Love Inspired Leadership
The Love Inspired Leadership Podcast is the voice and vibration of a new kind of woman in business: the one who refuses to abandon herself for success. This is not passive listening; it is a living practice. Each episode is a guided crossing from hustle to wholeness, from quiet misalignment to inner congruence, from “holding it all together” to being held by something deeper. You will hear the real conversations most women in leadership are too exhausted, afraid, or busy to have: the moments of reckoning, the sacred no’s, the nervous system crashes, and the brave rebuilds that follow. Rooted...
From Broken Trust to Bold Purpose: How Women Find Strength After Betrayal
What if the moment you thought your story was ending was actually the beginning of something far more powerful? In this deeply honest conversation, Barbara Ringrose shares how betrayal became the promise that led her to rebuild her life, support her children, and create a community where women rise together.
What You’ll Hear:
Barbara’s powerful story of betrayal, survival, and rebuilding after her husband left three days before ChristmasThe promise she made to herself and her children during one of the hardest seasons of her lifeHow one small next step can become the...No Is Not the End: Rise Through Invisible Challenges, Reclaim Your Voice, & Choose Yourself Again
When life says no, it may feel like the end of the road. But in this powerful conversation, Patti Bevilacqua shares how her MS diagnosis became a detour toward deeper purpose, courage, self-advocacy, and a life filled with meaning.
What You’ll Hear:
Patti’s journey from becoming a high school physical education teacher to navigating life with MSHow MS challenged her body, identity, career, and plans for the futureWhy “no” is not always the end, but often a meaningful detourThe shift from asking “Why me?” to “Now what?”How invisible challenges require courage, boundaries, and...What Happens When You Finally Trust Yourself: A Powerful Journey to Courage, Clarity, & Freedom
What if the success you've been chasing isn't the success your soul is calling you toward? In this inspiring conversation, Carolyn Cooper sits down with intuitive leadership mentor Wendy Paige Sterling to explore how trusting your inner wisdom, honoring your intuition, and leading from energetic intelligence can transform your business, relationships, and life.
What You’ll Hear:
Wendy's courageous journey from corporate executive to intuitive leadership mentor after choosing self-trust over external expectations.How childhood conditioning and the pursuit of external validation can disconnect us from our authentic voice and how to reconnect with it...You Were Never Meant to Earn Love: Choose Yourself & Transform Your Relationships with Alfina Lofaro
What happens when being the dependable achiever and giver begins costing you the relationship you have with yourself? Alfina Lofaro shares how she moved beyond overgiving and burnout to love deliberately, trust her inner wisdom, and build a healthier relationship with herself.
What You’ll Hear:
How Alfina learned to associate love and belonging with achievement, helping, and doing moreHow being the dependable “good girl” led to overgiving, workaholism, exhaustion, and burnoutHow the belief “I have to earn love” can shape our relationships, boundaries, choices, and leadershipWhy our relationships can act as mirrors, revealing patterns t...The Gratitude Shift That Changes How You See Everything with Kathleen Panning
What if the hardest seasons of life are not signs that you are off path, but invitations to see through a new lens? In this heartfelt conversation, Kathleen Panning shares how faith, gratitude, community, and deep listening can help women lead with purpose, even when life feels uncertain.
What You’ll Hear:
Kathleen’s early calling into ministry and how she discovered that women could become pastorsWhy your calling may arrive long before the world gives you language for itHow faith can unfold through unexpected shifts, closed doors, and difficult transitionsThe book that changed Kath...You Are More Than Your Diagnosis: Take Your Life Back After Cancer With Dr. Jill Rosenthal
A deeply moving conversation about what it truly means to live beyond cancer. Dr. Jill Rosenthal shares how women can release fear, let go of the cancer identity, and step into a life of peace, purpose, and possibility - no matter their diagnosis or stage.
What You’ll Hear:
Dr. Jill’s journey from physician and cancer survivor to helping others heal beyond their diagnosisHow a cancer diagnosis affects your identity, relationships, and every area of life, not just your physical healthWhy fear can linger long after treatment, and how to quiet the constant "canc...The Hidden Cost of Being “Successful” and How to Reclaim the Life You Were Meant to Live
If you’ve ever felt successful on the outside but unfulfilled within, this conversation will speak directly to your soul. Therese Vita shares how to break free from burnout, reconnect with your true identity, and start living a life designed with purpose, clarity, and joy.
What You’ll Hear:
The moment Therese realized her successful career was no longer aligned with who she truly wasWhat burnout is really trying to tell you and why ignoring it only delays your transformationThe powerful concept of taking a “hard right” and choosing a completely new pathWhy so many hig...You’re Not Lazy… You’re Burned Out | How to Get Your Energy and Life Back
If your energy no longer matches your vision, this conversation is your invitation to come back home to yourself. Dr. Lan Lu shares a powerful perspective on vitality, burnout recovery, and how restoring your inner energy can transform the way you lead, live, and love your life.
What You’ll Hear:
Dr. Lan Lu’s inspiring journey from high tech burnout and chronic health challenges to renewed vitality, purpose, and joyWhy burnout is more than exhaustion, and how reconnecting with your body, spirit, and inner wisdom creates lasting transformationHow intentional daily practices like gratitude, morn...You Don’t Need More AI… You Need This First: The Missing Link Between Technology and Human Leadership
AI is not here to replace people. It is here to amplify what already works. In this grounded and eye-opening conversation, Dr. Curtis Rasmussen shares how leaders can integrate AI with clarity, purpose, and humanity to create real results without fear.
What You’ll Hear:
Why fear around AI exists and how to move into confidenceThe truth about AI and why it does not make you smarterWhy 99% of AI implementations fail and how to avoid itWhat human-machine teaming really means for your businessWhy understanding your team’s actual workflow is critical before using AIThe real...The Life That Looks Good But Doesn’t Feel Right: How to Find Your Way Back to You
If you’ve been quietly asking yourself “Is this really it?”, this conversation will meet you right where you are. Rosemary Rose Blaum shares how to slow down, listen within, and courageously step into the life your soul has been calling you toward.
What You’ll Hear:
The moment many women experience when success no longer feels like fulfillmentRosemary’s journey from building a “successful” career to realizing she was living disconnected from her true selfWhy that quiet inner whisper saying “there’s more” is not random, but guidanceHow busyness, responsibility, and guilt keep women from hearing t...Stop Waiting to Be Chosen: Reclaim Your Voice & Believe You Are Worthy With Be Jensen
What if the abundance you are searching for begins with believing you are worthy of receiving it? In this powerful conversation, Be Jensen shares how cultural transition, forgiveness, self-worth, and a simple mindset shift helped her move from silence and people-pleasing into purpose, healing, and courageous leadership.
What You’ll Hear:
Be’s journey from people-pleasing to reclaiming her voice and self-worthWhy waiting for validation keeps you from stepping into your full potentialHow investing in yourself and asking for what you need creates stronger relationshipsThe power of forgiveness and self-forgiveness in releasing fear, resentment, and...Everything Fell Apart… Now What? How to Find Yourself Again
When life knocks you down so hard that everything feels like it stops, your business, your identity, your direction, this conversation will meet you in that moment. Debi Lynn shares how to move from survival mode back into purpose, power, and forward momentum.
What You’ll Hear:
Debi’s powerful journey through grief, burnout, and rediscovering her purposeWhy survival mode impacts your identity, decision-making, business, and relationshipsThe truth that you are not broken, you are buried, and how healing beginsHow the HEART Framework helps women move from pain to purpose and renewed momentumWhy asking for...Why Most Books Fail After They’re Written & How Yours Won't With Keren Kilgore
If you know there is a book inside you, or you already wrote one and it never got the traction you hoped for, this conversation is for you. Karen Kilgore shares how authors, coaches, and business owners can avoid the hidden mistakes that quietly derail book launches and instead create a book that truly changes lives and supports their business growth.
What You’ll Hear:
Karen’s journey to helping authors communicate their message with greater clarity and impactWhy a book can become one of your most powerful tools for transformation, visibility, and business grow...You Think It’s Them… But This Is What Conflict Is Really Showing You
What if conflict isn’t the problem but the doorway? In this powerful conversation, Robyn McTague reveals how unresolved tension silently shapes our lives and how choosing curiosity, awareness, and responsibility can transform conflict into connection, healing, and freedom.
What You’ll Hear:
Robyn’s inspiring journey through trauma, survival, and emotional healing, and how it shaped her approach to leadership and relationshipsWhy childhood conflict patterns continue to influence how we communicate, lead, and respond under pressureThe hidden cost of avoiding conflict, and how unresolved tension affects our personal and professional livesWhy "all behavior makes...When Hope Becomes Your Way Forward: Trust Yourself Again & Answer Life with Life With Betsy Clark
Betsy Clark shares a powerful conversation on active hope, self-trust, and remembering the song within you. This episode is a beautiful reminder that even in the hardest seasons, hope can become a choice, a practice, and a path forward.
What You’ll Hear:
How Betsy uses the idea of “active hope” as a way to move through life’s hardest stormsWhy hope is not passive waiting, but a decision to keep sending out new shipsThe powerful invitation to stop being someone else’s answer and start singing your own songHow Betsy navigated breast cancer, uncertaint...The Courage to Admit What Is No Longer True: How Truth, Alignment, and Love Open Your Next Chapter
What if the life, career, or identity you've worked so hard to build no longer reflects who you're becoming?
In this heartfelt panel discussion, Carolyn Cooper is joined by Leadership & Transitions Coach Laura Shepherd and communication expert Elizabeth Bennett to explore the courage it takes to tell yourself the truth, embrace change, and lead from a place of authenticity. Together, they unpack how honest conversations, aligned leadership, and one courageous step can transform not only your work, but your entire life.
What You’ll Hear:
Why your next chapter begins by telling yo...Speak So Your Truth Lands: How to Become an Unforgettable Communicator With John Scott
Your voice is more than sound. It carries your clarity, your confidence, your energy, and your presence. In this powerful conversation, John Daniel Scott shares how leaders can use their voice to communicate with deeper impact, authentic connection, and calm confidence.
What You’ll Hear:
John Daniel Scott's journey from molecular biology to becoming a voice and public speaking coach.Why powerful communication is about far more than the words you say.The three pillars of Speech Dynamics: clarity, energy, and presence.How breath, pauses, and vocal variety help your message truly land.Why au...Break Free from What's Holding You Back: Release Hidden Beliefs and Lead with Purpose With Curtis McCullom
What if the greatest obstacle to your next level isn't outside of you, but hidden beneath the surface of your own beliefs? In this transformational conversation, Carolyn Cooper welcomes Curtis McCullom to explore how subconscious patterns shape our leadership, relationships, and success. Together they reveal how releasing invisible limitations allows us to lead with greater freedom, authenticity, and purpose.
What You’ll Hear:
Curtis shares his powerful journey from outward success to discovering the subconscious beliefs that quietly limited his growth and fulfillment.Why true transformation begins by releasing hidden emotional patterns instead of tr...Break Free from Limiting Beliefs: Discover the God-Given Identity That Changes Everything With Raquel Soto
What if the breakthrough you've been searching for doesn't begin with doing more, but with becoming more of who God created you to be?
In this inspiring conversation, Carolyn Cooper welcomes Raquel Soto to explore how embracing your God-given identity transforms the way you lead, love, create, and serve. Together they unpack the powerful connection between faith, neuroscience, emotional regulation, and authentic leadership, revealing why lasting transformation always begins from within.
What You’ll Hear:
Why breakthrough begins with embracing your God-given identity instead of striving to prove your worth.How faith, ne...The Moment You Realize You Can’t Keep Doing This | A New Way to Lead, Live, and Be
What happens when the very drive that helped you succeed starts pulling you further away from yourself? In this powerful conversation, Sarah Doyle shares how high-performing women can break free from hustle, reconnect with their authentic power, and lead with grounded presence, emotional intelligence, and deep humanity.
What You’ll Hear:
Sarah’s personal journey from corporate executive and overachiever to embodied leadership coachThe hidden cost of high performance when success becomes your identityWhy burnout is not just physical or emotional, but often spiritualHow women in leadership can shift from fear-based performance to love-inspired pres...Stage-Driven Leadership: Trusting the Nudge and Building Visibility With Love Heather Black
If you’ve felt called to share your message but keep questioning the timing, this episode is your invitation to trust the nudge. Heather Black shares how stage-driven visibility can create impact, income, and aligned opportunities without burnout or scattered effort.
What You’ll Hear:
How Heather followed a “God nudge” into building Phoenix Collaborations before the full picture was clearWhy not doing the thing can become more uncomfortable than taking the riskHow baby steps, surrender, and intentional planning can help you move toward a bigger callingWhy leading with love includes clear boundaries, honest capacity...Integrity Isn’t Optional: How Service-Led Leadership Rebuilds Trust With Chip Webster
If you’ve been feeling the heaviness of division - and wondering what one person can actually do - this episode is your roadmap. Chip Webster shares how integrity, service, and real human connection can restore trust, strengthen leadership, and create change that ripples far beyond you.
What You’ll Hear:
How Chip’s father modeled integrity by refusing to favor the affluent - and why it became Chip’s leadership compassThe courageous career decision Chip made when a CEO violated core values - and how walking away opened unexpected doorsWhy toleration isn’t neutral...Systems That Set You Free: Building a Business That Gives You Your Life Back With Jennifer Brown-Flewelling
If your business feels like it owns your time, energy, and attention, this episode is your permission slip to lead differently. Jennifer Brown-Flewelling shares how automation, AI, and intentional customer journeys can help business owners scale with more freedom, consistency, and peace.
What You’ll Hear:
Why systems should support people, not replace themHow Jennifer built businesses around work-life balance instead of 24/7 availabilityThe team realignment story that helped one employee grow from admin support to installer to top salespersonWhy immediate lead response matters - and how automation helps businesses stop losing opportunitiesHow customer journey sy...You Don’t Need To Be Louder Or Better - You Need To Be Real with Danielle Benzon
If you’ve ever been told to dial it back, quiet down, or make yourself smaller, this conversation is your permission slip to come home to your voice. Speaking voice and presence coach Danielle Benzon shares how embodied truth, scriptless speaking, and safe, courageous practice turn “too much” into magnetic leadership.
What You’ll Hear:
Why your “too muchness” is actually your edge - making you unforgettable and realDanielle’s journey from invisibility to owning her voice and finding her peopleThe “lane of joy” - using body signals (light vs heavy) to guide purposeWhy truth-first speaki...When You Feel Overwhelmed, Lead Anyway: Courage, Clarity, and Love in the Fight of Your Life with Deb Krier
What happens when a life-changing diagnosis collides with leadership, identity, and responsibility? Deb Krier shares a powerful, human conversation about taking your control back, building your “tribe,” and choosing love-led leadership even in the middle of uncertainty.
What You’ll Hear:
Deb’s turning point: an “annual checkup” that quickly escalated from stage zero to stage fourControl vs surrender - accepting reality while still advocating for yourselfSelf-advocacy in action: asking questions, setting standards, and making informed choices“You are not your diagnosis” - reclaiming identity beyond labelsLeading through crisis: choosing your team, communicating with integrity, and p...You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Powerful | The Leadership Strength Found in Adversity with Diana Fritz
What if the very thing you wish had never happened became the doorway to your deepest strength? In this powerful conversation, Diana Fritz shares how adversity can shape us, not to shrink us, but to help us lead with authenticity, resilience, service, and love.
What You’ll Hear:
How Diana’s early leadership was shaped by sports, teamwork, and accountabilityWhy great leaders focus on presence, listening, and removing obstacles - not micromanagingHow her cancer journey deepened her authenticity, gratitude, and humanityThe moment she chose life over appearance and embraced being seen fullyHow adversity can uniq...Why You Still Feel Disconnected in Love and the Truth About Intimacy No One Taught You with Joanna Shakti
This soul-stirring conversation opens a powerful doorway into love, intimacy, and authentic connection. Joanna Shakti shares how healing the relationship with yourself becomes the path to embodied intimacy, conscious love, and the kind of connection that transforms every part of your life.
What You’ll Hear:
Joanna’s journey from corporate engineer to intimacy teacher after a life-changing wake-up callHow masculine and feminine dynamics influenced her burnout, relationships, and awakeningWhy intimacy begins with your relationship with yourself - “Into me I see”The power of vulnerability, openness, and surrender in creating real connectionHer framework: ecstatic...When Blame Is Easy but Love Is Braver: The Forgiveness Shift That Transforms Your Life and Leadership with Jose V. Salazar
What if your greatest leadership moment isn’t in the boardroom - but in the way you respond to heartbreak, change, and uncertainty? In this grounded and heart-forward conversation, Jose V. Salazar shares how forgiveness, self-ownership, and conscious choice can set you free and reshape how you lead your life.
What You’ll Hear:
Why true leadership starts with how you lead yourself through change, loss, and transitionsJose’s turning point: shifting from blame to acceptance during divorceForgiveness vs permission - and how forgiveness frees youHow ownership and acceptance create clarity, healing, and momentumSupporting childr...The Life That Looked Good But Felt Wrong | How to Find Your Way Back with Nani Chesire
What if the life you are craving does not require more effort, but more alignment? In this heartfelt conversation, Nani Chesire shares how self-love, body wisdom, and human design can help women stop living from guilt and conditioning and start making choices that feel deeply true.
What You’ll Hear:
Nani’s story of burnout and how her body forced her to stop overgivingWhy saying no is an act of self-love and a path back to freedomHow people-pleasing and guilt disconnect you from your true desiresA simple breakdown of Human Design and its 5 types for...Speaking From The Heart, Not The Hustle: How To Get Booked, Build Trust, And Lead With Love with Leisa Reid
Speaking is not a performance - it’s a soul-led strategy for impact, connection, and business growth. In this episode, Carolyn sits down with Leisa Reid, founder of Get Speaking Gigs Now™, to share the mindset, structure, and community-based approach that helps leaders get booked consistently without feeling salesy or relying on cold outreach.
What You’ll Hear:
Leisa’s leap from executive leadership into speaking and entrepreneurship - and the inner knowing that made it a yesThe “silver medal effect” and why “good enough” can quietly block your most fulfilling work How speaking becomes a long-t...The Truth About Leadership: Why Emotional Intelligence Changes Everything with Chris Salem
What if the success you’re chasing isn’t about doing more - but becoming more self-aware, present, and aligned? In this powerful conversation, Christopher Salem reveals how emotional intelligence transforms not just leadership, but your entire life - from relationships to business to legacy.
What You’ll Hear:
Christopher’s turning point - the final, deeply felt message from his father that changed the course of his lifeHow anger, lack of validation, and addiction shaped his early years - and how emotional intelligence helped him break the cycleThe life-changing truth that healing is our resp...The Courage To Lay Down The Badge – Rewiring Identity, Reclaiming Freedom, & Leading With Love with Billie Aadmi
What happens when a career built on authority gives way to a calling rooted in consciousness? In this powerful conversation, Carolyn Cooper sits down with former police officer turned brain trainer Billie Aadmi to explore how rewiring the unconscious mind opens the door to freedom, flow, and authentic leadership.
What You’ll Hear:
Billie’s extraordinary transition from two decades in policing to becoming a “brain trainer” devoted to human potentialHow unconscious programming, cultural conditioning, and core wounds quietly shape our choices and self-sabotageWhy curiosity, not force, is the gateway to lasting personal and professi...Remembering Who You Really Are – How Curiosity And Love Guide You Home With Melissa Deally
In this deeply moving conversation, Carolyn Cooper sits down with Melissa Deally to explore how curiosity, purpose, and conscious leadership can transform personal crisis into a life of service. This episode is a powerful reminder that love-inspired leadership creates ripples that change lives, families, and generations.
What You’ll Hear:
- How an unexpected career ending became the doorway to purpose, vitality, and soul-aligned leadership
- Why curiosity and a “state of wonder” are essential for growth, healing, and fulfillment
- The role of the unconscious mind and how outdat...
Broken Open, Not Broken Down – How Love, Presence, & Self-Inquiry Create True Leadership With Debbie Zita
In this deeply soulful and expansive conversation, Carolyn Cooper sits down with Debbie Zita to explore how grief, trauma, and self-abandonment can be alchemized into purpose, power, and embodied leadership. This episode is an invitation to choose yourself, include every part of who you are, and lead from love rather than survival.
What You’ll Hear:
Debbie’s powerful journey through grief, abuse, loss, and identity reclamation - and how it shaped her leadership.The turning point that taught her to include herself in the love and compassion she gave to others.An introduction to the Six...The Day She Chose Herself – Leaving Corporate Life To Lead With Truth, Creativity, And Love with Tamar Routly
In this deeply moving and energizing conversation, we explore how choosing courage over comfort can radically transform your life, creativity, and leadership. This episode is a powerful invitation to live above the line, embrace authentic truth, and say yes to what is truly possible.
What You’ll Hear:
The courageous moment Tamar said yes to leaving corporate life and stepping fully into entrepreneurshipHow sobriety, creativity, and purpose replaced fear and financial insecurityWhy going “all in” is essential for building meaningful work and sustainable momentumThe role of community, support, and asking for help in accelerating growthWhat radiant authen...Success Was Costing Me My Soul – How Curiosity, Support, And Love Rebuilt My Life And Leadership with Karie Terhark
What happens when success costs you your sense of self? In this deeply honest conversation, Karie Terhark shares how burnout became the doorway to rebuilding her life and business around values, curiosity, and a more human-centered model of leadership.
What You’ll Hear:
Karie’s burnout moment and the “hard right turn” that changed everythingLosing touch with identity and values and how mindfulness helped her begin againThe courage it takes to leave security without a clear planThe power of asking for support and building a true support systemHow facilitative leadership creates collaboration instead of controlWhy curiosity, listenin...Heal Yourself From the Inside Out: The 4 Pillars That Reclaim Your Energy, End Burnout, and Bring You Back Home to You with Sarah Dawkins
What if your body isn’t broken - it’s communicating? In this deeply grounding conversation, Sarah Dawkins shares how self-leadership, emotional healing, and holistic practices can help you reclaim your power, restore your vitality, and step into soul-aligned wellness.
What You’ll Hear:
Sarah’s turning point: How one coworker’s question cracked open 41 years of “pill-first” conditioning - and sparked her holistic healing pathReal, tangible healing results: What changed when Sarah shifted her food and lifestyle and began healing psoriasis, eczema, and acid reflux quicklyThe 4 Pillars of Health and Healing: Physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well...Actions Speak Loud, But Do They Make Sense? The IAP Method for Clearer Love, Less Conflict with Dr. Patricia Timerman Barbosa da Silva
What if the conflict in your relationships isn’t about what happened - but how it was interpreted? In this powerful conversation, Dr. Patricia Timerman Barbosa Silva reveals how misunderstanding begins beneath the surface and how intentional awareness can turn disconnection into deep compassion.
What You’ll Hear:
How Dr. Patricia’s unexpected journey from pre-med and political science led her into psychotherapy and a profound love for the human mindThe origin story of the Intention–Action–Perception (IAP) Model and how a simple marital misunderstanding sparked a transformative frameworkWhy good intentions often get lost in translatio...When The Fight Ends, Love Begins: A Return To The Way Of The Heart With Vishrant
What if the peace you’ve been chasing isn’t found through effort, achievement, or “getting it right” - but through surrender, openness, and the courage to come home to your heart? In this profound conversation, Vishrant shares a life-altering journey from survival and ambition to unconditional love, and reveals why resistance creates suffering - and love is the only way back.
What You’ll Hear:
The heart’s invitation – how to move from striving to surrender, and from the stress of success to unconditional loveVishrant’s origin story – from managing a street gang at 19 to a surpris...Radiant Courage: Ignite Healing, Empower Teams, And Transform With Love with Daniela Cohen
What if your leadership could turn burnout into unstoppable energy and spark ripple effects of healing, trust, and transformation? In this episode, founder and executive director Daniela Cohen shares how purposeful women leaders and mission-driven organizations can harness inner clarity and conflict-positive cultures to drive authentic impact, without sacrificing themselves.
What You’ll Hear:
Daniela’s compelling story of reclaiming her voice and self-worth, the pivotal moment she realized overgiving was survival, not true generosity, and how leading from wholeness changed her approach to boundaries and negotiation.How women leaders can break cycles of depletion and burn...