After her business partner and best friend died two years ago from mucosal melanoma, a rare type of skin cancer, my guest Sarah Graham Fuhrmann, was forced to figure out how to carry on the indoor rowing business they had founded together 10 years earlier.

It was difficult not only losing someone she loved but also the person, well-known for her rowing expertise, their "icanrow2" business was built around.

Sarah had to deal with her grief, along with the challenges of "imposter syndrome." She wrestled with how she could possibly run the company without the rowing experience her partner had brought to the table.

But she finally realized she had other extremely valuable, and just as important, business experience as well as other strengths, built over a long career of other jobs. And she also had very experienced "rowing" coaches that had been trained in the rowing certification program she and her partner had created.

Now Sarah, even with the challenge of the pandemic and having to...

Sara Roach Lewis is a successful entrepreneur, a recognized expert in gender equality, facilitator, strategist, mentor, coach and radio host. Over the last 15 years, Sara has worked with top female leaders and helped dozens of entrepreneurs scale and grow their businesses.

She has the passion and drive to build a platform for women entrepreneurs and show everyone what they are capable of. Sara leads the way to help businesses grow, provide great opportunities for women, and make ambitions happen, all with a common theme of women supporting women. How awesome is that?!

Listen as Sara shares her own story, dealing with a chronic episodic illness while still managing to double her revenues each year, as well as giving tips on how employing a daily mindfulness and meditation practice helped her through her journey!

Over the past 25+ years my guest has worked with thousands of patients providing impactful change, helping them to heal and improve the quality of their life and ultimately transforming their lives.

Marian Barnick is a Registered Kinesiologist and Movement Therapist. Aside from her Bachelor of Science Degree in Kinesiology, she has certifications from Roy Matheson and Associates, Gray Cook’s Functional Movement Systems, Kinesio-Taping Levels 1 & 2, and the Center for Research on Pain and Disability. Her expertise in evaluating biomechanics and body alignment allows her to develop corrective strategies to teach each body how to move well.

When the body moves well and in alignment, it decreases the stress and tightness that causes pain and creates limitations, it allows better energy flow, joint mobility, and muscle contractions. This improves energy, increases strength and endurance, and allows the body to reach its best potential.

Marian, who clearly practices what...

Having zero experience in farming, with her only exposure with animals in raising two cats and a poodle, my latest guest Deborah Niemann bravely took on the challenge of moving to the country in 2002 to start growing organic food. Although the move was a long time dream of Deborah's, she was a complete novice and learned as she went.

Her desire to grow her own food, turned into raising and breeding goats for her family's dairy needs that include milk, cheese, butter, yogurt and even soap. Deborah’s first 2 goats quickly turned into 20, and her desire to make a simple chévre launched a new career helping others raise goats and learn to be more self-reliant and create a more sustainable life.

Naturally, she encountered lots of difficulties while raising goats without experience. She had goats die, have difficulty getting pregnant & staying pregnant, and often found no vets who could help her. So she began researching on her own and decided to share her knowledge...

Today's guest, Lin Eleoff is the founder and Queen Badass of The Woman UP Project, a training company dedicated to promoting an entrepreneurial lifestyle for women. She inspires women to break free of the rules and limiting beliefs they were taught to follow for so many years. Lin is a business coach who teaches coaches, consultants and experts, and is widely considered to be a "coach's coach."

Lin is also lawyer and former television news journalist. Now her main life mission is coaching women to build powerful and profitable online businesses. From her words, ‘I teach women how to treat life like a business. Businesses have goals and expectations and outcomes. If they don't, well, they go out of business.’ A strong message that she is very passionate about. She has also written several books about diet, life coaching and business.

In Lin's latest endeavor, she teaches women how to write a mighty, tiny book because she believes a book is one of the most...

Joy Pereira is the Founder and Chief Creator at Joy Pereira Creative, where she mentors and guides employees, new entrepreneurs and business owners to take action, pivot, develop unique ideas, passion projects and side hustles; to achieve creative growth, momentum and establish new foundations, through online programs, 1 on 1 and creative frameworks in the digital space.

She also facilitates online communities to collaborate, connect and transform their careers and lives by supporting women to be seen on social media and Go Live on camera to amplify their work, life and business and brings a wealth of diverse production experience, creative leadership, technical expertise, and processes that include well-being and mindfulness practices.

Joy has worked across a diverse range of productions over the last 23 years at the iconic Sydney Opera House. Her theatrical and event experience as a Production Stage Manager at the forefront of performance, has seen her lead and deliver thousands...

Do what you love and find your joy! This episode is a great reminder to all of us that we have no idea what will happen when we just do the things we love. And when we do, the universe responds and opportunities open up.

My guest Nancy Nelson has an inspirational story of a late in life business that fell into her lap when she wasn't even looking! It all started with her love for crafts and wanting to find a unique birthday gift for her grandson.

So she found an old kid's table at a thrift store and dressed it up with a colorful mosaic. Little did she know, that the gift, which she posted on social media, would lead to lots of compliments and a business idea, as people started to notice and appreciate her work.

To see Nancy’s work and connect with her, you can reach her through:

Website: https://www.whimsiesbyjubilee.com/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/whimsiesbyjubilee/

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After a 30-year career in telecommunications, where she authored magazine articles, white papers, and technical assessment reports, in this week’s episode, my guest Heidi Herman turned to fiction writing full-time, as inspired by her mother’s example. She likes to call herself a second-generation life adventurer, a philosophy she learned from her exuberant Icelandic mother. Whether it's learning to fly an airplane, paragliding in Iceland, or attempting to create recipes to make vegetables tasty, Heidi believes every experience in life is to be savored.

Listen as she shared her story on how she jumped into early retirement to pursue her passion in writing fiction. Not only that, she also opened up about the impact of her father's cancer diagnosis; stage three esophageal cancer at the age of 88. He beat the odds and overcame it, which altered Heidi’s thinking to balance more 'responsible living' with 'enjoyable living' and making the best out of your life.

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What a great story of commitment and perseverance! I have no doubt you will be inspired by the changes Heidi has made, over a very short time this summer, and is now waking up motivated and energized.

Please reach out to Heidi on social media if you like this episode and let her know. And if you're curious about her podcast "Acres of Life Lessons" and would like to listen, you can find it here.

Don't forget to leave her a review!

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Today you'll hear an inspirational story from Esta McIntyre who dealt with a lifetime of weight challenges due to the bad habits passed down to her by her obese parents. But the late-in-life fitness transformation she shares just goes to show you that it's never too late to get in shape OR start a new career. 

Esta is 65 years young, a food lover and non-enthusiastic exerciser. She is very passionate and committed in helping people find their “Custom Fitness Blueprint" in achieving their fitness goals. 

She's also the founder of My Health Studio in Westlake Village, a 15 year old boutique fitness and wellness studio offering the finest in group, semi-private and private fitness, CPR and wellness education.

Her story is a true evidence that determination and strong mindset is the key to achieving whatever you desire. She completed her training from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Precision Nutrition as well as many other respected accredited institutions....