Actress Mimi Gianopulos shares about what it's like to be at the inflection point of  getting her career-defining role on the Disney sitcom “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.” It's clear how much she loves her job, which she says  is professional make-believe!

Mimi knew as a young girl that she wanted to be an actress, and she was always chatty at school and loved making other students laugh. She attended Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and graduated with a degree in Musical Theater. 

After 3 years of consistent work as an actress, the volume decreased and she got a few roles here and there -- nothing substantial, but enough to keep her going towards her dreams. 

Mimi’s previous television roles include playing Sue Mengers in the miniseries “The Offer,” Kaitlyn in the comedy series “Rutherford Falls,” and a recurring role as Morgan on “American Princess.” Gianopulos is best known for her recurring role as Angela in the Freeform series “Baby Daddy,” and was also cast in the lead role for the pilot of “Continuing Fred” for Freeform. 

Mimi's character is the mom, Giada Russo, in “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place,” which is the continuation of the beloved hit Disney Channel series “Wizards of Waverly Place." Selena Gomez and David Henrie were both actors in the original series and are now executive producers of this new show out in late October 2024.

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

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Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

While you may know "Yes, And..." as an improv game, it also can be a life philosophy.

We can be this AND that.
We can do this AND that.
We can have this AND that.

We are multi-faceted, multi-talented, complex women.

We don't have to choose between being, doing or having. We can choose YES, AND...

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Totally obsessed with how many women with cool jobs exist in the world? Want to meet some in real life? 

Join Julie and three epic guest speakers on Saturday, November 16th, 2024 in Tempe, AZ for "Women with Cool Jobs" LIVE!! Get tickets on Eventbrite.com

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Failure is not the end. Perfectionistic efforts don't always create perfect outcomes. 

In this solo episode, Julie shares a story about The Box, which is a reminder that we already have what's needed to get started -- we often just don't give ourselves the credit and we're scared of failing or not doing it perfectly. 

An incredible teacher shared "The Box" example with her while she was in a class for her master's degree program. Julie was trying (with immense focus!) to get more details about her open-ended assignment. This is the lesson Julie now often remembers and uses when she is starting something (often new and that perhaps feels overwhelming, scary, or unknown) and wants to move past the fear of failure and the need to be perfect so she can get into action.

Julie Berman - Podcast Host & Producer
Julie Berman's LinkedIn Profile
@womencooljobs (Instagram)
www.womenwithcooljobs.com 

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Meredith Wing creates whimsical, gorgeous, fashion-forward mixed media artwork using food and flowers. Whether it's a coconut wedding dress, a broccoli crop top with matching earrings, rainbow-colored pasta capris, or a dusty-rose-petal skirt, these illustrations are of women who are not only living their best lives, but they're doing it with immense style.

Meredith has an incredible gift for allowing us to see the mundane, or the healthy snack or a gorgeous bouquet, in a whole new way that we couldn't have imagined before.

She has acted as Artist-in-Residence at Soho House for Coachella 2015, done Herbal Essences TV commercials and ads, created limited-edition packaging for Burt's Bee's, graced the walls of Tokyo public plazas, assembled bespoke portraits for Tory Burch, adorned the interior of Cosabella’s NYC store, and landed features in international publications.

While she has always loved art from a young age, she initially pursued careers in fashion design and architecture before creating her company, Moomooi, and realizing she could make a career out of making her unique style of original art.

Meredith Wing - Guest
Moomooi IG account
Moomooi website

Julie Berman - Podcast Host & Producer
Julie Berman's LinkedIn Profile
@womencooljobs (Instagram)
www.womenwithcooljobs.com 

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Carrie Campbell is an elite human performance coach and a pro fitness competitor on a mission to empower women. Her big, giant goal is becoming the "female Tony Robbins"!

With more than 20 years as a mental health professional, she coaches high-level executives and athletes using her system that integrates psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality.

She has huge aspirations to help empower as many women as she can reach through her.dentity, a program that focuses on transforming women's self-identity.

She shares about how critical is to understand that we have an unconscious mind that's programmed throughout our lifetime and helps us survive. That programming creates narratives, and those narratives conduct our life. She teaches how we can create new narratives to sustain the life we WANT to live.

Carrie also competes in pro fitness competitions and won the FMG Miss Fitness 35+ USA. She explains that she's an artist -- she fell in love with the ability to shape, sculpt and change her body.

Carrie Campbell - Guest
Carrie's IG account


Julie Berman - Host
Julie Berman's LinkedIn Profile
@womencooljobs (Instagram)
www.womenwithcooljobs.com 

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Jamie Mittelman created the media production and content company, Flame Bearers, to ensure there's a go-to storytelling platform for elite women in sports (which includes Olympians and Paralympians!) What started as a podcast during the pandemic has become a mission to show girls and women that if you can see it, you can be it.

85% of sports media goes to men. Doesn't that blow your mind?!

That means only 15% of sports media coverage goes to women, and often, there's a quality issue. The vast majority of that coverage really doesn't paint them in the ways that they want to be portrayed.

The Solution: Flame Bearers! Jamie's mission is to provide role models for young girls in various sports and to ensure that female athletes are proud of their media representation.

We saw the women during the Paris Summer 2024 Olympics completely rocking it! It is hard to NOT want to see more of these women and know more about who they are! You can here more women's stories from the female Olympians and Paralympians themselves who will be or who have competed during the summer 2024 events on the Flame Bearers podcast

And...the Paralympics are about to start on August 28th, which means we get to watch more incredible female athletes compete for gold medals. Woohoo!

(Haven't heard too much about or ever seen the Paralympics? Jamie shares how the Paralympics is essentially the equivalent to the Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities.)

Jamie Mittelman - Guest
Flame Bearers LinkedIn account
Flame Bearers IG account
Flame Bearers website

Julie Berman - Podcast Host & Producer
Julie Berman's LinkedIn Profile
@womencooljobs (Instagram)
www.womenwithcooljobs.com 

Send Julie a text!!

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

This is Part 2 of the 100th episode of the “Women with Cool Jobs" podcast!! We had such a good time chatting, we needed 2 episodes for this conversation.  = )

And this special FLIPPED episode, Julie Berman (your podcast host) is the one getting interviewed about HER cool job as a podcast host and producer. 

The amazing Olivia Fierro is the guest interviewer asking Julie the questions. Olivia is a former morning news anchor in the Phoenix Metro area, the founder/host of Olivia's Book Club and podcast, and brings decades of television news expertise (including an EMMY and Murrow Award). 

In this episode, you'll learn: 

• About Julie -- who she is, her family, experiences and education
• Why she started the podcast
• How she chose the podcast name 
• And why she loves what she does!

Help Julie celebrate this milestone by sharing it with 1 friend!

Olivia Fierro - Guest Interviewer
Olivia's LinkedIn account
Olivia's IG account

Julie Berman - Podcast Host & Producer
Julie Berman's LinkedIn Profile
@womencooljobs (Instagram)
www.womenwithcooljobs.com 

Send Julie a text!!

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

This is the 100th episode of the “Women with Cool Jobs" podcast!! And this time, Julie Berman (your podcast host) is the one getting interviewed about HER cool job as a podcast host and producer. 

The amazing Olivia Fierro is the guest interviewer, as this is a flipped episode where Julie answers the questions instead of asks them. Olivia is a former morning news anchor in the Phoenix Metro area, the founder/host of Olivia's Book Club and podcast, and brings decades of television news expertise (including an EMMY and Murrow Award). 

In this episode, you'll learn: 

• About Julie -- who she is, her family, experiences and education
• Why she started the podcast
• How she chose the podcast name 
• And why she loves what she does!

Help Julie celebrate this milestone by sharing it with 1 friend!

Olivia Fierro - Guest Interviewer
Olivia's LinkedIn account
Olivia's IG account

Julie Berman - Podcast Host & Producer
Julie Berman's LinkedIn Profile
@womencooljobs (Instagram)
www.womenwithcooljobs.com 

Send Julie a text!!

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

July 2024 means two things: Julie turns 40 aaaaand it's the 99th episode of The “Women with Cool Jobs” podcast!!!!!

I share about why FAILING is actually part of SUCCEEDING and how I'm going into a whole new decade (my 40s-- aaaaah!!) trying to embrace "the fun in failure," which is an epic reframe on failure from past podcast guest and charity auctioneer, Lydia Fenet.

Here are my reflections and why we should all be celebrating what we've tried that didn't work out more often, because at least we ACTUALLY DID THE THING! We were brave, courageous and got past the overwhelm,  the analyzing, the planning, the research, the fear, and we took action.

I'm cheering you on!

Also, don't forget to check out the 100th episode in late July 2024, where I change up the format and you can learn more about me, my life, my podcasting journey, and my cool job!!!

Julie Berman - Host
Julie Berman's LinkedIn Profile
@womencooljobs (Instagram)
www.womenwithcooljobs.com 

Send Julie a text!!

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

Lisa Bragg  literally wrote THE book on how to talk about your success and why it's critical for you to share your successes and achievements with the world... and she shares all her wisdom with us in this interview!

She focuses on why women in particular must ignore a lot of societal and cultural norms that have often kept us quiet -- whether as the diamond in the rough or that putting our head down and doing good work will eventually get us noticed.

Instead, she presents fact-based evidence and actionable tips for:

-- How we can share our gifts, accomplishments and ways we serve the world in a way that feels good and natural versus "icky."

-- Why bragging is a catalyst of positive change and how you can use it to create new future opportunities. (Plus, help elevate others along the way.)

Lisa is a speaker, trainer, advisor and author of Bragging Rights: How to Talk about Your Work Using Purposeful Self-Promotion. 

She was a former TV journalist, including a videographer, anchor, and show host. She then was the founder and CEO of MediaFace and pioneered what we now know as content for the digital world. While she was the CEO, the company twice received the Growth 500 Award for the fastest-growing
businesses in Canada.

Lisa Bragg - Guest
Lisa Bragg's LinkedIn account
Lisa's IG account
Lisa's website

Julie Berman - Host
Julie Berman's LinkedIn Profile
@womencooljobs (Instagram)
www.womenwithcooljobs.com 

Send Julie a text!!

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I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020.

If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman

Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3