Multipassionate and Done Apologizing for It: Lizbeth Marquez on Following Every Aha

Multipassionate and Done Apologizing for It: Lizbeth Marquez on Following Every Aha

What if the path that looks like you can’t make up your mind is actually the most honest thing about you? Lizbeth Marquez has started more things than most people try in a lifetime: a hair care line born in an oncology ward, an events business, a brand strategy practice, a high-ticket sales career, and now a podcast she co-hosts with her best friend. For years she carried all of it like a flaw. She figured she was scattered, maybe had ADHD, couldn’t settle on the one thing she was supposed to pick. This conversation is about the moment that story flipped. Victoria and Lizbeth, two podcast hosts who each spent two decades in one world before following a feeling into another, get into what it actually takes to trust the next aha: how Lizbeth knew when to move, why she never leapt without building a bridge first, and a hard-won lesson about choosing a business partner that cost her more than money. CHAPTERS 00:00 Meet Lizbeth Marquez: Podcast Host, Brand Strategist, Former Medical Professional 02:38 Falling Into Medicine at 15 and the Creative Dreams She Set Aside 04:37 Pregnant at 18 and Choosing the Safe Path 05:33 The PA School Dream and Three Rounds of Rejection 09:18 From Oncology to Entrepreneurship: The Patient Who Sparked a Hair Care Business 12:52 Starting an Events Business With a Partner 15:16 What Multipassionate Really Means and Why It Is a Strength 16:13 How She Knows When It Is Time to Pivot: Following the Aha 22:33 Why She Did Not Quit Her Job to Chase the Business 23:44 Using High-Ticket Remote Sales as a Bridge Out of Medicine 27:53 Why She Started the Work Drama Podcast 34:09 How Free Headshots Led Her to a Podcast Studio 37:05 Do Your Due Diligence Before Taking on a Business Partner 42:53 Trusting Herself Again and Starting Over at 39 LEARN MORE FROM LIZBETH Website [https://thebrandformula.com] FOLLOW On Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/lizbeth_mxrqz/] Work Drama Podcast On TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/discover/work-drama] Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/work-drama/id1892047889]/Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/0aQi0SaIod3yyTChncfTdM?si=ba94aa34d83e4887] ABOUT VICTORIA Victoria Steward is a Corporate Exit and Financial Empowerment Coach and Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach, helping senior corporate women stuck in the "one-more-year" loop, build the self-trust and financial clarity to leave corporate on their own terms, their own timing, their own scenic route. Curious? Book a Pivot Clarity Call [https://victoria-steward.com/pivotclarity] FOLLOW [https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-steward-coaching/] On LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-steward-coaching/] On Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/victoria.steward.coach/] RESOURCES The Engineer’s Exit Decision Toolkit [https://toolkit.victoria-steward.com] The Can I Pivot Yet? Exit Roadmap [https://roadmap.victoria-steward.com] The 5-Minute Grounding Reset [https://reset.victoria-steward.com] Website [https://victoria-steward.com]

Maren Londahl-Smidt on Money, ADHD, and Designing a Business Around Your Capacity

Maren Londahl-Smidt did the in-between. She built her private practice while she was still working her hospital job. First clients on two evenings, then a third day, then a fourth, waiting until she knew her practice could provide the revenue she needed before she let go of anything. She did not leave until the runway had cured. When people ask her when the right time was, she says there is never a perfect time and you will always be scared, but there is a better time, and there is a better way. Maren is a therapist, a cash flow strategist, a fellow Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach, and she was my very first PFK® practice client. She has ADHD, and instead of fighting it, she built a whole coaching business around it. Her guiding question is not how much can I push myself to do. It is what is my actual capacity, and how do I design the money and the work around that. In this conversation we get into the money anxiety that hit the moment she went full-time on her own, why she fired a nine-hundred-dollar-a-month accountant who would not even tell her what to set aside for taxes, how Profit for Keeps® finally connected her personal and business finances, and why designing around your real capacity is not lowering the bar. It is how you keep showing up for the people you serve. CHAPTERS 00:00 Meet Maren Londahl-Smidt, Therapist and Money Coach 02:15 From Horse Shows to a Grad School She Found Online 03:43 The ER, the Burnout, and the Income That Never Added Up 05:20 Why Private Practice, and the Insurance Trap She Left Behind 10:39 The Strategic, Staged Exit: No Weekends and No Leap 12:45 Never a Perfect Time, but a Better Time and a Better Way 13:52 The Money Anxiety That Hit the Moment She Went Solo 14:48 Firing the Expensive Accountant and Finding Profit for Keeps® 17:49 How a Coaching Business Was Born From an Offhand Question 23:50 Niches, Profit for Joy®, and Learning Her Real Capacity 28:12 Finding Her People: Therapists With ADHD 33:27 What's Coming Up LEARN MORE FROM MAREN Join the Predictable Pay Challenge [https://go.balanceandbeyondcoaching.com/ppc-registration]: 5 days, July 27-31, 12pm EDT, for therapists with ADHD or ADHD tendencies. Learn more about the ADHD Practice and Profit Cohort with Amber Dugger [https://profitforkeeps.com/therapists]: 6 months with built-in rest weeks, limited to 24 people, kicks off August 10. Follow Maren for More On Instagram [https://instagram.com/MoneyCoachMaren] Join her Facebook Group: Profit for Keeps for Therapists [https://www.facebook.com/groups/pfkprofitableclinician] ABOUT VICTORIA Victoria Steward is a Corporate Exit & Financial Empowerment Coach and Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach, helping senior corporate women stuck in the "one-more-year" loop, build the self-trust and financial clarity to leave corporate on their own terms, and their own timing. Curious? Book a Pivot Clarity Call. [https://victoria-steward.com/pivotclarity] FOLLOW On LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-steward-coaching/] On Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/victoria.steward.coach/] RESOURCES The Can I Pivot Yet? Exit Roadmap [https://roadmap.victoria-steward.com] The 5-Minute Grounding Reset [https://reset.victoria-steward.com]

Why More Money Won't Fix It: Jessica Kleine on Mindset, Money, and Magic

What if the thing standing between you and the life you actually want was never the number in your bank account? Jessica Kleine is a money coach for women, and she will be the first to tell you that the numbers have almost nothing to do with it. She has watched clients double their income and walk straight into problems twice the size. Six and a half years in, she is clear that the math was always the easy part... and that the real work lives underneath it. Her path here was anything but a straight line. She was the straight-A kid headed for law school, right up until the afternoon she reached for the LSAT sign-up sheet and heard a small voice ask, “What if I hate it?” That one question set the tone for everything after: paralegal, then stay-at-home mom for what was supposed to be six months and turned into twenty years, then direct sales, then homeschooling, then a money coaching practice that found her by accident. Her family motto, “we'll figure it out,” turns out to be a whole philosophy. We get into why more money doesn't fix the feeling, what your spending is actually trying to tell you, and why Jessica is convinced that most of the rules we follow were simply made up, which means we get to make our own. We talk about building a business on your own terms, choosing time freedom over chasing a million-dollar version of success, and the relief that arrives when you realize curiosity, not crisis, has been steering all along. Jessica is living proof that none of it was a wrong turn. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome to The Scenic Route 01:01 Meet Jessica Kleine: A Money Coach for Women 01:48 The LSAT Moment That Started It All: “What If I Hate It?” 03:03 From Paralegal to Stay-at-Home Mom: When the Plan Changed 04:00 How Money Coaching Found Her by Accident 07:52 Why More Money Won't Fix the Problem 09:36 The Logical Brain Meets the Magic of Money Mindset 18:27 The Hermit Who Built an Archery Community 21:27 Slow and Steady: A Business on Her Own Terms 22:46 Redefining Success: Time Freedom Over a Million Dollars 28:39 “Rules Are Made Up”: Why You Can Write Your Own 34:57 The 8 Money Archetypes: What Your Spending Is Telling You LEARN MORE FROM JESSICA Join Jessica for her July Workshop: “What Your Money Habits Are Trying to Tell You” Register Here [https://bit.ly/2026julyworkshop]. Website [https://www.jessicakleine.com] On LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicakleine02/] On YouTube [https://youtube.com/@jessicakleine02] On Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/jessicakleine02] ABOUT VICTORIA Victoria Steward is a Corporate Exit and Financial Empowerment Coach and Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach, helping senior corporate women stuck in the "one-more-year" loop. Curious? Book a Pivot Clarity Call [https://victoria-steward.com/pivotclarity] FOLLOW On LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-steward-coaching/] On Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/victoria.steward.coach/] RESOURCES The Can I Pivot Yet? Exit Roadmap [https://roadmap.victoria-steward.com] The 5-Minute Grounding Reset [https://reset.victoria-steward.com]

Air Force to FBI to a Dating Podcast: John Petrozelli on Prepping Before You Leap

John Petrozelli has built his whole life around one rule: before you make a big move, prep the ground, study the risks, then leap. He learned it as an Air Force intelligence officer, sharpened it across seventeen years and five different roles in the FBI, and carried it into a career in cybersecurity. So what happens when a man who plans everything tells you about the one time he leapt without a plan? That is the heart of this conversation. John walked away from the military fast, on anger and instinct, and spent the next year and a half treading water before he found his footing again. If you have ever wondered what it actually costs to jump before you are ready, his answer is worth sitting with. But this is not a heavy episode. It is also the story of how John got curious instead of bitter: how he used those same intelligence skills to rebuild his life after divorce, why he finally stopped forcing the search and met the right person when he was not looking, and how all of it turned into Done With Dating, his free, podcast-driven dating platform where listeners can actually apply to date the guests. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome to The Scenic Route 01:28 Dreaming of Becoming an Air Force Pilot 02:31 Switching From Engineering to Intelligence Work 04:27 What “Intelligence Preparation of the Battle Space” Means 07:08 Becoming an Air Force Intelligence Officer in 1998 08:07 What South Korea Taught Him About the Gray Area of Life 09:06 Combat Mission Planning for Special Operations 10:59 From the FBI to Director of Cybersecurity: Five Career Pivots 13:08 How Cyber Warfare Actually Works Today 17:25 Rebuilding His Dating Life After Divorce, and Hitting Burnout 21:23 Meeting the Right Person by Not Looking for Her 23:24 Building the Done With Dating Podcast: Three Pillars 26:50 How the Matchmaking Episodes Work 40:31 The One Time He Didn't Prep the Battle Space: Leaving the Military 44:11 From the Marathon Bombing Manhunt to a Desk Job Overnight   CONNECT WITH JOHN Website [https://www.donewithdating.co] Done with Dating Podcast: YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@DoneWithDating]/Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/done-with-dating/id1888353863]/Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/2AmpKxCWkc2RISsAdY4NYq] ABOUT VICTORIA Victoria Steward is a Corporate Exit and Financial Empowerment Coach and Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach, helping senior corporate women stuck in the "one-more-year" loop, build the self-trust and financial clarity to leave corporate on their own terms, their own timing, their own scenic route. Curious? Book a Pivot Clarity Call. [https://victoria-steward.com/pivotclarity] FOLLOW On LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-steward-coaching/] On Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/victoria.steward.coach/] RESOURCES The Can I Pivot Yet? Exit Roadmap [https://roadmap.victoria-steward.com] The 5-Minute Grounding Reset [https://reset.victoria-steward.com] Website [https://victoria-steward.com]

There’s No Magic Bullet: Rachel Smith on What Women Over 40 Actually Need to Thrive

It’s 2am. You’re three videos deep into someone promising the one protocol, the one supplement, the one secret that big pharma has supposedly been keeping from you. And here’s the part that stings: at 2pm you run a team, read the data, command the room. So why does the magic-bullet pitch land so hard at midnight? That question sits at the heart of this conversation with Rachel Smith, DNP, FNP-C, CNM, NBC-HWC, a nurse practitioner, former certified nurse midwife, and founder of Aspect Wellness, whose own path to longevity medicine took the scenic route. Rachel grew up swearing she would never work in healthcare; she wanted to write the great American novel. Then a chance meeting in a tornado shelter introduced her to nurse midwifery, she went back to school at 33 (“how bad can nursing school be?”), delivered over a thousand babies, and let her own perimenopause push her toward the work she does now: helping women build the strength and capacity to actually live the decades ahead. You’ll hear why she believes muscle is the single most important health lever for women over 40, why the number on the scale was never the real question, and why, after twenty years and a wall of letters after her name, her answer to “what’s the secret?” is the most unglamorous list imaginable: eat real food, lift heavy things, sleep, get sunshine, build relationships you trust. There is no magic plant growing in the Amazon. There never was. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome and What Longevity Medicine for Women Really Means 02:51 Why Your Health Is the Launching Pad for Everything Else 03:43 From Aspiring Novelist to Nursing: An Unexpected Start 06:06 The Tornado Shelter Meeting That Changed Everything 07:38 “How Bad Can Nursing School Be?” Going Back at 33 10:31 Delivering 1,000 Babies and the Burnout That Followed 13:03 When Perimenopause Surprised a Women’s Health Expert 15:23 The First Pivot: Building a Medical Weight Loss Program 19:40 Moving to Florida and Going Deeper Into Coaching 22:46 Why Weight Loss Alone Was the Wrong Focus 26:28 Longevity Medicine: How Long Do You Want to Live? 31:22 The Two Levers That Matter Most: Muscle and Stress 36:30 The Protein Myth and the 2am Magic Bullet Trap 44:47 Rachel’s Book and Where to Find Her FIND OUT HOW TO WORK WITH RACHEL Aspect Wellness [https://www.aspect-wellness.com] On Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/aspectwellness/] On LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-smith-dnp/] About Victoria Victoria Steward is a Financial Empowerment Coach and Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach helping senior women in corporate build the clarity and confidence to leave on their own terms. Curious? Book a Pivot Clarity Call [https://victoria-steward.com/pivotclarity]. FOLLOW On LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-steward-coaching/] On Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/victoria.steward.coach/] RESOURCES The 5-Minute Grounding Reset [https://reset.victoria-steward.com] The Can I Pivot Yet? Calculator [https://calculator.victoria-steward.com] Website [https://victoria-steward.com]