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During our conversation, we speak about experience leadership as an action verb, how to cultivate professional mentorship and how to continue growing while leading others. 

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Dr. Jasmin Collazo serves as a Director of Coaching at MindRight Health, a tech start-up that focuses on providing culturally responsive mental health support to youth via text message. Community and service are at the heart of what Dr. Collazo does, and she continues to bring these two values into her work both personally and professionally by also investing in the next generation of social workers as an adjunct professor and field advisor at New York University. Dr. Collazo also has a particular passion for working with adolescents and young adults and works primarily with this population as a clinician and owner of her New Jersey part-time private practice.

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Bonnie and I discuss themes surrounding ways that our youth can impact change, her work with youth in schools over the years and the change that she and her students were able to affect right here in the Bronx!  

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Bonnie Massey is a Bronx social worker, youth developer, educator, and restorative justice practitioner, who has been working with young people in NYC school settings for 20 years. Bonnie is passionate about building therapeutic, educational, and community experiences that drive personal, social, and political change.

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Fawn and I circle back to the religious implications impact on aspects of our lives, deconstructing the themes between religion and faith as well as what it looks like to take what we need from these experiences.

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Since 2008 Fawn Gilmore Kraut has guided smart successful women who once struggled to find and maintain healthy relationships to magnetize and win the heart of the partner who is right for them. With her compassionate listening, intuitive insights, deep curiosity, and relationship wisdom learned from a lifetime of experience and study, Fawn has helped hundreds of women first find their own true selves and then find true love, and healing, while transforming all their other relationships along the way.

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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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