Extraordinary Women Radio With Kami Guildner

I am excited to introduce two extraordinary women to you today on this episode of Extraordinary Women Radio,  Manouschka Guerrier, Chef at Food Network and Karen Hertz, the Founder and Chief Brewista of Holidaily Brewery. This interview was a fun one! We did it at the Holidaily Brewery in Golden, CO with a flight of beers in front of us! And how this came about was equally as fun! I belong to a secret Facebook group of about 20,000 women called the FEMPS… you have to get invited to this group by someone already in the group… and it is therefore, the most extraordinary group of women! Last month, there was a post from Manouschka Guerrier.  Hey Femps I’m heading to Colorado May 25th for about 10 days shooting my docuseries #FaceReality & looking to interview women in the cannabis, brewery & food industry. Anyone down to meet & share your story or know anyone in these industries to link me up with? Well, anyone who knows me, knows I’m a connector – and so within minutes I had connected Manouschka up with hal

I am excited to introduce today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Pam Houston: Author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country and Cowboys Are My Weakness. Pam is one of my favorite authors of all time! I read Pam’s book, Cowboys Are My Weakness, many, many years ago. Her books a series of short stories about her life – so many which mirrored my own life at that time – and her fun writing style made me feel like I was in the room with her. Fast forward all these years later, and one of my clients casually asks, "Have you ever read any Pam Houston books? She has a new book out that made me think of you." "OMG – yes I know who she is! I love her writing!" And I instantly proceeded to order her most recent  book, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. Deep Creek tells Pam’s story of finding her ranch in Creede, CO. At 31 years old, she was fresh off a tour promoting her book, Cowboys Are My Weakness. ,She had “no job, no place to lie except her North Face tent.” On an impulse and a good insti

I am excited to introduce today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Lily Nie, a Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Inductee and Founder of Chinese Children Adoption International (CCAI). Imagine being responsible for placing over 12,000 orphaned children into loving homes. Imagine the ripple effect this had for each child... each family... This is was Lily has done over the course of her lifetime! In this episode, Lily shares the story of how she and her husband build the Chinese Children Adoption International to create a ripple effect of change around the world. Lily is a prominent leader and orphan advocate in international adoption and children service community.  As a co-founder of Chinese Children Charities/CCAI, Lily has saved lives of over 12,000 abandoned Chinese children since 1992, mostly girls, by placing them with loving and secure American adoptive families. And on top of that, Lily has impacted over 70,000 Chinese orphans’ lives by bringing them over ten million dollars’ worth of food, clothes,

I am excited to introduce today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Kate Maloney – the producer of the Movie and the Movement – We Rise Up. We Rise Up premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and brings together some of the most brilliant, accomplished & high-impact leaders of our day. It’s about redefining a new model of success to uplift & empower people to live radically fulfilled, purpose driven lives. You’re going to learn more about it in today’s interview, but first, let me tell you how I met Kate. Five years ago I said yes to a conference on the spur of moment knowing that I was meant to be there. That decision forever changed my business and my life. We had to apply to attend this conference – as the speaker list was stellar: the CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Lynne Twist , Ken Wilbur, Blake Mycoskie – the CEO of Toms Shoes, Allanis Morsette, Michael Franti, Tom Chi – the creator of Google Glass, Jack Canfield… and many, many more.

Today's episode of Extraordinary Women Radio is with Gina Schreck, the president and founder of SocialKNX, a digital marketing and social media management company. Gina is ranked by LinkedIn as one of the Top 24 B2B Marketers to follow in 2019 and and ranked as one of the top 50 women influencers on-line in FastCompany’s Influence project! Gina continues to be voted as one of the top online social media coaches by Content and Digital Marketing World. Her latest book, Social Media Doesn't Work... unless you do! Helps marketers and business’s DO SOCIAL RIGHT! She has so much wisdom to share with us on how do social media right! She is an international speaker, author of several other books including Getting' Geeky with Twitter, and was the technical editor on the latest Complete Idiots Guide to Social Media! Gina is also the founder of The Village Workspace in Denver which is a coworking space designed with the female entrepreneur in mind! Gina is married and is the co-founder of 4 tech-savvy kids who call

Today I'm excited and honored to bring you today's Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Jen Ruiz, the Travel Blogger on Jen on a Jetplane. Jen is a lawyer turned solo travel blogger. Her book, “The Affordable Flight Guide”, is a #1 Amazon Bestseller and 2018 Readers’ Favorite Award winner. The year before her 30th birthday, Jen set the goal to take 12 trips in 12 months. She tells this story, and all that this ambition started for her. And she has great tips for us on how to travel affordably! I’m thrilled to introduce you to Jen. Let’s meet Jen Ruiz of Jen on a Jetplane! Jen’s blog Jen on a Jetplane has over 300K monthly impressions and she has been featured by The Washington Post, ABC News and The Huffington Post. To learn more about Jen Ruiz, follow her on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Jen Ruiz Show Notes

I'm excited and honored to bring you today's Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Dr. Temple Grandin, a Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Inductee. In addition to being a world-renowned animal scientist, consultant, author, inventor, lecturer, and designer of livestock-handling facilities, Dr. Grandin is also a leading specialist and lecturer on autism spectrum disorder, a brain condition that she herself has had since birth. In our interview today, Dr. Grandin tells her own personal story of finding the boldness and guts to do the great things in her life. We talk about how horses saved her life and how horses can impact our society, especially our kids - something that is so important right now. She shares her wisdom on the different spectrums of thinking that people have, and how labeling our in kids so quickly can be harmful. Dr. Grandin shares her story of how she led change in the very male dominated world of agriculture and how she overcame her fear of speaking, as she speaks all around the world today. D

Today I'm excited and honored to bring you today's Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Mory Fontanez, the founder & CEO at 822 Group. A 15 year agency alumn, Mory launched 822 Group to help companies reestablish their values and create focus in a world filled with activities that lack connection. Core to her methodology is the idea that a company’s values should be the driver of every action, not just a sign on the wall. We talk about how Mory made the jump from a very successful agency career and why values are so important in our world today. Mory and I share the belief that this is the era of connectedness, and this conversation is rich. Mory is an experienced strategist and counselor that has worked with global brands to create meaningful change within business operations, culture and consumer relationships. As a student of marketing, data and psychology, Mory believes in creating true behavioral change that can be tied to measurable business results. Holding deep expertise in reputation, change manageme

Today I’m excited to share with you my 100th episode of Extraordinary Women Radio! And I'm extremely honored to feature Zainab Salbi, the founder of Women for Women International for this milestone episode! At the age of 23, Zainab Salbi founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization dedicated to serving women survivors of wars by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency. Under her leadership as the organization’s CEO (1993-2011), the organization grew from helping 30 women upon its inception to more than 500,000 women in 8 conflict areas. It also distributed more than $100 million in direct aid and micro credit loans that impacted more than 1.7 million family members. Today Zainab shares her story of how she founded Women for Women International. She also shares her deeply personal story of  growing up in the shadows of Saddam Hussein, a secret she kept hidden for  ma

Today I’m excited to bring you today's Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Stacy Taubman. Stacy is the CEO of Rise Collaborative Workspace, and this woman is on fire! Stacy will be one of our Circle of Inspiration Facilitators / Panelists at the upcoming Extraordinary Women Connect Gala on May 21! You'll want to join us there! She opened the Denver Rise Collaborative Workspace - her second location this month, and I'm thrilled to be a Founding Member! Her Grand Opening party was last night - and what a night it was! Congratulations Stacy! In this episode, we talk about women raising capital and the magic of women in community! Stacy is on fire spreading her passion and I am so excited to bring her story to you! As the Founder/CEO of RISE Collaborative, Stacy Taubman launched a company that is changing the way women do business. RISE Collaborative Workspace has been featured in publications including Today Show, NBC News, USA Today, Bloomberg, and ELLE Magazine as a leader in the multi-billion-dollar coworkin

Today I’m bringing you a mystical gift with Honeybee Henderson as my guest on Extraordinary Women Radio. Honeybee joins us from Amman Jordan where she has been called to teach yoga in the Middle East. Honeybee is Spiritual Psychologist, a Ceremonialist, a Mystic and has traveled the corners of the world in search of the greatest tools to align to the true Self. I personally was excited to hear more about Honeybee's pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. As she shares with us, "the Camino is only one piece of the puzzle. Over the last 4 years, I have been plucked from my home, and sent around the globe on a mission to empower women.  I never know exactly where I am going next, or what waits for me around the corner.  This is how I have been thrust into flow." And so we jam about being in flow. We jam about the value of being a woman and of learning how to relax the mind, the control mechanism, the nervous system… to allow more energy to move through us! If we, as women, start learning how to listen inwardly

I’m thrilled to bring you today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest – Mary Ann Littler – as we have worked and played in connection and collaboration for years! Mary Ann is a friend, has a been a client, and we served on the American Diabetes Association board together. In addition, Mary Ann serves on my advisory board for Extraordinary Women Connect. She’s an extraordinary woman that I’m honored to call a friend. Mary Ann has been doing some amazing work in Peru, supporting the health care system in the remote villages of the Amazon… which she’ll share in the interview today! Her stories about travelling into these remote villages to make a difference are touching. We jam about the life transformation that Mary Ann has journeyed through, and dive into the importance of honoring people – their gifts, their skills and their dreams – and how good leadership can impact people’s lives both professionally and personally. She is the CEO and Founder of Peak to Peak Business Strategies – providing executive & busine

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest is Michele Ashby, a woman on a mission to get 1000 women placed on corporate boards. She is the President and Founder of ACE LLC (Ashby Consulting Enterprises) & CDI LLC (Corporate Directors Int’l). Currently, there are only 2 women for every 10 board seats sitting on corporate boards across the US and Canada. Michele is on a mission to change this – to bring that ratio into a 50/50 balance, and to do it in a much faster timeline than that of our current trajectory of change… which, as she shares with us in this interview, would take 70 years! I believe in her work. We talk about her personal journey to public boards – working in two male-dominated fields – mining and finance.  Michele has served on six corporate boards over 18 years and is currently an Independent Director for McEwen Mining Inc., MUX:NYSE, and MENE Inc., MENE:TSXV, as well as a subject matter expert on corporate boards, a key note speaker and an executive business consultant. She interviewed 200 wo

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Melanie Ulle is the founder and CEO of Philanthropy Expert, LLC, a Denver-based philanthropic and nonprofit consulting firm. Melanie was recently named to the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce 25 Most Powerful Women in our state! Mel started going door-to-door knocking on doors for politics when she was only 8 years old! She was born to make a difference in our world! Sparked by the election in 2016, Mel shares the story of how she and her business partner Ginna Santy founded Women in Kind, a co-working community in Denver - designed by women and for women. Together they raised capital for their vision and stepped into the dream to create a fabulous entrepreneur community supporting women. Mel's life has been filled with adventure and powerful personal and professional stories that has truly sparked an extraordinary life. She's stepped in courage,  healed from tragedy, and she will inspire your own journey. We jam about empowering women, #MeToo, spiritual guidanc

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio Guest is Barbara Brooks, the co-founder of the #SecondActBizCon, a Business+Lifestyle Event For and By Women Over 40 being held in Denver March 21-23. This conference is for women in their 40s and 50s who are wanting to start their second… third or even fourth act in life and business. There’s going to be all kinds of stories being told on women stepping into their own second acts – the conference includes high-level breakout tracks, panel and audience discussions, deep dives, hands-on workshops, and socials with like-minded GenX and boomer women. I can’t wait! In our interview we dive into a topic that we’re both passionate about – Your Next Chapter! We talk about how to take courage to step into your next career shift and embrace the fear that is there in when you're starting all over again! (and why it's so amazing when you do!) Barbara is a a 28-year company marcom aficionado turned accidental entrepreneur. She’s a powerhouse community leader, a dynamic speaker and a d

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio guest is Dr. Nicole Gruel, an author of The Power of NOTEs: Non-Ordinary Transcendent Experiences Transforming the Way We Live, Love, and Lead. Nicole is an author, a speaker, and a transformational coach who descends from a long line of samurai. How cool is that! I loved Nicole from the moment I met her several years ago, shortly after I had read her book Women of the Wise Earth. Nicole was one of the first women I reached out to blindly on the internet saying, “I’d just like to know you more.” We Skyped and it was the beginning of a dear friendship. In that call I shared my own poem that had been inspired by her book - Circle of Sisters. And I shared a seed of an idea that came to me in writing that poem. What if... we took the principles of her book Women of the Wise Earth – women connecting in circle, in nature, in ritual – grounded in the chakras – and created a global movement. And we both said yes. Together, we wrangled up women from around to world to join us in a

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio guest is Carla Geyser, an adventurer, a humanitarian, an eco-warrior, and the founder of NPO, Blue Sky Society Trust – an organization that leads all female expeditions into Africa to raise money and awareness for conservation groups. Carla believes that one person can make a difference to protect, preserve and improve life for people, wildlife and communities in need – and she wants to be that person. She is involved in many social upliftment and conservation awareness projects across Africa. In 2016, Carla led South Africa’s first all-women expedition to Kenya, and more recently a second all female expedition called the Rise of the Matriarch in 2018. She’s creating experiences that have women falling in love with Africa, connecting them to nature and community. She's helping them slow down to the pace of Africa and at the same time bringing more awareness to important conservation issues associated with the wildlife of Africa. Carla’s passion is inspiring. Her tenacity

Raising capital to launch or grow a venture can be a foreign and intimidating subject for many people, men and women alike.  Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Arezou Zarafshan helps founders improve their odds of getting funding through VC’s or angel investors. She’s one of my very extraordinary clients and she’s doing important work in a field where there aren’t many women. She’s a trailblazer showing up on big stages leading important conversations, and I’m so proud of the work she is doing. Arezou grew up in Iran amidst the Iran-Iraq war, and she shares her story on how this environment shaped who she is today. During that trying time as a young girl, she discovered her own resiliency. A valuable gift that she counts on in her life today. "You learn to survive. You learn not to get traumatized by these things." ~ Arezou Zarafshan Today, Arezou runs the Startup Fundraising Academy, helping companies raise capital efficiently and effectively. The stats in startup funding are a bit daunting: On

This week's Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Michelle Hoglan, founder of the Boob Report. Michelle Hoglan is a Breast Cancer survivor. Her journey with cancer - from the initial diagnosis to treatment and beyond – prompted her to start a new organization called the Boob Report. She shares this story with us today. And she shares how a breast cancer journey can be overwhelming… the fear… the pain… the unknown. Michelle wanted to try and make the journey a little more manageable with a resource that women could turn to when they are going through breast cancer. The Boob Report guides breast cancer warriors to local doctors, support groups, and general information that she found useful during her journey. But it’s much more than a resource of information… it’s a community. And you know.. I believe in the power of community. “My advice is to feel it, own it, cry, scream, yell, do what you need to do.” ~ Michelle Hoglan To learn more about Michelle Hoglan and The Boob Report, join the private Faceb

This week's Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Leah Song, one of the singers and songwriters of Rising Appalachia. Two years ago as the seeds to this podcast were being planted, I made a list of about 20 women I’d love to interview on Extraordinary Women Radio. Rising Appalachia was at the top of my list. There's something to be said for writing down your goals, my friends! The harmony of Leah Song and Chloe Smith, the founding sisters of Rising Appalachia, has a sense of deep rootedness, playful exploration, and inspired action. Their sound and message, suggest that voices and traditions, brought together through song, may be one of the saving graces to a world in distress. As someone who loves music - is touched by music - I feel their work is so important. In a time when the fabric of our communities and culture often appear to be unraveling, their interweaving of music and mission, old traditions with new interpretations, creates an atmosphere of contagious hope and bliss. Leah tells so many