Personal Empowerment

How does one go from being deep in debt to building a business teaching others about money?  J.D. Roth is the founder of Get Rich Slowly, a personal finance blog.  He hoped that by sharing his journey, it would keep him motivated and help others who were in similar trouble.  Well it changed his life.  […]

Breast cancer transformed Terri Fedonczak’s life by creating clarity that helped her release her pursuit of money and status to focus on cultivating deep relationships with her four girls and her patient husband. On a trip to South Africa, Terri witnessed the power of lionesses as they supported each other within the Pride; it was […]

How do your thoughts affect your reality?  Pam Grout, author of 16 books and most recently her New York Times bestseller E2: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments that Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality. “Thoughts affect every single reality.” ~ Pam Grout, on How She Really Does It LISTEN HERE In this interview we discuss: how […]

The new world of work is unpredictable. How do you put together your eclectic background with your values and do work you enjoy?  Pamela Slim helps people find success and happiness in the new world of work.  She too has had a diverse work history as a marital arts director + teacher, a former corporate […]

After traveling in the Himalayas for 11 years, living in monasteries and doing retreat in a cave, Lisa Reinhardt thought she came back to the US to share what she’d learned about meditation. After an a-ha moment eating chocolate, however, things got really interesting. Now, as founder of Wei of Chocolate, Lisa delights in giving […]

Adult women friendships.  Do you have a longing inside for belonging and connection?  Do you feel shame that you have this need.  Shasta Nelson is here to talk about the value of friendships and how you can cultivate friendships.  Shasta,  is the Founder of GirlFriendCircles.com, a women’s friendship matching site in 35 cities across the […]

Tess Vigeland is a veteran journalist, and a well-known voice to millions of American radio listeners.  For eleven years, Tess was the host of Marketplace Money, a weekly personal finance program that looks at why we do what we do with our money. After climbing a tall ladder of success, Tess left NPR and is […]

Oprah calls today’s guest the “Marriage Whisperer.”  Harville Hendrix is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Getting the Love You Want.  One of my favorites and most valuable books of all time.  Along with his wife Helen LaKelly Hunt, they created Imago Relationship Therapy, a form of marriage therapy that takes a relationship approach rather than individual [&#8230...

Caroline Simas is a licensed artist and mother of four in Charlotte, North Carolina who designs a variety of products for the home décor and gift industry, which are sold worldwide. But really she is a lover of color and design, which speaks to the soul, and she believes that gratitude, kindness and sharing God’s […]

Elizabeth M. Norman, R.N., Ph. D., is a professor at New York University.  She is the author of Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam, and co-author with Michael Norman of Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath, a The New York Times […]

Vivienne McMaster is a Vancouver Photographer and workshop leader who helps folks around the world see themselves with compassion through their own camera lens.  Her photographs have been seen in such places as Oprah.com, The Huffington Post.   She discovered her love of photography in her late 20’s while in a rough patch in her […]

Kelly Rae Roberts is a possibilitarian.  She is an artist, author, businesswoman + most importantly wife and mother. From social worker to licensed artist selling $14 million retail in just under 3 years.  She believes we get to make the rules, that we get to choose, that we get to craft the exact life that […]

Four-time Olympian, 27 time All-american and 16 National Championships, today’s guest Jill Sterkel knows about success.  And as the head coach of the University of Texas women’s swim team from 1992-2006 she also understands leadership for women.  One of the all-time great sports figures in swimming, Jill Sterkel’s name is recognized in swimming circles around […]

Do you compare your insides to other people’s outsides?  Do you think successful entrepreneurs have a magic wand bestowed upon them and that is why they are successful?  Do you think it is not possible for you to be successful?  Do you wonder what it is really like to be a successful entrepreneur? Today I […]

Does it matter that some people see the glass as half empty and others view it as half full?  YES!   Today’s guest Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph. D. is a social psychologist, speaker, and best selling author of Succeed and the co-author of her latest book, Focus, Use Different Ways of Seeing the World to Power […]

Katie Hess is a flower alchemist + the founder of Lotus Wei — one of the world’s leading floral apothecaries. Katie’s hand-crafted flower elixirs have been praised by Oprah’s right-hand man, Adam Glassman, enjoyed by A-list celebrities like Johnny Depp, and custom-blended for President Obama + his family. With products sold in 12 countries and […]

You dream of obtaining your dream job.  But what happens when the dream job is no longer your dream and you leave without knowing where you are headed? Tess Vigeland recently wowed the crowd at WDS (World Domination Summit hosted by former guest Chris Guillebeau). Tess’ speech at WDS, “What the Hell Are you Doing?! […]

Do you want to tap into your true power?  My mentor & frequent guest Martha Beck is here to help guide you to your own true power.  Martha is a life coach  + best selling author of several books, her latest is The Martha Beck Collection: Essays for Creating Your Right Life.  These essays are […]

Lissa Rankin, MD is a mind-body medicine physician, founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute training program for physicians and other health care providers, and the New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself.  She is on a grass roots mission to put the “care” back in health care, and to […]

Why do we get fat?  That is one of life’s great questions and today’s guest Gary Taubes, science writer and best selling author, is here to tell us what he has found in the research. His latest book Why We Get Fat is an eye-opening, paradigm-shattering examination of what really makes us fat. What if what […]

Money and kids….  Do those two words stump you?  What and how do you raise kids and talk about money?  Did you grow up in a home where money was never talked about?  Maybe you don’t feel confident that you know much about money.  Today’s guest Joline Godfrey is an innovator in financial education for […]

We have been conditioned to: work hard, be an excellent student, do lots of  extra curricular activities/sports to get into a top university which will then get you the job you want to provide the lifestyle you need. That is my guest Pat Flynn’s story.  Except he had several twists.  He got the beloved job as […]

Do you know what is really in your food and where it comes from?  Or were you like me, did not want to know because it seemed to overwhelming. Melanie Warner is a reporter for The New York Times covering the food industry.  In her book Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American […]

Sure we all want to feed our families well, however the pace of our lives is incredibly fast and can seem to be overwhelming. Melissa Lanz understands your dilemma.  She was a former marketing executive who quit her day job to promote a healthy family food culture. She is the founder of The Fresh 20 […]

Beth McMullen used to have a normal life. Until she had kids. Then, everything changed. She has channeled her often hilarious and sometimes distressing experience with parenting into two novels that tell the tale of a life she is definitely not leading. Her latest book title says it all: Spy Mom, the story of a […]