Pretty Powerful Podcast with Angela Gennari

Episode 16: Anne Watson

Business Strategist and Coach, Anne Watson, helps female creative online entrepreneurs think like a business so they can inspire like a boss. This includes helping all your ideas take shape and turning them into a profitable signature offer, complete with a strategic roadmap to achieving your goals. In this episode, Anne and Angela dive into how to build confidence, strategies for creating a personal brand and steps to getting your business idea off the ground. #startupideas #businesscoach #femaleempowerment

Episode 15: Allie McAllister

Known as "The Atlanta Injector", Allie McAllister has been relentlessly pursuing her vision in aesthetics, and bringing women to the forefront of the industry through empowerment and education. Join us as Allie McAllister describes her entrepreneurial journey. In this episode we discuss getting out of our own way and the value of tenacity, as well as her motivation for launching the Cult Conference.

Episode 14: Debbie Garner

Debbie Garner was a GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) Agent for 30 years and has witnessed first hand some of the worst of our society, yet still believes people are mostly good. Join us for a fascinating conversation about how to keep our children safe, mental wellness in the law enforcement community, and the important role that female officers serve. You do not want to miss her incredible insight and advice. Having spent her entire career protecting our society with tenacity and grace, she has even chosen to do so after retirement while transitioning into the private sector. We absolutely need more women like Debbie Garner in our society. #lawenforcement #womeninprotection #mamabear #gbi

Episode 13: Chi Chi Okezie

As an ambitious and dynamic child of Nigerian immigrants, Chi Chi Okezie has been creating opportunities for herself throughout her entire life. It is human nature to want to connect with others, but when you add value to those connections through mentorship and relationship building, it creates a foundation for growth. Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker and Trilingual Cultural Expert, Chi Chi Okezie, teaches our audience how to leverage the power of networking to grow our business, brand ourselves and advocate for things we are passionate about.

Episode 12: Katherine Mason

How do you define success? For Katherine Mason, founder and CEO of SculptHouse, success is defined by the incredible obstacles she has had to overcome in launching and growing her business. SculptHouse brings an award-winning, unique concept to the South in blending fashion and fitness, something Katherine discovered during her time in NYC as a Wilhelmina Fitness Model and Master Trainer. Kathrine's passion for fitness began at an early age as an athlete and she has transformed that passion into a successful and thriving business.

Episode 11: Tammy Green

What would happen if you decided to embrace vulnerability instead of fearing it? You might find that it is a superpower that allows you to break free from the shame and guilt that holds us back from being our authentic self. Tammy Green, Author of Living Without Skin, tells us her story of breaking free from the fear of being vulnerable, while having the courage to live authentically. 

Episode 10: Allison Bittel

Allison Bittel has been a trailblazer her entire career. From choosing to pursue a career in the male-dominated commercial real estate industry to launching The Women's Collective, she has been a powerful voice for diversity and inclusion in the work place. Angela asks Allison about her journey in real estate, tips for negotiation and why mentorship is so important.

Episode 9: Jesslyn Rollins

Imagine being a recent college graduate starting out in your career, when your father tells you about this great product he invented, and asks for your help in building a company around it. BIOLYTE was invented by Jesslyn's father as an "IV in a bottle" to provide much needed rehydration for her mother who was battling breast cancer at the time. With no business background, not only did Jesslyn step in to help bring the product to the public, she has been able to build a multi-million brand with a solid company structure. 
Jesslyn tells us about her grassroots effort going directly to sports teams to get feedback on the product, experience working with a distributor, a costly mistake she made in promoting her brand online, and how her background in theater helps her to crush it on sales calls! Jesslyn's charismatic personality and engaging story telling made this one of my most favorite interviews so far... listen to see why :-)

Episode 8: Monica McCoy

Award winning motivational speaker, author, global diversity expert and business strategist, Monica McCoy, talks to Angela Gennari about building your personal brand and establishing your value to an organization. Join us as you learn about her incredible career pivots from medicine, to psychology and then to corporate America, before launching her own company... and using all of those important lessons to improve the lives and businesses of underserved communities. 

Episode 7: Stephanie Stuckey

Stephanie Stuckey is the road trippin', pecan lovin', branding genius CEO of Stuckey's, a company founded by her grandfather in 1937 with $35 and a borrowed truck. Listen to this fascinating story about how Stuckey's was sold to a large corporation, almost shuttered completely due to neglect of the brand, resurrected by Billy Stuckey and then bought by Stephanie in a last ditch attempt to keep the company in the family. Stephanie had to walk away from her successful law and political career to pursue a new role as a CEO.... and this would be her biggest trial yet!