Let me introduce you to Janice Scholl, a money and career break coach for professional women. Janice is passionate about illuminating the money and work-life challenges women face through the stages of motherhood. Through her work, she supports mothers in their quest to be financially empowered and use their skills while being fully present for their children. Janice is the Money, Career & Motherhood podcast host and a frequent speaker on motherhood & money, career breaks, and family finances. She’s also the founder of Strategic Sabbaticals, a program designed to amplify the growth and opportunity women find through a career break to ensure a successful return to paid work. Janice is here to share her story, as well as her advice for moms thinking about taking an extended career break.

To connect with Janice -

Website: www.moneycareermotherhood.com

Instagram: @moneycareermotherhood

LinkedIn: @Janice Scholl

Janice’ Career Break Coaching Program - Strategic Sabbaticals: https://unique-pioneer-3327.ck.page/50ade65fd7

To connect with Peggy -

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindful_sequences/ (@mindful_sequences)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindfulsequences/?ref=pages_you_manage (MindfulSequences)

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I want to introduce you to Lily Geiger. Lily is the founder of Figlia, a modern non-alcoholic aperitivo created for moments you want to remember. 

Lily started her career working for Beautycounter in Los Angeles then a small boutique retail agency, working with clients like Summer Fridays, Heyday and APL. The experience working with new companies made her realize she would start her own business one day. Enter: Figlia!

In this episode, Lily talks about her path to becoming an entrepreneur and shares many valuable lessons and insights she’s learned along the way. 

She also shares the story behind Figlia, which explains her mission and the drive she has for the non-alcoholic beverage space. Losing her father to alcoholism when she was 20 years old, made a huge impact on the way she sees the world. 

And, of course, watching someone so close to her struggle with addiction and choose alcohol over family every time made her more aware of the need for additional support and more non-alcoholic drink options on the market. 

She hopes Figlia will fill that need and raise awareness about alcoholism, too.

To connect with Lily -

Website: https://drinkfiglia.com/ 

Instagram: @Lily.Geiger 

Email: [email protected]

 

To connect with Peggy -

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindful_sequences/ (@mindful_sequences)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindfulsequences/?ref=pages_you_manage (MindfulSequences)

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A short episode featuring my fellow Ama La Vida coach Natalia Tamburini talking about Design Thinking. Natalia is a career and life coach at Ama La Vida. She was born in Buenos Aires but calls San Diego her second home. Her coaching approach is unique, as she blends elements of her background in psychology and design to creatively help clients navigate through life and career changes. She’s here to tell us about how Design Thinking is a useful tool for creating a great career and life.

To connect with Natalia -

Website: ALVCoaching.com

Design Thinking Blog: https://alvcoaching.com/blog/what-is-design-thinking-and-how-to-apply-it-to-your-career/

Instagram @natalia_tambu

LinkedIn: Natalia Tamburini

To connect with Peggy -

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindful_sequences/ (@mindful_sequences)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindfulsequences/?ref=pages_you_manage (MindfulSequences)

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To celebrate the last day of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I invited Lailanie Gadia to the show. Working alongside Asian American Documentary Network, Lailanie devotes herself to helping increasing AAPI’s visibility in the mainstream through storytelling. Lailanie is also a financial professional who helps people address their financial needs and set their future financial goals. She has a strong passion for supporting AAPI filmmakers. At the same time, it’s her calling to educate families and individuals on financial literacy. On top of all that, Lailanie is a short film producer. Prior to pursuing her passion, Lailanie worked in the corporate world for many years. She got laid off from her job in 2018 due to restructuring. Losing her job was difficult, but she successfully turned a challenge into an opportunity. She now lives a life that she loves and vows to make a difference in the community.

 

To connect with Lailanie:

Website: https://www.meetlailanie.me/

Instagram: @itslailanie https://www.instagram.com/itslailanie/?hl=en

Twitter: Lailanieg https://twitter.com/lailanieg?lang=en

LinkedIn: Lailanie Gadia https://www.linkedin.com/in/lailanieg/

 

Asian American Documentary Network’s 2021 Storytelling Initiative - Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond micro-documentaries are available on social media platforms: @aadocnetwork https://www.instagram.com/aadocnetwork/?hl=en

I want to introduce you to Nikki Larchar, the co-founder of Define the Line. Define the Line makes sexual harassment training engaging through the use of story in a comic book format. Nikki is also the co-creator of their comic book training solution and trainer’s guide. She’s been a business owner since 2016 and has over 9 years of experience working in Human Resources. Besides asking Nikki to share her entrepreneurial journey, I’m talking with her about sexual harassment. A little spoiler alert, sexual harassment still happens even though most people are not working in the office due to the pandemic. Nikki and I also shared our personal encounter with sexual harassment in the workplace and discussed the guilt of not speaking up about the incident. The bigger goal of today’s episode is to keep bringing awareness to the issue and learning about the potential ways to deal with the situation. I hope this conversation will be helpful for you in some way.

 

To connect with Nikki -

Website: DefineTheLineComic.com

Instagram & Facebook: @definethelinecomic 

TikTok: @NikkiLarchar 

LinkedIn: Nikki Larchar or Define the Line

The Define the Line comic book training solution was built with small to large businesses in mind. The comic book is a digital download that you can use in your organization to spark conversation with your team about what sexual harassment is and how to speak up for yourself and others to spark positive change. 

 

To connect with Peggy -

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram & Facebook: @mindful_sequences

To download FREE Career Passions + Core Values Workbook, go to mindfulsequences.com

Today, we are chatting with April Frazier, the founder/CEO of FRWD Confidence Coaching. April calls herself a lane changer who left her full-time job as an entrepreneur to create a life that she loves. Before this invigorating transition, April was in technology for 18 years as a software developer and led a team. As a double minority, April thought studying computer science and being a software developer was the right career strategy. The career path trained her to depend on her logical mind, but she later discovered that leaning into her intuition gives her so much more personal power.  April now helps others reinvent themselves, translate their skills from one discipline to another, and learn to turn their weaknesses into strengths so that they can sustainably launch and grow their purpose-driven business. April is here to tell her story and share with us how to develop more confidence.

To connect with April: 

Website: https://frwdcoaching.com/

Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/iamfrwd/

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

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilfraziercoach/ 

 

To connect with Peggy:

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram & Facebook: @mindful_sequences

To download FREE Career Passions + Core Values Workbook, go to mindfulsequences.com

Today, my guest is Nina Barnett, the founder, and CEO of Grooop. Grooop is an app that shares safety status among friends and family. It allows you to set up safe zones, create a community, and update your safety status to alert others if you need help. Grooop’s goal is to make safety more fun, inclusive, intuitive, and non-invasive. Nina started this business when she was in college, majoring in Physics and Acting, with a Math minor. She’s also a singer, songwriter, actor, and standup comedian in New York City. Nina is a multitalented woman and a great business founder. She will talk to us about how she started Grooop and share her advice for college students thinking about starting their own business.

To connect with Nina: 

Website: getgrooop.com

Instagram: @GetGrooop 

 

To connect with Peggy:

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram & Facebook: @mindful_sequences

To download FREE Career Passions + Core Values Workbook, go to mindfulsequences.com

Today, I’m introducing you to Sarah McMullen, a consultant for inclusion and diversity with a focus on disability inclusion. Besides Sarah’s personal story, she helped answer some important questions regarding disability inclusion in the workplace. From the concept of intersectionality to what the interviewer can and cannot ask individuals with disabilities in an interview. This episode is great for listeners who are interested in the Human Resources roles and want to become specialized in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion area. This episode may also be helpful to job seekers who have disabilities.

To connect with Sarah: 

LinkedIn: Sarah McMullen https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mcmullen-92266751/ 

To connect with Peggy:

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram & Facebook: @mindful_sequences

To download FREE Career Passions + Core Values Workbook, go to mindfulsequences.com

Today’s show is a solo episode where I talk about the time when I got disinvited to a work event and what I chose to do at the end. The emphasis is self-advocacy. The episode ends with a loving-kindness meditation* and self-affirmations that remind my listeners to speak up, do the right thing, and believe that their feelings and voice do matter. This episode is also the conclusion of season one. Her Path to Success will resume in May 2021.

If you enjoyed today’s episode, please subscribe/follow and share it with your friends and family. Thank you!

*The loving-kindness meditation is inspired by the book, Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson, and the spinoff that my meditation teacher Andrea Ferretti did in my advanced yoga teacher training.

To connect with Peggy:

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram & Facebook: mindful_sequences

To download FREE Career Passions + Core Values Workbook, go to mindfulsequences.com

Today I’m introducing you to Anniston Riekstins, a mindset coach and the Co-founder of InPower University. Yahoo Finance also names Anniston as one of the 11 Female Entrepreneurs Everyone Will Know In 2021. In this episode, Anniston shares how a deviation in her career trajectory led to a life-changing adventure. Anniston is very in tune with her intuition, and she believes that connecting with your true self is the key to pursue big things in life. Anniston said: “You have to first expand energetically into the person you want to become before you can live it physically.” I hope you’ll find Anniston’s story inspiring and her advice worth exploring. 

 

To connect with Anniston: 

Website: www.inpoweruniversity.com,  

Instagram: @annistonblairriekstins 

To sign up for Anniston’s Intention Group: https://www.inpoweruniversity.com/inpower-intention-project

 

To connect with Peggy:

Website: mindfulsequences.com

Instagram & Facebook: @mindful_sequences

To download FREE Career Passions + Core Values Workbook, go to mindfulsequences.com