Offbeat & On-Brand

Theresa Lambert is a business coach, best-selling author of Achieve with Grace, speaker, and podcast co-host of Dissecting Success. She also has an impressive hotelier background in luxury hospitality. Theresa uses her experiences to support female entrepreneurs, coaches, and leaders in redefining success with elegance. She helps them create the impact, income, and freedom they desire without the hustle. 

There is no one-size-fits-all in business. To create a long term sustainable business, we must be able to show up consistently and clearly with our message. Theresa believes in building a business foundation that's rooted in your personal strengths and allows you to build your business in a way that feels fun, natural, and expansive. She understands that by creating a unique personal brand vocabulary, we are able to attract more ideal clients.

Highlights:‌

02:17 Get to Know Theresa
09:00 Hurdle to Overcome
11:23 Experience and Realization
14:55 Theresa in the Hotel Industry
18:52 Highlighting Differences
22:08 The Book
26:31 Achieving with Grace
28:29 The Flow: Curate the Right Pieces
33:53 The Living Room
35:57 Being Brave with your Brand
37:20 Hang out with Theresa

As an international Success Coach + Intuitive Artist, Haley Hoover helps coaches and entrepreneurs break through their next level of success with ease. Through her Intuitive Business™ framework, she has helped dozens of women grow their online businesses and self-publish their first books with fun and flow.

An Amazon #1 New Release Author, Haley is the go-to expert for business owners who wish to deepen their innovation and expression. Haley’s expertise has been featured in PositivelyPositive, Thrive Global, Thought Catalogue, and Hypnozine among others. She has also spoken alongside Deepak Chopra and is the host of the Top 5% Globally ranked podcast, The Sparkling Hippie Podcast.

When she’s not sitting behind her psychedelic-colored laptop, she can be found watching 60’s hippie documentaries in Sonora, California, where she resides with her partner.

Highlights:‌

01:22 Meet Haley
03:34 60’s Influence
04:44 Business and Intuition
09:07 How to Follow your Intuition
12:41  How to Keep Creativity Alive
15:44 Trusting your Ideas
21:42 Tips for Aspiring Authors
27:50 Following your Creative Cycle
31:59 Intuitive Painting
35:35 What can you Expect?
37:24 Artworks by Haley
39:13 Haley’s Books
40:24 Sparkling Hippie Podcast
41:33 Free Gift from Haley

After the show...

Head over to https://fetchingfinn.com/paint-your-next-level-success-with-haley-hoover to see the painting Haley created in our Intuitive Art Experience and learn about the mind-blowing results!

Speaker, comedian, and four-time author Mahlena-Rae Johnson is a networking expert for introverts at her company Mahlena Speaks. Mahlena honed her relationship-building skills while earning her MBA at the University of Southern California. She later translated her quiet savvy for connecting with like-minded individuals into expanding her media empire from the US to Canada. On her weekly Instagram show How to Network in Your Pajamas, Mahlena teaches her audience of shy yet ambitious professionals how to meet new people from the comfort of their homes.

An Américaine living her best life in the suburbs of Toronto, Mahlena has been featured on BusinessBecause, CBC Kids, The Great Canadian Woman Podcast, The New to Canada Podcast, and more. She has a passion for writing and speaking about professional development topics including personal branding, social media storytelling, building a new network for immigrants and expats, and writing a ten-second elevator pitch.

Highlights:‌

00:42 Meet Mahlena
02:22 Film School
05:21 Being a Comedian
06:59 Business School
08:06 Stand up Comedy
09:21 Being an Introvert 
11:31 Networking on Pajamas
14:28 Definition of Introverts
21:17 Introverts and Networking
24:19 Shake up your Life!
27:20 Personal Branding
33:12 Networking on Pajamas 
37:15 Goals for Business 
41:33 Get in Touch with Mahlena

Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment and lifestyle brands. 

As a pioneer in the industry, she has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards, launch their businesses and more. Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global.

Blair is also the #1 bestselling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur and co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast. When she’s not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “I Am Resilient Project", an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life’s most difficult moments.

Highlights:‌

01:10 Blair and Social Media
04:37 Why PR?
05:48 University Life
07:51 Backstory
10:04 Business Struggle
11:13 Passion Project
13:22 New Goal
16:50 What is Stopping You?
18:07 Digesting Success
20:22 Social Media for Personal Brands
24:15 Social Media Experiment
27:13 Social Media Surprise
29:02 Great Publicity
31:00 Get it Done
33:35 Find Blair

Stephanie Zhong is a brand strategist, story coach and inclusion advocate who helps difference making entrepreneurs define their unique brand stories and signature ideas to attract dream clients and grow their impact with ease and joy.

She’s the creator of Own Your Message, a program that teaches you how to bring together unexpected parts of you to create an authentic personal brand that builds instant connections and trust with your ideal audience.

Her mission in life is to empower everyone to make a bigger difference by owning and sharing their difference.

Highlights:‌

02:33 Meet Stephanie
03:51 Gifts of being Shy
6:30 Telling Stories
08:32 Exploration of Opportunities
11:20 Study what you Love
12:28 Power of Story Telling
13:05 A Job at GE
16:37 Bravery
20:43 Owning your Story/ Double Down on your Difference
24:27 Fear
27:05 Mosaic of Stories
32:27 Ideal Client
36:00 Get in Touch with Stephanie

Tessa Hull is a Certified Jack Canfield Success Principles Trainer and partnerships strategist working with online business owners to develop partnerships and connections that get more eyes on their business and more money in their pocket. She has been a part of the strategy behind the scenes of 6- and 7-figure affiliate launches with online business owners like Selena Soo, Lisa Johnson, Katrina Ruth and Suzanne Dibble.

Tessa runs her own business, Messy and Successy, where she develops others with a mix of mindset and strategy. She is a straight-talking, no-nonsense kinda gal with more than ten years in sales and managerial roles. She uses her platform to bring mental health to the forefront, acknowledging her own struggles and experiences.

Based in Sicily, she stays for the cheese and good coffee but occasionally returns to her hometown of Manchester in the UK, where she stays for the cheese and good tea.

Highlights:‌

01:16 Meet Tess
05:02 Starting Out
09:11 Personal Development
11:17 Coaching as a Career
17:31 Being yourself in any Business
23:00 Getting Stuck in the Pandemic
30:00 Talking about Mental Health
37:03 Coaching Specialty
41:10 Connecting People
42:45 Get connected with Tessa

Claudine Chicheportiche is an industry thought leader and disruptor in high performance mindset and emotional intelligence. She coaches mindset, performance, and fulfillment to leaders in government, to entrepreneurs, and to elite athletes at National, World, and Olympic level.

Claudine guides leaders and athletes who strive to win, succeed, and achieve, yet secretly yearn for more meaning and inner peace. She empowers them to create a mindset that they love, so they feel deeply fulfilled on their quest for achievement and greatness.

A masterful storyteller with a unique tapestry of experiences, Claudine leads us from the dojo to the jungle, from alleviating poverty to attempting to qualify for the Rio Olympics. She has perfected the art of the Square Peg Entrepreneur by taking chances and chasing audacious goals. Listeners will be inspired and fired up after tuning in to this episode!

Highlights:‌

01:29 Meet Claudine
03:44 Claudine’s Coaching Journey
07:45 A Coach at 25
10:22 Success Stories
13:17 Confidence and Life Skills
16:20 Books smarts and Life skills
17:21 Passion in Serving
21:14 Jungle Adventure
25:00 Ugly Karate
28:55 Olympics
39:06 Physical Goals
39:50 Common Thread
40:50 I’m Never Enough: I can do Better
42:45 Every client is Unique
46:00 Expanding Possibilities
51:15 Get in Touch with Claudine

"You don't have to be crazy to support families with mental health and addictions, but it helps." - Maureen Towns

Maureen Towns is the founder and owner of Maureen Towns Consulting, a company designed to help families struggling to care for their loved ones with mental health and addictions issues. She learns the hard way (still), and shares her stories of failure and success to inspire families to rediscover themselves within chaotic and challenging situations. Maureen published her first book Broken Open in 2021 and hosts a podcast by the same name.

Maureen has over 25 years of nursing experience in both public and private healthcare across Canada. Her own family’s struggles with mental illness and addiction transformed her approach to communication, boundary setting, and advocacy, and ultimately led to positive relationships and freedom. Fueled by the lasting positive impact to the many families she’s already helped, her mission is to bring that wholeness, healing, and freedom to families across the world.

Highlights:‌

01:11 Meet Maureen
03:00 Broken Open
04:53 Kids and Drugs and Alcohol
11:56 Everything Fell Apart
13:00 Parent’s Love
18:57 Mother’s Journey
21:50 Slow Down
27:30 The Right Treatment/ Beginning of Breaking Open
31:50 Get a Life: A Life Separate from my Kids
32:57 Supporting People that you Love
37:29 Dark Humor
41:55 Becoming Me
50:37 Find Broken Open
51:55 Takeaways

Leona deVinne has OJD: Obsessive Joy Disorder. She's a serial entrepreneur obsessed with helping people find more joy in their life, in leadership, and in business. After receiving life-altering medical news, Leona discovered an opportunity and personal mission by summoning joy in unexpected places. She lives by the motto, "Life's a gift. Use it well."

Leona is a coach, consultant, facilitator, speaker, and author. She owns and operates three businesses plus a non-profit - all built on a foundation of joy.

Highlights:‌

01:20 Leona’s Journey
04:00 Finding your Joy Spot
04:41 The Challenges
08:07 Cheerines/Happiness Set Point
09:47 People Connection
10:38 Joy Socks
17:14 How we Met
18:27 Branding Joy Socks
22:02 Being Weird
25:30 Authenticity on Social Medias
29:56 Takeaways
32:21 Get in Touch with Leona

Dijana Llugolli is an international success and business coach who teaches female entrepreneurs how to rapidly launch and scale their online businesses through aligned and inspired action. Drawing from her studies in business and nearly two decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur, she helps her clients to reach $40K months in 90 days or less. Her goal is to inspire millions of women to BE more and HAVE more without having to DO more. In this episode, Coach D gives us a peek into her life as an immigrant child. From cleaning toilets to coaching high-performing business owners, from rock bottom to rubbing elbows with celebrities, there's bound to be a part of D's journey that will resonate with each listener.

Highlights:‌

01:53  Meet Dijana
02:20 Let’s talk about Coaching/ Coaching Fearless Female Leaders
04:14 Evolution of People
05:25 Coaching Journey
08:46 Network Marketing
14:13 Step into your Genius
14:53 Growing Up/Individual Upbringing
18:46 Fitting In and Acknowledging Yourself
20:30 Reflections: Love Life
22:32 Work and Play Hard
25:20 Being a Unique Coach
28:46 Fearless and Successful
32:30 Connect with D
33:30 Takeaway