BossLady Speaks

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, Johanna Sawalha, a.k.a. ‘Coach Jo’ This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a thought leader – something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy ... My guest today, Peter Hook, is a web journalist who does trend watch and writes about the latest in the field of transportation, about the future of transporting goods and people, and how we have to shift our thinking about how we do it. Our last episode was a re-run from almost exactly a year ago, in the beginning stages of the pandemic. In this episode, Peter and I will look back to assess what Covid did to the transportation industry in particular over the last year, and what we can expect when society opens back up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, Johanna Sawalha, a.k.a. ‘Coach Jo’ This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a thought leader – something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy ... My guest today, Peter Hook, is a web journalist who does trend watch and writes about the latest in the field of transportation. In this episode, he talks about the future of transporting goods and people from point A to point B, and how we have to shift our thinking about how we do it. This episode is especially relevant in these times of the coronavirus, and so is his point – that if deliveries from China come to a halt, so do a lot of assembly lines in the rest of the world that depend parts made in China. The interdependence between people and nations have never been stood in a starker light. Who would’ve known that transportation, and its weakest links, would be such a central part of our existence? This is episode is a re-run from almost exactly a year ago, in the beginning stages of the pandemic. In our next episode, Peter and I will look back to assess what covid did to the transportation industry over the last year, and what we can expect when society opens back up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, ¨Coach Jo¨. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader – something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. The Self-Care Episode is part of an interview series with the same name, where I spoke to host Elizabeth Wood about minding your mental hygiene. You’d feel funny the rest of the day if you’d left the house without having brushed our teeth. What about with a mind that wasn’t equally clean and sparkly? In these times of Covid fatigue and mental anguish about the future, minding your mental hygiene is more important than ever. Listen in and let us know what you think about it. Also, if you want a list of mental hygiene practices, send a request to info@TheBossLadySpeaks and we’ll get it out to you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, ¨Coach Jo¨. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader – something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. Today I’m talking to ¨Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy¨ about just that - what IS a credibility expert? Mitchell says that as we transition from the industrial age to the global village, the rules of the game of both business and life, change. Today, and in the future, credibility is one of the key components of success. I’m helping to define how credibility is changing and how to achieve it. Don’t miss this - your own credibility may be at stake! #GettingToClarity #ThoughtLeadership #Credibility #GlobalCredibility Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, ¨Coach Jo¨. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader – something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. Today I’m talking with ¨coach-for-men¨ Mr. Andrew Richards about including everything into your life experience. What does that even mean? Does it mean we should simply accept the pandemic? Should we even vaccinate if we allow for the virus as a natural part of life? Should Andrew be happy about breaking his leg a few weeks ago? How can we accept all that seems so wholly unacceptable …? Listen in and form your own opinion! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with host Coach Jo. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join us in the discovery of what makes a true leader– something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. My guest today, business analyst Michelle Seiler Tucker is an expert at M & A’s and how to position companies for a sale. In this episode, we’re talking about her upcoming book ‘Exit Rich’, her business secrets, and the ̈6 P’s ̈ in the book–listen in and find out what they are! Her super-power? Quickly distinguishing the strengths and weaknesses of a business-and creating the appropriate plan for it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host,‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader–something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. Robert Rivard served as editor of the San Antonio Express-News 1997-2011. He’s worked asa reporter and editor at four other Texas newspapers and for Newsweek magazine, first as a foreign correspondent covering civil wars in Central America in the 1980s and then as the magazine's chief of correspondents until 1989 when he returned to Texas. Rivard is the recipient of journalism's oldest prize; Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Distinguished Journalistic Service, was named 'Editor of the Year' by Editor and Publisher magazine, and was a winner of the 1982 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondents for his writings from El Salvador during that country's long civil war. Listen in to learn from his decades-long experience as a journalist, and his reflections on the current state of political affairs-and the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader–something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. My guest today,Marie Crabb, came from humble roots. You could say she’s achieved the American Dream through her hard work and determination. She was first in her family to both graduate from college, earn a Master’s Degree and to purchase her own home. After working for the United States State Department in Washington DC,Marie returned to San Antonio where she’s spent the past decade building a real estate business from scratch and has become one of the top producing real estate agents in the City. Now she wants to use her experience and success to give back to the residents ofDistrict 5in San Antonio by running for City Council for her district.Listen to, and be inspired by, this self-made leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders andc hange makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader–something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. My guest today is Tevis Trower, head of Balance Integration Corporation, bringing transformational practices into corporations. She left corporate America to help the high performers she observed compensating for ̈imposter syndrome ̈. She’s just coming out with her new book, "Game Changers Guide Radical Success". As a subscriber of the BossLady Speaks podcast, you can win a copy of this book that is hot off the press. Simply send an email to info@thebossladyspeaks.com, describing what in Tevis’ message spoke to you the most–et voila-you’ve entered the raffle! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today for this episode is Tara Kousha. She’s a first generation Iranian-American. At her day job at Google her focus is Computer Science learning in universities. On the side (as if she doesn’t have enough on her plate!), she runs BUILD Your Voice, the largest non-profit effort to provide coaching and training to communities in need. They offer trainings, powered by the research 200+ professions have gifted the foundation... these trainings are offered to communities who wouldn't otherwise have access to high level training. The foundation helps ~75k humans each year. As one listens to Tara’s values-based work and life, one has to ask oneself, isn’t this the future we all want to see?The life we want our children to lead? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, Johanna Sawalha, a.k.a. ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader– something that may help you to develop your own voice ,your own leadership and legacy... My guest today, Katharine Earnhardt, is a female entrepreneur in Manhattan, who’s taken the leap that many solopreneurs and mom-preneurs wish to take. She’s gone from interest to create an ever-expanding art advisory business with employees. In this episode, you’ll hear her journey, her challenges and her do’s and don’ts for the budding entrepreneur. Recently featured in ArtStar’s blog and its Tastemaker Spotlight, she’s called ‘a must-know player in the art world’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, Johanna Sawalha, a.k.a. ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader–something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. My guests today are Jenny Carnes, Senior Vice President/ Chief Operating Officer at San Antonio Sports, a working mom of 2 girls, a sports junkie, proud San Antonian and heading the Alpha Warrior Fiesta FitnessChallenge April 24-25th. Lara Fischer, Fiesta Fit Queen for the Alpha Warrior Fiesta Fitness Challenge, an equal sports lover.As Fiesta Fit Queen, she’s raising money for San Antonio Sports, as they expand their official Fiesta event-The Alpha Warrior Team Tough Challenge-to the public for the first time. This year, they’ll also host the Fiesta's Fittest Competition that has three different divisions: high school teams, an open team division and an individual opportunity to run the course for time. They have adopted the fundraising theme of Fiesta and thus, Lara will serve as their inaugural Fiesta FitQueen, alongside their Fiesta Fit King. These two are providing real leadership in taking fitness to a whole new level in their community and you’ll hear them speak about how their passion drives them forward. The BossLady Speaks subscribers will also get first dibs at the limited edition of their custom-made Fiesta medal with a donation of $50.00 and using the code: TheBossLady Speaks. This is a great way to show your support but also-these medals are in high demand, so get yours-and be proud of how you can be apart of this great challenge from wherever you are. The donation URL will be available shortly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with your host, Johanna Sawalha, AKA ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader– something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership, and your own legacy... My guest today, Ron Nirenberg, is the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas (https://www.sanantonio.gov/mayor). San Antonio just polled as the 6th largest city in the United States, on its way to #5. This makes Mayor Ron a major player in the world-someone who want to listen to, as his leadership reverberates through a constituency of many millions. Hear Ron talk about what he’s doing in his city about the wealth gap, poverty, housing and the climate change initiatives he’s running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today on The BossLady Speaks is Kevin Kviblad, CEO of Urb-It. Kevin’s out to disrupt the transportation industry-and more specifically what he calls̈thelast mile deliveries ̈.According to Kevin, they’re the ones delivered within your city, often by vans,causing unnecessary congestion and pollution. Kevin wants to offer̈ thesustainablesolution̈ to same-day deliveries in busy cities.Here’s how this company works: 1.An instant or scheduled delivery is requested. 2.Their ̈Urber ̈ community gets notified(this works much like Uber, or AirBnB, where regular citizens like yourself can sign up to provide the service only taxis, hotels and delivery companies have been offering to date.) 3.Thë Urber̈ picks-up a customerorder in-store (perhaps thë Urber̈had an errand to run tothat store anyway...?) 4.Thë Urber̈ delivers the products, anywhere, anytime at a time convenient to the customer(instead of you being asked to stay home between 9 AM–5 PM on a workday for a delivery.) 5.The customer provides feedback on ̈their ̈̈Urber̈ and the overall customer experience. Listen to Kevin himself on how he’s planning to do this industry disruption! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s episode of The BossLady Speaks, your host Johanna Sawalha shares with you a lecture on stress management that she held at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm – KTH. KTH is the equivalent of MIT in the U.S. This episode is called ̈The Squeeze ̈. You may be experiencing it yourself right now. It addresses the mad dash of deadlines and deliverables that ends when the holiday season begins. Listen to this episode and hear the advice ̈Coach Jo ̈gives the 140 KTH students that attended her lecture, who themselves are in the hardest part of their semester. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elisabet Wollsén got her psychologist degree from Stockholm University, and has also been a board member of the National Board on Health and Welfare, and is also a member of AGPA - which makes her certified as to give education points for other psychotherapists studying for their license. She’s the author of several dissertations and other writings on communication – about the importance of the language we use in our interactions. She calls her method Life Staging, and the central idea of Elisabet’s work is this - and she opens every talk or workshop with this question: ‘What are we here to do?’ or the better translation in her native language Swedish, would be: ‘What business do we have being here?’¨ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode, Coach Jo shares her conversation with Swedish music star Merit Bergman as she talks about the work, struggles, sacrifices and achievements in her career as a performer and public figure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s interview, she’s talking to Dr. Bill Dorfman who’s created one of the most prestigious cosmetic dental practices in the world. Not only famous as a dentist, he’s also known to millions as a New York Times Best-Selling author! He’s been featured on TV shows like ABC's Extreme Makeover, CBS's The Doctors, Larry King Live, Steve Harvey, and Oprah. Dr. Bill is the recipient of 16 lifetime achievement awards, father of 3 daughters, a humanitarian and philanthropist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices