Own Your Voice: Cultivating Voices of Impact

Own Your Voice: Cultivating Voices of Impact

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Own Your Voice: Cultivating Voices of Impact episodes

  • EP 49: Scream Your Dream!
    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.
    29 min
  • EP 48: Strength & Weakness Are Born From the Same Wound.
    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: [email protected], or on Instagram at: @farida.d.author
    11 min
  • EP 47: Supporting BIPOC Women in The Workplace
    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 Mehr 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
    47 min
  • EP 46: Bringing Ease Into Your Journey
    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.
    18 min
  • EP 45: How Your Voice Influences Your emotions

    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.

    31 min
  • EP 44: Break Free From The Status Quo
    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: 
    1. Mental health
    2. Workplace inclusion
    3. Your career aspirations
    17 min
  • EP 43: Leading with Purpose
    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.
    43 min
  • EP 40: Remerging from The Work From Home Cocoon

    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

     

     

    40 min

About Own Your Voice: Cultivating Voices of Impact

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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…