The Power Profile

Philip Palumbo is founder and CEO of Palumbo Wealth Management and host of the Philip Palumbo show. In this episode we talk about the power of money to help us reach our potential in life and how he's convinced thousands of clients and investors to live in the present and retire the word "retire".

This week, Richard Newman from UK BodyTalk helps us hone our business communication using tools from his experience as an actor and researcher. ⁠ Richard and his team work with 10,000 clients per year, around the world, from many different industries. He is based in the UK, but 70% of his work is international.⁠ He is the author of "You Were Born to Speak" and you can reach him at: https://ukbodyt...

Sales encompasses skills that cross all industries and Jeff Wright has spent his life helping others attain those skills. He founded Agent Sales Group to help people develop the confidence and credentials to sell brilliantly. We download some of that in this edition of The Power Profile

Pull Up Your Chair and meet Cicely Simpson! After decades working with presidents and in congress, Cicely is now a seasoned Public Speaker, Leadership Coach, Author and Founder / CEO of the Summit of Public Affairs. We talk leadership, her time in congress and the way she has touched all of our lives in a unique and unexpected way.

This week on THE POWER PROFILE: Omar Medrano is known as "The Vacation CEO" He may look like he's on easy street but its taken him a lot of work to get there. Now he helps his clients bust through fear and doubt with his new book "What if it DID Work?" Join Omar and me for a conversation that takes us through his journey and his mission to put others on the road to freedom through entrepreneurship...

Known for her devastating run splits, two-time Triathlon World Champion, Siri Lindley, dominated the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Rankings, winning 13 World Cup races between 2000-2002 and was the 2001 ITU World Champion. Her experience and talents in the sport have shone through with tremendous results, at all distances and with both elite and age group level competitors. Siri is als...

Excited to be launching The Power Profile with a new season of innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders. This week, broadcast talent agent and founder of Positive Life Choice Psychology, Ken Lindner. . Besides being the founder of Positive Life Choice Psychology,” Ken owns what is arguably the most successful and well-respected TV broadcast journalist representation firm in the country, Ken L...

Dr. Erica Miller is my final guest on A Fresh Agenda. Dr. Miller is a holocaust survivor and inspirational storyteller who transformed her life after Nazi detention. A Fresh Agenda will become The Power Profile in a couple of weeks as this space is re-branded to interview world-class leaders.

Inspiration from India this week with Paayal Mahajan! The founder of Essential Body Couture is living her best life right now. She's built a global brand, transformed herself physically (losing 120 pounds), was highlighted in Harper Bazaar's international fashion issue and is getting married this week. She took time from planning her New Delhi wedding to talk with me about reflecting on enjoying t...

New Orleans may be better known for jazz and cocktails but Kim Lewis is a dynamic entrepreneur making wine and waves in The Big Easy. We chat about her journey from health care work to launching the Ole Orleans winery and how travel is often the catalyst for big life changes.

Amber Garza is a thriller author from Northern California and a featured speaker at the upcoming Women's Empowerment Experience in August. Amber chats with Cristina about her path to a blockbuster 4 book deal, movie rights for her novels and how she stays creative as she writes her psychological thrillers. . Check out Amber's books and bio here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/where-i-left-...

This episode is a conversation between Will Frampton of McLeod Media and myself (of Mendonsa Media) discussing our soon to be released one hour program premiering on PBS-KVIE. . You'll hear excerpts from the show, we'll take you through the conceptualization and we'll share insights from our research as we take a forward looking approach to the pandemic. . Covid Lost and Learned premiers on PBS-KV...

Shari Fitzpatrick is the creator and founder of the world famous gourmet dipped strawberries - Shari’s Berries. Today Shari is an author/speaker and has launched a whole new line of chocolate dipped items as well as wine and a new bed and breakfast. She travels internationally (and is excited to get back to it after the pandemic) as an inspirational business speaker Her new chocolate gifts are off...

Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times. In this interview we delve into the definition of life: is it consciousness? Brain activity? He tells me about some surprising forms of life researchers are just finding and whether AI or conscious comput...

Cher, Farrah Fawcett, Robert Plant and John Lennon...they all loved her designs and at 75 years old, she is still creating and innovating. Norma Kamali is my guest this week. We talk about her new book, I AM INVINCIBLE, which is Norma’s healthy lifestyle guide on aging with power. We also discuss post pandemic fashion...what will THAT look like? She tells me the story of the iconic red swimsuit sh...

My guest is Eric Dezenhall, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Dezenhall Resources. He has more than 30 years of executive-level experience as a crisis, communications and management counselor for corporations, prominent individuals, sports organizations, nonprofits and educational institutions. Dezenhall is one of the nation’s foremost crisis and damage control experts. . He's also an auth...

Novelist, former NYT reporter and of late, covid contrarian, Alex Berenson is my guest this week. Berenson has written 13 novels, 7 non-fiction works and his latest is called “The Power Couple”. We’re going to get into his methods for switching between fiction and non-fiction, discuss the state of journalism a bit, cancel culture and the twitter arguments he’s having on the daily when he presents...

James Suckling is internationally regarded as one of the most influential wine critics and wine communicators. Through 40 years and over 200,000 wines, Suckling has created a stunning body of information about the wines of the world. Suckling joined Wine Spectator in 1981, when it had 500 subscribers and was run out of a garage in San Diego. He fell in love with the genre and rose to become the Eu...

CEO of the MELT agency in Atlanta, Vince Thompson is both marketer and mentor. Thompson runs the nationally awarded sports marketing company MELT and has worked with some of the largest brands in America including Coca Cola and Aflac. He mentors recent college grads on boosting their professional brand for the job hunt through his MELT-U courses and has recently written a book called: "Build Brand...

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo’s Spy Games Evy Poumpouras joins Cristina for a conversation about reinvention and shares vital lessons learned from protecting presidents. Her book Becoming Bulletproof details insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for life’s stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you are...

Episode #92 Colette Carlson - Mindset & Human Behavior by Cristina Mendonsa

Karen Wagner and Erica Baird are the cofounders of Lustre.net They are retired corporate lawyers who were at the forefront of the women’s movement that broke the mold in the workforce. They’ve been featured in Forbes Magazine among many others as disruptors of retirement and after busting the glass ceiling in their industry they are now destroying the perception that retirement equals old and done...

It was a dark secret that connected a growing number of unexplained deaths.⁠ . ⁠ Robert Bilott is an environmental attorney who spent decades of his life trying to inform the public about chemical contamination. If you've seen the movie Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins, you've seen Bilott's battle against DuPont. ⁠ .⁠ Now he tells me the rest of the story and how Covid factors in...

Ada Calhoun is an award winning author of several books: St. Marks is Dead, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give and her latest is called “Why We Can’t’ Sleep”. The book is about the women of Generation X as they enter mid age She spoke with women across the country about their experiences as the generation raised to “have it all”.

#88 Filmmaker John Waters - Mr. Know it All by Cristina Mendonsa