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Lead Fearlessly
by Katie Winchenbach
Welcome to "Lead Fearlessly: Voices of Confident Women Leaders," the podcast that will empower you to unleash your inner strength and embrace leadership with confidence. Join us as we dive into the experiences of extraordinary women who've shattered glass ceilings and redefined success on their own terms. Get ready to be motivated, challenged, and equipped with the tools and strategies to lead fearlessly in your own life and career.
Episodes
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Season 6, Episode 10: Creating Success with Mackenzie Shelton
Mackenzie Shelton is a real estate team owner, entrepreneur, and speaker with over a decade of experience building and leading high-performing businesses. Licensed in Nebraska and Iowa, she has helped 600+ clients buy and sell real estate since 2019. She equips professionals with practical...
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Season 6, Episode 9: Moving Through Fear with Jane Harris
Jane Harris, founder of The Virgin Hair Fantasy, launched her luxury beauty brand with just $500 and a mission to elevate women’s confidence through transformative hair. Over the past decade, she has grown it into a million-dollar enterprise while balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship. Today,...
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Season 6, Episode 8: Rebuilding with Nancy Benet
Nancy Benet is a licensed CPA, entrepreneur, and CEO of Fix-It Accounting and Success Your Way—an online education platform that empowers women to start and grow businesses aligned with their deepest desires. Her story is as real as it gets. After a divorce left her with four children, no job…
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Season 6, Episode 7: Confidence, Visibility, and Support with Betsy Hamm
Betsy Hamm is a growth strategist, leadership coach, speaker, and former CEO who helps founders, executives, and emerging leaders build stronger businesses, stronger teams, and stronger personal brands. As the former CEO of Duck Donuts, Betsy helped scale the brand from a regional franchise…
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Season 6, Episode 6: Leading Boldly with Jess Kyle
Jess Kyle is the founder of Human First, a Tulsa-based practice built on a simple but radical premise: that the way people treat each other at work actually matters — and that most organizations are failing at it.Jess started Human First after years of watchig companies espouse values they had no...
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Season 6, Episode 5: Scaling Your Impact with Jackie Boyle
Jackie Boyle is a pharmacist, career and executive coach, and advocate for ambitious women in healthcare who are ready to grow without burning out. As a first-generation college graduate who navigated self-doubt and a non-linear path in her own career, she knows what it feels like to question…
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Season 6, Episode 4: Courageous Leadership with Sandra Sundbäck
Sandra Sundbäck is a communication and change strategist, former CEO, and advisor to leaders navigating growth and transformation. With more than 20 years of experience across industry, the public sector, and member-based organizations, she has built a career around helping leaders create...
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Season 6, Episode 3: Owning Your Identity with Urmi Hossain
Urmi Hossain is a self-published author, speaker, podcast host, and finance professional based in Canada. She holds the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) designations and works in the financial services industry, while using her platform to...
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Season 6, Episode 2: Radical Self Trust with Gail O'Halloran
Gail O'Halloran is a Wayfinder Life Coach and a speaker who helps women move from self-doubt to self-trust — especially when they're standing at a crossroads that matters. She didn't take the obvious road to this work. From culinary school and fine dining kitchens to global sourcing and corporate...
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Season 6, Episode 1: Building an Authentic Business with Marissa Campbell
I'm Marissa Campbell, owner of Marissa Elise Photography. I’m a brand photographer serving (or better known as “your bubbly brand photographer”) entrepreneurs throughout Southern Maine (and beyond). As an expert in brand photography, I focus on really getting to know the businesses I work with so…
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Season 5, Episode 12: Courageous leadership through purpose with Olivia de Sousa
Olivia de Sousa is an author and creative voice who uses storytelling as a tool for transformation and self-discovery. Her work invites readers to explore the power of words, healing, and personal evolution through deeply reflective and inspiring content. Connect with Olivia: Book:...
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Season 5, Episode 11: Confident, powerful leadership with Deidra Murphy
Deidra Murphy is a multi-passionate entrepreneur and creative who empowers others through her work and message. She shares insights, resources, and inspiration designed to help individuals grow, evolve, and step into their purpose with confidence. Connect with Deidra: msha.ke/deidramurphy
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Season 5, Episode 10: Alignment drives impact with Dahlia Cummings
Dahlia Cummings is a leadership guide, executive coach, and founder who believes real leadership begins with inner alignment rather than hustle. Her background spans corporate leadership, healthcare HR, and entrepreneurship. She is the founder of DeNeX Enterprises, which includes One-Team HR and...
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Season 5, Episode 9: Step boldly into leadership with Karen Ayoub
Karen Ayoub is the founder of From Seed to Bloom Coaching, where she helps high-performing early career professionals overcome self-doubt and step into their next role or promotion. With a background in biomedical engineering and experience in operations, R&D, and project management, Karen brings…
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Season 5, Episode 8: Leading through healing with Brooke Van Doren
Brooke Van Doren’s healing journey began when her world was turned upside down after discovering her husband’s affair. That experience sent her into emotional freefall and forced her to confront unresolved childhood wounds. Through therapy, she began unpacking trauma, grief, and long-standing...
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Season 5, Episode 7: Empowering small business leaders with Terrina Taylor
Terrina Taylor is a small business consultant and freelance writer specializing in merchant services. With over a decade of experience, she helps businesses simplify payment processing, improve efficiency, and grow sustainably. She is passionate about supporting local and minority-owned…
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Season 5, Episode 6: Clarity and confident leadership with Lindsay Friedman
Lindsay Friedman is a four-time startup founder, including CareBloom and LTCareNav, focused on solving real-world challenges in healthcare and long-term care. She brings hands-on experience building impactful solutions and connecting families with the resources they need to navigate complex care...
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Season 5, Episode 5: Reinvention fuels leadership with Stephanie Figura Carmody
Stephanie Figura Carmody is a publicist, event curator, storyteller, and podcast host with more than two decades of experience in brand and celebrity public relations across New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. Her career includes orchestrating major red carpet events like the Country Music...
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Season 5, Episode 4: Guiding leaders and minds with Preethi Balasubramanian
Preethi Balasubramanian is an author, speaker, and consultant, best known for the Mystic India for Kids series and her business guide, The Ease Equation – Systems + Support = Sustainable Success. Her journey began by writing bedtime stories for her children, with the intention of passing down...
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Season 5, Episode 3: Conscious leadership in action with Dani Margeaux
Dani Margeaux is a Soul Activator and gridworker who guides others into soul remembrance so they can live fully expressed, empowered lives. Through the Akashic Records, quantum healing, and cosmic and galactic frequencies, she channels guidance that supports deep transformation. Her work helps...
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Season 5, Episode 2: Leading with resilience with Michelle Steiner
Michelle Steiner lives with an invisible disability. From the start, many people told her she could not go to college, earn her bachelor’s degree, get published, or have the career she wanted—but she has done all of that and more. She graduated from Slippery Rock University with a bachelor’s…
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Season 5, Episode 1: Empowering women to lead with Dr. Rita Renee
Dr. Rita Renee is an international keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, author, and leadership mentor known for helping women lead with clarity, confidence, and conviction. With over 35 years of experience in nursing and healthcare—and more than two decades in executive leadership—she brings a…
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Season 4, Episode 7: Linda Rossetti
Linda Rossetti is a business leader, Harvard MBA, and pioneering researcher who has dedicated her career to advancing our understanding of individual and organizational transformation. After a life-changing experience with disruption, she turned her expertise to elevating our understanding of how...
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Season 4, Episode 6: Kerry Siggins
I am Kerry Siggins, the CEO of StoneAge, a fast-growing, employee-owned manufacturing and technology company based in Colorado. In 2023, I was honored to be named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year and Colorado’s CEO of the Year. During my 17-year and counting tenure, I have led StoneAge through three...
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Season 4, Episode 5: Trinity Baker
Trinity Baker is a transformational mindset coach and motivational speaker dedicated to helping people lead with clarity, authenticity, and emotional resilience. With a background in nursing and over a decade spent advocating for quality of life in healthcare, Trinity witnessed firsthand the cost...
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Season 4, Episode 4: Erica Rooney
Erica Rooney is a powerhouse in leadership, gender equality, and workplace culture, with over 15 years of HR experience, including her role as Chief People Officer in the tech industry. She’s the bestselling author of Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors and the host of the Glass Ceilings and Sticky...
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Season 4, Episode 3: Julia Michelle
Hi, I'm Julia! I'm an RN, copywriter, and brand voice specialist. I'm from the West Coast of Canada, and now live in Maine with my partner and two pups! Having a background as an RN, it was a big shift for me to start my own business, and one of the hardest parts was figuring out how to talk…
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Season 4, Episode 2: Jamie Crain
Jamie Crain is an Energy Healer, Personal and Power Guide, dedicated to helping others raise their vibration, reclaim their energy, and live in alignment with their highest potential. Through her work, Jamie empowers individuals to release energetic blocks, clear emotional patterns, and reconnect...
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Season 4, Episode 1: Angelika Mazur
Angelika Mazur is a mindset coach, People & Culture leader, and author who is passionate about helping others break free from old patterns and step into their highest selves. After more than a decade leading global HR strategy across startups, high-growth companies, and Fortune 500…
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Season 3, Episode 11: Debbie Wemyss
A New Englander, Debbie Wemyss (weemz) resides in West Palm Beach, FL having enjoyed a 25+ year career in PR, marketing, and fundraising for corporations and nonprofits. She then founded DW Consulting Solutions in 2011 to fill a void in social media offering expert coaching to use LinkedIn...
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Season 3, Episode 10: Amanda Adeleke
Amanda Adeleke is a creative employer brand and marketing strategist who’s passionate about helping people feel connected—to work, to purpose, and to each other. With a background in marketing and communications, she’s spent the last few years building campaigns that not only attract talent but...
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Season 3, Episode 9: Tammy Alvarez
Tammy Alvarez is the CEO of the Career Winners Circle, a professional keynote speaker, author, inspirational coach, and former corporate executive. Her spirited “Break All the Rules” approach blends C-Suite experience with a pragmatic, results-based coaching style that helps business…
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Season 3, Episode 8: Angeline Constantinou
Angeline Constantinou knows the pain of feeling trapped and unheard. After breaking free from an abusive relationship, she made it her mission to help other women do the same. As a Women's Empowerment Partner and founder of Let’s Break the Silence, she created a space for survivors to heal…
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Season 3, Episode 7: Tess Lukey
Tess Lukey is an enrolled citizen of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah and serves as the Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Trustees of Reservations, where she is based at both Fruitlands Museum and deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum. Her curatorial practice centers on the...
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Season 3, Episode 6: Ashley Scott
Ashley Scott is a Christian visionary leader dedicated to the growth and empowerment of BIPOC women as Founder and CEO of Powerful, Beautiful, Fierce Inc., a platform championing representative mentorship. As a TedX speaker, author, and named one of Boston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 in 2024,...
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Season 3, Episode 5: Sarah Forth-Smith
Sarah Forth-Smith is a people-first software engineering leader with over 15 years of experience delivering large-scale, high-impact consumer products. She combines hands-on technical expertise, strategic vision, and empathetic leadership to build teams that thrive and products that matter. As a...
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Season 3, Episode 4: Bianca Stringuini
Bianca Stringuini has recently joined The Stepstone Group to lead DEI, having most recently led DEI globally at Hays and, prior to that, People Experience and Culture at KPMG. Before this, she led DEI, Wellbeing, and Social Impact for Visa, JP Morgan, AIG, and American Express across Asia…
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Season 3, Episode 3: Amanda Younts
Amanda Younts, MA, MEd, is a dynamic leadership and personal growth force. Known as the 'Midlife Catalyst, Amanda empowers leaders and organizations to embrace meaningful change with clarity and confidence. With over two decades of experience in public school leadership and disability advocacy,...
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Season 3, Episode 2: Amy Daughters
Amy Weinland Daughters, Award-Winning Author and Keynote Speaker, believes in a world where what makes us different is the very thing that connects us, instead of separates us. She brings that world to life by helping people reconnect to each other through the power of hand-written letters. She...
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Season 3, Episode 1: Lauren Pope
Lauren is a specialist recruiter in the FemTech and Women’s+ Health space, as part of the wider MedTech team at Metric Bio, dedicated to connecting talent with the companies driving innovation in the industry, encompassing diagnostics, virtual care, medical devices and digital health. With a deep...
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Season 2, Episode 9: Katie Jones
Katie Jones is the CEO & Founder of Nimble Group, LLC, a Certified B Corporation dedicated to curating transformative HR events that educate, connect, and inspire. A visionary leader with a dynamic career spanning event management, leadership development, and product strategy, Katie is passionate...
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Season 2, Episode 8: Cheryl O’Donoghue, MS
Cheryl has held senior executive roles in financial services, corporate education, nonprofit, and healthcare organizations where she was responsible for leading diverse work teams (in HR, Operations, Organizational Development, Community Outreach, Marketing, and Fundraising) and implementing...
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Season 2, Episode 7: Rachelle Sosa
Rachelle Sosa is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 26 years of experience in Logistics specializing in heavy haul and equipment moves. Having successfully owned and operated several businesses she created and also as a Vice President of a large supply chain company. Beyond logistics, she is...
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Season 2, Episode 6: Erica Duran
Erica Duran is a seasoned HR leader with over 15 years of experience in human resources, specializing in talent acquisition. As the HR Director at Ironpaper, a results-driven B2B growth marketing agency, she plays a pivotal role in hiring and supporting high-performing teams across marketing and...
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Season 2, Episode 5: Louwee Shibata
Louwee Shibata is a former professional international figure skater who spent over a decade competing at the highest levels, cultivating resilience, discipline, and a global mindset. Having lived across the U.S., Asia, and Europe, she developed a deep understanding of diverse cultural and…
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Season 2, Episode 4: Stacey Schuler-Cannon
Stacey is a real estate trainer, coach and the owner of The Homes Group powered by EXP Realty. In addition to her enthusiasm for seeing agents grow their mindsets and their businesses, she brings with her fifteen years of experience as a corporate consultant and advanced degrees in Communication,...
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Season 2, Episode 3: Lauren Tetenbaum, LCSW, JD, PMH-C
Lauren Tetenbaum, LCSW, JD, PMH-C ("The CounseLaur") is a social worker specializing in women’s mental health during life transitions, including the perinatal and perimenopausal stages. Through her counseling practice, Lauren provides therapy in NY, NJ, CT, and FL, facilitates groups and coaching...
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Season 2, Episode 2: Jayme Anne Goldberg
Jayme Anne Goldberg is a visionary entrepreneur and Founder of Consequential Flowers, an EdTech company revolutionizing NextGen leadership development through BloomRadius - a responsible AI platform that gamifies essential self-leadership skills not taught in traditional education. With a proven...
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Season 2, Episode 1: Hope LeNoir
Hope LeNoir, founder of Rise and Fly LLC, is a Talent Mobility Consultant, an International Keynote Speaker, and an award winning author with over two decades of expertise in leadership development, career consulting, and business transformation. Her focus is on engaging individual employee…
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Season 1, Episode 11: Diane Darling
Diane Darling is a consultant, keynote speaker, instructor, and leadership coach with over 20 years of experience in researching, developing, and educating on the role of professional networking strategies in individual career development and business performance. Considered a trailblazer in the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to "Lead Fearlessly: Voices of Confident Women Leaders," the podcast that will empower you to unleash your inner strength and embrace leadership with confidence. Join us as we dive into the experiences of extraordinary women who've shattered glass ceilings and redefined success on their own terms. Get ready to be motivated, challenged, and equipped with the tools and strategies to lead fearlessly in your own life and career.
HOSTED BY
Katie Winchenbach
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