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Keynote Speaker and author Rashmi Airan talks with Michi Lantz about why smart people make bad decisions, how pressure distorts judgment, and what it takes to rebuild with clarity, resilience, and purpose. During the housing boom, she made a decision that, at the time, seemed small but had devastating consequences

Guest Bio:

Rashmi Airan is a force of nature. A keynote speaker, consultant, and unapologetic truth-teller, she shakes up rooms with her raw, riveting story—one that challenges everything you think you know about leadership, ethics, and the hidden traps of ambition. She doesn’t just speak about resilience; she lives it, proving that even the most crushing failures can be transformed into a catalyst for growth, authenticity, and unshakable courage.

As a first-generation Indian American, Rashmi was raised to chase excellence. She did just that—graduating with honors from Columbia Law School, thriving in corporate America, and building her own law practice. But success has a dark side. During the housing boom, she made a decision that, at the time, seemed small—but had devastating consequences. A single ethical blind spot, fueled by the pressure to provide for her children, led to a federal prison sentence for bank fraud.

Prison shattered everything she thought she knew about herself. And then? She rebuilt—stronger, bolder, and more awake than ever. Through six months behind bars, Rashmi stripped away the layers of ego, guilt, and fear that had defined her. She emerged with a powerful message: our worst mistakes don’t define us—our response to them does.

Now a “recovering government, corporate, and real estate lawyer,” Rashmi is a globally recognized speaker who fearlessly tackles the complexities of human behavior, decision-making, and ethical leadership. With 30+ years in business, law, and finance, she has a front-row seat to the pressures that push good people into bad decisions—and she’s on a mission to wake up individuals and organizations before they fall into the same traps.

Her insights are backed by cutting-edge research in behavioral psychology, ethics, and leadership, and she’s partnered with global powerhouses like Coca-Cola, Cardinal Health, Merck, Comcast, Sotheby’s, and Hershey’s. Deloitte has recognized her transformational impact, and her story has been featured on ABC, PBS, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

Rashmi doesn’t do surface-level inspiration—she sparks deep, uncomfortable, necessary conversations. She challenges Fortune 100 leaders, financial firms, legal teams, and women’s groups to confront their blind spots, own their decisions, and rise through their struggles with integrity and courage.

Beyond the stage, she’s an avid hiker, globe-trotter, and proud mother of two. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Overtown Youth Center/Alonzo Mourning Foundation and is an Ambassador for The Key Clubhouse. Her message is simple but urgent: Life will break you. Your choices will define you. And no matter how hard you fall—you can RISE.

Connect with Rashmi Airan

Website: https://rashmiairan.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashmiairan

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Credits:

Host & Producer: Michi Lantz
Editor: Michi Lantz
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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Business coach Caroline Leon, founder of Root and Rise, talks with Michi Lantz about ethical marketing, trust-based sales, and the challenge of changing a business model that already works. A grounded conversation on scaling without pressure or losing your values.

Guest Bio:

Caroline Leon is a business coach who specializes in supporting service-based, online business owners - such as coaches, healers and teachers - to build and grow sustainable businesses using strategies that are rooted in integrity. It’s her firm belief that when we change the way we do business, we change the world and it’s her mission to support conscious business owners to do just that, in order that we might create a world where business can be a force for good rather than greed.

Caroline’s vision is a world where the primary concern of business is the betterment of humanity and the furtherment of equality, health and wellness of all peoples. A world where business owners genuinely care for their clients and customers and have their absolute best interests at heart. A world where the business owners who operate with the highest levels of integrity, are the most prosperous and where meaningful business takes priority over the meaningless.

She supports business owners to do away with the gross and manipulative tactics so prevalent these days online and instead adopt ethical growth strategies that put people before profits.

Connect with Caroline Leon

Website: https://www.carolineleon.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soulfulstrategist/

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
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Credits:

Host & Producer: Michi Lantz
Editor: Michi Lantz
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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Coach Chéri Allen, CEO of @CHOICE Coaching and Consulting and founder of the DIVA Breakthrough Experience, talks with Michi Lantz about burnout, breadwinning women, and the hidden cost of always being the strong one. A grounded conversation about support, self-betrayal, and building success that feels better.

Guest Bio:

Chéri S. Allen, MCC, is a distinguished Master Certified Coach, author, and keynote speaker known for her pioneering leadership in the coaching profession. CEO of @CHOICE Coaching & Consulting LLC and founder of the DIVA Breakthrough Experience, Chéri-widely known as The DIVA Whisperer-brings 35 years of coaching entrepreneurs, senior leaders, and C-Suite executives. She serves as adjunct faculty in Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching Program and served on the Institute for Transformational Leadership Network Board.

As the first African-American Master Coach in the U.S. Federal Government, she co-founded the government's first ICF-accredited coach training program. Her book, Ditch the Cape: From Superwoman to Sovereign Woman, empowers powerhouse, wealth-creating superwomen to reclaim their essence and well-being so their success feels as good as it looks. She also contributed to the book Coaching in Government, and leveraged her expertise as a Content Peer Reviewer for the International Coaching Federation's official ICF COACHBOCK. As a thought leader and writer, she authored the guest column, "The DIVA Dilemma: Reclaiming Power from Superwoman Syndrome," published in Savvy CEO, A Founders Journal, where she addresses critical issues in women's leadership and well-being.

Through her coaching, Chéri champions powerhouse DIVAs-high-achieving, wealth-creating, primary-earning women-to heal from and ultimately eradicate Superwoman Syndrome in their lives, leadership, businesses, and relationships.

Connect with Chéri S. Allen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ch%C3%A9ri-s-allen-mcc-9a54ab82/
Website: https://thechoicecoach.net/ OR https://thedivawhisperer.com/

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
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Credits:

Host & Producer: Michi Lantz
Editor: Michi Lantz
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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