Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in Business

With mental health crisis, adrenal fatigue, burnout, and stress-induced illnesses on the rise, the topic of your well-being deserves a bit more prioritization. This episode shined light on the importance of self-care, reflection, celebration, and what it means to maintain a healthy balance between ambition and your personal well-being. If you’re curious about how to nurture genuine relationships,...

In this conversation, Naketa Ren Thigpen and Valerie Menzel discuss the importance of creating new habits and setting boundaries. They emphasize the need to schedule emails and responses to manage expectations and avoid burnout. They also explore the challenges faced by achievers in setting boundaries and the importance of self-awareness. The conversation highlights the role of strengths in managi...

In this episode, Naketa Ren Thigpen and Charlene Gisele dive into topics like achieving sustainable high performance, recognizing the need for change in business, and navigating conflicting priorities affecting personal life. Centering the discussion on finding joy and engagement while building success, the importance of meditation and personal growth for women in business, and achieving focus thr...

“Overwhelmed by the Pressure FOMO has created to make us all feel like we don't do enough. We don't see people. We're missing out on all this great stuff happening around us. And, actually, there's space for everything, and sometimes I feel like we're all overdoing it." – Featured Expert, Natalia Talkowska shares on the Balance Boldly Podcast. Taking layered and complex data and turning it into be...

Anabel Oelmann, co-founder of The Healing Company, is driven by the mission to democratize access to integrated healing. Beginning her journey as a model, she battled stress-related migraines, finding relief in Eastern medicine. This transformative experience led her to become a certified nutritionist and establish a functional mushroom company. Today, through The Healing Company, Anabel and her t...

Our next guest is the creator of transparency TV, the first LGBTQ plus cartoon channel, specializes in integrative transformational breakthroughs and wears a bonus hat as a Master in Neuro Linguistic Programming. Moe Poole, known as Coach Moe is on a mission to create impact by elevating visionaries to empower others helping them embody one of her key philosophy quotes, “there is magic in your mis...

In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, we step behind-the-scenes on why the boldest are embracing their inner lazy overachiever to create true balance personally (and) professionally. Taking a personal dive by addressing feedback received from the BBP listeners who have expressed a desire for more of my professional insights, a new complimentary podcast will be airing soon and I couldn’t b...

This week, our special guest is Dr. Tamara Beckford, an emergency medicine physician, best-selling author, speaker, podcast host, and CEO of UR Caring Docs. Dr. Beckford is on a mission to reduce employee burnout through her workshops and mentorship to helpers and healers across the globe. Today, host Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with Dr. Beckford to talk about the difference between burnout and d...

Our next guest is an accomplished author, speaker, and thought leader in the culture industry. Working with organization levels that range from start-ups to billion-dollar corporations, she’s helping decision-makers and key leaders cultivate strong cultures at the head to help empower the employees that move the body of the business. Charisse Fontes is utilizing her expertise in philosophy, anthro...

Our next guest has taken her decade-plus skillset and business acumen beyond the boundaries of what most would expect an expert to say, do, or be. This brilliantly potent human has harnessed her Hulk-like disdain for hard sales, tacky self-promotion, and overly competitive sleazeballs as inspiration for serving entrepreneurs and founders with better ways to build their businesses. When she’s not w...

Today we are holding space with a brilliant human who is Not Your Typical Business Coach , she’s a Marketing and Lead Generation Strategist, Host of an award-winning podcast, and author of You, Me, and Anxiety: Take Action Over Anxiety to Enjoy Being You. Let’s welcome back to the Balance Boldly Podcast, Dr. Robyn Graham What to expect in today's BBP episode: -How to embrace your inner truth to he...

Our next featured guest expert helps women in tech and design break into the industry with sophisticated personal branding and career advancement mentoring. When she’s not serving our future STEAM leaders, supporting them as they ready themselves for greatness, she wears the hat of CEO and Head of Strategy at Chykalophia (pronounced: see-ka-lo-fia) . Ari Krzyek is on a mission to help FemTech, Dir...

Today’s guest is helping women entrepreneurs and professionals hold space to heal. Dominiece Clifton, a Baltimore-based Certified Yoga Instructor, Trauma-Informed Breathwork, and Meditation Facilitator, is on a mission to enhance emotional education and well-being with body-centered approaches to healing. Host Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with Dominiece to talk about how she discovered her brillia...

Our next guest has a unique perspective on the modern workplace. Known as The Job Doctor and go-to career coach for Gen Z and Millennials, Tessa White’s insights on how to navigate complicated relationships at work while building your career are exploding on social media. Today, on the BBP, host Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with Tessa White to discuss how you can heal and thrive through stillness....

Our next guest is a Business Coach helping women find the path to prosperity through pleasure & purpose. Best Selling Author, Speaker, and multi-company founder, with a double doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and Acupuncture, Dr. Diane Diamond Mueller is changing lives with her superpower, being too much… Today, host, Naketa Ren Thigpen talks to Dr. Diane about owning who you truly are insid...

Our next guest is a Baltimore, Maryland, native, dedicated to empowering clients and nursing professionals with impactful, resilience-building tools that help them make informed wellness choices. She’s a trailblazing black female entrepreneur who is leading powerful discussions around cannabis inclusive patient care and restructuring the stigmatized industry. Today, host Naketa Ren Thigpen sits do...

Tracy Crossley is a Behavioral Expert, Author, and Podcast Host of two weekly podcasts. With her background in business, marketing, psychology, ontological coaching, emotional intelligence, and intuitive abilities, Tracy is the gamechanger for women leaders looking to reinvent how they live and lead from the inside out. On today’s episode, host, Naketa Ren Thigpen explores the personal and profess...

Our next guest isn’t just passionate about transforming relationships, he’s ignited highest when he can help couples transform fast! Jon Dabach is a couples counselor and relationship coach, known as Mr. Spirituality by clients and followers of his engaging podcast, Relationship Revival. Today, Jon is in the studio with host, Naketa Ren Thigpen to talk about complacency in your relationships and c...

By the age of 23, our next guest was managing a multi-million-dollar property asset in Charlotte, NC. She went on to become one of the youngest Sales & Marketing representatives for a custom home builder in the Charlotte region, where she developed a love of helping people achieve their own piece of the American dream through home ownership. From climbing the career ladder and pushing back aga...

Our guest today has been leading the fast-growing manufacturing and technology company StoneAge as CEO and Board of Director for well over a decade. As an Advisor, Author, Speaker, and Multi-stream Podcast Host, Kerry Siggins is on a mission to create winning cultures through her sought-after expertise in executive presence and business model transformations. Host, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down wit...

Savvy Clover Coaching & Consulting's CEO and founder is Brandy Mabra, serves as a CEO Coach for private practice owners in healthcare. With over 15 years of experience in business management and leadership, she has successfully navigated various business environments, transforming chaotic practices into efficient and lucrative enterprises. As she’s learned a thing or two over the years, a huge...

Mary Katherine Stahl, known as MK, is a multi-location Fit Body Boot Camp owner and Community Manager for the franchise. As the voice of the people and the face of the organization, MK is also the host of the Beyond the Scale podcast. Wearing a few legacy making hats, MK is a mom and wife and is passionate about helping others live their best life on their own terms, especially when it comes to ba...

Our next guest has a story that too many families relate to in secret shame, weighted under the blanket of grief, loss, and jaggedly steered emotional rollercoasters. Author Tasha Van Howe boldly stepped outside of herself to write a novel penned under the title, Miss Me Always, for anyone who has ever experienced loss or struggled with infertility or the adoption vortex. A personal tale of traged...

Shiloh Johnson, MST, CPA, is the CEO and Founder of ComplYant, a cutting-edge digital tax assistant helping small business owners and entrepreneurs with a simple way to manage their business taxes. Shiloh is one of only 10 Black women to ever raise over $12M in Venture Capital, and she’s been featured in  Forbes Next 1000 , Bloomberg Tax, Afrotech, Crains, Glamour, and Built In’s “ Best Places to...

As the first-born daughter of Asian immigrants, Jean Tien was an obedient daughter who met her family's expectations of climbing the corporate ladder as a mark of success. After discovering that “happily ever after” doesn’t automatically happen when you start to make more money or follow the footprint of traditional success methods, she was motivated to create a new S.U.C.C.E.S.S Method for ambiti...