Extraordinary Women Radio With Kami Guildner

Today we’re joining our Extraordinary Women Radio guest – Amber Rae – in celebration of her new book – Choose Wonder over Worry! Choose Wonder Over Worry is launching around the world today and I’m happy to be a part of this celebration! I invite YOU to jump out to Amazon today and order a copy of her book and perhaps gift a few to some extraordinary women friends! Amber has been called a “Millennial Motivator” by Fortune and "The Brené Brown of Wonder” by Mind Body Green. Her work invites you to live your truth, befriend your emotions, and express your gifts. Amber’s writing blends raw, personal storytelling with actionable aha-moments and has reached more than 5 million people in 195 countries. Her public art has spread to more than 20 countries, and she's spoken to and collaborated with brands like Kate Spade, Apple, Amazon, and Unilever. Amber has been featured in The New York Times, TIME, Fast Company, BBC, ABC World News, and more. She’s truly an extraordinary woman. This is a delightful interview

I'm super honored to feature today's Extraordinary Women Radio guest, Dr. Sharron Stroud. Dr. Stroud is a woman dedicated to serving the planet. The slogan "Think Globally and Act Locally" would describe what she has been about for the past 40 years. She is an author, professional speaker, and a spiritual leader. She has served the New Thought movement for 42 years as a spiritual leader. Dr. Stroud has serves as the Spiritual Leader of Innerfaith Spiritual Center Worldwide in Palm Springs, CA. since 2001. She also serves as the Dean of the Institute of Successful Living. In our interview, Dr. Stroud shares life stories that have shaped her life and the wisdom she has earned along the way. She says that "Whatever the present moment is, act as if you chose it. Work with it." This is such a powerful statement. We talk about courage, confidence and callings. And yes, because Dr. Stroud is a Minister of Peace, we talk about peace on earth. Dr. Stroud is the President Elect of The International Foundation for W

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with the fabulous Michelle Marie King, a philanthropic leader and motivational public speaker who has devoted her life to volunteerism and mentoring young women on giving back to their communities and building self-esteem. Michelle is blazing the country as a positivity activist and passionate visionary. In our interview today, Michelle shares how her life experiences as a former international runway model and former Ms. Colorado shaped her passion for helping women of all ages find their inner beauty – a mission she carries out in her model-coaching and confidence building company - Positive Presence, LLC. Suffering from anorexia, bulimia and living through an attempted suicide as an international runway model, Michelle hopes to use her experience in the modeling industry and her passion for philanthropy to simply make a positive difference in the life of others.  She combines these disparate worlds—modeling & philanthropy. In our interview, we dig into how t

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio guest – Haley Hoffman Smith is a young and upcoming rockstar in the entrepreneurial world. I love the energy she is bringing into the world and her incredible wisdom is way beyond her years! Haley started her first global non-profit and wrote her first book at age 18, and is in the midst of starting her second non-profit – Her Big IDEA Foundation. She also will be a key team member on The Next Gen Summit - leading a community of 2000 entrepreneurs to their success. Her second book Her Big Idea will launch on June 11 – shortly after she graduates from Brown University in May. At Brown, Haley studied how women develop their sense of self agency in entrepreneurship and venture capital for her honors' thesis. She also created the first-ever women's entrepreneurship incubator to help female students bring their ideas from concept to reality. Haley's research around the impact of women in leadership, on boards and in venture capital firms was recently published in Forbes. She ha

Welcome to Episode #50 of Extraordinary Women Radio! I love this milestone! So many incredible stories I've had the opportunity to share. Have you ever had a mentor or a coach who has shaped the trajectory of your life… of your business? Well one of these women for me is Tommi Wolfe – and I’m super excited to host Tommi today on Extraordinary Women Radio. I always say that Tommi helped my business grow up in those early years - and we talk about some of those lessons in today’s episode. And in fact, I’ll share how the whole concept of Extraordinary Woman was actually birthed in Tommi’s office several years ago! Tommi has spent an incredible lifetime building companies – starting as a single mom in South Africa. Her stories are inspiring and her wisdom rich. She is currently the CEO of Top Six Business Coach and Bronze Birch Marketing. She supports a network of talented business coaches in 3 countries, all of whom specialize in helping solopreneurs to create abundant, lucrative and meaningful businesses. I

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio is with Mia on the Go: Mia Voss! Mia is the ultimate traveler & people connector. She’s built her business around the love of story telling, travel, cars and being a cheerleader for the things she loves. She shares the story of how at 50, she decided to go nomadic. And it was in that journey that Mia became an accidental entrepreneur, opening her world to the lifestyle-aligned business she runs today that let's her travel the world, drive cool cars and drink great wine! We talk about building an influencer brand and building a powerful collaborator tribe. You’re going to love her! She’s currently working with brands such as Lexus, Toyota, BMW, Mazda, Collette Travel and more. Mia has been building an online audience for years, enticing them with engaging interviews on every topic imaginable. She has been the producer, host and guest on more than 300 online episodes and has interviewed more than 500 guests. In 2015, she decided to embrace her approaching 50’s and began trav

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Kate Bradley Chernis, the Founder & CEO of Lately. Kate is a former rock 'n roll disc jockey turned tech CEO, and she’s as real as they come! Kate shares what it was like to raise $2.2 million in the tech world as a woman, and gives some good advice to my listeners who are raising capital. We talk about marketing that creates real connection and community in business. Kate shares how she listens to her intuition and how important it is to just show up as ourselves. It’s a fun interview and I know you’re going to love this! As a former marketing agency owner, Kate, initially created the idea for Lately out of spreadsheets for then-client, Walmart. Well, not just Walmart. It was a partnership between Walmart, United Way Worldwide, National Disability Institute, and tens of thousands of local, small business and nonprofit affiliates who were all using her spreadsheet system – because they all had the same problems: a lack of coordination, widespread redundanc

In 2014 Lindsey Laurain – today's featured guest on Extraordinary Women Radio – and her husband were fed up with messy mealtime with their three young boys. In the midst of their frustration they said, “We need a plate the boys can’t toss!” The next day she taped a bowl to a piece of paper and has quickly grown the company by bootstrapping her way along. ezpz is a woman owned, self-funded small business that has expanded into a global multimillion-dollar company. Within six months this go-getter – act-now woman had invented and launched her company ezpz and created the Happy Mat, an all-in-one silicone placemat plus plate with patented self-seal technology. With the Happy Mat, infants and toddlers can no longer tip and toss plates at mealtime. The company boasts an expansive product portfolio, including a self-published book, and has secured distribution in 1500 U.S. stores and 30 countries. ezpz's self-seal technology is revolutionizing the feeding and medical industry. Many children and adults with auti

Today, I’m honored to bring you the sixth and final contemporary 2018 Inductee to the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame: Gail Schoettler.  It’s a great interview and just in time for the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Gala this coming Wednesday, March 28! Dr. Gail Schoettler has been a U.S. Ambassador, Colorado’s Lt. Governor and State Treasurer, Douglas County school board president, and a successful businesswoman. She narrowly lost her race for governor of Colorado in 1998. That was the same year Dottie Lamm ran for US Senate. Since that time, not a single woman has run for governor or US senate in Colorado until this year... Listen to what Gail has to say about this. It's a great interview. I think this is going to change. As I was preparing for this interview, I ran into this statistic... "During the full 2016 election cycle 920 women contacted EMILY's List, an organization that recruits and trains women to run for office. And that was a record year. Since Election Day 2016, more than 34,000 wome

This week marks the one year anniversary of Extraordinary Women Radio! What a ride it has been! In every interview this year, our conversations have been rich, the stories shared deep and wisdom filled. My guests have opened their hearts and shared their most vulnerable moments. They’ve shared heartbreak and they’ve shared success. All of them have been inspirational. At the end of every episode, my 43 guests offered three pearls of wisdom. Their responses have been profound, thought provoking and foundational principles that can truly shape our journeys, if only we apply them. This week, my team compiled these pearls of wisdom into a single document, and you can download it at https://www.kamiguildner.com/pearlsofwisdom. That is 129 pearls of wisdom gathered from some very extraordinary women. You will want to grab this one. It’s something that you’ll be able to turn to again and again. I’m going to keep a copy of this in my journal for reflection on a daily basis. As I sat down to start to reflect on al

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio Interview is with Paige Goss the Founder and CEO of Point Solutions Group. Paige started Point Solutions Group only 11 months ago, and has already generated over a $1 million of billings in this short amount of time. She’s changemaker, a doer – and makes things happen – all while moving across the country with her wife and starting a family! In this interview, we talk about how she grew the company so quickly, about life and family. She shares how the "the second that I was real and raw about who I was as a human, everything started to take shape for me. Its amazing what you get back, when you show up as your true authentic self." Paige founded her company on a philosophy that people are the center point of all successful missions and programs.  Point Solutions Group provides innovative solutions in information technology, engineering, and professional services for government and commercial organizations on issues of national and global significance. Paige and I met at a

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio Interview is with Leslie Foster, a 2018 Inductee into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and the President of a Denver non-profit, The Gathering Place. As you know, I have a passion for women helping women. For the changemakers. For women who reach out a hand and lift another up. This certainly describes Leslie. Leslie has been helping women get off the streets of Denver for 30 years. She has passionately worked to influence local decision-makers’ conversations about the homeless population in Denver and how organizations provide services to women and children experiencing poverty or homelessness. Leslie is being inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame this year and for good reason. In this interview, we talk about the strength of women – and how our strength multiplies exponentially – one women is strong… two women is like three … three women are like nine. Yes, we are strong and so much better when we work together. We talk about women in the homeless population a

This week's Extraordinary Women Radio interview with Heidi Ganahl, the founder of Camp Bow Wow, is so good! Heidi has a passion for keeping the American dream alive and well! That’s because she’s been living it. And it wasn’t all a simple and easy path to get there. Heidi has faced extraordinary adversity in her life. Beginning with the loss of her husband at the age of 27, to losing a million-dollar insurance settlement, her entrepreneurial spirit helped her pick herself up and build a $100 million brand in the pet and franchise industry – Camp Bow Wow. In fact she’s well known for her Ted Talk called the Art of the Comeback, where she shares this powerful comeback story. Today she shares this journey she took and the lessons she learned along the way. In fact one of the things that struck me in this interview – was the most timely wisdom I’d heard all week – if not all year! “Be the best you can be at what you’re doing at the time, and forgive yourself for not being the best at everything all the time.

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Tami Simon the Founder and CEO of Sounds True. Tami founded Sounds True at the age of 22 with the mission of disseminating spiritual wisdom. Sounds True started out as a project with Tami – and her tape recorder thirty years ago. Since that time, Sounds True has grown into a multimedia publishing company with more than 80 employees, a library of more than 1500 titles featuring some of the leading teachers and visionaries of our time. Tami has interviewed leading teachers such as Michael Bernard Beckwith, David Whyte, and Geneen Roth—delving deep into their beliefs, teachings, and personal experiences on their own journeys for many years. And like so many of the interviews I get to do on Extraordinary Women Radio, Tami’s interview divinely occurred at a time when I needed her flavor of wisdom most. This week, I posted a blog called “Yesterday I broke,” which described a difficult day earlier this week, but more important, the important life lesson that unf

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio Interview is with Alexis Kanda-Olmstead – a social advocate and leader focused on uplifting women’s roles in leadership. With a twenty-year career in higher education, Alexis brings together research from the fields of social psychology, economics, history and biology to advance women’s leadership. I love how she’s weaving research into her work – and she shares some really interesting insights throughout our interview how research is guiding her work. She believes that through everyday acts of courage, we can learn how to develop a new relationship with power, get comfortable with fear, and step into our authentic leadership. And in fact she’s so passionate about this – she’s in the process of co-developing a school called the {Re}Finishing School for Brave Women. Yes, this is a twist on the antiquated view of the old finishing schools. Alexis brings this concept into the modern-day age of empowering women with courage - helping women let go of belief systems that no longe

Today – I’m so excited to bring this very special Extraordinary Woman Radio interview with Astronaut Susan J. Helms - the first U.S. military woman in space! Susan is a retired Air Force lieutenant general and astronaut who was a crewmember on four space shuttle missions. She holds the world record for the longest space walk (8 hours and 56 minutes), and was the first woman to serve on the International Space Station. Susan is part of my series featuring the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame 2018 Inductees. This is an interview full of stories of space travel and the lessons that accompanied it. Apparently, you can learn a lot about life when you spend nearly 5 months aboard a space station with only 3 others aboard the international space station. There's lots of time to ponder the wonders of the world and the wonders of the Universe. We talk about humanity, life, following your dreams, working hard, training hard and being ready. Here are a few of the golden nuggets from Susan: "Humankind is really all on

I was so honored to have the opportunity to interview best selling author and highly sought-after speaker, Agapi Stassinopoulos on Extraordinary Women Radio this week. Agapi's most recent book is Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life. This book is a treasure trove of how to live a life full of joy. We talk about mindfulness, meditation and intimacy with your SELF. We talk about the importance of knowing yourself from that deep inside place, and how the Universe can get all in behind you – and open all kinds of doors when you have that knowing of who you are. Agapi has a wise approach to life and we’re so aligned in our own inner truths and perhaps, even how we are both meant to making a difference on this earth! Agapi is a best-selling author and speaker who has inspired audiences around the world. In her previous book, Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love, she shares the wisdom from her life’s adventures and experienc

Today's Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with Fay Matsukage, a 2018 Inductee to the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and Activist for Women and Asians in the Legal Profession. Fay wakes up every day and looks at a sticky note in her mirror that she’s written to herself: "You have to be the change you want to see in the world.” And in fact, she often tells herself, "If not me - then who!?" Such an important question for each of us to ask ourselves when we declare that something needs to change in our world. Fay lives by this concept: Be the change we desire in the world! From the beginning of her career, Fay worked in a male‐dominated field as a woman of Asian descent and faced the daily challenge of proving herself as a professional and as an equal. She was inspired by these challenges to start charitable foundations that are so well funded to this day they provide annual scholarships and other charitable contributions to women and individuals of Asian descent. Fay is an accomplished attorney with a re

This week's Extraordinary Women Radio interview is with a Colorado Women's Hall of Fame 2018 Inductee, Dr. Dorothy A. Horrell. Dorothy is the Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Denver, my alma mater! I love this interview – we talk about success and courage and leadership and transformation. Dorothy tells her story of growing up on the plains of Colorado and finding her way to live in China for 8 months as a young woman. She shares the story of why she chose to come out of retirement to lead University of Colorado at Denver, and why she said yes. And in one of my favorite questions toward the end of the interview we talk about holding principles that we learned in 4H programs as young girls – around head, hand, heart and health – and how they shape our lives today. Dorothy and I shared a number of intersecting threads in our lives – and I think we both loved these connections. So much fun to discover! Dorothy leads Colorado’s public urban research university: CU Denver which educates over 15,000 un

I’m really excited about today’s Extraordinary Women Radio interview with Gerie Grimes – the first of the 2018 Inductees to the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. Passion, commitment, spirit, grit and grace. These are some of the characteristics shared by the women that will be enshrined into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in March 2018. These characteristics: Passion, commitment, spirit, grit and grace – are so aligned with what I want to share here at Extraordinary Women Radio. So you can see why I couldn’t be more thrilled to partner with the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame to be able to tell these stories! In March 2018, Colorado will induct 10 new women into their Hall of Fame – something that is done every other year… six contemporary honorees and four historical, into an exclusive class that has now grown to 152. My friend Beth Barela, who is the chair of the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame says, “These women are unsung heroes who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love. They deserve to ha