The She Built It Podcast with Melanie & Dr. Michele
We know you are busy and at the same time want to make significant progress - we hear you! During your drive, workout, or morning coffee, invite us into your car, gym, home, or office for about 20 minutes a week to share career success stories - the challenges and wins - from us and our incredible guests. We share growth and progress tips to help you leap higher, further, and faster. When we see a successful woman, especially one with personal fulfillment and joy, we want to know how she did it. We take you behind the scenes of growth and progress to fuel your next leap - big or small.
Episodes
“I want parents to feel empowered. I want them to feel appreciated and know that they're not alone. I learned that from my dad at a very young age. So helping people and being of service, it's quite natural and it feels good to me,” says Pamela K. Daves, Esq. She is a special education lawyer who focuses on improving the lives of children with disabilities. Over the years, Pamela has successfully rep...
“I ended up specializing in insurance law because I met a mentor who was doing insurance work, took an interest in my career, and helped me not just learn insurance, but share a passion about insurance law. I started to really enjoy it. And the more I got into it, the more I realized that it's a niche that a lot of people don't know about.”
“As I've gotten older, I've gotten better at figuring out what I know and what I don't know. I hired a business coach. That was a stroke of genius -- if I do say so myself -- because I don't know how to run a business,” says Allison Kawa, PsyD. Dr. Kawa is a licensed clinical psychologist -- turned mompreneur -- who founded her first private practice in 2010. She opened the Los Angeles Center for Integrated Assessment in 2018, and ...
“I've been running a business for ten years and ...they don't teach you how to run a business in psychology school,” says Allison Kawa, PsyD, yet she’s successfully founded and owned more than one. In this episode, Dr. Kawa shares how she’s become a businesswoman and psychologist.
Dr. Allison Kawa is a licensed clinical ps...
Jes Wolfe is the CEO of Rebel Girls, a girl-driven edutainment company on a mission to inspire and instill confidence in 50 million girls over the next 5 years. Rebel Girls has sold 5.5 million books, translated into 49 languages in 85 countries, and has 8+ million downloads of its award-winning podcast. Under her leadership, the Company is expanding its offerings to television, live theater, merchan...
We’re saying goodbye to 2020 -- the year that will go down in infamy. It pushed the “pause” button on Life as we knew it, but also prompted us to discover new ways to adapt and become resilient. This brief episode helps you take the best of what was 2020 and use it to leap into a fulfilling, successful 2021. Melanie and Dr. Michele have new tips and guidance for you and are joined by former amazing g...
We’re grateful for you and for all of our listeners around the world. To show our gratitude, we’ve put together a special tips episode from our incredible guests - Kristen Agee, Lisa Walker Brown, Robyn Young, Dawn Strickland, Mauri Konell, Angela Daves Haley, Dr. Annie Chiu, and Leslie Spencer. We hope you and your loved ones are healthy, and safe, and that this episode lifts your spirits and inspires you. Happy Holidays.
“I'm just going to relax into what the flow is right now of our world and our country and find other things that I love,” says Valerie Shumaker. She is the founder and CEO of Lux Custom Suit and Suit-D, two companies that design and custom-make power suits for women and men. Almost every woman wants to “suit up” and feel powerful, sexy and have a feminine edge.
“Strategy without marketing is a white board of ideas that will never leave the room. Marketing without strategy is sound and fury signifying nothing and content without strategy is a jumble of pointless words languishing on your website.”
Meet Shanna Belott, Chief Content Officer at PreDiction a Nashville based content ma...
Dr. Beidel is the Director of UCF RESTORES, a clinical research center dedicated to trauma and PTSD. Besides being a dedicated mentor and professor, Dr. Beidel has received over $31 million in federal research funding. Her work currently focuses on developing effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for veterans, active duty personnel, first responders and survivors of mass shoo...
“This is my heart. This is my passion. This is no longer just my job.” Deborah Beidel, Ph.D., ABPP is Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor of Psychology and Medical Education and Director of UCF RESTORES at the University of Central Florida. A Pittsburgh native, she earned her Ph.D. and post-doctoral training from the University of Pittsburgh and the Western Psy...
“Be aware of who you are and what you're capable of and drown out the rest of the noise. Do what you say you're going to do, and be courageous.”
Lyeng Ia-Boseman is a Senior Vice President at Bolton & Company and has over 15 years of insurance industry experience. Her efforts are focused on working with Middle Market businesses and specializing in two core pract...
“Always take time to assist others -- humanity and compassion make you whole. Follow your passion...do what makes your heart beat faster,” says Angela Daves-Haley. A Celebrity Photographer, Producer and Chief Creative Officer, Angela is the CEO of her own company, adhphotography, and is the Executive Vice President of Uncle Frank, Inc. ‘Ang’ is gifted in personal and professional portraiture, works ...
“I'm so grateful to the people that I had in my orbit who I trusted enough to share that I was thinking of going out on my own and starting my own business. I was encouraged by them. I bounced the idea off of a couple of people who I valued their opinion and my mentors. We ran some numbers and they helped me see that my worst case scenario was probably something that I could actually live with. And s...
“I am motivated by tomorrow. I've always believed that the best is yet to come. I've never believed that every day has to be a happy day for me. What I want to have is more like a deep and abiding sense of satisfaction and -- dare I say -- joy.” Thomasenia (“Tommie”) Duncan is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a member of the Penn Law Review. ...
“I found my passion in cosmetic dermatology because I found it so incredibly empowering when you change the way someone feels about how they look, how much more confident they can be in every other aspect of their life. I'm in a position in my career where it's not just about building my own business. I'm really trying to push the cosmetic dermatology field forward with new techniques, new products, ...
“When it comes down to knowing when it was time to move on, there was another voice that said, ‘I think we can explore something else now. Or try something else ... that may be completely unrelated with the track that you're on.’ There's something driving you back to that topic over and over. It's what you want to read about, or it's what you want to immerse you...
Dawn Strickland knows how to develop trust and achieve dreams. She’s a super-star realtor in Atlanta, Georgia. “I tell clients, ‘If you change your mind, you change your mind.’ I'm big on buying a house that we can re-sell if you do change your mind. A lot of choices are choices for the moment in your life. You need to be fearless in that -- and move forward wit...
“My dream is to be my own boss because of who I am as a person. I want to make change for the better. All the time. The most important thing I learned is that you need to trust who you are and be who you are.” The Founder of Concierge Pediatrics, Dr. Aviva Alyeshmerni received her B.S. and M.S. with honors in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. Dr. Vivi taught AP Biology and coached cross c...
“Resiliency is a muscle. And if you don't have opportunities to experience and exercise that, you don't know how to reframe the fear. Fear in itself can be debilitating, but fear faced can be motivating.” Shahrzad Fattahi, DDS, knows about facing fear. She was born in Iran, but had to leave abruptly in 1981 because of the revolution. Dr. Fattahi shares her powe...
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