Episode 100 is here!

What started as a way to share stories from my book has become nearly one hundred honest conversations with women creating lives they love: navigating leadership, reinvention, ambition, motherhood, money, wellness, and meaning in real time, without pretending it’s easy.

In this milestone episode, I’m looking back not just to celebrate, but to reflect.

Across 100 conversations, clear patterns kept emerging.The same lessons. The same reminders. The same truths we all need when life gets messy.

In this episode, we revisit the themes that have shaped Possibilities from the very beginning:

• Why we’re all works in progress & why that’s not a flaw

• The courage to pivot when what looks good on paper no longer feels true

• Self-care as a strategy, not a luxury

• Money, power, and agency & why confidence with money changes everything

• Motherhood, work, and the reality of juggling it all

• Meaning, impact, and the legacy we’re creating every day

Along the way, you’ll hear short, powerful moments from past guests that have become unintentional masterclasses hidden inside real conversations.

This episode is for anyone who’s evolving, questioning, rebuilding, or quietly redefining what success looks like in this season of life.

If you’ve been listening since Episode 1, thank you.If you’re just finding Possibilities with Monique de Maio, this is a beautiful place to begin.

Listen. Follow. And if this show has resonated with you, please take a moment to leave a review, it truly helps this community grow.

Here’s to the next 100 conversations AND to creating a life you love.

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What if the reason love feels so hard has nothing to do with effort, timing, or “doing the work” and everything to do with how high-achieving women are conditioned to relate to themselves?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Lynda Williams, transformational coach, entrepreneur, and host of the PS I Love Me podcast, for a deeply honest conversation about love, self-acceptance, and why success in life does not automatically translate to fulfillment in relationships.

Lynda shares her journey from growing up in a small village in England to building a successful PR agency, and ultimately stepping into her purpose as a coach helping women reconnect with their intuition, worth, and capacity to receive love. Together, Monique and Lynda unpack why many high-achieving women struggle with intimacy, how masculine overdrive impacts relationships, and why mass-market dating advice often misses the mark for ambitious women.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why love is received, not achieved

• How high-performing women disconnect from self-acceptance without realizing it

• The balance between masculine drive and feminine intuition

• Why success does not mean you must choose between independence and partnership

• How self-trust changes the way we show up in love and life

• Why wanting love does not make you weak or “behind”
  

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction to Linda Williams and Her Journey

02:46 - From PR to Coaching: A Transformational Journey

05:44 - The Evolve Woman Program: Empowering High Achieving Women

08:22 - Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energies

11:08 - The Importance of Self-Worth in Relationships

14:03 - Intuition and Decision Making: Trusting Your Gut

16:56 - The Connection Between Well-Being and Empowerment

21:08 - Reconnecting with Our Bodies

23:18 - The Power Within: Self-Healing and Authenticity

25:42 - Navigating Modern Dating: Authenticity vs. External Validation

28:26 - Time Management and Prioritizing Love

31:15 - The Importance of Love and Connection

33:55- Finding Genuine Connections: Values and Standards

36:04 - Living with Purpose: Following Your Passion

37:14 - Learning from Past Experiences

39:30 - Advice for the Future: Staying True to Yourself

This conversation is grounding, affirming, and necessary for women who want meaningful connection without abandoning themselves in the process.

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Lynda Williams is a transformational coach, entrepreneur, and host of the PS I Love Me podcast. She is passionate about helping high-achieving women reconnect with their self-worth, intuition, and capacity to receive love without abandoning who they are.

Originally from a small village in England, Lynda built a successful career in public relations before stepping into her true calling as a coach and guide for women navigating love, identity, and self-acceptance. Her work centers on breaking old patterns, balancing masculine drive with feminine intuition, and redefining what fulfillment looks like beyond external success.

Through her coaching and podcast, Lynda helps women stop performing, start trusting themselves, and open up to deeper connections in both life and relationships.

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What if your job finally supported the life you actually want?

In this episode, Monique sits down with remote-work expert, entrepreneur, and founder of Remote Rebellion, Michelle Coulson, to unpack what freedom really looks like beyond the office, beyond expectations, and beyond the 9–5.

Michelle has helped hundreds of people land remote roles that align with their values. Originally from the UK, she spent seven years in recruitment before the pandemic pushed her into the remote world. Instead of staying in London, she boarded a flight to Bali and never looked back. When her company demanded a return to the office, she refused, quit, and built Remote Rebellion from the ground up.

Today, Michelle teaches people how to design careers defined by freedom, flexibility, and clarity — not burnout or outdated workplace rules.

This conversation blends career strategy, mindset, personal branding, and real talk about remote work. If you’re craving flexibility, curious about remote work, or imagining a different kind of life, this episode is your permission slip.

What You’ll Learn:
→ Why remote work is not just working from home→ What “freedom” really means (and why it looks different for everyone)→ The mindset trap that kills most job searches→ How to stand out in a competitive remote market→ What successful job seekers do differently→ How structure can create more freedom→ How to build connection without an office→ Why personalization is your superpower→ How to clearly communicate your value→ The #1 first step if you’re remote-curious→ Michelle’s best (and worst) career advice

Timestamps
00:00 The Dream of Remote Work02:46 The Birth of Remote Rebellion05:53 Entrepreneurship Challenges08:39 Defining Freedom11:27 Structure & Flexibility14:19 Remote Work Myths17:09 Building Community22:01 Mindset Barriers27:47 Personal Branding30:30 Remote Job Strategy34:28 First Steps35:44 Career Advice37:27 A Message to Your Younger Self

If you’re navigating change, craving flexibility, or dreaming of remote work… this episode is for you.
Your next chapter starts with one decision.

Don’t just work for your life — design it.

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About Our Guest
Michelle Coulson is the CEO & Founder of Remote Rebellion, a global career platform helping people design careers around their lives. After seven years in recruitment, the 2020 lockdown changed everything. She relocated to Bali, embraced remote life, and later turned down a mandatory return-to-office mandate to create something better.

Since then, she’s helped professionals worldwide land remote roles and partnered with remote-first companies to connect them with top talent. Her mission is simple: help people work for their lives — not the other way around.

Connect with Michelle & Remote Rebellion
Instagram: @remoterebellionLinkedIn: Michelle CoulsonWebsite: remoterebellion.com

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If you listened to Part 1, you know how Jodi Scott-Lyons built four wellness brands from a kitchen table into a national presence. What you do not know yet is what happened when that entire world was turned upside down overnight.

In Part 2, Jodi takes us behind the scenes into a chapter most founders never talk about. The chapter where everything falls apart. The chapter where you question your identity, your purpose, your leadership and your future. The chapter where resilience is not a concept but a lifeline.

This is the story of losing everything and finding a way back.

We talk about

→ what happens when the company you sold unravels overnight

→ the human cost of laying off your entire team, including your own family

→ the financial free fall and what it took just to stay afloat

→ the mindset shift and small daily practices that pulled her out of paralysis

→ how she ultimately negotiated the buyback and rebuilt on her terms

→ why presence, not perfection, is the real superpower in reinvention

If you are navigating a transition or rebuilding after a setback, this episode will stay with you long after you finish listening.

About Our Guest:

Jodi Scott-Lyons is the Co-Founder and CEO of Green Goo, a purpose-driven natural products company known for its plant-based first aid, body care, and wellness innovations made by hand with heart. A lifelong advocate for holistic health, Jodi blends science, soul, and storytelling to build brands that help people feel better, do better, and live more connected to the present.

Under her leadership, Green Goo has grown from a family kitchen project into a nationally distributed brand found in thousands of stores across the U.S. She and her family have since expanded their wellness ecosystem to include Southern Butter, a clean intimate body care line; Ova Moon, a women’s supplement brand designed for every hormonal stage; and FAM Botanicals, a luxury plant-based skincare line.

After surviving a devastating acquisition that nearly cost her everything — including her home — Jodi reclaimed her company and rebuilt from the ground up. Today, she’s a passionate voice for mindful leadership, resilience, and self-care, reminding women in leadership that success and wellbeing must coexist.

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What happens when a purpose-driven founder refuses to follow the rules AND builds not one but four wellness brands straight from her kitchen table?...

You get Jodi Scott-Lyons, CEO, creator, innovator, Renaissance woman, and the definition of “mission with a heartbeat.”

In Part 1 of this powerful two-part conversation, Jodi walks us through how she, her mother, and her sister bootstrapped Green Goo from a backyard herbal project into a nationally recognized brand carried in thousands of stores. She breaks down the real startup journey: the messy middle, the garage production lines, the skepticism from manufacturers, and the moment when the military literally became one of their biggest unexpected ambassadors.

We dig into:

→ How Green Goo, Southern Butter, Ova Moon, and FAM Botanicals were born and why each one meets a different phase of a woman’s life

→ The surprising origin story behind a sexual wellness line that started because customers… got creative

→ Why the OTC aisle was overdue for disruption

→ What it takes to scale without compromising integrity

→ How to lead when your team expects you to know everything and you’re still figuring it out yourself

→ What it means to actually build culture (not just talk about it) in a family business

This episode is packed with entrepreneurial real talk, leadership gold, and life-changing lessons about purpose, innovation, and showing up even when you’re in over your head.

Plus: Jodi shares a limited-time code MONIQUE16 for 16% off at GreenGoo.com.

If you’ve ever dreamed of starting something meaningful, or you’re in the thick of building your legacy, this interview will hit you right in the gut (in the best way).

Listen now… and don’t forget: Part 2 is where the plot twist happens.

About Our Guest:

Jodi Scott-Lyons is the Co-Founder and CEO of Green Goo, a purpose-driven natural products company known for its plant-based first aid, body care, and wellness innovations made by hand with heart. A lifelong advocate for holistic health, Jodi blends science, soul, and storytelling to build brands that help people feel better, do better, and live more connected to the present.

Under her leadership, Green Goo has grown from a family kitchen project into a nationally distributed brand found in thousands of stores across the U.S. She and her family have since expanded their wellness ecosystem to include Southern Butter, a clean intimate body care line; Ova Moon, a women’s supplement brand designed for every hormonal stage; and FAM Botanicals, a luxury plant-based skincare line.

After surviving a devastating acquisition that nearly cost her everything — including her home — Jodi reclaimed her company and rebuilt from the ground up. Today, she’s a passionate voice for mindful leadership, resilience, and self-care, reminding women in leadership that success and wellbeing must coexist.

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Your company has a culture. The only question is whether you designed it… or drifted into it.

In this episode, Monique sits down with Brittany Drozd, a CEO thought partner, licensed therapist, and Harvard-trained organizational behavior expert who helps leaders diagnose what’s really broken inside their companies, and rebuild cultures with intention, integrity, and evidence-based clarity.

If your organization feels “off,” your team is overwhelmed, or you’re stuck reacting instead of leading, this conversation will feel like someone finally turned the lights on.

We unpack:

→ Why most leaders treat symptoms instead of root causes

→ The hidden cost of misalignment, exceptions, and “just one more workaround”

→ Why the wrong clients quietly destroy morale and profit

→ The neuroscience of culture — and why your people already know when you’re out of integrity

→ How to identify the pain point behind the pain point

→ What conscious culture actually looks like in real companies

→ The future of leadership (hint: automation won’t save you — self-awareness will)

This isn’t a soft conversation about values posters and pizza Fridays. This is about performance, retention, trust, and whether your business can scale without burning out the humans inside it.

About Today’s Guest:

Brittany Drozd is a powerhouse CEO adviser, culture strategist, and licensed therapist who blends behavioral science with real-world business strategy. With a Harvard background in psychology and organizational behavior, she’s helped organizations achieve everything from 35% revenue lifts to dramatically healthier teams and leadership alignment. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, and she’s known for her ability to read the room, catch the unsaid, and show leaders how to build culture by design instead of default.

If you lead, manage, influence, or aspire to create impact — this episode is your blueprint for intentional, grounded, human-first leadership.

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When you think “beauty industry,” you probably don’t think transparency. You think filters, filler, and hype.

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Giella Poblocki, founder and CEO of GIELLA Custom Blend Cosmetics, the cosmetics and skin care company Monique has used almost exclusively for over a decade herself, to talk about what real beauty looks like… inside and out.

They unpack what it takes to build a business with integrity in an industry built on illusion, why “clean beauty” is really clean business, and how mindset is the secret ingredient behind every great brand and confident woman.

Giella shares what she’s learned after 20+ years leading a women-owned company that has survived every trend and still keeps growing, through transparency, education, and doing the work.

You’ll learn:

→ Why ingredient integrity mirrors brand integrity

→ How education builds loyalty better than marketing

→ Why affirmations and mindset matter more than hype

→ What “doing the work” really looks like in business and in life

Whether you’re leading a team, building a brand, or just trying to show up as your best self, this one will hit home.

Listen in and rethink what beauty, business, and confidence can really look like.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Giella Poblocki and Her Journey

06:42 The Importance of Clean Ingredients in Cosmetics

11:43 Custom Blending: The Art and Science of Makeup

16:12 Empowering Women in the Beauty Industry

20:44 Mindset and Affirmations for Success

24:18 The Power of Community Among Women

28:42 Overcoming Insecurities Through Beauty

31:51 Career Advice and Lessons Learned

About Our Guest:

Giella Poblocki is the founder and CEO of GIELLA Custom Blend Cosmetics. With over 30 years in the beauty industry, Giella is known for her innovative approach to custom makeup and her commitment to using only the highest-quality ingredients.

She began her career at Saks while still in school, later spending 12 years as National Sales Manager for a custom cosmetics line at Vidal Sassoon Salons. When the brand changed hands, Giella took the reins and built it into her own company.

In 2004, she was named Innovator of the Year by the Independent Cosmetics and Makeup Distributors. Her work has been featured in over 300 fashion magazines and on major networks like NBC, ABC, and CBS.

Giella also leads in-person and online workshops, teaching the next generation how to blend beauty with business.

For more information, visit giella.com. Listeners/viewers to this podcast can use PROMO CODE MONIQUE20 for 20% off their first order!

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What if the most important conversations we need to have as women (about health, mentorship, and midlife growth) are still the ones we don’t talk about enough?

In this episode of Possibilities with Monique de Maio, Monique sits down with Kristen Fairback, Executive Vice President of National Sales at SHE Media, for an honest, girlfriend-style conversation about leadership, mentorship, and the realities of women’s health and aging.

Kristen opens up about her decades-long career in media, what she wishes she had known earlier in her leadership journey, and how mentorship and community have shaped her success. Together, they dig into the importance of credible information, shared experiences, and breaking outdated taboos around women’s wellness and midlife.

We get into:

→ Why mentorship isn’t optional. It is essential for women in every career stage.

→ How building community and finding your “tribe” creates personal and professional growth.

→ Why open conversations about women’s health, aging, and wellness matter more than ever.

→ The power of accountability, planning, and curiosity in shaping a fulfilling career.

→ How media and the creator economy are helping women turn their passions into purpose.

About Our Guest:

Kristen Fairback is the Executive Vice President, National Sales, for SHE Media. She is responsible for overseeing sales strategy and revenue across multiple aspects of the business including marketing services, influencer marketing, events, and programmatic.

Kristen is known as a collaborative and consultative multi-platform seller, responsible for driving sales and sales strategy across a variety of verticals including health and wellness, pregnancy and parenting, entertainment, CPG, beauty, and food. Prior to joining SHE Media, Kristen held positions as SVP, Lifestyle Sales at Everyday Health and Whattoexpect.com, Publisher of Digital and Entertainment at Parade, and Associate Publisher at Entertainment Weekly and EW.com.

Chapters

00:00 – Introduction to Kristen Fairback and Her Journey

03:02 – Women in Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities

05:53 – The Importance of Mentorship and Community

08:57 – Creating Content for Women: SHE Media’s Mission 12:07 – Navigating Women’s Health Conversations

14:50 – Empowering Women Through Community and Information

18:06 – Honest Conversations on Aging and Health

21:03 – Finding Trustworthy Information in Women’s Health

24:26 – Navigating Health and Wellness in Midlife

30:30 – The Importance of Community and Open Dialogue

34:05 – Career Advice: Planning and Accountability

39:01 – Passion vs. Skill: Finding Your Path

42:33 – Wisdom for Your Younger Self

44:03 – The Power of Community and Mentorship

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