The Self Worth Edit

Cultivating your own self worth affirmations practice can be powerful for your self improvement. In this episode you'll learn the answers to questions including: 

• Why affirmations are important
• How affirmations work
• Will affirmations work? Are affirmations effective?
• How affirmations will change your life
• How affirmations affect the subconscious 
• How affirmations helped me
• How affirmations affect the brain, can affirmations change your brain?
• Can affirmations change your beliefs?
• What affirmations should I use? 

Not sure what affirmations to start with? Download some of my favorites, here: selfworthedit.com/affirmations

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Have you ever wondered how to do salary negotiation? How much is too much? What you should not say in a salary negotiation? This week's guest is a salary negotiation coach (and my sister!) Zafreen Farishta. 

In addition to being a salary negotiation consultant, Zafreen is a public health start-up professional who started The Pay We Deserve. After successfully undertaking numerous salary negotiations herself and helping others with salary negotiation best practices, she's now making her services more widely available. 

Through The Pay We Deserve, Zafreen helps first generation WOC strategically negotiate their salaries. She supports mindset as well as actual tactics to ensure you get the pay you deserve.

Zafreen graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and now lives in Chicago with her husband and pup.

Questions we discuss in this episode include: 

• What are salary negotiation errors?
• Can salary negotiation backfire?
• What should you not say in a salary negotiation?
• How to phrase salary negotiation? 
• Why salary negotiation is important? 
• How to negotiate salary compensation? 
• What to do when negotiating salary? 

For a custom script to support your salary negotiation, book a free intro call with Zafreen by emailing her at [email protected] or filling out a contact form on her website at thepaywedeserve.com to learn more about her signature offerings:

1. "What if my boss says...?"
2. 4 Steps Forward, No Steps Back 

Website: thepaywedeserve.com
Instagram: @thepaywedeserve
Email: [email protected]

Past episode(s) mentioned in this episode: Building Wealth & Financial Wellness With Saijal Patel

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This week's guest is a Pakistani-American/Canadian actress, dreamer, dog mom, and overall lover of life. Natasha Khawja started her blog to share her own personal experiences in the hope her story can help & resonate with other South Asians. In our conversation, Natasha shares how to determine what identity means to you, the differences and overlap of identity vs culture and how to navigate both when you are disowned by your family. 

Questions we discuss in this episode also include: 

• Can identity change over time?
• Where identity comes from and how identity is shaped 
• What does it mean to be disowned ?
• What happens if you get disowned for interracial dating?
• And more 

Natasha's blog: purposeandchai.com
@purposeandchai on Instagram
Natasha's Youtube Channel 

Book mentioned in this episode: The Universe Has Your Back

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After years of navigating hair loss due to alopecia, today's guest made the decision to break free of South Asian beauty standards by shaving her head bald. Neehar Sachdeva is a representation creator who is normalizing breaking beauty standards in the South Asian community and beyond. In this episode she shares the story behind her diagnosis, how she and her family navigated it, how she finally came to the empowered decision to go bald and what life has been like ever since. 

Questions we cover in this episode also include: 

• What beauty standards exist today?
• What are beauty standards in India?
• How beauty standards affect mental health
• How beauty standards differ across cultures
• How beauty standards affect self-esteem
• Why beauty standards are harmful
• Are beauty standards changing ?

You can connect with Neehar on Instagram: @neeharsachdeva and you can also find her on clubhouse!

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Goli Kalkhoran is lawyer-turned-entrepreneur, which is a fancy way of saying she quit law, tried a bunch of things, and happened upon an idea that she turned into a business. She is the host of the Lessons from a Quitter podcast where she uses her platform to de-stigmatize quitting and provide resources and inspiration to individuals looking to pivot in their established careers. She challenges people to exceed their own expectations and guides them through the initial steps of starting over in order to build a more intentional, fulfilling life.

In this interview we discuss: 

• The benefits of quitting what's no longer for you, including how quitting can aid identity discovery
• How to know when you need an internal mindset shift vs to change your external circumstances
• The biggest limiting belief that causes self sabotage 
• How negativity bias hinders self confidence 
• How sunk cost fallacy may be keeping you stuck 
• Ways to shift from a negative mindset to a healthy mindset

To learn more about Goli's mindset coaching visit her website and follow her on instagram:
Website: www.lessonsfromaquitter.com
Instagram: www.lessonsfromaquitter.com/lessonsfromaquitter

FREE Masterclass: Bridging the Gap: 3 steps to the career you want -  https://www.quitterclub.com/bridging-the-gap-masterclass

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Let's continue the money conversation this week! In this episode we'll discuss: 

• why financial literacy is important in your daily life
• how I began to build confidence around personal finances and how you can, too 
• the money mindsets I grew up with and their impact on my personal finance journey 
• the biggest money LIE or money omission I've come face-to-face with 
• the basics of investing so you can begin building wealth 
• the exact tools I use to manage and grow my money
• exact learning resources I used to develop financial literacy 

*Please note, I may earn a small commission if you set up an account using these referral links . This would be a way to support me and the show with no additional cost to you, thank you!

Mentioned in this episode: 

• *My preferred bank for checking account 
• *Get $5k in your Roth IRA with Wealthfront robo-advising managed for free 
• Ally No-Penalty CD Account
• Bravely Go 
• Save My Cents 

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Today's guest is former business anchor and correspondent for Canada’s Business News Network (BNN) and CNBC Asia, Saijal Patel. She is the Founder and CEO of Saij Elle (www.saijelle.com), a financial consultancy and education platform with a mission to help women create financial independence and security.

In this conversation we talk about: 

• Where the stigma and fear surrounding money come from
• The role media plays in our associations with money 
• Why  the traditional 'budget and spend wisely' financial advice is not enough 
• What it truly takes to build real wealth
• How you can have a healthier relationship with money 
• The difference between the wage gap and the wealth gap

Saijal supports women's financial wellness through her comprehensive programs and content; trainings for financial institutions to better serve the needs of female investors; and helping companies build effective financial wellness & inclusion programs for all employees. 

With more than twenty years’ experience in the financial industry in North America and Asia, she is Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder and has held positions as a financial strategist and analyst.  

Saijal has delivered commentary and analysis on Asian economies, stock markets and corporate news to more than 300 million households around the world. Her coverage earned her recognition as one of the most influential South Asian Women Executives in the Media and Entertainment Industry. 

She also led Manulife’s PR activities across Asia where she was instrumental in building the company’s brand awareness through top tier media placements for executives, strategic PR campaigns and thought leadership.

RESOURCES:
Sign up here for Saijal's FREE Money Masterclass
Websites: saijelle.com
Instagram: @SaijElle
Facebook: Saij Elle

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Are you projecting your insecurities, fears and limiting beliefs onto your loved ones? Are people doing this to you? This week's episode was inspired by the recent interaction between actress/influencer, Tabitha Brown, and talk show host, Wendy Williams. In this solo episode I cover: 

• Who Tabitha Brown and Wendy Williams are and explain the interaction that recently occurred on social media and television between them 
• What projecting your own "stuff" onto others looks and feels like
• How projecting insecurities, fears and limiting beliefs onto others is keeping you stuck in your own life 
• How to stop projecting and how to stop receiving other people's projections onto you

Tune in every other Monday for new episodes!  

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A reminder this May, mental health awareness month, that mental wellness is not linear. Consider this episode your reminder to check in with yourself to actively and consistently cultivate your mental wellbeing.

Also announcing in this episode that we will be shifting to an every other week release schedule. Tune in every other Monday for new episodes!  

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We've talked a lot about the importance of nurturing our relationships with ourselves along our self worth journeys. This week, we're talking about how observing and learning from our relationships with others is equally important for this evolution. 

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