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Power to Pursue

Power to Pursue

Written by: Rachel DesRochers
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Welcome to Power to Pursue Podcast, a groundbreaking podcast hosted by Rachel DesRochers, a serial entrepreneur and nonprofit founder. This podcast aims to celebrate and normalize the diverse pursuits of women—from perfecting their morning coffee to building successful businesses. With a focus on inspiring and empowering listeners, the Power to Pursue Podcast features interviews with women from various backgrounds, including entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and everyday heroes.

Rachel DesRochers is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, thought leader on the power of gratitude, community builder, mother, dreamer, author, and podcast host. Gratitude and community are the foundation of everything she creates.

Her diverse projects, businesses and nonprofit are housed under her umbrella, The Gratitude Collective. They include: The Incubator Kitchen Collective, a shared-use commercial kitchen space; Good n' Local, a regional wholesale food show celebrating and accelerating growth in the local food ecosystem; and her largest project to date, Power to Pursue, a women’s empowerment movement offering programming in multiple cities.

Additionally, Rachel is a board member, advisor, and consultant. With more than two decades of experience, she shares her insights on healthy entrepreneurship, heart-centered community building, the power of gratitude, and women's empowerment. As a speaker, she has inspired audiences worldwide with her authentic and engaging style. Her innovative spirit and community impact have been recognized with numerous awards and accolades.

When not managing her multiple businesses, Rachel revels in being a mom to three wildly wonderful children.

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Episodes
  • In Pursuit of Rhythm with Rachel Cargle

    In Pursuit of Rhythm with Rachel Cargle
    Jan 20 2026

    In this deeply reflective episode of the Power to Pursue Podcast, Rachel DeRochers sits down with writer, founder, and cultural thinker Rachel Cargle for a conversation about what it means to be well, not as a goal, but as a daily practice.

    Rachel shares what she’s learning in this season of stillness: returning home to Ohio, paying attention to cycles, redefining ambition, and letting go of the noise that once shaped her choices. Together, they explore grief as an expansive teacher, the freedom that can coexist with loss, and how tending to ourselves, and each other, is an act of radical care.

    This episode touches on:

    • Redefining success, rhythm, and enoughness

    • Grief, gratitude, and the ways they live side by side

    • Aging, self-trust, and learning yourself over time

    • Creating spaces of safety, community, and belonging

    • Why “it can just be this beautiful” is more than a mantra

    This is a conversation for anyone navigating change, healing, or the quiet courage it takes to choose yourself, again and again.
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    49 mins
  • In Pursuit of Meaning, Movement, and Becoming

    In Pursuit of Meaning, Movement, and Becoming
    Jan 13 2026

    What does it mean to keep moving, through uncertainty, grief, growth, and the quiet seasons in between?

    In this episode of the Power to Pursue Podcast, we sit down with Hannah Chapman for a grounded, honest conversation about becoming: how we listen to ourselves, how we change course, and how meaning is often found not at the destination, but in the pursuit itself.

    Hannah shares reflections on growth that isn’t linear, the courage it takes to keep going when clarity is incomplete, and the ways our stories evolve as we do. This episode is for anyone navigating transition, re-defining success, or learning to trust the unfolding.

    Related Listen: Host Rachel DesRochers previously explored themes of grief, gratitude, and growth on the Expansive CEO Podcast. 🎧 Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/grief-gratitude-growth-with-rachel-desrochers-217/id1662417916?i=1000728079893&l=fr-CA

    Slow down. Listen deeply. Stay in pursuit.
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    51 mins
  • In Pursuit of Building Without Burnout

    In Pursuit of Building Without Burnout
    Jan 6 2026

    What does it look like to grow a business without doing it all alone?

    In this episode of Power to Pursue, host Rachel DeRochers sits down with Jill Morenz, President & CEO of Aviatra Accelerators, to talk about women-led businesses, side hustles, sustainable growth, and the power of community. From helping women launch their very first idea to supporting founders scaling multi-million-dollar enterprises, Jill shares what she’s learned after working with more than 1,000 women entrepreneurs in a single year.

    This conversation is about permission, to start small, to ask for help, to build a business that fits your life (not the other way around), and to stop believing you have to do it alone.

    Remember, You can do this. And you don’t have to do it alone.

    Listen now and ask yourself: what are you in pursuit of?
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    44 mins
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