The past two years have been a very interesting ride for Lovari. Although 2019 onward has been his most successful career wise (a Billboard charting single; a Top 5 iTunes album; supporting horror film roles; winning “The Match Game” on ABC), he has gone through a plethora of criticism, both professionally and personally. Lovari’s core fanbase (LGBTQI) nearly cancelled him after he publically thanked former US President Donald Trump for passing the Music Modernization Act. The backlash continued when he began performing The National Anthem throughout the country at the height of Colin Kaepernick’s “taking a knee”, as thousands of others followed suit doing the same. Most recently, an ex wrote a scathing public blog with intimate details about Lovari’s personal life, and inappropriate photos of an 18 year old Lovari were released nearly simutaneously. His response on social media to the aforementioned is always the hashtag #SorryNotSorry.
Therefore, it is no surprise that his latest music video “Keep It Movin’” continues his unapologetic attitude and behavior. The three-minute clip features the singer and actor as a news reporter with images of words on video screens presenting opposing viewpoints. Among them are Let’s Get Vaccinated Vs. Just Say No, Defund The Police Vs. Call 911, Black Lives Matter Vs. All Lives Matter, White Privilege Vs. Karen Is A Racist Term, Marriage Vs. Sidechick and more.
The song originally appeared on Lovari’s album “No Holding Back”, but seemingly due to the content of the lyrics, it has made a resurgence on streaming platforms. With lines that include, “Getting really sick of you. Hypocritic attitude. This trickery going on. Fighting for justice.” It’s easy to see why it has regained traction years later.
Let yourself be guided by intuition – not the expectations of family and society.
If you ask her now, Ipshita Ghosh will say she didn’t make a conscious decision to step off the “hamster wheel” of parenting and her demanding job in the financial sector. But after she had her second child, somehow her intuition knew that she should not return to the unsustainable pace of the Wall Street world. While theoretically looking for a job, she had not sent out a single resume. A coach told her, “Ipshita, you’re stuck.” It was a revelation.
She had stepped off the hamster wheel without realizing it, and she was not going to get back on. Instead, she would fulfill her dream of opening a dance school — something she always thought would be a side gig — and she would go all in, so it wouldn’t be easy to unwind if she got skittish. “Once I did that, it was like the universe was waiting for me, boom, boom, boom,” she says. “I am not the same person who started this business. It’s crazy how much I have grown, In so many areas and so many ways.”
Most important for Ipshita, her dance school is about more than technique. It’s about providing women and children a pathway to expression and empowerment. “That’s what I want to do,” she says. “I feel I was born to do that.”
You can read more about how Ipshita overcame her negative mindset about starting a business in the inspiring new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects interviews with women who are side hustlers and multitaskers, who faced the uncertainties of the Covid pandemic—and other obstacles — by embracing their strengths and finding their authentic paths. They have so much to share and to teach, and while every story is unique, there is creativity and perseverance at the core of each one.
To find out about Ipshita’s dance school, Aangan Academy, visit www.aangan.academy or find her on Facebook and Instagram @aangan.academy. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/IpshitaGhosh, where you will find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit!
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About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
Leaving the science lab behind, she’s going after her dream of making a living telling stories by filling a niche in the book market for young readers.
Flora Sulit struggled with English when she immigrated to the U.S. as a ninth-grader, and now she’s finishing her fifth children’s novel in English. That’s what can happen when you follow your passion. Her father has a degree in biology, so she was encouraged to study biology at UC Davis and completed a degree in genetics, which she found fascinating. Post-college, though, she realized she didn’t want to spend the rest of her life in a lab. Instead, she was really inspired by history, by travel, and by cultural exchange. Thus, she took her inspiration to Germany and Japan and worked as a teacher and cultural representative.
Fast-forward to her life as the parent of an advanced reader. In second grade, her son had already read all the Harry Potter books and she had difficulty finding him books that were age-appropriate but advanced in reading level. To solve the problem, she’s creating the books herself. “My son also is really into Minecraft, so one Halloween we made a full-size creeper, which is one of the monsters in the game. It was four feet tall. And it was just sitting out on the porch way past Halloween,” she laughs. One day she joked about how she could write a story about that creeper. And thus The Kreepton Chronicles, written under Flora’s pen name, Renee Libra, were born. One book became a four-book series in which Flora has done everything for: the writing, cover design, the illustrations, and the paperwork associated with the copyrights.
Over the years she has followed her other passion—teaching—by going into her son’s classroom as a guest teacher on occasion. “I just find it really enjoyable to go in there and entertain the kids,” she says, and to give them a break from their usual lessons, whether she is talking to them about genetics or about creative writing. “I usually do an activity. In one of the classes that I did with the fifth-graders, the activity was a writing exercise. I asked them to finish a sentence: ‘The alien knocked on my door last night, and…’ The stuff they came up with was very creative!”
She hopes her presentations excite kids about reading and writing. Just being able to express her creativity is what gets her up in the morning. “I really enjoy telling stories. That alone is really a big motivation. It’s fun.”
Read more about Flora and the challenge of going for your goals in the inspiring new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects interviews with women who are entrepreneurs and multitaskers, who faced the uncertainties of the Covid pandemic—and other obstacles—by embracing their strengths and finding their authentic paths. They have so much to share and to teach, and while every story is unique, there is creativity and perseverance at the core of each one.
Connect with Flora Sulit at ReneeLibraBooks.com, where you can find a link to the Kreepton Chronicles on Amazon. She’s also on Facebook and on Instagram @Renee.Libra and on LinkedIn under her given name, Flora Sulit. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/FloraSulit, where you can find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit! Details and registration are at www.womenbossupsummit.com
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Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.
About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
Traditional medicine focuses on medicating symptoms rather than prescribing lifestyle changes that target the real reasons you’re unwell
As an emergency room doctor working long hours under tremendous stress, Dr. Yvonne Maywether remembers being so exhausted that no matter how much rest she got, she still woke up feeling tired. And yet when she tried to figure out what was going on with her health, the results of her traditional medicine workup came back as “normal.”
She knew the way she was feeling should never be considered normal. “I was desperate,” she says, when she ran into another emergency medicine physician who had gone through the same thing. In his search for answers, he’d discovered age management medicine. He talked to Dr. Yvonne about hormone balance and individualized nutrition and movement—things that traditional medicine often leaves out of treatment plans. “Something in my gut told me I could trust him,” she says, so she got an age-management-oriented workup and discovered that “basically I had the hormone profile of somebody 25 years older than me.” When she started to work on her issues, including her hormone balance, she explains, “I got my vibrancy back. It was something that I never thought that I could do.”
She quickly began training in age management medicine and later added functional medicine training, which teaches practitioners to focus on the root cause of illness rather than treating symptoms. “What I know is going to influence people’s lives the most is helping them change their lifestyles for the better. That’s what’s going to make the difference,” she says. “Believe it or not, medications don’t make you well. It’s really your lifestyle that makes you well.” Why take one or more medications for high blood pressure if you can make lifestyle changes that will treat the root causes of that high blood pressure? Especially when medications often have side effects that cause additional health issues for you?
Read more of Dr. Yvonne’s journey, including how you can tap into psychoneurology to manage the stress of living in our “go, go, go” society, in the inspiring new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects 16 interviews with women who are side hustlers and multitaskers, who faced the uncertainties of the Covid pandemic—and other obstacles—by embracing their strengths and finding their authentic paths. They have so much to share and to teach, and while every story is unique, there is creativity and perseverance at the core of each one.
Explore Dr. Yvonnie’s practice in Hermosa Beach, California, at her website: RestoreBrainBody.com or connect with her through Facebook page @BrainBodyRestoration. You can also learn more at https://bossupbestseller.com/YvonneMaywether, where you will find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit!
Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.
About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
The political junkie, campaign press secretary, and PR agency executive built a family and a career—and now a network to help other women find what they are seeking.
When Tara Gilvar was in the midst of her jet-setting public relations career, she became a mom. And she did not want to be traveling 60 percent of the week while handing over a huge chunk of her salary for someone to care for her baby. So she opted out of work.
After 13 years and two more children, she says, “I had lost my sense of self. I didn’t really know what I was supposed to do, so I uber-mommed. It was kind of sad, but I had to channel all that energy. One day I looked in the mirror and I was like: What are you going to do? I was a career girl and I loved that. I love to be strategic and to be thinking.” But it no longer felt possible.
Then Tara saw a bumper sticker on a car in the school parking lot. It said: “Remember who you wanted to be?” It was like a lightning bolt, she says, when she realized she absolutely was not who she wanted to be. Soon she had launched her women’s network: Believe, Inspire, Grow — B.I.G. — to guide women through their career and motherhood paths, helping them not to lose themselves along the way. Members are at all ages and stages, she says, but is typically “a suburban woman who left Corporate America a couple years ago, or maybe a decade ago, and who is seeking. She’s seeking something more in her life. She may not know exactly what that is, but she knows that she’s wanting more than what she has right now and she wants to move forward in her life.”
Many of the women are interested in entrepreneurship because of the flexibility it offers. And even though the Covid pandemic created more work-at-home opportunities, Tara notes, Corporate America is still “not quite ready to be as flexible as women want and need it to be in order for them to have the full life that they want. But we’re getting there, we’re getting closer.”
In the meantime, Tara is all about women helping women. “What inspires me now is the energy I get from the female energy of others. If you can tap into that, if you can surround yourself with women who are like-minded and aligned with your values, every day can be a good day. Every day, some opportunity leads to another opportunity and it clears the path for your next step.”
You can read more of Tara Gilvar’s story in the inspiring new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects 16 interviews with women who are side hustlers and multitaskers, who faced the uncertainties of the Covid pandemic — and other obstacles — by embracing their strengths and finding their authentic paths. They have so much to share and to teach, and while every story is unique, there is creativity and perseverance at the core of each one.
To join Tara’s nationwide community of women, visit believeinspiregrow.com or follow her on social media @believeinspiregrow.You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/TaraGilvar, where you can find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit!
Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.
About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
Working with a coach can give side hustlers the new perspective they need
One thing Shannon Lee Whalen has recognized in her journey through self-discovery to entrepreneurship is that no one has to do it alone. “Build your team around you. If you are a solopreneur like I was, you do not have to do it alone,” she says. “There is this mindset that people are ‘self-made.’ No. No one is ACTUALLY self-made.”
She acknowledges she had the “self-made” mindset for years. But looking back, she says, “the second I asked for help, everything shifted.” For one thing, if you are working for yourself and if “you” are the product or service, she notes, “the business will have the same things come up that you have personally come up.” A coach, someone who can point out your blind spots, can help you through the obstacles you put in your own way. With that and self-compassion, she says, “you are powerful beyond measure. You’ve got this.”
Shannon speaks from personal experience when she helps clients incorporate physical activity in their lives through her coaching and her residential fitness company. Throughout her childhood until young adulthood, dance was her life. But when she decided not to pursue it as a career, she dropped it entirely and faced an identity crisis that led to depression.
Read how she reconnected with her passion for dance and made it part of her career in the inspiring new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects 16 interviews with women who are side hustlers and multitaskers, who faced the uncertainties of the Covid pandemic—and other obstacles—by embracing their strengths and finding their authentic paths. They have so much to share and to teach, and while every story is unique, there is creativity and perseverance at the core of each one.
Find Shannon on social media @ShannonLeeWhalen. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/ShannonLeeWhalen, where you can find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit!
Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.
About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
Family law was the last place she expected to end up, but after working with a domestic violence survivor during an internship, Sandra knew she’d found her calling.
As partner in the Family Law Department of the New Jersey branch of nationwide law practice Fox Rothschild and the mom of three kids, Sandra Fava is a busy woman. Her parents came to America from Italy without high-school educations and Sandra was the only one of their children to attend college. Still, it’s what her parents taught her—empathy, patience, and the value of hard work—that has the most impact on her current career.
She was the youngest of the kids and, although hidden for a long time, Sandra and the rest of her family finally saw that a family member was being physically abused by her first husband. “I saw how long and how impactful those allegations were, how long her divorce was, how everyone was dragged into it, how expensive it became,” Sandra remembers. “I saw that nobody was really there for the victim; it was said and done and everything kind of just moved on. So that made a real lasting impression on me, at first in a negative way, where I said, I’m not doing this type of law if I go to law school. I didn’t want anything to do with family law.”
But then she did a summer internship and was asked to prepare a lawyer’s domestic violence case. “I really got emotionally connected to the client and very interested and passionate in the type of work that I was doing. When I went back to law school, one of the professors who ran the Family Law clinic there suggested that I do the clinic. So I just kept getting deeper and deeper into it.” It has since become her passion and her life’s work.
She is always helping clients see beyond the law, trying to offer them solutions that work best for everyone, especially when children are involved. “I take a holistic approach and say, ‘Let’s think about a creative solution. You have young children, you’re going to have to deal with this person for a really long time. You have the ability to do things that are different than what the law provides for.’” It doesn’t always work, she admits, because divorce is highly emotional and stressful for everyone involved. “At the end of the day,” she says, “it is their lives to make decisions about.”
You can read Sandra Fava’s advice for keeping the lines of communication open in a marriage and her belief that the pandemic didn’t cause divorces, it just highlighted problems that already existed, in the inspiring new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects 16 interviews with women who are side hustlers and multitaskers, who faced the uncertainties of the Covid pandemic—and other obstacles—by embracing their strengths and finding their authentic paths. They have so much to share and to teach, and while every story is unique, there is creativity and perseverance at the core of each one.
Reach out to Sandra via the Fox Rothschild website, FoxRothschild.com, where you will find her in the Morristown, NJ, section. Her bio also contains links to her podcast, “Life After Love Gone Wrong,” and her blog. You can follow her on Twitter @DivorceNJLaw or on Instagram @asksandrafava.com. Potential clients outside of New Jersey can also get in touch and she can offer trusted referrals in other states.
You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/SandraFava, where you can find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit!
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About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
After years of illness and struggle on endless medications, she focused on nourishing her body, mind, and spirit to find the secrets to self-healing.
For the first three decades of her life, Rajni Raman never took so much as an aspirin for a headache. But then, as a new mom, she found herself struggling with stress, insomnia, and back pain, among other ailments. Doctors prescribed medications for each different thing and suddenly she found herself on a regimen of pharmaceuticals, some of which caused additional problems.
Finally, she found an osteopath, someone who practiced integrated medicine, who discovered she had slightly different leg lengths and gave her a wedge for her shoe, along with spinal adjustments. She also returned to yoga in a dedicated way, and in a few months, she no longer needed the wedge or the adjustments. This was her first peak into self-healing and set her on her path. “Our bodies are organisms that are always in the process of renewal. So, when you are aware of this and you feed yourself well, then it’s a thriving entity,” she says.
Now a mom of two, Rajni began listening to inspirational speakers who promoted “tapping into the unlimited resource within you and connecting with the universe” and these ideas resonated with her. “I’d have this power routine in the morning before anyone woke up. I would get up and pray and do yoga and get in this mindset tuned for success and happiness.” And she began to work with holistic practitioners committed to healing rather than doctors committed to dispensing meds. When her friends saw her complete turnaround, they urged her to share her story with others. Two years ago, she launched her holistic wellness and healing practice and has been helping women connect their mind and body and take ownership of their healing.
Now an international award-winning author, transformational energy healer, and authentic storyteller, Rajni Raman also has been a Buddhist and Yoga practitioner for three decades. She is a computer engineer with 20 years of private and public sector experience as a programmer; a former Associate Director at The University of Dallas, Texas, serving more than 30,000 students; manager of financial aid, programmer, and analyst at the University of Texas at Arlington, supporting the registrar’s office with automation in many operational areas for 30,000 students; and a business analyst for the University Of Texas System, supporting 12 universities plus UT Southwestern, a medical system serving more than three million clients in Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas.
To find out about Rajni’s services or to contact her, visit www.rajniraman.com.
You can read more of Rajni Raman’s amazing journey to wellness in the inspiring new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects 16 interviews with women who are side hustlers and multitaskers, who faced the uncertainties of the covid pandemic—and other obstacles—by embracing their strengths and finding their authentic paths. They have so much to share and to teach, and while every story is unique, there is creativity and perseverance at the core of each one.
You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/RajniRaman, where you can find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit!
Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.
About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
Her programs are unique by providing a framework for creating art and journaling through the process, she helps her clients experience “art as therapy”.
Artist Lisa Brown always intended to be an art teacher. But since 1998, she has offered a much deeper experience than what you might think of as an art class. Working with many different types of support groups—bereavement, cancer survivors, brain-injury sufferers, and others—Lisa guides them through an art project during which they also keep a journal about what they are creating. Her twist? The journal is a series of questions and answers about the artwork, but the questions are written with the student’s dominant hand, while the answers are written with the non-dominant hand. “Whether you’re left-handed or right-handed, the hand that you don’t normally write with is the intuitive one. It has emotions attached to it,” she explains. “The other hand is what you need for school—it’s logical, sequential, all that stuff. When you ask something like, ‘Why is that boy in my picture? Who is that boy?’ and you answer with your non-dominant hand, you get some really good insights into yourself and about yourself.”
Lisa used her art-and-journaling mix to help herself through her own tragedy, the overdose death of her 23-year-old son several years ago, and therefore can empathize with people struggling with pain and adversity. During Covid, however, she pivoted to different types of projects—smaller, more bite-sized theme ideas—and she also targeted new audiences. “I had never done a Mother’s Day program but did during Covid. Having to stretch my programs to accommodate a wider audience made me extend my themes to consider everybody’s life, not just people who are had suffered adversity.”
You can read more about Lisa Brown’s work and her advice for staying inspired through challenging times in the compelling new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects 16 interviews with women who are side hustlers and multitaskers, who faced the uncertainties of the Covid pandemic—and other obstacles—by embracing their strengths and finding their authentic paths. They have so much to share and to teach, and while every story is unique, there is creativity and perseverance at the core of each one.
To find out about Lisa’s art programs or to contact her, visit www.art-as-therapy.com. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/LisaBrown, where you can find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit!
Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.
About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
When she recognized that the corporate career she’d studied and planned for did not align with her authentic self, she gave it all up.
Armed with a double business major from the nationally recognized b-school at Arizona State University, Kristen McInerney was on her way to a successful career in corporate America. Then she walked into the office to start her first job and immediately thought, “Oh, this is not for me.”
So she took a breath and adjusted her perspective. That first job would be “a stepping stone” and, while she didn’t know what the future would hold, she knew it would not be in the corporate world. “I’ve always had a dream of working for myself,” she says. “My dad’s an entrepreneur. He quit his job and became self-sufficient and built his business. I really looked up to that.” The loss of her grandmother, who was a giving and supportive presence for everyone around her, inspired Kristen to think about how she could use her talents to help others feel fulfilled—something she was definitely not doing in her corporate job. “I knew I wanted to do something that gives back more, that helps people enjoy their lives more, and feel more like themselves and better in their own skin,” she explains. The night of her grandmother’s funeral service, the answer came to her in a sudden download: “life coach.”
She turned that inspiration into action by spending her time after work gaining life-coaching skills, blogging, and putting her intentions out on Instagram. She thought that within a year she would have built up enough momentum to quit her corporate job. Instead, the loss of another family member drove her to seize the moment and she left the job after only two months. “Everything was guiding me toward letting this position go,” she says. “And I did.” Now she helps others reconnect with what brings them joy. Sometimes she asks a client to think back on what they loved as a kid. “Authenticity is my core belief and is the root of my coaching philosophy. And I think you’re the most authentic when you’re a kid. So no matter how old you are now, you still have the memories of when you were younger and you still know what brought you that joy and that light. You’re never too old to reconnect with it.”
Read more about Kristen’s journey in the inspiring new book Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic, by Tam Luc, the author, educator, and podcaster dedicated to helping women “boss up.” The book collects interviews with women who faced the uncertainties of the Covid pandemic and decided to pivot—in their lives, in their business, or both! Their stories of perseverance can serve as road maps for other women who face obstacles that feel out of their control, showing them how to go after opportunities to thrive amid change.
Connect with Kristen on Instagram @Kristen_McInerney or visit her website at krismacco.godaddysites.com. You can also learn more about her at https://bossupbestseller.com/, where you can find a link to Women Who Boss Up Post-Pandemic. And don’t miss all the dynamic and supportive women from the Women Who Boss Up book series who are scheduled to speak at the upcoming Women Who Boss Up Summit!
Women with Vision International aims to inspire, uplift, and empower women everywhere to never give up their dream of living their life on purpose. We gather dynamic, entrepreneurial women who are making a difference and changing people’s lives to spark conversation around the topics that impact us all such as building their businesses, fundraising, and balancing their work and their families.
About Tam Luc
Tam Luc is an international bestselling author and the founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their businesses. After 20 years as an entrepreneur, she is able to help women leverage their messages and create the lifestyle they want through her unique book messaging strategies.
