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Come and listen to our Host, Tina Spoletini, as she chats with today's guest, Connie Kobylko, for our “Determined, Not Distracted” Podcast Series.

This mini-series serves as your blueprint for a high-impact year, distilling success into three non-negotiables: Goal Clarity, Resilience, and Commitment. By sharpening your focus, hardening your mental toughness, and anchoring your habits in discipline, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to achieving unstoppable, year-long momentum. 

Connie Kobylko is a Joy Facilitator, Life Celebrant, published author and lover of life! She helps people reconnect with what lights them up, through her workshops and key-note talks. You will leave inspired as you pause, play, and celebrate the everyday moments that make life meaningful—reminding us that we are meant to "Live Your Dreams!"

Instagram: @Connie Kobylko 

Facebook: ConnieKobylkoConsulting

Facebook: Connie Kobylko

Linkedin: Connie Kobylko

Website: conniekobylko.com

We explore how to remember joy instead of chasing it, using vision without limits, daily rituals, and playful reframes to move from stuck to light. Connie shares the Joy Method, a seven-step practice that blends feelings, vision, and small actions, anchored by her own courageous recovery story.

• defining a joy facilitator and joy in motion
• reconnecting with the child self as a compass
• building vision walls, journals, and shared dreams
• turning shoulds into get-to’s and tiny celebrations
• five-senses gratitude practice for day and night
• the Joy Method: notice, name, honor, imagine, act, celebrate
• reframing contrast and using rituals to reset
• making goals real with dates, calls, and first steps

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Come and listen to our Host, Tina Spoletini, as she chats with today's guest, Kim Costa, for our “Determined, Not Distracted” Podcast Series.
 This mini-series serves as your blueprint for a high-impact year, distilling success into three non-negotiables: Goal Clarity, Resilience, and Commitment. By sharpening your focus, hardening your mental toughness, and anchoring your habits in discipline, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to achieving unstoppable, year-long momentum. 

Kim Costa is a Top 5% Realtor® with Sotheby’s International Realty and creator of The Wheel House Method, a transformative framework that helps women align their homes with their authentic lives. After refusing to let Oprah film at her house because it didn’t reflect her true self, Kim completely reimagined her approach to real estate and life. Now, through her work, her upcoming book Live in Your Wheel House, and her podcast by the same name, she empowers women to create spaces that support who they’re becoming, not who they used to be.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/kim.e.costa

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimecostarealtor

Website for book order: https://lifestylefoundations.com/

Link to book; https://liveinyourwheelhousebook.com

We talk with Kim Costa about saying a powerful no, finding alignment after missteps, and building confidence that holds during change. From the Wheelhouse Method to naming deal breakers, we lay out simple steps to pivot with honesty and design a life that matches who we are becoming.

• the season theme of Determined Not Distracted and choosing a life through line
• Kim’s story from isolated dream home to aligned living
• the defining Oprah moment and what the no revealed
• people pleasing, burnout, and reclaiming self trust
• real compromise versus chronic self erasure
• the Wheelhouse Method’s four Ms and eight life rooms
• health and finance as midlife alignment levers
• spotting misalignment at home and reading hidden clues
• normalising resistance and doing the work anyway
• one starter question to name what feels off

If this conversation resonated with you and you're craving a space to slow down, reconnect, and come back to yourself, I'd love to invite you into the Bloom Room, a monthly embodied experience where we explore intention, identity, and aligned action in a supportive, real life community of women navigating their next chapter. If you're ready to go deeper to rebuild confidence from the inside out and move forward with clarity, you can also explore working with me privately

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Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose for our "Determined, Not Distracted” Podcast Series.
 This mini-series serves as your blueprint for a high-impact year, distilling success into three non-negotiables: Goal Clarity, Resilience, and Commitment. By sharpening your focus, hardening your mental toughness, and anchoring your habits in discipline, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to achieving unstoppable, year-long momentum. 

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We lean into a self-interview practice using ahimsa and svadhyaya to turn harm, friction, and regret into clarity and kinder choices. We show how flow versus friction, the sacred pause, and intuitive listening help us stop self-abandoning and choose gentle power.

• yoga sutras as practical guideposts for daily choices
• defining non-harming toward others, self, and in culture
• processing harm without revenge and setting boundaries
• using reflection to convert triggers into teachers
• flow versus friction as a decision compass
• discipline balanced with forgiveness and rest
• trusting intuition over social norms and “shoulds”
• guilt as a signal to redesign habits, not self-punish
• surrender as a final step to release outcomes

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For more goodness, follow me on all the socials at Above the Ground Podcast and visit my website, airsabove.com
Don’t forget to check out my other episodes and all of my amazing sisters at Divas That Care
You can find us on Spotify, Odyssey, Apple, Amazon, iHeartRadio, or anywhere else that you may feel guided

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Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose for our "Determined, Not Distracted” Podcast Series.
 This mini-series serves as your blueprint for a high-impact year, distilling success into three non-negotiables: Goal Clarity, Resilience, and Commitment. By sharpening your focus, hardening your mental toughness, and anchoring your habits in discipline, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to achieving unstoppable, year-long momentum. 

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We explore how to build a sense of inner safety and pair it with brain-focused nutrition to boost clarity, mood, and daily discipline. From omega-3s and leafy greens to dark chocolate and matcha, we share ethical choices, creative swaps, and habits you can keep.

• creating a safe inner space through meditation and breath
• why focus improves when fight-or-flight eases
• omega-3s from fish, algae oil, nuts and seeds
• eggs, choline and ethical sourcing choices
• organ meats, bone broth and practical supplements
• leafy greens, key vitamins and minerals for cognition
• berries, avocados and antioxidant support
• creative swaps like guaclaw and cauliflower hummus
• caffeine strategies with coffee, green tea and matcha
• simple citrus habits and consistent routines

For more goodness, follow me on all the socials at Above the Ground Podcast and visit my website, airsaboveyoga.com
Don’t forget to check out my others’ episodes and my amazing sisters at Divas That Care. You can find us on Spotify, Odyssey, Apple, Amazon, iHeartRadio, or anywhere else that you might feel guided

For more Divas That Care Network Episodes visit www.divasthatcare.com

Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose for our "Determined, Not Distracted” Podcast Series.
 This mini-series serves as your blueprint for a high-impact year, distilling success into three non-negotiables: Goal Clarity, Resilience, and Commitment. By sharpening your focus, hardening your mental toughness, and anchoring your habits in discipline, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to achieving unstoppable, year-long momentum. 

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We celebrate fifty episodes with a guided meditation on change, trust, and self-love, using the symbolism of angel number 555 to reframe fear as fuel. We share practical setup tips, a pink-light visualization for protection, and grounded steps to return to daily life with clarity.

• gratitude for our community and milestone
• 555 as a sign of positive change
• change happening for you, not to you
• seated and reclined meditation setup options
• breath-led grounding and body awareness
• iridescent pink sphere visualization for safety
• releasing fear and tension with exhale cues
• merging self with love and dissolving separation
• slow return to the body and practical grounding
• aligning choices with intention and trust in the divine

As always, don't forget to check out my other episodes and my amazing sisters at Davus That Care. You can find us on Spotify, Odyssey, Apple, Amazon, iHeartRadio, or anywhere else that you might feel guided.

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Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose for our "Determined, Not Distracted” Podcast Series.
 This mini-series serves as your blueprint for a high-impact year, distilling success into three non-negotiables: Goal Clarity, Resilience, and Commitment. By sharpening your focus, hardening your mental toughness, and anchoring your habits in discipline, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to achieving unstoppable, year-long momentum. 

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We explore why rest is a strategy, not a setback, and how small, steady choices rebuild momentum after a draining season. Then we break down Warrior I–III with clear alignment, smart modifications, and a simple flow that turns intention into action.

• choosing rest to recover from overwhelm
• clearing space at home to quiet the mind
• sustainable resolutions that start small
• listening to energy and honoring fatigue
• Warrior I fundamentals for lift and focus
• Warrior II alignment for hip opening and release
• Warrior III balance with wall and strap options
• safe sequencing from grounding to expansion
• micro goals that build confidence and consistency

For more goodness, follow me on all the socials at Above the Ground Podcast and visit my website, airsaboveyoga.com
Please feel free to share the same with your loved ones
You can find us on Spotify, Odyssey, Apple, Amazon, iHeartRadio, or anywhere else that you feel guided

For more Divas That Care Network Episodes visit www.divasthatcare.com

Come and listen to our Host, Tina Spoletini, as she chats with today's guest, Tamara Newton, for our “Determined, Not Distracted” Podcast Series.
 This mini-series serves as your blueprint for a high-impact year, distilling success into three non-negotiables: Goal Clarity, Resilience, and Commitment. By sharpening your focus, hardening your mental toughness, and anchoring your habits in discipline, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to achieving unstoppable, year-long momentum. 

Tamara Newton is the creative force behind Creative Spark Art, a mobile paint party and art workshop business that transforms any gathering into a vibrant, hands-on artistic experience. Bringing the fun and creativity directly to clients, Tamara hosts everything from team-building events and private parties to meaningful community fundraisers.

At the heart of her work is a deep belief that creativity is not only a right all humans have, but an integral part of who we are, it’s a powerful form of expression, connection, and joy. This philosophy shines through in every event she leads, creating welcoming spaces where people of all skill levels can relax, explore, and create freely.

Beyond the canvas, Tamara is also a skilled tattoo artist at Incantations Electric Tattoo, further proving that creativity truly fuels her life. With a strong passion for animal welfare, she actively supports animal rescue organizations, combining art, community, and compassion in everything she does.

Website: Creativesparkart.com

Facebook: Creative Spark Art and Tamara Newton

Instagram: @creative.spark.art and @Tamaranewtonart

TikTok: @fun.creativesparkart

LinkedIn: Tamara Newton

We explore how creativity rebuilds confidence, reduces stress, and restores joy, even if you don’t see yourself as “artistic.” Tamara Newton shares her journey from burnout to creative renewal and offers simple ways to start without perfectionism.

• creativity as a human right and wellness tool
• why adults disconnect from making things
• perfectionism, grading, and the comparison trap
• small creative acts that lower stress
• practical tips to feel safe in art classes
• mindset shifts from process over perfection
• creativity’s role in leadership and business
• building community through shared making
• invitations to try new mediums and keep going

If this episode resonated with you, I invite you to reflect on this: Where in your life have you stopped creating and what might shift if you allowed yourself to begin again?
You’ll find links in the show notes to connect with Tamara and learn more about Creative Spark Art, and to explore ways we can work together inside Confidence in Bloom or In Full Bloom Styling
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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Marcia Mantell, for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.
A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.

For over 30 years, Marcia Mantell has helped the country's foremost financial services firms and advisors increase their knowledge of complex retirement concepts and regulations. She has a remarkable ability to translate those concepts into everyday language that educates and motivates real people to take the right steps to achieve the retirement they desire. Marcia has been named an IA25 Honoree by ThinkAdvisor—one of the “advisors, experts and leaders in financial services who are pushing the industry forward.” 

As founder of Mantell Retirement Consulting, Inc. (est. 2005) she regularly partners with financial institutions and advisors to help support their customers across the retirement spectrum—from accumulation to the transition into retirement, and then to organizing and managing income to last a lifetime. She brings an impressive amount of retirement, Social Security, and Medicare knowledge to the financial industry and directly to future retirees through their employers or in partnership with financial advisors.  

Known for “translating” technical economic and investment jargon, Social Security and Medicare rules, and complex retirement topics into language that consumers can understand, Marcia has developed innovative retirement income planning workshops for advisors, and comprehensive retirement education programs for plan participants and consumers at all levels of wealth. She is a highly sought-after speaker bringing her signature enthusiasm and energy to conferences, webinars, live webcasts, and podcasts. 

While at Fidelity Investments (1992−2005), she was Vice President of Retirement Products and Marketing, responsible for developing IRA and Small Business programs for consumers. She also served as Fidelity’s retirement spokesperson to the media in national and regional consumer and advisor publications. 

She’s the author of four must-read books for everyone who wants to retire. Her lively how-to discussion guide and workbook, Cookin’ Up Your Retirement Plan, was featured in the Wall Street Journal article, 

“5 Books to Help You Build a Bigger Nest Egg” (July 2025). Her other titles include What’s the Deal with Retirement Planning for Women, Creating Your Medicare Recipe, and her latest book, Social Security: Lightly Toasted, Not Burnt.

Marcia’s long-running blog, BoomerRetirementBriefs.com, showcases a light-hearted, but thought-provoking look at how Baby Boomers are reshaping and reinventing retirement. Plus, you’ll find in-depth updates on the current state of affairs in Social Security and Medicare.

We explore how to end the year with clarity and step into 2026 with a practical retirement plan, more honest money talks, and a sense of purpose that lasts. Marcia Mantel shares clear steps for Social Security timing, Medicare basics, and designing a 30-year retirement you’ll actually enjoy.

• reframing retirement beyond age 65 into a 30-year design
• why waiting to claim social security can boost lifetime income
• breaking the silence around money so women lead their planning
• simple steps to build financial autonomy and credit history
• books and worksheets that turn ideas into action
• practical year-end planning using quarters, calendars and checklists
• how to craft purpose, work and community into later life
• resources to learn medicare, estate basics and risk planning

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Dr. Nelva Lee, for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.
A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.

Dr. Nelva Lee is the Founder and CEO of Concrete Build Financing and
MiTio Technologies, a Medical Interpreting and Translating Agency. Dr. Lee
was a Subject Matter Expert in the creation of the CMI exam for the NBCMI
and was respectively its first Chair.

Dr. Lee has over 20 years of experience in healthcare and over 10 years in
academia as an adjunct professor for various Universities. She was a
Governor Kemp appointed board member to the Department of Community
Health. She is the Vice Chairman of the board of the Henry County
Pregnancy Resource Center (Bridge Wellness South), and a former
Republican candidate for State Senate in District 17. Dr. Lee has authored
several Christian-based books including: “Stay and Fight” and “Be the
Super Hero of Your Story.”

Dr. Lee volunteers at Relevant, her local church, and the Joy FM as a
Prayer Partner. She was a Home-School Mom, Substitute Teacher for a
Christian School, and Vocational School Founder and CEO. She has been
married to her best friend Donnie for 25 years, and together they have 3
children.

https://www.youtube.com/@DrNelvaLee

https://x.com/CBLD2025

We explore purpose-driven leadership with Dr. Nelva Lee, from life under a dictatorship to entrepreneurship, school choice, and a run for Georgia superintendent. Practical tools for getting unstuck meet bold ideas on literacy, trade schools, and learning to face change with courage.

• founding a vocational school for medical interpreters and its impact on dignity and income
• why school choice matters for diverse learners, including homeschooling and Montessori
• tackling illiteracy by raising expectations and aligning environments to the child
• decision to run for Georgia superintendent and a vision for results that count
• resilience, faith, and finding purpose as daily practice
• an accessible take on crypto, inflation, and asset-backed tokens
• links to books, campaign, and channels for deeper learning

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Nicole Rodrigues, for our “End of Year, Beginning of Me” Podcast Series.
A powerfully themed mini-series helping women close the year with clarity and step into the next one with grounded self-love and vision.

Nicole Rodrigues, founder and CEO of NRPR Group, is a recognized public relations expert, digital and social media marketing and crisis communication pro with 24+ years of experience under her belt. In her tenure, she has developed and successfully executed strategic campaigns for some of the biggest names in business including: Yahoo!, Dolby, Sony Pictures
Entertainment, Sony PlayStation, Hulu, M-GO, Toon Hero, Demand Media, Heal, MOBITV, Los Angeles Comic Con and the Oakland (now Las Vegas) Raiders. Amongst some of the most notable campaigns she was charged with, Nicole ran the first and only official mommy blogger campaign for Yahoo!, she devised and launched the PR strategy for all of Hulu first original
shows, and she helped develop YouTube’s creator and influencer PR strategy to produce more impactful campaigns at the forefront of the creator economy boom.

Nicole has repeatedly been recognized as an innovative leader in her industry, being a regular Crisis Communications guest expert on Access Hollywood and most recently as a Bulldog Reporter PR Awards Leader of the Year (Agency) and Ragans Top Agencies Awards Top Agency Leader (2022). She has also been honored with a Stevie Award winner for Communications, Investor Relations, or PR Executive of the Year(2021). She was also awarded
PR Daily’s “PR Professional of the Year” Award (2019), Bulldog Reporter’s “Stars of PR - PR Professional Who Makes a Difference” Award (2018), a Gold Award for “Public or Media Relations Professional of the Year” in Bulldog Reporters “Stars of PR,” and PR News’ Top 50 Game Changers in Public Relations (2017). These awards are confirmation of her mission to meaningfully disrupt the way in which public relations are done in the modern era.

Nicole is also the author of Beverly Hills Boss, a business and life skills book aimed at helping others, like herself, who dream of leading despite any humble beginnings or obstacles. Through her book, readers gain inspiration and actionable insight for growing as a person and in their careers.
Nicole takes great pride in being a former NFL cheerleader, having spent several years cheering for the famed Oakland Raiders. Today, she continues to cheer on her “new team” at NRPR and is a graduate from San Jose State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations.
She earned her MBA at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. While attending business school, Nicole was an Admissions Rep on class council and graduated in the top 15% of her class. She earned her MBA with a concentration in entrepreneurship, which she chose purposely to ensure she was learning more skills to help her clients manage the ups and downs of starting, growing and scaling a business.

https://x.com/NicoleRPR

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolerpr/

We talk with NRPR Group CEO Nicole Rodriguez about moving from survival mode to sustainable leadership while building an authentic, long-game PR strategy rooted in truth, alignment and earned media. We share practical ways to set standards, protect reputation, and design for peace, health and growth.

• why earned media beats hype for lasting trust
• how to align PR with real business goals
• when to say no and protect standards
• building narratives from milestones and proof
• the shift from urgency to sustainability
• designing a 10 to 20 year horizon
• allowing support and leaving survival mode
• mentorship’s role in purpose and confidence
• social media’s impact on executive visibility

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