What if the way you speak is the most powerful leadership tool you're underutilizing? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Julie Holunga, to explore how trust, communication, and intentional leadership language shape influence at every level of an organization. Julie shares her journey from nonprofit and corporate leadership into building a consulting practice rooted in integrity, trust, and meaningful impact.

If you're a heart-centered leader, consultant, or professional considering a transition into more purpose-driven work, this episode offers both insight and grounded, real-world wisdom.

What You Will Learn:

How early life experiences can shape curiosity, empathy, and a lifelong desire to help others lead more effectively.

Why being a natural helper can sometimes create tension in leadership and consulting roles.

How to recognize when people want support versus when they are resistant to being helped.

What inspired the transition from corporate and nonprofit work into building a consulting practice.

The unexpected challenges and joys of starting a values-aligned business.

Why managing every part of a business alone eventually limits growth and impact.

How strategic delegation and hiring the right expertise can dramatically elevate a consulting practice.

What the Trusted Voice Paradigm is and how it reframes leadership through trust and communication.

The four core pillars of trust and how each one shows up in leadership behavior.

Why aptitude and honesty about capability are essential to sustaining trust.

How leaders unintentionally break trust when they promote technical experts without leadership support.

What it looks like to lead with integrity while still honoring business results.

How deep cultural change happens when leaders commit to doing the hard work together.

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What if the feeling that something is missing in your career isn't confusion, but wisdom trying to get your attention? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Aleksandra Ceho, whose work bridges the worlds of spirituality, leadership, and business strategy. Aleksandra shares her remarkable journey from studying kinesiology and working in motor vehicle accident clinics to building a thriving astrology practice rooted in authenticity, self-awareness, and aligned decision-making.

If you've ever felt like a square peg in a round hole or sensed that there is "more" waiting for you, this episode offers a powerful perspective.

What You Will Learn:

How astrology can be used as a practical framework for self-awareness, leadership development, and business decision-making.

Why the feeling of "there must be more" often signals misalignment rather than failure.

How multiple archetypes exist within each person and how ignoring your dominant archetype creates burnout.

What cognitive dissonance looks like at a soul level and why it intensifies over time.

How astrology can indicate when it may be time to leave a career or make a major life transition.

Why authenticity is essential for long-term success, fulfillment, and resilience.

How Aleksandra's leap from healthcare into astrology unfolded and what it taught her about trust.

The astrological influences often connected to midlife awakenings and identity shifts.

Why some people burn bridges while others build them during transitions and how astrology explains both.

How businesses have their own energetic charts and why alignment matters for sustainability.

What astrology can reveal about whether a business or opportunity is the right fit before investing.

How forecasting helps entrepreneurs focus their energy where it will have the greatest impact.

Why perceived credibility and age can become barriers when starting a purpose-driven business.

How astrology supports values-driven decision-making rather than rigid personality labels.

Why deep self-knowledge is the foundation for building meaningful relationships, wealth, and legacy.

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What if burnout isn't proof you're failing but proof something in you is begging to change? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Tracy Doyle, author of Life Storms: Finding Your Clear Sky and creator of the Aurora Method. Tracy shares the childhood trauma and survival patterns that shaped her drive, her leadership, and her belief that sacrifice meant abandoning herself.

If you've ever felt like you have to hold everything together, this episode will meet you right where you are and offer a real path forward.

What You Will Learn:

How early childhood experiences can quietly wire your nervous system for burnout later in life.

Why "looking fine on the outside" can mask unprocessed trauma that eventually demands attention.

How survival skills like self-reliance can become leadership liabilities as your responsibilities grow.

The difference between a breaking point and a turning point—and how to use burnout as a transformation portal.

Why burnout often isn't caused by your job or your family, but by the beliefs you formed while trying to belong.

How the belief "If I don't do it myself, it won't get done" fuels control, resentment, and isolation.

The real reason personal growth tools can fail when they're done in isolation instead of as a connected process.

What a "loving look back" self-assessment is and how it helps you recognize patterns without drowning in shame.

How unmet needs can shape fear-based thinking and drive high-achievers into over-functioning.

How emotional burnout fractures relationships and how acknowledgement conversations rebuild trust fast.

What it looks like to create a personalized mindfulness practice that actually fits real life.

Why high-achieving women often fear vulnerability, especially in corporate environments, and how community changes that.

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