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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What if everything you've done in your career has been preparing you for something far more expansive than you ever imagined? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Julie Ryan, world-renowned medical intuitive, psychic medium, inventor, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of Angelic Attendance. Julie shares her extraordinary journey from founding nine companies across five industries to fully stepping into her intuitive and spiritual calling later in life.

This episode is a powerful reminder for women feeling called to leave corporate, pivot their careers, or honor unconventional paths.

What You Will Learn:

How reading Anatomy of the Spirit and Hands of Light opened the door to energy healing and intuition.

Why intuition, psychic ability, mediumship, and healing are not separate gifts but expressions of the same spiritual connection.

Why everyone goes to heaven and why fear-based beliefs about death are deeply outdated.

How medical intuition works and why healing always comes from within the person themselves.

The surprising role maternal ancestors play in guiding souls during the dying process.

Why spiritual awakenings are happening more frequently on a collective and planetary level.

How women are often the natural leaders in spiritual healing and intuitive development.

Why your existing skills, education, and business experience are never wasted when answering a spiritual call.

How science is beginning to validate what intuitive and energy healers have known for centuries.

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What happens when a high-achieving corporate leader realizes her legacy must be about more than titles, promotions, and golden handcuffs? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Liat Kaplan, a global product innovation leader turned founder and CEO, to explore what it truly takes to leave corporate life, trust your inner conviction, and build something that matters.

If you are a woman standing at the edge of change, questioning whether it's "too late" to start something meaningful, this conversation will remind you that your most important work may still be ahead of you.

What You Will Learn:

How personal conviction becomes essential when stepping away from corporate identity and external validation.

Why clarity around purpose matters more than having everything figured out before starting.

What it truly means to take a leap later in life and why age can be an advantage, not a limitation.

How releasing fear of judgment creates freedom and sharper focus on what actually matters.

What surprises many founders when they leave corporate structure behind.

How passion and impact fuel resilience during the entrepreneurial journey.

Why building a product-based business requires patience, long timelines, and strategic planning.

What to consider when funding a startup, especially the importance of aligned and supportive investors.

How innovation can be shaped by curiosity rather than rigid corporate processes.

Why real-world problems and lived experiences often spark the most powerful business ideas.

How technology can empower people to make informed, self-directed choices.

Why safety, awareness, and informed decision-making are key components of modern leadership and legacy.

How letting go of unnecessary processes can reignite creativity and love for one's work.

Why legacy is often defined by contribution and impact rather than titles or income.

How building something meaningful often requires balancing intuition with discipline.

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What if your "willpower problem" with food was never about food at all? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Amber Romaniuk, an emotional eating, digestive, and hormone expert with 12+ years of experience. Amber shares the childhood roots of emotional eating, the intense turning point that forced her to face her own binge-restriction patterns, and the multidimensional healing path that led to true body freedom. This episode explores why feeling emotions can feel unsafe and how to create real nervous system safety.

What You Will Learn:

A clear understanding of how childhood moments can become identity wounds that drive emotional eating for decades.

Language for naming the difference between discomfort and being unsafe, so emotions stop feeling like an emergency.

A simple way to work with the brain's threat response without letting it run your life.

A practical starting point for emotion work: set a timer for 30 seconds and build capacity gradually.

Why food becomes a regulator when life feels helpless, out of control, or emotionally unsupported.

Insight into how the binge–restriction cycle can intensify after weight loss, breakups, and "perfect body" beliefs.

A realistic picture of what root-cause healing actually involves: mental, emotional, behavioral, energetic, spiritual, and physical layers.

Tools that help create safety while feeling emotions, including breathwork, EFT tapping, self-holding, music, and affirmations.

Why chronic stress and fight-or-flight make it harder to heal digestion, blood sugar, and hormones.

A grounded approach to "breaking the lineage" by combining inner healing with loving boundaries when family dynamics push back.

Why progress requires structures that support "doing the reps," not just inspiration or insight.

How long-term support helps women stay consistent when real life hits.

Why new success can trigger fear and how identity work helps you maintain change without self-sabotage.

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What if the "perfect life" is actually the most convincing hiding place for emptiness? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Silvia Resnik, a fulfillment and purpose coach for high-achieving women. Silvia shares how a lifelong ache for connection shaped her drive to achieve. The conversation also goes deeper into the tension between honoring cultural traditions and evolving practices that harm women, including the urgent reality of female genital mutilation and how Silvia's organization, Empower Her, is working from within community partnership to create change through education, support, and empowerment.

What You Will Learn:

Why "looking successful" can coexist with feeling emotionally empty.

How early experiences of not feeling seen can quietly shape adult identity, ambition, and relationship patterns.

The hidden motivation behind perfectionism: trying to earn love, belonging, and "enoughness."

Why external achievements don't automatically create self-worth.

How a single experience of deep community can interrupt lifelong loneliness and recalibrate what matters.

What true connection can feel like in the body.

How indigenous culture can offer profound healing while still containing traditions that require conscious evolution.

A grounded explanation of FGM in the Maasai context, including the rite-of-passage framing and the high human cost.

Why sustainable change must be led from within a community, not imposed by outsiders.

How education becomes a protection strategy for women and girls.

What it means to "bridge two worlds" in coaching: bringing connection back to high achievers while also resourcing underserved communities.

How travel can become transformational when it's relationship-centered rather than consumption-centered.

What a purpose-led business transition can look like when it grows out of lived experience, not branding.

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"We wake up every morning as a soul in a human body. That alone should be so incredibly fascinating to us." What if the hardest things you've lived through weren't punishments, but assignments your soul chose to help you grow? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Steffani LeFevour, modern-day soul strategist and author of You Are a Badass Mom and the forthcoming book Soul Assignments. Stteffani shares how childhood trauma, an alcoholic father, and the tragic loss of her sister cracked her open to a lifelong search for spiritual truth.

What You Will Learn:

The impact of childhood trauma and grief on emotional development and identity.

How growing up with an alcoholic parent shapes beliefs, coping mechanisms and adulthood patterns.

Why families often end up on "grief islands" when they lack tools, language or support to process loss.

How early exposure to death can spark a lifelong search for meaning, spirituality and healing.

The role spiritual teachers and books can play in offering language and comfort when religion wasn't present at home.

How alcohol can become an unconscious way to avoid feelings, fit in socially, or suppress unresolved pain.

What it looks like to break generational chains of addiction through awareness, boundaries and intentional behavior.

How to examine your own relationship with alcohol and shift from unconscious use to empowered choice.

The importance of creating an alcohol-free "safe house" environment for teens and modeling a different norm.

The concept of soul assignments and how reframing painful experiences can move someone out of victimhood.

Why radical acceptance of past experiences becomes the foundation for emotional freedom and conscious creation.

How thoughts, words, feelings, beliefs and stories function as "power tools" that shape every experience.

The difference between using those power tools unconsciously vs. consciously.

How to identify outdated stories and rewrite them into truer, more empowering narratives.

The process of finding gifts inside even the most difficult events and how that transforms inner resilience.

The value of viewing life from a soul-level perspective rather than only through a human-level lens.

The path from learning spiritual principles to embodying them, teaching them and serving others with them.

How a long-held dream can manifest through clarity, courage and consistent sharing of one's message.

Why owning your unique perspective allows your voice, work and mission to expand in powerful new ways.

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