Episodes

I am excited to introduce today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Kate Maloney – the producer of the Movie and the Movement – We Rise Up. We Rise Up premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and brings together some of the most brilliant, accomplished & high-impact leaders of our day. It’s about redefining a new model of success to uplift & empower people to live radically fulfilled, purpose driven lives. You’re going to learn more about it in today’s interview, but first, let ...

Today’s episode of Extraordinary Women Radio is with Gina Schreck, the president and founder of SocialKNX, a digital marketing and social media management company. Gina is ranked by LinkedIn as one of the Top 24 B2B Marketers to follow in 2019 and and ranked as one of the top 50 women influencers on-line in FastCompany’s Influence project! Gina continues to be voted as one of the top online social media coaches by Content and Digital Marketing World. Her latest book, Social Media Doesn’t Work…...

Today I’m excited and honored to bring you today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Jen Ruiz, the Travel Blogger on Jen on a Jetplane. Jen is a lawyer turned solo travel blogger. Her book, “The Affordable Flight Guide”, is a #1 Amazon Bestseller and 2018 Readers’ Favorite Award winner. The year before her 30th birthday, Jen set the goal to take 12 trips in 12 months. She tells this story, and all that this ambition started for her. And she has great tips for us on how to travel affordably! I’...

I’m excited and honored to bring you today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Dr. Temple Grandin, a Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Inductee. In addition to being a world-renowned animal scientist, consultant, author, inventor, lecturer, and designer of livestock-handling facilities, Dr. Grandin is also a leading specialist and lecturer on autism spectrum disorder, a brain condition that she herself has had since birth. In our interview today, Dr. Grandin tells her own personal story of finding t...

Today I’m excited and honored to bring you today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Mory Fontanez, the founder & CEO at 822 Group. A 15 year agency alumn, Mory launched 822 Group to help companies reestablish their values and create focus in a world filled with activities that lack connection. Core to her methodology is the idea that a company’s values should be the driver of every action, not just a sign on the wall. We talk about how Mory made the jump from a very successful agency career an...

Today I’m excited to share with you my 100th episode of Extraordinary Women Radio! And I’m extremely honored to feature Zainab Salbi, the founder of Women for Women International for this milestone episode! At the age of 23, Zainab Salbi founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization dedicated to serving women survivors of wars by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic se...

Today I’m excited to bring you today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Stacy Taubman. Stacy is the CEO of Rise Collaborative Workspace, and this woman is on fire! Stacy will be one of our Circle of Inspiration Facilitators / Panelists at the upcoming Extraordinary Women Connect Gala on May 21! You’ll want to join us there! She opened the Denver Rise Collaborative Workspace – her second location this month, and I’m thrilled to be a Founding Member! Her Grand Opening party was last night – and ...

Today I’m bringing you a mystical gift with Honeybee Henderson as my guest on Extraordinary Women Radio. Honeybee joins us from Amman Jordan where she has been called to teach yoga in the Middle East. Honeybee is Spiritual Psychologist, a Ceremonialist, a Mystic and has traveled the corners of the world in search of the greatest tools to align to the true Self. I personally was excited to hear more about Honeybee’s pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. As she shares with us, “the Camino is onl...

I’m thrilled to bring you today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest – Mary Ann Littler – as we have worked and played in connection and collaboration for years! Mary Ann is a friend, has a been a client, and we served on the American Diabetes Association board together. In addition, Mary Ann serves on my advisory board for Extraordinary Women Connect. She’s an extraordinary woman that I’m honored to call a friend. Mary Ann has been doing some amazing work in Peru, supporting the health care syste...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest is Michele Ashby, a woman on a mission to get 1000 women placed on corporate boards. She is the President and Founder of ACE LLC (Ashby Consulting Enterprises) & CDI LLC (Corporate Directors Int’l). Currently, there are only 2 women for every 10 board seats sitting on corporate boards across the US and Canada. Michele is on a mission to change this – to bring that ratio into a 50/50 balance, and to do it in a much faster timeline than that of our current...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Melanie Ulle is the founder and CEO of Philanthropy Expert, LLC, a Denver-based philanthropic and nonprofit consulting firm. Melanie was recently named to the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce 25 Most Powerful Women in our state! Mel started going door-to-door knocking on doors for politics when she was only 8 years old! She was born to make a difference in our world! Sparked by the election in 2016, Mel shares the story of how she and her business p...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio Guest is Barbara Brooks, the co-founder of the #SecondActBizCon, a Business+Lifestyle Event For and By Women Over 40 being held in Denver March 21-23. This conference is for women in their 40s and 50s who are wanting to start their second… third or even fourth act in life and business. There’s going to be all kinds of stories being told on women stepping into their own second acts – the conference includes high-level breakout tracks, panel and audience discussi...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest is Dr. Nicole Gruel, an author of The Power of NOTEs: Non-Ordinary Transcendent Experiences Transforming the Way We Live, Love, and Lead. Nicole is an author, a speaker, and a transformational coach who descends from a long line of samurai. How cool is that! I loved Nicole from the moment I met her several years ago, shortly after I had read her book Women of the Wise Earth. Nicole was one of the first women I reached out to blindly on the internet saying...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest is Carla Geyser, an adventurer, a humanitarian, an eco-warrior, and the founder of NPO, Blue Sky Society Trust – an organization that leads all female expeditions into Africa to raise money and awareness for conservation groups. Carla believes that one person can make a difference to protect, preserve and improve life for people, wildlife and communities in need – and she wants to be that person. She is involved in many social upliftment and conservation...

Raising capital to launch or grow a venture can be a foreign and intimidating subject for many people, men and women alike. Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Arezou Zarafshan helps founders improve their odds of getting funding through VC’s or angel investors. She’s one of my very extraordinary clients and she’s doing important work in a field where there aren’t many women. She’s a trailblazer showing up on big stages leading important conversations, and I’m so proud of the work she is d...

This week’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Michelle Hoglan, founder of the Boob Report. Michelle Hoglan is a Breast Cancer survivor. Her journey with cancer – from the initial diagnosis to treatment and beyond – prompted her to start a new organization called the Boob Report. She shares this story with us today. And she shares how a breast cancer journey can be overwhelming… the fear… the pain… the unknown. Michelle wanted to try and make the journey a little more manageable with ...

This week’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Leah Song, one of the singers and songwriters of Rising Appalachia. Two years ago as the seeds to this podcast were being planted, I made a list of about 20 women I’d love to interview on Extraordinary Women Radio. Rising Appalachia was at the top of my list. There’s something to be said for writing down your goals, my friends! The harmony of Leah Song and Chloe Smith, the founding sisters of Rising Appalachia, has a sense of deep rootedn...

This week’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Petra Kolber, the best selling author of The Perfection Detox. How often do you have that inner critic voice show up – you’re not enough… smart enough… thin enough… strategic enough… whatever enough…? Petra is on a mission to help us all remove the idea of our not enough-ness – because we are enough! One of the pillars of the work I do with my clients is to help them master their mindset. To recognize what’s stories are showing up … what...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Jessica Sidener, the founder of Night Out with “The Girls,” an organization that educates women about early breast cancer detection, by encouraging them to take their health into their “own hands.” Night Out with “The Girls” meets women right where they tend to be most comfortable–with their girlfriends, having fun, in a relaxed environment…where awkward questions about early breast cancer detection and how to do self-breast exams are embraced...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Deberah Bringleson is a profit-producing Business Growth and Empowerment Expert who uses Quantum Physics to grow businesses. And she’s having incredible success! Deberah will be one of our Circle of Inspiration panelists at my January 22 Extraordinary Women Connect Gala! Join us there to meet Deberah live and in person! Deberah is best known for her creative ingenuity and leadership while negotiating the Virgin America deal between Sir Richard Branson a...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Shannon Block, has broke the CEO glass ceiling numerous times. She’s currently helping lead the startup of Skillful, a non-profit initiative of the Markle Foundation, dedicated to enabling all Americans to secure good jobs in a changing economy. Shannon has been Chief Executive Officer of multiple organizations including World Forward, The Denver Zoo and the Rocky Mountain Cancer Center. Prior to that she was the chief business development officer for De...

What a beautiful gift to close out our 2018 Extraordinary Women Radio series with one of my favorite strategic partners and closest friends, Sarah J. Bohnenkamp as my guest! She’s the perfect changemaker to end 2018 on a big high energy. That is Sarah – big high energy! Sarah is the Chief Trailblazer of some pretty epic conversations taking place in industry, global organizations and the professional and personal lives of many. Sarah is becoming a key global figure on important issues such as ...

Our Extraordinary Women Radio guest today, Geil Browning is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Emergenetics International. Geil’s life work has focused on helping people celebrate who they are and recognize the brilliance of their gifts. You can tell why I’m a fan! And I love the Emergenetics work that Geil developed, and will tell you more in the interview. Emergenetics is the merging of two ideas – our behavior emerging from our life experiences and our genetic traits. Emergenetics p...

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio episode is with Jennifer Quinn, better known as JennyQ! JennyQ jumped into becoming an internationally known livestreaming expert with no previous knowledge, whatsoever. Today she’s a livestreaming pioneer, and she’s going to share all she has learned around overcoming the barrier of entry to livestreaming! We have so much fun in our conversation, listening to her journey their Periscope, to Blab to Facebook Live – Jenny shares her best tips creating community ...