Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs

Today I'm talking to Carol Sankar, founder of the global executive leadership firm The Confidence Factor for Women in Leadership. They focus on diversity and inclusion initiatives for high level women.

I highlight some common reasons why adversity is not only your best friend, but an incredible tool for deepening your leadership.

Today I am talking Desiree Adaway, the Principal Owner at the Adaway Group based in Nashville, North Carolina. She specializes in leading difficult conversations on race, class, and gender and building resilient, equitable and inclusive organizations. One of her prime success factors is the incredible skill she has for not caring with other people think of her.  Her purpose is to move the needle o...

Sharing a Fabulous New Training Series…... If you are starting a business or have just launched a business and you are in the thought leader, coach, consultant, or expert space, I want to share with you a fabulous new video training series that I've just launched. In this 4 video training series you'll learn: The biggest mistakes that I see coaches, consultants and thought leader based people maki...

A pioneering entrepreneur, Ipelang Mkhari, founder and CEO of Motseng Investment Holdings , took a 20 year journey to become the successful and recognized woman she is today.

5 "Alternative Facts" For Women In Business I am just wrapping up a 3-day retreat with the beautiful and fierce members of our Bold Women in Business Mastermind. 3 days of intensive strategic planning, masterminding, sisterhood and just a touch of Malbec. FUN. Fun enough to make me reimagine a new term I learned this week, care of Kellyanne Conway: " alternative facts ." The term is both terrifyin...

Happy February! It is Black History Month and we are focusing even more on promoting diversity and diverse women in leadership.

Whether you're thinking about starting an online business, you want to take your current business to the next level by selling your products or services online, or you're ready to really step up your game, step into your power, and find more freedom through the power of online sales – there are many things you must consider. One of the first things, though, is creating powerhouse sales funnels tha...

Our partners play a very important role in our lives. We value their support more than anyone else in the world. It's natural to feel this way and I have observed that many women in business expect their partners to give them 100% support with everything they do. This is where things usually go wrong.

"Let's meet for coffee. I want to pick your brain about something." You oblige. You meet. Then, you quickly discover that what was supposed to be a simple chat over coffee has turned into a free consultation.

Many high-achieving, highly-ambitious women find themselves frustrated with a gap in their market – something they know can be done better than what is currently available to the market today.

It's inauguration week in the United States – the week when the new President of the United States is sworn into the Oval Office. As the soon-to-be former President and First Lady prepare to leave the White House, I think back on the many accomplishments this powerhouse couple have achieved over their 8-year tenure – particularly, Michelle Obama.

Today, I'm talking with the world's leading expert in building and improving influence, confidence, and perseverance, Dorie Clark. Dorie is a marketing strategy consultant for many well-known brands including Google. She has been recognized as a branding expert by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. Magazine as well as a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, Entre...

writer of the new Netflix Originals hit series – OA – lead an interesting career journey. After graduating from Georgetown University, Brit Marling carved a path to become an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. She quickly realized, though, that she was setting herself up for a career she didn't want.

Welcome to the last episode of the Fierce Feminine Leadership podcast for 2016! As we wrap up the year, I want to discuss an important topic for you to think about as you are planning your 2017 path to success – gender bias. What is gender bias? Is it still alive and well in today's working world?

Over the course of the last several episodes, we have heavily discussed ways to help you take your business and career to the next level in 2017. Today, I want to discuss what the phrase "Work Smarter, Not Harder" really means so that you can plan your upcoming year down the right path toward success.

2016 was truly the year for Beyoncé. After all, who else can drop a music album the day after the Super Bowl without using any type of promotion? Not only that, she also became the first woman in history to chart 12 songs on the Hot 100 billboards at the same time , plus she is the only entertainer to be on the Forbes 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list!

Creating a prosperity plan for your business is a key step in taking control over your time, revenue, and leadership abilities. A prosperity plan is also known as a cash planner, and you use it to help you track and plan your actual yearly revenue, plan and predict your projected annual revenue, and plan the activities you will need to achieve to help you reach those goals. A good prosperity plan...

It's that time of year again! Time for fierce feminine leaders to take a step back and reflect on the year they have had in 2016. Time to make plans for the upcoming 2017 year, envisioning the big goals they want to achieve for their business or career and map out how they want to achieve those goals.

One of the qualities that we consistently see in fierce feminine leaders is courage. The courage to step outside their comfort zone; the courage to build and create amazing content; and the courage to step into their leadership role and find and use their voice to make an impact on the world around them – through their life, their business, and their community.

It's mid-December and as we prepare for the upcoming holiday season, many of you successful women in business – myself included – are taking a few moments to reflect on what we accomplished throughout the 2016 year. This is the time to think about what worked well, what worked not-so-well, and what we want to do to propel our business into a successful start in 2017.

Are you a high performing women leader who might be standing in her own way and not seeing a professional or personal breakthrough? I've taken hundreds of clarity calls over the last couple years with women who have high potential, are high achieving, and looking for a breakthrough. You aren't the only fierce woman entrepreneur who has something blocking their breakout result. As a coach, mentor a...

Do you tend to put others before yourself? Do you shrink away from being powerful because you associate it with aggression or dominance which we consider to be masculine traits? Many of us want to step into our power, but we don't want to have the negative connotations of manliness attributed to us, and we may see it as a burden and become invisible instead of reveling in our magical power. Today'...

We all strive to be the best fierce feminine leaders in our industries and to help you achieve your goals I'm searching for a coach for our podcast. I want her to be highly focused on the technical aspect of coaching and helping our clients create results. She will impact our clients positively and support our group program so we can offer one-on-one concierge support for our ambitious women in al...

Are you the type of person who envisions yourself a fierce woman leader who makes seven figures, or do you see yourself one day as the CEO of General Motors? Or are you a detail oriented operator who sticks to a plan, has your nose to the grindstone so you can execute your plan but you get uncomfortable seeing the bigger picture of what your career or business will be? Click Here For More   Whethe...