Baring It All

“When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not join their chaos.” L.R Knost.

I’m eager to share this episode as it is all about perspective, choices and how to dive into opportunities under challenging circumstances. Our conversation about taking control over your attitude and your actions will remind us all that we are in the drivers seat our own destiny.

Today on Baring it All, I'm talking to Erica Ligenza Gwynn, founder of the hit lifestyle blog, Coming Up Roses and host of the Thrive Podcast. Erica gives her listeners tactical tips to not just survive but thrive and this is premier brain food that we all need right now! This Philadelphia- based business owner, mom, and wife encourages women to own their true worth, take action, and pursue their purpose.

This motivational episode dives into the combination of entrepreneurship, relationships, and motherhood. Erica started her blog, Coming up Roses, as a creative outlet while attending college at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. After finding success in managing her blog, Erica created BossPitch, an online course that guides aspiring bloggers and social media influencers through finding and maintaining the right brand partnerships. As a business owner and mother, Erica brings up the realities of being a mother while trying to work full time. Although grateful to work from home while taking on household and parenting responsibilities, many mothers need to ask for help, yet feel guilty doing so. At the end of the day, we're all human. We need to recharge, and need to give ourselves fuel because we all deserve to thrive.

Show Notes: www.barbaramajeski.com/podcast/erica-ligenza-gwynn

In honor of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, I'm sharing my cancer journey to remind everyone to put your health first. Bringing awareness to colon cancer is of the utmost importance to me. As some of you may already know, I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer in 2015.

In this episode, I give you the backstory and context as to why I let my symptoms go for so long, why I was misdiagnosed, and how I ultimately was presented with the diagnosis. As a busy mom, I was very quick to self-diagnose things as my health started to deteriorate. Even though I was tired all the time and had brain fog, I figured it was just the rigors of being a mom and balancing three kids. In 2009, my stomach pains had gotten intolerable to the point I passed out in front of my children. One of the most important things I have learned through my cancer journey is, putting yourself last is not putting anybody first. Please take care of your health, schedule that doctor visit, and if you have a history of colon cancer in your family like I do, get your screening sooner. We don't come out of a battle the same person as we went in, but I'm a much better person for it, and I'm grateful.

Show Notes

What does sales have to do with dating? This week Barbara sits down with Jess McCann, relationship coach and author of the top-rated dating guide, "You Lost Him at Hello." Whether you're single or taken, you will love all of the dating and relationship advice that Jess has to offer!

Jess resides in the Washington D.C. area with her husband and two children, while coaching men and women on how to end their sabotaging habits and create healthy, happy relationships. Through coaching, she discovered that many of her clients had the same issue; they felt like they had a curse. A curse where they run into the same repetitive dating problems over and over again. What would create specific patterns in people that keeps them from genuinely finding love and keeping love? The ego. Jess's 3rd book, "Cursed? Why You Still Don't Have the Relationship You Want and the Five Cures that Can Transform Your Love Life," explains the 5 different ways that the ego manifests in people and how to eliminate the curse on your own.

In This Episode, you will hear:

• Both Jess and Barbara worked in sales while in their 20's, gaining a valuable set of skills in future job positions and in life.
• Jess always had this idea in the back of her head to write a book drawing parallels between relationships and sales.
• She connected with Good Morning America in 2008 by befriending the gatekeeper who answers the phone. She asked the woman who answers the phone if she was in a relationship.
• Her first book gives people a strategy of how not to get rejected. So many people had trouble just being listened to or outright rejected.
• Jess uncovers the curse that her clients kept talking about and how to advise them through it

Show Notes

You recognize him from Scandal, Friends, Family Ties, and of course as Bryan MacKenzie from the iconic, Father of the Bride movies. He is constantly doing countless other shows and movies! Find out how this guy went from from Little Rock, Arkansas to the big screen as well as his brushes with Back to the Future and Brad Pitt! This week, George Newbern shares how he successfully navigates the show business industry. He began participating in children's theater when he was about 11 years old in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. While attending Northwestern University, he had the opportunity to audition for the movie, Back To The Future. Although he didn’t get the role of Mary McFly, this motivated him to move to Los Angeles to find out what else he could audition for. Today, he has a versatile career in film and television that has spanned over several decades, currently playing Charlie on Scandal. https://www.barbaramajeski.com/

This week, Amy Rosenblum joins us to share how her broadcast career began, how she overcame the setbacks, and any valuable advice she learned along the way. Amy Rosenblum is an Emmy Award-winning TV Producer and media coach who has been in the broadcast business for over thirty years. She has worked with people such as Joan Rivers, Pat Collins, and Maury, to name a few.

Amy takes us back to the beginning of her broadcast and media days, her college internship at Multimedia Channel 5. It was this internship that confirmed her love for TV.