VOX|FEMINA: Recent Episodes
Samantha Dawn Smitchko
Join me as I interview top level business women from all over the world to discuss what it takes to get to the top, how they got there, and the trials they faced along the way.
Liz Lajoie specializes in helping coaches and creative entrepreneurs with their finances. She helps them to become financially and mentally prepared for their future business growth. Finances can be an extremely stressful thing as a new entrepreneur, and Liz helps to ease that stress by providing a strong financial plan, and piece of mind.
Carol Cox is the owner and founder of Speaking Your Brand, which is dedicated to helping women create their own signature talk for their brand.
Carol explains the importance of creating a clear, consistent talk that represents your brand accurately. We discuss factors contributing to why there are not more females in positions of power, and we even touch on the MeToo movement; is it helping or hurting?
Also, Carol has a special offer to all my listeners!
Trivinia Barber is the founder and owner of Priority VA, a company dedicated to providing virtual assistants to entrepreneurs everywhere. After receiving high demand for her virtual personal assistance, Trivinia had the idea to start her company and strategically vet virtual assistants to entrepreneurs across the country.
I ask her about the trials of working with entrepreneurs who find it difficult to relinquish some of their daily activities to someone else, and we also discuss the the most important criteria when looking to hire a personal assistant.
Leah joins me all the way from the UK for this episode as she discusses her coaching business, Searching for Serenity. Leah coaches women who are struggling with overworking themselves in their careers to the point of burnout.
Vivien Hoexter is Principal at H2Growth Strategies LLC, which is a strategic planning company that specializes in working with non profits. Vivien discusses the rise of non-profit companies, succession planning issues, and her incredible research she has been conducting over the last several years.
In this episode, I interview PR expert Shonali Burke. We discuss her Bollywood past, how she got to where she is, her intensive PR training course, and what companies struggle with most PR wise.
Stacey Miller is pretty much the unicorn of millennials; she's young, accomplished, successful, AND she worked for the same company for 10 years before making the switch to Auto Care Association recently. We talk about the dreaded "quarter life crisis" and how to get through it.
In this interview, I talk to Pam Prior, author, podcast host, and business finance consultant. Pam swears she makes finance "fun" which I found hard to believe at first- but after talking to her, I found out quickly that she has that ability. She has worked with fortune 500 companies, but her heart lies with working with small businesses.
In this episode, I interview Kerry O’Shea Gorgone, Director of Product Strategy and Host of Marketing Prof’s podcast Marketing Smarts. Kerry has a really interesting background in law and a big passion for marketing which makes her a very dynamic person in the marketing world.
We talk about laws associated with full disclosure and the effects on the reputability of influencers because of it, effective marketing strategies for industries that cant promote via social media (i.e., firearms), and the types of training she develops for Marketing Profs.
In this episode, I ask Megan Conley of Social Tribe about the changes the has seen in social media over the years, and biggest mistake companies make with their social media campaigns, and if companies can run their marketing strictly via social media.
Fiona Birch discusses what it's like being a woman in the male dominated world of pro sports and the valuable survival lessons she's learned along the way.
Lisa Lovell discusses the challenges she's faced as a female entreprenuer in the construction industry and offers words of advice for women entering male dominated industries.