Today’s podcast episode is my conversation with with attorney Amy Bradley, who is a friend of Brave Girl guest Frances Reimers (from episode 19) from the great state of Wyoming. I found Amy to be smart, compassionate, confident and giving. Her competitive nature shines through in our conversation and she shares what winning and losing means in different situations. Amy is also currently the Deputy Town Attorney for the Town of Vienna, Virginia and she shares what she’s learned in that role. Amy ...
Sep 02, 2019•38 min•Ep. 55
I am super excited for you to meet Sherry Samuels of Chrysalid Transformations , a certified life coach, writer and workshop leader in today’s Brave Girl episode. She tells her story of how she supports women and teenage girls connect to their inner voice and trust themselves. She shares how she teaches what she has learned in her dark moments in the “rabbit hole” and how she committed to herself and learned to let go. She helps her clients open the door to their inner voice and start living a l...
Aug 26, 2019•35 min•Ep. 54
Hey there Brave Girls! It’s me your host Tracy Imm here on the mike today...drum roll please...We hit the one year mark of podcasting and the creation of a global high vibe community ...and I have to tell you, it’s been a personal growth experience for me as I step into a newer and better version of myself. I am so incredibly grateful to you, my listeners for being on this incredible journey with me. You are in for a treat as today’s episode is a solo one where I share from my heart where I’ve b...
Aug 12, 2019•16 min•Ep. 52
Today, I chat with my Maryland friend Rosemary Ostmann about her journey as a business owner of a boutique public relations agency, RoseComm based in Hoboken, New Jersey. I worked with Rosemary in one of my corporate positions and found her to be smart, dynamic and passionate in that assignment. I recently ran into her at a local media event and immediately knew she needed to be a guest on the show. On the episode, she shares her Brave Girls story and how she knew that public relations was the c...
Jul 29, 2019•39 min•Ep. 51
Meet fellow podcaster and PR gal from Jersey, Amanda Berlin and hear why she thinks we all need to tell more stories. She’s a brilliant and masterful communicator who coaches entrepreneurs on how to get visibility for their businesses and brands. Her podcast, Empowered Publicity has been out for three years and is one of my favorites - you will want to check it out. Trained as a copywriter in the PR agency world, Amanda talks about the power of storytelling and how podcasting is an intimate medi...
Jul 22, 2019•41 min•Ep. 50
On today’s episode, I interview my first Canadian Brave Girl, Kristin Hancock who bills herself as the most fun person you know! She’s an experienced corporate communications professional that now has her own consulting firm where she advises organizations on best practices in employee engagement, communications and more. Her goal is to help her clients create an environment where employees love to come to work. She tells her story of growing up in Canada and her career experiences with major br...
Jul 16, 2019•40 min•Ep. 49
Meet my mastermind buddy Simone Morris , originally from Jamaica, and hear why she thinks you have to DO SOMETHING EPIC in this lifetime and why hustling is so important if you want to learn and grow in life. We talk about how important it is to have a strong faith and positive mindset as your foundation for everything in life. A multi-passionate woman, Simone is a huge proponent of inclusive leadership and loves teaching other business people how to be more inclusive in the world. A former corp...
Jul 07, 2019•44 min•Ep. 48
Meet Kathyrn Taylor , the author of a fabulous memoir called Two Minus One where she tells her Brave Girl story of sudden abandonment by her second husband. Kathyrn has so much wisdom to share with the world and I am glad our paths have crossed. She is a retired teacher that resides outside of Charleston, South Carolina where she can read, take in the beach vibes and travel. I think her book provides hope to women that may find themselves in a similar situation. She took her pain, set her intent...
Jul 02, 2019•39 min•Ep. 47
Today’s guest Nettie Owens from Momentum Accountability talks about her Brave Girl journey into entrepreneurship as a professional organizer after a career in computer science and a move across the country with her husband. She talks about what contributes to people being chronically disorganized and how she works with these types of clients. Nettie developed her own methodology for organizing that she trained her team of coaches in and created a value differentiator. I love that Nettie shares h...
Jun 24, 2019•46 min•Ep. 46
A super accomplished woman, Dr. Barnes is a powerhouse that is focused on delivering workforce development and training to the world. She shares her Brave Girl story growing up in Ohio as a woman of color that went down the path of an Ivy League undergraduate education at Yale followed by a law degree from Stanford and then the road to a Ph.D. She shares all the ups and downs of her career as an attorney, a teacher and then business woman and why she believes that you should always say yes to th...
Jun 20, 2019•54 min•Ep. 45
Today we meet with Christina Snyder , a trusted wealth management professional who advises others on all things money. She shares her perspectives on the energy of money and how emotions are intertwined with our money story and how she came to this realization at a very young age. Born and raised in Greece, Christina came to the US when she was fourteen to live with her dad. This experience shaped Christina in profound and dramatic ways. On her own since she was eighteen, she teaches all that sh...
Jun 11, 2019•38 min•Ep. 44
On this episode of the podcast, I interview life and business coach Megan Urban . She hails from the great state of Texas in the US and currently lives outside of Austin with her family. A natural leader with a strong corporate background, she made a mark in the network marketing world quickly and was able to land private clients out of the gate when she pivoted into entrepreneurship. I find Megan to be a truly beautiful soul and I love how she is showing women how to use a positive mindset and ...
Jun 03, 2019•43 min•Ep. 43
On today’s show I interview Natalie Runyon , an inclusive leadership strategist currently based in New York. Originally from New Orleans, she tells her Brave Girl story of moving to Washington, D.C., earning her MBA in Finance and life as an intelligence analyst. Her corporate path includes time in financial services, to include a paid fellowship to help rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. She shares how her volunteer trip to Ghana inspired her passion to create a more inclusive worl...
May 27, 2019•45 min•Ep. 42
On today’s show is Barb Clapp , a community leader and public relations executive in Baltimore that I’ve known and admired for years. Barb shares her Brave Girl story of being born to an unwed mother then placed into foster care and subsequently being adopted. She explains why she had to choose resilience in order to survive her traumatic childhood experience and how that has influenced who she is today. She tells the story of starting a business in her attic seventeen years ago and how she grew...
May 21, 2019•31 min•Ep. 41
Meet my friend Jessica Schiller Silverman of Mo’Zen Wellness a seasoned corporate finance professional originally from Florida who tells her Brave Girl story of conquering panic, anxiety and depression to where she is today living her purpose as a transformational business coach living in the Bay Area. I know that you will love her energy and passion for the work that she is doing today. She shares how she dealt with feeling like a misfit and how she has worked through those difficult emotions t...
May 12, 2019•45 min•Ep. 40
Meet Melissa Wells , the author of the book, The Thirty Day Prayer Journaling: Building Your Prayer Life and Discovering Your True Identity . We met at the Baltimore Book Festival this past year and I knew she had to be on the show. A true Brave Girl leader, Melissa turned her pain into good by teaching what she learned during her divorce and bringing this amazing book into the world. She shares how her relationship with God and prayer got her through stormy weather when she didn’t know where to...
May 06, 2019•40 min•Ep. 39
On this episode, meet my former work colleague Resia Nank and listen to her Brave Girl story and how she climbed the corporate ladder at major corporations in healthcare, banking and more. We talk about her career in public relations, investor relations, employee communications and leadership events and what she liked about her work. She talks about her adrenal health crisis and what it taught her about herself, her perfectionist tendencies and how she has healed herself. She shares the techniqu...
Apr 29, 2019•49 min•Ep. 38
On today’s episode I interview fellow public relations practitioner and uber connector, Dorothy Fuchs Yeager, from Purple Dot PR who produces events and does media relations for a variety of clients in Baltimore. She shares the importance of building relationships and establishing strategic partnerships to create a reputation in the marketplace as a go to resource. You’ll love her tips on how to sell yourself to prospective clients and why she has been successful at landing small and large clien...
Apr 23, 2019•37 min•Ep. 37
Meet my friend Sara K. Daigle, a trained neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) expert and hypnotherapist living in Portland, Maine. She tells her story of being born and abandoned at a nursery in Calcutta, India. She was subsequently adopted at six weeks old and came to America. Sara is the creator of the Unveil, Unlock and Unleash coaching program where she works to help her clients remove the energy blocks and achieve greatness. Her knowledge of the subconscious mind and how it works is extensive...
Apr 19, 2019•38 min•Ep. 36
On this episode I interview Laura DiFranco, fellow podcaster , blogger and author of Brave Healing: A Guide for Your Journey about her Brave Girl story. Weaving together over two decades of healing experience and therapeutic writing skills, Laura’s book gives you tools that redefine healing. She is an expert holistic physical therapist as well as multi-passionate woman on a mission to help other women feel better in their bodies. I just really connected with Laura as she shares information about...
Apr 09, 2019•40 min•Ep. 35
Meet my very wise and beautiful friend, Jennifer Currie on this episode of the podcast and learn how she was able to heal herself by painting after her husband passed away when she was 29 and her daughter was 2. Her Brave Girl story is inspiring and uplifting and I’m sure you’ll love what she has to say about processing grief and moving forward when tragedy strikes. Jennifer shares information about the soul coaching and artistic work that she has been led to do in the world. Today, she uses her...
Apr 01, 2019•43 min•Ep. 34
I want to introduce you to my friend Stephanie Ranno, a recruiter at TorchLight Hire, a staffing firm for marketing and communications in the Mid-Atlantic. Stephanie loves helping people in a meaningful way as they deal with ups and downs of work. You’ll love her story of how she landed in the staffing world through a chance encounter in a bar when she was a fundraiser at the tender age of 26. She shares why she loves working as a recruiter and the leaders that have taught her the human aspect o...
Mar 25, 2019•53 min•Ep. 33
Meet Lisa Diane McCall from Explore the Dark Heart who I met at the Baltimore Book Festival. She’s a life coach and the author of The Rhythm of the Soul: A Journey of Loss and Discovery . A zoologist by training, she finds nature fascinating and she's interested in all things people and culture. A researcher in the international public health space, she loves observing people and using her skills to direct a clinical study on HIV/Hep C. She talks about her work at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...
Mar 22, 2019•40 min•Ep. 31
Joining me today on the Brave Girl podcast is my friend, Sara Khaki, founder and CEO of Atlanta Divorce Law Group and the Khaki Law Firm (recently named one of the fastest growing law firms in the United States!). She shares the story of her journey as the daughter of Iranian parents and how they flew to Switzerland as a family and then ultimately sought asylum in Sweden as refugees. She shares how her mother’s spiritual practice influenced her as a teenager and how that influences the work she ...
Mar 19, 2019•36 min•Ep. 30
Hey there Brave Girls I want you to meet Ariane Hunter f rom Project She Went For Her Dreams, a New York City based boutique personal branding firm that helps female entrepreneurs amplify their voices in the world. She shares her story of her career path in advertising and marketing to now owning her own business where she helps other women follow their dreams. I found her personal story compelling and inspiring as she decided to not look for another job when she got laid off. She chose to explo...
Mar 19, 2019•40 min•Ep. 32
Meet my high school lacrosse teammate Carol Strickland who has launched a side hustle that honors her dad’s legacy, connects her to interest in fishing and capitalizes on her fascination with mermaids. Carol shares how she researched the spirits marketplace and landed on her concept of premium handcrafted gluten-free Mermaid Vodka . Leveraging her corporate sales experience with BMW and the courses she took as part of her MBA, she was able to quickly go to market with her niche business. She sha...
Feb 25, 2019•37 min•Ep. 29
This podcast episode is a brilliant conversation with my friend and global citizen Maria Volovick who leads the Own Your Humanity movement. Her brave girl story includes growing up in Estonia, becoming a professional ballroom dancer trotting the globe until she suffered an injury and retired in her twenties. Currently living in Chicago, she explains why some of your biggest lessons come in disguise and how you have to pay attention to the whispers. Maria has spent years on her own personal growt...
Feb 18, 2019•49 min•Ep. 28
On this episode of the show I interview my friend Raquel Vasallo who is an elite spiritual advisor and author that I met a few years ago in a group personal development course. Her book Spiritual Seductress: The High Powered Women’s Guide to Devour the World through Spiritual Guidance is an Amazon best seller that you will want to get a copy. Her near death experience led her to make life altering changes which included a spiritual awakening, a divorce and a move to the West Coast. She chose to ...
Feb 11, 2019•42 min•Ep. 27
Today’s episode is incredibly special as I interview my mentor and coach Jenny Fenig . She’s been an instrumental person in my personal and professional growth over the past five years and I’m so happy to share our conversation with you. Jenny is a fantastic business woman, published author and podcaster who loves to share her gifts with her clients through her programs, coaching school and private retreats. Jenny shares some honest, real and raw wisdom and truth bombs on the show that will sure...
Feb 04, 2019•58 min•Ep. 26
On this episode I interview my friend Priya Soni, leader of The Caregiving Effect movement to understand why she created this community. Her story is inspiring and motivating and I know you will enjoy what she has to say. She talks about her upbringing where she learned the power of storytelling and creative expression right at the dining room table. Her interest in theater was sparked early on and led her to study drama therapy and other modalities of healing. I came into to contact with Priya ...
Jan 28, 2019•34 min•Ep. 25
