Brilliant You Podcast With Janet Zaretsky

As entrepreneurs, we face a litany of mental challenges that can derail our business. Not to mention the external challenges we face. If we’re not battling our own self doubt, loneliness and overwhelm, we’re dealing with non-entrepreneurs who wonder why we don’t just ‘get a job.’ My guest on the podcast this episode has been an entrepreneur for several decades, successfully running a variety of businesses in health, marketing, and now in personal development. She knows these challenges first hand and through the eyes of her clients. But she says, there is one thing that keeps her on track. One thing that can keep any entrepreneur on track, no matter how many challenges they face. In this episode, she reveals how you can develop a practice of inquiry that will lead you to that one thing. Lisa Engels is passionate about helping conscious entrepreneurs find their purpose so that they can serve humanity with their gifts. She is a social evolutionary working toward a new humanity that is free and expansive. In add

One of the biggest challenges facing young business women today is that they have limited role models. Now imagine the role model limitations faced by an African American woman in a predominantly latino city. My guest on the podcast this episode conquered these challenges to become the CEO of an impressive advertising agency in Texas (among a long list of other accolades). But, she’s now just patting herself on the back. She’s making a concerted effort to be visible in the community so that young women and girls have what she didn’t have - a role model. Leslie Wingo is President and CEO of Sanders\Wingo, a full service advertising agency with offices in Austin, El Paso, Atlanta and New York. Her company has handled major brand accounts including State Farm, AT&T and KFC. She’s received numerous career accolades, is considered an advertising industry leader, and serves on multiple charitable boards. In this episode of the Brilliant You Podcast, we discuss the prejudice that so many minority women face in t

Hi, how are you? No. Really, how are you? It’s a question that we ask and answer everyday but all too often, there’s no weight to our query. It’s just a passing greeting. My guest on the podcast this episode knows first hand how impactful that question can be when it’s asked and answered earnestly. That when we really ask, and we truthfully answer, we give space to a discussion about our feelings and our mental health. Courtney Blanton is the Executive Director of the Hi How Are You Foundation, an Austin-based, nonprofit organization that raises awareness, and funds research around mental health issues. It also works to erase the taboo associated with being open and discussing mental health issues. In this episode of the Brilliant You Podcast, she shares her truth about living with depression, learning to confidently give voice to her reality, and pivot from running a interior design business (for 17 years) to the nonprofit world. Starting the foundation came from her desire to decrease the stigma around ment

Words matter. Words can change the stories we tell, how we present ourselves and even, how we shape our reality. I’ve long been a lover of language. I believe language is everything and sometimes, it’s all we have. So, I was really excited to invite Liz Feezor on the Brilliant You Podcast. Liz is a fellow language lover, a writer and creative. She has recently left an impressive career in corporate America to share the power of words with entrepreneurs and businesses. What does that mean? Quite simply, she’s using language to help others transform their message, their brand, their business culture, and their reality. Plus, she shares insights from her former life (working in HR) about the gender wage gap and how language can play a big role in ending it. As you may know, this is my personal mission and I was really inspired by what she had to say. In this episode, Liz shares what it was like to leave a comfortable career and lean into the struggle of starting a business based on her lifelong passion. And, how

Have you ever looked at the social media of a fellow business women doing their thing in some tropical location and felt a pang of jealousy? My guest today was on the other side of that jealousy when she ran her consulting business from Bali. But, paradise didn’t last. I couldn’t be more thrilled to share my conversation with powerhouse business woman and coach, Kim Carpenter. In this episode of Brilliant You, she shares what went wrong with her perfect digital nomad life and how that obstacle (and several more) forced her back onto the path she belonged. Plus, we travel to the future so we can envision the world we want to start building today. If you’re feeling stuck in a rut with your business; if you’re telling yourself lies about why you can’t make your dreams come true; if you’re getting in your own way - you need to hear Kim’s story! She reveals how the roadblocks just kept coming until she was willing to go after her true purpose. She also shares how she had to look in the mirror and admit she wasn’t

Are you powerhouse business woman eager to grab opportunity by the balls, break through barriers, and smash through the glass ceiling? Whether you’re just starting out as an entrepreneur, a C-level executive or anywhere in between, this podcast is for you. Janet Zaretsky hosts the Brilliant You Podcast with one goal in mind - to empower women to be unapologetic, powerful and confidently own their brilliance as a business woman. Janet is an author, speaker and master coach with over 2 decades of experience. Her TEDx talk “The Apology Trap” and her  book “Where’d My Confidence Go...And, How Do I Get it Back” have changed lives. Janet prides herself on being a straight-shooter. So, if you’re empowered and motivated by speakers like Sheryl Sandberg, Brené Brown, Margie Warrell, and Mel Robbins, you’ll love her style. Each episode of the Brilliant You Podcast promises to be empowering for powerhouse professional women. It covers topics like confidence, success and money mindset, motivation, communication, dealing