Episodes for You to Get Spectacular
Victoria Pelletier, Building Skills for Whole Human Leadership
Victoria Pelletier is a seasoned corporate executive with over two decades of leadership experience, including roles as COO, President, and CEO. Her career has been marked by a passion for inspiring positive change and growth in organizations, a journey also defined by her commitment to continuous personal learning, growth, and resilience. Victoria’s contributions have earned her numerous awards and recognition for her dedication to and advocacy for diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as for her significant history of mentorship in the workplace. Her latest book is “The Power of Whole Human Leadership” helps you to increase engagement, drive positive business outcomes while demonstrating empathy and authenticity. For more information, visit www.victoria-pelletier.com.
Dr. Christine Silverstein, Empowering You to Overcome Life’s Challenges
Dr. Christine M. Silverstein, peak performance coach, behavioral health RN has assisted clients of all ages for 27 years to reach their best performances in health, athletics, academics, business, and performing arts. She specializes in working with children, teens, and young adults, using Mindful Toughness skill sets, such as self-hypnosis, mental rehearsal, positive self-talk, and feedback loop analysis. As a researcher, historian, and best-selling author, she has presented her works on Hypno-Coaching and history in the US and globally to promote mental health. Her latest book is “Wrestling Through Adversity: Empowering Children, Teens, and Young Adults to Win in Life.” For more information, visit drchristinesilverstein.com.
Nick Jain, Igniting Innovation for Business
Nick Jain is the CEO of IdeaScale, the leading innovation software company. IdeaScale is the core of many leading global organization’s innovation efforts including NASA, Comcast, NASCAR, Doctors without Borders and many others. He has worked at some of the top investing firms in the world such as Bain Capital and Greenlight, and has led dramatic business transformations in 3 entirely different industries: trucking, men’s shoes, and now B2B software. He is an expert at marketing, team management, and creating win-win-win outcomes customers, employees and shareholders. Nick has lived an inspiring rags to riches story and started his life by being raised by a single grandmother in a small city in India and graduated at the top of his class from Harvard Business School. For more information, visit ideascale.com.
Corinne Auman, Reshaping Our Perception of Older Adulthood
Corinne is the founder of Choice Care Navigators, a company dedicated to helping families navigate the aging process. Corinne is dedicated to fostering personal growth, resilience, and authentic living at every age. Corinne’s passion lies in reshaping how we perceive older adulthood, a vision she beautifully encapsulates in her groundbreaking book, “Keenagers.” Corinne is on a mission to change the conversation around aging. In a culture where many avoid thinking about older adulthood until the last minute, she urges us to embrace aging in a positive light. Her story is not just about her successes; it’s a call for all of us to care about aging, dispelling myths and embracing the beauty and potential of every stage of life. For more information, visit corinneauman.com or Amazon to purchase her book.
Karen Carey, Coaching Executives to Achieve their Full Potential
Karen Carey, an executive coach and HR consultant with Global Advisory Associates, specializes in assisting growth-focused leaders who are new to their roles and struggling to meet performance expectations and team productivity, and are fearful of losing credibility. Her coaching method is rooted in helping forward-focused individuals achieve their full potential, faster, easier and with a whole lot more joy, while her philosophy centers on building a trusting and collaborative relationship with her clients, where she works together to identify their unique strengths, challenges, and goals. For more information, email Karen at karencarey@globaladvisoryassociatesltd.com or visit https://www.globaladvisoryassociatesltd.com/.
Noel Janis-Norton, Creating Calmer, Happier Lives for Families
Noel Janis-Norton is the founder and Director of ‘Calmer Parenting and Teaching Skills’. She is a learning and behavior specialist with over fifty years of experience as a teacher, special needs advisor, teacher-trainer, parenting coach, speaker, and best-selling author.
Noel is internationally known for her unique and distinctive ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier’ methods, which guide families to become more harmonious and which support teachers to bring out the best in all their students, including neuro-divergent children and adolescents. She has a positive, firm, and consistent approach, which is a refreshing mixture of common sense about children, extensive knowledge of child development, and expertise in specific difficulties with learning and behavior.
Noel leads online parenting courses, intensive parent coaching, and teacher-training, and webinars for schools and organizations. Her parenting books and resources and a complimentary ebook are available on Amazon and on her website calmerparenting.co.uk.
Matt O’Neill, On a Mission to Spread Happiness
Matt O’Neill, host of the “Good Mood Revolution” podcast, author, and devoted family guy is on a mission to spread positivity. As one of the leading experts on happiness education, Matt offers valuable insights on how to choose happiness even when life gets challenging. As a successful entrepreneur, Matt founded a business that grew 100 employees and $10 million in revenues. He achieved everything he’d always wanted – money, recognition, a beautiful wife and family, even charity work; but the fulfillment he so desperately sought was still out of reach.
That’s when his focus shifted to finding the true source of happiness… within. Matt committed himself to learning from the world’s greatest teachers on lasting happiness. He studied directly with Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Tony Robbins, Ed Mylette, Dr. Jane Goodall, Mathew Micheletti, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, and countless others. These masters taught him how to rewire his brain for happiness. Now, through his “Good Mood Revolution” book and podcast, you can benefit from his hard-won insights and achieve lasting happiness for yourself as well. For more information, visit the “Good Mood Revolution” podcast and you can find his book on Amazon.com.
Becky Lukovic, Creating Fun and Educational Travel Adventures
Becky is the Founder of Bella Travel which provides discriminating travelers unique, custom itineraries curated with their interests, priorities, and personalities in mind. She develops relationships with the best connections worldwide in order to best serve her travelers. Becky is also the Founder of Ciao Bella! Travel Club for Women. This group of women is about creating a sense of community and learning and living local culture all over the world. The purpose of her Women’s Travel Club is to have local events for ladies to get to know each other and to offer small group trips to women to visit a new destination, or to engage in a familiar destination in a new way. She strives for her trips to offer travelers fun, learn something new, and have some great laughs while doing it. Becky is a coach and has been featured in Travel Pulse, Agent at Home Magazine, Luxury Travel Advisor magazine, and other industry and consumer travel articles as an expert in her field. For more information, visit bellatravelplanning.com.
Joey Drolshagen, Getting the Unstoppable Mind-Set
Featured in FOX, CBS, and NBC along with being named one of the top business Coaches in America for four consecutive years, in The NYC Journal and Disruptors Magazine, Joey is known for helping Small Business Owners, Professional Sales people, and Entrepreneurs to rapidly accelerate their business growth, while gaining more life freedom through alignment of the Subconscious Mindset programming, to achieve total mindset alignment. Aside from a very successful 28-year career, up to VP of Sales, Joey has spent over 3 decades studying, implementing, and developing what’s now known as the SMT Method (Subconscious Mindset Training), which has repeatedly allowed hundreds of people to create the life they desire, through reprogramming their subconscious conditioning to become UNSTOPPABLE. For more information, visit https://coachwithjoey.com/.
Loren Rosario-Moldonado, Learning about Cultural Diversity Intellegence
Loren has dedicated over 25 years to leadership coaching, change management, and cultural intelligence. Her unique ability to create human-centered workplace experiences and build high-performing teams has transformed organizations and solidified her reputation as an industry trailblazer. Her latest book, Becoming the Change: The Power of Cultural Intelligence, is a testament to her commitment to fostering cultural diversity and personal growth.
Now pursuing a Psy. D. in Cross-Cultural Psychology, Loren’s expertise in navigating the multifaceted dimensions of cultural intelligence continues to guide leaders and readers alike, empowering them to make informed, impactful decisions in an increasingly interconnected world through her podcast appearances on DEI After 5 and PIVOT Towards Promising Futures.
Hannah Tackett, Helping Women Avoid Burnout
Hannah helps busy women in tech end burnout. She has a diverse background as both a Holistic Health Practitioner and a software designer and cares deeply about the experience women have on their journey towards success. For more information, visit https://serenesuccess.net/pod/.
Jim Marshall, Bringing Order and Understanding to Human Behavior
Jim Marshall has written a ground-breaking book called “Septemics: Hierarchies of Human Phenomena: Analysis, Prediction and Management of Human Affairs.” At the heart of the book, it guides one to analyze and, consequently, predict and manage the behaviors of groups, individuals and oneself. It brings order to a subject that has been the source of great confusion for most: human activity and behavior. It and can help you understand yourself and achieve your goals and grow personally. Jim spent well over 50,000 hours researching and writing this book and it’s taken 25 years for him to develop this theory. For more information, visit septemics.com.
Joel David Bond, Fostering Empathy Across Borders
A born explorer, Joel David Bond has spent over two decades living and working around the world, from farm work in Italian vineyards to jet-setting as a London-based flight attendant. He is dedicated to helping people navigate their cultural world with mindful intention, fostering empathy and understanding across borders. With a profound belief in the power of travel to create a more empathic world, Joel brings a unique perspective to every journey, drawing from over 20 years of overseas living and cross-cultural experiences. He holds a Master’s in Education from the University of Nottingham, UK. His recent book, “As Large as Your Spirit: A Reverse Refugee Memoir,” was a finalist in the Best Indie Book Awards 2023. For more information, visit joeldavidbond.com.
Michelle Merritt, Expertly Placing Senior-Level Job Seekers
Drawing on her 20-year corporate career as a Fortune 500 recruiter and corporate culture executive, Michelle provides a wealth of experience for her clients. Today, she guides executive leaders through the end-to-end job search process, from resume writing to negotiating offers. As a sought-after speaker and trainer, Michelle is a trusted source for leading-edge trends affecting senior-level job seekers and board candidates. For more information, visit https://www.dscareermanagement.com.
Ingo Schulmeyer, Coaching You Into a Life of Freedom and Adventure
A few years ago, Ingo had a life that most people would consider successful. with a well-paying job and a Leadership position in the Semiconductor industry, money, house and was travelling the world. But it didn’t completely fulfill Ingo. Two years ago, his wife, two kids and two dogs decided to sell everything, quit their jobs and we went on an adventures, which led to travelling through Mexico and finding his new home there. Today he runs a successful business as a coach, finding business professionals find their fulfillment. He lives his dreams, celebrates financial freedom and follows through on the possibility to do what he wants. For more information, visit https://thesmallreset.org/.
James Taylor, AI Marketing Automation Expert
James Taylor is a marketing specialist who’s addicted to finding out how successful businesses work and how their marketing strategies grow their businesses. He is always looking up new ways to generate leads and reading and absorbing articles on the latest strategies and software and he generously shares these insights on his website, powleads.com. He figures the more he learns, the more up to date his strategies are and therefore the better job he can do for his clients. People describe James as as approachable, social, and out of the box thinking. James responds with says “How kind of them!”
For more information, visit powleads.com.
Shannon Houchin, Financial Freedom with a Network of Peach Fruit Stands
Shannon Houchin from Roadside Republic turned her life around with a simple roadside peach stand, and now she teaches people to do the same. She helped her community and felt proud—all with fresh, local produce. Shannon works with students and families so they can pay for college by selling peaches. Today, she has 100 roadside peach stands with over 200 workers across 3 states and her son, Finn, who grew up selling peaches, is her business partner. Together they teach students how to earn college tuition over the summer by selling peaches. For more information, visit roadsiderepublic.com.
Rebekah Scott, Guiding Moms to Joyfully Impact Their Home and Work Life
Rebekah Scott calls herself a Midwest mama and is a serial entrepreneur, host of the Encourager podcast, designer and founder of a handmade purse and accessory brand for 15 years, and coach for moms committed to helping them thrive in their multi-passionate lifestyle WITHOUT hustling. For more information, visit https://www.encouragerpodcast.com/.
Ben Brown, Sales Coach Who Can Sell Anything
Benjamin Brown is a sales expert, author, and father of two young children. He has worked in all roles of sales for over 23 years, from stock brokerage style cold calling to car salesman, gym memberships, and medical devices- and can sell anything. From his experiences, he built the Rapid Success Sales Process, a tested and proven process to increase revenue and become more successful. For more information, visit meetwithbenjamin.com.
Robert Brill, Advertising and Digital Advertising Expert
Robert Brill has worked in advertising for 20 years, since 2003, and is the CEO of Brill Media, a digital advertising agency for scalable business growth. He is passionate about cultivating brands and propelling businesses forward. He loves creative testing and business insights for growing businesses large and small. The company has been honored 10 times across Inc 5000 and Financial Times 500. . For more information, visit https://brillmedia.co.
Patti Handy, Empowering Women for Financial Success
After spending a combined 20 years as a Financial Advisor and Mortgage Advisor, and having countless conversations with women, Patti decided to pursue her dream of Financial Coaching for women, mainly because she’s a teacher at heart and she loves to educate and empower women with money smarts. Understanding that money can be an overwhelming topic for many, she’s audaciously passionate about creating financial confidence when it comes to women’s well-being. This has been the catalyst to follow her passion of empowering and educating women in their financial journey. Patti is a am a Certified Executive Coach, Certified Life Coach, hold a Real Estate Brokers license and has written and published four books. For more information, visit www.pattihandy.com.
Bruno Cignacco, Promoting Compassionate and Profitable Businesses
Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco (PhD) is an international business consultant, international speaker and business coach. For over 20 years, he has advised and trained hundreds of companies on international trade activities and international marketing. He is a university lecturer. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA – UK). He is also the author of business and personal development books published in different languages. His new book is titled ““The art of Compassionate Business.” For more information, visit https://brunocignacco.com.
Kevin Gazzara, Management and Leadership Expert
Dr. Kevin Gazzara – CEO of Magna Leadership Solutions, Management & Leadership Expert, Executive Positive Intelligence Coach, Professor at 5 Universities, Speaker, & Author of The Leader of OZ. Kevin worked for 18 years at Intel Corporation in positions from Program and Product Management to Leadership Development. He holds a BS in Commerce and Engineering, an MBA and a Doctorate of Management in Organizational Leadership. For more information, visit https://Magnaleadership.com (management and leadership) and https://pqtrainingandcoaching.com/ (Positive Intelligence.)
David Bush, Living an Extraordinary Life
David pursued a professional football career, landing a starting role with the Iowa Barnstormers of the Arena Football League in Des Moines, Iowa. After four years of playing professional football and two trips to the World Championship game (’96 and ’97 Arena Bowl), David entered the world of mortgage banking and quickly became a top producing Mortgage Consultant and business owner of a regional mortgage brokerage. After ten years in mortgage banking, David ventured into the world of peak performance coaching and began coaching entrepreneurs to live their dreams and change their world. He now leads a team of Certified Coaches who coach thousands of individuals. He is a highly sought-after speaker who motivates and inspires audiences with success stories of transformation and strategies that lead to extraordinary success and significance. For more information, visit https://theextraordinarylife.com/free-planner-signup/.
Mike Ficara, Taking Businesses to the Next Level
Mike Ficara is a seasoned entrepreneur and consultant. His core focus is on the growth and scaling strategies for clients, in addition to expertise in personal brand building and social media strategy. He has consulted with small and large companies such as NEC, Nestle, Brand Ethos and Top Score Writing among others. He’s helped businesses in education, technology, healthcare, oil and gas, telecommunication, e-commerce, and manufacturing. He has is a sought-after speaker the host of The Start Down Podcast. For more information, visit https://www.amazon.com/dp/173715319X?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp.