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This month on See It To Be It podcast, Melinda speaks with Bonnie Marcus, an

A certified coach, Bonnie has been honored by Global Gurus as one of the world’s top 30 coaches in 2015-2020. Her acclaimed first book, The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead, was first published in 2015. Bonnie shares her message globally through speaking engagements, blogging, and her podcast, Badass Women at Any Age.

She begins the episode by discussing how she wanted to be a ballerina growing up, but people try to squash her ambitions; however, still today, she loves to dance. Bonnie started her career as a kindergarten teacher but transitioned to teaching aerobics at a cardiac rehabilitation center. She left the corporate arena in 2007 and got certified as a coach helping women advance their careers. Bonnie wanted to help women who are getting passed up for opportunities, couldn’t advocate for themselves, and struggle to get rehired after getting pushed out of their careers.

She discusses the inspiration for her book: Not Done Yet! It covers how women over 50 can regain their confidence and claim workplace power. Additionally, she covers ageism, discrimination in the workplace, even on platforms like LinkedIn. She elaborates by encouraging women not to pull themselves out of the arena, remain visible, and continue to build their network by staying marketable.

Bonnie finishes up the episode revealing the power of girlfriends and social circles. She encourages women to find like-minded women by joining organizations to bring together who have something in common and find that support. She emphasizes that your mindset is essential regardless of age.

Learn more about Bonnie: Bonniemarcusleadership.com

_5:26 “I learned business by doing it”

_5:44 “It was never my ambition to run a national company. I just said yes to a lot of opportunities that came along, I guess that's the lesson.”

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Special Guest: Bonnie Marcus.

This month on See It To Be It podcast, Melinda speaks with Pat Bondurant, a famed business partner, and wife of legendary World Driving Champion Bob Bondurant. Pat takes us through her successful careers in aerospace, architecture, television, cars, and investing with her. She discusses how she's gotten to where she is today, obstacles she's overcome in the process, and how your trust should not be given out haphazardly.  

She begins the episode describing how she was born into a family of five brothers, which ultimately contributes to how she carved her way as a female in numerous male-dominated career fields. Her mother was the second-highest-ranking woman in the civilian division of the government and instilled in her that there was no ceiling on what she could do. Pat started runway modeling for wedding gowns and eventually moved on to regional Ford commercials. She decided a career in fashion was her next move and took a drafting course for fashion school. Her talents in drafting ultimately led her down another path, and she worked for NASA on the first space shuttle. After NASA, she took her skills to interior design and subsequently architecture, designing the Tomahawk cruise missile facility. Later, after seeing an opportunity and seizing it, she started her own extremely successful architectural firm. 

She finally met the love of her life, CEO and president of the number one racing school in the world, Bob Bondurant. Bob Bondurant is a world-renowned expert on driver training and safety. He has taught Hollywood's biggest stars to drive race cars for films, including Christian Bale in Ford vs. Ferrari. Pat discusses her and Bob's one-of-a-kind love story. However, she did fall into some traps of abusive husbands before finding her "twin flame." Despite going through a traumatically violent marriage, fighting for her son's safety, moving across the country, and ultimately facing a heartbreaking betrayal by her own son that she fought so relentlessly to protect as a child, she kept moving forward. 

She discusses how she gained her success by "letting life unfold." She elaborates by explaining that when she sees an opportunity, she takes it. However, she describes how if a door to an opportunity is difficult to open, she simply moves on to the next door. She emphasizes that no matter what happened, she continued to move forward without any rains on her.

Pat wraps up the episode by revealing her two go-to pieces of advice for other women. First, she encourages women to be careful who they trust because salt can be mistaken for sugar. Second, she also explains how the Bible serves as a handbook, and choosing to pick it up is the key to success. 

Learn more about Pat Bondurant: https://bondurantracingschool.com/

Pat Bondurant on being a woman in male-dominated industries:

Pat Bondurant on how she continued to achieve success while enduring a painful time in her life:

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Special Guest: Pat Bondurant.

This week on See It To Be It podcast, Melinda speaks with engineer, wife, cancer conqueror, mother, and ambassador; Foram Brown. Foram is based in London, England, and has dedicated her life to learning and empowering women with the knowledge she has obtained. 

She begins this episode by discussing her "big dream" when she was growing up and how she wanted to be a drama queen, movie star, and glamorous Bollywood actress. However, she felt that her only two options from a cultural standpoint were either to be a doctor or an engineer. She felt that to be able to be a self-sustaining, successful woman, she had to pick from those careers. She felt she did not have the memorization skills to be a doctor, so it became clear to her that STEM was the best option because of its key component of problem-solving.

Starting off her post-college career, she landed her first job at a pharmaceutical company as a systems engineer. From there, she worked for Rolls-Royce on civil engines for 11 years. Bombardier Transportation soon followed, where she worked on UK trains, and she now works for Alstom as the head of mechanical engineering. She has noticed an increased awareness of women in the STEM industry. She works to continually increase the number of women that are recruited into engineering roles due to the fact that she has always had a strong desire to help other women. She explains how she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019 and this changed her perspective in life. Furthermore, she decided she was going to do what she had always wanted, to help women. She ultimately started her business, Foram Brown, with the purpose of filling companies' STEM openings with women employees.

Foram Brown utilizes a simple model that requires companies to hire women and then fills those positions with a world-class candidate. Due to her experience in the industry, she is skilled in finding the right person for these jobs. She also nurtures the sustainment of women in these positions, helping create an inclusive company culture. She discusses the five key elements of inclusivity of women in the workplace; flexibility, support, trust, empowerment, and listen. 

She talks about the toll that being a mom in a pandemic takes on a women's career, which results in a decrease in women in the workforce. Likewise, she discusses the unequal disbursement of responsibilities among women throughout the pandemic that can create stress and burnout. She encourages the embracement of the change and differences that the pandemic has contributed to so that women can work at home.

She discusses how to deal with the gender pay gap, focusing on awareness. She approaches this pay gap with the mindset of knowing one's own worth and being goal-oriented. Ultimately, she wraps up with the advice to go get what you want and create the life you want to live. 

Learn more about Foram Brown: https://forambrown.com/

Foram Brown on inclusivity of women in the workplace:

Foram Brown on her go-to piece of advice:

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This week on See It To Be It podcast, Melinda speaks with author, speaker, and social entrepreneur; Rebecca Powers. Rebecca is based here in Austin, Texas and has made a HUGE impact within the community throughout her years of philanthropy.

She begins this episode discussing her "big dream" in life and how this was to simply go to college and be a good student with good grades. Rebecca began her college career believing she wanted to be a physician but she quickly moved into business after doing poorly in her first science class.

Starting off her post-college career in sales with IBM she faced objections being a woman in the field, but quickly overcame that and went on to have a 14 yearlong successful career with them. From there, Rebecca stepped into the world of entrepreneurship. She found inspiration after seeing a group of women come together and give back to their community, Rebecca felt that if she could do something similar then it would heal the hole in her heart allowing her to move on with her life after experiencing family tragedy. Little did she know, this would lead her down a long road of social entrepreneurship and philanthropy.

Impact Austin began as a small group of women wanting to make a change and grew into a huge organization putting 7 million dollars towards underserved citizens of Austin. This once small group turned into a group of powerful women supporting women. Rebecca ran and grew this organization for 10 years before letting go of her leadership role and moving into a new chapter. She discusses the struggles of leaving behind Impact Austin and coming to terms with someone else running the organization that she was so passionate about.

Rebecca began a book 10 years ago chronicling her journey with Impact Austin, her original intent was for it to remain in a hope chest for her children to read one day. She was convinced by a fellow woman to turn that into a memoir and allow other people to read this and learn from the vulnerable story that Ms. Powers had to tell. She reflects on never dreaming of being an author but how satisfied she is with this journey. Rebecca Powers book, Trust Your Cape: How Women Find Their Power in Giving Back will be released on May 25th. This book emphasizes women finding their cape and their voice and using it to be unstoppable.

Learn more about Rebecca Powers: https://www.impactaustin.org/our-leadership

Trust Your Cape: How Women Find Their Power in Giving Back will be available on Amazon on May 25th!

Rebecca Powers on advice she received when coming to terms with stepping down from Impact Austin:

Rebecca Powers on her belief that things will work out:

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Special Guest: Rebecca Powers .

As a young woman, Ms. Ward always knew she wanted to be an attorney after taking on that role in a play as a young child. Coming from a community that lacked legal resources and frequently experienced police brutality, she knew she wanted to provide that resource to her community.

She began her journey believing that her dream of being an attorney wasn’t feasible due to her lifestyle at the time. She feared that what she looked like on paper would prevent her from fulfilling her dreams.

Madam Ward states that she was an activist before she became an attorney, this was inspired by the community she grew up in and was in turn, influenced by. She found that reproductive justice deeply resonated with her due to her own experiences in it. This led to her being recruited to organize the March for Women’s Lives in 2004 which ended up being the largest march on Washington in United States history.

Ms. Ward moves to the topic of struggles that came along with being a woman of color obtaining a law degree. She was forced to face her past and prove herself once again during her process of being accepted to law school.

Ms. Ward speaks on her business architecture venture and how they build infrastructures from the ground up. She touches on how Covid-19 has affected them, having to readjust to a completely new way of life that has changed every aspect of business and has forced her company to dive into new approaches.

Ms. Ward is very optimistic towards life moving forward, she states that everything is happening “for us and not to us”, everything the past year that we’ve faced is for us and only leading us to a better future.

Learn more about Madam Nselaa Ward: www.ninivafirm.com

Madam Ward on achieving your goals in life:

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This week on the See It To Be It podcast, we speak with Sandy Forster, a successful business woman from down under that has mastered money manifestation.

Sandy shares how she never really had that BIG dream growing up of what she wanted to do or who she wanted to be. She jokes that her dream was simply to leave school and get to the beach. Sandy caught the travel bug at a young age when her family decided to travel the world for 10 months before moving to Queensland.

She didn’t begin extensive traveling until her late 20s. Sandy’s traveling did not consist of five-star restaurants and fancy restaurants, she traveled with the purpose of gaining endless experiences. She discusses her day-to-day life and how normal it actually is despite having wild and dangerous traveling tales. As shocking as it may be, she refers to herself as an introvert so when she does travel, she wants that adventure and the excitement that she doesn’t experience every day.

After accidentally landing a job as an aerobics teacher, Sandy credits herself for really getting the Aerobics era started within Australia. One of her first business ventures consisted of designing leotards and swimwear to fit this trend as they were previously unavailable in her country. She considered this a hobby business, but it soon became her full-time business after her divorce from her partner of more than 11 years. In the process of trying to make this her full-time business she realized that she lacked business experience and soon ended up $100,000 in debt. With two kids, being a single mother, and on welfare, Sandy had to figure out her next move.

She found that she had a knack for personal development and soon fell into life coaching. She admits originally entering this field because she wanted to save herself. One thing led to another and she discovered the law of attraction. After she found a way to combine the law of attraction with her life coaching business as well as Internet marketing, it took off. Around 2003, she had the concept to start a mentoring program for women which was one of the first of its time. She became passionate about helping people grow their finances through manifestation and helping women specifically. She states that her passion now is working with women that feel stuck, she teaches them to marry the metaphysical and the practical in order to get the results they desire.

Sandy wraps up by reminding us that you can never give up, that uncomfortable feeling could mean that your dream is just around the corner. She stresses the importance of persistence, rewiring your brain, and understanding that the universal law states that what you desire will come to you.

Follow Sandy on Facebook (business): https://www.facebook.com/Sandylforster

Sandy on falling into the trap of comparison:

Sandy on manifesting successfully:

Sandy is offerring a money manifesting bundle for free for SIBI listeners

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Special Guest: Sandy Forster.

This week on the See It To Be It podcast, we talk to Heidi and Tori Ganahl, a mother daughter duo turned female entrepreneurs!

Heidi shares her journey to becoming a businesswoman. The start of her entrepreneur spirit was with Camp Bow Wow in 2000, which is a day care and boarding school for dogs. Camp Bow Wow has now grown into 160 camps in North America and holds the lead in the continents largest pet care franchise.

Tori Ganahl graduated from the University of Oregon when she was left feeling lost and unsure of what her passion was in life. Tori became the guinea pig for her mom’s book She Factor to really see if this methodology would actually work for young women struggling through this stage of life. Needless to say, it does. Her life did a complete 180.

In 2019, Heidi and Tori launched their lifestyle brand called SheFactor. SheFactor is a platform for young women craving a sense of community, growth, and purpose. Their overarching goal is to inspire women to become confident, successful leaders of their own lives- their “Journey to She”.

Tori explains that finding your passion in life is the driving factor into becoming an entrepreneur and a successful young woman. She adds that the most success you will ever have is by trusting your intuition and not letting outside voices get in the way of your vision.

Heidi tells us that she has learned how the younger generation learns, engages and communicates from Tori.

Heidi and Tori discuss how SheFactor has transformed from live in person events to all digital and how they have navigated the transition to all online.

Heidi concludes with the future of SheFactor, their goal is to keep growing their movement and to reach out to other brands to partner and grow their community. SheFactor has reached 1 million women in the first year and now their goal is the reach 5 million in five years.

Learn more about Heidi Ganahl: https://heidiganahl.com/

Tori on finding your place and creating your own path in life as a woman:

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Special Guests: Heidi Ganahl and Tori Ganahl.

This week on the See It To Be It podcast, we talk to Ashley K. Shift, a Mathematician turned to a female entrepreneur!

Ashley shares her journey to becoming a businesswoman. As a way to put herself through college, she started her math tutoring company. She then became a math teacher but always had the entrepreneurial spirit!

In 2014, Ashley became sick was constantly seeing doctors and being given medicines, that was when she decided she wanted to take a different route to healing. She began educating herself on herbs, meditation, crystals, CBD and other natural healing practices.

Through personal education and learning to heal her own body, she discovered her passion and had a spark to start her business, Hacked By Nature.

Ashley discusses how her business has evolved due to the pandemic and how she is navigating the online crystal business.

She also talks about the current energy of the world and how people are turning to healing.

She offers great advice to start the new year about self-love and confidence! In addition, she discusses the importance of mentors and leaves listeners with her most important piece of advice: readers are leaders!

Learn more about Ashley Shift: https://ashleykshift.com/

Special Guest: Ashley K. Shift.

This week on See It To Be It, we talk to Hannah Rad, an On-Air Talent, Radio Host, DJ and Mental Health advocate.

Hannah shares her story of growing up in a small town outside of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and always wanted to be on the radio.

She decided from a very young age that she needed to move New York in order to fulfill her dreams of becoming a DJ and TV Host. She studied at a college in New York and after graduating, she got a job in design and started campaigning her portfolio to become an on-air talent.

Puff Daddy discovered her about five years ago and asked if she would be interested in doing some TV work. She became one of the original hosts on his network and eventually was able to executive produce her own show for five seasons.

After spending 15 years in New York, Hannah decided it was time for a change.

She moved to LA and discovered that even though she had tons of experience, she would have to break into the industry again in her new city.

Hannah admits she was a bit overconfident and didn't realize how hard it would be to reintegrate into her career and gain new connections.

She started to experience a lot of depression and anxiety from in-between gigs and trying to find her next big thing.

Hannah had an epiphany and thought she could actually create something beautiful out of all her heavy feelings.

She created a mini series called, "Sorry to Keep You Waiting," which focuses on her mental health journey as she drives around to seven different locations in California. Each of the locations matches the struggle she faced and how she conquered it.

She hopes that this series will make people aware about how important mental health is and explore the many different ways that have helped her in her own journey.

Learn more about Hannah Rad: https://www.hannahrad.com/

Hannah on manifesting her own dream job:

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Special Guest: Hannah Rad.

This week on See It To Be It, we talk to Ashley Tryner, the founder and CEO of Farmbox Direct and FarmboxRx.

Ashley shares her journey of growing up on a farm, dropping out of college, marrying young and getting divorced while pregnant. With no savings or idea of what she was going to do, she ended up on food stamps.

She decided to move to New York City and got a job in the fashion industry.

Soon she realized that, even though she was in New York City, there was difficulty finding fresh produce. She said she always loved agriculture and decided to save her money for a couple of years and start her own company, Farmbox Direct.

Farmbox Direct was one of the first companies in New York that offered grocery delivery.

Ashley discusses how she became an advocate to help eradicate the food desert problem in America. She also petitioned the USDA to allow companies to take food stamps online.

She was introduced to Sam Cass, former chef to President Obama and senior advisor to Michelle Obama for nutrition in America.

Ashley talks about where she thinks the food delivery service will go in the future and how it has provided so many homes, especially during COVID, with food on their tables.

She touches on her two new ventures, FarmboxRx and Harlow's Harvest, which is a business she launched with her daughter to promote healthy eating and cooking for kids!

Learn more about Farmbox Direct: https://www.farmboxdirect.com/

Ashley on what has encouraged her throughout the years:

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Special Guest: Ashley Tryner.