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Paula is solo on this episode to talk about Mental Health Awareness Month. She goes over somethings you can do to support your own mental health and reasons why it can feel challenging to address it. 

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Our conversation examines themes in moving from the “9-5” workspace, developing an exit strategy and entrepreneurship pre-pandemic and beyond. 

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Sacha Walton is a Business Strategist and CEO of SWI Management Group. She passionately empowers entrepreneurs, especially women, and creatives, in building sustainable businesses. Her strategic process in planning, marketing, and branding drives results for increased visibility, productivity, and profitability while managing mental wellness. As the author of The Ugly Truth About Entrepreneurship: Keys to Managing Mental Wellness; Sacha is a prominent voice who's disrupting the narrative on holistic entrepreneurship and mental health. She has been featured in Authority Magazine, Forbes, Associated Press, Amazon Live, and Women RISE in Paris France. Sacha inspires her global audience with topics that transform.

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We engage in a very candid discussion of Kristen’s personal experiences surrounding self-harm and recovery as well as where this journey continues.

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Kristin Light is a marketing strategist, vintage dance specialist, and award-winning speaker. Her multi-decade eclectic career spans both the boardroom and the ballroom. Co-founder of Refvik & Light Productions, her boldly simplistic marketing strategy launched the event company from literal rubble to multi-six-figure revenue in its first full year. However, as a vivacious showgirl and successful entrepreneur, Kristin was perhaps the last person you’d expect to be suffering from a diagnosed mental illness. Following a brush with suicide that left her confined to a psychiatric ward, Kristin now speaks out to provide real insight and practical strategies that demystify the facts surrounding mood disorders and mental illness using inspirational (and often hilarious) stories from her own personal and professional life.

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This candid conversation dives into the experiences of living in an intergenerational home, how those choices are made, and the many benefits often not seen in our society.

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Staci Taustine is a passionate facilitator, thought partner, and coach with more than 10 years of experience training educators, policymakers, and organizational leaders across the public and private sectors. As the CEO/Founder of Stubborn Heart Consulting, Staci brings a people-first approach to workplaces through customized programming, experiential workshops, and coaching. She leverages leadership development tools, dialogue, and little experiments to help teams work more productively, collaboratively, and sustainably across lines of difference.

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We converse about diet culture, intuitive eating, and how society has played a role in our relationship with food, our bodies, and how we engage with others.   

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Deanna is an Intuitive Eating Health Coach that helps women stop the diet cycle so they can stress less with food and form healthy habits with ease that are not tied to diet culture. She lives in the city of Chicago with her husband and daughter. She enjoys walking along the lake and hanging out at coffee shops.

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We talk about Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)     landscape, what it is like doing this work with a diverse set of populations and organizations

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Greta A. Lax, M.S., is a coach, consultant, and facilitator focusing on supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through intercultural development. 

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Laudy Burgos, LCSW-R is a bilingual English/Spanish licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience in the area of perinatal mood disorders; and family and children’s services.  As an Associate Director at Mount Sinai Hospital in the Department of Social Work Services she supervises the OB/GYN and NICU social workers; leads the Social Work Ani-Racism Initiative, and manages the Northeast Regional Alliance (NERA) Behavioral Health-Social Work Fellowship program.  She has also served as a consultant at various child welfare agencies. Laudy has also taught in the BSW program at NYU and the MSW program at Columbia University. In addition, she has presented at various professional conferences and has several publications.

We explore the spectrum of perinatal care with respect to access, support, and mental health as well as the implications of the media and culture.

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• the term postpartum
• overview of Perinatal Mood Disorders
• media portrayal vs reality of life with a newborn
• the importance of support and community 
• pregnancy losses and our cultures

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We do a deep dive into Kenton's experiences surrounding community, loss, impact, and the profession to which we both have dedicated our lives.

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Kenton is an NYC-based social worker, consultant, and restorative justice practitioner. During his 20-year career, Kenton has worked in a number of settings with individuals and families impacted by various oppressive systems. Kenton does this work because he feels it's important to pay it forward

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Justin is a licensed clinical social worker, content creator, and therapist for neurodivergent people, specifically for ADHD. Justin also coaches fellow therapists on how to grow on social media and gain client leads by being their authentic selves.  |
We converse about what authenticity looks like within various spaces that the social work profession touches

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- Bouncing back from getting fired
- Tapping into your skillset, ADHD, and using your voice
- Being put into challenging situations that push on ethics
- Identifying your niche naturally and how to do it
- The ways some therapists are not authentic to themselves


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HAPPY SOCIAL WORK MONTH! This entire month we are speaking with social workers (surprise, surprise lol)  On this episode, we explore Jessica's journey from first-gen graduate to group practice owner and everything in between.


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Jessica Hardial is a bilingual clinical social worker, speaker, entrepreneur, professor, leader, and co-author of Latinx in Social Work. Jessica is the founder and clinical director of Blossoming Lotus Therapy, LCSW PLLC, where she oversees a team of mental health professionals who work with children, adolescents, young adults, and families. Jessica is passionate about working with LGBTQIA+ community members and their families, the foster care and adoption population, and children of immigrants. Jessica specializes in issues surrounding trauma, anxiety, and family conflict using a somatic-oriented approach. Jessica continues to enhance the social work profession by providing supervision to graduate and post-graduate students to improve their clinical skills in their field of practice, as well as providing workshops on various mental health topics, such as confidence building and narrative writing, LGBTQIA+ seminars, etc.

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