Balance Boldly Podcast #shaketheshame

Elisa Schmitz is an award-winning entrepreneur and professional journalist. She’s the Latina founder and CEO of 30Seconds.com, an inspiring digital media platform that makes the world a happier, healthier, and more delicious place — 30 seconds at a time. She’s also the founder of iParenting, a “Best of the Web” digital media company that was acquired by the Walt Disney Company.No stranger to life’s fire. The daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Yugoslavian immigrant father, she learned to use her “differentness” to make a difference as she grew up in Puerto Rico, war-torn Lebanon, and suburban Chicago. All along, she created what she needed to survive and thrive. In her latest book, Become the Fire: Transform Life's Chaos into Business and Personal Success, Elisa not only shares her story, but those of a diverse collective of other women from around the world that we can relate to. Host, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with Elisa, and they dive in to a behind-the-scenes of business growth, life’s valleys, and t