Amy Grace is a mom, therapist, author, and motherhood coach who wants to challenge the toxic idea of the supermom. She prides herself on always being a mom first and strives to balance her professional live and mom life. She shares the societal definition of supermom who is able to do everything all the time which leads to exhaustion. She says a true supermom is someone who works within her strengths and being the mom “she is called to be”. She shares her podcasting journey, the book she is releasing in 2025 called "The Good Enough Supermom", the coaching she offers, and her courses that share what she has learned.

Key Takeaways:

-Accept and acknowledge the difficult things about motherhood as well as the good things.

-When a client is having a hard time reconciling what a mom “should be” and the mom she is, challenge the messages from society.

-Doing one or two things really well is better than doing everything, because you can’t do everything perfectly.

-Do not underestimate the importance of marketing but find a way to make it enjoyable and authentic!

-If you are in survival mode, approach situations with intentionality as much as possible.

-Do what you can to ensure your children feel loved and that they are lovable.

-Believe you are the mom your kids need!

Amy’s links:

Instagram

Amy Grace Coaching

Meet Melanie Snyder, a therapist and the owner of Tri-State Psychotherapy Group, a multi-state group practice that serves clients in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. They provide individual, family, and couples therapy and have clinicians that speak Mandarin and Spanish. She currently lives in New York state but previously lived in Massachusetts, where she started her private practice. At that time many of her clients were college students and she wanted to be able to continue to provide therapy when they returned home for breaks and the summer. Recognizing a need she began hiring a year and a half ago and her team has grown to 15 clinicians! She shares her challenges navigating federal, state, and licensure regulations, the administrative side of the business, as well as carrying a caseload.

Key takeaways:

Melanie’s links:

Website

Facebook

Meet Tanya Berfield, the Director of Student Advocacy and Title IX Coordinator at a college and an empowerment and transformation coach. In her pursuit of happiness and discovering her own value and worth, she obtained her doctorate and several certifications. She shares how the limiting beliefs from childhood contributed to her drive to always be more and do more. She describes invincibility as the belief that we can and should do it all and capacity as the amount of work we can do. It is her belief that if you are not taking care of yourself, you are not providing or producing the best that you could be. Listen to learn about her experience with summits and starting her own podcast!

 Key Takeaways:

-Understand how you set your expectations.

-People enjoy when you don’t show up perfect.

-“Self-care is giving the world the best of you, not the rest of you” Katie Reed

-Focus on the core foundation: sleep, nutrition, and movement and give yourself the time to do it and build upon it.

-Include your children in your self-care process!

-Cultivate beneficial and helpful relationships.

-Lead by learning about other people.

-Seek out people who are invested and engaged.

Tanya's Links: ⁠

Chakra Alignment Meditation⁠⁠

Empower Her Summit⁠

⁠Facebook⁠⁠

YouTube⁠

Julia's Links:

⁠CompassionateConsulting Company⁠

⁠FreeConsult⁠

⁠Facebook⁠

⁠Instagram

In honor of Ring Rx renewing their sponsorship of the show, I am replaying the episode where I interview Doug Parent, the CEO of Ring Rx, a HIPAA compliant telephone, text, and fax communication platform. He shares his start in the family business which was a call center for healthcare providers. He describes the start and growth of the company, what sets them apart, and upcoming enhancements.

I have used Ring Rx in my group practice since July 2021 and could not be a more satisfied customer. The platform has grown with us, the customer service is unparalleled, and I recommend them to all of my consulting clients.

Mary Dibble is a life coach who helps busy moms live better lives by prioritizing themselves and their needs, allowing them to show up fully not just for themselves but others, too. 

Her life started with adversity that taught her a great deal of resilience. Growing up with financial insecurity with a single mom and an absentee father, she had low self-esteem and felt like she was desperate for attention from others. This led her down the path of substance abuse. Through finding a new connection with spirituality and being saved by God, she was motivated to become sober, though this was not an easy path for her. She found herself in an abusive relationship but thankfully was able to leave it. Her next relationship ended when she became pregnant and refused to have an abortion. However, she says her son saved her life. He was the biggest motivation she had ever had to finally get sober and put her life on the track for her success and healing. 

Since then, she received her own life changing mentoring through a life coach, became a life coach herself, found her soulmate, and had had two more children. Her life has completely turned around and she credits that to the many turning points she has had that pushed her further and further along the path, closer to her goals. By learning that she was worthy of what she wanted out of life, she has found she’s become a better mom and partner, and has been able to help others do the same.

Learn more about Mary’s amazing story on this week’s episode of the Compassionate Climb Podcast!

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Leslie Kuny is a dance educator of over 20 years who also works as a choreographer and adjudicator in the dance world. In this week’s episode, she shares her experience with leaving a business partnership and how important it is for values to be in alignment.

She explains how she started working on a dance studio with a colleague right during the beginning of COVID, how she came to realize that she had to walk away, and how walking away is not always a good feeling, even when it is the right choice. Leslie speaks to her experience with finding her identity, clarifying her business values, and how important aligned values are in business. 

She also makes sure to highlight the importance that any networking or connection that is done genuinely is never a 100% loss, even if things do not work out! We always learn from new experiences, even the ones that are difficult, and they gave her the opportunities to network with new individuals and hone her skills in certain areas.

Listen to the full episode to hear Leslie’s explanation of her “goo phase” and how important it is to keep pushing through difficult times and the silver linings that can exist within them.

You can find Leslie online at:

https://www.lesliekuny.com/

Instagram

Facebook

YouTube

Meet Brenda Meller, owner of Meller Marketing and LinkedIn coach who helps business owners, job seekers, and those looking to market themselves and network get “more of the LinkedIn pie”. While she started in corporate marketing, she quickly found a niche for herself with a side hustle helping people market themselves on social media and doing speaking events. After her position was eliminated at her corporate job, she decided to go full-time in her side marketing business. 

She originally found LinkedIn in the early days of social media, giving her time to learn the ins and outs and all of the tricks to using it effectively to network. In 2020 she found herself moving away from consulting about other social media platforms and went all-in on helping people utilize LinkedIn more effectively. 

In this episode, Brenda shares her Climb, how she got into LinkedIn, and plenty of tips on how to make the most of your LinkedIn profile. Not only that, but she provides free checklists on her website for people to use with their small businesses, primarily focused on LinkedIn! https://www.mellermarketing.com/checklists 

Key takeaways:

Brenda’s links:

Website

Facebook

Brenda’s LinkedIn

Meller Marketing’s LinkedIn

Meet Nick DeCourcey, an LICSW who recently started his private practice, Aspirations Counseling, and is transitioning full-time! His career climb has been fueled by a desire to work within his values. After getting his MSW, he began working in outpatient community mental health but felt that there was a misalignment in his views of helping clients compared to the agency which led him to consider private practice.

His private practice journey started with a lot of self-directed learning but then when he found Julia’s webinar on starting a private practice through the National Association of Social Workers, he felt more prepared to take action. After obtaining his LICSW, he scheduled a consult with Julia and decided to purchase a package to help guide him in building his business. He attributes a lot of his current success and profitability to Julia’s help as a consultant and recommends that everyone considering going into private practice get one!

Most impressively, he went from starting his private practice to leaving his agency job in less than a year! With such rapid growth in his private practice, it no longer made sense to continue seeing clients in the community mental health agency he had been working with. In a little over a year, he went from considering private practice, to establishing the business, to building a full time caseload. Find out how he did it, how a consultant can help, and how to tell if private practice may be right for you in this week’s episode. 

Key highlights:

Julia's Links:

Compassionate Consulting Company

Free Consult

Facebook

Instagram

Nick’s Links:

Website

Psychology Today

Julia has made mention of the Enneagram in several episodes so it was time to give it a full one! Julia provides an overview of the nine types, wings, and triads, shares how this model of the human psyche has been transformative in her self-development journey, and how she incorporates with her team.

Julia provides Enneagram trainings to team to improve communication and enhance relationships. If you are interested email: [email protected]

Julia has recorded an Enneagram training with a move in depth overview in addition to how to incorporate in clinical work and integrate with teams available for purchase ⁠here⁠.

Meet Brianna Pelletier, the Director of Operations at Compassionate Counseling Company. She shares her career climb from obtaining her Bachelor's in Psychology to working as a practice manager, and her decision to return to school for her Master's Degree. She reflects on her journey with the practice over the past year and a half, from her start as an Administrative Assistant to her promotion to Director of Operations. She discusses the benefits of hiring administrative staff to improve systems and processes and enable the business owner to work on the business as opposed to in the business. She describes the culture of the practice and the process of training additional administrative support.

Learn more about Brianna here: https://www.compassionatecounselingcompany.com/brianna-pelletier/