We are back with another episode of Her HypeSquad. This week we're talking with Lisa Custodio and Stefania Piacentini, the founders and travel experts of Alla Tua - a travel company specializing in unique tours of Europe - primarily in Italy.

In this episode, we talk about designing authentic travel experiences, hidden gems of Italy, embracing local culture when traveling and Lisa and Stefania's experience starting a business together. If you love travel and new experiences, you don't want to miss the many insights provided in this conversation!

About Lisa Custodio

With over 25 years of experience in operations, ranging from meeting and party planning to organizing conferences and conventions, Lisa Custodio has dedicated herself to keeping everybody running on schedule and on time.

Beyond her professional endeavors, she has been orchestrating memorable trips for family and friends for even longer. Eager to share her most cherished destinations and the tranquility that travel imparts, 

Lisa, a proud Army mom, has explored diverse corners of the globe, including Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia, with Australia next on her list. Lisa's collection of cherished travel memories includes cruising down the Nile in Egypt on her honeymoon, an exhilarating attempt to summit Mount Kilimanjaro with her best friend in Tanzania, delightful encounters with mischievous monkeys with her daughter in Malaysia and missionary work in Ghana.

Nevertheless, the heartbeat of her fondest memories consistently echoes in Italy, where the embrace of family creates the most enduring and heartwarming connections.

About Stefania Piacentini

Stefania is a 29-year-old native of Modena, Italy.  She is an accountant who practices both in Nashville, Tennessee, and Italy, allowing her to stay connected to her beloved roots.

Her passion for travel began at the age of 17 during a transformative exchange year in the United States, inspired by her mother’s adventurous spirit. Stefania grew up in a small village in Italy and now lives in a larger city, giving her a deep appreciation for the diverse landscapes and cultures within her country.

Stefania’s adventures have taken her across the globe to destinations like the Philippines, the Caribbean, Brazil, Cappadocia, Bali, and Africa. Each journey has enriched her understanding and appreciation of different cultures.Lisa and Stefania Alla Tua Travel, where they are excited to share the beauty of Italy with guests.

Whether through guided group tours or private customized trips, Stefania and Lisa are passionate about recommending the most amazing places and experiences. They strive to help travelers see Italy through the eyes of locals, constantly exploring new parts of Stefania's motherland to discover hidden gems and unique experiences.

Their goal is to provide an authentic and enriching travel experience that leaves a lasting impression on their clients.

Contact Lisa and Stefania at Alla Tua

Email - Lisa Custodio: [email protected]

Email - Stefania Piacentini: [email protected]

Website: allatua.com

Facebook: Escape to Italy! Travel with Lisa & Stefania

Instagram: @allatuatravel

This week we talk with Meredith Chandler, a powerhouse sales executive and strategist.In our conversation, we’re unpacking everything from the secret sauce of building killer organization systems to the art of humility in leadership. Meredith also shares her pro tips on prepping for those crucial 1:1s, the magic behind professionally designed vision boards that actually work, and how she gets fired up with David Goggins' motivation.

About Meredith:

Meredith Chandler has a decade of experience building, scaling, and leading successful sales teams. She is currently Head of New Business at Unicrn - a fractional sales consultancy, and also consults on her own at MeredithTheSalesCoach.com.

She splits her time between San Francisco and Salt Lake City- you can catch her in a swanky San Francisco restaurant or on the ski slopes in Salt Lake City if you want to talk sales!

Contact Meredith:

LinkedIn: @meredithchandler

Website: www.merediththesalescoach.com

This week we're talking with a very special guest - Jennifer Barnwell, President of Curator Hotel and Resort Collection.

In our conversation, we talk about raising your hand and speaking up for career growth, work-life integration, and leading with laughter!

About Jennifer Barnwell

Jennifer Barnwell is President of Curator Hotel & Resort Collection. Launched in November 2020, Curator provides lifestyle hotels the power to compete together while allowing its members the freedom to retain what makes their hotels unique. 

Before moving over to Curator, Barnwell was Senior Vice President of Asset Management of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, a leading real estate investment trust, which was formed and went public in late 2009.  She oversaw hotels on the west coast in San Francisco and Los Angeles and had a team of three Asset Managers reporting to her. Prior to joining Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, Barnwell was Senior Vice President of Peninsula Real Estate LLC, a private real estate investment fund based in New York. While at Peninsula Real Estate LLC, she was involved in all aspects of the fund including formation, acquisitions, and asset management. Previously, Barnwell was Vice President of Tishman Hotel & Realty LP where she was involved in Tishman Hotel & Realty’s many activities including acquisitions, management, asset management, development, and brokerage. 

Jennifer holds a B.S. from The School of Hotel Administration of Cornell University, graduating with Distinction.  Barnwell currently serves on the Board of the Boutique Lifestyle Leaders Association (BLLA).

Contact Jen

LinkedIn: @jennifer-barnwell-a8689ba

Welcome back to a brand new episode of Her HypeSquad! This week we have a special guest to talk with about owning your voice and leading with authenticity, creativity and courage.

Today, I'm talking with Lauri Smith, Caring Visionary Officer of Voice Matters and author of Your Voice Matters: A Guide to speaking soulfully when it counts.

In our conversation, we talk about owning your voice, dealing with inner criticism, transforming nervous energy into a compelling presence, simplifying complex concepts, and so much more as it relates to communication!

About Lauri Smith

Lauri Smith is a speaker, author, and intuitive public speaking and leadership coach. She helps sensitive visionaries, ambitious empaths, and loving rebels to speak (online and in person) and be seen in order to fulfill their soul’s calling. 

Lauri is the CVO (Caring Visionary Officer) of Voice Matters and the author of Your Voice Matters: A Guide to Speaking Soulfully When It Counts. Her mission is to call forth more open-hearted leaders so they can do their part to change the world with authenticity, creativity and courage. She envisions a world in which everyone shares the vibration of their soul’s purpose through their voices and together, we reach global harmony.

Lauri can always see the soul underneath the static - which makes her really good at motivating people to fight their inner demons and find tremendous inner power.

Contact Laurie:

LinkedIn: @lauri-smith-voice-matters

Website: www.voice-matters.com

Today, we're talking with Jacquelyn Nicholson, a sales and leadership executive with some of the world's top brands. 

In our conversation, we talk about finding opportunity in adversity, controlling your day, working through conflict, avoiding the urge to overshare, the power of a good lunch and so much more!

Contact Jacquelyn

LinkedIn: @jacquelyn-nicholson

About Jacquelyn

I want to start with my favorite part of Jacquelyn's bio which really struck me and sums everything up about her so well and that is this. Jacquelyn is passionate about being the woman her husband would marry again, the mom her kids are proud of and the person her boss or customer would work with again.

Career-wise, Jacquelyn has had a three-decade career traveling the world to work with the best brands to grow businesses in new markets from scratch. With a career focused first in R&D, then consulting, and finally sales and leadership, her successful track record managing relationships with J&J, Roche, Novartis, United Airlines, Transamerica, Cisco, Bayer, Sanofi, Discover, Verizon, McDonald's, Juniper, Zurich, and Takeda make her a versatile author, speaker and saleswoman.

She is Co-Author of Sales Success Stories Volume I, a prolific speaker at Sales Success Summit and on various podcasts like Sales Success Stories, Surf and Sales, Sales Evangelist, and Your Legacy. She has spoken at UC Berkeley's Women in Science group, and was on panels for BioNetwork - Mastering the Science of Due Diligence, Elsevier - Takeda's Acquisition of Nycomed, Capital Roundtable on Private Equity in Healthcare - Legal & Regulatory Issues & Due Diligence, and with GLG and Bloomberg on ROI of Innovation. She has won numerous President's Clubs 1999 to Present, and the J&J Achievement Award for global performance above level.

She spends time serving at Watermark Church Dallas with her husband as leaders in the Marriage Ministry and their Community Group. An avid runner, yoga fan, and prolific wine collector, Jacquelyn is a trained sommelier who loves to cook and bake. 

Today, we're talking with Allison Mairena, VP of People for NewGlobe, an international education company.

We talk about career transitions, self-advocacy, the importance of peer support, some great advice for what to do (and what not to do) to uplevel your LinkedIn profile, and so much more. 

Contact Allison

LinkedIn: @peoplexenthusiast

About Allison

Allison Mairena (she/her) specializes in building and scaling People Operations practices, particularly for rapidly-growing startups and international teams. Currently, she serves as the VP of People for NewGlobe, an international education company providing innovative curriculum and transformative technical services to public schools. 

Recently leading the People & Talent function at connectRN, she led the organization through COVID-19 and the transition to remote-supportive work. There, Allison developed and executed the HR strategy as the company grew 4x YoY. Prior to connectRN, Allison served as the Head of People at CozyKin, a tech-enabled childcare service, and talent acquisition teams at EF Education First and Cengage, hiring globally and nationally respectively.

Being a very mission-driven professional, Allison has worked predominantly for companies which make a societal impact in the edtech, healthtech, famtech spaces. She believes in a human-first approach, advocating for employee wellbeing and amplifying voices from underrepresented groups.

In this episode, we're getting awkward with Henna Pryor!

We talk about her book Good Awkward, what it is and embracing awkwardness in leadership, using improv exercises with your team to build trust and encourage open communication, the power of telling ourselves redemption stories in place of contamination stories, and so much more. 

You'll really enjoy the awkward moment in the middle of the podcast where we try to figure out where the bubbles on screen are coming from - you really never know when you'll experience those quirks and unexpected moments. 

Show notes can be found at: https://thebosstrack.com/henna-pryor-on-good-awkward-improv-exercises-redemption-stories-and-magic-words-51/

Contact Henna

LinkedIn: @hennapryor
Website: www.pryoritygroup.com

About Henna

Henna Pryor, PCC is a highly sought after Workplace Performance Expert and an award-winning 2x TEDx and global keynote speaker, author, and executive coach. Her clients call her their “secret weapon for impossible change,” an honor she wears proudly. She’s known for her science-backed approach to improving the performance, habits, and actions of hungry high achievers – in her fun, no-nonsense, no-jargon way – to move them from their first level of success to their next one.

Henna founded Pryority Group – a fast-growing performance growth firm – to expand on her belief that the key to most people’s success is leaning into awkwardness a little bit longer to skyrocket strategic risk-taking and be braver in the work that we do.

She’s recognized as a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence, and her best-selling book, Good Awkward, was endorsed by NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson and former HBR Editor Karen Dillon, and was named a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of 2023.

We’re rolling out the red carpet for an all-new episode of Her HypeSquad with Bosstrack!

In this episode, we dive deep with Kat Newport, a mastermind in flipping conflict into growth, a visionary author, and the founder of Oculus, Inc.

We talk about resilience, anchoring in optimism, mastering the art of emotional rebound, and the power of unleashing your creative spirit. Get ready to be inspired, enlightened, and perhaps, even see the world a little differently. 

About Kat:

Kat Newport, an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), and Certified Change Practitioner (CCP) is the visionary Founder of Oculus Inc. and author of the upcoming book, 'Smart Conflict: Turning Disputes into Growth Opportunities.'

With a passionate mission to harness conflict as a catalyst for growth and innovation, Kat empowers individuals and organizations to thrive. Her charismatic approach, rooted in the values of authenticity, resiliency, and momentum, specializes in leadership and conflict management, creating lasting positive impact on all collaborators.

Kat boasts national director-level leadership in quality assurance, project management and organizational development, shaping comprehensive training programs and individually coaching and transforming countless leaders.

Where to find Kat:

LinkedIn: @Kat-Newport

In this episode of Her HypeSquad with Bosstrack, we have the pleasure of bringing you insights from Elizabeth McCalley, the CEO of StartStak.

This conversation covers quite a bit, from the art of professional resilience to the often underestimated power of intuition. We also talk about the profound significance of time and handling no-win situations. But it's not all business. We also venture into raising chickens and culinary experimentation.

Contact Elizabeth

LinkedIn: ⁠@emccalley

Website: www.startstak.ai

About Elizabeth

As the CEO and Founder of StartStak, Elizabeth is a results-driven executive enabling strategy and go to market for early stage companies.

She is AI-native and excels in developing new markets through use of emerging technologies. She brings extensive experience in nascent markets, industry solution development, marketing, partnerships, and alliances.

Elizabeth has a passion for developing new markets and is on a mission to broadly enable entrepreneurship through a new business design. StartStak is Founded for the Founders.

To get this new year started, I sat down with Clarissa Burt, CEO of In the Limelight Media and author of The Self-Esteem Regime. We talk about self-esteem, reinventing yourself, and finding joy in connection and continuous learning.

I loved Clarissa's energy, and I know you'll really enjoy this conversation!

About Clarissa Burt

Clarissa Burt is an internationally acclaimed award-winning media personality, producer, director, writer, author, public speaker and former supermodel and winner of the celebrity version of Italian Survivor.

With hundreds of television and film credits to her name, this Who’s Who of International and American Women brings over 35 years of entertainment industry experience in both International and American markets.

Clarissa is the Founder and CEO of In the Limelight Media, a multi-media platform consisting of TV/video, a podcast, and a digital magazine. Her shows can be seen on ROKU, Amazon Fire, and Apple TV among other places and her podcast is heard on 15 different distribution platforms. She is also the author of the internationally pluri-award bestselling book entitled The Self-Esteem Regime.

Clarissa was the first American to present Russian TV at the Kremlin and has had two private audiences with Pope John Paul II honoring her social work.

As Ambassador to the United States for the “Walking Africa” campaign, she actively helped African women win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.

Contact Clarissa

Facebook: @clarissaburtofficial

LinkedIn: @clarissaburt

Instagram: @clarissaburt

Website: www.clarissaburt.com