Possibilities with Monique de Maio

Every successful company has a board of directors. People whose job is to challenge assumptions, offer perspective, spot blind spots, and help guide the big decisions. So why are so many women trying to navigate careers, families, finances, and life transitions completely on their own? In this solo episode, Monique de Maio makes the case that most women are not short on support. They are short on the right support. Most of us build our support systems by accident: the spouse who is too close to be objective, the best friend who loves us too much to challenge us...

Somewhere along the way, women were sold a pretty lousy deal: build a serious career or business, or be the mother who's always there. Pick one.

But who made that rule? And why are we still playing by it?

On this episode of Possibilities, Monique de Maio sits down with Beth Mazza, serial entrepreneur, co-founder of two successful consulting firms, and co-author of Entrepreneur Like a MOTHER: Build a Company That Buys You Freedom, Not Owns Your Life.

Beth built and sold two businesses while raising four children. Her business partner and co-author...

What if loving the mission is the easy part?

Most people don't choose nonprofit work by accident. They care, often deeply. But somewhere along the way, it becomes easy to act as though being mission-driven makes the fundamentals of running a business less relevant.

It doesn't.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Dr. Kimberly Iozzi, who has spent more than 25 years making mission-driven organizations stronger. Her message to nonprofit leaders is direct: "It's a business.

First and foremost, it's a business.

That...

What if the most powerful thing you could do for your career was not a promotion, a pivot, or a plan?

What if it was finally finding your people?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Lauren Bailey, known throughout the GTM world as LB: Founder of Factor 8, the award-winning virtual sales training company; creator of Girls Club, a program that has produced over 600 promotions for women in revenue roles across 40 countries; and founder of Legacy Executive Club, a private community for purpose-driven senior leaders and founders who are...

There is a conversation happening about you before you are ever in the room.

Before your next prospect picks up the phone, they have probably already typed your name into ChatGPT. They have looked at what comes up. They have formed an opinion. And they have moved on to the next thing on their list.

That is the new first impression. And most people have no idea what it looks like.

In this episode, Monique de Maio unpacks what the data is actually telling...

Your resume should write itself by now. You have the title, the results, and the experience. So why isn't it working?

Because a resume that lists what you've done isn't the same as one that sells what you can do next.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Lisa Rangel, Founder and CEO of Chameleon Resumes, former executive recruiter, and one of the most trusted voices in executive career strategy. Her expertise has been featured in more than 200 media outlets, including CNN, Fortune, Time, CNBC, BBC, Business Insider, Newsweek...

She's so easy to work with.

It sounds like a compliment. But is it?

In this solo episode of Possibilities, Monique asks a question that most high-performing women have never stopped to answer: what does being easy to work with actually cost you? Because behind that phrase there is often a very different story, one about boundaries that were never drawn, yeses that were never really meant, and a quiet pattern of saying yes to other people's priorities while slowly starving your own.

The opposite of easy to work with is not difficult...

What if the voice you've spent your entire life trying to silence is actually the one you should trust most?

Most of us were taught, early and repeatedly, not to trust ourselves.

Not directly. Through school systems, social norms, performance metrics, and the constant pressure to be logical, productive, and certain.

We got very good at listening outward.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Kirsten: an intuitive coach, energy healer, Reiki Master Teacher, and animal communicator. Her work is built on a single belief...

When was the last time you stopped to ask yourself how things are really going?

In business, we call it a QBR. A quarterly business review. You know the format: leadership gathers, metrics get reviewed, what is working gets reinforced, what is not gets a plan. It is a discipline most organizations treat as non-negotiable.

Most of us have never run one on our own lives.

In this solo episode of Possibilities, Monique makes the case for the Quarterly Life Review (QLR) and gives you a simple, practical way to start running one...

Most companies do not have a culture problem. They have a leadership problem.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Maria Reis, a senior member of the HR leadership team at LG Electronics, to unpack what actually builds high-performing teams and what quietly destroys them.

Maria Reis is a results-driven HR executive with a career spanning financial services, retail, and global corporate HR. At LG Electronics, she sits at the forefront of creating a better life for people and a better future through smart life solutions, leading strategies that...

Most business podcasts follow a script.

A host asks a question. A guest gives a polished answer. Everyone sounds smart. Nobody says anything new.

This is not that conversation.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, we introduce a new format:

Business Q&A: In the Room

Two leaders. Real decisions. No theory.

Monique sits down with Stephanie Baker, former Chief Commercial Officer, COO, and CMO at EBG, for something different:

A real-time business debrief between two operators with 50+ years of combined experience.<...

Something happened this week that made one thing very clear.

The way buyers research and choose vendors has already changed.

And most companies have not caught up.

LinkedIn recently published new research, drawing on data from Semrush and Profound, showing that LinkedIn is now the #1 most-cited domain for professional queries across major AI search engines.

That means when your buyers use tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews to research solutions and build shortlists, the content being surfaced is coming from LinkedIn.

Not your website. Not your brochures...

I once spent an entire Friday driving across three states to pick up secondhand furniture for my kid's college apartment.

I was proud of us. Resourceful. Practical. Smart with money.

Except when I ran the actual numbers - including my time, the gas, the storage, and what it cost to get it all moved in - it was 40% more expensive than just ordering new from Wayfair.

I had optimized for the feeling of being a good mom and called it a financial decision. Those are not the same thing.

In this...

What if one of the most powerful leadership tools you have… is the one most women were taught to ignore?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Cathy Williams, a trailblazer in body-based healing and creative arts therapy, for a powerful conversation about intuition, body awareness, and why so many high-performing women lose touch with their inner guidance system.

Cathy’s work helps women reconnect with something many of us were conditioned to override: the wisdom of our own bodies.

Because here’s the truth:

Your i...

If you sound like everyone else, you are competing.

And competing is exhausting.

In this solo episode of Possibilities, Monique unpacks a pattern she’s seeing across C-suite leaders, founders, hybrid executives, and growth-stage companies:

Brilliant people and strong businesses, all stuck inside labels.

COOs assumed to want the CEO seat.

CMOs who operate like operators.

CHROs who function as culture architects and leadership mentors.

Companies hiding behind “customer-centric” messaging and generic brand promises.

The problem isn’t confidence.

It isn’t experien...

What if confidence isn’t something you’re born with, but something you build one decision at a time?

In this episode of Possibilities, Monique sits down with Mary Alice Duff, fractional COO, entrepreneur, and portfolio careerist, for a grounded and powerful conversation about confidence, self-trust, and what truly changes when women stop waiting for permission.

This is not a conversation about moving abroad. It’s a conversation about what makes bold life decisions possible in the first place.

Mary Alice shares her unconventional journey from social work to entrepreneurship, the lessons learned from b...

Welcome back to Consider the Possibilities with Monique de Maio where real-life experience meets practical wisdom…

In this episode, Monique shares a powerful, deceptively simple framework she’s used for years to create clarity, focus, and alignment: the magic of choosing three words.

Forget resolutions. Forget vision boards that don’t stick. This is about creating a true north. A lens through which you make decisions about your time, energy, money, relationships, and opportunities.

Monique walks you through:

Why traditional goal-setting often fails

How a single theme can shift your e...

What if aging wasn’t a slowdown, but an invitation to go bigger?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Judy Katz, an accomplished ghostwriter, author, publisher, and storyteller who found her true calling at 65 and is still creating, writing, and building at 85.

Judy challenges everything we’ve been taught about aging, boldness, and self-confidence. She shares why she’ll never retire, how fear keeps women from telling their stories, and why it’s never too late to do the work that matters most.

What if some of the most powerful women in leadership are quietly navigating crises no one ever sees?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Dana Codispoti, a global HR executive, Chief People Officer, coach, and co-founder of the nonprofit HIGHER, for a raw and necessary conversation about leadership, personal crisis, and what it really means to be resilient.

Dana shares her personal experience leaving an abusive relationship while holding senior leadership roles in financial services, and how that journey reshaped her understanding of power, empathy, and vulnerability in...

Episode 100 is here!

What started as a way to share stories from my book has become nearly one hundred honest conversations with women creating lives they love: navigating leadership, reinvention, ambition, motherhood, money, wellness, and meaning in real time, without pretending it’s easy.

In this milestone episode, I’m looking back not just to celebrate, but to reflect.

Across 100 conversations, clear patterns kept emerging.The same lessons. The same reminders. The same truths we all need when life gets messy.

In this episode, we revisit the themes that have shaped Poss...

What if the reason love feels so hard has nothing to do with effort, timing, or “doing the work” and everything to do with how high-achieving women are conditioned to relate to themselves?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Lynda Williams, transformational coach, entrepreneur, and host of the PS I Love Me podcast, for a deeply honest conversation about love, self-acceptance, and why success in life does not automatically translate to fulfillment in relationships.

Lynda shares her journey from growing up in a small village in England to buil...

What if your job finally supported the life you actually want?

In this episode, Monique sits down with remote-work expert, entrepreneur, and founder of Remote Rebellion, Michelle Coulson, to unpack what freedom really looks like beyond the office, beyond expectations, and beyond the 9–5.

Michelle has helped hundreds of people land remote roles that align with their values. Originally from the UK, she spent seven years in recruitment before the pandemic pushed her into the remote world. Instead of staying in London, she boarded a flight to Bali and never looked back. When her company demanded a...

If you listened to Part 1, you know how Jodi Scott-Lyons built four wellness brands from a kitchen table into a national presence. What you do not know yet is what happened when that entire world was turned upside down overnight.

In Part 2, Jodi takes us behind the scenes into a chapter most founders never talk about. The chapter where everything falls apart. The chapter where you question your identity, your purpose, your leadership and your future. The chapter where resilience is not a concept but a lifeline.

This is the story of losing everything and...

What happens when a purpose-driven founder refuses to follow the rules AND builds not one but four wellness brands straight from her kitchen table?...

You get Jodi Scott-Lyons, CEO, creator, innovator, Renaissance woman, and the definition of “mission with a heartbeat.”

In Part 1 of this powerful two-part conversation, Jodi walks us through how she, her mother, and her sister bootstrapped Green Goo from a backyard herbal project into a nationally recognized brand carried in thousands of stores. She breaks down the real startup journey: the messy middle, the garage production lines, the skepticism from manufacturers, and...

Your company has a culture. The only question is whether you designed it… or drifted into it.

In this episode, Monique sits down with Brittany Drozd, a CEO thought partner, licensed therapist, and Harvard-trained organizational behavior expert who helps leaders diagnose what’s really broken inside their companies, and rebuild cultures with intention, integrity, and evidence-based clarity.

If your organization feels “off,” your team is overwhelmed, or you’re stuck reacting instead of leading, this conversation will feel like someone finally turned the lights on.

We unpack:

→ Why most leaders treat symptoms ins...

When you think “beauty industry,” you probably don’t think transparency. You think filters, filler, and hype.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Giella Poblocki, founder and CEO of GIELLA Custom Blend Cosmetics, the cosmetics and skin care company Monique has used almost exclusively  for over a decade herself, to talk about what real beauty looks like… inside and out.

They unpack what it takes to build a business with integrity in an industry built on illusion, why “clean beauty” is really clean business, and how mindset is the secret in...

What if the most important conversations we need to have as women (about health, mentorship, and midlife growth) are still the ones we don’t talk about enough?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Kristen Fairback, Executive Vice President of National Sales at SHE Media, for an honest, girlfriend-style conversation about leadership, mentorship, and the realities of women’s health and aging.

Kristen opens up about her decades-long career in media, what she wishes she had known earlier in her leadership journey, and how mentorship and community have shap...

What if the biggest game-changer in your business wasn’t another strategy or shiny tool, but actually knowing yourself?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, business growth strategist Tonya Gossage shares how Human Design and the Know-Like-Trust factor can transform the way you lead, delegate, and scale.

We get into:

→ Why “knowing yourself, liking yourself, and trusting yourself” is the real starting point for leadership

→ How Human Design reveals your natural strengths and helps you avoid burnout

→ Why delegation is freedom (and the ultimate ROI)

→ The stru...

When you hear the word philanthropist, do you picture yourself?

In this week’s episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, I sit down with Hope Gallagher Ogletree, Senior Director of Development at Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business and the leader of Fordham’s Women’s Philanthropy Initiatives, to flip the script on what giving really means.

We talk about:

→ Why women already control two-thirds of wealth, and what that means for the future of philanthropy

→ How financial literacy unlocks confidence, power, and purpose

→ Why emotional connection and community driv...

What happens when ambition collides with burnout?

In this powerful episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, I sit down with Katie McDonald, founder of b.nourished, professional speaker, and creator of the b.nourished Planner, to get real about why self-care is the most radical (and responsible) leadership act you can take.

We talk about:

→ Katie’s crash-and-burn journey from corporate exec to wellness entrepreneur

→ Why “overwhelm” is a habit, not a badge of honor

→ How to replace numbing behaviors with nourishing ones

→ The unapologetic power of saying “no”...

What does it really take to find your voice, and then have the guts to use it?

In this bold, funny, and refreshingly honest episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Mary Hope (M.H.) McQuiston, author of Finding Your Voice, to unpack what it means to stop self-silencing and finally say the thing that’s been stuck in your throat.

We cover:

→ Why so many women hold back from speaking up (and how to stop)

→ The messy truth about creativity, fear, and imperfection

→ Why vulnerab...

What’s really going on with women, weight loss, and hormones?

In this tell-it-like-it-is episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, we’re joined by board-certified OB/GYN and retreat alum Dr. Cindy Parnes, who’s spent over 30 years treating real women with real questions about their health.

We get into the nitty-gritty of hormonal imbalances, menopause myths, metabolism shifts, weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, and the truth about what’s normal vs. what you’ve been told to “just deal with.”

This is your no-BS medical primer with warmth, humor, and a whole lo...

What if your role as an entrepreneur could grow with your life—not against it?

In this special in-person episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, two entrepreneurs—Sabrina McEntee and Monique—sit down for a candid fireside chat about what it really takes to build a meaningful entrepreneurial life without burning out.

Sabrina is the founder of Build More Leads, a marketing entrepreneur, MBA grad, and mom of four. She shares what she's learned about simplicity, ambition, boundaries, and redefining success—on her own terms.

You...

What if "part-time" didn’t mean part-impactful?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, we sit down with Elizabeth Willetts—founder of Investing in Women, champion of flexible work, and author of Flex—to challenge everything you think you know about career, confidence, and what success really looks like.

Elizabeth shares her own journey from high-billing recruiter to entrepreneur, the surprising power of part-time work, and how to stop apologizing for career gaps or pivots. We talk about perfectionism, the confidence gap, and why documenting your wins is non-negotiable.

You’ll learn: <...

What does it really mean to be “strong”?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, we’re flipping the script on strength, success, and the myth of “having it all.” Emmy-winning ESPN broadcaster Jenn Hildreth and FOX Sports SVP of Talent Relations Aimee Leone sit down with Monique for a conversation that’s equal parts grit, humor, and truth.

These two powerhouse moms aren’t here to sugarcoat it—they’re here to get real about ambition, vulnerability, and the mental load women carry on and off the field.

You’ll hear:

→ How w...

What if writing a book wasn’t about being a “writer”—but about owning your voice?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, we’re joined by book strategist and founder of The Written Legacy, Danielle Hutchinson, for a no-BS conversation about storytelling, authorship, and the courage to go from “maybe someday” to “manuscript submitted.”

You’ll learn:

→ Why writing a book isn’t about literary perfection—it’s about leadership

→ The hidden ROI of becoming a published author (hint: it’s not just book sales)

→ Why “I don’t have time” is code for “I’m...

What if the least “qualified” person in the room was exactly the right one for the job?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, marketing mentor and founder of the 10K Email Club, Emily Claire Hughes, shares her story of going from musical theater to marketing maven—building a business that champions authenticity, community, and gutsy self-employment.

You’ll learn:

→ Why “launch before you’re ready” is the advice every entrepreneur needs

→ How a blog on a cruise ship became a thriving business

→ Why your background (yes, even restaurant work...

Do you know what your words are actually saying about you?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, sales strategist and communications coach, Liz Wendling, exposes the real reason most professionals struggle to influence, persuade, and connect: weak language.

Liz doesn’t teach scripts. She teaches alignment. Because when your language is congruent with your energy, you stop selling and start leading!

You’ll learn:

→ Why “I’m just checking in…” is a credibility killer

→ How to replace filler phrases with assertive authenticity

→ The mindset shift that transfo...

What if the life you wanted was already whispering to you—but you hadn’t said it out loud yet?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, former ad agency CEO turned award-winning author, speaker, and Off-Broadway performer Mary Lou Quinlan shares her story of reinvention—and why the most powerful thing you can do is say what you want out loud.

You’ll learn:

→ Why reinvention isn’t just possible, it’s necessary

→ What happens when you finally stop performing and start creating

→ How Mary Lou transformed grief...

What if the real prescription isn’t medicine—it’s movement, belonging, and connection?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, journalist Julia Hotz joins us to explore the power of social prescribing: a revolutionary approach that’s helping people feel better by prescribing nature, service, art, movement, and community instead of pills.

You’ll learn:

→ Why chronic loneliness is as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day

→ How movement, creativity, and purpose literally rewire your brain

→ What “social prescribing” is—and how it’s changing healthcare globally

→ The neuroscience...