Extraordinary Women Radio

Today, I’m honored to bring you the sixth and final contemporary 2018 Inductee to the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame: Gail Schoettler.  It’s a great interview and just in time for the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Gala this coming Wednesday, March 28! Dr. Gail Schoettler has been a U.S. Ambassador, Colorado’s Lt. Governor and State Treasurer, Douglas County school board president, and a s...

This week marks the one year anniversary of Extraordinary Women Radio! What a ride it has been! In every interview this year, our conversations have been rich, the stories shared deep and wisdom filled. My guests have opened their hearts and shared their most vulnerable moments. They’ve shared heartbreak and they’ve shared success. All of them have been inspirational. At the end of every episode,...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio Interview is with Paige Goss the Founder and CEO of Point Solutions Group. Paige started Point Solutions Group only 11 months ago, and has already generated over a $1 million of billings in this short amount of time. She’s changemaker, a doer – and makes things happen – all while moving across the country with her wife and starting a family! In this intervie...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio Interview is with Leslie Foster, a 2018 Inductee into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame and the President of a Denver non-profit, The Gathering Place. As you know, I have a passion for women helping women. For the changemakers. For women who reach out a hand and lift another up. This certainly describes Leslie. Leslie has been helping women get off the...

This week’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview with Heidi Ganahl, the founder of Camp Bow Wow, is so good! Heidi has a passion for keeping the American dream alive and well! That’s because she’s been living it. And it wasn’t all a simple and easy path to get there. Heidi has faced extraordinary adversity in her life. Beginning with the loss of her husband at the age of 27, to losing a milli...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Tami Simon the Founder and CEO of Sounds True. Tami founded Sounds True at the age of 22 with the mission of disseminating spiritual wisdom. Sounds True started out as a project with Tami – and her tape recorder thirty years ago. Since that time, Sounds True has grown into a multimedia publishing company with more than 80 employees, a libra...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio Interview is with Alexis Kanda-Olmstead – a social advocate and leader focused on uplifting women’s roles in leadership. With a twenty-year career in higher education, Alexis brings together research from the fields of social psychology, economics, history and biology to advance women’s leadership. I love how she’s weaving research into her work – and she shares s...

Today – I’m so excited to bring this very special Extraordinary Woman Radio interview with Astronaut Susan J. Helms – the first U.S. military woman in space! Susan is a retired Air Force lieutenant general and astronaut who was a crewmember on four space shuttle missions. She holds the world record for the longest space walk (8 hours and 56 minutes), and was the first woman to serve on the I...

I was so honored to have the opportunity to interview best selling author and highly sought-after speaker, Agapi Stassinopoulos on Extraordinary Women Radio this week. Agapi’s most recent book is Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52   Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life. This book is a treasure trove of how to live a life full of joy. We talk about mindfulness, meditation and intim...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Fay Matsukage, a 2018 Inductee to the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame and Activist for Women and Asians in the Legal Profession. Fay wakes up every day and looks at a sticky note in her mirror that she’s written to herself: “You have to be the change you want to see in the world.” And in fact, she often tells herself, “If no...

This week’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with a Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame 2018 Inductee, Dr. Dorothy A. Horrell. Dorothy is the Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Denver, my alma mater! I love this interview – we talk about success and courage and leadership and transformation. Dorothy tells her story of growing up on the plains of Colorado and finding her way to...

I’m really excited about today’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview with Gerie Grimes – the first of the 2018 Inductees to the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. Passion, commitment, spirit, grit and grace . These are some of the characteristics shared by the women that will be enshrined into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in March 2018. These characteristics: Passion, commitment, spirit, grit and...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio is with Carol Fishman Cohen is the CEO and Co-founder of iRelaunch – a company focused on helping people launch into their next chapter after they’ve taken a break in their career. As a leading expert in the field of career reentry space, Carol wrote the Harvard Business Review article “The 40-Year-Old Intern” about mid-career internships and is a regular HB...

Cindy Powers Prosor believes that there is an important transition happening in the world right now. Amidst all the noise and discourse, there is also a rising up that is timely and needed in our global societies. A rising of more conscious beings. A rising of a more gentle, softer side of humanity. A rising of more awareness in how we show up and connect in the world. And yes, if you’ve been list...

Danielle Fitzpatrick Clark, is the best selling author of the book Fake Free : 7 Easy Steps to Become More Authentic with Your Marketing. She runs a masterclass series called Light at the End of the Funnel, where she featured 20 marketing experts on creating authentic marketing, including yours truly. Danielle and I share this belief that the pathway to entrepreneurial success is an inside-out job...

Lauren Y. Casteel, President and CEO of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado I’ve been looking forward to this interview with Lauren Casteel, the President and CEO of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado since the day I started Extraordinary Women Radio . For Lauren is the epitome of an extraordinary woman. In those early days of planning my podcast, when I was thinking about the women who...

Today, I’m thrilled to bring Heather Aardema of Root of Well Being to this episode of Extraordinary Women Radio . Heather is a dear friend and client, and I’ve been blessed and honored to have been a part of her journey. Heather shares her personal story about how she TOOK her life back, after having been prescribed a concoction of pharmaceutical drugs for over 18 years for 3 different autoimmune...

This week’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview with Dr. Anita Sanchez is really special. Anita is the best selling international author of  The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times.  This book is beautiful – inside and out – and today, we’re going to get into some of the wisdom she shares in this extraordinary book. Anita’s message for the world, and our fortuna...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Claudia Cividino, the CEO of Americas for the luxury fashion brand Bally, where she oversees all of Bally’s business functions in U.S., Canada, and South America from her Manhattan office.  She has held senior executive roles at PRADA SpA, Coach, and Yves Saint Laurent.  Claudia has led a long successful career in the world of big fashion brands....

Today on Extraordinary Women Radio , I’m really honored to host another Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Inductee  – Elinor Miller Greenberg. Elinor is an educational innovator, theorist, and writer who impacts education, civil rights, and women’s rights locally, nationally, and internationally. A visionary, Elinor believes that education is the key to social change and social justice. At 85 ye...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio episode is with Rita Devassy, the CEO of Deva Seed, a mindfulness-based leadership training company. Rita teaches business leaders to create space for awareness that sharpens their leadership of both people and organizations. In her own words, she claims, “I am an Indian born, Catholic raised, plant-eating, non-child bearing, 20 year corporate manager, woman...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio episode with Lori Bachman is the author of MentorShift . Lori invested over 25 years in the aerospace industry before she took the leap to becoming a respected thought leader on the topic of mentoring. In our interview, she tells the story of making the big transition in her life and how a lifetime of mentors has shaped her perspective on mentoring. She shar...

Following the calling in your heart… That’s what today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Alyse Nelson, the CEO  and President of Vital Voices did. And it all started for her when she was 21 years old. Alyse heard a calling that she needed to be at the United Nations Annual Conference on Women, in Beijing China… and she made it happen. And that decision changed her life forever. She left that conf...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio features a delightful interview with M.L. Hanson, who is the founder of the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame – among so much more that she’s done in her impressive career! M.L. is a pioneering, ground breaking woman who set out to leave a legacy – and wow – did she ever. In the late 1970’s and early 80’s, M.L. Hanson observed that the professional lives of contempora...

I have kept Sara Avant Stover’s book, The Way of the Happy Woman  on my bedstand year-round for many years. It is a constant reference to help me tune into the rhythm of living seasonally. I love that the timing of this week’s episode of Extraordinary Women Radio with Sara aligns with the coming of Fall! Such beautiful Universal timing! Fall is the perfect time to harvest the hard work...