Finally Seen

Finally Seen™ is a curiosity-fueled podcast for ambitious women who are ready to move to the next level, personally, professionally, and spiritually, but feel unseen, out of sync, or stuck playing small. Hosted by Chrissy Bernal, Visibility Strategist and Brand Architect, this podcast blends bold conversations with real-life reinvention to help you show up fully and be recognized for who you truly are, not just what you do. Here, we believe women are never just one thing. We honor the complexity of your story, and we celebrate your desire to grow. From business and branding to motherhood, mindset, and personal power, this is a space for women (ok, men, too heehee) who are done hiding and ready to lead. Because when we share their stories, we create momentum for ourselves and for others. Whether you're building a brand, launching a platform, or rebuilding your sense of self, you’ll walk away from each episode

Finally Seen is a education podcast hosted by Chrissy Bernal, with 56 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Chrissy Bernal hosts Finally Seen, a education show with 56 episodes published.

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  Episode #58

  How to Manage Chronic Stress and Prevent Burnout: A Conversation About Breathwork and Nervous System Health with Tim Wagner

  Sep 30, 202654 minS1

  What are the warning signs of burnout, and how can you begin to manage stress before it takes over your life? In this week’s episode of the Finally Seen ™ podcast, we sit down with Tim Wagner, a regenerative health practitioner and transformational breathwork guide based in Cape Town, South Africa, to talk about burnout, nervous system regulation, and the hidden cost of high achievement. After 27 years in hospitality, Tim reached a breaking point in 2018 when he realized he could no longer find solutions to the problems in the business he was running. He shares how his career change began, why high-performing people can struggle to recognize burnout, and how the pressure to appear successful can conceal what is happening beneath the surface. We’ll explore burnout warning signs, including disrupted sleep, poor eating habits, skipped breaks, missed family commitments, and feeling overwhelmed by everyday stress. Tim also shares how breathwork became part of his personal transformation and why he believes people need to pay attention to what their bodies are telling them. If you are a business owner, entrepreneur, leader, or ambitious professional who feels stretched thin, this conversation offers a candid look at burnout, stress management, and the importance of making room for your health and your family. In This Episode: The 8 warning signs a Duke University study found in medical professionals right before they burned out The real difference between being tired and being dysregulated Why 86% of HR practitioners in one audience admitted burnout gave them an ongoing medical condition What holotropic breathwork is and what actually happens in your body during a session How nose breathing activates your parasympathetic nervous system as a natural tranquilizer A 60-second breathing practice you can do at your desk, in a meeting, or mid-conversation Why 80% of weight loss happens through your breath, not your feet on a treadmill How neurolinguistic programming works alongside breathwork to release inherited beliefs Bio: Tim Wagner is a regenerative health practitioner and transformational breathwork guide based in Cape Town, South Africa. After 27 years in the hospitality industry, Tim experienced a personal turning point in 2018 that led him to rethink success, prioritize his family and well-being, and embrace a more holistic approach to health. Today, he helps others reconnect with themselves, manage stress, and build a healthier relationship with their bodies and lives. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professionalpointer/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@professionalpointer Tags: Tim Wagner, burnout recovery, burnout symptoms, stress management, breathwork, transformational breathwork, nervous system regulation, regenerative health, holistic health, work-life balance, high achiever burnout, stress relief, personal transformation, mental well-being, What are the signs of burnout, how to recognize burnout before it gets worse, how does breathwork help with stress, what is transformational breathwork, how to manage stress as a high achiever, how to prevent burnout, how does burnout affect your health, how to regulate your nervous system, how to improve work-life balance, how to prioritize your well-being beabetterbrand.com/

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  Episode #57

  How to Book More Speaking Gigs With One Intentional Message a Day with Michelle Berman-Mikel

  Sep 22, 202633 minS1

  What if landing more paid speaking gigs had less to do with pitching harder and more to do with creating intentional conversations? In this week’s episode of the Finally Seen ™ podcast, we sit down with Michelle Berman-Mikel, keynote speaker, author, and founder of Berman Media PD, about the Black Line Method, a prospecting philosophy inspired by Michelle’s 20+ years as a competitive swimmer. Michelle shares how one intentional outbound message a day can help create speaking opportunities, why relationships can open doors that content alone cannot, and how finding the right “lever” can connect you with the people you actually want to reach. She also gets candid about raising her speaking fee, using speaking content to build credibility, and why women need to let people hear their expertise instead of relying only on polished branding. If you are an entrepreneur, thought leader, speaker, author, coach, consultant, or expert who wants more visibility and a more intentional approach to business development, this conversation is for you. In this episode, you’ll hear about: How to find the right “lever” who can connect you with an opportunity How to decide whether LinkedIn, Instagram, or email makes sense for your outreach Why relationships can create business opportunities that content alone cannot How speaking engagements can lead to the next speaking engagement Why professional video footage can become a long-term marketing asset How she approached increasing her speaking fee Why books, social proof, and professional footage can influence how your expertise is perceived What it means to stop waiting for permission and fully own your voice Bio: Michelle Berman-Mikel is a nationally sought-after expert in social media prospecting and leverage, she has worked with thousands of Realtors and Mortgage Professionals, teaching them how to transform social media from a vanity platform into a revenue-generating tool. Her strategies have helped clients generate millions in revenue by shifting the focus from likes and followers to real business opportunities. With nearly a decade of experience in the Instagram space, she pioneered ROI-driven influencer campaigns that redefined how professionals view engagement, ideal clients, and content psychology. Today, she leads a movement that goes beyond content creation, showing entrepreneurs how to build revenue pipelines through targeted engagement, strategic positioning, and systemized follow-ups. Her expertise has led her to work with major Mortgage and Real Estate Brokerages, creating company-wide shifts in digital sales strategy. Whether on stage as a keynote speaker or leading enterprise sales training, she equips professionals with the skills to move beyond broadcasting and start selling through social media. The future of sales isn’t about how many people know your name—it’s about how many are in your pipeline. And that’s where real business begins. Website: https://michelle-berman.mykajabi.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-berman-mikel-9a1ab448/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bermanmediasocial/ Tags: how to build a sales pipeline, predictable sales pipeline, sales prospecting, proactive prospecting, business development, relationship-based selling, sales strategy for entrepreneurs, women in business, personal branding, visibility strategy, keynote speaker, how to get speaking engagements, speaker marketing, speaking business, LinkedIn prospecting, Instagram prospecting beabetterbrand.com/

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  Episode #56

  How Do I Find My Purpose in My Career? A Coach's Honest Answer | Gabrielle Baumeyer

  Sep 15, 202651 minS1

  Gabrielle Baumeyer has coached leaders and teams for nearly thirty years and worked with over 800 teams, and she still remembers exactly what it felt like to be terrified of doing it wrong. In this week’s episode of the Finally Seen ™ podcast, we welcome executive coach Gabrielle Baumeyer to talk about finding purpose, becoming a stronger leader, and creating high-performing teams. Gabrielle shares how she helps people start with a surprisingly simple question, “What’s important to you?”, before figuring out what that could look like in their career and life. She also explains why listening to yourself becomes even more important as your responsibilities grow, how coaching can make difficult team conversations easier, and why people often need someone they trust to help them see what they can’t see for themselves. If you lead people, manage a team, or feel like your career is missing something bigger, this conversation gives you a place to start. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to actually identify your purpose, layer by layer, instead of settling for the surface-level answer What separates a good team from a high-performing one, and why Gabrielle can walk into any group and change how they operate in two hours The real difference between coaching and therapy, explained in plain terms The listening technique she uses to help stressed leaders reset in under two minutes Why the people with the most responsibility need self-awareness the most How to know if you're talking to someone who lifts you up or someone who lets you play small Why Gabrielle waited eight years between starting her side business and leaving corporate, and why that's okay How sharing her story turned into a book, a speaking career, and her highest-paid engagement Bio: Gabrielle Baumeyer, ACC, CEWC has spent almost three decades coaching and consulting individuals and teams in achieving extraordinary results. She is a certified Executive Leadership Coach and works with executives to elevate personal as well as team performance levels. Prior to becoming an Executive Leadership Coach, Gabrielle co-founded Reason2Race, where she worked with over 500 companies and non-profit organizations to maximize their community impact. Her coaching and consulting work resulted in approximately 6,000 individuals completing 700 events and raising $8 million dollars for local and international causes, widening the reach of their mission-driven initiatives. Today, in her coaching, Gabrielle believes that every leader has different motivations to perform, yet most of them are only tangentially in touch with the purpose that is most beneficial, the opportunity to impact the lives of others. Her work with clients focuses on uncovering and discovering what will have executives, staff, and board members not only perform at optimum levels but have those around them do the same. For her achievements as a community leader, Gabrielle was honored with the Houston Business Journal Women Who Mean Business award. She was instrumental in supporting Reason2Race to win the small business competition presented by BBVA Bank and Houston Dynamo. She was recognized by Leadera Consulting Group as an Outstanding Woman in Business. As an Ironman Arizona finisher, Gabrielle was honored as a top fundraising athlete. Gabrielle earned her coaching certification from CoachRICE of the Rice University Graduate School of Business and her Associate Certified Coach credentials from the International Coaching Federation. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from the University of Texas and lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Bill. Website: https://baumeyercoaching.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriellebaumeyer/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabriellebaumeyer/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GabrielleBaumeyer/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BaumeyerCoaching Tags: executive coaching, executive coach, leadership coaching, finding your purpose, purpose-driven leadership, high-performing teams, high-performance teams, leadership development, team building, leadership skills, workplace purpose, career purpose, career fulfillment, women in leadership, women entrepreneurs, CEO leadership, executive leadership, Gabrielle Baumeyer, Baumeyer Coaching, Finally Seen, Chrissy Bernal, personal growth, professional development, coaching skills, team accountability, leadership accountability beabetterbrand.com/

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  Episode #55

  Your Gut Knows More Than You Think: Intuition, Money & Business Decisions with Lisa Montgomery

  Sep 9, 20261 hourS1

  If you’ve ever gotten a bad feeling about a client and signed them anyway, this episode is for you. In this week’s episode of the Finally Seen ™ podcast, we sit down with Lisa Montgomery, who has spent more than 40 years in project management, commercial real estate, and business strategy, and now she helps high-achieving women stop overriding their gut in favor of another tactic. We’ll get into what it actually feels like when intuition is trying to warn you, how to tell the difference between a real gut check and old anxiety, and why so many accomplished women can build a seven-figure business and still second-guess a decision their body already made for them. We’ll cover the stoplight method for reading red, yellow, and green signals; why waiting 24 hours before saying yes to anything changes everything; the money mindset patterns that sabotage revenue; and a simple language shift, replacing "I think" with "I feel," that can retrain how fast your intuition shows up. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to physically recognize the difference between intuition and anxiety or an old wound The stoplight method: reading red, yellow, and green signals before you commit to a client or deal Why Lisa waits 24 hours before responding to any major decision, and why that pause protects your business How money mindset blocks show up as an inability to receive, not just an inability to earn The grounding techniques Lisa uses to get out of her head and back into her body before making a call Why hiring for your weaknesses instead of trying to fix them will save your business How to figure out what you actually want when you've spent years editing your own desires Why discernment, not blind trust, is the real skill when it comes to both intuition and AI Bio: Lisa Montgomery is a business consultant, intuitive strategist, and transformational guide with more than 40 years of experience in business, leadership, sales, and entrepreneurship. She has helped build and scale multi-million-dollar ventures while developing a unique approach that blends practical business strategy with intuition and self-trust. Today, Lisa helps accomplished leaders recognize what is happening beneath the surface of their business and themselves so they can make clearer decisions, trust their instincts, and create meaningful growth. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaamontgomery/ Tags: intuition in business, trust your intuition, business intuition, intuitive business strategy, intuitive business coach, self-trust in business, trusting your gut, business decision-making, intuitive leadership, women in business, women entrepreneurs, CEO mindset, entrepreneurial mindset, business mindset, money mindset, scarcity mindset, abundance mindset, business strategy, confident decision-making beabetterbrand.com/

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  Episode #54

  What Happens to Your Emotions After Major Weight Loss? A 200-pound Transformation Story | Sophie Chiche on Shame, Self-Love, and Learning to Feel Again

  Sep 1, 20261 hourS1

  If someone told you to stop crying before you were old enough to understand why you were sad, this episode is for you. Sophie Chiche remembers being little, feeling sad, and hearing some version of "Don't be sad. Get out of this.” Her feelings weren't necessarily the problem. The discomfort around those feelings was. So she learned to push them down. And pushing them down didn't make them disappear. In this week’s episode of the Finally Seen ™ podcast, Sophie Chiche shares how food became one of the ways she avoided difficult feelings. After eventually losing more than 200 pounds, she realized the weight loss was only part of the story. She still had to understand the emotional patterns, shame, body image struggles, and relationship with food underneath it all. The fix wasn't therapy alone or willpower. Sophie trained herself the way you'd train a muscle. Listen in as Sophie shares the exact practices that taught her nervous system to hold sadness without drowning in it. You don't have to sit in a corner and cry for an hour to feel a feeling. You just have to stop running from it long enough to let it move through you. If you've ever thought, "Once I lose the weight, fix the business, reach the goal, or finally get my life together, I'll feel better," this conversation asks a deeper question: What if the life you're trying to change is also asking you to feel what you've been avoiding? In this episode, we talk about: Why losing weight is a multi-layered project, not a food problem What Ozempic changes and what it leaves untouched How Sophie trained herself to feel emotions she'd spent a lifetime avoiding The Mulan scene that reframed how she sees fear Why protecting kids from their own feelings can backfire The difference between joy and happiness, and why it matters How shame shows up in the body and what it actually wants from you What "coming home to yourself" really means Why unexpressed expectations quietly wreck relationships and how to name them instead Sophie's philosophy on self-love, self-selection, and setting a bar without judgment Bio: Sophie Chiche is a life strategist, author, therapist, and serial entrepreneur who has spent the last 30 years helping people understand what holds them back and move toward what matters most. After losing 200 pounds herself, Sophie turned her personal transformation into work focused on self-love, personal accountability, and creating meaningful change. She holds master’s degrees in Journalism, Psychology, and Business, is a two-time TEDx speaker, and has been featured on Ellen, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. Sophie is also the author of The Power of Personal Accountability and the founder of Life By Me, an online community that grew to more than 900,000 readers. Website: https://sophiechiche.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiechiche/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiechiche/ Tags: weight loss emotions, emotional eating, emotional eating recovery, major weight loss, psychology of weight loss, body image, body shame, weight loss and mental health, self-love after weight loss, shame and weight loss, healing from emotional eating, learning to feel your feelings, Sophie Chiche, Finally Seen, Chrissy Bernal, Ozempic and emotional eating, Ozempic weight loss, emotional healing, self-worth, food addiction beabetterbrand.com/

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