The Growth Invitation

What if everything looks good on the outside… but something still feels off on the inside?

In this episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E19), Janette talks with Samantha Gnimavo (Sam), women’s health nutritionist and founder of Happy Body Ltd. Sam shares the moment she hit pause on everything and asked herself a life-changing question: “Am I really happy?”

This isn’t just a story about health or business success — it’s about rediscovering joy, owning visibility, and rebuilding both a business and a life from a place of truth. If you’ve ever questioned whether the version of “happy” you’re chasing still fits you, or if you’re craving an honest conversation about purpose, burnout, and coming home to yourself, this episode is for you.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Samantha Gnimavo is a women’s health nutritionist and health coach specialising in weight management, fatigue reduction, stress management, sleep optimisation, and fertility support. As the founder of Happy Body Ltd, her science-backed, personalised approach has been featured in publications like Metro and Stylist Magazine.

🔗 Connect with Samantha on IG: @samantha.nutrition

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

What if the key to resilience wasn’t pushing harder, but learning how to truly heal?

In this episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E18), Janette sits down with Kelly Etter, Certified Pilates Trainer, Lisa Nichols Transformational Trainer, and lifelong movement mentor. Kelly shares her powerful journey from being paralysed by anxiety and fear to reclaiming her power through movement, nervous system support, and community.

Together, they explore what true resilience really looks like — why it’s not just about pushing through tough times, but embracing healing, surrounding yourself with the right support, and using movement to restore your body, mind, and spirit. If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or held back by mental blocks, this conversation will show you how to break free and rebuild your inner strength.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Kelly Etter is a Certified Pilates Trainer, Lisa Nichols Transformational Trainer, and lifelong movement mentor. From wearing leg braces as a child to performing as a Rockette, her story is one of powerful resilience. For over 25 years, Kelly has helped people break free from pain, build strength, and reconnect with their bodies through a unique blend of nervous system support, healthy body mechanics, and soulful self-care.

🔗 Connect with Kelly on IG: https://www.instagram.com/betterwithkellyetter/

🔗 Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-etter-62423633/

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

What if the biggest curveball life threw at you became the doorway to true freedom?

In this deeply moving episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E17), Janette sits down with Nicole Engelmann, who shares how a melanoma diagnosis just after turning 30 shifted everything she thought she knew about life, fear, and freedom.

Facing cancer head-on gave Nicole a huge reminder — one that has been keeping her from mental overwhelm, fear of the unknown, and the limiting beliefs about what she “should” do with her life. Now, with over a decade of experience as a personal branding photographer, she channels that freedom and clarity into helping entrepreneurs step confidently into their authentic selves, even if they’ve always been camera-shy.Nicole’s story is a powerful reminder that sometimes the scariest moments become the ones that set you free.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Nicole Engelmann is a personal branding photographer and videographer with over 2,500 shoots and 11 years of experience. She helps entrepreneurs create authentic, story-driven visual content that builds confidence and attracts their ideal audience.

🔗 Connect with Nicole on IG: @londonbrandingphotos

🔗 Connect with Nicole on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-engelmann/

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

What do you do when life asks you to step into a role you never planned for and don’t feel ready to take?

In this episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E15), Janette is joined by Harpreet Johal, a certified Proctor Gallagher consultant and 3rd Dan kickboxing Sensei based in London. Harpreet shares the powerful story of being unexpectedly thrust into the role of Sensei after the sudden passing of her own teacher. Overwhelmed and unprepared, she had to choose between walking away or rising into an identity she didn’t yet believe she could embody.

Now a transformational coach who blends mindset training with physical resilience, Harpreet helps others break free from limiting beliefs and align their self-image with their true potential. Her story is a reminder that “readiness” is often a myth — and that sometimes, the moment chooses you.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Harpreet Johal is a certified Proctor Gallagher consultant, transformational coach, and 3rd Dan kickboxing Sensei who guides people to unlock their true potential by aligning mindset and self-image with action.

🔗 Connect with Harpreet on IG: @mindset_coaching_with_harpreet

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

Have you ever looked around at your life and thought “It’s not bad… but it’s not me”?

In this episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E15), Janette sits down with Lynne Carty, a London-based doctor who once believed it was too late to follow the dream she had buried years earlier. After building a stable career in marketing and planning a future with her fiancé, Lynne found herself asking the question so many high-achieving women wrestle with: What if the path I’m on isn’t the one I’m meant for?

Lynne shares her journey of retraining as a doctor despite being well established in her corporate career in her 20s, the pivotal moment abroad that changed everything, and the conversation with her partner that redefined their future. Her story is a powerful reminder that choosing alignment over expectation can change your life — and that it’s never too late to start again.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Lynne Carty is a London-based doctor whose journey from corporate marketing to medicine is a testament to the power of alignment, courage, and redefining success on your own terms.

🔗 Connect with Lynne on IG: @drhardycarty

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

What happens when you realise you’ve built a life that looks successful on the outside but leaves you feeling empty inside?

In this special episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E14), Janette Wong — Clarity & Transformation Coach and founder of Empowering Leap — takes the guest seat as her friend and fellow coach Alexis Hunter guides her through a raw and honest conversation about success, burnout, and finding her way back to herself.

Janette opens up about the part no one talks about: how “holding it all together” can quietly pull you apart, how chasing achievement can disconnect you from who you are, and how peeling back layers of expectation and pressure became the path to becoming herself again.

This is a vulnerable look into the journey from overwhelm and anxiety to ownership, clarity, and creating a life that finally feels aligned. If you’ve been feeling stuck in survival mode, disconnected, or wondering when you’ll stop coping and start living, this conversation is your reminder that you are not alone.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest (and Host):

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

🌟 Special thanks to Alexis Hunter for holding space in this powerful and beautiful conversation.

What happens when life as you know it is taken away in an instant?

In this deeply powerful episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E13), Janette sits down with Jude Monteserrato, a woman whose life was forever changed by the events of September 11, 2001. After losing her husband that day, Jude was plunged into overwhelming grief — frozen, lost, and unsure how to move forward.

But this isn’t just a story about loss. It’s a story about resilience, healing, and choosing life again. Jude shares how she transformed her pain into purpose, leaving her corporate career to become a Health and Wellness Life Coach, yoga therapist, natural food chef, and certified transformational trainer.

Her journey is a reminder that no matter how heavy life feels, you can rebuild. You can thrive. And yes — life, even with all its twists and losses, is still a gift.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Jude Monteserrato is a Health and Wellness Life Coach, yoga therapist, natural food chef, and certified transformational trainer dedicated to helping others live with authenticity, self-awareness, and hope.

🔗 Connect with Jude on IG: @judemonteserrato

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

What happens when everything you’ve built suddenly disappears—and you're left to redefine who you are?

In this episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E12), Janette is joined by Kristen Montalvo, an inspiring entrepreneur who built a recruitment company from just £50 a week to an £850,000-a-year business serving clients across 12 countries. It was the ultimate success story — until the pandemic hit and everything changed overnight.Kristen opens up about what it felt like to lose not just her business and income, but her identity. She shares what it really means to start over when life doesn’t give you a choice, and how she found renewed purpose helping other small business owners thrive through Grow London Local, a government-backed initiative supporting sole traders and entrepreneurs across London.

Whether you’re navigating uncertainty, rebuilding after loss, or craving a fresh start, Kristen’s story is a powerful reminder that rock bottom can also be the foundation for something brand new.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Kristen O'Connell Montalvo is an entrepreneur who bootstrapped a recruitment company from £50 a week to £850,000 in annual turnover, helping hundreds of clients across 12 countries. She’s been a business advocate at Parliament and Downing Street, and now supports sole traders and entrepreneurs as a Business Support Manager for Grow London Local.

🔗 Connect with Kristen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-oconnell-london/

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

What does it take to rebuild your life after deep loss, cultural expectations, and personal struggles?

In this episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E11), Janette is joined by Annmarie Waite — healthcare leader, educator, and advocate who has turned her own pain into a powerful mission to empower women’s health, happiness, and well-being.

Annmarie shares her incredible story of navigating cultural challenges, personal loss, and self-doubt to finding her purpose and creating Girlfriend’s Health, LLC, a platform dedicated to helping women take charge of their health and prevent disease. Together, we explore the mindset shifts that fueled her healing, the small habits that create lasting change, and why accountability and community are key to women thriving.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Annmarie Waite is the founder of Girlfriend’s Health, LLC, where she empowers women to take control of their health and well-being. Through education, advocacy, and community, she helps women prevent disease and create sustainable change.

🔗 Learn more about Annmarie and her work: www.girlfriendshealth.com

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette

What if success didn’t have to come at the cost of your well-being?

In this episode of The Growth Invitation (S2 E10), Janette sits down with Arvinder (Arvy) Thandi, a Performance Engineer at Nationwide Building Society who made a bold career switch into tech just before turning 40. Her journey is proof that you can chase ambitious goals without sacrificing your well-being — if you’re willing to set clear boundaries.

Balancing life as a mum of two, a wife, and a career-changer in a male-dominated industry, Arvinder faced constant challenges — from breaking stereotypes to navigating tough contract negotiations. Through it all, she chose self-love, boundaries, and balance — and it paid off. Not only did she successfully transition into tech, she also launched a groundbreaking coding initiative that introduced 120 children from underrepresented communities to the world of STEM.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that you don’t have to burn out to succeed — you can lead, inspire, and achieve while taking care of yourself.

🙋‍♀️ About the Guest:

Arvinder (Arvy) Thandi is a passionate Performance Engineer at Nationwide Building Society who made a bold career switch into tech just before turning 40. She’s dedicated to diversity and education, inspiring young girls and children from underrepresented communities to explore STEM careers. Recognized as part of the Tech Women Celebration 50, she’s proof that boundaries and self-love are the true keys to sustainable success.

🔗 Connect with Arvinder on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvinder-kaur-thandi-33625b233/

🌟 About Your Host:

Janette Wong is a Clarity & Transformation Coach helping high-achieving women navigate transitions and create lives that feel good on the inside as well as the outside. She’s also the founder of The Leap Collective, a space for purpose-led women to connect, reflect, and thrive.

🔗 Website: www.empoweringleap.com

🔗 Instagram: @empowerwithjanette