Rise Up For You

ABOUT OUR GUEST: Janet Kafadar (KAF-Fah-dar), an online business coach who helps other coaches, entrepreneurs and experts along their journey to building a sustainable, profitable online businesses. Janet is a busy mom of 3 kids, under 8, and she’s personally experienced the frustration and overwhelm of feeling stuck in her own business. Today, she coaches and teaches women building their online business empires after dark, while working a day job, raising a family, and everything in between. Her mission is to activate her clients to go after what they want — by helping them to figure out their next impactful step. STAY CONNECTED: Free gift here: Janetkafadar.com/riseup/ ________________________ Thank you again for joining us today! If you know anybody that would benefit from this episode please share it with them and help spread the knowledge and motivation. Don’t forget to show your support for the Rise Up For You Podcast by writing a review on iTunes. Your feedback helps the success of our show and pu

ABOUT OUR GUEST: Part CEO, part personal development wonk, and part biohacker info geek, Thom King is
a self-confessed serial entrepreneur. While his favorite book list contains many success-oriented and personal-development classics, the traditional definition of achieving success (e.g. make a lot of money) is not what inspires or motivates King. He follows more of a “you aren’t doing well unless you’re also doing some good” line of thinking. King’s company has been built around the simple principle of “do the right thing.” In 1999, Thom’s personal passion for food and his concern over the explosion of the metabolic disease led him to found Steviva Brands, now known as Icon Foods, with a mission to help food manufacturers replace unhealthy sugars in their products with natural options. With 20 years of R&D work, Thom has helped hundreds of manufacturers improve the quality of their products. In recent years, his passion for food and optimal health have intersected with his embrace of a ketogenic (low carb,

ABOUT: Amy E. Smith is a certified confidence coach, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Founder of TheJoyJunkie.com, Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-love. With an acute focus on helping people “find their voice”, she is highly sought after for her uncommon style of irreverence, wisdom, and humor and has been a featured expert on Fox 5 San Diego and YourTango.com. Start stalking Amy at www.TheJoyJunkie.com and grab a free copy of her eWorkbook/Audiobook, Stand Up for Yourself Without Being a Dick: 9 Proven Challenges to Radically Improve Your Self- Confidence and Self-Love. Grab Amy's FREE eWorkbook, Stand up for Yourself without Being a Dick http://thejoyjunkie.com/free FREE Facebook Community with Bonus Trainings, Camaraderie, and Freebies http://thejoyjunkie.com/club Connect with Amy on Insta where she mini-blogs every day! http://instagram.com/thejoyjunkie _____________________________

Thank you again for joining us today! If you know anybody that would benefit from this episode please share it with them and help spread the knowledge and motivation. Don’t forget to show your support for the Rise Up For You Podcast by writing a review on iTunes. Your feedback helps the success of our show and pushes us to continuously be better! Check out www.riseupforyou.com for more podcast episodes, webinars, events, and more to help you get to the next level in your personal and professional life! You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Youtube @riseupforyou

STAY CONNECTED: Thank you again for joining us today! If you know anybody that would benefit from this episode please share it with them and help spread the knowledge and motivation. Don’t forget to show your support for the Rise Up For You Podcast by writing a review on iTunes. Your feedback helps the success of our show and pushes us to continuously be better! Check out www.riseupforyou.com for more podcast episodes, webinars, events, and more to help you get to the next level in your personal and professional life! You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Youtube @riseupforyou

ABOUT YOUR HOST: Nada Lena is the founder and CEO of Rise Up For You, a company that fosters personal and professional growth amongst individuals and companies. She is an Executive Leadership and Career Confidence Coach, Post-Secondary Educator, Motivational Speaker, and Advocate for Youth and Women’s Empowerment. With over 10 years experience as a college professor and former top executive for an education corporation, Nada understands the importance of fusing education, empowerment, and leadership together as she works with her clients and speaks on stage to audiences worldwide. She has toured the world as a singer, has a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership, and has coached and mentored close to 50,000 individuals around the world on self-empowerment and leadership.    She most recently had the opportunity to share her expertise at the largest Google Cloud conference of the year where she worked with tech industry participants and C-Suite executives on Career Confidence, Leadership, and Career Stra

Dr. Robert London has practiced psychiatry for nearly four decades. A longstanding thought-leader in cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnosis, and guided imagery, he developed and ran the short-term cognitive psychotherapy unit at NYU Langone Medical Center for 20 years. Championing a message of hope, optimism and the belief that many who suffer from mental health conditions can achieve significant improvement or total relief without spending years in therapy, Dr. London is the thought leader and expert on the Learning, Philosophizing, and Action (LPA) technique. He developed this technique, which uses a straightforward, focused method that guides people to gain a new perspective on one or two main problems. This thoughtful interactive process walks people through how to deconstruct negative thoughts and behaviors, understand their origins, and unlearn and replace them with a new pattern of thoughts and beliefs that lead in a more positive, productive direction and change. Dr. London has worked to destigmatize

Riana is known as "The Life & Love Transformation Expert" and focuses on increasing a Client's personal growth and self-esteem while improving their holistic health for mind, body, and spirit. She specializes in helping women and men of all ages through the impact of Childhood, Dating or Relationship Trauma and difficult transitions leading to overall Life Transformation and Successful relationships for individuals, couples and families in private practice for over 20 years in Egg Harbor Township, NJ and in Palm Beach County, Florida. She takes an active Coaching role with her Client as they explore together the many avenues to their optimum emotional and over-all health and wellness, both individually and in relationships. She helps Singles attract Emotionally Healthy, Evolved and Conscious Love and guides Couples to transform their relationships from Toxic to Terrific. Riana's Holistic Coaching approach to overall personal growth and change for mind and spirit is core to all her endeavors. Riana believes

Rick Miller is an unconventional turnaround specialist, a servant leader, and a go-to Chief. He is also an experienced and trusted confidant, an author, a sought-after speaker, and an expert at driving sustainable growth. For over 30 years, Rick served as a successful business executive in roles including President and/or CEO in a Fortune 10, a Fortune 30, a startup, and a non-profit. In each case, he was recruited from the outside to turn around poor performance in difficult times. Rick Miller is a Chief not because of his many high-ranking titles, but because of his ability to bring out the best in others—and in himself—using the choices he developed in his Power Compass, a road-tested sustainable growth model he created over the course of his successful career, and which he shares in this book and continues to use with his clients. Rick has been in demand for the past ten years as a confidential adviser to many of today’s most senior executives, and is extensively connected within the global business and

"Hello! I'm Michele, founder of Scarlet Thread Consulting, former soft treatment fabricator, and wife/mom always. I could tell you that I have a B.S. in Business Administration, but I'm just as proud of the diploma in Christian Life Coaching I earned through Light University. Additionally, I am one of the few certified Profit First coaches in the United States - and I am a creative on top of that! You see, I wasn't always a coach for interior designers and creative entrepreneurs. I wasn't even in the home industry at the beginning. I began my career in financial software development with Management Science America and Dun & Bradstreet Software. It may sound as if it was a boring experience, but I can assure you that the experience helped my tech, testing, and organizational skills truly blossom. I opened my soft furnishings company, The Scarlet Thread, in 2000. It was a welcome change of pace with challenges that any new business owner might face. In 2009, I began teaching business classes with an emphasis

ABOUT: Dr. Rob Mathews (rob@elprofile.com) is the Director and Operations Manager of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Ball State University. He is also an Instructor of Management in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship Center in the Miller College of Business. He currently teaches the introductory entrepreneurship course, “The Entrepreneurial Experience”. Mathews has also led courses in market research, the business plan, entrepreneurial design, entrepreneurial decision- making, entrepreneurial consulting, management ethics, marketing for new ventures, and entrepreneurial finance. In his role in the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, Mathews maintains the Institute’s budget and leads faculty, staff, K-12, adult, and community entrepreneurial leadership and problem solving training and facilitation programs. Mathews previously served as the Assistant Director of the Entrepreneurship Center in the Miller College of Business. His primary role was to mento

ABOUT: Fueled by her gratitude for Holistic Nutrition and Standard Process’ amazing products, plus her desire to give others the gift of life and good health she has experienced, Kristi earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition from Clayton College of Natural Health in Birmingham, Alabama. She’s been practicing Holistic Nutrition for over 15 years in Newport Beach, CA. Kristi’s main objective is to find the root cause of her clients’ ailments and address them through nutrition and supplements. STAY CONNECTED: https://hncnewport.com/about-me/ _____________ Thank you again for joining us today please check out our webpage at www.riseupforyou.com for more podcast episodes, webinars, articles, free resources, and events to help you get to the next level in your life! You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, and Youtube @riseupforyou If you know anybody that would benefit from this episode please share it with them and help spread the knowledge and motivation. Please

ABOUT: Marc Lesser is a speaker, facilitator, workshop leader, and executive coach. He is known for his engaging, experiential presentations that integrate mindfulness and emotional intelligence practices and training. He is the author of 4 books, including Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen, and CEO of ZBA Associates, an executive development and leadership consulting company. www.marclesser.net. Marc helped develop the world-renowned Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program within Google – a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training for leaders which teaches the art of integrating mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and business savvy for creating great corporate cultures and a better world. He founded and was CEO of 3 companies, and has an MBA degree from New York University. Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years, and director of Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the western world. He leads Mill Vall

ABOUT: Dr. Daphne Scott, the founder of DS Leadership Life, specializes in creating mindful leaders and mindful organizations. Daphne has been working with organizations since she had her first official job at the ripe old age of 15. Today, she supports other leaders and organizations to take their work and their life to the next level. It isn’t all hard work, but it is work. Daphne brings to her consulting work two decades of real-world coaching and corporate development experience. She draws from her unique background in improv theater and physical therapy to bring engaging embodiment and team-building elements to her coaching. She combines these unique skills with her strong leadership abilities and highly-trained facilitation skills to bring individuals and teams into greater relationship, creativity, and ultimately, success. As a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, certified Hendricks Coach, a founding member of the Conscious Leadership Group, and a member of the International Coaching Federation,

ABOUT: He is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and the President and Co-Founder of Innovative Medicine. The New York Center for Innovative Medicine is a one-of-a-kind biological medicine facility that serves patients from around the world, including top CEOs and celebrities. Caspar has trained practitioners across 6 continents in a new integrative and personalized approach to medicine that has garnered the attention from top medical minds including Nobel Laureates, the former head of Merck, and one of the personal doctors in India for the Dalai Lama. STAY CONNECTED: https://innovativemedicine.com @casparszulc on Insta, FB and twitter Thank you again for joining us today please check out our webpage at www.riseupforyou.com for more podcast episodes, webinars, articles, free resources, and events to help you get to the next level in your life! You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, and Youtube @riseupforyou If you know anybody that would benefit from this episode please

ABOUT: Nada Lena is the founder and CEO of Rise Up For You, a company that fosters personal and professional growth amongst individuals and companies. She is an Executive Leadership and Career Confidence Coach, Post-Secondary Educator, and Motivational Speaker. With over 10 years experience as a college professor and former top executive for an education corporation, Nada understands the importance of fusing education, empowerment, and leadership together as she works with her clients and speaks to audiences worldwide. She has toured the world as a singer, has a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership, and has coached and mentored close to 50,000 individuals around the world on self-empowerment, career strategy, and leadership. She most recently had the opportunity to share her expertise at Google's largest conference of the year Cloud Next ‘19, where she worked with tech industry participants and C-Suite executives on Career Confidence, Leadership, and Career Strategy. She was awarded the Chief's Award

ABOUT: Laura Gassner Otting helps people get “unstuck” — and achieve extraordinary results. Through Limitless Possibility, Laura collaborates with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to push past the doubt and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and catalytic perspective informed by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, and philanthropic landscapes. Laura’s 25-year resume is defined by her entrepreneurial edge. She served as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, helping shape AmeriCorps; left a leadership role at respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com; and founded and ran the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, which partnered with the full gamut of mission-driven nonprofit executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. She is the author of Mission-Driven, a book for tho

ABOUT: For almost 20 years Christine Lang has assisted people in nearly every profession, including executives, professional athletes, and celebrities. As a young lawyer, Christine was plagued by constant allergies. Determined to find a cure, she voraciously studied different forms of alternative medicine. She cured her allergies, and along the way discovered her amazing gift – to see people’s energy and hear their spirit! Christine learned that our spirits use symptoms as a type of messaging system, alerting us to issues that are ready to be healed. What she learned was so profound that she left the practice of law so that she could help others hear the wisdom offered by their spirits - guidance that helps people heal their relationships, physical health, and careers. Christine helps her clients uncover the core emotional issues that create chronic physical symptoms, unhappy relationships, and negative self-talk. Her ability to hear a clients spirit enables her to reveal details about his/her life with amaz

ABOUT: Catherine Orer is an award-winning Business & PR Strategist and founder of The Artist Entrepreneur, where she counsels professional visual artists and creative entrepreneurs who want to build sustainable businesses and careers. After working as a PR professional for multinational corporations, Catherine began studying the business of art at Christie's Education and working in contemporary Parisian art galleries. She later worked in a critically acclaimed gallery serving the North American art market, where she represented artists at international art fairs and worked with them one-on-one. This experience gave her the versatility and network to create The Artist Entrepreneur. She is known for giving her clients the reality check they need to get the results they want. Her clients say that she “totally gets it” and “makes things happen” by “bridging the gap between creativity and being business savvy.” One artist even called her “the best investment in her career.” Catherine holds a degree in Communi

ABOUT: Despite her successful and demanding legal career, Andie Kramer has helped thousands of women navigate both the obvious and subtle gender biases they encounter in all career settings. Because mentorship opportunities for young executive and professional women are often limited, she co-founded the Women’s Leadership and Mentoring Alliance (WLMA) to recruit senior women to mentor and support younger women on their way up. Andie is also the co-author of the popular book Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work. Partnering with her husband, attorney Al Harris, Andie is able to bring a unique holistic perspective to the work of raising awareness of gender bias and what to do about it. Today she’s helping us understand the glass ceiling - that still exists - and what we can do to keep moving forward while working together. STAY CONNECTED: Website: AndieandAl.com, Twitter @AndieandAl, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/breakingthroughbias/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedi