Fully Alive

Fully Alive

By Mary Meduna-Gross, Ph.D.BusinessEntrepreneurship
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Fully Alive episodes

  • The Value of a Virtual Assistant with Diane Jones

    Diane is the owner of Virtual DiVA, LLC and on deck and ready to give it her all! When it comes to small businesses, she manages non-income producing tasks, non-billable items, and everything from team building to accounting! She is able to grant assistance in making your bottom line more profitable, and making your occupational life a much simpler, manageable place.

    During our time together, Diane and I discuss:

    • Virtual Assistance 101: What is it, why is it important, and how is it different than working face-to-face
  • The pros and cons of hiring a VA
  • How to know when it's the right time to hire a VA for your business
  • Having a framework to set you, your VA and ultimately your business up for success
  • The personality match and why it's crucial to hiring the right VA
  • You can connect with Diane here. 

     

    44 min
  • Set Yourself Up for Success with Systems with Gerard Carpenter

    My guest this week is Gerard Carpenter, a Business Development Strategist who helps clients transform their businesses through cost-optimization and financial system implementation projects. 

    During our time together, Gerard and I discuss how:

    • The right systems can provide you with efficiency, profitability, financial independence and professional autonomy
  • To align your systems to support your personal and professional visions, goals and long-term plans
  • To recognize your professional value and get others to see you as a person of value
  • To use your professional reach to make a long-term positive impact
  • You can connect with Gerard here.

    51 min
  • Have Fun Doing Work While Finding Joy in Helping Others Amy Garelick

    This week's episode features guest, Amy Garelick. She is the founder & creative director of POWER UP Video Studios, a video marketing and content coaching company that helps brands establish trust and influence by creating content that is customer obsessed. 

    She found her passion for powerful storytelling at an early age.  Amy spent 15 years with the magical world of Disney Media and Special Event Production using her passion for storytelling to communicate and connect.

    Together, Amy and I discuss how to:

    • Have fun and find joy while doing purposeful work, running a business and helping others find meaningful solutions
  • Share your story in an authentic way to connect, resonate and communicate with clients
  • Mold, shape and find opportunities that showcase your gifts to help others
  • Provide valuable solutions in the services provided to clients
  • Go after all that you really want and have a great time doing it
  • Connect with Amy here. 

    47 min
  • The Transformational Journey to Conscious Entrepreneurship with Leon VanderPol

    This week's guest is Leon VanderPol, Founder of the Center for Transformational Coaching. The center's mission is serve others who wish to support meaningful change and transformation of self, society, and the organizations they serve.

    Together, with Monica Edwards, the three of us discuss the transformational journey of conscious living. Topics include:

    • Moving from a place of fear and angst to love and joy
  • Building our lives and businesses with ease, clarity and purpose
  • Playing the inner game, using the depth of being within ourselves to expand and grow
  • Learning to accept, pivot and move to the next level
  • Recognizing the lessons and blessings available to us
  • Committing to the inner work with patience and grace
  • This episode is for anyone who wants shift to a place of conscious living and personal growth, expanding to our true, most authentic selves.

    Connect with Leon here.

     

     

    1 hr
  • A Strategic Approach to Finances: Optimize, Grow & Protect Your Wealth with Eunicia Peret

    My guest this week is Wealth Strategist and Financial Expert, Eunicia Peret. As CEO of the Empowered Financial Planner, she consults successful business owners and executives on strategies to keep more of what they earn while optimizing growing and protecting their wealth.

    Eunicia shares her own story and experiences that led her to look beyond just income and numbers, to understand the whole financial picture, and help others to develop a complete financial strategy that is most aligned with their values and unique goals. 

    During our time together, Eunicia explains with ease and relatability:

    • A financial approach that is unique to each individual that looks beyond just the numbers and focuses on what each person is trying to achieve for their future
  • How a strong financial strategy is made up of many components that should work together to support overall goals
  • The importance of having the proper support and expertise to help each person create a financial strategy that aligns with individual values, goals and desired future outcomes
  • Listen today to begin to take responsibility of your financial future!

    You can learn more about Eunicia here.

     

    48 min
  • Create a Brand That Matters: Effective and Authentic Communication with Linsey Shelton

    This week's guest, Linsey Shelton, co-founder of Waymaker, helps teams and entrepreneurs love their work, their clients, their team AND make money! Linsey has a passion for communicating effectively and helping others attract soulmate clients. 

    During our time together, Linsey and I discuss:

    • Meaningful, authentic communication
  • The personal and professional shift that occurs when people love what they do
  • Powerful messaging and genuine connection
  • The impact of marketing that reflects your true brand and passion
  • Learn more about Linsey here.

    53 min
  • Shifting Your Focus from Getting to Giving: Communicating and Providing Value with Bob Burg

    On this week's episode, Monica Edwards interviews author, leader and advocate Bob Burg. For 30 years he’s helped companies, sales leaders, and their teams to more effectively communicate their value, sell at higher prices with less resistance, and grow their businesses based on Endless Referrals. He is best known for his book Endless Referrals, it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that captured the imagination of his readers.

    During their time together, Monica and Bob discuss the following:

    1. Shifting your focus from getting to giving
  • Communicating and expressing your highest values to help others
  • Leading and selling with integrity and purpose
  • Making life better for yourself and others through the value your bring
  • Growing through personal development and conscious entrepreneurship
  • Establishing healthy boundaries for giving
  • This is for anyone who is searching for their noble purpose and wanting to make a difference. 

    Learn more about Bob here.

    29 min
  • Communication: The Single Most Important Tool to Connect, Create and Go After What You Really Want with Claudia Rocafort

    My guest this week is Executive Coach, Business Coach, ICF certified Life Coach, and Conscious Communication Consultant, Claudia Rocafort. She uses her 28 years of acting experience on stage, and on camera, to teach her clients Public Speaking skills and all the tools to create the greatest impact with their message!

    During our time together, Claudia and I discuss:

    • The importance of learning communication and applying it as a skill to help yourself and others
  • How the story we tell ourselves impacts our perception of the world and the people in it
  • The shift that takes place when we are able to effectively communicate from an open safe space 
  • Listen to this episode if you're looking to better understand how to communicate with yourself and those around you.

    You can find Claudia here.

    56 min
  • Mindfulness: Navigate Through the Noise and Challenges of Life with Anthony Lorubbio

    Once all too familiar with the modern grind culture, Anthony Lorubbio took the time to address his burnout and reconnect with his most authentic-self. Relying on things like breathwork, travel and nature, Anthony now helps others on their journey to reconnect with their purpose and passion!

    He is the founder of Recal -- short for 'recalibrate' -- that specializes in mindful adventure travel. The coach-led, retreat-style trips help attendees reconnect with nature and themselves as humans.

    During our time together, Anthony and I:

    • Share our experiences that helped us get to where we are today, and why we want to help others reach a place of peace, self-connection and fulfillment. 
  • Practice breathwork and mindfulness excercises for clarity and centering.
  • Discuss where to begin to navigate back to your most authentic self and reconnect with your true purpose and passion.
  • To learn more about Anthony and his work,  connect with him here.

    1 hr
  • Achieving Greatness with Rory K. Douglas

    Monica Edwards is joined by Financial Educator, Life Coach and International Best Selling Author Rory K. Douglas. Throughout his career, Rory has educated countless families across the U.S and Canada helping them to achieve financial independence. 

    As he shares his personal journey to greatness and the path that led him to help others, Rory and Monica discuss:

    • Turning struggles into victories
  • Seeing obstacles as opportunities for change
  • Achieving greatness through mindset
  • Using your platform to inspire and educate others
  • Learning the importance of financial literacy to achieve financial security and freedom
  • Learn more about Rory and his services, here.

    42 min

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We imagine a world where conscious business leaders feel happier, healthier, wiser, and connected to unlimited possibilities, and one where they are fully ALIVE.