Women Your Mother Warned You About

Meet Brandon Lanette, The Women’s Mindset Coach and author of the amazing new book, ‘Once Upon a Time Bitches.’ She joins Gina for a can’t miss episode.

Branden knew many successful women at the top of their game, who just weren’t happy. With that realization, she set out on a long and often difficult journey. Her now very distinctive brand was built out of decade of rejection. With a passion for writing and a vision to help women in business, she kept pushing until finally landing a two book deal. Now she’s onto book number five and running a thriving mindset coaching business.

Branden talks with Gina about her path as an author and coach, how anybody can be somebody, how a book is like a baby, the smart way to scale, and an ultimatum that backfired. They continue with some very deep conversation on relationships, self-worth, and finding balance.

It’s an amazingly inspiring episode about not giving up on that part of you that keeps you alive and gives you purpose, and how embracing who you are doesn’t mean sacrificing accomplishment. Listen now and thank us later.

Learn more about Branden

Get her books here

Relationships are hard especially if you don’t establish the right connections early. This is as true in business as it is in life.

Our guest today is Roseann Higgins, a professional matchmaker and relationship expert. 

As CEO of Single Professional Introductions for the Especially Selective, Roseann implements executive recruiting techniques, coupled with a highly ethical and personal touch to bring people together who are looking for love. 

Find out more about Roseann Higgins and SPIES here

This episode is brought to you by the letter B or, rather, the B-word. 

Keith Walters joins us again for a full on “bitch session” on the word “bitch.”

What are the implications of calling someone or being called a bitch? Is it ever appropriate to call someone that in the workplace? How should you react when that kind of language is causally thrown around? And is there a way to reverse engineer words meant to demean and wield them to our advantage?

Listen for a real, raw and honest discussion of what workplaces are REALLY like, how to survive them and how to make them better. You’ve been warned!

More about Gina

Engagement Expert – Speaker – Sales Trainer – Entrepreneur – Improv Comic

Gina is a Master Sales Trainer for Jeb Blount’s Sales Gravy who combines street smarts and improv comedy skills with her experience in the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds, which sets her apart from her competition. 

“Sass without too much crass” is how Gina Trimarco describes herself. A high energy entrepreneur, engager, speaker, trainer, improv comedienne and podcast producer, Gina credits most of her success on her upbringing by her Italian mobster dad and German immigrant mother

Do you ever feel like an outsider, like you don’t belong? Ever been bullied?

This week’s guest is Paige Spiranac. Despite becoming a famous golf pro, rising media personality and anti-bullying advocate, she has felt the pain that comes with feeling different her entire life. In this episode, she teaches us how she recently learned to step back and embrace who she is and how she looks, despite what others say. Even in today’s male-dominated professional world of golf, Paige deals with bullying and negativity every day.

People are going to judge you regardless but it’s really about how you judge yourself. She shares her insights and experiences with overcoming bullying in business and how it applies to beauty, how you look and its effect on your performance.

About Today’s Guest

Paige is no stranger to being bullied and body shamed based on how she looks, which makes her intensely passionate about doing her part to stop bullying, especially cyber bullying and online hate. She’s an official ambassador for the Cyber Smile Foundation and often speaks out about her many experiences of being bullied throughout her childhood, college and Golf Career. She also focuses on encouraging women to be themselves and fight for what they believe and to embrace their true calling in life through hosting events and clinics, supporting other young women and posting inspirational messages. Paige hopes to help women not only discover the game of golf but to also feel empowered to achieve their wildest dreams.

You can connect with Paige here:

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The Cycle. Aunt Flo. Time of the Month. Code Red. All of these are cute nicknames for a reality that is wrapped in shame, cultural stigmas and headaches for women everywhere. Of course, we’re talking about your period. 

It’s the first installment in a series of discussions on taboo topics. Gina, Rachel and Keith try to answer some of the question marks around your period and how it affects the way you work. How should you approach someone who is moody and you suspect may be on their period? Should you ever say, “I bet she’s on her period.” Spoiler: NO! And how do you fight through your own cycle and get what you need to get done, done right.

If this topic makes you uncomfortable. Good! Those are the best topics to discuss and think about. You’ve been warned!

When someone goes to prison, it doesn’t mean they are at the end of their options…it can be a new beginning. That’s the message our guest Michelle Cirocco and her company Televerde are trying to spread and the mission they live. Michelle should know, she lived it.

About 25 years ago, Michelle Cirocco, made some “misplaced entrepreneurial” choices that led to her own incarceration. Now she’s helping to educate, train and prepare female prisoners for life after release. It’s not easy. As we’ll learn, the pipeline between prison and the workforce is full of roadblocks and deadends. 

Michelle will share what she’s doing to knock down those roadblocks and why this mission is so important.

WARNING: The following episode is part of our Going Rogue series. You know, one of those episodes where we started the show before we started the show, you know, we were recording and then things happened. So put on your big girl panties and buckle up for the ride.

Today we’re discussing the newest book by Dave Asprey called Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life. In it the bestselling author of Head Strong and The Bulletproof Diet answers the question, “How can I kick more ass at life?” by culling the wisdom of world-class thought leaders, maverick scientists, and disruptive entrepreneurs to provide proven techniques for becoming happier, healthier, and smarter.

You’ll find out the mind and body hacks have Gina, Rachel and Keith implemented into their routine to get them wired for success each day. And…why bee penises explode. You’ve been warned!

Knowledge is sexual leadership, sexual leadership is professional leadership. That’s part of the message today from our guest Missy Garcia. Missy is a powerful sex and leadership coach for women who are desperate to escape from their dull and disconnected lives. She offers sage advice about sexuality and leadership from a raw place that has developed through her own journey of self-transformation.

She believes the world is calling for more female leaders who are strong, authentic, connected and energized. Can you be all of those things without being connected to your innate sexuality?

Missy began her journey to empowerment as a way to treat sexual trauma that happened in her own life. The power of that experience led her not only to being a stronger person but with a desire to help others.

You may not see a direct correlation between your sexuality and your success but after listening to Missy you will want to tap into the juiciness within to reach your personal and professional goals.

Connect with Today’s Guest

Website: https://missyagarcia.com/

https://twitter.com/MissyAGarcia

IG: https://www.instagram.com/themissyagarcia/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheMissyAGarcia/

Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/missy-a-garcia/

“Am I here to please everybody or am I here to make things better?”

This question drove our guest today, Lauren Bailey, to start her passion project #GirlsClub and lays at the foundation of her life’s work in sales. Lauren is the Founder of Factor 8, The Sales Bar, and #Girls Club, and she’s on a mission to help more people feel more successful at work. She’s helping entry level salespeople conquer cold call confidence and preparing women for sales leadership positions in front-line management.

After spending nearly 20 years launching and leading Inside sales organizations around the world, she started Factor 8 to help solve the problems she kept seeing: sales rep and sales managers woefully unprepared to sell over the phone.

In this episode we discuss the pitfalls of inside sales, mentoring young salespeople and her work with Televerde, an organization that helps accelerate sales growth in companies AND helps prepare incarcerated women for their transition back to society.

Lauren is bold, badass and driven to help women find their seat in the boardroom.

About Today’s Guest

Lauren Bailey on LinkedIn 

Factor 8 

We Are Girls Club

It’s not good enough to make the ’empathy case’ for diversity in the workplace, you have to make a ‘business case.’ That’s what our guest today, Jennifer Brown, sets out to do in every meeting, keynote and presentation she gives. 

A more inclusive work environment is less stressful, more productive, better equipped to make big decisions and ultimately more profitable. So why are small, medium and large businesses still struggling to throw away bias and include more diverse voices? Where is the gap between leadership that wants to hire a more diverse workforce and finding the people to fill those positions? We’ll find that out, plus, what you can do to help yourself or someone that is being marginalized in the workplace. 

Jennifer is a dangerous as hell, power-woman ready to fight bias and dish out diversity. You’ve been warned!

About Today’s Guest

Jennifer Brown is a leading diversity and inclusion expert, dynamic keynote speaker, best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur and host of The Will To Change podcast, which uncovers true stories of diversity and inclusion. As the founder, president and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, Jennifer’s workplace strategies have been employed by some of the world’s top Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits—including Walmart, Microsoft, Starbucks, Toyota Financial Services, T-Mobile, and many others— to help employees bring their full selves to work and feel Welcomed, Valued, Respected and Heard℠