Hema Persad is an HGTV Designer for Property Brothers and the founder of Sagrada Studio, featured in Vogue and Architectural Digest. Before she built her dream career of designing celebrities' homes, she pivoted careers multiple times. This conversation is about those pivots. How do you know what the next right move is for you? How do you trust yourself in the process? How do you deal with self-doubt along your path?

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In this episode, we dig into relationships and leadership with CEO & Founder Anne-Marie Faiola. How do you rebuild yourself after a failed relationship? Where does resilience come from? How do you lead yourself and others while battling negative self-talk?

Bramble Berry Founder and CEO Anne-Marie Faiola changed her life around from being a corrections officer with a failing marriage to following her passion and starting a creative company in the 90s. She bootstrapped that business to upwards of 20 million in annual revenue. Today, she is the sole owner of Brambleberry and thrives on helping female entrepreneurs create their own businesses.

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In our first self-care conversation, Bhavna and Saige share personal stories on acceptance. Bhavna shares how she is accepting the loss of her father and Saige makes a discovery during the episode on something buried deep down inside that he has never accepted.

Sheetal Sheth is an acclaimed actress, producer, activist, and author. In this episode, she shares a story about a casting producer that asked her to change her name so it was "less ethnic", how a diagnosis of cancer rocked her world and how she used that phase of pain to create a new passion for becoming an author.

This is a true story about dreams. Alka Joshi had the dream of becoming an author. At age 40, she started writing her first novel. She wrote for 10 years and kept believing in her dreams. At age 53, she was named a New York Times Best Selling Author for her first novel The Henna Artist which is being adapted into an upcoming Netflix series. Bhavna asks her how she kept her dreams alive, the role that Reese Witherspoon played to make her dreams a reality and why you should never stop believing in your dreams regardless of your age.

Jason Saltzman is a seasoned entrepreneur featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Rolling Stone for his successful start-ups. While Jason has had tremendous success in the start-up world, he also endured significant failure along the way. In this conversation, Bhavna delves into the phase of his consistent failure. How do you get back up and get into the ring again after you've failed consistently? What has he learned from failure? How important is prioritizing mental health during this phase?

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Cindie and Bhavna answer YOUR friendship questions!

1. What qualities do you look for when making new friends?

2. How has the pandemic changed our friendships?

Every relationship starts with two people becoming friends but how do you navigate friendship in adulthood? In this episode, I invite my best friend Cindie Massiah onto the podcast to share the things that helped us build a 30-year friendship.

Valérie Del-Sol coaches high-level executives for Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Sony Music, American Express etc. She sits down with Bhavna to talk about leaders in the C-Suite. What traits make a good leader? What do leaders lack today? How do they break through existing doubts?

How To Get Through The Not-So-Great Days