This week’s podcast guest is Dr. Tami Berry, a former surgeon and internationally recognized stress resilience expert, who helps people overcome burnout and transform stress into fuel for renewed energy, confidence, and joy. 

Living through her own burnout story, led her to research and develop a process for building stress resilience that helps transform high-levels of stress into a powerful force for life-long fulfillment and success.

In this episode, Dr. Tami shared:

• Her back story of how she became a surgeon, her love for the work and why she couldn’t continue with it due to the high levels of stress and the destructive behavior the stress caused.
• What her downward spiral taught her about the mind and body connection and its combined power to both harm and heal.
• How to recognize the invisible signs of stress.
• Four quick tips to lower stress.

Dr. Tami’s story is a powerful example of what can happen when there is little understanding about the impact of...

My latest guest is Debbie Colbourn, who calls herself an adventurer, former sport car racer, mountain climber, world traveler and a grandma of 4. Her resume and interests are long and varied and she says she’s filled with a need to always be learning and trying new things.

A combination of 25+ years as a professional accountant and guiding 1 to 25 million dollar companies through their life stages, along with an education in Kinesiology, an active competition life in performance dog sports and a desire to improve her own dogs’ fitness for competition, led her, in 2011, to create The Summit, a 7,000 square foot training facility and her first online business: The Fit Body Fit Mind Dog.

In this interview Debbie and I talked about:

• How she created boundaries in her corporate work that supported her adventurous lifestyle
• Her very different and interesting hobbies
• Her biggest fear is and the event in her life that created it
• The ‘bounce back-ability’ that is so...

My guest this week is Liberty A. Baldovino, also known as The Youthful Granny, a content marketer who specializes in writing ebooks, whitepapers, case studies, blogs, emails, and assisting clients with content strategies.

Despite Liberty’s busy schedule, she still finds time for her advocacies - encouraging people in her age group to venture into freelancing and teaching writing to kids and adults.

In this episode, Liberty and I talked about:

• The culture she grew up with and what it’s like living in a 3rd world country
• How she transitioned from a low paying Private School Teacher job to a lucrative online freelancing career
• Her plans for her future and her passion for helping other people her age get started with their own businesses.

Liberty is a great example to other people her age that a late-in-life career shift is possible no matter what your circumstances. Her freelancing journey has also inspired her to start an online community she calls, Freelancing for the...

This week is an interview with Lorna Green, who is a yoga teacher and wellness mentor. Lorna uses a combination of yogic wisdom and science-backed mindset techniques to help burnt-out professionals, who can’t stop hustling, slow down so they can stay on top of their game without sacrificing their health, personal life, and mental wellbeing.

Refusing to take life seriously, but serious about the right things, she is on a mission to show people how to worry less and live more.

In this episode, Lorna shared:

• Her early career in the beauty industry and a valuable tool she learned from that experience - a tool more people need to use. 
• Her experience of illness, bankruptcy and the loss of a 16 year relationship and how she overcame these obstacles.
• How she found Yoga and all the wisdom she learned from her that journey.
• Her great tips on how to worry less.

Lorna’s mantra is: “slow is strong, busy isn’t cool and age is just a number.”  Let Lorna...

My guest this week is Christina Rozema who worked in the non-profit and healthcare fields for 20+ years in a variety of leadership roles. Her background is developing strong, authentic teams that can lead organizations forward, supporting teams and leaders in their development, ensuring that change is rooted in shared values, and successfully delivering complicated projects.

Christina refers to herself as a people-first person, but unfortunately that behavior put her last and likely led to her first stress-induced heart attack that happened at work. It was a wake-up call, especially since she was in the healthcare field.

In this episode, Christina and I talked about:

• Her TWO heart attack experiences and what caused them
• Her biggest lesson from those experiences and her resulting perspective shift.
• Important tips on how to reduce the likelihood of a heart attack and what signs to look for if you think you may be experiencing one. 

Christina committed to her personal recovery...

In this week’s episode, my guest Amy Kelly, is the creator and host of In the Middle of It Podcast. She’s a born-and-raised Texas girl with a passion for the next generation. She’s also a Mom, a writer, an educator, and a voracious reader who is dedicated to helping people connect with the teens in their life.

Amy is passionate about supporting middle school parents and teachers on the front lines with teens. shares actionable strategies and relevant resources that create results for the teens in your life. She also loves discovering the stories of teens and what’s shaped them so far.

In this episode, Amy and I talked about:

• How helping her husband with his dream, made her realize she needed her own dream
• The importance of good boundaries
• Helpful tips for all parents (and grandparents!)

Amy lives with her husband and two teens. You can find her listening to U2, watching Gilmore Girls for the millionth time, or hanging on the patio with...

In this episode, I had a wonderful chat with Elizabeth Henson, founder of The Messy Success Podcast, and Shine The Light Society membership, who has become the go-to expert in community management and leadership.

If you have an online business or are thinking about starting one, or just have a desire to create a like-minded community of people you share similar interests with, Elizabeth wants to help you feel confident and excited about creating and growing your own Facebook Group and spending more time on Facebook to build that community.

In this episode, Elizabeth and I talked about:

- How she ended up becoming a Facebook groups expert

- The most important tip to growing your audience and keeping them interested

- An important trick about Facebook groups and engagement you don’t want to miss

- Great ideas for how to build your Facebook group

Elizabeth believes in the power of relationships and finding our own version of success and desires to be creative and operate from...

Today’s guest is Debbie Viola and one interesting thing about her story is that she really didn’t have a business plan… just a burning desire to figure out a way to make money with her art or else she’d have to get a “real” job if I wasn’t successful.

Debbie first picked up a paintbrush at age 40, and hasn’t put it down since. Her local art & decorative painting business has won seven awards, and is still going strong. 

In this episode, Debbie and I talked about:

• The day her whole perspective shifted
• How art evolved into her life
• The ‘live’ art project she did during the start of the pandemic
• Her story of writing her own book

In addition to creating art for corporate and residential clients, Debbie’s greatest joy is teaching others how to find comfort through art. She’s taught thousands locally, and now hosts virtual workshops and a learn to paint club, where women are enjoying video...

My guest this week is Nancy Dubé, a graduate of my Second Half S.P.A.R.K. School™. I wanted to bring Nancy on and catch up on her life because it's been awhile since I had her on as a guest. I also thought she'd be a perfect guest for the topic I started the year with: living from a place of authenticity in order to have the best year of your life.

Nancy's story exemplifies what happens when you reconnect with your authentic self in the best way possible as she shows how quickly life can change once you recognize there's an issue and commit to doing something about it.

We walk back in time during this interview to when we first met and what was going on with Nancy when she first joined the Second Half S.P.A.R.K. School™.

We discuss the drastic changes she made to reconnect with her inborn personality, once she realized she was in a state of misalignment, after having a typing session with Alex Paulos who I featured in episode #181.

In this episode, we also talked...

Today I'm re-publishing one of my most popular episodes from October of 2020 because I think it's a great way to start out the year - knowing that our best life will only be lived from a place of authenticity, from who we were born to be.

In this episode I interview Alex Paulos, a personality expert and leadership coach and author of the Recognizing People, who I've gotten to know quite well since this interview was first recorded. In fact I just finished a week of 1 on 1 training with him, spending quality time learning his method.

It was truly one of the most amazing experiences of my life as I learned I have a gift of reading people that has been untapped until now. No wonder I've been fascinated with Alex's work! HINT: Let your interests be a sign that lead you to your untapped gifts.

Here's a little a background on Alex and what he does...

Alex has “cracked the code” into providing genetically-based personality assessments based on his intuitive system of...