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In her work at an executive search firm, Gina Riley noticed common mistakes that executive leaders were making in the interview process.

They struggled to articulate their strengths and explain how they showed up in the world uniquely.

And many lacked executive presence. In other words, they didn't convey the trustworthiness and authority it takes to lead an organization.

So, what can executives do to position themselves appropriately for the job they want and really shine in interviews?

Gina is the HR professional, career transition and executive search expert behind Gina Riley Consulting, a firm that helps people at the leadership level navigate the job search process.

Gina holds a master's in systems design and serves as a certified YouMap coach and interview skills training expert who frequently writes and speaks on careers related topics.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Gina joins Anjel to explain how she helps executives define and describe their leadership approach in a powerful way.

Gina shares her own journey as an entrepreneur, discussing why entrepreneurs need the humility to ask for help and the confidence to price their services appropriately.

Listen in for Gina's insight on reentering the workforce after time off and learn how to communicate your value in the interview process to land the executive position of your dreams!

What You Will Learn

Gina's early drive to help people elevate their communication skills

The gap in the marketplace that inspired Gina to become an entrepreneur

Gina's advice for executives reentering the workforce after time off

How Gina helps people at the leadership level shine in interviews

The most common mistakes executives make in the interview process

What it looks like for a leader to demonstrate executive presence

Why the best executive jobs are found through the 'hidden job market'

How Gina helps executives define and describe their leadership approach

Gina's take on why entrepreneurs need the humility to ask for help

How Gina developed the confidence to price her services properly

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When we think of human trafficking, most of us picture kidnapping and prostitution.

But the truth is, most victims are adults who've been trafficked by people they trust and forced to work for free.

And they may or may not realize that they're being trafficked.

Amanda Blackwood is the Trauma Recovery Mentor behind Growth from Darkness, a platform where she shares her experiences as a survivor of human trafficking and helps other trauma survivors build resilience and strength.

Amanda is also an accomplished artist, author and public speaker, hosting The Survivors and Growth from Darkness podcasts.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Amanda joins Anjel to share her experiences as the victim of human trafficking, describing how she was preyed upon by people she knew and trusted.

Amanda discusses the DHS definition of human trafficking, explaining what labor, sex and organ trafficking look like and why trafficking is most prevalent in upper-middle class neighborhoods.

Listen in for Amanda's insight on asking for help if you're in an abusive situation and learn how she navigated the trauma recovery process.

Why it's a myth that human trafficking only happens to children

How Amanda's childhood trauma made her susceptible to being trafficked as an adult

How the Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking

What labor, sex and organ trafficking look like (and which is most common)

Why trafficking in the US is most prevalent in upper-middle class neighborhoods

How most people are trafficked by people they already know and trust vs. kidnapped by traffickers

What causes a parent/grandparent to traffic their child/grandchild

Amanda's experiences with being trafficked and why she didn't recognize the signs

How Amanda got help after leaving an abusive situation

How writing her memoir allowed Amanda to heal from her trafficking experience

How Amanda helps clients recognize trauma triggers/reactions

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Yes, art is beautiful. And it allows us to express ourselves and inspire others.

But the process of making art is also a spiritual process. If we're open to it, the act of creativity gives us access to the divine.

Amy Zerner is a multi-disciplinary artist, illustrator and designer whose one-of-a-kind art couture jackets, coats and caftans are sold at Bergdorf Goodman.

A National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant Winner, Amy has exhibited her paintings and mixed-media work extensively in individual and group shows.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Amy joins Anjel to discuss the role of art, beauty and creativity in an increasingly dark world.

Amy explains why you should have your own sacred space to create and describes how to become a channel for the divine while you're making art.

Listen in to understand how art activates our resourcefulness and learn how the creative process can be a healing experience that connects you with a higher power.

The role of creativity, art and beauty in an increasingly dark world

What it was like for Amy to put her tarot and oracle card decks out into the world

How Amy makes decisions around how and where to show her art

Why Amy sees making art as a spiritual process

How Amy thinks about the magic of synchronicity or meaningful coincidence

Amy's advice around working with your significant other

How Amy allows herself to be a channel for the divine

Why Amy recommends making your own sacred space to create

Amy's process for making mixed media fabric collages

How making art activates our resourcefulness, i.e.: sustainable art

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Love, Light & Laughter by Monte Farber and Amy Zerner

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Walking a spiritual path starts with internal change. But it cannot stop there.

Living a truly spiritual life means acting in love to create an external shift in our circumstances as well.

It's about advocating for what we believe in and changing the systems that cause suffering.

Marianne Williamson is a Democratic candidate running for the office of the President of the United States in 2024. She is also a successful entrepreneur, bestselling author, political activist and globally influential spiritual thought leader.

For over three decades, Marianne has been a leader in spiritual and progressive circles, and she is the founder of Project Angel Food, a nonprofit that has delivered more than 16 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Marianne joins Anjel to explain what inspired her to run for President in 2024 and share her 'root cause healing' approach to public policy.

Marianne discusses her comprehensive policy platform, describing why she advocates for both a Department of Peace and a Department of Children and Youth.

Listen in for Marianne's insight on wealth inequality in the US and learn what women can do to elevate each other's voices and bring a more evolved way of the thinking to the highest office in the land.

What You Will Learn

What inspired Marianne to run for President of the United States in 2024

Why Marianne advocates for a Department of Peace (and what that would look like)

Marianne's unique 'root cause healing' approach to public policy

The goals of Marianne's proposed US Department of Children and Youth

How America's soulless, unethical economic system harms our children

How an unjust economic system causes inequality and violence in the US

Why it's challenging for Marianne to raise funds and how a grassroots campaign works

Examples of misogyny in politics Marianne has faced in her campaign

What women can do to be taken seriously and elevate each other's voices

The first 3 things Marianne will do on her first day in the Oval Office

Connect with Marianne Williamson

Marianne 2024

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Marianne on Instagram

Resources

Project Angel Food

Mike Wallace Interview with Erich Fromm

Citizens United

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson

Willow Project

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What is your beverage of choice when it comes to self-care?

Do you rely on a glass of wine to help you relax and unwind?

Or maybe you fill up on coffee to keep up with the culture of busy?

What if there's a healthier choice that will give you the opportunity to reflect on what matters, share your own story, and build meaningful connections with others?

Marsha Chin-Glover is Founder and CEO of Tea Tales, a wellness company that focuses on promoting a healthy lifestyle though a curated collection of herbal teas.

Marsha is also passionate about empowering women to share our stories and advocating more meaningful interactions through the ritual of tea.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Marsha joins Anjel to share her transition from cardiac nurse to entrepreneurship and explain how her Jamaican grandmother inspired Tea Tales.

Marsha discusses the storytelling element of the Tea Tales community and describes the common thread among her entrepreneurial ventures—empowering people to live our best lives.

Listen in for insight around our reliance on alcohol to build human connection and learn how your own tea ritual can help you sit and 'steep in your story.'

What inspired Marsha's interest in storytelling and entrepreneurship

Marsha's transition from working as a cardiac nurse to building her own business

Why Marsha runs both an online and brick-and-mortar clothing boutique

How Marsha's Jamaican grandmother inspired the creation of Tea Tales

Marsha's mission to empower people to live their best lives

How the Tea Tales community empowers women to share our stories

Why Marsha challenges societal reliance on alcohol to build human connection

Why tea is a better choice than alcohol for relaxation and connection

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Women have been taught to see our body as an object that exists for the benefit of others. Something we must dominate and control.

But in truth, our body is a well of infinite wisdom. And through the body, we can reclaim our power and sovereignty.

Jessica Falcon is the Soul Embodiment Guide behind The Path to Sovereignty, a platform that helps women experience the ecstasy of true soul freedom.

A criminal prosecutor turned mystic, Jessica is also author of the forthcoming book, The Power of Eve, and cohost of the Radically Embody Love Podcast.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Jessica joins Anjel to discuss the benefits of embodiment, describing how to connect with your true self and the wisdom that exists within you.

Jessica explains how to dismantle the conditioning that teaches us to dominate the body and let our internal experience guide us to a place of joy and freedom.

Listen in for Jessica's insight on observing your feelings versus being controlled by them and learn how to let go of the culture of busy and become the conscious creator of the life you desire!

What You Will Learn

How Jessica defines embodiment as building a relationship with your true self

The benefit of inhabiting your body and connecting with the infinite wisdom that exists within you

Why women are taught to dominate our bodies and how to dismantle that conditioning

How to reclaim your sovereignty and learn to trust your body again

The life events that facilitated Jessica's transition from attorney to mystic

How recovering from a bike accident helped Jessica develop emotional intelligence

Why you can't be joyful or free if you live according to the external

How Jessica helps clients let go of the culture of busy and become conscious creators

What it means to observe your thoughts and feelings vs. being run by them

Jessica's decision to build a business around her research for The Power of Eve

Connect with Jessica Falcon

The Path to Sovereignty

Radically Embody Love Podcast

Resources

The Power of Eve: Heal the Wounds of the Feminine and Reclaim Your Sovereignty by Jessica Falcon

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Jana Bartlett Alonzo was diagnosed with an array of mental health conditions at the age of 19.

And that's when she learned about her family legacy of depression.

But Jana didn't want to take anti-depressants for the rest of her life. So, she began a seven-year journey to healing not just her physical body, but also her emotional, spiritual and energetic realities.

Today, Jana shares her healing process with others as the creator of Integrative Healing, her multimodality and multidimensional approach to self-healing and self-mastery.

She also serves as Founder and CEO of the School of Integrative Healing, a program for high-achieving and spiritual entrepreneurs who are ready to transform every aspect of their lives from the inside out.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Jana joins Anjel to describe how her own mental health journey plus her mother's cancer diagnosis inspired her study of multiple healing modalities.

Jana explains why the physical body is only 25% of the multidimensional healing we need and what inspired her to share her integrative healing process with others.

Listen in for the success stories of clients Jana has served and learn how the School of Integrative Healing can help you simultaneously self-heal and build a sustainable business!

What You Will Learn

The inclination toward the mystical Jana has exhibited since childhood

How Jana's diagnosis with an array of mental health conditions at age 19 informed Integrative Healing

The relationship between Jana's mental health journey and her mother's cancer diagnosis

Jana's 7-year healing journey to 'unpick' the family imprint of depression

Jana's experience as her mother's full-time caretaker at the end of her life

How Jana learned that the physical body is only 25% of the multidimensional healing we need

The pivotal moment that inspired Jana to create Integrative Healing

How Jana's practice of following the energetic thread led her to share her healing process with others

The different programs available for students enrolled in the School of Integrative Healing

Success stories of clients Jana helped self-heal and build sustainable businesses

Connect with Jana Bartlett Alonzo

Jana on Instagram

Resources

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As a 19-year-old cadet at the US Air Force Academy, Nicole Kerr had a transformative near-death experience.

As she recovered, health became Nicole's primary focus, inspiring her to explore the overlooked domains of emotional, energetic and spiritual wellbeing.

Today, Nicole is an award-winning wellness expert with 30-plus years of experience helping thousands of people make realistic, meaningful choices for lifelong health.

Nicole is also the bestselling author of You Are Deathless: A Near-Death Experience Taught Me How to Fully Live and Not Fear Death.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Nicole joins Anjel to explain how her NDE inspired her life's mission to take away our fear of death.

Nicole discusses why spirituality is an essential component of our health and describes the three steps she took to transcend her own fear of death.

Listen in for Nicole's insight on initiating the conversation about death and learn how recognizing the spark of God in you can help you love yourself and connect with others.

What You Will Learn

How Nicole's near-death experience inspired her work around health and wellness

Why Nicole describes her NDE as a transformative spiritual experience

How the memory of Nicole's car crash came back to her in vivid detail many years later

How the angel of Nicole's grandfather delivered her life's mission

What makes spirituality an essential component of our health and wellness

3 things Nicole did to transcend her fear of death

How getting to a place where we love ourselves allows us to love and not judge others

Nicole's hope that You Are Deathless will initiate a conversation about death

How our beliefs about God shape our relationship with death

Connect with Nicole Kerr

Nicole's Website

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Would you like to take your relationships from good to great?

The quality of our relationships has a direct impact on our happiness. And yet, most of us hesitate to ask for help in this area of our lives.

Marie Kane is the family therapist, corporate consultant and relationship coach behind Relationship Magic for Couples, a platform that helps couples create a better future for themselves and for generations to come.

Marie has 40 years of experience helping people create healthy, resilient, fulfilling relationships, and she supports couples in creating and maintaining loving connections that positively affect everyone they touch.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Marie joins Anjel to share the four principles of a healthy relationship—communication, trust, respect and love.

Marie discusses the nonverbal tweaks you can make to improve your interpersonal communication and explains how small changes can make a big impact on our relationships at home or at work.

Listen in for Marie's success story of a couple she helped revitalize their marriage and learn how the health of your relationship affects everyone who encounters you.

What You Will Learn

Marie's journey to helping couples work through their emotional pain

4 principles of a healthy relationship—communication, trust, respect and love

Why nonverbal communication has a stronger influence than verbal communication

How small changes make a big impact in our relationships

Nonverbal tweaks you can make to improve communication in your relationship

The success story of a couple Marie helped revitalize their relationship

How the health of a couple's relationship affects everyone who encounters them

How Marie helps couples deal with their fears about getting help

Connect with Marie Kane

Relationship Magic for Couples

Marie on LinkedIn

Resources

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Aspiring leaders tend to approach communication by considering what we want to say.

But if we want our message to influence others, we've got to put our audience first: Who are they? What do they need to know? What do we want them to do with the information?

Then we can reverse engineer our message to make sure it gets through.

Dr. Laura Sicola is a leadership, communication and influence expert, author of Speaking to Influence: Mastering Your Leadership Voice and host of the podcast, Speaking to Influence: Communication Secrets of the C-Suite.

Dr. Laura's mission is to transform executives into confident inspiring leaders, and she has trained and coached executives at Comcast, IBM, the US Department of Commerce, and Women Against Abuse, along with leaders from around the world.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Dr. Laura joins Anjel to discuss how her talent for connecting with others inspired the transition from academia to entrepreneurship.

Dr. Laura challenges us to command respect through our presence and communication style, sharing key takeaways from her TEDx Talk on speaking like a leader.

Listen in to understand what executives and entrepreneurs can do to be more effective communicators and learn how to share YOUR message in a way that inspires the audience to act!

What You Will LearnHow Dr. Laura's talent for connecting with people led to becoming a communication expertDr. Laura's 5-year transition from academia to entrepreneurship Where Dr. Laura got the courage to say YES to seemingly random opportunities How Dr. Laura helped a client land the CFO role in a large public company What leaders can do to be more effective communicators How to clarify the message you want to communicate and how you want to impact the audience The 3 levels of impact in every exchange we have—cognitive, emotional and behavioral Commanding respect through your presence and communication style How to introduce yourself in a way that helps people remember your name

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