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Aug 4, 2023
Aug 4, 2023
41 min
Meet my wonderful guest Vicki Noethling!! She is a Leadership Confidence Coach & seasoned speaker and coach with over 40 years of experience in project management. Vicki's journey from the corporate world to becoming a Toastmaster and International Region Advisor is truly inspiring. In this episode, we dive deep into how she fearlessly pivoted her business during the challenges of COVID, and her mission to help female entrepreneurs and youth find their voice and become fierce leaders. Discover invaluable tips on how to help kids speak confidently in front of their peers, techniques to feel comfortable on stage, and the power of purposeful speeches that leave a lasting impact. Her expertise will show you that memorizing your speech isn't necessary to deliver a compelling message that resonates. Learn the art of communication and how to adapt your style to different audiences. Don't miss this transformative episode!!
Quote/Piece of Advice: Life is a journey and its up to you to enjoy the ride.
Connect: On FB as VickiNoethling or FindYourConfidence
Her website: www.findyourleadershipconfidence.com
Her Podcast: Find Your Leadership Confidence
To connect with your host Kat:
@TheLotusEffectCoach or @KatPolsinelli
My Website: www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jul 28, 2023
Jul 28, 2023
43 min
Meet my wonderful guest Amy Eliza Wong! She is a Certified Executive Coach & Transformational Communication Expert.Amy's expertise in psychology, design thinking, and Conversational Intelligence® has made her a sought-after coach, guiding some of the biggest names in tech towards success. With over a decade of experience she teaches others how to live and lead authentically. During this episode, we explore the power of communication, understanding the balance between logic and intuition, and why it's essential to stop chasing external validation. Ready to unlock your full potential and lead with purpose? Discover how to take that daring leap even when uncertainty clouds your path, and learn why our brains need uncertainty to grow and evolve. This conversation on visualization and bridging the gap between science and intuition will leave you inspired and ready to embrace transformation.
Quote/Piece of Advice: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
BONUS Quote: Between stimulus and response there is space, and in that space….lies our ability to choose our response and in our choice lies our freedom and our growth.
Connect: www.alwaysonpurpose.com or LinkedIn @AmyElizaWong
Her book (click on link to order): Living on Purpose
To connect with your host Kat:
@TheLotusEffectCoach or @KatPolsinelli
My Website: www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jul 24, 2023
Jul 24, 2023
44 min
Meet my beautiful guest: Katie Rochelle, an Unwind Practitioner & Wellness Guide. As an Unwind Practitioner & Wellness Guide for women and the driving force behind GrowMoreLove, Katie is here to help you destress and embrace the art of slowing down and being present. During this enlightening episode, Katie shares her incredible journey of discovering the power of pausing and unwinding, which ultimately led her to launch her transformative venture called Unwind. She reveals the profound impact simplifying her life had on her mind, paving the way for a renewed sense of clarity and purpose. Join us in this soul-nourishing conversation and unlock the key to "Practice the Pause" in your own life.
Quote/Piece of Advice: Don’t despair yet dear one, hope comes in surprising disguises.
Connect: on IG @Unwind.with.Katie or FB @KatieRochelle
Her website: www.growmorelove.co
To connect with your host Kat:
@TheLotusEffectCoach or @KatPolsinelli
My Website: www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jul 21, 2023
Jul 21, 2023
42 min
Meet my Special Guest: Kimmy Seltzer!! Kimmy is a Confidence Therapist, Authentic Dating Strategist, Image Expert and Tedx speaker. She draws from her vast experience as a therapist, certified style coach, dating coach, and matchmaker to help people find lasting love, attract success, and build valuable relationships. Through her unique "confidence makeover" process, she unleashes the power of the "The Charisma Quotient," focusing on body language, first impressions, image/wardrobe, and flirting to enhance attraction. In this episode, Kimmy shares her own remarkable journey of growth, showing us that adversity can lead to our greatest transformations. She opens up about how she rebuilt her own confidence, learned the art of being seen, and mastered the world of dating.
Quote/Piece of Advice: People love people who love themselves.
Connect: Social Media @kimmyseltzer or her website: www.kimmyselter.com
Free Gifts!! (style guide) www.kimmyseltzer.com/style or (dating diagnosis quiz) www.kimmyseltzer.com/quiz
Her Podcast: Charisma Quotient Podcast
To connect with your host Kat:
@TheLotusEffectCoach or @KatPolsinelli
My Website: www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jul 14, 2023
Jul 14, 2023
46 min
Meet my beautiful guest Simona Mango!! Simona is a certified Life Coach, Spirituality Coach and Intuitive Life Coach. Her focus is to help women free themselves from the traps and chains that society, family, the schooling system, religion, tradition, and manipulative morals keep using, to stop them in their tracks and clip their wings. She helps her clients recognize and accept their greatness but diving into the subconscious mind. This was such a beautiful, soul lead conversation so with so many take aways.
Quote/Piece of Advice: I’ve lived with severals and masters and all of them are cats. Observe how a cat is in the present, this is how we would live ideally. Animals don’t look back, they don’t worry about the future, they are there in the moment. Live like a cat.
Connect: On IG @Simona_Mango or @Simona_lifepurpose and on LinkedIn @Simona Mango
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jul 12, 2023
Jul 12, 2023
49 min
Meet my fantastic guest Tiffany Lewis!! Tiffany is the founder of More Meaningful Marketing and is a mother, avid coffee drinker, business owner, and self-proclaimed rebel with a lot of meaningful causes. She believes your brand story becomes the reason people do business and continue doing business with you. Tiffany is wildly passionate about helping women merge their personal attributes with their professional offerings in a way that boosts both confidence and business. She did just this for my rebrand and we are here on this episode to share the story of how it came to be with all the in between you normally don't hear people talk about.
Connect: On LinkedIn, FB, and IG @moremeanginfulmarketing or www.moremeaningfulmarketing.com
To connect with your host Kat:
@TheLotusEffectCoach or @KatPolsinelli
My website: www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jul 7, 2023
Jul 7, 2023
38 min
Meet my wonderful guest Sabine Kvenberg! Sabine is a coach, singer/songwriter, actress, and speaker who helps people overcome their fear of public speaking. She has a passion for helping her clients convey their topic to the audience in a fun and entertaining way. She is so full of life and information! This conversation was full of golden nuggets.
Quote/Piece of Advice: We have to become the person we are meant to be first, so we can live the life we are destined to live.
Connect: www.sabinekvenberg.com or on her Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineKvenberg
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jul 3, 2023
Jul 3, 2023
47 min
Meet my sweet guest, Eileen Roth! Eileen Roth is an organizing expert and owner of Everything in its Place®. She has appeared on the Today Show and Oprah and wrote Organizing For Dummies®; and she consults and speaks on Office, Time, and Home organization. Anyone who knows me, knows organizing is my jam so you bet this was a fun one!
Quote/Piece of Advice: If you're not using it, lose it!
Connect: Find all of her info here: linkedin.com/in/eileenroth
Her free gift: Best Season to Organize/Set Goals
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jun 30, 2023
Jun 30, 2023
36 min
Meet my wonderful guest Meghan Dwyer!! Meghan is a Certified Financial Planner professional and the host of a fantastic podcast called “Money isn’t Scary”. She is on a mission to remove the stigma around money in our culture, so that women can begin to step into their own light and make choices free of fear. Through sharing her own personal experiences, Meghan inspires others to explore the sometimes-uncomfortable role that money plays in our lives.
Quote/Piece of Advice: Something to remind yourself of: You are making a difference.
Connect: IG @MoneyIsntScary or FB Group: Mindful Money Mommas
Her Podcast: Money Isn't Scary
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jun 23, 2023
Jun 23, 2023
36 min
Meet my remarkable guest, Amanda Kostura!! She is a Licensed Independent Social Worker Supervisor with over 12 years of experience in both direct practice and administrative positions in non-profits and social service agencies. Amanda noticed there were missing elements of compassion, humanity, and healing the root causes of mental health conditions in previous positions. These professional experiences, her own personal challenges, and research on trauma and the stress-disease connection led her to found Carve Your Own Path, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization specializing in a holistic, mind-body approach for healing and optimal wellness. This conversation was so eye opening and really brings the wellness practice, holistic approach, and clinical care together. No one is better than the other and each of us must follow the path of healing that works best for us.
Quote/Piece of Advice: Listen to your body. You know your body better than anyone else.
Connect: www.carvemypath.org or IG @cyopinc or LinkedIn @ Carve Your Own Path, Inc.
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jun 19, 2023
Jun 19, 2023
37 min
Meet my wonderful guest Consuela Munoz!! Consuela a distraction mgmt. coach and a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach working with entrepreneurs to defeat shiny object syndrome. Following a 20-year career at a privately held, multinational company, she decided to start her coaching business and founded Own Your Confidence. Consuela believes that everyone should be excited by the work they are doing and that celebrating and engaging your strengths is how you own your confidence. And she is here to help eliminate the distractions so you can do just that!! The conversation was full of fun and amazing take aways.
Quote/Piece of Advice:The more I focus, the more I impact, and I am meant to impact the world.
Connect: on LinkedIn, FB, and IG @ ConsuelaMunoz
Check out her free quiz: www.squirrelquiz.com or her website: www.ownyourconfidence.com
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jun 16, 2023
Jun 16, 2023
42 min
Meet my unique guest Tommy Scot!! Tommy is an IT guy by day and a radio host and podcaster by night!! He has learned how to marry his two loves as one!! He has been in the IT industry for 20+ years and has a passion for running a nonconforming radio station as well. He loves what he does in his day job but didn't want to give up his other passion so we chat about how he has made this work! You truly can do what you love in any way, shape, or form that fits the uniqueness of you! Listen to Tommy and see what I mean.
Quote/Piece of Advice: If you love your day job and have a passion…you can do both! Do what works for you.
Connect: www.STNRadio.com or FB @Signal to Noise Radio or IG @signaltonoise336
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jun 12, 2023
Jun 12, 2023
47 min
Meet my wonderful guest Wendy Cocke!! Wendy is the author of the best-selling book “Making Flex Work: Defining Success on Your Own Terms” and an engineer who spent over 20 years in Fortune 500 companies leading global teams. As a working mother, she began to define success on her own terms about 10 years into her career when Wendy pursued a flexible work arrangement and was told her career would stall, yet this would not be the case. Wendy now helps individuals and organizations think about work differently. The is a powerful conversation around organizing, optimizing, and simplifying your business and personal life, get ready!!
Quote/Piece of Advice: (from Einstein) The measure of intelligence is the measure of change.
Connect: on LinkedIn @Wendy.Anderson.Cocke or IG @WendyCocke
Check out her website and her book!! www.makingflexwork.com
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jun 9, 2023
Jun 9, 2023
49 min
Meet my fantastic guest and good friend Iris Goldfeder!!! Iris is a long time entrepreneur with more than 25yrs in the digital marketing field and so much more! She is the founder of GasStoveCreative and ICG Development & Consulting, LLC, plus she was the co-founder and managing director of Stradigi Virtual Marketing and when she is not in the marketing space she is focusing on her community. She and her friend co-founded a not-for-profit organization called Unmasking Lafayette where she focuses on social issues and giving back to her community! This episode is jam packed with stuff you are gonna want to take notes on!!
Quote/Piece of Advice: Do or do not, there is no try.
Connect: On FB or LinkedIn @IrisGoldfeder or www.gasstovecreative.com
Her Podcast: The Cookbook
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com

Jun 6, 2023
Jun 6, 2023
49 min
Meet my guest Susan Butler!! As a Certified Financial Planner™ with over 30 years of experience in various aspects of the financial industry, and as a Certified Life Mastery Consultant, she helps women entrepreneurs develop an empowering relationship with money and finance so they can realize more prosperity, clarity, confidence, success and financial freedom. Not only in her coaching but in our episode we chat about mindset, paradigms, vision, perspective and practical knowledge. Money doesn't have to be scary and we all should learn not only how to have it but how to properly use it, understand it, and how to see it as a tool to help us expand.
Quote/Piece of Advice: You can make change at any age, the possibilities are endless, they are limitless.
Connect: (Feminine Financial Formula Freebie) www.myfinancialharmony.com
To connect with your host Kat:
@KatPolsinelli or www.the-lotus-effect.com