Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in Business

Ritu Chopra is the founder and president of Everest Consulting LLC and has over 22 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies. Her decades of experience in IT management paved the way for her to become a motivational leadership coach. She is an author, TV show host, an advocate for domestic violence and prevention efforts, film producer, and director of multi-awarded film documentaries about dom...

Deanna Deacon motivates women to be strong and successful by harnessing their innate feminine energy to achieve growth and prosperity, all while experiencing happiness and a deep sense of fulfillment. She is a spiritual personal trainer who employs mindset alchemy, energy healing, and has a knack for unlocking joy, laughter, and energy from anyone and everyone she meets. An empathic coach and a mo...

Dr. Barbara Cox is the author of The Muse Process: Unleashing the Power of the Feminine for Success and Fulfillment. She uses her experience and expertise as a coach and psychologist to assist organizations and communities in making operational changes and enhance their personal intuition through understanding the feminine archetype. As a public speaker, she has spoken about the psychology of buil...

Melanie Augustin heads the nationally-recognized nonprofit software development school, Zip Code Wilmington, as its Executive Director. With the mission of empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds to become professional software developers, Zip Code Wilmington guides its students through an intensive 12-week course. Melanie brings her own experience of career transition to the table, having...

Kem Odike encourages women and minority business owners in establishing strategic partnerships through her business, KemKlicks LLC. Utilizing her 20 years of experience as a Digital Marketing Manager for some of the world’s largest web hosting companies and advertising agencies, Kem inspires her clients to think big and see beyond the present. Having lived in several countries, Kem is quite famili...

Sheri Kurdakul is a business owner, professional consultant, and the founder and CEO of VictimsVoice. Driven by the desire to give back and honed by over 5 years of working with startups, she specializes in coming up with effective solutions to complicated issues. She has spoken and written at length about her experiences and areas of expertise. She has used her learnings from 29 years of domestic...

Raquel Miller is a proud Carribean-American business leader, a social connector, and the owner of Bunchful Birthday + Holiday Registry. She is a poet and a remarkable speaker on various topics such as entrepreneurship, leadership, and cultural gift-giving as well as a phenomenal storyteller who is not afraid to share and be honest about her highs and lows in business. With over 17 years of experie...

Dr. Yashima White AziLove is the founder of YWA Enterprises where she equips entrepreneurs and influential people to transform their businesses, organizations and personal lives using the power of Elevated Communication and Branding. Aside from working with Fortune 100 companies around the globe, Dr. Yashima has been a key player in the marketing industry - ever since she started blazing trails at...

Jo Dodds is the Founder of POWER to Live More, where she helps home-based coaches and consultants improve their productivity, organization, wellbeing, energy, and resilience to unlock the POWER within, get more done, and live a healthier, happier life. She is also a member of the core team at Engage for Success, a movement committed to helping organizations and business leaders improve their perso...

Beth Lawrence is an event producer and experiential marketing expert who has launched several brands and provided PR services to many small businesses. She is the CEO of a events production, marketing, and PR firm based in Philadelphia as well as the co-founder of The Industry Formula, a company that offers sales and marketing templates as well as consulting services to small-to-mid-sized companie...

If you heard last week's interview, you understand why we absolutely had to follow-up with Part- 2, today! If you are new to the show or missed last week, let me reintroduce you! A registered nurse, Kyana Brathwaite founded KB Caring Advocacy & Liaison Services (or KB CALS) to help people, families, and businesses find the best wellness plan that suits their various medical needs. Kyana’s clie...

Kyana Brathwaite is a registered nurse and the CEO and founder of KB Caring Advocacy & Liaison Services (or KB CALS), a company that partners with their clients and assists them in an interactive and participatory process of discovering the best customized health and wellness plan for individuals, families, and businesses that will best fit their needs. In addition to planning, her company als...

Kristie Bergey is an Associate with Very Real Estate who helps people get new leases in a record-breaking time of less than 3 hours. With her background in real estate, she grasps the essence of the investment world. It is no surprise that she is also an entrepreneur who creates new businesses. Today, she travels the world and embraces the cultural differences in Philadelphia while owning three ho...

Roxanne Wilson is a former Appellate Lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Clerk who pivoted her career to become an accomplished event planner and skincare influencer. She is the owner of a Jazzercise Franchise, a well-travelled speaker, radio personality, and the first African-American woman to compete in the final four of the NBC hit reality TV series, The Apprentice, with President Donald Trump. Sh...

On Today’s Episode of the Balance Boldly for Ambitious Women Podcast:   Whitney Nicely is the Queen of real estate investing in East Tennessee. She is an expert property investor, speaker, and real estate coach whose career initially began while living on her parent’s couch and working a desk job where she made $24,000 annually. Deciding there were better options and possibilities waiting for her,...

Newell Anderson is the Co-Founder and Principal Partner of Caccioppoli Anderson LLC, a boutique marketing firm specialized in creating dynamic, impactful marketing design and branding campaigns that seamlessly marry their client’s needs, unique style, quality, and personality. His role with the company includes extensive public relations, marketing campaigns, event planning, advertising, and devel...

Stephen A. Hart is a brand strategist and the founder of Isles Media, LLC. He is also the creator of Brand You™, a digital platform that provides done-for-you services to help entrepreneurs and professionals create a digital footprint by expressing their passion and creativity so they can change the world. Stephen also owns, operates, and hosts Trailblazers. FM, the top ranking podcast that interv...

Al Cini is an innovator, influencer, and the creator of the Brand and Culture Alignment Tool Kit (BCAT) -- a must-have tool that measures your team brand and culture as well as offer strategies to boost workplace productivity. He founded Computer Methods Corporation, a staffing recruiting, and project management company where he also served as CEO in 1980. Al is an expert in behavioral assessment,...

Stephanie Scheller is the owner of Stephanie Scheller Enterprises, LLC., a highly successful coaching company focused on disrupting the typical way businesses operate and helping businesses and entrepreneurs scale their companies through sales, marketing, and systems. Additionally, she is a sought-after keynote speaker, a trained martial arts professional, and the author of Friend Power. Over the...

Mariska Bogle joins joins the Balance Boldly Podcast to talk about how her curiosity led her to be the Executive Director of Philadelphia Hospitality. She shares the fears that high achievers try to overcome, what she does to maintain her quality of life, and how she lives bravely and authentically as she enjoys living in the moment. Mariska is the Executive Director of Philadelphia Hospitality, a...

Joy Fejoku joins the Balance Boldly Podcast to share the challenges she encountered as a new business owner and how she overcame them. She also shares how she created the blissful life she’s now living and how she changed and cultivated mindset habits and behavioral habits that allow her to process herself, identify her triggers, and change the way she approaches life altogether. With a passion fo...

Cheldin joins me today to share why being comfortable with being uncomfortable is essential in your journey to realizing your dream. She talks about what it means to pivot and how to do it, the steps to take to scream your dream, and the relationship between sacrifice and reaching your dream. Having an entrepreneurial spirit at a young age, Cheldin Barlatt Rumer is the CEO of i-g Creative and the...

Nicole Brown joins me today to share how one person inspired her to go further and eventually impacted the trajectory of her life. She also shares the significance and power of showing up - not only in her education as she dealt with doubtful stares head on - but also in her career and, ultimately, in the community she serves. Nicole is an environmental engineer with a business development role at...

Lisa Gable is a phenomenal woman who has served a number of influential people -- including four U.S. presidents and two governors. She also serves as a counsel to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and as a representative to global public-private partnerships and nonprofits. Her goal is to move organizations to a higher level of performance and to promote quality leadership and diplomacy in organizati...

Special Guest Kristin Iris joins me today to share what limiting beliefs and thoughts are and how to create a paradigm shift in your work. She shares why you should make the effort of digging deep into yourself to figure out what’s blocking you from being a fantastic creative and why some people are afraid to go for and grab what’s good for them. Kristin Iris is a writer, speaker, and creativity m...