In this episode of Your Leadership Legacy, host Tina Krause welcomes Alex Lianne Carter, a master certified neuro coach, educator, and author. Alex shares her journey from burnout to transformation, including her family's move to Panama. She discusses how childhood experiences shape adult leadership and mindset, explaining key neuroscience concepts like neuroplasticity and mirror neurons. Alex introduces her children's book, Free to Be Me, designed to build confidence and emotional resilience through positive self-talk. The conversation emphasizes intentional parenting, presence, and identity as foundations for raising future leaders and preventing burnout.

Every child deserves to laugh, to shine, and to feel completely free to be who they are.

Alex Lianne Carter is an educator with nearly two decades of international experience, a master-certified neurocoach, and the author of Free to Be Me, a children's book designed to help kids build confidence, identity, and emotional resilience from an early age.

Through her work, Alex explores a powerful idea: we don't lose confidence overnight, we slowly unlearn it. This perspective shapes her work with both children and adults, helping them reconnect with who they were before fear and self-doubt took hold.
She is also the host of the award-winning podcast Unleashed & Unstoppable, where she explores identity, leadership, and the courage to fully show up. Alongside her husband, she co-runs a digital web agency, helping entrepreneurs and organizations build online platforms that reflect who they truly are.

When she's not writing or speaking, or deep in website strategy, you'll find her barefoot in the sand with her daughters, chasing sunsets, exploring waterfalls, and journaling under palm trees at sunrise as the howler monkeys call through the jungle, building the kind of childhood she believes every child deserves.

Website

https://alexliannecarter.com/

Social Media

https://www.instagram.com/alex.lianne.carter/

Additional Link

https://freetobemekids.com/

In this episode of Your Leadership Legacy, host Tina Krause interviews strategic advisor Serin Silva, who works with women founders and CEOs navigating business growth and complexity. Serin shares her journey from building "corporate armor" in the telecom industry to helping leaders embrace authentic leadership. She introduces her "three wisdoms method," integrating intellect, intuition, and somatic awareness to guide leaders through uncertainty. The conversation explores how AI and disruption are reshaping business, why nervous system regulation matters in leadership, and how trusting one's intuition (often dismissed as "woo woo") can be transformative for both leaders and their teams.

Serin Silva is a strategic advisor to women founder-CEOs and leadership teams running $15–$50M companies who are in the thick of growth, complexity, or outright chaos. She's the person they call when something big has to change—restructuring a production company for the AI era, turning "accidental" agencies into real businesses, or helping a team go from $10M to $25M in under a year without burning the place down.

Before advising founders, Serin spent two decades inside high-pressure corporate environments where the stakes were very real. She led integration communications for eight acquisitions in a single year at a billion-dollar telecom; helped bring Oracle's first CRM and Human Capital Management platforms to market; launched the original MSNBC digital brand for Microsoft; and drove strategy for an early food-delivery robot long before it was cool. At a major consumer brand, her digital marketing work generated $500M in revenue in one year across five product lines. She's led five restructures and turnarounds for mid-sized companies, doubled revenue for a midmarket tech firm, and delivered a 150% business increase in eight months by forcing the right business and mindset pivots.

Born in Silicon Valley to Turkish-Cypriot immigrants who fled civil war, Serin grew up reading rooms, managing volatility, and spotting patterns other people miss. Her approach is simple: set the strategy, align the people and incentives, name the truth, and get moving. She blends sharp strategic frameworks with deep human insight and intuition—what she calls "wild love": fierce care plus clear calls. Her creative work has been published twice, and she designs retreats and ceremonial spaces for high-performing women who need somewhere honest to fall apart and reassemble.

https://www.serinsilva.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/serinsilva/

In this episode of Your Leadership Legacy, Tina Paulus-Krause sits down with keynote speaker, TV host, and consultant Meredith Brightstein for a powerful conversation about what it really means to shine as a leader.

Meredith opens up about the profound loss of her father, the anger and grief that followed, and how she consciously chose to transform that pain into purpose. She shares how "shine" became both her personal philosophy and professional platform—helping leaders speak up, stand out, and operate from excellence instead of mediocrity.

Together, Tina and Meredith explore:

• Why leadership starts within and isn't defined by a title
• How to move from automatic, hamster-wheel living to intentional, grounded choices
• The role of love, courage, and energy in difficult conversations
• How to get under anger to the grief or fear that's really running the show
• Practical ways to shift out of victim mode, stop tolerating what doesn't serve you, and claim your best self

Meredith also talks about groundedness, the "gift in the shift," and how ordinary people create extraordinary impact when they decide to shine.

If you've ever felt stuck, small, or afraid to make a change, this episode will remind you that you're one courageous decision away from a different story—and a different legacy.