The Cynthia Manion Show

Cynthia Manion
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The Cynthia Manion Show is a transformative podcast journey where the extraordinary meets the relatable. Hosted by Cynthia Manion, this show uncovers the stories behind the world's most dynamic movers, shakers, and changemakers. Each episode takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of remarkable individuals who've made significant contributions in their respective fields. From the realms of fitness and fashion to entrepreneurship and mental health, you'll hear firsthand accounts of triumphs, trials, and the key moments that shaped their lives.

  1. Sep 10

    Inside My Silence with Franklin Vanderbilt

    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Franklin Vanderbilt: Website: https://franklinvanderbilt.com Merch: https://franklinvanderbilt.com/merch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/franklin_vanderbilt_official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/franklinvanderbiltdrummer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franklinvanderbilt TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@franklin_vanderbilt X: https://x.com/fvanderbiltdrum Everybody's Talking About Love is on all streaming platforms: https://hypeddit.com/everybodystalkingaboutlove Franklin Vanderbilt started on drums at five in Chicago, toured the world with Lenny Kravitz, and has played with Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, and Robby Krieger of The Doors. Then one night in Europe he walked off stage frustrated, because he wanted to say more than the drums could. In this hour he tells how a drummer picked up a 12-string guitar as a songwriter and "turned into a guitar player," how he found his voice by focusing on inner space instead of outer space, and about the night Alan Parsons apologized for not calling him up to the drums at a jam session: "In my head, you're a singer." He plays Everybody's Talking About Love live, guitar and voice, and explains Royal Cadence, the cultural and luxury house he founded. Asked what reinvention is, he answered in one word: power. Chapters: 00:00 Chicago, the drums, and audacity 05:21 The stage taught him where he belongs 10:23 The Lenny Kravitz years, and the songs he was already writing 12:23 Why a drummer picked up a guitar 15:09 The night he walked off stage frustrated 16:46 Inner space: how he found his own voice 20:36 He plays Everybody's Talking About Love, live 29:04 Inside My Silence, and the day Alan Parsons forgot he was a drummer 34:33 Good things take time: why he held the album 39:46 Royal Cadence, what success means now, and "reinvention is power"

  2. Sep 3

    Monica Walls | Every Shade Tells a Story

    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Monica Walls: Website: https://kecasusna.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicawalls/ Keca's Usna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keca-s-usna/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kecasusna/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kecasusna/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kecasusna Monica Walls fell into HR as a walk-on temp at Applied Materials and spent nearly thirty years in Silicon Valley, rising to VP of People. Then a childhood friend told her, "You've had an idea for lipstick since grad school. If you don't do it now, you're never going to do it." She had a mortgage and no second income. She did it anyway. Keca's Usna is the result: Keca was her nickname as a teenager, Usna is Croatian for lip. In this hour she tells the CEO story she'd never shared publicly, takes us to her grandfather's island in Croatia, explains the necklace behind Strength, Faith, Love, and walks Cynthia through the box she sent (Cynthia wears the raspberry live on air). Every model on her website is a woman she knows. Her line for all of them: "Who we are today is enough." Chapters: 00:00 Keca's Usna: what the name means, and falling into HR 07:06 The CEO meeting she'd never shared publicly 10:17 "If you don't do it now": the leap to lipstick 16:46 Croatia: her grandfather's island and a box of prom pictures 22:13 Croatian shade names, and the necklace behind Strength, Faith, Love 28:44 The formula: long-lasting, hydrating, not sticky 33:47 Cynthia opens the box: seed paper, bamboo cloths, and why raspberry 40:13 Be bold, be you: real women as models 49:20 Her niece Natalia's shade story, and "you are the statement" 53:06 If something is missing, plus the rapid fire

  3. Aug 27

    Freddie Ravel | A Life in Tune

    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Freddie: Website: https://freddieravel.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freddieravel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/freddieravel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freddie.ravel.2025 Freddie Ravel grew up speaking three languages: Spanish from his Colombian mother Ruby, then music, then English in kindergarten. That third language took him everywhere. He directed Earth, Wind & Fire, played the Grammys three feet from Prince, recorded Evita with Madonna, and toured the world on Carlos Santana's Universal Tone tour. Today the City of Los Angeles calls him the Keynote Maestro for Life In Tune, the system he brings to companies like IBM and NASA: melody is leadership, harmony is collaboration, rhythm is execution. In this hour he plays his way through all of it, from Mas Que Nada to Beethoven's Fifth, and makes the case that the space between the notes, and really listening, is the whole secret. Asked at the end what a life in tune sounds like, he answered in one word: bliss. Chapters: 00:00 How music found him: his mother Ruby 03:09 Touring with Sergio Mendes, and how music is built 09:01 What a musical director does: September at the Hollywood Bowl 16:26 Life In Tune: melody, harmony, rhythm, and the score 19:37 The studio years, and leadership from inside the bands 26:44 Prince, Santana, and Earth, Wind & Fire 33:31 From the keyboard to the keynote 35:36 Beethoven's Fifth: the space between the notes 42:48 Ruby, Dad at 91, and a Christmas album like no other 52:11 Rapid fire: the accordion, Mozart, and a 97-key piano

  4. Aug 20

    Dede Lyons | Rebootment, Not Retirement

    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Dede: Website: https://feelgoodexpress.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dedefeelsgood Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feelgoodexpressdede LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dede-lyons-a4142722/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DedeLyons Feel Good Journal: Connecting With Your Inner Child (Amazon): https://a.co/d/0hCO4uAW A Dose of Dede (weekly mini-podcast): https://feelgoodexpress.com Dede Lyons spent 32 years in broadcast sales in New York, rising to Vice President of Group Sales. In 1997, mid-career and watching her team get collapsed in a downsizing, she looked up in a subway station and saw a Time magazine cover asking "Do you believe in angels?" That moment became Feel Good Express. At 62 she left the career and called it her rebootment. Today she teaches people to connect with their guardian angels and fall in love with themselves. She and Cynthia talk about the therapy question that changed her life at 30, the husband she met four years later, the Monday to-do list she writes for her angels, and why feeling good is an inside job. Chapters: 00:00 From waitressing at Brew's to television sales 01:32 The middle woman with tons of bosses 03:52 Running out of steam at 40 04:34 A Time magazine cover in the subway 07:55 Grace's question: trust 10:01 Pocket angels and the hovering guardian angel 11:13 Pearls: journaling and Ask and It Is Given 12:45 Mirror work and Ayla, her inner child 15:06 Keep your baby picture out 16:08 Whispers on sales calls 19:18 For the skeptics 20:45 Two columns: your list and your angel's list 22:30 The layer cake: self-love first 23:46 Therapy at 30: can I learn to love myself? 25:29 Four years later, Joe 26:57 Joy blockers, boundaries, and White Angelica 28:41 Rebootment: turning in the BlackBerry 31:46 Dede's Daily Do's: the worry-and-doubt list 32:46 Shred it, then gratitude in the mirror 37:34 A Dose of Dede 41:09 The Feel Good Express toolkit and the power of intention 43:36 Rapid fire: it's an inside job 47:03 New York pace, West Palm Beach pace 48:09 Worry angels 50:44 The Joy of Tweeting 51:39 Signs: cardinals, feathers, and license plates 54:34 Believe it before you see it 55:13 Where to find Dede and the photo tour 57:14 The Stonehenge story 58:21 Closing: you are amazing

  5. Aug 13

    Never Enough with Jason Hietbrink

    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Jason: Website: https://www.jasonhietbrink.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jason.hietbrink.1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-hietbrink Jason Hietbrink started four franchises at twenty-two and became the #1 national franchisee in his company six years in a row. He helped scale an organization from $21 million to $100 million in three years. From the outside, he'd won. Underneath was a fear that if he ever stopped performing, there wouldn't be much left of him, and losing everything financially, twice, finally forced the question. Today Jason coaches high-achieving Christian entrepreneurs, and his book, Never Enough, arrives late October. He and Cynthia talk about the sixth-grade moment where the proving started, why peace is a practice and not a destination, what over 100 successful Christian men say their success has cost them, and how to build from your worth rather than for it. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome and introduction 00:31 Four franchises at twenty-two 02:15 What it took to stay #1 for six years 03:57 The eighth franchise, the one that failed 05:25 Scaling $21M to $100M: chaos from the inside 06:54 What 450 franchise owners had in common 08:48 Self-doubt and the gas pump moment 10:28 Sixth grade: where the proving started 12:54 The ACT story: afraid to find out 16:58 What the winning was costing at home 20:14 Peace is a practice, not a destination 21:17 Where peace comes from 24:13 Why he interviewed 100 successful Christian men 26:27 "Everyone wants my life, but no one sees what it's costing" 28:50 The only addiction people praise 32:21 Two daughters, one championship: love versus fear 36:14 The chip on the shoulder 38:28 Family photo tour: Yosemite, New York, Kauai 42:38 Building from your worth, not for it 46:20 Energy, not time 50:15 Goals, surrender, and owner versus steward 55:34 Why he serves as an elder 57:14 What he hopes the book leaves you with 57:56 Where to find Jason

  6. Aug 6

    Fear Not, Creative with Steven Potaczek

    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Steven: Website: https://www.stevenpotaczek.com Buy the Book: https://a.co/d/085HJXBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenpotaczek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/potaczek LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenpotaczek Can AI replace you? Steven Potaczek has lived every side of that question: Billboard Top 40 songwriter, producer with placements on Parks and Recreation and New Girl, and now Founding Director of the Commercial Music program at Samford University. His answer is the most hopeful one you will hear. Machines can average what already exists, but they cannot live, grieve, or love, and the cracks in your story are the raw material of your art. A conversation about craft, courage, wabi-sabi, the power of yet, and why the age of AI may be the beginning of a creative renaissance. Steven's book, Fear Not, Creative, arrives October 1st. Pre-order it now, or email Steven through his website for a signed copy. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome and introduction 01:24 The lifeguard's basement studio 04:19 Parks and Recreation and New Girl 06:07 From touring to teaching 07:55 Why he wrote Fear Not, Creative 10:19 Does a lifetime of skill still matter? 13:39 The apology poem: what AI can never do 16:17 Frida Kahlo and the power of scars 19:35 The cracks are the raw material 21:03 Wabi-sabi: beauty in imperfection 22:45 You will never know how amazing you can be 26:57 When the camera came for the painters 30:04 The drum machine lesson 33:42 The case for a creative renaissance 36:16 Excellence is the new scarcity 40:02 Stepping off the burnout wheel 42:14 Do not let anything steal the joy 43:51 Keep the channel open 44:54 Studio, family, classroom: the photo tour 47:15 Fear Not, Creative arrives October 1st 49:20 The power of yet 52:31 Die empty and the rapid fire 55:02 Just start 56:03 I'm proud of myself

  7. Jul 30

    Michael Connor | Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Life

    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Michael: Book, "Insights of a Father": https://a.co/d/058kY6Df LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelconnor/ Bridge Partnership: https://bridge-partnership.com/ Bridge Institute: https://www.bridge-institute.org/ Insight Seminars: https://insightseminars.org/ Insight Boston (September seminar): https://insightboston.org/ What happens when a world-traveling seminar leader becomes a stay-at-home dad? In the 1990s, Michael Connor helped open Russia and Eastern Europe to personal growth seminars, leading trainings on five continents and once defending his work in a Siberian courtroom. Then at 41, his first daughter was born, and he came home. Six years with his girls became more than 1,000 recorded lessons, and 60 favorites became his book "Insights of a Father: Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Life." Today he coaches executive teams at global companies with Bridge Partnership. A conversation about teddy bears and diamonds, the wife who loved him enough to let him go, and seeing the world through a child's eyes again. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and welcome 00:20 Teddy bears and the lessons children teach 02:36 Santa Claus and diamonds 03:55 The choice at 41 06:06 What six years at home taught him 10:59 Worlds seen through the eyes of innocence 13:20 The red thread: purpose and the big questions 14:51 The leap: leaving healthcare for Bulgaria in winter 20:21 Post-Soviet Russia and a Siberian courtroom 25:27 Many lamps, one light 26:24 She loved him enough to let him go 29:50 How fatherhood changed his executive coaching 33:19 Compassion, filters, and what leaders miss 38:46 Terry Tillman and believing in miracles 40:37 His daughters, young adults now 43:42 Unconditional love and the safe harbor 48:49 What actually changes people 50:42 Lightning round: inner work, miracles, and deep listening

  8. Jul 23

    Be the Artist of Your Life with Caroline Bergeron (ARO)

    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Caroline: Website: https://www.aroartiste.com/ Instagram (art): https://www.instagram.com/aroartiste YouTube (art): https://www.youtube.com/@aroartiste7345 Instagram (speaking): https://www.instagram.com/carolinebergeronconferenciere Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carolinebergeronconferenciere LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bergeroncaroline/ What does it take to start over at 42? Caroline Bergeron, the painter known as ARO, ran her family's restaurant business in Quebec for 15 years until one creative workshop in 2017 changed everything. She sold it all to paint. Within six weeks of her first exhibition, her work traveled from Quebec to New York to the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, and by 2019 she had created a painting for Michelle Obama. But the real story is what came after: losing the restaurant sale in the pandemic, hitting the wall, and rebuilding her life around creativity, courage, and connection. A raw and joyful conversation about second chances and the small steps that make them possible. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Caroline Bergeron and her background 01:57 Campbell Soup and 15 years in the family restaurant business 04:38 The 2017 creative workshop that changed everything 11:56 The Oprah story and her mother's final hours 17:18 Creating a painting for Michelle Obama 20:47 Hitting the wall and rebuilding her life 26:26 Six weeks from Quebec to New York to the Carrousel du Louvre 28:08 Be the artist of your life 29:19 Creative team building and art in organizations 33:44 Creative Day and reconnecting with your inner child 37:53 The Sum of My Encounters 39:42 It's Never Too Late: 100 stories to live without regret 47:14 Receiving the Women of Inspiration Award 51:15 Small steps: advice for anyone who thinks it's too late

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The Cynthia Manion Show is a transformative podcast journey where the extraordinary meets the relatable. Hosted by Cynthia Manion, this show uncovers the stories behind the world's most dynamic movers, shakers, and changemakers. Each episode takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of remarkable individuals who've made significant contributions in their respective fields. From the realms of fitness and fashion to entrepreneurship and mental health, you'll hear firsthand accounts of triumphs, trials, and the key moments that shaped their lives.

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  • Creator
    Cynthia Manion
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    134
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Cynthia Manion
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