Made it Happen

Today's episode is featuring Kena Paranjape, founder of All You Are, comfortable leisurewear for women, including the Signature Robe which has wrapped itself around thousands of amazing women and continues to be a bestseller to this day. 

Kena is a seasoned retail industry veteran and entrepreneur and was one of the co-founders of Brika, an innovative retail concept focused on highlighting and supporting emerging artisans and designers.

Kena founded All You Are after a traumatic experience in 2007 when her husband became suddenly and mysteriously critically ill. Over the course of the next seven years, Kena and her husband managed his health until his passing in 2014. Kena experienced firsthand how quickly life can change, forcing you to not only adapt but to actively choose how your story will unfold. All You Are is a safe space for women to explore their dreams, find strength and courage, and of course, feel comfortable doing so. 

All You Are donates 1% of all revenue to International Justice Mission Canada, an organization dedicated to protecting children from abuse and forced labour around the world. Today, All You Are stands for more than just a robe. Through its product, articles, and community, All You Are aims to inspire women to step into who they truly are and to live fully and well, regardless of their current circumstances. We want to remind you every day to be all you are.

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Resources

All You Are: https://allyouare.ca/

Brika: https://www.brika.com/ 

Justice Mission Canada: https://www.ijm.ca/about-ijm-canada 

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This week's episode is featuring Jennifer Singh, founder of She’s Newsworthy Media. Jeniffer is a former TV reporter turned entrepreneur, speaker and CEO of She’s Newsworthy Media. Before entrepreneurship, Jennifer worked in the Canadian media industry for over 15 years as a reporter, producer and writer for CTV, CBC, Global and CP24.

She has been featured in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Global News, CTV speaking and The Social speaking about imposter syndrome, women in business and the need for more inclusive marketing. Jennifer was also featured in a national campaign for International Women’s Day in partnership with Mercedes-Benz Canada and Pink Tartan.

She’s Newsworthy Media was founded to help amplify the voices of women in the media because their expertise is underrepresented. The company is now Canada’s go-to resource for women entrepreneurs who want to get massive exposure for their businesses on TV. The company has helped over 60 women entrepreneurs land media spots on the most popular Canadian TV shows including The Social, Cityline, CP24 Breakfast, Global News Morning and Your Morning.

We discuss how Jennifer first got into the media industry & all the ups and downs that go on behind the scenes, the lack of representation in media and how she’s working to change this by redefining PR, key tips & insights on how to actually get picked up by media outlets, and much more.

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Resources:

Profit First Book: https://amzn.to/3A9JaHL

Website: https://www.shesnewsworthy.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shesnewsworthy/

Waitlist for our signature PR program: https://www.shesnewsworthy.com/mediasuccess

Our media pitch template: https://www.shesnewsworthy.com/mediapitchtemplate

Newest resource, 20 media to pitch for maximum exposure: resources.shesnewsworthy.com/media

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This week's episode is featuring Emma Cortes, a Seattle Content Creator. Her blog and Instagram Emma's Edition aims to inspire the modern woman to create, travel, and live life with style. As a fashion and lifestyle blogger, Emma share's everything from fashion trends to try each season to content creation tips. She loves sharing posing ideas, Instagrammable places, as well as her journey as a content creator.

Emma also co-hosts the Content Creatives Podcast with her friend and fellow Seattle content creator Maddy from @madcrayy. Together they share how aspiring influencers and small businesses can discover, grow, and own their brand.

Prior to taking her creative career full-time, Emma worked in the aerospace industry for 6 years. She supported the 787 program, Airplane on the Ground (AOG), as well as Everett Site Operations in project management and business operations roles. She also worked in the consumer packaged goods industry for a year after undergrad.

We discuss how Emma first got into the influencer industry, when she knew she wanted to make this her full-time career, organically growing her following on social media, creating her courses & multiple streams of income, and much more! This is a must-listen episode to hear about Emma’s journey and so much valuable advice & tips on the influencer industry.

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Resources:

Website: www.emmasedition.com

Instagram: @emmasedition https://www.instagram.com/emmasedition/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/emmalynncortes

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This week's episode is featuring Abeda Oturkar, Founder and Business Manager, Paper Spree. Abeda Oturkar, armed with a Diploma in Entrepreneurship & Business and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, is an entrepreneur with a natural disposition of living in harmony and respect with our planet and its people. This has been of advantage to succeed as a natural foods educator, a restaurateur for 15 years, and now started in 2019 an eco-friendly business working to preserve and share a better world.

PaperSpree brand is here to showcase “Eco-friendly” as the new renaissance in retail. The present is about circularity, sustainable products going mainstream - to be the catalyst and fill the growing gap for affordable, accessible, high quality, durable, zero-waste products. The promise is to reduce the use of plastic, and replace retail shelves with eco-friendly products. Their collection of Accessories, Cases, Notebooks/Journals, Christmas decorations, Gift Wraps, and Stationery are 100% plastic-free, 100% recycled, 100% recyclable. We discuss how this business came to be, the challenges and successes she’s faced, the importance of community & networking through the Power Panel, how we can truly make a difference for our environment, and much more!

This episode is sponsored by WEtech Alliance as part of The Canada / U.S. Power Panel program supported by the U.S. Consuls General in Canada’s Building Back Better Program aimed at strengthening support for women entrepreneurs during COVID-19. For information on WEtech Alliance, visit www.wetech-alliance.com

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Resources:

Website: http://www.paperspree.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paperspree/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paperspree/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaperSpreeCanada

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WEtech Alliance, The Canada / U.S. Power Panel program supported by the U.S. Consuls General in Canada’s Building Back Better Program: https://www.wetech-alliance.com/powerpanel/

Circular Economy and Sustainable Economy Resources:

https://circularinnovation.ca/circular-economy/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/single-use-plastic-chemical-recycling-disposal/661141/

https://www.wedonthavetime.org/about-us#sustainability

This week's episode is featuring Lori Sroujian, founder of VEGCHEESE. Lori first started experimenting with faux-cheese recipes after a family health scare led her to reconsider what she was eating. What started as a personal quest to find a nutritious but delicious replacement for cheese eventually evolved into a side hustle — and in 2018, VegCheese became Lori’s full-time enterprise.

VEGCHEESE line of artisanal vegan cheeses are 100% dairy free, nut free and gluten free. Their cheeses are handcrafted in Ontario, Canada with a base of organic soy milk and organic coconut oil. We discuss how this business came to be, the challenges and milestones they’ve faced in the food industry, what she would have todl herself when first starting out, and much more!

This episode is sponsored by WEtech Alliance as part of The Canada / U.S. Power Panel program supported by the U.S. Consuls General in Canada’s Building Back Better Program aimed at strengthening support for women entrepreneurs during COVID-19. For information on WEtech Alliance, visit www.wetech-alliance.com

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Resources:

Website: https://vegcheese.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vegcheese/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vegcheese/

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This week's episode is featuring Clare Cui, an international sales expert, trainer, and speaker who has led multi-seven-figure sales teams to close over $9 million in high ticket sales ($4 million during 2020 alone!)

Previously an avid yogi who went from financial struggling as a yoga instructor to making 15K a month from a change in mindset. Clare discovered the importance of self-worth by mastering the spiritual aspect of sales. This has inspired her to teach others how to be leaders in sales conversations so they too can receive more of what they deserve.

She helps 6 figure coaches consistently close more sales & handle objections without convincing.  She focuses on guiding women to have more confidence with their business, and life, through self-empowerment.

With experience in leading and consulting teams for multi-7 figure entrepreneurs such as Lisa Nichols, Rachel Bell, and Sage Lavine, Clare is an expert in teaching online coaches and service providers how to convert high ticket sales without pushing or convincing. Since 2014, Clare has been teaching coaches how to have a permission-based sales conversation that results in consistent $10, 20 to upwards of $50k months by empowering coaches to confidently stand in their highest value.

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Resources:

Website: https://www.closesalesconsistently.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clare_cui/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clare.cui

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This week's episode is featuring Gigi Robinson, a digital artist, health & wellness advocate, current M.S. Candidate, and graduate of the University of Southern California with a Bachelors in Fine Arts, Design, and Photography. Gigi creates, educates, and speaks about what’s important to her— lifestyle, mental health, body image, and chronic illness. She is a seasoned photographer with 10+ years of experience creating assets for leading brands. She is passionate about collaborating and producing content for non-profits to expand my impact globally.

She has a strong presence across Tik Tok (100k views on average) and Instagram (15.5k+ followers), and, as of this year, she has been developing her YouTube and Podcast content.

Gigi has always been a creative innovator and possessed a high-level work ethic, especially when it comes to making a difference with her projects. Originally, she wanted to be a photographer, but, since then, has transitioned her skills of image-making into those that create an impact through storytelling. Living with chronic illnesses, she has been challenged in many ways with everyday tasks, such as showering, cooking, walking, and even sitting down.

Despite all of the physical and psychological challenges that threatened the path to becoming who she is today, she has challenged adversity and dedicated a majority of her life to becoming a master content creator, always keeping her values of creating positive and impactful messages to her diverse audience as a priority.

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- How she first got into the media industry & becoming an influencer

- Working for many large companies in the media industry (Tik Tok, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, and more!) and what her biggest takeaway was from working at these companies 

- Challenging adversity despite all of the physical and psychological challenges & how she stays motivated during difficult times 

- The role social media plays in our lives and how to form a healthier relationship when consuming content 

- How business owners can focus on their mental health and set boundaries 

Resources

Website: www.gigirobinson.com/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/itsgigirobinson/

Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/@itsgigirobinson

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This week's episode is featuring Heather Monahan, a best-selling author X2, Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World 2022, Podcast Host of Creating Confidence, TedX speaker, and most recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Healthlynked Corp. Having successfully climbed the corporate ladder for nearly 20 years, Heather Monahan is one of the few women to break the glass ceiling and claim her spot in the C-suite.

Heather was recognized as a Glass Ceiling Award winner and as one of the Most Influential Women in radio in 2017 before her unexpected termination. In late 2017, Heather chose to make her company Boss In Heels her full-time job. Over the next few months, Heather was featured on the Elvis Duran Radio show, wrote and self-published her first book entitled “Confidence Creator” and was named the Brand Ambassador for Perry Ellis International’s female brand “Rafaella”. Subsequently, she was named a limit-breaking female founder by Thrive Global. She is also a member of the Florida International University (FIU) Advisory Council to further serve as a mentor and leader in the South Florida community.

We discuss Heather's journey of working in the corporate world, to being unexpectedly fired and going out on her own. She shares how she built up her personal brand, getting into speaking engagements, becoming a best-selling author, and much more! 

Tune in to learn:

- Advice on becoming confident in yourself and stepping into the potential of who you can be

- How she went about writing her best-selling book & the differences in writing her second novel

- What she does at times when she doesn't feel confident 

- How to learn to be okay with not being for everyone and not apologizing for who you are

- Becoming a confident speaker & giving her TED X talk 

Resources

Website: heathermonahan.com/ 

Heather Monahan Instagram: www.instagram.com/heathermonahan

Creating Confidence With Heather Monahan: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creating-confidence-with-heather-monahan/

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Today's episode is featuring Jennifer Kem, the successful owner of three million-dollar brand-building businesses! This special edition episode is also guest hosted by Melissa Hopper, of Southpoint Publishing and Freelance Business Consultant for entrepreneurs.  

Jennifer left her former job as an executive at a Fortune 500 company to start her own business in retail. By the age of 32, she became a millionaire, only to lose it all in the recession two years later. Now, she is the successful owner of three million-dollar brand-building businesses all while having three kids.

Jennifer is a San Francisco Bay Area-based brand building and leadership expert who gets entrepreneurs seen, heard, and paid for being themselves! She is the creator of the Master Brand Method: a framework to develop powerful brand archetypes that win customers’ hearts, leveraging Jennifer’s 20 years of corporate experience and her launching of multiple companies. She uses the Master Brand Method in strategic consulting for emerging entrepreneurs, celebrity brands like Oprah Winfrey Network and Steve Harvey, and major corporations including Verizon, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Bank of Hawaii. What she is most passionate about in her work today is her legacy project: Femmefluence, a platform that supports women leaders to fully rise into their influence and affluence, so they can make an even greater impact in the world. Jennifer serves up straight talk wrapped in love, because she understands entrepreneurs’ challenges.

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And much more!

Resources:

Website: jenniferkem.com/ 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jenniferkem/ 

Melissa Hopper:

Website: melissa-hopper.com 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-l-hopper/

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Ilana Dunn is a Millennial and Gen Z Dating Expert, Content Creator and the host of the podcast Seeing Other People. With over eight years of content creation experience, four years of dating expertise, and two years of podcast hosting, Ilana’s mission is to create content that helps daters feel more empowered and less alone in their dating lives.

Ilana is widely known as the face of modern dating. She hosts the Seeing Other People podcast which has made its way onto the Spotify Top 50 Viral Podcasts chart. Formerly the Face of Hinge and the host of Hinge’s Dating Sucks podcast – which debuted at #3 on the Apple Podcasts US Relationship charts – Ilana helps individuals all over the world navigate the struggles of modern dating.

We discuss Ilana's journey from working at Hinge to then going out on her own and starting a top-charting dating podcast. She shares tips & advice for growing a podcast and truly building a community, the importance of networking and how to do this - even this isn't your strong suit! - and much more.

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- Her experience transitioning from the music industry, to being the face of Hinge, to going out on her own

- Advice for people in making connections in both personal & professional life

- Growing her community on social media & her podcast

- Tips on balancing relationships, social life & professional life

- Navigating from being a co-host to a solo host on Seeing Other People Podcast

- Being named in the top dating podcasts to listen to among many podcasters she looks up to

Resources

Ilana Dunn Instagram: www.instagram.com/ilana.dunn

Seeing Other People Instagram: www.instagram.com/seeingotherpeople

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