The Carolyn Rivera Show

Transform your life and change your destiny! Carolyn Rivera, speaker, author, leadership expert/trainer and reality TV star, develops future leaders by teaching individuals to harness their own potential and navigate themselves to achieve their goals. Join her each weeks as she guides her listeners toward a powerful mindset on her podcast, The Carolyn Rivera Show. Her mantra, "Believe, Commit, Achieve," breaks down the transformational process into bite-sized chunks that are less intimidating and more attainable, bridging that fearful gap between goal-setting and goal-accomplishing and fostering the opportunity to embrace change.

Carolyn draws from her own unique and diverse experiences to bring passion and purpose to her message. As a corporate expert in leadership and as a contestant on the CBS hit series Survivor, where she placed second after proving resilient in both mind and body during her 39 days in the Nicaraguan jungle, her ability to endure and thrive through change, no matter how uncomfortable, is a true testament to the power of our own minds, and she brilliantly uses her own journey to exemplify what we are all capable of.

Carolyn grew up in the concrete jungle of New York City, where she began her career in corporate leadership. Years later, and after unrelenting attempts to become a contestant on Survivor, her dreams came true and she was sent to the real jungle to compete amongst younger and more survivalist-savvy opponents. Despite the odds, Carolyn had a secret advantage. Her ability to believe in herself, fight through challenges, form alliances and anticipate danger, catapulted her to her second-place finish. Carolyn has proven that adversity is inevitable. How we face it is optional. And what we create is ours.

As a speaker, trainer, author and innovator, Carolyn connects with others on an intimate level by sharing her own struggles and bringing humor to her own set-backs. Her message is not only timeless, but essential to anyone interested in personal growth and development. The Carolyn Rivera Show is sure to ignite a revolution of change-oriented listeners who are motivated by her inspiring message.

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Episode Blogs

What Is Customer Service? with Omar Elkalyoubie

When you’re a leader, you are always looking for ways to help others and to give them an opportunity to reach for the stars and achieve their goals. One thing you can do that is by supporting charities. Theme park enthusiast, actor, and fundraiser Omar Elkalyoubie introduces a special charity that Carolyn is supporting – Give Kids the World. Omar is the Special Events Manager at Give Kids the World. He shares what brought

Managing Change

In this episode, host Carolyn Rivera is joined by her husband Joel Rivera, also known in their household as McDaddy. Joel shares his views on the topics previously discussed on the show. He talks about the changes Carolyn and other women initiated during a time when women were seen as weak and fragile. Carolyn and Joel also dive into the idea of perception and how it’s a two-way street, and for change to happen,

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Managing Conflict

No matter how much we avoid it, conflict will always find a way into our lives in one way or another. When this happens, we need to be equipped with different conflict management strategies to avoid being caught off guard. In this episode, Carolyn Rivera shares the different strategies that she has applied in her life. Having experienced multiple conflicts throughout her career, she dives deep into the particulars and complications of conflict with

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It’s a man’s world, as they often say. Karen Hoppa of the Auburn Tigers proves this wrong. A woman breaking into a world run mostly by men, Karen is an award-winning soccer coach with multiple achievements under her belt. She started as a student-athlete herself in more than one sport before moving on to become a soccer coach after graduating from college. Karen insists it’s more about the players and the coaches than it

Negative World

In this episode, host Carolyn Rivera sifts through all the negativity we have in this world. She discusses negativity by differentiating negative thinking to bullying. Moving past that, she then talks about how to shift your own mindset off of the negative and create a positive atmosphere around you. Finally, Carolyn shares her insights on how you can help others do the same. — Listen to the podcast here: Negative World Negative World, Negative

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There will always be a time when we have to choose. It may be as simple as what to eat for breakfast or something life-changing where you’ll need to choose right. In this episode, Carolyn Rivera will empower you by going deep into the power of choice. She shares the experiences of real people, making real life-defining choices that not only affect them individually but the people around them as well. — Listen to

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President of Customer 1st Performance, LLC, Debbie Harrington talks about her life as a mother and wife while having a career in the corporate world. In a time when women weren’t supposed to go to college and have a career, Debbie persevered and showed everyone that it was her right to have a career, to be happy, and be successful. Debbie shares her insight on how she was able to juggle her professional career

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At one point, we all wished for the ability to redo events when things don’t go our way. We may not have that exact ability, but we have the next best thing: we’re given the ability to build new beginnings. Host, Carolyn Rivera, has her fair share of having to start over not once, but multiple times. This is accompanied by its own challenges and rewards, both personally and with her family. Join her as

The Debut Show

This is the debut of the Carolyn Rivera Show. Carolyn is a difference maker, a mother of three and a true native New Yorker. In this episode, we get to know Carolyn as she tells us about her childhood and family life. She then went on to discuss the world of entrepreneurship, and her experience in the show Survivor. Always been one who dares to be different, Carolyn also tells the story of how