Girl, Take the Lead!

Anne is a career advisor, strategist, and coach for executive and aspiring executive women. She applies her 20+ years of experience as an executive and leader in corporate, non-profit, privately held, and early-stage startup businesses toward supporting and elevating women into positions of influence in their careers and communities.   Through 1:1 and group coaching, speaking engagements, and work...

In our previous episode with Melissa we talked about trauma and if not dealt with can result in being an over-achiever or trying too hard to more. And my take away was that it could results from an underlying belief that I am not enough. Jamie Kern Lima’s book, Worthy, jumped off my shelf and called to me. I knew it might be helpful for us to cover it and see what Jamie has to say about this as it...

Melissa Brunetti, GenX  Certified SMGI® Practitioner, Trauma Healing & Mind-Body Coach with Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® & Mind Your Own Karma The Adoption Chronicles Podcaster, joins us to talk about her journey to educate people about adoption trauma, the Primal Wound and Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery. Her goal is to inspire people and remind us that we are only one decision away fr...

Alicia Berberich, GenX Motivation and Manifesting Coach, joins us to talk about how women can care for themselves and be more brilliant. “Too often”, Alicia says, “brilliant women feel stuck and don’t see the possibilities life has available for them”. She is passionate about helping women unleash their true potential to become who they are meant to become. She works with women to release the shac...

Julie Bee, Millennial, joined Yo in Ep. 173 to discuss her new book: Burned, How Business Owners Can Overcome burnout and Fuel Success. There so much more we could have covered I wanted to share some more insights from the book in this Ep 174. 3 Topics covered in this Episode: Step 1: Identify two red flags The “I’m resilient” folder 3 Groups of resources to prevent burnout   Here are 3 takeaways...

Julie Bee, Millennial, joins Yo to discuss her new book: Burned, How Business Owners Can Overcome Burnout and Fuel Success. In addition to being an author, Julie is a business coach and speaker. She has solidified her reputation as a dynamic consultant, a riveting speaker, and a leader who sheds light on the darker side of business ownership. She shares her personal burnout story and impresses upo...

Emma and Kiki Canny return to join their mom, Yo, to talk about Cults based on the book, Cultish, The Language of Fanaticism. The topics of cults was interesting to all three of us as we’re a family that really enjoys Dateline together.   Topics we covered: Why Emma recommended the Book Use of Language in cults Brandy Melville, Soul Cycle, Facebook, Podcasts, Multi-level Marketing, & Sororitie...

This is a Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite – which is a shorter episode which is a bit more about the topic in our most recent episode.   For this past month we’ve been talking about connections and some have been global, some have been local, and others have been non-human. Today we’ll build a bit more on those topics by covering the book, Together, by Dr. Vicek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United...

This is a Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite – which is a shorter episode which is a bit more about the topic in our most recent episode.  After hearing Suparna Vashisht talk about sea turtles and coyotes previously, I knew I wanted to learn a bit more about how we connect with animals. So I found a book, Our Wild Calling, How connecting with animals can transform our lives – and save theirs by Richard...

Suparna Vashisht joins us to talk about her passions: driving social change in the areas of sustainability, conservation, gender equality, and mental wellbeing. She's a founder of Women Back to Work, an initiative that helps create systemic pathways for women wanting to re-enter the workforce. For the last 20 years she has worked for conservation nonprofits in the areas of strategy, communicat...

This is Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite building on our discussion with Heather McLeod Grant in Ep 167. She talked about philanthropy and women which left me with some questions like: Historically how have women given? What emotions are at the heart of giving? How can we build our own personal strategy when it comes to giving? What happens in our brain when we give, be kind or grateful? What are dif...

Heather McLeod Grant (GenX), social impact and philanthropy advisor, thought leader, and social entrepreneur with 30+ years expertise in strategy, leadership, governance, networks, and leadership for social change joins Yo to talk about women and philanthropy.   Did you know that there will be a massive asset-transfer of $30T over the next decade? And some estimate women will control 60-70% of the...

This is Girl Take the Lead Sound Bite building on our discussion with Claire Lachance in Ep 165. She talked about noetic sciences and “Wisdom Leadership” -  and we thought you'd like to join us to learn more.   The research for the episode included looking at:   The history of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) The role of Edgar Mitchell IONS research goals & hypothesis Dyadic theory...

Claire Lachance, President & CEO of ReSurge International, a pioneering nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to life-changing reconstructive surgery in low income countries, joins Yo to talk about ReSurge’s programs and the positive impact the organization is making in global communities with life-transforming care.   Did you know that five billion people do not have access to...

Nicole Trick Steinbach (Millennial) returns to discuss the book, Quit, The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, by Annie Duke. Annie Duke is a former professional poker player and earned more than $4 million in tournament poker before retiring in 2021. Nicole and I had so much fun talking and I wanted to save every minute of our conversation, I decided to break the episode up into two parts. This i...

Nicole Trick Steinbach (Millennial) returns to the show to discuss the book, Quit, The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, by Annie Duke. Annie Duke is a former professional poker player and earned more than $4 million in tournament poker before retiring in 2021. Nicole and I had so much fun talking and I wanted to save every minute of our conversation, I decided to break the episode up into two p...

Hannah MacDonald-Dannecker, Gen Z, joins us to discuss topics you’ll find super interesting. She offers us amazing insights and advice all generations can learn from. She is on a mission to bridge the gap between previous working generations and Gen Z to create an open environment where we can work Better Together.   In 2023, she published her first book, entitled, “Well Sh*t: Time To Grow Up”, a...

Hannah MacDonald-Dannecker, Gen Z, joins us to discuss topics we hope you’ll find super interesting. She offers us amazing insights and advice all generations can learn from. She is on a mission to bridge the gap between previous working generations and Gen Z to create an open environment where we can work Better Together. In 2023, she published her first book, entitled, “Well Sh*t: Time To Grow U...

In our previous Ep 159 we spoke with Irene Sim about ego and the role it played in leadership. But I wanted to dig in a bit more about this and had what may be a basic question: what is the ego and what are current thought leaders in the field saying?  So I did some research and found some insights I thought you might find interesting. Episode sources: Consumer Behavior, Babin + Harris, 2022 Brené...

Irene Sim joins us to discuss some topics I think you’ll find interesting like the power of emotions, new thinking habits, systemic bias and racism, and emotions and ego. Such good stuff!   Irene is the Managing Director of Coaching Alliance Group, an accredited Executive Leadership Coach, Mentor and Facilitator. Her career is amazing. She was the inaugural Chief of Staff at APEC and first Asian w...

In our previous Episode 157 we heard about Mothers’ Day Movement and the African Education Program and I was struck with the fact that $35B is spent on Mother’s Day gifts. How could that be? And what’s the history of the holiday? And where’s the motivation coming from? So I dug into some articles and searched for insights I thought you might find interesting.   https://www.history.com/topics/holid...

Dominika Turkcan, from Mothers’ Day Movement (MDM) returns to join Yo in this episode. The Mothers' Day Movement is an organization that grew out of a column in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, where he made the case for moving the apostrophe in Mother’s Day so it honors not just one mother, but underserved mothers everywhere. It advocates shifting a portion of Mother’s Day gift giving...

This is a shorter episode with Yo Canny building on our previous episode where we explored Amber Ontiveros’ near-death experience. I had so many questions after hearing her story, I knew I wanted to know more so here are some of the ones we explored: What are common near-death experiences based on research? BTW you’ll hear me refer to near-death experiences as NDEs. What happens in the brain durin...

Amber Ontiveros , Gen X, joins us to discuss her book ‘Heal The Four Woundings, A Guide to End Discord and Discrimination’. After a life-altering near-death experience, Amber recognized the limitations of traditional racial equity conversations and was inspired to innovate. Amber is an Unconscious Bias coach and has crafted tools grounded in the neuroscience of unconscious bias to heal herself fro...

Today we conclude our conversation with our returning guest, Andrea Mein DeWitt, and we’ll continue to discuss her new workbook, Name Claim & Reframe Workbook, Your Companion Guide to A Well-Lived Life, which you can preorder now and will launch April 30. In this episode we’ll also get into reframing feedback, accepting a compliment, flying helicopters into stormy weather, and end with some he...