She Lift Project Podcast

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Women are experiencing higher levels of career success than ever before. How did they get there? These are their stories. What do they do? What was their journey like? What challenges did they face along the way? What advice do they offer? Cynthia Kirkpatrick, a Senior Financial Advisor at Moneta Group, conducts face to face interviews with women who are at the top of their fields. They reveal the secrets of their success and share their wisdom with you. The shows contain many unexpected twists and turns, and no rise to the top is without sacrifices. Learn what these women went through and are still going through as they pursue personal and professional greatness.

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October 20, 2026Episode 851 hr 16 min

#85 - How to Build a Successful Team and Help Others Grow | Diane Compardo

Cynthia Kirkpatrick welcomes her boss and mentor, Diane Compardo , a partner at Moneta , for a conversation about building a successful team and helping others grow. Having experienced Diane’s leadership firsthand, Cynthia brings a personal perspective to what it takes to create a culture of excellence where people feel valued, supported, and challenged to do their best work. Diane shares how she developed confidence and learned to lead with her heart while navigating difficult decisions and honest conversations. For anyone building a career or leading a team, this episode offers practical advice on handling conflict, receiving feedback, and earning trust. Diane explains why she welcomes different perspectives, surrounds herself with talented people, and takes such satisfaction in watching them succeed. Their conversation explores how to build a business where high standards and deep care for people strengthen each other.

October 6, 2026Episode 841 hr 15 min

#84 - How to Reinvent Your Career and Find Your Next Chapter | Betsy Cohen

How do you build a new career chapter after years of success? Betsy Cohen joins Cynthia Kirkpatrick to discuss the skills, relationships, and uncomfortable transitions that helped her evolve from corporate leadership to nonprofit leadership and philanthropic futurism . Betsy shares the childhood experience that shaped her independence, her mother's gift of shattered glass, the setbacks behind her corporate success, and practical advice on asking for mentorship and preparing for a career move. She also explains how looking ahead can help organizations build a better future, and why her own reinvention involved six months of uncertainty before the next chapter became clear. Episode 84 of the She Lift Project. Learn more at https://sheliftproject.com .

September 15, 2026Episode 831 hr 22 min

#83 - Concierge Medicine: More Time, Better Health - Dr. Erica Yalavarthi

Dr. Erica Yalavarthi is double board certified in family medicine and obesity medicine, menopause certified, and focused on longevity. After more than two decades inside a medical system that gave her ten minutes per patient, she walked away and built something different: Awaken Face and Body Wellness , a physician-led concierge practice and med spa in St. Louis where clients get 90-minute first appointments, same-day access, and a doctor who actually texts them back. She joins Cynthia to talk about why the traditional model is failing patients, what longevity medicine really means, and why being proactive about your health is the most important investment you will ever make. This episode covers a lot of ground and earns every minute. You will hear Dr. Yalavarthi break down perimenopause symptoms most women don't know are symptoms, why the scale keeps going up even when you're doing everything right, how GLP-1 medications work and when they're appropriate, and why your labs can be completely normal while your body is telling you something is very wrong. She also shares the health crisis that derailed her own life for two years, what it taught her about the patients she now serves, and what she would tell every woman who has ever been told she's fine when she knows she isn't.

September 1, 2026Episode 821 hr 11 min

#82 - Twists of Fate Build a Lasting Legacy - Farica Chang

This week Cynthia sits down with Farica Chang , managing partner of Anderson Technologies and founder of Anderson Archival , two St. Louis businesses built around helping people protect what matters most. Farica opens up about the unplanned turns that shaped her path, from a temporary contract job to running a growing company, and the deeply personal story that pulled her toward legacy preservation. It's a conversation about structure and heart in equal measure, about building something lasting while still holding onto what got you there. This episode is for anyone who feels like their career took a turn they never planned for and wonders if that's actually a good sign. Farica shares how she built the systems and culture that let a small business scale without losing what made it special, and how a personal loss reshaped her sense of purpose. Listeners will walk away with a renewed appreciation for the stories worth capturing now, before it's too late.

August 18, 2026Episode 811 hr 32 min

#81 - The Plan Your Family Needs: Jennifer Belmont Jennings

Joining Cynthia this episode is Jennifer Belmont Jennings , an estate planning attorney at MGD Law in St. Louis and a former wealth advisor who has spent her career bridging the legal and financial sides of people's lives. Their conversation moves through the winding, sometimes discouraging path that shaped Jennifer's career, the mindset shifts that carried her through hard seasons, and the quiet confidence she's built along the way. It's honest, funny, and full of hard won perspective on what it really takes to find your footing. This episode is for anyone who has ever felt behind, stuck, or unsure whether their path is supposed to look different than it does. Jennifer offers a grounded, encouraging look at what it means to show up fully, protect the people you love, and stop waiting for permission to take up space. Listeners will walk away with a renewed sense of clarity about their own next steps, whatever that looks like.

August 4, 2026Episode 801 hr 9 min

#80 - Saying Yes to Adventure - Aoifinn Devitt

This week Cynthia is joined by Aoifinn Devitt , a senior member of Moneta's Global Wealth team and a longtime voice in international finance. Aoifinn shares her journey across continents, industries, and life stages, from bold early adventures to major career pivots. It's a conversation full of honesty, humor, and hard won wisdom. This episode is for any woman who has ever wondered if she's capable of more than she's been told. Aoifinn offers a fresh perspective on risk, leadership, and staying true to yourself through every season of life. Listeners will walk away with the confidence to trust their own path forward.

July 21, 2026Episode 791 hr 20 min

#79 - Holly Breuer - A Culture Built to Prosper

Holly Breuer is the founder of Prosper CPAs , a St. Louis accounting firm she launched in 2022. It started with a simple question: could you build a firm that provided elite-level service to business owners while also being a genuinely great place to work? Holly spent twenty years in public accounting, including time at large international firms, before deciding the industry didn't have to work the way it did. She joins Cynthia to talk about how Prosper was built differently from day one, why she named it after the people around her instead of herself, and what it takes to grow fast without losing what made you worth joining in the first place. This episode is for anyone building a business, leading a team, or trying to figure out how to do things differently than the place that shaped them. You will hear how Holly thinks about culture, flexibility, and keeping the right people on the bus. You will hear how she pushed through one of the hardest seasons a person can face to build a career and a firm that reflects everything she wished existed when she was starting out. And you will hear what it sounds like when someone decides that nobody has to fail so that she can succeed.

July 7, 2026Episode 781 hr 17 min

#78 - Taryn Pulliam: The Goal, The Grind, The Glory

Taryn Pulliam , Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Gadellnet Consulting Services , leads a team that helps organizations align technology with their business goals, from cybersecurity and cloud to AI consulting. But this conversation reaches far beyond IT. Taryn shares the unlikely path that took her from cosmetology school to becoming a powerhouse sales leader in a male dominated industry. She and Cynthia dig into what it really takes to set ambitious goals and do the work to reach them, including the personal sacrifices along the way. This episode is for any woman with a goal bigger than her current circumstances and the nagging question of whether she has what it takes to reach it. Taryn doesn't hand out tidy answers. She hands you her actual story, the unlikely turns, the moments she had to choose between comfort and growth, and she lets you draw the line to your own life. You'll come away understanding what really separates the people who get there from the people who only talk about it, and why the price is steeper and more worth it than you think. By the end, the goal you've been circling might start to feel less like a someday and more like a decision.

June 16, 2026Episode 771 hr 19 min

#77 - Sara Marler: Divorce with Dignity

Sara Marler is the founder and managing partner of Marler Law Partners , a family law firm in St. Louis built around a concept that is still rare in the legal profession: trauma-informed practice. By combining rigorous legal representation with healing-centered care from a licensed therapist, Sara and her team have created a firm where clients are seen as whole people navigating one of the hardest seasons of their lives, not just cases to be won or settled. The goal is to turn the temperature down, protect the family unit wherever possible, and leave every client better than they found them. This episode is for anyone navigating a difficult family situation, working in a high-stress profession, or leading a team through hard things. You will hear how to actually help your kids on transition days after a split, why "I just have to get to 18" is the wrong finish line, and what it means to leave someone better than you found them. Sara also walks through collaborative divorce, how her office is designed down to the scent and the chair sizes to create psychological safety, and what she is teaching law firms and universities about a better way to practice. This is a masterclass in combining emotional intelligence with professional excellence.

June 2, 2026Episode 7659 min

#76 - Tracy Collins: Life After Your Dream Job

Cynthia sits down with Tracy Collins , a St. Louis-based architect and founder of formwork architecture. Early in her career she did something most people would never attempt: she sent her resume to the firm of the architect she admired most in the world, and they said yes. What she built in the years that followed, and what she chose to walk away from, says everything about what real growth actually requires. This is a conversation about ambition, courage, and the surprising thing that sometimes has to happen after you get exactly what you wanted. This episode is for anyone who has ever stayed somewhere too long because it felt safe, or talked themselves out of a leap because the odds seemed impossible. Tracy speaks openly about hitting a ceiling at her dream job and what she did next. Listeners will come away with a fresh way of thinking about risk, iteration, failure, and what it actually means to build something that lasts, whether that's a building or a career.

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