Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colleen Blum, Combs & Company, Successful Women, Tara Faquir, Tenacious Tuesday, Trustate, Try and Stop Me Podcast
Your Skills Are Transferable:
There is a common trend in some incredible successful women these days, they tend to start in one industry – build some serious life skills & then are able to pivot into a totally different unrelated field that they never thought they’d end up in.
Today’s guest Tara Faquir Co-Founder of Trustate sits down with us to tell us all about her journey from her widely successful, exciting retail life at Nordstrom & Rent The Runway which led to a huge pivot into a little non-profit called Girl Scouts & landed her right to where she is at today – running a remarkably untouched industry with her best friend whom she met during a college transition.
Tara, like all of our guests defines unstoppable. She knows her strength & more importantly when it’s time to pivot to her next challenge. Listen along as she shares her journey & teaches us how although we may not see it now but our skills are incredibly transferrable if we just took some time to look harder into our day to days.
Check out Tara on LinkedIn and https://www.trustate.com/
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colleen Blum, Combs & Company, Gretta Zutz, Tenacious Tuesday, Try & Stop Me Podcast
Fertility Isn’t A Dirty Word – How Opening Up About It Changed Everything
Fertility is a hush hush topic that unless you’re in it, many don’t understand. Time to shake that up.
Gretta Zutz sits down with us today to share her journey, how opening up about her story changed everything for her and her family and how she is now dedicated to implementing fertility in her financial services practice in order to support her clients & friends. If you’d like to have a conversation with Gretta about support groups, any doctors she used etc., feel free to connect with Gretta directly on LinkedIn by clicking HERE!
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colleen Blum, Lester Morales, Tenacious Tuesday, Try & Stop Me Podcast
Choose Your Own Adventure With Guest Lester Morales
“Take the next step or choose to let it cripple you.” The wise words from the incredibly impactful man himself, Lester Morales is our next guest.
Lester is no newbie to the game of a go-getter. After many years as a super successful sales leader, he took a good look around and knew there was a bigger impact to be made in his industry & more importantly his life. With the help of wise words from his mom and a strong belief in himself, he chose to take the leap of faith and opened the doors of Next Impact, LLC.
What happened would be enough to knock many others of course, still after major hits he has proven to never back down and is as successful as ever running a now 7 figure business he gets to call his own.
Lester’s journey is a true definition that you don’t get to choose the cards you’re dealt on the journey in life, what you do get to choose is how you move forward to make an impact from that.
Connect with Lester on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lester-j-morales-5064b91/
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colleen Blum, Rob Pecha, Tenacious Tuesday, Try & Stop Me Podcast
Check out the latest episode of the Try & Stop Me Podcast with host, Colleen Blum.
Lessons In The Redirection
Rob Pecha dreamed about fighting for his country but after 2 years of training he was told he could no longer continue.
Listen along as he sits down to tell us all about the lessons he was able to take from those day and turn them into motivation still to this day in his life and career.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lessons-in-the-redirection/id1525146944?i=1000508125920
Filed under: Colleen Blum, Combs & Company, Combs & Company Blog, Motivational, Tenacious Tuesday, Try and Stop Me Podcast | Tags: Colleen Blum, Michael Shein, Tenacious Tuesday, The Hype Handbook, Try and Stop Me Podcast
Try & Stop Me Podcast with Host: Colleen Blum
Cult Leaders, Mischief Maker and Boundary Breakers– what do they all have in common whether we like to admit it or not? They understand what attracts like minded individuals and tap into those strengths to get HYPE from humans.
Michael Schein has been studying individuals for years gathering some interesting facts. As he says, “never in history have people been so susceptible to propaganda and persuasion as they are now. Hype truly runs our world.”
Now what if we could tap into the hype and use the strategies for good in the world and impactful business success? Well he has done just that, Mike is going to share with us his journey, which lead him to the creation of his new book “The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable Success Secrets From the World’s Greatest Propagandists, Self-Promoters, Cult Leaders, Mischief Makers, and Boundary Breakers”.
Buckle up for a truly interesting conversation.
You can grab The Hype Handbook on Amazon!
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Colleen Blum, Combs & Company, Deb Koenigsberger, Hearts of Gold, Tenacious Tuesday, Try and Stop Me Podcast
Host: Colleen Blum
Guest: Deb Koenigsberger
The Golden Heart Tackling Homelessness in NYC
Have you ever donated to an organization because you REALLY believed in the mission behind what/ who they were helping? But have you actually ever wondered WHO was the person that started it?
Who helped mold them? What happened in their life to make them to become this type of giving, selfless, incredible human? Where did it all start?
If you love a great story where there are just real feel good moments and you like to learn the behind the scenes of the special people who are making this world a better place to live, then keep listening, because today is just about that.
Today we sit down with my friend Deb Koenigsberger who is the Founder & CEO of, Hearts of Gold. This is a life changing organization all about helping homeless mothers & Children in NYC. Their mission is to help the moms gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence that they need to be able to transition out of the shelter system and become fully independent and productive members of society.
Checkout a short preview of the latest episode!
Check out behind the scenes photos on the @tryandstopmepodcast Instagram page
Guest: Deb Koensigberger
Founder & CEO of Hearts of Gold
Music: No Matter How Hard We Try – Ben Goldstein
Feeling – Aaron Kellim
Podcast is Available on All Podcast Listening Platforms.
“The Golden Heart Tackling Homelessness in NYC – Try And Stop Me Podcast.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Andy Neary, Bullpen Sessions, Colleen Blum, Combs & Company, Major League Mindset, Tenacious Tuesday, Try and Stop Me Podcast
Host: Colleen Blum
Guest: Andy Neary
Mindset Lessons Learned On The Mound
Today, I am super pumped to bring you a fun, energetic, kickass business role model & overall JUST a good human Andy Neary.
Andy’s a former Professional Baseball Player. He’s now a Business Coach, Keynote Speaker & Founder of “the Complete Game”, coaching program.
Andy’s mission is to help business professionals build the mindset, habits, and rituals as he says “off the field” that lead to all-star performance on it. I’m obsessed with what he has going on today because it fits right into something I think we have all dealt with in our life at some point – a defeating mindset. Listen along as he teaches us how to flip the script into developing what he now calls #majorleaguemindset.
Watch a preview of the episode here!
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Check him out at www.andyneary.com
Check out his podcast Bullpen Sessions
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Filed under: Colleen Blum, Combs & Company, Insurance Women, Marketing Yourself, Mental Health, Motivational, Tenacious Tuesday, Try and Stop Me Podcast | Tags: Colleen Blum, Combs & Company, Mental Health, Mental Wellness, Mike Veny, Self Employed Momentum, Tenacious Tuesday, Transforming Stigma, Try and Stop Me Podcast
Episode 6 Mental Health Is An Asset, So Let’s Talk About It
Host: Colleen Blum
Guest: Mike Veny
Mental Health is something society still struggles to talk about or address, the one good thing about COVID is that problem seems to be slowly changing.
Mike Veny is one of the Top Mental Health Speakers in the US talking about just that. Listen as he shares his story through his mental own health journey, how is mother helped him find an outlet and how he is using his mental health as an asset to help change lives all across the country.
Curious for a preview of the episode? Take a listen below!
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Guest Contact Information:
Mike Veny: LinkedIn
Website: https://www.mikeveny.com/
Author of: Transforming Stigma: How to Become a Mental Wellness Superhero
Podcast: MXV Self Employed Momentum
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Filed under: Colleen Blum, Combs & Company, Motivational, Tenacious Tuesday, Try and Stop Me Podcast | Tags: Chris Schembra, Colleen Blum, Tenacious Tuesday, Try and Stop Me Podcast
The Life Changing Question: Gratitude & Pasta with Chris Schembra
Host: Colleen M Blum
Have you ever sat back and took a moment to think about all of the experiences you have really been through? Has anyone ever had a serious life altering impact in making who you are today – whether they were good or bad? Have you ever taken the time to be grateful for those moments which lead you to become the person you are today?
Todays episode is ALL ABOUT THAT. Gratitude.
Our next guest is Chris Schembra. Chris is the Founder of the 7:47 Club. He is the Best Selling Author of Gratitude & Pasta: The Secret Sauce For Human Connection. USA Today named him the “Gratitude Guru”.
Chris has gone through his fair share of try and stop me moments, battling depression, suicide, rehab & even jail. But once he was able to see life, experience life – his world shifted. Listen along as he shares his story about how Gratitude and Pasta forever changed his world.
Guest: Find him on LinkedIn Chris Schembra or at www.747club.org
Contact to attend a dinner: David@747club.org
Podcast Instagram: @tryandstopmepodcast
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