The Virtual Campfire's Podcast

Before venturing into the world of coaching and entrepreneurship, Danielle Lindblom worked as a Continuous Improvement Analyst for multiple organizations, including Blue Cross Blue Shield and UTC Aerospace Systems. After experiencing debilitating anxiety in her corporate career, Danielle launched her coaching business, Danielle Lindblom Coaching - and has never looked back. Today, she helps women maintain balance and fulfillment in their careers, eliminate their limiting beliefs, and create positive change and transformation in all aspects of their lives. Danielle joins me today to share her journey from working in the corporate world to becoming an agent of change for female professionals. She discusses her battle with debilitating anxiety and the role that getting outdoors and changing careers has had on her life and career trajectory. She explains the importance of taking action, following your gut instincts and trying new things to create positive change and transformation. She also shares the impact of learning to ‘get out of her own head’ and ask for help and how it enabled her to move forward with intention and integrity in her life and career.   “If you’re not scared shitless, you’re not playing big enough.” - Danielle Lindblom   This week on The Virtual Campfire Podcast: Our Favorite Quotes: Resources Mentioned: Connect with Danielle Lindblom:   Sharing Inspiring Stories Around The Virtual Campfire Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of The Virtual Campfire with your host, Tony Martignetti - the Inspired Coach. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content, powerful stories, and helpful insight, be sure to visit our website.

Parissa Behnia is the founder of Sixense Strategy, a strategic coaching and consulting company designed to help business leaders and C-Suite executives discover their superpower and unleash their true potential. She is also a partner in 678 Partners, an advisory firm that offers services to Family Offices. Prior to forming her coaching business, Parissa served as the Vice President and Account Director at Wunderman DC. Recognized in the Chicago entrepreneurial community as a board member, advisor, and angel investor with a soft spot for female founders, Parissa regularly speaks and teaches seminars on topics related to strategy, leadership, and entrepreneurship. She holds an MBA from New York University’s School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University as well as multiple certifications, including iPEC’s Professional Coach certification. Parissa joins me today to share her story of working in the corporate world to starting her coaching business. She shares the pivotal moment that shifted her career journey and ignited her entrepreneurial spirit. She discusses the challenges she faced with impostor syndrome, self-doubt, and limiting beliefs and how she decided to stop trying to fit into other people’s definitions of ‘perfect.’ Parissa explains how she helps high-performance entrepreneurs to embrace their ‘perfect imperfections,’ discover their superpowers, and unleash their potential. She also explains the importance of asking questions and staying emotionally unattached when trying new ideas.   “Every outcome is perfect. Just lean into one thing that you’re curious about. Evaluate it. Don’t have an emotional attachment to an outcome.” - Parissa Behnia   This week on The Virtual Campfire Podcast:   Our Favorite Quotes:   Resources Mentioned:   Connect with Parissa Behnia:   Sharing Inspiring Stories Around The Virtual Campfire Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of The Virtual Campfire with your host, Tony Martignetti - the Inspired Coach. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content, powerful stories, and helpful insight, be sure to visit our website.

Brandon Bennett is a transformational leadership coach for purpose-driven, high-performing, heart-centered leaders. Prior to starting his coaching career, he worked as a high-level Sales Consultant for one of the leading global professional brands in the world, the Dallas Cowboys. After feeling burned out, highly stressed, and unfulfilled from his highly successful, 6-figure career, Brandon decided to venture into unchartered waters and launch his holistic leadership coaching practice. He holds a Bachelors’s degree in Exercise Sports Science & Sports Management from Texas Tech University and is a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner as well as a Registered Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher. Brandon joins me today to share his bouts of career burnout, depression, and anxiety and how it led to his decision to leave his successful career to being his journey into entrepreneurship. Brandon shares how meditation, mindfulness, and journaling helped him get clear on his mission and the path he truly wanted to take. He explains why it’s important to appreciate your past experiences and embrace your thoughts and emotions. He discusses the importance of focusing on what you love when seeking ways to make positive changes in your life. Brandon also shares his advice to others seeking to make a positive change to transform their lives.   “Embrace and love everything as it is.” - Brandon Bennett   This week on The Virtual Campfire Podcast:   Our Favorite Quotes:   Resources Mentioned:   Connect with Brandon Bennett: Sharing Inspiring Stories Around The Virtual Campfire Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of The Virtual Campfire with your host, Tony Martignetti - the Inspired Coach. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content, powerful stories, and helpful insight, be sure to visit our website.

Do you have self-doubt in your capabilities to make positive impacts and be a successful entrepreneur? You don’t need to worry because it’s normal to have that emotional roller coaster and the fear of failures as a leader. The important thing is to shift your mindset and experience successful results. Dolores believes that ideas can positively impact the world and are passionate about helping entrepreneurs increase their visibility and realize their exponential growth. Dolores Hirschmann is the founder of Masters In Clarity and an internationally recognized strategist, coach, TEDx organizer, and speaker. She is also the author of Stand out the TED Way: Be Seen & Grow Your Business. Dolores joins Tony Martignetti in this episode to share the defining, pivotal moments in her life and career that have helped her evolve into the best version of herself.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire

Former Special Forces Operative in the Israeli Army and former professional basketball player, Gilad Karni has led an interesting life. Today, he is a coach and advisor for high-level leaders, athletes, and entrepreneurs with powerful missions to change the world. Currently residing in Seattle, Washington, and working with clients worldwide, Gilad’s compassionate nature, quiet leadership tactics, and courage to say what others won’t enable him to help his clients and their teams step into their inner power, achieve the impossible and lead their organizations their way. Gilad joins me today to share the defining moments that empowered him to be true to himself, to challenge the status quo, and to lead his life his own way. He shares how the challenges he experienced throughout his childhood encouraged him to prove himself to the world. He explains why he transitioned his career from playing professional basketball to serving his country and how this decision impacted his feelings of self-value and self-belief. He shares his experiences of embracing the unknown and getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. He also explains why it’s important to observe and understand how and why we pursue the things we pursue and why he believes the way we deal with challenges and setbacks are part of our DNA.   “Going through challenges together - if you’re able to do that as a team, nothing can beat you.” - Gilad Karni   This week on The Virtual Campfire Podcast:   Our Favorite Quotes: Connect with Gilad Karni:   Sharing Inspiring Stories Around The Virtual Campfire Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of The Virtual Campfire with your host, Tony Martignetti - the Inspired Coach. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content, powerful stories, and helpful insight, be sure to visit our website.

Simone Azevedo is the Founder of US4RARE and the Senior Vice President of Community Affairs at Patient Discovery™, an organization on a mission to change the way patients dealing with complex conditions are understood, supported, and treated. Simone is responsible for developing and managing the relationships of stakeholders across a variety of rare disease communities by collaborating with patients, industry leaders, healthcare providers, and foundations to address their unmet needs. Simone has over two decades of experience working in the rare disease sector of healthcare as well as extensive global experience working as a senior entrepreneurial executive. She has worked with organizations such as Sanofi Genzyme, helping to champion rare disease initiatives.   Simone joins me today to share her journey from Brazil to building her life and career in the United States. She shares the flashpoint moment that transformed her career trajectory, the moment she felt connected to the American culture, and the mindset shifts she needed to make throughout her career. She explains how her willingness to learn and adapt to new challenges, experiences and environments impacted her ability to grow personally and professionally. She also shares what inspired her to pivot her career trajectory and take a leap of faith to start her entrepreneurial journey.   “The ability to adapt as you go is what helped me to grow in my career.” - Simone Azevedo   This week on The Virtual Campfire Podcast:   Our Favorite Quotes:   Resources Mentioned:   Connect with Simone Azevedo:   Sharing Inspiring Stories Around The Virtual Campfire Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of The Virtual Campfire with your host, Tony Martignetti - the Inspired Coach. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review.   Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content, powerful stories, and helpful insight, be sure to visit our website.

Anna Tsui is a life and business leadership coach specialized in helping business owners, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives access their intuition and emotions and forge deeper connections with their ideal audience. Through her work, she helps her clients develop stronger relationships achieve higher conversion rates, more intimate marketing messages, and dramatically increase the number of repeat customers and clients in their businesses or organizations. Anna is a serial international entrepreneur and speaker who has worked with brands and organizations such as the Montessori School, Credit Suisse, Maxwell Health, and Boston Business Women as well as colleges and universities, including Harvard and the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Additionally, Anna is the founder of The Intuitive Business School and the author of Shadow Magic: Turn Your Fear Into Fuel and Create a Prosperous Coaching Business. Anna joins me today to discuss the pivotal moments she has experienced throughout her life and career that have helped her discover the ‘magic’ she provides to the world. She explains how leaning into her strengths and the skills she’s learned throughout her life have helped her create a fulfilling career. She shares her experiences of caring for her ill grandparents and the lessons she has learned about herself and her desire to serve others. She discusses the importance of connecting with your positive energy and how it can help you discover the path of meaningful, authentic connections in your life, career, and relationships.  She also shares the importance of connecting with your ‘tribe,” embracing your fears, and the strategies she uses to expel the ‘spiritual weight’ of worry, guilt, fear, and anxiety. “Our shadows are exactly what people are feeling right now. Lean into that.” - Anna Tsui   This week on The Virtual Campfire Podcast:   Our Favorite Quotes:     Resources Mentioned:       Connect with Anna Tsui:           Sharing Inspiring Stories Around The Virtual Campfire   Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of The Virtual Campfire with your host, Tony Martignetti - the Inspired Coach. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review.   Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content, powerful stories, and helpful insight, be sure to visit our website.

Mike Harris is a personal advisor and coach for high-level executives, entrepreneurs, world-class athletes, and performing artists. He is an expert in high-level complex pattern recognition and finding the small nuances of people’s strengths, weaknesses, and confluences. Mike is passionate about bringing ultra-high performance into every area of his clients’ lives by supporting them in their journey toward excellence. With a diverse background in finance, poker, and billiards, Mike is driven to help others unleash their brilliance, move mountains, and embrace their inner greatness. Mike joins me today to discuss how he rediscovered his bliss by reopening himself to discovery, new possibilities, and new opportunities. He explains how connecting with Earth and nature enabled him to get reacquainted with himself and his personal and professional desires. He explains the importance of “diving in, head first” and taking action on the things you want to achieve and shares his thoughts and advice on navigating risk and uncertainty. He also shares the value of taking the leap to embrace new possibilities, explains his definition of resilience, and why he believes it’s critical to commit to the ‘no matter what’ when embracing new possibilities.   “Trust your resilience. Trust your ability to be resilient.” - Mike Harris   This week on The Virtual Campfire Podcast: Our Favorite Quotes:   Resources Mentioned: Connect with Mike Harris: Sharing Inspiring Stories Around The Virtual Campfire   Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of The Virtual Campfire with your host, Tony Martignetti - the Inspired Coach. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review.   Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and share your favorite episodes across social media. And for more great content, powerful stories, and helpful insight, be sure to visit our website.