Publishing a book is easier than ever—but building a successful author career? That’s a different story.

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, bestselling author and publisher Lana McAra shares the truth about today’s publishing industry, why so many authors struggle to market their books, and what writers really need to build sustainable careers beyond the algorithm.

Lana McAra is an award-winning international bestselling author, ghostwriter of more than 50 books, and founder of Vendella Publishing. With over one million copies sold and decades of experience in traditional publishing, ghostwriting, and author coaching, Lana brings a rare insider perspective to the realities of publishing today.

In this conversation, you’ll learn the difference between traditional publishing, hybrid publishing, and self-publishing, why most publishers no longer handle marketing for authors, how to create a long-term author business, and what actually helps books stand out in an overcrowded market.

Lana also shares the deeply personal story behind building Vendella Publishing—a publishing model designed to help authors keep their rights, keep their royalties, and receive real support instead of being left to figure everything out alone.

Whether you’re writing your first book or trying to grow your visibility as an author, this conversation offers honest insight into what publishing really looks like today.

✨ Lana’s Free Gift – The Novel Notebook, a free organizational tool for writers at lanamcara.com

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Lana McAra
02:00 – Her 14-year publishing journey
05:00 – Why publishing changed
08:00 – Traditional publishing myths
12:00 – The reality of book marketing
16:00 – Why authors struggle today
19:00 – The truth about hybrid publishing
23:00 – Losing rights to your books
27:00 – Building Vendella Publishing
31:00 – Authors helping authors
34:00 – Why good books matter most
37:00 – Lana’s Novel Notebook tool
40:00 – Advice for aspiring authors

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #publishingtips #selfpublishing #authorsupport #writingcommunity

📖 Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact is launching May 19 on Amazon—featuring Sharon Clark’s story alongside other powerful women.

A cancer diagnosis changes everything—but what if healing is about more than just treating the body?

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Sharon Clark shares her journey through multiple cancer diagnoses, including being told her cancer was terminal, and how that experience transformed the way she understands healing, consciousness, and personal power.

Sharon is a life coach, cancer support advocate, and founder of Your Cancer, Your Transformation, where she helps people navigate the emotional, mental, and spiritual side of the cancer journey. Through mindset work, meditation, conscious awareness, and holistic healing approaches, Sharon supports people in reconnecting with their inner strength during some of the hardest moments of their lives.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to navigate fear after a cancer diagnosis, build emotional resilience, shift limiting beliefs, strengthen your mindset during healing, and reconnect with your sense of personal power while moving through uncertainty.

This conversation will challenge the way you think about healing—and remind you that even in life’s hardest moments, there is still room for hope, strength, and transformation.

✨ Want to be part of a future collaborative book like Wake Up Revolution? Reach out to learn how you can share your story.

✨ Connect with Sharon and follow her journey here:
👉 yourtransformationcoach.ca
👉 https://www.facebook.com/yourtransformation

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Sharon Clark
02:00 – Facing cancer multiple times
06:00 – The terminal diagnosis moment
10:00 – Rejecting the prognosis
13:00 – Consciousness and healing
17:00 – Mindset during cancer treatment
21:00 – What traditional care is missing
25:00 – Women, power & self-trust
29:00 – Building a healing community
33:00 – Life after cancer
37:00 – Ring the Bell Retreats
41:00 – Sharon’s message to women

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #cancersurvivor #healingjourney #mindsethealing #womensupportingwomen

📖 Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact is launching May 19 on Amazon—featuring Amanda Greening’s story alongside other powerful women.

So many women—especially caregivers, nurses, and helping professionals—lose themselves in the pressure to do everything for everyone else. But your profession is what you do, not who you are.

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Amanda Greening shares how a life-changing car accident forced her to stop, reevaluate her identity, and rebuild a life rooted in self-trust, healthy boundaries, and personal values.

Amanda is a registered nurse, certified life coach, and nurse coach who helps women reconnect with themselves outside of work. Drawing from years in high-acuity healthcare settings, Amanda supports women dealing with burnout, emotional exhaustion, people-pleasing, loss of identity, and overwhelm so they can create lives that feel sustainable and aligned.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to separate your identity from your career, set healthier boundaries, stop tying your worth to productivity, and reconnect with your personal values instead of external expectations.

This conversation will shift the way you think about success—and remind you that you deserve a life that supports you, too.

✨ Want to be part of a future collaborative book like Wake Up Revolution? Reach out to learn how you can share your story.

Amanda’s Free Resource – Personal vs. Professional Values Quiz + Weekly Insights:
👉greenhavencoaching.com

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Amanda Greening
02:00 – Losing identity in nursing
05:00 – Burnout and emotional exhaustion
08:30 – The car accident wake-up call
12:00 – Rebuilding life outside work
15:00 – Why women carry too much
18:00 – Personal vs professional values
22:00 – Healthy boundaries and self-trust
26:00 – Letting go of control
30:00 – Building sustainable change
34:00 – Supporting burnt-out nurses
37:00 – Amanda’s message to women

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #burnoutrecovery #nursecoach #selfworth #womeninhealthcare

📖 Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact is launching May 19 on Amazon—featuring Sam Angell’s story alongside other powerful women.

Most businesses were never designed with real people in mind—especially people navigating disability, neurodiversity, mental health challenges, or low capacity. But inclusive, accessible design has the power to change how people experience the world.

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Sam Angell shares how their lived experience with autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, addiction recovery, and disability shaped a mission to create brands and spaces that feel more human, connected, and accessible.

Sam is a branding specialist, designer, author, and founder of Angel Designs, where they help health and wellness businesses create inclusive branding, accessible websites, human-centered messaging, and thoughtful design that reflects the people they actually serve.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to build deeper human connection in business, communicate across different needs and communication styles, and design spaces that feel welcoming and inclusive.

This conversation will shift the way you think about branding—and remind you that accessibility, compassion, and connection are not extras. They are essential.

✨ Want to be part of a future collaborative book like Wake Up Revolution? Reach out to learn how you can share your story.

Connect with Sam:
👉 samangell.com
👉 samthewriter.com

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Sam Angell
02:00 – Building accessible brands
05:00 – Neurodiversity & design
08:30 – What training cats teaches
12:00 – Learning communication styles
15:30 – Breaking away from old systems
19:00 – Recovery and rebuilding life
23:00 – Leading with compassion
27:00 – Why women don’t have to do it all
30:00 – Creating conversations about belonging
34:00 – Message to younger self
39:00 – How to connect with Sam

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #inclusivebranding #accessibility #neurodiversity #brandingdesign

📖 Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact is launching May 19 on Amazon—featuring Shawn Every’s story alongside other powerful women.

AI is changing the way we work—but for many women entrepreneurs, the real question is: how can we use AI to create more capacity, reduce burnout, and reclaim our time and energy?

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Shawn Every shares how she transformed her life and business by using AI as a tool for clarity, support, and sustainable growth—not hustle culture.

Shawn Every is a certified AI consultant and capacity strategist who helps overwhelmed women business owners use AI tools, ChatGPT, and automation to simplify their businesses and create more ease. Living with fibromyalgia, early onset Parkinson’s, and other health challenges, Shawn approaches AI from a deeply personal perspective—showing women how to work smarter without sacrificing their well-being.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to use AI for business support, improve productivity without burnout, reclaim your capacity, and use ChatGPT as a thought partner to bring out your own ideas and voice.

This conversation will shift the way you think about AI—and show you that using technology strategically isn’t laziness, it’s leadership.

✨ Want to be part of a future collaborative book like Wake Up Revolution? Reach out to learn how you can share your story.

Shawn’s Free Gift – Capacity Snapshot for Women:
👉 https://capacity.askshawnai.com/

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Shawn Every
01:30 – Why women need AI
03:30 – Leaving corporate after illness
06:30 – Finding purpose through AI
09:00 – AI as a thought partner
12:00 – Capacity over hustle culture
15:00 – Women, power & rest
18:00 – Why AI isn’t laziness
20:30 – Building apps with AI
24:00 – AI helped me find my voice
27:00 – Message to her younger self
30:00 – Capacity Snapshot explained

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #womeninai #chatgpt #businessautomation #femaleentrepreneur

📖 Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact is launching May 19 on Amazon—featuring Rhetah Kwan’s story alongside other powerful women.

Burnout, stress, and constant busyness have become the norm—but what if the real path to power, clarity, and healing is learning how to slow down, reconnect, and restore your energy?

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Rhetah Kwan shares how she transformed her life by stepping out of overwork and into stillness, self-awareness, and deeper connection.

Rhetah is a life catalyst, speaker, certified life coach, and global entrepreneur who helps professionals reduce burnout, build self-awareness, improve emotional intelligence, and reconnect with their inner power. Through her work with micro-expressions, personality awareness, and light- and water-based healing, she helps people understand themselves and others on a deeper level.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to manage burnout, calm your nervous system, improve self-awareness, build stronger relationships, and reconnect with your energy by integrating stillness and intentional pauses into your daily life.

This conversation will shift the way you think about productivity—and show you that true power comes from presence, not pressure.

✨ Want to be part of a future collaborative book like Wake Up Revolution? Reach out to learn how you can share your story.

Rhetah’s Free Gift – Complimentary “Glimpse” Session (including micro-expression and self-awareness insights): www.RhetahKwan.com

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Rhetah Kwan
01:20 – Childhood & connection to light
04:00 – Burnout and health decline
07:30 – Caregiving and breaking point
10:30 – Discovering stillness and healing
13:30 – The “pool of peace” concept
16:00 – Managing stress and awareness
19:00 – Truth about women and power
22:30 – Reclaiming your energy
23:00 – What she’s building now
24:00 – Message to her past self
25:00 – How to work with Rhetah

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #burnoutrecovery #selfawareness #womensupportingwomen #personalgrowth

📖 Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact is launching May 19 on Amazon—featuring Corry Lang’s story alongside other powerful women.

Chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, and “mystery symptoms” are more common than ever—and many women are told there are no answers. But what if your body already knows how to heal?

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Corry Lang shares how she went from being unable to walk, battling severe symptoms like lupus and fibromyalgia, to fully healing herself through natural healing, detoxification, and rebuilding the body from within.

Corry is a certified naturopathic practitioner, regenerative detoxification specialist, and iridologist who helps women with chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, and unexplained health issues restore their health using nutrition, herbal medicine, and natural detox methods. From her background in scientific research to her personal healing journey, this conversation bridges the gap between science and holistic health.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to support your body’s natural healing process, understand root causes of illness, detox your body safely, improve your diet, and take back control of your health without relying solely on traditional systems.

This conversation will challenge what you’ve been told about illness—and remind you that your body is designed to heal when given the right support.

✨ Want to be part of a future collaborative book like Wake Up Revolution? Reach out to learn how you can share your story.

Corry’s Free Gift – Free Ebook + Monthly Healing Webinars: https://corrylang.com

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Corry Lang
01:20 – From science to healing
03:00 – Chronic illness journey
05:30 – Hitting rock bottom
07:30 – Discovering root causes
09:30 – Healing through detox
12:00 – Problems in healthcare system
15:00 – Why women must advocate
18:30 – Natural healing vs misinformation
21:30 – Building her business
24:00 – Advice to her past self
26:00 – Simple diet shifts
28:00 – How to connect

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #naturalhealing #chronicillness #womenshealth #detox

📖 Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact is launching May 19 on Amazon—featuring Verena Kansog’s story alongside other powerful women.

Confidence, self-worth, and healing from trauma are at the core of how women step into their power—and for many, that journey starts with learning how to overcome self-doubt and rebuild confidence from within.

In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Verena Kansog shares how she transformed her life by doing the deep inner work to heal emotional wounds, rebuild self-confidence, and reconnect with her sense of worth.

Verena is a bestselling author, paramedic of 35+ years, and certified holistic life coach who helps women with confidence coaching, emotional healing, and overcoming low self-esteem. From her frontline experience managing anxiety and crisis to her personal journey through bullying and toxic relationships, this conversation is both grounding and transformational.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to build confidence from the inside out, manage anxiety in real time, break negative thought patterns, and stop people-pleasing behaviors so you can step into a more authentic, empowered version of yourself.

This conversation will shift the way you think about confidence—and show you that healing and self-trust are the foundation of lasting personal growth.
✨ Want to be part of a future collaborative book like Wake Up Revolution? Reach out to learn how you can share your story.

Verena’s Free Gift – Join The Unstoppable You, her private Facebook community for support, confidence-building, and real conversations: https://bit.ly/48T16a4

Connect with Verena at keyempowermentcoaching.com

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Verena Kansog
01:10 – Life as a paramedic
02:40 – Losing yourself in roles
04:00 – Confidence & identity loss
05:20 – Bullying and trauma impact
07:30 – Doing the inner work
08:40 – What real confidence means
09:20 – Calming anxiety in real time
10:15 – Truth about women & power
11:00 – Tools to boost confidence
12:10 – Leaving your comfort zone
13:30 – Becoming your own support
14:00 – Message to your past self
15:30 – How to connect

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #confidencecoach #healingjourney #womensupportingwomen #selfgrowth

📖 Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact is launching May 19 on Amazon—featuring Peggy’s story alongside other powerful women.

Financial planning, money mindset, and women’s financial independence are more important than ever—and Margaret (Peggy) Cameron is on a mission to make sure women are prepared. In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Peggy shares why understanding your finances isn’t just about numbers—it’s about power, security, and protecting your future.

Peggy is a financial planner, tax expert, and entrepreneur of 25+ years who helps women navigate money with confidence. From real-life stories of families left unprepared to practical advice on wills, financial planning, and mindset, this conversation is both eye-opening and empowering.

Peggy is also a featured author in Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact—a powerful collection of women stepping into their voice and leadership. Be sure to check it out on Amazon (link coming soon).

In this episode, you’ll learn why every woman should have her own money, how financial clarity creates freedom, and what simple steps you can take now to protect yourself and your family.

This conversation will shift the way you think about money—and why it matters more than you think.

✨ Want to be part of a future collaborative book like Wake Up Revolution? Reach out to learn how you can share your story.

Peggy's Free Gift - Money Confidence for Women :
https://peggy.simplero.com/page/697983-money-confidence-for-women

Connect with Peggy at cameronleadership.ca

Chapters
00:00 – Meet Peggy Cameron
01:05 – Beyond financial planning
02:22 – Why preparation matters
03:24 – Stories that changed everything
04:54 – Becoming the “nagging angel”
06:13 – Planning for the unexpected
07:43 – Women, money, and power
09:06 – Money mindset differences
10:22 – Building masterminds
12:03 – Advice to her younger self
13:22 – What makes a true mastermind
15:40 – How to connect with Peggy

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #financialempowerment #womenandmoney #moneymindset #personalgrowth

Healing from toxic relationships, betrayal, and heartbreak is not a straight line—and Denise Stiffler knows this firsthand. In this episode of Powerful on Purpose, Denise shares her deeply personal journey through divorce, betrayal, and emotional rock bottom—and how she rebuilt her life with clarity, courage, and purpose.

Denise is also a featured author in the upcoming book Wake Up Revolution: Women Rising into Voice, Purpose, and Impact—a powerful collection of stories from women using their voices to create change. Be sure to check it out on Amazon (available May 19, 2026).

As a certified life coach and co-founder of From Run Down to Renewed, Denise now helps women heal from harmful relationships, reclaim their autonomy, and rediscover their strength. This conversation is raw, honest, and filled with hope for anyone navigating grief, loss, or emotional healing.

You’ll hear how Denise turned pain into purpose, what it really takes to move forward after betrayal, and why learning to lead yourself is the most powerful step you can take.

Denise also shares insights on women’s inner strength, the importance of self-talk, and how healing creates the capacity to hold both pain and joy at the same time.

If you’re in a hard season or rebuilding your life after a toxic relationship, this episode will remind you: you are stronger than you think—and healing is possible.

Free Gift: Denise offers 30-minute consultation calls to help you assess where you are in your healing journey and what support you need next.

Book a call with Denise: https://morethanthislifecoaching.my.canva.site

Subscribe to Powerful on Purpose for more conversations with women who are turning their stories into impact.

Chapters
00:00 – Mission-driven women
01:01 – Healing toxic relationships
02:05 – Building a healing ministry
03:30 – Divorce & betrayal moment
05:10 – Clarity after the pain
07:13 – Rock bottom reality
08:25 – Choosing to keep going
10:49 – Women’s true strength
13:31 – Sharing your full story
15:26 – Message to past self
18:48 – How to work with Denise

#powerfulonpurposepodcast #healingjourney #toxicrelationships #wakeuprevolutionbook #womensupportingwomen #personalgrowthstory