Show Up with Priyanka

Michael’s path to becoming a fractional CFO and business strategist wasn't a straight line. After studying accounting at Babson College and beginning his career as a financial analyst, he went on to build and operate several businesses. One of his early successes came from Ski Town USA, which he helped grow from $2.5 million to $8 million in five years. He shares the story of introducing a ski gua...

In this episode, Priyanka and John have an honest and deeply personal conversation about purpose, healing, relationships, and the power of creating community. John reflects on how, from a young age, he knew he was meant to do something meaningful and had a natural desire to create, lead, and positively impact the people around him. But as life unfolded, marriage and divorce became a major detour f...

In this episode, Priyanka and Bryan explore Bryan's journey from discovering design software at eight years old to becoming an entrepreneur, founder, creator, and builder of digital products used by thousands of creators around the world. Bryan shares how his curiosity, creativity, and desire to explore led him to start freelancing as a teenager, launch his first company, and eventually choose ent...

Furkhan's story offers a unique perspective on transformation because his journey bridges engineering, business, counseling, spirituality, and personal growth. In this conversation, he shares how his early experiences in engineering shaped resilience, discipline, delayed gratification, and self-belief. He also reflects on the deeper identity work that eventually guided him toward counseling and a...

Building a successful business is often measured by revenue, growth, and profitability, but at a certain point, every entrepreneur is forced to ask a deeper question: what have I built that can survive and thrive without me? In this conversation, Gregory Kovsky draws on more than 30 years of experience in business brokerage and hundreds of completed transactions to explain what truly makes a priva...

Many high achievers believe burnout is simply the price of making an impact. But what if the real problem isn't your workload? What if it's the belief that your worth depends on how much you sacrifice? In this profoundly moving conversation, Mazarine Treyz shares the deeply personal journey behind her latest book, Healing from the Nonprofit Sector, revealing how years of working inside mission-dri...

For generations, women have been taught to push harder, ignore their bodies, suppress their emotions, and measure success through productivity systems built around masculine physiology. But what if the very habits we've been praised for are the reason so many women experience burnout, hormonal imbalance, exhaustion, and a growing disconnection from themselves? In this powerful conversation, Adrien...

This conversation is unlike many of the interviews you've heard me give over the past year. Rather than focusing on business frameworks, systems, or scaling strategies, Dagmar creates space for something much more personal, the journey that shaped the woman behind the business. Together, we reflect on how two professionals from highly structured careers –engineering and law –each reached a moment...

Episode Notes Josh Gould's entrepreneurial journey didn't begin with a grand vision—it began with paying the bills. From selling beer in England to eventually leading The Big Word through exponential growth, Josh shares how business success is rarely the result of overnight breakthroughs. Instead, it's built through years of disciplined execution, continuous learning, and the willingness to keep m...

This conversation is an invitation to rethink everything we've been taught about success. Katie Ruppert sits down with Priyanka Khandalkar to explore what happens when high achievement meets deep self-discovery. After years of excelling as an engineer, operations leader, and business strategist, Priyanka found herself accomplishing everything she thought she wanted, yet feeling increasingly discon...

In this conversation, Mia Frankl and I dive deep into the mechanics of leading yourself before leading your system. As an OBM turned life coach, Mia reflects on the "surgical precision" she once performed and how she flipped that expertise to create "structure with soul" or as she calls it, a waterfall held by rock. We talk about the "Everyday Woman" the woman balancing laundry and ambition and wh...

Laura Schoenfeld's entrepreneurial journey began long before online business became mainstream. After years of creating content, podcasting, blogging, and working behind the scenes for a successful health business, Laura launched her own nutrition consulting practice with a waitlist already in place built through years of consistently sharing valuable content and demonstrating expertise. Over the...

Priyanka Khandalkar's story is one of courage, reinvention, and alignment. Originally from India, Priyanka moved to the United States to pursue her master's degrees in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Over the next seventeen years, she built a successful corporate career working with Fortune 500 companies including Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, John Deere, and Steelcase. Yet despi...

Nimesh Radia's spiritual journey began long before he ever opened the Akashic Records. Starting his career in the corporate world, Nimesh was driven by ambition, determination, and the belief that success could be achieved through mindset, hard work, and perseverance. Yet a series of life-changing experiences eventually led him into a deeper exploration of spirituality, energy, healing, and soul p...

Michelle Chung's journey into relationship coaching began through her own profound transformation. After experiencing divorce in her early thirties while many of her friends were getting married and starting families, Michelle found herself questioning everything she thought she knew about relationships. What followed was a journey of physical healing, spiritual awakening, personal growth, and sel...

In this heartfelt and soul-expanding conversation, Victoria Shakoor shares how she discovered her calling as a “Superpower Activator” and the deeper work she now guides women through to uncover the subconscious identities silently shaping their lives. Victoria explains that many women unknowingly operate from inherited trauma patterns, emotional conditioning, childhood wounds, and subconscious pro...

In this conversation, Samantha Irwin and I dive deep into what it truly means to build a business around people. Samantha shares how she transitioned from teaching middle school into entrepreneurship after feeling called toward something more aligned with her gifts, creativity, and leadership. That calling eventually led her and her husband to a tiny town in Oregon where they discovered a historic...

In this conversation, Ali Reyna and I go beyond entrepreneurship and talk about the deeper identity shifts that happen when you outgrow a season of life. Ali shares how her journey started long before mastermind.com, from helping manage her family’s salon at a young age to living a double life between Arizona and Mexico City while pursuing modeling. Those early experiences shaped her independence,...

In this episode, I’m joined by Jenny Cotten to explore what it truly means to reinvent yourself and realign your life using Human Design. Jenny shares her journey from spending 15 years in education while feeling disconnected, to navigating eight years of uncertainty, and finally discovering the key that changed everything—understanding her own energetic blueprint. We talk about how so many women...

In this conversation, Renee Hribar and I dive deep into the mechanics of sales for service-based entrepreneurs who want to grow through relationships rather than cold DMs. At the heart of Renee’s work is the belief that sales should feel natural and easy. She shares how many entrepreneurs "pitch-slap" or disappear after a first connection, missing the massive revenue potential held within a simple...

In this conversation, Jeanne Nangle and I explore what it means to move through life’s most difficult transitions with awareness, trust, and surrender. At the heart of Jeanne’s work is soul-centered spirituality. Guiding people to reconnect with and love the eternal part of themselves, the soul that is always present and connected. We talk about how moments of loss, uncertainty, and deep emotional...

This conversation with John and Sydney goes beyond the surface of business strategy to look at the human being behind the CEO. We explore the "messy middle" of transitions—the space where the old identity has fallen away, but the new one hasn’t fully crystallized. I talk about the essential pillars of this evolution: Moving from "doing" for validation to "being" for impact How systems and structur...

In this conversation on The Hats We Wear Podcast with Beth Iaciofano , I share the deeper shifts behind my journey beyond titles, roles, and external success. From navigating spaces where I was a high performer but not fully seen, to building SynrGEE LLC, this path has been about more than business, it’s been about alignment, identity, and how I choose to lead. I talk about what changed internally...

Ellen Yin is an award-winning entrepreneur, angel investor, and the 2024 Mrs. Oregon America. Her media company, Cubicle to CEO, has served over 14,000 entrepreneurs through courses, programs, and live events. In this episode, we discuss: Defining Success: Ellen shifted from chasing revenue to building personal wealth and financial freedom using business as a vehicle for investments. Evolution: Fr...

Episode Notes Amy Jordan is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, fitness expert, and choreographer who has transformed unimaginable challenges into purpose-driven impact. From being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age four, to losing her sight at 21 due to an eating disorder, to surviving a life-threatening NYC bus accident at 39 requiring 23 surgeries, Amy’s resilience and mission continue...