Living Fabulously Fierce

Simidele Adeagbo is a trailblazing Olympian leading a movement to bring about greater inclusion and gender equality in sport. In 2018, Simidele became the first Nigerian Winter Olympian and the first African and Black woman to compete in skeleton (a sport in which athletes hurl themselves headfirst on a sled down an icy hill at 80 miles an hour) at the Olympics. She has since become the first Afri...

Keri Lyle is the Founder of Birch Collaborative, serving leaders with a blend of 10 years career and leadership development expertise alongside 15 years hands-on business experience. Drawing on her own career at a startup and at Google, and her experience coaching leaders, working side-by-side with them, and being one herself, she helps leaders uplevel themselves, their teams, and their careers. ...

Lisa is based in Plano, Texas. She is an award-winning diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) +Belonging strategy consultant, speaker, and professional certified executive coach. CEOs and CHROs hire her to co-create their diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy to cultivate cultures of belonging. Her career coaching clients enjoy partnering for success as they advance their leadership skills and dev...

Trista enjoys helping leaders build awareness about what’s going on in an organizational system and take action to move towards their goals. She also loves building things that scale. Over her 11 years at Google, Trista played a number of roles focused on building organizational effectiveness — consultant, facilitator, program manager, coach, and HRBP. She is most well-known for building and leadi...

Happy New Year! Seasonal Interview with yours truly in the hot seat!

Taylor Jay is the vision and pulse behind the Taylor Jay company.  A bay area native, Taylor jay has worked in the fashion industry for over 12 years.  As a high school graduate and aspiring stylist, Taylor moved to Los Angeles where she studied fashion merchandising at the California school of fashion design. And it’s in sunny Los Angeles that Taylor opened her first boutique at the age...

Janet Da Silva, M.B.A. has 7+ years in financial services having worked for Fidelity Investments and Chief Operations Officer of EYL University which is an online educational platform focused on financial literacy and entrepreneurship.  She is passionate about fostering economic empowerment in black and brown people groups through education. She understands that by leveraging the gifts and ta...

Stacy is an Executive Coach and founder of Stride Executive Coaching, LLC where she is a catalyst for individuals and corporations taking decisive, transformative steps on their leadership journeys. Her primary focus is coaching leaders and executives through their desired transformations by evoking their authentic purpose and passions while leveraging their unique talents. Her practice includes i...

Stephanie Villanueva-Villar is the Founder & Executive director of Your Girl for Good, a D.C. non-profit organization that equips young girls of color with successful female mentors in the STEM, Art, and Political sectors. Since 2017, Stephanie has created summer mentorship programs, workshops, and summits that focus on reminding young girls of their limitless potential by connecting them with...

Alexandria Butler (aka Lexi B) is a self-proclaimed Freedom Fighter and leader in building executive leadership and workplace equity in the tech industry. After several years working at some of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley, Butler founded Sista Circle: Black Women in Tech, initially as a way to meet another Black woman in tech to be mentored, as they make up less than 3% of the tec...

So excited to be kicking off the fifth season of Living Fabulously Fierce!

I've shared how I'm completing my second coaching certification.  With one final assignment left-a reflection summary, to be completed however creatively I so choose-I've invited some of my peers, a group very special to me, to join in on a group reflection focusing in on our experience.   Please join me as Becki Barret, Courtney Birch Webster, Elisa Johnson, Beth Simermeyer and Nida Zad...

Fabi is a finance leader with 20+ years of progressive leadership experience in global brands and Fortune 500 retail companies, including Nike, Levi Strauss, Nordstrom, and most recently footwear brands Sperry and Keds. Born and raised in Latin America, she is passionate about supporting LatinX causes and mentoring women leaders.

Emma Cortes grew up in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Seattle. Emma’s Edition is here to inform and influence readers to try new fashion trends for their everyday wardrobe and check out the most instagrammable places in their city.  She loves sharing posing ideas for Instagram and connecting with other fellow bloggers. She also loves the thrill of finding hidden gems in each cit...

Arlyn Davich is an entrepreneurial executive with a proven track record of building and scaling consumer-tech businesses as a startup Founder/CEO (PayPerks...Allswell...ShopShops) and Fortune 50 Intrapreneur at companies like Walmart. She specializes in direct to consumer strategy, brand building, demand generation and digital acceleration. She currently serves as a Board Director for Caliper Food...

Candace A. Gray (aka Candy Fox) was born and raised in Memphis and has always lived a double life. She’s a Gemini and she’s always operated well in both left and right brain spaces. Candace’s mother (RIP) always told her to never rely on ONE thing to sustain you...and that concept has remained with her since high school! Candace is marketing and communications professional by day...and a singer/so...

Join me as one of my coaching clients interviews yours truly!

Cara Shortsleeve is the CEO at The Leadership Consortium (TLC), a leadership development platform for high potential leaders with a specific expertise on accelerating women and people of color. Cara joined TLC in 2018 to launch and scale the business. Since that time, TLC has forged a strong partnership with professors at the Harvard Business School, attracted best-in-class clients (including Goog...

Natalie Barlatier – Marathon Runner, Living with Multiple Sclerosis, Graphic Designer who also loves making creative meals.  Loves the journey on a good run and improving on ones health on a mentality that you have to start somewhere to get there.

Elisa Johnson grew up in the greater Minneapolis, Minnesota region and now resides in San Francisco where she has been leading the People & Talent organization as CHRO for Brown & Toland Physicians. Her experience spans more than 25 years in human resources in a variety of leadership roles and industries ranging from start ups to Fortune 10 organizations.  A good portion of her experi...

Sha Hurley, Googler & Certified Well-being/Energy Leadership Coach. By day, Sha leads executive briefings at Google Cloud Space and partners with the Cloud Sales Leadership teams to deliver workshops and retreats to help Googlers achieve well-being and highest potential. By weekend and night, Sha guides and coaches heart centered visionaries in Corporate & Small Businesses to achieve clari...

So excited to be with you again!

In the spirit of Thanksgiving in the US, taking the opportunity to share a special episode dedicated to all of YOU! Join me as I'm joined by Zoraida Colon, Living Fabulously Fierce Coaching Client and HR Professional Extraordinaire, as she takes me through some transparent reflection, dedicated to sharing more of me with you! Enjoy!

Neha is an experienced facilitator specializing in designing and delivering programs to encourage group discussion alongside individual reflections. She wears many hats in her business and personal life and constantly seeks new learning and growth opportunities. Her global experience has shaped her diverse and inclusive thinking, which she attributes as the cornerstones of her work. Neha was born,...

Pamela Mattsson is VP of People and Organizational Development at the fast-growing unicorn sales engagement startup, Outreach. Before Outreach, Pamela was the Global Head of Executive Development for Amazon. Pamela is seasoned executive coach, dynamic facilitator, course designer, and innovative leader in Executive Development and Organizational Culture. Pamela is a respected member of the Coaches...