Shaping Freedom With Lisane Basquiat

This week Lisane sits down with Luis Martinez, MSOL, an Afro-Latino from Honduras and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Luis has an M.B.A. in Organizational Leadership and is an advocate, networker, and ecosystem builder. They discuss entrepreneurship, truth-telling, self-awareness, and community. Make sure to listen to Luis’ top three tips for entrepreneurs! 

A Former Pro Basketball Player and U.S. Navy Veteran, Luis currently serves as Entrepreneur in Residence for the Better Business Bureau Southwest (BBB) & the Founder/CEO for We Tha Plug. We Tha Plug works with Early-Stage Pan-African & Latinx founders and startup companies from Ideation to Pre-Seed using Design Thinking Principles. We Tha Plug is a global community of Pan-African, Latinx, and other underrepresented founders, Venture capitalists, and Angel Investors in the Startup, Tech & Innovation space. The overall mission of We Tha Plug' is to provide equal access to tech & innovation in Pan-African and Latinx communities and create an ecosystem for entrepreneurs from grassroots to professional levels. WTP provides a global ecosystem that gives founders access to startup fundamental education, mentorship, programming, resources & access to funding. 

Learn more about Luis and We Tha Plug at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-martinez-msol/ 
Instagram: luisitothe_entrepreneur 
Twitter: @LuisitoBrooklyn 
Company: https://www.wethaplug.com/
Company Twitter: @WeThaPlug1

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Camille Tenerife is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the Los Angeles area. She has experience working with a wide population but found her focus in helping professional women of color. Her passion comes from her experiences being biracial and the challenges that can arise from that. It was through these same experiences of meshing two worlds that fueled her dedication to serving those who have struggled with their identity and the traumas that come with bridging cultures.

Camille has training in CBT/DBT and has experience and training in trauma work, identity, depression, anxiety, and interpersonal relationships. She currently runs her own private practice in Los Angeles. Camille is devoted to learning about people’s journeys and how she can help in their healing. She believes in the body, mind, and spirit’s resiliency and ability to heal. Through therapy, Camille is committed to helping her clients achieve a deep understanding of themselves and rewrite their stories to create a different ending.

In this conversation, Camille shares her own experience with therapy and how it shaped her desire to become a therapist. Lisane and Camille also discuss the idea that failure can sometimes be a redirection if we are open to the fluidity of life, the topic of intergenerational trauma and how we sometimes over identifying with our ancestors, and how discontent at work can be a symptom of other issues happening in our lives and within ourselves. 

You can learn more about Camille at her website: https://www.diversifiedtherapyla.com/ 
Connect with Camille on social media. 
Instagram: @heal.with.camille
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camilletenerifelmft

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Lisane was recently featured on another Podcast called You Are Not Alone w/ Spiritual Medium Erika Gabriel.
Here is the full episode. Stay tuned for when Lisane has Erika on as a guest on Shaping Freedom!

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Vani Shiroor is a mindfulness coach and the founder of Doturminds. She teaches the art of letting go and being mindful through the ancient Indian sand dot art of rangoli. Through this ritual, she introduces you to a greater sense of awareness and shares with you ways that you can bring yourself out of the busyness, chaos, and chatter of the world into the quiet conscious awareness of who you are in the present moment. This week, Lisane and Vani discuss not only what it means to be in a relationship with yourself but what it means to actually be in love with yourself. They also discuss what it means to truly be present without any resistance and how to take a “beginner’s mindset” approach to being mindful. 

Learn more about Vani and Doturminds at https://doturminds.com/. You can check out her sand art event happening at Hera Hub Irvine on July 20, 2021, and sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/8bfb559428c2/xclh7hgyd7

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Vani Shiroor is a mindfulness coach and the founder of Doturminds. She teaches the art of letting go and being mindful through the ancient Indian sand dot art of rangoli. Through this ritual, she introduces you to a greater sense of awareness and shares with you ways that you can bring yourself out of the busyness, chaos, and chatter of the world into the quiet conscious awareness of who you are in the present moment. This week, Lisane and Vani discuss not only what it means to be in a relationship with yourself but what it means to actually be in love with yourself. They also discuss what it means to truly be present without any resistance and how to take a “beginner’s mindset” approach to being mindful. 

Learn more about Vani and Doturminds at https://doturminds.com/. You can check out her sand art event happening at Hera Hub Irvine on July 20, 2021, and sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/8bfb559428c2/xclh7hgyd7

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Adulting can be hard because we go through our childhood experiences, looking for this journey, this end goal of becoming an adult. And so often we get prepared for adulthood with the focus on how we're going to take care of ourselves financially, what we're going to do to be able to afford to care for ourselves materially. And that's really, really important. And unless we've had someone to come along to tell us that we are so much more than the jobs that we have and the material things that we're able to accumulate, that we’re also human beings who are here on this planet encountering relationships and circumstances and parts of ourselves, then we may also find ourselves in a position of negotiating and figuring out who we are and how to take care of ourselves. 

Leo Flowers is a comedian, a coach, and a thought leader in the area of caring for yourself and paying attention to who you are. He is spending his life really responding to the question of how do you take care of yourself? And he does this and helps people to answer that question for themselves through his comedy. And also through the work that he does with other people. 

You can find out more about Leo at:

http://www.leoflowers.com/ 

https://www.youtube.com/user/leoflowers 

Leo Flowers is a former Div-I college athlete, has a Masters in Counseling/Psychology, is a stand-up comedian, and a mental health advocate. He was diagnosed with depression at an early age and has used that experience to help destigmatize it for others on his Suicide prevention podcast, "Before You Kill Yourself," which has over 100,000 downloads! His goal is to bring awareness to mental health by interviewing best-selling book authors, mental health experts, and sharing their understanding of how thoughts become emotions in order to teach people how to thrive. As an entertainer, he's performed all over the world and you may have seen him on Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen or Comedy Central’s “This Week At the Cellar.”

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We were unprepared for the length of the pandemic and it has led to decision fatigue and burnout for some. As a result of the changes that have taken place over the past year, the current situations people are finding themselves in career-wise may not be what they initially signed up for. Larnell and Lisane discuss how to take the next step forward in the current climate of partial reopenings. They also discuss how to recognize burnout and some steps we can take to fill ourselves back up. Larnell uses the same principles in his own life that he teaches others in his coaching practice and shares his story of leaving a full-time career to build his own company. It’s so important to believe that what you want is achievable AND to build a community around yourself who will support you in that belief. You are not alone and you don’t have to accomplish all of your goals and dreams alone.

Join Larnell for Career Day for the Soul: Leaders Navigating Career Transition with Purpose

May 26 from 6-8 PM ET/3-5 PM PT 

In a virtual safe space, we’ll come together to meet and learn from industry professionals across a variety of fields who are actively recruiting. Participants will gain insight from Career Day for The Soul featured talent and garner the tools to look at career opportunities from a new vantage point.

Find more info and register at: https://www.careerdayforthesoul.com/?trk=organization-update_share-update_update-text

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Last week, my girlfriends and I got together for a happy hour and talked all things romance, and we recorded the whole thing!

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Lisane and Virgen continue their conversation this week and move into the topics of parenting, values, and how to operate from your core so you can show up as 100% of yourself in all the different parts of your life. They also discuss the upcoming Shape Your Foundation program that starts on June 1 and why it’s so important to take the time out of your life to spend some quality time with you.

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Today's episode features my close friend and Creative Director of Shaping Freedom, Virgen Barnet. It was recorded in September, and listening to it now brings back fond memories of our reconnection after lockdown.

I hope you enjoy our chat and be sure to tune in next week as we wrap up our conversation in part 2.

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