Posts by Giovanna Rossi

This week on The Well Woman Show, I talk to Tina Wells, business strategist, advisor, author, and the founder of RLVNT Media, a multimedia content venture serving entrepreneurs, tweens, and culturists.

Tina has been recognized by Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business and Essence’s 40 Under 40. For over two decades she led Buzz Marketing Group, an agency she founded at age 16 with clients like Dell, The Oprah Winfrey Network, and Apple.

Tina is also the author of seven books, including the best-selling tween fiction series Mackenzie Blue, its 2020 spinoff series, The Zee Files, and the marketing handbook, Chasing Youth Culture and Getting It Right. Tina’s board positions have included THINX, the United Nations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council, The Franklin Institute, and Young Entrepreneur’s Council. She has also served as the Academic Director for Wharton’s Leadership in the Business World Program at the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

We discuss:

Why are tween girls so important?

Why is it so hard for young girls of color to find representation in media?

How do parents find books for their children with interesting storylines, that are age-appropriate?

The books she is reading are:

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin

You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/260show.

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy.

This week on The Well Woman Show, I interview Precious Brady-Davis. She is an award-winning diversity advocate, communications professional, and public speaker. She served for three years as the assistant director of diversity recruitment initiatives at Columbia College Chicago, her alma mater, implementing the campus-wide diversity initiative and providing leadership and oversight of national diversity recruitment and inclusion policies. Precious is married to Myles Brady and lives in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago, where they are raising their daughter. On the show, Precious shares her profound journey as a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid in foster care to becoming a fully actualized trans woman.

We discuss:

• The struggles of growing up in foster care,
• The importance of advocating for yourself in the workplace,
• and Precious Brady-Davis’s struggles of being a fully actualized trans woman.

The book Precious recommended was My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers

You can find the episode on overwork that Giovanna mentions at wellwomanlife.com/255show/

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/community

You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/258show.

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy.

This week on The Well Woman Show, we dive into the topic of identity and create awareness around the identities we’ve been assigned, and explore how to align our behavior with our true identity.

We discuss aligning behaviors and habits with who you want to be.

Taking actions that match who you want to be.

Identity Inventory Activity:

What are the identities I was assigned?

What are the identities I want?

What are the behaviors or habits that I have?

Take some time to journal on the above questions, and join us to discuss it in the Well Woman Community Group.

All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/257show

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/community

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy.

This week on the Well Woman Show, I talk to Ruby Warrington, author of Sober Curious, which asks people to reevaluate their relationship to alcohol. Other works include Material Girl, Mystical World (2017) and most recently The Sober Curious Reset (Dec 2020). Ruby has over 20 years of experience as a lifestyle journalist and editor, is the founder of self-publishing imprint Numinous Books, and is a leader in the “Now Age” wellness space.

We discuss:

• What it means to be sober-curious
• What the benefits are of quitting drinking
• How to feel more confident in your sober life

You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/256show.

The book Ruby is reading is Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) by Douglas Stuart

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy.

This week on the Well Woman Show, I talk to Kristin Neff, PhD, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion almost twenty years ago. She is the author of the book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive.

We discuss:

What is self-compassion?

Why is it so hard to turn our compassion inward?

and

How do we find balance in our gender roles through self-compassion?

You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/254show.

Grab her books:

Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff

Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive by Kristin Neff

You can also continue the conversation in the Well Woman Life community group at wellwomanlife.com/community

The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy.