Powerful You with Kathy Caprino
Badass Women at Any Age
Kathy Caprino began her professional journey with ambitions of working in publishing. However, she soon found herself navigating a corporate career filled with numerous challenges as she climbed the corporate ladder. After a period of deep reflection, Kathy embraced her calling ultimately leading her to become an international career leadership and personal growth coach. She utilized her experiences and lessons learned to guide mid to high-level professionals toward achieving their highest potential. Kathy is a writer, speaker, and executive trainer helping mid to high level...
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Build your Fempire with Emily June Wilcox
Badass Women at Any Age
Emily June Wilcox grew up in rural Michigan with aspirations of becoming a veterinarian, earning a degree in animal science. Her early career took unexpected turns, from horse training to pharmaceutical sales and eventually entrepreneurship. Emily is a wealth and business coach, number one bestselling author and speaker on a mission to help others heal their money wounds and build financially and personally fulfilling lives. She's built two seven figure businesses, an e-commerce clothing company and an Amazon marketing agency. Now she focuses on using energetics and...
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This Ain't for Sissies with Kathryn Burnett
Badass Women at Any Age
Growing up in a family that didn't view a career in the arts as feasible, Kathryn Burnett pursued writing with determination, transitioning from magazine articles to professional screenwriting. She faced numerous challenges, particularly in a competitive industry that often overlooks middle-aged women. Post-menopause, Kathryn experienced a personal transformation, embracing her true self and taking greater creative risks. This shift led to a focus on complex, authentic female protagonists, inspired by real-life experiences and conversations. Her writing now champions strong, relatable women,...
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Dirty Old Women with Stella Fosse
Badass Women at Any Age
Inspired to push back against gendered ageism, Stella Fosse began writing vivid, sexy stories about older women inspired by an article by a 50-year-old romance writer in the New York Times that pushed her to challenge industry norms that favored younger characters. Her involvement in a local writing series called "Dirty Old Women," where women over 50 read erotic stories to live audiences, further solidified her mission. Through her experiences in online dating in her 60s and meeting her partner at 62, Stella drew inspiration for her novels, including her first book,...
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The Power of Love over Loss with Becky Galli
Badass Women at Any Age
Rebecca "Becky" Faye Smith Galli's life is marked by resilience despite profound losses. She faced significant challenges, including the death of her brother, her son's degenerative disease and death, her daughter's autism, a divorce, and her own paralysis from transverse myelitis. Despite these challenges, Becky has found strength and purpose through writing which led her to a writing career, authoring books and columns that inspire others with messages of love, loss, and healing. Becky's story highlights the importance of honesty, support systems, and finding positivity and purpose...
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Heal from Hidden Trauma with Elyssa Smith
Badass Women at Any Age
Through her own journey of healing from multiple traumas, including an abusive relationship, Elyssa Smith studied and developed methods to hack the survival brain, rewiring the limiting beliefs that were keeping her stuck. Elyssa is a trauma informed life strategist who helps female executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals squash their limiting beliefs and heal from hidden trauma so they can stop playing small and get to their next level. As a nervous system regulation and mindset mastery expert, she now gets to equip other women with tools and techniques that not only saved...
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Reawakening Creativity with Lori Duff
Badass Women at Any Age
Lori Duff's journey began with strong academic success, which led her parents to steer her towards law school. Initially focused solely on her legal career, Lori truly discovered her love for creative writing after a challenging election loss in 2012. This moment of introspection prompted her to start blogging, humorously chronicling her husband's antics, which then evolved into a more public writing career. Lori is a lawyer, a judge, and an award winning writer. She's a past president of the Georgia Council for Municipal Court Judges, and the National Society of Newspaper...
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Pivoting Careers with Linda Descano
Badass Women at Any Age
Linda Descano's personal journey is an inspiring tale of resilience, adaptability, and unwavering determination. Raised in a traditional Italian Catholic family in South Philadelphia, Linda was instilled with the importance of education by her parents despite their lack of formal schooling. Influenced by strong, hardworking women in her family, Linda embraced the idea that she could be anything she wanted to be—that nothing could hold her back. Linda is a certified financial advisor. She is now global Chief Integration and Marketing Officer for the Havas, Red Network, a Merge Media agency...
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Kickstart your Wellbeing with Terry Tateossian
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Terry Tateossian spent the majority of her adult life in a corporate environment, as an entrepreneur and business owner, all while struggling with significant weight issues. After failing with numerous diets and experiencing serious health scares, she realized that her problem wasn't physical but emotional. By addressing her emotional eating and adopting a holistic approach involving strength training, nutrition, and mindset, Terry managed to break free from the weight gain-loss rollercoaster. Today, she helps other women regain their confidence, ignite their well-being, find their true...
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Elevating Female Athletes with Jamie Mittelman
Badass Women at Any Age
Jamie Mittelman was inspired to live life with passion and fervor after experiencing the loss of her father. A lover of sports and a deep believer in the power of stories to change lives, Jamie found her passion and purpose in elevating women’s stories at the highest level of sports. Jamie is the founder and host of Flame Bearers, a platform dedicated to celebrating and sharing the stories of elite women athletes. With a master's degree in public administration from Harvard and seven years of experience in both the corporate and nonprofit communication sectors, Jamie...
info_outlineFollowing the example set by her mother, Felecia Foster has always dedicated time to community service. Pivoting from her 14 year career in finance to a career in community outreach, Felecia was inspired to dedicate herself, with fierce intention, to the success of women in her community. Felecia is CEO and founder of the Community Inspired Alliance for Women, a non profit organization that champions the aspirations and potential of women of all ages, races, denominations, and economic levels. The Inspire Her girls program is one pillar of this organization and it focuses on bringing education and support to young girls to help them navigate school, relationships, personal safety, social media, and long term lifestyle and career goals. Felecia was recently named a Black Future Maker by AT& T's Dream in Black program.
What You Will Hear in This Episode:
1:32 Felecia’s personal story
5:47 Creation, mission and management of Community Inspired Alliance for Women
12:20 Felecia’s role models and what she has learned about herself
15:45 How Felecia’s experience has influenced the programs CIAW provides for women.
19:40 Understanding the needs of the community and creating supportive partnerships and services
23:18 Building trust and navigating push back
30:50 AT&T Dream in Black program Black Future Maker Award
Quotes
“I always wanted to stand in the gap for other women…….I always felt like I had a voice, I had a strong voice, I didn’t mind using my voice, my voice wasn’t silent.”
“I’m very intentional about making sure that we can support women who need their next steps.”
“We need three people in our life…..we need someone ahead of us, we need someone with us and we need to reach back.”
“What I learned about myself is that I am enough.”
“When we shut the country down nobody thought about the struggle that the parent would have in already dealing with a difficult child.”
“When somebody says you can’t do that, that’s just even more inspiration to get it done.”
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Mentioned:
Community Inspired Alliance forWomen
CHAT: Committed to Helping Another Thrive
My College Life College Safety Fair
Inspired Moms Meet Up
AT&T Dream in Black Black Future Maker
eConnect with Bonnie
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
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