T**s, Wit, & Grit

Point NorthEast
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T**s, Wit & Grit is a podcast created to hold honest, intelligent conversations with women who lead, build, and navigate demanding professional lives. The podcast was born from a belief that women benefit from spaces where experience is honored, perspective is shared openly, and leadership can be discussed with both depth and candor. Each episode brings forward voices that offer insight drawn from experience and speak honestly about leadership, resilience, ambition, and personal evolution.

  1. Sep 30

    Ted Lasso Season 4 Through a T**s, Wit, & Grit Lens

    The best leadership content Sara, Laura, and Tracy have consumed lately did not come from a book or a boardroom. It came from Ted Lasso Season 4. In this episode they break down why, from the way the show portrays women fighting for basic resources in sports, to the friendship between Rebecca and Keeley, to a quote about anger that inspired all of them. Spoiler warning! If you haven’t watched season 4 yet, you might want to catch up before listening to this episode. In this episode: Why the show's treatment of women in sports mirrors what is still happening in real lifeThe leadership philosophy of Ted Lasso and why it worksWhat the show’s friendships model for women everywhereThe power of using anger as fuelHot takes, favorite scenes, and a full debate on who ends up with who🔗 Explore our books for business growth and leadership: pointnortheast.com/books  🔗 Connect with Sara Frasca on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarafrasca 🔗 Connect with Laura Raether on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/laura-raether-aa86701  🔗 Connect with Tracy Laskos Hill on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tracy-laskos-hill

    Ted Lasso Season 4 Through a T**s, Wit, & Grit Lens

  2. Sep 23

    Courtrooms, Runways, & Community with Heather Reese

    Heather Reese is a personal injury attorney in Philadelphia, a model, a speaker, and an activist. In this episode, Heather gets honest about navigating a male-dominated field as a minority woman, why she leans on humor to call out behavior that deserves to be called out, and what it felt like to get booked for her first runway. She also talks about how a single Threads post grew into partnerships with over a hundred minority-owned businesses, and the mantra her mother gave her that has never left her. Let someone else tell you no. In this episode: What it’s like to be the only minority woman in the room and how she navigates itUsing humor as a tool when someone says something that deserves a responseHow a Threads post turned into partnerships with over a hundred businessesWhy she will never tell herself no before someone else gets the chance toShooting your shot even when you don’t know what you’re doingWhat her mom modeled for her and how she’s passing it down to her daughter 🔗 Connect with Heather on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/heather-reese-209482321  🔗 Follow Heather on Instagram: instagram.com/heather_rxoxo  🔗 Connect with the Point NorthEast team: pointnortheast.com

    Courtrooms, Runways, & Community with Heather Reese

  3. Sep 9

    Speaking Up and Speaking Candidly with Tess Fyalka

    Tess Fyalka has spent more than 25 years teaching leaders and teams the skills to communicate better, build resilience, and create healthier and more effective workplaces. She’s seen what separates leaders who thrive from those who just survive, and she’s built a coaching practice and a book around it. In this episode, the founder of Angle Coaching gets honest about what it actually takes to step into leadership with confidence and why telling your boss what they want to hear is one of the most damaging things you can do. She also talks about walking away from a job with a good salary and benefits to start her own business, without a single client lined up yet. In this episode: Why women's ability to read the room is one of the most underrated leadership advantagesHow becoming a parent changed the way she shows up as a leader and a humanWhy saying “I don't know” are the three most powerful words a new leader hasThe power in realizing you can decide how to live your lifeWhat she means when she says women are playing small and what shifts when they stop 🔗 Connect with Tess: anglecoaching.com 🔗 Connect with the Point NorthEast team: pointnortheast.com

    Speaking Up and Speaking Candidly with Tess Fyalka

  4. Aug 26

    Self-Advocacy and Knowing Your Worth with Amber Murayi

    Amber Murayi spent over a decade guiding Fortune 500 companies through some of the most complex strategic decisions they would ever face. She was excellent at it. She was also, for years, not paid what she was worth and not saying what she needed to say. This conversation is about how she changed both. In this episode, the strategic leader gets honest about finding her voice and knowing her worth. She also talks about growing up surrounded by women who never made her feel like strength and femininity were opposites, the cost of staying quiet when you know something is wrong, and why leaving a corporate role that underpaid her turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to her.  In this episode: Growing up with women who taught her that strength and femininity can coexistWhat a difficult early internship taught her about self-advocacy and staying vocalThe pay gap she documented, reported, and ultimately walked away fromThe season when everything hit at once and what she learned from itHosting her own art gallery and what art means to her 🔗 Connect with Amber on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ambermurayi  🔗 Get a copy of Amber’s book, The Faces I Know: ambermurayi.art/coffee-table-book  🔗 Save your spot for the Empowering Women in Law 2026 Retreat: pointnortheast.com/ewil

    Self-Advocacy and Knowing Your Worth with Amber Murayi

  5. Aug 12

    Grit Runs in the Family with Georgia, Alex & Ashley

    Our latest guests are the people that know Sara Frasca best: her daughter, Georgia, and her stepdaughters, Alex and Ashley. Together, they make up a blended family that has navigated a lot of change, figured out how to support each other, and each found their own version of grit somewhere along the way. The three young women get honest about the moments that shaped them, the lessons they are still learning, and the advice they’d give back to Sara. From playing through a serious injury in a NCAA tournament to not giving up on school exams, each of them has a story worth hearing. They also share what being a woman means to their generation and where their work ethic comes from. Turns out grit does run in the family.  In this episode: The grit it takes to keep showing up even when you make mistakesWhat they will not put up with and why it matters to themThe best parts about being a womanWhat they wish for Sara in the next ten yearsHow growing up in a blended family shaped the way they support each other  🔗 Save your spot for the Empowering Women in Law 2026 Retreat: pointnortheast.com/ewil

    Grit Runs in the Family with Georgia, Alex & Ashley

  6. Jul 29

    Entrepreneurship, Integrity, & Uniting Women with Dr. Braley Bourque

    Dr. Braley Bourque founded three companies before most people figure out what they want to do with one. She built them in industries where she kept running into the same problem — a lot of surface-level success and not enough actual leadership. So she stopped trying to fit into spaces that weren't built the way she believed they should be and started building her own. In this episode, the founder of The Clarity Way, Insight Neuro, and Elevate Her gets honest about what fueled her and why integrity has been the value she has never been willing to trade away. She talks about the cost of leaving financial security behind to bet on herself, what discernment looks like in a hiring decision, and why she believes the “loneliness at the top” narrative is something women no longer have to accept. In this episode: What it’s like to build three companies from scratch on your own termsWhy trusting your gut is one of the most underrated leadership tools for womenHow Elevate Her was born to unite women across industriesWhy jealousy is just misdirected desire and what shifts when you see it that wayWhat she believes the future of women in leadership looks like 🔗 Connect with Dr. Braley on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drbraley-bourque-b4090627a  🔗 Save your spot for the Empowering Women in Law 2026 Retreat: pointnortheast.com/ewil

    Entrepreneurship, Integrity, & Uniting Women with Dr. Braley Bourque

  7. Jul 15

    Science, Storytelling, and Staying True to Yourself with Kimberly LaPointe

    Kimberly LaPointe studied molecular biology, knew she talked too much for the lab, and spent the next decades building a career that nobody had a job title for yet. She became the person who could walk into a room full of brilliant scientists and translate what they were doing into something an investor board could actually understand. It turned out that was rarer than she thought, and more valuable than she was being paid for. In this episode, the strategic marketing leader in the life sciences industry gets honest about what it cost her to prioritize flexibility over compensation for years. She also talks about what grit looked like working overnight shifts from Japan while her kids slept, the guilt that comes with working on something important while still trying to show up at home, and what it finally feels like to be on a team where everyone is rowing in the same direction. In this episode: The moment she was called emotional for asking about her salary and what shifted after thatWhat she will not put up with from her own marketing teamThe privilege of finally getting to choose your environment and why it takes years to earn itHow she’s navigated being a woman in the life sciences industryWhat it means to be the translator between brilliant science and the people who fund it🔗 Connect with Kimberly LaPointe on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kimberlylapointe 🔗 Save your spot for the Empowering Women in Law 2026 Retreat: pointnortheast.com/ewil

    Science, Storytelling, and Staying True to Yourself with Kimberly LaPointe

  8. Jul 1

    You Are the Story You Tell Yourself with Melissa Graham

    Melissa Graham started her career as a photocopy clerk at 19, working a law firm by day and Jack in the Box by night. Today she is the COO of one of the nation's most recognized law firms. What happened in between is not a straight line. It was decades of earned confidence and learning the difference between getting things done and actually leading people. In this episode, Melissa gets honest about the moment that cracked her leadership wide open and what she did with the feedback that caused it. She talks about why the story you tell yourself going into a room matters more than almost anything else, and what it actually looks like to shift from driving results to leading people. This is a conversation about doing the hard internal work quietly and consistently. In this episode: Starting from scratch and what a career built from the ground up actually teaches youThe feedback that changed how she leads and why she is grateful for itWhy you are the story you tell yourself and what shifts when you believe itLearning that driving results and leading people are not the same skillWhy vulnerability and confidence are not oppositesThe butterfly tattoo and what it says about growth, struggle, and what comes next 🔗 Connect with Melissa Graham on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/melissagrahamoperations  🔗 Save your spot for the Empowering Women in Law 2026 Retreat: pointnortheast.com/ewil

    You Are the Story You Tell Yourself with Melissa Graham
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T**s, Wit & Grit is a podcast created to hold honest, intelligent conversations with women who lead, build, and navigate demanding professional lives. The podcast was born from a belief that women benefit from spaces where experience is honored, perspective is shared openly, and leadership can be discussed with both depth and candor. Each episode brings forward voices that offer insight drawn from experience and speak honestly about leadership, resilience, ambition, and personal evolution.

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  • Creator
    Point NorthEast
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Point NorthEast