The Liz Svatek Show

Rita Boccuzzi is an educator, speaker, and a Warrior Woman for Wealth! She wants us to feel empowered by money and stop our limiting beliefs that money is something to be feared and avoided. Ritas story of tragedy, loss, and resilience, lead to her passion to help others to take charge of their financial future. Rita reveals the 3 biggest mistakes women make with money and how to avoid them. We will learn that by dropping the shame and blame we can change our relationship with money. Join us for a little money education, with a side of confidence, so you and your money can flourish!

Show Notes:

Follow Rita on Instagram @RitaBoccuzzi

Rita’s website:

https://mammaritamoney.com/

Attend Ritas Events!

https://mammaritamoney.com/calendar?view=calendar&month=09-2020

Book: Wine, Women and Wealth: https://amzn.to/34bvKcu

Jim Rohn: Kick the Worry Habit

Rita and I met through the Bra Network: https://www.bra-network.com/

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Guest Bio:

Rita Boccuzzi is a financial intelligence expert. She is passionately committed to guiding entrepreneurs & business owners to achieve financial peace of mind that includes transforming money conversations and release money confusion, expand financial knowledge and build confidence regarding money and wealth.

Rita is a proven professional who is leading the Money Mindset Movement to Raise Your Financial Intelligence and scale to Financial Freedom. She educates and empowers you to achieve financial independence by getting core issues on how you relate to money along with teaching principles and practical strategies.

Lovingly known as Mamma Rita Money she leads Leveled UP Ladies Network Collaborative and Money 101 educational workshops. She is CEO of Flourish Inc and partnered with Five Rings Financial. Rita is a Board Member to the Bloom Again Foundation, Rotarian & Soroptimist. Check out MammaRitaMoney.com

Lindsay Kavet created Expressing Motherhood as a safe space for Moms to tell stories of Motherhood on stage. Join us as we discuss the struggle of being an artist, why hearing stories of Mothers and women is important, and how a health scare taught her to slow down.

Follow Expressing Motherhood on:

Instagram: @ExpressingMotherhood

FB: https://www.facebook.com/expressingmotherhood/

Website: https://expressingmotherhood.com/

Lindsays short film “Meg” was chosen to be a part of the LA Short Film Festival.

She has written for Fix The Toaster, What The Flicka, She Buys Cars, Mom.Me, The Friendship Dialogues and MomsLA.

Expressing Motherhood has been interviewed by Maria Shriver, at Lindsay's home and was recently featured in the LA Times.

Expressing Motherhood Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/expressing-motherhood-talks-to-megan-dolon/id996179286?i=1000346350224

Expressing Motherhood Show alum Paria Hassouri just wrote her first memoir, and she first shared a part of her families story on stage with Expressing Motherhood. Paria is an LA mom to three, pediatrician and she wrote about her middle child's transition from male to female.

https://www.pariahassouri.com

Movie made by alum Shannon Bradley-Colleary- To The Stars: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6886080/

Megan Dolan: Lemur Mom

Alums Shannon Noel and Stacey Burrows show MommyTonk: https://www.facebook.com/MommyTonk

Medication reminder app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/round-health/id1059591124

Just a little Heart Attack: https://youtu.be/H4uV8CAk1l4 via @YouTube

Guest Bio

Lindsay created the show “Expressing Motherhood, and has been directing and producing it for 12 years. In the beginning, Lindsay created the show as a means to be creative and also meet fellow creative moms. Over the years, Expressing Motherhood has helped many women dip their toes back into writing and performing and given them the confidence to tell their stories. For some, it's their first venture into being on stage. Many performers have taken their monologues and developed them into one women shows and books. The show travels across the country where Lindsay continues to meet inspiring Moms.

Lindsay was born in Los Angeles but spent most of her years in South Dakota and Iowa. Now back in Los Angeles, she is raising her 3 kids in the complex, creative, and some times maddening city of LA.

Episode Description:

Katie Chin, celebrity chef, author and media personality tells us what it was like growing up with a Warrior Mother who immigrated from China, with no money and a high school education and built a 50 million dollar Chinese restaurant empire! Katie of course resisted her Mother’s business but soon realized it was the exact right fit. She tells us how she reinvented herself, why you need to help women starting out, and why Karaoke is her superpower!

Show Notes:

Follow Katie Chin on instagram: @ChefKatieChin

Website:

https://chefkatiechin.com/

Cookbook: Everyday Chinese Cooking: https://amzn.to/3iADpXS

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChefKatieChin/videos

She has zoom cooking classes with grocery box delivery (DM for more info)

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Guest Bio:

Katie Chin, caterer, award-winning cookbook author, television chef, food blogger and US Ambassador to Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, has a passion for Asian food and is committed to teaching the American public that the very best Asian cooking can be achieved in a real home kitchen by real people on real schedules.

 

After growing up working in the kitchens of her late mother Leeann Chin’s award-winning Minneapolis-area restaurants, Katie pursued a career in film and television marketing, but eventually left her executive position to return to her culinary roots. 

 

Katie co-hosted the national PBS cooking series, Double Happiness, in conjunction with her mother and together they wrote Everyday Chinese Cooking. On her own, Katie wrote 300 Best Rice Cooker Recipes and most recently, the award-winning bestsellers Everyday Thai Cooking and her latest cookbook, Everyday Chinese Cookbook:  101 Delicious Recipes From My Mother’s Kitchen.  Katie’s fifth cookbook will be filled with global flavors is slated for a Spring 2021 release. She is recognized as a pan-Asian cooking expert and has been featured in many food and lifestyle magazines such as O Magazine, Cooking Light, Bon Appetit, Elle, Real Simple, and Family Circle.  

 

In 2016, Katie partnered with Macy’s on a six-city cooking and book signing tour to celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month where she was featured in a national print, radio and digital campaign.  

 

Katie chronicled her late mother Leeann’s remarkable story on PRI’s The World on NPR in May 2016.  She was also a featured chef at the Sundance Film Festival in February 2017.  

 

Her numerous appearances on national television include The Today Show, The Real, Hallmark Channel, The Daily Buzz, Cooking Channel and as a guest judge on Food Network’s Iron Chef America.  She recently appeared as a chef contestant on Cutthroat Kitchen and Beat Bobby Flay.   She is also a frequent contributor to Maria Shriver’s weekly newsletter, The Sunday Paper.

 

As part of her emphasis on healthy food, Katie served as the Culinary Ambassador to City of Hope and its “super foods” initiative. Taking the message of the cancer-fighting potential of certain foods directly to the White House, she demonstrated at the annual Easter Egg Roll how to quickly and easily incorporate “super foods” into daily life.

 

Based in Los Angeles, Katie divides her time running her businesses: Wok Star Catering and Fortune Cookie Divas, while posting recipes to her blog, shooting cooking videos for her Chef Katie Chin You Tube channel, throwing karaoke dinner parties, and caring for her stepdaughter Kyla and 11 year-old twins, Dylan and Becca.

Pregnant as a teen, Gwendolyn Osborne- Smith made the choice to create her world with her daughter and never give up on her dreams. Join us as Gwen and I talk about lessons learned from a failed marriage, The Black Lives Matter Movement, kids driving us insane in quarantine, and how she was able to leap off a 3 story platform for her role in Wonder Woman 1984! You may recognize Gwendolyn from her 12 year stint on the Price is Right but we find out she paved the way as a groundbreaking model of her time. Gwen is fearless, funny and has a heart of gold.

Show notes:

Follow Gwendolyn on Instagram

@itsgwendolyn

Catch Gwen in Wonder Woman 1984 - Watch the trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfM7_JLk-84&ab_channel=WarnerBros.Pictures

Gwens Face oil is @lomolique

Gwens song: Funny How Time Flies

Gwendolyns Daughter is Monique Smith @moniquegreenofficial

Watch: Ava Duvernays- When They See Us

https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549

Watch: A Conversation On Race with Gwen and @NatashaHemmingway

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/DGC7YS1JVLE0JavVv-fxVHWJj9LvI75p0kB5E4TBblh-yaIb1C9mspc0-3WK7vIV6gnqEsR_wTOe9iTp.48Gz35lquWlYALUb?startTime=1593023127000&_x_zm_rtaid=U4ngBKSCQiONJI_mvUd8aA.1599587931359.44512623be5d8d4b95cb5428d136a3bd&_x_zm_rhtaid=888

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Guest Bio:

Fresh off the set as an actor from “Wonder woman 1984”, set to release in June 2020, Gwendolyn just completed an arc on General Hospital playing the fierce role of Police Chief Vic. On the more comedic side, you can catch her playing Meg Anderson, the easy going but extremely confident publicist in Beauty and the Baller on Centric.

Gwendolyn is a respected reality producer most recently wrapping a full season which showcases herself and her whole family “MEET THE SMITHS’ on TBS.

Working with the Global production group ITV America as a producer, Gwendolyn was recently nominated for the segment 'Foul Shots by Kenny Smith’ on TRUTV in the Cynopsis Short Form Video Festival.


In addition to her role as a model/tv personality on The Price Is Right for twelve years, Gwendolyn produced and hosted short segments about current affairs on HLN as a parenting expert. Other hosting credits include The Hallmark Channel’s, Home and Family.

Other credits as an actor she played Jade Dominguez in Miami for two seasons on the television show Ocean Ave. Other television credits include Real Husbands of Hollywood, Charmed, Eve and Huff. Along with her most recent film appearance in Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill, she can also be seen in the movies Snow Dogs and Any Given Sunday alongside Bill Bellamy and Jamie Foxx.

Gwendolyn comes from Jamaican and British parents. Her love for the arts started in grade school, attending performing arts schools and colleges in both of her home towns Bath, England and Miami Fl, in America.
Catch Gwendolyn on her IG with interactive fun, with and without her kids about health and fitness from the inside out @itsgwendolyn.

Carrie Murray, founder of the BRA Network, tells us how she started her community of female entrepreneurs, after realizing that women don’t have the support, mentorship and community they need. We talk about how her background in education has been a through line and has lead her to this moment, why women business owners should never give anything away for free, and how to have patience before you pivot your business. Carrie has learned from the pain of her past business failures and now uses that to inspire women to higher levels of success.

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https://www.instagram.com/bra_network/

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Del Pozzo Jewelry

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Domestic Violence Resources:

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Guest Bio

Carrie Murray is the founder of BRA - Business Relationship Alliance, a network of powerful women devoted to advancing female-owned businesses by providing the community, collaboration, mentorship, empowerment and support needed to flourish as an entrepreneur. 

Carrie began working to advance the rights of women when she became the first in her family to graduate college with a Bachelor’s in Social Work from San Francisco State University with an emphasis in Domestic Violence. She went to work as a court advocate, working for victims trying to understand their rights and navigate the judicial system. She then went on to get a Master’s Degree from Antioch University with an emphasis in Social Justice.

After that, Carrie joined the Los Angeles School System and became a teacher working her way up to be an administrator at a LAUSD public charter school.Fueled by her passion and the inspiration that her mother instilled in her, Carrie rose up through the ranks and eventually became a Principal. She then excitedly made the jump to entrepreneur in 2011 and started her own school, Prestique Academy of Innovation and Technology, a school for twice exceptional kids. In doing that, she became the first person in her family to own a business. 

As a solopreneur, she realized that although she knew so much about education, she knew very little about running a business. Carrie would spend every spare minute researching all the best business practices possible, from finance, earning capital and business development, to marketing and public relations. 

Simultaneously, while doing double-duty as a mom of two young kids, she would eventually build a circle of friends who were also in the same boat; not only “solopreneurs,” but “mompreneurs” who shared the same frustrations, limitations and struggles that she did. Through these friendships, Carrie quickly realized these women also had nowhere to turn but each other for answers and there had to be a better way. So what started out as casual dinner parties at her house, morphed into networking sessions as more and more women outside her immediate circle wanted in. At first, they would come together monthly, and then weekly to discuss all things business. It was through sharing their own personal experiences and providing advice, education and support to one another that they found a like-minded community of women who shared the same vision. From those dinners, BRA - Business Relationship Alliance - was born. 

Carrie then set out to create a community where the key factor was the advancement of female entrepreneurs (at all levels) and built its foundation on three fundamental core values: 1. Collaboration over competition; 2. Commitment to each other as professionals and to hire within our network first; and 3. Advance women as experts in business through educational opportunities. In doing that, she also created a community where women could be viewed as valuable while still feeling comfortable being vulnerable. Once she hit 100 members she left running the school to focus on BRA full time.

Episode Description:

Beauty expert Melissa Meyers tells us how we can live the Glow Girl Life and glow inside and out! We cover everything from clean beauty and box breathing to face oils and and crystals. Melissa tells us how she built her successful blog: “The Glow Girl Life”, based on a mission of helping women look and feel 10 years younger. You will love her business tips and beauty tricks!

Show Notes:

You can find Melissa’s Lifestyle blog at: https://theglowgirllife.com/

Get the Glow Girl Newsletter with her beauty tips! https://theglowgirllife.com/subscribe

Follow Melissa on:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissameyers/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGlowGirlLife

Asana app- to manage work flow

Evernote app- for note taking and organizing

Mel Robbins 5 second rule:https://melrobbins.com/the-5-second-rule/

Get the Lumi/ Glow girl necklace: Contact Melissa at: [email protected] and get 20% off!

Get the Golden Ray Glow Drops Face Oil- use code GlowGirl15: https://www.oliebiologique.com/shop/goldenray

Guest Bio

Melissa Meyers is an LA-based social media influencer, content creator and lifestyle writer with over 20 years of editorial experience covering beauty, fashion, wellness, and travel. She’s the Founder and Creator of inspirational lifestyle blog, The Glow Girl where she’s passionate about sharing tips on how to look and feel 10 years younger. Her focus is to empower women to be the best version of themselves, age gracefully and maintain a youthful glow from the inside out.

Melissa is currently a regular contributor to Who What Wear, the premier destination for celebrity style, runway trends, and shopping suggestions from top fashion and beauty experts. Melissa has appeared as a lifestyle expert on TV for NBC’s Today Show and Weekend Today in New York, New York Live, ABC News, Better.TV, Fox’s Good Day New York and others. She’s also been featured in People, People StyleWatch, Huffington Post, Hamptons Magazine and more. She’s covered the red carpet and conducted celebrity interviews as the Founder and Creative Director for PageDaily, an online fashion and beauty magazine that set the stage for what became The Glow Girl today.

Melissa has two co-branded products of her own—the GLOW Necklace with LOOMA Jewelry and Olie X Melissa Meyers Golden Ray Glow Drops. Some of her brand partnerships include KIND Snacks, Ritual, Dove, Target, Rachel Zoe's Box of Style, Shopbop, SOOTHE, La Prairie, Origins, StriVectin, Phyto and more!

Born and raised in New York, Melissa moved to Los Angeles with her husband and two children in 2013. Before her career in digital media, she worked at Bear Stearns as an associate director in Marketing before pivoting to follow her passion for lifestyle journalism.

Episode Description:

This week we are going from SHAME to SHINE. Meg Zucker, was born with a genetic condition called “ectrodactyly”. Raised to be anything but a victim, Meg learned that “what you think of me is none of my business”. When Meg passed on her condition to two of her three kids, things changed. Watching her sons get bullied she knew she had to do something. Meg began speaking at schools and realized she needed to not only empower her sons, but all kids who have a physical or invisible difference. She realized to stop bullying there needed to be more than kindness, acceptance, or understanding. She encouraged kids to be a friend to kids with differences. This lead to the founding of her 501c3 organization: “Don’t Hide It Flaunt it.” Meg tells us how she overcame her insecurities and climbed her “dignity ladder” until she got to the top. We are celebrating uniqueness today!

Show Notes:

Follow Don’t Hide it Flaunt it:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justflauntit_/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/DontHideItFlauntit

Website: http://www.donthideitflauntit.com/

Landons essay: http://www.donthideitflauntit.com/my-flaunt-story-by-landon-svatek-age-12/

Submit a kids flaunt: http://www.donthideitflauntit.com/submit-a-flaunt/

Megs Article: Why I Have a Problem With the Word Disabled: https://motherwellmag.com/2017/11/02/why-i-have-a-problem-with-the-word-disabled/

Megs Article: It’s All How You Play the Game: http://thewarriormoms.co/meg-zucker-knows-its-how-you-play-the-game/

Guest Bio:

Meg Zucker is the Founder and President of Don’t Hide It Flaunt It (“DHIFI”).  Meg has a genetic condition called, “ectrodactyly” that she passed on to two of her three children.   A lawyer with over twenty years of experience in the field of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism on Wall Street, Meg found her DHIFI calling in 2009 when her oldest son of three children was bullied on the playground in elementary school because of his difference.  Deciding to make “lemonade from lemons,” that experience created an opportunity for Meg to speak to students, teachers and other faculty at schools about the importance of unconditional acceptance of one another.  Fast forward, DHIFI is now a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that, among other things, partners with Scholastic Inc. to create “Flaunt It” related programming in schools.  Also, sharing DHIFI’s mission of empowerment and empathy, Meg has been both published and featured in national magazines (e.g., Parents) and newspapers and featured on television including Today (NBC) and The Learning Channel.

Episode Description:

Natasha Hemmingway tells us about her journey from fear to faith. The loss of a child, a job, and a crisis of faith had her reeling. She knew she was called for more but what? Natasha explains how her career path opened up once she finally surrendered, was called UP and conquered her false fears. Now as a speaker and authentic sales coach she teaches women across the country to not only have a business they are passionate about, but to have a sales process and structure to back it up.

Show notes:

Follow Natasha on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natashahemmingway/

Website: https://natashahemmingway.com/

Patty Ivins Documentaries

Hungry:

http://www.logotv.com/episodes/oekyw0/logo-documentary-films-hungry-ep-101

Light in the Water:

https://www.hulu.com/movie/light-in-the-water-8e8a9e32-550d-4344-835f-1cafe90b81a6

Guest Bio

Natasha Hemmingway is an entrepreneurial-based Meaningful Success & Sales Coach and Speaker and the creator of Heart Not Hustle —a coaching firm founded with an aim to helping entrepreneurs find, and focus on the deeper meaning behind their business motivation and sales message. She helps entrepreneurs master their authentic sales process, achieve meaningful success and maximize their sales wins by bringing the Heart Not the Hustle.

Natasha spent over sixteen years as a successful sales professional with a Fortune 500 company, and held a corporate role as a senior territory sales manager, prior to the personal tragedy that led her on a life-altering path to redefine her own “success” and “joy.” After leaving the corporate world, she found a heart for entrepreneurs looking to garner their gifts and passions to create their own businesses. Her collegiate background, unique career experience, and motivating empathy all play into the success of Heart Not Hustle.

Episode Description:

This week actress Brianne Davis tell us about her secret life of love and sex addiction. We discuss why love can be the most intoxicating drug and why no one should go on the painful journey of recovery alone. Learn how Brianne realized she was not broken, only lacking the tools for a healthy partnership. Think love addiction isn’t that common? Tune in and see why it’s the root cause of many crimes and way more common than you think.

Guest Bio:

Whether lighting up the big screen or calling the shots behind the scene, actor, director, producer, and writer Brianne Davis is one of the most electric talents to storm Hollywood by force. She recently wrapped two seasons as series regular in History Channel's "Six" and a role in the upcoming season of Netflix's "Lucifer."

Originally from Atlanta, Brianne moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. Her first lead role came in 2005 with the blockbuster hit Jarhead, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. Her credits include recurring roles on Hulu's "Casual," TNT's "Murder In The First," HBO's "True Blood," as well as FX's "Nip/Tuck," "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS' "CSI: Miami," ABC's "Desperate Housewives," and HBO's "True Blood."

Not only an actor, Brianne is also an accomplished director and producer. Thriving behind the camera, as much as in front, she has produced five films with her production company Give & Take Productions. She has directed two features: "The Night Visitor 2: Heather's Story" and "Deadly Signal," which premiered at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain.

Brianne is the co-creator of three female-driven TV Series, "Take Back The Night,” "Into Me You See,” and "Secret Life." She's currently pitching them to networks with her producing partner/husband, Mark Gantt.

Brianne recently finished writing her first book, "Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex and Love Addict, a roman à clef novel based on a decade in recovery, and a little creative license. The book arrives in December. In March of 2020, she published an article for the HuffPost about her ten years of recovery from sex and love addiction.

On August 3, 2020, Brianne launches the "Secret Life Podcast." The show features an eclectic group of friends and strangers who share their deepest, darkest and sometimes hilarious secrets.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son Davis and their dog Bear.

Show Notes:

Secret Life Podcast

secretlifepodcast.com

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/secret-life-podcast/id1521171499

Website:

http://briannedavis.com

HuffPost Article:

https://tinyurl.com/HuffPostArticle-Davis

Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex and Love Addict Book site: 

https://secrethollywoodsexlove.com

INSTAGRAM - http://www.instagram/thebriannedavis

FACEBOOK - http://www.Facebook.com/thebriannedavis

TWITTER - http://www.twitter.com/thebriannedavis

Episode Description:

Dr. Sarina Fierro, educator, school administrator and teacher, tells us why women have to tap themselves on the shoulder and close the “confidence gap” in their careers. We talk about raising a daughter with boundaries, what the upcoming school year may hold for us, and how deciding she was indeed “something special”, enabled her to go for her doctorate and land the job of her dreams! Get ready to get fired up!

Show Notes:

Avenues World School : https://www.avenues.org/

For a link to Dr. Fierros dissertation email her at: [email protected]

Guest Bio

Sarina first entered the field of education 23 years ago as a Kindergarten teacher. For the past 17 years, Sarina Fierro served as the Head of the Lower School at a prominent independent school in West Los Angeles. She is touted as a forward-thinking leader in the education community, specifically in the areas of curriculum design, teacher coaching, alternative assessments, and anti-bias pedagogy. In May 2020, Sarina earned her Doctoral Degree in ‘K-12 Educational Leadership’ from USC’s Rossier School of Education. Her dissertation, Barriers Encountered by Women Entering K-12 Headships in California Independent Schools, can be found in the USC Research Library. On the heels of completing her doctoral program, Dr. Fierro accepted a position with Avenues World School to open their new campus in Silicon Valley, where she’ll oversee the launch of the elementary school, becoming the school’s founding Head of Lower Division.