Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Melissa Franks is a seasoned business strategist, Fractional COO, podcast host and speaker, and transformation leader with a track record of scaling businesses and driving operational excellence with a people-first approach that mobilizes teams for unprecedented results. A former Fortune 500 executive and OnCon Icon “Top 100 COO” Winner (2022-2024), she has led billion-dollar IT transformations, M&A initiatives, and revenue growth strategies, blending corporate expe...
Aug 01, 2025•34 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest is Brittney Lincoln, Franchise Connector, is the VP of Limitless Franchising and the CEO and Founder of Females in Franchising, a dynamic platform dedicated to empowering women in the franchising industry. With over 13 years of experience spanning home services, beauty, and medical franchises, Britney has built a reputation as a connector, educator, and strategist in the franchising world. She is passionate about providing a space for women to collaborate, learn from in...
Jun 23, 2025•34 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Michelle Taylor is the founder of the Women and Wealth Initiative, a transformative platform aimed at empowering women to take control of their financial futures. With over a decade of experience in financial services, Michelle is committed to closing the wealth gap by providing financial education and a supportive community for women from all walks of life. From business owners preparing for exit strategies to stay-at-home moms managing household budgets, Michelle’s in...
May 05, 2025•32 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest is Michelle Rupp, EMMY Award winning broadcast journalist, is the Founder and CEO of Memorable Results Media, a boutique agency dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses gain earned media coverage on local and regional television. With a background in news production and a passion for empowering business owners, Michelle uses her 25 years of experience in broadcasting to deliver tangible results. Her clients frequently see increased revenue, sold-out events...
Mar 24, 2025•33 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest, Ruchi Pinniger, International Speaker, Venture Capital Investor, Founder and CEO of Watch Her Prosper®, is dedicated to providing financial mentorship, support and services that women-led service-based businesses need to succeed. Ruchi takes a holistic approach to clients’ needs by providing financial guidance, bookkeeping, tax-time readiness and heightening her clients’ prosperity mindset. Ruchi brings nearly 20 years of experience in the Wall Street and corporate wor...
Mar 13, 2025•34 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Celi Arias is the CEO and Founder of The Grown Ass Business, where she guides entrepreneurs through her proprietary methodology, Key Growth Systems, to build strong business foundations. Recognized as a top coach by The Upside in 2024, Celi helps clients break free from revenue plateaus and burnout by focusing on core business principles over quick fixes. Her approach emphasizes clarity and control, optimizing essential business departments to ensure solid foundations f...
Feb 12, 2025•34 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Jessica Baladad, six-year cancer survivor, is the creator of Feel For Your Life, a free mobile application that provides resources on how to perform self breast exams and when to get screenings, while allowing users to track and monitor their changes and set reminders. An unexpected breast cancer diagnosis at age 33 empowered Jessica to channel her experience into a mission that is changing the way women advocate for their medical care. She helped write legislation in t...
Feb 08, 2025•33 min
LAURA NGUYEN is an experienced marketing executive and entrepreneur with an extensive background in data-driven marketing, digital marketing and communications for Fortune 500 companies. She is the founder of Solle Solutions, a marketing consultancy. Laura is also a certified executive coach, helping mid-career, high-achieving leaders go from burned out to balanced through her coaching program and online community. Laura received her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science at Truman State Unive...
Nov 04, 2024•32 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Anika Pavel was born Jarmila Kocvarova in Czechoslovakia. What was intended as a one-year stay in England turned her into a refugee when the Soviet Union invaded her homeland, writing a bloody end to the Prague Spring. She received a crash course in life that took her from sleeping in a telephone booth at the Victoria railway station in London to waitressing, to the lights of the fashion runway, and on to magazine covers, even a James Bond appearance, under the more pro...
Oct 22, 2024•35 min
THE AMBER WEITZER PODCAST SILHOUETTES OF SUCCESS AMY DROZ| EPISODE 133 | SHOW NOTES FEATURED GUEST Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Amy Droz is the co-owner and co-founder of Dux Somnium alongside her husband Dusty. Amy loves the quality and craftsmanship of vintage antiques. An old book or antique map is both decorative and educational. Born in San Jose, California, she moved to Los Molinos, California at the age of 12. Amy and Dusty met freshman year of high school in Los Molinos and have been togeth...
Sep 16, 2024•35 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Michele Locke's distinguished career journey includes her tenure as an Associate Municipal Court Judge, a role she embraces with dedication. As a practicing family law attorney, her primary motivation for this pivotal shift was to deepen her engagement with family law litigation. In this area, she has always felt a profound connection and commitment. Before ascending to the judiciary, Michele had already established a formidable reputation through her successful family ...
Jul 31, 2024•37 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Stephanie Roehm is a dynamic individual who wears many hats as a wife, mother, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Throughout her life, she has always been on the lookout for good opportunities. Stephanie's journey as a businesswoman began when she started building a business from the ground up. With her hard work and dedication, she was able to turn her passion into a successful enterprise. Her experience provided her with the knowledge and skills necessary to help drive...
Apr 22, 2024•34 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Gloria Mansfield is a Parenting and Family Fun Financial Literacy Expert. She has been in the childcare industry for over twenty-five years. She has been serving children and their families on many levels, including teacher, director, and owner of a childcare center. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching E-6 and a Bachelor of Business Studies in Marketing from Dallas Baptist University. Gloria is an advocate for building strong families, which she founded Character Ave...
Apr 08, 2024•33 min
Adesuwa Elaiho is the founder and Executive Chef of Asukar, a premier pastry company specializing in artistic pastries. After receiving her degree in Food Science from Colorado State University, Adesuwa went on to study culinary arts in Paris, France at the Le Cordon Bleu. After she graduated, Adesuwa spent the next five years driving growth and sales for national restaurant brands, such as Hard Rock Café and Longhorn Steakhouse to name a few. It was during this time, Adesuwa reconnected with he...
Mar 13, 2024•31 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Cassie Lamere is blending a lifelong passion for exceptional event curation with a keen eye for detail, Cassie LaMere stands as a paragon in luxury event planning. As the Founder and Creative Director of Cassie LaMere Events, she has redefined the art of creating memorable experiences, merging meticulous design with a flair for the extraordinary. From her early days, Cassie was destined to dazzle. Her innate desire to transform every occasion into a cherished memory has...
Feb 29, 2024•37 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest For over 20 years, Courtney Garner Lewis has been a commercial banker in the North Texas Market with both large and small institutions. She is currently leading the Middle Market effort for Cadence Bank in Tarrant County. A first-generation college student, she began her academic journey at Dallas Community College and won an academic scholarship to attend SMU where she was a pre-med student. After deciding medical school might not be an option with two small children, ...
Feb 12, 2024•29 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Cindy Williams is a creative entrepreneur living her dream in the Florida Keys with her partner of twenty years and their two amusing pups. She is the Owner and President of Cindy's Custom Linens and Upholstery in Cudjoe Key, Florida. Cindy's creative journey began at a young age, designing and sewing unique clothing for herself and her barbies since she was just 5 years old. With her mom's guidance at the dining room table in Colorado, she developed her sewing skills. ...
Dec 29, 2023•35 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Lezlee Liljenberg is a business owner, entrepreneur, and author on a mission to help others in the discovery of their true identities, their biological families and dealing with DNA surprises. In a previous life Lezlee was a successful commercial real estate broker and in 2004 turned to insurance as she started her first agency from ground zero, growing the business to over $6 million in revenue in less than 12 years. After 18 years she sold her enterprise and formed Li...
Dec 18, 2023•36 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Jaima Brown-Emmert, also known as the "Queen of Pattern," is a highly creative stylist and the founder of Daisy Bennett LLC, a brand that has made a significant mark in the world of wallcoverings. With over 20 years of experience, Jaima has been adorning homes worldwide with her vibrant colors and modern takes on classic patterns. Jaima's journey in the world of design began as a color mixer and artist at Sunworthy Wallcoverings in Toronto, where she honed her skills an...
Dec 14, 2023•34 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Rhonda Nelson is a dynamic and inspirational motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist who delivers high-energy keynote presentations that challenge audiences to devote themselves to nurturing what matters most in life. Audiences love her down to earth strategies that they can apply personally. With an unwavering belief in the power of loving the life YOU live, she has inspired audiences to embrace positive change and unlock their full potential. Rhonda was born ...
Dec 12, 2023•31 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Sharon Berman is the founder and host of the podcast “The Jewelry Journey.” She has always liked jewelry, but Sharon’s interest heated up after she attended a jewelry conference about 10 years ago. She listened with rapt attention, but thought there were a lot more people who would be interested but who didn’t have access or time to explore jewelry in depth. That served as the basis for Sharon starting the her podcast, The Jewelry Journey. All these years later, and wel...
Dec 07, 2023•35 min
Laura Simmons is the Owner & Operator of Studio 74 Vintage, Fort Worth’s premier, multi-award winning, vintage clothing store for women and men, located in the heart of Fort Worth Texas. Fort Worth is known as the unique place where Cowboys and Culture Collide. Inside Studio 74 store you will find just that, a collision of carefully curated high-end vintage fashions, vintage western wear and everything in between. Studio 74 Vintage was named as a “ Texas Best Store” by Shop Across Texas as w...
Nov 25, 2023•34 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Tonya Thomas is the founder of Team Delegate, a provider of elite virtual executive assistant support to seasoned executives turned small business owners. Team Delegate’s highly trained executive VAs provide comprehensive administrative support that helps time-starved CEOs to double their productivity so they can triple their earnings. Tonya has been featured in national media including Entrepreneur and Black Enterprise. She has spoken at women’s business events as well...
Nov 20, 2023•35 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Terri Rehkopf is the heart and soul of Ippodaro and opened this natural salon to spread the word about safe beauty products. She wanted people to know they don’t have to choose between their health and confidence. From a young age, Terri had a passion for hair and style. Growing up in her family salon, she was exposed early on to the value of finding innovative techniques and exploring new ideas for customers’ satisfaction. Following in her mother’s footsteps, she becam...
Nov 15, 2023•37 min
Danielle Jackson, as Senior Manager of Investor Relations at Ashcroft Capital, a valued sponsor of The Amber Weitzer podcast, Silhouettes of Success. Danielle shares with us her wealth of knowledge, how she came to Ashcroft Capital and the passion she has for service others is music to the ears...tune in! Ashcroft Capital is a $2.7B full integration multifamily investment firm. Ashcroft targets assets in high-growth, sunbelt markets. We focus on buying apartment complexes that are 15-25 years in...
Oct 28, 2023•25 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Dianna Kokoszka is an Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker, Author and Mentor. As an award-winning business leader, she has established herself as a prominent figure in the business world, developing many leaders during her longevity. Dedicating 13 years as CEO of KW MAPS Coaching and Training at Keller Williams Realty International, she played a pivotal role in propelling the company to become the largest and most profitable coaching enterprise in the real estate industry! As...
Oct 18, 2023•40 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Kim Appelt is one of Canada’s top fashion stylists. A personal and celebrity stylist with years in the fashion industry has become a go-to expert in all fashion related things. Along with dressing hip personal clients, both men and women she also dresses local television personalities and A-list celebrities for the red carpet. Kim’s passion to help clients find their own style, ability to see trends, pull together key pieces and trim closets have led to her successful p...
Sep 18, 2023•33 min
Amy is the Co-Founder & Managing EditorCo-Founder & Managing Editor of Ask Us Beauty Magazine with a vast and amazing background, take a peak for yourself: Adaptive, dynamic and a forward-thinking professional with an organized and competitive nature focused on always growing personal skills through numerous work experiences as Business Growth Coach | Mastermind Facilitator | Business Consultant at Dickens Communication & Consulting. Offering well-rounded experience in all aspects of...
Sep 09, 2023•23 min
Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Laura Pommer is Chief Executive Officer of Energy Funders-the world's first online marketplace for direct investment into off market oil and gas deals. She previously served as the CEO and lead geologist of Century Natural Resources. She founded Century in October 2018 with $75M in private equity sponsorship. In her role as CEO, she guided the company’s development and management of approximately 150,000 acres in the Powder River Basin. She is a geologist by training - ...
Aug 21, 2023•34 min
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