#23 – Mich Hancock: Showing Up as Yourself

How do you build a new career chapter after years of success? Betsy Cohen joins Cynthia Kirkpatrick to discuss the skills, relationships, and uncomfortable transitions that helped her evolve from corporate leadership to nonprofit leadership and philanthropic futurism. Betsy shares the childhood experience that shaped her independence, her mother’s gift of shattered glass, the setbacks

Dr. Erica Yalavarthi is double board certified in family medicine and obesity medicine, menopause certified, and focused on longevity. After more than two decades inside a medical system that gave her ten minutes per patient, she walked away and built something different: Awaken Face and Body Wellness, a physician-led concierge practice and med spa in St.

This week Cynthia sits down with Farica Chang, managing partner of Anderson Technologies and founder of Anderson Archival, two St. Louis businesses built around helping people protect what matters most. Farica opens up about the unplanned turns that shaped her path, from a temporary contract job to running a growing company, and the deeply personal

Joining Cynthia this episode is Jennifer Belmont Jennings, an estate planning attorney at MGD Law in St. Louis and a former wealth advisor who has spent her career bridging the legal and financial sides of people’s lives. Their conversation moves through the winding, sometimes discouraging path that shaped Jennifer’s career, the mindset shifts that carried