Own Your Voice: Cultivating Voices of Impact: Recent Episodes
Sahar Paz
All great leaders own their voice. This is something CEO and entrepreneur Sahar Paz knows all too well. With over 20 years experience coaching emotionally intelligent leaders, she's now bringing her renowned speaking style and personal branding advice to the podcast world to help listeners find their voices and own them. Sharing insights and anecdotes gained from real-world experience and industry research, Sahar delves into why it’s important to lead with integrity and how the same person that stands in the bedroom, stands in the boardroom. Subscribe to Own Your Voice on the podcast platform of your choice and find new episodes in your feed on Wednesdays.
Season 7 closes with a powerful discussion between Sahar Paz and Chledin Barlatt Rumer about breaking the status quo by finding your voice. This episode is for the introvert and extrovert alike who are ready to take action by using their personal brand as a resource. Words of wisdom from this episode:
- A message for introverts and extroverts about the process of finding and owning your voice.
- Sticker goals vs. tattoo goals, get clear on what you want with you for a lifetime.
- Patience leads to power, a unique equation to help you answer who you are and what you want.
ABOUT SAHAR PAZ: Sahar Paz is a communications strategist, professional speaker, and CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm which provides comprehensive branding services for clients ranging from social thought leaders to globally recognized healthcare innovators. Since she launched her first company at the age of 13 she has accrued over 2 decades of leadership, communication, and management experience.
From reconstructing corporate branding strategies for global businesses to activating personal brands for pioneering leaders, or serving as a keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies, Sahar’s ongoing mission is to ensure that organizations, companies, and individuals can efficiently hone and use their voice to reach their goals; while remembering the third bottom line - community.
Are you owning your voice?
Contact Sahar today!
ABOUT CHELDIN BARLATT RUMER
As CEO and Executive Producer of THIS IS IT NETWORK, Cheldin Barlatt Rumer has spent over two decades creating, managing, and executing strategic marketing campaigns for clients within an array of various lifestyle industries. Rumer continues her commitment to communication and marketing education by sharing entrepreneurial stories through her daily morning talk show THIS IS IT WITH CHELDIN.
As a marketing and personal branding expert, Rumer developed her result-driven SCREAM YOUR DREAM instructional platform. This platform along with her SCREAM YOUR DREAM Membership Community encourages remarkable women to learn, create and grow through personal and professional development.
An immigrant from Sierra Leone, West Africa, a mother of two, an adjunct professor, a former Division 1 athlete, and a female personal branding expert, Rumer works to inspire female entrepreneurs to no longer whisper their wishes but to in fact – scream their dreams. Rumer is currently an Adjunct Professor at both Temple and Drexel Universities in Philadelphia where she instructs undergraduate students in the art of Personal Branding, Interactive Media, Online Advertising, and Social Media Strategy.
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Hear from two Middle Eastern womxn who put a pen to paper to find and own their voices. Authors, Sahar Paz and Farida D. join forces to wake you up to the privilege of your freedom and the burdens of the patriarchy.
ABOUT SAHAR PAZ
Sahar Paz is a communications strategist, professional speaker, and CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm which provides comprehensive branding services for clients ranging from social thought leaders to globally recognized healthcare innovators. Since she launched her first company at the age of 13 she has accrued over 2 decades of leadership, communication, and management experience.
From reconstructing corporate branding strategies for global businesses to activating personal brands for pioneering leaders, or serving as a keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies, Sahar’s ongoing mission is to ensure that organizations, companies, and individuals can efficiently hone and use their voice to reach their goals; while remembering the third bottom line - community.
ABOUT FARIDA D.
Farida D. is an Arab gender researcher and poet, studying Arab women's everyday oppressions for over a decade. Through the process, she broke up with her hijab and set all of her high heels on fire. Farida has been interviewed by BBC Radio London. Her poems are strolling all over social media, and have been shared by renowned artists including Janne Robinson and Willow Smith. She may be reached for correspondence at: farida-d@outlook.com, or on Instagram at: @farida.d.author
Season 7 is dedicated to underutilized soft skills like emotional intelligence, cultural awareness, and creating safe space for honest conversations. Pre-pandemic these skills were deemed as optional or a bonus if a workplace or a leader portrayed these characteristics - in today’s world, post-pandemic, and post George Floyd, these skills are a must.
In this episode, Sahar Paz is joined by Kerrie Mohr and Collette Brown from A Good Place Therapy known for its compassionate approach from New York to San Francisco. Words of Wisdom from this episode include:
- Developing trust among diverse colleagues
- Protecting your mental health at work, especially for POC
- Employee experience, what that means in the 21st Century
ABOUT SAHAR PAZ
Sahar Paz is a communications strategist, author, and CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm which provides comprehensive branding services for clients ranging from upcoming social thought leaders to globally recognized healthcare innovators. Her mission is not only to ensure that individuals and organizations can accurately convey their messaging, but that they also give people who have no voice or an underrepresented voice a platform to be heard. Inspired by her experiences as a woman in business and from years of non-profit work, she seeks to combine emotional intelligence and DEI initiatives, with Own Your Voice's services to ensure that organizations and individuals have all the tools strategically and socially to maximize their potential.
Learn more at saharpaz.com | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter
ABOUT GOOD PLACE THERAPY | Website | Instagram
Kerrie Mohr is the founder and lead therapist at A Good Place Therapy, a bicoastal private practice offering compassionate psychotherapy for adults, couples, children, teens, and families. Kerrie has focused her career on seeking out solutions to individual, family, and community problems through clinical work, policy reform, and building nonprofit social service programs.
Colette Brown’s journey to becoming a psychotherapist began when she worked with teenagers and their families striving to use education as their catapult over the barriers of systemic racism and poverty. For 15 years, Colette was a teacher working in NYC’s specialized high schools, and that experience informed her understanding of how our intersectional identities influence how we move through our world today. Colette holds a Master of Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, a Master of Education from Brooklyn College (CUNY), and a Master of Afro-American Studies and English Literature from UCLA.
An episode unlike any other, this week Sahar Paz and Ana Flores, the Founder of We All Grow Latina, have recorded individual messages for you who are ready to bring more ease into your journey.
Season 7 is dedicated to you looking at the patterns in your life, and breaking free from them - and therefore liberating yourself from the status quo.
The words of wisdom in this episode include:
- Living, growing and thriving with a traumatized brain.
- Self-expression to set yourself free.
- Bridges, which ones to build, which ones to burn.
ABOUT ANA FLORES:
A community builder and connector at heart, Ana Flores is the founder and CEO of #WeAllGrow Latina, the first network of Latina influencers founded in 2010 with a mission to elevate the voices and stories of Latinas through the power of community. #WeAllGrow has evolved into the go-to community for Latinas driving social and economic impact. The company’s annual #WeAllGrow Summit was named by Forbes.com as one of “19 Conferences Every Creative Should Attend.”
Born in Houston, Texas, raised in El Salvador and a graduate of the University of Florida, Ana is now settled in Los Angeles, where she lives with her daughter.
ABOUT SAHAR PAZ:
Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behaviour guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professional on stages to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. You can find Sahar on LinkedIn and Instagram @SaharPaz.
Your self-talk and your spoken voice have an effect on how you feel, in episode 45 Sahar Paz speaks with Ashley Sumner, the founder of Quilt, an app that believes conversation is self-care. Season 7 continues with the theme of breaking the status quo and prioritizing the underutilized skills of the past like emotional intelligence and using your voice. The words of wisdom from this episode include:
- Identify in a way you choose to. When you use your voice in a deeply authentic way and it turns into a cover piece on the New York Times.
- Overnight success versus feeling successful.
- Learn to talk to yourself, about yourself.
- Personal branding and startup success.
- Giving your voice more agency.
About Sahar Paz:
Sahar didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in the business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behavior guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stage to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. You can find Sahar on LinkedIn and Instagram @SaharPaz.
About Ashley Sumner:
Ashley Sumner is the CEO & Founder of Quilt. Quilt is the supportive audio social app for real-time conversations, built to re-humanize social media with the goal of helping people feel better on a daily basis. Ashley’s startup career started 12 years ago in NYC at a matchmaking company. With an intuitive ability to bring people together, she turned her passion into a career as a community developer for brands such as NeueHouse, Wanderlust, and Breakout ultimately leading to the creation of Quilt, which started as a platform inspiring people to open their homes for intimate conversations and shared experiences and has evolved into this new type of social network, in response to 2020. She now lives in Los Angeles, like every other New Yorker.
Underutilized skills of the past are a priority of the present as we re-enter the workplace and our children return to school.
Sahar Paz kicks off Season 7 with a powerful message about breaking free from the status quo in 3 areas of your life:
- Mental health
- Workplace inclusion
- Your career aspirations
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About Sahar Paz:
Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in the business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behavior guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stage to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. You can find Sahar on LinkedIn and Instagram @SaharPaz.
SHOW NOTES
Living with purpose is different for every human being, in this episode, Sahar Paz and Danelia Argueta converse about being a purpose-driven leader and using your personal brand to champion the causes you care about.
- Values and purpose are the baselines for everything.
- Taking an inward focus when it comes to thinking about your values at work.
- Instead of paying attention to data and rules, go with the flow more often.
- Personal branding and making an impact.
- Using your personal brand to wow your employer.
ABOUT SAHAR PAZ:
Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behaviour guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stages to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. You can find Sahar on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram @SaharPaz.
ABOUT DANELIA ARGUETA
Danelia is a speaker, business consultant, community leader, and has 20+years of experience in Event, Marketing, and Business Development professional. She’s passionate about empowering individuals to live purposefully by enhancing their leadership skills and developing a faith-based mindset. Danelia holds an International Strategic MBA in Marketing and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics. She is the Founder and President of Beautiful Purpose, a volunteer-managed non-profit organization focused on empowering women to live a purpose-filled life.
Leaders have gone into overdrive taking care of business, and their teams - in this episode Sahar Paz speaks with Toni Cunningham about what leaders need during this time, and how to use their emotional intelligence for their own well-being. Toni Cunningham is the Managing Director with Per Scholas, in this conversation with Sahar, you will hear these words of wisdom:
- Why purpose-driven leaders succeed.
- Being vulnerable as a leader.
- Balancing guilt and well-being.
- Responsibilities that come with greatness.
- You win, or you learn, adopting a powerful perspective.
ABOUT SAHAR PAZ:
Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behaviour guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stages to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. You can find Sahar on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram @SaharPaz.
ABOUT TONI CUNNINGHAM
Toni Cunningham is an accomplished leader, motivator, workforce development professional
and reboot strategist. As a Managing Director with Per Scholas, Toni provides the vision, operational,
and executive leadership for the Columbus team. A seasoned marketing and communications expert
Toni’s career includes roles with the Columbus Urban League, American Electric Power, Founder and
Principal at Image Anu, LLC. In addition to growing funding, investments, and stakeholders, Toni is a
highly sought after conference speaker, presenter and workshop facilitator for organizations like
Dress For Success, Women Economic Leadership Development, National Urban League, and
Women In Tech.
A resident of Columbus, Ohio, Ms. Cunningham’s community and board involvement runs
deep. Most recently: Mayor’s Recovery and Resiliency Committee, New Directions Career Center
Board of Directors, Ohio Workforce Coalition Leadership Committee, Black Tech Columbus Co-
Founder, Franklin County Tax Incentive Review Commission and, American Association of Blacks in
Energy. Committed to excellence and continuous learning, Toni earned her Master of Science in
Marketing and Communication with Franklin University and Bachelor of Science from Ohio Dominican
University. She’s also a 2019 American Express Leadership Academy Fellow.
Authentic and relatable, Toni is adamant about helping others accomplish their career goals.
Her journey reflects what happens when, as she puts it, we find “work in roles that match our souls”.
The many awards bestowed upon Toni substantiates her leadership, impact, and results. Including
the naming of Per Scholas as one of Columbus Foundation’s Top 5 Nonprofits to Watch in 2018,
Women for Economic Leadership and Development 2020 Honoree, BizTech Columbus Business
First 2019 Executive of the Year, and Smart Business Magazine in 2018 Smart50; an honor which
“recognizes the top executives of the 50 smartest companies in the Central Ohio region for their
ability to effectively build and lead successful organizations.”
Toni is a leader who believes in helping people to achieve at their highest levels. She truly
believes in living out her purpose, which is “helping people get to next” in both their personal and
professional lives.
Sahar Paz continues the season 6 theme of refashioning your perspective and refreshing your personal brand with a conversation that reveals the art of the pivot. Because of the pandemic, many people have had to leave their past professions behind and rethink their purpose and future. We talk about navigating confusion, sadness, and embracing your own power as a woman.
Ready to make a career change? Finally, want to start that business?
This is the episode for you!
MEET SAHAR PAZ & GUEST:
Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in the business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behavior guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stage to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. You can find Sahar on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @SaharPaz.
Lesley Jane Seymour is a media entrepreneur and founder of CoveyClub a new club for life-long learners. From 2008-2016, Lesley served as Editor-In-Chief of More Magazine, the leading lifestyle magazine for women over forty with a readership of 1.5 million. She was also the Editor-in-Chief and Social Media Director of More.com, which attracted over 12 million monthly page views and 600,000 unique visitors. Before taking over More, Lesley served as the Editor-in-Chief for Marie Claire, Redbook, YM, and Beauty Director of Glamour, and copywriter and senior editor at Vogue.
This week on the Own Your Voice podcast Sahar Paz speaks to Dr. Susan Bernstein, an Executive Coach who describes herself as helping anxious achievers boost their influence, advancement, and impact while decreasing stress and pressure. After working from home for over a year, many of us are having anxiety about going back to the office, human interaction, speaking up for what we believe in, and even getting dressed.
Words of Wisdom in this episode include:
- Re-entry anxiety: what it is, and why you're feeling it.
- Preparing yourself to integrate more and more back to work and personal life.
- Looking at what we didn't do in the past that we can do now to better our well-being.
- How to take care of yourself during the process of reentering back to the workplace.
- Leaders, how you can help your team to help themselves.
Connect with Sahar Paz: Instagram | LinkedIn
Connect with Dr. Susan Bernstein: Instagram | LinkedIn
Sahar Paz interviews Norma Kamali, fashion mogul, author, and a woman who proves you can evolve at any age. This episode is a must for women in their 40’s and 50’s ready to own their voices. Walk away with these words of wisdom:
- Longevity and the power of possibilities in your 40’s.
- Questions you should ask yourself at 40, 45, and 50.
- Vitality, overcoming the feeling that it’s too late.
- Inspiration, and evolving at any age.
Connect with Sahar Paz: Instagram | LinkedIn
Connect with Norma Kamali: Instagram | Facebook
Sahar Paz interviews Wardrobe Stylist, Elsa Isaac about the power of getting dressed. Elsa has dressed celebrities, business moguls, to women in various leadership positions. In this episode we explore emerging from the cocoon of Covid why do we still need to dress for the job (or, the life) that we want, how to use your wardrobe as a powerful tool.
- After a year of being in loungewear, it's time to break out of the rut, learn why is it important to do so.
- Learn how you can use your wardrobe to uplift yourself and your personal brand!
- Learn how do we curate a wardrobe that is reflective of who you are NOW.
- What is professional? How much of the patriarchy sets the tone for what is professional - let's talk about it!
Connect with Sahar Paz on Instagram + LinkedIn
Connect with Elsa Isaac on Instagram
In episode 37, Sahar Paz kicks off season 6 with 5 easy steps to help you reframe, refashion, and revive your perspective and your personal brand!
- Assess your strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
- See what fits, clear the clutter.
- What do you need to reimagine?
- How do you want to express yourself now?
- Where is the sparkle? Adding joy back into the mix.
This season Sahar wants you to try something new! A new way of listening to yourself, a new way of expressing yourself, perhaps going to a new part of town. It’s about refashioning your habits a little bit, waking up your senses, and start imaging a future that includes what’s important to you now.
In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews Kimberly Lee Minor, CEO, and CMO of Bumbershoot, to get her to take on Diversity Equity and Inclusion, what personal branding has to do with DEI, and why we need to know who we are at the CORE. Key takeaways are:
- Hello GenX! How leadership is changing, and how it’s not.
- Echo chambers on social media make conversations harder.
- Reframing hard conversations to honest conversations.
- Cognitive bias, what it has to do with you, your leadership, and your personal brand.
MEET MY GUEST:
An award-winning executive with an impeccable record of building brands, finding the uncut diamonds, and creating product-based stories. Kimberly is a customer-focused brand advocate and marketer with expertise in building seamless, cross-functional life cycle product processes, digital to brick and mortar customer experiences, as well as recruitment, engagement, and retention enhancements.
Kimberly leveraged her years of leadership experience to create her company, Bumbershoot, a boutique consulting firm that provides cultural and market insights to help business leaders strategically reposition their cultures for collaboration and inclusivity to provide a welcoming and empowering community for career acceleration of women and people of color; creates content and builds networks for support, enrichment, and promotion of niche communities.
She is an empowering mentor and purpose-centric business leader.
Kimberly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and has completed coursework towards her MBA at Drexel University. She holds an executive certificate in Leadership and Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She and her husband have 2 sons and live in New Albany, OH.
CONNECT WITH SAHAR + GUESTS
@SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Kimberly Lee Minor on Instagram and LinkedIn.
In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews Jackie Garcia Executive Compensation Analyst to discuss leveraging your personal brand in negotiations, and how to discover new positions that have evolved from the pandemic. Episode 35 highlights include:
- The importance of Personal Branding from a compensation analyst perspective.
- Raising your value and finding your niche on LinkedIn.
- How to negotiate during a pandemic or down market.
- Tips for approaching salary negotiations.
- Words of Wisdom for future HR professionals
CONNECT WITH SAHAR AND JACKIE
Jackie is an Executive Compensation Analyst at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She is an accomplished corporate HR professional with extensive experience in strategic compensation, data analysis, M&A transactions, and developing/ implementing programs. She is a proponent of pay equity, negotiating for higher pay, and helping women know their worth.
In 2019, she founded Elevate Your Pay to help BIPOC women get paid what they deserve through pay equity, advocacy, education, and consulting. As a compensation professional, Jackie has seen the gender pay gap firsthand and is committed to sharing her knowledge to help women of color negotiate higher pay and close the gap.
@SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Jackie on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlgarcia2/
In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews Olivia Owens, the Creator & General Manager of IFundWomen of Color to discuss your voice, your worth, and what it has to do with raising capital. episode 34 highlights include:
- Understanding your value internally before raising capital
- Hype yourself up with your self-talk, read the “Untethered Soul”
- Current status of funding for women of color
- Your voice is your visibility
- What your personal brand has to do with raising capital
- Words of Wisdom from Miss Olivia Owens
- @SaharPaz | @OliviaOwens | @ifundwomen
MEET SAHAR’S GUEST:
Olivia Owens is the Creator & General Manager of IFundWomen of Color, the platform for women of color to raise capital through crowdfunding, grants, coaching, and the connections needed to launch and grow successful businesses. This funding ecosystem is designed to empower early-stage, women entrepreneurs and bridge the funding gap for women of color.
Olivia was a founding team member of IFundWomen and managed Business Development and Partnerships. IFundWomen launched in 2016 and continues to help women raise millions of dollars in capital. Before launching IFundWomen of Color, Olivia’s leadership brokered critical partnerships to help scale the business (Unilever, Visa, adidas). She supported the creation of IFundWomen’s proprietary coaching program and helped build-out one of the nation’s largest connected communities of women business owners through the platform.
Olivia previously held positions at Under Armour in People & Culture. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland.
A new season of #OYVPodcast starts today dedicated to your personal brand in 2021. We kick off a collection of episodes with Sahar Paz talking to you about the pillars of personal branding in 2021, key takeaways for Episode 32 include:
- Pillar 1: Personal Branding is your approach.
- Pillar 2: How personal is your personal brand.
- Pillar 3: Making an impact, Diversity Equity Inclusion
CONNECT WITH SAHAR
@SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram and Clubhouse
In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews VP of Human Resources Elijah Bradshaw to get his take on personal branding, standing out on LinkedIn, and the importance of understanding emotions in the workplace. Key takeaways are:
- Personal Branding demystified from a human resource perspective.
- Getting clear on your lane of genius, from your bio to your CV.
- HR, company culture, and you.
- The importance of LinkedIn Recommendations.
- How 2020 changed the recruiting talent landscape for hiring managers.
- The importance of Emotional Intelligence at the workplace.
MEET OUR GUEST:
Elijah Bradshaw holds the Vice President of Human Resources position on Beeline's Human Resources team. As Vice President of Human Resources, Elijah Bradshaw is an essential member of Beeline's leadership. Elijah Bradshaw is entrusted with maintaining employees’ happiness, whether it be through perks, company outings, or benefits.
CONNECT WITH SAHAR + GUESTS
@SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Elijah Bradshaw on LinkedIn.
In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews VP of Human Resources Elijah Bradshaw to get his take on personal branding, standing out on LinkedIn, and the importance of understanding emotions in the workplace. Key takeaways are:
- Personal Branding demystified from a human resource perspective.
- Getting clear on your lane of genius, from your bio to your CV.
- HR, company culture, and you.
- The importance of LinkedIn Recommendations.
- How 2020 changed the recruiting talent landscape for hiring managers.
- The importance of Emotional Intelligence at the workplace.
MEET OUR GUEST:
Elijah Bradshaw holds the Vice President of Human Resources position on Beeline's Human Resources team. As Vice President of Human Resources, Elijah Bradshaw is an essential member of Beeline's leadership. Elijah Bradshaw is entrusted with maintaining employees’ happiness, whether it be through perks, company outings, or benefits.
CONNECT WITH SAHAR + GUESTS
@SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Elijah Bradshaw on LinkedIn.
A new season of #OYVPodcast starts today dedicated to your personal brand in 2021. We kick off a collection of episodes with Sahar Paz talking to you about the pillars of personal branding in 2021, key takeaways for Episode 32 include:
- Pillar 1: Personal Branding is your approach.
- Pillar 2: How personal is your personal brand.
- Pillar 3: Making an impact, Diversity Equity Inclusion
CONNECT WITH SAHAR
@SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram and Clubhouse
The aspiration to be better is inherently human and around new years is when we are - as a collective - inspired to do, be, and live better. This is the time of year to be inspired and to inspire others. In this episode of Own Your Voice podcast, Sahar Paz, talks to you about:
- Your approach to any change you’re craving should reflect your personality, and come from a healthy place.
- Values become the cornerstone of decisions that feel good for the long run.
- Your brain + Emotional Intelligence
- Your spoken voice + using it to inspire.
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn: @SaharPaZ
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Sahar Paz is joined by Dr. Zoe Shaw to explore the process of redefining your voice, your purpose, and your expectations.
- The emotions that get in the way when you are redefining yourself
- How to stay in your superpower.
- Before you write your next affirmation, do this.
- Ending 2020 + Your Voice
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, and Twitter: @SaharPaz
You can find Dr. Zoe Shaw on:
- Website: https://drzoeshaw.com/
- Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @DrZoeShaw
If you find value with the Own Your Voice podcast, please leave a review and/or share with someone who is finding their voice!
For family members, conscious leaders, and everyone in between you know about running teams under one roof in 2020. In this episode, Sahar meets with Voice of Impact guest and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner, Tieko Nejon Wilson. She will be sharing her story on speaking to be heard and allowing space for grace in an emotionally charged conversation.
- Discovers the power of her words
- Speaking up against bias and racism
- Compares the Beauty Bias + Halo Bias
- Tips on overcoming self-talk
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @SaharPaz
If you find value with the Own Your Voice podcast, please leave a review and/or share with someone who is finding their voice!
From roundtable to dinner table; It’s impossible to silence your values in 2020. In this episode, Sahar talks about preparing for family gatherings in a time of high emotion.
- Sahar’s voice through the ages, that one uncle she was determined to change.
- Speaking to make an impact, empathy and curiosity lead to that impact.
- Preparing for conversations and staying calm enough to listen.
You can find me on:
- Website: saharpaz.com
- Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Hello,
This week is undoubtedly a time of high emotions; I especially notice the difference in the tone of voice when speaking to my friends and clients in the U.S. versus overseas - I am continually revealing to you the link between your voice and your emotions to equip you for times like these.
This episode brings it back home to the basics of understanding the dance between how you’re feeling and how you use your voice consciously during volatile times.
It’s not just what you say. It’s HOW you say it.
You’ve heard that quote a million times! Think back to the amount of video or phone calls you’ve taken this year, without knowing it, you’ve tuned into and took more notice of the words you’re using, figured out how to emote how you feel without touch, and you have to project your voice to be heard more consistently.
Our ability as humans to perceive nuances in voices is more sophisticated than we know. When we encounter someone with a poker face*, we most often still distinguish whether their tone of voice is genuine - or not. Our natural capability to differentiate notes of sadness, fear, anger, compassion, interest, or embarrassment from simple voice inflections is quite astounding.
Why do I love this fact? It’s the building block to you, connecting with instinctual emotional intelligence; this allows you to facilitate conversations with significant impact and grace.
Let’s make sure you’ve got what it takes to speak with wisdom during times of high emotion. Here is this week’s #WOWkit:
EQ: INTERNAL VOICE
Your inner voice is an extension of your emotions and your body. When an emotion activates in the limbic system*, nerve signals tell the body how to physically behave - hello spike of adrenaline, shortened breathing, quick decision-making, and a trembling voice. On the other hand, if you’re feeling comfortable and confident, your shoulders are back, which gives your chest more room for air, and you naturally project your voice better. Think about the inhale you naturally take before you prepare to shout across your place to tell folks to be quiet when you're on a Zoom meeting!
As you close out this week, focus on how deep you’re breathing, remind yourself to unclench your jaw and roll your shoulders back several times throughout the day, breathe big, give yourself time to think, then speak.
IQ: EXTERNAL VOICE
You’re emotionally pooped yet have heightened awareness around the power of your voice and what you want to say, but you’re not sure where to start.
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Hone in on your values, try to keep your list between 8-9, and allow them to give you a north star and a backbone. My top core value is INTEGRITY. That single word gives me confidence and clarity when I am called to use my voice in conversations. Your values will steer your decision-making and hold you accountable. Choose them. I’m giving you access to one of the Words of Wisdom downloads from this year’s Own Your Voice Summit as a starting point!
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As a leader of your household and your office - it’s essential to understand that we are in the midst of change, which means increasing your ability to facilitate honest conversations when there are tense exchanges or outbursts; your job is not to swoop in and save the day or to explain. Pivot your energy and the narrative among your group in a way that allows you to use your voice in the most impactful way - see yourself, and position yourself as the facilitator.
I’ve facilitated many groups and conversations, from women circles to Diversity Equity and Inclusion training for organizations. Three principles help me facilitate conversations during tense times.
- Just Listen. Embrace empathy, be mindful of bias, don’t offer an opinion yet, just an ear.
- Pen to paper. Invite the person to write down what they shared verbally, and ask them to express what they see as a solution. This activity evolves the conversation from an outburst to a meaningful evolution and allows them to process what they said.
- Accountability. Hold yourself accountable for protecting your magic by acknowledging when you need to invite someone else to facilitate the conversation and bring back a team mentality and morale - including your team at home!
From the bedroom to the boardroom, these principles bring your voice power in your personal and professional life.
Please share this episode with a woman in your life who is learning about her voice.
With gratitude,
Sahar
You can find me on:
- Website: saharpaz.com
- Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @SaharPaz
RESOURCES Perceiving nuances in voices. *Limbic system + stress response.
Hi there,
“Clap back,” “come back,” or “And, then I said…” are usually exchanges with other humans we feel proud to speak about. Society has long-defined a person who has a voice is someone with a deep voice, speaks loudly, or speaks over others to have a voice indeed.
Every part of my work shows you that THIS IS NOT the only way to have a voice; from leadership consulting, developing online courses to creating personal brands, I champion your voice - YOUR WAY.
Last week at Own Your Voice Summit, I had a courageous attendee speak up in one of the live sessions about not being able to speak up at the moment, the immediate “clap back” that is oh-so-valued.
My response to her will be my Words of Wisdom to add to your #WOWkit this week.
EQ: INTERNAL VOICE
- What is my typical response? Does my voice adopt fight, flight, or freeze?
- Thinking back to when I wish I spoke up, what is it that I still want to say?
IQ: EXTERNAL VOICE
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How do I best express my voice? Written? Text message? Voice memo? Verbal?
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Have the conversation. Don’t shy away from using your voice AFTER the exchange. With so much emphasis on how we respond immediately, we automatically rob ourselves of the chance to use our voice after the fact. The truth is many of us need to process before speaking up; that’s what makes you a conscious leader in your life, don’t focus on the immediate response; focus on what it is that you want to express.
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Be mindful of the energy exchange. Express your voice in the best way for the situation at hand. If you are setting a boundary with someone you see almost every day, a softer approach is probably better. A handwritten card, sticky note, or even a gentle voice memo after the fact often lands much better with the recipient.
Before you use the excuse that “the moment has passed,” or “I’ll say something next time,” I want you to consider this: Once the moment has passed, the emotions have settled, when you bring it back up, it allows everyone to know the importance of the topic at hand.
It will not cause a confrontation; it will give you space to connect and gain respect.
With gratitude,
Sahar
P.S. If you missed this year’s Own Your Voice Summit, no need to worry, you can still secure a pass today!
You can find me on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Your r/EVOLUTION is here.
A quick recap of episodes 18, 22,23, and 24 and how they apply to today’s conversation about evolving.
This year has primed you for an internal revolution, you’ve proven that resilience and perseverance are qualities you embody.
Don’t let your exhaustion tell you to call 2020 a wash, this tired state is perfect for reflection and revolution. You’re not up for pushing back so much, you are more clear on what you don’t want from life, it’s time to go down an emotionally intelligent road with yourself.
Build your board of advisors, the same person that stands in the bedroom stands in the boardroom, so why not use this same tactic towards beating imposter syndrome, or approaching a project that means a lot to you, like Own Your Voice Summit does for me!
Build on this year, don’t call it wash, when you stop listening to this, list out all the ways you surprised yourself this year, all the software you learned, all the days you mustered up the energy and got up again. You have a lot to celebrate.
Today, I will talk about reclaiming your power with an emotional intelligent lens.
- What does power mean to you?
- What takes our power away?
- What narrative is on repeat?
- How do you reclaim and get your power?
- 1% at a time rule
- From the blame game to being the hero/shero of your story
You can find me on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Check out the 2020 Own Your Voice Summit to help you reignite, reconnect, reimagine, reclaim, and revolutionize your voice from October 19-23, 2020 at https://2020-own-your-voice-summit.heysummit.com.
If you find value with the Own Your Voice podcast, please leave a review and/or share with people you know.
Today, I'm inviting you to swim with me and dive in the deep end together.
- We're getting deep and episodes 18 and 22 will equip you for what we are going to talk about today
- Unique opportunity to re-imagine
- Voice of Fearful Fran
- In 2008, I had to re-imagine
- Fearful Fran took over for 18-months
- I started a nonprofit alongside Prove it to yourself Pat inside of me
- Come to Own Your Voice Summit, the giveback lives strong within me.
- Ask 20 people for 3 adjectives.
- Be the Shero responsibility!
You can find me on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Check out the 2020 Own Your Voice Summit to help you reignite, reconnect, reimagine, reclaim, and revolutionize your voice from October 19-23, 2020 at https://2020-own-your-voice-summit.heysummit.com.
If you find value with the Own Your Voice podcast, please leave a review and/or share with people you know.
Today is a solo episode where I talk about re/connect and getting familiar with the voices by naming them.
- 3 women this season
- Life coach and Find Your Voice since 2012
- We've been pushed to a place of reflection
- Voice GPS emotions
- Keeping naming voices
- Come to Summit to Find & Own Your Voice
- Understood vision
- Accept inner bully
- Fear--break it down
Check out the 2020 Own Your Voice Summit to help you reignite, reconnect, reimagine, reclaim, and revolutionize your voice from October 19-23, 2020 at https://2020-own-your-voice-summit.heysummit.com.
If you find value with the Own Your Voice podcast, please leave a review and/or share with people you know.
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Today, I will be interviewing Dr. Emily Reiser where she will be sharing the beginning stages of writing. All stages of writing a book are part of the process and each stage matters as they’re all interconnected.
- Writing a book with a full-time day job
- How I claimed the identity of a writer for myself without having published a book yet
- Frameworks that helped me take the idea of a book into the practice of putting together a book
- Most important conversation is one with myself where I decided to take off my costume to reveal the fullest version of me
You can find Emily on:
- Website: invitationtoinnovation.com
- Instagram: @mlereiser
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyreiser/
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
IS THERE A STORY WITHIN YOU THAT IS WAITING TO BE BIRTHED? HAVE YOU WRITTEN YOUR STORY AND WONDER HOW TO GET PUBLISHED? YOU HAVE BEEN WANTING TO WRITE YOUR BOOK BUT DON’T KNOW WHERE AND HOW TO START? There is a FREE one-hour, "Own Your Story" gathering coming up next Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 3pm PST | 6pm EST featuring three authors Maia Poetry, Asha Dahya and Dr. Emily Reiser, including Sahar Paz.
They are all authors, all at different stages of either writing their book, going after that publisher or having already published and will be sharing the importance of the narrative we own as women, not just as authors, but as change agents within our own circles.
You can submit your questions when you sign up for the event. Here is the signup link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/own-your-story-live-podcast-party-tickets-117687818433?aff=erelexpmlt
Today, I will be interviewing Asha Dahya, an author of Today’s Wonder Women and founder of Girl Talk HQ. She will be sharing her journey of leaving toxic environments to find her voice through blogging, which led to writing her first book.
- Starting over and creating Girl Talk HQ, a platform for female empowerment stories & voices gave space for Asha to find her voice
- How she was pitched the idea of writing a book and ended up getting a book deal in two weeks
- The process of stepping outside the comfort zone and not allowing the physical reactions to hold you back from your dreams
- There is enough room for our voices and stories
Book “Today’s Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing The World” By Asha Dahya available on Amazon at https://bit.ly/2QKBaoK and Audible at https://adbl.co/3jL7693.
You can find Asha on:
- Website: https://www.ashadahya.com
- Instagram & Twitter: @AshaDahya
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Check out the 2020 Own Your Voice Summit to help you reignite, reconnect, reimagine, reclaim, and revolutionize your voice from October 19-23, 2020 at https://2020-own-your-voice-summit.heysummit.com.
If you find value with the Own Your Voice podcast, please leave a review and/or share with people you know.
Today, I will be interviewing Maia Poetry, an author and poet who self-published her first book. She will be sharing her journey of finding and owning her voice and the process of her first book.
- Different ways her voice was suppressed
- Poetry as a channel to express her voice freely
- Her style of writing
- How notes turned into a book
- Tips on self-publishing
You can find Maia:
- Facebook: @maiasoulpoetry
- Book: "The Fall, The Rise" https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rise-Maia/dp/1986827569
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Check out the 2020 Own Your Voice Summit to help you reignite, reconnect, reimagine, reclaim, and revolutionize your voice from October 19-23, 2020.
If you find value with the Own Your Voice podcast, please leave a review and/or share with people you know.
Shownotes
Today, I will share about this season’s theme: own your story by writing your book and about my journey of finding my voice that led me to becoming an author.
- Reigniting your revolution, get back to your purpose.
- How to be the hero and shero of your story
- To own that story, you got to first find your voice.
- How I re-ignited my fire to pave the way and light that path towards my purpose
- Getting to the voices: Psychic Phyllis, Black and White Betty, Negative Nancy, Logical Layla
- The narrative in your mind, controls your decisions
- Tips for a budding author
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You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Shownotes
Today, I will read an anonymous listener’s letter as an opportunity to have a conversation starter about race. She shares her experience as a Chinese American woman married to an African American man and as a mother of bi-racial children living in a suburban town in New Jersey. Then, you will hear her recorded reflections after the letter was posted.
- Several severed relationships
- Witnessing the racism her husband had to deal with and being mistreated because of his skin color
- Why it was necessary for him to be trained in how to respond when getting pulled over as an African man as a child
- Pivotal moment to use my voice to tell our story
- What happened after it was shared in a local Facebook group
- One conversation can lead to many and that's a step in the right direction
Article: When My Beautiful Black Boy Grows from Cute to Threat by Georgina Dukes
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Today, Jackie and I will talk about how to make social impact through community advocacy.
- Most Americans live within a few miles of a Superfund site.
- Jackie’s calling to action to start tackling the cleanup of this Superfund site and many more
- Revealed what doctors couldn’t about Jackie's family’s health while earning a degree in Environmental Sciences.
- Big misconception many Americans have about water
- Grassroots organizing, community engagement and education
- One of the primary elements that Jackie was learning is if your environment is making you sick, you're not going to be the only one; it's also going to be impacting your neighbor's health or their animal's health.
- Understanding where your water sources, the differences are, and questions you can ask your provider
- The Power of Collective Voices
- EWG: https://www.ewg.org
You can find Jackie at:
- Website: https://txhea.org
- Instagram: @tx.hea
- Facebook: @TXHEA
You can find me on:
- WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
- INSTAGRAM +TWITTER + Facebook: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #VoiceofImpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
Today, Denise Hamilton and I will be talking about how to protect your magic
- Why mentorship is important when navigating non-intuitive situations like how to negotiate severance
- The power to name a thing
- Be the hero of your own story
- Rules aren't always built for you so break some rules
- Do you boo. Be authentic.
- Raise your hand, raise your mic, raise your voice, and raise your rate.
You can find Denise at:
- Website: https://watchherwork.com/denise-hamilton/
- Instagram, Facebook and Twitter: @watchherworktv
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Shownotes
Today, Jennifer and I will talk about nutrition, impact of food deserts in black communities, and more
- Why the "eat less, work out more" doesn’t work for everyone
- Overcoming fear of food
- Eating as a coping mechanism
- Reprogramming the mindset and changing relationship to food to shift what you eat
- Tips on stress eating
- Your body will tell you what it needs
- Food insecurity and how that affects what you eat
- Representation matters when helping communities
You can find Jennifer at:
- Website: Jenuinenutrition.com
- 90-day nutrition guide: https://jenuinenutrition.com/product/90-day-holistic-nutrition-food-guide/
- Instagram & Facebook: @jenuinenutrition
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenuine-nutrition-908264136/
You can find Sahar on:
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
Today, Prince and I will talk about his journey of combining his work in technology and activism
- Developing a partner inner voice
- Representation in being seen as a black man & representation in the corporate world
- Growing the empathy muscle
- Be mindful of cybercrime while working from home
- Online security tips whether you are a business owner or not
- Quick fixes quickly fall apart
- Long lasting solution requires getting to the root cause, focus, time and investment
You can find Prince on:
- Website: https://christopherpb.com
You can find Sahar on:
- Instagram, Twitter and Facebook: @SaharPaz
- Website: http://www.voiceofimpact.org
Today, Terry and Ashley will share their experiences as Black conscious leaders and parents
- what is it like being parents to two lovely black boys today
- how can to be more mindful and conscious of what a black family has to go through
- invitation to White folks to be your own teacher and not burden your Black friends about anti-blackness
- core values as business owners
- pivots during COVID pandemic as a business
- invitation to cater for George Floyd’s funeral and biggest sentimental takeaway
- how to support black friends and black-owned businesses
You can find Ashley Williams on:
- Instagram: @ashleymonee
- Facebook: @birdswilliamconsulting
You can find Terry Williams on:
- Facebook, Instagram & Twitter: @theleaguehtx
You can find Sahar Paz on:
- Facebook & Instagram: @saharpaz
Shownotes
Today, I share the inspiration behind this season's theme speak to start a movement.
- different ways to speak
- open conversations about being black business owners, humans, and parents
- real conversations about how we as humanity can support each other
- personal experience with prejudice
- awakening in the midst of Black Lives Matter
- philosophy of "show, don't tell"
- internal and external community
- how to support the black community
- finding and owning your voice while speaking up in uncomfortable places
You can find me on:
- WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
- Email: info@saharpaz.org
- INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
- FACEBOOK: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #voiceofimpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
Show Notes
Last October 2019 Own Your Voice Summit, Michelle Young, Founder of Untapped New York and I spoke about being a tourist in your own city and experiencing the transformative powers of visiting another culture and breaking your own bias.
Today, we talk about pivoting during the pandemic - what went through Michelle’s head and how that decision-making process brought her back to the roots of Untapped New York and allowed her to pivot successfully.
The decision every business owner has to make - values vs. politics - how to show don’t tell and stand in support with fellow American’s.
Own Your Voice Season 2 Launch on Wednesday, July 1st at 3pm PST/5pm CST/6pm EST
- Sign up for free on Eventbrite
You can find me on:
- WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
- Email: info@saharpaz.org
- INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
- FACEBOOK: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #voiceofimpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
You can find Michelle on:
- Website: untappedcities.com
- Facebook, Instagram & Twitter: @untappedny
Links Michelle referred to:
- The video: https://untappedcities.com/2020/06/08/video-and-photos-of-the-last-week-of-nyc-demonstrations-for/
- Our INSIDERS membership, with 2 months free using code STAYHOME: https://untappedcities.com/insiders/
- Guide to Black Owned Restaurants: https://untappedcities.com/2020/06/04/a-guide-to-black-owned-restaurants-in-nycs-five-boroughs/
- Guide to Black History Sites in NYC: https://untappedcities.com/2020/06/15/33-places-in-nyc-to-celebrate-black-history/
- Our call out in April to Tour Guides, Educators, Museums about how we could help: https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/22/are-you-a-tour-guide-educator-or-museum-heres-how-we-can-help/. For those folks and our own tour guide, we asked the participants in the virtual events to tip the person or organization giving the events directly. That was one of our ways to support their efforts during the pandemic. The most recent letter from me to readers: https://untappedcities.com/2020/06/10/letter-from-the-founder-whats-next-for-untapped-new-york-as-nyc-reopens/
- Pavilion that was built for protests: https://untappedcities.com/2020/06/01/when-union-square-had-a-legally-mandated-pavilion-for-protesting/
- History of curfews: https://untappedcities.com/2020/06/02/9-times-curfews-were-imposed-on-nyc-from-1638-to-2020/
- History of riots: https://untappedcities.com/2020/06/01/10-riots-in-nycs-history/
Today, Angela O’Riley, founder of the Curvy Lab and I talk about the journey of breaking the status quo in fashion and showing that everybody has value. * Challenging the status quo of body size * Helping young people to see their authentic body in social media curated age * Self talk and how the little conversations that you have with yourself privately every day are what shape your reality * Busting the myth that curvy consumer is older * Expanded the fashion industry’s view of what is beautiful and see bodies differently
You can find Angela on: * Website: https://angelaoriley.com * Instagram & Twitter: @angelaoriley
You can find me on:
- WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
- Email: info@saharpaz.org
- INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
- FACEBOOK: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #voiceofimpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
Show Notes
Today, Dr. Brittany Barreto and I discuss defying the odds and naysayers to realize your dreams.
- The love story with a double helix: I’ve been obsessed with DNA since the 8th grade. DNA is the code that makes you who you are.
- Sensitivity and your career.
- Find your tribe.
- Recognizing if you have an entrepreneurial spirit. Pioneer in my family to go to college and get a doctorate. Bags and bags of dildo’s.
- PTSD makes great leaders.
- When you share your dream with naysayers.
- The best ideas are always doubted.
- A person who defies the odds - the gift of ignorance.
- A scientist and a CEO - WHY NOT! Hit the barrier, why not?
- How do we get through this?
- Emotions in the workplace across every generation.
- DNA based dating app in every state in the country.
- Startup life and what it means to be a conscious leadership when dealing with genetics and technology.
- When everyone pulls out, you pivot.
- Pause. A minute makes a difference.
- When our emotions are high our intelligence can stay high.
Resources: The Female Brain
You can find me on:
- WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
- Email: info@saharpaz.org
- INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
- FACEBOOK: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #voiceofimpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
You can follow Dr. Brittany Barreto on:
- WEBPAGES: https://femtechfocus.com + www.drbrittanybarreto.com
- INSTAGRAM: @drbrittanybarreto
Show Notes
Today, Lisa Skye Hain, co-founder of Primary and I talk about the journey of making your dreams into reality. * Reality of a big dream * The voice within * Trust the process and where we are in the moment * There is enough room for your idea * Going down the “And then what” road * Well-being as a primary focus * Three steps of when it’s time to pitch: networking & followup, having the pitch deck, and telling everyone you are raising money
You can get in touch with Lisa: * Website: https://liveprimary.com * Instagram & Twitter: @lisaskyehain
You can find me on: * WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org * EMAIL: info@saharpaz.org * INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz * FACEBOOK: @saharpaz * #OwnYourVoicePodcast #voiceofimpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
Trigger warning: topic around child sexual abuse is mentioned. If at anytime you feel disassociated, overwhelmed or too much is happening, I invite you to be gentle and tend to you. Feel free to pause and come back to listen when you are ready. If you need to talk to an someone, there is a National Hotline at the end of the show notes. You matter.
Show Notes
Today, Nubia, Founder of Cielo Consulting and I talk about growth personally, as a leader, a business owner, creative and different possibilities after trauma. * Learning how to communicate with yourself and others after trauma * Navigating yes and no * Disempowered to empowerment as a highly sensitive person * Journey from working for agencies to becoming a business owner of an agency * Tips for the creative process * Tips for those who have a survivor in their life * Tips on how to communicate your need for support as a survivor
You can find me on: * WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org * EMAIL: info@saharpaz.org * INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz * FACEBOOK: @saharpaz * #OwnYourVoicePodcast #voiceofimpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
You can follow Nubia on: * WEBPAGE: https://www.nubiaduvall.com * INSTAGRAM: @encounterswithnubia * FACEBOOK: @encounterswithnubia
If listening to Nubia's story brought up something for you and perhaps need support, to talk to someone confidentially for yourself or tips on how to support friends and/or family, here are free resources:
- https://www.nubiaduvall.com/support-us
- the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline: https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline
- | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Show Notes
Today, Laureen Dreeland, founder of LTD Collective and I will be talking about collective leadership, owning your voice and staying authentic while marketing yourself * Common myth about solo journey of having to do everything yourself * Misconception about being self-made * Core value of being a leader is authenticity * How to be mindful marketers * Social media strategy—how to choose a platform and stay authentic
You can find me on:
- WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
- Email: info@saharpaz.org
- INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
- FACEBOOK: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #voiceofimpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
You can follow Lauren Dreeland on:
- WEBPAGE: https://www.theltdcollective.com
- EMAIL: lauren@theltdcollective.com
- INSTAGRAM: @theltdcollective
Episode 4 Show Notes Today, Ozeal and I will be talking about ways to own your voice via voice vehicles, particularly podcasting and how to be your authentic self in the process. * If not now, when? * Voice vehicles * Podcasting can make a social impact * There’s room for your voice * Biggest ROI as a podcaster * Common things that hold people back from podcasting * It’s okay to start from scratch, pivot and shift * Discovering your authentic self * Two top questions regarding podcasting
You can find me on:
WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
Email: info@saharpaz.org
INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
FACEBOOK: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #VoiceofImpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
You can find Ozeal on: WEBPAGE: https://www.thinkozeal.com INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: @thinkzoeal FACEBOOK: @thinkozeal1
Show Notes
Today, Eboni, Eliza and I continue the conversation from episode 2 about mental health * How to become self-aware
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Questioning and challenging the inner bully and making peace with the inner bully
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Why documenting your journey helps you uncover patterns and also serves as a reminder that you are not in the same place
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Getting to know the different voices from Black & White Betty, Psychic Physllis, Negative Nancy, and more
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Coping patterns to help deal with negative emotions
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Inventory of wins practice
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Our emotions as messengers
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How to cope with anxiety
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Tips for when you are looking for a therapist
You can find me on:
WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
EMAIL: info@saharpaz.org
INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
FACEBOOK: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #VoiceofImpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
You can follow Melanin & Mental Health on:
WEBPAGE: https://www.melaninandmentalhealth.com
EMAIL: info@melaninandmentalhealth.com
INSTAGRAM: @melaninandmentalhealth
FACEBOOK: @melaninandmentalhealth
Show Notes
Today, Eboni and Eliza, psychotherapists & co-founders of Melanin & Mental Health and I will be talking about mental health because your mental health is the first step to being a conscious leader * I share my struggle with mental health & stigma to getting help
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Eliza shares her experience with growing up in America as a 1st generation Mexican
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Eboni shares her journey with authentic expression
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Why seeking help from someone we can relate to matters
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Eboni & Eliza shares challenges and biases as women of color therapists and how that led to creating Melanin & Mental Health
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Permission not to do it all alone
You can find me on:
WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
Email: info@saharpaz.org
INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
FACEBOOK: @saharpaz
OwnYourVoicePodcast #VoiceofImpact #FindYourVoice #OwnYourVoice #ConciousLeaders
You can follow Melanin & Mental Health on:
WEBPAGE: https://www.melaninandmentalhealth.com
EMAIL: info@melaninandmentalhealth.com
INSTAGRAM: @melaninandmentalhealth
FACEBOOK: @melaninandmentalhealth
Shownotes
Today, I’m sharing my journey of how I found my voice * Born during a time where voice was taken away from my community, men and women * Obstacles I came across to finding my voice such as not knowing my value, worthiness, experienced prejudice, toxic relationship, unhealthy distractions, burnout, and emotional breakdown * How I got through the obstacles on my own and with support from others
Then owning my voice led me to: * write my book “Find Your Voice” * my life’s mission of championing others to own their voices and personal branding * speaking at FaceBook, HBO, Whole Foods, mom & pop shops and more * becoming an entrepreneur and CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm
You can find me on:
WEBPAGE: www.voiceofimpact.org
Email: info@saharpaz.org
INSTAGRAM +TWITTER: @saharpaz
FACEBOOK: @saharpaz