Mensimah's Round Table: Conversations for Women of Power and Grace

Pearletta Lamey is the Director of Stat-Pro Healthcare Solutions, a CPR training business a CLIA waived Laboratory and a state approved pandemic provider for Connecticut where we offer mobile and onsite covid vaccinations and testing.

With over 14 years of Healthcare background, my passion is to provide direct patient care, especially for maternity patients.

Pearletta was a Certified Registered Midwife in Jamaica for over 7 years before migrating to the US. After settling here, she restarted my Healthcare journey by becoming a CNA in 2015 and then graduated Lincoln Technical Institute in 2016 as a LPN. She went back to school (Goodwin College) in 2018 and completed my prerequisites for nursing, currently completing ASN at St Vincent's College at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.

She is very proficient in maternity nursing, long term care and home health.

Our conversation focused on:

• Midwifery in Jamaica and United States
• Disparities in Healthcare especially for black women
• Moving through life's challenges
• Giving good foundational values to our sons
• Simple things about spiritual practice.

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Rebecca Loveless, MA is a Structured Word Inquiry Coach. She is a passionate educator, who works with students, teachers, and other literacy professionals to help all children learn to read and write with confidence and joy. She is a lover of words, etymology, and storytelling, and she can explain the reason for many crazy spellings of English words. She also engages with a rich and varied spiritual practice, which fueled bringing her entrepreneurial visions to life. She coaches for the Sacred Wealth Code program, encouraging other visionary women to step forward into their unique brilliance.

Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in linguistics, a master's in education, and several years of postgraduate coursework in orthographic linguistics. She practices yoga, meditation, gardening, and generally communing with nature. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes about her work at rebeccaloveless.com.

This expansive conversation covers important topics such as:

• Challenges with Covid from an Educator's perspective
• Literacy Programs and using Structured Word Inquiry
• Being present and moving forward with love
• Nurturing ourselves as parents, women, caregivers
• Languages in general, importance in learning a second language
• Influencing our inner circles
• Women supporting women
• Holding the vision for a unified world, and so much more.

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In this episode, I am replaying the answers given by guests at the Round Table to the question "Who is a Woman of Power and Grace?

Each guest speaks her own unvarnished truth and the words from these powerful women present opportunities for us to absorb the different expressions, attributes, and understanding into our psyche. From this platform, we would be able to engage, accelerate our growth/transformation and subsequently be a channel of blessings to others.

The goal is to allow us the space and freedom to declare confidently that we are women of power and grace.

Episode 1: Prema Lee Gurreri - 2:07 - 3.33 Episode 2: Yvonne McGregor - 3:47 - 10:29

Episode 3: Dr. S. Kimble Greene - 10:34 - 13:49 Episode 4: Pastor Crystal Paul-Watson - 13:51 - 16:29

Episode 5: Dr. Marianela Medrano - 16:34 - 20:16 Episode 6: Dr. Cindy Martinez - 20:23 - 22:54

Episode 7: Julienne Ryan - 23:09 -26:10 Episode 8: Dr. Atim Eneida George - 26:22 - 28:23

Episode 9: Quatina Frazer - 28:28 -34:38 Episode 10: Sonia Santavenere - 34:43 - 36:34

Episode 11: Dr. Dorothy Martin-Neville - 36:40 - 40:36 Episode 12: Patricia Campanile - 40:42 - 43:02

Episode 13: Andrea Barton Reeves - 43:06 - 47:13

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Andrea is the CEO of the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Authority in Connecticut . She Served as president and CEO of Harc, Inc. — supporting people with intellectual and related disabilities and their families.

• Former Director of Program Operations at Lawyers for Children America, Inc.,
• Ten- year career at Chubb Insurance in Operations, leading large-scale implementations

Community Engagement:

• Immediate Past President of the Connecticut Bar Foundation
• Former Board chair of Village for Families and Children
• Former Board member of Connecticut Community Nonprofit Alliance
• Current Vice-Chair, Board of the YWCA, Hartford Region

Recognitions

• Hartford Business Journal’s ‘Forty Under Forty, and Five New Leaders to Watch’
• 100 Women of Color - Class of 2020
• 100 Most Influential Blacks in Connecticut – 2021 (CT NAACP)
• Power 25 – Most Impactful Professionals in Healthcare – 2021 (Hartford Business Journal)

Andrea and I talk about:

• Social infrastructure and providing services that support and benefit those who need them
• Intellectual disabilities, related disabilities
• Experiences of Black women especially those in Leadership positions, how to get around the trappings
• Vision for women
• Relationship with Source and many more.....

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Such an appropriate title for these times!

1. Being an Edgewalker
2. Importance of having a spiritual practice
3. Labels and its impact on humanity
4. The power within
5. Living authentically, experiencing fulfillment .... and much more!

Dr. Dorothy Martin-Neville is an Executive Leadership Coach, an international speaker and author of eight books.

She addresses the issues that exist for all of us who are trying to please everyone, who are striving to be near-perfect, or who are the over-achievers. In working with Executive Women, Dorothy has seen how powerful women have unique ways of doing self-betrayal, in giving their power away.

We talk about mindset, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, relationships, leadership, women's empowerment and the courage to living a life of our dreams. She notes: "The grace comes when we lovingly transform ourselves.... and claim our presence."

https://www.askdrdorothy.com/

YouTube

https://youtu.be/k-JKACkbaOA

Stand with Humanity Video on Racism

https://fb.watch/9Xkl-SOP1B/

Ms. Sonia Santavenere is a beautician and she is the owner of The Main Switch in Middletown and Norwalk, Connecticut. (http://www.mainswitchsalonct.com/)

Sonia says, "When you look good, you feel good." This is the philosophy at The Main Switch Beauty Salon where owner, she delights her guests with dazzling hair styles and an exceptional salon experience. She places emphasis on ambience, creativity, accommodation, and empowerment.

She empowers women from behind the chair and has an annual celebration, "Girls, Let's Talk," where women meet to share their experiences, wisdom and love.

YouTube Video:

https://youtu.be/SkeYLuZxJKI

Quatina (Tina) Frazer is my first guest from Generation X!

She is a Community Leader, Author, Mother and she holds a Master's Degree in Liberal Studies. Tina exemplifies courage, determination, decency and dignity in everything she does. She has overcome a lot as in many women's stories and this conversation should bring hope and optimism to all our endeavors. She sings James Cleveland's I don't Feel No Ways Tired, and it is deeply moving.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Wesleyan - Earned Cardinal Achievement Award 2018 and 2020 in recognition of extraordinary
• initiative.
• Author of “Built by Love, Kept by Grace: Beauty Out of Ashes” on Amazon.com

COMMUNITY AND LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES

• Licensed to minister, 2005; Ordained Reverend and Elder, 2013
• Administrative Assistant and Board Member for N.U. Generation
• Planning and Zoning Alternate Commissioner, City of Middletown, Sept. 2020 - Oct. 2021

YouTube Video:

https://youtu.be/VbCdOo2dMR0

Dr. Atim Eneida George's credentials:

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Black Studies Research (CBSR), UC Santa Barbara

Conducted an in-depth qualitative interdisciplinary study entitled Black Mothers Matter, https://www.cbsr.ucsb.edu/research-projects/intersectional-justice leading to the production of book chapter, Respect—Making Your Mess, Your Message: What I Learned About Courageous Truth-telling from Gender-based Violence (to be published in 2021).

Executive Director, Global Center for Creative Leaders (GCCL), Lanham, MD

Global Center for Creative Leaders, a non-profit Organisation committed to developing leadership capacities of clients and stakeholders through delivery of innovative training and development activities and services

Deputy Director, Rangel Program in International Affairs, Howard University

Visiting Fellow & Public Diplomat-in-Residence, University of Southern California (USC)

Honors & Awards:

HONORS & AWARDS (amongst many)

• Recipient of merit-based Weisman and Wayland Scholarship supports doctoral students who are dedicated to scholarship and practice that directly impacts and improves the lives of women and/or girls in the United States or abroad
• Recipient of merit-based Guskin Scholars’ Fund in Leadership & Change supports students committed to improve the quality of life for individuals, communities, and the world
• State Department Superior Honor Award for work in Nigeria
• Distinguished Women’s Advocate Award for advocacy work in Nigeria
• W. Averill Harriman Award for “extraordinary contributions to the practice of diplomacy exemplifying intellectual courage and a zeal for creative accomplishment” 

A deep conversation, we discussed among many topics:

• Global Leadership
• Reciprocal Mentorship
• Empowering Rural Communities in the Developing World
• Her publication, "Respect—Making Your Mess, Your Message: What I Learned About Courageous Truth-telling from Gender-based Violence
• Pro-social Behaviors
• Tools for healing including gratitude, focusing on the positive, et cetera.

YouTube Video:

https://youtu.be/3DdKT2zdLog

Julienne B. Ryan is a Humorist | Keynote Storytelling Speaker |Trainer, Facilitator, Coach. She began her professional career at age five when she did TV commercials and learned important things like “the teamsters always eat first,” her social security number and how to endorse checks for bank deposit.

Ryan studied psychology in college because she wanted to understand humans. She conducted her “field work” in a variety of roles, hearing the phrases “merger synergies, reorganizations, downsizing and rightsizing for change” more times than she cares to mention.

Later she enrolled in an Ivy League graduate school where she paid oodles of money to validate her prior on-the-job learning experiences. However, she did learn to name drop up-to-date theories and trendy psychologists with alarming ease.

Ryan evolved into working in “Talent Management,” a fancy way of saying “try to find people and keep them moderately happy.” With inadequate budgets and staff allocations, she had to find creative ways to encourage her staff to work effectively. These ranged from begging and borrowing resources, improvising childcare, telling stories and even giving snacks as rewards. She tried to convince herself that working a bazillion hours and “multi-tasking” equaled achievement.

Her work took place in cubicles, conference rooms or, with luck, in offices with a door. Occasionally she would make the time to emerge from her allotted real estate to really talk to people. Ryan learned something transformative in the process:

Some Highlights:

• Being real in our communication with ourselves and others
• Story-telling and its impact in our communications
• Heart-to-heart connections
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Story-tourism

And much more.

YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/duxMOfS71aA