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𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗜 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗦? It feels like every conversation about artificial intelligence eventually becomes a conversation about what AI can do. It can write, analyze, generate images and voices, process enormous amounts of information and seemingly learn something new every week. But during my Carrie Connects™ Podcast conversation with Ryan Moeller, I became much more interested i...

𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗 We hear a lot about resilience when life gets hard. Stay positive. Push through. Get back up. Bounce back. But during my Carrie Connects™ Podcast conversation with Peter Abrahams, founder of Dreams Alive, he said something that made me rethink that last one. What if the goal isn’t actually to bounce back? What if we 𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗 instead? Peter came to the show wanting to talk abou...

𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡? We spend a lot of time talking about finding the right person. We have lists of what we want, what we won’t tolerate, what somebody needs to bring to the table and all the signs that are supposed to tell us when we’ve finally found “our person.” But during my conversation with Marquise and Taylor Williams on Carrie Connects™ Podcast, another question kept coming to mind:...

𝗠𝗔𝗬𝗕𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗜𝗗𝗡’𝗧 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 Have you ever looked at your age, your circumstances, your setbacks, or how LONG something has taken and wondered, 𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘐 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵? That was the question I brought into this week’s Carrie Connects™ Podcast conversation with Ambassador Dr. Apostle Veryl Howard, and somewhere along the way, I think we answered it. 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁. Maybe some of what you though...

GO THROUGH IT, BUT GET UP. What happens when life gives you more than one reason to quit, but you keep getting back up, rebuilding and becoming somebody new? That was the question I opened with on this episode of Carrie Connects™ Podcast . Almost an hour later, Michelle Elizabeth Williams answered it in five words: “Go through it, but get up.” ❤️ And family, after everything she had shared with us...

YOUR BODY IS TALKING. ARE YOU LISTENING? What does a toothache have to do with menopause? Apparently, more than I knew. 👀 On this episode of Carrie Connects™ Podcast , I sat down with Lisa Feveck RD , a Menopause Dietitian and Coach joining us from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹, and this conversation had me questioning how much most of us actually know about something every woman will experience if she...

WHEN THE UNIFORM COMES OFF, WHAT COMES NEXT? What happens when you’ve spent years knowing exactly who you are, what your role is, and what is expected of you, and then the structure changes? On this episode of Carrie Connects™, I sat down with Philip Ayles, President and Founder of Warrior to Love® and creator of Communication Beyond the Uniform™, for a conversation about what happens after the un...

Aired LIVE Saturday, July 18, 2026 | Replay on demand across all platforms @gr8finances The first Carrie Connects™ Community Circle opened the conversation many women have been having alone. The storm outside tried to steal the show. Screens froze, sound dropped, and the Midwest sky did its best. It did not matter. The message got through, because the women in the Circle refused to let it get lost...

He Was Told to Fire Them All. He Kept Every Single One. Carrie Connects™ | Show Recap | July 11, 2026 Today I sat down with Stanley Greene , president and CEO of Power Thinking Corporation, and I’m still thinking about one story he told. Years ago he was sent into a struggling cable company and told to fire certain people. He kept them all. He didn’t bring in his own team. He just focused on the p...

She Told Us to Stop Dimming Our Light. The Whole World Was Watching. Carrie Connects™ | Global Edition Recap | July 5, 2026 Today’s special global edition of Carrie Connects™ with Gina Balarin reached across time zones, from the US to Australia to Canada, and delivered a conversation I will be thinking about for a long time. Gina is an executive speaking coach, TEDx speaker, author, and founder of...

What Happened When a Lab Technologist Taught Us That Money Grows Like a Garden Carrie Connects™ | Show Recap | June 27, 2026 If you missed today’s episode of Carrie Connects™ with Bobby Clark , the replay is live and this one is full of the kind of wisdom that gets passed down at kitchen tables, not in classrooms. Bobby is a certified financial accountability coach who works with STEM professional...

Carrie Connects | Saturday, June 20, 2026 | Men’s Mental Health Month and Pride Month Most people spend their whole lives building a performance. Coach Lee Hopkins spent his perfecting one, and then realized it never actually fooled anyone. On Saturday’s episode of Carrie Connects, Coach Lee Hopkins, a social connections coach for AuDHD and neurodivergent professionals and the founder of Patterns...

Carrie Connects™ | Show Recap | June 13, 2026 If you missed today’s episode of Carrie Connects™ with Jason Wilson , the replay is live and this one went places I did not expect. Jason is a Morehouse College graduate, full time podcast producer, founder of Circle of Friends Club, CEO of Spirit Linc, and a 24 year expat building a global ecosystem from Bogotá, Colombia. We brought him on during Men’...

Series: Carrie Connects | Saturday, June 7, 2026 There is a moment in this week’s episode of Carrie Connects that will stay with you. Mark Brezzell, former Cardiovascular Perfusionist, Johns Hopkins graduate, Type 1 Diabetes Advocate, and Corporate Wellness Consultant, was talking about what happens when high stress professionals ignore the warning signs their body is sending. And then he said thi...

What happened when Coach Carrie sat down with Dr. Tania Farran to talk about keeping kids engaged and responsible all summer long. June 1, 2026 | Coach Carrie Willis Tonight I had the pleasure of joining Dr. Tania Farran live on P2P Presents for a conversation every parent with kids at home this summer needed to hear. Dr. Tania Farran is the author of Raising the Well-Adjusted Child, A Parent’s Ma...

Sensei Fred Jordan Returns and We Go Deeper: Whole Self-Alignment™ Part Two Some conversations end when the time runs out. This one did not. When Sensei Fred Jordan joined me on Carrie Connects™ on March 28th we ran almost 15 minutes over time and he still had more to say. So he came back. On Saturday May 30th Sensei Fred returned for Part Two and what happened in that room was exactly what I knew...

Clarity from the Heart™ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Carrie Connects™ | Blue and White Edition Recap | May 24, 2026 If you missed tonight’s special Blue and White Edition of Carrie Connects™ with Antoinne Duane Jones , the replay is live and this one deserves your full attention. Antoinne is a traveling ph...

Clarity from the Heart™ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Carrie Connects™ | Sameerah Jones Show Recap | May 23, 2026 If you missed today’s episode of Carrie Connects™ with Sameerah Jones , the replay is live and it is one of the most personal conversations this show has ever had. Sameerah is the founder of Isl...

If you missed today’s episode of Carrie Connects™ with Leah Garcia , the replay is live and it is worth every minute. Leah is a financial strategist, life insurance & health professional, and third degree black belt in Shotokan Karate whose conversation today went far deeper than any LinkedIn profile could have prepared us for. What started as a conversation about authentic engagement turned into...

If you missed this Saturday’s episode of Carrie Connects™ with Mark Brezzell the replay is waiting for you and you need to go watch it. Mark is a Johns Hopkins trained cardiovascular perfusionist, health and wellness strategist, Type 1 Diabetes advocate, and author who spent over 30 years inside operating rooms and medical affairs before leaving it all to build something the medical system was mis...

There is a moment in every great conversation where everything gets quiet inside you because someone just said the thing you did not know you needed to hear. For me, that moment came near the end of my conversation with LaChelle Adkins, America’s SuperMom, when she looked into the camera and said this: You already are enough. Where you are today is the product of the journey and the things you hav...

Who is your bestie beyond borders? The friend who became family. The person across an ocean who gets you. Tell me in the comments. Episode 3 of Besties Beyond Borders is live. Get full access to Clarity from the Heart™ at gr8finances.substack.com/subscribe

I am the oldest of six. Our mother passed at 39, and I got the call while volunteering at a community center. By the time I made it to the hospital, she was already gone. There was no dress rehearsal for any of it. The obituary landed in my lap. So did the mortgage on the house we were living in. I bought it so my dad and my five younger siblings would still have a place to call home. The homeowne...

My mother passed away at 39 years old with the wrong type of life insurance. Our family received a check for less than $300. Years later, I was married. We had and the same cycle repeated itself. Because I was living in worry and not making the best financial decisions, the pattern that I spent years trying to avoid showed up unapologetically in my own life. When my son’s father passed away, we go...

Coach Carrie Willis · April 25, 2026 · Gr8Finances Here is something I said in Episode 3. “Eighty dollars is better than zero. Don’t that sound smart? But when it comes to financial clarity, that’s not always the best decision.” That is what doubt sounds like. Reasonable. Responsible. Like you are protecting yourself. And that is exactly what makes it the most expensive symptom of the fear of pove...