It all matters. Mind, body, and spirit. Berdette Carrasco created MBSphere with one goal in mind - to empower women, babies, families, and medical teams for the most successful outcome for an end to end birthing experience. Often, the postpartum is overlooked which Berdette is changing the game for. MBSphere could be called a birthing concierge and it's not a nice to have, often it's a life changing/saving experience to protect mom and baby from birthing trauma, but also the family and medical t...
Feb 13, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Give Juatise 1 minute and she has the innate ability to educate at unimaginable lengths. After a successful corporate career, Juatise answered the call to become a full service equity consultant with her partner to create Just Act Partners that is at the forefront of a more equal and equitable Chicago for today and tomorrow - for all Chicagoans to have an opportunity to succeed no matter where they are geographically. Just Act Partners is taking the "initiative" or "project" work out of equity a...
Feb 10, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Dr. Tayo is bringing sassy back. As a former practicing physician and now founder guiding women back to their sass during perimenopause and menopause, Dr. Tayo is on a mission to educate, empower, and eradicate the stigma of how women are perceived during this time in their life. Dr. Tayo beautifully articulates a women's right to choose regarding the care for their bodies, the plans to assist during hormones going offline, and overall patient advocacy. Dr. Tayo will be hosting a retreat this ye...
Feb 04, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Wow. What an incredible conversation - hearing Virginia Lacayo speak on what it's going to take to create conscious, intersectional leaders in this world is not only attainable, but our long term success as humanity depends on it. The passion, conviction, and triumph that Virginia is leading from a feminist, neuroscience, and complex systems perspective beautifully articulates how we get back in touch with our "Cacica", we already have it within us - the divine feminine being called in to create...
Feb 02, 2024•49 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Dr. Marcia Reynolds wrote her doctoral dissertation on high achieving women in the workplace and what she found is that these women strive for motion and meaning - that in order to feel content, we need to keep moving but that it also must have meaning. Over her 30 year professional coaching career, she has written books, taught countless classes, and helped humans from all walks of life by holding their thoughts out in front of them so that they can see it. Dr. Marcia Reynolds is a thinking par...
Jan 24, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Marie Hemingway is talking about stuff that annoys her on a daily basis while being six months pregnant. In her blog #WorkingWhilePregnant, she addresses experiences both in the workplace, but also out in society to explore the way that, despite women having children since the beginning of time, the world still hasn't quite gotten the note on how to design with pregnant women in mind. Marie is a multi-faceted woman leading the charge for discrimination against pregnant woman and also for legisla...
Jan 23, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Dion Johnson, not unlike the powerful women she works with, is a force to be reckon with. This is an extremely passionate episode in which Dion explains what is needed in today's marketplace - women's leadership that requires REpowerment. We distill the woman that Dion is speaking to, and because of her work, women are re-imagining what leadership looks like present day and going forward. It's no longer showing up as a man, it's standing flat footed in her power, in the feminine leadership. For ...
Jan 13, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Have you had a setback? Have you wished that there were a playbook available to you to process said setback? Look no further. Available March 19 (available for pre-order now), Amy Shoenthal's "The Setback Cycle" will make it's world debut that showcases 4 stages of a setback - Establish, Embrace, Explore, Emerge. We may need an alarm clock to help us understand if we're approaching a setback - it may not be a core shaking event such as trauma, obstacles, making mistakes - it's somewhere in the m...
Jan 06, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 1
I love talking shop with a well respected peer in my new world. What I loved most about my conversation with Stefanie Mockler is that we have 2 different approaches to the coaching world but similar ethics, morals, and notions toward helping others. Stefanie has her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and follows the governance of the APA (American Psychological Association). She has worked for over a decade in her coaching practice collaborating and building successful models for professionals a...
Dec 31, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 40
First bonding over 90's hip hop and R&B and then our shared rich backgrounds of OG marketing and Jennifer Cho is exceptional at keeping the evolution fresh and data driven. Jennifer Cho, CEO of Creator Deck, shares that the future of media is collaboration. We talk at length of how the 4 generations are talking (or not talking) right now and how to build a cohesive and rich brand story for those marketing to upcoming generations. Jen keeps it real and is intentionally inclusive from the insi...
Dec 15, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Sherehan Ross is a fractional CMO and Mentor that is helping companies and individuals to amplify their unique individuality amongst a copy/paste world. Sherehan is a global marketing expert and wishes to help those who value authenticity, to break away from vanity metrics and only caring about life hacks and going viral. It's a yes, and, some of the tried and true relationship building for brands and services alike. If you're a unique marketer and want to vibe with a seasoned veteran that value...
Dec 08, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 38
A revolution is happening...a social sex revolution in how we think, feel, and express our sexuality - all led by THE Cindy Gallop. What is a social sex revolution? Well, for thousands of years everyone's perception (inward and outward) has been controlled by the patriarchy. Time's up. Cindy's life-changing, game-changing human curated platform for social sex is literally improving the lives of humanity as we know it. The only problem? She is blocked on every platform on the internet when she tr...
Dec 07, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 37
What a vibe. Michelle Hallum is an ACC Jungian Life Coach and we have SO much in common. In this episode, we explore Michelle's personal and professional work with women experiencing peri-menopause and menopause, including herself. By shining a spotlight on this natural, biological health matter that 51% of the population will experience, Michelle explains that it all begins with self love, then lending a heart and hand to one another - and helping the other 49% to understand that providing supp...
Dec 05, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Dr. Nikki Slade is a pioneer - she is driving change through providing series of experiences from another lens so that there is an immersion process that takes place rather than a harm swap or a "gotcha" moment for organizations to implement true equity, not to be confused with equality. Dr. Nikki launched 2 new coaching programs this year - RAARE Live for white women who are inclined to drive the change Dr. Nikki and her team knows they can be and also SLAYED for black women looking for profess...
Dec 02, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Becky Mollenkamp is an intersectional feminist - unapologetically and never uses blame or shame as tools, AND white feminism is not ok. She is an accountability coach for high performing business owners. Becky shares incredible insight around how feminism is a trigger for more people than just men and what that means, what we can do, and how to improve by small degrees each day. She hosts a new podcast called "Feminist Founders" that are disrupting the way feminism is perceived and feared - to c...
Nov 30, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 34
We know the workplace is broken. So, you can imagine how excited I get when there are organizations that are working to improve it. Ileana Rontea and her partner founded Empowered Women Now that works with progressive organizations to develop their pipeline of incredible women so that they can walk in the power of their highest selves. This then helps the women claim their unique brilliance and to create the impact in the world they'd like to see. Not your average leadership courses, EWN amplifi...
Nov 21, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Dr. Krystal L. Culler, DBH, MA began her career in brain health by working in elder care and has now expanded to the other end of the lifecycle, with children. Dr. Krystal believes that brain care is for everyone - it's more than 1 thing - and it's never too late to start. Watching her grandmother, mother experience brain health issues and then having experienced it firsthand re-routed her career and life toward not simply doing something when you find yourself having a brain health issue, but a...
Nov 17, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 32
We have a problem...today, there is no law against anyone abusing someone mentally or emotionally in the workplace. Deb Falzoi, Founder of Dignity Together and the "End Workplace Abuse" movement, explores this topic with me and what is missing in today's society as it relates to psychological safety - specifically in the workplace. Deb and thousands of others have created a movement to introduce the Workplace Psychological Safety Act into legislation, beginning in Massachusetts. The goal is to d...
Nov 12, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 31
A sneak peek into the workshop that Tracy Baron Garcia and I are hosting on 12/1 and 12/2 - this workshop is for newer or "about to become" women entrepreneurs. Tracy comes with 20+ years experience in financial planning expertise, both for individuals and for businesses. I come with ~20 years experience with coaching, healing, and marketing expertise to guide you to lead with the energy you wish to put out into the world and gets you the abundance you deserve. From this workshop you will get th...
Nov 09, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Maddie McKinnon is exploring the incredible beauty and connection between coaching and flowers. Her floral business, Frida's Flowers, named after THE Frida Kahlo - what better way to honor the journey than toward one of the great Latina feminists!Maddie and I get into extremely interesting conversation that includes the synchronicities of our hurtful journeys that led to our heartled work to lead humanity into a higher vibration, to restore the balance with the divine feminine as we're being cal...
Oct 28, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Haydee Clark is a very rare unicorn in the male dominated industry of trucking and logistics, the Principal of Resilient Freight Solutions, a certified Minority / Women's Business Enterprise (MBE, WBE, SBE, HUB ) freight agency. Originally from Puerto Rico, Haydee relocated to Texas in 2013 to pursue greater career opportunities. As the Vice Chair of Development & Finance for the Hispanic Women Network of Texas Dallas Chapter (HWNT-Dallas), she plays a crucial role in advancing Hispanic wome...
Oct 27, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Alexis Mobley, founder and owner of iMatter Coaching and Consulting is a brilliant corporate veteran that is now an executive life coach - because helping women to unlock their mastery includes the whole picture, not just the workplace.Alexis has an incredible way of reaching success with her clients, defined by her clients as deep as they're willing to go. The beauty on the other side of working with Alexis is for a woman to know exactly who she is and what she wants. This enlightening and deli...
Oct 26, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Have you ever met anyone in life that you had an instant (almost eery) connection with? This happened with Cassandra Clark and I. She and I now understand that we have a deep, unshakeable soul connection that is baffling and trusted. Cassandra is bringing the human connection back through the beauty of art, she articulates beautifully how art brings a common ground to humanity that they don't even realize they have. Despite what humanity disagrees with, they can look at a piece of art and feel c...
Oct 21, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Ansa Edim. Did you know we had such a force in our midst? Ansa is a voice of change, the tide that's turning, the "rebel rouser", the person that is singlehandedly rejuvenating the way we think about the workplace and psychological safety.Ansa launched a world changing site called https://ourblacklist.org that allows underrepresented people to share there real, true stories of abuse in the workplace to serve as a beautifully transparent warning to those in the workplace. Ansa is leading the tran...
Oct 19, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Ladies, do you remember camp? That feeling of unbridled joy and authentic self? Lifelong friendships, a scare or two, and laughing until your stomach hurt? What if I told you that there exists such a camp...for women...created by women...in the south of France? Yes, it's real - it's Camp Chateau. Philippa Girling and her co-founders created a dream, that women could return to camp with one goal in mind - to be her self, to relax, and to be taken care of. That dream became reality this summer whe...
Oct 05, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Trigger warning: mentions of domestic violence and suicideIrene Walsh-Garcia is a rare unicorn...she's spent over 25 years in the construction industry and is on the front lines driving psychological safety and equitable treatment for women and people of color on construction sites. Irene and I discuss what happens, beyond the obvious, of how many of us understand a construction site to be. She helps explain the "how" behind inequities, but also many organizations that are trying to right the sh...
Sep 29, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Sherrie Palm, Founder and CEO of APOPS (Association for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support) takes us into the elusive and fascinating enlightenment toward POP. 1 in 2 women will get POP from various causal or co-existing conditions and Sherrie is here to help. Widely unknown, Sherrie shares some of the warning flags and how to get a world of information from women that are currently or have experienced POP. By sharing messages, resources, and knowledge, we all help to empower each other but also ours...
Sep 28, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Best advice of my week...write the book. Caroline Malloy is a book coach, but more than that she's directly helping women get started on their unique, brilliant stories that the world needs to hear. Caroline's mission is to fill the shelves of humanity with incredible women authors, and to lend one more voice to one more ear, in written form.Not only an expert in the book space, but also in getting your book out there, to generate buzz and meet any goals that you have when setting out to write i...
Sep 22, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Samantha Ruth is more than a grief coach, she's a psychologist that guides you through grief of any loss but also a concierge who is there for you whenever and however you need it. Whether it be tasks for arrangements to be made, or the daily emotions that come through like a roller coaster - Sam will be there to be your biggest advocate. Sam says the hard things, to be a mirror, but to guide you through to the other side. There is no one that helps you through a loss, from end to end...except f...
Sep 21, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Dr. Matisa Wilbon is upleveling the world through curiosity and grace. A sociologist and professor (and Tedx speaker https://youtu.be/dp3t76F28zs?si=oektSyAkhBEAyAQw !), she has now developed DisruptHER University that allows women to return to their unique brilliance, to shed their cloaking device. Dr. Matisa believes in speaking truth to power, but also calling people in and not out - to bring people together.This deep conversation about intergenerational existence, equity for women, and for a...
Sep 11, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 19
