Wholly Living Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dr. Janet Aizenstros
Wholly Living Podcast with Janét Aizenstros is geared towards women entrepreneurs who have built at least a 7-figure revenue-generating business. Each leader featured on the podcast will share their insights into how to build a sustainable, resourceful and socially impactful business while sharing tips on mindset, health and lifestyle habits that have helped them become more effective leaders in their daily living.
Our goal is to help women entrepreneurs grow and scale businesses while implementing healthy daily habits successfully without having to sacrifice their well-being while laying the foundation for harmony in the process.
Today, Shelley Zalis, founder of the Female Quotient, a platform dedicated to advocating for and working to achieve gender equality, offers listeners of the Wholly Living Research podcast a refreshing and empowering perspective. Throughout the discussion, Shelley defines what gender equality in business looks like and the significance of increasing diversity in organizations.
Shelley shares the story of how she became a voice for the advancement of gender equality and speaks into her own experiences of facing gender inequality in the workplace that sparked her passion and dedication to fighting for equality. She speaks of the many benefits of diversity in business and shares encouraging stories of corporate America shifting the workforce to include more diversity and incorporate gender equality to achieve better results. Shelley highlights not just the business impact, but positive social change that occurs when diversity is introduced to the workplace, as well.
The conversation evolves to focus on Shelly’s Modern Guide to Equality and what this guide offers. Shelley explains that this is a playbook to facilitate the elimination of gender inequality in the workplace and stimulate diversity to gain the best talent. She explains the strategies for gender equality that help women climb the ladder, propel them into the C-Suite, and achieve their personal and professional goals. Shelley stresses the importance of companies investing in their workforce to cultivate a motivating, understanding, and flexible culture that facilitates inter-organizational respect.
Shelley gives answers to questions that women in business find themselves asking about gender equality. She encourages women to be themselves, takes pride in that, and use that as their power.
Tune in to learn how to break the rules and rewrite them!
Samone shares with us her journey as a high achieving woman of faith and how she became TorahCents. Samone is the creator of Curved to Cuffed and a happily married mom of one. According to Samone, most high achieving women because that’s how they seek approval.
Samone has dedicated herself to teaching women leaders how to date and have a marriage. She shares with us how she came from the point of not wanting to have a boyfriend to be a happily married mom of one. Samone’s experience equipped her enough to help women who are going through the same circumstances as she did.
If you are a successful woman leader of faith and seek to get into a relationship that will lead to marriage, this episode is for you.
Now more than ever, so many of us are prioritizing our wellness and focusing more on our wellbeing. Toni Jones is welcomed to the Wholly Living Podcast to discuss wellness and how best to infuse wellness practices into everyday life. There’s been a significant shift in the way society views wellness and how it sustains success, both on an individualistic and corporate level. As COVID-19 has impacted us so greatly, we are forced to become introspective and realize the weight wellness has on our overall health. Toni speaks into her own journey and how she found herself and her strength in her womanhood. She shares the focal point of her life and her career to “wife her life” by helping women find their wellness and space to flourish personally and professionally. As women, we should feel empowered and strong in our womanhood, and Toni discusses how to walk into our womanhood through resilient wellness rather than constantly striving. We need to be intentional with our time and trust God’s timing so that we can spend time cultivating wellness and harmony, rather than worry and harboring stress. Toni shares how to make time to practice self-reflection and wellness and why these things are essential to our identities to achieve greatness.
It’s crucial that we feel confident in our wealth, and Carol Pepper, a successful wealth advisor, Family Office expert, and president of Pepper International knows precisely how to do that. Carol enlightens us on what Family Offices are, the importance of implementing a Family Office to ensure the longevity of your wealth, and why it is crucial to be mindful of your actions, both fiscally and personally, as your wealth grows.
As the leading expert in Family Office implementation and organization, Carol uncovers the benefits of addresses the wealth management needs of a family. She shares her own experience in the industry, describing her position as a “shareholder” for the family, and discusses why clients must focus on the needs of the family, rather than corporate needs. Carol expresses her passion for her work, explaining that no two families are alike in their challenges and needs, but they all share a common goal of growing their wealth for multiple generations. She explains that the rise of the internet was a critical point in the industry, inviting innovation that unearthed the Virtual Family Office (VFO), which allowed many families to set their sights on wealth growing goals. Carol even offers help for those looking to explore the possibility of creating a Family Office with the Family Office Bootcamp.
Carol leaves us inspired by the idea that, as women, we need to step into our personal and professional power!
Connecting to your soul is a beautiful awakening, allowing you to encourage and facilitate effective leadership. Allyn Reid, a resilient entrepreneur and WooManity soul leader, joins the Wholly Living Podcast bringing a refreshing perspective and a zest for life. Allyn invites us into her own experiences that lead her to find empowerment through leading from the soul. She shares what the soul truly is and its significance in finding stewardship and leadership in every area of our lives. By operating from the soul, we lead those around us to connect with and ignite their own souls, which invites potential and talent to be poured into and shared. Allyn paints a picture of soul leadership as a light that, when contributed to, cultivates astonishing collaboration, creation, and invention. Allyn expresses leadership from the soul as an all-encompassing form of leadership; we tend to fall into operating from knowledge or into functioning from the heart, soul leadership synchronizes the two. When we are able to lead from the soul, we are encouraged through a new perspective that allows for clarity and instantaneous decision making. Allyn inspires us all and enlightens listeners through the leadership of her own gorgeous soul!
Relevant Links:
WooManity
Wholly Living Research
In this episode of the Wholly Living Podcast, we are joined by New York Times best-selling author, inspiring speaker, and successful entrepreneur, Lysa TerKeurst. As the president of Proverbs 31 Ministries, Lysa has fought to make her dreams a reality. She has surrounded herself with a strong team that shares her same passion and faith for The Lord. Through it all, Lysa has grown to be a faithful, dedicated, and respected leader. Lysa has had much success in her life, despite the hardship she has faced.
Lysa speaks to the hardship she has faced, and that many women face, both personally and professionally. She shares the most important lesson God taught her about leadership, imparting wisdom through a rule of vulnerability, that is to “review, don’t spew.” Lysa offers advice to women of faith to recognize that in order to fulfill their responsibility of leadership, they first need to address their own pain and hardship. She shares how her personal experience leaning into her faith in The Lord and finding strength in prayer made her a better leader. This incredible woman of faith expressed the hardship she faced walking through expectations and finding redemption along her journey. Lysa’s passion, love, and resilience remind us, as women, that we have the power to overcome hardship and that it is possible to remain committed to The Lord and our faith through everything.
Relevant Links:
Lysa Terkeurst
Proverbs 31 Ministries
Wholly Living Research
Strong, successful women entrepreneurs have shattered the glass ceiling and defied the odds. However, navigating personal finances can be intimidating and unnerving when you are unsure who to trust. Elke Rubach, founder of Rubach Wealth, speaks into the importance of finding a dependable financial advisor to bring financial clarity to build their businesses. Her real, honest approach to working with women entrepreneurs and business people is inspiring. Elke explains what financial advisors strive to offer their clients and answers the questions that women in business are often hesitant to ask. She explains that, as a woman in business, she strives to offer resources, cultivate trusting relationships with her women entrepreneur clients, and ultimately, “keep it human.” Elke stresses knowing and keeping your values as women and letting those values influence financial decisions. Financial planning can cause strain on women as businesspeople and seep into their personal lives, to which Elke recognizes and offers sage advice to overcome those challenges. Ultimately, Elke believes that financial planning requires a team approach, which she sheds light upon in this episode of the Wholly Living Podcast.
Strong, successful women entrepreneurs have shattered the glass ceiling and defied the odds. However, navigating personal finances can be intimidating and unnerving when you are unsure who to trust. Elke Rubach, founder of Rubach Wealth, speaks into the importance of finding a dependable financial advisor to bring financial clarity to build their businesses. Her real, honest approach to working with women entrepreneurs and businesspeople is inspiring. Elke explains what financial advisors strive to offer their clients and answers the questions that women in business are often hesitant to ask. She explains that, as a woman in business, she strives to offer resources, cultivate trusting relationships with her women entrepreneur clients, and ultimately, “keep it human.” Elke stresses knowing and keeping your values as women and letting those values influence financial decisions. Financial planning can cause strain on women as businesspeople and seep into their personal lives, to which Elke recognizes and offers sage advice to overcome those challenges. Ultimately, Elke believes that financial planning requires a team approach, which she sheds light upon in this episode of the Wholly Living Podcast.
Relevant Links:
Rubach Wealth
Wholly Living Research