Shameless Leadership

Sabrina Torres stands out in a crowd. With her unique point of view about the power of organic growth, engaging content, bold colors, and coffee (lots and lots of coffee), she started Be Truly Social, a social media marketing and sales company that helps business owners around the globe by making their social media pop in a busy online world. From her home in Nashville, Tennessee where she lives w...

We all carry doubt.  Even the most polished and pretty people on the internet. For real. In recent months, a number of people have applauded the ways I’ve shown up online and in my business over the last year.  Friends - it is NOT without doubt from time to time.  I have doubt on a fairly regular basis, especially when things around me feel out of my control and unpredictable. So, you know, like e...

Jessica is the Creator/CEO of Front Seat Life, Myers-Briggs Expert, Life/Business Coach for Intuitive Women, Author, Keynote Speaker, Podcaster, and Former Psychotherapist. She is an ENFJ, truth teller, F bomb dropper, lover of all things Maui, and fiercely dedicated to helping you be unapologetically who you are. Jessica is a total go getter who has hustled her way to success in so many areas of...

Let’s be honest… growth is scary. It involves dancing with the unknown. Yuck, right? I’d rather dance alone in the safe isolation of my bathroom, thank you very much. But growth is also incredibly rewarding. Growth shows you what you are capable of. It proves to you that you are strong, gifted, talented, and worthy in ways you didn’t know. This can be a game changer. So, why do we stay stuck in fe...

Pauline Cheung is a women’s leadership speaker and coach on a mission to show professional women how to trust their voices and create professional and personal success – without conceding to people-pleasing and perfectionism. Despite 12+ years as an international executive working with Fortune 500 C-suite and senior-level leaders in the areas of strategy, marketing, and business development, Pauli...

Earlier this year I received two mental health diagnoses. One did not surprise me at all, but the second did.  I have been processing and thinking through the gift of diagnosis a lot over the last few months. Yes, the gift of diagnosis.  Receiving these diagnoses was more affirming and validating than I ever could have imagined. Instead of feeling plagued by some parts of myself that have been bew...

Trudi Lebron is an entrepreneur, coach, consultant, podcaster, and speaker working with social impact leaders, and transformative coaches who want to increase the impact of their efforts. Trudi is the creator and head coach of BeABoss a personal and professional development program for Millennial Women of Color, works with entrepreneurs to help them start social impact businesses, and supports soc...

I’m not going to pretend that boundaries are easy. They are tricky and sticky and often intimidating. But boundaries are also the KEY to liberating our time and energy and mental space.  Telling you to simply “have better boundaries” is not helpful. It’s like telling a worry wart to “just stop worrying.”  So, instead of telling you to have better boundaries, I’m going to give you three actionable...

Alison Tedford is an author, marketing consultant, and mom from Abbotsford, BC, Canada. Her work has been published on AlJazeera, CBC, Upworthy, and Today's Parent, and her debut book, Chronic Profit, is being released by Self Counsel Press in April 2021. I have been following Alison online for a couple years now. She has always stood out to me as a leader and a truth teller. She speaks up to shar...

I don’t want to squash your dreaming. Dreaming is beautiful and powerful and necessary.  But… Sometimes our dreams can be intimidating. We see them out there and they look inviting and delicious - and also terrifying.  I want to run a marathon - but how do I go from running 3 miles to running 26.2 miles? I want to write a book - but how do I write an opening paragraph, let alone 300 pages? I want...

Jessica's superpower is making brain science accessible and entertaining for children and adults alike. She is living this out as a clinical supervisor, nationally known speaker, author, and Shameless Mom of 3. She is also the founder and director of the training and resource platform BraveBrains. This is Jessica’s second time on the show. I was so excited to have her back because talking to her a...

Perhaps you’ve noticed that with changing times have come changing needs, changing goals, and changing desires.  With that, perhaps you notice you’re saying YES to new things - and NO to new things. Some of my yeses and no’s and have definitely shifted over the last year. In fact, I find myself saying yes to some things I thought I would never say yes to. Funny wildly unusual circumstances paired...

Maya Luque is a strategist. She helps businesses craft smart, perceptive ways of communicating. The focus of her work is to help businesses build strong, long-lasting relationships with their customers. She has an M.F.A. and has created over 100 sculptures and installations. Her background as an artist helps her guide people towards an emotion; to help them feel connected. Art is great for strateg...

Ever since I read Michelle Obama’s book two years ago, I have been obsessed with this notion of becoming.  We are always becoming. There is no way around it.  Sometimes we are becoming more the person we know we want to be. Other times not so much.  Sometimes we are becoming a person we did not want to be. Maybe even a person we feared we would be one day.  What we must remind ourselves everyday i...

Kim Evey is a Los Angeles-based actor, writer, and stand up comedian. She has appeared in numerous commercials and TV shows, written for children's animation, and created and starred in one of the first web series on Sony's Crackle.com entitled "Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show." She produced Felicia Day's trailblazing series "The Guild," a web show so successful that it was actually put on disp...

“Sara, I’ve been getting your emails for 7 years and I’m finally ready to sign up for your program.” This is the email I got from a prospective gym member back when I had my gym.  This woman had been waiting for 7 year - SEVEN YEARS - to finally qualify herself to change her life.  She came in to check out the gym a few days later and we immediately hit it off. After about 10 minutes, she confided...

Shannon Kenny Carbonell grew up in Sydney, Australia, and moved to the U.S at 18 to study acting. After earning a BFA in Theater from The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), she worked in regional theater where she had the privilege of playing some classic roles like Nina in The Seagull, Julie in Miss Julie, and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She then transitioned into television gue...

Last week, we had to very quickly and unexpectedly say goodbye to our sweet dog of 14 years, Granny Dani. Our hearts are broken.  My husband and I lost our first baby - this creature we doted on with all of our love and affection before welcoming Vinnie 6 years later. Vinnie lost his sister - his best friend with whom he spent hours each day, snuggling and singing fart songs (that no one else in o...

Tiffany Bluhm is the author of She Dreams, Never Alone, and her newest book Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up. She is a sought after speaker, writer, and podcast co-host of the popular podcast Why Tho, a show answering the existential and nonsensical questions we ask ourselves, with author and speaker, Ashley Abercrombie. She speaks at conferences and...

When you spend a year (or any season of life) worrying about what’s next and wondering how you’ll manage all the things you cannot control, you are likely to find yourself in exhausting cycles of fear and doubt. Then, to combat the worry and fear and doubt, you find ways to numb so that you may quiet the fear and the doubt.  This happens to us in the year after having a baby, the season after losi...

As a podcast visibility expert and host of the Go Pitch Yourself podcast, Angie Trueblood knows that the only 'perfect pitch' is the one that leads with value and focuses on building a genuine connection. Whether she is teaching entrepreneurs how to pitch themselves or working behind the scenes to secure opportunities for others, Angie leverages her super-connector powers to grow businesses and bu...

5 years ago today I launched the first episode of The Shameless Mom Academy. To be honest, if it hadn’t been for a pushy coach I would likely still be saying, “I think I’m going to do a podcast soon.”  Starting is the only way to find the magic and I’m so glad I started when I did. I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing and I wasn’t quite sure why I was doing it. I only knew I had some things to say...

As an award-winning business strategist, host of the Promote Yourself to CEO podcast, and best-selling author, Racheal Cook is on a mission to end entrepreneurial poverty for women. Over the last 10 years she has helped thousands of female entrepreneurs design predictably profitable businesses without the hustle and burnout that doing #allthethings inevitably accomplishes. In fact, Racheal is a so...

I have repeatedly likened our survival of this pandemic to our survival of Newbornland. We have endured a year of uncertainty and upheaval. We have made accommodations and adaptations to our lives that we never imagined - and often thought were not possible (hello virtual learning). This has taken a toll on us physically, mentally, and emotionally. And, like surviving Newbornland, we cannot fully...

Heather Chauvin is a leadership coach and strategic parenting expert who helps ambitious women become leaders at work and home. Drawing from her professional experience as a social worker and her life experience raising three boys, Heather created a signature approach to focus her clients on sustainability, profitability, and ease in business and life. She is the host of the Mom Is In Control Podc...