Women Making Moves

Melissa Skweres shares that she took a flying leap - and her pathway will be unlike any others, and that is exactly how it should be! Founder and CEO of Cruxology, a marketing services business allows Melissa to continue supporting voices in healthcare, but also pursue new passions that are yet to be excavated. She gives herself space.

Amy and Melissa, both entrepreneurs, shared their experiences and challenges in running their respective businesses, emphasizing the importance of self-belief, flexibility, and community support. They discussed their personal journeys of redefining success, focusing on health and balance, and the importance of self-reflection in career choices. They also explored the importance of diversifying income sources, adapting to real-time needs, and prioritizing women's health, while expressing gratitude for each other's support and looking forward to their future paths.

Find Melissa on LinkedIn, Cruxology, or Etsy to learn more about marketing in healthcare, marketing strategy support, and some sassy swag.

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Trigger warning - mention and storytelling of sexual assault and workplace abuse.

Rowena Chiu is a survivor, an activist, and a newly elected public official. She is former assistant of Harvey Weinstein and shares the 20+ year journey of silence to advocacy. She had stood ironclad in her NDA, silenced, but not benefitting from hush money in any way from 1998 to 2019, never revealing her name...until an empowered, powerful, incredible group of women helped her to say Rowena Chiu, #MeToo.

Amy and Rowena discussed their concerns about the future of women in America, particularly in light of recent political events, and the societal pressure on women to minimize their voices and experiences. They also shared personal experiences of sexual assault and harassment, emphasizing the importance of honest language and the need for societal reform to achieve true equity for women. The conversation also touched on the #MeToo movement, the importance of empowering the next generation, and the need for women to protect each other in the face of toxic behavior.

Find Rowena Chiu on every social platform, she will always want to hear your voice - your story.

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Trigger warning - this episode includes conversation around pregnancy loss, workplace trauma, and assault.

Heliana Ramirez, PhD, LISW is an expert in workplace trauma specializing in racism and LGBTQ vehemently advocating toward all humans having the ability to feel into the full expression of themselves in all spaces they wish to enter.

In this episode, Heliana shares an extremely unique and groundbreaking study that she's been working on - workplace trauma to a fetus while in utero. Having her own child that was impacted by workplace abuse while in utero, she is now researching more cases in which workplace abuse leads to miscarriage, stillbirth, or longterm impacts to the child.

Reaching into our indigenous spirits, we are healing and leading on behalf of our lineage - feeling the fuel from our ancestors to truly create the world we wish to be a part of.

Find Heliana on LinkedIn, her website - and find out how to join her group coaching for workplace trauma. Also, find her free resources here.

Thank you for tuning into Women Making Moves, please be sure to follow and rate on your favorite platform, and follow along on Bluesky. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic®, LinkedIn, and Bluesky.

Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Rachell is a registered nurse and pairing her expertise in palliative care with the pregnancy journey. Assuming that every pregnancy results in a delivery can be a rare outcome, especially for women of color.

This episode includes trauma and loss during the pregnancy journey.

For Rachell, her pregnancy journey began in 2018 and she didn't end up in the delivery room until 2022. Rachell lost 9 babies along her pregnancy journey and she is leveraging her lived experience to share the lifesaving pivot that is needed within maternal health and care. Rachell started ' A Light After Nine" to honor her 9 babies, and to offer hope, wellness, and overall wellbeing for women in their pregnancy journey.

Palliative maternal care would include a step by step handholding experience with mom, but also the entire care team, and support system to ensure that there is not only extensive knowledge sharing but also creating the trust within her own body to advocate and have the confidence to speak up if something isn't right.

Rachell provides services free of charge because she doesn't want one more life sacrificed through what we don't know or don't have the access to the services. Visit A Light After Nine and set up time with Rachelle, and follow her on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok.

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Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Heads up - mentions of psychological abuse, domestic violence, and suicidal reference

This episode is in memoriam of Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey.

Andrea Morehead-Allen was (and still is) a star. a 7x emmy nominated journalist, expert news anchor, and overall humanitarian AND she knows what it feels like not to want to be "here" anymore.

Andrea experienced workplace psychological abuse, and we spend this episode sharing our stories, our feelings, and our continuing healing once we understand that nothing in the material world is worth our life. From learning "what is" abuse in the workplace, what does it look like, to our "one last straw" that helped us to say "I'm done".

You are not alone. This is not only happening to you, and the moment you become aware...begin to plan your exit from the people, places, and things that are causing you harm. You can.

Find Andrea on LinkedIn and YouTube, reach out for support or to simply share your story. You deserve to be heard.

Thank you for tuning into Women Making Moves, please be sure to rate and follow on your favorite platform and follow on Bluesky. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic®, and give a follow on LinkedIn and Bluesky.

Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

In this fireball episode of Women Making Moves, two ascended goddesses talk about their transformation from copy/paste corporate powerhouses to women about the world guiding other women to not only trust, but to follow their own light.

LA is a force of nature, takes one to know one and I'm so fortunate to be in her orbit. LA is a coach, a guide, a humanitarian, guiding women and humanity toward their best selves. The world may be afraid of strong, fierce, powerful women, but also, when we are allowed to feel into that true essence of self, the magic of humanity is set ablaze - we have space.

Join one of LA's infamous retreats, or shoot her a DM, simply start the conversation with her and you'll feel a shift within you instantaneously because she knows how to reach in and "get" what you're trying to find.

Follow "Unlocking Her" and The Glassford Group on LinkedIn and Instagram to join LA's world - it's exquisite.

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Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

What must it feel like and take of a young woman to be a medical school candidate when you see the intersectional complexities in healthcare, particularly for women - ALL women.

Hiba Siddiqui, a South Asian woman advocating for not only her community, but for all. She has recently graduated with a Health Science degree, but also Medical Spanish Interpretation. Hiba is pioneering the intersection between medicine and a growing Latino community within the U.S.

Focusing her research toward women and cardiovascular representation (we largely only know how cardiovascular events impact a man's physiology), Hiba is also focused on the intersection between not only biological composition, but also that of cultural and ethnicity in translational cancer research, particular in breast, bladder, and prostate.

Find Hiba on Instagram and LinkedIn to engage her in any conversation around the intersection of medicine and cultural, ethnic composition.

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Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Raslyn Wooten has been on the receiving end of some of the most horrifying workplace discrimination experiences you'll ever hear...and being in PR, her work publicly spoke for itself. She fought a discrimination case in federal court and won over a million dollars because of her ability to document and organize her case.

Through her own court case, she began what started as a blog, writing about her experience with workplace discrimination that then became a career lifestyle magazine for black women called Notable. She interviews women 4 times every year to hear their story of discrimination because reporters and journalists had been claiming that they couldn't find any black women to talk about it.

Through this work, she further created JobMinder365, an app that is a journal for you to document all details about your job - the good, the bad, and the ugly - along with your employee handbook so that you have everything in one place when you're ready to pursue action.

Check out Notable and follow along on Instagram, download JobMinder365 on IOS and Android and follow along for key updates on Instagram. Lastly find Raslyn, Notable, and JobMinder365 on LinkedIn.

Thank you for tuning into Women Making Moves! Be sure to follow and rate the show on your favorite platform, and follow along on Bluesky. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic®, and follow along on LinkedIn and Bluesky.

Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Carolyn Lewis spent much of her early professional years out on the open waters in maritime and anti-piracy operations. This is where she was met abruptly with the lack of knowledge around women's health, as she was the first one to have her period on a ship! There were no provisions, so she set out on her own to educate and support male dominated industries to support women appropriately as it relates to perimenopause and menopause.

We cover a range of topics including a breakdown of the 30+ symptoms of perimenopause, the stages of the process - again on average, because it will impact each unique individual differently. Carolyn's main goal? To meet each and every person uniquely where they are, no matter where in the awareness, acknowledgement, or understanding - she has room for you, without judgement.

Find Carolyn on LinkedIn and visit her website for more information - she's always open to a conversation.

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Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

We are all familiar with identity theft which is someone posing as us to gain access to accounts, products, services, etc but have you heard of data theft? Danielle Spencer has...

She learned that upon becoming a whistleblower for the US government, she became a target of data theft in which the actual vetting process to become an employee, was used in retaliation.

She is now educating others that rather than turn away in fear, step forward in knowledge. She, along with many are educating individuals and the general public about what to know and to be aware of our rights to data privacy.

Danielle is an author, an advocate, and an IT expert, visit her at https://daniellespencer.org and buy her books - Digital Assassins, Digital Assassins II, and Protecting Yourself.

Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please follow and rate on your favorite podcast platform and give a follow on Bluesky. Visit Amy and Unlock the Magic® and follow on LinkedIn and Bluesky.

Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.