Welcome to Style Your Minds, the podcast for women who are ready to choose themselves, burn the rulebook, and blaze their own trail in life and in business.

For women who know they are meant for more, and have waited far too long for someone to give them the permission they thought they needed.

I'm your host, Cara Allwell, bestselling author and mentor to women entrepreneurs.

If you're ready to change the world, be inspired, and meet other incredible women on the same mission, you're in the right place.

Let's do this.

Hi guys, and welcome back to the show. I am so excited to be here with you today.

I have a very special guest for you.

She is a member of the Girl in Fire Collective, which is my online membership, my Girl Gang.

She's just fantastic, and the way that we sort of connected was just through one of our monthly calls.

And she started kind of talking about her background and everything that she does.

And I was like, Joni, I need you on the podcast.

You are just too cool for school.

You're amazing.

She's got so many stories. She's got such an interesting background, and I cannot wait to introduce you guys to her today.

Just a little bit about what Joni does and who she is, and I'll let her get into everything.

But she is a costume history professor, theater costume designer, and stand-up comic,

costuming brought her from Texas to New York in the 1980s, which is both of our favorite errors,

where she made costumes for Broadway plays such as Starlight Express, Miss Saigon, and Phantom of the Opera.

She was a dresser for Les Miserables in a few other Broadway shows.

Joni stumbled into other creative outlets, such as Acting, and a critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Top Girls,

and we're interested in the original Improv Comedy Club, which would lead her to eventually performing comedy in Houston and Los Angeles for many years.

Joni is a single mom to an awesome daughter and is committed to empowering women in any way possible.

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