The MELROSE Show - Decision Society

Pamela Joy is a relationship and sex therapist. Pamela's former job in tech for a decade+ at Apple and Facebook was wonderful but after she found how interested she was in the sex therapy she was doing with her husband, she decided to pivot for she had found her thing.. This whole experience shocked her but she stayed open to this vision for herself and stayed curious.  Pamela earned her mast...

Chez is a magical person and longtime friend of Mel Rose, as well as a really amazing business woman. She is one Goddess that is a force to be reckoned with! She had been through quite a long career path that started as a dental assistant, included owning a modeling agency that casted women onto music videos for Def Jam and Cash Money Record companies and styling the ladies for these shoots, to so...

Chiara (Kee-Are-Ah) B. Townley is a spiritual guide and writer based in Portland Oregon who is originally from London.  Chiara realized she had a very strong intuition when she met her husband working in hospitality in London. Now, married to him with a new baby, she has launched an incredible start up to help professional women connect with their spiritual side. She says that it is very impo...

Sabrina Vedete has opened our hearts and minds and is a woman living and speaking her truth. And it is beautiful! We might actually listen to this podcast every week just to keep this re-remembering this information. Sabrina tells us so many things we knew but forgot and totally needed to hear. She is also an educator of the YONI, even just teaching us about that word versus vagina! She gave us a...

Helena Yasmine is a goddess guest from the goddess circle who we are so excited to have on the podcast teaching us this week about engineering and her revelations from staying true to herself and strong in a male dominated industry. Helena has had some incredible twist and turns on her career path. What was steady was her father's guidance, her unwillingness to conform, and a lot of intelligence;...

Misty Cudahy nee Twigg Butler is a one of a kind goddess. Misty has been one of Mel's best friends/sister/seastar for years and more importantly has shown everyone around her just how to do hard things.  Misty is a pro at doing that which would petrify most people; start multiple start ups, renovate her entire home, study at 40, and build a family of 5 with 3 kids under 4. Yes, she's a magic...

Leila Banijamali is a tech lawyer (her firm focuses on SF Law & Real Estate Brokerage Bedrock SF ), she is a relentless entrepreneur, explorer, surfer, and chaser of big dreams. She is the CEO of Symbium Build which is a computational law company that is currently focusing on helping home owners and small business owners navigate complex zoning regulations and the local rules that govern what...

Dr. Amanda Cohen is a doctor of Chinese Medicine and Functional Medicine and combines science, psychology, research, and magic into her practice. Dr. Amanda is an intellectual powerhouse. She has a dual bachelors degree in clinical psychology and anthropology from Cornell, a Master's Degree in Health Psychology Research from UC Irvine, and a Clinical Master's Degree and Doctoral Degree in Traditio...

Arielle Hayat is a clinical herbalist and a magical creature that we can all learn from. For she is filled with endless knowledge about human's real best ally; Plants. She completed her 1000 hour apprenticeship with 30+ year Wise Woman herbalist Lata Kennedy of Flower Power Herbs and Roots focusing on the Six Steps of Healing of the Wise Woman Tradition, where she still works today. She spent four...

Jenny Mischel and Jessica Elliot are both professionals working to improve the situation with bullying. Jenny comes at this problem through academia. She holds a PHD in Educational Psychology and works as a development coordinator and facilitator with Payton's Project and is a visiting assistant professor at Oxford College at Emory University. Jessica is in the trenches as a school counselor at Fa...

Alison Cebulla is a woman on a mission. A mission for public health by way of scientific research devoted to trauma and sharing it with communities to empower their people. Alison works with and for The ACEs Connection. Alison coaches and encourages the community to understand that childhood truamas affect our adulthood in very real ways. ACEs stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences and covers a...

Rachel Johnson is one of those women that you talk to and by the end of the talk you're like woah...that was a goddess! Rachel is Managing partner at J&O Law . which is a firm that she and her best friend from law school founded after doing some time in big law. They specialize with helping startups and emerging growth companies with their legal and coaching through the life cycle of new busin...

Leticia Baca is an incredible woman. Not just because she is the President of Lakewood Organic Juices , or a wife and mother of two who accomplished such high corporate accomplishments. She is incredible because she has persistence and a mindset that isn't afraid of stepping back to go even farther forward. When she found herself pregnant with her second child, she wasn't provided for by her emplo...

Donna Lopez was not someone who thought she was very smart and was never told that she was highly intelligent. But she always wanted to do something big with her life, even as a youth. A wrench got thrown into the system when she became a teen mom. But she refused to let an assumed trajectory defeat or define her. Instead, she took control of her life when opportunity knocked. She gained traction...

Jenny Nieveen is a President and Founder, a strong woman, and a fearless hispanic business owner. Her school OHLA is a leading provider of English language courses and other study abroad programs. OHLA, Open Hearts Language Academy , is an incredible company that employs over 200 people and has educated thousands of students since 1998 in higher education. They offer comprehensive English language...

When Christina de Giovanni found herself in a jail cell with all her assets seized by a weird twist of events involving her boyfriend and a bunch of cannabis, she found the spark to her life's fire. She found that "thing" that would direct the success and impact path she would set out on. As she sat there, she realized that her experience to get to that point was fraught with civil injustice and t...

Anahita Moghaddam is a seastar and a goddess as a founder and a trail blazer. She walks her path in life on the mental wellness path. She is such a powerful force. She is so many things to say about her, but first and foremost is her beautiful consciousness, that is ever so present. She has been a voice of reason and truth teller for Mel over the last few years and is an extremely esteemed guest o...

Lina Restrepo is one determined female run business owner who is here to make all the unemployed people, a little bit smarter with this episode. Lina, President, CEO and owner of Infinity Personnel ; a Miami-based recruiting agency specialized in sourcing, selection, behavioral interviewing and relationship management, as well as placing and retaining talent.  As a former banking industry pro...

Danielle Mills is a retired Professional Tennis player turned award winning senior leader of tech company Prodigy , founder and CEO of Headstrong Coaching & Podcast , and an amazon best selling author of her book: How to Master Linkedin: and Separate Yourself from the Masses . Basically, Danielle is amazing. Her mental training as a child professional athlete primed her, along with really good...

Dr. Colleen Lindstrom is a sorceress. She actually would have been called that in the olden days and people would have traveled from far away to have her work on them. She is a miracle devoter . Today, she's known as a doctor. But she is a very special doctor. She is the kind that really cares and deals with the true life force. The spine, the fluid around the spine, and all the energy around us;...

Sarah Williams owns her own Real Estate firm in New York City called Societe and with over a decade in the industry, she knows the 212 inside and out. Societe is a privately-owned, female-run, bespoke real estate agency that defines Sarah's ethos with luxury aesthetics, smooth processes and influential work. She is also the agent who won Rookie of the Year (REBNY) and The Rising Star Award in her...

Claudia Batchelor is a self-published thriller novelist, a landlord, a creative director, a former music industry executive, and one of Mel Rose's dearest friends for half a decade now! A kite surfer, beautiful soul, and loyal friend, Claudia is magical inside and out. From the streets of Columbia to the countryside in London split with the seaside of Cabarete, Dominican Republic, Claudia has figu...

WELCOME TO A GODDESS CIRCLE EPISODE Dr. Tiffany Bowden is an anti-racism educator, a diversity consultant, a speaker, coach, trainer, and social entrepreneur . She is also a program manager at Amazon. She has a beautiful mind and is a force to be reckoned with. Her big heart and intelligent mission are two reasons this episode will allow you to think about your mindset. She inspires action in raci...

WELCOME TO A GODDESS CIRCLE EPISODE Dr. Chelsea Shields , a bio-social anthropologist, strategic research consultant, women's rights activist, mormon, speaker, author, mother and wife and so much more, who accomplished 2 PHDs debt free by the way, pretty much defines a modern female boss. Born and raised in the Mormon community in Utah, Dr. Chelsea knew there was more to life than her community le...

WELCOME TO A GODDESS CIRCLE EPISODE Barika Poole , NGO executive director for Spouts is an incredible human being. Originally from Connecticut, she finds herself these days living and helping get a basic right to people in Uganda, so that they may have a fighting chance at developing economy and a safe and healthy country.  A masters of environmental engineering, educated MIT, Barika's l...