Empowering Women in Business with Maggie Ishak, Focal Point Coaching (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 834)
In this episode of North Fulton Business Radio, hosted by John Ray, the featured guest is Maggie Ishak, Focal Point Business Coaching. Maggie shares her journey from a 28-year corporate career to becoming a business coach specializing in helping women business owners and leaders. She discusses the unique challenges women face in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings, emphasizing the importance of time management, delegation, and setting boundaries. Maggie also highlights the value of coaching in providing accountability and strategic direction. She shares success stories, explains the differences between coaching and consulting, and outlines her various offerings, including one-on-one and group coaching, as well as specialized assessments.
John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced by the North Fulton affiliate of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.
Maggie Ishak, Focal Point Coaching
Maggie Ishak is a Certified Focal Point Business and Executive Coach and a Certified Trust Edge Partner.
Maggie educates and empowers her clients to reach their professional and personal goals: to grow their businesses, to engage their teams, to manage their time, and to maintain a healthy work/life balance.
Before launching her business coaching practice, Maggie enjoyed a 28-year corporate career at Michelin North America, holding senior leadership roles including VP of Supply Chain, VP of Operations and Director of Customer Experience. Maggie left a lasting impact not only on the business results but also on the teams she coached and managed and the customers she served.
Maggie has a BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Wake Forest University. Maggie lives in the Atlanta area with her husband and three teenage sons.
Topics Discussed in this Episode
00:00 Introduction and Welcome to North Fulton Business Radio
00:30 Meet Maggie Ishak: Business Coach for Women
01:58 The Corporate Journey: From Engineer to Business Coach
03:23 Navigating Corporate Challenges as a Woman
10:08 Balancing Work and Family in Corporate Life
17:58 The Transition from Corporate to Entrepreneurship
20:04 The Three Eyes of the Business Owner
22:50 The Role of Coaching vs. Consulting
25:21 The Importance of Celebrating Wins
33:27 Success Stories and DISC Assessments
36:53 How to Connect with Maggie Ishak
38:20 Final Thoughts and Announcements
Renasant Bank supports North Fulton Business Radio
Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions, with over $17 billion in assets and more than 180 banking, lending, wealth management, and financial services offices throughout the region. All of Renasant’s success stems from each banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way to better understand the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.
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About North Fulton Business Radio and host John Ray
With over 800 shows and having featured over 1,200 guests, North Fulton Business Radio is the longest-running podcast in the North Fulton area, covering business in our community like no one else. We are the undisputed “Voice of Business” in North Fulton!
The show welcomes a wide variety of business, non-profit, and community leaders to get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, their community, and their profession. There’s no discrimination based on company size, and there’s never any “pay to play.” North Fulton Business Radio supports and celebrates business by sharing positive business stories that traditional media ignore. Some media leans left. Some media leans right. We lean business.
John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, and many others.
The studio address is 275 South Main Street, Alpharetta, GA 30009.
John Ray also operates his own business advisory practice. John’s services include advising solopreneurs and small professional services firms on their value, their positioning and business development, and their pricing. His clients are professionals who are selling their expertise, such as consultants, coaches, attorneys, CPAs, accountants and bookkeepers, marketing professionals, and other professional services practitioners.
John is the national bestselling author of The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices.
