Naomi's journey to health was riddled with sugar addiction, compulsive behaviors and emotional struggles.

Through education and a bit of curiosity, Naomi has learned food is not one more thing to control nor nutrition something to disregard.

Her belief that food (and life!) can be fun inspires people to change. Naomi is a former personal trainer and yoga instructor. She's also a certified Holistic Health & Nutrition Coach, as well as a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Integrated Time Line Therapy.

We talk about  having the courage to sit down with yourself to look at your relationship with food NOT from a place of judgement, but form curiosity, and Naomi shares powerful strategies to help you create a new relationship with food. And we open up the conversation around entrepreneurship and health, and the struggle that entrepreneurs in particular have with taking care of themselves.

You can connect with Naomi through her website: www.naomicalderon.com

And hangout with her on Facebook in her group, Seasonal Eating 101.

Do you wear "busy" like a badge of honour? Do you pride yourself on being super busy in your business with all the things?  Or are you feeling the burnout from the responsibilities? Merideth invites you to look at how being busy is affecting your business and your life.  Learn how to minimize the busy and maximize your productivity by doing less. Get the Goals Made Simple video workshop here: bit.ly/goalsmadesimple104

When I was first inspired to create the Rise to Success podcast, I had a very singular vision: to share with you the stories of women and men who have found success on their own terms.  

Lila Simmons has taken some brave steps to overcome what she calls her stories of abandonment and betrayal by those who we would expect would love her most.

She tells us how her life's changing point was the moment she decided that it was OK for her to put raising my children as her top priority, even above providing for them. That moment actually allowed her to be able to go from veritable homelessness to actually providing for us.

Lila is a woman of multiple geniuses on a mission to uplift women who feel overwhelmed, heartbroken and lost into a space of more peace, power and freedom so they can live the lives the choose to live.

Lila's Light provides actualization coaching and energy healing for women who crave more peace, power and freedom.

You can find her at www.lilasimmons.com, and you can check out the show notes for the link to request a meditation that Lila created to help you release what no longer serves you.

http://bit.ly/burningbeliefsmeditation

Merideth Bisiker goes solo in this episode and helps you set a goal that feels good to YOU and shows you how to implement a plan that makes it easy to achieve your goal. Merideth knows how to prioritize like a boss: She's a mama to two girls.  One is a busy pre-teen and the other has special needs.  She also shares her time between working part-time in government finance and growing her business.  When Merideth sits down to work on her business, she wants to do the right things, EVERY TIME! Learn how to set a goal that comes out of the IMPACT you want to make in your clients' lives, and which things you should be doing today so that you achieve your goal. Merideth also gives you some useful tips about how to keep a healthy mind and attitude when it comes to working through your plan. Download your Goals Made Simple training here: bit.ly/goalsmadesimple104

Join the Rise to Success Community here: www.facebook.com/groups/risetosuccess

Working as a coach is Linda's passion. After her marriage ended while an expat living in Panama, she returned to Canada  to rebuild her life and to pursue her dream of becoming a coach. Through her coach training at CTI (The Coaches Training Institute) she processed the hurt of the divorce and realized that her marriage had failed in large part due to her inability to communicate well. Once finished her coach training she set her niche on helping others to improve their communication skills as she had been doing ever since the marriage ended. 

As a money coach, and as a wife, I understand how important it is to be able to communicate about money matters well with our partners.  Knowing how to open up a conversation about money issues that are important to us in a way that is respectful and effective is one of the keys to effective marriages.  It’s no secret that most marriages suffer because of money problems, so in my opinion, if you’re in a committed relationship, this is one of the most important episodes you can hear.

In this episode, Linda gives you REAL conversation starters that you can use when you open up conversations about money, and she guides you through full conversations so you can see how to successfully talk money with your partner.

Listen for a chance to win one of Linda’s favourite books, Non Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg.  You can connect with Linda on her website http://awakeningslifecoaching.ca/, and you can book a sample coaching session with her to experience her style.  I just love her, and I know this won’t be the last time you hear us talking. 

Justin describes himself as the Mindhacker for entrepreneurs. He helps entrepreneurs shed their issues in minutes rather than months.

In this episode Justin shares some powerful metaphors to help you understand how hypnosis helps you get results.  It’s a calm safe practice that helps you shed fears and overcome stresses that keep you small, and it also helps you get out of your own way.

I know you’ll also love Justin’s way of describing success, and you’ll hear about his own journey from escaping a life that had him feeling like an empty husk to the life that he lives now where he understands what it means to be alive. 

You can connect with Justin at his website www.brilliantspark.com, and he’s been kind enough to create a gift for Rise to Success podcast listeners only and you can find that at http://brilliantspark.com/rts.

An inspiring conversation about how you don’t have to make your business your “side hustle.” In fact, you can have a job you love and a business you love and give priority to both.  You can have it all.

As a Freedom Catalyst, Transformational Mindset & Confidence Coach, and founder of the Women’s Side Hustle Society, Gina is on a mission to empower stressed and busy working women who are building their business on the side while working a full time job to create an exit strategy and execute the process with less stress and more ease and grace.

She helps wome feel less like jumping off a cliff and more like strategically taking the stairs as they meld their working life and entrepreneurial life together.

For over 4 years Gina has helps dozens of women discover what they truly want from life and succeed in creating an action plan to get there. Her specialty lies in helping women define and then create their unique version of freedom in a way that feels good through addressing stress, limiting beliefs, fear and confidence.

You can connect with Gina at www.gina-louise.com

And you can get more access to her genius at https://ginalouise.leadpages.co/ebook-time-freedom/

Nikki Thomas is a Global Performance Coach specialising in coaching ambitious professionals in their careers and personal lives. A colleague of The Coaching Academy, The Institute of Leadership and  Management (ILM). She’s  also an NLP practitioner and DISC profiler who frequently writes for the Huffington Post and other titles on topics surrounding careers and mindfulness.

We talk about success is finding and following your passion, and realizing that we all have a path in this life, we just need to listen to ourselves and find it in order to have that happy life we’re seeking.

We hear Nikki share with us how she was coaching others for years but it was only at the beginning the of 2016 that she realized that she was coaching everybody else and not herself.  She discovered she was living a lie and made a monumental – and scary – change in her life. Nikki now helps others to break free from their unfulfilling careers and lives, realise their full potential and gives support and realise their full potential and gives support and guidance using both a mixture of her coaching and psychology training as well as her own personal experience.

You can connect with Nikki at www.nikkithomascoaching.com, and you can have access to one of her favourite resources, the career confidence series, found at http://bit.ly/Careerconfidenceseries.

You’ll hear me joke with Laura in the beginning of this episode that it feels to me like we were twins separated at birth.  While Laura is a business coach and helps her clients implement strategies that feel right for them, she actually asks her clients to commit  first to fostering the right mindset for business and for their lives, because without that, they’ll stay stuck.

Laura shares her story of transformation in her career.  As she was nearing the end of her work as a PhD student in science, she realized that she wasn’t meant to work in a lab alone.  She’s a people person, and after she completed her schooling, she moved into corporate doing a lot of business improvement work.  Over the years she’s taken her scientific curiosity and blended it with her understanding of what motivates people, and is now self-employed and helping other business owners achieve success. 

Laura tells us how most businesses try to grow the inside out way, and gives us a unique perspective on how we should be creating our offers and connecting with our perfect paying clients.

We also chat about how fear holds business owners back and the best way to conquer it, and she shares her no- B.S. approach that her clients call compassionate and caring.

You can connect with Laura on her websiste www.inspirential.com, and you can connect with her in her facebook group Inspired Hustlers Manifesting Lab, where she shares her own best resources. 

Lindsey empowers creative kids and their families by showing them how they can leverage curiosity to experience more success learning math, science, and engineering. Lindsey uses everyday experiences to make difficult math and science content accessible, relevant, and fun.

As an academic empowerment coach, Lindsey works with students one-on-one and has more widely-available educational resources to strengthen the academic confidence of creative kids.

We geeked out over brain talk, and what will especially interest you is our conversation about how adults can shift their patterns of thinking, even when we feel like we’re just old dogs who can’t be taught new tricks. 

We also talk about failing fast and hard, and how that’s a REALLY good thing to learn how to do as entrepreneurs and as students. 

You can reach out to Lindsey at www.opportunityunlocked.com, and you can download one of her incredible resources at www.opportunityunlocked.com/everyday-curiosity.