Contributors

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Nika Lawrie

Hi, I'm Nika Lawrie. I help ambitious women entrepreneurs become successful CEOs.

I'm building Next Era, a launchpad and ecosystem where women get the connection, coaching, visibility, and opportunities they need to start and grow businesses that last.

At the heart of it is Healthy Entrepreneurship. Most business advice assumes you can always do more. Work longer, post more, push through. I teach a better way. Strategy is the software. Your capacity is the machine the strategy runs on. So let's support the machine (YOU!). This is where we build the business from the inside out. 

On This Is How We Rise, I sit down with founders, experts, and women building something of their own. We talk honestly about money, energy, health, confidence, and growth, and you'll leave with one idea you can use each week.

Women aren't failing at business. The old model is failing them. So we're building our own. Ladies... This is how we rise!



https://www.nikalawrie.com/Connect

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Amy Pierre-Russo

Amy Pierre-Russo is a Work-Life Harmony Strategist and Certified Life & Leadership Coach who helps women business owners create more freedom through practical systems and supportive routines. Drawing on her background in HR and mentoring with the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, she helps entrepreneurs build meaningful businesses without sacrificing their well-being.

https://www.coachingwamy.com/
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Amanda Rigby

Amanda is a Registered Dietitian with a focus on functional nutrition and addressing the underlying cause of disease. She is the owner of a private practice, HealThy Self Nutrition, and works to build therapeutic partnerships with her clients to offer an individualized approach to health, specifically through optimizing gut health and one's genes. Her approach is patient-centered, evidenced based, and deeply rooted in scientific research. By focusing on identifying the root causes and imbalances within the body, rather than just treating the symptoms, she is able to significantly improve your health outcomes.

https://heal-thy-selfnutrition.com/

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Bianca Sprague

Bianca Sprague, founder of bebo mia, has been a dedicated educator, author, activist, and doula since 2007. Passionate about accessible pre and postnatal care for marginalized communities, she advocates for mental wellness in families, drawing from her struggle with postpartum depression and family experiences. Bianca champions reproductive health and justice, focusing on breaking down barriers for female and queer entrepreneurs and restoring joy, equity, and safety in family care through her expertise and innovative approaches.

https://bebomia.com/

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Brooke Rozzie

Brooke is a Functional Nutritionist and trainer and runs Brooke Rozzie Coaching where she and her team work to help women rewrite the narrative on how they approach nutrition and their health by supporting their hormones, gut health, nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle factors so they can truly feel the best in their skin and life. She is also a host of the Power of a Woman podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

https://www.instagram.com/brookerozzie
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Elena Lipson

Elena Lipson is a self-care coach, speaker, retreat leader, and founder of the Divine Self-Care Circle and the Meditations & Musings Podcast. She helps busy women move beyond the hustle and create lives rooted in pleasure, play, ease, and trusting their own pace. Elena lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and son.

http://www.elenalipson.com

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Farah Miltimore

Farah Miltimore is a motivational speaker, personal branding and social media coach who helps people discover their unique strengths and confidently share them with the world. Known for her authentic approach and passion for bringing joy into everyday life, Farah empowers others to embrace who they are and show up fully in their lives and businesses.

http://www.farahmiltimore.com

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Francis Nayan

Francis is a Memphis-raised copywriter, email marketing strategist, and deliverability expert based in Budapest, Hungary. He went from struggling freelancer to earning six figures in just two years, helping businesses connect with customers through story-driven copy and personalized email strategies. He shares practical insights on productivity, mindset, and balancing remote work with a life you love.

https://www.storiesandcopy.com/

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Jill Salzman

Jill Salzman is an entrepreneur, author, and host of the top-rated business podcast Why Are We Shouting?—a question she asks herself daily. Named a Top 100 Champion Small Business Influencer by Forbes, she helps entrepreneurs turn big ideas into meaningful action. When she’s not speaking in patterned leggings or podcasting from her basement, she’s convincing her daughters that cassette tapes actually existed.

https://foundingmoms.com

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Josette Tkacik

In 2011, professional dancer (Juiliard graduate; former Joffrey New York dancer; Alvin Ailey; Company at Metropolitan Ballet of St. Louis and Alum of High School of Performing Arts, plus more) and new mom, Josette Tkacik was diagnosed with severe sudden onset of advanced rheumatoid arthritis, an excruciatingly painful and disabling auto immune disease for which current western medicine claims there is no cure. The only available treatment is radical and life shortening pharmaceuticals aimed (at best) to slow the progression of the disease. Ultimately Josette paved her own path, and self-healed RA without the assistance of Western

Medicine. She was declared a Medical Miracle in 2016 as No Evidence of Disease could be found in bloodwork. She went on to become the Most successful zumba instructor in the world. She is a Santa Barbara Hero - Congressional award recipient and a top 3 author on DailyOM.

https://www.instagram.com/josettetkacik/

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Kate Kordsmeier

Kate Kordsmeier is the founder of Success with Soul, where she helps women build profitable online businesses without relying on social media. She quit social media in 2021 and grew her business 165% the same year, using SEO, evergreen funnels, and organic marketing instead.

Before coaching, Kate was a food and travel journalist with bylines in Forbes, USA Today, and The Washington Post. She also built and sold her blog, Root + Revel, for multiple six figures. Today she's an ICF-accredited business coach and host of the Success with Soul podcast, with more than 100,000 downloads.

https://successwithsoul.co/

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Luciana Garcia

Luciana Garcia is an Emotional Mastery Coach, Holistic Practitioner, and Acharya from the Mahajrya Buddhist tradition. For the past ten years, meditation, mindfulness, and spirituality have been the foundation of her life and business.

In 2014, she graduated with a degree in Holistic Health, focusing on Mind/Body Transformational Psychology. Since then, she has worked with hundreds of clients, helping them navigate personal transformation. Her passion is teaching women to self-heal and master their emotions, which she believes is key to creating the lives they desire.

Above all, Luciana is a woman, a mother, and a human being, gracefully figuring out this thing called life.

http://www.theemotionalmasterycoach.com

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Masha Borisova

Masha Borisova is the host of the The Masha Show podcast who also runs a thriving Integrative Health Coaching practice that helps women in their 30's shed the extra pounds so they can feel good, look good and own it on a date night!

It’s her mission to help other women just like herself, lose weight and gain confidence by tuning into and nurturing their bodies and truly fall in love with themselves again.

https://sync.yourguidemasha.com

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Michelle Blais

Michelle Blais is an elementary school teacher with more than 18 years of experience supporting children’s academic and emotional growth. With a background in psychology and personal development, she helps kids build confidence, resilience, and a true growth mindset. A recovering perfectionist herself, Michelle uses the same research based, brain informed strategies she teaches to create lasting change.

After working in both inner city and suburban schools, she saw that many children struggle with anxiety and fear of failure, regardless of background. That insight led her to develop practical tools that help children move from overwhelmed to confident. Today, she equips parents with these strategies so growth and resilience continue long after the school year ends.

https://www.misschellemindset.com/

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Molly Ann Luna

Molly Ann Luna is a U.S. Army Veteran and former Financial Advisor who kicked corporate to the curb to pursue a more prosperous life. She successfully took her first business from $0-6-figures in just under 6-months working as a personal trainer. Due to only trading her time for money, Molly Ann quickly reached burnout. With over 7 years of experience in online marketing and business development, Molly Ann has successfully turned her burnout into a breakthrough by leveraging her expertise online and creating multiple passive income streams. When Molly Ann is not having dance parties in the kitchen with her kiddos, she's helping entrepreneurs from around the globe build profitable and portable businesses inside of The Legacy Leaders Academy.

https://www.mollyannluna.com/

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Sam Stewart

Sam is a pharmacist turned fashion stylist, the Chief Glam Officer of Style of Sam, and co-host of The Intentional Wardrobe Movement podcast. As a vintage lover and resourceful reuser, she specializes in helping ambitious women maximize their wardrobes through intentional styling. Her mission is to educate and inspire women to be confident in the best version of themselves so they can look, feel, and DO GOOD.

With over a decade of experience as a content creator working with brands like Neiman Marcus, Gucci, and Sephora, she loves blending sustainable and luxury styles. She knows that wearing the right clothes can be transformative and unlock your key to success.

She believes, “Fashion should be fun. You are never too old to play dress-up. Dress for how you want to feel. Believe in Fashion Fairy Godmothers.”

Get ready to show up as your best self!

https://styleofsam.com/

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