TW: mentions of trauma, abuse, and suicide in this episode. Jacquie Abram and her career were derailed so many times by toxic leaders and toxic work environments that led her to write a best selling series of books called "Hush Money" - which has been the recipient of the following accolades - ✔️an International Best-Selling & Award-Winning book Featured in Forbes ✔️#1 Best Seller in Black & African American Christian Fiction (Amazon) ✔️ 5-STAR rating with over 446 reviews (Amazon) ✔️#1 ...
Jun 10, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Amanda Treppa loved her job AND she experienced workplace abuse. More than one thing can be true at once and we explore this notion to its depths during this episode showcasing our work in workplace psychological safety, and how we got here (as society, the abusers, the systems). Amanda fought back, embraced the duality, and embarked on the butterfly effect in every aspect of her life to see what was in store for her at her soul level. While we are not grateful for the abuse, we are grateful for...
Jun 05, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Are you a woman in engineering that has ever struggled to be heard? Then it happens again, and again, and again - to where you feel like this industry isn't for you? Khushi Yadav gets it and she has been where you are - that is why she is now out here mentoring women to not build thick skin, but to build the skill set and trust from within that allows you to stay in the field that you love. We talk so much about checking bias, and Khushi has done the leg work - her focus is to not only keep wome...
May 31, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Alesia Galati Media does not simply provide podcast production and creative support, they also encourage diversity of thought and unique thought. Alesia Galati is a survivor and thriver that taught herself to challenge the mainstream, the status quo and encourages her kids, peers, teammates, and clients to do the same. Trust yourself, trust your intentions, trust your unique thought. Always returning to her core values, that's how she runs her business and life - allowing it to be easy to say no...
May 29, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 2
What if we were able to identify a gateway or a portal into overall health? Spoiler alert, we do...for people who menstruate, the monthly cycle is literally our bodies sharing information with us. Danielle Keiser helped launch the initiative from 2013-2015 as a real pioneer in the field, which prompted her to start and founded the Menstrual Health Hub (MH Hub) in 2016. In this incredibly informative episode, Danielle Keiser shares with us deep knowledge about the 4 phases of menstruation along w...
May 28, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Trigger warning: stories of abuse, bullying, mobbing, racism, and trauma. Terry Chi and discuss a variety of lived experiences of workplace trauma and hers specifically rooted in racism and cultural bias against Asian American women. The treatment she has received since the dawn of her career is centered in people's unconscious biases of how an Asian woman should act or speak brought forth by tone policing her presentations, in person interactions, and even email communications. She is currently...
May 20, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 33
We may or may not be able to agree (as a society) that we're in late stage capitalism and the masses are being harmed by this structure in society AND be able to remember that money itself is not innately bad - it's an energetic exchange. What turns sticky and icky is that humans then use money to exert power over one another, this is where Jeni and I discuss how to manage a modern day, heart-led business while still being asked to operate in a capitalist world. The beauty of being a heart-led b...
May 19, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Anna DeShawn is building a media empire...starting out as a journalist, she told people's stories - now she not only excels at sharing her own but continues to amplify voices within the BIPOC and QTBIPOC community. Anna is a multi-founder of E3 radio (an online radio station amplifying Queer music), Queer News Podcast, Second Sunday Podcast and newly co-founder of Qube (the first podcast production platform exclusively showcasing black and brown voices). Anna and I explore the world of entrepren...
May 13, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 31
How do you trust the inner voice of your business? Salomie Chung, that's how - she comes with a multitude of experience and inner trust herself to guide you to your own unique intuition. We explore how to define unique success from a soul-led, enlightened way - Salomie excels from a business longevity level to ensure that you gain the long lasting brilliance and success that is unique only to you. "Give me 30 minutes and I guarantee a longevity plan" is Salomie's stance toward your business. Is ...
May 10, 2024•34 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Isis Fabian is a corporate recovery and neurodivergent coach. They explore what their world looks like current day especially as discrimination toward neurodivergency is at an all time high due to workplaces not being equipped with both the hard and soft skills to support accordingly. Isis is changing that to where individuals and organizations are learning how to be supported and be supportive. Further, we go deep into discussing the constructs and systems in the world that are still rooted in ...
Apr 27, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 29
The misinformation, the misconception, and the misunderstanding of one of the cleanest, most efficient energy is keeping the world from moving into the next generation of energy. Geraldine Nneka Okoye brings us up to speed on what we should know, how to think about nuclear energy, and the goal of NetZero by 2050. This is a very inspired conversation as she teaches us not only the what but the how, and the nuance of going nuclear. Tune in to understand more about this mind blowing concept. Find G...
Apr 23, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Imani Moore and I, we vibe. Both being transformational coaches, we guide you to return to your unique brilliance - it just may have been put on pause as we've all been required to navigate our "shoulds" in this life. Imani is also an expert in the DEI space creating safe, vulnerable energy to large corporations. This is a beautiful conversation exploring the duality of life, understanding our purpose, and helping others on their journey. Imani is hosting a complimentary webinar at the end of Ap...
Apr 20, 2024•34 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Joelle Payom is an international activist for justice - justice for peace...and this is always her focus. Amid this focus, she zooms in on and advocates for workplace safety. In this episode, we explore not only the need for legislation, but that also, violence (including abuse, trauma, mobbing, harassment, discrimination) is so deeply systemic and a humanitarian issue. While the law could help hold entities accountable, it still comes down to the individual. Through facing the issue head-on, Jo...
Apr 17, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 26
What happens when two dope ladies come together? Magic. L'Oreal Thompson Payton and Amy find themselves in a beautiful space of sharing, collaborating, and uplifting. A best selling author and award winning speaker, L'Oreal shares the inspiration behind her first book 'Stop Waiting For Perfect' and soon to be best seller (a memoire detailing fertility and mental health). Through incredible storytelling, L'Oreal is an activist, an amazing human, and an inspiring woman that is blazing the trail fo...
Apr 12, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Equinox, astrological new year in Aries, Full and New Moon in Aries, and eclipse season?! Morgan Garza is a teacher, an author, a coven leader, a CMO, and the head witch over at Saged. This is a community that I have found after experiencing my awakening in 2022. Morgan and I talk about our respective experiences and dip into what it means for us to be modern day witches, being in tune with the elements and nature, and how to build a magical life that you could have never dreamt of. Trust and su...
Apr 08, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 24
The Matria Coalition helps women to achieve the life of their dreams while spending time in beautiful community to heal, to embrace the divine feminine, and help create the balance that is needed in today's world - a journey back to themselves. Co-Creators Michelle Casazza and Jennifer Norman created the Matria with one goal in mind - building a community for humanity to come together and ideate a new kind of working and being. We've heard of the patriarchy, and now we see the matriarchy creatin...
Apr 06, 2024•39 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Pamela Shainhouse is an accessibility expert and a size diverse advocate in fashion. Pamela and I explore the things that she and other people who are differently abled must think about prior to leaving their house since accessibility and accommodations aren't quite widespread yet. Pamela works as a consultant to work with architects, planners, and organizations at all levels to intentionally plan for all people, with all different disabilities to ensure an inclusive and safe environment for any...
Apr 03, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Mariam Araji is an activist, and advocate for domestic abuse particularly in war torn countries. She shares that women experiencing domestic abuse in Iraq don't have many options, they either stay put as the abuse increases or go to a prison where there are very small space set aside for victims or survivors - but there really haven't been any good options, just a consistent cycle of abuse at home, on the streets, or by police themselves. Mariam is on the forefront of changing this for women wor...
Mar 28, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Amena Chaudhry and Zafara Consulting is doing DEI differently...that is, Amena understands that first and foremost, no existing company or organization is starting from the ground up - they have deep systemic roots that need to change otherwise DEI will be "that one initiative we tried once". Amena works with leaders who are not just well intentioned but desire actual change and need help in doing it. She's not here to teach you why, she's here to teach you how. The transformation is exquisite a...
Mar 26, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Courtney Robinson is a unique stylist, because she goes much further beyond the clothes. She anchors in faith, purpose, and style - a true catalyst to lead you what you're trying to convey through your clothing, hair, etc. She works with you to match on the outside, how you feel on the inside. It always comes down to who you are and how you want to feel - literal comfort on the inside and the outside. Image by Courtney meets you where you are - after the pandemic, there can be much called into q...
Mar 23, 2024•41 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Have you met the "Corporate Hippy" also known as Ness Monsequeira? Corporate was never a good fit for me as I struggled to be my authentic self while being part of the business world. Ness has figured it out, it being, working with teams and organizations to re-humanize humans. She follows the Panarchy and the adaptive cycle stating that for far too long business has only focused on the obsession of growth causing a de-stabilization of humanity. Ness coaches women in tech to understand the water...
Mar 22, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Former corporate powerhouses and now walking the mastery of self, Amy and Rekha embark on an exquisite journey of life and the uniqueness of one's self. Named the "Generational Guru", Rekha is hosting workshops and sharing her influence in the workplace to ensure all generations have a seat at the table and that the skills needed for the workplace are paired well with a person's unique genius. As the balance is being called in, that doesn't come without its challenges as the "big 4" generations ...
Mar 15, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 17
If woke means that we care about others, then we're woke. Tiya Lacroix is an Oklahoman activist for healthcare, education, and women's affairs. Tiya advocates for the children of today and tomorrow sharing that no matter what the disagreement, small ears are listening. Doing her part to improve the healthcare system, she is driving hospital costs down through transparency and data. Those who aren't on board, will be replaced. An activist, an advocate, and a trailblazer, Tiya is on the move to cr...
Mar 11, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 16
You've probably heard of the term Human Design, but have you heard what it is, behind the curtain? Kristi Sullivan takes us beyond the buzzword and what you may be able to google search - and the best part is that she touches on my actual chart! Enneagram is out, Human Design is in! Kidding, as in, whatever resonates with you is great. But, HD takes a further look into your specific energetic blueprint as it relates to your birthdate and the alignment of the planets and stars as you entered this...
Mar 08, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Lan Phan and I are corporate crusaders! Kidding...sort of. Lan Phan is a tour de force in the realm of purpose-driven leadership and personal excellence. An acclaimed writer, whose forthcoming book, 'Do This Daily', promises to chart a transformative course for personal and professional growth, Lan is a beacon of inspiration for top-tier executives across the globe. Her profound insights have illuminated the pages of The Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Money, offering cutting-edge strategie...
Feb 29, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Amazin LeThi is a dynamic force, celebrated for her global impact as a speaker, LGBTQ advocate, athlete, and leader in cultural change and social justice. As an unrivalled Asian LGBTQ Athlete with six international LGBTQ sports ambassador roles, she fearlessly dismantles barriers. Recognised by over 30 international organisations, including the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD, Amazin earned the title of Honorary Citizen of the State of Georgia for her impactful advocacy and community work in the...
Feb 27, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Pasha Marlowe is an expert in neurodiversity, neurobelonging, and neuroqueering. She exquisitely explains one of the biggest misconceptions in the workplace today - that neurodivergent and neurodiversity are the same thing...they're not. By virtue of each human, being exceptionally unique - no one person is the same, that is neurodiversity...whereas neurodivergent is diverging neurologically from the status quo. Pasha is on the forefront of ensuring that organizations not only understand neurobe...
Feb 24, 2024•41 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Susan Fox has specialized in women’s reproductive health and fertility, where she combines the best of ancient wisdom with modern science to ensure patients receive the best evidence-based support. If you're in the San Francisco Bay area, make an appointment and stop in! In working with women and people undergoing IVF, patients would often lament “How is it that I never learned this about my own body?” That is where Health Youniversity was born. Susan is on a mission to bring support through edu...
Feb 23, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Leslie Venetz is shifting the paradigm for B2B selling, her stellar sales record based on the origin technique of cis/het/white men selling to cis/het/white men for cis/het/white men has evolved with today's buyers in mind which centers around connection. Leslie is taking taking the historical, co-dependent power struggle of sales - the "ick" - and turning it on its head. She's creating the new way to think about selling. Leslie is un-gatekeeping the knowledge by sharing on one of her many platf...
Feb 19, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 10
TW: this episode contains references to sexual assault and rape. Jaclyn Fortini Laing is an American Women's Rights Lawyer and French Women's Rights Advocate. She has brilliantly navigated some of the toughest cases both on a world stage, and in her day to day. Bonding over LinkedIn banter, we discuss far and wide things that women still face today - the micro aggressions that really become one big macro epidemic. Every woman you know has been touched in a way they did not like, have not been ab...
Feb 17, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 9
