Candy O’Terry is an award-winning interviewer who has spent her career featuring the stories of nearly 1000 women from every walk. There have been many lessons along the way. The biggest one? Successful women think differently. They believe that roadblocks are opportunities and that our lives unfold in chapters. These are women who listen to their intuition with a focus on mindset. As they mature, successful women share a need to leave their mark by making a difference in the world. As the creator and host of The Story Behind Her Success, Candy provides a weekly platform for these inspiring women to be heard around the world. No matter where you are in your life, the wisdom and advice these women share will help you get to where you want to go. What’s your story?
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Candy O’Terry is an award-winning interviewer who has spent her career featuring the stories of nearly 1000 women from every walk. There have been many lessons along the way. The biggest one? Successful women think differently. They believe that roadblocks are opportunities and that our lives unfold in chapters. These are women who listen to their intuition with a focus on mindset. As they mature, successful women share a need to leave their mark by making a difference in the world. As the creator and host of The Story Behind Her Success, Candy provides a weekly platform for these inspiring women to be heard around the world. No matter where you are in your life, the wisdom and advice these women share will help you get to where you want to go. What’s your story?
There is something about facing down your biggest fears that really changes you on an elemental level. -Laura DeSisto
Happy 4th of July weekend, everyone! This week’s success story is a listener favorite…and perfect to listen to in the car on your way to the beach. You may have heard that it’s the 50th anniversary of the movie that made a lot of people afraid to go into the ocean at all. JAWS was released in the summer of 1975 and featured a gigantic mechanical great white shark with a very bad habit of terrifying beach goers on Martha’s Vineyard. Laura DeSisto spent her summers on her father’s boat, sailing off the coast of the idyllic New England island. She begged her parents to allow her to see the movie, and emerged terrified of the water. Flash forward to a rough patch in her adulthood, when Laura’s grown children moved out and she and her husband became empty-nesters. Her friends gathered around her and encouraged her to try new things, get outside of her comfort zone, and embrace this newfound freedom. Her bestie even decided it was time to conquer Laura’s biggest fear of all: SHARKS and enrolled her in a scuba diving class at a resort in the Bahamas. Shaking in her flip flops, Laura took the class and on her very first dive, safely tethered to her dive master, she came face to face with a….(just hit that download button for the rest of the story! #sharks #courage #sisterhood : author of Resurfacing: Sisterhood, Sharks and Storms
The Story Behind Her Success
Candy O’Terry is an award-winning interviewer who has spent her career featuring the stories of nearly 1000 women from every walk. There have been many lessons along the way. The biggest one? Successful women think differently. They believe that roadblocks are opportunities and that our lives unfold in chapters. These are women who listen to their intuition with a focus on mindset. As they mature, successful women share a need to leave their mark by making a difference in the world. As the creator and host of The Story Behind Her Success, Candy provides a weekly platform for these inspiring women to be heard around the world. No matter where you are in your life, the wisdom and advice these women share will help you get to where you want to go. What’s your story?
