The Amber Weitzer Podcast | Silhouettes of Success

Our VIP Featured Guest Daris Frencha is the President and CEO of The Benefit Boutique a woman-owned, full-service employee benefit brokerage based in Fort Worth, TX. She is an international top sales trainer, having trained thousands of sales professionals all across the country. She is an alumni of the Goldman Sachs 10KSB program, cohort 23. She plays volleyball very competitively, loves to read, meditate and travel. She also plans to become a professional nomad in the next few years, running her company from exotic locations all around the globe.

Our VIP Featured Guest Shonda Moralis, MSW, LCSW is on a mission to help women play big without burning out. She is a Life Balance Coach, Therapreneur, Author, and Podcast Host. Shonda serves on the board of Shanthi Project, an education nonprofit providing evidence-based mindfulness services to children and adults. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two kids, loves to play outside, endeavors to practice what she preaches, and is perennially fascinated by what makes people tick. She is the author of Breathe, Mama, Breathe.

Her new book is about to release...pre-order now!

Don't Forget to Breathe

5-Minute Mindfulness for Busy Women

Beat Stress and Find Calm, Anytime, Anywhere

DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

MINDFULNESS, MEDITATION AND MINDFUL BREAKS?

Our VIP Featured Guest Holly Reed is the Owner and Creative Director of Reed Creative Group, an award-winning design studio along with MusicalWriters.com, an online resource and community to equip and encourage musical theater writers. She and her husband/composer Kelvin wrote the upcoming TRUE NORTH: A MAGICAL NEW HOLIDAY MUSICAL and (2019 York Development Reading Series, 2021 CNU New Musicals Lab 2021 Red Mountain Theatre Human Rights New Works Festival, 2022 IAMT New Music/ls L/b). Holly and Kelvin wrote "That's What Friends Do" for GIRLHOOD THE MUSICAL (CPA Theatricals), and the grade school musical CAMP MCAULIFFE. She is a member of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and the Dramatist Guild plus she holds a BFA in design and music from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Our VIP Featured Guest Lucy Ham pursued a business degree from the University of Hawaii, is and has been a highly successful real estate Broker since 1978

licensed originally in Milwaukee WI and is a well-established businesswoman in Flushing Michigan for many years now. She and her team have helped over 13,000 families so far in her career...and there is

no slowing down for this real estate icon! She's a writer and past business coach for the Mike Ferry Organization, recipient of Realtor of the Year Award in 2011 and many other notable awards that we will let her share with us!

She is a strong advocate for community and has blessed hundreds, probably thousands with her generosity and with her generosity of donations in the form of, computers, funds, lunches, prayers in the moment and so much more. Lucy is a wife, mother, Grandmother and cherished friend to so many

Our VIP Featured Guest For over 20 years, she has been the behind-the-scenes innovator for more than half of the Top 100 Global Brands, including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Gillette, McDonald's, American Express and UBS. She has also done extensive work in the financial, CPG, beauty and pharmaceutical industries with companies such as Capital One, Bank of America, Dial, Nestlé, L'Oréal, and Wyeth. She is the author of Brand It Yourself: The Fast, Focused Way to Marketplace Magic, and has been interviewed on nationally syndicated radio shows and appeared on CNBC's On The Money and ABC's News Now. A serial entrepreneur and perennial do-gooder, she also founded and sold two successful brands—Mama Bare and Parentgiving.com—and served on the board of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood for 8 years. In her "down time" she is an avid runner, studies traditional Japanese karate (currently holding a third-degree black belt), and somehow manages to squeeze in some yoga along the way.

Our VIP Featured Guest who has as we say, been there and done that!

She all things grit, grace, bold and beautiful...and definitely the one you want to sit by at a party! With her adventurous spirit, hands on experience and vibrant personality...she has a story or two to tell.

She was raised by single mom who worked two jobs my entire upbringing dirt poor at best. Shelia worked at a ice cream shop and local supermarket at 14, left the house at 16 for the first time and moved back in for a short stint. She was on her own permanently at 17, dropped out of high school to work full time but she went back to high school for senior year finishing on time in 2002. College was not a possibility, she had to make money to take care of herself. She started at a title and escrow company in 2003 at 18 answering the phones, took advantage of EVERY learning opportunity and within 3 years was running escrow departments and companies were recruiting her. This is where she learned she didn't want to be held captive to a salary and a commission role was what she desired. She also learned the power of networking while in title & escrow. Taking her skills and connections with her, in 2007 accepted a commission only role at ADT as a Small Business Representative which was petrifying and started off slow without 1 sale in 3 months (which is TERRIBLE and she was lucky not to be fired).

In month number 4 she hit quota and never missed quota again. Her business kept growing and she finished #36 out of 800+ sales reps in the company, then promoted after 18 months to Sales Manager in Omaha

Finished my first year #1 in her category!

Promoted in 2010, she moved to Dallas for a bigger sales opportunity.

She did very well in this role for about 5 years, and during this time got married and had their first child. In 2015 Sheila moved to a different division within ADT where she would earn two promotions and in my last capacity was the Regional Director of the East. During this time, in 2017, they had twin daughters. From there, in 2019, she and her husband purchased a commercial building and opened Better Than Sex-a Dessert Restaurant in Downtown Plano. She continued my role as Regional Director while my husband started us up but was laid off in 2020 from ADT and has worked in the restaurant full time since.

Constance Jaeggi is a Swiss photographic artist based between London, UK and Fort Worth, TX. She moved to Texas from her native Switzerland in 2009 to pursue her degree from TCU and begin her competitive cutting horse-riding career. Constance has studied at the New York Film Academy and most recently completed a Master of Art History and Art World Practice at Christie's in London.

Her work focuses on the relationship between horse and human, in particular women. She uses horses as a backdrop for exploring themes of intimacy and identity, connection and power dynamics. She is also a competitive cutting rider.

Her recent project, The Devils was short-listed for the 2021 Critical Mass Awards and is subject of a solo exhibition at the National Cowgirl Museum in Fort Worth October 2021 – March 2022. This marks her second solo exhibition at the National Cowgirl Museum. In addition, her book on The Devils released in October 2021.

Our VIP Featured Guest, Stefanie Jane "Shares hope in healing" through her works as a Christian based motivational Speaker, Singer and Author of the recently published book "Fear Not For You Are Redeemed." As a survivor of child sexual abuse and rape she is passionate about sharing her hope in healing through Jesus. She is a trained advocate for sexual abuse survivors and knows how to communicate with women in a way that brings healing. Recently, I briefly met her and just knew she had a story to share.

A lady that dreams! She is an IT Professional that finally accomplished a childhood dream by self-publishing her first children's book, The Kid Too Cool for Cats. The inspiration for the book was her husband, Matt, who plays guitar and was a dog person until she brought him over to the cat side and showed him cats are cool. Laurie, a self-proclaimed crazy cat lady, is passionate about cats and helping cats get adopted from shelters. She volunteers at the Dallas Animal Services, and with the help from other non-profit organizations, Awwdoptable and Cat Behavior Solutions have been able to help save cats' lives. Laurie lives in Dallas with her husband and three cats and hopes to inspire other women to follow their dreams and write and publish the book they have in them.

Happy 50th Birthday Laurie!

She is the founder of The Fields, a luxury glamping resort located in her hometown of South Haven, Michigan. The Fields, recognized in Conde` Nast, Travel and Leisure, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and National Geographic has quickly become one of glampings premier locations and its effect, or "field magic" as guests affectionately refer to it as, has helped to identify her as one of the industry's leading hospitality operations experts.