Here are the highlights of my interview with Irene McKenna: Creating Peace in Parenting on Women Developing Brilliance®.

Who is Irene McKenna?

Irene is the owner and founder of Irene McKenna Coaching, the host of the Facebook Community (and soon to be podcast) The Moms Hive and is the creator of the digital course, The Peaceful Parent Playbook. 

She is a parenting coach who empowers moms to cultivate inner peace and awareness to create peace, joy and connection in their family. She guides moms into a powerful mindset shift that allows them to shift their approach to parenting and choose calm in whatever chaos they might be in. It is in this shift that a child's behavior will change. She has the honor to bear witness to the amazing transformation in her own family as well as her clients.

Irene is the mama to two amazing little humans who inspire her daily to grow and learn. She is blessed to raise these two little boys with the love of her life and biggest supporter. She...

Here are the highlights of my interview with Lynsay Gould: Choose Courage on Women Developing Brilliance®.

Who is Lynsay Gould?

Lynsay is a Podcasting and Business Coach who helps entrepreneurs to start and grow profitable podcasts to help them grow their businesses. 

She's also the host of the Choose Courage podcast which shares stories of courage to inspire people to take action in their lives and business.

Lynsay lives in Cheshire in the UK with her husband, two daughters and a gazillion pets!

Lightbulb moment

Lynsay began her journey as a Podcasting & Business Coach after a long career in Human Resources. She found that what she loved about her job of 20 years was the ability to help people progress in their careers. However, as she moved up the ranks, she realized that her job was becoming less and less about the people, and that is when she had her lightbulb moment.

 Lynsay quit her job and started helping other women quit their jobs and start their...

Here are the highlights of my interview with Terra Osterling: Sudden Write Turn on Women Developing Brilliance®.

Who is Terra Osterling?

Terra Osterling is a freelance writer who sees words as beautiful and powerful. To honor that power and beauty, and to make sense of the world around her, she is constantly seeking out ways to learn the stories that make up The Big Picture. This especially means connecting with people and their stories.

Connecting people—and connecting WITH people—is an important part of her business model and writing process. Terra works for all sizes of businesses, from solopreneurs to large companies, writing a variety of creative and brand-savvy internal and external business communications.

Lightbulb moment

Terra’s love for words started as soon as she could read. For as long as she can remember, Terra has always been writing, playing with words, and honoring the power of words and just how influential they can be. 

Terra...

Here are the highlights of my interview with Genecia Alluora: Soul Rich Woman on Women Developing Brilliance®. 

Who is Genecia Alluora?

Genecia Alluora is former Miss Singapore and Southeast Asia Woman of Excellence 2010.

She is the Founder of Soul Rich Woman, the #1 female entrepreneur network in Southeast Asia that connects more than 12,000 women across the region, with presence in 7 countries including Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia. 

Prior to this, she was an owner of a cafe retail chain with a presence in 3 countries and successfully exited to a public listed company. 

Profiled in CNBC and China Daily, Genecia is also an expert public speaker and has spoken in recent major events, including the RISE Conference in Hong Kong, Success Conference and Expo Asia 2018 in Hanoi, and National Achievers’ Congress in Manila.

Lightbulb moment

Genecia’s lightbulb moment manifested during a time when she was an image...

Here are the highlights of my interview with Linda Heeler: Live Life Inspired on Women Developing Brilliance®.

Who is Linda Heeler?

As an ontologically-trained coach, Linda provides her clients with the tools and skills necessary so they immediately begin to transform their lives. She brings a unique set of skills developed from her experience as someone who has lived with anxiety. 

Linda is a 2010 graduate of Accomplishment Coaching’s Coach Training Program in NYC. After graduating, she earned a place on AC’s Leadership Team where she trained and mentored coaches for an additional 2 years. She has over 500 hours of coach training and has earned her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coach Federation. Before becoming a coach, Linda worked as a Registered Dental Hygienist in the Rochester area for 27 years.

Lightbulb moment

According to the outside world, Linda had it all. Underneath, Linda thought she was...

Here are the highlights of my interview with Lou Stokes: The Style Editor on Women Developing Brilliance®.

Who is Lou Stokes?

Style & confidence coach, certified yoga & meditation instructor, published author and International speaker. Born in London, Lou has worked, studied and lived in many corners of the world from Australia to Asia, USA and Europe. She always has itchy feet and loves to travel and finds much of her inspiration in different cultures and lifestyles. 

Following an eating disorder and finding yoga as her savior and a way to express and heal herself, Lou became a yoga teacher and wrote my first book, Boney & I, Anorexia, Ustrasana & the lost apple core which she self published in 2013. 

Now, Lou helps woman to transform from the inside out through self love, energy, confidence, wellness and style using strategies, tools and mindset to become the magnetic woman they were born to be.

Lightbulb moment

After working with women in the...

Here are the highlights of my interview with Tricia TenEyck : Life Made Simple on Women Developing Brilliance®.

Who is Tricia TenEyck?

Tricia is a SJFC graduate with a degree in communications + marketing. After college Tricia worked as a real estate assistant and excelled at creating systems and organizing solutions so that a busy business could run smoothly each day. While this was her expertise, she knew she could put this passion to better use. She began organizing in her family and friends homes; smiling each time they told her how much she simplified their lives for the better. 

 Tricia TenEyck is the owner and lead organizer of Life Made Simple. Tricia lives in Fairport with her boyfriend of 10 years (high school sweethearts!) and her cat Penny. She enjoys taking long walks in her neighborhood, trying out new baking recipes, hosting game nights with friends, and catching up on her favorite shows under a blanket.

Tricia wakes up happy each day knowing she has...

Here are the highlights of my interview with Cylvia Hayes: Certified Empowerment Coach on Women Developing Brilliance® .

Who is Cylvia Hayes?

Cylvia Hayes is a Certified Empowerment Coach and Trainer, an award-winning environmental and anti-poverty activist and the former First Lady of Oregon. She helps people at mid-life reinvent their lives, careers, and identities and reclaim peace, power, and purpose. A committed social change-maker, she is founder and CEO of 3EStrategies and Cylvia Hayes Enterprises. Her book, When Life Blows Up: Peace, Power, and Reinvention will be out soon!

Cylvia has led a very unconventional life – starting out as a cowgirl and farm kid, surviving deep trauma, winding up on her own at 16, working as a heavy equipment operator and playing scholarship soccer to pay for becoming a first-generation college graduate. Later founding successful businesses, traveling to over 20 countries (so far), being appointed by governors and even serving...

Here are the highlights of my interview with Elli Runkles: Sales + Launch Copywriter on Women Developing Brilliance.

Who is Elli Runkles?

Elli Runkles is a Sales + Launch Copywriter for coaches and creative entrepreneurs at ellirunkles.com, and creator of the Copywriter on Call program. She helps her clients from solopreneurs to 7-figure business owners harness the power of written words in order to boldly declare their value and attract more of their ideal clients. Elli is on a mission to empower women business owners to banish their fear of being “salesy” and learn how to use copywriting to sell with ease and empathy.

 Lightbulb moment

There wasn’t 1 exact “light bulb” moment per se that brought Elli to this career.

She contributes coming to her niche through a series of events on a very windy road.

Knowing she didn’t want the conventional 9-5 pm kind of life is what drove her to relocate from the US to Madrid, Spain.

Elli says you just...