You Should Write A Book About That™

Crowdsurf co-founder and marketing expert Cassie Petrey has been on the Forbes’ “30 Under 30”, Variety’s "Hollywood's New Leaders in Digital” and named one of Billboard’s Digital Power Players in 2018 and 2019.   In our talk, we look at how her generation is still grappling with the same level of problems of gender equality in accolades, but also women making time in their busy lives to market the...

Our children need us to advocate for them so they can be taught how to do the same for themselves.  When faced with a decision about the care for his young son’s life-threatening condition, Aseem Giri used his tenacity as a successful entrepreneur, private equity investor and investment banker to unearth all the options and experts.  He went against what was advised as a cure and found a solution...

Kendall doesn’t mess around when it comes to certifying women to be business and money coaches. She stands by the title of #1 in her certification systems and trainings, and consistently delivers the material (which she writes all of every day) to her clientele and Facebook tribe to back it. While certification is not inherently a sexy word, she has created a world that when inside, you feel the p...

Previous artist manager for Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, and on the Britney Spears management team, Rebecca Warfield has transitioned her career to a more holistic approach to management as the CEO of the woman owned and operated Chicane Group. She enters relationships with current clients like global artist, photographer and humanitarian Julian Lennon as a partner versus a who’s the boss mentality....

Businessman and CEO Allen Maxwell had a dream to write a book from his childhood on the streets of Philly through his 22 years in the Navy and beyond.  One year later, he landed the # 3 spot on the Wall Street journal Top Ten Business Books with  The System is Unforgiving: Play By The Rules and Win , and USA Today top 150 books, never mind the #1 book in the entrepreneurial category on Amazon. All...

Serial entrepreneur Jeremy Cortez has been doing  business since the young age of 7.  He had his first coaching client at 20.  He wrote a book Parenting A Business with me in 2018 and has been enjoying working that very model with his two young sons. Last year, he had a complete meltdown and couldn't get out of bed.  He was having suicidal thoughts.  He finally decided to go to a mentor for answer...

Naomi suffered her whole life with the debilitating condition - binge eating. No slouch when it comes to education and career - with a Masters of Science in Speech and Language Pathology from Columbia University, and employment helping kids with feeding and swallowing disorders for New York City Department of Education - she kept her core coping mechanism a secret from her family, her modern Ortho...

Allison Andrews sits on the board of Fashion Week San Diego, a business she founded and then sold when her newborn son almost died. She stands by “everything happens for a reason,” and is fearless of change. We touch upon her raw vulnerability as a writer, and her willingness to drop the mask we often wear professionally out in the world. On the spot, I title her soon to be written book as I have...

Tonya Crooks is the Original Brow Gal serving celebrity clients such as Julia Roberts, Fergie, and Megan Fox. She is also the creator of Arches and Halos, a line of eyebrow products available in Target and Walgreens. I know Tonya pretty intimately, spending lots of time with her writing her book, and I can tell you, she is a fighter, and a warrior and the road to where she is today with her busine...

Entertainer, dancer, and entrepreneur Pepz Javier moved from the Dominican Republic to the East Coast as a kid and found his roots in the arts. Not speaking English until he was 11, he never saw immigrants like himself make it growing up aside from J Lo. He eventually had to face his own benchmarks - a gay Latino male, the artistry, and a desire to break a glass ceiling. We can all relate to Pepz'...

John Lee Dumas, the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award-winning podcast, has recorded over 2500 episodes, boasts 1 million + listens a month, and seven-figures of annual revenue (which he outlines on his web site). Plus, he just signed a six-figure book deal with Harper Collins. He is open and honest about his journey as an entrepreneur and we even bond over Rhode Island. Listen here for nugge...

After completing her first draft, Gale took a four-year journey seeking to understand WHY she was writing this book about money and the planet. But ultimately she needed to discover her voice as an author. Deeply intuitive, a Dowser and reader of the Akashic Records, she couldn't move forward until she felt at peace with her potent topic, Money. I would ask her, "But where are you in the book? Whe...

Networking and building palpable relationships can make or break a business, especially as an entrepreneur. Tyler Wagner makes 70 connecting calls a week, and puts emphasis on businesses needing to continuously refine their key partnerships. Tyler and I met on LinkedIn when he reached out, targeting coaches who work with authors. He admits growing up he didn’t love reading, until he read the 4 Hou...

Jamice Oxley debunks the theory that you can’t have it all in motherhood. She breaks down how women can be victims to information that isn’t personal to them. The antidote was to lean on her values and to dispel the fear of being judged for having a family, husband and a highly respected position in a top LA entertainment law firm representing clients such as Facebook. From there, she was free to...

How do you feel when someone says “You are beautiful.” Do you believe them? Ann Andrews helps women reframe how they look at their own beauty and reclaim their image from the distorted demands of our culture. She speaks candidly about acting out as a teen with cutting and how that helped her initially connect to women feeling so uncomfortable with how they look and feel about themselves. She has a...

Board Certified Holistic Health Coach Jill Anenberg Lawrence is all about eating so you don’t wake up with a sugar hangover. She makes wellness fun by sprinkling her how-to videos and workshops with dirty humor. I appreciate her ballsy Italian approach to life and her chemical-free house mantras. She packs great tips into our time together that may not make you look as hot as she does, but at leas...

It’s a scary time to be Chinese American in America with COVID 19… but this isn’t Stephanie’s first experience with racism. She wanted to write a book 30 years ago about the hidden intersections of Asian American and African American communities in the US. Stephanie is open about growing up in a verbally violent home in Philly with a father who came from a war-torn country. She knew as a young gir...

Not many people can say they have interned at a maximum-security men's prison as an Art Therapist. Amanda started the program with one courageous inmate and it catapulted to three dozen! She leaned on her Quaker upbringing for the foundation of service. She is certified as a Police Officer and worked in both the public and private sectors of law enforcement until significant personal setbacks foun...

Long friendships are golden. To have someone know you, and not judge you through decades of crazy decisions, wild times, sadness, is priceless. Today on the show I honor the value of long friendships by having a heart to heart with my best friend of thirty-years Ariel Doggett from my old Boston stomping ground. Her resilience and tenacity through an infant almost dying, coming to terms with her tr...

Trendsetting Stylist and personal shopper DeAnna DuPree has not taken a linear path to step into her professional power. It took women literally wanting to buy the shoes off her feet for her to understand she has a flair for not just style, but helping women step into their true selves. Through divine intervention and her own transformation into womanhood, she preaches you can change your whole li...

Ryan Farley became a TV writer in Hollywood after leaving the Detroit fire academy at 18 and heading across the country to LA. Graduating from USC Film School, he had the opportunity to work on the CBS hit show Cold Case as a researcher. Ryan writes every day, and does not like the term “writer’s block.” He says you have to be willing to write even if all ten of your ideas suck. Especially when tu...

Through enormous sacrifice and hard work, Charlotte, North Carolina born and raised Dr. Felice Carlton developed a champion mindset. She saw through dealing with adversity that it can be an accelerator instead of an oppressor. Even in the moments when she was studying 90 hours a week, gaining weight, losing hair and living with her parents, she persevered to achieve the career and outlook on healt...

Britton Derby was a bellman at the W in Los Angeles at 62 when he realized it wasn’t too late to become a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma and addiction. Britton says, if you are one of those people who think life is over at 28, think again. He has led a textured life leading up to his ability to really listen to people, including work as a limo driver for very famous...

Work/life balance is top of mind in my conversation with Nicole. Discovering she was not raised by her biological father sent her running into workaholism and dysfunctional relationships in the advertising world of Chicago. After decades of questioning her "gut" as a woman, she came to terms with her own value and was able to create a container in which she could embrace business ownership, marria...

A certified yoga instructor and native Angeleno, who in 2010 was compelled to no longer be called her birth name Jeff, but identify as Jill and has been on the transgender journey ever since.  The road to her awakening and living in her truth has not been easy. She went from a house, a job and a family to living in her car. She has weathered a common narrative amongst transgender women; family est...