Dr. Sheryl‘s PodCouch

Episode 063: The Parent Compass with Cynthia Muchnick

Cynthia (Cindy) Muchnick, a graduate of Stanford University, is an expert in the college admission process. She got her start in admission offices before opening a private study skills and college counseling business in Southern California, which she ran for over fifteen years. As an Assistant Director of Admission for the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, she screened and reviewed over three thousand applications, interviewed prospective students, and served on the admission committee to evaluate borderline applicants and appeals cases. Then, as a private counselor, she helped hundreds of high school students navigate their academic journeys, including course selection, study skills, time management, and college applications. Since closing her private educational practice in 2011, Cindy has focused on public speaking to student, parent, school and business groups on a variety of education-related topics.

Over the course of her career, Cindy has written numerous books; The Parent Compass: Navigating Your Teen’s Wellness and Academic Journey in Today’s Competitive World (Familius/Workman/Hachette, 2020) is her tenth. Her other titles include The Best College Admission Essays (co-author, ARCO/Peterson’s, 1997), The Everything Guide to Study Skills: Strategies, Tips, and Tools You Need to Succeed in School (Simon& Schuster, 2011), Straight-A Study Skills (co-author, Simon& Schuster, 2012), The Everything College Checklist Book (Simon& Schuster, 2013), Writing Successful College Applications: It’s More than Just the Essay (Peterson’s Publishing, 2014), and four other books (Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House). Her essays have appeared on Zibby Owens’ Moms Don’t Have Time To Write Medium platform, Your Teen Magazine, College Confidential, Raising Teens Today, The Los Angeles Times, and The Mom Experience, among others.

Cindy raised her family in Newport Beach, CA, and moved to Menlo Park, CA, in 2018, where she resides with her husband and is parent to two teens who are still at home, a college student, and a college graduate who is a teacher. For further information, or to inquire about a potential speaking engagement, feel free to visit her website at www.cynthiamuchnick.com.

Episode 062: Writing to Find Your Voice: Estelle Erasmus Writing that Gets Noticed

Estelle Erasmus is an award-winning journalist, writing coach, and longtime ASJA member and an adjunct instructor at New York University and for Writer's Digest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, WIRED, Huffington Post Personal, AARP the Magazine, Vox,Insider, Next Avenue, GH, Marie Claire and more. Estelle's articles for the New York Times and Washington Post have gone globally viral. She has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News with Ernie Anastos and has had her articles mentioned on "The View". She is co-host of the Freelance Writing Direct Podcast (found on iTunes and Spotify) and was a guest judge for the Writer's Digest 2022 Personal Writing Contest. Her book WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, and Get Published from New World Library is available online and wherever books are sold. Find her on Twitter: @EstelleSErasmus, Instagram: @EstelleSErasmus, TikTok: @EstelleSErasmus  and on her website at http://estelleserasmus.com/ and on Substack https://estelleserasmus.substack.com

Episode 061: Career Confinement: How to Free Yourself with Elizabeth Pearson

Elizabeth Pearson is the author of Career Confinement: How to Free Yourself, Find Your Guides and Seize the Fire of Inspired Work. Elizabeth is an executive coach who helps high-achieving women break out of their cages. She teaches practical steps to shift your mindset, unshackle yourself from your limiting beliefs, and helps you seize the fire of inspired work. In career confinement, she provides real-life client stories featuring women who broke free and are living fulfilled and abundant lives. Through easy-to-follow actionable steps for both your professional and your spiritual development, Elizabeth guides you to living the life your soul is begging you to live. For more information and resources you can download her app called EP Coaching.

Episode 060: The Power of Hybrid Professionals with Dr. Sarabeth Berk

Dr. Sarabeth Berk is the leading expert on hybrid professional identity, and a hybrid professional herself. She was featured in Forbes, and is a TEDx speaker, author of More Than My Title. Her hybrid title is Creative Disruptor because she works at the intersection of being an artist, researcher, educator, and designer. It took an identity crisis for her to realize she actually integrates these identities together.

Through groundbreaking research, Dr. Berk developed a one-of-a-kind approach that COMBINES personal branding and career development. She helps professionals discover and articulate their hybrid professional identity and unique value in the workforce.

Dr. Berk obtained her PhD from the University of Denver, and has degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Rhode Island School of Design.

Episode 059: Careers, Kids and Comebacks with Stacey Delo

Stacey Delo is the CEO of Après, which acquired her website, Maybrooks, in 2017. Stacey spent eight years as a journalist with the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, where she was a multimedia reporter, producer, and the host of Digits, a live video program about technology, before founding her own business focused on flexibility in the workplace. Her book YOUR TURN: Careers, Kids, and Comebacks – A Working Mother’s Guide, written along with Jennifer Gefsky, was published by Harper Business in October 2019. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.

Episode 058 - The Impact of Children’s Mental Health on the Workforce with Marti Bledsoe Post and Dr. Ariana Hoet

On Our Sleeves is a national movement to break stigmas around children’s mental health. No family should struggle alone on their journey. Their mission is to provide free mental health educational resources to every community in America to educate families and empower advocates. They also support access to services by connecting families to trusted local resources.

Today we have Marti Bledsoe Post, executive director of On Our Sleeves and Dr. Ariana Hoet, who is the clinical director of On Our Sleeves and a psychologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. 

In Marti’s role with the On Our Sleeves movement, she leads strategy and operations. Marti was the founder of a’parently, a consultancy offering programs and resources to support parents in the workplace. The company grew under her vision and leadership to work with corporations across the country, providing training for parents and leaders. Marti is a published author and sought-after national speaker on parents in the workforce.

Dr. Hoet cares deeply about working toward inclusion and equity in our society. Her personal experience as an immigrant from Venezuela, has helped to fuel that passion. Dr. Hoet works in Pediatric Primary Care where she serves immigrant children. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University.

Episode 057: Self-Care for New Moms with Corinne Crossley

Corinne Crossley, LMHC received her masters degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. After years of working with women in practice and becoming a mom (twice over) she started the blog and podcast Momma Bites where she regularly interviews experts in various fields of self-care including intuitive eating, mindfulness, yoga, complementary & alternative healing, sleep, sexual health, and many other areas. Corinne is now the author of the book Self-care for New Moms:  Thriving in Your Postpartum Year.

Episode 056: Process! How Discipline and Consistency Can Set You Free in Your Business and Home with Lisa Gonzalez

Lisa González has been passionate about supporting entrepreneurial leaders and their teams since she was a young adult. Lisa grew up in an entrepreneurial family that was pursuing the American Dream in southern California. She often jumped in to help their many businesses run more efficiently. Lisa graduated from UCLA and attended law school at University of Texas - Austin. After practicing law for several years in Denver, Colorado, she missed the world of entrepreneurs and joined the operations team at a start-up residential remodel firm that was expanding to multiple locations in the US.

After years of using various tools to improve operations with varying success, she implemented EOS ® and it made all the difference. The start-up grew in revenue, generated consistent profits, documented and simplified its processes, and developed a leadership team that was healthy and happy in their personal lives.

This deep-dive into the EOS method to strengthen a company’s process component will help leaders at all companies—from early stage startups to established corporations—run better businesses and live better lives. Her book is available here.

Episode 055: Happier Hour with Cassie Holmes

UCLA’s Anderson School of Management professor Cassie Holmes is the world’s leading authority on time and happiness. In her ground-breaking new book, HAPPIER HOUR: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most —a Forbes 2022 “Must Read”—she shares her cutting-edge research guiding readers how to immediately enrich their lives by better investing the time they have, no matter how “time poor” they feel.

Episode 054: Slay Like a Mother with Katherine Wintsch

Katherine Wintsch dedicates her life to making the lives of women easier. In her role as founder and CEO of The Mom Complex, she helps the largest companies in the world such as Walmart, Johnson & Johnson and Wells Fargo better understand and support their mom customers and employees.

In her latest venture, Katherine combines 10+ years of groundbreaking research on motherhood with her own personal journey in her book Slay Like a Mother.

Parade magazine recently named Slay Like a Mother, one of the “top 10 life-changing self-help books of the year” and Katherine’s research has been featured by The Today Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company.

Katherine is a recipient of the “Working Mother of the Year” award by the Advertising Women of New York, the “Outstanding Woman” award from the YWCA and, most recently, the “Woman of the Decade” award from the Women’s Economic Forum in India. Katherine also has a Tedx talk called Unmasking motherhood.