Books

📚 Books That Lead the Way

These episodes dive into powerful nonfiction books—many of them chart-topping must-reads—that help us better understand how to lead ourselves and others. Through these conversations, we explore emotional intelligence, personal beliefs, and the social constructs that shape our decisions and leadership.

These books were pivotal in my own journey from corporate life to entrepreneurship, offering insights that helped me redefine success and leadership on my own terms.

You'll also find curated playlists on our YouTube channel featuring episodes that unpack these transformative reads and how they apply to your leadership path.

248: When Pleasing Hurts: Healing the Mother-Daughter Dynamic
Girl, Take the Lead!August 27, 2025x
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00:44:5841.18 MB

248: When Pleasing Hurts: Healing the Mother-Daughter Dynamic

Katherine Fabrizio, Boomer, psychotherapist with 35 years of experience, joins us to explore the often hidden dynamics between mothers and daughters. Drawing from her extensive clinical work and her book, Katherine dives into how good daughters navigate boundaries, individuation, and maternal expectations...

215. Exploring Mel Robbins’ Let Them Theory as a Way to Live with Love & Intentionality
Girl, Take the Lead!January 29, 2025x
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00:18:4817.21 MB

215. Exploring Mel Robbins’ Let Them Theory as a Way to Live with Love & Intentionality

In this very special episode of “Girl, Take the Lead!”, we celebrate our 3rd anniversary by diving into Mel Robbins’ inspiring new book, Let Them Theory . Mel’s simple yet transformative idea encourages us to release control, embrace love, and focus on what truly matters. Through key takeaways from Mel’s ...

212. Understanding Ourselves Through Talk: A Conversation with Dr. Amanda Kenderes

212. Understanding Ourselves Through Talk: A Conversation with Dr. Amanda Kenderes

Dr. Amanda Kenderes, author of the book, “ Talk Types: How What We Say Reveals Who We Are ” joins us to talk about her talk type model. Also joining and giving generational perspectives are Yo's daughters: Kiki, the GenZer, and Emma, the Millennial. AMANDA is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at ...

156. In the Presence of Light: Exploring NDEs with Dr. Bruce Greyson’s Book: After.
Girl, Take the Lead!May 02, 2024x
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00:17:4816.3 MB

156. In the Presence of Light: Exploring NDEs with Dr. Bruce Greyson’s Book: After.

This is a shorter episode with Yo Canny building on our previous episode where we explored Amber Ontiveros’ near-death experience. I had so many questions after hearing her story, I knew I wanted to know more so here are some of the ones we explored: What are common near-death experiences based on resea...

148. Seeing Deeply: Exploring Empathy from How to Know a Person by David Brooks
Girl, Take the Lead!April 04, 2024x
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148. Seeing Deeply: Exploring Empathy from How to Know a Person by David Brooks

This is a Sound Bite episode that builds on our previous episode with Bernadette Smith where we talked about Diversity, Equality and Inclusion efforts covering a variety of topics. One of them was about empathy and sincerity. While we have covered this topic with BrenĂ© Brown’s book, Atlas of the Heart, ...

145. Part 1: Navigating Relationships with Candor and Trust - Insights from Peter Yaholkovsky and Sue Staker

145. Part 1: Navigating Relationships with Candor and Trust - Insights from Peter Yaholkovsky and Sue Staker

Peter Yaholkovsky and his partner in life, Sue Staker , Boomers, join Yo to discuss Peter’s book, Listening for Candor: Building Trust in Relationships that Matter, which illuminates a path for trust conversations by starting with a shared sense of what matters. Peter has an extensive background in the li...

140. From Victim to Creator: A Deep Dive into the book, Energy Leadership, by Bruce D Schneider

140. From Victim to Creator: A Deep Dive into the book, Energy Leadership, by Bruce D Schneider

This is a “ Girl, Take the Lead!” Sound Bite which builds off our previous episode with Brandy Mabra who provided us the basics about the 7 levels of Energetic Leadership. This episode digs into the book, Energy Leadership, The 7 Level Framework for Mastery in Life and Business by Bruce D Schenider, the f...

138. Embracing Change: Breaking Free from the Comfort Zone
Girl, Take the Lead!February 29, 2024x
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138. Embracing Change: Breaking Free from the Comfort Zone

This is a “ Girl, Take the Lead!” Sound Bite which builds off our previous episode with Lata Hamilton, Change Management Expert. Lata inspired us to adapt to the future which will be filled with tons of change. In this episode we’ll explore the question: “How can we help ourselves keep open to learning” w...

128. From Vision to Reality: Lessons from Mike Dooley's Manifesting Change
Girl, Take the Lead!January 23, 2024x
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128. From Vision to Reality: Lessons from Mike Dooley's Manifesting Change

This episode pulls together a couple themes we’ve had this month: change and making things easier. We dig into Mike Dooley’s book, Manifesting Change, It Couldn’t be Easier.   Here are 3 takeaways from today’s episode:   1. Manifesting change can be easy – key is to know our end result and then mo...