She Rises

In this special episode, Giovanna dives into a topic near and dear to her heart: The Hero’s--or Heroine’s--Journey. Sometimes we get to a place in our lives where we feel stuck. Maybe we feel like we are in a cave; we have no energy or inspiration. Or maybe we’re actually in an upswing and there’s lots of inspiration. The challenge is that sometimes we can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel or we even believe there is no end to the tunnel. Understanding the heroine’s journey as a model of looking at the cycles of your life and where you are in your world, and what the next phase for you is, can be very calming and helpful.   Giovanna explains what the Hero’s (Heroine’s) Journey entails. Giovanna discusses her “Ordinary World” and her “Call to Adventure”. Giovanna challenges listeners to determine what stage of the Hero’s Journey they are in. EVERYONE gets a call and many people “Refuse the Call” or ignore it. Giovanna talks about her experience of  “Meeting the Mentor”. “Crossing the Threshold” is sc

On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza talks with Ruby Fremon. Ruby is a coach for the new generation of thought leaders and her no-bullshit approach ignites true transformation, while flipping fear into actualized ambition, and doubt into absolute confidence. Ruby works with leaders, from artists to entrepreneurs, who are ready to rise above their limitations and amplify their message. Coaching hundreds of clients, she is a catalyst for change and is hugely successful at helping her clients embody radical resiliency and an unstoppable mentality. Her bold, no-nonsense approach to help leaders rise up, fulfill their missions and make their voices heard. A warning that we will swear on this show and some f-bombs will be used! So, settle in and get ready for this really frank, open, honest, and down  to earth conversation with someone who admire for her ability to not give a F***!! Ruby shares her past struggles with depression and addiction and how she got to her “F*** it” place. Giovanna discusses

On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza talks with coach, writer, and speaker, Dr. Mandy Leto. She is a champion of people seeking more, which typically includes more light, more peace, more purpose, and more authenticity. She works with high achievers who are ready to redefine success without taking the off-ramp into self-help oblivion. Mandy herself is a high achieving woman, a type A personality, and she has found a way to live a life that is more balanced and more supportive of her personal health. Mandy and I both discuss our real-world, real-life, rock-bottom moments. We dive into what it looks like to ignore burnout, what the early signs of burnout are, and what it feels like to hit the burnout wall. We go into Mandy’s personal story and the lessons she received along the way, and the ones she imparts to clients in and out of the corporate world who are ready to live a life that has more balance, purpose, and peace. Mandy shares her journey and how she normalized symptoms of burnout. Mand

On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza interviews Megan Llorente, a female-led entrepreneur and transformative coach taking people deeper than themselves to uncover their dharma. Megan’s created a personal growth organization called Women in Dharma. Megan talks about her She Rises story when she realized she needed to reinvent. She explored a lot of opportunities but landed on coaching. Megan explains what the Enneagram is and what it’s for. We have all nine of the Enneagram energies within us, but one usually rises to the surface. Megan compares the Enneagram to other personality typing systems such as Myers-Briggs. The Enneagram doesn’t define you, you choose what is and is not a healthy or unhealthy state. Megan introduces the concept of Dharma - the energy of being aligned on the path that the universe has set you on. When you’re in Dharma, the abundance flows effortlessly. When you’re in Dharma you learn to start living with the flow of your own life. We are multidimensional and you don’t ha

On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza interviews Yvonne Tally, author of Breaking Up With Busy, she leads meditation and destressing programs for corporations, individuals, and private groups in Silicon Valley. She’s an NLP Master Practitioner, co-founder of Poised Inc. and the founder of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Scarves. Yvonne shares her story of breaking up with busy. After a panic attack due to her busy lifestyle, she realized she needed to help people. We’ve turned the leisure life into the busy life, it makes us feel important and connected. Yvonne talks about how she went from an anxiety attack to mindfulness. How can women identify themselves as overscheduled, and not “lazy.” Business has a big impact on every aspect of our personal wellness and relationships. Yvonne explains the difference between being busy and being productive. Taming time is about choosing to make priorities and thinking of time as a resource. Yvonne explains the role of silence in combatting the busy life. E

On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza interviews Julie M. Simon, a licensed psychotherapist and life coach with over 27 years of experience helping overeaters and author of When Food is Comfort and The Emotional Eaters Repair Manual. Julie tells the story behind how she arrived on the topic of overeating. Body shaming and exposure to perennial dieting kickstarted an unhealthy relationship with food. At an early age many children are taught that food is comfort and children are not attuned to their emotions. When our brain is forming, we need consistent and sufficient emotional nurturance. The logical and soothing part of the brain need to be properly wired to the emotional part. Caregivers need to be well tuned in to themselves and those they care for. Julie goes over the emotional eating checklist from her book. Julie talks about ways you can fix the damage done during childhood. The inner nurturer can step in and regulate and attune you. Your inner nurturing voice will provide hope. Overeaters

On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza interviews Amber Runyon, candlemaker and storyteller. She founded Legacy and Eleventh Candle Co. to bring hope to women in the U.S. and Ethiopia. Amber saw women in Ethiopia being sold to brothels in broad daylight. How do we go from raped to redeemed and move women to a place of wellness? Discuss how you can make a pledge to help victims and survivors. Share the story of the entrepreneurial side of your business. Amber discusses the importance of mentoring and being mentored. They’ve built a team and taken their business from $250 to over $1 million in revenue. Amber now has the ability to know that if she’s not healthy the company isn’t healthy. What Amber is learning and still has to practice daily it’s that one is enough. Discuss the list of values on the Eleventh Candle Company website. The four core values are to redeem, restore, empower, and equip in that order. Begin to dream like little girls again because the world feels really dark right now. Ambe

Actress and playwright Tina Alexis Allen's audacious memoir, HIDING OUT: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives (Dey Street Books, On Sale: 2/20/2018, ISBN: 9780062565679) unravels her privileged suburban upbringing as shaped by her formidable father—a man whose deep Catholic faith and dedication to his large family hid his true nature and a life defined by deep secrets and dangerous lies.  Imagine it—the moment many closeted young adults dread—when your stern, devoutly Catholic father discovers you are gay. The youngest of thirteen children, Tina Alexis Allen grew up in 1980s suburban Maryland in a house ruled by her father, Sir John, an imposing, British-born authoritarian who had been knighted by the Pope. Sir John supported his large family running a successful travel agency that specialized in religious tours to the Holy Land and the Vatican for pious Catholics. But his daughter, Tina, was no sweet and innocent Catholic girl. A smart-mouthed high school basketball prodigy, she harbored a painful

On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza recaps her thoughts on the No-Man Diet, and how she experienced “No-Manorexia.” Giovanna recaps the episode of She Rises where she interviews Kendra Cunov. The No-Man Diet allows you to take a break from relationships and see what your patterns are. When Giovanna’s mom passed away she started to ask, “who’s going to love me now?” Giovanna realized that she had toxic love addiction. There’s a pendulum with relationships, you might experience “no-manorexia.” The mission of coming into sacred femininity, you need to be cautious of blocking out opportunity for relationship. Being closed off to relationships changed her levels of creativity and inspiration in business. When we close down feminine energy, that turns into lack of receptivity. Why being off balance could cause you to miss out on life. How to use the She Rises podcast as a conversation starter. Feminine and masculine energy applies to any sexual orientation. Ask yourself how these principles apply to

Founder of Fierce Grace: Practices of Embodied Wholeness for Women, Kendra Cunov has been studying, facilitating, and (most importantly) practicing Authentic Relating, Embodiment Practices & Deep Intimacy Work for the last fifteen years.  Kendra has worked with thousands of men, women & couples in the areas of embodiment, intimacy, communication & full self-expression. She co-founded Authentic World, as well as The Embodied Relationship & Intimacy Training Salon, and pioneered some of the most cutting edge relation work on the planet. Kendra has consulted for companies such as Genentech & is currently on staff for 4PC, an elite mastermind for the top 4% of coaches in the world.  She works with organizations & leaders, as well as men, women & couples, who know that presence, truth, connection & integrity are our truest access points to success - in business & in love.  www.kendracunov.com On this episode of She Rises, host Giovanna Capozza interviews Kendra Cunov, the founde

LA native Monique DeBose is an award-winning, multi-talented playwright and Jazz-R&B-pop singer/songwriter, who has toured and entertained audiences throughout Europe, India and Asia.  Her third album–The Sovereign One–is scheduled for release in Fall 2018. A leading vocal improvisationalist (having studied under Rhiannon and Joey Blake of the renowned Bobby McFerrin Voicestra), Monique now leads an international community of over 500 vocal artists throughout the United States and Europe. Inspired by her experience of of what it means to be half African American, half Irish American, she wrote the funny, heart-warming and disruptive one-woman show Mulatto Math: Summing Up The Race Equation in America to initiate conversation and heal race relations in America. She tours around the country, performing the show and facilitating workshops on identity, race and belonging. Monique facilitates experiential workshops as well as individual coaching for people ready to live a fully expressed life. She holds a mast

On this episode of She Rises, Host Giovanna Capozza speaks with Sandra Elia, certified food addiction counselor, CTI certified wellness coach, radio show host, and vice-chair for Toronto chapter of Canadian Obesity Network. Our brains are being constantly transformed and programmed and are prone to addiction. Sandra used food to feel numb and escape and it made it the darkest time of her life. Sandra and Giovanna talk about how to assess whether you’re a food addict or not. Our food system is being engineered to be addictive. Food hits all three neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin and endorphins, most drugs only hit endorphins. The two biggest recovery tools can be exercise and meditation. There’s a spectrum with food addicts, then in a different class are emotional eaters, how do you know the difference? Food addiction touches four parts of our brain – learn how to know the difference between the two. Sandra explains “food pushers” and how to deal with them. There are no downsides to eliminating ultra-pro

It’s hard to believe that it was just over a year ago that Suzi Kory recorded her first songs with producer John Angus MacDonald of Canadian rockers The Trews. Since then, she has played the Whisky a Go-Go in Hollywood, opening for LA Guns as well as having played a festival in Brazil ! In less then a year, Suzi has made a name for herself in Los Angeles as well as back home in Toronto and has Canadian Music insiders taking notice. As a mother of two teenage boys with a full-time job as a Customer Service Manager its hard to believe she still has time to be a Rockstar, but is she is proving how it can be done! Suzi is currently working with producer Brent Woods in Los Angeles on a full length album and has her sights set on no less then a Grammy come 2020. On this episode of She Rises, Host Giovanna Capozzaspeaks with Suzy Kory, member of the band the True’s and full-time customer service manager and mother of two. Suzy talks about how she became a rock star in her 40’s. When Suzy told her parents she wanted

Author Corinne Zupko, a licensed counselor and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, undertook her study of psychology out of necessity when debilitating anxiety threatened to derail her life. Seeking ways to do more than temporarily alleviate her symptoms, Corinne began to study A Course in Miracles (ACIM), mindfulness meditation, and the latest therapeutic approaches for treating anxiety.  As Corinne healed her own mental anguish, she compiled the perception-shifting process she describes in the enclosed advance reading copy of From Anxiety to Love: A Radical New Approach for Letting Go of Fear and Finding Lasting Peace (New World Library, February 14, 2018). “In these pages, I describe the process I used to work myself out of terror and into an anxiety-free life,” writes Corinne. “And by working that process, I’m now doing things I never thought I would be capable of: taking plane trips fearlessly, and without medications, by myself; speaking confidently in front of large audiences; traveling into Ne

On this episode of She Rises, Host Giovanna Capozza speaks with Silvia Christmann about living her dream while being conscious of her wellbeing. Her core values revolve around two defining factors – her need for adventure and personal freedom. Silvia began creating her own reality from a very young age – a self-described opportunist. She was picked up by a serial entrepreneur and discovered that building businesses was her sweet spot. Silvia talks about the chaos she’d invited in leading to her grounded spiritual journey. She was a sickly child and has always had a fragile immune system, making her an outsider. Silvia talks about making the choice between her ambition and her wellbeing in New York. Women are living in a world where they’re asked to submit to a patriarchal system that tries to stop them from following their ambition. You have to step back, slow down and make sure what you’re doing is aligned with your sense of joy and wellbeing. Silvia talks about things that get in her way other than ambition

On this episode of She Rises, Host Giovanna Capozza discusses the science of fulfillment. Part of Giovanna’s personality from childhood is a constant underlying dissatisfaction. In the past, being an ambitious woman was not an acceptable thing. Ambition and dissatisfaction made Giovanna a seeker. Fulfillment can have two different drivers/sources: emptiness, A “runaway from” goal is when you’re trying to run away from a feeling, a cup with a hole at the bottom. A “run toward” goal comes from a cup that is fillable and can overflow. The plaster that plugs up the hole in your cup, is your relationship to yourself and the universe. If you don’t have your own sacred sovereignty, you’ll constantly be trying to fill a cup with a hole at the bottom. Start creating a practice of awareness and start noticing if you’re trying to fill a cup with a hole. Find out what the child inside is trying to get filled and validated. Start looking at how the science of fulfillment is manifesting in your life. Studies show that the

Christina Miglino is an empowerment coach, spiritual counselor and artist who has traveled all over the country and Canada as a Public Speaker. She has hosted and taught many workshops on empowerment on the west coast. As an intuitive hand-poke tattoo artist too, Christina loves to incorporate the tattooing process into these teachings of initiation for women. Here work has been featured in online publications, blogs, and on multiple podcasts because of her unique story and empowerment work! Christina is passionate about supporting women in gaining emotional awareness, stepping into their power and listening more to their intuition so that they can have the life and business that they have always imagined. She currently has open enrollment for her 6-month, Emotion into Motion, 1 on 1 coaching program! Current project: www.millennialspiritlive.com For coaching info and tattoo and tarot retreat info email: info@christinamiglino.com On this episode of She Rises, Host Giovanna Capozza interviews Christina Miglino

On this episode of She Rises, Host Giovanna Capozza interviews Kelly Lynn Adams, former corporate fashion industry powerhouse turned certified business, leadership and life coach. Adams discusses how burnout in her corporate job lead to the universe helping her discover how to teach people to juggle it all. Your body will let you know when you’re pushing too hard or doing too much. It doesn’t matter where you are, high-achieving women have a high stress level because we put pressure on ourselves. There’s always going to be where you want to be and where you are and the gap in-between. We’re so focused on the vision that we don’t stop to celebrate. You can still want more for yourself, but not at the expense of your mind and self-esteem. The more you slow down and are present, things start to flow, and people can feel your energy. Focuses on three pillars with the women she works with: mindset, time, monetizing in the business. You can only achieve your business goals if you’re your best asset. The only secret

Terra Winston, Ringleader of in Terractions and Principal of in Terract Consulting, has dedicated her life to helping her clients unleash the potential of each employee. She a leadership consultant and executive coach with 20 years of internal and external business consulting experience. Terra has a flexible style that has driven results in boardrooms and on plant floors, for Fortune 100 companies and small start-ups, alike. Terra's successful approach comes from her unique blend of "hard'. and %oft. business skills. She holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, an MBA from Stanford University, and coaching certification from The Coaches Training Institute and the International Coach Federation. Prior to founding in Terract, Terra worked at Deloitte Consulting as a consultant on process, strategy, and organizational engagements and as a Director at PepsiCo doing traditional HR and organizational development. With an expertise in leadership development and facilitation, Terra implement