Possibilities with Monique de Maio

Your best business idea might be the problem you've been living with. For years, Alice Kim struggled to find clothes that fit her body, even while working at Prada, Diane von Furstenberg, and Victoria’s Secret. Until her early 30s, she even wanted a breast reduction. Eventually, she stopped asking what was wrong with her slim body with larger breasts and started questioning why the industry wa...

Every successful company has a board of directors. People whose job is to challenge assumptions, offer perspective, spot blind spots, and help guide the big decisions. So why are so many women trying to navigate careers, families, finances, and life transitions completely on their own? In this solo episode, Monique de Maio makes the case that most women are not short on support. They are short on...

Somewhere along the way, women were sold a pretty lousy deal: build a serious career or business, or be the mother who's always there. Pick one. But who made that rule? And why are we still playing by it? On this episode of Possibilities, Monique de Maio sits down with Beth Mazza, serial entrepreneur, co-founder of two successful consulting firms, and co-author of Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER: B...

What if loving the mission is the easy part? Most people don't choose nonprofit work by accident. They care, often deeply. But somewhere along the way, it becomes easy to act as though being mission-driven makes the fundamentals of running a business less relevant. It doesn't. In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Dr. Kimberly Iozzi, who has spent mo...

What if the most powerful thing you could do for your career was not a promotion, a pivot, or a plan? What if it was finally finding your people? In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Lauren Bailey, known throughout the GTM world as LB: Founder of Factor 8, the award-winning virtual sales training company; creator of Girls Club, a program that has produced o...

There is a conversation happening about you before you are ever in the room. Before your next prospect picks up the phone, they have probably already typed your name into ChatGPT. They have looked at what comes up. They have formed an opinion. And they have moved on to the next thing on their list. That is the new first impression. And most people have no idea what it looks like. In this episode,...

Your resume should write itself by now. You have the title, the results, and the experience. So why isn't it working? Because a resume that lists what you've done isn't the same as one that sells what you can do next. In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio , Monique sits down with Lisa Rangel, Founder and CEO of Chameleon Resumes, former executive recruiter, and one of t...

She's so easy to work with. It sounds like a compliment. But is it? In this solo episode of Possibilities, Monique asks a question that most high-performing women have never stopped to answer: what does being easy to work with actually cost you? Because behind that phrase there is often a very different story, one about boundaries that were never drawn, yeses that were never really meant, and...

What if the voice you've spent your entire life trying to silence is actually the one you should trust most? Most of us were taught, early and repeatedly, not to trust ourselves. Not directly. Through school systems, social norms, performance metrics, and the constant pressure to be logical, productive, and certain. We got very good at listening outward. In this episode of Possibilities with M...

When was the last time you stopped to ask yourself how things are really going? In business, we call it a QBR. A quarterly business review. You know the format: leadership gathers, metrics get reviewed, what is working gets reinforced, what is not gets a plan. It is a discipline most organizations treat as non-negotiable. Most of us have never run one on our own lives. In this solo episode of Poss...

Most companies do not have a culture problem. They have a leadership problem. In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Maria Reis, a senior member of the HR leadership team at LG Electronics, to unpack what actually builds high-performing teams and what quietly destroys them. Maria Reis is a results-driven HR executive with a career spanning financial services,...

Most business podcasts follow a script. A host asks a question. A guest gives a polished answer. Everyone sounds smart. Nobody says anything new. This is not that conversation. In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio , we introduce a new format: Business Q&A: In the Room Two leaders. Real decisions. No theory. Monique sits down with Stephanie Baker, former Chief Commercial Office...

Something happened this week that made one thing very clear. The way buyers research and choose vendors has already changed. And most companies have not caught up. LinkedIn recently published new research, drawing on data from Semrush and Profound, showing that LinkedIn is now the #1 most-cited domain for professional queries across major AI search engines. That means when your buyers use tools li...

I once spent an entire Friday driving across three states to pick up secondhand furniture for my kid's college apartment. I was proud of us. Resourceful. Practical. Smart with money. Except when I ran the actual numbers - including my time, the gas, the storage, and what it cost to get it all moved in - it was 40% more expensive than just ordering new from Wayfair. I had optimized for the feel...

What if one of the most powerful leadership tools you have… is the one most women were taught to ignore? In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio , Monique sits down with Cathy Williams, a trailblazer in body-based healing and creative arts therapy, for a powerful conversation about intuition, body awareness, and why so many high-performing women lose touch with their inner guidance s...

If you sound like everyone else, you are competing. And competing is exhausting. In this solo episode of Possibilities , Monique unpacks a pattern she’s seeing across C-suite leaders, founders, hybrid executives, and growth-stage companies: Brilliant people and strong businesses, all stuck inside labels. COOs assumed to want the CEO seat. CMOs who operate like operators. CHROs who function as cult...

What if confidence isn’t something you’re born with, but something you build one decision at a time? In this episode of Possibilities , Monique sits down with Mary Alice Duff , fractional COO, entrepreneur, and portfolio careerist, for a grounded and powerful conversation about confidence, self-trust, and what truly changes when women stop waiting for permission. This is not a conversation about m...

Welcome back to Consider the Possibilities with Monique de Maio where real-life experience meets practical wisdom… In this episode, Monique shares a powerful, deceptively simple framework she’s used for years to create clarity, focus, and alignment: the magic of choosing three words . Forget resolutions. Forget vision boards that don’t stick. This is about creating a true north . A lens through wh...

What if aging wasn’t a slowdown, but an invitation to go bigger? In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio , Monique sits down with Judy Katz , an accomplished ghostwriter, author, publisher, and storyteller who found her true calling at 65 and is still creating, writing, and building at 85. Judy challenges everything we’ve been taught about aging, boldness, and self-confidence. She sh...

What if some of the most powerful women in leadership are quietly navigating crises no one ever sees? In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio , Monique sits down with Dana Codispoti , a global HR executive, Chief People Officer, coach, and co-founder of the nonprofit HIGHER , for a raw and necessary conversation about leadership, personal crisis, and what it really means to be resili...

Episode 100 is here! What started as a way to share stories from my book has become nearly one hundred honest conversations with women creating lives they love : navigating leadership, reinvention, ambition, motherhood, money, wellness, and meaning in real time, without pretending it’s easy. In this milestone episode, I’m looking back not just to celebrate, but to reflect. Across 100 conversations...

What if the reason love feels so hard has nothing to do with effort, timing, or “doing the work” and everything to do with how high-achieving women are conditioned to relate to themselves? In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio , Monique sits down with Lynda Williams , transformational coach, entrepreneur, and host of the PS I Love Me podcast, for a deeply honest conversation about...

What if your job finally supported the life you actually want? In this episode, Monique sits down with remote-work expert, entrepreneur, and founder of Remote Rebellion, Michelle Coulson, to unpack what freedom really looks like beyond the office, beyond expectations, and beyond the 9–5. Michelle has helped hundreds of people land remote roles that align with their values. Originally from the UK,...

If you listened to Part 1 , you know how Jodi Scott-Lyons built four wellness brands from a kitchen table into a national presence. What you do not know yet is what happened when that entire world was turned upside down overnight. In Part 2 , Jodi takes us behind the scenes into a chapter most founders never talk about. The chapter where everything falls apart. The chapter where you question your...

What happens when a purpose-driven founder refuses to follow the rules AND builds not one but four wellness brands straight from her kitchen table?... You get Jodi Scott-Lyons , CEO, creator, innovator, Renaissance woman, and the definition of “mission with a heartbeat.” In Part 1 of this powerful two-part conversation, Jodi walks us through how she, her mother, and her sister bootstrapped Green G...