Growing up in Mumbai with her extended family, Vibha was destined to live a traditional lifestyle. Womxn in her life were married young and spent their days as homemakers, yet this path never felt right to her. 

First womxn in her family to get divorced, to get a master degree, and to live in a foreign country, Vibha has learned how to step bravely into the unknown and in this episode, she traces her journey of transformation and acting in spite of fear on a path that took her from India to the United States and back. 

Married at 22, Vibha was told that she can only dream and follow her aspirations up to a certain point. At 25, Vibha hit rock bottom and was completely out of touch with who she was and what she wanted out of life. This experience has kickstarted her quest of revealing her worth and understanding her purpose. And in this episode, she shares so many beautiful wisdoms with us: from asking the right questions to understanding where worth comes from and learning how to hear what our souls are trying to tell us.

Today, Vibha is a leadership and transformation coach based in Mumbai India where she is supporting leaders worldwide to build capacity of “skillful human presence” in themselves in order to build capacity for their teams and organizations.

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Genius Womxn explores what it means to live a rich, meaningful, beautiful creative life through in-depth conversations with brave womxn pursuing their wildest dreams and stepping into their brilliance. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, a published travel photographer and writer, and entrepreneur.

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As a child growing up in Kazakhstan and Estonia, Yulia loved stories and traveling, yet in the United States she followed a traditional career path. She went to college here, joined the military, and worked her way up through graduate school, eventually landing prestigious jobs at major corporations. In corporate, Yulia often felt like she was living someone else’s life, not her own. So she decided to make a drastic change.

Today, Yulia is a published, award-winning travel photographer and writer on a mission to help others achieve their creative dreams as well. The Genius Womxn podcast was created because she believes that we all have voices that matter and that need to be shared with the world. In this episode, she introduces Genius Womxn, tells the story of the journey that led her to some remarkable assignments in Rwanda and Mongolia, and shows you how you too can start building a rich, meaningful, beautiful creative life.

Get full show notes and more information here: geniuswomxn.co/podcast/01

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Genius Womxn explores what it means to live a rich, meaningful, beautiful creative life through in-depth conversations with brave womxn pursuing their wildest dreams and stepping into their brilliance. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, a published travel photographer and writer, and entrepreneur.

Learn more about Genius Womxn at geniuswomxn.co.

Interested in Travel Journalism? In this episode of Genius Womxn we hear from Ashlea Halpern, editor-at-large for Afar Media and the founding editor of The Urbanist, a pop-up travel blog from New York Magazine.

Ashlea's journey has taken her from cutting together magazines in her childhood to traveling the world for a living and telling poignant stories of travel and adventure for prominent publications.

In this conversation, we get to uncover Ashlea's incredible drive, confidence, and determination—all the things that we need to have on the creative path. I'm super excited to have Ashlea on the show!

Get full show notes and more information here: geniuswomxn.co/podcast/02

The best part to being a creator is that there is no path... except for the one we forge for ourselves. Download our guide to turning your inner critic into your biggest ally →

For more BTS of this podcast follow @geniuswomxn

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If you enjoy Genius Womxn, we could use your support! Please consider leaving us a review, or introducing us to your friends! We love and appreciate you!

Genius Womxn explores what it means to live a rich, meaningful, beautiful creative life through in-depth conversations with brave womxn pursuing their wildest dreams and stepping into their brilliance. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, a published travel photographer and writer, and entrepreneur.

Learn more about Genius Womxn at geniuswomxn.co.

In this episode, Katalina Mayorga and I talk at length about empathy and about being able to walk in another's shoes.

Katalina is the founder of El Camino Travel, a travel company dedicated to providing culturally immersive travel experiences for travelers seeking meaningful connections with communities worldwide.

In this episode, Katalina also speaks on her experience growing up in a bilingual Columbian-American immigrant family and what led her to create her culturally-immersive travel company, on being a global citizen, and on the importance of forming a community and relying on others when we venture out to build our dream creative lives. 

Get full show notes and more information here: geniuswomxn.co/podcast/03

The best part to being a creator is that there is no path... except for the one we forge for ourselves. Download our guide to turning your inner critic into your biggest ally →

For more BTS of this podcast follow @geniuswomxn

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If you enjoy Genius Womxn, we could use your support! Please consider leaving us a review, or introducing us to your friends! We love and appreciate you!

Genius Womxn explores what it means to live a rich, meaningful, beautiful creative life through in-depth conversations with brave womxn pursuing their wildest dreams and stepping into their brilliance. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, a published travel photographer and writer, and entrepreneur.

Learn more about Genius Womxn at geniuswomxn.co.

This is Genius Womxn, a podcast where we explore living a rich, meaningful, beautiful creative life through in-depth conversations with brave womxn pursuing their wildest dreams and stepping into their brilliance.

 I am Yulia Denisyuk, a published travel photographer and writer, an entrepreneur, and someone who believes that every single one of us is worthy, brilliant, and has a unique voice that needs to be shared with the world right now. Four years ago, I quit my corporate job to pursue my dreams and today, I’m on a mission to help other womxn pursue their creative dreams as well.

Each week, I sit down with these amazing guests to uncover how they are working towards their creative dreams. And by the way…  we don’t sugarcoat it. We also talk about the challenges we face on the creative path like self-doubt, perfectionism, and learning to act in spite of our fears (we all face these challenges and, even after working with amazing brands like National Geographic and BBC Travel, I have these struggles too! So on the podcast, we’re going to tackle all of that straight on).

There’s so much to come this season. 

I’d love for you to join me on this journey to get to know the stories of so many genius womxn and together we will explore what it takes to make your dream creative life a reality, ditch your fear and doubt to the side, and bravely step into your brilliance.

All you have to do right now is make sure you’re subscribed to this podcast in your favorite podcast player so you don’t miss a thing when we get started.