Catching North Stars

In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with Jenn T. Grace to discuss how she went from self-publishing her own books by trial and error to creating her own hybrid publishing company. She shares about how working brought her through some of her own personal challenges and the importance of making space for a multitude of voices.

In this episode of Catching North Starts, I sit down with Anna Kelly and talk about her career as a leader in the fight against climate change, specifically in the energy space. We'll hear talk about: how AI can save the world (I'm not going to spoil it here, but I guarantee it isn't what you are thinking); why she remains recklessly optimistic, in spite of major setbacks in the energy and environment political space; how she persevered after a life-altering injury as a young person and how that has paved her journey into the environmental space in completely unpredictable ways. A super inspiring conversation!

In this episode of Catching North Stars, I speak with Sam Isaacson - coach, writer, and innovator in the coaching and technology space. Sam talks about his experiments with Virtual Reality and Coaching, the possibilities for democratizing coaching by using AI Chat bots, as well as the specific magic of the coaching process. He also talks about writing, play, and what is coming up next.

In this episode, I speak with Mary Reynolds Thompson - author of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman: 5 Archetypes to Unleash Your Full Feminine Power (and other books) about her relationship with nature and the wild. We talk about how she became a facilitator of Journal and Poetry Therapy; her love of language and metaphor as well as the power of archetype to change the ways we see ourselves as well as why archetypes are particularly important for women to work with. Mary shares generously from her own experiences as well as walking us through some exercises she uses with her own clients.

In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down to talk with Dr. Linda Keyes who is not only an ER doc and a wilderness doc, but a researcher, world traveler, writer, and advocate for women in science. In our conversation we talk about how Linda linked together her personal and professional passions as a high-altitude specialist - a specialization that allowed her to be involved with local communities, make in-roads in areas of medicine where women's health had been historically overlooked, and work in connection with trekking expeditions. We also talk about her advocacy for herself and other women doctors as well as her participation in the Homeward Bound program - where she traveled with 80 women leaders in STEM to Antarctica. Listen as she shares her experiences and valuable takeaways.

Today's guest for Catching North Stars is Jill Rosenberg Jones - an inspiring leader in the financial services industry who has been called into philanthropy. As a servant-leader on Walls Street for many years, Jill has inspired many of her people to lead with empathy. She sees caring about and building the careers of her team members as the most important aspects of leadership - even in a notoriously tough industry. She is also the founder of the James Weldon Johnson foundation where she works to preserve the legacy of a great American thinker, writer, and civil rights leader while supporting artists to create inspiring work. Listen as we discuss the joys and challenges of servant leadership and Jill’s incredible journey into philanthropic work.

In this episode of Catching North Stars, Alexis speaks with Corinna Freitag about her journey from Chemist to Coach. Corinna's first career was in the industrial chemical and automotive industries where she studied in worked in a number of different countries. She discovered that she cared more about helping make other people's work lives better and became a coach. Corinna shares openly about being "nerdy and her journey to overcome limiting beliefs. She shares some of the tools that she uses to help her coaching clients, including Positive Intelligence. Join for this intriguing conversation into overcoming limiting beliefs!

In Catching North Stars, Alexis Halkovic interviews inspiring individuals whose core values have driven their careers.In this episode, we speak with Kalia Garrido - entrepreneur and co-founder of Hike2, creator of Healthy Women Leaders, public speaker and author of "The Well Within: Unlocking Your Personal Power Through Radical Self-Care." Kalia shares her story of how she discovered a deep personal need to find alternative forms of self-care when her tried-and-true workout practice was no longer enough to manage all she was holding. Seeking out inspiration from other women, Kalia discovered her own reservoir of power within herself.

In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with coach, researcher, professor, and author Pamela Larde, PhD - aka "The Joy Whisperer" or the "Joy Researcher" to talk about how she became a coach and built her own coach training program. We also dive into her new book, "Joyfully Single: A Revolutionary Guide to Enlightenment, Wholeness, and Change" - it's not just for single folks - exploring the practices of joy as well as the ethics of joy. Enjoy!