The Cynthia Manion Show

The Cynthia Manion Show is a transformative podcast journey where the extraordinary meets the relatable. Hosted by Cynthia Manion, this show uncovers the stories behind the world's most dynamic movers, shakers, and changemakers.Each episode takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of remarkable individuals who've made significant contributions in their respective fields. From the realms of fitness and fashion to entrepreneurship and mental health, you'll hear firsthand accounts of triumphs, trials, and the key moments that shaped their lives.

The Cynthia Manion Show is a health podcast hosted by Cynthia Manion, with 134 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Cynthia Manion hosts The Cynthia Manion Show, a health show with 134 episodes published.

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  Episode #134

  Inside My Silence with Franklin Vanderbilt

  Sep 10, 202655 minS1

  Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Franklin Vanderbilt: Website: https://franklinvanderbilt.com Merch: https://franklinvanderbilt.com/merch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/franklin_vanderbilt_official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/franklinvanderbiltdrummer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franklinvanderbilt TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@franklin_vanderbilt X: https://x.com/fvanderbiltdrum Everybody's Talking About Love is on all streaming platforms: https://hypeddit.com/everybodystalkingaboutlove Franklin Vanderbilt started on drums at five in Chicago, toured the world with Lenny Kravitz, and has played with Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, and Robby Krieger of The Doors. Then one night in Europe he walked off stage frustrated, because he wanted to say more than the drums could. In this hour he tells how a drummer picked up a 12-string guitar as a songwriter and "turned into a guitar player," how he found his voice by focusing on inner space instead of outer space, and about the night Alan Parsons apologized for not calling him up to the drums at a jam session: "In my head, you're a singer." He plays Everybody's Talking About Love live, guitar and voice, and explains Royal Cadence, the cultural and luxury house he founded. Asked what reinvention is, he answered in one word: power. Chapters: 00:00 Chicago, the drums, and audacity 05:21 The stage taught him where he belongs 10:23 The Lenny Kravitz years, and the songs he was already writing 12:23 Why a drummer picked up a guitar 15:09 The night he walked off stage frustrated 16:46 Inner space: how he found his own voice 20:36 He plays Everybody's Talking About Love, live 29:04 Inside My Silence, and the day Alan Parsons forgot he was a drummer 34:33 Good things take time: why he held the album 39:46 Royal Cadence, what success means now, and "reinvention is power"

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  Episode #133

  Monica Walls | Every Shade Tells a Story

  Sep 2, 20261 hourS1

  Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Monica Walls: Website: https://kecasusna.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicawalls/ Keca's Usna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keca-s-usna/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kecasusna/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kecasusna/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kecasusna Monica Walls fell into HR as a walk-on temp at Applied Materials and spent nearly thirty years in Silicon Valley, rising to VP of People. Then a childhood friend told her, "You've had an idea for lipstick since grad school. If you don't do it now, you're never going to do it." She had a mortgage and no second income. She did it anyway. Keca's Usna is the result: Keca was her nickname as a teenager, Usna is Croatian for lip. In this hour she tells the CEO story she'd never shared publicly, takes us to her grandfather's island in Croatia, explains the necklace behind Strength, Faith, Love, and walks Cynthia through the box she sent (Cynthia wears the raspberry live on air). Every model on her website is a woman she knows. Her line for all of them: "Who we are today is enough." Chapters: 00:00 Keca's Usna: what the name means, and falling into HR 07:06 The CEO meeting she'd never shared publicly 10:17 "If you don't do it now": the leap to lipstick 16:46 Croatia: her grandfather's island and a box of prom pictures 22:13 Croatian shade names, and the necklace behind Strength, Faith, Love 28:44 The formula: long-lasting, hydrating, not sticky 33:47 Cynthia opens the box: seed paper, bamboo cloths, and why raspberry 40:13 Be bold, be you: real women as models 49:20 Her niece Natalia's shade story, and "you are the statement" 53:06 If something is missing, plus the rapid fire

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  Episode #132

  Freddie Ravel | A Life in Tune

  Aug 26, 20261 hourS1

  Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Freddie: Website: https://freddieravel.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freddieravel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/freddieravel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freddie.ravel.2025 Freddie Ravel grew up speaking three languages: Spanish from his Colombian mother Ruby, then music, then English in kindergarten. That third language took him everywhere. He directed Earth, Wind & Fire, played the Grammys three feet from Prince, recorded Evita with Madonna, and toured the world on Carlos Santana's Universal Tone tour. Today the City of Los Angeles calls him the Keynote Maestro for Life In Tune, the system he brings to companies like IBM and NASA: melody is leadership, harmony is collaboration, rhythm is execution. In this hour he plays his way through all of it, from Mas Que Nada to Beethoven's Fifth, and makes the case that the space between the notes, and really listening, is the whole secret. Asked at the end what a life in tune sounds like, he answered in one word: bliss. Chapters: 00:00 How music found him: his mother Ruby 03:09 Touring with Sergio Mendes, and how music is built 09:01 What a musical director does: September at the Hollywood Bowl 16:26 Life In Tune: melody, harmony, rhythm, and the score 19:37 The studio years, and leadership from inside the bands 26:44 Prince, Santana, and Earth, Wind & Fire 33:31 From the keyboard to the keynote 35:36 Beethoven's Fifth: the space between the notes 42:48 Ruby, Dad at 91, and a Christmas album like no other 52:11 Rapid fire: the accordion, Mozart, and a 97-key piano

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  Episode #131

  Dede Lyons | Rebootment, Not Retirement

  Aug 20, 202659 minS1

  Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Dede: Website: https://feelgoodexpress.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dedefeelsgood Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feelgoodexpressdede LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dede-lyons-a4142722/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DedeLyons Feel Good Journal: Connecting With Your Inner Child (Amazon): https://a.co/d/0hCO4uAW A Dose of Dede (weekly mini-podcast): https://feelgoodexpress.com Dede Lyons spent 32 years in broadcast sales in New York, rising to Vice President of Group Sales. In 1997, mid-career and watching her team get collapsed in a downsizing, she looked up in a subway station and saw a Time magazine cover asking "Do you believe in angels?" That moment became Feel Good Express. At 62 she left the career and called it her rebootment. Today she teaches people to connect with their guardian angels and fall in love with themselves. She and Cynthia talk about the therapy question that changed her life at 30, the husband she met four years later, the Monday to-do list she writes for her angels, and why feeling good is an inside job. Chapters: 00:00 From waitressing at Brew's to television sales 01:32 The middle woman with tons of bosses 03:52 Running out of steam at 40 04:34 A Time magazine cover in the subway 07:55 Grace's question: trust 10:01 Pocket angels and the hovering guardian angel 11:13 Pearls: journaling and Ask and It Is Given 12:45 Mirror work and Ayla, her inner child 15:06 Keep your baby picture out 16:08 Whispers on sales calls 19:18 For the skeptics 20:45 Two columns: your list and your angel's list 22:30 The layer cake: self-love first 23:46 Therapy at 30: can I learn to love myself? 25:29 Four years later, Joe 26:57 Joy blockers, boundaries, and White Angelica 28:41 Rebootment: turning in the BlackBerry 31:46 Dede's Daily Do's: the worry-and-doubt list 32:46 Shred it, then gratitude in the mirror 37:34 A Dose of Dede 41:09 The Feel Good Express toolkit and the power of intention 43:36 Rapid fire: it's an inside job 47:03 New York pace, West Palm Beach pace 48:09 Worry angels 50:44 The Joy of Tweeting 51:39 Signs: cardinals, feathers, and license plates 54:34 Believe it before you see it 55:13 Where to find Dede and the photo tour 57:14 The Stonehenge story 58:21 Closing: you are amazing

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  Episode #130

  Never Enough with Jason Hietbrink

  Aug 13, 20261 hourS1

  Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Jason: Website: https://www.jasonhietbrink.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jason.hietbrink.1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-hietbrink Jason Hietbrink started four franchises at twenty-two and became the #1 national franchisee in his company six years in a row. He helped scale an organization from $21 million to $100 million in three years. From the outside, he'd won. Underneath was a fear that if he ever stopped performing, there wouldn't be much left of him, and losing everything financially, twice, finally forced the question. Today Jason coaches high-achieving Christian entrepreneurs, and his book, Never Enough, arrives late October. He and Cynthia talk about the sixth-grade moment where the proving started, why peace is a practice and not a destination, what over 100 successful Christian men say their success has cost them, and how to build from your worth rather than for it. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome and introduction 00:31 Four franchises at twenty-two 02:15 What it took to stay #1 for six years 03:57 The eighth franchise, the one that failed 05:25 Scaling $21M to $100M: chaos from the inside 06:54 What 450 franchise owners had in common 08:48 Self-doubt and the gas pump moment 10:28 Sixth grade: where the proving started 12:54 The ACT story: afraid to find out 16:58 What the winning was costing at home 20:14 Peace is a practice, not a destination 21:17 Where peace comes from 24:13 Why he interviewed 100 successful Christian men 26:27 "Everyone wants my life, but no one sees what it's costing" 28:50 The only addiction people praise 32:21 Two daughters, one championship: love versus fear 36:14 The chip on the shoulder 38:28 Family photo tour: Yosemite, New York, Kauai 42:38 Building from your worth, not for it 46:20 Energy, not time 50:15 Goals, surrender, and owner versus steward 55:34 Why he serves as an elder 57:14 What he hopes the book leaves you with 57:56 Where to find Jason

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