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In the 10 years since Thando Dlomo graduated from the very FIRST graduating class of Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy For Girls in South Africa, she’s become an accomplished speaker, journalist for Entertainment Tonight, and actress. She shares her JOY, HOPE, and SPARK with us today! She shares: The extreme poverty she experienced growing up in South Africa. How she was selected to be in the very first class at Oprah’s Leadership Academy. How being a part of Oprah’s school changed the trajectory of her life. How she’s been able to remain full of joy and hope despite the tragedies and loss she’s experienced  The best advice she’s ever gotten from Oprah. What she says the world will never truly know about Oprah. Why education ranks above all else in her eyes.  What it’s been like to see her dreams manifest.

Founder and CEO of The Mayfair Group, Sam Abrahart is opening up about personal + professional life lessons that helped transform her life. How it took a severe depression in 2016 for her to ultimately launch her own business. How The Mayfair group completely flip-flopped during the 2020 pandemic Why the biggest and most uncertain risks paid off. The story behind creating the multi million dollar fashion company + the empathy sweatshirt you see so many celebrities wearing. Why she thinks she was able to grow her company's Instagram from 8,000 to 300,000 in a year.  The importance of listening to your community above all else in business. Why pain is so transformative (and how it changed her) The early days of the Mayfair Group and how the initial failures shaped her and the business. Why you should never be defined by limiting beliefs and the power of dreaming big with your colleagues. Why you must believe in yourself before you can believe in what the universe has in store for you.

Brooker Glazer is a Los Angeles based registered dietitian nutritionist. She practices intuitive eating and helps her clients find freedom with food. She’s also one of Danielle’s oldest + best friends. She has heartfelt wisdom and the best sense of humor. Today Brooke shares: How healing her own eating disorder led her to intuitive eating Why diets do NOT work + how to unsubscribe from diet culture How to take the morality out of food (and why doing that will change your life) Why it’s important to eat foods your body craves How to shut down toxic dieting conversations when you’re out with your friends. How our relationship with food mirrors our relationship with everything else in our lives Why diets fail YOU versus you failing at your diet.  Three pragmatic changes you can make today to start on the path towards intuitive eating.

Blair Imani is the LA Times Bestselling author of Read This to Get Smarter. She is an award-winning educator, historian, influencer and creator of the social media series Smarter in 60 Seconds. Today she’s shares: How she learned to get help from Elmo to deal with social media haters How Anglea Davis convinced her to drop out of law school.  Her experience at the intersectionality of identifying as Black, Queer & Muslim. Why she hopes her Instagram and Smarter in 60 Seconds Series help us all learn to ask more questions. The problems she sees with capitalism. What period of history we should all spend time learning about. What it was like to accidentally come out Live on Tucker Carlson  Why she believes we will all change somebody’s life even if we aren’t changing legislation.

Carissa Schumacher is a renowned psychic medium, a full-body channel for Yeshua of Nazareth, empathic intuitive and sacred ceremony facilitator. Today she shares: How she discovered her intuitive gifts and why it took her a while to embrace it. How each of us can strengthen our own intuition and find our purpose. How she became a channel for Yeshua (Jesus) and what she’s learned from him.  The differences between manifestations and revelations and why we should focus more on the latter. Why we’ve become a more ego focused society and ways we can all work to become less ego-centric Why forgiveness and empathy are important but why we must become more merciful and compassionate to see changes in the world

Fashion designer, influencer, podcaster and star of ‘The Hills’ and ‘The City’ Whitney Port is here today. She shares: The biggest misconceptions about her from her time on ‘The City’. What she would change about her reality show days if she could go back in time. Why shutting down her clothing line, Whitney Eve, was the hardest decision she’s ever made. Why she feels like she always trying to prove that she is more than a girl who was on reality TV.  Why she almost wanted to give up on her podcast, With Whit, despite it being incredibly successful. How she is self-admittedly a quitter and how she is working to change that quality in herself.  The best business advice she got from her dad.  Her new clothing line and how she’s dreamt of working in fashion since she was a kid. 

Tori Dunlap is a financial expert and founder & CEO of Her First 100k - an financial education company. She quit her corporate job at 25, after saving her first $100k to help empower others with their own money. Tori has helped over 3 million women make more, spend less, and feel financially confident! Today she breaks down how she did it and how you can build wealth and create financial stability and health. Danielle + Tori talk:  3 things you need to start doing today to build wealth and get out of debt. What wealthy people do right (and what we can learn from them). Why time is more important than money when it comes to investing. Why you can’t only focus on a savings and a budget.  Why you should demand an annual review Specific tips on how to negotiate at work.  What you need to know about the wage gap, the investment gap and the wealth gap. Why it’s so important to get more money into women’s hands and the barriers to entry women face in investing.  What to watch out for when it comes to Cryptocurrency.

Author, branding expert, graphic designer, and course creator Jamie Varon shares insights on living a life you sincerely love from her new book Radically Content.    How we are conditioned to feel as though we are falling behind in our own life (and why those 30 under 30 lists aren’t helpful for anyone). Why reaching certain milestones won’t bring you the happiness you think it will.  What it means to be radically content and tips on how to fell that. Why we need to stop and appreciate where we are and how far we’ve come more often. Why it’s so important for women to tell themselves how to think and what to value in this culture What the red flags are to help us realize when we aren’t going within.  How to accept that meeting a milestone will never bring you the happiness you are looking for.  The questions you really need to ask yourself when you get a promotion. Why her goal is to help others relieve themselves of the pressure we feel to constantly do and be more. Why we need to redefine what it means to settle.  Why we need to stop looking to our “gurus” to tell us things we intrinsically know.   

More than 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety in any given year. Psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora joins PRETTYSMART to share her functional medicine approach to anxiety and mental health. Psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora joins PRETTYSMART to share her functional medicine approach to anxiety and mental health. She shares: What lifestyle choices could be directly impacting your anxiety (and changes you can make easily.) Foods that could be contributing to your anxiety.  The difference between “True Anxiety and False Anxiety” Why conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a “neck up” problem (and why that is a problem). Why anxiety is a whole-body condition and not just a brain condition. How to do a “False Mood Inventory” as a way to check in on your mental health.  External factors contributing to our anxiety  Two simple tips to reduce the impacts our phone has on your mental health. The power nature has to help our mental health and how you can tap into it even if you live in a big city.   Ellen Vora, MD attended Columbia University for medical school and received her BA in English from Yale University. She’s a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response.    Follow Dr. Ellen Vora: https://www.instagram.com/ellenvoramd/?hl=en Purchase Anatomy of Anxiety: https://tinyurl.com/2er3dby4

With a degree in psychology and a masters in counseling, Jo Davenport was working at a private practice for mental health before she quit her job and dived head first into creating the body-inclusive swimwear company LaPorte. She generously shares her knowledge, the challenges of starting a company and the lessons she learned. Today Jo opens up about:  How her terrible experience trying on a bathing suit led to launching a company What to consider when starting a business Why it was important to create an inclusive brand for every body How she would have spent money differently The TWO people EVERY entrepreneur should have in her corner  Why she’s obsessed with feedback What challenges her company faced during COVID and how she pivoted Why she felt validated when named Forbes Next 1000 honoree Positivity and how to become more optimistic