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Join me on the MaYapinion™ podcast this week as I recap the top five solo episodes and top five interviews on the podcast. This was actually recorded LIVE on https://www.joinwisdomapp.com/ where I am a top mentor and would love for you to join us! I have a weekly show on Monday's at 6pm EST, "Maya's Motivation Monday" where you can interact with me one on one in front of a live audience. I hope you enjoy this recap for our 100th episode and I also share what is to come for the podcast in 2022 with our new episodes releasing on February 28th, 2022. Enjoy!

Recap of the top episodes:

Solo:

#5 - Episode 28 - How Leaders Handle Bullying

#4 - Episode 27 - Work Life Harmony

#3 - Episode 24 - The Gender of Leadership

#2 - Episode 23 - Women's Empowerment

#1 - Episode 32 - Leadership Fatigue

Interviews:

Episode 71 - Brilliant Jerks with Katrina Burrus

Episode 60 - Feng Shui with Melissa Yamaguchi

Episode 69 - Netflix Marriage or Mortgage with Nicole and Sarah

Episode 73 - The Tao of Self-Confidence with Sheena Yap Chan

Episode 94 - Creating Magic at Work with Amy Lynn Durham

Episode 93 - Relaunching with Hilary DeCesare

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"No" is a full sentence. This is a concept that was introduced to me in 2020, and I really understood it from my core by the end of this year, 2021. As leaders, we must know how to say No, even more than we need to know how to say yes. Let us know what you think about the second episode in the power series this week.

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This is the first episode in the power series and I am discussing leading by letting go. I personally always thought the tighter the grasp I could have on "things" then the more "control I had or the better leader I could be as I would know "everything" and I could do "everything." Well, I learned quite early that is the farthest thing from the truth.

However, I find as women especially, we pride ourselves on having everything "under control" or saying things like "I've got this." The conditioning for this mindset and mentality did not serve us well to lead by letting go. Yet, it did serve us well in the ability to lead as the future is female.

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This week on the MaYapinion™ podcast, we have Christie Marchese who is the founder and CEO of Kinema. She is also, of course, a true leader of her life and knows a thing or two about leadership. Kinema is a new social cinema platform that is building a world-wide network of screening hosts, filmmakers and filmgoers. Under her helm, the company's ultimate goal is to expand access to engaging film and effectively eliminate theater deserts, while also driving revenue for filmmakers and creators. Marchese has over 15 years experience developing grassroots marketing and social action campaigns for films to help drive lasting change.

Throughout that time, Christie noticed a gap within the entertainment industry -- one that she felt confident that she could fill. Christie recognized that the industry was rapidly changing, and those often left behind to fend for themselves were the small, independent filmmakers who desperately needed to share their stories. Christie was previously recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People 2021 and Business Insider's 30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30.

Kinema is a social cinema platform that profiles the stories that deserve to be told. As the connective tissue to the future of cinema, Kinema gives the film marketing and distribution industry a new way to offer social, immersive, and unique cinematic experiences. The pandemic diminished the ability to gather in large public spaces; however, the demand for content and community grew. Kinema's mission is to offer filmmakers and communities alike opportunities to experience cinema anywhere. The team is committed to being a resource to filmmakers and distributors by providing a new way of digital distribution, marketing and monetization.

1:09 Christie talks about her company "Kinema", how she created it, what the company makes, and how it works.

05:36 Christie speaks about how she started her career in developing marketing and social action campaigns for films, how she founded her first company Picture Motion, how she leads it and how she grew up in the business, The story of her old company "Story spaces", and how she used technology to develop her businesses.

10:29 Why believing in the idea is so important as a first step to succeed, where does Christie get the push and funding to create a new product or start a new business, and how does she find new partners for her company.

14:40 How important is it to get used to handling crisis and how it helps become a successful leader,

17:25 How Christie deals with her partners, she shares some of her stories with her partners, how to find the right partners and how crucial is it to have a good relationship with them, and building strong relationships with your partners.

23:05 How important is it to divide between friendship and partnership and how to set proper expectations from partners and friends,

27:08 How to take advantage of Kinema, what is its benefits, and how to use it properly.

30:45 Christie's advice to women who are aspiring leaders and want to be the leader of their lives.

Check out Kinema here:

https://kinema.com/

And connect with Christie here:

https://www.instagram.com/kinemahq/

https://twitter.com/kinemahq

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This week, we have Hilary DeCesare, owner and founder of The ReLaunch Co. In her own words, she says, "we help women through transitions into major transformations in their business, relationships and personal lives. We have a special model around The 3H Effect that takes a person through the heart, the head, into the higher self to manifest midlife magic."

01:43 Hilary talks about her two coming books next year, how she decided to author, and what subjects is she going to deal with in these two coming books? Why should we love ourselves to succeed?

05:24 Why IQ and brain aren't enough to succeed? And why should we take EQ in consideration as well? What does the 3HQ formula mean? The secrets of How to go from your brain to your heart to manifest your ultimate goals.

10:28 How are SQ and beliefs important Besides EQ and IQ? How limiting beliefs can stop us from achieving big goals? How to create habits and beliefs? How does creating a solid foundation of habits and beliefs keep success progressive and help go through relaunches faster? How to learn from relaunches at an early age to stop them from repeating?

16:22 Why 21days aren't enough to build habits and beliefs? Why do most people quit after 21days? How long scientifically it takes to build a new habit and new belief? Hilary talks about her process of 6 steps to master beliefs,

23:09 How tragic and trauma can trigger major changes in our lives and how to start building yourself up again?

29:16 What Hillary is going to name her two coming books next year and when are the launch dates? And what are they talking about?

32:01 Why do we need mentors and how to find the correct one? How to become the CEO of your own life and how important is that?

35:51 Who is eligible for the 6 months business Hillary's course? and how can help to speed up your business to the next level?

40:30 Hilary talks about her podcast, what does the podcast covers, And the story behind starting it,

43:14 Hilary's advice to become a CEO of your life and get through relaunches and avoid limiting beliefs.

Hilary has a unique understanding and up-close perspective of the center of any successful business, organization, or life - it's people and what they desire to the C.O.R.E. After a 10 year career at Oracle Corporation garnering more than 100 worldwide managerial sales awards including Top Account Manager Worldwide, DeCesare decided to shift her focus to helping C suite executives and women looking to relaunch in either life, business, or in relationships in order to reach their goals and align with their future possibilities. As a mother to 3, step-mother to 2 children, and wife to her amazing husband, life in the Bay Area is filled with an abundance of joy for DeCesare. A self-confessed adrenaline junky she has jumped from planes, dived in some of the rarest locations, and is up for anything that resembles a challenge or growth opportunity. When she is not coaching or spending time with family, she also devotes time to fitness and nutrition and enjoys traveling to exotic or unique locations that bring a new perspective to both her and her client's lives.

A little more about Hilary, from Hilary "My career has crossed over from Corporate to Coaching to Entrepreneurship. I have had the highest of highs and the lowest of lows including a board member doing a Ponzi Scheme with our company."

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https://therelaunchco.com/

https://www.instagram.com/therelaunchco/

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This week we have Amy Lynn Durham, the founder of Create Magic at Work, on the podcast. Create Magic At Work's intention is to offer Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) tools to energize and transform the workplace. As an expert in building positive company cultures, Amy designed Create Magic At Work to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in cultivating teamwork and harmony in order to improve profits and employee morale.

Amy Lynn Durham is the CEO of "Create Magic At Work" and a U.C. Berkeley Certified Executive Coach. She is certified to coach in the 21 skills associated with Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) using the SQ21 Assessment and an Emotional Intelligence Practitioner (EQ). Amy has spent years in the corporate world successfully managing hundreds of employees for private and publicly traded companies. In her spare time, you can also find her spending time with her Cavapoo puppy, Mr. Bingley.

Amy is an author of an amazing book too, "Create Magic at Work" This magical book contains field-tested activities that leaders and coaches can utilize to ignite authentic connection with their clients, teams, or employees. The time is now to apply these practices so we can all thrive as human beings. "I intentionally made this book feel magical and whimsical to bring a childlike play and feel back into the workplace. Please enjoy the beautiful illustrations from the magical mermaid artist Marybel Martin and the beautiful book design from Chad Beckerman." – Amy Lynn Durham.

01:34 Amy gives an overview and the major definitions of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ).

03:54 Explains step by step how to learn about Spiritual Intelligence 21 Skills, and how her assessment works, also about how to discover your hidden strengths.

08:46 How Spiritual Intelligence helped Amy after leaving her corporate executive job to bring back her creativity, also talks about her book "Create Magic at Work" and how she discovered the 21 Skills.

11:34 The main reasons that made Amy leaves her job and how she did plan to leave her employees, how she spent her last year at work and what activities she did, the story behind the quote "leap and a net will appear", How data and numbers are not enough and why rational intelligence (IQ)and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) are indispensable to succeed in the future.

15:33 Amy answers the question What is the difference between men and women leaders, and why men should work on their emotional and spiritual skills. And how does collaborating and connecting masculine and feminine increase productivity.

18:36 Amy defines Servant leadership, what most people think about it and why it's important besides emotional and spiritual intelligence.

23:03 Amy talks about her book, "Create Magic at Work," how it helps to build IQ and SQ, how she wrote it, and how she authored the "Journal Prompt Card Deck" during the pandemic, and how that helped her during lockdown.

25:10 Amy Picks a Card (Reward) "I Take Time to Reward myself for the Work that I accomplish." and answers two questions: 1. What am I proud of that I have accomplished? 2. Write four sentences congratulating yourself on a job well job.

27:43 Amy gives bits of advice for leaders.

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Jennifer Love is a wealth philosopher, money therapist and the founding CEO of The Living Wealthy Institute. She is a sought after advisor to world leaders and an international speaker, author and educator weaving the aspects of our humanity into her garden conversation about the nature of wealth.

Award winning, 5x career entrepreneur with 20+ years under her comfy Keds, Jennifer Love is a thought leader with a heart that matches her name. For almost two decades, Jennifer has studied human and organizational behavior, and the relationship leaders have with their wealth and money. Metamorphosis and the patterns of nature inform her methodology. She unpacks our dichotomy of emotional poverty to reunite us with our innate desire to be free.

Jennifer is on a mission to help world leaders free themselves of the chains that hold them back from living wealthy – replacing overwhelm, stress, and anxiety in the money equation with a wholesome, regenerative, and nourishing experience while raising, making, managing, growing, and contributing money. These leaders become good allies in society and to future generations while living soulfully connected, deeply satisfying, and very wealthy lives.

On a given day, Jennifer can be found diving deep with a leader in a private money therapy session, guiding groups of leaders through workshops and retreats, serving as a judge for events like Startup Weekend, on stage sharing her research and views as a Wealth Philosopher, preparing entrepreneurs to land a deal on Shark Tank, advising clients behind-the-scenes of shows like Biz Fix with Marcus Lemonis, meeting with community leaders and government officials, negotiating with investors (she's helped raise $100M+), advising leaders of Fortune 200 companies and celebrities through her Living Wealthy Model, OR at home enjoying time with her sweetheart John, her fur-baby Maggie, and her adored garden of plants.

01:08 Jennifer represents herself, founding her wholesale dark chocolate company, what she does as a money and wealth therapist.

02:42 Jennifer talks about how she started her career as a wealth advisor, and her training in human and organizational behavior and development working with leaders around the world and her story as a child with money began until founding 5 companies and investing in several other companies.

05:35 Jennifer talks about the consequences beneath her success and the impact on her emotions and feeling and how she unpacked that, and Jennifer also explained why we should do the work for ourselves instead of doing it for others.

10:35 Jennifer dives into the correlation of the trio: decision, emotion, money. and how emotions impact our decisions and how that impacts our financial wealth.

16:57 Jennifer explains step by step how to make our relationship with money healthier. And avoid being bulimic.

23:49 How Jennifer knows what's happening emotionally based on a financial spreadsheet. She also explains how our fears prevent our financial success.

27:49 Jennifer spells out the indispensability of working to avoid the guilt of not doing it and how not doing it impacts our emotions.

31:02 Jennifer's precious advice to start in the leadership world.

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https://www.instagram.com/thejenniferlove/

https://www.facebook.com/TheJenniferLove/

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Joy Clausen Soto joins the podcast this week and she is a keynote speaker who inspires audiences with her story of perseverance. She followed her dream to SeaWorld, San Diego to become a dolphin trainer. After that Joy continued following her dreams and attended film school. Then at age twenty-five she found a lump on her throat and was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Joy decided to make a documentary of her journey with the hope of sharing a story of survival. Her documentary "Just One Year – A Story of Triumph Over Cancer," went on to win several awards at film festivals.

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01:23 Joy represents her book Joy: The story of a dolphin trainer, filmmaker, and cancer survivor.

02:20 Joy talks about her experience as a dolphin trainer, and how she did use the technique of visualization to train for the test.

04:24 How Joy knew about the power of visualization, and how this technique helps people.

05:51 What Joy learned from training dolphins,

08:00 Joy describes step by step how to achieve the big goals,

09:05 The reason why Joy left her dream job as a dolphin trainer, and why she began as a filmmaker, and how she felt when she discovered she had cancer.

13:03 How Joy finds her purpose in life

14:17 How some events and bumps can change our lives, and how it shapes people in a positive way if we let it

16:20 How Joy start got into doing documentaries, and the story of the documentary she made about her chemotherapy experience,

19:03 The reason why Joy put herself in a vulnerable position and took the risk to film the process of her own chemotherapy experience,

22:00 How Joy made from filming her documentary as part of her cancer healing, and how that helped her during these tough times.

24:13 Joy's advice to people struggling with cancer, and things that helped her to survive cancer

29:55 Joy's tips to step in into leadership

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Joy has spoken at TEDx and most recently published her memoir entitled, "Joy: The Story of a Dolphin Trainer, Filmmaker, and Cancer Survivor." She frequently hears that once readers pick it up, they can't put it down. Her book is helping anyone who is going through obstacles in their lives, cancer patients and survivors, and their loved ones. Joy lives in San Diego with her husband and two kids.

Connect with Joy here:

https://www.joyclausensoto.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-clausen-soto/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joy.soto.5

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoyClausen

Link to her book: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-dolphin-trainer-filmmaker-survivor/dp/1736252305/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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This week, we welcome Sheevaun Moran, who is the founder of Energetic Solutions®. She is an expert at impact, influence, and income wizardry where a business is stagnant or starting up. She will like to share with you and your audience her unique approach using energetic techniques & principles to help innovate small businesses into big successes. Sheevaun has worked with over 25,000+ entrepreneurs, CEO's and leaders, Sheevaun has combined her corporate experience, rapid growth expertise and her unique approach using energetic techniques & principles to help innovate small businesses into big successes. She is an expert at impact, influence and income wizardry where a business is stagnant or starting up.

1:02 Sheevaun talks about her background and her entrepreneurial experience, her program to help people and additional obstacles in her life

8:37 Her story with burnout and creating company to help people to develop mental health

12:13 Talks about her program "Unleash Your Prosperity", and how it works, and the importance of gratitude.

16:55 Her advice to unleash prosperity and how to be grateful

19:59 The importance of asking for help

22:55 Why we should make decisions now

25:17 Advice for leaders

28:45 The power of communication

Connect with Sheevan Moran here:

www.SheevaunMoran.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheevaunmoran/ https://www.facebook.com/SheevaunMoran/ https://twitter.com/sheevaun

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