Women Changing The World

In this episode, Lis is joined by Emily Anne Brant, an Indigenous author, speaker, and mentor. She discusses her journey into decolonizing personal development and coaching, unlearning perfectionism, and how she calls upon ancestral wisdom in her everyday life. 
Emily shares how she balances running her business with a full-time job, normalizing how supportive it can be to have both. She shares how a spiritual experience led to a path of healing around her Indigenous ancestry, how that impacted the direction of her business, and how she shows up in community.
Emily defines colonization and white supremacy and shares what decolonization actually looks like in practice. She addresses the importance of unlearning perfectionism, especially as a woman, when embarking on a decolonization journey and the fundamental tenets of down-to-earth manifestation for achieving practical abundance rooted in ancestral wisdom. Emily also speaks to the impact she has experienced of a slow, intentional approach to business growth aligned with turtle medicine.
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Episode Outline:
(03:13) Emily’s identities, privileges, and roles
(06:11) Balancing business and a full-time job
(11:18) Emily’s journey to decolonization work
(20:49) Safe spaces and white supremacy 
(25:48) Defining decolonization and colonialism
(28:43) Decolonization mindset, words, and action
(31:39) Getting started on your decolonization journey
(35:52) Down-to-earth manifestation 
(43:29) Turtle medicine and business growth 
Resources Mentioned:
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
Guest Info: 
Learn more on Emily Anne Brant’s website
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Jessica Custer, a social impact strategist and project management expert. She discusses all things social impact, corporate responsibility, theory of change, leadership, and her life-changing experience in the Peruvian Amazon.
Jessica reflects on her journey from the non-profit sector to freelance consulting. She emphasizes the importance of effective project management in driving positive societal impact and the opportunity to better integrate agile methodologies in impact and sustainability work. She introduces her Substack, The Change Maker’s Guide to Getting Good S*** Done, and her workshop, Possible to Probable, designed to support change-makers in operationalizing their visions.
Jessica highlights the need for thought leadership, an expanded definition of leadership as related to different power structures, and the role of the theory of change in shaping our approach to both life and our work as change agents. Jessica’s vision for the future is an inspiring call to action for those of us working to build a better future!
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Episode Outline:
(03:36) Addressing the project management leadership gap
(11:13) Jessica’s career journey and the impact of her travels
(19:54) Exploring a sustainable sanitation business model in the Peruvian Amazon 
(29:30) Changes in ESG and social impact over the last 10 years 
(36:35) The strength of generalizing specialists 
(39:06) Project management for bigger, better impact 
(43:18) Theory of change applications
(46:53) Leadership and different types of power
Resources Mentioned:
Subscribe to Jessica Custer’s Substack, The Change Maker’s Guide to Getting Good Sh*t Done
Join the next free Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on Wednesday, November 20, at 9am Pacific, 12pm Eastern
Guest Info: 
Learn more on Jessica Custer’s website
Connect with Jessica Custer on LinkedIn
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Marssie Versola, Founder and CEO of Impact Table. She discusses her professional journey and how connecting with other women leaders has transformed her career—plus she and Lis share their vision for the upcoming Connect + Elevate Retreat in Calistoga.
For so long, Marssie experienced a distinct lack of feminine leadership at her level and was frustrated in her desire to move to the next level. When she discovered how community could amplify and accelerate her, it was a game changer. She shares why it is vital that women gather to celebrate each other, how much more powerful we are together than alone, and how we can create more of these spaces. The more, the better!
Marssie offers an actionable step for those of you looking to start investing more deeply in your relationships today. Marssie and Lis discuss the transformative power of retreats to nourish, change our perspectives, share resources, and deeply connect in ways that aren’t readily available elsewhere. Craving more? You’re invited to join Marssie and Lis at the Connect + Elevate Retreat for impact and sustainability leaders this October.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Episode Outline:
(04:02) How Impact Table supports leaders
(08:13) Marssie’s leadership journey
(20:27) Experiences in Corporate America
(25:15) The potency of women together
(33:18) Steps to take to create more connection today
(37:44) Vision for the Connect + Elevate Calistoga retreat
(47:08) How connection can transform us
Resources Mentioned:
Join us for the Connect and Elevate Retreat at Dr. Wilkinson’s in Calistoga October 27-29. It’s going to be magic!
Huddle by Brooke Baldwin
The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
Playing Big by Tara Mohr
Guest Info: 
Connect with Marssie Versola on LinkedIn
Connect with Impact Table on LinkedIn
Learn more on the Impact Table website
Follow Impact Table on Instagram
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis is joined by Suprita Kudesia, Founder of Feta, a family history tool that stands the test of time. She speaks about the role of a curiosity quest in her life and career, her experience developing an app alongside her life and parenting partner, and how her current hobbies bring her both joy and opportunities to be present.
For many of us, organizing scrapbooks, photo albums, and memory banks is a task we don’t look forward to. Suprita shares how the app she and her partner are developing, Feta, is transforming the experience of memory keeping. This work embodies Suprita’s love for storytelling and desire to be a conduit for other peoples’ life experiences.
Curiosity has been a throughline in Suprita’s professional journey from international development to the corporate world and now entrepreneurship. She shares how motherhood has inspired her practice of presence, her approach to hobbies and a portfolio lifestyle, and the magic she has experienced in past GCC Magicminds as both a facilitator and a participant.
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Episode Outline:
(03:14) Suprita’s professional journey and story 
(10:29) Curiosity quest from international development to corporate to entrepreneurship 
(14:39) Feta’s origin story 
(19:46) Working alongside a life and parenting partner
(24:40) The search for enoughness and presence
(30:42) Financial decisions, values, and evolving priorities as an entrepreneur
(37:43) Stop and smell the flowers
(40:50) End-of-life doula training and learning
(44:33) What leadership means to Suprita
(47:14) The intentional magic of Girls Club Collective
(50:11) Launching a Substack newsletter
Resources Mentioned:
Read Suprita’s beautiful musings over on her Substack community and be the first to know when Feta launches on Apple and Google App stores
Get more information about the GCC Magicmind on our website
Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur
Guest Info: 
Follow Feta on Instagram: @feta.family
Learn more on the Feta website: www.feta.family
Read Suprita’s Substack: supritakudesia.substack.com
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.
 

In this episode, Lis is joined by Sarah Deane, the Founder and CEO of MEvolution. Sarah speaks on personal sustainability, energy management, and how to go from exhausted to thriving.
Energy management is about finding a behavioral and cognitive formula that gives you clarity, focus, and performance. Through AI, neuroscience, and years of testing, MEvolution helps people identify precisely where in your lives you can improve your energy and guides clients in rewiring their brains past energy-leaking behaviors for sustainable results. 
Sarah discusses the human energy crisis and burnout epidemic, including how we got here and how we get better. She offers dozens of energy management strategies for individuals and leaders. If energy is our currency, optimizing what we bring to the world has never been more important. 
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Episode Outline:
(04:05) Welcome to the MEvolution
(07:26) The 8 dimensions of positive energy
(09:32) Common energy leaks  
(11:41) The neuroscience behind energy management
(15:03) Sarah’s journey to MEvolution
(23:23) Why aren’t we okay right now?
(27:27) Common causes of ongoing burnout
(32:24) “Rewriting the books”
(35:18) Achieving work-life harmony
(40:36) Ways to bring more energy into your life
(44:08) Accountability and awareness as leadership qualities
Resources Mentioned:
Ep 70: Living Authentically with Drew Taylor Cohen
Guest Info: 
Follow Sarah on LinkedIn: Sarah Deane 
Learn more on the MEvolution website: jointhemevolution.com
Follow Mevolution on Instagram: @JoinTheMEvolution
Get started with MEvolution’s Energy Management Quotient Evaluation or the Introductory Self-Paced Course here
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.
 

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition and Host of the Sustainable Ambition Podcast. Kathy discusses how she has redefined ambition, built self-trust, and navigated transitions, both for herself and her clients.
Kathy’s work focuses on the practice of using ambition as a guidepost along your career path and life journey. She supports entrepreneurs and creatives of all kinds, especially those entering a transition period. 
Kathy describes how ambition is like a U-curve, as well as her method for determining where one wants to exist on that spectrum. She outlines several frameworks for getting to know your ambition, values, effort, and vision. Kathy also offers an empowering definition of leadership and reflects on her best practices for energetic maintenance. 
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Episode Outline:
(03:21) Introductions through being over doing
(08:02) Origins of Sustainable Ambition
(17:08) Navigating career transitions
(19:53) The ambition U-curve
(23:37) Determining how to direct your energy and ambition
(32:09) “Right” effort, or managing both our effort and energy
(36:18) Components of a sustaining plan
(41:48) Leadership authenticity and service
(45:33) Clarity of vision in transition 
Resources Mentioned:
Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
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Guest Info: 
Follow Kathy on LinkedIn: Kathy Oneto
Follow Kathy on Instagram: @koneto12
Follow Sustainable Ambition on Instagram: @sustainableambition
Learn more on the Sustainable Ambition website: sustainableambition.com/resources
Listen to the Sustainable Ambition podcast: Sustainable Ambition
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Payal Beri, speaker and founder of RK Empathy. Payal discusses how cultural identity shapes our perspectives, how we develop empathy, and how it can help us overcome division and differences.
Payal’s entrepreneurial journey speaks to the power of trusting our intuition and the space and self-trust required to slow down enough to listen to ourselves. 
Payal shares how she creates compassion-building experiences through RK Impact, which she describes as "escape room-meets-cultural-IKEA." Payal explains how compassion and empathy begin on an individual level and stem from nervous system regulation. Her work aims to reduce stigmas and stereotypes, shift conversations, and reinfuse compassion and humanity into solving major social challenges.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Episode Outline:
(4:06) Finding compassion, empathy, and accountability in today’s world
(5:47) Payal’s lens as third-culture kid, choreographer, and empathy seeker
(11:42) Business pivots and evolution
(23:18) Balancing self-trust and external feedback
(26:52) When to hire another coach (and when not to)
(31:20) Holding space and creating accountability as a coach 
(34:55) Designing experiences that incite compassion
(43:13) Self-compassion and tips for practicing it
(48:52) How Payal practices self-compassion 
(53:34) Payal’s advice to her younger self 
Resources Mentioned:
Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9 
Guest Info: 
Follow Payal on Instagram: @payalberi
Follow Payal on LinkedIn: Payal Beri
Learn more on RK Impact’s website: rkempathy.com
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Drew Taylor Cohen, an impact consultant, founder and values coach at Chosen Directions. Drew discusses how to unearth your chosen values, why values alignment is so important, and the role values can play in our careers, lives, and relationships.
Drew’s work helps people navigate transitions with confidence and purpose. In this conversation, Drew offers guidance for identifying your chosen values and examples of them in action.  
Drew shares her incredibly inspiring entrepreneurial journey, which includes not only finding her own values and incorporating them across her life, but also intentionally finding a partner on Bumble by putting her values front and center.
Drew gives embodiment prompts and roadmap suggestions for how to integrate your chosen values into “the magic three”: yourself, your relationships, and your work. We conclude with her vision for a more authentic future.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Episode Outline:
(04:22) Discovering how to live more authentically
(06:40) Living in alignment with your chosen values 
(10:07) Finding your values and calling in a partner with aligned values
(17:34) Incorporating your chosen values into your life
(20:45) Real-life example of values alignment 
(25:42) The ongoing nature of healing
(28:46) How values work supports life’s transitions 
(33:41) Where to begin your chosen values journey
(37:36) The relationship between values and community 
(42:29) Building an authenticity-obsessed world 
Resources Mentioned:
Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9 
Guest Info: 
Take the Chosen Directions Values Quiz: Values Quiz
Subscribe to Drew's Newsletter: Your monthly guide to living authentically
Join the next How to Live Authentically workshop: Sign up here
Follow along with Chosen Directions on Instagram: @chosendirectionscoaching
Follow Drew on LinkedIn: Drew Taylor Cohen
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Freya Williams, a sustainability, brand purpose, corporate responsibility, and marketing leader with 20+ years of experience in sustainability. Freya discusses personal sustainability, green giants and green unicorns, how to make climate action cool, the importance of framing in marketing and messaging, and what leadership means to her today.
We talked about how world-changing women can balance personal, professional, and planetary goals to avoid burnout. Freya shares how she incorporates meaningful personal sustainability into her work. 
Freya offers expert insight into the role of green giants and green unicorns in the world, how a company becomes one or the other, and what she learned writing a book on these business structures. She then shares the six common factors her book identifies as contributing to the success of the green giants.
Unfortunately, doom and gloom have become the norm of climate action conversations; sustainability marketing and messaging need a major update. Freya gives new ways to frame these important messages that feel more engaging and compelling. 
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Episode Outline:
(04:10) Building a career in sustainability and social impact
(08:10) Personal sustainability and strategies for maintaining motivation
(14:40) Importance of community to create momentum
(21:14) Green giants and green unicorns 
(26:33) Six key factors that contribute to becoming a green giant
(30:20) How to make climate action cool
(37:35) Effective approaches to sustainability marketing
(46:40) Leadership for change agents 
Resources Mentioned:
Join our next Girls Club Collective Community Power Hour on August 9 
Mainstream Green by Graceann Bennett and Freya Williams
Rothy’s Shoes
The Cool Down
Guest Info: 
Connect with Freya Williams on LinkedIn: Freya Williams
Subscribe to Freya’s Substack: Green Giants Etc
Buy Freya’s book: Green Giants
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.

In this episode, Lis Best is joined by Maria Estrada, PhD, an educator, facilitator, and coach. Maria discusses effective allyship, how to create containers that foster understanding, and what justice really means. We also get into the role of fire in climate action, why we need to center indigenous wisdom in climate work, and concrete examples of the innovation that comes from diversity.
When engaging in collaborative work, voices from extremely varied backgrounds are often present. Maria speaks to the importance of creating appropriate containers and space for this work to unfold. She shares how her current projects integrate dialogue and justice, assuring that risk and benefits are equally distributed, the procedural aspects of decision-making are considered, and judgment is suspended. 
Maria defines allyship as taking individual responsibility for actively advancing the rights and inclusion of people who are different from us and provides a framework for considering our various layers of access and power. We wrap by discussing fire, which plays a critical role across ecosystems, as well as spiritually, and exploring the role of healing for our planet, ourselves, and our relationships.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or on your favorite podcast platform.
Episode Outline:
(06:00) Creating effective containers for collaborative work in regenerative agriculture 
(12:00) The connection between dialogue and justice, plus an exercise to practice 
(18:14) How Maria’s immigration journey has shaped her
(24:56) Defining allyship and how to leverage our privilege to help others
(31:05) Examples of shifting power dynamics 
(35:34) Prioritizing Indigenous wisdom around fire and climate resilience 
(44:47) Why we should prioritize relationships over tasks for better collaboration
Resources Mentioned:
Emily Anne Brant
Rebecca Magee
Guest Info: 
Connect with Maria on LinkedIn: Maria Estrada
Reach out to Maria directly: maria@thecollective180.com
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About Lis: 
Lis Best is an executive coach for impact leaders, founder of the Girls Club Collective, and host of the Women Changing the World podcast.
Since launching her business in 2020, Lis has helped hundreds of leaders navigate ESG and sustainability careers, launch heart-centered businesses, and become more effective change agents.