BUT FIRST, SHE FAILED - Career Growth, Women Entrepreneurs, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, Growth Mindset, Confidence

In this episode, Host Paola Soares chats with the author of the new book  “Network” is not a Verb— Ellen Poole…. In her book she explains networking's mythical value in our culture and what to do instead to grow your professional network. As someone who still dreads “networking” herself and has made plenty of relationships building failures… A Former USAA Government Relations AVP Ellen…now shares how you can genuinely foster supportive professional connections and make yourself more valuable as a potential member of others’ professional networks in her new book “Network” Is Not a Verb.

ELLEN POOLE spent almost 15 years as a multi-state government relations executive for Fortune 100 company USAA, where she built a professional network spanning the country. She teaches people at all levels of their careers effective strategies to build networks and nurture relationships for professional success. Her audiences have included nationwide corporate teams, college students, and state, national, and international professional and trade associations.

In this interview she shares the do’s and don’t of networking, the common missteps that could unwittingly alienate new connections and How can we go about becoming someone who others want to add to their professional network… this and so much more.

Ellen has also extended a special  15 % off the book discount for all But first she failed listeners.. if you love what you hear and want to grab a copy of this book to learn for yourself how to truly grow your network in the best way then simply go to ey can go to www.ellenpoole.com, or

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares chats with former nurse turned intuitive eating and body image coach Victoria Yates. 

Victoria is dedicated to helping women stop struggling with food and their bodies for good by relearning how to listen to their body’s cues with eating and heal their relationship with food and their body so they can live free and confident lives.

In this interview she shares how body image influences our relationship with food, why dieting is actually counter-productive, what the red flags are and how  women can tell if they have an unhealthy relationship with their bodies? And how to become an intuitive eater this and so much more….

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares chats with Social Media Strategist Mandy Emerson. Emerson  is a social media strategist teaching female entrepreneurs how to scale & grow their business with effective strategies! She started her business in August of 2020 & had has had great success since then she has  hosted Reels workshops, spoken at conferences on effective social media strategies & at the beginning of 2022 launched The Fierce Social Society Membership for business owners to learn her proven framework & methods of utilizing socials!

In this interview she shares How business owners go about creating content this is  Ideal for their business? Where do they start?, The common mistakes she sees people make, and best practices for social media in 2023….This and so much more….

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares breaks from the normal format of the show and rather than an interview style she invites her former coach and now a friend Stefanie Gass on to take the floor and share her heart.

Stefanie shares how podcasting works to grow an audience and build a business… how it allows you to save time and energy by not having to slave away on social media 24/7. Some of you may recall some of the previous episodes with her.  Stefanie is a Christian business and podcast coach, boundary boss, and multi-six-figure CEO. She helps women grow their online businesses and make money online, using podcasting.

She is the host of a top 25 globally ranked business podcast on the Apple Podcast Charts, Online Business for Christian Women. She believes it's possible to partner with God to create income and impact without sacrificing your family, faith, or buying into the social media hustle.

If you want more info and details about her podcasting course, head to (paolasoares.com/courses and scroll down to Podcast Pro University). If you purchase through Paola’s affiliate link not only do you get lifetime access to her great course but you also get a free one-on-one podcast coaching session with Paola where you can discuss any questions you might encounter on the journey!

If you end up starting a podcast,  Stef’s course will absolutely give you every step you need and help you get there while keeping God front and center in your business. Plus you’ll have access to some good old accountability with Paola as well!  Again, the link is: Paolasoares.com/courses

Now without further adieu here are: 5 Ways to Know if it’s Time to Start a Podcast Episode 

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares chats with Stacey Brookman is a resilience coach and performance coach. She helps women leaders who want to eliminate imposter syndrome leverage through her resilience coaching to mobilize their power skills and master their seat at the table. Stacy is the founder of Real Life Resilience.

So many have imposter syndrome and don’t have a valuable network of connections to lean on which is incredibly crucial. she helps women find mentors and sponsors through a unique connectional intelligence process (related to the Medici Effect) that’s easy - even for introverts. This allows them to reach higher level leadership positions and so much more…She also  teaches a systematic and easy way to find mentors and how to get them to support you in your goals. 

She’s been featured in many media outlets including Fast Money, The Mel Robbins Show, Redbook and many more!

In this interview she shares why its enormously beneficial to have mentors,  how she helps women find mentors through a unique connectional intelligence that’s easy even for introverts as well as a process to get mentors to support you in your goals\s.. this and so much more…

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares shares 3 quick steps to take when you are feeling uninspired and unmotivated in your career or business. Are you in a season where things feel stale and mundane? Are you feeling uninspired and unmotivated in your career or business? In this episode Paola dives into 3 quick steps she takes whenever she is feeling uninspired or unmotivated.

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares chats with Luzy King, a Latina Certified trauma informed financial & business coach, contributing author, community leader, and founder of Say Hola Wealth.

Luzy is on a mission to destigmatize the idea of wanting more money to help women build a legacy through stock market investing and entrepreneurship. 

 Luzy launched her coaching business after witnessing how many women were pushed out of the workforce due to a global pandemic, and many were not financially secure.   Now she teaches Latinas and WOC the strategies she used to pay off $220K in student loan debt in 36 months and be on track to make work optional at 45.

In 2021, Creative Human Official recognized her as a "Power of Women Honoree" for her resilience and dedication to improving her career by opening her business despite a global pandemic.

In May 2022, Luzy became a contributor author of Today's Inspired Latina Volume 10, where she shares her personal story of success despite adversity…

Say Hola Wealth is a safe space for first-generation Latinas and WOC to unlearn their money blueprint and the conditioning to always work hard for money.  Luzy is on a mission to help women of color build a legacy beyond their ancestor's wildest dreams.

In this interview she shares what is money trauma, the signs and symptoms of financial trauma and how to know if you have it, the effects of not healing and what steps you can start taking to start healing your money trauma… this and so much More…

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares chats with Email Strategist and Keynote Speaker, Liz Wilcox. Wilcox shows small businesses how to build online relationships, package up their “magic” and turn it into emails that people want to read and (more importantly) purchase from.

In the span of 5 years, Liz grew and sold a successful blog, got bought out of her second company, and built the third into a multiple six-figure business! she now teaches online entrepreneurs to simplify the whole “email marketing thing” and finally master their sales in a way that leverages their personality, vision, and values.

She’s best known for her 1000+ users membership, 20 Minute Newsletter technique, and her Email Staircase framework she’s taught to tens of thousands of creatives, freelancers, ecommerce shop owners, and small businesses across the globe.

In this interview she shares why it’s crucial that every business owner needs to have an engaged email list, the do’s and don'ts of email list writing and how to get your email list to engage in your emails… This and more…

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares chats with Scout Sobel, the CEO of Scout’s Agency. Scout Sobel is a trailblazer in the media industry for utilizing Podcast Tours™ as a powerful form of PR. She founded Scout's Agency in February of 2019 after recognizing the power of podcasting as a long-form, intimate medium for founders to tell their stories and expand their businesses. Over the past four years, Scout's Agency has booked over 2500 podcast episodes, grown 600%, cultivated a database of over 5,000 podcasts, and has run over 200 Podcast Tours™ under Scout's leadership.

Scout and Scout’s Agency have been featured in prominent publications such as Entrepreneur, Business of Fashion, and Forbes. Scout has been a guest on top podcasts such as Making Bank, The SimplyBe. Podcast, Business Without The B.S., It Sure Is A Beautiful Day with Catt Sadler and more...

In this episode she shares the benefits of being on a guest on a podcast and who it applies to, the common mistakes people make when trying to pitch to be on a podcast and Tips and tricks on how to maximize the strategy of being a guest on podcasts 

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares is celebrating the 2nd year anniversary of the Podcast!!! New Artwork and all to commemorate 2 years since launching this podcast. In this episode we pull back the curtain a bit on the podcast and all things on the business side of things. 

She shares the backstory and what life looked like when she launched this podcast, what led to starting the podcast, the highs and lows, the opportunities that have come from the podcast, where we are now and where we are going, additional resources, where we were two years ago, where we are now and where we are going now and how you can be a part of it..

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with Australia-based Roslyn Ranse, a travel advisor and business strategist who’s been in the travel industry for over 15 years. She is the founder of Travel Agent Achievers, where she educates and mentors other travel consultants to grow their business and put in place systems and processes that will accelerate their business and ultimately enhance their client’s experience. She educates her community through live events, courses and masterminds. She is also the host of the Travel Agent Achievers podcast.

Roslyn has a background in sales and marketing but once she had her son she realized it was time to “work smarter not harder” and she decided to grow her travel business and mentor other home-based advisors to do the same. 

In 2022 alone, she co-hosted the Women Online conference with top Australian business woman Tina Tower, was a guest speaker at Business Blueprint during each of their virtual conferences, and was a Finalist for Coach of the Year in the AU Mumtrepreneur Awards. 

Beyond that, she is an award winning travel agent with itravelaus, and has been featured in print in the Greater Port Macquarie Focus, Travel Daily, and Travel Talk magazines.

In this interview she shares what a travel advisor does and how businesses could benefit from it, what it takes to become a travel advisor along with tips on what it takes to start your own business as a travel advisor… this and so much more…

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares discusses the fear of failing and some truths about it you may not know.

She covers growth mindsets vs. fixed mindsets and how the fixed mindset of fear of failing can hinder your life in a big way and keep you from living the life of your dreams.

She also discusses her new revamped coaching program Pivot to Purpose.

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with the author of the newly released book  IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY: A Proven Path to Building Wealth and Living the Rich Life You Deserve  Scarlett Cochran. 

Scarlett has an incredible career trajectory with many accolades along the way.

Today Youtube Channel One Big Happy Life has over 218,000 YouTube subscribers and millions of views has appeared on Good Morning America, CNBC and has been featured on Forbes to name a few.

But her journey didn’t start there, Cochran built her dream life after starting off as a single teen mom living below the poverty line and 

She later went on to graduate from Yale Law then worked as a banking and consumer finance attorney for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development…

In today's episode she discusses how we can figure out our version of the rich life and why that is crucial, how to say goodbye to deprivation and spend money guilt free today while still building wealth for  your financial future and how to feel confident no matter where you are on your financial journey… this and so much more…

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with Break Up Recovery Coach Tal Yardeni, founder of the Break Up to Badass Formula 3 Month Coaching Program..

Having gone through her own heartbreak and being on the other side of it, she is super passionate about helping women let go of their ex, learn to love the heck out of themselves, and be ready for their best relationship yet the one with themselves. She helps women discover how to move through a break up without the shame and struggle of not being over it.

In this episode she shares why Rom Coms have led us astray and how it’s impacting women, what keeps women stuck in relationships that aren’t working and how to navigate running a business when you are going through heartbreak… this and so much more…

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with a pioneer and leader in the overcoming limiting belief space, Shelly Lefkoe. Shelly is an International Speaker, Belief Eliminator, Co-founder and President of the Lefkoe Institute, and the founder and Parenting the Lefkoe Way.

Shelly’s science-based method has helped over 200,000 people in over 120 countries experience profound life shifts by getting rid of hidden limiting beliefs. Permanently. 

Other programs give you advice and tools on how to cope with your challenges. The Lefkoe Method clears the root cause of your challenges so you don't have to keep coping.

There’s a reason Shelly has endorsements from the greatest leaders in the world of personal development including, Jack Canfield, Janet Attwood, Dr. Joe Vitale, Lisa Nichols and more..

In this interview she shares the 5 most common limiting beliefs that most people have, how our beliefs get formed and why they stay with us and how to permanently overcome a limiting belief for good, this and so much more…

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a world-renowned emotional health educator & host of her top rated podcast The Brave Table. Known as the queen of reinvention, speaker on grit & resilience, she has shared her thought leadership on international stages (including the Women’s Economic Forum in India, Google HQ, Leadercast Women, & Mindvalley) and in multiple best-selling books (such as, Emotional GRIT: 8 Steps to Master Your Emotions, Transform Your Thoughts, and Change Your World). Neeta’s been featured on Forbes, Entrepreneur, NBC, ABC, CBS, Chicago Today, Verve, Tatler Magazine and more.

Dr. Neeta sold her large million-dollar cosmetic dentistry practice, to help others find magic in their mess. As part of her own journey to becoming a leader in her field and a voice for women & women of color, she traveled across 45 countries researching human behavior, ancient eastern philosophy and therapeutic psychology. She pooled that learning along with other life experiences overcoming multiple adversities, which include being orphaned at nineteen, surviving an abusive marriage, and extensive loss, contributed to the powerful message of resilience & grit to have found several institutes, including the Global GRIT Institute, wellness education platform for optimizing emotional wellbeing for entrepreneurs, and Co-Founder of Dharma Coaching Institute and organization helping train thousands to be the highest versions of themselves.  Dr. Neeta lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two children. Her forthcoming book, That Sucked. Now What? How to embrace the joy in chaos and find magic in the mess, is due out in January 2023.

In this episode she shares what is emotional perfectionism and how it affects us, ways to triumph over hard times and what audacious resilience is and why we need to thrive as well as a deep look into her upcoming BOOK THAT SUCKED— NOW WHAT? This and so much more….

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares dives into the topic of growth mindset and why it is essential that you develop one this year. Paola shares her struggles with having a fixed mindset in the past and why it was a game changer for her and why she believes it will be a game changer for you as well.

In this episode we discuss what a growth mindset is, the difference between a growth mindset and fixed mindset as well as some of the many benefits of having a growth mindset...this and so much more….

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with Sara McElroy is a journalist and Founder of the Raze to Rise Project-a movement aimed at amplifying the powerful voices of women from the Great Resignation.She shares what she learned from conversations with more than 125 women over the past year who are reinventing their careers and reimagining the way women work…

Sara McElroy is a former hustle culture devotee, ex-chief marketing officer, the Wall Street Journal’s poster girl for pandemic career burnout, and a two-time member of the Great Resignation: class of 2021 and 2022.

Following a stress-induced shingles diagnosis in early 2021, Sara decided to hit the reset button on her life; she quit her hard-won CMO job and trekked to Peru's Sacred Valley to reset her frayed nervous system. When she returned, she relocated from the buzzy metropolis of Atlanta to the beach in South Florida for a new job and a fresh start. But she once again encountered deeply ingrained cultural issues in her new role, and ultimately, she walked away again. Finding herself in the company of millions of other women who also set unfulfilling jobs ablaze during the Great Resignation, she returned to her journalism roots and began to explore the stories, breaking points, and defining moments that led women to seek greater opportunity mid-pandemic.

In this interview she shares the big career lies taught to Women, why letting go of your gut instincts in the workplace is dangerous, conventional wisdom and why it no longer works for our careers, and the steps and stages to quitting this and so much more...

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares walks us through her process for annual goal setting. She goes through her 5 step framework for setting goals for the year ahead and discusses what SMART GOALS are and how to ensure you are setting the right goals for the life you want to live.

Whether you are an entrepreneur, career boss woman, college student or a stay at home mom, setting is a crucial step in getting you to the life of your dreams. Remember you can either live a life by default or design, In this episode Paola shares 5 steps for goal setting so you can show up for your life!

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with consistency coach and postpartum expert Liz Henderson.

Liz is also the host of top rated fitness podcast The Tough Love Mom Podcast.

She gained a lot of weight when pregnant so once postpartum rolled around, she leaned on discipline, consistency, and simple habits to lose 80 pounds in 1 year after her first baby and 70 pounds in 14 months after her second.

The Tough Love Mom Co helps moms get disciplined and lose weight by focusing on simple, sustainable changes over time — the same things Lizused in her own weight loss journey. 

She believes that a lot of messaging in mom culture can enable the “mom struggle” when really we are so much more capable than we realize.

In this episode she shares the 2 main obstacles that women face when it comes to weight loss, the key to real long term sustainable change and how to go about goal setting when it comes to your health… this and so much more…

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