HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design

Join Leslie Gaudet and Angela Conway, attorney, social entrepreneur, and founder of the Lady Justice Initiative, for a bold and inspiring conversation about what it truly means to build something from nothing — and dedicate your career to changing systems that were never designed to work for everyone. Angela has spent decades leading initiatives across more than 30 countries, advising cabinet-leve...

Join Leslie Gaudet for a reflective solo episode about the moment you realize the way you learned to succeed may no longer be the way forward. In this episode, Leslie explores the old rules many women carry in professional and entrepreneurial spaces. Be dependable. Be prepared. Be easy to count on. Say yes when you’re needed. Prove you can handle the room. Prove you deserve the seat. Those rules m...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Sacha Hughes, author and storyteller, for a raw, honest, and deeply human conversation about what it truly looks like to find your way back to yourself after life has taken you completely apart. Sacha's journey is not a polished success story. It is something far more real. After losing her mother, navigating a high-pressure career in London recruitment, divorce, and single...

Join Leslie Gaudet for a reflective conversation about the moment when the life you built still works on paper, but something in you begins asking whether it still fits the life you want to live. In this episode, Leslie closes out the June series on Building an Extraordinary Life by exploring why extraordinary can’t be reduced to one image of success. Through her guest conversations around career,...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Kirsten Graham, business strategist and outsourcing expert, for an honest and empowering conversation about what it truly means to stop surviving your business and start building the extraordinary life you actually envisioned when you started it. With a decade of experience helping entrepreneurs build businesses that work for their lives — not against them — Kirsten has guid...

Join Leslie Gaudet for a deeply honest conversation about the kind of decision that feels hard not because you do not know what you want, but because what you want and what feels safe are both true. In this episode, Leslie shares the tension she has been sitting with as she continues building her coaching business, her podcast, the Gatherings, and the work she feels called to do, while still holdi...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Kim Costa, Top 5% Realtor® and creator of The Wheel House Method, for a fascinating and eye-opening conversation about the powerful relationship between the spaces we live in and the extraordinary lives we’re building. Kim's journey to this work is anything but ordinary. She built Clarity Farm from scratch — a beautiful property that ultimately left her feeling isolated and...

Join Leslie Gaudet for an honest conversation about the space many high-achieving women find themselves in but rarely talk about openly: the space between realizing something in their life no longer fits and understanding why they haven't been able to change it yet.  In this episode, Leslie explores what happens when awareness doesn't automatically lead to movement, why so many capable women turn...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Stacy Heisey-Terrell, Career Ownership Coach and HR veteran, for an honest and empowering conversation about what it really takes to stop fitting yourself into a career that was never built for you — and start designing one that actually is.  After decades in HR across demanding industries, Stacy experienced firsthand the burnout, broken promises, and unexpected disruptions...

Join Leslie Gaudet for a deeply personal conversation about the moments when something in your life keeps asking for your attention, and you can't quite explain why. In this episode, Leslie explores the frustration of feeling like you're having the same conversation with yourself over and over again. The recurring thought. The recurring feeling. The recurring frustration that continues showing up...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Stephanie Jones, Time Management and Productivity Coach and founder of the Growth Room and the Wealth Building Room, for a bold and energizing conversation about what it truly means to build a business — and a life — completely on your own terms. Stephanie's story is not your typical entrepreneurship journey. After leaving a high-control religious environment and coming out...

What happens when the woman teaching other people to honor themselves realizes she hasn’t fully been honoring herself? In this deeply personal solo episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie Gaudet opens up about the emotional and physical cost of becoming the infrastructure for everything she’s building — from podcasting, coaching, and content creation to supporting a law firm and carryi...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Dr. Mickell Dent, licensed mental health therapist, EMDR clinician, transformational coach, and TEDx speaker, for a raw, honest, and deeply empowering conversation about what it truly means to unmask, heal, and step into the most authentic version of yourself. Dr. Dent is the creator of the ABC Theory, founder of Boss Fly Girls, and the driving force behind GLOW 414 — a nonp...

What happens when the coach knows something the client doesn’t fully know yet? And what happens when the honest conversation about fit becomes harder than accepting the payment?  In this solo episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie Gaudet explores the deeper layer underneath the growing trust recession inside the coaching industry — not just from the client side, but from the responsib...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Anisa Crespo, co-founder of Million Dollar Mom Inc., for a bold and inspiring conversation about what it truly means to build influence with integrity — and why visibility, when used with purpose and faith, becomes one of the most powerful forces for lasting change. Anisa built a seven-figure empire in under a year while raising twins and leading with faith — and through Mil...

You made the decision thoughtfully. You weighed the risks. You trusted yourself enough to move forward. And then the outcome didn’t unfold the way you hoped. Now, suddenly, every future decision started carrying more pressure. More hesitation. More internal reviewing. Because somewhere along the way, disappointing outcomes stopped feeling like experiences…and started feeling like evidence. In this...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Maggie Marcus, education equity leader and Executive Director of the Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation, for a thoughtful conversation about influence, integrity, and expanding opportunity through systems change. Maggie shares how her work began in the classroom, where she witnessed talented multilingual students navigating barriers that had nothing to do with ability—and...

You found a way to finally say the true thing online. The honest question. The real experience. The thing you'd never post under your own name. You said it anonymously. And it landed. People responded. They said yes, exactly, thank you for saying this. And for a moment you felt what it's like to be heard as yourself. Except nobody knew it was you. In this solo episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Laetitia Bouffard-Roupe, internationally awarded model, movement artist, and published muse, for a breathtaking conversation about creativity, authentic influence, and what it truly means to stay anchored in your values while building a career that has taken you across 87 countries and onto stages around the world. Trained at the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet School and a f...

Everyone’s talking about the trust recession — the collective pulling back from investing in coaches, programs and mentors. And the coaching industry has an explanation for it. Too many unqualified voices entered the space. Promises were made that weren't kept. People got burned and stopped buying. And while that's part of the story — it's not the whole story. In this solo episode of HER Extraordi...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Lindsie Vizethann, nurse, author, and holistic health coach, for an honest and eye-opening conversation about what it truly means to heal beyond a diagnosis — and why the answers your body has been giving you may have been there all along.  After nearly 20 years inside the traditional healthcare system, Lindsie became the patient herself — and that experience changed everyth...

In this solo episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie Gaudet asks a question that most high-achieving women have never actually stopped long enough to answer honestly. Whose life are you actually living? Not the life that looks impressive from the outside. Not the life other people would say you have. But the life that actually feels like yours, like you designed it. This episode names...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Grace Yun, nurse and nutrition coach, for a deeply meaningful and eye-opening conversation about what it truly means to stop managing your health and start restoring it — from the inside out.  With over two decades in clinical care, Grace has dedicated her work to helping women newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes move beyond the prescription pad and into root cause restorat...

In this solo episode of HER Extraordinary LIFE By Design, Leslie Gaudet says something that nobody in your world is probably willing to say directly — the most selfish thing you've been doing lately isn't what you think it is. Leslie explores where the conditioning that tells capable women their needs come last actually comes from, what it's costing the people who love you most when you consistent...

Join Leslie Gaudet and Lindsay Friedman, four-time founder and creator of LTCareNav, for a deeply honest and inspiring conversation about what happens when personal pain refuses to stay silent — and becomes the foundation for something that changes everything.  Lindsay has cared for her grandmother, her chronically ill daughter, and Now her parents. Every company she has built exists because she c...