Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host,‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader–something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. Robert Rivard served as editor of the San Antonio Express-News 1997-2011. He’s worked asa reporter and editor at four other Texas newspapers and for Newsweek magazine, first as a foreign correspondent covering civil wars in Central America in the 1980s and then as the magazine's chief of correspondents until 1989 when he returned to Texas. Rivard is the recipient of journalism's oldest prize; Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Distinguished Journalistic Service, was named 'Editor of the Year' by Editor and Publisher magazine, and was a winner of the 1982 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondents for his writings from El Salvador during that country's long civil war. Listen in to learn from his decades-long experience as a journalist, and his reflections on the current state of political affairs-and the world.

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Meet Bob Rivard - long time journalist, author and founder of the non-profit media site The Rivard Report

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Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader–something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy.   My guest today,Marie Crabb, came from humble roots. You could say she’s achieved the American Dream through her hard work and determination. She was first in her family to both graduate from college, earn a Master’s Degree and to purchase her own home.   After working for the United States State Department in Washington DC,Marie returned to San Antonio where she’s spent the past decade building a real estate business from scratch and has become one of the top producing real estate agents in the City. Now she wants to use her experience and success to give back to the residents ofDistrict 5in San Antonio by running for City Council for her district.Listen to, and be inspired by, this self-made leader.

First in Family to Graduate from College, this American Indian Woman is now Running for City Council

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders andc hange makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader–something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. My guest today is Tevis Trower, head of Balance Integration Corporation, bringing transformational practices into corporations. She left corporate America to help the high performers she observed compensating for ̈imposter syndrome ̈. She’s just coming out with her new book, "Game Changers Guide Radical Success". As a subscriber of the BossLady Speaks podcast, you can win a copy of this book that is hot off the press. Simply send an email to info@thebossladyspeaks.com, describing what in Tevis’ message spoke to you the most–et voila-you’ve entered the raffle!

Fortune 500 Advisor on the Failure of "Work/Life Balance"

My guest today for this episode is Tara Kousha. She’s a first generation Iranian-American. At her day job at Google her focus is Computer Science learning in universities. On the side (as if she doesn’t have enough on her plate!), she runs BUILD Your Voice, the largest non-profit effort to provide coaching and training to communities in need. They offer trainings, powered by the research 200+ professions have gifted the foundation... these trainings are offered to communities who wouldn't otherwise have access to high level training. The foundation helps ~75k humans each year. As one listens to Tara’s values-based work and life, one has to ask oneself, isn’t this the future we all want to see?The life we want our children to lead?

At 30 Years Old She Brought in 250 Million Dollars to her Foundation Last Year. On the Side. But How ...?!

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, Johanna Sawalha, a.k.a. ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader– something that may help you to develop your own voice ,your own leadership and legacy... My guest today, Katharine Earnhardt, is a female entrepreneur in Manhattan, who’s taken the leap that many solopreneurs and mom-preneurs wish to take. She’s gone from interest to create an ever-expanding art advisory business with employees. In this episode, you’ll hear her journey, her challenges and her do’s and don’ts for the budding entrepreneur. Recently featured in ArtStar’s blog and its Tastemaker Spotlight, she’s called ‘a must-know player in the art world’.

She’s Been Called a 'Must-Know Player in the Art World’– Meet Katharine Earnhardt

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with me your host, Johanna Sawalha, a.k.a. ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader–something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership and legacy. My guests today are Jenny Carnes, Senior Vice President/ Chief Operating Officer at San Antonio Sports, a working mom of 2 girls, a sports junkie, proud San Antonian and heading the Alpha Warrior Fiesta FitnessChallenge April 24-25th. Lara Fischer, Fiesta Fit Queen for the Alpha Warrior Fiesta Fitness Challenge, an equal sports lover.As Fiesta Fit Queen, she’s raising money for San Antonio Sports, as they expand their official Fiesta event-The Alpha Warrior Team Tough Challenge-to the public for the first time. This year, they’ll also host the Fiesta's Fittest Competition that has three different divisions: high school teams, an open team division and an individual opportunity to run the course for time. They have adopted the fundraising theme of Fiesta and thus, Lara will serve as their inaugural Fiesta FitQueen, alongside their Fiesta Fit King. These two are providing real leadership in taking fitness to a whole new level in their community and you’ll hear them speak about how their passion drives them forward. The BossLady Speaks subscribers will also get first dibs at the limited edition of their custom-made Fiesta medal with a donation of $50.00 and using the code: TheBossLady Speaks. This is a great way to show your support but also-these medals are in high demand, so get yours-and be proud of how you can be apart of this great challenge from wherever you are. The donation URL will be available shortly.

On The Alpha Warrior Fiesta Fitness Challenge (and How they Manage Going Big!)

Welcome to The BossLady Speaks, with your host, Johanna Sawalha, AKA ‘Coach Jo’. This podcast lets you hear from thought leaders and change makers all across the world. Join me for each episode to discover what makes a true leader– something that may help you to develop your own voice, your own leadership, and your own legacy... My guest today, Ron Nirenberg, is the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas (https://www.sanantonio.gov/mayor). San Antonio just polled as the 6th largest city in the United States, on its way to #5. This makes Mayor Ron a major player in the world-someone who want to listen to, as his leadership reverberates through a constituency of many millions. Hear Ron talk about what he’s doing in his city about the wealth gap, poverty, housing and the climate change initiatives he’s running.

The Wealth Gap, Poverty , Housing and the Climate with Mayor Ron Nirenberg

My guest today on The BossLady Speaks is Kevin Kviblad, CEO of Urb-It. Kevin’s out to disrupt the transportation industry-and more specifically what he calls̈thelast mile deliveries ̈.According to Kevin, they’re the ones delivered within your city, often by vans,causing unnecessary congestion and pollution. Kevin wants to offer̈ thesustainablesolution̈ to same-day deliveries in busy cities.Here’s how this company works: 1.An instant or scheduled delivery is requested. 2.Their ̈Urber ̈ community gets notified(this works much like Uber, or AirBnB, where regular citizens like yourself can sign up to provide the service only taxis, hotels and delivery companies have been offering to date.) 3.Thë Urber̈ picks-up a customerorder in-store (perhaps thë Urber̈had an errand to run tothat store anyway...?) 4.Thë Urber̈ delivers the products, anywhere, anytime at a time convenient to the customer(instead of you being asked to stay home between 9 AM–5 PM on a workday for a delivery.) 5.The customer provides feedback on ̈their ̈̈Urber̈ and the overall customer experience. Listen to Kevin himself on how he’s planning to do this industry disruption!

Kevin Kviblad CEO of Urb-it

In today’s episode of The BossLady Speaks, your host Johanna Sawalha shares with you a lecture on stress management that she held at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm – KTH. KTH is the equivalent of MIT in the U.S. This episode is called ̈The Squeeze ̈. You may be experiencing it yourself right now. It addresses the mad dash of deadlines and deliverables that ends when the holiday season begins. Listen to this episode and hear the advice ̈Coach Jo ̈gives the 140 KTH students that attended her lecture, who themselves are in the hardest part of their semester.

The Squeeze

Elisabet Wollsén got her psychologist degree from Stockholm University, and has also been a board member of the National Board on Health and Welfare, and is also a member of AGPA - which makes her certified as to give education points for other psychotherapists studying for their license. She’s the author of several dissertations and other writings on communication – about the importance of the language we use in our interactions. She calls her method Life Staging, and the central idea of Elisabet’s work is this - and she opens every talk or workshop with this question: ‘What are we here to do?’ or the better translation in her native language Swedish, would be: ‘What business do we have being here?’¨

The Vagus Nerve, The Normative Power and ‘What Business Do We Have Being Here? with Elisabet Wollsén

On this week's episode, Coach Jo shares her conversation with Swedish music star Merit Bergman as she talks about the work, struggles, sacrifices and achievements in her career as a performer and public figure.

Relentless Pursuit of Your Dreams with Marit Bergman

In today’s interview, she’s talking to Dr. Bill Dorfman who’s created one of the most prestigious cosmetic dental practices in the world. Not only famous as a dentist, he’s also known to millions as a New York Times Best-Selling author! He’s been featured on TV shows like ABC's Extreme Makeover, CBS's The Doctors, Larry King Live, Steve Harvey, and Oprah. Dr. Bill is the recipient of 16 lifetime achievement awards, father of 3 daughters, a humanitarian and philanthropist.

Learning What You Need to Learn So You Can Give It All Away with Dr. Bill Dorfman

This is the BossLady Speaks with Johanna Sawalha. Learn more about Coach Jo and her inspiration behind the BossLady Speaks podcast.

Introducing Johanna Sawalha and The BossLady Speaks Podcast

International business coach Johanna Sawalha engages in meaningful conversation with thought leaders, business executives, entrepreneurs and public figures from around the globe.

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