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From Franchises to Freedom with Jana Franklin – Ep.352

Release Date: 11/26/2025

Trusted Leadership Starts With Your Voice with Julie Holunga – Ep.361

Wickedly Smart Women

What if the way you speak is the most powerful leadership tool you’re underutilizing? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Julie Holunga, to explore how trust, communication, and intentional leadership language shape influence at every level of an organization. Julie shares her journey from nonprofit and corporate leadership into building a consulting practice rooted in integrity, trust, and meaningful impact. If you’re a heart-centered leader, consultant, or professional considering a transition into more purpose-driven work, this episode offers...

When the Soul Calls for More with Aleksandra Ceho – Ep.360

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What if the feeling that something is missing in your career isn’t confusion, but wisdom trying to get your attention? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Aleksandra Ceho, whose work bridges the worlds of spirituality, leadership, and business strategy. Aleksandra shares her remarkable journey from studying kinesiology and working in motor vehicle accident clinics to building a thriving astrology practice rooted in authenticity, self-awareness, and aligned decision-making. If you’ve ever felt like a square peg in a round hole or sensed that there is...

Reshaping the Beliefs That Shaped You with Tracy Doyle – Ep.359

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What if burnout isn’t proof you’re failing but proof something in you is begging to change? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Tracy Doyle, author of Life Storms: Finding Your Clear Sky and creator of the Aurora Method. Tracy shares the childhood trauma and survival patterns that shaped her drive, her leadership, and her belief that sacrifice meant abandoning herself. If you’ve ever felt like you have to hold everything together, this episode will meet you right where you are and offer a real path forward. What You Will Learn: How early...

Healing, Intuition, and the Courage to Pivot with Julie Ryan – Ep.358

Wickedly Smart Women

What if everything you’ve done in your career has been preparing you for something far more expansive than you ever imagined? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Julie Ryan, world-renowned medical intuitive, psychic medium, inventor, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of Angelic Attendance. Julie shares her extraordinary journey from founding nine companies across five industries to fully stepping into her intuitive and spiritual calling later in life. This episode is a powerful reminder for women feeling called to leave corporate, pivot their careers,...

Building a Purpose-Driven Product After 40 with Liat Kaplan – Ep.357

Wickedly Smart Women

What happens when a high-achieving corporate leader realizes her legacy must be about more than titles, promotions, and golden handcuffs? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Liat Kaplan, a global product innovation leader turned founder and CEO, to explore what it truly takes to leave corporate life, trust your inner conviction, and build something that matters. If you are a woman standing at the edge of change, questioning whether it’s “too late” to start something meaningful, this conversation will remind you that your most important work may still...

Healing Emotional Eating at the Root with Amber Romaniuk – Ep.356

Wickedly Smart Women

What if your “willpower problem” with food was never about food at all? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Amber Romaniuk, an emotional eating, digestive, and hormone expert with 12+ years of experience. Amber shares the childhood roots of emotional eating, the intense turning point that forced her to face her own binge-restriction patterns, and the multidimensional healing path that led to true body freedom. This episode explores why feeling emotions can feel unsafe and how to create real nervous system safety. What You Will Learn: A clear...

Finding Belonging, Purpose, and a Cause That Matters with Silvia Resnik – Ep.355

Wickedly Smart Women

What if the “perfect life” is actually the most convincing hiding place for emptiness? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Silvia Resnik, a fulfillment and purpose coach for high-achieving women. Silvia shares how a lifelong ache for connection shaped her drive to achieve. The conversation also goes deeper into the tension between honoring cultural traditions and evolving practices that harm women, including the urgent reality of female genital mutilation and how Silvia’s organization, Empower Her, is working from within community partnership to...

Soul Assignments, Power Tools and Breaking Generational Chains with Steffani LeFevour – Ep.354

Wickedly Smart Women

"We wake up every morning as a soul in a human body. That alone should be so incredibly fascinating to us." What if the hardest things you've lived through weren't punishments, but assignments your soul chose to help you grow? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Steffani LeFevour, modern-day soul strategist and author of You Are a Badass Mom and the forthcoming book Soul Assignments. Stteffani shares how childhood trauma, an alcoholic father, and the tragic loss of her sister cracked her open to a lifelong search for spiritual truth. What You Will...

How Horses Help Women Break Free from Burnout with Sue Willoughby – Ep.353

Wickedly Smart Women

“Horses don’t care if you’re afraid. They care if you’re honest.” In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Sue Willoughby, founder of Willoughby Coaching, certified equus coach, real estate investor, and a woman who has rewritten her life more times than most people dare to dream. Raised by a single alcoholic parent and a two-time high school dropout, Sue charted a path from instability to a six-figure career, a multidimensional portfolio of work, and a coaching practice rooted in the intuitive wisdom of horses. If you’re feeling the whisper that...

From Franchises to Freedom with Jana Franklin – Ep.352

Wickedly Smart Women

“Anytime my managers are not out front, a problem happens. I want them where they can actually make the store money.” In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Jana Franklin, serial entrepreneur, franchise expert, and CEO of CEO Concierge. Jana shares her experiences scaling brick-and-mortar franchises and how the pandemic inspired a major pivot. If you’re an executive overwhelmed by operations or a woman entrepreneur considering consultancy, this episode offers actionable advice and the inside scoop on delegation done right. What You Will Learn: How a...

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If you’re an executive overwhelmed by operations or a woman entrepreneur considering consultancy, this episode offers actionable advice and the inside scoop on delegation done right.

What You Will Learn:

How a corporate fashion merchandising start laid the foundation for franchise management and people skills.

The power of starting a business before getting entrenched in corporate.

What it took to open, scale, and eventually sell multiple Fantastic Sams salons.

How 80-hour weeks forced Jana to confront what she loved about her role.

Why virtual assistants can “clone” your strengths.

Creative ways brick-and-mortar businesses use virtual assistants.

Building trust and growing into delegation.

Addressing common fears: control, trust, cost, and support for first-time outsourcers.

How women can add niche roles as their business scales.

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