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Episode 28 is out!   We have Alexandra Nima with us!  Anima is a media artist and two-time business owner with a disability. She has travelled many countries and is currently based in Nordic Estonia, the “Silicon Valley” of Europe. Having navigated industries as diverse as art, tech, business and media, Anima has a few lessons on resilience, frugality and utilizing creativity to share with people all over the globe.  As artist and strategic mastermind for her NGO Vitruvian Vision, she aims to bring joy and happiness back into (young) people’s lives. As the owner of a small, values-first PR consultancy, The Sophisticated Geek, she talks about finding your voice in unusual places, and why an empath would want to work with the media.   Currently, Anima promotes a joint Flashmob project between her two businesses, that will lead her and her team across Europe in a branded Eco-Campervan.

Episode 27 is out! We have Cassandra Rosa, who is an intuitive certified life coach and clarity creator. She helps millennials find the clarity they need to confidently create a fulfilling life and business. In her coaching practice she loves to teach her clients how to clarify their path and purpose , connect to their inner confidence and create the action steps to kickstart their business. Cassandra Rosa is a healer, Reiki master, an award-winning speaker, award winning author of the book Now What: Create the Clarity to Achieve Your Dreams. Tune into Cassandra’s personal development and business podcast called Clarity Conversations. It’s available on all major podcast platforms!

Today we have Lara with us!  Lara lives in Driftwood, TX with her husband and 2 sons. She graduated from Texas State with a BFA in theatre and has been directing shows for 20 years. During that time she fell in love with costuming. She began to see the beauty in choosing timeless pieces that could be used across multiple decades. This passion, along with her personal need to trim her closet led her to dig deeper into sustainability and eventually capsule wardrobes. From there, she created The Wardrobe Edit®. The Wardrobe Edit® is a program dedicated to helping women simplify their lives by editing their wardrobes down to the items that make them feel most confident and stylish, while also educating them on the perils of fast fashion as they move toward a more sustainable lifestyle. She is excited to inform people about fast fashion and hopes to make a difference, one wardrobe at a time.

Episode 25 is out! We have Neicee J with us. She was born Tahneisha Plowden and was raised in NE Ohio. but moved to NC in 2014. She suffered years of sexual abuse from multiple family members, years of physical abuse from her ex spouse, but even then she kept all this trauma tucked away in her heart for decades. In her new book, “Behind Closed Doors” she shares the pathway she took to get free from these traumatic events. Neicee believes far too many people carry around the weight of painful things that happened to them behind closed doors. This is why she created a Behind Closed Doors Journal as well to coincide with the book. This isn’t an ordinary journal. This journal of a step in the direction of healing. She has included affirmations , scriptures, promissory note to self, positive questions to help find yourself, as well as a positive note from Neicee.  Her goal is to help them understand there is hope and there is a pathway to freeing your mind from a dark past and most importantly giving encouragement to #speakout. If her story can add value to men and women, she’d love to see that happen!

Episode 24 is out!  We have Kekua with us!  Kekua is on a mission to strengthen families by empowering the mothers, sisters, and wives who lead them. The work of overcoming emotional abuse and narcissistic manipulation led Kekua into a deep inner journey of repairing unrecognized insecurity and trauma. After learning how prevalent these issues are, she wrote a best-selling book to help other women create the same healing and growth as she has experienced, using her own life as a lesson.

Episode 23 is out! We have Tresa Bell with us this time, who is a certified hypnotherapist and past life regressionist. She uses various hypnosis techniques along with NLP to reprogram and remove limiting beliefs and suppressed negative emotions in the subconscious mind. She helps people with anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, weight loss, relationship issues, insomnia, negative emotions, patterns, cycles and so much more!

Episode 22 is out! We have Giselle with us this time! Giselle Galper is a University of Illinois accounting and Stanford Law School graduate who spent most of her career as a General Counsel for the Coppola Companies. While a General Counsel, Giselle started giving talks to professional women about how to negotiate their pay and navigate through and around bias. Frustrated that there was no way to give people encouragement and additional learning after her talks, Giselle started looking for a career app to solve the problem. Unable to find one, Giselle embarked on the journey of learning how to build a career app to do just this. Now Giselle is the founder of chea seed, a career fitness tracker that gives users big careers from small actions. You might be wondering why it’s called chea seed. The name chea seed is a play on the acronym for Career Helping Expert App, CHEA, and the food chia seed, which is empowering and energizing in small doses. Chea seed is available now in the App Store and Google Play, and their feature-complete beta will release February 2022.

Episode 21 is out.  We have Laura Adair with us. Laura Adair is a Master Life Coach and entrepreneur helping women find that elusive balance in their health, life and home through her private 1:1 coaching programs. Laura can be found playing the guitar, singing, painting or any number of other activities between helping her clients. Sometimes all at once. Laura has been serial entrepreneur for over 20 years as a massage therapist and has launched several small businesses including Issaquah Wellness Center, Compassionate Coaching, and M&L Collectibles. Laura brings her experience and compassion to helping her clients overcome the obstacles keeping them from living a fully authentic and aligned life of joy and freedom. She can help you uncover the habits, behaviors and beliefs that are driving your current results and step together with you into the sacred space of making new choices about who you really are and who you want to be...Breaking the patterns that are keeping you stuck. Deeply compassionate about her work Laura continues to find new ways to help her clients live the life they were meant to live. She now uses Human Design readings to quickly get to the root of the dissatisfaction her clients are feeling in their lives. Living by your own design can save you time and energy by learning how to use your energy the right way for YOU.

(Episode 20 is out) We have Portia with us this time! Portia Asli is a serial entrepreneur, Cambridge MBA, and a licensed engineer focused on brain performance optimization. She is the Founder & CEO of Optimyzed Brain, where business leaders & entrepreneurs experience an exponential increase in focus & concentration, improvement in sleep & energy, enhancement in mental clarity and creativity through their Science-Based Brain Optimization System. Optimyzed Brain has a track record of transforming C-suite executives that were overwhelmed, overworked, burnt out, and sleep-deprived into elite-level performers that thrive during uncertainty and chaos. Portia's advice has been sought out by the entrepreneurship arms of academic institutions (such as the University of Cambridge and University of Toronto), global brands (such as WeWork and Microsoft), and top startup accelerators in Europe, North America, and Asia. A fun fact about Portia: she is a global citizen, having lived in 7 countries and traveled to over 35 countries across 4 continents.

Episode 19 is out!   We have Victoria Cooper with us. Until her personal mental health crisis in early 2019, Victoria looked like she had the perfect life on the outside. She had almost 15 years invested in a successful career in academic services at the University of Georgia, two beautiful daughters and a wonderful, supportive partner who all lived together in a lovely country home. Victoria had two degrees from that same University, an undergraduate in history and a masters in adult education, both earned while Victoria worked full time. But this picture perfect life was a lie, and as with all untruths, it eventually fall apart. Victoria's battles with ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, Substance Use Disorders, cPTSD, these were all undiagnosed and untreated before 2019; the same year she lost both her biological parents to the disease of addiction. This is when the shame and guilt that Victoria had been carrying around her entire life finally became too much, and she asked for help. Those two words, help me, changed the path of Victoria's life and brought her here with us today! This profound paradigm shift for Victoria resulted in her seeking out a creative project in 2021. How? Listen to find out more of this fascinating tale of resiliency in the face of a lifetime of adversity!

Episode 19 is out! This time, we have the pleasure to have Diane Konkin with us, who is the Founder of Advanced Mind Health that offers online Rapid Transformational Therapy sessions, which is a leading-edge, award-winning hybrid of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy backed by neuroscience and is gaining global recognition as one of the most effective treatments available. Diane will be discussing how women across the world who suffered from abuse or trauma can avail this therapy to rebuild their mind-set and live a fulfilling life!

Episode 17 is out! This time, we have Candice Smiley with us! She is the host of Create the Ripple Podcast, social marketer, speaker, blogger, minimalist and her most important and favorite title, mom of one tiny human and another on the way! She will be discussing rebuilding your life and trusting yourself after trauma and betrayal. After a narcissistic and abusive romantic partner cheated on her with multiple women and left her (and the country) with significant unexpected bad debt and ruined credit, Candice was forced to rebuild her life, her credit and her trust in herself. Over the next few years, Candice navigated the challenging world of foreclosure court, filing for financial proposals and divorce. During these times she adopted a minimalist lifestyle, leaned on her personal network and practiced radical personal forgiveness, acceptance and responsibility. The journey was not without its impact and Candice shares powerfully about dealing with anxiety, depression, shame and learning to let go. Now debt-free, financially stable and in a safe committed relationship, Candice loves her minimalist lifestyle for the beauty and freedom it offers her. She knows the power of a good thrift store shop and loves her wardrobe! She has learned the power of saying no, listening to your own heart and speaks openly about subtle abuse as it occurs in relationships. She’s become a voice for listening to your own truth and speaking it powerfully. She knows how to save money, make money online and in creative ways to balance the books as a single mom and yet live your biggest and best life!

Episode 16 is out! This time, we have Kelly Edwards with us, who is the founder of The Business Shower, a company that helps businesses grow by having entrepreneurs meet and connect with each other. She also hosts a podcast called "The Business Shower podcast", where she highlights an entrepreneur and their extraordinary business. Listen to her story of being a woman entrepreneur and juggling between her full-time jobs as well as her entrepreneurial endeavors. 

Episode 15 is out! We will talk about issues and difficulties women face in business while being an entrepreneur. This week, we will have Harrison Baron as our guest. Harrison is the founder of Growth Generators, a business that helps entrepreneurs grow their business through social media, SEO implementation, and inbound marketing.

Episode 14 is out! Meet Myrna Fe Perlas Agsaullo, who is a licensed professional teacher, worked for 2 years as an HR professional, for 15 years in the academe, and currently managing a start-up digital marketing agency as well as her own podcast. Myrna grew up in the Suburbs of Poblacion East Pidigan, Abra in Philippines to a lower middle class family. She used to be a wedding singer but decided to focus more on her job as a teacher. She continues to upskill herself till this day with digital skills training online. She has a YouTube channel where she occasionally posts her singing videos. 

Episode 13 is out! We have Chris Templeton with us. Chris began developing the Oh The Stories We Tell  model in 2003. Driven by a strong desire to more fully understand the dynamics of his personal and professional relationships, he has been exploring and developing the model ever since. Initially inspired by Eckhart Tolle's, The Power Of Now, Chris began to understand how his self-talk drove him crazy in some parts of his life.  In others there was no poor story and as a result no real craziness. After watching Jill Bolte-Taylor's amazing TED Talk in 2008 the model simply fell together and it all just made sense.  Chris has been working to develop the model and put it into writing both in a book, illustrated piece and video ever since. Chris is inspired in his work, whether it be the writing of his book, consulting with individuals and organizations or simply building his speaking engagements.  His excitement for how the model can serve others is contagious. This inspiration is also driven by how completely the model applies to most personal and interpersonal situations throughout our days, and a deep desire to share our role in creating stories that either serve us or don't and how to move more consistent to Authentic stories that serve us for life.

Episode 12 is out! This time, we have Dawn Bates with us!  With twenty plus years of entrepreneurial experience, coaching and leading individuals and teams to outstanding results, Dawn Bates is one of the world’s best kept secrets, and for good reason. She is very selective in regard to who she works with, and her strong moral compass guides her to the projects she chooses to take on, and delivers impeccable service to all her clients. Dawn’s repertoire of work is vast and her inquisitive mind astounding, bringing fresh insights and perspectives from 20 years of international travel and working in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Australasia, with clients spanning 5 continents, multiple ethnicities, cultures and languages. With a passion for leadership and cultural diversity, Dawn brings a wealth of knowledge and experience like no other. Her expertise lies in making you rethink your business blueprint, your life and the world we live in, harnessing the deepest freedom of all: your own truth. As well as being an international bestselling author multiple times over, author strategist and publisher, Dawn specializes in developing brand expansion, step change strategies and global visions, underpinned by her profound wisdom, molecule shaking approach, high energy and trademark giggle. She is an Executive Contributor and Editor for PreEminence Magazine , the Vogue of Feminine High Performance, and regular columnist for MSP News Global, living a location free lifestyle and sailing around the world on yachts, she appears on various media channels highlighting and discussing important subjects in today’s society. She’s an expert and authority on leading others to create social change and harnessing the power of their own truth, giving them the confidence to lead effective change in the world on a global stage. Dawn is a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Episode 11 is out! This time, we have Sadie Evans with us, who is not only a wonderful author and a speaker, but also a podcast host of Soul Food with Sadie. She is a first generation college grad with her degree in Human services. She is also a first generation business owner and an author. She took the obstacles she was born into and utilized them as a staircase to her success. Sadie has survived childhood trauma, domestic violence and the struggles that come with being a single parent. She knows how to turn pain into purpose and her goal is to help others transform their trauma into triumph!

Episode 10 is uploaded! This time, we have Courtney Johannesen, who is a wellness coach, corporate wellness provider, and yoga teacher. She helps women to transform their emotional experiences so they can reclaim their self esteem and show up confidently in all areas of their life. As a corporate wellness provider, Courtney provides customized virtual wellness programs to support physical and mental well-being. Certified as a yoga teacher, she specializes in applying the principles and tools of yoga to cultivate a resilient, balanced, and thriving life.

Episode 9 is out! This time, we will have the pleasure of having Nic Hyl on our podcast, who is the founder and creative director of New York’s newest emerging swimwear and lifestyle brand, Nic Hyl. As a lover of travel, fitness,  fashion and having previously worked in the fashion industry for brands including Norma Kamali and Ralph Lauren, Nic has taken her experience and expertise, Jamaican roots, and Florida upbringing to create a brand inspired by her love of quality, fashion and a vacation inspired lifestyle.

Episode 8 is uploaded! This time, we have a very successful and down to earth person, Crystal Whiteaker (pronouns: she/her/hers) with us, who is a DEIB Expert and Leadership Development Consultant specializing in inclusive coaching and training for impactful leaders and organizations that want to disrupt the status quo to create welcoming environments, rooted in core values.  Crystal has over 15 years of unique, creative, process driven experience across multiple industries.  She is a self-described "corporate trained, creative hippie” who puts a strong focus on core values to help her clients elevate their community connections and lead with clarity and confidence.  In less than three years, Crystal has built a brand working with clients in locations across the country, including Los Angeles, New York, and Miami.  Crystal serves as a board member for Survivor Lit, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support and resources to sexual assault survivors.  When she's not working, Crystal enjoys spending time at the beach, connecting with people, and exploring new places. Fun fact: Crystal LOVES animals and will stop to show them affection any chance she gets. She is that person who will always ask to pet your fur-baby.

Episode 7 is out!  We will have Laura Bennett with us, who is a senior healthcare executive in the DC Metro area in the United States. Laura was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame for the FedHealthIT100 awards joining a ‘distinguished group of individuals from Government and Industry who are making an impact, going above and beyond, driving innovation, challenging conventional wisdom, driving positive outcomes and giving back to the larger community’. Ms. Bennett is a knowledgeable and experienced leader in the business development and marketing sector with over twelve years of experience. As a diplomatic, proactive, motivated, and growth-oriented business development executive, Laura has a proven track record of success in the sales and marketing. With her hands-on approach to business development, strategy, and marketing, Laura has tremendously excelled, having executed profitable and effective marketing campaigns, and multi-million-dollar results for companies and organizations served. Laura is also a keto high performance coach and business strategist during her non-working hours.

Episode 6 is out! In this episode, we would have an honor of having a world acclaimed author of the book "Through Blind Eyes", as well as a social worker who supports many causes around the world, Christine Mayo. We will be discussing about women suffering from abusive relationships and marriages, as well as what we can do individually to help them!

In this episode, we will be having a world renowned mindset coach, Leticia, the founder of BlaqueRose Coaching, who is passionate about helping women get their minds right so they can see the success and fulfilment they desire in their lives. We will be discussing how we can help women of color overcome their fears and build a solid foundation to their service based businesses. 

In this episode, we will be having a conversation with Gdwin Wambua, who is the founder of the Mudzini Youth Group. This youth group provides free sanitary pads to teenage girls in Kinango, Kenya, so they can go to school without worrying about their basic need, which unfortunately they cannot afford! I anyone would like to donate, please contact Gdwin at [email protected]!

In this episode, we would be listening to the life experiences of Lala Drona, who has a vast amount of experience travelling the world and exhibiting her art! We would be diving in further on Lala's experiences to figure out the harsh realities facing women around the world in terms of educational resources!

In this episode, the life coach and a motivational speaker, Andrea Mason, who has more than 2 decades of experience in personal development would be discussion her life story, as well as how can we use technology to help empower women around the world!

This is the first podcast which tries to give you a snapshot of what the content will be going forward. Basically, we will be having two episodes per week. In the first episode of every week, we will be focusing on how technology can help empower women throughout the World, and in the second episode of every week, we will be talking about how technology can be used to establish World Peace. We will be having guests from all around the World in our podcast, and would try to learn from their life experiences.