Mindset For Success

Somebody Like Me Can Do It - Kristin Jekielek

After earning an honors degree in astrophysics, Kristin Jekielek consulted for a Fortune 50 company for 12 years. During that time, she side hustled, launching diet apps and websites. To promote her products, she learned how to craft marketing videos from home. After mastering production techniques, demand for her videos and video expertise skyrocketed, which led her to launch ValueVideo.Marketing.

Find What You Want To Do - Britt Williams Baker

Britt is a Harvard Business School graduate, expert investor, and money mindset coach. She is on a mission to serve those who have traditionally been left out of the financial world. Britt heals her clients’ stories around money and simplifies finance with her signature step-by-step process. She makes saving fun and getting out of debt possible for women+ from all backgrounds.

Legal Entrepreneur and Mental Health - Jamie Lieberman

Guest Jamie Lieberman left the corporate law world and made the big leap to open her own firm, where she advises small companies to flourish by providing them an easy way to understand legal structure. Important traits for her success include her love for learning new things and thinking outside the box. Jamie shares some of her psychological obstacles to success, such as her internal critic and the fear of failure, and offers that not to get stuck in the negative chatter; she doesn’t always read what her competitors are doing.

Documentary Entrepreneur and Mental Health - Jia Wertz

Guest Jia Wertz successfully worked in the glamorous corporate world of fashion for 20 years before stepping off to have her son and become a film producer for wrongful convictions. Important traits for her success include having a passion for her work and her strong family values: working hard and helping those in need. Jia shares that to overcome feeling like she is an imposter or doesn’t always fit in, she has learned how “to be fine with saying I don’t know.”

Digital Entrepreneur and Mental Health - Nicole Lipkin

Guest Nicole Lipkin, a serial entrepreneur, grew up with parents who exposed her and her brother when they were young to understand business and marketing, which naturally led her to become an entrepreneur as an organizational psychologist. Important traits for her success are how to pivot and bootstrap in the face of adversity. To overcome bringing too many emotions into business decisions, she has learned the importance of building a team with diverse strengths in Emotional IQ and effective decision-making practices.

Transportation Entrepreneur and Mental Health - Melissa Priest

Guest Melissa Priest successfully worked in sales for 10 years at FedEx before she made the jump to open her own business for transportation consultancy. Important traits for her success include knowing “that I know what I know,” having a sense of integrity, and the ability to plan for the future. Melissa shares how finding support in a community of women entrepreneurs/friends has helped her overcome her internal critic and not always having the courage to be herself.

Constraints Fuel Change - Joanna Bloor

After a long successful career in tech/media startups, Guest Joanna Bloor began her own coaching business for executives to live up to their potentials. She has overcome her psychological using, long solitary walks away from everything, and remembering that work is an “adventure” where rules “must” get broken to usher in new opportunities.

I Don‘t Know Any Other Way - Nisa Amoils

Guest Nisa Amoils left corporate Investing 7 years ago and became “mission-driven” to help fund women entrepreneurs thru Angel Consulting. She is the author of “Wtf Is Happening: Women Tech Founders on the Rise.” She overcomes her psychological struggles by her long-term determination to increase investment for women and minorities business, her supportive family, and learning from her failures.

They Zigged, I Zagged - Janet Aizenstros

Dr. Janet Aizenstros started a company at 31 to empower women through mentoring, technology, and a Research Institute. Good friends, family, spirituality, and her commitment to take care of herself daily are how she overcomes the psychological struggles she has faced while building her successful business.

Never One Solution - Candi Dalipe

Guest Candi Dalipe, after a long successful career as an executive search for Russell Reynolds, began her own executive search firm 15 years ago. In times of difficulty, she is reminded of her love of geometry and the “no one” solution out there. Good friends also serve as trustful sounding boards.