Have you ever reached a crossroads in life and realized you've been making decisions based on everyone else's expectations but your own? Carole Podell's powerful journey illuminates how one authentic choice can transform everything.

Carole takes us through her remarkable career evolution from Emmy Award-winning broadcast producer to Vice President in financial services, and now as a life transition strategist helping women write their next chapters. She reveals how her neurodiversity—dyslexia and ADHD—became her superpower rather than a limitation, allowing her to approach challenges with unique perspective and creativity.

Carole introduces her Clarity Concept—a framework for identifying core values without judgment. She challenges the conventional notion that transitions require letting go of our past identities and instead, offers a liberating reframe that you're not letting it go, you're adding to it. This perspective honors all parts of our journey while creating space for growth and new possibilities.

Guest Bio:

Carole Podell is a Life Transition Strategist, Storyteller, and host of the podcast She Takes the Lead. She is also a Fertility Warrior and a very proud Single Mom by Choice. Carole helps ambitious working moms navigate major life transitions, showing them how to confidently write their next chapter with intention, joy, and in a way that honors who they truly are.

Her diverse 25-year career has taken her from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Broadcast Producer to Vice President in the multi-billion-dollar financial services industry. With a Twice-Neurodiverse brain, she learned early on that if she wanted to succeed at anything, her process to get there would need to be of her own design. She nurtured what she now calls, her “Creatively Linear” thinking to successfully carve out a unique personal and professional path. These hurdles taught her that although we must live life on its terms, we do not need to be victims of someone else’s circumstance, diagnosis, or bad choices. Our path need not be straight, but it should be of our own making.

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This episode was produced by six-two.studio

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Karen Sarmento is a passionate and dedicated Nurse Practitioner for more than 18 years, CEO at Sarmento Mentoring Services LLC, and a Proctor Gallagher Certified Mindset Mentor. She specializes in empowering women to tap into their true potential. She understands the unique challenges faced by women because she too has battled some major challenges in her life. Karen does not let that define her; she believes it’s the challenges that have made her the limitless woman she is today. She whole-heartedly believes we hold all the power within and that we should stand tall together in the pursuit of greatness.

Karen has served thousands over the course of her career and has spent many years studying directly with world class mentors to gain a deep understanding of the science behind human behaviour and learning about the success principals that create lasting change and transformation. She will share her insights with you so you can feel unstoppable and limitless too.

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