Businesses are experiencing difficulty hiring employees, especially in the service sectors.   Employees are looking to be recognized and today the art of compassionate business becomes an important consideration.  Generosity, compassion and gratitude are all factors businesses must consider.  Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco is our podcast guest who discusses the art of compassionate business.

In this podcast you will discover:

Why compassionate business is important

What prevents companies from becoming more compassionate

What are the traits of a compassionate company

How can a company can develop more compassionate workplace

How can a company be more compassionate with customers

Owning your voice both figuratively and physically is the topic of this podcast with guest expert, Galit Ventura-Rozen.  Galit is a well known speaker appearing on ABC, NBC and Fox, but she literally lost her voice when she was young when she had a nodule on her voicebox.  Electing not to have surgery she has had to accept that the voice she has is the one that she will use forever.  As a sales success expert,  Galit also empowers women to find their own voice to maximize their growth potential.

In this podcast you will learn:

1. The time when Galit lost her voice. What was that like?
2. How has that impacted her career?
3. What is the Million Dollar Mindset?
4. How did Galit use this mindset to grow her own business?
5. What's one of the biggest trials she's had to overcome as an entrepreneur?
6. If she could go back and tell the girl who didn't have a voice one thing, what would it be?

How female entrepreneurs can succeed is the topic of this fabulous podcast with Dr. James Richardson.  We all know we cannot travel the entrepreneurship road solo if we want to succeed.  Dr. James explores whether it's best for female entrepreneurs to seek out an all female team or whether there is value in having a male co-founder.

In this podcast we talk about:

• What unique advantages do women tend to bring to entrepreneurial ventures?
• What latent sexism do they often miss completely when working with stakeholders?
• How can cisgender female socialization hold many women back as entrepreneurs?
• How can it help them as entrepreneurs?
• Should women create an all-female team initially? Why or Why not?
• Is there value in a having male co-founder?

Our podcast guest, Marjoirie Radlo-Zandi know first hand the art of scaling your business from 1 country to 100.  Her expertise is so valuable for any entrepreneur looking for global expansion.

In this podcast you will learn:

1. Some of the lessons Marjorie learned as she expanded her business into multiple countries?
2. As an entrepreneur scales their business, how can they keep diversity and trusted relationships front and center?
3. What other guidance and tips can you give entrepreneurs keep in mind to succeed as they work to scale their business?
4. From an Angel Investor perspective, what are some tips to attract potential investors?

Our podcast guest, Hanieh Khoshkhou, is passionate about education and e-learning but also is a chamption of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It all starts with emotional intelligence and what has emotional intelligence got to do with our sense of inclusion and belonging. An important topic for us to understand.

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In this podcast you will learn

• How emotional intelligence fits in with our workplace and diversity, equity and inclusion training
• Hanieh's message for women entrepreneurs, espcially female techpreneurs who continue to face barriers
• The importance of  e-onboarding and training now and in the future
• The biggest challenges of owning 2 businesses
• Finding balance as a poet, publisher and techpreneur
• Partnership with BMO with free training

Mother and daughter team Carey Conley and Laurel Wilson from Oklahoma City and Scottsdale, Az, talk about how to move forward through adversity, shifting your business in the face of adversity. How it's not too late to write down your vision and start living your true purpose.

Carey and Laurel talk about

• Their intention for first starting your business
• What events caused them to shift
• Sharing a lesson learned while shifting your business
• Best advice for anyone feeling stuck and knowing they need to shift
• Walking people through writing a vision
• Plans moving forward

Are you leading the life you love?  Could the 5-step magnetic mind method lead you to create the life you love?  Gunther Mueller from Anthem, Arizona shares this revolutionary Magnetic Mind Method in this podcast.  Once you have clarity, you can turn "Thoughts into Things" and become a conscious creator.   We explore this in this segment of our show.

You will learn:

• Do I have to be "spiritual" to Create a Life You Love?
• Do I have to be experienced in meditation?
• How does Manifestation really work?
• Why have we not heard about The Magnetic Mind Method before?
• How does The Magnetic Mind Method relate to the "Secret" and "The Law of Attraction"?
• How long does it take to "Get The Results I Want"?

Getting the balance between goal-getting, ambitions, business and real life right for you can happen with guidance from Lisa Michaud, who is as she says, a recovering over-achieving, people-pleaseing, perfectionist!  Formerly a high achieving Corporate employee, Lisa had a serious health scare that led her to transform her whole life.

In this podcast you will learn:

1. Lisa's story and how did her business come to life?  How does it connect to goal-setting?
2. What are the biggest mistakes people make when setting goals, and how can they be avoided?
3. Should you “always have a goal” and if so, how do you avoid some of the downsides of always having a goal? (Ie. hustle culture, inability to relax, always striving, never enough).  What does it look like to achieve goals AND have balance and enjoy life?
4. What do you believe are some of the most underrated tools, practices or habits for success?   {Weekly planning, cold plunges, dance parties}
5. As a mom, entrepreneur, real estate investor and dance party enthusiast, Lisa's tips for time management?
6. What’s the best unconventional advice Lisa has been given?

There aren't many women in the wine business, but our podcast guest, Aubrey Terrazas has excelled in this male dominated field.  She has been using impact to scale business in the wine industry in France and beyond.  Listen to her story of leaving the US and striking out to change the wine industry in France from her base in Lyon.

In this podcast you will discover:

• Techniques to overcome gender bias at workplace
• What is it like Working as a woman in wine
• Using impact to scale business
• Sustainability & Wine
• The perspective as a woman in a male-dominated field
• Adopting an old, passion-driven industry for modern consumer

Did you know that there are 3 sneaky ways trauma can show up in your business?  Mindset coach, Erin Moore,  unfolds these raw truths in our podcast.   You will discover:

•  What is "trauma"?
•  What's the number one way Erin notices trauma showing up in businesses?
•  What kind of help is available for women in business if these things are impacting them?
• What are some myths that are UNHELPFUL for women trying to move through these things impacting their businesses?
•  How long does shifting perspectives and unlearning toxic messaging like this take?
•  Which of these did Erin have to work through in her own business?