Unapologetically Ourselves

Carletta, Crystal and Julie chat and wrap up this season. 

Listen in as they chat about current events, personal updates and much more. 

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Meet Megan Ezeadi!  She is a leader at a high-growth startup — building their first UX team.  She is also pursuing her Master's in Public Administration, raising a bi-racial daughter, contributing to her husband’s campaign,  and running the family's real-estate business.   Listen in on how she talks about being intentional with her life and how it has helped her meet her personal and professional goals.  

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Meet Viveca, a Registered RN who is a breast cancer survivor. 
She shares her journey from diagnosis to treatment to life as a breast cancer survivor. 

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Meet Bessy!  She is the CEO of the Latina Group which is a group that elevates Latinas through mainstream media, marketing, and community. She is an entrepreneur, community leader, photographer and podcaster.  Bessy is also the founder of the Austin Latina Bloggers, which is a community that supports local Latina women through culture and connections. They are a unified sisterhood of business owners, entrepreneurs, mothers, career doers, and dreamers.  They believe that through community they can all reach their goals.  
She is a Latina mom, veterans wife and a fur mom! 

Jen Buck has been a Professional Speaker for 24 years and focuses on advocating, activating, and amplifying high-performing women. She presents keynotes and trainings around the world, and has an online training academy for women called The HERstory Collaborative. She is a Bestselling Author, has written 5 books, has a podcast, webcast, and TV show which is seen in 50 countries worldwide that focuses on trailblazing women who are changing their corner of the world. 

Carletta, Crystal and Julie are back with Season 3!  Listen in as they recap the break and share what they’ve been up to. They also have a new set of End of Segment questions that lend some very vulnerable responses!  Enjoy!




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Kristin Watkins is a documentary family photographer in Atlanta, GA.  Her goal is to photograph families as they are in their natural habitat and to capture the little snippets of everyday life that makes each family unique. She offers day-in-the-life photo sessions that are completely unposed and unscripted.  Through this experience, she herself has learned valuable lessons about parenting and how that looks different for each family.  She is the parent of four kids, two of whom are Black and one who is non-binary.  She is an avid reader, believes the West Wing was the best TV show ever, and lives for Cadbury Egg season every year.  

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Irene Garza is a Mexican American Woman born in Burley, Idaho. She moved to Yuma, Arizona in 1999. She is a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and an advocate. For over thirty years, she has worked in both the health and early childhood fields, and has volunteered on many local community and state boards and councils. In the years 2008 through 2020, Irene served as Vice Chair on the First Things First Regional Council. From 2009 to 2011, she served on the Western Arizona Council of Governments Head Start Parent Board. Since 2016, she currently serves on the Yuma County Early Childhood Collaborative Leadership Team. Irene has been married to her husband, Jorge, for 23 years. Together they have two amazing teenage boys, Jorge Jr. and Rudy Frez. Irene considers herself a full time mom with many part time responsibilities. In her local community, she is an advocate for parents who have children with special needs. Irene believes that every child deserves the opportunity to live long, happy, healthy lives.


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Meet our guest Sheree Haggan! Sheree is a powerful speaker and activist who specializes in cultural innovation for small-town communities and businesses. She currently works as a Diversity Program Manager for Google. She co-founded the Blog Dear Kind Person and is continuously building content to support people in their journey of allyship.

A lesbian woman of color and diversity expert, she is the anomaly for a rural upbringing. Sheree has the ability to empathize with people at all stages of their journey towards inclusion. 

Coupling personal experience with years of expertise, she is able to relate to and strategically combat systemic bias and oppression. She provides people with the tools they need to broaden their lens of understanding and build businesses where people of all backgrounds can succeed and know that they belong.

For the past decade, Chelsea has worked with individuals, companies, non-profits, and leadership teams offering streamlined strategies to help them achieve their goals. She quickly realized that the strength of organizations directly correlated to the fulfillment of its individuals—individuals who each needed unique attention according to their unique personality type.
 
With a Bachelor’s in Organizational Leadership, an Associate's in Sociology, and her certification as an enneagram coach through the "Your Enneagram Coach" intensive, Chelsea wields an impressive set of skills in deciphering the many factors that  make up an enneagram type. In this deconstruction, she is able to identify both the roadblocks and the bridges of each unique personality and offer concrete, doable solutions to overcoming those obstacles and capitalizing on strengths.