As the best selling author, Master Life Coach and founder of TheChampagneDiet.com, Cara Alwill Leyba empowers women to live their most effervescent lives, celebrate themselves every day, and make their happiness a priority. In the past three years, she has self-published four Amazon best-selling books and in 2015 she was named one of YFS magazine’s “Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs That Will Inspire You.” Her glamorous approach to self-help has attracted thousands of women to attend her workshops, currently sold out into 2016. She is often sought out by the media to help women challenge their fears and create their best lives and has been featured in Glamour, Shape, Vibe, Huffington Post, PopSugar, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, MSN.com and The Daily Mail to name a few as well as on broadcast programs including nationally syndicated BetterTV, the Pix11 Morning News in New York City, Good Day Chicago, Good Day Austin and more.

In this episode, Cara shares with us the strategy she developed to leave her job with MTV, and pursue her passion full time. She talks about her journey starting The Champagne Diet, her world-famous lifestyle blog, becoming a Master Life Coach and self-publishing her now best-selling books, even after being rejected 19 times!