In this exciting episode, relationship architect, author, and keynote speaker Melissa Nanavati joins Danielle Thompson for an insightful conversation about power couples and how they can build high-performing relationships that stand strong through challenges.

Melissa shares her journey to understanding the science of human connection and how she helps peak performers create healthy relationships, manage miscommunication, and leverage feedback and boundaries. Together, they remind us that relationships are meant to co-create in harmony. With clarity and intentional boundaries, you and your partner can evolve into the power couple you’re meant to be.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Melissa transitioned to understanding the science behind relationships

• How peak performers balance relationships and business

• What is the “evening gratitude ritual”?

• Orienting ourselves in positivity

• Navigating conflicts and finding the common ground

• How power couples avoid miscommunication

• The 4 core pillars for high-performing relationships

• Understanding “the feedback loop”

• Why we have to acknowledge what we’re afraid of

• How boundaries create clarity

Favorite Quotes:

“When we start to proactively acknowledge each other, we orient ourselves towards the positive.

“There are four core pillars that make for really high-performing relationships: courage, presence, play, and curiosity.”

“Two people can be at the same event and have entirely different experiences. All of us have lenses of reality.”

“I think openness to feedback is one of the most important things for high performers, especially to apply in their own relationships.”

“I really prefer the term harmony over compromise because compromise implies that you're giving away something, but you're not. You're coming to co-creation.”

Melissa Nanavati helps high performers build thriving, peaceful relationships while pursuing ambitious goals. As a speaker, author, and Relationship Architect, she blends neuroscience, biology, and lived experience to teach high achievers how to apply the skills that make them successful in business to love. Despite early success as a textbook author and Fortune 100

consultant, Melissa struggled with anxious attachment and went on over 100 first dates before meeting her husband. In their first year together, they raised $1.1 million while running two businesses. Through that journey, Melissa developed frameworks and tools to help high achievers in relationships. She is a trusted relationship coach for executives, founders, and driven individuals seeking actionable, science-backed tools to navigate love.

Connect with Melissa Nanavati!

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissananavati/

• Instagram: www.instagram.com/MelissaNanavati

• YouTube: www.youtube.com/@PeakPerformanceLove

Learn more at: www.peakperformancelove.com

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In today’s episode, business operations consultant Erica Seagrave joins Tamara and Danielle Thompson to share her journey from neurophysiology to becoming a business owner and, eventually, a consultant. Now, she helps businesses by stepping in as the operations COO, overseeing their systems and guiding them toward effective strategies for growth.

Erica explores the power of listening and identifying challenges, highlights the critical role of operations in driving success, and explains why company culture begins with leadership. This episode is an invitation to shift from working in the business to working on the business and to build a tailored system that truly works for you.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Erica shifted from being a clinician to a consultant

• Building a business that’s ready for exit

• How Erica helps businesses by being an operations COO

• Why operations are important in business

• The risk in CEOs wearing too many hats

• Why you should start working ON the business

• Growing a business from 7 to 8 figures

• Building an exit-ready business

• Why company culture begins with leadership

• Why listening to employees reveals real business challenges

Favorite Quotes:

“If things in operations are off, then everything else is off on the side of profit and different margins.”

“In so many businesses, the CEO wears so many hats, they can't focus. Their job is to focus on vision, strategy, and growth.”

“Operations is just so freaking important, but some people just don’t prioritize it as much.”

“A lot of times, it ends up being the leader or leaders of the organization where the core company culture is.”

“Taking the time to pull in your employees and have those open-ended questions is the most important thing that I've seen in leadership.”

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In this episode, we’re joined by Daniela Santangelo, founder and CEO of Freeway, who shares her inspiring journey from becoming a single mom and losing her business to rebuilding her life and career in Phoenix. Together, we dive into how she now helps other entrepreneurs secure the funding they need to grow.

Daniela opens up about discovering her MVP hack that unlocked new opportunities, the difference between businesses that truly need funding versus those that need sales, and why relationships and networks are key to finding the right investors. Her story is a powerful reminder that women entrepreneurs can carve their own path, scale their business, and go global.

What You’ll Learn:

• Navigating divorce, moving, and losing a multi-million dollar business

• How Daniela Santangelo helps people get funding

• The power of finding your MVP hack

• What are the industries that seek funding and those that rely on sales?

• Why bootstrapping a company is attractive for investors

• Why is funding needed in the tech industry?

• How a multi-million dollar company is built out of relationships

• Every financial situation is different

• Investors are investing in you as an individual

• Why Daniela Santangelo came back to Phoenix and started her new venture

Favorite Quotes:

“You have to do the gritty stuff of it's not perfect, it' ugly, it's hacked together—let me show that this is a problem worth solving and that's an idea and an opportunity that an investor can get around.”

“If you've been able to bootstrap a company for a period of time—that becomes more attractive too.”

“If you can get away with not going for funding—you're a super resilient person to be able to do that.”

“Even if you're getting angel investor money, it's because of the relationship. It's because they're investing in you as an individual. Your company is secondary. ”

“As founders, the more global experiences we have, the bigger businesses we can build.”

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In this episode, hosts Tamara Thompson and Danielle Thompson share a conversation with Olenka Cullinan, an executive coach and 3-time founder, to talk about how women entrepreneurs can scale their business on their own rules and schedule. Olenka gives a preview of what it’s like to work with her as a coach, shares why having a solid backend matters, and explains why marketing is crucial in business growth.

They also dive into what it takes to grow a business above 7 figures, the importance of boundaries to avoid burnout, and how leaders can serve at their higher purpose. With the right strategy, mindset, and testing, everyone has what it takes to grow a business. It doesn’t happen overnight, but you have to remind yourself to keep pushing.

What You’ll Learn:

• How women do business differently towards the million-dollar mark

• Why systems, not humans, drive business profit

• What a good business coach should be looking at

• How to market your business the right way

• The difference in leading a pre-7-figure business vs an 8-figure and up business

• Recognizing the right customers that will boost your success

• Leveraging paid ads in marketing and targeting

• Leadership burnout and setting boundaries

• Why is the scope of work important in business

• Why leaders of the company must protect their schedules

Favorite Quotes:

“For a lot of women, going that first half a million to a million is where you have to get brutally honest with yourself with numbers.”

“ Five of your customers are sometimes more responsible for your success than 200 others — not all customers are equal.”

“Boundaries are a mess. The higher you grow, the more ruthless you have to become with your boundaries.”

“Leaders of the company, your schedule has to be your most protected resource of all time. No one else in this company can step in and do things that you do.”

“From the operational standpoint, the system drives profit, not humans, because humans are emotional.”

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• Instagram: @olenkacullinan

• LinkedIn: Olenka Cullinan

• Website: https://istartfirst.com/

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In this episode, Tamara and Danielle Thompson sit down with Tina Schaaf of The Schaaf Group to talk about how women entrepreneurs can build aligned teams that drive business success. Tina shares how she and her team created a system to help clients through executive search, growth journeys, and coaching guidance.

They dive into the value of building strong relationships within your team, asking the right tenacious questions to clients, and navigating resistance as a leader. This episode is for women business owners ready to break the glass ceiling, level up their leadership, and embrace the power of their company culture.

What You’ll Learn:

• What The Schaaf Group is focusing on in helping clients

• Why you should build relationships with your clients

• The cons of working with small to medium-sized companies

• How to guide clients in figuring out what they need

• The power of a tenacious attitude and asking the right questions

• Navigating and overcoming male influences

• Allowing yourself to break the glass ceiling

• Why CEOs have a leadership resistance

• Why you should know the personas of people in your team

• How communication plays a huge role in business success

Favorite Quotes:

“If you are only talking to HR, you're not really getting the opportunity to develop that really strong relationship.”

“You have to have that tenacious attitude and the ability to speak up—that's what helps women become successful.”

“Let go of the idea that there's a glass ceiling. Honestly, it's a made-up thing, and the more you hold onto it, the more it will be true.”

“These are the people they're gonna be interacting with, so to know all of the personas versus just one persona is absolutely essential.”

“There's a leader in place that isn't the best leader. And there is a leader for every step of the evolution of a business. ”

Connect with Tina Schaaf!

• Website: https://www.theschaafgroup.com/

• Facebook: Tina Schaaf

• LinkedIn: Tina Schaaf

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In this episode, Tamara and Danielle Thompson sit down with special guest Jasmine Jonte, course creator and entrepreneur, to dive into what it really takes to create transformational experiences in your coursework. They’ll talk about how to keep people engaged, how to bring AI into the system, and how to design marketing campaigns that actually work.

Jasmine also shares powerful client success stories and gives a sneak peek into her brand-new program, Course Complete. If you’re a woman business owner ready to level up your business with courses and deeper client engagement, this one’s for you.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Jasmine created transformational experiences for her clients

• How Jasmine leveraged creating courses and building programs

• Keeping the audience engaged in the course

• What platforms to use for tracking fall-offs

• Incorporating and leveraging AI in your systems

• Marketing and selling courses

• Understanding the Transformational Tarot Coaching Program

• Helping authors step up through coursework

• Building a program through “Course Complete”

• The role of a Chief Experience Officer

Favorite Quotes:

“When you do a really good job onboarding and making those quick wins just so fast and achievable, people naturally start to embed it into their life.”

“Gen Zers are interesting—you can do some really interesting things with them, but the key is really short content.”

“It's a savvy asset to have in the suite if you're a thought leader who is speaking on stages, has the book, and that whole personal brand presence that many don’t have.”

“Agency work requires a lot of team, requires a lot of hours, and the margins. You can max out your margin, but there's always going to be overhead, because you're always going to need people to deliver on the service.”

“Chief Experience Officer is all about the client and the customer journey and how we create the experience all the way through.”

Connect with Jasmine Jonte!

• YouTube: @JasmineJonteCRE8TION

• Instagram: @ibswarrior

• Facebook: Jasmine Jonte

• LinkedIn: Jasmine Jonte

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In this episode, Tamara and Danielle Thompson sit down with Sarah Gilliland, founder of Rising Brand Legal, for an honest conversation about authenticity and being yourself as a woman business owner. They talk about breaking free from society’s standards, embracing life transitions, and finding spirituality in entrepreneurship.

You’ll hear how to attract the right clients, why contracts matter, and the top three legal aspects every business should take a look at. From choosing the entrepreneurial path to protecting your business the right way, this is a must-listen for women ready to turn their authenticity into real business success.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to step into authenticity as a woman business owner

• How Sarah broke free from societal standards

• Why inauthenticity can lead to burnout

• How spirituality works in guiding us in business

• How to attract the right clients through authenticity

• The power of saying no and setting boundaries

• Why you should lay out the scope of your partnership

• The power of contracts in saving friendships and avoiding future issues

• Top things to look out for in the law side of business

• How to utilize AI in creating corporate contracts

Favorite Quotes:

“The legal dollars aren't the fun, sexy money to spend in business, but it's way less fun and way less sexy to have to fix a legal problem.”

“Finding our own authentic path—our own selves within our own business—is when you start to attract more of what you want to attract.”

“Entrepreneurship will always have its own seasons of hard. You need that reminder that this is still the right thing for me.”

“I don't see fighting as negative at all, I see it as more women fighting for what you want in life, going after your passions, and it's such a really admirable thing.”

“When somebody steals your intellectual property—it's almost always somebody in your sphere.”

Connect with Sarah Gilliland!

• Website: https://www.risingbrandlegal.com/

• Instagram: @thelawyersarah

• LinkedIn: Sarah Gilliland

• Facebook: Sarah Gilliland

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In this exciting episode, Tamara and Danielle are joined by Natalie Hunter, co-founder of personalbrand.com, to talk about how transforming your personal brand is key to growth. They also dig into why only 1.9% of women hit the 7-figure mark in business each year.

Natalie walks through the 3 aspects of expansion, how mindset and limiting beliefs hold women back, and how becoming aware of your thoughts and patterns leads to real transformation. From finding the motivation to change to getting your awakening, this episode is your reminder that your patterns don’t define you.

What You’ll Learn:

• What are the current statistics on women business owners

• Why are women having a hard time growing their business?

• How Natalie supports leaders, business owners, and speakers in their expansion

• The 3 aspects that hinge success of a personal brand

• Why do you have to give yourself permission to transform and take action?

• How do you shift your energy into the life and business that you want?

• How Natalie helps her clients gain awareness of their path

• The importance of having a motivation to change

• The 6 stages of conscious change

• You are more than the patterns in your life

Favorite Quotes:

“You are energy in motion. So it's a matter of going through a discovery process to figure out where your energy is going.”

“Sometimes the thoughts are created as a result of things playing out. They're not always the origin point.”

“The first stage is awareness, the second stage is feeling, and the third stage is the desire to change. ”

“If someone's sitting in front of you, and they're saying, 'I want something different for my life,' there is a degree of desire to change.”

“The pattern is not you. You are the soul. You are the being underneath it—and your soul is brilliant.”

Connect with Natalie Hunter!

• Website: personalbrand.com

• Instagram: @nataliehunterlive

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