Smart Women Talk

She Believed She Could, So She Did with Molly MacDonald

Join Molly and Katana as they discuss:

• The power of belief.
• How to create a committed, competent, and caring culture.
• Why a nonprofit organization needs to be run like a for-profit business.

Molly MacDonald is an almost 19 year breast cancer Survivor, co-founder of Pink Fund with her husband Tom Pettit. She holds a degree in journalism from The University of Michigan and has a background in event planning, marketing, and public relations.  

Following her 2005 breast cancer diagnosis, Molly experienced the side effect of financial toxicity, a term that was not coined until 2013. Her personal experience led to identifying a gap in services for men and women in active treatment for breast cancer.To date, Pink Fund has delivered $7.8 million in financial assistance to the patient's creditor for housing, transportation, utilities, and insurance.

Molly is a keynote speaker and moderator for various national healthcare conferences. She is a Director on the board of the National Breast Cancer Coalition and a board member of The University of Michigan's Value-Based Insurance Design. She is the mother of five adult children and grandmother to three.

To learn more about Molly, visit pinkfund.org.

Meditation for Empowerment with Julia Griffin

Join Julia and Katana as they discuss:

• How to tap into the universe for energy and a better life.
• Ways we become disempowered by our false beliefs.
• Strategies for using energy work, meditation, and visualization to overcome blocks and create confidence.

Julia Griffin is an intuitive healer who has successfully healed and transformed the lives of thousands of clients. She sees and reads energy to find its resonance with the inner self. She gently guides you through this process so you can easily resolve life's challenges, ranging from enterprise issues to highly personal ones, as well as developing a skill set to transform negative thoughts and emotions into positive ones. Your health, energy, prosperity, and relationships improve as you better understand yourself and your life.

To learn more about Julia, go to onetrueself.com.

The 3 Keys to Living Your True Power with Debra Poneman

Join Debra and Katana in this encore show as they discuss:

- What is preventing you from living your power.
- Why women tend to compromise themselves more than men.
- The steps you can take beginning today to live the life you are meant to live.

For over four decades, Debra Poneman, bestselling author and founder of Yes to Success Seminars, has shared her system, used by hundreds of thousands around the world to live lives of not only success and abundance, but true happiness and profound self-love. Debra's clients have used her formula to become mega-successful entrepreneurs, renowned transformational leaders, NY Times bestselling authors, impactful world-changers, millionaires, billionaires—even household names. Yet Debra feels her greatest accomplishment is not just that she has helped so many live their dreams but has helped them know how glorious they really are and how they can most powerfully contribute to a world that works for everyone.

To learn more about Debra, visit www.yestosuccess.com.

From Fear to Flow with Dr. Andria Corso

Join Andria and Katana for this encore show as they discuss:

• How to discern real fear from false fear and know if you’re living in false fear.
• How to move through fear so it can stop driving your decisions and your life.
• What it means to live life in the flow and why this is so important to us as individuals and as a society.

Dr. Andria Corso is passionate about helping individuals work through their trials and challenges to create a life where they thrive and live to their fullest potential. Her primary focus is creating a safe and trusting space for clients to fully express their emotions and explore the most effective ways to deal with their challenges. She also uses evidence-based practices that enable individuals to successfully work through and manage these challenges.

Dr. Corso has a Ph.D. in Psychology, a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and a Master’s in Organizational Psychology. She also has over 25 years of experience working with individuals and organizations in the areas of executive coaching and leadership development.

To learn more about Dr. Andria Corso go to andriacorso.com.

How Your Stuff is Keeping You Stuck with Tisha Morris

Join Tisha and Katana for this encore show as they discuss:

• How changes to your home can cause a ripple effect – aka how Feng Shui works.
• The guilt involved in decluttering.
• The power of decluttering and its impact on your life.

Tisha Morris is a best-selling author, Feng Shui expert, and business coach. Tisha holds a degree in Law and a Fine Arts degree in Interior Design. She combines Feng Shui techniques, design aesthetics, coaching, and intuition to turn challenging spaces into supportive environments. Tisha facilitates workshops and works one-on-one with people and businesses to identify blocks and make desired changes. Tisha is the host of Feng Shui Your Life podcast and the founder of Earth Home School of Feng Shui.

Learn more about Tisha at tishamorris.com.

Why 90% of New Year's Resolutions Don't Work and What to Do Instead! with Colleen Kilpatrick and Katana Abbott, CFP®

Join Colleen and Katana as they discuss:

• What is Quitter's Day?
• Why it's so hard to keep those New Year's resolutions.
• How to change your resolutions to habits.

Katana Abbott, CFP®, is a Retirement Income Coach and Certified Social Security Claiming Specialist, founder of the Midlife Millionaire™ Solution, and the host of Smart Women Talk. For over 35 years, Katana has helped baby boomers plan for retirement, including creating lifetime income, optimizing their Social Security benefits, launching an encore career, and preparing for long-term care. She has written several books, created a financial literacy course, and is a popular speaker. Katana has been honored by NAWBO as one of Detroit’s Top 10 Businesswomen, receiving the Breakthrough Award.

To download Katana's new retirement guide, Three Smart Strategies to Maximize Your Retirement Income, visit katanaabbott.com.

Colleen Kilpatrick is a multi-talented business owner, creative collaborator, and author of the transformational book Eliminate What You Tolerate: A Simple, Proven Way to Regain Focus, Increase Productivity, and Liberate Your Energy for the More Important Things in Life.
Colleen is the creator of Business Brainstorming Sessions and Toleration Elimination Virtual Parties as well as a range of other business and personal development programs. She is celebrated for her exceptional ability to break down complex concepts into practical, step-by-step solutions that can easily be understood and implemented. With her extensive experience in marketing, business innovation, personal development, and spiritual teachings, Colleen brings a unique perspective to her work with entrepreneurs, inspiring them to unlock their full potential and courageously share their best gifts with the world.

To learn more about Colleen, visit https://www.facebook.com/colleen.t.kilpatrick.

It Takes Guts: Finding the Courage to Live Your Life for YOU! with Sheree Clark

Join Sheree and Katana during this encore show as they discuss:

• How to get in touch with what you actually want next.
• The very first step that precedes all acts of courage.
• Practical tips for facing down fear.

Sheree Clark is a Midlife Courage Coach, TV show host, inspiring speaker and accomplished author. Sheree has written and presented on topics ranging from finding your passion to overcoming career burnout. She appears in a weekly segment on KCWI channel 23 called Fork in the Road with Sheree Clark, while maintaining a busy practice coaching clients one-on-one and in groups on creatingan authentically fulfilling life. In her personal time, Sheree and her cat Lotus work on their yoga poses.

To learn more about Sheree, visit https://fork-road.com/.

Fear, Faith & Freedom:The 3 Keys to Overcoming Adversity with Marilyn Kier

Join Marilyn and Katana for this encore show as they discuss:

• Acknowledging the fears that hold you back.
• Finding faith in the Universe or a higher power to help you.
• Having the freedom to help others.

Marilyn Kier, a Board Certified Orthopedic Massage Therapist, has been interviewed by Forbes, USA Today and other publications.After graduating summa cum laude from Northeastern University, Marilyn enjoyed a 15-year career as an award-winning video producer. To pursue her passion, Marilyn received a degree in wellness and massage therapy in 1996, after which she founded Wellness at Work. Within two years, the company grew to service 50 corporations with on-site massage and wellness programs. Prior to the pandemic, Marilyn had a full clinic practice, with a 4-month wait list. Marilyn is currently enrolled in the National Whole Health Institute's Patient Advocacy Program.

To contact Marilyn, email her at marilynk@wellnessatwork.

Fearless Living with Rhonda Britten

Join Rhonda and Katana as they discuss:

• How the Wheel of Fear can impact your life.
• The powerful influence of your tone of voice & body language.
• Ways to align the “parts” of you that may be sabotaging your success & your LOVE life!

Rhonda Britten –Emmy Award-winner, Repeat Oprah guest, Master Coach –has changed lives in over 600 episodes of reality television, is the author of four bestsellers including her seminal work, “Fearless Living,” and is the Founder of the Fearless Living Institute, home of the Ivy League of Life Coaching Training. Named “America’s Favorite Life Coach,” she brings the neuroscience of fear down to earth giving you a path out of “not being good enough” using the “Wheels” technology she developed that saved her own life.

To learn more about Rhonda, visit www.fearlessliving.org.

Overcoming Traumatic Loss and Making a Comeback with Beth Pizzarello

Join Beth and Katana as they discuss:

• The importance of never giving up.
• How to pivot to get where you want to be.
• Ways to move forward in your life.

Two weeks before graduating college, Beth Pizzarello was diagnosed with a genetic eye disease that contributed to her eventual blindness at age 38. It took a shift in perception to break through the intense fear to become capable of meeting, and then rising to this enormous challenge. After 12 years of living in the dark, Beth received a newly developed lens implant procedure with miraculous results. The surgery took her from a status of complete blindness to the limited use of one eye (20%). The inspiration for writing her book Eclipsed came from the moment of profound gratitude for the journey, and Beth’s desire to help others find their way when dealing with a traumatic loss.

Learn more about Beth and Eclipsed at bethpizzarello.com.