Empowered Together

Previous Episodes
Sunday, June 1st, 2025

Ep7 Empowered Together show: Join us as we take a “Ghost Train” to the past with award-winning journalist, author, and activist Natalie Jacobsen

Hello friends! Welcome to this week’s episode The Empowered Together podcast and video show on InkandescentWomen.com — as well as InkandescentRadio.com and Inkandescent.tv

Today, we are thrilled to talk with one of our new members: journalist, author, and activist Natalie Jacobsen.

I’m Hope Katz Gibbs, founder of Inkandescent where we never cease to be amazing by the work of the professionals, we have the privilege of working with.

Before we jump into our Q&A here’s a little about this truly amazing woman. read more...

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Friday, May 2nd, 2025

Ep6 Empowered Together show: Marguerita Cheng, CFP® Pro is this week’s guest on the Empowered Together Network show spotlight. Don’t miss our Q&A!

Hello friends! Welcome to this week’s episode The Empowered Together podcast and video show on InkandescentWomen.com — as well as InkandescentRadio.com and Inkandescent.tv

Today we are thrilled to talk with one of our new members, Marguerita Cheng, CFP® Pro.

A longtime Inkandescent client who started working with us in 2012, it is amazing to see what this award-winning financial planner has accomplished in the decade since we met. You’ll learn all about it at the website we created to share all of her work and insights, www.MargueritaCheng.com and to date we have published two of her book, www.WealthManagementRules.com and www.DiaryofaCFPPro.com. Plus, last year we finished episode 105 of her podcast/video series, Margaritas with Marguerita. Amazing! read more...

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Thursday, May 1st, 2025

Ep5 Empowered Together show: Meet award-winning branding photographer Kimberly Brundage

Hello friends! Today we are thrilled to talk with one of our new members, award-winning photographer Kimberly Brundage. A longtime friend, Kim and I met in Richmond, VA shortly after I moved there in 2014. It was a women’s group that connected us, but it’s our passion for the arts and creativity that has kept our friendship growing over the years.

I’m Hope Katz Gibbs, founder of Inkandescent where we never cease to be amazing by the work of the professionals, we have the privilege of working with. read more...

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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

Ep4 Empowered Together show: Meet Life Coach Eva Ross helps us go deeper with “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Living Room Conversations, and more!

Who she is: Eva Ross is a Certified Life Coach and Board-Certified Health, a Wellness Coach and Mentor who helps people become their own life leaders. Based in Harbor Beach, Michigan, Eva Ross is a lifelong learner, seeker, and a student of life with a varied professional background. What she does: Helps people become their own life leaders.

Why she does it: “My experiences include 23 years in a corporate setting, conducting research in a K-12 environment, teaching as an educator in higher education, working as an education consultant, and a full-time doctoral student in an educational leadership program. Because of this varied cross-organizational background, coupled with a lifetime of reflection, learning, and integrating experiences, I am able to use my coaching expertise and skills to collaborate with you to gain clarity about your life path and address those obstacles that may threaten to pull you off that path. I am committed to your development—mind, body, and spirit. read more...

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Saturday, March 1st, 2025

Ep3 Empowered Together show: Learn to maximize your success with executive coach and author Susanne Mueller

Hello friends! You are watching another great episode of the Empowered Together Network series on Truly Amazing Women show here on Inkandescent Radio and Inkandescent TV. I’m Hope Katz Gibbs, founder of the organization that shines a light on women who are making strides and changing lives!

Today’s guess is a perfect example of that mission. Please meet executive coach, podcaster, and world-class athlete Susanne Mueller. She is the author of several books, including “50 Shades of Lipstick Leadership,” and the star of a TEDx talk called “Running and Life: The 5K Formula for your Success,” and so much more! read more...

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Thursday, January 2nd, 2025

Ep2 Empowered Together show: LifeChef AlinaZ helps us embody our archetypes

Alina says: The world is shifting in ways many astrologers have long predicted—an era of transformation, upheaval, and rebirth. The old structures are crumbling, exposing deep-seated wounds in our society and forcing us to confront the shadows we’ve ignored for too long. We are in the darkness before the dawn, the chaotic in-between where fear and uncertainty thrive. But this is not the end—this is the threshold of a new way of being. It is okay to feel scared, but we must not be still. Fear can paralyze or fuel action; the choice is ours. read more...

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Wednesday, January 1st, 2025

Ep1 The Truly Amazing Women series brings you a new show: Empowered Together — Calm, Cool, Compassionate, Changemakers

January 1, 2025: A Note from Cynthia de Lorenzi, founder of the international women's networking group Success in the City, and Hope Katz Gibbs, founder of Inkandescent® PR & Publishing Co., and producer of the Truly Amazing Women show

Dearest friends — We welcome you to a new show in our Truly Amazing Women TV series. It is born from conversations that we had with dozens of our friends following the results of the November 2024 election. Understandably, many women are feeling deeply unsettled, anxious, or fearful. The planned changes carry significant implications. So we are expanding Cynthia's Success in the City project and launching a group to bring all of us together in a caring community — Empowered Together. read more...

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