Women Who Rise: The Success Podcast for Ambitious Women

Lesa Frye’s journey is a powerful reminder that achieving the goal is not the same as creating the life you wanted when you began. After selling 41 homes in her first full year of real estate, she discovered that success built on constant availability and relentless work could quietly pull her away from the family, freedom, and presence she had originally been pursuing. Through a profound mindset shift, stronger boundaries, spiritual guidance, and her ALL framework, Lesa learned that a highly successful business can coexist with time, peace, relationships, and a life that feels genuinely aligned. Today, she helps other high-achieving women step into their inner CEO, redefine ambition on their own terms, and create success without sacrificing themselves to achieve it.

What happens when your own success becomes the bottleneck to your next level?

This week on Women Who Rise, Heather Mansy sits down with Veronica Figueroa, CEO of The Fig Team, entrepreneur, coach, and powerhouse real estate leader who built her career by refusing to let fear, convention, or someone else's definition of success determine how far she could rise.

From navigating single motherhood and leaving the security of an HR career to building one of eXp Realty's highest-producing teams, Veronica knows that growing a business requires more than strategy it requires growing yourself into the leader your next level demands.

In this powerful conversation, Veronica reveals why leadership is her love language, what happens when the success you've built starts limiting your growth, and how embracing an abundance mindset can completely change the way you build a business.

She also shares why women don't have to carry leadership like a weight and how they can use their influence to create more leaders instead of doing everything themselves.

Kimberly Fraser’s extraordinary real estate career was not built on perfect circumstances it was built on showing up, working hard, serving people well, and learning how to rise after life knocked her down. From becoming a single mother to raising six children while building a multimillion-dollar business, and from losing millions during the 2007–2009 downturn to rebuilding far beyond where she had been, Kim’s story is one of resilience forged through real adversity. Her philosophy is refreshingly human: connect before you sell, provide value without pressure, know your strengths, and treat people with the respect and kindness you hope to receive. Ultimately, this conversation reminds us that extraordinary success does not require us to become harder or less ourselves it asks us to become more resilient, more intentional, and more committed to doing our best with whatever is in front of us.

Peggy Delano’s story reminds us that we don’t have to keep living the same story. Through grief, addiction, self-doubt, leadership, and reinvention, she learned to choose truth, boundaries, connection, and purpose. Her message is simple: question the beliefs holding you back, surround yourself with people who tell you the truth, and remember that success isn’t worth losing yourself or the people you love. You can burn the script, rewrite your story, and rise again at any time.

DeVante Blow's story is a powerful reminder that a life-changing leap doesn't always begin with a perfect plan it can begin with one small, courageous action. After the pandemic ended his eight-year restaurant career, DeVante entered real estate with roughly $50 to his name and discovered that the skills he'd developed through listening, serving, and connecting with people were more valuable than he realized. Through his wife's courage, the influence of a mentor who saw the king and warrior within him, and his philosophy of taking "immediate imperfect action," he learned to turn uncertainty into momentum. This conversation invites us to stop waiting until we're ready, take the highest-percentage shot in front of us, and trust that consistent action can carry us toward a future we can't yet fully see.

What if perfectionism is holding you back from becoming the leader you're meant to be?

👑 In this powerful recap of Heather Mansy's conversation with Caroline Brown, we unpack the mindset shifts every ambitious woman needs to hear. Caroline reminds us that:

🧠 Awareness creates freedom. Becoming aware of your thoughts can help you recognize the fears and patterns influencing your decisions.

💪 You don't always have to push through fear. Sometimes the stronger move is creating inner safety first, then returning to the challenge when you're ready.

🌿 Protect your energy. Small breaks throughout the day can help you reconnect, recharge, and show up with more energy.

👑 Perfection isn't who you are. People pleasing and perfectionism don't have to define your leadership. Your real power comes from being authentic.

You don't need to have everything figured out. You don't need to make everyone happy. And you definitely don't need to be perfect.

You need to be YOU.

🎙️ Watch Heather Mansy on Women Who Rise and discover more conversations designed to help ambitious women rise in their lives, careers, and leadership.

What if rising higher in your career and life doesn't require pushing harder, but taking better care of the person doing the rising? In this powerful conversation, Margot Tache reframes wellness as a foundation for leadership, performance, relationships, and longevity, sharing how her own health journey taught her to listen to her body instead of treating it as an afterthought. From food and stress to sleep, movement, alcohol, and the pressure to constantly perform, she challenges the belief that exhaustion is a badge of success and reminds us that our bodies are constantly communicating with us. This episode is an invitation to slow down, become more intentional, protect your energy, and build success from a place of health rather than depletion.

Will artificial intelligence replace human potential or unlock it?

Welcome to the 2026 Mid-Year Recap of Women Who Rise!

Join Heather Mansy as she looks back on the incredible conversations, inspiring stories, and life-changing lessons shared by some of the most influential entrepreneurs, business leaders, coaches, and visionaries featured on the show during the first half of 2026.

From mindset and leadership to business growth, motherhood, resilience, purpose, and personal transformation, these conversations have impacted thousands and this recap brings together the moments you won't want to miss.