Wickedly Smart Women

What if you have the power to create a new reality? Susan Kennard contends that once we expand our heart field, the dust falls away, leaving pure love in its place. And in that stillness, nothing external can hurt us, and we attract more love and light into our lives!

Susan is the Spiritual Scientist behind Awaken Your Gifts, Sparkle to Success, and a number of other programs that she runs both in-person and online. A specialist in Early Childhood Trauma, she spent many years as a Psychologist and Psychotherapist in Child Protection within the UK's Local Authority. Today, Susan serves as a medium and channel, helping clients heal their heart field and align with their true mission, and she has been featured on British BBC2 and ITV TV.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Susan joins Emerald to share the spiritual awakening that put her on the path to becoming a master psychic, explaining how transcendental meditation helped her embrace her spiritual gifts. She describes how we're all connected as souls having a human experience and introduces us to the power we have to create our own reality and transform our lives. Listen in for Susan's advice to empaths on setting big-hearted boundaries and learn how to clear the dust and attract more light and love into your life.

The spiritual awakening that put Susan on the path to becoming a master psychic

How transcendental meditation ignited Susan's consciousness

Susan's insight on how we're all connected as souls having a human experience

How to find a community that helps you work with and accept your spiritual gifts

The power we have to create our own reality and transform our lives

Why right now is the time for a global heart awakening

Susan's advice for empaths on having a big heart and setting boundaries

The relationship between the dust in our field and what we attract into our lives

How to acknowledge your expansion by celebrating synchronicities

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Sparkle to Success

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Transcendental Meditation

Susan's Free Earth Star-Soul Star Download

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How do you learn to trust your intuition? And what if that inner guide leads you in a direction that contradicts who you thought you were? How do you develop the courage to take a risk and follow it anyway?

Corrin Grillo is the creator of the Angel Alchemy Academy, a six-month experience that helps people assess and utilize their spiritual gifts to transform energy and create a miraculous life. A trained psychotherapist, angel channel and healer, Corin has helped thousands of people all over the world go from angel-curious to angel-powered. She is also the author of The Angel Experiment: A 21-Day Magical Adventure to Heal Your Life.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Corin joins Emerald to share the miracle that healed her depression and inspired her work as an angel channel. She explains how she learned to trust her inner guidance and say YES to a higher vision, taking action even when the intuitive voice seems impractical. Listen in for Corin's insight on shamelessly claiming ALL the parts of yourself and learn how to listen to the angels and let them guide you out of your suffering!

The miracle that healed Corin's depression and inspired her work as an angel channel

How Corin reconciled being both a psychotherapist and a highly intuitive angel practitioner

Corin's realization that her vision wasn't just hers but that of a Higher Power and the people she serves

How Corin learned to trust her inner guidance and say YES to a higher vision

The challenge around taking action even when your intuitive voice seems impractical

Why the best way to discern is to take your training wheels off and take a risk

The power in claiming all parts of ourselves shamelessly in a community

Corin's insight on trusting your intuition and finding people who support your awakening

Angel Alchemy Academy

The Angel Experiment: A 21-Day Magical Adventure to Heal Your Life by Corin Grillo

Be Heard by Millions & Live Your Destiny: A Creative Age Leader's Guide to Speak, Sell, Serve & Succeed by Emerald GreenForest

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A lot of wickedly smart women feel like we don't fit in. But what if seeing the world differently is something to celebrate? What if we can leverage what makes us unforgettable to create a successful brand and business we love?

Judy (J.) Winslow is the creator of Unforgettable Brands, a coaching practice that helps entrepreneurs build a business with soul. Known as the Business Owner's Master Brandologist (the BOMB), J. has won numerous Addy Awards for corporate identity work and was recognized in a list of the 100 Best Life and Career Coaching Blogs with the likes of Tony Robbins and Martha Beck. J. is also a Coach U graduate and the founder of TEDxSarasota, and she coauthored Branding & Marketing Mastery: A Guide to Getting It.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, J. joins Emerald to discuss the three types of business owners she has identified based on their reaction to the pandemic, challenging us to see the opportunity in the current circumstances and create our own recipe for success. She introduces us to her stop-and-assess process for identifying and letting go of what no longer serves and explores how working within constraints helps us access our creativity. Listen in for J.'s insight on evolving without losing your authentic core and learn to leverage what makes YOU unforgettable to brand a business that brings you prosperity and joy!

How J. tapped into what lights her up in college and how that fire continues to motivate her

How J. leverages design thinking and creative problem-solving in her work branding clients

How J. continues to refine and reinvent herself without losing her authentic core

The three groups of business owners J. has identified based on their reaction to the pandemic

J.'s insight on creating your own recipe for success + finding opportunity in collaborations

The AHA moment when J. realized that 'not fitting in' makes a brand unforgettable

J.'s stop-and-assess process for identifying and letting go of what no longer serves

Why working within constraints helps us access our creativity more quickly

How to leverage what makes you unforgettable to create a business that brings you joy

Unforgettable Brands

Coach U

TEDxSarasota

Branding & Marketing Mastery: A Guide to Getting It by Cheri Alguire, Dawn Andrews, Jille Bartolome, Jane Lee Williams, Kim Lysik Di Santi, Mary Ellen Merrigan, Miriam Reiss, Marilyn Schwader and Judy Winslow

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A lot of gifted women hesitate to become entrepreneurs because they are afraid of sales. We don't want to be pushy or aggressive, and we don't want to have to ask people for money. But what if that's not really what sales is all about? What if we can be 100% authentic and simply attract the people who need our service?

Diane Crncich is the Sales Strategist behind Success By Alchemy, a consulting practice that helps business owners grow the businesses they love and make the money they deserve. She has more than three decades of experience supporting multimillion-dollar corporations and mission-driven businesses in mastering the art of sales. Diane is passionate about busting the 'Myth About Selling' that holds entrepreneurs back from getting out and serving more clients.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Diane joins Emerald to explain why you don't have to be salesy or pushy to share your gifts with the world. She walks us through the unique process she uses to help entrepreneurs get clear on their value, describing how to combine basic math with intuition to uncover your worth. Listen in for Diane's insight on reframing sales as a transformational service and learn how your brain and gut can work together to make better decisions!

How Diane leveraged her intuition to succeed in corporate sales

Why you don't have to be pushy or salesy to share your gifts with the world

The fear and anxiety many of us have around asking for money

How Diane reframes sales as providing a service that inspires transformation

Diane's process for determining who you are, who your ideal client is and the value you provide

What inspired Diane's transition from the corporate world to entrepreneurship

How Diane combines math with intuition to help clients uncover their value

Diane's practices for honoring intuition to make better decisions

Success By Alchemy

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Think you don't have any creative talent? Think again! We were ALL born with the capacity to create. And we can ALL leverage those creative gifts to step into our power and experience what it means to live BIG.

Rochelle Seltzer is the founder of Creative Core Coaching, a practice designed to help accomplished women navigate big life transitions and figure out what's next. After nearly 30 years in brand design, Rochelle sold her business and began an intense study of creativity. In 2012, she launched her coaching career with the intent to unleash the untapped creativity inside women everywhere. Rochelle is also the author of Live Big: A Manifesto for a Creative Life.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Rochelle joins Emerald to explain what inspired her to sell her design business and build a coaching career around the power of creativity. She describes how she manages her self-critic, offering advice on being unwilling to compromise as you commit to the process of creating a new life. Listen in for the Discovery Dozen technique Rochelle uses to channel her creativity and learn to start living BIG—and share YOUR creative gifts with the world!

The childhood experience that shut down Rochelle's creativity

How a coach helped Rochelle discover who she is as a leader

What inspired Rochelle to sell her design business and pursue creativity coaching

Rochelle's mission to help people understand their capacity to create

How Rochelle managed her self-critic in the process of creating a new life

Rochelle's advice on being unwilling to compromise and committing to build a life you love

The Discovery Dozen technique Rochelle uses to channel her creativity

Rochelle's guidance for hypercreative people who struggle to monetize their efforts

How to start living BIG and share your creative gifts with the world

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Live Big: A Manifesto for a Creative Life by Rochelle Seltzer\

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Emotions that we don't work through have a way of taking up residence in the body and causing physical pain. So, what can we do to process those repressed emotions? How might breathwork help us move that energy through the body, healing both our physical and emotional pain?

Lauren Chelec Cafritz is the internationally known breathwork teacher, speaker and author behind Experience Breath, a platform designed to help people achieve emotional mastery through the power of breath. Trained and certified in Integrative Breathwork, Transformational Breath and many other breathing modalities, Lauren facilitates breathwork for executive teams, nonprofits, government agencies, corporations, hospitals and schools. She is also the national representative for the International Breathwork Foundation and the author of Breath Love.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Lauren joins Emerald to share the personal experience with severe neck pain that led her to breathwork. She explains how our physical pain can be tied to repressed emotions, discussing how techniques like conscious connected breathing work to move energy through the body. Listen in for Lauren's insight on leveraging side breath to initiate the creative process and learn the four strategies in her toolkit for navigating feelings of fear, anxiety or stuck-ness.

How Lauren's personal experience with neck pain led her to breathwork

How our physical pain is often tied to repressed emotions

What inspired Lauren to take on a leadership role in the breathwork space

The science behind breathwork and how it works to move energy through the body

How Lauren defines conscious connected breathing

How conscious connected breathing engages the prefrontal cortex

Why Lauren believes that breath mastery = emotional mastery

How Lauren leverages side breath to initiate the creative process

How Lauren thinks about money as an energy exchange and offers classes on a sliding scale

Lauren's four tools for navigating fear, anxiety or stuck-ness

Breath Love

Breath Love by Lauren Chelec Cafritz

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Global Professional Breathwork Alliance

Global Inspiration Conference

The Mindfulness Center

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

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Many entrepreneurs, even the wickedly smart ones, focus on building their business first and then try to squeeze life in around it. But what if we did it the other way around? What if we stopped to figure out what's really important to us and then built a business around those core values?

Known as America's Mortgage Mentor, Jen Du Plessis is the international speaker and podcast host behind Mortgage Lending Mastery and Success to Significance: Life After Breaking Through Glass Ceilings. She is also the founder of several successful businesses, including Kinetic Spark Consulting, Black Fox Investments and Valor Home Solutions. Jen has 35-plus years of experience in residential mortgage lending, ranking in the top 1% of loan originators in the US for more than 15 years, and she is the bestselling author of LAUNCH: How to Take Your Business to New Heights.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Jen joins Emerald to discuss the childhood experiences that informed her limiting beliefs around money. She explains how she shifted her mindset by exploring the purpose behind the money she was trying to make and asking herself, 'What is it I really want?' Listen in for Jen's insight on making decisions based on your core values and learn how to amplify what's important to you—and build a business around THAT.

What called Jen to forge the way for women in the mortgage banking industry

The traumatic childhood experiences that informed Jen's limiting beliefs around money

What made Jen realize she was sabotaging her life in the pursuit of money

How Jen built a vision around the purpose behind the money she was trying to make

The power in asking yourself what you really want

How to amplify what's important to you and build a business around that

How to determine your core values by exploring what upsets you most

Jen's process of making decisions based on what makes her happy and aligns with her values

Jen's 7 Success Strategies

Success to Significance Podcast

LAUNCH: How to Take Your Business to New Heights by Jen Du Plessis

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Exploring our Shadow Self is not easy. But recognizing those unflattering or unfamiliar parts of ourselves is crucial in becoming a whole, authentic human. And art is a particularly powerful way to face our shadow and build a vision for what we want to create in the world.

Heather Meglasson is the Transformational Impact Artist behind the Human Phoenix Project and Impact Art Immersion, a platform dedicated to celebrating the messy brilliance of being human. A certified group and personal facilitator in the realm of experiential business training, conscious communication and energy work, Heather is on a lifelong mission to create safe spaces for people to self-express and evolve. She is also an international champion singer and dancer, a contributor to several bestselling health and wellness books, and the author of Happiness on Tap: How to Rock What You've Got in Life.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Heather joins Emerald to share the pivotal moment that called her to create spaces for self-expression and discuss what inspired current work around exploring the human shadow side. She explains how she makes creative decisions based on whether an idea supports her vision and why she moves toward doing things that scare her. Listen in for Heather's advice on asking for resources multiple times in various ways and get inspired to show up and make YOUR authentic contribution to the world!

The childhood experience that called Heather to create spaces for self-exploration

What inspired Heather to use art to help people explore our shadow aspects

How Heather makes decisions based on whether they feed into her vision

Why Heather moves toward doing things that scare her

Heather's strategies for reprogramming her brain to accept more money

Heather's advice on asking for resources multiple times in various ways

Heather's challenge for us to show up and give authentically of who we are

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Happiness on Tap: How to Rock What You've Got in Life by Heather Meglasson

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What does it take to build a successful company? Yes, you need grit and determination. Creativity, emotional intelligence, and business savvy don't hurt. But what is the ONE trait all successful entrepreneurs have in common?

Christine Kerner is the Founder and CEO of My Little Mascara Club, a subscription service that offers cruelty-free, clean mascara with the goal of helping women feel better about themselves and their lives. A serial entrepreneur, Christie has founded seven businesses herself and helped others scale three more. She has also mentored and coached hundreds of founders and served as the Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the nation's largest university.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Christie joins Emerald to explain what ignited her love of company building and discuss the challenge creatives and technical experts face in building a business around their passion. She offers advice on knowing when it's time to let go of a company you've built and creating the space for creativity to come in. Listen in for Christie's insight on getting comfortable with not knowing what's next and find out if you've got the one consistent trait that all successful entrepreneurs share!

How Christie's love of company building was ignited when she was just 16 years old

The challenge creatives and technical experts face in building a business around their passion

The ONE consistent trait that successful entrepreneurs share

Why it's crucial for entrepreneurs to get comfortable not knowing what's next

The two other companies Christie runs in addition to My Little Mascara Club

Christie's take on making 'I don't know how' the beginning of the conversation (not the end)

Christie's advice on creating the space for creativity to come in

How Christie knows when it's time to let go and sell a company she's built

How Christie gave herself permission to love money

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There is a lot of darkness is our world. But all it takes is a single pinprick of light to realize that what feels like an iron wall is not as solid as we thought. So, how do we find those moments of light and joy and celebration—and then learn to create them for ourselves and others?

Sherry Richert Belul is the high-performance coach behind Simply Celebrate, a platform designed to help people find creative, intentional and impactful ways to celebrate life and express love for family and friends. She is committed to helping people live lives full of joy, success and engagement. Sherry is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, Say It Now: 33 Ways to Say I LOVE YOU to the Most Important People in Your Life.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Sherry joins Emerald to explain how trying to live someone else's life led her to a period of depression and share the experience that opened her up to celebration, light and joy. She introduces us to the daily practices that keep her in momentum, describing what fuels her creativity and how she connects with her Higher Self. Listen in for Sherry's insight on valuing the gifts we've been given and learn how to express YOUR unspoken love to the people who matter most.

How trying to live someone else's life led Sherry to a period of depression

The meditation class that inspired Sherry to create moments of joy for herself and others

Sherry's practice of recording messages from her Higher Self

How Sherry uses meditation to connect with the Divine

How Sherry is fueled by other people's freedom of expression

Why Sherry kept her love bottled up as a young woman and how that informs her work now

The benefits of creating a Love List for the people you care about

Sherry's challenge to value the gifts we've been given

How to ask for support in bringing your vision to life

Simply Celebrate

Say It Now: 33 Creative Ways to Say I LOVE YOU to the Most Important People in Your Life by Sherry Richert Belul

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