THE CITY CONFESSIONS

This week's episode features Sara Falaro, an LA native performer and entrepreneur who has just passed her first year mark living in New York City. With high energy and a positive outlook on life, Sara explains what her experience and daily routine looks like an an aspiring actor/ performer. She also reveals her shifting mindset from wanting to join the union to not wanting to be part of the union after researching the differences. In the later half of the podcast, Sara reveals a personal confession and incident revolving around a loss that forever changed her life and how she is dealing with it currently. Sara Falaro shares her personal and professional goals and as a new business owner, Sara hopes to help aspiring actors find their truths with her coaching and programs and also wants to be a role model for the queer community. You can connect with Sara Faralo on Instagram @sarafalaro and find more about her services https://www.sarafalaro.com/coaching. Feel free to email any questions or comments regarding this episode to [email protected].

Today's guest features Lindsey Smolan, founder of Lindsey Smolan Public Relations, a boutique PR firm specializing in outreach for fashion, lifestyle and beauty brands in NYC. Lindsey explains how she got into Public Relations and why she started her own company about nine years ago. As the industry is changing, we talk about what this means for her business and ways that she had to adapt to the shift to digital marketing and social media. Lindsey also admits to having impostor syndrome even though she is an entrepreneur and has a successful track with landing media placements for her clients. Lindsey's main goal for her business moving forward is to expand her team and outreach so if you are interested in connecting with Lindsey, feel free to follow her on Instagram @lindseysmolanpr or check out her website http://www.lindseysmolan.com/. Any questions or comments regarding this episode can be sent to [email protected]. 

In this episode of The City Confessions, we have Brianna Jenae, also known as "Breezy", a model, creative director and entrepreneur from NYC. She talks about her upbringing and background as a Queens native from NYC. Breezy also explains how she started her skincare line, Light Being Cosmetics, in her kitchen by experimenting with different natural household items to help her skin. She had no idea it would now be a business and is working on expanding her line. We also talk about topics including wellness, spirituality, and NYC hustle. Breezy also opens up about a personal confession about loss and explains how that experience affected her and impacted her outlook on life. You can find Breezy on Instagram at @nobodyjuice and her skincare line at https://lightbeing.co/. If you have any feedback, questions or comments regarding this episode, feel free to email [email protected].

.Today’s episode features entrepreneur Alyssa Fernandez de Cordova, Founder of THB marketing house. She explains how she started her marketing influencer agency in NYC and why she has decided to now sell her company. Alyssa opens up about her social media detox and how that experience changed her mindset about the influencer industry and digital space. We also talk about her unique experience with meeting the Pope in Italy and a financial confession relating to a controversial video revealing how she how much she makes and how she spends her money. If you want to connect with Alyssa, you can find her on Instagram @thehautebrunette and if you have any questions/ feedback regarding this episode feel free to email [email protected].

We are starting out season 3 with our first guest, Gina Doost, a writer, storyteller and soon to be mama from NYC! In this episode, Gina walks us through her experience with journalism and how she came to NYC with a one way ticket and is now living her dream life and dream job with her husband.  Gina talks to us about how she met her significant other and how she is balancing her personal life and professional life now that her husband works with her full time on her personal brand and with her other clients. As a first time soon to be mother, Gina also opens up about her pregnancy experience so far and stay tuned until the end of the episode as her confession relates to her future child/ children. We also touch upon topics including the power of affirmations, the advocacy for "fake it till you make it" and the power of helping others and good karma. If you haven't checked out my last episode of Season 2, be sure to have a listen as we also dedicate a small portion of this episode to discussing my health confession. You can find Gina Doost on Instagram @whatthedoost and make sure to follow her blog www.http://whatthedoost.com/ and you can find her podcast Selfcare Tuesdays on iTunes! Feel free to email any questions or feedback to [email protected]. 

Be prepared to listen to a powerful and inspiring episode featuring Heather Manwaring, a photographer who provides a transformational experience of healing and personal expression for women in business and in life. Through her work, Heather provides an artistic and personal development opportunity as she creates space for her clients to shed light on the emotions that are too often repressed. In photographs for their personal collections or for branding purposes, she helps her clients transform those energies into sources of embodied power and radiant magnetism. Heather envisions a world where everyone feels safe to fall in love with themselves as they are, and relate to each other in healthy ways across the board, personally and in business. Heather believes in photography as a means to help us reach our potential, to fully heal from a history of abuse, and create a wildly better future together. If you want to connect with Heather, feel free to email her directly [email protected] and should you be interested in booking a session with her, you can do so https://www.transfirephotography.com and be sure to check out the free gift mentioned in this episode through  www.transfirephotography.com/freegift. Her other social links include www.instagram.com/transfirephotography and www.facebook.com/transfirephotography. Feel free to also email [email protected] if you have any questions or feedback about this episode.