Rachell is a registered nurse and pairing her expertise in palliative care with the pregnancy journey. Assuming that every pregnancy results in a delivery can be a rare outcome, especially for women of color. This episode includes trauma and loss during the pregnancy journey. For Rachell, her pregnancy journey began in 2018 and she didn't end up in the delivery room until 2022. Rachell lost 9 babies along her pregnancy journey and she is leveraging her lived experience to share the lifesaving pi...
Nov 29, 2024•43 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Heads up - mentions of psychological abuse, domestic violence, and suicidal reference This episode is in memoriam of Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey. Andrea Morehead-Allen was (and still is) a star. a 7x emmy nominated journalist, expert news anchor, and overall humanitarian AND she knows what it feels like not to want to be "here" anymore. Andrea experienced workplace psychological abuse, and we spend this episode sharing our stories, our feelings, and our continuing healing once we understand tha...
Nov 23, 2024•49 min•Season 4Ep. 9
In this fireball episode of Women Making Moves, two ascended goddesses talk about their transformation from copy/paste corporate powerhouses to women about the world guiding other women to not only trust, but to follow their own light. LA is a force of nature, takes one to know one and I'm so fortunate to be in her orbit. LA is a coach, a guide, a humanitarian, guiding women and humanity toward their best selves. The world may be afraid of strong, fierce, powerful women, but also, when we are al...
Nov 19, 2024•43 min•Season 4Ep. 8
What must it feel like and take of a young woman to be a medical school candidate when you see the intersectional complexities in healthcare, particularly for women - ALL women. Hiba Siddiqui, a South Asian woman advocating for not only her community, but for all. She has recently graduated with a Health Science degree, but also Medical Spanish Interpretation. Hiba is pioneering the intersection between medicine and a growing Latino community within the U.S. Focusing her research toward women an...
Nov 14, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Raslyn Wooten has been on the receiving end of some of the most horrifying workplace discrimination experiences you'll ever hear...and being in PR, her work publicly spoke for itself. She fought a discrimination case in federal court and won over a million dollars because of her ability to document and organize her case. Through her own court case, she began what started as a blog, writing about her experience with workplace discrimination that then became a career lifestyle magazine for black w...
Nov 12, 2024•52 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Carolyn Lewis spent much of her early professional years out on the open waters in maritime and anti-piracy operations. This is where she was met abruptly with the lack of knowledge around women's health, as she was the first one to have her period on a ship! There were no provisions, so she set out on her own to educate and support male dominated industries to support women appropriately as it relates to perimenopause and menopause. We cover a range of topics including a breakdown of the 30+ sy...
Nov 08, 2024•41 min•Season 4Ep. 5
We are all familiar with identity theft which is someone posing as us to gain access to accounts, products, services, etc but have you heard of data theft? Danielle Spencer has... She learned that upon becoming a whistleblower for the US government, she became a target of data theft in which the actual vetting process to become an employee, was used in retaliation. She is now educating others that rather than turn away in fear, step forward in knowledge. She, along with many are educating indivi...
Nov 05, 2024•49 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Meet Lisa Boate, a lifelong, formal educator turned Menopause Coach and Community Leader. Lisa is taking it back to basics, to ensure that every walk of life feels comfortable welcoming in this important renewal in a woman's life. In this space and time where we are on a fast paced autopilot, menopause can be viewed as a burden, but it's actually an invitation to turn back inward and listen to our bodies. Lisa stepped away from the copy/paste, patriarchal world of education to gear all of her en...
Nov 01, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Cierra Gross, CEO of Caged Bird HR and Worklution has created a revolutionizing 1:1 experience now turned national (eventually global) app to not only reinstate personal power, but also to reinvent the way work...works. Wrk Receipts is the new app that allows you to record your work experience (adversity, accomplishments, and time off) with one goal in mind - to help people, especially those that have experienced traumatic work environments. Being a survivor herself, Cierra is taking the most da...
Oct 21, 2024•40 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Did you know everything on the inside is connected? I ask somewhat facetiously because, of course we do, but somehow through adulthood and autopilot, we forget. Artisha Rawls is a nurse, a "lymphatics geek", and an expert on not only connecting all of her knowledge, experience, and lived experience, but for finding ways to connect and support all walks of life heading into any sort of uterus augmentation or removal. She got the second opinion, she met with physicians that looked like her, and sh...
Oct 19, 2024•37 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Jennifer Lee is a beautifully rare human that has her law degree and is building equities from within the system, as DEI specialist at the Office of the Illinois Attorney General. Our conversation ranges from discussing our own run-ins with workplace psychological abuse, to how Jennifer is banding together with leaders throughout Illinois to ensure there are equitable conversations and resources being routed to all areas and professions throughout Illinois. Jennifer shares that everything begins...
Oct 14, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 25
More women have non traditional jobs these days, and still don't have adequate clothing to wear - the men's styles are simply copied and pasted into women's "styles", which can lead to harm in the workplace as they don't fit correctly. Brenda (Maxx) Cumby McGee has come up with the solution. As a construction worker and fashion model, she has paired her unique expertise and skills to create one of the very few styles of work pants designed specifically for women. Just a few features include deep...
Oct 08, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Natalie Petersen is the brains behind Bloomstruck, located digitally at Bloomstruck.com and on Facebook , Instagram , and LinkedIn . She is a connector serving the healing-curious. Natalie offers tools, classes, panels, and a podcast, Think Out Loud With Me, as entry points into an incredible community of teachers, guides, coaches, and consultants who can help them take initial or next steps in their journey. Natalie is passionate about Emotional and Positive Intelligence, Heart Coherence, Menta...
Oct 04, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Vagina! Vulva! Labia! Say the words, loud and proud! In this groundbreaking episode, Gabriella Scaringe is a one woman show that is revolutionizing the intimate apparel industry, but also global body acceptance! Do you know the difference between a vagina and a vulva? Tune in to find out. Her grassroots research of 5,000 people with vulvas showed that 97% had vulva insecurity due to their underwear not fitting them correctly. Gabriella invented underwear that has a longer width to fully cover th...
Sep 26, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Hallie Avolio is not a typical anything… that includes woman, mother, friend, entrepreneur, or coach. Hallie is an affirmation queen, a lover of core values, and is obsessed with empowering humans to create a life they love, aka a F*ck Yes Life. Through her coaching, Hallie works with you to activate your LIMITLESS potential by shifting your mindset, opening up your intuition, and taking action on your dreams. It’s time to get unstuck, find self-love, manifest your purpose, and live this life to...
Sep 24, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Whether we like it or not, Gen Z is here to fuck some shit up...and we need it. These are some of the most brave, unique, unapologetic, and exquisite human beings. Their role in this space and time is clear - to radically object to what isn't working for the newer generations. We've been stagnant in our systems, our thinking - and it once served us. Now is the time to turn to the younger generations to meld what was and what is becoming. Romanshika Singh grew up in Nepal and a career in marketin...
Sep 13, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Bynta Ernest is a true humanitarian, it's in her entire being - her ethos. Being an expert in human rights and gender, Bynta brings actual humanitarian logic to any problem by addressing the human impact first, not last. A social impact entrepreneur, Bynta founded Rights Based Solutions, a regional and international consulting agency guiding organizations to move with a "human first" mentality. Bynta has spent over a decade working in various roles including the government of Saint Lucia focused...
Sep 10, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Isabel Draughon - an exceptional human and 2 decade entrepreneur. When two soul-led humans get together, you feel the palpable passion and drive in their energy and voices. That is Isabel and I - we often call each other our soul sister...it truly feels that way. Isabel shares her gifts with the world through coaching women in business (whether on their own or executives in organizations) with one message in mind - honor yourself. You are so much more than what you "do" - and Isabel implores you...
Sep 05, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Sherrika Sanders is a beautiful human that reminds us that there are limitless possibilities in this world, because we are the creators of our own lives. A rockstar corporate accounting rockstar is now leading the way for humanity to thrive. Bringing the GAAP into her own business, she guides accountants to avoid stagnation, providing the tools within themselves to chart their own destiny. We share our own experiences from unsubscribing from the corporate world to the real challenges that we sti...
Aug 29, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Over the pandemic, Eugina Jordan had read SO many books...and they were all written by white men. While there is certainly nothing innately wrong with this, she also realized that because they may not have the vantage point of so many other types of people, that she felt like the Goldilocks for women in business - and only having the men's perspective of how to navigate. This compelled her to write "Unlimited" - the 17 things you should know when navigating the workplace that was not designed wi...
Aug 19, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Inga Faison-Cavitt (IngaFay) is doing business differently. From long time engineer, employed by someone else, she's now lighting up the business world in business for herself. IngaFay is all about faith, family, freedom, flexibility, and fitness. All the F's. She empowers female entrepreneurs that are more introverted to thrive in their own space. Leaning fully into lead generation and earning power, IngaFay brings her divine feminine to the forefront to call people in, when/if they need her......
Aug 14, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 15
If you haven't heard of the Female Quotient, it's an incredible community driving the conversation forward for true equality and equity in the workplace - and it's a place for all humans to feel seen and heard. Within the FQ, there is a recurring event called the Power of the Pack where Amber Coleman-Mortley brings together speakers from across the world to touch on topics impacting humanity in the workplace and in everyday life. Amber dubs Power of the Pack, the "Equality Watch Party" as it's n...
Aug 07, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Michelle Minnikin was a good girl, and in many ways will always be along with all of us who are facing lifelong conditioning and programming of how to behave. Author of Good Girl Deprogrramming: Unleash the Rebel Within and leader of "Good Girl Deprogramming", Michelle is sharing her own story but also the lived experiences from women in all walks of life to understand their programming and how to lead others to true self and liberation. We get into a fun and spicy conversation around the patria...
Aug 02, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Claire Murigande, PhD and EMBA is a biologist, humanities champion, and a woman blazing a trail encouraging women to show up as themselves, to put themselves out there as no one is you. Claire shares her journey in her own unique brilliance especially as it relates to being able to do some good while making money. Claire is setting the tone on the new way of doing business and in her most recent role as the President of PROWAH (Professional Women of African Heritage), she is supporting a legacy ...
Jul 29, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Heather Wallander is starting a revolution...like many of us, she endured workplace psychological abuse, discrimination, and retaliation. She recently went viral with her story and is on the other side fighting hard to drive the change we're wishing to see. The thing about workplace abuse is that it is so rampant, so commonplace, that it's often ignored or not even realized. Further, if you do realize it, then come the NDA's, the arbitration, the severances...Heather is on a mission to ensure yo...
Jul 25, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Kacy Fleming learned better and now she's doing better for ALL...after a rich, robust career in biopharmaceuticals, Kacy has started TWO businesses to impart not only the incredible lived experience in wellbeing, but also her personal experience in perimenopause and menopause. The Fuschia Tent is a place where Kacy has gathered experts, research, support, and community for those approaching, in the middle of, near the end of, or post the menopausal transition. In addition, Kacy Fleming Consultin...
Jun 27, 2024•48 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Every person has their own energetic blueprint, their own inner rhythm. Abi Adams is a conduit for individuals to find their inner rhythm, particularly women and people who have womb spaces and menstrual cycles. For those experiencing menopause or the like, you too have an inner rhythm and Abi can show you how to leverage the highest tides of the lunar cycle to embrace your full life force and vitality. Is this conversation for men as well? YES! Men want to be part of the conversation so that th...
Jun 25, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Kanwal Haq is on a mission, she is a medical anthropologist and brilliant researcher on a quest to bring true health equity to all women. Gone will be the days when women aren't believed by their healthcare provider by anchoring in the belief that knowledge is power. Kanwal's book, "Taking Care of You" is the go to for common conditions women are facing, the ones we don't learn about in school, the non-reproductive issues that are common killers that we don't know or hear about. Kanwal and her t...
Jun 21, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Content warning: discussion around domestic violence, workplace violence When experiencing abuse of any kind, it's likely that your value or self worth has become attached to the stability of that circumstance and it becomes seemingly impossible to ever change your situation. Ruby Raja, with a mountain of education and lived experience shows you what is possible, and to remember who you were prior to the abuse. Her programs focus on not just getting out, but more toward you and what your unique ...
Jun 16, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Jennifer Fiedler...mic drop. You'll know what I mean when you tune in - she has lived so many lives with one key element at her core (well, maybe 2), she has always trusted herself with everything she has and also trusts so innately to the divine that her path has unfolded gorgeously before her just as the way it was always intended. A consciousness coach, she guides people to awaken, when they're ready...to understand the divine, what it means to be awake, and how to navigate in the world that ...
Jun 12, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 6