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My guest today is Dr Ann Marie Peters. Dr. Ann Marie Peters is an author, executive coach, leadership strategist, and organizational psychologist with more than 30 years of experience across corporate, nonprofit, and academic sectors. As Founder and CEO of AMP Consulting, she partners with senior leaders, boards, and mission-driven organizations to cut through complexity, sharpen strategy, and lead transformational change that drives measurable impact. Her work focuses on executive decision-making, strategic alignment, culture transformation, and leadership effectivenes. In this episode we discuss returnships, organizational culture, leadership development, gender equity and identity loss. Website - https://www.annmariepeters.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/backwithamp/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annmariepeters FB - https://www.facebook.com/DrAnnMariePeters/ Ann Marie's Book - https://www.annmariepeters.com/book-well-be-right-back In this episode you will learn: 1. The career pause is not the problem, the silence around it is. Ann Marie coined the term “motherhood penalty” long before it went mainstream. When women step away to raise a family, they come back not just overlooked but actively undervalued, their accomplishments treated as expired, their time away coded as a “break,” their resumes filtered out before a human ever sees them. The real issue isn’t the pause. It’s the organizational blind spot that refuses to see the leadership and resilience that was being built the entire time.   2. Women forget how powerful they were, and it’s everyone’s job to remind them. One of the most striking findings from Ann Marie’s research: over time, women who’ve stepped away literally forget the badass they used to be. Without daily professional reinforcement, imposter syndrome fills the gap. Her coaching, her dissertation, and her upcoming book are all built around one mission, helping women remember, name, and own the full power of who they are and what they built, both before and during their pause. That clarity is the key that unlocks the door back in.   3. The pivot back is also a pivot forward, and it starts with one question. Many women who reenter the workforce don’t go back to what they did before, and Ann Marie’s research shows that’s often a values-driven choice, not a defeat. At mid-career, women are prioritizing balance and authenticity over status. That’s not settling. That’s evolution. The question she wants every listener to sit with: “What do I love, and what would make me feel fulfilled in my professional life?” That’s not just a reentry question. It’s a compass for the next chapter. “Early on in my career, I felt like I was seasoned ." - 00:04:59 "I think there are gates that keep women from even getting to that point where they're sitting in front of a decision maker or a manager." - 00:43:25 "More than anything, I want women who have been stay-at-home moms specifically to feel seen and to feel empowered for the next chapter of their life." - 01:04:05 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #womensempowerment #empowerelevateeducate #Podcast #AnnMariePeters #AMPConsulting #WomenReturningToWork #MotherhoodPenalty #CareerPause #ReturnToWork #Returnships #WomenInLeadership #ExecutiveCoaching #WomenEmpowerment #CareerReintegration #ImposterSyndrome #WorkLifeBalance #FlexibleWork #KnowYourValue #WomenWhoLead #LeadershipDevelopment #UseYourVoice #KeepShowingUpAndShining #WellBeRightBack

My guest today is Shannon Quinn. Shannon Quinn is a Transformation and Identity Advisor who helps women stop overthinking and start showing up in a way that actually gets them what they want, in their work and in their relationships. She’s known for helping women shift out of second guessing, overworking, and trying to prove themselves, and into what she calls The Recalibrated Woman, the version of you who expects to be taken seriously and is. In this episode we discuss identity shifting, transformation, identity advising, control vs surrender and embodiment. IG - https://www.instagram.com/shannon.m.quinn YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ShannonMichaelaQuinn Store - https://stan.store/SMQuinn In this episode you will learn: 1. Your identity is not your story, it’s what you decide to step into next. - Shannon grew up the black sheep, kicked out of schools, never finishing high school, relying on her looks because she didn’t believe she had much else. The victim identity wasn’t who she was. It was a story she’d inherited and kept rehearsing. The shift isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about deciding who you actually are, regardless of what’s happened to you.   2. You can’t think your way to a new life, you have to embody it. - Affirmations alone don’t work because your nervous system has to be programmed to hold the life you want, not just think about it. Shannon points to the Ellen Langer counterclockwise study, older men told simply to pretend they were younger showed measurable physical improvements in just five days. The science is clear: be delulu on purpose. Walk, talk, and carry yourself as the version of you who already has what you want. Your brain can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s rehearsed.   3. Adaptation is self-abandonment, your North Star has to be you. - The moment your North Star is someone else’s approval, you’ve already lost yourself. True power comes when you stop hoping people will recognize your value and start moving through the world as if your value is already settled. That energy changes everything, how people respond to you, the opportunities that show up, and the world you start to attract. “It's a lifelong journey. I was raised in a spiritual family." - 00:02:21 "We come here with everything we need and there's nothing outside of us." - 00:15:05 "We're designed to have a symbiotic relationship with nature. Everything is, we work together to heal." - 00:27:20 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #womensempowerment #empowerelevateeducate #Podcast #ShannonQuinn #IdentityShift #TransformationAdvisor #StopOverthinking #BeDelulu #NervousSystemHealing #EmbodimentWork #WomenEmpowerment #NorthStarIsYou #RecalibratedWoman #SelfAbandonment #ManifestationTruth #IdentityAdvisor #WomenWhoLead #PurposeDriven #ActAsIf #30DayRehearsal #KeepShowingUpAndShining #KnowledgeIsPower

My guest today is Jordana Winston. Jordana is an international best-selling author, award-winning fashion designer, and transformational guide whose life has been one long act of reinvention. Through her signature Archetype Alchemy process, Jordana helps high-achieving, purpose-driven entrepreneurs rewire their inner world to manifest their greatest desires. She teaches that transformation is both art and science, equal parts resilience, intuition, and reinvention. In this episode we discuss archetype alchemy, self-remembrance, motherhood, empress energy and conscious living. Website - https://jordanawinston.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/jordanawinston/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@jordanawinston In this episode you will learn: 1. Why the identity you built to survive is the same one quietly keeping you from thriving, and what Jordana had to let die before the woman she is today could exist — Jordana was a street kid, a train rider, a tough-as-nails punk rocker who used anger to keep everyone at arm’s length and her soft side hidden. That armor worked until it didn’t. Motherhood cracked it open. Transformation isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about being willing to let the version of you that was built for survival step aside so the version built for freedom can finally show up.   2. What Archetype Alchemy is and why the archetype most successful women are starving is the one that would actually unlock everything they’re working so hard to create — Using the major arcana of the tarot as a map of the self, Jordana’s framework helps people identify which energies they are over-using and which they are suppressing. The most underdeveloped archetype in high-achieving women is the Empress, the energy of receiving, flow, and magnetic abundance. Women have been conditioned to earn and hustle that they’ve forgotten how to simply allow. That one shift from doing to allowing changes everything.   3. Why stillness is the page everyone skips in the transformation manual, and the one question Jordana leaves every listener with that cannot be answered quickly — If you can’t master your own mind you can’t master your energy. And you can’t master your mind without stillness. Not as a performance or a productivity hack, just sitting with yourself and asking the one question most people spend their entire lives running from: who am I being right now? That question held in silence is where real transformation lives. “It's a lifelong journey. I was raised in a spiritual family." - 00:02:21 "We come here with everything we need and there's nothing outside of us." - 00:15:05 "We're designed to have a symbiotic relationship with nature. Everything is, we work together to heal." - 00:27:20 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #womensempowerment #empowerelevateeducate #Podcast #ArchetypeAlchemy #EmpressEnergy #TransformationIsRemembering #WhoAmIBeing #StillnessIsStrength #AddictionToSuffering #AngryTeenagerMustDie #SovereignWoman #FashionToFreedom #ShadowWork #AllowDontForce #MajorArcana #IdentityAlchemy #MirrorWork #BecomingYourOwnSuperhero #NatureAsHealing #SeeTheLightInYourself #LearnToReceive

My guest today is Jillian Reilly. Jillian Reilly is a founder, author, TEDx Speaker and keynote speaker. Having spent her 30-year career working in social, organizational, and individual change across Africa, Asia, and Central Europe, Jillian’s focus is on helping people unlock their ability to navigate change and accelerate growth and learning. Jillian’s upcoming book, The Ten Permissions, guides readers in permitting themselves to update how they operate in the 21st century and design lives that fully leverage the possibilities of this disruptive world. In this episode we discuss international development, African history, social change, agency and ethical leadership. Website - https://tenpermissions.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/thetenpermissions/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TenPermissions The Ten Permissions Book - https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Permissions-Redefining-Adulting-Century/dp/1963827295? In this episode you will learn: 1. Why change always fails when it comes from the outside in, and the uncomfortable truth Jillian learned watching millions of dollars flow into systems too rigid to adapt even when women came back bruised — After 30 years working across Africa, Asia, and Central Europe, Jillian learned one undeniable truth: you can bring the biggest idea, the biggest money, and the best intentions, but if the person hasn't given themselves permission to change, nothing will stick. The person you have to negotiate with the most is yourself. Real change is an inside job. Always.   2. Why the social contracts that shaped everything you know are unraveling right now, and why waiting for them to snap back is the most dangerous thing you can do — Jillian has watched this playbook unfold in Zimbabwe, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Mozambique, powerful figures fomenting division while capturing the state, and ordinary people fighting each other instead of seeing what's actually happening. She is clear: we are living through a rupture, not a blip. The rules that shaped our world are being ripped up. The only question is whether you get pulled under or start building something new.   3. What the Ten Permissions are, and why giving yourself permission to think and move differently is not a self-help luxury but an urgent survival skill for right now — Born from 30 years watching what actually creates lasting change, Jillian's Ten Permissions are small but radical flips of the outdated adult script: be willful, go astray, take it outside, experiment, feel your way, think small, look for trouble, travel light, and make believe. Not a checklist, a completely different relationship with change itself, built for the world we are actually in right now. “I have to say, if I look back at 21-year-old Jill, she basically said yes to everything." - 00:04:56 "I think we are living within the profound unraveling of the social contracts that have shaped our worlds, our lives for multiple generations." - 00:45:13 "You need to give yourself permission because you are the one stopping yourself from engaging with this in a more creative, adaptive, expansive way." - 01:04:15 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #womensempowerment #empowerelevateeducate #Podcast #TenPermissions #ChangeIsAnInsideJob #GiveYourselfPermission #NavigateChange #SupplySideChange #TravelLight #GoAstray #MakeTrouble #ThinkSmall #MakeBelieve #FreeAgencyMindset #OldLogicNewLogic #LiminalMoment #RuptureNotABlip #SocialContractUnraveling #AgencyOverAuthority #ProtectYourVitality #TEDxSpeaker

My guest today is Christine Ruch. Christine Ruch is a Holistic Transformation Guide who helps people with unresolved health conditions reconnect to their body's innate wisdom and healing potential. After spending 20 years healing her own Multiple Sclerosis and chronic health conditions naturally through whole food nutrition, nervous system restoration, spiritual practice, plant medicine, deep self-inquiry and many other Eastern and Western modalities, Christine now guides others on their own transformative healing path. Her work bridges science and soul—offering tools to move beyond symptom management and into lasting inner healing via healing their relationship with their own nervous sytem first. She’s here to share insight, hope, and grounded practices for listeners ready to reclaim their health from the inside out. In this episode we discuss holistic transformation, nervous system healing, MS, burnout and chronic illness. Website - https://www.christineruch.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/christineruch.ms/ In this episode you will learn: 1. Why control is not the thing that keeps you healthy, it's the thing that disorders your nervous system and quietly destroys your life — Christine built the perfect healthy life, tight diet, rigid structure, hypervigilance around her MS. She thought she was winning. Then her restaurant collapsed and she found herself in Costa Rica in shock at what she had just dismantled. The very control she thought was keeping her healthy was the thing keeping her sick. Real healing only began when she stopped gripping and started listening.   2. Why you cannot force your way to healing, and what actually happens when you stop trying to fix your body and start creating a dialogue with it instead — You can't force a flower to bloom or rush a baby's gestation. You can't force healing either. Your body never lies to you, your mind will lie all day long, but your body won't. When you genuinely start listening to it, something surprising emerges alongside the physical healing: self-trust, self-worth, self-reliance, and self-love. Those things don't come from anywhere else.   3. What the nervous system is actually trying to do, and the one simple practice that builds emotional capacity and begins to melt away everything keeping you stuck — The nervous system is not your enemy. It is a portal. And it heals with tenderness, safety, and witnessing, not force or biohacking. Christine's starting practice: sit with whatever emotion you're feeling without reacting, judging, or telling a story about it. Just witness it. You are not the emotion passing through you. Build that capacity and everything else, the diagnoses, the self-judgment, the external seeking, slowly starts to melt away. “I've always feel like I've been in the healing arts and always really love to help people." - 00:02:25 "We don't need to override our body's own processes or wisdom. But I think also we don't recognize that you can't force the healing path." - 00:20:44 "You're worth investing in, and that your health and your well-being is your presence and gift to the world." - 01:04:11 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #womensempowerment #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #Podcast #HolisticTransformativeGuide #NervousSystemHealing #BodyNeverLies #ControlDisordersYourNervousSystem #YouCantForceHealing #SovereignBeings #EmotionalCapacity #MSWarrior #SitWithIt #HealingIsNotLinear #ChooseYourselfFirst #StopOutsourcingYourPower #SelfTrustIsMedicine #InnateBodilWisdom #DiagnosisToDiscovery #NervousSystemPortal #WitnessYourself

My guest today is Silvia Resnik. Silvia Resnik is a certified Life Purpose & Fulfillment Coach dedicated to helping women step out of lives that look perfect on the outside but feel empty on the inside. With a foundation in early childhood education, a Master’s in Business Economics, and professional experience spanning HR, entrepreneurship, and coaching, Silvia brings a rare blend of structure and soul to her work. Her approach weaves together deep coaching methods, intuitive insight, and ancient Maasai wisdom gained through transformative experiences in East Africa. Beyond her coaching practice, Silvia is the co-founder of EmpowerHER, a grassroots initiative supporting Maasai women and girls with health education, entrepreneurship opportunities, and culturally sensitive efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In this episode we discuss FGM, the Massai People, women's health, community and spiritual awakening. Website - https://silviaresnik.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/coachsilviaresnik/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-resnik/ In this episode you will learn: 1. Why a life that looks perfect on paper can feel completely hollow inside, and the single encounter with the Maasai that showed Silvia what life is actually about — Silvia had the bags, the shoes, the fancy cars, and a lifelong undercurrent of emptiness she couldn't name. It wasn't until she traveled to Zanzibar during a depressive episode and met the Maasai that something finally landed. These people had almost nothing by Western standards and were the happiest people she had ever encountered. That encounter didn't just shift her perspective, it dismantled her entire identity and rebuilt her from the ground up.   2. What FGM actually looks like on the ground in Tanzania, and the grassroots approach Silvia is taking through EmpowerHer to create change without erasing a culture — FGM is still practiced as a rite of passage among Maasai girls as young as 11. Some die from infections. The cultural belief driving it is that a woman's desire is something to be feared and controlled. Silvia's approach through EmpowerHer is not to arrive with a Western agenda but to educate, build trust, engage the elders, and find a new ritual that preserves cultural identity without physically harming girls.   3. What the Maasai understand about life that the Western world has completely forgotten, and the core principles every modern woman needs to hear right now — The Maasai don't chase tomorrow or mourn yesterday. They live exactly where they are. They measure life by connection, not achievement. And when a day is hard, the wisdom is simple: cry if you need to, sleep, and tomorrow is a new day. Silvia distills their way of living into principles that directly challenge the performance and accumulation culture most of us were raised inside. “For me, life purpose is really being human, loving, really loving, making experiences, whatever it is, just be you." - 00:13:32 "Their life is very difficult. Usually they are semi-nomadic, so they have their cattle, they have their goat, their sheep, whatever." - 00:29:42 "Something that I've learned in the spiritual realm, we are all connected. And just because it's thousands of kilometers far away, it doesn't mean that it doesn't affect us." - 00:53:23 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #womensempowerment #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #Podcast #EmpowerHer #MaasaiWomen #EndFGM #FemaleGenitalMutilation #IntegrationCoach #PurposeFindsYou #MaasaiWisdom #ConnectionIsEverything #YouAreUnstoppable

My guest today is Diandra Ford-Wing. Diandra Ford-Wing is a dynamic and innovative Sales Director whose profound journey through grief ignited her passion for storytelling. After the sudden loss of her mother, Diandra made the courageous decision to pause her thriving career, allowing herself the space to heal and reflect. This transformative experience ultimately inspired her debut novel, "Red Bird," a heartfelt exploration of loss and resilience. In this episode we discuss grief, the good grief framework, redbird, mental health and legacy. Website - https://www.booksbydiandra.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/diandrafordwing/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/diandrafordwing Diandra's Book - https://www.amazon.com/RED-BIRD-DIANDRA-F-WING/dp/B0DNBBJJDH In this episode you will learn: 1. Why a three-day bereavement policy made Diandra quit her job the day after her mother's memorial, and what that decision revealed about what it truly means to honor being human — Diandra came out of a four-hour revenue meeting to find dozens of missed calls from her siblings. Her mother was gone. A company policy gave her three days to grieve a woman she talked to six or seven times every single day. The day after the memorial she called her boss and resigned. That one act of choosing herself became the crack that let everything else in, including Redbird.   2. Why grief is not one size fits all, and the Good Grief framework that helps people name their pain, offer themselves grace, and actually move through loss instead of just pushing past it — Good Grief breaks it down: Give it a name, Offer yourself grace, release unrealistic performance expectations, be Open to support, and choose what showing up looks like for you now. Diandra is clear, "time heals all wounds" is one of the most harmful phrases in grief culture. All time does is make it longer since the loss was fresh. The invisible wounds need the most care.   3. Why grief is love with nowhere to go, and what happens when you stop trying to outrun it and let it become the doorway to your most authentic voice — Diandra didn't know she had a book inside her. She just started writing because she had to get it out. While she was grieving she was writing Redbird. While she was writing Redbird she was grieving. The two were inseparable. That creative doorway only opened because she stopped performing fine, sat in the pain, and trusted that honoring her humanity mattered more than meeting anyone's expectations.. “We all have one life to live, and if you are not getting the satisfaction, the happiness, what have you, whatever it needs to make you keep going." - 00:06:43 "The thing is that when you take the humanity out of something like a loss or death, that makes it, it makes people more prone to not dealing with it themselves." - 00:28:47 "I would just say, life is meant to be lived, and I know most of us on this planet are doing the best that we can, but you've got to make space for happiness in your life." - 00:56:39 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #womensempowerment #womeninentrepreneurship #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #Podcast #Redbird #GoodGriefFramework #GriefIsLoveWithNowhereToGo #ThreeDayBereavementPolicy #PhantomLimbGrief #NameYourPain #TimeDoesNotHealAllWounds #GriefAndCreativity #DAndraSppeaks #GriefIsNotOneSize #CelebrateDontJustMourn #GriefJourney #GriefToGrowth #SuicideSurvivorStrong #MentalHealthMatters #GriefCommunity #AuthorLife #LifeIsForLiving

My guest today is Elle Ballard. Elle is a catalyst for transformation, igniting change in the lives of women across the world. She is a dynamic Holistic Abundance Mentor, Creator of FFF Club, Founder of the Women of the World Network® community, accomplished author, and a captivating speaker who takes her clients on transformative journeys of personal growth and empowerment. Today she guides powerful women to embody their radiance and reclaim their joy—through sacred movement, energetic alignment, and conscious lifestyle design. In this episode we discuss holistic abundance, burnout, sisterhood, flow state and feminine energy. Website - https://www.elleballard.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/theelleballard FB - https://www.facebook.com/theelleballard/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elleballard/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@elle-ballard Women of the World Network - https://www.womenoftheworldnetwork.com/ In this episode you will learn: 1. Why your inner critic equating struggle with safety, and ease with risk, is one of the most dangerous invisible patterns blocking your abundance — When Elle started allowing abundance in, her inner critic didn't whisper "you don't deserve this." It whispered something far more insidious: "if you relax, everything will collapse." Safety felt synonymous with control. Ease felt like a threat. Through dance and somatic practice she discovered the truth, safety doesn't come from control. It comes from self-trust. And the moment she stopped measuring her worth through output and started measuring it through alignment, everything shifted.   2. What holistic abundance actually means, and the five energy leaks quietly draining women every single day that have nothing to do with money — Holistic abundance is presence across all life areas simultaneously, financial flow, passion work, relationships, health, and vitality. Elle identifies the five most common energy leaks she sees: people pleasing, over-giving, ignoring intuition, rushing transitions, and doing without integrating. Every single one is a form of self-abandonment. And until those leaks are sealed, no strategy or income goal will hold.   3. Why desire is a woman's radiance, and what happens when she finally stops suppressing it — The emotion Elle sees women most resist feeling is desire. Not anger, not grief, desire. Because women were conditioned to suppress it to stay safe, lovable, and proper. But desire is not a distraction from a woman's life. It is her life force. When she reconnects to it and stops performing radiance in search of validation, something irreversible happens. She embodies it instead. And the difference between performing and embodying is the difference between seeking approval and being free. “I got married early back in my country. I'm originally from USSR and I always really learned to adapt to, to, I learned early how to perform well." - 00:02:38 "I think when a woman disconnects from her desire, she loses a life, that life force or she starts losing life force because we, I think we were conditioned to suppress." - 00:23:18 "If things are not working in our life or some life areas, because we talked about how I love the holistic approach covering all the life areas." - 00:35:30 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #womensempowerment #womeninentrepreneurship #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #WomenOfTheWorldNetwork #HolisticAbundance #GoWithinToCreateWithout #DesireIsRadiance #EaseIsNotRisk #FlowNotForce #InnerAuthority #DanceOfBeing #SelfTrustIsSafety #AbundanceInAllAreas #Embodiment

My guest today is Donna Cravotta. Donna Cravotta is a Chief Storyteller + Positioning Architect, Founder and CEO of Cravotta Media Group, and creator of The Real 50 Over 50: The Wisdom Revolution, featuring 175+ interviews with women over 50 redefining success in their Third Act. She works with accomplished entrepreneurial women—authors, speakers, and consultants—helping them gather their wisdom, clarify their positioning, and build intentional visibility that feels natural, not performative. Her proprietary methodology, Tried & New, is based on a simple premise: Don’t reinvent yourself. Remember who you already are. In this episode we discuss remembering vs reinvention, the real 50 over 50, storytelling, gender bias and ageism. Website - https://cravottamediagroup.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/donnacravotta/ FB - https://www.facebook.com/cravottamediagroup LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnacravotta/ Substack - https://donnacravotta.substack.com/  In this episode you will learn: 1. Why "reinvention" is actually just imposter syndrome wearing a new outfit, and what women over 50 actually need instead of a brand new identity — The world tells women that everything they did before a certain age no longer matters and that moving forward means becoming someone else. Donna rejects that completely. Through her Tried and New methodology, women start remembering the things they forgot, dismissed, or didn't think anyone would care about, and discover they already have decades of evidence proving exactly who they are. No imposter syndrome gremlin can stand against that.   2. Why women over 50 are not winding down — they are just getting started, and what 175 plus interviews with women redefining success in their third act actually revealed — Donna built The Real 50 Over 50 because brilliant, impactful women were completely invisible while Forbes required a $10 million income minimum just to be considered. What she discovered interview after interview was the same thread every single time: they weren't ready to stop, they wanted to make a difference, and the moment they started remembering who they were, they hit the HOV lane and never looked back.   3. Why remembering is harder than reinventing, and the one tangible first step anyone can take right now to pull the thread that unravels everything — Reinvention is just another task list. Remembering is soul level work. It means connecting dots you didn't know were connected and giving yourself permission to see failures as redirections. Donna's first step is simple: think of one moment when you created real change for someone and genuinely felt good doing it. Start there. Pull that thread. The rest will follow. “The real recognizable moment was about three years ago. I was at the tail end of a health issue that had lasted a while." - 00:02:48 "Re-invention is just another task list. It's things to do. Remembering, it's hard work. That is, that's soul level work." - 00:21:24 "Trust yourself. Just trust yourself because I think that's where all the problems stem from.” - 01:05:11 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #Podcast #womensempowerment #empowherment #entrepreneurship #womeninentrepreneurship #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #TheReal50Over50 #WisdomRevolution #TriedAndNew #ChiefStoryteller #NotReinventionRemembering #ThirdActPower #WomenOver50 #HOVLane #IDontGiveAShitButton #EarnedWisdom #VisibilityCompass #CravottaMediaGroup #StayingCurious #WhenWomenAreTheStorytellers #TrustYourself #YouMatter #CulturalArchitects

My guest today is Jennifer Urezzio. Jennifer Urezzio is a Soul-whispering, BS-incinerating, divine codebreaker who moonlights as an intuitive strategist but secretly operates as a full-time interdimensional translator for your Soul’s deepest truth. She didn’t just found Soul Language—she channeled an entire spiritual dialect from the primordial soup of the Divine and turned it into a system that makes your therapist weep and your higher self applaud. She’s the one the angels call when they need a communications upgrade. In this episode we discuss soul language, modern spirituality, soul communication, overcoming scarcity mindset and consciousness evolution. Website - https://soullanguage.us/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/soullanguagefounder YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/JenniferUrezzio LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferurezzio/ Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asked-and-answered-by-soul/id1537594615 In this episode you will learn: 1. What Soul Language actually is, and why it's the only framework that evolves with you rather than putting you in a box and leaving you there — Unlike Human Design, Enneagram, or archetypes, Soul Language is an evolutionary paradigm that grows as your consciousness grows. Born from a vision on a massage table covered in red clay, Jennifer's framework gives tangible words to three core soul energies: your mission, how you feel that mission, and your soulful personality. When you know those words, you stop operating from pain and programming and start using your energy consciously.   2. Why "not enough" is the biggest lie humanity collectively tells itself, and the only three root fears every human being is actually running on beneath all the noise — There are only three core limiting beliefs: that you are unworthy, that you are unworthy of love, or that love is conditional. Everything else is just a branch on one of those three roots. The soul's message is always the exact opposite. The human's job is to stop letting the mind's illusion of safety drown that message out.   3. Why you are your own channel, and why trying to control anyone else's programming is a complete waste of the one resource you actually have — You are on your own channel. Everyone else is on theirs. You are all just making cameo appearances in each other's shows. You are responsible for your programming and no one else's. And the one question that unlocks your soul's communication every single day is deceptively simple: what do I need to know today? “I was the kid that you could leave in her room for hours and I would read or I would invent games or stories or, you know, I didn't really have dolls." - 00:02:12 "I think the message that the soul always says is that you are enough, that you are worthy. " - 00:31:25 "Stop believing that you're anything but whole and complete.” - 00:58:19 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #Podcast #womensempowerment #empowherment #entrepreneurship #womeninentrepreneurship #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #SoulLanguage #SoulWhisperer #DivineCodebreaker #BullshitIncinerator #GracefulWarrior #EvolutionaryParadigm #YouAreEnough #ThreeCoreFeats #LovingItIntoSubmission #WholeAndComplete #YourOwnChannel #CameosInEachOthersShows #NeutralityOpensDoorsors #WhatDoINeedToKnowToday #SacredMasculine #SoulLanguageFramework #StopTheSuffering #ConnectedEarthAndSky

Brad Walsh is an International Speaker, Soul Visibility Guide, podcast host/producer, photographer, and #1 International Best-Selling Author who helps women step into their power and men become compassionate leaders. Through Empowerography, a Top 1.5% Globally Rated Podcast, he has held space for 800+ conversations with extraordinary women, creating a movement to EMPOWER, ELEVATE, and EDUCATE voices around the world. I would like to personally welcome you to Brad's Corner, a new series under the Empowerography Podcast umbrella, a space where I share raw reflections, personal insights, and the lessons I've gathered from the incredible women I've had the honor of interviewing. In Episode 9 of Brad's Corner, Pattern #3 in the Lessons from 800 Women Series, Brad tackles one of the most consistent and quietly devastating threads that has emerged from 800 conversations with extraordinary women. It's called invisible labor. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it. This episode is equal parts education, personal confession, and a direct call to action, especially for the men listening. This Episode Explores:   •     What invisible labor actually is, and why it's designed to go unnoticed, which is exactly the whole point of it.   •     Why this pattern shows up across every industry, every income level, and every title — from stay-at-home moms to CEOs running multi-million dollar companies.   •     Why most men don't see this labor, and why it's not malice, it's structural blindness.   •     Brad's personal story, what he saw when he looked back at how his mom and grandmother ran their home after his parents' divorce, and what it took for him to finally see it for what it was.   •     A specific, actionable challenge for every listener, especially the men, to take one piece of invisible labor off someone's plate this week, without being asked, without making it an announcement, and without expecting a thank you. Key Insights: •     Invisible labor isn't just the physical stuff, it's the mental and emotional load that runs in the background of a woman's day, constantly, that most people never clock as work.   •     The absence of a problem IS the labor, and we're wired to notice problems, not the quiet prevention of them.   •     Most men aren't bad guys for not seeing it, they were never given the lens to see it in the first place.   •     You can't support what you refuse to see, seeing the invisible labor is the first act of real allyship. Key Message: This week, name one piece of invisible labor that someone in your life is carrying, your partner, your mom, a colleague, whoever it is, and then take it off their plate, without being asked, without making it a big announcement, without expecting a thank you. Not because you're trying to be a hero, but because seeing it, actually seeing it, is the first step of allyship. You can't support what you refuse to see. "It's called invisible labor, and once you see it, you can't unsee it." - 00:01:36 "The absence of a problem is the labor. Let me say that again for you, the absence of a problem is the labor, and we are wired to notice problems, not the quiet prevention of them." - 00:04:10 "You can't support what you refuse or don't see." - 00:06:53 Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #BradsCorner #InvisibleLabor #MentalLoad #EmotionalLabor #AllyshipInAction #LessonsFrom800Women #SeeTheLabor #StructuralBlindness #DefaultParent #HoldingItAllTogether #YouCantSupportWhatYouRefuseToSee #Podcast #PodcastHost #MaleAlly #

My guest today is Naowshaba Ferdous. Naowshaba Ferdous is a business strategist from Washington DC who helps ambitious women all over the world get seen, remembered, and paid by building businesses rooted in clear thinking, strong messaging, and personal branding. In this episode we discuss visibility, leadership, business strategy and self-advocacy. Website - https://www.naowshaba.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/naowshaba FB - https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19rqZrn8n9/?mibextid=wwXIfr In this episode you will learn: 1. Why waiting to be chosen, waiting to feel ready, and waiting for external validation are the three most expensive habits ambitious women have, and the identity shift that has to happen before any strategy ever works — Most women's business problems are not strategy problems, they are identity problems. Until a woman sees herself as someone whose work is genuinely capable of changing lives, she will keep watering down her messaging, undercharging her offers, and playing small while calling it being strategic. The first question every invisible woman needs to ask herself: what do I want to be known for?   2. The study that proves women can't win either way, and why giving yourself permission to be disliked is actually the most strategic business decision you can make — Women who self-advocate in the workplace are seen as unlikeable. Women who don't are seen as passive and unambitious. If those are the only two options, give yourself permission to be disliked. At least then you are claiming your space and being recognized for what you bring. People are going to dislike you at every stage of your life anyway. You cannot control that.   3. Why taking full responsibility for your resultsn including the failures, is not a burden but the most empowering reframe available to any woman in business — If your failures are a byproduct of your actions, thoughts, and behaviors, then so is your success. That is not pressure, that is power. Stop outsourcing blame to wrong timing, wrong algorithms, and wrong circumstances. You are the driver. Coaches and mentors are just passengers, and your income will shift the moment you stop waiting to feel ready and start doing it messy. “I think that for the most part, I think juggling throughout my entire life, I've always tried to be palatable." - 00:02:15 "The women who self-advocated in the workplace were seen as generally unlikable and just negatively, perceived negatively. " - 00:20:55 "The women who self-advocated in the workplace were seen as generally unlikable and just negatively, perceived negatively.” - 01:04:24 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #Podcast #womensempowerment #empowherment #entrepreneurship #womeninentrepreneurship #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #YouWereAlwaysMeantToWin #BusinessStrategy #PersonalBranding #StopWaitingToBeChosen #SuccessIsInevitable #ClearThinking #StopPlayingSmall #IdentityShift #NeurodivergentEntrepreneur #ADHDInBusiness #FullResponsibility #PaidToBeYourself #WomenInBusiness #ClaimYourSpace #PermissionToBeDisliked #DoItMessy #YouAreNotBehind #Leadership #BoundarySetting #MindsetShift #SelfAdvocacy

My guest today is Lannie Reid. Lannie Reid is an intuitive medium, teacher, healer, and Certified Joy Facilitator devoted to empowering women to reconnect with their inner wisdom and divine guidance. With over 20 years of experience in intuitive and spiritual development, she lovingly guides others to connect with their Angels, inner guide, and higher self so they can move through life with clarity, confidence, and joy. She is the author of Know Your Angels: Embracing the Angels’ Messages and Love into Your Life and co-author of Be Light to Raise Light, published by Hay House. Through her writing, workshops, and teachings, Lannie shares tools for intuition development, connection, meditation, and deep healing. In this episode we discuss divine guidance, our angel teams and guides, surrender, inner wisdom and chronic pain healing. Website - https://www.lanniereid.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/lanniereid/ FB - https://www.facebook.com/lanniereid/ In this episode you will learn: 1. Why MS taught her to fight and trigeminal neuralgia, the most painful medical condition known to medicine, taught her to surrender, and why both lessons were equally necessary — Lannie powered through her MS diagnosis when her kids were three and six. She fought her way through it and felt strong. Then trigeminal neuralgia arrived, years of unrelenting nerve spasms so severe she couldn't eat, drink, or function. No amount of strength could touch it. The only way out was surrendering to something greater than herself.   2. Why angels want nothing more than to help you and the one thing most people never do that stops them from receiving that help — Angels cannot go past your free will. If you don't ask, they won't come in. The biggest misconception is that you need to go through someone else to access divine guidance, or that you're simply not the kind of person who gets that kind of support. Everyone can connect. You just have to ask, give permission, and develop the awareness to notice when they show up.   3. What joy facilitation actually is, and why choosing joy is not toxic positivity but the most powerful frequency you can become to magnetize the life you actually want — Joy is not about pretending everything is fine. Lannie spent years in pain so dark that joy felt completely unreachable. She learned that joy is a frequency you choose one small moment at a time. A favorite cup of coffee. A grandchild's face. One better thought interrupting a loop. Pockets of joy, strung together, that eventually become the life you were meant to live. “I've always been somebody that could see spirit on the other side." - 00:03:33 "There are angels for absolutely anything. " - 00:26:54 "We have our own wings that we can, I've explained this a couple of different times on different, in different ways, but I feel like when we're able to open our own wings, which to me are etheric, they're attached to us.” - 00:48:13 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Early bird pricing is live now. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #Podcast #womensempowerment #empowherment #entrepreneurship #womeninentrepreneurship #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #Episode800 #CertifiedJoyFacilitator #KnowYourAngels #AngelsOfJoy #PocketsOfJoy #JoyFrequency #IntuitiveHealer #TrigeminalNeuralgia #MSWarrior #SurrenderToHeal #DivineGuidance #AskTheAngels #ArchangelUriel #FreeWill #LoveDeepfly #YourSoulWantsJoy #HelpNeverHarm

My guest today is Jess Moyer. Jessica Moyer is a TEDx speaker, podcast host of The R.E.A.L. Wellness Podcast, three-time author, and certified leadership and wellness coach with over 25 years of experience helping individuals rise through adversity and lead with purpose. She is the creator of the R.E.A.L. Wellness Framework, a holistic approach centered on realistic changes, creating energy, taking action, and leading with love—designed to help people build sustainable health, resilience, and clarity in every season of life. Through her books, coaching programs, speaking, and faith-based approach to well-being, Jessica empowers individuals to reclaim their energy, strengthen their mindset, and live with intention. In this episode we discuss health and wellness, The Real Wellness Framework, loss, practical wellness tips and purpose. Website - https://jessica-moyer.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/jessmoyer/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@jesstherealcoach FB - https://www.facebook.com/jessica.s.moyer.9 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-moyer-290bb0b/ In this episode you will learn: 1. Why losing her son at nine months and her father years later became the foundation of Jess's life work, and the two painful truths those losses burned into her that she now teaches everyone around her — Jess's son Steven never had a choice about his health. Her father, a small-town doctor who cared for everyone else, never prioritized his own. Both were gone too soon. From those two losses came one unshakeable message: your health is the foundation of everything and nobody else is going to protect it for you.   2. Why the biggest lie sold about wellness is that there's a quick fix, and what real change actually looks like for someone who is already exhausted and running on empty — Jess's approach is simple: identify what's draining you first, then replace it with something so small you literally cannot fail at it. A glass of water before coffee. Five minutes of movement every hour. One thing a day that brings you joy. Real change is not dramatic, it's consistent, stackable, and built on what you will actually do.   3. What the REAL Wellness Framework is, and why leaders who ignore their health foundation are building on sand no matter how successful they look from the outside — REAL stands for Realistic, Energy, Action, and Love. Built from 25 years of watching what separates people who sustain their goals from those who fall off. The answer was never motivation or willpower. it was loving yourself enough to start, being resilient enough to get back up, and taking small actions that compound over time. “I think it was always in my heart that I knew this work was going to eventually come to fruition. It was part of my upbringing and health and wellness." - 00:02:07 "I think you can't lead from a place if you're not happy with your own self. " - 00:19:58 "Just remember why you're created and how short life really is and are you living true to yourself or to what society tells you?” - 00:41:35 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Early bird pricing is live now. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #Podcast #womensempowerment #empowherment #entrepreneurship #womeninentrepreneurship #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #RealWellnessFramework #RealWellnessPodcast #TEDxSpeaker #HealthIsTheFoundation #PracticeThePause #EveryoneHasACross #LetGoLetGod #MicroChanges #AtomicHabits #LeadershipAndWellness #SurvivalModeToThriving #StackYourHabits #LegacyOverLabels #BuildFunIntoYourWeek #SelfCareIsNotSelfish #RealNotPerfect #HealthyLeaders #TomorrowIsNotGuaranteed

My guest today is Meka Hemmons. Meka Hemmons is a Chicago-based portrait photographer, founder of SpiderMeka Portraits, and creator of the Calm Before the Camera™ confidence system. Known as “the heart surgeon with a camera,” she disrupts the beauty myth to heal what we see in the mirror… and helps individuals and professionals look natural, credible, and powerful in their online presence. Meka blends psychology, leadership insight, and visual storytelling to build trust through imagery. She is also a speaker, memoirist, podcast host of Unbeautifying, and author of the Corporate Headshot Day Playbook, a strategic framework for elevating team confidence and creating high-trust corporate branding. In this episode we discuss the calm before the camera method, being a confidence architect, the photogenic myth, photography and self-confidence. Website - https://spidermeka.com IG - https://instagram.com/spidermeka YouTube -  https://youtube.com/@spidermeka FB - https://facebook.com/spidermeka LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/spidermeka In this episode you will learn: 1. Why "photogenic" is a dirty word, and what someone is really saying when they claim they're not photogenic — Photogenic is a made-up word that puts people into piles of worthy and unworthy and takes all responsibility off the photographer. A bad photo is never the subject's fault, it's the photographer's. And when someone says they're not photogenic, what they're really saying is they don't feel attractive to themselves. The person in the photo you most need to connect with is you.   2. Why the world is chronically dysregulated and calling it normal, and how Meka's Calm Before the Camera system uses nervous system regulation as the real foundation for confidence — We've normalized dysregulation because everyone around us is doing it. But it's not normal and it's why we get ill. Meka's framework starts by asking what's actually happening inside the person before the camera ever comes out. Your nervous system cannot be hidden, whatever is going on inside is coming out in your eyes, your breath, and your body language whether you know it or not.   3. Why confidence is not something you return to, it's something you build from exactly where you are right now — Trying to go back to the confident person you once were is not the goal because that person no longer exists. Stop asking "how do I look?" and start asking "what do I want them to hear?" That one shift moves you out of performance and into presence, and presence is the only thing that creates real connection. “So many times when we're feeling down about ourselves, the human of us know that the treatment is to help us." - 00:03:38 "Architecture is one of my favorite words these days, and what happens when we build things that are based on trend, or based on insecurity. " - 00:31:36 "This idea of un-beautifying is, once again, taking the current construct of what people think beauty is and inserting the truth.” - 00:57:42 Introducing Amplify Your Message: The Podcast Guest Mastery Experience, built from everything I've learned across 800+ interviews and six-plus years of hosting this show. Learn how to show up with presence, share your story with impact, and turn every guest appearance into real visibility for your message. Early bird pricing is live now. Learn more at https://shorturl.at/VByVj Contact Brad: Website Instagram LinkedIn YouTube X (Twitter) TikTok Substack #Empowerography #Podcast #womensempowerment #empowherment #entrepreneurship #womeninentrepreneurship #empoweredwomen #empowerelevateeducate #CalmBeforeTheCamera #ConfidenceArchitect #HeartSurgeonWithACamera #PhotgenicIsADirtyWord #PerformanceVsPresence #UnBeautifying #CloneEffect #NervousSystemRegulation #AuthenticPresence #BeSeenBeHeard #StopWaiting #PortraitPhotography #ChicagoPhotographer #WhatDoIWantThemToHear #WeAreHereDammit #NoPants #HortonHearsAWho #OwnThatShit