Posts by Giovanna Rossi
252 The Women We Come From with Guest Host Alicia Ortega
On the Well Woman Show today, guest host Alicia Ortega interviews her mom, Rebecca Ortega, as part of our Women We Come From series celebrating moms during the month of May.
Alicia Ortega is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Native Women Lead, an organization dedicated to growing, supporting, and advocating for Native Women in positions of leadership through business and entrepreneurship with a goal to revolutionize systems and inspire innovation by investing in Native Women in business. Alicia holds a BBA in Organizational Management and two MBA degrees in Marketing and Management of Technology from the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management. She also brings over a decade of experience working with minority and tribally owned and operated businesses and entities from start-ups to established businesses. As the former Executive Director of the All Pueblo Council of Governors, she has extensive knowledge in working with the 20 Pueblos of New Mexico’s tribal leadership on critical issues affecting tribal communities including health, education, state, and federal legislation, natural resources, elder issues, and youth initiatives. She is a recipient of the 2019 New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award from the New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. Alicia currently serves as a Commissioner on the City of Albuquerque Commission on American Indian and Alaska Native Affairs and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Tribal Nations Advisory Council. She is also an artist and active community member and enjoys volunteering and supporting organizations close to her heart including the American Indian Business Association and the Native Guitars Tour Organization.
She’ll be interviewing her mom, Rebecca Ortega who is from the Pueblos of Santa Clara and Pojoaque. She is a wife to her husband of 44 years, Adan Ortega, and mother to her three children, Adam, Mario, Alicia, and Son-in-law Dennis, and grandchildren Neva and Ezra. Rebecca is a graduate of New Mexico Highlands University Class of 1976 where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work with a minor in Psychology. Working for the All Indian Pueblo Council, she provided career education counseling and workshops to Native American high school students in the 1970s. She also worked as an Academic Advisor at the University of Albuquerque in the 1980s. As a bilingual Tewa woman, she is also very passionate about preserving the Tewa language spoken by the Northern Pueblos of New Mexico and has participated in various efforts through the years that provide Tewa language classes and certifications of Tewa language teachers. She also enjoys working alongside other language preservation organizers including the Tribal Language Consortium through the University of New Mexico.
They discuss:
1 Gaining strength from our ancestors
2 The excitement of having Native Women in positions of power
3 Holding on to our culture and language
All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/252show
Check out Alicia’s previous interview: https://wellwomanlife.com/231show/
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.
251 The Women We Come From with Guest Host Babsy Sinandile
On the Well Woman Show today, guest host Babsy Sinandile interviews her mom, Nkazi Sinandile, as part of our Women We Come From series celebrating moms during the month of May.
Our guest host today is Babsy Sinandile, a Transformation Coach, Speaker, Wellness Event curator, and the founder of Blak Gold Wellness Lounge, a safe online space curated with Black and Brown millennial folx in mind. As a Certified Master Life Coach, Sinandile focuses on identifying and reversing mindset blocks that stem from years of generational trauma, through her signature Undoing Method (TM). As a self-proclaimed self-care strategist with a background in community health, she helps her people take excellent care of mind, body, and soul through group and 1:1 coaching, educational and healing workshops, as well as inspirational social media content. She is a mother of two amazing girls, loves Salsa dancing and karaoke, and indulges in an expensive hobby as a recording singer/songwriter.
She’s be interviewing her mom, Nkazi Sinandile, who is a Registered Nurse as well as Founder of New Mexico Women’s Global Pathways/Co-Founder of Immigrant and Refugee Resource Village of Albuquerque
They discuss:
1 The concept of ubuntu
2 The importance of seeking community as an immigrant, and not being isolated.
3 and Not giving up as a wife and mother in the face of adversity
All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/251show
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.
250 The Women We Come From – a Celebration of Moms with Special Guest Hosts
Welcome to The Women We Come From: a special series for and about our moms and leadership during the month of May on the Well Woman Show. I’m your host Giovanna Rossi, and I’ll be joined all month long by guest hosts interviewing their mothers about life, love, leadership and the wisdom they passed on to their daughters. The stories they share will make you laugh and cry, but most of all they help us honor the hard work of being a woman, a mom and a leader. All the best and most effective leadership skills – really everything we need to grow into compassionate, driven, smart leaders- are passed down to us through these generations of strong women.
Today’s program will feature clips from all four hosts and full interviews can be heard on the Well Woman Show podcast at NPR.org during the month of May
You can find all the details at wellwomanlife.com/250show
You can hear Celestina’s full episode at wellwomanlife.com/249show
Then next week we’ll be featuring Babsy Sinandile’s full interview, and on May 26th, we’ll have Alicia Ortega’s interview. We end the series with my interview with my mom on June 2nd.
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.
249 The Women We Come From with Guest Host Celestina Garcia
This week on the Well Woman Show, we are starting our special series called The Women We Come From. During the month of May, we will feature a series of women who have been on the show before as guest hosts interviewing their own mothers.
Our guest host today is Celestina Garcia, a mother, facilitator, educator, Ontological coach and entrepreneur. She is a native New Mexican with a passion for envisioning and collaborating with others to build the legacy of achievement in communities. A graduate of the University of New Mexico and Claremont Graduate University, Celestina brings years of leadership learning, global travel experiences and classroom teaching experience to partnerships of success building. As a serial entrepreneur, Celestina created her private coaching company, Coaching Solutions, where she has spent over 500 hrs coaching executives, small business owners and community members to align their work to their purpose.
She’s be interviewing her mom, Gloria Garcia, a strong, determined visionary. Gloria is the eighth child of twelve to Fidel and Celestina Sisneros from Dahlia, New Mexico. Gloria’s life experiences helped navigate and guide her to a career in home health care. She earned her Paralegal Associates Degree from Central New Mexico Community College and retired from the State of New Mexico. Currently she supports families to protect their financial future as a Life Insurance Agent and spends as much time as possible with her husband of forty-seven years, children, and two grandsons.
They discuss:
1 Continuing their heritage and culture
2 Power, financial security and motherhood
3 The role of grit and strength in achieving your goals
All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/249show
Celestina’s previous interview: https://wellwomanlife.com/197show/
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.
248 Just Giovanna: Goal Setting the Well Woman Way
On the Well Woman Show this week, we are talking about Part 2 of how to use your story to help you claim your power, and goal set the Well Woman Way.
You can grab the free workbook HERE.
All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/248show.
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.
