It's All About The Questions

I quote Think and Grow Rich in my book, What Would a Wise Woman Do? and its ideas still hold true yet the world has changed significantly since Napoleon Hill researched and wrote his groundbreaking book. how does one improve upon perfection? They research 400 successful and not so successful people from all walks of life and write a new book that shows you how you can increase your personal mastery. I love reading books because I want to shift my perspectives and perceptions of what I think I know to what I need to know. Personal Power Mastery by Douglas Vermeeren is such a book.  Douglas Vermeeren has been on the personal improvement scene forever it seems and his work doesn't grow stale because he is willing to ask and answer the tough questions. In his latest book and workshops he helps readers and attendees release that which no longer serves and embrace a new and empowered thinking. During this episode he explains why positive thinking is actually negative thinking and how neutral thinking will sink you

What would you do if you were told you should be dead already because of the rare heart condition you never knew you had that reared its head and went undiagnosed for over eleven months? Well my guest chose to create a business raising awareness through handbags, of the #1 killer of women in the world, heart disease. Did you know 1 in 3 women die from heart disease that is 80% preventable versus 1 in 30? Do you know the signs can be different for women than in men? Do you know the signs? Would you be able to start a business and an international movement and foundation to help women get medication and treatment after being told you might not live very long? Elizabeth Scovil (www.Elizabethscovil.com) is my guest on this episode. Listen as she shares a story of persistence, love, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, passion and purpose. If you are a woman, or have some women in your life you love, this is a must listen to episode.  

Did you know that if each woman in America spent $20/month at a woman owned business that would put $37.7 billion into the hands of women-owned business? That amount is more than all the venture capital given to women-owned businesses in 2017. Crazy isn't it?! My guest is making it easier for you to spend that $20/month. She has created MAIA.community. A directory website with profiles of currently over 700,000 women owned businesses.  Rather than just give lip service to supporting women Kateri Ruiz has devoted her business to growing women owned businesses. Take a listen as we talk about how she decided to create her business after declaring she sold her soul in corporate life.  At MAIA, our mission is to change the status quo on gender equality at the highest levels of leadership. We are women-conscious consumers and we're creating the first free access searchable platform of woman-owned businesses in the United States, 13 million and counting. As the CEO of your life, does your purchasing power align with

Live in the now. Be present. Don't borrow worry from tomorrow. Don't dwell in the past. We've heard those phrases over and over for most of our lives. Easy to say . Not so easy to always do. Our reactions to the way ideas are presented can vary by who we hear them from and even when we hear them. When Kevin Murphy was introduced to me and I read his book I knew I had to have him on the show. He presents a unique way to look at something we have all heard before that I hope can help. During the show Kevin shares how you can observe your thoughts, the three rooms, what questions to ask to know what room you are in, is it ever ok to visit the past or future how stress is based on the room you are in and more. If you want to stay in the present more, take a listen. Kevin Murphy is a former Wall Street managing director for Citigroup, high school and collegiate wrestling champion, community activist, speaker, coach, and author of the book The Three Rooms. These experiences have given Kevin a unique and eclectic mi

10-2-18 episode Most of us want to have a legacy and be known for something that lasts beyond physical lives. Yet in this day and age of social media, viral videos, short attention spans and continual distractions, how do we insure that we are living our something consistently? How do we define and track what we are known for and course correct if our perception and reality are different about ourselves? Enter my guest Mark MacDonald. He not only is known for something but he helps others connect with their communities and revitalize their reputation. I loved when he said this on the show. "Your brand is your emotional after taste." Do you know what your brand tastes like? Who do you want to influence? Are you the best kept secret? Do you want to be found? Do you know how threads control your brand conversation? Do you even know what you are promising to your tribe of followers and clients? Take a listen as one of the top brand consultants in the country share show you can Be Known For Something and have it b

9/25/18 show - Books have been a part of my life from way before I could read. I love reading so much I even walked out of school in first grade because I thought they weren't going to teach me how to read.  You'll have to read my book for the details though. Today I want to focus on my guest and how she is helping increase literacy around the world. Without literacy you would not be reading this episode summary nor would I be able to do my show each week. Smartphones would not exist nor would most of the resources we take for granted today. Yet a large portion of the world cannot read at even a basic grade level and in some countries women are still not allowed to go to school. Enter Kathryn Starke, Global Literacy advocate. Her goal is to help schools achieve literacy success while making it fun for their students of all ages. Take a listen as we discuss how you can be a literacy advocate, how Kathryn has built a global business around literacy and how anyone can "Tackle Reading" in their community or aroun

SOB. If you heard it in reference to a person what is the first thing that comes to mind? Yup! And that is not Dr. Gayle Carson. She is known as the Spunky Old Broad. At 80 years of age she is going stronger then ever. Mentally and physically. And she even has her own radio station and helps women over 50 become SOBs as well. I don't have even half the energy Dr. Gayle has and I am 25 years younger than she is. So how does she do it and what does she want to inspire us all to do? Take a listen as she shares her secret sauce and how you can achieve your dreams. Gayle Carson graduated from Emerson College with a degree in Broadcasting, Theatre, and Speech.  During college she hosted two radio shows and began her training in live TV After college she moved to Miami and got her first job in two weeks.  One year later she bought the business and proceeded to diversify its sales base from one to seven divisions and it eventually became the largest independent organization in the industry.  As CEO, Gayle managed a d

What if in dying we could help someone else live? My guest today helps people every day do just that. He has spent his nursing career in the field of Organ and Tissue Donation as a coordinator and more. What does that mean? It means he is the guy who approaches the family members when someone is declared brain dead and can possibly be an organ donor. At the worst moment in someone's life he is there to help life happen for others. During this interview, live on 9/11/18, he shares how he can hold it together when approaching the families. Why the field of organ donation is his passion and calling and why he wrote his beautiful first novel about it. Organ donation is not a comfortable topic to discuss for most people yet for some reason Robert made it easy and even shared how you can easily become an organ donor to make it easier for your family to know your wishes. Robert Horsey is a critical care registered nurse who has dedicated most of his nineteen-year career to the field of Organ Donation and Transplanta

PR, or public relations, is something so many people want for their businesses but most have no clue how to get. The old adage of any press is good press doesn't really fly in this day and age. Just look at all the social media postings when airlines do something bad. That is NOT a good thing for their brand. So how does the average person get PR that moves the needle forward on the dial of their business success? My guest built her brand into a powerhouse and wrote a book about how you can do it too. She also coaches others and has some done for you products. But what she really does is show you how all it really takes to get positive, needle moving PR is just a few simple and consistent steps. Christina Daves shares a three part formula and has a free 10 day challenge you can take that will get you started right away on getting PR for your business. Christina Daves is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and run five successful companies over the past 20 years.  With no resources remaining when she launche

Growing a business takes more than setting a plan and following it. Plans need to be monitored and analyzed to slow or eliminate becoming stagnate. You need to be ahead of where your business and clients are going to anticipate the next phase of growth. You don't want to be behind the curve and have to react to a downturn or slowdown. It is much harder to recover when you are reacting to something that has already happened. Wouldn't it be better if you could see the writing on the wall and possibly avoid it all together? Or better yet, create new markets or plumb the depths of your existing client base to exponentially grow your current market? My guest today has been helping businesses anticipate trends, grow their client base and understand their business through metrics every business owner or executive MUST to survive in these turbulent times for over twenty years. And now she has finally written a book to share the wisdom she has gained from helping others. On this episode Tiffani Bova shares the ten pat

I found Alex Dykes, aka Alex on Autos while narrowing down choices for a new car. He has incredible video reviews of virtually every car real people would consider buying and explains the car in context of how we normal people actually use a car. I just had to have him on the show and he said yes. During this episode Alex talks about how he got started in the  business of video car review for real people, what you should do before you buy a car, why tires really matter to noise and so much more. Alex even shares what kind of person most cars are designed for and how you can adapt your favorite car to fit you if you are shorter like I am. Alex L. Dykes hails from the left coast where he and his husband combine a love of Silicon Valley technology with a passion for cars on a 9-acre organic farm. In 2011 Alex started Alex On Autos as a way to provide useful information to new car shoppers. At the time most YouTube channels were focused on entertainment and antics but Alex decided it was time for someone to talk

Mastering Fear . I never thought of fear as something to be mastered. I always felt you needed to just push past fear. Sort of pretend it doesn't exist. I have a new appreciation for fear now and how we can truly change how we think about fear and how it can paralyze us. Last episode I interviewed Brandon Webb. John David Mann is his co-author for their latest collaboration, and I think one of their most powerful for the greater world.But I have a tendency to say that about all their books because each one visibly shifts my life and invisibly shifts my thinking. Take a listen as John shares with me his favorites concepts in the book and how they affected his life. His conversation around comfort zones and the Echo chamber are different then you have probably heard before. He and Brandon Webb are a writing team for the ages. Dare I compare them to the team of Bob Burg and John David Mann? I've recommended this book to random strangers and friends and each person reaches out and comments on different parts of t

Fear paralyzes. Mastering your fear can transform your life. But how do you even recognize your fear so that you can begin to master it? What if the fear shows up in a critical moment when you did not even know it was a situation you feared? My guest today, Brandon Webb, has written a powerful new book with his co-author, John David Mann, on how to master any fear. A former Navy Seal Sniper and CEO of a $100 million company, Brandon lays out a Five Step process to help us all Master our fears and go beyond them so we can live our best lives. Listen as Brandon Webb shares how we can win the battle in our minds and get to everything we want that really is just on the other side of fear. Brandon shares his daily mantra that keeps him focused on what really matters so he can move through fear quicker than ever before and lays out how you can to.  Brandon Webb is a former US Navy SEAL sniper, New York Times bestselling author, Experimental aircraft pilot, and entrepreneur. His proudest accomplishment in the milita

Ever feel like you keep going in circles or keep hitting brick walls? Feel like you are your own worst enemy? I know I have felt that way at times. My guest today has been there, done that and not going back as the saying goes. Kumari Mullin shares key questions you can ask yourself to know if you are blocking yourself, to discover ways to unblock yourself and to know how to leap past those blocks and begin creating a bigger future. Stay tuned until the end as she has some great freebies for my listeners to help you along your way. Kumari Mullin, internationally acclaimed intuitive coach, Reiki Master, best-selling author, spiritual evolutionary and animal mystic, Kumari's  deepest joy is empowering YOU to unwrap your innate intuitive, manifesting and healing gifts. Kumari hosted “Co-Creation Activations” on World Puja Network, a leader in empowerment radio and "How to Heal Anything LIVE” an internet TV program. Her transformational work includes critically acclaimed courses on energy healing, animal communic

Holocaust deniers are out there but the facts remain, it did happen. 13 million people were killed and tortured by the Nazis because of their faith or background. 6 million of them were Jewish. My guest today escaped with his parents and siblings but 200 of the rest of his family perished in the extermination camps. He escaped at 11 and at 17 enlisted and served in the U.S. Navy in Okinawa in the WWII Pacific Theater. He has spent his adult life writing and speaking about the Holocaust in addition to his daytime job. He has written numerous books about the Holocaust and helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. This is not my normal interview but it is one of the most important ones. It is important to never forgot so we can prevent those events from happening again. Kurt Wallach is the Founder, Owner, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Kurtell Growth Industries.  He escaped Germany at the age of 11 and he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He has written two books on

Most businesses fail within five years. My guest today has had her own business for over twenty-five and has no plans to end it anytime soon. She has weathered recessions and booms, detours and distractions and has come out even stronger than when she started her business. How does she do it? Believe it or not, with a lot of questions and her CALM method for building your business. I met Cheryl Leitschuh via a friend and previous guest on the show Ursula Mentjes. We talked and immediately connected. Her wisdom learned from working with clients who are striving to build their own successful business is priceless and she has even compiled it into her recent book, Straight Talk for Smart Business Women: Critical Tools to Build and Grow Your Business lays out many of the lessons she has learned and taught to her clients. The book, and this interview also reveals her CALM Method for business growth that will help you gain clarity, focus and leverage your "ONE thing" and measure your success or failure. If you want

How does a woman from the BBQ loving state of Texas make the move to not only becoming a vegan and avid juicer but also to switch careers and follow her calling to show others how they can improve their health one mouthful of nutritious foods at a time and convert her husband and son? That is definitely a story I wanted to hear, so I asked Stephanie Leach to be on my show. I know from personal experience that trying to become healthy is not as easy as we might think. So many distractions along the way of embracing a new way of thinking, eating, living, healing. One of the hardest to move past, beyond the one in our own minds, is that of influences from the outside. Stephanie shares how she was able to hold strong and achieve her health goals even with her family not being on-board at first. She also shares tips you can begin doing right now to add more plant based foods into your diet. One meal or one snack at a time. As a Certified Health Coach and Certified Juice Therapist, Stephanie Leach helps busy people

What happens when a calling leads you down paths you never expected including writing a book with Wayne Dyer, after he has died, and a multitude of other greater minds and beings from above? Well one thing that happens is a great episode of a radio show and a really profound book. I was introduced to Karen Noe by a former guest and dear friend Jackie Lapin. I was intrigued to interview an medium. I have felt my mom multiple times she she passed and have beliefs as to what happens to someone when they leave their earthly bodies but to speak to someone who has, time-after-time, been proven to have access to those who have passed beyond was an opportunity I could not pass up. On this episode we discuss how Karen realized she was a medium, her battle with Imposter Syndrome that almost could have derailed her path in the world and what WE Consciousness brings the world to help us achieve inner and outer peace. Karen also shares some techniques you can begin using right away to connect to your own inner and outer p

Don't just survive, thrive. Disasters happen and happen and happen lately. Some major to large portions of the world, like all the shootings and natural disasters and some major just to you, like a death of a loved one, health or monetary crisis. Or some that may seem minor on the surface but your entire being reacts in a major way. How do you handle them and how do you bounceback from them? I had so much to ask Dr. Laurie Nadel I asked her back after my first interview with her. On this episode, done live on June 26, 2018, we discuss her book, The Five Gifts and her emotional first aid toolkit she discovered while working with survivors of some of the largest scale disasters of our modern day. Her book changed the way I think about life and stress and has given me tools to help myself walk a bit easier through my day. Take a listen. Dr. Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma, and anxiety issues. She has been interviewed in The New York Times, National Public Radio, Reuters, and CNN.com.

I've written articles about doing a digital detox and even done some short ones but they were all planned. My recent trip to North Carolina though was a digital detox of a completely different sort and completely unplanned. So what happens when a certified geek and smartphone junkie gets into the mountains of North Carolina and discovers that her phone seems to be on permanent No Service status? Take a listen to me, your radio show host turning the mic on myself and share with me on Facebook or Twitter what comes up for you at the thought of a digital detox. Laura Steward is a sought after business strategist, keynote speaker, radio host and author. After building and selling her highly successful multi-state technology services company she started Wisdom Learned, LLC, a company dedicated to educating leaders based on experience and wisdom learned in the trenches. Ms. Steward is the author of the Nautilus award-winning, International bestselling book “What Would a Wise Woman Do? Questions to Ask Along the Way