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Maria Isabel Davila born in Bayamon Puerto Rico in 1977, has been through many challenges in her life. At age 11 her parents divorced and moved to the state of Connecticut. As we all know, Hispanics tend to relay all the responsibility to the oldest. Maria Isabel had 2 younger siblings and she had to raise them. She worked thru the summers as a Camp Counselor at Latino Youth Development and as years passed, she worked in many jobs to help her mother financially.

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"Stop being scared. There's nothing worse than being scared. Change your mindset"

Mary began her career as a socially awkward computer programmer who hid behind her desk because she was too self-conscious.  Mary Cheyne with her Toastmaster Contest TrophiesBut today, as a World Champion of Public Speaking and first runner-up, out of 25,000 contestants from 14 countries, she is proof that transformation is possible.  How did she get there?   By understanding that becoming GREAT at public speaking isn’t just about the techniques of how to be a good speaker, rather it starts with discovering how to trust yourself first. Especially how to embrace the yin and yang of your feminine and masculine energy that allows you to show up powerfully in your communication and presentation, even in situations that would typically feel intimidating.  Guided by this zen philosophy, Mary created processes to help women communicate in a way where they feel seen, heard, valued, and respected by those they are speaking with.  

Two fun facts about Mary are: She holds a karate black belt rank and plays the ukulele.

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Key Takeaway:

"The goal is to see hearts, a sincere heart of service that is particularly interested in seeing more women in positions of leadership. Just picture what the world would be like if it were run by heart-centered women who genuinely care and support one another."

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Magnetic Podium 

Leonela Gonzalez-Fogarty is Venezuelan-American with a Bostonian heart. She is the founder of English 4 Life Network. She is an English and lifestyle coach. She works with Hispanic Women Professionals and entrepreneurs who want to speak English with confidence to connect with the culture and maximize their possibilities.  She is passionate about teaching and immersing conversational English in multicultural contexts, personal and professional with more than 23 years of experience.  She is a lifelong learner who is continuously learning and innovating to better guide her students to explore and develop their human potential. She is a CHO, a specialist in transforming a Challenge into an Opportunity.

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Key Takeaway

"It's never too late to start over or learn something new."

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English4Life Network

Kat is the founder of A Women's Intentions. This initiative will help you realize that finding beauty beyond the chaos is a journey. It is a process of allowing you to lead your life with INTENTION and to find your voice. Becoming your own person and breaking away from the cycle of conformity is a challenging yet rewarding journey. The best part is that with the community she's building you are not in this alone. Always remember, the beginning starts where the end stops.

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Key Takeaway:

"Life has its own beauty. A lot of the things in my life that have hurt me forced me to tap into my strength. I always tell people, you know, that you can't pray or ask for strength and think your life will be easy; You will have opportunities in life; therefore, choose to be strong, choose to act in the right way, and choose to be true to who you are."

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A Women's Intentions

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Eudora is the owner of Women Are SuperHeroes and she shares with us her amazing uplifting and invigorating story that involves an absolute tragedy that almost cost her life. Now she can use that experience to empower other women around her to reach their potential. 

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Key Takeaway:

"It would not be a world without a woman"

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Women R Superheroes

Vonda’s demonstrable leadership and management consultant experience as a strategic organizational change management (OCM) thought leader, practitioner, trainer, program manager, and executive coach. Her work has spanned the globe for dozens of high-impact technology initiatives for top corporations. Among many, Vonda’s credentials include Certified Change Management Professional, CCMP®,  Prosci® Change Management Practitioner, and Certified Myers-Briggs® Practitioner designations. Vonda earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications at Temple University and her Master of Arts degree in Professional Communication from La Salle University - both in her native city of Philadelphia, PA.

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Key Takeaways:

"Women of color should not falter and continue becoming the light that we once saw to inspire us to become who we are today."

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Vonda Page

Josie is the Co-Founder at Advancio, WeCanCode, and Ketzal Marketing.... and the mother of four children. She is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned high-tech professional with over 15 years of consistently increased responsibility in leading complex business units and building new revenue streams. Leadership experience across business operations, marketing, business development, and channel sales roles in the SaaS, Enterprise Software, and Hardware industries. Proven success in setting strategy and scaling large functions. Expertise in international business, sales engagement modeling, operations, go-to-market planning, and alliance/channel building. Specialties: Go-To-Market Strategies, Entrepreneurism, Technology Solutions, SaaS, collaboration, cloud, media, networking, storage, enterprise applications, channel, partner marketing, alliance management, technology alliance, product marketing, solutions marketing, business development, executive.

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Key Takeaway:

"Women have the inner strength and capacity to demonstrate that they can be whatever they want to be and achieve whatever goals they set for themselves. Use your inner strength to flourish in the field you want to dominate."

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Advancio

Anam's mission is to help women with their everyday life as we live in a fast pace world,  where everything is basically on the go! We women often neglect ourselves.  Microblading is just a little change that happened in her life along with navigating divorce, single motherhood, and dealing with cultural shock and family rejection. 

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Key Takeaways: 

"All I can really say is never give up,  no matter what! Anything negative that people tell you, don't listen to them. Just do what you need to do, and that's it! Take it day by day, one step at a time and you'll see the results - it takes time."

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Brow Queen Specialist

Meredith is the CEO and Chief Visionary of InsureGood, which she started to help deserving entrepreneurs build impactful businesses, improve local communities and provide equal access to business ownership for women and minorities.

Before InsureGood, Meredith ran a mid-sized insurance agency, provided strategic consulting services to 100’s independent agencies across the country, and worked with insurance carriers in a variety of leadership roles. She holds an Accredited Advisor in Insurance designation and has advanced risk management training.  Prior to hopping into insurance, she worked for several startup and mid-sized technology and marketing firms.

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Key Takeaways:

"I believe we don't always realize the extent of our influence."

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InsureGood

Cat recently left the Insurance Industry due to different reasons, primarily her mental health being affected due to the judgment and inability to showcase her true self and having to hide her personal life beliefs. In this episode, she gives it to us raw. This episode is rated RRR so please brace yourselves to hear her story behind embracing sex, polyamorous relationships, and now opening her own practice as a sexologist! 

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Key Takeaway:

"I've seen how those kinds of environments with respect and consent and communication are so paramount. I've seen how sex play can help people recover from sexual trauma, allowing people to take control of their bodies. I've seen how people have recovered from body image issues because of allowing themselves to get into a place where there's no shame around sex. And also when within exploring that, just the communication that it has opened up and being in an open community where you can say anything and there's not going to be any shame"

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