Have you ever heard the term Kingmaker? Well, meet the Queenmaker. Denise Conroy. A former 4X founder, 3X CEO, Fortune 500 CMO, and board director, she has been defying expectations her entire life, and she wants to help other women (and men) who are her executive coaching clients do the same. By looking inward.

Denise did that herself when, nearly four decades later, she finally reckoned with, and got therapy for…the impact of the gang rape she suffered when she was only five years old.

On today’s podcast we are looking at the cultural dynamics that created an environment where so many girls growing up in the 80s learned to turn their trauma into fuel. Denise’s attackers stole her sense of security, but not her compassion, including for her self, which came roaring back to her in the midst of a painful divorce while she was at a professional height she never thought she would reach. To hear her tell it, girls like her, on welfare, from small town Appalachia…weren’t destined for the C-suite.

But guess what? She proved herself wrong. And now, she’s helping clients of her executive coaching practice do the same. There’s just one hurdle: you’ve gotta have been in therapy first. Denise is not messing around with her clients’ potential…and she won’t allow them to, either.

More about Denise Conroy:
https://www.themyllc.com/
https://www.tiktok.com/@denise_conroy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/conroydenise

More about The Release Podcast:
https://thereleasepodcast.com/

More about the host, Poonam Sharma:
https://poonam.info/