With Roots

This week I sit down with best-selling author, business owner, educator, and leadership coach AliceAnne Loftus. AliceAnne generously shares her story of resilience, teaching us a powerful lesson on taking responsibility for one’s own life through the good and the bad. In her second story, AliceAnne shifts her exploration to love, particularly how understanding love languages empowers how we give and receive love to those we are in relationship with.

Get your copy of AliceAnne's book, Take the Lead

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 5 Love Languages Website

https://5lovelanguages.com/

This week, I sit down with masterful storyteller, educator, and researcher, Charlotte Achieng-Evensen. Charlotte transports us her very personal “Coming to America” story, where she explores the theme of loss– loss of the familiar, aspects of identity, and even a sense of freedom. Her second story explores her journey through grieving and the ways that she moved through that grief to peace and joy–a story of resilience.

Here are the links to Dr. Charlotte Achieng-Evensen's published works:

Books by Dr. Charlotte Achieng-Evensen  

Young, Urban, Professional, and Kenyan?: Conversations Surrounding Tribal Identity and Nationhood by Dr. Charlotte Achieng-Evensen
 

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This week I sat down with Anabel Munoz, the wonderfully talented TV news journalist at ABC 7 Los Angeles. In her stories, Anabel explores the ideas of giving herself permission to change and to not have everything figured out. A story that begins with hair uncovers the symbolic shift to explore the tensions of who we are expected to be, versus who we allow ourselves to be as we experiment and grow. In another story, Anabel explores the topic of grieving past versions of herself as she has matured into who she is today, embracing who she will be tomorrow in this process of loss and becoming. 

This week I sat down with Sabian Zein, an amazingly successful entrepreneur with a heart of gold, who happens to be my former student and now a close family friend. Sabian explores themes of taking action and responsibility for creating his fullest life and becoming the person he wants to be. He gives valuable insight into how he elevated 3 areas of his life: mindset, body, and finances. In another story, Sabian surfaces the theme of giving himself radical permission, to not only claim his Palestinian identity but, in his words, to shout it from the rooftops in celebration.