My friends, this week I am wrapping up season 5 of the Girls 4 Greatness podcast, as well as sharing where my intuition has been leading me to go with the podcast moving forward.

I invite you all to listen in as I discuss what I have been learning about myself over these last few months. I also talk about the power and need for pause in my own life and how I intend to create pause in the up and coming months.

Know that you can always find and connect with me by dropping me a line on Facebook Messenger or on Instagram both of which are under @Girls4Greatness. You can also send me an email at girls4greatness@gmail.com.

I could not be more excited to be bringing you a conversation I had with not only an extraordinary human being but also a dear friend. This week on the Girls 4 Greatness podcast I am sitting down to chat with Rebecca Chopp, Ph.D.

Rebecca is a widely published author, editor, and academic in the fields of education, philosophy, religion and feminism. Rebecca served as the 18th, and first female Chancellor of the University of Denver. She was additionally the President of Swarthmore College and Colgate University, and she served as Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at Emory university and as Dean at Yale University. Rebecca has served on the Governing Board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Olin University, and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and on the American Council on Education as well.

Rebecca also happens to be an ordained minister, but she is currently passionate about being an Alzheimer's advocate. Rebecca co-founded the Voices of Alzheimer's, and she serves on the Board of the Colorado Alzheimer's Association. In addition, Rebecca is currently working on a book entitled, Not Your Grandmother's Alzheimer's: Refusing to Surrender by Living Well.

My friends, Rebecca is someone I greatly admire for many reasons but one of the greatest is her ability to find joy in some of the most difficult of circumstances. I invite you all to listen in as she shares how and why she has decided to live with joy. I have no doubt that Rebecca's beautiful wisdom and huge heart will inspire you to do the same.

You can head to the following websites to learn more about how you can support and empower those with Alzheimer's and other cognitive illnesses: https://www.voicesofad.com and https://we.alz.org.

I am thrilled to be sitting down to chat with another beautiful human being this week who is truly about empowering women to live their best life. This week I am talking with Kamini Wood, the creator of AuthenticMe and the CEO of Live Joy Your Way. Kamini's coaching company helps teens and high achieving, ambitious individuals shake free of their fears, unhelpful mindsets, and behaviors in order to have healthy relationships and move forward on the professional path they choose.

Kamini and I discuss how she went from a people pleasing perfectionist holding herself back by playing small into someone who recognizes her worth and sees that by embracing it she can create room for others to do the same.

Kamini is also a mom of 5, one who is a professional ballerina and another who is a division 1 athlete. We discuss how her role as a mother was a real catalyst in her career change and how she has used her knowledge as a coach to also empower her own children.

This episode is filled with wisdom and takeaways centered on how we can all become more self-aware in order to get back to the heart of who we really and truly are.

Please be sure to find and follow Kamini on Instagram under @itsauthenticme and on Facebook under @kaminiwoodcertifiedlifecoach. You can also find Kamini on Pinterest at, https://pin.it/4CN5d5g. Please be sure to head to Kamini's website for all the details on her coaching and programs as well by heading to https://www.kaminiwood.com/.