Annabel Quintero is a certified wellness coach, best-selling author & DEI strategist. Also known as a "Cultural Wellness Coach". Her best-selling book Step Jump Annabel Quintero is a story of hope dedicated to helping others transform trauma into triumph. Her life was irrevocably altered on September 11th, 2001, when she narrowly escaped from the 46th floor of the One World Trade Center during the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Episode Highlights: Dancing with hip hop’s cultural ar...
Jul 04, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 98
The third-generation professional in the insurance vertical, Sara brings more than three decades of agency ownership and management, complemented by a background in company commercial underwriting and cluster creation/management, Sara brings a wealth of industry experience and knowledge to the table. Her vast experience coupled with a keen sense of the dynamics of efficiency, and its impact on productivity uniquely suits her to meet a variety of operational, management, and marketing needs in ag...
Jun 27, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 97
Adrienne Ostroff, FSA, EA, CERA, MAAA, and FCA is a credentialed actuary and business owner. She has a decade of experience delivering actuarial consulting services across healthcare, retirement, and other workforce risk areas at two large consulting firms. In 2020, she took a leap of faith and founded Athena Actuarial Consulting, a certified woman-owned small business focused on delivering innovative, technology-driven actuarial and workforce analytics solutions to the private and public sector...
Jun 20, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 96
Kim Reed is the co-owner of Purple Rose home with her mother Vicki Martelli. Purple Rose Home was started in 1997 when Kim was just graduating high school and going off to college to study fashion design. She had no intentions of later joining her mom, but in 2005 mom beckoned Kim's creativity into the shop and together they've been growing their vintage style home décor brand, locally and online. This month marks its 25th anniversary in business. Episode Highlights: Kimberly's push to get into ...
Jun 13, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 95
Lauren Golanty works with brands and organizations to turn their purpose-driven efforts into movements, as the Senior Director of Partnerships at Public Good. She spent 20 years in the professional services sector and now seeks to revolutionize that industry and others with the Safe at Work Policy, a Fast Company 2022 World-Changing Idea. Lauren now seeks to engage a massive community of people, particularly women, in the movement to change the workplace for the better. Episode Highlights: Laure...
Jun 06, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 94
Precious Williams, the bestselling author of various books and CEO of Perfect Pitches by Precious L.L.C., used her powerful presentation skills to take her business, Curvy Girlz Lingerie, around the world and empower women who wanted to feel sexy in their curvaceous bodies. She used data, stories, and creativity to attract large-scale companies that wanted to partner with her. Now, she’s earned the title of being a nationally recognized pitch master and has been a featured guest on large stages ...
May 30, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 92
Stella Leu is a strength and confidence coach, a sales expert, and a podcast host. She is the founder and CEO of 8 Glasses of Water and a founding member of The Human Transformation Club. Since leaving her corporate executive role to pursue her passion for coaching and teaching, Steluta’s classes, workshops, and programs have helped numerous people learn how to manage their minds, and bodies and heal their inner wounds. She is the host of The #BalancingLife Show, a podcast where women inspire, s...
May 23, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 91
Cassidy is a complicated extroverted woman from Cali. She has been an entrepreneur for the last decade building a new business almost every year. She started in insurance as a captive agent and now for the last few years have been independent. She has started from scratch twice and both times grew her agencies to multiple seven figures in revenue, all while barely working. After 10 years of success in building massively profitable businesses and brands (for herself and others), Cassidy now helps...
May 16, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 90
Cat was an Education Director at the National Alliance with over 25 years of Insurance Experience. In this episode, she shares with us her journey and amazing becoming story. We chat about a wide range of topics that will be sure to keep you on the edge of your seat including polyamory, depression, marriage, motherhood, carrier path, and journey. Now, she is off on a new path and journey, and we can't wait to see where it leads! Episode Highlights: Growing up with a stereotypical Asian parent up...
May 08, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 89
Jennifer is a Client Services Director who has been in the insurance industry for 9 years. Her goal is to cultivate a positive culture while encouraging people to grow professionally and personally. During the peak of the pandemic, she partnered with a mentor to build a leadership program for her team - finding a way to connect people virtually, explore soft skills, and build a community. She is passionate about pushing people to find their inner strength and realize their full potential. Jennif...
May 02, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 88
Elisa is an ex-perfectionist and a part-time dreamer. After a decade in the insurance industry and a year of personal horror, she started conversations with people in the industry about their stories and the culture that the insurance industry created. She believes in the power of people, of community, and of coming together for a bigger purpose. Elisa believes that showing up is a superpower that we can all wield - even when we think we are powerless. Episode Highlights: How do you encapsulate ...
Apr 25, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 87
Daniel Jimenez's career in marketing has spanned the better half of two decades. He has explored everything from visual merchandising displays for luxury designers on 5th Avenue, to producing branding video productions for major financial institutions. His love affair with marketing has led him to the role of VP of Marketing and Sales at a growing Insurtech consulting firm in San Diego California, GoGiles Consulting. In this episode, he shares his story which will resonate with so many of you! I...
Apr 15, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 86
Adriana coaches business owners on how to create a winning culture that leverages the identity of their company and articulates and integrates the culture into the behaviors of their employees while inspiring them to perform at peak levels and achieve outstanding results. She devoted all her time and effort to learning and implementing best practices in process improvement. ISO, Six Sigma, Lean Enterprise, Project Management, etc. Even though that was fun, and she was successful, she realized th...
Apr 11, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 85
Rachel is Co-Founder and CEO of Siege Technology Solutions . SiegeAOS is the full-powered CRM Based Insurance Agency Management System providing the full tech stack needed to run your agency on one single platform. Modern. Powerful. Customizable, after starting out in the aerospace program at Middle Tennessee State University and obtaining her private pilot license, Rachel ultimately obtained her bachelor's degree in finance and insurance. She then later continued on earning her MBA, with over a...
Mar 28, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 82
Michelle A. Mercier is a Business Coach/ Consultant, a Dare to Lead™ Trained professional, the host of the top-ranked podcast The Resilient Entrepreneur as well as a sought-after speaker. She has 20+ years of corporate and professional experience. Michelle has worked with a wide range of different businesses – from nationally acclaimed non-profits to enterprise-level corporations like PayPal. Today, she primarily works with high-achieving leaders, entrepreneurs & executives to create an incr...
Mar 21, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 82
Nikolai is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Rhode Island and the founder of OMpowerment Psychotherapy, a space for PRACTICAL mindfulness-based psychotherapy. (As in you can learn how to slow down and be present WITHOUT having to meditate for hours). She specializes in helping ambitious, productivity-focused people who struggle with slowing down (even though they know that they should). To do this, she combines her training in mental health counseling, yoga, motivational intervi...
Mar 14, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 81
Amanda is a Visibility and marketing strategist with over 20 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience who partners with solo entrepreneurs, small businesses, and start-ups to consult on content strategic communications, online marketing, sales, and public relations strategy so they no longer feel lost in a sea of competitors or unnoticed in a noisy field. Episode Highlights: How she honed her craft in PR. (2:24) What was the turning point that made you realize you needed to figure out w...
Mar 09, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 80
Join Jacquie & Monica in an additional discussion about systematic racism in the workplace by exploring the book Hush Money. Episode Highlights: What are the primary lessons that anyone can take away from the book? (2:09) The importance of doing your due diligence to understand what you are up against. (6:59) The new generation is not going to put up with that anymore. (11:13) What are the lessons that women can learn to not get to that point? (16:17) We strive so much to be accepted that in...
Mar 06, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 90
Before Jacquie Abram began her journey as an Author and Anti-racism Consultant, she had a lucrative career in higher education that she was very good at & that she enjoyed. A career that spanned nearly two decades & by any measure should’ve been a successful career. But it wasn’t. Because throughout her career, she experienced racism in the workplace, not the kind you see in a lot of movies, books, and TV shows about racism that occurred decades ago during a time when it was more overt &...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 79
Misha Bleymaier-Farrish provides a unique perspective that pairs logistical understanding with innovative vision-casting and development, cultivated through 20 years of experience in operations and technology. Misha’s life motto is GSD – “Get shit done”, and she brings that philosophy to any organization, client, or project with which she works. She is an entrepreneur, CEO, and Founder of Etymology Consulting, where she continues to use her expertise throughout the entire technology lifecycle to...
Feb 21, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 78
B evin is a dynamic executive with over 15 years of experience in leading people, building high-performance teams, and developing innovative sales/learning solutions. Known for her creativity, curiosity, high-energy and unwavering optimism, she is passionate about investing in others to facilitate human breakthroughs that drive high-performance business results. For the last three years, she has walked a personal growth journey after losing one of her children to a traumatic drowning incident. L...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 77
Karen Pambianchi , CLC is the founder of Swift Water Life Coach , a specialized coaching practice focused on helping ambitious women achieve their career goals and find work-life harmony with simple and effective routines and habits. She is a Certified Life Coach, through the American Life Coach Academy, which is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) – the gold standard in coaching – and a member of the New England Chapter of ICF Professional Coaches. She has been coaching fo...
Feb 07, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 76
Motivated by her progress Valeria dedicated more than two decades of her life to a successful corporate career that led her to work with 7 countries, occupying leadership positions in companies such as Procter & Gamble, Citibank, and Reckitt Benckiser. She focused so fully on her career that other areas of her life eventually started to feel the consequences, particularly health. What on the outside looked like an enviable successful life, on the inside was a life devoid of direction and tru...
Jan 31, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 75
Sofia started in the mortgage industry when she was only 18 years old; she was in college and just doing it as a side job Though Sofia started out studying to be a teacher, after three years in the mortgage industry she switched her major to Business, and never looked back. Her team of experts at Mortgage Network serves the entire Metro Boston area. They are a direct lender that offers a full range of products with a portfolio division for situations that don’t fit standard guidelines; that incl...
Jan 17, 2022•28 min•Season 3Ep. 73
Katherine (Kat) Ternes worked in the political arena and during her time as a legislative aide she developed skills that bring a unique perspective to the Insurtech space. A major factor that play her considering the move into Insurtech was a growing frustration about seeing the Independent Space struggle to survive with old methods. Learn how her "weird" and smart personality is just what the doctor ordered to bring a new perspective into the industry and play a vital role in the "boys club". E...
Jan 10, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 72
Margo is an experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the insurance industry. She shares with us her journey from agency ownership to shifting into the Insurtech space and how navigating the hoops of the industry provided her with the tools to lead authentically and transform her company into something unexpected. Episode Highlights: Taking a leap of faith and betting on yourself. (3:09) How to break into the insurtech space. (5:50) How have you been able to ...
Jan 03, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Elisa is an ex-perfectionist and a part-time dreamer. After a decade in the insurance industry and a year of personal horror, she started conversations with people in the industry about their stories and the culture that the insurance industry created. She believes in the power of people, of community, and of coming together for a bigger purpose. Elisa believes that showing up is a superpower that we can all wield - even when we think we are powerless. Episode Highlights: Monica’s experience of ...
Dec 30, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 69
When Lauren first began her career she found herself in customer service/operations-type roles. Unfortunately, after several years in the workforce, the Great Recession hit, and she got laid off. At the time, she was heartbroken. Despite that, it was the best thing that happened to her because a short time later she landed what became her dream job. Episode Highlights: Growing up in Datum, New York. (1:30) How she got her start in life science and how she’s been able to use her unique skill set....
Dec 27, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 66
Stacey knew at an early age when she was “playing” with her Easy-Bake Oven that she wanted to be a chef. At age 11, she wrote to Bobby Flay telling him how she twisted around one of his recipes; three months later she received a call from his producer asking her to come to New York City to see a taping of his show and to go to his restaurants. Unfortunately, she couldn’t as her family had just moved from Michigan to Florida where her dad became a minister at a small church. Episode Highlights: H...
Dec 20, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Greta Bajrami is the CEO and Founder of Golden Group Roofing located in Westborough, Massachusetts. Greta migrated to the USA at the age of 9 from Tirana, Albania. Greta Bajrami grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts where she attended Worcester State University. Greta speaks, educates, and inspires, on various toppings such as; “Success is a state of mind”, “Getting over your forever failure mindset”. She is the Massachusetts President and Chair of the National Woman in Roofing Council, Executive ...
Dec 16, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 68
