The Alpha Female Podcast

Lisa Van Ahn is a professional boxer and kickboxer. She found her way to the sport after years of trauma and being victimized. She used kickboxing as an escape but soon after starting tapped into her strength and realized her value and worth in the world.

She realized there were many things she didn’t have the opportunity to learn as a young girl to ensure her safety so she created the I AM Initiative; a confidence building curriculum girls and young women. The purpose is to teach the necessity of self-love in relationship to personal safety. Through dynamic movement and engagement, Lisa’s workshops teach the “rules” of self-protection, including self-compassion, trusting your “gut”, and creating positive change in the world.

Lisa is passionate about teaching girls the principles she didn’t have the opportunity to learn until later in life. It is her deepest desire to give these young women the tools to be strong, in middle school, high school, college and beyond so they are able to confidently overcome the obstacles they encounter throughout their life.

Kickstarter: http://www.bit.ly/iameverygirl

Website: http://www.lisavanahn.com

Margaret Schlachter is the creator of Dirt in Your Skirt, a website with race & gear reviews, industry insight and more. She was one of the first professional female obstacle course racer. She’s competed in the Death Race, 5 World’s Toughest Mudder, and Survival Run in Nicaragua among many. Schlachter helped found the Spartan Chicked movement with over 15,000 members today. She is a full-time author, writer, industry expert, and coach. Her first book, Obstacle Race Training was released April 15, 2014. She is the editor-in-chief for MudRunGuide.com. And last but not least, when not writing or taking on the next obstacle race or mud run she can be found working on her Urban Farm in Salt Lake City.

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Kaylie Klitzing is a 24 year old fitness trainer, an IFBB figure professional and powerlifter. Her why is to help people love themselves and their lives. She wants to show others that fitness can be a blessing towards a healthy life and isn’t torture. After rebounding after earning her pro card she’s worked hard to learn self-compassion and enjoy fitness and nutrition again. She wants to share her experience to shed a light on the subject for others.

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Rachel Adams is a realtor, public speaker, coach, author, and entrepreneur.  She lives in Northern California, and is the CEO of 4 different companies. In just 3 years in the real estate industry, Rachel had hit the top 1000 agents in the country for the Wallstreet Journal.  On the outside looking in, her life was perfect.  She had the perfect car, the perfect social life, and everything looked top notch.  You could say she had the perfect “Facebook” life.  But as we all know reality isn’t always what it seems.  And then one conversation changed everything.  Rachel decided to start leading her life with full authenticity and intention and everything changed! She now travels around the United States teaching others and coaching on her life changing book and program, “Lost to Found in 90 Days”.

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Suncana Selimovic is a serious coffee and muscles addict and creator of Body Connection Obsessed. A Canadian living overseas who’s in love with talking about body/mind connection, left brain vs right brain and fit & feminine stuff. She loves connecting to her body in new ways and loves to facilitate that connection for others as a yoga tune up and yoga instructor.

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I’ve learned so many amazing things from 49 different Alpha Females and wanted to share some tidbits that have stuck with me over the year with you.

Linda Mitchell wants to help women reach a point of empowerment. Linda is an Institute of Integrative Nutrition graduate, an award-winning fitness competitor, and an elite obstacle racer. She collaborated on the fitness portion of the book “Fat Flush for Life” with mentor and New York Times Best Selling author Ann Louise Gittleman. She is now the author of “The Sisterhood of S.W.E.A.T.” and owns Chickfit Studio which opened in 2013. Her book and the studio are all about helping women build confidence and self-esteem and learning to feel 100% great about themselves.

www.chickfit.me

Joanna Griffiths is Chief Knixpert – aka founder & CEO – of Knix Wear, a high-tech women’s underwear brand based in Toronto. Always consumer-focused, Joanna has over ten years of marketing and PR experience having worked for Universal Music, the Toronto International Film Festival and CBC. Joanna holds an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, where she won the Women’s Award for Entrepreneurship and the Business Venture Competition for Knix Wear, securing $20,000 to begin the business. Joanna launched Knix Wear via a crowdfunding campaign in May of 2013 on Indiegogo and became the most-funded Canadian fashion project of all time. Knix Wear made crowdfunding and retail history, when Hudson’s Bay placed an 18-store pre-order, marking the first time a brand has been picked up by a major retailer via crowdfunding. Joanna has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Dragons’ Den and hundreds of other media outlets.

Robyn here – You have to click the Dragon’s Den link and watch Joanna kill it on the show. Joanna and I went to summer camp together so it’s amazing to see a childhood friend rock her career!

Jenna Switzer is an anatomy geek, yoga and tune up teacher as well as the yoga and wellness manager at The Retreat at Strathmere (a spa & wellness retreat centre just outside of Ottawa, Ontario – my hometown which I just moved back to. After meeting Jenna at a Yoga Tune Up class at OCR Academy my boyfriend’s gym and loving her vibe & energy. I just had to introduce her to you. Welcome Jenna.

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Diana is an authenticity driven entrepreneur who is constantly seeking, creating, developing, growing and learning. She is passionate about business, personal development, wellness, travel, spirituality, productivity and maximizing her time and life to live exceptionally across all facets: faith, relationships, business and health.

Her sensitivity coupled with her entrepreneurial mindset allows her to see opportunities through a unique lense leading to an overflow of ideas, reiterations and progress led execution. Being very unsure of her career path in her youth, she became even more unclear after completing law school. Pushed to find her passions she started her first company Tiny Devotions Inc. after taking a sabbatical in Bali post-graduating. Being keen to identify niches – Diana literally started an industry with her company selling mala beads and intentional accessories. Now with hundreds of competitors, Tiny Devotions founded in 2009 is still the innovative leader in the space.

After dabbling with many other small ventures including angel investing and business coaching, Diana started Cole + Parker with her now Husband Jeff House. Cole + Parker is a social enterprise and luxury sock company that creates bold, colourful socks for leaders, legends and entrepreneurs. Jeff and Diana have recently sold the company.

After marrying Jeff their union also led Diana to be involved in many facets of real estate including multiple development projects, an asset management portfolio as well as assisting with complex real estate transactions. Her real estate experience coupled with her entrepreneurial success led her to seek out private financing lending deals which is now one of her current focuses.

Last but not least, Diana is extremely passionate about startups and entrepreneurial ventures of all sorts. She has been part of the Canadian Tech Accelerator for Cole + Parker and is always actively seeking out unique and high potential angel investing deals.

Having come from a very entrepreneurial family, the buzz of business, startups and deals is part of her DNA and a constant adventure no matter where she is in the world on her extensive travels with her husband. Diana has also been honoured locally as a top 20 under 40 recipient, as well as nationally as part of the W100, one of the top female entrepreneurs in Canada.