in Iowa. But small town girl moved to the big city

of Des Moines grew up and kind of followed in the footsteps of

my dad went into sales. And from there got the opportunity to

purchase the company that I was working for. So I bought a

company when I was 30 years old, I was pregnant with my second

child at the time. And I ran that company grew it from being

one employee and under, like $100,000 in sales up to a

multimillion dollar marketing agency. 18 To 20 employees at

one time, it was a lot of fun. I just I so enjoyed it, I got to

travel, I really got to do the thing that I love people that

asked me I was so good in sales, they go, Gosh, how do you do?

I'm like, You know what? I would say, I was tapping sales, and I

never sold anything. I never did. Because I'm a relationship

girl. Like I really want to understand and know who you are.

And I want to understand and know what it is that your desire

is and like, let's figure that out. So that took me up until

gosh, I ended up selling that business in January of 2019.

Three kids and two dogs and still living in the Midwest for

the next a short little period of time before I move on, but

that's just a little bit about me.

Yeah, no, but but you're also a runner. Oh, yeah,

I picked up running so crazy. I picked up running in

2009 because I'd had my third child and I wanted to lose the

baby weight. I mean, I'd run races before I'd done short

little races around town a little 5k here. Nothing ever

serious. And I called some girlfriends up because I was

training for I want to maybe it was like a 10 miler. And I knew

they ran longer. He said, Hey, can I come out and join you

guys? Sunday morning? They're like, yeah, absolutely. So I

joined them for a run. And within a couple of weeks, I kept

going back because now it's community. I got somebody to run

with. After a couple of weeks, we were like, You know what, I

really think that we ought to run a marathon this fall. And I

was like, Okay, I had no idea what I was getting into. I

probably at that point, didn't even know a marathon was 26 foot

two miles. But I liked hanging with the girls. And so that's

how I ended up running marathons.

So, alright, so so then you you, I think you said

2010 you qualified so you had to run another marathon before

that. Right?

So 2009 was my first marathon. Then we decide

oh, we're gonna keep going now let's go to Minnesota Twin

Cities Marathon. Let's go run that one. Okay, perfect. So end

up in Twin Cities running the it is the most gorgeous city to me

to run a marathon in all the trees are changing colours. It's

happening in the fall. That weather is super crisp. So it's

perfect for running and you are running through these absolutely

gorgeous, old stately homes. So I am just absorbing all of the

beauty I'm running. I'm paying attention to nothing. I've got a

girlfriend I'm running where she ends up dropping off at some

point. I just kept going. And I ended up finishing crossing the

finish line. And as I came to the end, the one of the gals

that I ran with her husband, we call them our waterboy because

he went with us. Every training, Ron always had the water. So he

was everywhere. He meets me at the gate, and he comes walking

through and he goes, You did it. And I went what? And he goes you

did it. And I said I did what? And he goes you qualified for

Boston? What? Wow. I had I had no idea. I didn't even know that

probably the time that I needed to get I wasn't trying. Yeah,

you're just running. Just happened? Yeah.

Wow. So in Minneapolis, you qualified and then you said I'm

gonna do it. Right. You said you have to

I mean, when you qualify for Boston, you have to

do it. Yeah. I mean, it's it's the I say it's the pinnacle of a

marathon runners dream, right to qualify and then to actually run

Boston. Oh, absolutely.

So I have to tell you something you don't know

about me is that I grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts. You

ran through Framingham when you ran Boston. So it's it starts in

Hopkinton and then goes to Ashland, then Framingham. Then

it goes to Natick and then Wellesley, I know the course

I've been there as a little kid at the, at the starting line.

And then as a college student in Wellesley, I went to Babson

College, it runs right by Wellesley College. So and I've

been at the finish as well. I mean, this is just part of

Boston, if you're from Boston, and you know, it's just part of

what we grew up with. I mean, the marathon is it's huge.

It's a it's a big deal. It is a very big deal. And

you don't you don't have to go to school

because it's patriots today so you don't have to go to school

that day. Like the

entire incident. big celebration. Everything's

got the game going on. I mean, it is the

restaurants, the Red Sox play in the afternoon

and it's a big party. I can turn the faucet on and off. Exactly.

Alright, so we'd be up to take me to Boston down to Boston. No.

All

right. So we're in Boston and started to

alone are we with people?

So I was with my husband at the time and my mom,

they both went with me. So I have the bus. I go up to

Hopkinton. I start the race, everything's going amazing. I've

got my name printed down the sides so people can cheer you

on, you know. And everything is going absolutely beautifully. I

make it until Wednesday, it was about heartbreak bill or

Heartbreak Hill, not surprising at all. And my pay starts to

slow. And I was like, okay, and then my legs start to cramp and

like, oh crap, this isn't going to be good. And I'd have to stop

and stretch. And then I'd run a little bit more. And I'd have to

stop and stretch. I been through this cadence before. So this

wasn't new to me. I had learned how to negotiate with myself, I

am really good at putting plate carrots out in front of myself

in order to keep me going, which meant I went to the expo before

the Boston Marathon. Like they always have the Expos for the

race. And I bought the finishers jacket. Because see, here's the

key with me, you can buy the finishers jacket, but you can't

wear it if you don't finish the race, right? Like it's just a

runner thing. So the whole time I'm having to stop things are

getting worse bodies completely cramping, and telling myself,

you have to finish or you can't wear that jacket. Like that's a

waste, you have to finish so I keep going and then okay, I will

go to the medical tent. As soon as I'm done, I will go

six miles out. And then mentally you're being

challenged physically, you're being physically but also the

crowds cheering everybody on. It's a it's an event, it

is huge. I mean, people are coming up to it, can we get

you anything? Do you need anything, I mean, is the most

supportive community ever. So I keep going and end up crossing

the finish line and under four hours, which is still freaking

huge. And I kind of collapse over one of the rails volunteer

comes picks me up takes me into the medical time. Okay, cool. So

I go in, they are checking me out. I don't know, I want to say

it was about 20 minutes from the time I went in there to them

checking me out to getting up for them to get up and go get

whatever it was I needed. Some setting on the edge of a cot.

All of a sudden I hear this boom. And I went I did not know

that's how they celebrated Patriots Day I didn't want I

didn't know they let cannons off. As soon as this thought

goes through my mind, the next one hits but it hits in a way

that I the entire universe shook the ground, shook that tent

shook the car. I mean, it felt like the ground was going to

come out from underneath me. And you instantaneously knew what

happened. I looked up, I caught the eyes of a volunteer. And you

knew the bumps had been sent off. So I very quickly then get

up thinking, okay, not injured. I have no idea where my family's

at, I gotta get out of here. So I look around like I am fine.

I'm leaving there are now starting to bring in what I call

a casualty of limb and those who have been directly impacted at

the finish line. So they're starting to come in, I leave I

come out, I look to my right down finishers alley, it is like

sunshine, blue skies, but completely empty. I look to my

left, I see chaos and smoke and people everywhere and all of a

sudden, a line of yellow jackets, the volunteers start

chasing me down the street screaming run as fast as you

can. So I take off running. I don't know how far I don't know

how fast but i direction

what direction were you go?

I have like go the opposite direction of the finish

line. Like this is everybody's now running away from the finish

line. I go the opposite direction. I eventually end up

finding my family. The kicker of this whole thing. I mean, it's

this is an experience. As you can imagine, I end up going back

to the hotel room, you collapse you're exhausted not only have I

run a marathon now I've gone through this entire experience.

I have no idea how to grapple or to grab hold of anything just

happened. But the next day we go back down I've got to pick my

goods up because they were left at the finish. And I'm standing

at the end of Boylston Street got that finishers jacket on

proudly wearing it. Reporter comes up says hey, can I ask you

some questions? Where were you? What was your experience? Can

you share voice in my head said it's not your story to tell. And

it turned out I walked away and that then became the experience

of me post Boston was not as a participant but was as a

spectator because I completely dismissed my experience as

somebody who had it worse.

So you kept that held within? Oh,

yeah. I mean you do it plus I own a business. I've

got young kids at home, I come home I own a business. My role

has been shaken. I feel like I am have been dumped on the

ground. I'm completely cracked. I'm holding myself together with

duct tape because I tell you what, if anybody else sees that

I'm cracked in any way, if anybody else sees that I'm have

been hurt or I'm going through some I'm going to lose

everything. And this is typically what high achievers

do. Like, we'll go through something. And then you package

that thing up real quick so that nobody else can see any kind of

vulnerability and reclaim weakness. Because when that rug

gets taken out, you don't know what else is gonna crumble.

Yeah, yeah.

That's just I mean, it's incredible. So you're

holding this in, and you're and it's just building. And so you

just did you just resume life. You you. Basically, you wore the

jacket, and

I went, I went home, I flew home, I went back

to work. The next day, I watched the news with the rest of my

staff. I ran in tribute, and I began training, I immediately

started training because I thought, I'm going to be there

next year, I'm going back to Boston. That's not how my

experience is going to, you know, I want to celebrate, they

can't take that away. Well, I started training, and then about

three, four months later, I went from running marathons to not

being able to walk up a flight of stairs, assists without

assistance. I became debilitating ly ill and nobody

could tell me what was going on. I was having seizures standing

up, I have insomnia and migraines and my muscles are

cramping so bad, I can't sign checks. I mean, everything then

physically just started to deteriorate and fall apart. And

that would go on for a number of years. I mean, I would chase

after diagnoses, I would finally, because I would listen

to my intuition. After a time period, I'd finally come to

understand what labels I could place on those physical

ailments, which were chronic Lyme and Hashimotos, and Epstein

Barr and multiple autoimmune conditions. But but the labels

were simply labels, it wasn't actually the issue in 2016.

Going into 17, I finally figured out what the issue was. And the

issue was all of the packaged emotions, all the invalidation

of myself and my experiences, not just from Boston, but over

the course of a lifetime. Everything that had been

packaged up needed to be unpacked, and it had to be

readdressed. Because it was simply manifesting itself

physically within me. When I did that, when I took that essence

of bravery that got me through Boston and turn it around to

look at Boston. That's when healing completely happened. And

I overcame all the illnesses and the insomnia was gone overnight.

That's incredible. Because meanwhile, you're

training and doing handling marathons with, you know, a

tiredness syndrome Hashimotos and which affects autoimmune and

Lyme disease, which, I mean, I know people that have this, and

it's just, they're always exhausted,

always, always, always, but I tell you what I

showed up to work every day, I went to the ER on Friday, and I

got out on Sunday, and I went back to work on the day, and

this became my thing.

Okay, so now all of a sudden, you're able to

unpack your, your, you're going back through all this, that

you've been bottled up, take me through to the next step here.

And then be sure to let's talk about manifesting your mind to

be your Creator, as well as move into that. Yeah,

well, and that's really what it became. So what I

understood after, after I started to figure out that I

needed to, and I had been kind of shown that I needed to go

back and unpack and really understand who I was, and the

experience of all of these things. That's where I really

started to understand that you know, what we actually create

the realities that we have, we create the experiences that we

have. And we do that unknowingly, sometimes

unconsciously, but it is always for a beautiful reason. So for

those who kind of know a little bit about Boston, you can I

qualified in 2010, you only have two years to run that race.

Otherwise, you have to re qualify again, well, 2011, I

decided kids too young, I'm going to opt out of 11 and go

back for 12. So I do all of the paperwork, I booked the flight

to get the hotel I'm I'm in to run in 2012. And I broke my hip

in January of 2012. Right? And it has taken a lot of unpacking

of that experience for me to now see this and go, Oh, I created

being there in 2013 People go why in the heck would you do

that? Well, for me, it's actually were my divine path in

my life, or my life path and my divine purpose collided. Like I

can see that now it was this huge awakening moment for me.

But was I going to embrace that or was I not going to embrace

that? Well, this is the part where we have to get curious and

really like I say, take that bravery that got you through the

experience to go back and look at it. So now I understand the

lessons within it and I can change and shift and become a

more compassionate and more loving individual. But I can

also break the patterns of the past that took me there to begin

with. I mean, could there have been another path that didn't

include Boston to wake me up? Absolutely. However, my pattern

of invalidation and tucking myself away and not honouring

and understanding and knowing who I was. That's what placed me

in Boston. Yeah. So this when I go to this, like manifest mind,

which is fun, we were talking about just before, you know,

people think about I, I manifest and I create, right, so you get

that job, you're like, Oh, I did that. Totally created that. Or,

I won the game, or I finished the race, or I qualified for

Boston, right? I created all of that, because I tried really

hard, and I put it on my list, and I had it on my vision board.

I go, okay. One. If you create all the good, then you also

create all the things that aren't on the board, and aren't

the things that you truly desire. Okay, how do we end up

creating those things? Because those are the ones that get in

the way of everything that you write down. It's the limitations

that we have. And so my idea is yes, we can manifest and I can

write things down, and I could have something on my list for

four or five years. And it's not happening. And why is it not

happening? Well, it's not happening. Because I don't have

a mind, I don't have the beliefs, I don't have the

subconscious power to attract that into my life. Because my

subconscious is creating this negative thing over here. I just

got to figure out why it's doing that. Now when I can figure that

out. And I can shift that subconscious limitation, all of

a sudden, I can attract the thing that I truly want, but I

can attract it now. So if it's on your board, if it's on your

list, and it's not currently in your life, there's something

that's getting in the way of it now we get to get curious and

figure out what it is. And truly, that's how I navigate my

life on a daily basis. And you teach others, and I teach others

and this is what I do for clients, right? They come in,

hey, I'm working on this, or I've got this going on, or I had

this experience, I had this trauma. How do I get to the

other side of that, like, Okay, so now we get to ask the

questions and get really super curious and dive into that

subconscious mind, which I can connect you with, and figure out

why have you been playing in that sandbox, because clearly

you don't want to be there anymore.

Powerful, really, really, really powerful. I have

to tell you that, you know, just just the mental toughness and

that physical training, to be able to run a marathon I've not

done that. You know, I've been faced with, you know, stage four

cancer, but I play basketball and all that, but I've not done

a marathon. It's not even on my bucket list. You know, I don't

want to climb Mount Everest either. But I still I'm still in

awe of people that able to do that. And in the last chapter of

my book, my college roommate ran the Boston Marathon for the

leukaemia and Lymphoma Society, which is a beautiful team in

training. He wrote it for his high school friend that died of

leukaemia and memory of him and in honour of me, and I include

that. And someone else read an Ironman for me and I include

their their ribbon in the last chapter of my book. So I'm just

that's just the amount of love that people shared for me that

to be able to inmemory run Ironman and run the Boston

Marathon, you know, in my honour. I'm just so grateful for

that in fact that you completed so I have a question for you and

then we're going to do the shining brightly spotlight. Oh

yeah. Do you wear the Boston jacket? Do you wear the marathon

finishing jacket? No.

I do not wear the Boston jacket. Now. Actually. It

took me I packed it away for a while I brought it back out a

couple of years ago. I actually take that back I did wear it

last year because I did run. I attempted to qualify for Boston

again last year. In Illinois. It's called The Last Chance BQ

Boston qualifier. It was its own experience. I did not qualify at

that race but beautiful. lot of life lessons in that one. So I

did wear it for that.

So the reason is is because you said you bought

that to put that carrot in front of you so I was just curious to

see if you are do that. This is a beautiful show. I just I have

so much more to unpack I'm gonna have to have you back because we

got to you know we'll go deeper. But I love the energy and this

is a great little tease for my audience here for you know a

quick 30 minutes but I'm going to put on my glasses. If you if

you have some Put your glasses on as well. Okay, oh you got the

Hollywood games on there. All right, so it's perfect. So we're

going to shine the spotlight on you. I'd like you to tell people

how best to get in touch with you. If you have anything that

you want to give away or and then also leave me with some

inspiration and kick the show back to me.

Now Oh my gosh. Okay, so I am at Cari Kenzie C A

R I K E N Z I a pretty much anywhere you go Instagram,

Facebook, LinkedIn. But my website you will find a lot of

information there on my website. I offer out actually a 15 minute

a free 15 minute call with me It just I know, people are always

curious, you know, what is the thing that's getting in my way?

Is there something that's getting in my way, and I love to

share my intuitive powers and kind of help to shine a little

light on that for them. And then, you know, I would say, and

I don't have the quote, just right in front of me, but

probably the one of the most powerful things that I now know

that Maya Angelou said is, there's no heavier burden to

carry than that of an untold story. And so just to understand

and to know, that you're worthy of the experience you had, no

matter what that experience is, that you are valid in your

emotions and that you have and you are worthy of navigating

through that to find the power that lies within. Wow,

powerful, you are worthy. Oh, thank you for that.

Just an incredible show. All of the contact information will be

in the show notes and it'll be on all the socials. Please

contact Carrie. I mean, I think that you'll, you'll, you'll one

find the experience incredible, her energy is just amazing. And

she'll get you unstuck and that's that's it you got it got

his kind of moved by either baby steps forward or big giant

steps, and she'll help get you there. So you've been listening

to and watching the shining brightly show. You can find me

at shining brightly.com The my book is there. It's selling

well, it's it's impacting lives, which makes me feel good. But

I'm speaking I'm speaking on a cruise coming up soon. And

always trying to lift up others to help them lift, lift up

themselves as well. And then you will also find this podcast the

speaking stuff and my advocacy. So you know, I'm big on

entrepreneurship, big on mentorship and leadership as

well as interfaith relations. So and cancer and the cancer world.

So go get screened, go to the doctor, please, you're not your

optimal cells. And we all know that if you can shine brightly

just for a little bit each day, for yourself, for others in your

communities, the world will be a better place. Thank you, Carrie.

Love to having you great guests. Thanks. Great show. Thank you