The Silent Trauma

Susan Finazzo: The Silent Trauma

What Susan once labeled as a “hard birth” slowly revealed itself as something far more serious. This story follows her journey from silence and confusion to understanding the systemic failures that leave so many women carrying invisible wounds.

Bio

Susan Barrett Finazzo is a trauma-informed childbirth educator, virtual doula, faith-based counselor, and founder of My Baby Lady, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to rewriting the birth story for America’s parents — one Zoom room, one conversation, one prepared family at a time.

For more than a decade, Susan has supported parents through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with a calm presence, compassionate teaching style, and the kind of practical wisdom that only comes from witnessing birth in all its beauty and all its brutality. Her work was born out of her own deeply traumatic birth experiences — including delivering a 13-lb baby — and the moment she realized she was called to become the educator she never had.

Today, she blends evidence-based education, trauma-informed advocacy, and spiritual grounding to help parents enter birth with confidence instead of fear. She’s the creator of Ready, Set, Baby! — a free community presentation and a signature 3-part childbirth education masterclass — and the facilitator of Parent Wellness Circles, supporting emotional, mental, spiritual, and relational wellness for parents and caregivers.

Susan also provides faith-based counseling through Compassion Christian Counseling, where she specializes in supporting single mothers, blended families, parents navigating trauma, and couples adjusting to life with a new baby. She is known for her warmth, humor, ability to hold sacred space, and her gift for helping people feel seen — often within minutes.

Her nonprofit, My Baby Lady, is expanding into a national model of virtual support with the upcoming release of two books:

Book 1: My Baby Lady: Rewriting the Birth Story for America’s Parents — Exposing the Most Dangerous Place to Give Birth. A powerful mix of memoir, birth stories, data, and a call to action to fix the U.S. maternal health crisis.
Book 2: The Rise of the Virtual Doula — A Guide to Compassionate Virtual Doula Support.

Based on her 12-week certification curriculum, designed to train doulas nationwide in evidence-based, trauma-informed virtual care.

As a speaker and podcast guest, Susan brings storytelling, heart, lived experience, and straight-to-the-point education. She talks openly about birth trauma, maternal mental health, faith and healing, breaking generational cycles, and how we can radically change outcomes with better communication, preparation, and support.

Her mission is simple:

Help parents feel prepared, supported, and empowered — and build a world where birth trauma is the exception, not the expectation.

Susan lives in Florida with her husband, Paul, their pets, Scotch, Bailey, Annie and Buddy.

Topics

Birth trauma and its long-term effects
Loss of agency during medical procedures
Trauma without language or validation
Parenting through unresolved fear
The role of education in childbirth
Systemic failures in maternal care
Why women don’t talk about birth trauma
Reclaiming power after medical trauma
Supporting women through informed choice
Turning personal trauma into advocacy

Guiding Questions

How did you originally describe your birth experience—and how has that changed?
What made you realize years later that your childbirth was traumatic?
How did the lack of information and consent affect you emotionally?
What impact did that experience have on your parenting?
Why do you think so many women minimize or silence their birth trauma?
What role does education play in preventing traumatic birth experiences?
How did becoming a doula change how you viewed your own story?
What patterns do you see in women who come to you after traumatic births?
Why is the U.S. maternal care system failing so many women?
What does healing look like when the trauma was systemic, not personal?

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December 19, 2025January 1, 2026

Choosing the Four

Connie Rose: Choosing the Four

After losing her son during a moment when the world itself shut down, Connie found her grief manifesting physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Her journey reveals what happens when survival alone is no longer enough.

Bio

Connie Rose, M.Ed., NLP Master Coach & Frequency Wellness Expert

Connie Rose is a visionary NLP Master Coach, Frequency Wellness Expert, and Founder of Own Your Life, LLC, where she helps people make their brain—and their frequency—their greatest ally. She is also the creator of Frequency of Me™, a groundbreaking system that blends Human Design, Gene Keys, Astrology, Archetypal energy, and your soul’s Tikkun to decode your Divine Design—your unique energetic blueprint for life, relationships, and business.

But Connie’s work isn’t just professional—it’s born from lived experience, resilience, and a profound rebirth.

In 2020, after the heartbreaking passing of her beloved son, Nicholas, Connie’s health collapsed. She found herself in a wheelchair, overwhelmed by physical pain, emotional trauma, and the deepest grief a mother can endure. Traditional approaches offered little relief, and she wondered if she would ever reclaim her strength, mobility, or hope.

Everything changed the day she was introduced to frequency wellness through the AO Scanner by Solex.

What began as curiosity became her pathway back to life. Through daily frequency optimization, emotional balancing, brain-body recalibration, and deep energetic alignment, Connie experienced a transformation nothing short of miraculous. Within months, she no longer needed a wheelchair. Her body strengthened. Her vitality returned. Her spirit awakened.

This healing sparked her divine mission:

To help people heal, rise, and become who they were always designed to be.

Today, Connie merges her intuitive gifts with advanced neuro-linguistics, quantum frequency technology, and soul-level blueprint work. Her signature program, Frequency of Me™, guides women and entrepreneurs in aligning with their true energetic design—so they can create lives and businesses that feel natural, abundant, and divinely guided.

She empowers her clients to:

✨ Understand their Divine Design

✨ Harmonize mind, body, and emotions

✨ Break unconscious patterns

✨ Access deeper purpose and prosperity

✨ Use frequency technology to support their daily alignment

Connie’s leadership honors the legacy of her children, Hope Marie and Nicholas Jenkins, whose presence continues to guide and inspire her mission.

You can connect with Connie at ConnieRoseOfficial.com, where she helps people every day remember that you really can Own Your Life.

Topics

Losing a child and identity collapse
How grief shows up in the body
Navigating loss during global crisis
Emotional trauma and physical symptoms
Managing grief rather than “moving on”
Resilience as a muscle
Faith during unimaginable loss
Choosing meaning after tragedy
The difference between surviving and living
Supporting others through lived experience

Guiding Questions

What was life like immediately after your son passed?
How did grief begin to affect your body physically?
Why did moving forward feel impossible at first?
What does it mean to manage grief rather than heal from it?
How did isolation during COVID impact your grieving process?
Can you explain your idea of being a “two” or a “four”?
What helped your resilience begin to rebuild?
How has your faith shifted since your loss?
What does it look like to live with grief every day?
How has this experience shaped the way you help others now?

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December 19, 2025December 31, 2025

The Speaking Scar

Leslie Fiorenzo: The Speaking Scar

After years of watching capable people freeze when asked to speak, Leslie began to recognize a common pattern rooted in childhood imprinting and the brain’s need for safety. Her story reveals why fear can feel so real—even when no danger exists.

Bio

Leslie Fiorenzo is a seasoned business presentation coach with over 30 years of experience in a variety of corporate settings. As an ever-curious student of people in business, she has achieved numerous certifications and holds a master’s degree in human resource development.

Leslie has taught human resources, business, and marketing courses ss an adjunct faculty member and independent consultant. Her unique perspectives and approach are based on her professional career using the skills she now teaches. She is author of “Twenty-One Lessons to Master the Difficult Conversation”; “Find Your Voice: Conquer Your Fear & Share Your Story with Confidence” and “5 S.T.E.P.S. to Speaking Success” all available on Amazon.

She founded Business Speaking Solutions to help professionals refine their messaging, build confidence, and captivate their audiences. She believes that effective communication is a cornerstone of successful leadership and works alongside her clients to equip them with the skills needed to excel in boardrooms, networking events, and high-stakes presentations. Leslie Fiorenzo is passionate about helping others find their voice and make their mark.

Topics

Fear of public speaking and visibility
The brain’s survival response to being seen
Childhood imprinting and adult behavior
How early criticism shapes confidence
Neural pathways and habit formation
Why fear feels real even when it isn’t
The difference between danger and perceived threat
Rewiring long-held beliefs as an adult
Why logical reassurance doesn’t calm fear
Understanding anxiety through a brain-based lens

Guiding Questions

Why does public speaking trigger such intense fear for so many people?
How does the brain confuse an audience with real danger?
What role do childhood experiences play in adult confidence?
Why do certain fears feel impossible to “think” your way out of?
Can you explain the idea of neural pathways using the wagon rut analogy?
Why do early experiences have such a lasting impact on behavior?
What makes fear feel physical rather than emotional?
Why does visibility feel unsafe for some people?
What’s the difference between knowing you’re safe and feeling safe?
Why is fear often misunderstood as a personal flaw?

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December 19, 2025January 1, 2026

Choosing Meaning

Anita Cavrag: Choosing Meaning

Anita was thriving on paper—building a successful career in HR and climbing steadily upward—until a realization stopped her cold. She recognized that the work she was doing no longer aligned with her values, talents, or sense of integrity, forcing her to confront a truth she could no longer avoid.

Bio

Anita Cavrag is a Psychologist and executive coach who specializes in helping tech founders rediscover their purpose and reignite their passion for their businesses, or find a new soul-aligned venture that lights them on fire.

After spending a decade climbing the HR corporate ladder in fast-growing tech companies, Anita realized that the view from the top was not something she wanted to keep looking at for the next 30 years. That realization opened the path to her true mission: guiding high-achieving leaders back to their purpose, clarity, and sense of aliveness in their work and lives.

She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology, a Bachelor’s in Philosophy, an ICF ACC accreditation, a Business Coaching Diploma from PwC, an NLP Master certificate, and a certification as a Career coach.

Anita had the privilege to study in two international colleges, in Costa Rica and in the United States, alongside students from more than 100 countries. That experience expanded her worldview and played a central role in shaping her identity as a citizen of the world.

Outside of work, Anita loves to explore new places in Europe, from charming cities and villages to the coastline of her home country Croatia, finding cozy coffee shops to read in, and deepening her fascination with human nature and what makes us feel alive.

Topics

Losing meaning in a successful career
Values misalignment at work
Integrity vs. comfort
Burnout that isn’t about overwork
The future of work
Why employee engagement is collapsing
Radical honesty in leadership
Self-managed organizations
Redefining success
Designing life instead of defaulting into it

Guiding Questions

What was happening in your career when you first felt something was “off”?
How did you realize the impact you were making wasn’t meaningful to you anymore?
What did that end-of-life reflection reveal that surprised you most?
Why do so many accomplished founders end up unhappy with the business they’ve built and how do you get that spark back?
What does it mean to live out of integrity at work?
Why do you think people avoid facing these realizations?
How did seeing the truth make things harder before they got better?
What’s the difference between a comfortable life and a meaningful one?
Why do traditional corporate structures fail people today?
What ultimately pushed you to change your life’s trajectory?

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December 17, 2025December 31, 2025

Leadership for Impact: Coaching High-Responsibility Executives Through Growth and Change

This kit highlights Yocheved’s executive coaching work with education, nonprofit, and business leaders. She talks about clarity coaching, reducing overwhelm, navigating competing demands, and building influence. This is ideal for business podcasts that want leadership insights rooted in real K–12 and nonprofit experience.

Bio

If you say, “Jump,” I’ll ask, “Why?” Let’s challenge the status quo.

Yocheved Belsky is the founder and CEO of Clear Square Group, an organization focused on providing educational consulting for institutions, schools, and organizations. When clients requested helpfully utilizing pandemic-related EANS funding for school services, Yocheved launched M²Learning to help non-public schools and their students succeed despite the pandemic.

Yocheved has over 20 years of experience in the educational services industry as a charter school superintendent, service provider, key consultant, and K-12 educator. As a nonpublic school educator and charter school superintendent, Yocheved spearheaded one of the earliest online school programs in the country. In her work as a third-party service provider and educational consultant, she has created many government-funded educational programs and brought them to the market for different school models.

Yocheved is passionate about making sure all students receive the services they need to succeed in school. Through managing conflicting stakeholders, assessing educational needs, securing funding, and driving compliance measures, Yocheved and the M²Learning team provide an all-encompassing approach to help students succeed.

Topics

Coaching leaders through overwhelm
Managing competing demands with clarity
Building leadership influence
The difference between knowing and executing
Lessons from coaching executives across sectors
How leaders can build a “clarity operating system”

Guiding Questions

What signals tell you a leader needs clarity coaching?
How do you help leaders navigate competing priorities?
What separates high-impact leaders from high-intensity ones?
What’s one practice leaders can adopt to reduce overwhelm?
How does your experience in education inform your coaching in other sectors?
What is a “clarity operating system,” and how can someone build one?

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December 17, 2025January 1, 2026

Demystifying Federal Regulations: How to Speak Human in a World of Acronyms

Yocheved is known for “bringing clarity to the complex.” This kit focuses on simplifying federal regs, compliance rules, and jargon-heavy funding requirements for educators, nonprofits, and school leaders. She shows how to break down dense policy into step-by-step process — a skill that sets her apart in both consulting and coaching.

Bio

If you say, “Jump,” I’ll ask, “Why?” Let’s challenge the status quo.

Topics

Why federal regulations feel intimidating — and how to decode them
Cutting through jargon and acronyms
Structuring information for overwhelmed leaders
Turning regulations into step-by-step plans
Surprising opportunities hidden in policy
Examples of simplifying complex rules for clients

Guiding Questions

Why do federal regulations feel so overwhelming to schools and nonprofits?
What’s your method for turning compliance language into plain English?
How do you structure information to make it digestible for leaders?
Where do organizations usually misinterpret requirements?
What does “translating policy into strategy” actually look like?
Can you share an example of a time clarity changed a client’s results?

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December 17, 2025December 31, 2025

Designing Education Programs That Actually Work: What Schools Get Wrong About Implementation

Leveraging 20+ years in K–12 systems, Yocheved breaks down how schools can design programs that are compliant, fundable, AND effective. She talks about implementation pitfalls, how to align program design with actual teacher capacity, and examples of schools that improved outcomes by redesigning their support structures.

Bio

If you say, “Jump,” I’ll ask, “Why?” Let’s challenge the status quo.

Topics

What schools misunderstand about program design
Why implementation fails even when the funding is available
Aligning program design with staff capacity
Building feedback loops with teachers
Using compliance as a tool, not a barrier
A case example of a redesigned school support program

Guiding Questions

What’s the most common flaw you see in school program design?
How does poor implementation sabotage even fully funded programs?
How can leaders design programs teachers can realistically deliver?
What role should feedback loops play in program development?
How can schools use compliance requirements to strengthen program quality?
Can you share an example where redesigning a program changed outcomes?

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December 17, 2025January 1, 2026

The Insider’s Scoop: What Vendors Get Wrong About Selling to K–12 Schools

Drawing from her experience as superintendent, CAO, consultant, and advisor to both schools and service providers, Yocheved reveals why most EdTech and vendor pitches fall flat. She outlines what decision-makers really care about, how budget cycles actually work, and the difference between a vendor and a long-term partner. Includes examples from her work advising nonprofits and EdTech startups.

Bio

If you say, “Jump,” I’ll ask, “Why?” Let’s challenge the status quo.

Topics

Why most vendor pitches fail before they begin
What school leaders want but rarely say
Understanding budget cycles and purchasing windows
Translating product features into student outcomes
How vendors can become true partners
Mistakes EdTech founders consistently make

Guiding Questions

What’s the number one mistake vendors make when approaching a school leader?
How can vendors better understand the priorities of CAOs and superintendents?
What should vendors know about budget cycles that they usually don’t?
How can an EdTech company translate features into real instructional value?
What separates a “vendor” from a trusted partner in K–12?
What’s an example of a vendor shift you coached that changed their outcomes?

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December 17, 2025January 1, 2026

Inside the Funding Maze: How Jewish and Private Schools Can Tap Into Public Dollars

Many Jewish and other non-public schools assume public funding “doesn’t apply to us.” Yocheved demystifies programs like EANS, Title services, and other equitable service streams. She explains how M² Learning supports faith-based schools in accessing supplemental services without compromising identity, sharing examples such as a Jewish school that expanded literacy support after uncovering multiple overlooked funding options.

Bio

If you say, “Jump,” I’ll ask, “Why?” Let’s challenge the status quo.

Topics

Common misconceptions Jewish/private schools have about public funding
What EANS really is — without jargon
The role of M² Learning in non-public school support
Maintaining school identity while using government dollars
Real examples from Jewish and faith-based schools
How to find “hidden” public dollars most schools overlook

Guiding Questions

Why do so many Jewish and faith-based schools assume government programs don’t apply to them?
What is one myth about EANS that you wish you could erase?
How does M² Learning bridge the gap between regulations and real classroom needs?
How can schools maintain religious identity while navigating public funding?
Can you share an anonymized example of a school that accessed new services successfully?
What steps should a school take if they’ve never tapped into government-funded support before?

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December 17, 2025January 1, 2026

From Superintendent to Funding Architect: How One School Leader Unlocked Millions for Underserved Communities

Yocheved shares her journey from urban charter CAO and superintendent to building an early online schooling program, then founding ClearSquare Group, which has secured more than $15.6M in government and foundation funding. She explains why so many schools and nonprofits leave money untouched, how to translate regulations into real programming, and how systems thinking from the principal’s chair shaped her unique consulting model.

Bio

If you say, “Jump,” I’ll ask, “Why?” Let’s challenge the status quo.

Topics

What school leaders misunderstand about government funding
The “systems lens” she gained as superintendent
Building one of the earliest online school programs
Why schools leave money on the table
Turning dense regulations into step-by-step strategy
Real examples: funding wins that changed student outcomes

Guiding Questions

What did you see as a superintendent that most people outside the seat never realize?
What made your online schooling program so ahead of its time?
Why do even high-performing schools regularly miss major funding opportunities?
How do you translate a 200-page regulation into a program schools can actually run?
What’s one example of a school transformation unlocked by new funding streams?
What is the first step leaders should take if they suspect they’re leaving money unclaimed?

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