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Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessThe Cost of Ambition in the Age of Innovation with Dr. Naketa Ren ThigpenInnovation is leading the way but intimacy remains essential. On this episode of Balance Boldly, host Dr. Naketa Ren Thigpen explores the true cost of ambition in today’s fast-changing world. As Dr. Thigpen says, “The world rewards motion. But the overachievers I work with are tired of spinning.”This conversation explains why ambition that costs your peace or your people is simply too expensive. From optimizing relationships to building strong relationship infrastructure, this episode is for founders and leaders who are done pretending. Balance Boldly exists because success without self is a lie. These are re...
2025-11-2239 min
The Lazy OverachieverBusiness Partnerships: Before I leave This PlaceIn the final episode of her powerful "Normal Is Not Necessary" series, host Naketa Ren Thigpen takes you on a deep dive into the world of business partnerships. With over 13 years of experience co-founding ThigPro with her husband, Naketa brings you valuable insights on how to build and sustain successful business collaborations. In this solo episode, she unpacks the critical elements of aligning personal non-negotiables, loyalty, and communication styles to prevent resentment and ensure long-term success. Naketa shares practical strategies for setting boundaries, managing expectations, and navigating the sometimes complex dynamics of business partnerships. Tune in for a candid...
2025-01-0422 min
The Lazy OverachieverIntroducing The Lazy Overachiever Show with Naketa Ren ThigpenWelcome to "The Lazy Overachiever" – Your Haven from the HustleHello, Brilliant Beauties and Beautifully Reformed Perfectionists!You've just stepped into 'The Lazy Overachiever Show,' a sanctuary far removed from the over-glorified hustle, bustle, and grind culture. I'm Naketa Ren Thigpen, your guide and host, dedicated to rewriting the narrative around laziness – turning it from a faux pas to a freedom card. The TLO Mission: Creating a sacred space where you can rebel against the rush to focus on yourself for once. Here, we celebrate the power of pressing 'pause' on p...
2023-12-1500 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBalance Business by Creating It Around Your Values with Alma BradfordOn the Balance Boldly Podcast today, host Naketa Ren Thigpen chats it up with Business Growth Expert, Storyteller, and Content Creator Alma Bradford on how she chooses to create work/life (and LOVE) balance by building her business around her values. Alma leans in with transparency and talks about whit it’s okay to give yourself permission to create what she calls a Pivot Plan and how that looks for her as we swing full fledge into the year ahead. In this no-holds bard conversation on air, these brilliant beauties dive in deep, fast, and boldly.
2023-03-2919 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow You Can Create Balance While Expanding with Karen EdwardsWith more than 56 million copies in print, the Brain Quest brand has continued to touch the lives of children for 3 decades. Loved by kids, trusted by parents, and used and recommended by teachers, it is the curriculum-based brand that makes learning fun and today, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with expansion spearhead and Editorial Director, Karen Edwards to chat about creating balance while taking a brand to new heights. What to expect in today's BBP episode:-The behind the scenes look at expanding an existing brand without losing focus...
2023-03-1517 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Create Balance While Managing Job Loss and Transition with Deepali VyasIn her 22 years at Korn Ferry, Deepali Vyas reviewed over 100,000 resumes, completed over 40,000 executives job placements, and conducted C-Suite leadership assessments and coaching services for top teams. On today’s episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with Deepali to discuss how she’s using her world-class knowledge as an executive recruiter, leadership consultant, and mom, to balance life as she prepares the next generation for the future of work and career readiness by connecting them with opportunities, mentors, colleges, and employers with the Fearless+ platform. What to expec...
2023-03-0135 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessThe Gift We Gain When We Reimagine Our Life with George McCalmanOn today’s episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with George McCalman. An author of a brilliant book that reimagines our idea of Black History, with a collection of 145 Black heroes from activists, scientists, politicians, business owners, artist and everything in between. ILLUSTRATED BLACK HISTORY is a one-of-a-kind project about unique subjects by a triple-threat artist, author and designer that pays homage to Black Americans and their historical achievements and recognizes the breadth and abundance of Black excellence. What to expect in today's BBP episode:-G...
2023-02-2237 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessProtecting and Nurturing Our Differences with Kayla TaylorCanaries Among Us is a true story about a little girl, with beautiful differences in how she sees the world, being bullied at an elite private school. The author, Kayla Taylor (a pseudonym used to protect her child’s privacy), sits down with Naketa Ren Thigpen for a powerful conversation. In this episode, Kayla discusses the trials and triumphs of advocating while simultaneously journeying to understand herself, her daughter, and the broken system that fails at protecting all of our children. What to expect in today's BBP episode:- Who are...
2023-01-2528 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessCreating a Business That Sets Your Soul on Fire with Breanna MayRedesigning a life by design is how the most fulfilled humans live out their purpose. On today’s episode, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with Breanna May, best known as Miss Mindset, and chats about the power of spiritual graduation that allows you to create a business that sets your soul on fire! Breanna dives in with a little behind-the-scenes real-life example of how being in a relationship with yourself and knowing when to mind your business can create deeper connections. What to expect in today's BBP episode:-Why it’...
2023-01-1827 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in Business3 Powerful Steps to Take in 2023 to Create More JoyWelcome to 2023, the year you receive as much as you release. In today’s episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Naketa Ren Thigpen reflects on the uncovered thread that looped through over 50 episodes last year, the importance of releasing and making room for more of what you want. In Naketa’s solo audio note, she goes over the benefits of taking three powerful steps this year that can help you create more joy, but only if you are bold enough to embrace a different version of the acronym R.I.P. Tune in to find out more. ...
2023-01-1140 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHonor Your Process and Take Control of Your Story with Masha ZverevaMasha Zvereva is an entrepreneur, speaker, career coach, content creator, ex-Googler, and an advocate for women in the workplace. With her booming personality, voice, and unshakeable faith in the growth process, Masha is breaking boxes for herself and her clients. In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with Masha and discusses the power of honoring your own process, regardless of how messy it gets so you can take control of your own story. Masha has swung from the tech space at Google through the Academic space in well known universities and shares the...
2022-12-2831 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessWhy You Need to Do Your OWN Work Featuring Becca PowersHow many moments in your life can you count that you were stretched out because you had no more room to receive nor give anything else. Perhaps you found yourself laid out on a bathroom floor like Becca Powers, the CEO of Powers Peak Potential, who had to get clear and be honest with herself during a breakdown moment before she could lean into her soul work. On today’s episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Naketa Ren Thigpen has a fun (and) deep exchange with Becca around sacrifice, support, guidance, and doing your own work!
2022-12-2126 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessFrom Burnout and Depression to Being Fueled to Fire with Midori VerityAn amazing, well sought-after mindset coach, author and TV host, Midori Verity shares how she went from burnout and depression to being fueled to fire. This Balance Boldly episode, host, Naketa Ren Thigpen dives in deep with Midori around the three crucial elements to consider in making any decision, especially when you are working to shift from a dark place in to one where you show up for yourself every day. SPOILER ALERT: accountability that’s for you and not anchored to the expectations of other people is the foundation for those three elements! ...
2022-12-1428 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Show Up Fully and Fabulous Featuring Yolanda DrewellOn today’s episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Yolanda Drewell, a Transformational Stylist, Midlife- Anti-Propogandist is bringing us a peek into her Queendom, the realm where Fabulocity rules and everyone who embraces it gets play with “fabification” and light up every room they enter. As host, Naketa Ren Thigpen gives Yolanda three snaps and a clap for the way she breaks down how important it was to tune up herself FIRST to make sure she has plenty to share with her husband, her family, her clients, and everyone welcomed into her ecosystem, you will start snapping too! ...
2022-12-0723 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessThe Benefits of Developing Your Self-Leadership with Jonita D’souzaBorn in India, settled in England, Jonita D’souza is a Feminine Lifestylist, an Author and Creatress of Exploring Femininity Ltd., assisting modern day busy women who struggle with burn-out, overwhelm and body love to reconnect with their feminine and sensual energy using the ancient Taoist and Tantric arts, so that they can create a lifestyle that is fulfilling, nurturing and pleasurable. In today’s episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Naketa Ren Thigpen chats with Jonita about the benefits of developing our self-leadership. What to expect in today's BBP episode:...
2022-11-3027 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessKnow Your Body and Release Shame with Alicia PattersonOn today’s episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with Pelvic Health Specialist Alicia Patterson. The discussion was raw and real as it ranged from the impact of the overturning of Roe vs Wade to the importance of knowing your body as a way to release shame. Alicia is a leader in the specialized pelvic trauma healing field bridging the gap between the body and the psyche in therapy.What to expect in today's BBP episode:- Why it’s important to have an open space for diff...
2022-11-1630 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessStop Hustling by Simplifying to Thrive with Elena DaccusElena Daccus was once told the best thing she could ever become would be a secretary at a local factory. Refusing to submit to an expectation that was not in alignment with her desire to do and be more, Elena has bought and sold over 50 companies worth nearly 10 billion dollars and is now known as the High-Ticket Sales Expert. On today’s episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Elena sits down with Naketa Ren Thigpen and shares how connecting with people on your values helps you eliminate the hustle, rest more, and create space for more play. ...
2022-11-0234 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessThe Superpower Within Mental Illness with Lauren PernaAn amazing mental health advocate, fierce leader, and writer, Lauren Perna is bold enough to share the deeper parts of her truth. She’s honoring herself while serving others, encouraging them to become mentally fit! Today on the Balance Boldly Podcast, Lauren shares with Naketa Ren Thigpen how passionate she is about helping people from her heart, and how that share went viral! Lauren dives in about the tools she had growing up with a Clinical Social Worker as a mom and still struggling in the corporate world before she learned to manage her mental health in a way th...
2022-10-2628 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessGrow and Expand Outside the Box with Rich LasterKicking off this episode with a brilliant brave man who honors himself by doing the personal development work that grows and expands his whole being so he can help you grow and expand your business. Today, we welcome Rich Laster, a business and growth consultant, helping businesses across industries and sizes, increase their revenue so they can stop living in the space of survival and truly drive their impact deeper and greater. This episode is chock full of great business and marketing gems, but it doesn’t stop there. Find out why Rich calls Naketa Ren Thigpen the Barbara Wa...
2022-10-1941 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Grow from Sufficiency Instead of Scarcity with Eleanor BeatonOn a mission to double the number of women entrepreneurs who scale past $1M in revenue by 2030, Eleanor Beaton and her team at SafiMedia are creating power, presence, and position for those who are willing to do more than join the conversation about leveling up. On this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Naketa Ren Thigpen exchanges in a dynamic conversation with Eleanor on her journey toward today, where she’s arrived and where she’s expanding from. What to expect in today's BBP episode:- How systems and...
2022-10-1223 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessGetting Out of Your Own Way with Erin CoscarelliThis week, the Balance Boldly Podcast and host, Naketa Ren Thigpen has the pleasure of holding sacred space with the multi-threat in the sports industry, female broadcaster Erin Coscarelli.Holding nothing back as she opens the curtain and takes you through her experience of deep guttural grief, balancing work highs, robust schedules, and learning to breathe her way into a new space. Erin’s calling herself out and choosing to show up fully with reflection and celebration of life. As a brilliant, competitive athlete, (and) vivacious woman in a male dominated field, Erin’s journey to ar...
2022-10-0544 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessPermission to Begin Again with Tonia LyonAs we wind into the final quarter of the year, this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast, Naketa Ren Thigpen sits down with an Award-Winning Journalist who has chosen to balance differently and unapologetically. Tonia Lyon shares the importance of deep listening, quieting the loud fishbowl chatter, and being known on another level. What to expect in today's BBP episode:-Find out about the Online Sandbox created for parents of children with chronic challenges-How to change habits that fit the YOU that is now, better than the YOU that was
2022-09-2829 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow To Generate and Experience A Transformational Lifestyle with Uwe DockhornIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Uwe Dockhorn, he's known as the Lifestyle Liberator and has delivered over 17,000 two-hour sessions worldwide in the last 14 years. He is the founder of The AIM Experience™; a 3-step transformational experience for in-demand professionals and their spouses or life partners to enjoy Unshakeable Two-togetherness, more free time, and better results at work (While practically eliminating the risk of divorce). Uwe has worked in almost every industry, role, and lifestyle, helping his clients to achieve lasting results in 8 hours or less.What...
2022-09-2135 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessDiscover and Pursue Your Passion with Camille BakerIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Camille Baker, she is the author of Have We Met? She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the Ohio State University. There, she took sign language classes for fun, and during business classes that didn’t hold her interest, she wrote stories. After graduating, she completed the Interpreter Training Program at San Antonio College. Camille now resides, interprets, and writes in South Chicago.Contact Camille BakerWebsiteSocial Media:Tw: ht...
2022-09-1224 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessElevate Your Business Brand with Keshia Butler-ThomasIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Keshia Butler-Thomas, she is the Founder and CEO of LCK Consulting Services. At LCK she helps her clients elevate their businesses and brands through her teachings of the usage of Social Media Marketing, Digital Brand Strategy and Online Marketing Trends.In addition, Keshia an HBCU graduate of Lincoln University, Pa is an Adjunct Professor of Social Media Marketing at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa at the Lew Klein School of Advertising and CommunicationsWhat you will learn...
2022-09-0728 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessUsing SEO To Gain Your Business Better Exposure with Jessica BargenquastIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Jessica Bargenquast, she is the founder of Lady ChangeMakers, an all-inclusive e-commerce platform for women-owned businesses. Jessica is an expert in creating exposure and driving traffic for e-commerce businesses. She launched Lady ChangeMakers in 2021 in an effort to create a central e-commerce hub for women-owned businesses – think Amazon, but all lady bosses. Today, she is focused on helping women grow their e-commerce businesses by educating them on exposure, SEO, and more.What you will learnImportance of using SEO...
2022-08-3131 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Be More Productive, Connect Mindfulness, Stress Reduction, and leadership with Julia ArndtIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen, let’s welcome Julia Arndt, she is the founder of the Peak Performance Method, a unique model combining critical productivity, mindfulness, and leadership tools to help forward-thinking individuals and organizations develop the next workplace superpower through scalable programs. Julia is a stress management trainer and sought-after international speaker.More about Julia ArndtJulia originally hails from Germany, has lived in 5 countries over the last 14 years, and speaks three languages fluently. After working at Google in Silicon Valley for se...
2022-08-1726 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Create Presentations that reach the HEART of Your Audience with Jasmin HaleyIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Jasmin Haley, is a nationally-awarded speaker, author, educator, thought leader, coach, and podcaster dedicated to helping audiences understand that the time is now if they want to make an impact and serve their communities from the heart.She has spoken to and educated over 10,000 audience members since she began her career in speaking and has impacted countless others through her podcasts, educational programs, and consulting business. Her proprietary process, The H.E.A.R.T. MethodologyTM for connecting with aud...
2022-08-1032 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessStep into the Spotlight to Expand your Influence with Colleen BiggsIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Colleen Biggs, she’s an Award-Winning Peak Performance Consultant with over 20 years of experience, has launched over 340 businesses, is an International Speaker, Author to five #1 International Best-Seller’s with the latest being Step Into the Spotlight to Expand your Influence, the CEO and founder of the Leap Community, formally known as Lead Up for Women and was awarded the Local Business person of the year award and Top 10 Women Business Leaders of 2021.Contact Colleen BiggsWebsi...
2022-08-0339 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessLearn How to Walk in Your Purpose & Live Life Abundantly with Lauren GuerrieriIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome, Lauren Guerrieri, she is the Founder + CEO of HOUSE of LO, she is on a mission to create safe spaces to help every single woman on this earth feel her power, live from her truth, find her magic and discover a love for herself so deeply that it opens her up to love others, walk in her purpose and live life abundantly. More about Lauren GuerrieriShe is vulnerable in sharing her own transformational and spiritual journey and...
2022-07-2736 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessTapping into EFT "Emotional Freedom Technique" with Theresa Lear LevineIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Theresa Lear Levine, she has helped female entrepreneurs and moms to work on their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health for over 25 years with an evolving blend of Energy Psychology, Emotional Freedom Technique (also known as EFT Tapping), and Chakra Strategies Contact Theresa Lear LevineYou can check out Theresa’s Book, BECOMING MORE ME- Tapping Into Success: Subconscious Secrets of an ADHD Entrepreneurial Mom, available on Amazon, and also get Access to her Amazing Library of Private Tapping Sessi...
2022-07-2025 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessEmpowered to Work Within Your Individual Skill Sets & Strengths with Emily PerronIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen, let’s welcome Emily Perron, she helps bloggers and online entrepreneurs expand and improve their teams with talented freelancers. Her number one goal is to align the right person with the right role, so business owners and freelancers alike feel empowered to work within their individual skill sets and strengths. Her expertise lies in hiring and managing your Zone of Genius Contact Emily PerronSocial Handleshttps://www.instagram.com/emily.perron/linkedin.com/in/emily-perronhtt...
2022-07-1326 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessTips and Tools To Create Financial Success with Alyssa DaviesIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Alyssa Davies, she's a content manager for Zolo and a published author living in Calgary, Alberta. She is the founder of the two-time award-winning Canadian Personal Finance Blog of the Year, Mixed Up Money.More about Alyssa DaviesAs of 2022, she has over 80,000 followers across social media. Through her work, she has been featured in many notable publications, including The Globe and Mail, CNBC, CBC, and more. Alyssa is a freelance writer and enjoys writing about personal fi...
2022-07-0619 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Be in Control of Your Life & Career with Dr. Reza AbrahamIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Dr. Reza Abraham, he is a Persian Author, Speaker, Ultra-high-performance Coach & the founder of InControl Group. His first book is a result of 20 years of studying & working with different individuals.More about Dr. Reza AbrhamDr. Reza Abraham has been invited to speak on personal growth and leadership by global companies including AIA, Dell, DHL, Honda, KPMG, L'Oréal, Mazda, McDonald's, Nielsen, and Petronas, Samsung, Shell, Toyota, and more. He is a graduate of The University of Sci...
2022-06-2922 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Attract Love That Lasts Forever with Love Coach Bex BurtonIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen, let's welcome Bex Burton, she helps independent women attract and grow lasting love, without sacrificing who they are or what they want out of life. Bex inspires transformational experiences through movement, mindfulness, and compassionate behavioral exploration, via live and online programs, spectacle dance performances, and nature-immersive glamping retreats. Want to know how to create real work-life balance (and LOVE)? Register for the Lasting Love At Your Level Online Event Contact Bex Burton● Instagram: @lovecoachbex● YouTube.com/bex...
2022-06-2237 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessTips For Better Approaching Our Children with Rebecca RollandIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Rebecca Rolland, she is an oral and written language specialist in the Neurology Department of Children’s Hospital Boston and a lecturer at Harvard University. What you will learn:To realize that we face challenges across our entire life, and overcoming them guarantees us we are prepared and in charge of our lives and what it throws us up.More about Rebecca RollandShe has an Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Ed...
2022-06-1517 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow To Regain Your Confidence By Eliminating Negative Beliefs with Business Mindset Coach Diann WingertIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen, let's welcome Diann Wingert, she became a business mindset coach in 2017 after a 20-year career as a psychotherapist. Her mission is to help high-achieving women become confidently ambitious by eliminating the beliefs and habits that hold them back. Diann’s trademark style combines a no-BS directness with insight, wisdom, and humor. What you will learn:To get completely aware that we are culturally conditioned to struggle with self-worth and confidence, to focus more on our insecurities than our compete...
2022-06-0829 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessUnderstanding the fine link between your mental health and relationships with Allison RaskinIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Allison Raskin, she is a New York Times bestselling author. She is also the co-host of the popular podcast Just Between Us and the co-creator of a YouTube channel by the same name. Allison has written and developed multiple TV shows and created the original scripted podcast Gossip. A vocal mental health advocate, Allison also runs the mental health-focused Instagram.What you will learn:The role of your mental health in relationships: Get completely aware of how much your ov...
2022-06-0117 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessNetworking For Sales 101: Learning To Build A Connection with Everyone With Sales Leader and Innovator, Bobbie FoedsichIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Bobbie Foedsich, with over 20 years in Operations, Sales & Executive Management, she is an experienced sales leader and innovator, top-ranked sales manager/producer/trainer recognized for contributions to record-setting sales figures.What you will learn:● How to build a connection with everyone and why it is keypoint● Networking for sales: It is all about building relationships● It’s all about how your connections can benefit from meeting you.More about Bobbie FoedsichProven ability to...
2022-05-2536 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessKeys to a Successful Relationship with Alexandra StockwellIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen, let’s welcome Alexandra Stockwell, she’s an intimacy marriage expert who specializes in showing high achieving couples how to build beautiful, long-lasting passionate relationships, also a Best Selling Author of Uncompromising Intimacy and the host of the intimacy marriage podcast.More about Alexandra StockwellFor over 20 years she has shown men and women how to bring pleasure and purpose into all aspects of life-- from the daily grind of running a household to intimate communication and ecstatic experiences in the...
2022-05-1828 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessThe Importance of Mental Health For Personal Growth with Entrepreneur and Licensed Family Therapist Laura Shook GuzmanIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen, let’s welcome Laura shook Guzman, she’s a licensed marriage family therapist and somatic psychotherapist for entrepreneurs. She's been in this field for more than 23 years. She’s the founder of three businesses; the world's first Wellness Coworking Community, the global community Women Who Co-work, and her own therapy practice. In this episode, Laura and I speak about the importance of mental health, the need to have mental health conversations, and how to support your overall well-being. More about Laura Shook Gu...
2022-05-1146 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Succed at Your Own Healthcare Busines with Dr. Omolara UwemedimoIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Dr. Omolara Uwemedimo, she is an expert in purpose-led entrepreneurship, securing funding for healthcare, addressing medical racism for marginalized providers and patients, and building socially-responsive healthcare spaces. More about Dr. Omolara Uwemedimo Dr. Omolara founded Melanin & Medicine, premier business development & funding coaching company to help support women of color in medicine to secure capital, without incurring debt or diluting equity, to build and grow their own healthcare businesses committed to social impact.Contact Dr. Omolara Uw...
2022-04-2931 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessLearning To Overcome Marriage Problems with Relationship Coach and Writer Matthew FrayIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Matthew Fray, he is a relationship coach and writer who leans on the lessons of his failed marriage and divorce to help others avoid making the same mistakes he did. Learn to overcome your marriage problems by finding and fixing your blind spots in a relationship.Matthew’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Huffington Post, Babble, and many more. His blog Must Be This Tall to Ride has a dedicated following and has reac...
2022-04-1322 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessMindfulness is power: How to tap into the healing power of your mind with Gül SönmezIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Gül Sönmez, she serves clients from all over the world helping them with her unique transformational energy processes and systems. Gül has been working with big multinational companies like P&G, Coca-Cola, and Amazon for over 15 years after discovering some manifested physical challenges in her body herself and realizing that her life wasn't quite in alignment, but where she was supposed to be. She made big pivots, overcame a lot of anxiety and trauma that was happening in her li...
2022-03-3024 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessUnlock Your Creativity + Live A Creative Life with Austin KleonIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Austin Kleon, he is the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work!, The Steal Like an Artist Journal: A Notebook for Creative Kleptomaniacs, and Keep Going. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS News Hour, and in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. What you will learn● How to live a creative life● We can take influence from what’s around u...
2022-03-2324 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessThe Importance of Legal Foundations for Your Business with Lauren BoydIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Lauren Boyd, she’s an entrepreneur, attorney, podcast host, speaker, and proud mother who is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs gain confidence in their legal foundation. Before venturing out on her own, Lauren was in a predicament many attorneys face. She worked in corporate law, climbing the ladder negotiating more than $3 billion in international contracts — but she found herself feeling uninspired and burned out. What you will learn· How important are laws foundation for your business.· ...
2022-03-1645 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to effectively communicate using fewer words and still get to the point with Lia GarvinHave you always believed that effective communication requires more words? Do you think you can only explain yourself when you talk more? Then you’re in for a surprise today. In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Lia Garvin, beyond being extremely influential in the tech space and working with major companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google, and all the things. Leah is on a mission to humanize the workplace one conversation at a time. Sounds familiar? BBP is all about the conversations and making sure that y...
2022-03-0933 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessEmpowering Entrepreneur Moms with Corporate Mompreneur Mara KazantzakiIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Mara Kazantzaki, she's a highly successful corporate professional, Mara realized that the world of motherhood had not been elevated for those professionally successful women.Mara is now inspiring women to break free from the traditional notion of motherhood, changing the way mothers are being supported. What you will learn● Embracing motherhood and empowering entrepreneur moms: How to break free from the traditional notion of motherhood but elevate the way that you get supported● Balancing mothe...
2022-02-0241 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBalance Boldly Luminaries Edition: Personal Development and Growth 101 with Coach Lynda CormierThe first Luminaries Edition of the Balance Boldly Podcast of 2022 is a dedication to an outstanding WOMAN who inspires, influences, and ignites a better tomorrow with the courageous work she implements!In this episode of the Luminaries edition seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Lynda Cormier, she is a wife, mother, and one of the most sought-after Personal Development Speakers, Coaches, and Business Executives today. She is both the published author and facilitator of the award-winning Breakthrough Living Personal Development/Coaching Program.What you will learn● Prioritizing personal development and grow...
2022-01-0732 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessA Happier & Healthier Animal-Human Relationship with Wendie PatrickIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Wendie Patrick, she makes her own health and grooming line for animals, including a CBD alternative, under the Finnessiam brand which name stems from the three dogs in the Dogs of Pride logo, Finn, Jesse, and William. Wendie practices many modalities including remote Kinesiology, Auricular Therapy, Quantum Touch, and animal Reiki, and recently became a Certified Light Therapist for horses, humans, and pets. Wendie is currently owned by two dogs, two cats, and two horses!" What you will learn...
2021-08-2528 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBalance Boldly Luminaries Edition: Learning To Be ‘Brand Delicious’ with Nikki NashThe Luminaries Edition of the Balance Boldly Podcast is a dedication to outstanding WOMEN who inspire, influence, and ignite a better tomorrow with the courageous work they implement today! How often do you listen to your gut feeling? In this episode of the Luminaries edition seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen, an outstanding woman who inspires influences, and ignites a better tomorrow, but the courageous work that she is implementing today. First, let me back up and just say that I love, love, love, love, love this chick, let’s welcome “Nikki Nash”, is a Podcast Host, Hay House a...
2021-08-2027 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBurnout Does Not Have to Define You with Dr. Errin WeismanIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Dr. Errin Weisman, she is a life coach, speaker, and fierce advocate for wellness in medicine. She faced professional burnout early in her career and speaks openly about her story to help others, particularly female physicians and working moms, know they are not alone.What you will learnHow to give yourself permission to let go of some of those assumptions that you made as a younger person and step into the person that yo...
2021-08-1141 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessCreating Sustainable Soul-nourishing Relationships with Joli HamiltonIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Joli Hamilton, she is a research psychologist, best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and AASECT (pronounced ay-sect) certified sex educator. She has spent the past two decades balancing a wild entrepreneurial spirit with a deep desire to have a secure, passionate partner (and she raised 7 kids along the way!). Joli is committed to helping people create sustainable, soul-nourishing relationships without sacrificing their career dreams.What you will learnHow to work in partnership.Get clear about what jealousy is...
2021-08-0433 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessLearn How You Can Rise Above Your Circumstances with Susanne MarigaIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Susanne Mariga, she's a certified public accountant, certified tax coach, chartered Global Management accountant and a certified profit first professional amongst a bunch of the things she also happens to be an author of profit first for Minority Business Enterprises, a book that is literally at top of the shell for me right now that I'm sending to every single client and all my clients. What you will learn· How you can create your own jobs and opportuni...
2021-07-2835 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBalance Boldly Luminaries Edition with Lekeshia AngeliqueThe Luminaries Edition of the Balance Boldly Podcast is a dedication to outstanding WOMEN who inspire, influence, and ignite a better tomorrow with the courageous work they implement today!In this episode of the Luminaries edition seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen, let’s welcome Lekeshia Angelique, she is an Army Veteran, Mom, Coach, Taco Aficionado, and creator of safe spaces to educate folks. The key to change is knowledge and empathy. And she has deepened into the mission to empower not only black women but every human to have a powerful voice and an equitable sea...
2021-07-2328 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessUnleash Your Potential Without Holding Back Your True Self with Jen O'DonnellIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Jen O'Donnell, she's a business and mindset coach for team leaders in network marketing and women entrepreneurs that are scaling their businesses, right? Trying to avoid all the mistakes and all the noise that is happening in network marketing, which I know has its own caveats because there is a lot of companies that don't think network marketers actually make money and Jen is proof, living, walking, breathing, vacationing, every month proof that you can in fact do that.What yo...
2021-07-2125 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Play to Your Greatest Strengths & Passions with Madelein MacRaeIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Madeleine MacRae, she is a former corporate consultant and now a business growth strategist, that helps people increase their sales volume and building systems to stop working 24/7. It all began, when she was working as a corporate executive and decided to create more time and freedom to raise her kid as a solo mom. Now, after 5-years in business, she has helped over 15,000 people hit the next stage of growth, whether it’s their first million in revenue, $5m, or even more...
2021-07-1426 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow To Strengthen Your Relationship: A Special Power Couple Interview with Jeanie & Ross CoomberIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Jeanie & Ross Coomber, they are amazing human beings, the absolute definition of a power couple as I have defined it. Power couples, although they can be celebrities and high profile, that is not the core characteristic that I define them by. I describe a power couple as two people with strong what I call IPA that's being influential in their chosen industry or expertise, their philanthropic, not just financially but energetically, they're not afraid to roll up their sleeves and dive in...
2021-06-301h 00
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessClarity Beyond the Chaos in Your Business with Susan FennemaIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Susan Fennema, she's the Chaos Eradicating Officer (CEO) of Beyond the Chaos, a consultancy helping small business owners with about 25 or fewer employees to simplify their operations and manage their projects so they can grow their businesses and get their lives back. What you will learnHow to eradicate your operation issues and all the chaos that's going on and keeping you from living your best life and not being a slave of your business.How to work on y...
2021-06-2315 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBalance Boldly Luminaries Edition with Nida LeardThe Luminaries Edition of the Balance Boldly Podcast is a dedication to outstanding WOMEN who inspire, influence, and ignite a better tomorrow with the courageous work they implement today!In this episode of the Luminaries edition seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Nida Leard, she is a top-tier Business Consultant, Coach & Founder of the Genius Offers™ System. She helps high-caliber coaches, consultants, experts, change-makers, and service providers invest in excellence, disrupt industries, and build the business of the future. What you will learnTo stay ahead of your customer's needs.To kee...
2021-06-1838 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessEmbrace Your Motherhood Journey + Discover the Gorgeous, Unmatched Remarkable Lady in You with Victoria ParkerIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Victoria Parker, she helps busy ambitious moms plan and execute their wins so they can quit living in chaos and keep the promises they make to themselves. Our mission is to help women bust through mom guilt and positivity impact the motherhood experiences for future generations over and over again. So the legacy is created and deepened. So they can be fulfilled in all aspects of their life and their gift. Embrace your motherhood journey and be the confident, gorgeous you all day, ev...
2021-06-1631 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessStand out from your truth and shine with Cherie BurtonIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Cherie Burton, she’s a mother of 6, author, international speaker, Women Seeking Wholeness podcast host, international business owner, and emotional restoration expert. She has worked in clinical mental health settings and now specializes in the science and spirituality of emotional healing and sensory integration; a "whole soul" approach. Cherie teaches the "new feminine leadership paradigm" – and has guided thousands of women all over the world to access their voices, creativity, power, and authenticityWhat you will learn· ...
2021-06-0935 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to turn stress into a competitive advantage for your business with Nico VerresenIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Nico Verresen, he’s a mindset coach for top-level entrepreneurs helping to turn stress into their competitive advantage so they can live in ecstasy.What you will learn· What the mindsets barn extender is.· How to learn how to make stress and intense emotions your friend.· How to embrace your emotions and make them get you towards your dreams· How to understand your stress and stop stressing because of it. More about Nico Ve...
2021-06-0232 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessLearn how to automate & segmentate your business with Selle EvansIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Selle Evans, she's a Certified marketing and business coach and talks about her mission and the best way women can scale their businesses. She speaks to why automation is so important and the results in personalized marketing versus just plain marketing. She also explains how to continually give yourself the permission of choice in the life you lead. What you will learn· The best part about segmentation for marketing purposes.· What it really means to know an...
2021-05-2635 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessEnhance Performance and Thrive with Kc RossiIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Kc Rossi, she is the Founder of the Soulprint Method™, a system that helps entrepreneurs leverage their strengths joyfully to enhance performance and thrive. She is the host of the Women Developing Brilliance® podcast; a show dedicated to growth strategies for leaders with a purpose.People really are craving right now more than ever authentic leadership, really kind of peeling back the layers like that's why reality shows are so popular, we want to see it all we want to hear the r...
2021-05-1921 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessDeep Diving into Self-marriage with Erin MooreIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Erin Moore, she's Dr. Erin Moore, AKA the Heartbreak Doctor, who helps women heal their hearts so they can show the world who they really are. She is a licensed naturopathic physician and an expert in mind-body medicine. Self-marriage, it's just an idea of a practice of coming home to yourself, of knowing yourself or getting to know yourself, and being brave enough to accept and love what you find. [Erin Moore 09:52] What you will learn· ...
2021-05-1235 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessStop Playing Small with Heather PetherickIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Heather Petherick, she's Heather Petherick is a master success coach for established coaches, consultants, and service-based business leaders. Since 2007, she’s coached hundreds of business leaders and entrepreneurs from around the globe to overcome the mindset traps that keep them playing small so that they can realize their potential and create the impact they’re meant for.What you will learn· How to create a new philosophy a new approach to sales that is authentic, elegant, free, and effective.
2021-05-0529 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessGet Clarity and Confidence About Your Business with Robyn GrahamIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Robyn Graham, she's an awarding winning photographer, wife, mom to three, a woman of faith, and passionate about serving others. Meet Dr. Robyn Graham, Certified Brand Marketing Strategist, Business Coach, and Branding Photographer.Dr. Robyn has designed a way to pour the best pieces of her talents, skills, and gifts into the scope of work she provides for her clients as she helps them get clarity and connect confidently to their second phase of greatness. What you will lea...
2021-04-2826 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessUnleash a Greater Consciousness and Joy with Jeanie CoomberIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Jeanie Coomber, she's a leader in creating thought-provoking media and content in support of working professionals, she spent decades as a world-class executive coach, helping smart, savvy, and sincere leaders ascend to the next level and become warriors themselves.Whether she is interviewing a CEO or a subject matter expert, speaking at a conference, facilitating panel discussions, or coaching executives, she is known for being contemplative, captivating, and direct.What you will learn· How by helping...
2021-04-2140 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessA Real Estate Reset with Attiyah BlairThe Luminaries Edition of the Balance Boldly Podcast is a dedication to outstanding WOMEN who inspire, influence, and ignite a better tomorrow with the courageous work they implement today!In this episode of the Luminaries edition seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Attiyah Blair, she is a real estate investor, real estate mentor, professional speaker, and philanthropist. Attiyah's company focuses primarily on rehabbing severely distressed properties and turning them into beautiful homes primarily in the Philadelphia area. What you will learn· Tips on how to invest boldly in real estate.
2021-04-1636 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessElevate Your Business Results with Stacy BahrenfussIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Stacy Bahrenfuss, she's Founder of Catalyst Group, and Creator of the Inside Out Success Method, Stacy started her real estate company Catalyst Group at the early age of 19.She sustained her company through the housing crisis of 2007-2010 and continued to scale her business beyond the 7-figure mark, to become one of the top-performing real estate teams in the state of Idaho. Stacy’s experience is vast; she has been a single agent, has run a team, and has even operated as t...
2021-04-0722 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessAvoid the burnout and the overwhelm in your business with Yewande FaloyinIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let us welcome Yewande Faloyin, she's the founder and CEO of a Tito and alumnus to McKinsey and Company and a former VP at Morgan Stanley.What is permission to pause look like for you these days? [Naketa] Previously, when in my burnout phase, it was more about recovery. Right? So my two weeks off, it was like my permission is because I've physically almost like I've injured my leg, I have no choice but to recover. After that, it was more about Oh...
2021-03-3132 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBalance Boldly Luminaries Edition with Ryann DowdyThe Luminaries Edition of the Balance Boldly Podcast is a dedication to outstanding WOMEN who inspire, influence, and ignite a better tomorrow with the courageous work they implement today! In this episode of the Luminaries' edition seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome a very amazing, outstanding even incredible, and phenomenal women “Ryann Dowdy”, former Director of Sales, left the corporate world after 15 years with a vision to achieve time & financial freedom. Ryann's vision became a movement when she founded Uncensored Sales & built a community of women looking to gain back control of their lives. Wha...
2021-02-1923 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Overcome Your Struggles with Kirsten Beverley-Waters In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let us welcome Kirsten Beverley-Waters, she is the author “Struggle Guru”, a book that will help you recognize the wisdom in your own achievements. You have been carrying a burden for so long that you do not give yourself credit for learning how to carry it. Gain appreciation for yourself, motivation to succeed again, and realization that you are your own guru. In her new book STRUGGLE GURU Kirsten dives deep into an exploration of personal experience and how our individ...
2021-02-1730 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBuilding Next Layers Of Your Company with Jessica Mead In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Jessica Mead, she's Jessica Mead is not your typical “stay-at-home-mom.” She has been homeschooling for over a decade and has become one of the foremost experts in alternative, supplemental, and customized education. Further, Jessica is the Founder and CEO of Brandlync, a managing partner of Drivonic and the co-founder of The Epek Companies and Mead Holdings Group with a combined valuation toppling 100M, and a portfolio of angel investments that encompasses more than 20 companies. What you will learn
2021-02-1027 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessStrategy & Decision Support with Jodi HumeIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let us welcome Jodi Hume, she provides on call decision support and facilitates leadership conversations for startup founders and entrepreneurs and the executive teams. She has an amazing amount of experience. We are talking nearly two decades of making sure that you move the needle forward, but do it efficiently at full capacity of yourself. After a 15 year, career as CEO of a growing architectural firm. She spent the last decade and facilitating all these complex conversations, helping others like you and me navigate t...
2021-01-2836 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessThe importance of inner growth and how it impacts your business with Michelle Barry FrancoIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Michelle Barry Franco, She works with founders, entrepreneurs, coaches and wellness experts, people who are helpers helping others are her people. She wants to make sure that she helps them become the recognized leaders in their industry through speaking and thought leadership that they are destined to be. Michelle is helping as many clients as possible share their message and their story on TEDx stages. What you will learn To learn that what happens underneath show up in...
2021-01-2036 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBalance Boldly Luminaries Edition with Kat KimThe Luminaries Edition of the Balance Boldly Podcast is a dedication to outstanding WOMEN who inspire, influence, and ignite a better tomorrow with the courageous work they implement today! In this episode of the Luminaries edition seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Kat Kim, she is a Spiritual Teacher, Leadership Coach, and founder of The School of Divine Confidence, an online school that offers spiritual training and confidence coaching to rising women leaders and change-makers across the world. As a former crack addict and convicted drug offender facing three years in state prison, Kat battled add...
2021-01-1519 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessIgnite your side hustle with Julie Ciardi In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let us welcome Julie Cairdi, she is A former fortune 500 marketing VP and multi passionate entrepreneur. Julie is the podcast host at Ignite your side hustle, why? Julie is the creator of the Ignite University, a one of a kind program to ignite purpose, passion and profit with proven methodologies and business as well as creating a mastermind space for like-minded women. What you will learn · Knowing when to leave corporate. · Made your mind about some difficult decisio...
2021-01-1332 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessReprograming Your Subconscious Mind with Thais Gibson In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Thais Gibson, she is an author, speaker and co-creator of the personal development school you see why I love her already. She's extremely passionate about personal growth in the subconscious mind and connecting with others. Thais is best known for her contributing work and research on attachment theory and the impact of attachment trauma on our adult romantic relationships What you will learn · How to connect your subconscious mind to achieve your goals · How to avoid keep f...
2020-12-3032 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessExploring Professional Fairness with Gracie JonesIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa Ren Thigpen, we meet Gracie Jones, stalwart in the event planning realm. I am a no-nonsense person. I'm all about the end product. And I'm all about us all looking good. No, I'm going to treat you all the same if you're producing what I asked you to produce or executing it the right way. – Gracie Jones [22:25]Tune in for more....More about Gracie Jones Gracie Jones is a force in the event planning realm, featured on dayt...
2020-11-1132 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBalancing Life As An Entrepreneur – Addressing Change, Growth, and Adaptability with Case LaneIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa Ren Thigpen, we meet Case Lane, So what it really comes down to is your ability to just say, I'm going to do this because I know there's a problem. I know people are looking for a solution. I know I can help. I want to deliver value. So I've figured out a way to make this happen. - Case Lane [15:58]What you will learn· The importance of having an online strategy for business.· Seeing and understanding the big picture.·...
2020-11-0444 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessForaying into Intentionality, Life Pivots, and Work-Life Balance with Brandi BernoskieIn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa Ren Thigpen, we meet Brandi Bernoskie, a blogger and the founder of Alchemy+Aim. She opens up about new ventures, growing a business organically and the importance of intentionality.What I have noticed is that there is sometimes, this lie that we tell ourselves that our meaning, like our meaning as individuals comes from doing, and that is not the truth. So, you can get absolutely lost in that space if you keep buying into that and think that your meeting your value, your worth is in...
2020-10-2828 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHonoring the Contribution of Your Support System in Your Business Growth with Jasmin HaleyBusiness coach Jasmin Haley sits down with me Naketa Ren Thigpen to talk about her transition from being an educator and a dental practitioner to a professional speaker.Listen in to hear how she has learned to accept steady growth while following the steps of other established women. You will also hear why she doesn’t take for granted the kindness she has been shown during her journey. “You can give but also know that there’s power in giving yourself permission to pause but also to love.”- Jasmin Haley 20:49What you will learn:
2020-09-0225 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessThe Power of Using Your Gifts to Add Value to Others with Tasha SmithThe founder of Emerge Sales Training Tasha Smith sits with I Naketa Ren Thigpen as she shares her bold decision to teach people how to sell.She describes her successful journey that has had obstacles and how she’s working to make it bigger than her.Listen to hear how you can choose joy as part of your business strategy from the beginning and eliminate the fear that comes with such a huge responsibility. You will also hear how you can use your gift to add value to others and make them powerful....
2020-07-2238 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Find Yourself Outside of The Devotion You Identify With.A former high school teacher turned video producer Parchelle Tashi, sits with yours truly Naketa Ren Thigpen to talk about her story and what she is doing to help teenagers.She talks about her experience in the church and why she chose to leave to find herself and become whom she needed to become. Listen in to learn how you can still make an impact in what you love even after leaving the profession associated with it. “I meditate- that’s something that is really important to me that I do. I also take the time to e...
2020-07-1523 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessFrom Major Debt to Multi-Millionaire Featuring Hilary HendershottDuring a pause between The Retirement Years on Profit Boss® Radio episodes, host, founder of Hendershott Wealth Management, a leading financial advisory and wealth coaching firm for women, Hilary Hendershot joins me, Naketa R. Thigpen on the Balance Boldly Podcast for Ambitious Women In Business (and a few brave men)When Hilary isn’t offering her guests inspiration and actionable advice through her podcast, she’s creating cash flow and researching better investment opportunities for her clients. I was extremely thrilled and honored that Hilary carved out time to share her personal journey from over $600,000 in de...
2020-04-1529 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessCreating Better Choices Featuring Dr.Mary Claire HaverWith all the goings on across the globe due to covid-19, creating better choices for ourselves under this new normal with lock downs and shut-ins isn’t easy. On this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa R. Thigpen and Dr. Mary Claire Haver sit down to discuss how she maneuvered through challenges in her life and came out on the other side with a program that helps other women do the same. Dr. Mary Claire Haver is the founder and creator of The Galveston Diet, the first and only nutrition program in the wo...
2020-03-2523 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Run Your Business from the Beach Featuring Teri IjeomaWhat do you and a MIT grad who was also the Grand Champion of Teachable’s 2019 Creator Challenge have in common? How about your desire to do things differently, with no pretense, and no mask! On this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa R. Thigpen, the well-traveled investor, Teri Ijeoma, takes us along her journey to leaving her position as an assistant principal at an elementary school to creating her balance with a business she runs from the beach! Teri started off simply wanting to supplement her income which morphed into her be...
2020-03-0531 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Create Clear and Kind Boundaries Featuring Laura KhalilA consultant with Twitter, GE, and Intel, the #1 Transformational Speaker for Fortune 500 companies, Laura Khalil is a force to be reckoned with. Helping companies across the globe close the leadership and wage gap for women, today, Laura opens up with us about why it’s important to be courageous and destroy our tendency to accept the disease the please that so many ambitious women (and a few brave men) tend to have. On this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa R. Thigpen, Laura Khalil dives in on how to create clear and kind boundaries that no...
2020-02-1936 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessBigger Leaps Create Bigger Rewards Featuring Lenka LutonskaFrom humble beginnings working for McDonald’s to becoming an international business and mindset strategist with clients in 30 countries, our featured expert this week has created the balanced life she deserves! On this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa R. Thigpen, you will have the opportunity to hear from Lenka Lutonska, author of Energetic Selling and Marketing, who helps women all of the world start their own coaching businesses, and get high-value clients, while still making room for what matters most in her life (and LOVE). Lenka is fully transparent and shares how pu...
2020-02-0526 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHow to Stay True to Your Core Featuring Kirsten M. TolerOn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa R. Thigpen, there was an urgency to speak to someone with a mind to not only do good work, but someone who does that work with both high integrity and a full sense of self. All too often, great people with good intentions, show up to their work with only half of themselves. Often feeling like they need to hide portions of themselves for fear that the clients or even teammates simply wouldn’t understand them. Perhaps they’d even judge them for being so enthusiastic, optimistic, or u...
2020-01-2929 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessEmbracing It All Featuring Theresa Hummel-KrallingerFeel like you need to smother or hide pieces of yourself in order to get what you want? You want people take you more seriously and invite you to the table? Well here on the Balance Boldly Podcast for Ambitious Women (and a few brave men), we say, Nope! Our guest, Grammy Award Winning Speaker, Trainer, Culture maven, and professional stand-up comedian says there is indeed another way and it begins with embracing it all. On this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa R. Thigpen sits down one of our favorite folks, Theresa Hummel-Krallinger who...
2020-01-2232 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessMoving Beyond Transition Featuring Lisè SchwartzHigh level corporate trainer, career coach, and transition specialist, Lisè Schwarts joins your host, Naketa R. Thigpen on the Balance Boldly Podcast for Ambitious Women in Business (and a few brave men). In addition to helping executives and high-level professionals find their rhythm inside the off-beat melodies this new world of technology, social media, and algorithm geared application maze offers, Lisè brings her creative problem solving to the forefront, leveraging her eclectic NYC born and bred repertoire that’s full of “oh my goodness, you use to do that” fun facts to the mix! Lisè is a woman of...
2019-12-2527 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessHealth is Wealth (and) Balance Featuring Jessica ProciniEmotional Eating Healer and Founder of Escape From Emotional Eating®, Jessica Procini shares her personal struggle with food and finding her fierce! Once Jessica dug deep into her own healing work and understood that health is wealth wasn’t just a rhythmic hashtag, she created her balance by sharing over 10 years of that work with others facing a similar struggle. On this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast for Ambitious Women in Business (and a few brave men), Jessica Procini sits down with host, Naketa R. Thigpen to discuss why so many of us use food to fill...
2019-12-1125 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessSelfish September Special - 03 With Naketa R. Thigpen: Your Choice, Do it Differently or Don'tOn this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast for Ambitious Women In Business (and a few brave men), Naketa R. Thigpen talks about the necessity to admit your choice. If you continue to choose certain actions, reactions, and inactions than you need to deal with the consequence just as much as you'd like to receive the benefits of those choices. The Selfish September Specials are solo episodes and nothing is held back. To continue the conversation and more, join the Intimacy Advantage Clinic (IAC) on Slack http://bit.ly/IntimacyAdvantageClinicNow Go, Create...
2019-09-1816 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessSelfish September Special-02 with Naketa R. Thigpen: What A Difference A Year Can Make!In this solo episode for the Selfish September series, Naketa R. Thigpen dives in and shares some of the pitfalls, triumphs and some of the more complex moments she's experienced from September 2018 through September 2019. A year can make a huge difference in your life, regardless of how it began and Naketa opens up with just how much. Starting with the important takeaway of limiting people's access to you to avoid burnout! Subscribe, REVIEW, Share & Balance BoldlyOn the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Naketa Ren Thigpen talks with ambitious women in business (and a...
2019-09-1118 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessSelfish September Special-01 with Naketa R. Thigpen: How the Pause can Propel You In Your Entrepreneurial LifeDo you still consider being intentionally selfish a shortcoming or flaw? Do you hesitate to take a pause from all the hubbub of the work once in a while? Tune in and find out how giving yourself permission to take a pause can propel your life as an entrepreneur and allow you to work forward exponentially. This is one of four Selfish September 2019 Episodes with Naketa R. Thigpen in full-on solo/rant mode. A rarity you don't want to miss. Subscribe, REVIEW, Share & Balance BoldlyOn the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Na...
2019-09-0423 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessAnother Selfish Episode with Naketa R. Thigpen: Justified LiesAccording to Google, a white lie is “a harmless or trivial lie; especially one told to avoid hurting someone's feelings.” There are many reasons why we justify lying to others and ourselves. Sometimes we think that doing this will avoid awkward confrontations. Many times, we’re just not ready to handle the truth. Today, I’m going to share my health problem -- a rare autoimmune condition that I like to refer to as my “superpower” -- that led me to justify lying to my husband and myself. I’m going to share the possible reasons why you justify ly...
2018-03-0738 min
Balance Boldly: Intimacy and Impact in BusinessAnother Selfish Episode with Naketa R. Thigpen: The High Achievers ConsequenceSince we had a lot of good feedback from The Selfish Series we did in September last year, you don’t need to wait another year to hear some refreshing Selfish Episodes. I want to help you understand that it’s okay to hit the pause button so you can gain the balance you need to be able to do some selfless work. With this said, the Selfish Series is now going to be a part of the monthly episodes with this season’s theme: The High Achievers’ Consequence. On this episode, I’m going to share the two main c...
2018-02-2838 min