In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab, Giovana sits down with Maria Ashby, founder of the 3% Club, to unpack one powerful truth: talent is a birthright, but opportunity is not. As a Black woman in STEM and a founder committed to democratizing tech education, Maria brings an unfiltered perspective on equity, leadership, and what real systemic change actually requires.
Together, they explore the difference between equality and equity, the invisible costs of being a minority in tech, and why “meritocracy” often masks deeply ingrained power structures. Maria shares why communication and critical thinking are some of the most undervalued leadership skills today, how starting small can be revolutionary, and why slowing down in a hyper-speed, AI-obsessed world is an act of integrity — not failure.
This conversation is a call-in (not a call-out) for founders who want to build profitable businesses without replicating the same exclusionary systems we claim to be disrupting.
If you care about ethical leadership, sustainable impact, and creating opportunities that actually last, this episode will stretch your thinking — in the best way.
01:51 Mission and Vision of the 3% Club
02:28 Challenges and Opportunities in Tech
04:41 Equity vs. Equality in Tech
08:24 Feminine Leadership and Community Building
10:22 Starting Small and Staying Consistent
15:28 The Importance of Communication and Critical Thinking
19:30 Reframing Privilege and Making Choices
33:14 Slowing Down in a Fast-Paced World
You can connect with Maria and support The 3% Club here https://3percentclub.org/
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What if your productivity plateau has nothing to do with discipline—and everything to do with your hormones?
This conversation is your permission slip to stop bypassing your body and start building wealth from regulation, nourishment, and hormonal harmony.
This episode is sharing personal views, this is not intent as medical advice. Always consult with a professional before starting any supplements or regimens.
In this conversation, Gigi welcomes hormone expert and founder of Healthy Hustle, Chelsea McLeod, whose mission began when her own corporate burnout spiraled into insomnia, bloating, weight fluctuations, and chronic fatigue — symptoms she had accepted as “normal,” until she discovered they were signs of hormonal imbalance.
Together, they explore:
✨ How hormone imbalance actually shows up
✨ Why traditional doctors miss hormone issues
✨ Cortisol, stress, and your ability to feel good
✨ The intimate relationship between health, wealth, and nervous system safety
✨ Gut health, nervous system regulation, and hormone repair
✨ The red flags in online “hormone hacks”
Timestamps
00:41 – Chelsea’s origin story: Corporate burnout to hormone practitioner
02:00 – How to know if your hormones are imbalanced
03:42 – Health, productivity, and the wealth–wellbeing connection
05:00 – What “hormone health” actually means
06:15 – Why traditional fitness/diet plans often fail women
07:20 – Factors that throw your hormones off
08:00 – Testing that works: Subclinical labs, cortisol curve, estrogen, progesterone
10:00 – Understanding cortisol + why timing matters
12:00 – Stress, nervous system regulation, and business performance
13:00 – The “all or nothing” myth in wellness
14:00 – The truth about supplements, fads, and marketing
17:00 – Why healing requires patience (not quick fixes)
19:00 – What to do when doctors say “nothing’s wrong”
21:00 – What’s in Chelsea’s pantry: the essentials
23:00 – Chelsea’s advice to her younger self
About Chelsea McLeod
Chelsea McLeod is a hormone practitioner and founder of Healthy Hustle, specializing in helping high-achieving women and men reverse burnout, balance their hormones, release stubborn weight, and feel alive again. After transforming her own health, she now guides clients through root-cause healing using personalized protocols, functional testing, and holistic support.
You can connect with her here:
CEO Takeaway
Your body is the first place your business shows its cracks.
Your hormones, your energy, your sleep, your digestion—these are not inconveniences; they are intel.
Success is built from regulation, not force.
When your system is balanced, you don’t just feel better — you lead better, create better, and prosper better.
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👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab®, Giovana sits down with business strategist Michelle DeNio for a grounded and deeply validating conversation about entrepreneurship through the lens of neurodivergence.
Michelle shares her personal story of transitioning from an unfulfilling corporate role to building a thriving consulting business designed around her unique needs and energy patterns. Together, they unpack what it really means to honor your brain chemistry in business—without guilt, shame, or comparison.
From managing focus and consistency to building self-awareness and leveraging your natural superpowers, Michelle breaks down practical strategies that help entrepreneurs create businesses that feel sustainable and authentic. You’ll also hear how to gamify mundane tasks, balance structure with freedom, and discern which strategies are actually yours—not just recycled advice from the online noise.
This episode is a refreshing reminder that success doesn’t require forcing yourself into neurotypical molds. It’s about crafting a business that fits your brain, your rhythm, and your nervous system.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn
Timestamps
01:11 Meet Michelle DeNio: Business Strategist for Neurodivergent Entrepreneurs
02:11 Michelle's Origin Story: From Employee to Entrepreneur
03:42 Understanding Neurodivergent Strategies
07:34 The Importance of Personalized Business Strategies
12:09 Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Superpowers
17:23 Creating Focus and Dopamine Hits
21:42 Outsourcing and Gamifying Mundane Tasks
CEO Takeaway
Your brain isn’t the problem—your business model might be. When you build in harmony with how your mind works, consistency becomes natural and success becomes sustainable.
Resources Mentioned
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab, Giovana sits down with Gabriela Enriquez — a global HR strategist, workplace culture architect, and daughter of two entrepreneurial immigrants who shaped her bold, empathetic leadership style from day one. With over two decades of experience across every corner of the HR universe, Gabby brings a rare blend of psychology, people strategy, and profitability intelligence.
From being “accidentally recruited” into HR as an executive assistant, to guiding multinational organizations through global expansion, to founding HRbp Inc., her story is the blueprint for founders who want to scale sustainably withoutblowing up their margins or their nervous system.
Together, they explore what most entrepreneurs overlook:
your people and your profit are deeply intertwined.
Your hiring decisions, your policies, your boundaries, and your culture all determine whether your business becomes a legacy — or a liability.
This episode is a wake-up call for founders who are ready to build teams, solidify their operations, and lead from confidence instead of chaos.
You’ll hear Gaby break down:
If you’ve been feeling the nudge to hire — but also the dread — this episode is your permission slip. Sustainable scaling requires strategy, structure, and yes… actual humans who know what they’re doing.
🕒 TIMESTAMPS
00:19 Meet Gabriela Enriquez: Global HR Powerhouse
02:44 How Gaby Was “Tricked” into HR (and why it was destiny)
06:06 The Impact of Immigrant Roots on Identity & Leadership
10:43 Confidence, Communication & Navigating Corporate Spaces
15:46 HR for Entrepreneurs: Where Founders Get It Wrong
21:42 Inside HRbp Inc.: Services, Support & Scalable Solutions
24:47 How to Nurture Employees for Long-Term Success
30:32 The True Cost of Employee Retention vs. Turnover
👤 Guest Bio: Gabriela “Gaby” Enriquez
Gabriela Enriquez is a Human Capital Senior Executive, Workplace Culture Strategist, and certified leadership, career, and women’s empowerment coach with over 20 years of global HR experience. She holds a bachelor’s in psychology and a master’s in industrial-organizational psychology, and has led HR operations across multiple industries and continents.
As the founder of HRbp Inc., she partners with small businesses and corporations to build equitable, profitable, and high-performing organizations. Her mission is simple:
empower people, elevate workplaces, and build legacies rooted in purpose and impact.
💎 CEO Takeaway
Your business can only grow as far as your leadership, your systems, and your people will allow. Profitability isn’t just about the numbers — it’s about the humans behind them. Hire intentionally, nurture wisely, and build your village before you scale your vision.
🔗 Resources & Connect with Gabby
LinkedIn: HRbp Inc.
Instagram: @hrbp.inc and @thegabriela.enrique
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Running a business isn’t just strategy—it’s a mirror for your nervous system.
In this deeply human conversation, host Giovana Bier sits down with Shulamit Ber Levtov, known as The Entrepreneur’s Therapist, to explore how mental health, trauma, and leadership intersect inside entrepreneurship.
A fractional Chief Mental Health Officer for founders, Shula brings over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience and 24 years as a trauma therapist to help business owners navigate the emotional toll of leadership. Together, they discuss how to move beyond “charge your worth” rhetoric and toward a more sustainable, nervous-system-safe definition of success.
Listeners will walk away understanding how to:
This episode is a gentle invitation to founders everywhere: your mental health is your business strategy.
Timestamps
00:00 – Introduction to The Wealthy CEO Lab
01:17 – Meet Shulamit Ber Levtov: The Entrepreneur’s Therapist
02:28 – The Emotional Impact of Entrepreneurship
05:03 – Rethinking “Charging Your Worth”
07:15 – Sustainability in Business and Pricing
13:17 – Mental Health as a Business Strategy
18:40 – Money Wounds and Trauma
27:49 – Navigating the Window of Resilience
37:31 – Final Reflections and Advice
About Shulamit Ber Levtov
Known as The Entrepreneur’s Therapist, Shulamit Ber Levtov is a fractional Chief Mental Health Officer for founders and a licensed trauma therapist, coach, and award-winning entrepreneur. With over three decades in businessand two decades in psychotherapy, Shula helps founders integrate emotional well-being into their business plans because running a company shouldn’t cost your sanity.
Learn more at theentrepreneurstherapist.com and connect with her on Instagram @entrepreneurstherapist
CEO Takeaway
Sustainability is the new success metric.
Your nervous system—not your strategy—is what determines how far and how peacefully you can scale.
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
What happens when a surgeon loses her license exam by one point… and gains an entire new purpose?
Dr. Noor’s story is a masterclass in alchemy — turning devastation into direction, and credentials into creativity. From Dr. Noor Healthcare Advisor to Think Like a Woman and Happy Panda, she shares how she rebuilt her identity from the ground up and learned to scale multiple businesses while raising two children and leading with feminine intentionality.
This conversation moves through the five Wealthy CEO Lab® pillars — identity, regulation, mindset, profit, and embodied leadership — in real time. Expect wisdom on integrating failure as feedback, choosing presence over performance, and building wealth that honors your nervous system and your values.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Timestamps
01:26 – Dr. Noor’s Journey to Entrepreneurship
02:17 – Founding Dr. Noor Healthcare Advisor
06:34 – Think Like a Woman: Empowering Female Founders
12:43 – Happy Panda: From Concept to Launch
19:39 – Balancing Motherhood and Entrepreneurship
30:49 – Productivity Tips for Working Moms
About Dr. Noor
Dr. Noor A. is a medical doctor, entrepreneur, and mother of two whose businesses span healthcare consulting, luxury women’s networking, and functional beverages. Her work centers on empowerment, connection, and reimagining success through service and science.
Follow her on Instagram → @thedrnoorcollective
for health-insurance clarity, upcoming Think Like a Woman events, and the launch of her nootropic beverage brand, Happy Panda — where science meets sustainable energy.
CEO Takeaway
True wealth begins when you stop borrowing everyone else’s timeline and claim your own.
Presence scales. Power expands through regulation.
Resources + Connect
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
Scaling with Soul: Leslee Deanes-Bryant on Intuition and Leadership
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab®, host Giovana Bier sits down with Leslee Deanes-Bryant, founder and CEO of Ultra Care Services, to explore how intuition, alignment, and unshakable faith can coexist with eight-figure success. Leslee’s company—now employing over 600 people—was born out of a deeply personal family crisis and grew into a nationally ranked home care agency that blends service, purpose, and leadership grounded in integrity.
Through candid stories of setbacks, divine timing, and self-trust, Leslee shares what it truly takes to scale with soul: saying no when the world demands yes, leading through discernment, and holding onto your humanity as your empire expands. This is a conversation about trusting your gut in a regulated, logic-driven industry and remembering that peace—not performance—is the ultimate profit strategy.
Listeners will learn:
Leslee’s story is a masterclass in intuitive leadership and regulated ambition—proof that purpose-led growth and profitability can coexist beautifully when you build from alignment.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to Leslee Deanes-Bryant and Ultra Care Services
01:12 The Origin Story of Ultra Care Services
03:01 Breaking Business Rules and Trusting Intuition
05:31 Balancing Passion and Patience in Business
06:42 The Importance of Energy and Discernment
10:47 Overcoming Challenges and Celebrating Success
12:52 Scaling Ultra Care Services and Future Plans
22:37 Daily Affirmations and Leadership Strategies
28:40 Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways
CEO Takeaway:
Trust your intuition like a business partner. Build systems that honor your energy, celebrate your wins, and never forget that sustainable wealth begins with inner peace.
Resources Mentioned
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab®, we explore what it truly means to reclaim your wellbeing as an entrepreneur and a leader.
Host Giovana Bier sits down with Denise Alba—Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, yoga educator, proud Latina entrepreneur, and founder of BRAVE Wellness Studio, San Diego’s first mental-health-centered wellness studio. Recognized by HipLatina as one of the “Top 9 Latinx Wellness Retreats,” BRAVE is a sanctuary where psychotherapy, yoga, and community come together to nurture healing.
Denise shares her personal story of transforming anxiety into alignment through talk therapy and movement, and how that journey inspired her to create a space for holistic healing. Together, Giovana and Denise unpack how stress and burnout manifest in the body, how attachment patterns influence our drive to overperform, and the importance of listening to your body before it forces you to stop.
This conversation invites you to slow down, build compassionate awareness, and set boundaries that honor both your ambition and your wellbeing. Because wealth isn’t built on adrenaline—it’s built on safety.
💎 Key Takeaways
🕰️ Timestamps
00:17 — Meet Denise Alba: Founder of BRAVE Wellness Studio
02:13 — Integrating yoga, therapy, and community into mental health
04:48 — Recognizing the hidden signs of burnout
08:05 — Boundaries, self-awareness, and nervous system cues
23:50 — Reparenting and breaking generational patterns
27:53 — Advice to younger entrepreneurs and closing reflections
29:39 — Actionable steps to reconnect with your body
🧠 CEO Takeaway
Your body is your business plan. Notice what it’s been trying to tell you—because the sooner you listen, the less it has to scream.
This week, choose one boundary to honor for seven days. Whether it’s closing your laptop at 5pm or taking a tech-free walk, let your nervous system know it can trust you to follow through.
🌿 Guest Bio
Denise Alba is the founder and CEO of BRAVE Wellness Studio—San Diego’s first wellness studio dedicated to mental health. As a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, yoga educator, and proud Latina entrepreneur, Denise bridges psychotherapy, movement, and community to create an environment where mind, body, and spirit can heal together.
Through BRAVE, Denise offers yoga, therapy, retreats, teacher trainings, community circles, and a mental health boutique—all designed to help people reclaim their mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.
Connect with Denise on Instagram @deniseaalba
or visit bravewellnessstudio.com
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What if healing your body could unlock the next level of your business?
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab®, host Giovana Bier sits down with Bridgitte Mallinson—functional medicine dietitian, business mentor, and founder of GutPersonal, a supplement company empowering women to heal their gut for good.
Bridget shares her journey from chronic illness and burnout to building not one, but two multi-seven-figure businesses within three years. Together, they explore the powerful connection between gut health and wealth, confidence and sales, and how staying curious—and regulated—fuels sustainable growth.
Expect deep, grounded conversation about:
🧭 Key Moments & Timestamps
01:11 — Journey into entrepreneurship
02:23 — Discovering functional medicine
04:02 — Launching during COVID
05:39 — Supplement standards & ethical sourcing
08:52 — Mindset shifts behind seven-figure growth
14:28 — The health-wealth connection
18:26 — Community, trust, and connection
21:09 — Building sustainable business foundations
🌿 Resources Mentioned
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
What if the most “magical creature” in venture isn’t a unicorn at all—but a stallion?
In this episode, Giovana Bier is joined by Laurel Mintz, Founder & General Partner at Fabric VC, to explore the intersection of profitability, diversity, and sustainable growth in modern entrepreneurship.
Laurel’s journey from corporate M&A attorney to running a marketing agency to launching her own venture fund is a masterclass in reinvention. Together, they unpack what makes a business truly scalable, the misconceptions around venture capital, and how women can start building wealth through investing—one educated decision at a time.
You’ll learn how to discern whether VC funding is right for your business, what metrics investors actually look for, and how to map your path to profitability and exit, even if you never plan to sell. Laurel also shares insights into the Great Wealth Transfer and how women can harness this moment to lead with power, ethics, and impact.
🔍 Inside This Episode
🕰️ Timestamps
00:23 Meet Laurel Mintz: From Attorney to Venture Capitalist
02:33 The Birth of Fabric VC
04:23 Understanding Venture Capital and Profitability
06:37 The Importance of Exit Plans and Scalability
12:06 Investing Basics for Women
20:07 The Great Wealth Transfer
👩💼 About Laurel Mintz
Laurel Mintz is the Founder & General Partner of Fabric VC, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm focused on investing in diverse founders and brands with scalable potential. With a background in law, business, and marketing, Laurel bridges the gap between creative innovation and investor confidence. She’s also the CEO of Elevate My Brand, an award-winning agency that’s launched household names like Squishmallows. Through Fabric VC, Laurel is rewriting what venture looks like—prioritizing diversity, profitability, and longevity over hype.
Learn more: fabricvc.com
💡 CEO Takeaway
Venture capital isn’t for every founder—and that’s a good thing. Whether or not you ever take investor funding, thinking like an investor helps you build a business that lasts.
Profitability is power. Safety is scalability. Longevity is the real flex.
Connect with Laurel
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab, host Giovana Bier sits down with Susan Taylor, CEO and co-founder of Generon International, a global leader in human-centric leadership development for over three decades.
Together, they explore how founders and CEOs can move beyond performative leadership and create cultures that feel safe, regenerative, and authentic. Susan shares how the inner path of leadership starts with presence, not perfection — and why trust, boundaries, and body awareness are the true foundations of sustainable success.
You’ll hear about:
This conversation is a gentle yet powerful invitation to redefine leadership through authenticity, emotional safety, and self-trust — the qualities that create true wealth, both human and financial.
Timestamps
01:04 – Foundations of Human-Centric Leadership
02:38 – Shifting from Performance to Presence
06:31 – Cultivating Diversity and Safety in Organizations
09:17 – The Role of the Nervous System in Leadership
12:07 – Building Sustainable Boundaries
16:02 – Susan’s Journey to Becoming a CEO
19:15 – Filtering Noise and Trusting Inner Wisdom
24:03 – Final Reflections: “Because I Trust Myself”
Resources Mentioned
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
What if you could scale to seven figures without sacrificing your health, joy, or freedom?
In this conversation, Giovana and Sailynn explore what it really takes to move from the exhausting grow phase into the sustainable scale phase.
Sailynn shares her journey from working 80-hour weeks running a senior home care franchise to creating a multi-million-dollar empire that allowed her to retire before 40. Through her signature Four-Pillar Framework — Structure, Systems, Support, and Streamlining — she teaches women how to build businesses rooted in efficiency, clarity, and purpose.
Together, they dive into:
This episode is an invitation to slow down long enough to build the foundation that will carry you forward — sustainably and strategically.
🕰️ Timestamps
00:00 — Welcome to The Wealthy CEO Lab
01:13 — Sailynn Doyle’s entrepreneurial journey
05:44 — From burnout to balance: the breaking point
12:40 — The importance of systems and hiring
25:10 — The four pillars of sustainable scaling
32:45 — Living a life with no regrets
35:17 — Final reflections
Connect with Sailynn:
▶️ YouTube
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
What if burning it all down was the most sacred act of alignment?
Wendy Paige Sterling shares how she turned heartbreak and loss into a multi-six-figure empire led by intuition, softness, and feminine frequency.
In this episode, Giovana is joined by Wendy Paige Sterling—a 7-figure intuitive business mentor, Reiki healer, and founder of The Sacred Feminine CEO™. Known as the Chief Embodiment Oracle, Wendy helps high-achieving women move from performance-based success to soulful, embodied leadership.
Together, they explore:
This conversation is a portal into what it truly means to lead from your feminine—balancing grounded structure with deep inner trust, and letting your business become a reflection of your most authentic self.
🕰 Timestamps:
00:00 — Introduction: The Sacred Feminine CEO
02:00 — Wendy’s journey from corporate to entrepreneurship
05:00 — The catalyst moments that forced radical reinvention
10:00 — Spiritual awakenings in Egypt and Maui: when the universe speaks through fire
17:00 — Reframing softness, emotion, and intuition as power
20:00 — Doing from being: how to shift from performance to presence
25:00 — The balance of healed masculine and feminine energy
27:00 — Final reflections and where to connect with Wendy
Guest Bio:
Wendy Paige Sterling is a 7-figure intuitive business mentor, certified life coach, Reiki and Theta Healer, and the founder of The Sacred Feminine CEO™. Known as the Chief Embodiment Oracle, Wendy helps high-achieving women shed performance-based success metrics and lead from deep self-trust, feminine frequency, and energetic alignment. A former corporate executive turned spiritual disruptor, her work empowers women to scale with desire—not burnout—and create wealth that feels like truth. Her signature offers include The Unapologetic Woman Mastermind and Private Mentorship for the Uninhibited Woman.
Connect with Wendy:
📱 Instagram: @wendypaigesterling
Book Mentioned:
On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
Feeling stuck in the endless cycle of “shoulds”? This episode is your permission slip to stop performing and start trusting yourself.
In this conversation, host Giovana Bier and guest Dr. Meg Trucano—former federal researcher and psychologist turned coach for high-achieving women—dismantle the burnout patterns hiding in your business. Together, they explore how self-trust, nervous-system safety, and micro-acts of rebellion can help you create profit that feels peaceful, not pressured.
You’ll Learn:
Timestamps:
01:36 – Meg’s journey: from federal researcher to coach
04:21 – Therapy vs Coaching: the key distinctions
12:13 – The insidious “shoulds” behind burnout
16:55 – Rebuilding self-trust through small daily rebellions
21:25 – Intuition vs Fear: feeling your yes
CEO Takeaway
Start small. Choose one act of rebellion today—say no to a “should,” or yes to what feels truly aligned.
Every micro-act of self-trust becomes a nervous-system cue: it’s safe to lead differently.
Guest Bio
Dr. Meg Trucano is a psychologist and certified coach for ambitious women navigating burnout, self-doubt, and people-pleasing. After a career as a federal researcher, she now helps high-achievers redefine success through self-trust and nervous-system alignment. She’s the host of the Change Ology podcast and shares practical psychological insights at megtrucano.com and on LinkedIn (@meg_trucano).
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
What if motherhood didn’t require you to sacrifice your ambition—or yourself? In this powerful conversation, former Army Captain turned perinatal therapist Priya Rednam-Waldo reveals how to honor your drive and your nervous system as you evolve into motherhood and beyond.
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab, host Giovana Bier sits down with Priya Rednam-Waldo, a licensed perinatal therapist, coach, and keynote speaker with credentials from Johns Hopkins University. From leading soldiers to leading mothers, Priya’s story is one of profound transformation and purpose.
Together, they explore how high-achieving women can navigate the seismic identity shifts of motherhood without self-abandonment. Through lived experience and clinical wisdom, Priya breaks down the myth of “doing it all,” shares how to build a CEO-level village of support, and reframes asking for help as a strategic leadership skill.
This episode will expand your understanding of wealth, wellness, and womanhood—reminding you that regulation, alignment, and self-trust are the true cornerstones of success.
What You’ll Learn
🕰️ Key Timestamps
00:22 Meet Priya Rednam Waldo: From Army Captain to Perinatal Therapist
01:55 Navigating Motherhood: Personal and Professional Insights
04:24 The Unexpected Challenges of Motherhood
05:45 Healing and Entrepreneurship: Building a Sanctuary for High Achievers
08:42 Balancing Motherhood and Ambition
10:19 Redefining Motherhood: Identity and Values
14:07 Creating a Supportive Village
30:52 Effective Communication with Partners
Guest Bio
Priya Rednam-Waldo is a licensed perinatal therapist and keynote speaker who serves high-achieving, career-driven women navigating motherhood from pregnancy through postpartum. A graduate of West Point and Johns Hopkins University, she blends leadership, mental-health expertise, and deep empathy to guide women through one of life’s most transformative seasons. As the founder of Healing Home Counseling Group—a seven-figure practice in Detroit—Priya supports women in redefining motherhood through nervous-system regulation, identity integration, and values-driven leadership.
CEO Takeaway
You don’t have to choose between ambition and attachment.
Motherhood can expand you—it doesn’t have to erase you.
Your next evolution as a woman, leader, and CEO begins with nervous-system safety, values clarity, and the courage to ask for support.
Connect with Priya:
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
What if scaling your business wasn’t about doing more — but about doing one thing exceptionally well?
In this episode, we explore how signature offers transform overwhelm into focus and chaos into consistency.
In this thought-provoking conversation, Giovana Bier sits down with Shannon Matson, founder and CEO of The Social Bungalow, to explore how the online business landscape has evolved — and why 2025 demands depth, simplicity, and refined positioning.
Together, they unpack what it really means to build a signature offer that becomes the cornerstone of your business growth. Shannon shares how she evolved from a marketing educator to a business architect, helping entrepreneurs streamline their offers, refine their messaging, and scale without burnout.
You’ll learn:
This episode is a masterclass in strategic focus — a reminder that your signature offer is more than a product; it’s the energetic anchor of your entire brand.
Timestamp
00:49 Transition from Corporate to Personal Branding
02:09 Evolution of Online Business Post-COVID
03:11 Consumer Sophistication and Marketing Strategies
06:06 The Role of AI in Business
08:03 Signature Offers and Business Architecture
10:29 Navigating Market Changes and Business Evolution
17:08 The Importance of Messaging and Marketing
28:44 Building a Physical Business: The Bungalow Cafe
Your Takeaway:
Simplify to scale. A signature offer isn’t just a container — it’s your compass. The more you refine your focus, the easier it becomes for your audience to find, trust, and buy from you.
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What if your bookkeeping could become the most supportive tool in your business—one that nourishes your nervous system, drives profit, and helps you lead with clarity?
Bookkeeping isn’t just data entry—it’s the heartbeat of your business ecosystem. In this episode, Giovana Bier and Morgaine Trine, founder of Honestly Bookkeeping, unravel how your books mirror your mindset, operations, and nervous system capacity.
Morgaine shares her personal journey from ancient Mediterranean history to modern financial stewardship and reveals how reimagining bookkeeping as a living, breathing system creates the clarity and calm every CEO craves.
Together, they discuss:
✨ The difference between compliance and management-level bookkeeping
✨ How your financial systems reflect your leadership and mindset
✨ Why bookkeeping is the “canary in the coal mine” for your nervous system and operations
✨ How to design money rituals that feel grounding, not overwhelming
✨ Practical steps to bring more ease, insight, and embodiment into your numbers
This conversation is both practical and poetic—a masterclass in transforming your relationship with money through awareness, intention, and integrity.
Timestamps:
01:29 – Meet Morgaine Trine: The origin of Honestly Bookkeeping
06:15 – Why bookkeeping is not just data entry
11:58 – Compliance vs. management-level bookkeeping
16:03 – How bookkeeping mirrors mindset and operations
19:01 – Nervous system patterns that impact money flow
24:22 – The ecosystem approach to sustainable financial management
Resources mentioned:
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab, host Giovana Bier sits down with Stephanie Thoma, founder of Connect With Confidence and author of Confident Introvert, to unpack the myth that extroverts have a monopoly on confidence.
Stephanie reveals practical tools for introverts to navigate visibility, build genuine connections, and regulate their nervous systems while leading with grace. From her signature Solitude Sandwich technique to the Connect With Confidence Pyramid, she teaches how calm energy—not constant output—creates lasting impact.
You’ll learn:
Whether you’re building your business, hosting events, or stepping onto bigger stages, this episode is a reminder that visibility can feel peaceful—and profitable.
⏰ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Welcome to The Wealthy CEO Lab
00:31 – Meet Stephanie Thoma: The Confident Introvert
02:11 – Redefining what confidence means for introverts
05:21 – Balancing social interaction and solitude
07:00 – The Solitude Sandwich explained
10:44 – The Connect With Confidence framework
13:37 – Setting and communicating boundaries
17:51 – Building your elevator pitch with ease
21:38 – Body-language shifts for confident presence
23:25 – Mindset pivots for public speaking
Connect with Stephanie
→ Subscribe to her newsletter and free resources: stephaniethoma.com/newsletter
🧠 CEO TAKEAWAY
Confidence isn’t volume—it’s regulation.
When you lead from a calm nervous system, you don’t need to be the loudest in the room to be the most magnetic.
RESOURCES & MENTIONS
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
When confidence starts with the right gear. Founder Deborah North of Yes Athletics joins Giovana Bier to share how creating sportswear for girls in non-traditional sports became a movement for safety, identity, and self-belief. From building period-protected singlets to navigating cash flow and resilience, this episode is a masterclass in leading with purpose, community, and profit.
Key Takeaways
00:00 Introduction to the Wealthy CEO Lab
00:12 Meet Deborah North: Founder of YES! Athletics
01:13 The Importance of Gear in Non-Traditional Sports
03:26 Challenges and Solutions for Female Athletes
06:51 Lessons Learned as a Founder
14:52 Navigating Entrepreneurship and Motherhood
23:01 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Explore gear designed for girls in non-traditional sports: yesathleticsusa.com
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.
What does it look like to rebuild your life and business from the inside out?
In this episode of The Wealthy CEO Lab, I sit down with Lynn Power — former Global Ad Agency CEO turned founder of MASAMI, a Japanese ocean-botanical haircare brand — to talk about what it truly means to pivot with purpose.
After three decades leading creative giants, Lynn walked away from the corporate world to create something cleaner, calmer, and more connected. She shares how launching just before COVID taught her the art of the pivot, how collaboration became her growth superpower through Power Beauty Collab, and why redefining success means designing a business that fits your life, not the other way around.
Together, we explore:
This episode is a masterclass in resilience, integrity, and re-imagining what wealth feels like — inside and out.
Timestamps
00:02:09 – Lynn’s shift from CEO to beauty founder and her motivation to start Masami
00:05:01 – Launching pre-COVID, the power of DTC and brand partnerships
00:10:14 – Clean beauty myths, EU standards, and ingredients to avoid
00:17:39 – Designing a business to fit your lifestyle—even through personal health crises
00:26:50 – Structure, intentionality, and the value of scheduling “white space” for better business health
Put yourself on your calendar. The same way you schedule launches, clients, or strategy sessions, block daily time for your body, breath, and being. Spaciousness is the strategy.
👉 Take the Nervous System Mood Ring Quiz: discover your current regulation state and get personalized tools to make smarter money decisions.
👉Join The Wealth Frequencies Program: a 10-week experience blending breathwork, nervous system regulation, and wealth embodiment.
👉 Work with Giovana: for hands-on support to scale your business with calm clarity and profit rooted in peace.