In this episode, host Paola Soares 5 powerful steps to help you supercharge your year and set yourself up for success. From goal-setting strategies to staying focused and motivated, you’ll learn actionable tips to take control of your time, productivity, and personal growth. Whether you're aiming for big career moves, personal development, or simply a more organized year, this episode has everything you need to start strong and keep the momentum going all year long. Tune in and make 2025 your most productive year yet!

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In this episode, host Paola Soares opens up about her time away from the podcast over the past year. It hasn’t been a break, but a period of growth, healing, and deep reflection. From navigating the challenges of maternity leave and expanding her family, to evolving as a wife, mother, and woman. She’s grown in ways she never expected, and is sharing what she learned, how she changed, and what she’s been working on behind the scenes.

Going forward, you can expect more authentic and vulnerable content, a deeper focus on personal growth, and empowering conversations featuring trailblazing women with more of a focus on minority women who are doing incredible things. This journey is all about healing, self-discovery, and real talk—so stay tuned for more inspiration, insights, and authentic moments ahead!

Thanks for your patience while the podcast was on pause. We are excited to return with a new perspective and a renewed commitment to bring you the best content possible.

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In this Season finale episode, we are celebrating 100k Downloads for the podcast!! 

Host Paola Soares shares her journey in this season as she pauses the podcast for 3 months for maternity leave. She also shares moments when she  felt like she  failed in this season and how she  reframed it and why I made the counter cultural decision to completely pause the podcast for 3 months to focus on maternity leave…. This and so much more…..

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In this episode, Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Host Paola Soares speaks with  the author of the newly released book “An American Immigrant” That recently hit the Amazon’s Best Sellers List, Johanna Rojas Vann

Johanna is a professional writer whose work can be found online and within numerous publications. She is a second-generation Colombian American, with dual citizenship, and lives with her husband and children in Nashville, Tennessee. Her writing has appeared in Good Grit Magazine, Grit and Grace Life, and on her own blog, where you can read about her personal experience as an “Immigrant’s daughter”…

In this interview she shares about the power in really going back and exploring where we come from, what the book writing process looks like and what steps one would have  to take to get a literary agent and get their book published by a big publisher and so much more….

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with her podcast bestie Eugenia Woo, the Host of the newly launched and buzzed about, Creator To Leader Podcast.

Eugenia is a seasoned Digital Marketing Strategist who helps established entrepreneurs become thought leaders so they can scale their impact and revenue. She specializes in developing comprehensive marketing strategies, crafting compelling brand messaging, and ensuring cohesiveness across platforms.

She provides Fractional CMO services to a handful of private 6 & 7-figure clients, overseeing their entire marketing operation so they can focus on building the vision for the business.

Her clients have successfully restructured and relaunched premium offers, doubled email engagement in only a month, revitalized conversion-driven marketing funnels, and tripled podcast downloads.

Interestingly, she is a producer for the top-rated podcast, the Jasmine Star Show. She also created one of the very first podcasts in Spanish!

In this interview she shares what a Fractional CMO is and how it can be beneficial for business owners, what it means to go from creator to leader and the common mistakes she sees business owners make when it comes to their marketing strategy… This and so much more.

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with Chelsi Jo is the host of the top podcast Systemize Your Life with over 2 million downloads, a top ten ranking podcast in her category with over 350 episodes..

Chelsi Jo helps moms and business owners go from overwhelmed to organized with systems through her time and task management systems… Whether you are a work from home mom that feels like chaos at home bleeds into your Business hours and productivity or just needs the home systems aspect of it or the business systems of it, Chelsi Jo can help ... .Her course has helped hundreds of women gain control of their time and life…

In this interview what it means to systemize your life and why it’s crucial, how creating systems is beneficial both at home and in your business, and the top mistakes you see work from home mom or business owners make when it comes to time management… this and so much more…

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares continues diving into the topic of limiting beliefs. She discusses the 3 types of limiting beliefs, limiting beliefs about yourself, others and the world that could be keeping you stuck. We discuss how limiting beliefs could become self-fulfilling prophecies and why it’s important to know what these unhealthy beliefs are.

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with bestselling author and highest grossing charity auctioneer Lydia Fenet.

Lydia Fenet is the founder and CEO of the Lydia Fenet Agency, a boutique agency representing best in class charity auctioneers. Over her two-decade long career, Lydia served as the Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for Christie’s and reshaped the fundraising landscape as the world’s leading charity auctioneer. She has single handedly raised over one billion dollars for more than 800 organizations and broken-down countless barriers for women in the auction industry. Widely recognized for her poise and power onstage, she has stood alongside celebrities including  Hugh Jackman, Elton John, Matt Damon and Jerry Seinfeld to raise record-breaking donations for the most notable charities across the globe. 

Lydia is the author of two best-selling books, The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You & Claim Your Confidence as well as the podcast host of Claim Your Confidence in collaboration with Rockefeller Center.  Her first book was optioned by Netflix in 2022 for a series starring Kiernan Shipka as the lead….

She also travels internationally to speak to companies about unlocking their sales potential, empowering people in the workplace and the art of public speaking…

In this interview she  shares how to sell authentically, the importance of never apologizing and why to start negotiating instead, how to claim your confidence, and how to slam imposter syndrome… this and so much more…

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