Frequency Music for Healing: Marcie Dean on Grief, Nervous System Reset & Channeling Her Late Partner | Ep 61

Working Mothers in STEM: Why The System Was Never Built for Us — Cassie Leonard | Ep 63

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464997/fan_mail/new] You're not behind. You're not doing it wrong. You're operating inside a system that was never designed for you. In this episode, Aimee Rickabus sits down with Cassie Leonard — engineer, two-time bestselling author, executive coach, and founder of ELMM Coaching — for an unflinching conversation about why the modern workplace still fails working mothers in STEM. After 16 years climbing the corporate ladder in aerospace engineering, Cassie walked away from the corporate world to help other working parents redesign careers that actually work for real life. Cassie shares: - Why the 9-to-5 was built for a 1920s family, not modern working moms - The invisible labor she actively refused to do in corporate - Why "equality" and "equal" are not the same thing - What matrescence is — and why every mother deserves to know - How to engineer your community when the modern world stripped your tribe away - The lie of "lean in" and why hustle culture is past its expiration date - How motherhood is the most undervalued leadership training in corporate America Whether you're working in STEM, leading a team, raising kids, building a business, or all of the above, this conversation will give you the language for what you've been carrying — and a path forward. 🔗 CONNECT WITH CASSIE LEONARD: Instagram: @cassie_redefining_it_all Website: https://www.elmmcoaching.com LinkedIn: Cassie Leonard YouTube: @ELMMcoaching 🔗 CONNECT WITH THE MANAGE HER®: Website: https://www.themanageher.com Instagram: @themanageher

How Women Bounce Back from Failure: Deborah Grayson Riegel | Ep 62

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464997/fan_mail/new] Why do high-achieving women shatter when men bounce? After 21 years of coaching across genders and a study of 1,100 women across 60 countries, Deborah Grayson Riegel has the answer — and it's not what you've been told. In this episode, Aimee Rickabus talks with Deborah Grayson Riegel — Wharton School instructor, Harvard Business Review columnist, and author of Aim High and Bounce Back — about the real reason women fear failure and how to interrupt the loop. Deborah shares: - The 5 kinds of failure every woman needs to recognize - Why the "confidence gap" is actually a consequence gap (and worse for women of color) - The 3 components of catastrophic thinking — and how to dismantle each one - How "name it to tame it" pulls you out of the rumination spiral in 30 seconds - The 3 mindset shifts: verdict to information, crisis to calibration, shame to strategy - The one sentence every woman should remember in the middle of a setback Whether you're leading a team, building a business, raising a daughter, or replaying last Tuesday's mistake at 2 a.m., this conversation gives you the language and tools to stop personalizing failure — and start using it as data. 🔗 CONNECT WITH DEBORAH: Instagram: @debgriegel Website: https://deborahgraysonriegel.com Book: Aim High and Bounce Back — https://deborahgraysonriegel.com/books/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH THE MANAGE HER®: Website: https://www.themanageher.com Instagram: @themanageher

Frequency Music for Healing: Marcie Dean on Grief, Nervous System Reset & Channeling Her Late Partner | Ep 61

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464997/fan_mail/new] Marcie Dean lost her partner, her brother, and her corporate career in less than 6 months. Then she opened GarageBand and started channeling frequency music she had no training to create. In this episode, Aimee Rickabus talks with Marcie Dean — former IBM and AWS Creative Director, founder of LovEvolve Music, and CEO of Electric Blue Communications — about grief, reinvention, and the proprietary frequency-based audio system she's pioneering for nervous system regulation. Marcie shares: - The Father's Day weekend her partner Jon drowned saving his son — and the promise he made about music before he passed - How she went from zero music experience to 400+ tracks in two years - Why the digital world cuts us off from the healing frequencies our bodies actually need - The "frequency signature" theory and why custom tracks meet your nervous system exactly where it is - Working with neurodivergent kids — including the autistic teen whose first articulated words came on her track - Why mindset work alone can't fix a chronically dysregulated nervous system - The hardest part of leaving corporate (it's not what most people think) - AI tools every woman entrepreneur should be using right now Whether you're navigating grief, burnout, a corporate-to-creative pivot, or you're being called into something you can't yet explain, this conversation will leave you thinking differently about what healing actually looks like. 🔗 CONNECT WITH MARCIE DEAN: Instagram: @lovevolvemusic Website: https://www.lovevolvemusic.com/ LinkedIn: Electric Blue Communications LLC YouTube: @LovEvolveMusic 🔗 CONNECT WITH THE MANAGE HER: Website: https://www.themanageher.com Instagram: @themanageher Full show notes: https://www.themanageher.com

By 2045, Sperm Counts Could Hit Zero: Vida Delrahim on Trimester Zero & The Male Fertility Crisis | Ep 60

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464997/fan_mail/new] Vida Delrahim was 14 weeks pregnant when her OBGYN went silent and said the words she'll never forget: "I'm so sorry. There's no heartbeat." A year later, after a second miscarriage with no medical explanation, she got a phone call from her best friend Ronit — who had lost her pregnancy the same week. WeNatal was born from that call. In this episode, Vida sits down with Aimee to talk about the fertility conversation no one is having: that men are 50% of the equation, that sperm counts have dropped 50% in two generations, and that Dr. Shanna Swan's research projects we could effectively reach zero sperm by 2045. She unpacks "trimester zero" — the 90 days before conception that may matter more than anything else — and why the term geriatric pregnancy is one of the most damaging labels in modern medicine. If you've ever been told you're "too old," that your labs are "normal," or that fertility is "a women's issue" — this conversation will change how you think about your body, your partner, and the future of reproductive health. Head over to wenatal.com/THEMANAGEHER [http://wenatal.com/THEMANAGEHER] to start your WeNatal routine today, and receive a free magnesium supplement ($30 value) with your first prenatal subscription. Connect with Vida & WeNatal: Website: https://wenatal.com [https://wenatal.com] Instagram: @vidadelrahim · @we_natal TikTok: @wenatal Connect with The Manage Her: Web: https://www.themanageher.com [https://www.themanageher.com] IG / TikTok / YouTube / LinkedIn: @themanageher

Work-Life Balance for Ambitious Women: Cherylanne Skolnicki on Burnout, Perfectionism & AI | Ep 59

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2464997/fan_mail/new] Work-life balance for ambitious women isn't about perfection — it's about core strength. So says Cherylanne Skolnicki, founder of Brilliant Balance, who has spent years helping high-achieving women answer one question: how do you build a big life without burning yourself out in the process? In this episode, Aimee Rickabus talks with Cherylanne — former 15-year Procter & Gamble executive, leadership coach, and host of the Brilliant Balance Podcast — about what real balance looks like for women in their peak years. Cherylanne shares: - Why balance is core strength, not equal sides of a scale - The "complexity curve" and why your peak years feel impossible - Why perfectionism gets you to the top — and stops working there - High care + low trust = an inability to delegate - Why women cannot afford to sit out the AI revolution - How podcasting became the "free front door" of her coaching business - What she'd do differently if she were starting today Whether you're a working mom in survival mode, a woman entrepreneur learning to delegate, or a high achiever recovering from perfectionism, this conversation will give you a smarter, more compassionate framework for designing the life you actually want. 🔗 CONNECT WITH CHERYLANNE SKOLNICKI: Instagram: @cskolnicki / @brilliant_balance Website: https://brilliant-balance.com LinkedIn: The Brilliant Balance Company 🔗 CONNECT WITH THE MANAGE HER: Website: https://www.themanageher.com Instagram: @themanageher YouTube: @themanageher TikTok: @themanageher LinkedIn: @themanageher