Rise To Success

Naomi's journey to health was riddled with sugar addiction, compulsive behaviors and emotional struggles. Through education and a bit of curiosity, Naomi has learned food is not one more thing to control nor nutrition something to disregard. Her belief that food (and life!) can be fun inspires people to change. Naomi is a former personal trainer and yoga instructor. She's also a certified Holistic Health & Nutrition Coach, as well as a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Integrated Time Line Therapy. We talk about  having the courage to sit down with yourself to look at your relationship with food NOT from a place of judgement, but form curiosity, and Naomi shares powerful strategies to help you create a new relationship with food. And we open up the conversation around entrepreneurship and health, and the struggle that entrepreneurs in particular have with taking care of themselves. You can connect with Naomi through her website: www.naomicalderon.com And hangout with her on F

Do you wear "busy" like a badge of honour? Do you pride yourself on being super busy in your business with all the things?  Or are you feeling the burnout from the responsibilities? Merideth invites you to look at how being busy is affecting your business and your life.  Learn how to minimize the busy and maximize your productivity by doing less. Get the Goals Made Simple video workshop here: bit.ly/goalsmadesimple104

  When I was first inspired to create the Rise to Success podcast, I had a very singular vision: to share with you the stories of women and men who have found success on their own terms.   Lila Simmons has taken some brave steps to overcome what she calls her stories of abandonment and betrayal by those who we would expect would love her most. She tells us how her life's changing point was the moment she decided that it was OK for her to put raising my children as her top priority, even above providing for them. That moment actually allowed her to be able to go from veritable homelessness to actually providing for us. Lila is a woman of multiple geniuses on a mission to uplift women who feel overwhelmed, heartbroken and lost into a space of more peace, power and freedom so they can live the lives the choose to live. Lila's Light provides actualization coaching and energy healing for women who crave more peace, power and freedom. You can find her at www.lilasimmons.com, and you can check out the show notes for

Merideth Bisiker goes solo in this episode and helps you set a goal that feels good to YOU and shows you how to implement a plan that makes it easy to achieve your goal. Merideth knows how to prioritize like a boss: She's a mama to two girls.  One is a busy pre-teen and the other has special needs.  She also shares her time between working part-time in government finance and growing her business.  When Merideth sits down to work on her business, she wants to do the right things, EVERY TIME! Learn how to set a goal that comes out of the IMPACT you want to make in your clients' lives, and which things you should be doing today so that you achieve your goal. Merideth also gives you some useful tips about how to keep a healthy mind and attitude when it comes to working through your plan. Download your Goals Made Simple training here: bit.ly/goalsmadesimple104 Join the Rise to Success Community here: www.facebook.com/groups/risetosuccess

Working as a coach is Linda's passion. After her marriage ended while an expat living in Panama, she returned to Canada  to rebuild her life and to pursue her dream of becoming a coach. Through her coach training at CTI (The Coaches Training Institute) she processed the hurt of the divorce and realized that her marriage had failed in large part due to her inability to communicate well. Once finished her coach training she set her niche on helping others to improve their communication skills as she had been doing ever since the marriage ended.  She now teaches clients how to first  find their Courage, then improve their Communication to finally help achieve that deeper Connection we are all searching for. Without good communication skills and a self awareness of what we are doing in our conversations we will continue to do and get what we always did from our relationships, both professional and personal, which is often the exact opposite of what we wanted. As a money coach, and as a wife, I understand how impo

Justin describes himself as the Mindhacker for entrepreneurs. He helps entrepreneurs shed their issues in minutes rather than months. In this episode Justin shares some powerful metaphors to help you understand how hypnosis helps you get results.  It’s a calm safe practice that helps you shed fears and overcome stresses that keep you small, and it also helps you get out of your own way. I know you’ll also love Justin’s way of describing success, and you’ll hear about his own journey from escaping a life that had him feeling like an empty husk to the life that he lives now where he understands what it means to be alive.  You can connect with Justin at his website www.brilliantspark.com, and he’s been kind enough to create a gift for Rise to Success podcast listeners only and you can find that at http://brilliantspark.com/rts.

An inspiring conversation about how you don’t have to make your business your “side hustle.” In fact, you can have a job you love and a business you love and give priority to both.  You can have it all.   As a Freedom Catalyst, Transformational Mindset & Confidence Coach, and founder of the Women’s Side Hustle Society, Gina is on a mission to empower stressed and busy working women who are building their business on the side while working a full time job to create an exit strategy and execute the process with less stress and more ease and grace. She helps wome feel less like jumping off a cliff and more like strategically taking the stairs as they meld their working life and entrepreneurial life together. For over 4 years Gina has helps dozens of women discover what they truly want from life and succeed in creating an action plan to get there. Her specialty lies in helping women define and then create their unique version of freedom in a way that feels good through addressing stress, limiting beliefs, fea

Nikki Thomas is a Global Performance Coach specialising in coaching ambitious professionals in their careers and personal lives. A colleague of The Coaching Academy, The Institute of Leadership and  Management (ILM). She’s  also an NLP practitioner and DISC profiler who frequently writes for the Huffington Post and other titles on topics surrounding careers and mindfulness. We talk about success is finding and following your passion, and realizing that we all have a path in this life, we just need to listen to ourselves and find it in order to have that happy life we’re seeking. We hear Nikki share with us how she was coaching others for years but it was only at the beginning the of 2016 that she realized that she was coaching everybody else and not herself.  She discovered she was living a lie and made a monumental – and scary – change in her life. Nikki now helps others to break free from their unfulfilling careers and lives, realise their full potential and gives support and realise their full potential

You’ll hear me joke with Laura in the beginning of this episode that it feels to me like we were twins separated at birth.  While Laura is a business coach and helps her clients implement strategies that feel right for them, she actually asks her clients to commit  first to fostering the right mindset for business and for their lives, because without that, they’ll stay stuck. Laura shares her story of transformation in her career.  As she was nearing the end of her work as a PhD student in science, she realized that she wasn’t meant to work in a lab alone.  She’s a people person, and after she completed her schooling, she moved into corporate doing a lot of business improvement work.  Over the years she’s taken her scientific curiosity and blended it with her understanding of what motivates people, and is now self-employed and helping other business owners achieve success.  Laura tells us how most businesses try to grow the inside out way, and gives us a unique perspective on how we should be creating our off

Lindsey empowers creative kids and their families by showing them how they can leverage curiosity to experience more success learning math, science, and engineering. Lindsey uses everyday experiences to make difficult math and science content accessible, relevant, and fun. As an academic empowerment coach, Lindsey works with students one-on-one and has more widely-available educational resources to strengthen the academic confidence of creative kids. We geeked out over brain talk, and what will especially interest you is our conversation about how adults can shift their patterns of thinking, even when we feel like we’re just old dogs who can’t be taught new tricks.  We also talk about failing fast and hard, and how that’s a REALLY good thing to learn how to do as entrepreneurs and as students.  You can reach out to Lindsey at www.opportunityunlocked.com, and you can download one of her incredible resources at www.opportunityunlocked.com/everyday-curiosity.

  Julie is a Personal Mastery Coach and  the creator of the Inner Core Coaching system, which she created by combining her own personal life experiences with over 20 years of formal career coaching for both public and private sector,regular yoga / meditation practices, Body Centred and Co-active Coaching expertise, along with an education in Adult Education, Journeywork, Grief work and Social Services. You’ll hear how Inner Core Coaching serves soulful and purposeful women globally. It's for women who have tried to satisfy their hunger by creating a material foundation for their lives through career, family, home, yet feel like they’ve lost themselves in the process, leaving them feeling unsatisfied and antsy.  Julie also shares a life-changing event that in her words,, reminded her who she was and got off her butt and made her conscious to get out and do bigger things in the world. You can connect with Julie via her website www.innercorecoach.com and check out her program, 90 Days of Soul Success, at http://

Megan Purnell is a cash flow expert for families who just don’t know where to start with fixing their finances. Through her step-by-step online courses, she turns average spenders into confident growing investors. Students have called Megan “a true money genius”, not only stemming from her background in banking, corporate finance, a business degree (BBA) + accounting diploma, but she actually did a  real life test of ditching her consumer debt to make sure that she and her husband could manage living on a less than average single income. We talk about how Megan ditched her $350 jeans and Gucci sunglasses so that she could pay off $40,000 in debt and save $50,000, all in just a few years so she could escape her corporate job and stay at home with her children. This interview will help any listener who’s ready to get real about their finances and shed the hold their debt has on them. You can connect with Megan HERE and you can join her fabulous community on Facebook, Money Savvy Mastermind, where she shares fa

Chichi Eruchalu is a Business Strategist and Coach who helps you get noticed and known by the people that matter - your future clients. Her sweet spot is business visibility, helping introverts overcome their fears around being seen online by helping you lead with your strengths. Together she develops strategies to establish you as an authority in your niche, connect you with the people who need to hear from you and helps you show up with intention, making consistency your new best friend so that you can hit your income goals month after month. After 10 years working in Corporate, she left her 9-5 to face entrepreneurship full time and is having a blast helping her clients leave their jobs, raise their rates, get featured in high profile publications and become Amazon best sellers all while maintaining their introverted status. In this interview Chichi digs into how she mastered time management so that she made the best use of the limited time she had for her business, and she gives us insight into the 3 main

Mark Schaefer's a globally-recognized speaker, educator, business consultant, and author who blogs at {grow} — one of the top marketing blogs of the world. He’s a consultant to entrepreneurs and corporations,  specializing in marketing strategy and social media workshops and clients include both start-ups and global brands such as Adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Dell, Pfizer, The U.S. Air Force, and the UK government. Mark holds six patents, has written five books, with another to be released early 2017, is a faculty member of Rutgers University, and is THE authority on content marketing.  He also hosts the marketing companion podcast with Tom Webster, dubbed “The world’s most entertaining podcast.” It’s one of the podcasts I listen to, and I can promise you that it has me laughing every. Single time. I listen to it. Mark shares the only three things that he focuses on to move the needle in his business, and he tells us why we shouldn’t be spending time on doing MOST of the things we love doing in our business

Erin Zimmerman runs Elephant Social, which offers full-service social media management and consulting services, and she specializes in helping small businesses owners grow through relationship-based strategy online. Her specialties? Video and content repurposing.  She's known far and wide as the Social Media Matchmaker. Inspired by her friend whose time on earth was recently cut short, Erin’s taking her future fully into her own hands, and is now living her dream by jumping out of bed every morning to help small business owners rule the world. In this conversation, Erin and I talk about a major shift in social media that’s happening in social media as far as business and entrepreneurship is concerned.  We also chat about how trying to connect with EVERYONE doesn’t help anyone.

What is "Money Mindset" anyway?  And why the heck does it matter to entrepreneurs? Merideth digs into this topic by herself and shares her expertise on how people relate to money.  She makes this topic easy to understand, and uncovers some ways of thinking about money AND business that you've never considered before.   Find out if it's time to change the way you think about money so that you can find an easier way to grow your business and find success in your life on your own terms.

Delfina’s the spirited health coach, movement educator, recipe developer and health blogger behind alternative health/wellness information-hub, Code to Wellness.  She helps people reclaim their health and thrive in their bodies using self-care systems that allow them to overcome their struggles with weight, sugar cravings, hormone imbalance, and movement related issues successfully & sustainably. This is a great conversation for everyone, but especially for entrepreneurs, many of whom have tendencies to put their businesses first, and their health last.  I love how Delfina simplifies this process and makes it non-intimidating. You can drop her a line over at www.codetowellness.com or via the Official Code to Wellness Community - Code to Wellness: Feeling Damn Good in Your Own Skin.Reach out! She’s super friendly and wants to hear from you!

Brian R. King, MSW is a Success Coach to people with ADHD & Dyslexia who teaches his clients how to discover the calm and focus they need, that’s key to discovering their zone of genius. He’s been inspiring audiences for over 20 years with his story of resilience in the face of growing up with ADHD and Dyslexia, surviving cancer at age 18, and now living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. He’s the father of three sons with ADHD and Asperger's. And he's someone you MUST get to know. For those of you listening who are entrepreneurs with a labeled condition, or who have a family member who requires extra support from you, this is THE episode for you.  Brian talks about how Facebook is the perfect place to show off your quirks, and he talks about how his children, who also have ADHD and asperger’s, inspire him every day to keep going even on exceptionally challenging days. You can connect with Brian on his website HERE.

Farhan Syed is an Entrepreneur, web data analyst, marketing advisor, web designer and SEO expert. He is the founder and CEO of Expertsmen. Farhan is a zealous devotee of content on the web, from his multiple blogs to Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and an all shared Instagram. He specializes in establishing the online presence of his clients and enhancing their search engine visibility, giving them the opportunity to leverage their online presence and increase their customer base. Farhan brings you a powerful perspective on what it means to actually persevere in business, and how his young children and their determination to succeed in spite of multiple failures inspires Farhan to push through. Farhan also gives us a reality check about courses and advises newbies what how to pick the RIGHT courses for you so that you get the results you want and need to grow your business, and how to make sure that a course will overdeliver instead of being overhyped. You can connect with Farhan by visiting his website HERE.

Lisa’s a transformational Life & Nutrition Coach who understands that it’s not the systems, the doing, the food, the exercise, the degree’s, the achievements or the lack of trying that holds women back from feeling fulfilled and successful in their lives, businesses or bodies, but rather it’s their lack of connection to how they’re feeling inside.  For over a decade now Lisa's been helping women connect to the parts of themselves they’ve been unwilling to acknowledge and leads them to emotional freedom, helps them drop self judgement and step into who they really are. In this episode we talk about the slow burn of success in business, and how our relationships with food very closely mirror our relationship with money.  You’ll get an inside look into how Lisa helps her clients reach success in their relationships with food, and you’ll be able to take away some valuable strategies to after listening.  You can connect with Lisa and sign up for Lisa's E.A.T! course through her website HERE, and you can catch