Your Badass Journey Guest, Yao Huang

Yao Huang started where pretty much everyone else starts: you go to college, graduate, then get a job... but then, like many of us, she got bored. “And when I get bored, I want to try something a little bit more challenging.”

This was at the beginning of the internet boom, so she started a tech company with a bunch of technical friends. “Then, I never went back.” And...

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Your Badass Journey Guest, Lori Turner

I absolutely adore Lori Turner, a self-educated badass who is eight years into her second career as a social media manager. Most people think of social media as a young person’s game – some people are even hesitant to use it for themselves and their business – but Lori joins us today to talk about why you’re never too old to learn a new trick!

Lori is currently Social...

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I love getting rejected, don't you?

It's ok, you can laugh out loud, I know it sounds ridiculous, but it is also true. It wasn't always my stance to welcome rejection, or the fearful NO! I used to worry so much about what the response would be from others when I would put my work out there, that the rejection or critical comments used to cripple me. And then I realized that truly, it was fuel to help me overcome what was...

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Your Badass Journey Guest, Dan Papandrea

It was complete happenstance that I had the opportunity to work with today’s guest Dan Papandrea – and, really, his whole career was happenstance.

Dan went to school for music production and then was employed at Comedy Central as tech support. Following his time there, the tech bug bit him and he made his way to Advent, where we worked together.

Now Dan is Principal Solutions...

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Your Badass Journey Guest, Collette Gee

I have Collette Gee with me on the show today and I can't wait to share this badass shero with all of you.

Collette is a relationship and dating expert, a certified violence prevention specialist, and the author of a new book called Finding Happily: No Rules, No Frogs, No Pretending – a badass shero by any other name.

Collette set out on this badass journey after she was in and...

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Your Badass Journey Guest, Karen Huller

Karen Huller is one of my partners in crime and an epic badass. She manages the Epic Careering consulting and coaching practice, but her career took a lot of twists and turns before she got to this point.

“Let's just say that if you knew me in second grade, you wouldn't probably recognize me emotionally.” Karen’s parents were going through a divorce. It was painful, it hurt,...

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Your Badass Journey Guest, Marlo Ellis

Marlo Ellis is one badass you all need to know. Marlo is the creator The Uncommon Woman movement, and she just started her first leg of The Uncommon Woman Cross Country Tour. The tour is September 29th - October 20th, and they’ll be hitting four Canadian cities: Toronto, Calgary, Thunder Bay, and Vancouver.

Marlo first had the idea for The Uncommon Woman movement and tour three years ago,...

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Your Badass Journey Guest, Jen Meehan

Jen Meehan is one of the most compassionate coaches I know in the business. I wanted to bring her on the show because has been on an epic journey to figuring out how to bring her own personal impact into the world.

One of the things that Jen and I have in common is that we do what I like to call “personal version control.” The idea is that you’re always becoming a new version...

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Your Badass Journey Guest, Al Cavalieri

Al Cavalieri is the Head of Marketing at a CION Investments in NYC. Having been in the marketing space for the better half of a decade and as a former college athlete, Al is super passionate about storytelling, organizational intricacies, what makes the best-of-the-best successful, and the value of hard work.

He's learned that you get out what you put in and in order to succeed, meaning you...

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Am I an Impostor?

Seriously,  the impostor syndrome is real for anyone embarking on something new. It’s even defined in the dictionary as follows:

Impostor Syndrome is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud".

Of course, people feel this way, especially when some are coached to follow the...

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