Redefining Ambition & Success Across Generations - with Loretta Stagnitto and Annie Ricci

In this special episode of Leadership and Motherhood honoring Women’s History Month, Leanna sits down with executive leadership coach Loretta Stagnitto and her daughter, fractional marketing executive Annie Ricci, for a powerful cross-generational conversation about ambition, identity, and defining success on your own terms.

Loretta shares her journey from corporate VP in Silicon Valley to building her own executive coaching business after burnout and motherhood reshaped her priorities. Annie reflects on growing up watching her mother lead, and how that example shaped her own path from corporate marketing to launching a fractional consulting business.

Together, they explore:

• How our identities get wrapped up in corporate titles

• What happens when our ambition doesn’t align with the corporate ladder

• The grief and growth that come with career transitions

• The subtle expectations firstborn daughters carry

• How the example we set quietly shapes our children’s beliefs about work and possibility

This is a conversation about generational evolution, how each woman learns from the one before her, keeps what resonates, and consciously chooses her own version of success.

If you’ve ever questioned whether you’re setting the “right” example for your children, this episode will remind you: they are always watching and they are learning from the example we set.

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