Listen Bitch Presents TELL ME WHY YOU'RE SPECIAL

I didn’t rebuild my life and career in my 50s because I was chasing reinvention. I rebuilt because clarity — both personal and professional — had slowly gone offline, and I finally understood why.

Earlier in my career, I was successful in corporate leadership and sales. When I had four children under the age of seven, I stepped away from corporate life to create flexibility. Over the years that followed, I continued working in less demanding roles while helping grow multiple businesses behind the scenes. Professionally, I was capable and trusted. Personally, I was carrying far more than I understood.

I raised five children, became the legal guardian of my teenage nephew when he was homeless, cared for my mother through five years of cancer treatment, and navigated a long, complicated marriage that ultimately fell apart. Throughout that time, I made choices — some adaptive, some costly — while functioning in a prolonged state of survival. I didn’t lack discipline or intelligence; I lacked nervous-system safety and decision clarity.

For nearly a decade, I lived in what I later learned was functional freeze — outwardly responsible, inwardly disconnected from my own needs, goals, and sense of agency. When my children left home, my marriage ended, and my mother died, the cumulative grief forced a reckoning I could no longer avoid.

The turning point wasn’t a dramatic career move. It was reclaiming my body, my health, and my capacity to choose. Through grief counseling, meditation, and a return to physical strength, clarity slowly came back online. With it came a deep understanding of how leadership, sales, decision-making, and emotional regulation are inseparable — and how often capable people judge themselves harshly for patterns that are actually adaptive responses to prolonged overload.

That understanding now underpins all of my work.

I’m the founder of Hexagon Media, a strategic marketing and advertising agency focused on demand-building, messaging, and sustainable growth. I help businesses grow by aligning strategy with human behavior — not manipulation, pressure, or performative branding.

I’m also the host of the podcast Deals with Heels, a long-running, well-respected show known for thoughtful conversations about leadership, sales culture, communication, and growth. The podcast has earned trust through consistency, depth, and real dialogue — and it has become a platform where experienced women leaders choose to have honest, substantive conversations about how business actually works.

Later, I founded The Growth Vanguard, where my work expands into leadership advisory and sales culture transformation for founders and executives navigating growth without losing themselves in the process.

As a podcast guest, I bring lived experience, pattern recognition, and calm authority — not motivation or formulas. I speak candidly about leadership maturity, ethical sales, decision-making after burnout or loss, and what it truly takes to rebuild clarity, confidence, and direction later in life.

I’m especially drawn to conversations about:

•Leadership and emotional regulation

•Sales culture and ethical influence

•Decision-making after prolonged overwhelm

•Starting over without erasing your past

•Building growth that doesn’t require self-abandonment

If your audience values depth, discernment, and leadership that feels human rather than performative, I’m glad to be part of the conversation.

https://thegrowthvanguard.com/free-ebook

https://hexagonmedia.net/

Recently retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), after 24 years as a special agent, Eric Robinson worked a range of crimes including white collar, counterterrorism, crimes against children, gangs, drugs, and public corruption. He served as a SWAT operator, a firearms instructor, and a tactics instructor.  

Eric will soon release his first book, a collection of the humorous, surprising, and intriguing moments from his career. The memoir combines his years in law enforcement with his career prior to the Bureau. 

Eric joined the FBI after 12 years in Christian ministry, to include pastoring a Baptist church in Western NY.

With a background as a pastor and years of experience in HUMINT, recruiting and developing informants, Eric is a gifted and easy speaker. He uses humor to disarm and a quick wit to win people over.

https://www.instagram.com/_eric_robinson/

Johnzelle is a licensed therapist by trade, and believes in the power of storytelling to heal, imagine, disrupt, and inspire. His writing focuses on mental health, race, relationships, and identity.

His debut book is "Mixtape: A Memoir"

He’s an avid reader and reads approximately 100 books annually.

He lives in Virginia with his daughter and an energetic Sheprador.

Here is the synopsis of my book (Mixtape: A Memoir)
A story about the sound and silence of survival, and the rhythms that carry us home.

In Mixtape: A Memoir, therapist and storyteller Johnzelle Anderson weaves a raw, lyrical portrait of resilience, identity, and healing.

Born to a disengaged West African father and a volatile white mother, Anderson grows up mixed race in 1990s Roanoke, Virginia—feeling like an outsider in every room. Amid childhood abuse, neglect, and racism, he clings to the safety of his grandmother’s love and his inner voice’s promise of a better future.

Told in tracks rather than chapters, Mixtape charts Anderson’s journey from trauma to triumph—from being body-shamed and silenced to building a career in mental health and forming a family of his own. Along the way, he confronts the legacy of generational pain, redefines his sense of belonging, and takes a life-changing trip to Ghana in search of the roots his father never shared.

Honest, at times humorous, and unflinching in its vulnerability, Mixtape: A Memoir is a coming-of-age story for anyone unlearning and daring to rewrite the soundtrack of their life.

https://johnzelle.co/

Hi!
I'm not special, but I've figured out some things here and there and want to share them with the world.

Lisa Van Slyke (The Lisa V) is a speaker, writer, and creator of the Three Moves Rule™, a simple framework that helps people stop emotional spirals and take their next clear step forward.

After years working in high-pressure environments—from military leadership training to hospitality and customer-facing roles—Lisa saw the same pattern everywhere: people weren’t failing because they lacked intelligence or ambition… they were overwhelmed and reacting emotionally in moments that required stability.

Her work focuses on helping people stabilize first, regain clarity, and move forward without panic, burnout, or self-sabotage.

Lisa speaks on emotional regulation, leadership under pressure, and personal sovereignty. Her tools are used by individuals navigating anxiety and overwhelm, as well as teams who need to perform well in high-stress environments.

She’s the author of Stop the Spiral and Three Moves Rule, and is building a platform dedicated to helping people reclaim control of their decisions, energy, and direction.

🔗 Website: https://thelisav.com🔗 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thelisav🔗 Book / Resources: https://stan.store/thelisav

I lived it.

36 years as a healer and coach. 25,000 clients. Four books. And a few months ago my body shut down because I had lost myself so completely I couldn't find my way back.

My son had been telling me the truth for weeks. And I was so far gone I couldn't reach his voice.

What came out of that return is a book called Stay S.A.N.E.  and a framework I'd been building toward my whole life without knowing it.

I don't teach burnout theory. I just came back from the bottom of it.

Happy to tell you why I'm special. 😊

 Amy Lenius

I’m a speaker, coach, and the Director of Group Coaching at Next Level University. I help people (mostly women) redefine success in a way that feels deeply aligned through clarity, self-belief, emotional resilience, self-worth and sustainable daily habits.

Over the last 9 years, I’ve spoken on stages at events dedicated to health, healing, and personal development. I currently serve as the MC and speaker for Next Level Live, yearly, and have been featured on over 175 podcasts. 

My coaching work is rooted in a whole-person approach. Addressing not just mindset, but also health, relationships, purpose, and identity. I specialize in guiding women to reconnect with themselves, honor their cyclical nature, discover what success and fulfillment truly means to them, and live in a way that reflects their values and vision. 

Before I ever taught this work, I lived it. I rebuilt my health, identity, and self-worth after years of chronic illness, and I learned that true healing isn’t always easy or comfortable. But it’s the most powerful work we can do. Growth isn’t always light and love. Sometimes it’s digging deep, getting honest, and choosing yourself over and over again.

At the heart of everything I teach are three foundational pillars:
Self-worth. Self-belief. Consistency.
When you have these, you build momentum that feels nourishing, not exhausting, and from that space, real transformation happens.

https://www.nextleveluniverse.com/group-coaching/

Joan Denizot’s journey is one of resilience, courage, and unapologetic authenticity. Growing up in a world that often equates size with limitation, she learned early what it feels like to be overlooked, underestimated, and dismissed. Every barrier; from inaccessible products to invisible biases, was a reminder of a society that wasn’t built for her body. Instead of letting those experiences define her, Joan turned them into purpose. She became a pioneer, building solutions, creating businesses, and speaking out for a community too often ignored, proving that size does not limit ambition, creativity, or impact.
Through BodyReady and ZIZE Bikes, Joan has translated personal struggle into collective empowerment. Every product she designs, every initiative she leads, stems from empathy, lived experience, and a desire to create inclusion where it’s been missing. She understands the quiet toll of exclusion, the subtle erasure of dignity, and the emotional weight of not being seen, and she uses that understanding to open doors for others. Joan’s story is a reminder that courage is contagious, advocacy can be joyful, and living fully in your own body is not just possible; it’s revolutionary.

https://www.bodyready.org/

Damien Schreurs is the Explainer-in-Chief of EasyTECH, a company providing IT training and coaching on topics such as Apple products, Microsoft Office, Cyber Security, and AI. 
In parallel, Damien hosts the Macpreneur Podcast, featuring practical tips, effective strategies, and insightful interviews, to help solopreneurs save time and money running their business on a Mac.

Additional intro for podcasts about entrepreneurship:

Before that, Damien worked as a Research & Development Engineer for a Fortune 500 US company. 
In 2013, Damien started EasyTECH as a side hustle to experience entrepreneurship while preserving a steady paycheck. 
In September 2016, Damien finally quit his 9-to-5 to offer Apple training and consultancy services in Luxembourg and regain control of when and how he can dedicate time to his family and work.

https://macpreneur.com/

Sylvia Worsham is a 3x bestselling author, spiritual transformation coach, and host of Release Doubt, Reveal Purpose Podcast, who lives her passion by helping corporate and professional women who are in deep spiritual change navigate toward their divine soul’s purpose and align with their soul’s identity.

Her miraculous recovery from a medical complication served as the turning point to retire her from a multiple award-winning corporate sales profession to her divine soul’s purpose. She does this through her writing, podcast interviews, Joy in the Journey masterminds, keynote addresses, and one-on-one coaching. She resides in Austin, Texas, with her amazing husband, two children, and dog.

https://podmatch.com/hostdetail/1648130846401x720484231924869900