When you start something - anything - people will try to talk you out of it.

Today’s guest, Lori Cheek, has always been determined to prove the doubters wrong. Lori is an architect turned Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd— a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. Lori IS also a Shark Tank Veteran.

What is it that you love about yourself? Is it something you lead with in conversations? Use as your superpower? Find ways to spin into a business? Today's episode is filled with advice from Jen Oleniczak, the founder of The Engaging Educator + Fearless (Winston-Salem), who provides improv techniques as well as bits and pieces of her personal journey to help others become unapologetically themselves.

Meet Shannon McLay, she spent the first part of her career working for big banks helping rich people get richer until she discovered a substantial need to provide a roadmap for financial health to people of all financial shapes and sizes. She created my own business, The Financial Gym, where we happily transform people's financial lives everyday.

Today on the show I feel lucky to share an interview about how to handle rejection, with one of my good friends, Bonnie Gleicher, a singer and songwriter who has performed on Broadway, written the music and lyrics to the off-Broadway musical Addy & Uno, now in its 10th month running and been published in the New York Times. Her music has been featured on CBS, Good Day New York, ABC 7 and more, and she’s sang and co-written the theme song for the 2015 Victoria’s Secret fashion show backstage footage.

Today’s episode is all about happiness! Our guest Dr. Jenny Taitz is a board-certified therapist in cognitive behavioral therapy and author of the book “How to be Single and Happy” -- although her words of wisdom could really apply to anyone, single or not! In this episode, Jenny gives her best advice on discovering the joys of doing things solo, honing in our self-awareness, and what to stop doing and start doing to be truly and utterly happy.

Do you love your job? This is a question this week’s guest has been asking for years! Belma McCaffrey is the founder of Work Bigger, and online education and mentorship program helping 20 to 30-somethings find their mission and love their work. In this episode, Belma gives advice on getting real about your successes, failures, fears, and desires in order to identify a career path you love -- even if it’s different from the one you’re currently in!

Sometimes communities can be hard to keep together. Friends move away, people change, and what once was a group of solid connections can dissipate as the years go by. But a community is important -- so how do we continually foster communities in the real world? Today’s guest is an expert on just that. Radha Agrawal is the co-founder of Daybreaker and THINX. Radha talks to us about the power of friendship, social entrepreneurship, and the importance of creating value in order to create change.

Amy Chan is the founder of Renew Breakup Bootcamp and the popular relationship, and love blog Just My Type, where she fuses together psychology and science to break down the things we experience in love and heartache. Her valuable advice in this episode includes tips on how to identify and break through unhealthy relationship cycles and practical ways to create positive shifts in how we approach relationships.

Today’s guest excels in a world many of us fear or even dread. No, not a trip to the gynecologist or figuring out who is paying on a first date; today we’re talking monetary negotiations! Devon Smiley is a negotiation of consultant and speaker with over 15 years of experience. She’s closed 5 billion dollars of commercial contracts as a lead negotiator and is here today to give us the inside scoop of how to ask for (and get) what we want in life!

Today’s episode features word expert and literary talent Dani Katz. Dani teaches us all about language: how we use it, how we abuse it, and how it can be a powerful tool for shaping not only people’s perception of us, but the perception of ourselves.