GSD Factor Podcast

Powerfully Choosing to be FearLESS with Rosa Castaño

You’ve heard of fear of failure. But have you heard of fear of success? It’s real. 
Our guest today shares how to tap into your seasons of growth to overcome any fear of success you might be having.
About today's guest:
Rosa Castaño, a Keynote speaker & founder of Workplace Stress Solutions, merges her vast workplace experience with her passion for helping companies and employees support their mental health and emotional well being.
She educates individuals on practical stress management techniques, empowering them to pursue, create, and accomplish their life's aspirations and goals.
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Powerfully Choosing to Manage Our Fear with Britt Tucker

Nashville based Brittany Tucker is a dynamic keynote speaker and coach experienced in speaking to over 350 businesses globally over the past 13 years. Her passion is motivating individuals to live a life true to who they are.
Britt earned her undergrad from Auburn University where she was a collegiate cheerleader, in addition to a Masters at Georgia Southern University. Furthermore, she is a Disney Institute graduate, John Maxwell speaker, and has completed continuing education at Emory and Berkeley. She also earned a certification in entrepreneurship from Harvard HBX and was honored to be named a recipient to 40 Under 40 class.
As a domestic violence survivor Britt is an advocate for awareness + education.
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Powerfully Choosing Connection with Baily Hancock

Baily Hancock is a Connection Strategist and “Professional Friend-Maker” who teaches people how to intentionally build, nurture, and leverage relationships to achieve their goals. She speaks about harnessing the power of Connection-Centered Thought Leadership™ to increase awareness, inspire action, and create impact in the world through workshop facilitation, panel conversations, and as a guest on podcasts.
 
A natural-born connector, Baily has spent her life curating her community and nurturing her network, priding herself on being only a degree or two of separation from just about anyone (including Kevin Bacon). Throughout the past decade, she’s worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, creatives, and executives teaching them how to gain credibility through collaboration and amplify their influence through connection.
 
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Powerfully Choosing How to Command the Crisis with Angela Billings

Are you ready for the inevitable?  
Angela Billings, U.S. Air Force veteran, strategist, entrepreneur, speaker, and author is a master communicator who has coached military officers and executives and performed in many high-profile positions while serving in the Air Force for over twenty years.
Her approach is to engage early and often in public spaces. In her view, it is better to manage the narrative than have someone else tell your story. This active yet measured approach has helped Angela weather the toughest of public relations storms. 
Join us for this episode to hear some of her incredible stories and how this influential GSDer navigates crises.
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Powerfully Choosing Being Wonderwoman with Christy Smallwood

Are you ready to be a Wonderwoman? 
Whether on stage or online, Christy Smallwood is an engaging and energetic keynote speaker who makes her audiences think different to do different.
Christy’s keynote and workshop on the BEING SUPER method blends humor and storytelling to help people understand themselves, be inspired to see their potential, understand their place in the world a little more, and empowered to take steps forward through their battles.
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Powerfully Choosing Being Present with Emma Miele

What better way to be present than to kick off today's episode with a guided meditation with Emma Miele. 
Emma is an ICF-accredited coach, with a Master's degree in Transformational Coaching and Leadership, and over seven years of experience in the coaching field. After spending a decade in the corporate financial space, Emma began to understand that in our hectic lives, it's all too easy to lose touch with our true desires and motivations.
Bringing together the skills she developed in the first part of her career, she founded The Breathing Room LLC, Coaching and Facilitating with the vision of creating a space for her clients to slow down, reflect, and connect with their inner wisdom. 
Through her coaching, Emma supports work teams to collaborate more efficiently, aspiring managers to develop valuable communication skills, entrepreneurs to realize the ROI of authenticity, and individuals to discover their unique paths toward success and fulfillment.
 
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Powerfully Choosing Your Renaissance with Sydney Dozier

Are you ready for your Renaissance?  Sydney Dozier, CEO and Founder of the Nashville-based social media agency Renaissance Marketing Group and The Renaissance Women's Summit, has made it her life's mission to help ignite the Renaissance in female entrepreneurs.  
Sydney is not only a business dynamo but also the host of The Renaissance Podcast, aimed at empowering entrepreneurs. Her dedication to supporting women entrepreneurs led to The Mona Lisa Foundation, offering mentorship, grants, education, and a vibrant community. 
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Powerfully Choosing to Change the Narrative of Disabilities with Renee Bruns, Brooke Eby, and Stacie King

Introducing our powerhouse panel for 2024: Renee Bruns, Brook Eby, and Stacie King.  Each one of these incredible GSD women are influential leaders living a life of confidence and resilience.  They utilize their voices for good and impact around the world.  They are advocates for those with disabilities and continue to push the boundaries for what individuals with disabilities can do.  
Guinness World Record Holder Renee Bruns is a former insurance executive who left her role at a Fortune 500 on a mission to see the world and reshape her views of humanity.  After a life of living with an undiagnosed physical disability that caused her to use a wheelchair full-time, she set out on a solo trip to find her place in this world.  Through her travels to 124 countries, all 7 continents, and all 50 states, she became a Guinness World Record Holder of the most countries visited in one year.  She is a life coach helping those who are looking to restructure their lives and helps guide and advocate for those navigating undiagnosed medical conditions.
Brooke Eby was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal, debilitating disease with no cure, at the age of 33 after four years of confusing symptoms.  She’s spent the last year sharing her story through outlets like The Today Show, as well as on social media with her over 100,000 followers.  She’s fundraised nearly $1 million for ALS research.  With the support of her friends and family, she’s been able to laugh in the face of ALS.
Stacie King is Senior Vice President of NowCerts, in addition to being the Founder & CEO of Stacie King & Company, LLC, a boutique digital marketing agency, and Culture is King, a digital publication that focuses on sharing the expertise and stories of leaders to create diverse and inclusive organizations & communities.  Stacie has always been very open about her life as a disabled woman, and she shares her story about life as a self-proclaimed “Wobbly Girl” in her personal podcast called “This Wobbly Life.”  She also works tirelessly to raise awareness for people with disabilities.
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Powerfully Choosing Reinvention with Catherine Traffis

As a writer with 20+ years of experience, Catherine Traffis is a champion of economical expression. She is currently one of the busiest writers in the content studio of an influential software company. Writing about cutting-edge technology gives her the perfect outlet to express her infectious optimism for the future.
Catherine is a Canadian content writer and editor who currently works in the Writers Studio at Microsoft. In 2011, a distracted driver caused an accident that left her with a serious spinal injury called a “Hangman’s Fracture.” Devastated and in agony, Catherine knew she had to get well for the sake of her three young boys. When her neurosurgeon told her she would never work again, she quietly resisted.
After a year of convalescence and with the support of her husband, Ray, Catherine began taking back her career. While she still manages chronic pain, she has recovered to an extent that her doctors call “miraculous.” Catherine credits remote work and flexible hours as keys to her success and is always happy to trade strategies with others who need modified environments to thrive.
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Powerfully Choosing Joy with Rachel Joy Baribeau

Rachel Joy Baribeau joins us on the GSD Factor podcast to talk about how she is powerfully choosing JOY to change the narrative.  She is an award-winning Storyteller, Inspirational Speaker, Author, Changing the Narrative Founder, Transformative Coach, Host of the Joystarters™ Podcast, First Female SiriusXM ESPNU Host (College Sports Nation), and Former National Sportscaster.
Rachel developed the #ImChangingtheNarrative movement with lost souls and student-athletes in mind and a belief that one crooked course made straight is everything. Rachel uses powerful stories with refreshingly raw vulnerability from her own personal journey to show others they have the power to change the narrative and find their purpose in life.
When she's not speaking or on tour promoting her most recent book, Relentless Joy: Finding Freedom, Passion and Happiness (Even When You Have to Fight for It), she enjoys working to help others find their own Passion, Purpose, Platform & Freedom to change the narrative and life a life of Relentless JOY!
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