Intentional Optimists - Unconventional Leaders
Welcome to the Intentional Optimists, Unconventional Leaders podcast, created to help female leaders think critically, create imaginatively and lead effectively - in any situation, team or organization. Life stories from standout female leaders, combined with employing the tenets of Intentional Optimism will help you navigate your own leadership journey with inspiration and ease. Here, you will find inspiration to LEAD in your own, UNCONVENTIONAL way. Can’t wait to meet you! To learn more about Andrea Johnson and Intentional Optimism, visit www.theintentionaloptimist.com/links.
Episodes
Have you ever heard of a CVO (Caring Visionary Officer)? Lauri Smith the author of Your Voice Matters: A Guide to Speaking Soulfully When It Counts, is the first one for me! She’s an intuitive public speaking and leadership coach, helps visionaries on a soul-driven mission to stand in their power, speak their truth and lead. Her mission is to call forth more open-hearted leaders so they can do their part to change the world with a...
JJ DiGeronimo helps women empower their future impact through tried-and-tested strategies, mindfulness, and energetic practices. Formerly a leading woman in the tech industry, and president of Tech Savvy Women, she now passionately strives to help women gain more seats at more tables by sharing the key findings that have helped her and countless others illuminate a path forward.
Leadership Principle:
Determine what helps you fu...
A serial entrepreneur, Kat Ramirez created her own exit plan to leave the corporate world. Kat is a woman-owned, veteran-owned, and minority-owned business leader in the advertising and marketing space, with nearly three decades of experience. She offers expertise as a sought-after Consultant, Mentor, Sales Trainer, Podcaster, Speaker, and Community Leader. She worked as a Manager for ABC, NBC, CBS, Telemundo, FOX, CW, and many mor...
In addition to being a board certified ObGyn physician, Dr. Pryiyanka Venugopal is a Life & Weight Loss Coach with an Advanced Certification in Deep Dive Coaching. Bringing science and mindset together is magical, and is what led her to create “The Unstoppable Mom Brain,” a coaching program that capitalizes on that special magic. She has a special love for you, a fellow ninja-working-mom who is reading this right now. She knows...
With over 20 years of corporate experience, Jean Tien knows that juggling a successful career with being a mom can feel fruitless. Though she flourished in that world, she learned that “happily ever after” doesn’t happen just because you make more money or climb the corporate ladder. No matter how much she achieved, Jean knew she’d never be satisfied conforming to someone else’s definition of success so she created her own: the S.U...
Kim Sorrelle is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, the director of a humanitarian organization, activist, mother, grandmother, lover of all people, and the occasional stick of black licorice. Her entrepreneurial journey included commercial real estate, a golf course, event facilities, catering, a grocery store, and more. Besides building businesses into multi-million dollar companies, Kim is proud to have weathered the pandemic stor...
More than 10 years ago, working a corporate job, Dominique Cordero realized she was responsible for her own satisfaction. She sold everything, bought a one-way ticket to Barcelona and spent a year following her life-long dream of learning Spanish to better understand her heritage, opening her world to an additional 560 million people, and seeing the world through a new lens. The experience was transformational. She now runs a suc...
Inbal Claudio is an entrepreneur, military spouse, and mom from Southern California. In 2019, she started researching influencer marketing tactics for her small business, but the platforms she discovered were completely out of her budget. Inbal launched GOLDWICK her own candle company but after starting her family she realized the need to focus more time on social media and online sales vs. in person events. She came up with the i...
Merit Kahn is the CEO of SELLect Sales Development, author of Myth Shift: Challenging The Truths That Sabotage Success, co-host of The Smarter Sales Show podcast. She is a Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach and a Certified Speaking Professional. Merit is also a stand-up comedian. She uses her comedy in her business adding even more success in helping others reflect and laugh. Because life should be filled with laughter at work...
Katja Schleicher is a sought-after Communications Trainer and Coach. She heads IMPACT! Communication Coaching, a pan-European training office focusing on communication coaching, media & public speaking training & business storytelling. She gets managers, teams, women and men to talk - and improves their communicative impact in public speeches, conversations and media interviews. For Katja, words, and what they mean and how...
Friend and colleague, Tabatha Perry invited me onto her podcast in order to speak directly to her audience about Core Values. What better way to wrap up the year, than giving you some tools to totally change what next year will look like.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Core Values are NOT: beliefs, or things you value
- Core Values ARE: the most pure and foundational definition of you.
- When you identify your Core Values, you ...
Mary is a heart centered, compassionate and tenacious entrepreneur who thrives on human transformation and witnessing people fulfill their dreams. With 20+ years’ experience building 7 & 8 figure businesses & building high-performance sales teams in the IT sector and 15 years delivering online solutions for large and small businesses. She helps Service Based Business Owners, Coaches and Consultants turn their knowledge, wi...
Fabienne Fredrickson is an inspirational mentor to thousands of clients worldwide, an author, international speaker and founder of Boldheart. She believes in the capacity for each and every person to become the full expression of their purpose by taking a no-excuses approach to growing within and willingness to “play a bigger game.” She believes you CAN have it all, you just have to put in the work.
Topics discussed in this epi...
Carrie Schmidt is a Certified Life Mastery Consultant, Founder & CEO of Infinite SOULutions, LLC. Carrie puts the SOUL in SOULutions by transforming lives personally and professionally. A dynamic, influential Thought Leader and Motivational Speaker, she has the ability to instantly captivate your mind, motivate your heart, and awaken your soul by empowering you to gain clarity on your purpose, overcome limiting beliefs, and ha...
John Maxwell says, “Experience isn’t the best teacher, evaluated experience is.” What have I learned since I first ventured into the world of “The Intentional Optimist?” Well, some pretty big life lessons. I’ve been rather open about my quest as a 50+ year old woman to determine what I stood for, who I really am, and how I want to show up in the world, and I’m sharing the top FOUR lessons for me.
Topics discussed in this epis...
Lisa Marie Platske is an award-winning certified master coach, leadership expert, speaker, and international best-selling author recognized by the White House and Small Business Administration. Her mission is to transform lives through leadership by teaching mission-driven and service-based entrepreneurs, consultants, and corporate leaders how to live out their big mission in the world.
Topics discussed in this episode:
Leadership P...
What’s the difference between happiness and optimism (or intentional optimism), and can one exist without the other? Tune in and find out.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Happiness is a state of being, and optimism is a way of thinking.
- Happiness and Optimism are connected in such a way that they fuel each other.
COMPLIMENTARY RESOURCE:
What Is Intentional Optimism?
Become an Intentional Optimist!
All my l...
Karyn Seitz is the Happiness Mentor and she empowers women to go from a lost sense of self to inner fulfillment & meaning so they can truly be happy and enjoy life. Everything you've been searching for is already in you - it just needs to be unlocked & awakened. Imagine finding true happiness and fulfillment - where you love the life you've got. Karyn is an online course creator, teacher and thought leader in hap...
There’s so much information out there about connections, mentors, sponsors, & coaches, it’s time to break it down and give you some guidelines on why it’s important to allow others to pour into your life, or support and guide you in your career, how to find them, what to ask for, and how to apply what they provide in order to grow.
Topics discussed in this episode:
Mentors, Sponsors and Coaches:
- What role do they each pl...
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