Posts by Giovanna Rossi
299 Release Stress and Elevate Your Mood with Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
Hello Well Women; Happy November. On Show this week, I interview Anastacia Marx de Salcedo. She is a nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Salon, Slate, Vice, and on PBS and NPR blogs. She has worked as a public health consultant, news magazine publisher, and public policy researcher. She is the author of Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat, also published in Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese, and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
We discuss:
The idea that physical activity is more important than diet for health
The important message that you CAN be healthy at any size as long as you get enough exercise, despite what the marketing and media might say.
And
that every day scientists are discovering new cellular and molecular impacts of physical activity, including that it elevates mood, relieves stress, and has a powerful anti-inflammatory effect. We’re all learning together.
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298 How to Make and Keep Friends with Dr. Marisa G. Franco
This week, I interview Dr. Marisa G Franco. She’s an enlightening psychologist and national speaker, Dr. Franco is known for digesting and communicating science in ways that resonate deeply enough with people to change their lives. She works as a professor at The University of Maryland, and she’s the author of the NY Times best-selling book Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends. She writes about friendship for Psychology Today and has been a featured connection expert for major publications like The New York Times, The Telegraph, and Vice. She speaks on belonging at corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and universities across the country.
We discuss:
- Why friendships don’t just happen organically
- Beating your personal fear of rejection.
- Why belonging is at the root of a real friendship.
But first, I want to tell you about an upcoming women’s summit I’ll be co-hosting. It’s the Fall Women’s Summit on Oct 27, 2022, from 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM in Albuquerque
Event link
https://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/event/167871/2022/2022-fall-womens-summit
First, we will hear a keynote address from Jen Paul Schroer, Cabinet Secretary for the NM Department of Tourism.
Then I will share the Well Woman Life® Framework – a combined strategic and “heart centered” approach to leadership. Aspiring women leaders as well as seasoned pros can use this to identify their challenges and discover tools to overcome them.
We will host roundtable discussions that relate directly to the Well Women Life® Framework immediately following where you’ll learn new skills/tools and connect with other businesswomen.
PROGRAM
8:00-8:30a Registration and Networking
8:30a Welcome
8:35-8:55a Keynote: Jen Paul Schroer, Cabinet Secretary for NM Department of Tourism
9:00-9:20a Well Woman Life® Framework with Giovanna Rossi
9:30a-11:30p Roundtable Discussions
You can find out which stage you’re in and get free tools to help you at wellwomanlife.com/quiz
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The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.
297 Discover Your Leadership by Listening Deeply with Nina Simons
Hello Well Woman, on Show this week, I interview NINA SIMONS is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.
She co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—released as a second edition in 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices. The first edition won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice. Both books are being used to inspire and ignite learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.
Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth, and in 2017, received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel, for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired innovations for restoring the Earth and our human community.” Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.
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The book she recommended was Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown by Deborah Eden Tull
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296 Reclaiming Abortion as Healthcare With Joan LaMunyon Sanford
On the show this week I interview Joan Lamunyon Sanford. She is the executive director of the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the local connection to a national community of religious organizations and faithful individuals dedicated to achieving reproductive justice through education, organizing and advocacy.
NM RCRC seeks to elevate religious voices wherever faith, policy and our reproductive lives intersect. Joan is currently working with clergy and faith leaders across the state to shift the conversation about abortion toward compassionate support of women’s access to a full range of reproductive health services including abortion.
Joan graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in education and worked as a teacher for 15 years prior to her work with NM RCRC. She lives in Albuquerque, NM with her partner of 25 years. She is the parent of two grown children and enjoys spending time with her grandchildren. She has won several awards at the local GLSEN queer bake-off fundraiser.
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Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.
295: The Problem with Fake Pregnancy Clinics with Terrelene Massey
Welcome back to the well Woman show, I’m your host Giovanna Rossi. on this week’s show I talk to Terrelene Massey, the Executive Director for the Southwest Women’s Law Center in Albuquerque. Terrelene holds a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law, and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation, from Pinon, AZ and has been living in NM since 2003.
Terrelene also previously served as the Executive Director of the Navajo Nation Division of Social Services. Terrelene practiced law as an attorney with Johnson Barnhouse & Keegan, LLP, and the New Mexico Legal Aid, Inc. She also worked for the NM Human Services Department and the NM Indian
Website – www.100womenabq.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100WomenAlbuquerque
Crisis Pregnancy Centers report
https://alliancestateadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/Alliance_CPC_Report_FINAL2-1-22.pdf
You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/295show.
The Well Woman Show is thankful for the support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices and practical support to live your Well Woman Life.
