52 Weeks of Me

Born and raised a Kenyan, Carolyn Adagala is a transformational coach who found the UK a second home since her college days. Having spent the last four years in an all-girl school, she felt shocked as she found herself the only female student among twenty boys studying computing.  Although she still graduated on top of her class, that exposed her to the reality that in the tech world women had alw...

Emily Hatfield is a Mindset Coach from Bristol, England. Through her work she helps people shift their mindset from feeling lost, empty or directionless to feeling more confident in who they are, where they are and what they need to change to feel happier.  With a background in Media production Emily found coaching after finding herself in her mid twenties in a chapter in life where she was stripp...

Julie Easen is another corporate graduate mom who has had an extremely successful and satisfying 20 career years save the work-life balance aspect. Before leaving the corporate world, she fought hard in order to gain and keep the privilege of a once-a-week work-from-home arrangement. But even with that, it dawned on her that her children are growing with less and less time with her which made her...

Kelley O'Keefe lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She has built a business over the past year catering and empowering women to reach their full potential in leadership, mainly to be economically empowered. Kelley spent 15 years in the sales arena before she decided to stop to prioritize herself and her health. She then took a sabbatical and started researching the problem of such leakage of high-pote...

‘Today’s guest, Kath Chapman, is a photographer based just outside of London who had been depressed since an early age. In her twenties, Kath was hospitalized after trying to take her life and, following 25 years in and out of talking therapy, started using self-portrait photography to finally find her path to full recovery. It was the catalyst for healing, self-care and mindfulness while uncoveri...

Danielle Metzler is a certified primary care physician who grew up and got her degree in medicine from Maryland and went to South Carolina for residency. She is a mom of two small babies and a wife to a wonderful husband. A strong believer in a holistic approach to things but also a believer in Western Medicine, she believes in intuition. As planned she served as a hospitalist for five years to ea...

Kristy is a digital well-being researcher, speaker, and mom to three of her screen ages. She's also the author of Dear Digital, We need to talk . She delivers evidence-based information about the impact of digital technologies on children, adolescents, and adults' health, well-being & learning. Having personally experienced how our always-on digital culture compromises people’s well-...

Theresa hosts the Becoming More Me Podcast and lives in Maryland near Washington, DC, with her husband, their four boys, and their two yellow labs. She enjoys helping professional women to get out of their way with life and dial in on a work-life balance. Theresa’s struggles with past traumas, high-functioning anxiety, and ADHD kept her in an ego-driven holding pattern of dissatisfaction and stres...

Melody Wilding is the author of the book Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. She has been an Executive Coach for ten years now whose specialty caters to highly sensitive and high-achieving individuals; a speaker, a teacher of human behavior at the graduate level, and a writer for a number of leading career websites. Fascinated and extremely observant wi...

Erica Rooney is a wife, a mom, a chief people officer, and a host of her own podcast From Now to Next, where she empowers women to get seen, get heard, and get promoted. With all these hats she's wearing, one gets the idea that she does a lot of things. Although she admits to being a hustler by nature, her secret to accomplishing more in life is eliminating the less important activities and f...

Hallie Avolio is a mom and a wife who is passionate about teaching both men and women to live their lives to the fullest by prioritizing self-love. She began her career in sales, but early on realized that corporate life with all its bureaucracy and red tape did not fit her well. But then at the same time, being a stay-at-home mom didn't either. Hence, putting herself into a predicament where...

Andrew has had a wide range of employment experience; 20 years of which in the corporate which culminated during his retirement from Merrill Lynch in 2005. It was followed by years of executive coaching, his identified passion, and his niche, specifically with high-performing executives transitioning to leadership roles. This paved the way for the creation of PQ in 2019, expertise adapted from eli...

Rachelle Houde is a strategist and storyteller who spent more than 20 years in communication and marketing. Following her departure from advertising agencies, she has been freelancing as a strategic consultant with a focus on community building. Growing up in a military family who relocated every three years, she had to learn and relearn how to adapt to a new culture every single time. Part of her...

Maureen Ross Gemme spent 30 years in her corporate job and then became an entrepreneur when she created her coaching and training business called Emerge Leadership Academy in 2013. After living through her teenage years as a drug addict and an alcoholic, she had a major transformation and started her recovery journey when she was just 24. She then began her corporate career and stayed on the perso...

Laura is a mom and a co-founder of Yourticulture which is homestead based. Among all the hats she has to juggle, being a mom comes on top. Believing that the children are the future, she considers it best to model to them how she deals with life -- to learn how to overcome hardships and to be resilient. Instead of telling them, she prefers showing them her own picture of life. Being in an entrepre...

 Hanane's long story of pain and resilience started with her eye accident when she was nine. Her months of stay in the hospital and in the house waiting for better days made her realize that remaining strong and positive are the only choice she had left. They trained her mind to become positive no matter the circumstances. She also dealt with divorce. After spending eleven seemingly less mean...

Sue Scott is an executive and team coach, mentor, and risk management professional with over twenty years of experience in leading and coaching in the financial services industry. Sue helps Risk and Compliance professionals reconnect with what makes work meaningful and feel empowered to lead change. She is great at her work of helping leaders and teams make sense of what is really getting in the w...

Belinda Liu is a non-profit education leader, coach, entrepreneur, nature-inspired visionary and co-host of the Gratitude Blooming podcast. Her superpowers are shining a light on people’s strengths, bringing them out into the world, and creating life-changing tools and experiences for deep, catalytic growth.  She co-founded two purpose-driven businesses, Gratitude Blooming and Hestia Retreat Cente...

Christina Woods is an RTT Hypnotherapist, a Reiki Master, a coach, and the CEO and founder of Wise Woods Hypnotherapy and Coaching from San Diego California. With a thirty-year corporate career in the higher education space guiding and mentoring staff, students and their families, she had been in a position where coaching had been like a way of life but without labels and proper training. Those th...

Jillian Kaplan is currently working at Dell Technologies which focused on 5G and Telecom Thought Leadership. She has been in the Telecom sector for about 17 years. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog. One of her passion is helping rescue dogs as they foster a couple of hundred dogs in and out of their house.  Highlights: Working in a male-dominated field, she...

Alex Tremble is a career culture coach whose passion is helping organizations create a culture necessary to attract, retain, and develop leaders to achieve their visions and missions. Apart from the efforts dedicated to promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion in the company, he strongly believes that the best way of providing value to people's lives is by helping them progress in their p...

Izzy Gesell, who had always wanted to become a stand-up comedian, started his career as a schoolteacher. But for years now, he has combined both in a career that widened his influence specifically as a well-rounded writer, keynote speaker, facilitator, and author among others. This choice resulted not only from searching for his life purpose but more from what he really wants to do, what he is goo...

14 years ago, somewhere along the 26 long years, she spent in the corporate world, Cressida got training in coaching. Around that time, coaching was only almost exclusively associated with sports and the academe. It was almost unheard of in the business world. But the philosophy of coaching where people are given the freedom to process and work things out for themselves is what originally attracte...

In the eyes of the majority, Cory Carlson was making it huge and was already a winner in the corporate world before he discovered coaching. But when he did, he became a better person, husband, father, and leader. So to speak, he became a real winner from his own home first. Since then, it became his lifelong cause to make other people make it really big in life by following the same formula -- Win...

 Cathy Rowland is a Women's vitality coach with 29 years of interior design expertise. Almost everybody all over the world would associate health and wellness with the proper diet, exercise, and sleep, among others. Equating it with the space and interior design of homes as well as offices is almost unheard of. Being a women's vitality coach, in addition to prioritizing self-care as well...