SheSez with Linda Grasso

Angie Banicki shares how she walked away from career throwing celebrity-studded parties and events in Hollywood for corporate clients like Budweiser and Grey Goose to become a professional tarot card reader. How she discovered she had an intuitive talent, how she broke the news of her career switch to her "very Catholic" parents and how she developed her gift into a full-fledged business (commanding $400 an hour) are all part of this riveting interview. Angie, who has read for everyone from Usher to Allison Janney, is also the astrology contributor for Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand and website, GOOP.

If you're after cutting-edge Southern California style, Fred Segal is where you go to get it. From clothing to accessories to home décor, if you pick it up at one of two Los Angeles locations, there's a guaranteed cool factor. At the top of the Fred Segal empire, you'll find CEO, Allison Samek. She came out of college armed with a Stanford MBA and quickly set out to build a career in retail. Allison shares with Linda why she suddenly stepped away from her top job (she was at retailer Ron Herman at the time) to be a full time mom to her two sons—and then had the self-actualization to admit she needed more in her life. With audacity and hutzpah, Allison shares how she overcame the "imposter syndrome" (that so many of us get when we've stayed at home for awhile) and jumped back into retail with the head honcho job at Fred Segal. Hear this retail maven's savvy tips for managing a big job with motherhood. It is possible, ladies.

Helen Gurley Brown probably would've loved Michele Promaulayko. Like the legendary founder of Cosmopolitan. As the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the largest women's media brand in the world, Michele is powerful, smart and outspoken. She is also the editorial director of the Hearst Young Women's Group, which means she is also in charge of Women's Health and Seventeen. Michele is responsible for shaping the editorial voice of all three brands, reaching an audience of more than 51 million readers. This year, under Michele's guidance, all three titles were nominated for National Magazine Awards in the personal service category, and Cosmo took home the coveted ASME award. In this episode, Linda zeros-in on how Michele snagged the top job at Cosmo (after spending eight years in the number two position), what it is like to be advising the self-empowered millennials of today, and whether it is possible to, as Helen said, have it all.

Kristi Funk is known around the world as the doctor who treated Angelina Jolie. The actress underwent a preventative mastectomy after discovering she carried the BCRA gene mutation and then wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times about her decision. After combing through an exhaustive amount research and more than 20 years as a breast cancer surgeon, Kristi has written a new book that outlines treatment choices and details ways of lowering the risk of getting breast cancer. In Breasts: The Owner's Manual, the surgeon says that by subscribing to a healthy lifestyle, we can lower our risk of getting breast cancer by up to 80-percent. Kristi also shares some of the "how-to" on juggling a career—she runs Pink Lotus Breast Center with husband Andy—with motherhood to 8-year-old triplets.

There is nothing happenstance about the career of KTLA meteorologist and news reporter Liberté Chan, who works on the top-rated morning newscast. Every since she graduated college, she wanted to be a broadcaster. Learn how she armed herself with four degrees and refused to take "no" for an answer. She worked her way through several small markets (bouncing back after a demoralizing demotion) until she reached her goal: returning to the station where she once worked as an intern. With more than 100,000 followers on social media, Liberté is also a fitness freak—a certified yoga teacher — who co-owns an athleisure clothing line called Sweat With Soul. Listen in as Liberté shares how she has masterfully woven together her three passions, all of which fuel each other—and her. It is nothing short of brilliant.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk away from the daily grind and move to a beautiful, remote place where you could take a beat and get back in touch with what's really important? That's exactly what 38-year-old Amy Jo Martin did. For her 20s and early 30s, Amy lived in the fast lane. She worked for the Phoenix Suns and then founded a company aimed at helping corporations, celebrities and sports entities humanize their brands through social streams. With a following of more than a million people, Amy is an expert in the field of social media; she was named the 3rd most powerful woman on Twitter by Forbes. But by 2015, Amy was burnt out. She exited her company and moved to the black hills of South Dakota, founding her podcast, Why Not Now? On the show, she interviews people who have made life altering decisions—from Tony Robbins to Jessica Alba—focusing on the moment an idea turned into action. Hear how Amy learned to "get aligned" with her true purpose, how she learned to manage "FOMO" and how she feels that today she is the most productive she's ever been. (Oh yeah, she got married, too!)

She may be soft spoken and petite but make no mistake: Sheila Morovati is force of nature. She's the rare kind of person who sees something wrong and sets out to right it. The first change Sheila set her sights on making concerned the tremendous amount of crayon waste created by restaurants. While her two kids were off at pre-school, she started calling restaurants and asking them to save their gently-used crayons for donation to underserved schools. Before long, Sheila founded the non-profit Crayon Collection , which saves millions of crayons from landfills each year. And Sheila recently zeroed in on another, more dangerous kind of waste: plastic straws. Sheila recently played an integral role in getting the City of Malibu to ban the use of plastic straws and hopes to persuade more municipalities to do the same.

Linda Grasso switches roles for this episode as she moves from host to guest. Veteran journalist Janine Sharell steps into the host role to interview Linda about her journey from a scrappy news reporter/anchor to a well-known entertainment correspondent/host for E!. Linda shares how and why, at the pinnacle of her career, she walked away from it all to be a stay-at-home mom; how she grappled with the challenges of re-entering the work force once her kids were older; and how she faced her fears head-on to kick off the SheSez podcast.

Drybar founder Alli Webb shares the amazing story of how her passion for hair styling morphed into a beauty industry empire. Motivated by a desire to "get out to get out of the house" while her two kids were at school, Alli started an on-the-side gig, at-home blow-drying for friends. Before long she couldn't keep up with all the referrals and the idea for a salon that only offered affordable blowouts was born. Learn how Alli opened the first Drybar in Brentwood, California amidst the terrible economy of 2010 and how she—along with her husband and brother— grew the unique concept into an worldwide salon chain, making the 43-year-old one of the most successful, rising entrepreneurs in the nation.

In 2006, Michelle DiFebo Freeman was a stay-at-home mom of three. As the wife of a prominent real estate development executive in the Washington DC area, her life was pretty close to perfect. All that changed when her husband, Joshua, was killed in a helicopter crash. Several people suggested she sell her husband's large firm and that she "go home." Instead, the high school graduate rolled up her sleeves and learned the business—ultimately taking over as CEO three years later. Michelle shares the story of how she rose to the challenge, took on all the doubters, and, as a woman in a male-dominated industry, led the Carl M. Freeman Companies into a new era. She also shares how she coped when tragedy struck again, killing the man she thought she'd spend the rest of her life with—in yet another tragic accident. It was a darker, downward spiral this time and Michelle even harbored thoughts of suicide. She ultimately healed through service—simple acts of helping others—the topic of her riveting 2017 Tedx talk.