
The Iconic Podcast
Join Jen Szpigiel, CEO and Editor in Chief of Becoming Iconic and Iconic Magazine weekly as she interviews industry moguls to provide you with the inspiration, insights and lessons for how to grow an iconic life and business for yourself. Each episode will feature actionable steps, expert advice and personal stories to support you to spark, grow and scale your business as an entrepreneur. This podcast is for the visionary leaders who are committed to creating their legacy, pursuing their dreams and achieving their goals beyond their current circumstance. The Iconic Podcast sets itself apart through Jen’s unparalleled interview style, genuine curiosity and commitment to having women rise to their potential. Formally known as the Becoming Iconic Podcast, this new iteration is dedicated to providing you with the most potent and powerful conversations with those who have overcome, prevailed and built their lives and businesses into the incredible success we see today. Subscribe now and leave a review to be a part of this Iconic movement. Don’t forget to also check out this month’s magazine where we deep dive with the guests who are interviewed here.
Latest episodes

Oct 18, 2021 • 42min
Being a Woman is Your Superpower with Sarah Morden
Have you ever wondered why you feel on top of the world with your business one week, and then another week you feel super introverted and distant? Have you ever been curious how your hormones and cycle affect the way you feel and run your business? Look no further because episode 148 of Becoming Iconic is about how being a woman, and the hormones you get with that, is your superpower with Sarah Morden! In this episode of Becoming Iconic, Sarah is sharing the importance of understanding your hormones and actionable steps you can take right now to work with, not against, your hormones for business owner success. Sarah and I cover some of the following topics: Why we as women do not have linear moods all month long; and how that benefits us.How our hormones are like the four seasons, and what each one means for us.How to figure out what season you’re in based on your moodHow to plan your business around your period. Understanding yourself and tapping into your femine is the best way to uplevel yourself and your business. The best way to change the narrative is to start conversations so I want to encourage each listener to share this episode with a girlfriend today. So be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH SARAH MORDEN:WebsiteInstagramCONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Oct 11, 2021 • 15min
Stop Selling to Pain Points
This week’s Soul Spark is all about pain point selling, and how we need to stop using pain points as a marketing strategy. I have created pain point selling in the past, and while I felt that those marketing strategies always came from the purest of places in my heart, I recognize now, years into entrepreneurship, that this is not the right way to sell to clients. It is an overly pronounced way of marketing in every industry and my hope is today’s Soul Spark will allow a new way of marketing into your heart.Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Oct 4, 2021 • 15min
Soul Spark | Top Ten Lessons for the 1% Life
The other day I thought about what I would say if one of my children came to me and asked me to help them with their own entrepreneurship calling. What would I say to them if they wanted to be coached? It was through this internal hypothetical conversation that I came up with the top ten lessons I would share with them, and thus with you, from my multiple million dollar companies and years of experience in the entrepreneurship space. That’s why episode 146 of Becoming Iconic is about each of them, and future episodes will expand upon these ten lessons as well! In this episode of Becoming Iconic, I’m sharing the important lessons I have learned in the last years as a serial entrepreneur and multiple 7-figure business owner. Utilizing these tips, you’ll be able to transform your own business. I cover the following tips: Goals are so important but don’t forget to celebrate the small wins too.Do not be afraid to stand alone in your vision.People will try to hurt you and interrupt you - only because you are reflecting what is possible.Set boundaries from the beginning.Rest is not a luxury.Don’t be afraid of holding success. Turn around and help others.When you fall - remember this too shall pass.Be a steward of your finances.No one does it the way you do it.I want to encourage you to journal about these ten lessons. So be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Sep 30, 2021 • 40min
Curating the Perfect Bio with Melissa Mucci Pineda
As female entrepreneurs, it can feel uncomfortable to write out our biographies and brag about what we have accomplished. It can also be exhausting thinking about all the things we haven’t accomplished yet instead of focusing on what we have and sitting in a place of gratitude for that. That’s why episode 146 of Becoming Iconic is about creating the perfect professional Bio with Melissa Mucci Pineda! In this episode of Becoming Iconic, Melissa is sharing the importance of celebrating yourself in your bio and actionable steps you can take right now to confidently share your accomplishments in a way that is both professional and very helpful for pitching or collaborating. Melissa and I cover some of the following topics: Melissa’s journey from professor to copy editor, including the challenge she had as a professor with a love of fashion and how she turned her love of embracing her own personal style into being able to identify and amplify the personal style of the people she edits for. What a professional bio is, why you need one, and what to include in both the long-form and shortened versions.Big grammatical errors to look out for as you write or read copy.The importance of consistency with everything from numbers to your message. Your professional Bio can make a lot of opportunities come to life for you before you’ve even had a chance to talk with someone face to face, so making sure you’ve created the perfect message that’s both professional and interesting is important. Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH MELISSA:Instagram: www.instagram.com/melissampinedablog/ CONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Sep 27, 2021 • 44min
Why Your Essence is the Secret to Abundance
This week’s Soul Spark is all about why your essence is the secret to abundance. Every single one of us has a spirit and a soul - it’s about what is within you, and allowing that to come to light, over trusting the outside world with your power. It’s not about the marketing plan, the Instagram strategy or the email list functions - it’s all about YOU.Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Sep 23, 2021 • 53min
Healing Through Intuitive Eating with Shannon Smith
80% of people have body dissatisfaction, and when you couple that with today’s diet culture, it really is this perfect storm for body dysmorphia and other toxic thoughts around your body image. This is probably the most anticipated episode I have wanted to bring to the podcast. That’s why episode 143 of Becoming Iconic is about intuitive eating with Shannon Smith! In this episode of Becoming Iconic, Shannon Smith is sharing the importance of intuitive eating and actionable steps you can take right now to enjoy eating foods again. Shannon and I cover some of the following topics: How today’s diet culture is toxic and not actually helpful for hitting personal body goals.How to start enjoying eating and food again, after shameful and intrusive negative relationships with foods.Why ⅔ of people on a diet gain back more weight than they lost within 2-5 years.Why you shouldn’t compliment someone when they’ve lost weight, and how that feeds into the culture of toxic body image and shame95% of people on a diet will regain that weight in 2-5 years. So instead of buying into a product that doesn’t work, diet culture, let’s start intuitively checking in with our own bodies, emotions, and functions to see what we need. So be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH Shannon:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talk.with.shan/ Website: https://shannonsmithcounselling.com/ CONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Sep 20, 2021 • 25min
Soul Spark | 5 Leadership Lessons Learned Through Hurt
This week’s Soul Spark is all about 5 leadership lessons learned through a hurtful situation. I recently went through a hurtful situation in my business and learned some very valuable lessons from them. These lessons don’t just apply to business but can apply to any relationship where there may be strife or hurt.5 Leadership Lessons Learned Through HurtTurn your eyes and heart onto the people in your life who are grateful, loving, and kind toward you than the very few who don’t.It’s easy to sit in the self-doubt and the victimhood longer than necessary.A leader is just an easy target to blameWhen you show up consistently and with ethics and someone says something about you being unethical, no one is going to believe them.Remember, there are way more people who love you and desire your leadership than those who don’t.This will be an episode you will want to come back to for when you need it the most. These five lessons, I hold dear to me and am so grateful for. They have changed the way I walk into leadership and partnerships.Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Sep 16, 2021 • 47min
Moving Into Pleasure with Kelli Tennant
Warning: eating disorders, suicide & sexual assault discussed briefly.Have you ever been uncomfortable when someone uses the word “pleasure”? For most, it’s a word closely tied to sex and orgasm. But today, episode 141 of Becoming Iconic is about how pleasure is a truly joyful word that Jen and Kelli want to step into more often! In this episode of Becoming Iconic, Kelli Tennant is sharing the importance of our words and how the word pleasure in particular can be used to experience a fuller life. Kelli and I cover some of the following topics: How trending words can take on new meanings due to misuse from the general public, and how it can lead to misguided and misinformed client salesWhat pleasure actually means and how Jen and Kelli are utilizing it in their lives todayHow fear of the unknown can be masked as gratitude, and how to allow for pleasure insteadHow connected our sense of self and experiencing pleasure is with how safe in our own bodies we feel - and how to get that sense of safety back if we’ve lost itPleasure can be sexual but it doesn’t have to remain there. By allowing yourself to experience, to experiment, and to encourage yourself to seek pleasure, you become a better person. So be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH KELLI TENNANT:Instagram: @kellimtennant Website: www.kellitennant.comCONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Sep 13, 2021 • 12min
Soul Spark | Stop Negotiating Your Goals
In the moment of difficult times or hard goals, it can feel very sticky. In that muddy moment, we try to negotiate and reevaluate the original goal based on how hard it is in the moment. But the thing I realized, pedaling on my Peloton bike, is that when you get through the hard part and you’re stacking on achievements, it doesn’t actually feel as hard as it was in the moment. I don’t want you to negotiate based on the hardness of a goal or obstacle. That’s why episode 140 of Becoming Iconic is about not negotiating your goals! In this episode of Becoming Iconic, I’m sharing the importance of setting and maintaining goals and actionable steps you can take right now to stop the internal negotiation. I cover some of the following topics: I share my journey through a difficult goal on the Peloton bike and how it relates to business goals.The mental process we go through when we are experiencing something difficult to accomplish.How your mindset shift can help you achieve even more goals and visionsThis Soul Spark will ignite you today; I just feel it. So be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co

Sep 9, 2021 • 34min
Building Courage and Confidence with Amy Klein
As a mother to two girls and two boys, I have been curious about raising all my children with an entrepreneurial spirit and a courageous attitude towards all their future goals and dreams. Turns out, I am not alone, and neither are you, friend. Amy Klein, from The Courageous Brand, and her business partner Kelly created a platform for girls to learn, see examples of, and encourage confidence, courage, and failure. That’s why episode 139 of Becoming Iconic is about understanding the power of courage and confidence with Amy Klein! In this episode of Becoming Iconic, Amy Klein is sharing the importance of understanding courage and actionable steps you can take right now to raise your children, especially your girls, with an entrepreneurial mindset so they are naturally courageous. Amy and I cover some of the following topics: What is courage and confidence, and how are they similar and different.Why girls are less courageous and/or confident than their male counterparts.How to encourage girls to be confident and offer productive feedback they’ll understand and appreciate.How to raise your children to have an entrepreneurial spiritI love Amy and Kelly’s mission so much and I want to encourage you to take advantage of their learning platforms and training! Show your children the inside of your business and why you do what you do so they understand and appreciate your business as much as you do. So be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on all things business, style, relationships and family. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Becoming Iconic and Jen at https://jenszpigiel.com/ CONNECT WITH AMY KLEIN:Instagram: @thecourageousbrand Website: https://givehercourage.com/CONNECT WITH JEN SZPIGIEL:Work with Jen: www.jenszpigiel.comConnect with Me: www.instagram.com/jenszpigielBecoming Iconic Instagram: www.instagram.com/becomingiconicpodcastBlog: www.jenszpigiel.com/blogConnect with Jen: Read the magazine here: @iconicmagazine__ Hang out with Jen here: @becomingiconic See all your resources here: www.becomingiconic.co