What if the secret to reducing employee turnover and boosting team performance wasn’t hiring faster but leading better?

In this episode, I sit down with Francie Jain, Founder & CEO of Terawatt Group Coaching, to unpack why people leave companies and what leaders can do to make them stay. With over a decade of experience in leadership development and coaching strategy, Francie shares how she’s helping organizations rethink employee engagement through expert-led group coaching.

💡 We dive into:

• Why professional development is one of the most underrated strategies for reducing employee turnover
• The ROI of coaching and how to quantify it for your CFO or leadership team
• Why investing in people creates a ripple effect across performance, retention, and culture
• The danger of “job-hopping” culture and what it says about loyalty, leadership, and learning
• How Francie turned her obsession with solving the career-change gap into a mission-driven business
• Tips for leaders who feel stuck managing low engagement and high attrition
• The truth about building resilient teams that grow with your company, not away from it

If you’re a founder, team leader, or HR pro navigating the evolving workplace, this conversation is packed with insight, strategy, and heart. It’s not just about keeping talent. It’s about helping them thrive.

How does an Emmy-winning TV producer go from directing hit shows to building an AI-powered business from scratch? On this episode of Tenacity with Sonia C, Erich Archer shares the unconventional journey that led to the creation of Smarty Pants, an ecosystem of over 100 custom AI tools designed to solve real-world business problems.

What started as a personal experiment to speed up creative work became a thriving platform, helping founders, nonprofits, and creatives automate, innovate, and grow.

In this episode, Erich reveals:

• How he went from media production to AI development with no formal tech background
• The power of building MVPs modularly to avoid overwhelm and get to market faster
• How he validated his product through real-world conversations (and LinkedIn comments!)
• What founders can learn about resourcefulness and speed from using AI
• How being a hands-on leader in public media prepared him for his startup journey
• Why smaller businesses are the biggest winners when it comes to AI adoption
• His advice for creatives looking to bring their tech ideas to life

This episode is a masterclass in scrappy innovation, practical product thinking, and the creative grit to turn an idea into impact.

In this episode of Tenacity with Sonia C, I sit down with Peter Bonney, the founder of Vendorful, a SaaS platform changing how businesses handle B2B procurement and sales.

Peter shares his real startup journey, the lessons learned from building too broadly, the grit it took to start over, and how embracing AI led to a lean, focused solution, saving teams thousands of hours on tedious RFPs and security questionnaires.

We talk about:

🔹 The power of starting small and focused

🔹 Why the MVP should be messy

🔹 How AI is reshaping enterprise workflows

🔹 The most significant mistake he made in his first startup—and how he’s doing it differently this time

Whether you’re a founder, in B2B sales, or just sick of RFP hell, this episode is full of tenacity, insight, and real-talk about building something that actually solves a problem.