Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Life & Career Coach Sophia Mikelionis, a transformational guide helping ambitious women stop outsourcing their self-worth to their résumés. As the founder of Gearing Together, she supports high-achieving professionals—especially first-gen success stories and mission-driven leaders—who are ready to lead with Clarity instead of Burnout.

With more than 15 years in corporate Finance at global brands like AbbVie, Kellogg, Ferrero, and Kraft, Sophia knows firsthand the pressure to be productive, polished, and perpetually “on.” She navigated that path herself, earning an MBA from Syracuse University and a BBA from Howard University before building a high-performance career in finance and analytics. Today, she brings that same strategic rigor to her Coaching and workshops—minus the burnout. It’s a compelling, empowering story.

More on Sophia – http://www.gearingtogether.com/

Joe Dimino Podcaster/Artist

Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.