Episode 92: 3 Tips for Interviewing Like a Boss
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
Release Date: 01/24/2022
Episode 305: Develop Your Voice of Impact: Part 2 with Krista Donargo, SGA
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
Before Sara Blakely became the founder of Spanx, her life looked nothing like a success story. She failed the LSAT twice, was told she was “too short” at a Disney audition, and spent seven years selling fax machines door to door—hearing no over and over again. What changed everything wasn’t luck. It was how she treated rejection. Instead of seeing discomfort as failure, she treated it like training. In Part 2 of our Develop Your Voice Impact series, Krista Donargo, SGA unpacks how Blakely learned to fail forward, show up before things felt polished, and turn a scrappy idea into a...
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Episode 304: Develop Your Voice of Impact: Part 1 with Krista Donargo, SGA
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
In part one of our Develop Your Voice of Impact podcast takeover, KLC’s Strategic Growth Advisor, Krista Donargo kicks off a powerful three-part series designed to help high-performing founders become more confident, compelling, and magnetic communicators, online, in person, and on stage. This episode explores why so many accomplished leaders lose their authority the moment a camera turns on or they’re asked to speak publicly, and why it has nothing to do with skill. Krista unpacks the real culprit behind shaky confidence: self-conscious, performance-based communication. Through personal...
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Episode 303: Safety vs Growth
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
In this episode, I’m unpacking one of the most dangerous myths women are taught about success: that “playing it safe” is the responsible choice. This conversation was sparked by a reflection on 2016, the year I started KLC and the year my brother passed away, and a question that stopped me in my tracks: Is my life truly better because I chose growth over safety? What I’ve learned over the past decade is this: safety is often conditional, and comfort can be far more limiting than risk. I take you back to my corporate career at Bayer Healthcare, a role that looked secure by every...
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Episode 302: Bonus: Why Your Injector Isn't Booked
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
Episode 302 is a special bonus episode, and one every aesthetics and wellness founder needs if you’ve hired help but still feel like everything runs through you. You’ve hired a talented provider, invested in training, and yet you’re still carrying most of the revenue load. Patients wait for you. Your injector’s schedule stays open. And before frustration sets in, it’s important to understand the real factors keeping your provider from being fully booked. In this episode, I’m breaking down the 10 reasons your injector isn’t fully booked, from over-reliance on your personal brand...
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Episode 301: My 2026 Predictions
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
This isn’t a conversation about resolutions, hustle, or chasing the next shiny tactic. It’s a grounded, strategic look at what’s actually going to separate thriving practices from struggling ones in the year ahead. In this episode, we zoom out to reflect on the shifts shaping our industry—maturing consumer behavior, increased economic discernment, rapid AI expansion, and the quiet erosion of average experiences—and what those forces demand from today’s leaders. You’ll hear the 10 defining predictions for 2026, including why retention will outperform revenue growth, how client...
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Episode 300: The Best of 2025 (Milestone Episode!)
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
Episode 300 is a milestone, and I wanted to mark it the way we actually grow: by looking back at what worked, what landed, and what leaders kept coming back to when things got loud. This is a recap episode of our most revisited conversations, the ones that sparked the most “I needed this” replies, the ones that turned into team meetings, boundary resets, revenue decisions, and CEO-level pivots. In this episode, I’m recapping: The leadership moves that keep you steady when the outside world feels unstable The culture standards that make great teams possible (and keep turnover from eating...
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Episode 299: Scaling with Confidence: Why CTS Live is the One Big Domino for Your Practice with Krista Donargo, SGA
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
I know what it feels like to be stuck in the "messy middle" of practice growth, that stage where you’ve achieved success, but you’ve also become the absolute bottleneck of your own business. I’ve spent years coaching female founders through this exact inflection point, and in this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on why I created Confidence to Scale LIVE. During this conversation, KLC Strategic Growth Advisor, Krista Donargo, and I break down exactly what you can expect during our upcoming live kickoff in Manhattan Beach on January 9th and 10th. I share my core philosophy that...
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Episode 298: Signs You're on the Verge of a Breakthrough
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
As we approach the end of the year, reflection has a way of stirring up emotions we don’t always talk about, pride, grief, uncertainty, and a quiet sense that something new is forming beneath the surface. In this deeply personal episode, I’m sharing what I’ve been sitting with during a season I don’t love… the season of waiting. The season where the calendar looks full of routine white boxes instead of big launches. The season where you’ve planted the seeds, done the work, and yet the results haven’t fully arrived. The season that asks you to slow down, trust yourself, and expand...
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Episode 297: The Turning Point: Stepping Out of Burnout and Into Confident Leadership with Jolee Hughes, NP-BC
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
In this episode, I’m sitting down with Jolee Hughes, NP-BC for a raw and honest conversation about what it actually takes to build a business that grows without consuming your entire life. If you’ve ever found yourself doing everything, carrying the weight of every decision, or secretly wondering how much longer you can keep pushing at this pace… this conversation will feel like a deep exhale. Jolee shares her journey from being the bottleneck in her business, burned out, overwhelmed, and afraid to let go, to becoming a confident, supported leader with a team she trusts. We talk about...
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Episode 296: The Identity Shift Every High-Level Woman Must Make in 2026
The Fierce Factor with Kaeli Lindholm
In today’s episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of a conversation that’s been unfolding quietly, but urgently, inside the minds of high-level women across the aesthetics and wellness industry. After hosting our annual POP Leadership retreat and receiving an overwhelming wave of private messages about visibility, voice, and leadership, I realized it was time to revisit a topic I first explored over 260 episodes ago: finding, and owning, your truest, most powerful voice. This episode dives deep into the identity shift every high-level woman must make in 2026. Not the shift into...
info_outlineThe hiring process can be daunting, but with some practical insights, a little experience and execution, you can really become a natural at this interviewing piece. And that’s what I want to help you through today.
In this week’s episode I will share with you 3 tips you can use to help you interview like a boss. And stick around because at the end of this podcast I’m going to share with you a special event I’ll be hosting to help you build your interviewing skills, including how to recognize red flags in the interview process immediately so you don’t fall for the same traps I did!
Don’t miss this!
PS- Next week I’ll be hosting a 2 day crash course called: Interview like a Vixen
The event will take place Feb 2 & 3 with a day one session on interviewing strategies and day two, live role play. You’ll be given a comprehensive resource guide to follow along and dissect the live interview. It’s like your own interview lab.
My goal for this session is to help you:
Learn how to interview a candidate like you actually own the place:
- Clue in on my insider tips for expanding your candidate pool
- Learn to immediately recognize red flags in the hiring process
- Grab your popcorn and get a front row seat to a live interview
If you are still listening, you are more than likely a badass aesthetic wellness provider who needs to hire team members, stat. You know that you can't grow without having a solid team behind you. And that may mean you have some tough interviews ahead of you.
Interviewing can be an elusive endeavor. Some employees' best skill is crushing their interview then sucking at their job.
I’m often told “I wish that employee performed as good as their job as they did in their interview”
And the reality is, there is an art to interviewing (and a few practical strategies) that will help you take the driver’s seat, ask the right questions to determine if a candidate is going to cut it in your culture and growing company.
The good news is, you can totally do this. If you want to grow a sustainable business, mastering this skill will be critical because the only way to scale your business in a way that relies on assets (ahem human capital) instead of your precious time and energy is by building a badass team who is capable of lightening our load!
So if you want to take more stress free vacations, sign up for this free crash course pronto.
www.klcconsultants.com/interviewboss
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