How She Really Does It

Creative Entrepreneur Lisa Sonora Beam is a writer and painter who has spent 20 years using her work to help people tap into the healing and transformative powers of creative self-expression. Lisa is the author of The Creative Entrepreneur: A DIY Visual Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real. W e talk about her journey as an successful entrepreneur and artist. " How to live my life to the things...

How a woman in menopause lost 25 pounds without dieting. We are often bombarded with messages about what to eat , the secret exercise to join and what to eliminate from our life to lose weight. In this interview my guest Kathleen will discuss her journey losing 25 pounds without dieting and how she has been able to maintain her natural weight for the past 15-16 months. Since she was going through...

From coal miner s son in Virginia, to bank president & CEO and for the past 18 years Don Green has been the executive director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. Don is known as one of the great leaders in the personal development field committing professional guidance to the betterment of others. Don is the author of Everything I know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill. "Success is a journe...

"How freeing it is to go to bed at night and not worry about what I ate that day. I am no longer a prisoner of food." ~ Regina, Weight Loss Client, on How She Really Does It I wanted to share Regina's journey with you because it is so damn inspiring how she has changed her life. Like you and me, she is a real woman with a real life that is busy, challenging, filled with happiness and sadness. Ther...

Susan Reid has an interesting personal journey. She had careers in advertising, running restaurants and teaching at the New England Culinary Institute. She is now in her fourth career at King Arthur Flour where she started by testing recipes for The Baker s Companion and has since coauthored the subsequent King Arthur books while writing and editing The Baking Sheet. Susan is talks about how you c...

Against the odds. That is the Scott Weltz story. His story is the American Dream. Unlike his Olympic teammates, Scott did not have an international pedigree. Scott talks about his career, the Olympics, why he did not give up and how he was able to make his dream come true. In the interview we discuss: His journey from 7 years old to 25 and why stay in a sport that is known as an individual sport H...

In 2008, after the birth of their daughter Milligan, Adam Baker and his wife, Courtney, decided to sell everything they owned, pay off their consumer debt and travel the world as a family. The Baker s simple motto is The first step to living a life of passion and purpose is to remove the barriers that hold you back. This journey lead to the creation and work on ManVsDebt.com . Now Adam is finishin...

Angela Wheeler is the Operations Specialist and Community Manager at Productive Flourishing. She successfully climbed a ladder of academic success earning a Ph. D in sociology. While working in her academic teaching appointment Angela realized this was not a good fit for her. Angela had spent her life doing what she thought she was supposed to do and what others expected her to do which lead her t...

A high school dropout. Pregnant at 18. What's possible for this person? What can she accomplish in this economy? How can she provide for her daughter and herself as a single mom? Alicia Rittenhouse is now a successful entrepreneur as a Tech Cheerleader + Digital Diva. She has built her business bootstrapping from the ground up while raising her daughter and being the sole provider. Alicia teaches...

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained neuroanatomist. At 37 she experienced a stroke and since then has shared her insight with us. In this interview we discuss how you can experience your right hemisphere how to stay out of your own way how your thoughts and feelings can affect your life why compassion is so important Jill Bolte Taylor: STROKE of Insight TED TALK httpv://www.youtube.com/watc...

Ariane was very successful in our society's view – she went to the London School of Economics, earned her Stanford MBA, climbed the very tall corporate ladder at Times Warner running their $500 million digital-media venture fund. Then she left to start First30Days.com. She leapt. Ariane has been here before discussing her journey leaping from corporate America to becoming an entrepreneur, author,...

Adelaide and Amy are co-founders of In Good Company, a community business learning center and co-working space for woman entrepreneurs in Manhattan. They are also the co-authors of THE BIG ENOUGH COMPANY: CREATING A BUSINESS THAT WORKS FOR YOU. We discuss: what women entrepreneurship is really like? women entrepreneurship and 2nd class? pitfalls of entrepreneurship how you know when you are succes...

Amy Block Joy, Ph. D., Nutritional Sciences has worked for the University of California for more than thirty years. Amy was the director of a $14 million program for poor families. While at the UC Davis campus, Amy uncovered some embezzlement and that lead her down a road to becoming a whistleblower. Amy is here today to discuss her journey. We discussed: her experience truth seeker's in an organi...

Elyse Resch is the co-author of Intuitive Eating . Intuitive Eating is about dropping the diet wars, and nurturing your body rather than starving it, which encourages a reconnection with your innate signals of hunger, fullness and taste preference and helps you find the weight you were meant to be. Elyse is a child and adolescent obesity expert and has just finished writing a chapter about Childre...

Ashley Merryman is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children . The central premise of the book is that modern society's most popular strategies for raising children are in fact backfiring because key points in the science of child development and behavior have been overlooked. Listen as Ashley and I discuss: Praise Lying Sleep Takeaway – specific thin...

Amy traded in her 6-figure salary as the youngest member of Howard University's executive team to become an accupuncturist 6 years ago. As a single mother with responsibilities her ephiphany had to be realistic to support herself and her son. Find out why Amy walked away from a well paying job and how she had the guts to do it. Why make job change – "career suicide" employee to entrepreneur – step...

Ariane de Bonvoisin author of the First 30 days: Your Guide to Any Change and her website www.first30days.com has information to help you change. Ariane is a change expert who has personally ived it to teach it. She had climbed a very tall successful ladder as a Stanford MBA grad working for Time in New York and controlled a $500 million digital media venture capital fund. Realizing she was not li...

Personal finance expert Alice Wood modeled a money saving program around the tenets of Weight Watchers and saved $12,000 the first year she and her husband used the plan. Now her plan, aptly titled Wealth Watchers, is the largest personal finance program in the workforce, with Visa and McDonald's using the very same program with their employees! Alice shares her accessible plan for financial indep...

Alice Schroeder, NY Times bestselling author of TheSnowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life , returns to talk about Warren Buffett's mindset and what we can learn from him. Listen as we discuss: clean thinking and how this effective practice helped Buffett's success Buffett's mindset Two takeways – how we can learn from Buffett and apply it to our own lives Find Alice on facebook Alice's...

Alice Schroeder is a journalist and author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life . Alice, a former research anaylst spent five years researching his life. Listen to our discussion about how one of the richest men in the world became so successful and how you can use his keys for your own journey! keys to his success being different clarity and focus What can you take away from t...

Healing and recovery, how much does our mind have to do with our body. Nationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher and lecturer, Dr. David Hawkins returns as a guest on our show today. He is also the author of Power vs Force and his latest book is Healing and Recovery . Listen to our interview as we discuss: power of the mind/our thoughts changing our thoughts surrender healing and rec...

Our children and sports. The school year has ended along with the mass juggling of different sports teams, activities and school. Now summer has begun with other activities, camps and more sports. Often I am asked what do you think of my child? Do they have talent? What do you think of their ability? Listen as Dr. Paul returns to our show to discuss youth and sports . future planning – where is my...

How many of you want change in your life, but you feel stuck and do not know how? Is change truly possible for you? Or do you feel that this your road in life and you must stay here? Today's guest is Chief Optimist, Founder & CEO of First30Days.com and author of First 30 Days: Your Guide to Making Any Change Easier . During this interview Ariane discusses: change principles Ariane's journey with c...

Stanford psychologist Professor Carol Dweck research has focused on why people succeed and how to foster success. In her book Mindset , Professor Dweck states "how you think of yourself can determine the outcomes of your life." Listen to the interview as Professor Dweck explains: Growth & Fixed Mindset Mindset vs talent Self – esteem & Mindset Children & Mindset Changing Mindset Following the inte...

Aime is the founder of the non-profit advocacy organization Advocate Aime. A few years ago Aime found herself as the victim of a wrongful foreclosure on her house. She spent over two years trying to overturn the wrongful foreclosure and eventually was able to keep her house. Aime decided to found Advocate Aime to help others with foreclosures. Today's show focuses on: surviving foreclosure Obama's...