The Amber Weitzer Podcast | Silhouettes of Success

Our VIP Featured Guest today shines bright for all to see and benefit from her brilliance of service and empowerment. She considers herself ever-evolving, growth-minded and a strong woman who lets nothing hold her back! She is a wife, mother of three boys, and entrepreneur overseeing two businesses and a former Naval Officer. She's passionate about all of her roles and we are thrilled to talk with her today!

Rhinestones and Barbed Wire

Straw Cowgirl Hat and Louis Vuitton

Denim Overalls and Fishnet Stockings

Champagne and Beef Jerky

Green Acres and Sex In The City

Tractors and BMW's

Stilettos and Snake Boots

Chainsaws and Chandeliers

Sequins and Sawdust

Looped in yet…do you see the calamity of confusion, is The City Girl or The Country Girl-yes!

What do others see in us? Fair question. Does it really matter? Depends. Context is critical, would you agree?

Do you have a professional/business persona, branding or style? Do you actively and intentionally maintain it?

Is this something that is important to you or a non-issue, low priority...either way...it's all good!

I'm sharing this story for a little bit of fun on the topic with a heavy dose of recognizing personal growth...in real time-yikes!

Why was I struggling so? The label?

I was seriously hung up with being placed in one persona over another...whoa. Personal growth happening live and in front of almost strangers!

Interesting situation to quickly work through, this tango of mixed emotions and in-real time.

Taking on the personal challenges of getting to this place where we were sitting, this hang up wasn't going to stall out the project for such a seemingly silly dilemma of mine.

Seriously why was I or do I have such angst towards being labeled?

Anyone else have this aversion? Let's talk!

Today, we are in for a fabulous episode with our VIP Featured Guest! She is a journalist, blogger, and podcaster who stays ahead of the latest real estate and home design trends. She is the creator of the home design and staging blog...Styled, Staged & Sold, which is ranked the #1 home staging blog by FeedSpot for the last four years and counting. You can also hear her weekly in a segment called "Hot or Not?" in home design that airs nationwide on the Real Estate Today radio show as well as a weekly podcast. She is also the host of The Housing Muse Podcast – that covers the latest home design and real estate trends.

Today we visit with an adventurous Silhouette. She taught herself self-reliance skills that led to a university post-graduate education in Criminal Psychology and teaching at college. Three children later, she had given up academia to raise her children alone and off-grid in a remote North Yorks, living in a green painted caravan in a five acre field with no heating, restroom, or running hot water-she and her kids lived very simply using what was around them.

Di Hammill Page founded Wild Harvest around sixteen years ago with the making and selling wares and educational courses.

She is a qualified Adult Ed. tutor, Permaculture Designer, Natural beekeeper, Archery GB instructor, Blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do, Survival Medic trained and so much more!

Di is now seen as one of the countries leading experts in simple, natural lifestyle and self-reliance and is often asked to comment in the media or speak at National shows about various aspects of her work.

Di's intentional inspiration and words are wisdom are empowering...listen up!

Today we visit with an adventurous Silhouette. She taught herself self-reliance skills that led to a university post-graduate education in Criminal Psychology and teaching at college. Three children later, she had given up academia to raise her children alone and off-grid in a remote North Yorks, living in a green painted caravan in a five acre field with no heating, restroom, or running hot water-she and her kids lived very simply using what was around them.

Di Hammill Page founded Wild Harvest around sixteen years ago with the making and selling wares and educational courses.

She is a qualified Adult Ed. tutor, Permaculture Designer, Natural beekeeper, Archery GB instructor, Blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do, Survival Medic trained and so much more!

Di is now seen as one of the countries leading experts in simple, natural lifestyle and self-reliance and is often asked to comment in the media or speak at National shows about various aspects of her work.

Di's intentional inspiration and words are wisdom are empowering...listen up!

A few months ago, I came across a local news article about Mary Kay Ash and it triggered, let's use the work "sparked!" my interest to read more. And did it ever. That day I ordered all the books by Mary Kay Ash and her company I could find that early morning:

1. Miracles Happen
2. The Mary Kay Way
3. You Can Have It All

I finished Miracles Happen by Mary Kay Ash. Isn't it amazing, only a few chapters in and it's allowed me to connect the dots with such whimsy and reframe the experience! Immediately I'm feeling a kinship of her values, struggles, risk taking decisions and feeling nostalgic over the good ole' days of my youth. The ornery pain of the pesky publication jab quite literary evaporated. Strange, freeing and knowing that the time was now only because I was ready. I was ready to revisit those pains and memories...now, today- so that I might be able to understand the deeper lesson, to put them into context and see the full storyboard. The story where Mary Kay, her dream and almost out of dire, tragic circumstance-her sheer will and firm determination, backing herself despite the naysayers, living by the and creating the foundational blocks of her empire by the Golden Rule was and has been a part of me. As I am only in the early chapters of the first book I purchased, the pink power overwhelmes and heals my heart. It seems her impact was just a powerful in my life, without me realizing it, as it must have been for all of the women who actually were and are fortunate souls to wear the Mary Kay Consultant name badge.

But there is more to the story...

Mark Kay Cosmetics & Home Interiors and Gifts was a memorable part of my childhood, our Mother was a Mary Kay Cosmetics Consultant, in the late 1970's-who also then became a Home Interiors and Gifts Independent Contractor Displayer Business Woman-in the early 80's. We had at one point, an enclosed portion of our sunroom or mudroom to have a little boutique space at our home. Pegboard displays, getting in shipments to unpack with Styrofoam peanuts sticking to everything, her desk it was great-home office before it was cool! I still get a kick out of seeing and pointing out so many of these décor items still in people's homes today, or in photos, now making the thrift shop and antique store shelves. And Oh the prizes she earned silver punch bowl set, goblets, diamond rings (which have given blessings X10 in, that's another story!) and the lapel pins...just as Mary Kay Ash describes in her book.

In fact, one of the most impressionable memories and stories is when my Mother and Aunt Chris traveled...on an airplane (that was huge in my head then), to Dallas, Texas (even huger!) for a Mary Kay Seminar! Drop the mic. Dallas...TEXAS...that was unimaginable as a little girl living in a small town in Michigan. When she got home, she wasn't empty handed...

Our VIP Feature Guest today is a phenomenal talent with a great story! She is a Certified High Performance Coach for empathic & introverted leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs.

She has coached C-suite tech executives in Silicon Valley, CMOs, real estate investors managing over $1 billion of assets, COO of an 800-person advertising office, sales leaders, International DJs, educators, consultants, coaches, and even a magician.

Carla is a speaker for companies and organizations such as UBS Financial Services, TEDWomen, United Women in Business Foundation, and many others. She's been featured in Forbes and Thrive Global.

She loves dancing Brazilian Zouk with the love of her life, her husband Shane.

Our VIP Feature Guest today brings light and enthusiastic energy times ten! She is the founder and CEO of Sky Women's Health in Fort Worth, TX, a boutique gynecology and osteopathy practice in Dallas-Fort Worth. Dr. Carolyn Moyers is Board Certified OBGYN, entrepreneur, podcaster, wife and mom of four boys.

CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS

Sky: Dr. Carolyn talks about her Silhouette of Success journey, how she came to find her way in launching Sky Women's Health. She reflected back, coming full circle to a fellowship and realized that she had all of the skillset that required nothing more than her hands plus her OBGYN skillset. Lightbulb! It's for the busy professional woman, busy Mom's and a direct care practice where the client base is smaller, and it's such a more intimate experience and care with your Doctor. She talks about how easy it is to do what everyone else is doing, going on your own can be very uncomfortable. She tells us that it's about coming from a place of authenticity, honoring her health and her patience health. It's been a beautiful thing.

Happy Place: She followed her love, women's health, delivering babies, taking care of women. This is what ignited her within! She set goals for herself through the years. Carolyn shares about her supportive family and husband, loving the time at home with her babies while also feeling that she had so much more to offer the world. She was told that she needed to go back full time and increased the volume of surgeries, deliveries-you are not enough, she was good at it...but she knew that this wasn't "it" for her. She talks about her sense of knowing. She found a mentor, read more, listened to podcasts and started becoming an entrepreneur. She decided to open her own, cash-based practice providing excellent care. She found a place of healing during her rural health service commitment, meeting her husband and realized this was where she was meant to be.

Creative: She identified a mentor early on, Dr. Smith who told her to figure out what she wanted to do, and she would help her. Women empowering women. The concept came from a book she read titled Half the Sky, women hold up half the sky, she then joined EntreMD, a physician's business school for marketing, sat down on the floor with her nurse on a piece of paper from her kids art easel and drew out processes, the services she wanted to provide and to this day their services evolve. She traded services for rent, just being creative. There is always a way!

INTENTIONAL INSPIRATION

You are capable of so much more than you believe! Your commitment to yourself, to your greater purpose and to your intentions is what drives your inner confidence!

RESOURCE LIST

1. CAROLYN MOYERS

[email protected]

Sky Women's Health

INSTAGRAM @SKYWOMENSHEALTH

Podcast: Sky Women

CAROLYN'S FAVORITES

You Are Not Broken-Dr. Casperson

As A Woman - Dr. Natalie Crawford

The Mind Your Business Podcast-James Wedmore

She has such a vibrant energy about her, she is a small business owner, a creative and strategic genius, born and raised on the west side of Fort Worth Texas and loves all things Funkytown! She and her husband have two small children and a very naughty dog. She develops effective and personalized marketing strategies that allow business owners and executives to focus on the things theyʼre most passionate about creating. She is the Co-Owner and Marketing Executive of Preuve.

She is a wife, mother of two and I think she's just getting warmed up! She grew up in Portland, Oregon, went to college 3,000 miles away without ever visiting East Coast (Emerson College in Boston). She met her husband in college and they've been together for 28 years (married for 20). She started blogging under Maternity to Madness in 2004, then founded and ran one of the first mom entrepreneur organizations in the US - the Power MOB (Mom-Owned Businesses) for five years. They had hundreds of members, monthly business events, playdates, and mom social hours, and an annual conference and annual Mom Shop. So, again a quick recap, she has a robust and creative background from news anchor to PR to Blogging, sparking a movement of Mom Owned Business, photography, sales and is now focused on food, wine and travel and tourism plus...not one but TWO cookbooks! Please meet Marlynn Schotland!