E125: Rethinking Women’s Leadership Archetypes | Integrating Athena and Aphrodite

by Janet Ioli | Oct 16, 2025 | Podcast

What if the real work of women in leadership isn’t about playing the part, but rewriting the entire script?In this solo episode, Janet explores the deep inner tension that women leaders experience as they navigate cultural expectations of femininity and leadership...

E124: How to Build an Authentic Personal Brand That Attracts the Right People

by Janet Ioli | Oct 9, 2025 | Podcast

We’ve all heard the advice: “You need to build your brand.” But what happens when branding feels fake—or worse, like a performance? In this episode of The Inner Edge, Janet shares a deeply personal story about her own journey with “branding” advice that clashed with...

E123: Leading Teams Through Grief and Finding Authentic Strength

by Janet Ioli | Oct 2, 2025 | Podcast

When life delivers unimaginable heartbreak, how do you keep leading, showing up, and holding on to yourself?In this tender and deeply human episode, Janet speaks with Lauren Stevens, a respected executive and former client, who lost her husband Chuck to glioblastoma...

E91: Be a Likeable Badass: Learn How to Become Respected and Admired with Alison Fragale

by Janet Ioli | Feb 6, 2025 | Podcast

“ If there’s a starting line of status, women are not starting at the same place. We’re starting several steps back because people ascribe more respect to one category [men] than another.” – Alison Fragale If you’re a woman leading an...

E23: The Authenticity Trap: How to Really Become a More Authentic Leader

by Janet Ioli | Jan 10, 2023 | Podcast

“If the word authentic means being the real you, who are you?”While many of us have the noble intention of being authentic, I’m not so sure we really know what it means to be our authentic selves.  There’s a lot more work that we need to do if we indeed...