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The Beauty of Integrity: How Giella Poblocki Built a Transparent Brand in an Opaque Industry

When you think “beauty industry,” you probably don’t think authenticity.You think of photo filters, marketing hype, and ingredients you can’t pronounce. But my conversation with Giella Poblocki, founder and CEO of GIELLA Custom Blend Cosmetics, completely flipped that script. Here’s a woman who has spent more than 20 years quietly building a beauty business based […]

3 Myths Holding Women Back (and What We Should Talk About Instead)

Let’s get real. There are conversations that women have quietly (behind closed doors, with girlfriends, or maybe not at all) because somewhere along the way, we were taught they were too personal, too uncomfortable, or too much. In my conversation with Kristen Fairback, Executive Vice President at SHE Media, we decided to talk about all […]

Why Self-Knowledge and Trust Are the Real Growth Strategies

Let’s cut the crap. You don’t need another strategy, hack, or shiny software tool to scale your business. What you do need is to actually know yourself, like yourself, and trust yourself enough to stop trying to do it all alone. That’s the conversation I had with Tonya Gossage, Business Growth Strategist and Founder of […]

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