Giovanna Rossi: wellness and leadership coach
203 episodes listed below
Feminist leadership for real life.
The Well Woman Show is a measured interview series about women navigating ambition, family, burnout, money, creativity, and social systems. Giovanna Rossi frames personal stories through an intersectional feminist lens, linking individual choices to the policies and power structures around them.
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The Well Woman Show is a measured, interview-led series about women’s leadership, wellbeing, and agency. Its center of gravity is not quick inspiration. It is the patient work of connecting personal experience to larger systems. Giovanna Rossi guides conversations with guests whose stories move across economics, caregiving, money, creativity, technology, governance, family roles, and recovery from old expectations. The show often begins with a lived problem: exhaustion, comparison, underpayment, displacement, self-doubt, or the sense of not fitting the available box. Then it widens the frame. Care work becomes an economic issue. A messy houseplant becomes a question about impossible standards. A creative life becomes a model for belonging and voice. Financial planning becomes a route toward serenity, confidence, and measurable change. The tone is warm and steady. It gives guests room to speak at length, then folds their stories back into questions about patriarchy, workplace culture, family pressure, and social policy. Recent episodes range from feminist economics with Lucía Cirmi Obón to career tradeoffs with Dr. Corinne Low, creative reinvention with Giovanna Capone, community through art with Amanda Pascali, women’s financial futures with Christine Joy Luck Sarno, AI leadership with Molly Mahoney, and systems failure with Jen Hatmaker. The show is not afraid of advocacy. It is also not rushed or slogan-driven. Its best moments are specific: a guest naming the cost of impossible ideals, a host translating that into a broader pattern, and the conversation returning to what women can claim, release, or rebuild. For listeners drawn to women’s empowerment, mindfulness, feminist analysis, and professional development, it offers a grounded alternative to productivity chatter. It asks what success costs, who has been carrying that cost, and what a fuller life might require.
Made for: For professional women, entrepreneurs, caregivers, creatives, and leaders who want reflective conversations about ambition, wellbeing, and structural change. It especially fits listeners who prefer thoughtful interviews over quick advice.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by tying personal growth to systems-level questions about care, money, patriarchy, work, technology, and family expectations. Its tone is supportive without treating burnout or insecurity as purely individual problems.
Giovanna Rossi interviews high achieving, professional women who have overcome anxiety, burnout and insecurity to become healthy, fulfilled and powerful. We share our challenges and successes as women leaders, entrepreneurs, mothers, daughters and sisters. On the "Just Giovanna" episodes, she shares insights and coaching based on mindfulness, feminism and her 20+ years working with women claiming their power and living with joy and ease. Whether it’s physical or mental health, juggling life, work and family, professional development or financial success, a Well Woman is passionate about achieving her highest level of well being. Each episode is packed with tips and be...
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A grounded case for treating care as part of the economy, not a private burden.
Giovanna Rossi and LucÃa Cirmi Obón treat care as part of the economy, not as a side issue. The discussion moves from the invisible labor that keeps homes, communities, and workplaces going to the harder question of how policy can stop leaving that cost on women.
A clear-eyed case for treating hard choices as tradeoffs, not failure.
Dr. Corinne Low treats having it all as a set of tradeoffs, and the discussion stays tied to career ambition, parenting, home standards, comparison, and values.
A reflective conversation about how a marriage collapse can expose the systems underneath it.
The episode follows Jen Hatmaker and Giovanna Rossi as Hatmaker looks at how a marriage collapse forced her to examine the systems that shaped her life.
A practical case for flexibility as strategy, not sentiment.
Workplace flexibility is treated here as a business choice with wider reach, not a side benefit. Giovanna Rossi keeps the focus on how organizations can build systems that let people stay engaged and work well, rather than treating flexibility as a simple policy add-on.
A measured case for treating overwork as a systems problem, with care work and workplace policy at the center.
The Well Woman Show treats Bridget Schulte's work on overwork as a larger systems question: what would it take to make work fit human lives? It is at its best when it links individual strain to the structures around it, especially the pressures on working parents, caregivers,…
Elizabeth Day asks well-known guests to name three failures and what they taught them.
Forgiveness practice, one sentence at a time.
Care is the starting point.
Let go of the guilt.
This episode features a conversation with Giovanna Capone about using creativity as a tool for reinvention and challenging traditional expectations, particularly for women.
This episode features musician Amanda Pascali discussing how she turned personal challenges into strength by building a community through her art for those who feel displaced.
This episode explores how women can build financial serenity and a wealth ecosystem despite systemic disadvantages like the gender wage gap, featuring insights from Christine Joy Luck Sarno.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Molly Mahoney about using AI and authenticity to empower women in tech and business, while overcoming anxiety and burnout.
Giovanna Rossi speaks with Jen Hatmaker about Awake and the systems that shaped her life.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Maya West about leading with authenticity and using reconciliation processes for personal and systemic change.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Arielle Ford about her journey from book publicist to novelist, focusing on personal transformation and overcoming fear.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Dr.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews women leaders about overcoming anxiety and burnout while navigating systemic inequities and finding fulfillment.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews psychotherapist Annie Wright about healing from relational trauma and building a thriving life for ambitious women.
Giovanna Rossi opens with a broad look at workplace flexibility and diversity.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews HR leader Francine Campos about her work in employee engagement and leadership development, framed within the show's theme of helping women overcome anxiety and burnout.
Giovanna Rossi talks with Bridget Schulte about overwork and the systems that keep it going.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Debra Garrison, Executive Director of the Grief Center, about her personal journey with grief and her work supporting grieving families.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Scarlett Lewis about choosing love and post-traumatic growth after the Sandy Hook tragedy.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Representative Pamela Herndon about her work as a politician and social justice advocate, while promoting upcoming community events.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews author Katie Arnold about her new book and overcoming limitations to embrace authentic gifts.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Dr.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Dr.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Jennifer London about chronic illnesses affecting women, gender disparities in healthcare, and improving mental health.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Raquel Benavidez about Latina Equal Pay and discusses International Women's Day and recent news on IVF and reproductive rights.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Sylvia Gazarian about the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project, destigmatizing abortion, and thinking beyond Roe v.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Kathy Spiller of Feminist Majority about the feminist movement and the new book '50 Years of Ms.'
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Ellen Galinsky about work-life balance, children's development, and women's empowerment.
This episode features an interview with Lisa Niver, author of 'Bravish', discussing how to embrace change, set bold goals, and overcome fear and self-doubt for personal growth.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews Marianne Williamson about her 2024 presidential campaign, spiritual leadership, and policy positions on economic rights and women's issues.
This episode explores gender gaps in self-esteem and power, featuring Dr.
This episode features Dr.
Host Giovanna Rossi interviews DEI strategist Lily Zhang about implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations.
This episode features an interview with Kim Brown, CEO of Girls Inc.