Possibilities with Monique de Maio

When was the last time you stopped to ask yourself how things are really going?

In business, we call it a QBR. A quarterly business review. You know the format: leadership gathers, metrics get reviewed, what is working gets reinforced, what is not gets a plan. It is a discipline most organizations treat as non-negotiable.

Most of us have never run one on our own lives.

In this solo episode of Possibilities, Monique makes the case for ...

Most companies do not have a culture problem. They have a leadership problem.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Maria Reis, a senior member of the HR leadership team at LG Electronics, to unpack what actually builds high-performing teams and what quietly destroys them.

Maria Reis is a results-driven HR executive with a career spanning financial services, retail, and global corporate HR. At ...

Most business podcasts follow a script.

A host asks a question. A guest gives a polished answer. Everyone sounds smart. Nobody says anything new.

This is not that conversation.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, we introduce a new format:

Business Q&A: In the Room

Two leaders. Real decisions. No theory.

Monique sits down with Stephanie Baker, former Chief Commercial Officer, COO, and CMO at EBG, for something diff...

Something happened this week that made one thing very clear.

The way buyers research and choose vendors has already changed.

And most companies have not caught up.

LinkedIn recently published new research, drawing on data from Semrush and Profound, showing that LinkedIn is now the #1 most-cited domain for professional queries across major AI search engines.

That means when your buyers use tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Ov...

I once spent an entire Friday driving across three states to pick up secondhand furniture for my kid's college apartment.

I was proud of us. Resourceful. Practical. Smart with money.

Except when I ran the actual numbers - including my time, the gas, the storage, and what it cost to get it all moved in - it was 40% more expensive than just ordering new from Wayfair.

I had optimized for the feeling of being a good mom and called it ...

What if one of the most powerful leadership tools you have… is the one most women were taught to ignore?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Cathy Williams, a trailblazer in body-based healing and creative arts therapy, for a powerful conversation about intuition, body awareness, and why so many high-performing women lose touch with their inner guidance system.

Cathy’s work helps women reconn...

If you sound like everyone else, you are competing.

And competing is exhausting.

In this solo episode of Possibilities, Monique unpacks a pattern she’s seeing across C-suite leaders, founders, hybrid executives, and growth-stage companies:

Brilliant people and strong businesses, all stuck inside labels.

COOs assumed to want the CEO seat.

CMOs who operate like operators.

CHROs who function as culture architects and leadership mentors.

Comp...

What if confidence isn’t something you’re born with, but something you build one decision at a time?

In this episode of Possibilities, Monique sits down with Mary Alice Duff, fractional COO, entrepreneur, and portfolio careerist, for a grounded and powerful conversation about confidence, self-trust, and what truly changes when women stop waiting for permission.

This is not a conversation about moving abroad. It’s a conversation about...

Welcome back to Consider the Possibilities with Monique de Maio where real-life experience meets practical wisdom…

In this episode, Monique shares a powerful, deceptively simple framework she’s used for years to create clarity, focus, and alignment: the magic of choosing three words.

Forget resolutions. Forget vision boards that don’t stick. This is about creating a true north. A lens through which you make decisions about your time,...

What if aging wasn’t a slowdown, but an invitation to go bigger?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Judy Katz, an accomplished ghostwriter, author, publisher, and storyteller who found her true calling at 65 and is still creating, writing, and building at 85.

Judy challenges everything we’ve been taught about aging, boldness, and self-confidence. She shares why she’ll never retire, h...

What if some of the most powerful women in leadership are quietly navigating crises no one ever sees?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Dana Codispoti, a global HR executive, Chief People Officer, coach, and co-founder of the nonprofit HIGHER, for a raw and necessary conversation about leadership, personal crisis, and what it really means to be resilient.

Dana shares her personal experience...

Episode 100 is here!

What started as a way to share stories from my book has become nearly one hundred honest conversations with women creating lives they love: navigating leadership, reinvention, ambition, motherhood, money, wellness, and meaning in real time, without pretending it’s easy.

In this milestone episode, I’m looking back not just to celebrate, but to reflect.

Across 100 conversations, clear patterns kept emerging.The same...

What if the reason love feels so hard has nothing to do with effort, timing, or “doing the work” and everything to do with how high-achieving women are conditioned to relate to themselves?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Lynda Williams, transformational coach, entrepreneur, and host of the PS I Love Me podcast, for a deeply honest conversation about love, self-acceptance, and why success...

What if your job finally supported the life you actually want?

In this episode, Monique sits down with remote-work expert, entrepreneur, and founder of Remote Rebellion, Michelle Coulson, to unpack what freedom really looks like beyond the office, beyond expectations, and beyond the 9–5.

Michelle has helped hundreds of people land remote roles that align with their values. Originally from the UK, she spent seven years in recruitment ...

If you listened to Part 1, you know how Jodi Scott-Lyons built four wellness brands from a kitchen table into a national presence. What you do not know yet is what happened when that entire world was turned upside down overnight.

In Part 2, Jodi takes us behind the scenes into a chapter most founders never talk about. The chapter where everything falls apart. The chapter where you question your identity, your purpose, your leadershi...

What happens when a purpose-driven founder refuses to follow the rules AND builds not one but four wellness brands straight from her kitchen table?...

You get Jodi Scott-Lyons, CEO, creator, innovator, Renaissance woman, and the definition of “mission with a heartbeat.”

In Part 1 of this powerful two-part conversation, Jodi walks us through how she, her mother, and her sister bootstrapped Green Goo from a backyard herbal project into...

Your company has a culture. The only question is whether you designed it… or drifted into it.

In this episode, Monique sits down with Brittany Drozd, a CEO thought partner, licensed therapist, and Harvard-trained organizational behavior expert who helps leaders diagnose what’s really broken inside their companies, and rebuild cultures with intention, integrity, and evidence-based clarity.

If your organization feels “off,” your team i...

When you think “beauty industry,” you probably don’t think transparency. You think filters, filler, and hype.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Giella Poblocki, founder and CEO of GIELLA Custom Blend Cosmetics, the cosmetics and skin care company Monique has used almost exclusively  for over a decade herself, to talk about what real beauty looks like… inside and out.

They unpack what it tak...

What if the most important conversations we need to have as women (about health, mentorship, and midlife growth) are still the ones we don’t talk about enough?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Kristen Fairback, Executive Vice President of National Sales at SHE Media, for an honest, girlfriend-style conversation about leadership, mentorship, and the realities of women’s health and aging.

Kr...