Rising Stars: Meet Angela Gentile

Today we’d like to introduce you to Angela Gentile.

Hi Angela, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
As a certified teaching Professional since 2005 from coaching to public school to fitness, and certifications in Neurolinguistic Programming I specialize in helping people get unstuck and confidently stand in their powerful purpose. Because I get it. I was STUCK. I was living a life that was not mine—I was living according to a series of choices I thought I had to make and what I thought I “should” be doing.

The day my dad died suddenly in 2015, everything changed. It was in my deepest moments of sorrow that I realized we only have one life and we better live the hell outta it. I took this gift of breaking open with grief to evaluate how I was living and identify how misaligned I was each day: angry, toxic, repeating unhealthy patterns, lots of self-hate…

So, I permitted myself to heal—to meet myself—and I’m able to define what I value and to align who I am to a life that is MINE.

The past decade experiencing loss, death, crisis, toxic relationships and work environments, global pandemics, financial hardships, building businesses, and ultimately healing generational trauma, I’ve turned this knowledge into my purpose—to share my discoveries and help others live the most EPIC life: to be who they want to be and break free from the limiting status quo. I have pivoted jobs, launched a business, built a virtual fitness community and now I have a global podcast uniting trailblazing millennials from around the world. I am so privileged to be on stage and speak as well.

As an elder millennial simply further ahead on this path, I am honored to coach folks through my life’s crossroads and share my stories on The Empowered Millennials Podcast so folks can have all the tools, resources, and support they need to bust out of the “should” and live a life they love.

Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
In the iterations of my business, one of the hardest things was navigating and building a fitness brand through a pandemic. That was no joke! I had to learn so much in a matter of a weekend to be able to build an on-demand platform and do some live streaming. I was learning on the fly and building the parachute on the way down, so to speak.

And with that, I think that is always the challenge with running a brand or business: not having it perfect and doing it anyway.

Plus, when you are always growing and changing, you must stay connected to what is important to you and have your business evolve with you or pivot onto something else. So, that’s what I have been doing and it was always hard to let things go, change up my plan, and launch a new brand and podcast. And it has been even scarier to put me as the brand, not a concept or an idea, but me. I am the brand. And that is a big step that took a ton of confidence.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am known for storytelling! I do that when I am speaking and hosting events and with my podcast. The ability to tell a story allows people to connect to your experience and humanize maybe something that was painful, uncomfortable, tragic, or whatever else. A great story and leaves an impact because we see ourselves in it.

With my podcast and even when I host or speak at events, the effectiveness of it is about how to tell a story, keeping people engaged and having them feel that they are part of something collectively powerful. There’s a major intention behind what I do: I am telling this story so we can feel a certain way and know we are less alone in the human experience.

And I think that’s why people work with me for confidence and empowerment coaching, especially when they are at a major crossroads. They feel seen, heard, valued, and supported in being human.

With my coaching, I truly let people lead the way. I am not one of those coaches with a one-sized-fits-all model but rather take strategies I have learned in NLP coaching, my decade-long teaching career in instruction and curriculum design, and just my life as an elder millennial for folks to get a specialized, low-pressure experience, one that works for them.

I help people identify what they want, work through the limiting beliefs and default programming we learned that isn’t working, and build a specialized roadmap to go after their goals, what they want.

What matters most to you? Why?
Personally, what matters to me is living the hell outta this one life!

And that is the driving force behind all that I do. I want folks to know they have the power and permission to customize and design a life THEY love, not one that someone told them to have.

When we are trying hard to force this one-dimensional way to live a life of joy, we get stressed overwhelmed, unhappy and so many not joyful things! It’s so powerful to let go of what isn’t working and make space for the infinite possibilities of what we can do to align ourselves to something that works for us.

Pricing:

• $97 Introductory Coaching session.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.theangelagentile.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theempoweredmillennials/
• Other: https://tiktok.com/@theempoweredmillennials

Image Credits
Hilary Lynn Photography