The Empowered in My Skin Podcast

Peter Hartman is a speaker, consultant, comedian and entrepreneur who enjoys a life teaching personal empowerment development. Using positive-thinking principles he shares common-sense approaches for empowering individuals, groups, and organizations. For more than 9 years, he has encouraged audiences to redefine their assumptions about how life should be. Peter is an insightful, knowledgeable and...

Kike Ojo-Thompson, is an anti-racism expert, and she is doing the work that she has been called to do. She fundamentally believes that there is a different way and that different is possible. Kike Ojo-Thompson is the founder and principal consultant of Kojo Institute. An award-winning expert on equity, inclusion and diversity, she specializes in developing, facilitating and implementing innovative...

Thriving Thursday's are "chew-able" episodes, where Nkechi is joined by Gaby Mammone, and asked to share perspectives from her life experiences. You will be get a taste of her wisdom and leave with a call to action. In this episode, Nkechi shares her views about names, and how important they are in defining who we are. She feels that all names are important, and everyone should find out what their...

Emily Mills, is on assignment in this world to connect the dots, and she is doing exactly that. She is creating ways to help people see each others humanity and common ground, and see what is impossible to do as individuals, but what is possible as a collective. In 2010, Emily launched How She Hustles, a Toronto-based network that connects diverse women through social media and special events. Las...

John Ribeiro is a passionate, results-driven professional and an enthusiastic performance coach. He has over 10 years of experience in leading high performing teams in the information Technology field and  has trained and coached professionals on Leadership, Team Building, and Personal Performance. BUT… that is not all! John is the co-founder of Fearless Voices, a platform that celebrates the ever...

Sandra Chuma is a multimedia journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker, and was selected as the inaugural Documentary Fellow during her time at Columbia University. For more than 15 years, Sandra has successfully blended business leadership, entrepreneurial innovation and creativity. In 2001, prior to attending Columbia University, Sandra partnered with her husband to create OBP (Open Bus...

Thriving Thursday's are "chew-able" episodes, where Nkechi is joined by Gaby Mammone, and asked to share perspectives from her life experiences. You will be get a taste of her wisdom and leave with a call to action. In this episode, Nkechi shares about how she thrives from a grateful heart. She says, "You don't have to be grateful for everything, but find the gratitude in it."Alot of our power as...

Caroline Gayle is Technology lead in Accenture’s Financial Services practice in Canada and the company’s managing director sponsor for Corporate Citizenship in Canada. She has been mentoring the next generation of women leaders in the technology and communications space at Accenture for more than 20 years, sharing her knowledge, providing guidance and working side-by-side with her teams to achieve...

Caroline Gayle is Technology lead in Accenture’s Financial Services practice in Canada and the company’s managing director sponsor for Corporate Citizenship in Canada. She has been mentoring the next generation of women leaders in the technology and communications space at Accenture for more than 20 years, sharing her knowledge, providing guidance and working side-by-side with her teams to achieve...

Milos Dunjic, is a Payments Innovation expert and an award winning Technology Executive. He is recognized as cross-functional payments innovation leader and subject matter expert, visionary, frequent conference speaker and thought leader. Milos has deep technology understanding, strong business acumen, rapid learning and exceptional communication ability. He is driven by the big picture, thrives o...

Founder of A Walk In My Stilettos, Makini Smith, is an award-winning entrepreneur. She has successfully crafted a business in personal development as a mindset coach helping women reach their goals, a certified Proctor Gallagher consultant for her mentor Bob Proctor, and 4-time published author. Her first book is titled A Walk In My Stilettos: How To Get Through The Struggle With Grace; with the f...

In this episode, I sit down with Makini Smith, founder, A Walk in My Stilettos. She is a mindset coach, and expert, and therefore its a perfect time to pick her brain on how to maintain a healthy and thriving mindset through this unique period of life. This episode is a gem. We talk about faith, fear, and gratitude, and how you can leverage each of these to find and/or stay in your thrive. Makini...

Thriving Thursday's are "chew-able" episodes, where Nkechi is joined by Gaby Mammone, and asked to share perspectives from her life experiences. You will be get a taste of her wisdom and leave with a call to action. In this episode, Gaby asks Nkechi to share her experience with Forgiveness."Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die." -- Marianne William...

Chidimma and Onome, immigrated to Canada from Nigeria, and in just eight short years, they have unlocked their unique thrive code. They are proud parents to 3 active boys and actively invest in setting the right examples while ensuring they have the right support structure to succeed in their aspirations. Chidimma is an Accounting and  finance professional with over 18 years experience within and...

Heather Wilson-Phillips is an On-Air TV Expert, Fitness & Wellness Coach, the owner of The Fitness Empire, and Creator of the 30 Day “Fierce N’ 30 Challenge” and 21 Day FWG (Fierce Wellness Guide). Heathers holds several certifications in the Fitness space. Heather has been voted 2x as a one of Canada’s top 100 Health Influencers and top 100 Black Women to Watch. Most recently, she was nominat...

Multi award-winning actress, philanthropist, mother, and global speaker; Kate Henshaw is a multi-talented public figure from Nigeria. Her recent honour as Ambassador for the Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care, role in revered political thriller 4th Republic (which premièred at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC - November, 2019), and appointment as judge on America’s CBS t...

Thriving Thursday's are "chew-able" episodes, where Nkechi is joined by Gaby Mammone, and asked to share perspectives from her life experiences. You will be get a taste of her wisdom and leave with a call to action. In this episode, Gaby asks Nkechi to share her experience with dealing with the Naysayers, aka "The Haters".Everyone has haters, especially those aiming to achieve success in life. It...

A former couch potato turned 2 time Figure Pro Athlete all over the age of 40. A once passionless stay at home mom of 3 turned self proclaimed International Sparkle Spreader Carol Elizabeth has taken her struggles and her messes to be the light to guide others on their journey. A true believer in experiential knowledge, Carol’s passion to help women shift in their mindset from can’t to capable is...

Ashley Wright is an Entrepreneur and Motivational speaker. She is the Founder of "The Wright Success" brand that helps individuals with personal growth, building their brand, and growing their business. She is also the creator of "Study Cryptos"; An online class that educates individuals on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology. She is passionate about women and youth empowerment and does a lot...

Melanie Sodka, founder and CEO of Capacity Creator Corp., speaker, writer, capacity creator, award-winning professor of entrepreneurship, podcaster, 40under40, TEDx Speaker. Capacity Creator is an education and consulting company focused on helping individuals and teams harness and leverage their greatest asset, personal capacity. Based on the principles of the 4 states of capacity as well as her...

Jodi Kovitz is the founder and CEO of #movethedial, a global movement and organization to advance the participation and leadership of all women in tech. Leveraging Jodi’s vision, leadership, wealth of experience, pioneering spirit, and passion for advancing the full talent pool in the new economy, #movethedial has touched over 60,000 people at events throughout Canada, the US, the UK and Israel. F...

Jodi Kovitz is the founder and CEO of #movethedial, a global movement and organization to advance the participation and leadership of all women in tech. Leveraging Jodi’s vision, leadership, wealth of experience, pioneering spirit, and passion for advancing the full talent pool in the new economy, #movethedial has touched over 60,000 people at events throughout Canada, the US, the UK and Israel. F...

Thriving Thursday's are "chew-able" episodes, where Nkechi is joined by Gaby Mammone, and asked to share perspectives from her life experiences. You will be get a taste of her wisdom and leave with a call to action. In this episode, we learn the backstory to Nkechi's, You Matter speech from Speaker Slam, that has gone viral on a number of inspirational platforms; Power of Positivity, A-Plus, Inner...

Jason Finucan has faced both physical and mental illness, and in this interview he opens up and shares his personal experiences with impactful analogies and insight. He has done rigorous research in order to mobilize knowledge and perspective.  His goal is for everyone to understand this important topic so they are empowered to make a real change and ultimately join his vision for future without s...

Jason Finucan, is a mental health advocate, stigma fighter, author, professional speaker and founder of the company StigmaZero; He is also the instructor of the comprehensive web-based training program Create Your StigmaZero Workplace, which can be found at www.stigmazero.com. I reached out to Jason with an ask to have a specific discussion about mental health during Covid-19, as I believe more th...