Is embracing mistakes essential for growth? Let’s talk about the importance of finding purpose, which leads to passion and opens up opportunities. Our guest for this episode talks about confidence, defining it as clarity that arises when one is clear on their feelings, goals, thoughts, and ideas. We will also talk about the role of self-support and…

What does “unlearning” mean and why is it important that that we “learn to unlearn?” In this session, we discuss the significance of understanding oneself, addressing fears and stress, and fostering a kinder relationship with one's thoughts and emotions. Rishad Ahmed is a seasoned life-enhancement coach with a unique approach to guiding individuals…

How important is leading by example? Let’s talk about prioritizing self-care, seeking help when needed, and listening more to foster a healthier and more fulfilling work and personal life. Monica is a Partner and leads the Global Finance Transformation practice within IBM Consulting. Monica has over 20 years of experience split between consulting a…

Are you living a fulfilling life and finding happiness? Catherine discusses her journey from starting as a secretary to becoming an executive coach and happiness advocate. She emphasizes the importance of aligning personal and professional goals with what truly brings joy and contentment, rather than pursuing external validation or societal expecta…

Do you ever deal with self-doubt, burnout, or a lack of fulfillment in your work and life? So many of us hold ourselves back, silence ourselves, and let doubt dictate what we do, limiting our growth and potential. What if we could tap into greater clarity, confidence, and courage and have a bolder, more intentional, and more fulfilling life and car…

MaryBeth Hyland, the Founder and Chief Visionary of SparkVision, decided to leave after leading her over a decade successful career in nonprofit management, in order to advocate for creating values-driven culture workplaces where people are embraced with their own authentic stories, imperfections, and values. Although most organizations and compani…

This episode features an interview with Anna, who shares her transformative journey from a challenging personal life event to becoming a confidence coach for women in the male-dominated tech industry. She highlights the importance of confidence and how she empowers women to overcome obstacles and set boundaries. Anna Gradie is a Confidence Coach fo…

Dr. Gary Lawrence is a 78-year-old counselor who has been married with Sylvia for 56 years. They were both raised in a negative and abusive home environment and have unconsciously brought that psychological and emotional baggage in their marriage. Being a survivor and an escaper, they seemed a perfect match at first. However, soon, their rejection …

Sarah O’Brien Hammond is the founder of the NoW NYC. She spent over 25 successful years in recruitment and never thought she was going to become an entrepreneur. However, when she started reflecting on what success really means to her and what she values the most, she also realized that she was at a loss as to her own life purpose. It dawned on her…

Cherilynn Castleman, a Fortune 500 Global Sales Executive with over 30 years of experience. Passionate about empowering women of color, Cherilynn draws from her career success to inspire audiences. Her fast-paced, light-hearted presentation style promises an adventure in learning and laughter. Highly sought-after as a keynote speaker and panel mode…

Charlie Beswick is a blogger, an author, CEO of More than a Face, and a mom to 18-year-old twins, Oliver and Harry. While Oliver was born healthy, Harry was born with a craniofacial condition, meaning he had an underdeveloped face and was later diagnosed with autism. Driven to make a difference in people's lives, being a teacher (for over 16 years …

Carole Murko is the master of change. Her path from Wall Street Analyst, to NPR and PBS Cooking host, and now to a mindset expert, and health and self-mastery coach is what drives her passion to help others make changes in their own lives and enable them to master their own thoughts and become the best version of themselves. She proclaims, “I help …

Ever since her first year in college, Grace found opportunities to soak in the business world starting with Coca-Cola, IBM, then consulting at Bain. She eventually managed the consumer line of educational software products including The Oregon Trail where that company’s cool tagline "for the love of learning" attracted her to join. Following the co…

Niki Vinogradoff is a Finnish mindful life coach living with his wife and nine-year-old daughter in the Czech Republic. His journey to mindful coaching started at his great-grandfather's funeral when he was three. The reality of death and the thought that one day his parents will eventually die was so hard for him to handle. But it made him somehow…

Jeanne Collins is a single mom to a 16-year-old daughter, an entrepreneur, and the founder of JerMar Designs. After being in Corporate America for 20 years, she found herself unimaginably laid off from her good-paying executive job after her second company was restructured in 2020. Out of job, she focused on her passion for interior design and even…

In this special 100th episode of "Jacklyn," host Jacklyn reflects on her personal journey and shares valuable insights with Tracy, who turns the tables and interviews her. Jacklyn discusses the importance of embracing the present moment, finding the right boundaries, and cultivating a support system. Jacklyn explores the difference between perfecti…

Alison is a passionate self-leadership coach who has embarked on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. Originally from Scotland and currently residing in southeast England, Alison has a diverse career background that includes fields such as anatomy research, naturopathic nutrition, charity work, and the automotive industry. She has also w…

As a child, Patricia Boulogne, or Dr. Pat, had shown particular interest and curiosity in science with the support of her father. Growing up, she was always fascinated with sunrise and sunset and was always interested in eating good food. Pursuing such interest, she studied pre-medicine but decided not to become a medical doctor during her internsh…

Raised in Virginia, Katherine Wintcsh is married to a great husband and has two children. She spent 15 years of her life in advertising. And then she realized that such agency is a young person's game. Then she started The Mom Complex through which she helps huge companies improve their products and services and sell them to moms. The switch gave h…

Kevin Olmsted resides with his wife and children in California where he was raised. He and his wife both had stable jobs in wine and technical respectively that enabled them to provide well for their family as well as save for vacations, trips, and special occasions. But after 23 years of wine selling, he had to stay home to take care of their chil…

Andrea Haburshka was in control of her life until she was 28 when she had her annual pap smear and was diagnosed with genital herpes. Being in a committed monogamous relationship, she thought she never had to deal with any sexually transmitted diseases. That made her feel so alone, betrayed, and suffocated. The stigma of herpes, the preconceived no…

Lisa Goldenthal is the best-selling author of The Boss Weight Loss and creator of the original Skinny Jeans Workout, which sold over 100,000 units in Target and Walmart. Lisa has been featured in Life & Style Magazine, KTLA 5, CBS News, Thrive Global, and Web MD and has 20+ years of transforming clients' lives, including Cheryl Tiegs and Paul Zane …

Andrea LaRosa is the founder of Date Smarter, a collection of services including; coaching, matchmaking, courses, and workshops designed to assist people in improving their relationships. She is the author of Get the Girl: Dating the High-Value Woman and host the Date Smarter Sexier Podcast. Andrea helps men and women around the world find and main…

Tosca DiMatteo grew up in Rochester, New York and relocated to two other states before moving to Brooklyn, where she has lived for 15 years. Growing up, she has always had an orientation of being of service to others in many different ways. Even her 20+ years of corporate life were spent mostly helping people. But being unfulfilled in the corporate…

Maria Sirois is a clinical psychologist by training and a positive psychologist by choice. Being an intern assigned to the bone marrow floor at pediatric oncology early in her career, she saw children in their last moments of life and witnessed how families fall apart in those moments. What stunned her though was seeing how those families grow amid…

Born and raised a Kenyan, Carolyn Adagala is a transformational coach who found the UK a second home since her college days. Having spent the last four years in an all-girl school, she felt shocked as she found herself the only female student among twenty boys studying computing. Although she still graduated on top of her class, that exposed her to…

Emily Hatfield is a Mindset Coach from Bristol, England. Through her work she helps people shift their mindset from feeling lost, empty or directionless to feeling more confident in who they are, where they are and what they need to change to feel happier. With a background in Media production Emily found coaching after finding herself in her mid t…

Julie Easen is another corporate graduate mom who has had an extremely successful and satisfying 20 career years save the work-life balance aspect. Before leaving the corporate world, she fought hard in order to gain and keep the privilege of a once-a-week work-from-home arrangement. But even with that, it dawned on her that her children are growin…

Kelley O'Keefe lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She has built a business over the past year catering and empowering women to reach their full potential in leadership, mainly to be economically empowered. Kelley spent 15 years in the sales arena before she decided to stop to prioritize herself and her health. She then took a sabbatical and started researc…

‘Today’s guest, Kath Chapman, is a photographer based just outside of London who had been depressed since an early age. In her twenties, Kath was hospitalized after trying to take her life and, following 25 years in and out of talking therapy, started using self-portrait photography to finally find her path to full recovery. It was the catalyst for…

Danielle Metzler is a certified primary care physician who grew up and got her degree in medicine from Maryland and went to South Carolina for residency. She is a mom of two small babies and a wife to a wonderful husband. A strong believer in a holistic approach to things but also a believer in Western Medicine, she believes in intuition. As planne…

Kristy is a digital well-being researcher, speaker, and mom to three of her screen ages. She's also the author of Dear Digital, We need to talk. She delivers evidence-based information about the impact of digital technologies on children, adolescents, and adults' health, well-being & learning. Having personally experienced how our always-on digital…

Theresa hosts the Becoming More Me Podcast and lives in Maryland near Washington, DC, with her husband, their four boys, and their two yellow labs. She enjoys helping professional women to get out of their way with life and dial in on a work-life balance. Theresa’s struggles with past traumas, high-functioning anxiety, and ADHD kept her in an ego-d…

Melody Wilding is the author of the book Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. She has been an Executive Coach for ten years now whose specialty caters to highly sensitive and high-achieving individuals; a speaker, a teacher of human behavior at the graduate level, and a writer for a number of leading care…

Erica Rooney is a wife, a mom, a chief people officer, and a host of her own podcast From Now to Next, where she empowers women to get seen, get heard, and get promoted. With all these hats she's wearing, one gets the idea that she does a lot of things. Although she admits to being a hustler by nature, her secret to accomplishing more in life is el…

Hallie Avolio is a mom and a wife who is passionate about teaching both men and women to live their lives to the fullest by prioritizing self-love. She began her career in sales, but early on realized that corporate life with all its bureaucracy and red tape did not fit her well. But then at the same time, being a stay-at-home mom didn't either. He…

Andrew has had a wide range of employment experience; 20 years of which in the corporate which culminated during his retirement from Merrill Lynch in 2005. It was followed by years of executive coaching, his identified passion, and his niche, specifically with high-performing executives transitioning to leadership roles. This paved the way for the …

Rachelle Houde is a strategist and storyteller who spent more than 20 years in communication and marketing. Following her departure from advertising agencies, she has been freelancing as a strategic consultant with a focus on community building. Growing up in a military family who relocated every three years, she had to learn and relearn how to ada…

Maureen Ross Gemme spent 30 years in her corporate job and then became an entrepreneur when she created her coaching and training business called Emerge Leadership Academy in 2013. After living through her teenage years as a drug addict and an alcoholic, she had a major transformation and started her recovery journey when she was just 24. She then …

Laura is a mom and a co-founder of Yourticulture which is homestead based. Among all the hats she has to juggle, being a mom comes on top. Believing that the children are the future, she considers it best to model to them how she deals with life -- to learn how to overcome hardships and to be resilient. Instead of telling them, she prefers showing …

Hanane's long story of pain and resilience started with her eye accident when she was nine. Her months of stay in the hospital and in the house waiting for better days made her realize that remaining strong and positive are the only choice she had left. They trained her mind to become positive no matter the circumstances. She also dealt with divorc…

Sue Scott is an executive and team coach, mentor, and risk management professional with over twenty years of experience in leading and coaching in the financial services industry. Sue helps Risk and Compliance professionals reconnect with what makes work meaningful and feel empowered to lead change. She is great at her work of helping leaders and t…

Belinda Liu is a non-profit education leader, coach, entrepreneur, nature-inspired visionary and co-host of the Gratitude Blooming podcast. Her superpowers are shining a light on people’s strengths, bringing them out into the world, and creating life-changing tools and experiences for deep, catalytic growth. She co-founded two purpose-driven busine…

Christina Woods is an RTT Hypnotherapist, a Reiki Master, a coach, and the CEO and founder of Wise Woods Hypnotherapy and Coaching from San Diego California. With a thirty-year corporate career in the higher education space guiding and mentoring staff, students and their families, she had been in a position where coaching had been like a way of lif…

Jillian Kaplan is currently working at Dell Technologies which focused on 5G and Telecom Thought Leadership. She has been in the Telecom sector for about 17 years. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog. One of her passion is helping rescue dogs as they foster a couple of hundred dogs in and out of their house. H…

Alex Tremble is a career culture coach whose passion is helping organizations create a culture necessary to attract, retain, and develop leaders to achieve their visions and missions. Apart from the efforts dedicated to promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion in the company, he strongly believes that the best way of providing value to people's…

Izzy Gesell, who had always wanted to become a stand-up comedian, started his career as a schoolteacher. But for years now, he has combined both in a career that widened his influence specifically as a well-rounded writer, keynote speaker, facilitator, and author among others. This choice resulted not only from searching for his life purpose but mo…

14 years ago, somewhere along the 26 long years, she spent in the corporate world, Cressida got training in coaching. Around that time, coaching was only almost exclusively associated with sports and the academe. It was almost unheard of in the business world. But the philosophy of coaching where people are given the freedom to process and work thi…

In the eyes of the majority, Cory Carlson was making it huge and was already a winner in the corporate world before he discovered coaching. But when he did, he became a better person, husband, father, and leader. So to speak, he became a real winner from his own home first. Since then, it became his lifelong cause to make other people make it reall…

Cathy Rowland is a Women's vitality coach with 29 years of interior design expertise. Almost everybody all over the world would associate health and wellness with the proper diet, exercise, and sleep, among others. Equating it with the space and interior design of homes as well as offices is almost unheard of. Being a women's vitality coach, in add…