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How do you share your life in an honest, justice-informed and engaging way? That’s the question Eva Fernandes is trying to solve.
This week on the Well Woman Show, I interview Eva Fernandes. She is a Pro-Justice Storytelling Coach from the Global South. She helps entrepreneurs, artists, thinkers, healers and activists share the wisdom of their life experiences without sounding cheesy, clueless or contrived.
She works especially with BIPOC and people from the Global South – who are trying to contextualise their life story within the framework of social justice and feminism.
It’s deep work and clients are usually trying to work on a book, series of essays or audio art with her.
As a former editor, journalist and corporate marketing executive, she uses a combination of deep listening, coaching, gentle nudging, editorial guidance and strategic thinking to get her clients closer to articulating their genius.
Today on the show we discuss:
- How she became a pro-justice storytelling coach.
- The importance of passion for your work
- Slowing down and being intentional in life, business, and online.
You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/262show.
The books she recommended were:
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life by Marion Roach Smith
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
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This week on The Well Woman Show, I talk to Dr. Barbara Koltuska-Haskin. Dr Barbara is a Clinical Neuropsychologist in private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has over thirty years of clinical experience. She also has a research and academic teaching background. In addition to her doctorate in psychology/neuropsychology, she has a Master of Science degree in Clinical Psychology and Bachelor of Education degree (valedictorian). She also completed 450 hours of academic coursework in psychopharmacology sponsored by the Southwestern Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy/New Mexico State University Collaborative.
Dr. Koltuska-Haskin was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland. In 1989, she was awarded the AAUW (American Association of University Women) International Fellowship given to one out of thirty international applicants. She spent her fellowship year at UCLA’s postdoctoral training program in neuropsychology. She later received her US citizenship as an “alien of exceptional abilities” on the basis of her educational, research and clinical achievements. After her fellowship, she worked for many years as a neuropsychologist at the New Mexico State Hospital in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Because she was the only neuropsychologist for the entire San Miguel and Mora Counties area, she was exposed to many types and stages of brain trauma, chronic mental illness, and addiction. It was challenging work, but an extensive and meaningful experience. She continued working for the state of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and was later a clinical director for a local nonprofit organization. Since 2003, she has been working full-time in her private practice, providing comprehensive and compassionate care for her New Mexico patients. She is the author of the book, How My Brain Works: A Guide to Understanding It Better and Keeping It Healthy
She loves New Mexico for its sunshine, beautiful nature, and hospitality of the people. She always feels that she is “New Mexican in her heart.” She loves walking New Mexico’s trails, and the climate of the high desert cultivates her passion for organic gardening
We discuss:
– What Nerophyschology is
– How to keep your brain healthy
– Ways to help anxiety & depression right now.
You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/261show.
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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.
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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/
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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 we’re discussing overwork. Overwork is often accompanied by stress and exhaustion and while there are many explanations for why people overwork, the one that keeps coming up in this community of high achieving professional women is that of proving our value, proving our worth. We wrap our identity up so tightly with our professional achievements that we lost sight of the other parts of our lives that we want to thrive in. The other parts of our lives include our health, relationships and connection to a larger purpose.
So what do women get from chronic overwork? And from the game of constant achievement? Well for a while we get lots of accolades and success. But as we keep the cycle of overwork going, we become depleted. Our bodies, minds and spirits need more to thrive. And that depletion can lead to all kinds of crises. Like health, financial or relationship crises.
In order to stop the cycle of chronic overwork, we must look at the personal – what it is we really need, what overworking provides that we aren’t getting elsewhere. And we must look at the systems in place that keep us in chronic overwork – like demanding bosses and corporate cultural norms.
Using the Well Woman Life® Framework, we can being to understand this cycle, shift how we respond, and shift how we would like to navigate the broader systems we live in.
You can take the quiz to find out where you are in the Well Woman Life® Framework at wellwomanlife.com/quiz
You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/255show.
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 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
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.
On the Well Woman Show today, I interview my own mom for the final part of our Women We Come From series celebrating moms during the month of May.
My mom, Carol Macfie Lange was born in Scotland and now lives between Andalusia, Spain, Oxford, England and New Mexico. She holds a degree in Theatre Arts from Greer Garson Theatre and a post graduate degree in English from Westminster College, Oxford. She is the author of several books, including a historical fiction trilogy about an Alpujarran village in Franco’s Spain. She has two daughters, two step daughters, six grandchildren in Oxfordshire, two in New Mexico, four in Ohio, and one adopted grandson in Spain.
We discuss:
1. How her upbringing impacted her parenting methods.
2. The importance embracing travel and other cultures.
3. The importance of trusting what you’re good at without needing external validation.
All the information shared today can be found at the show notes at wellwomanlife.com/253show
The books she’s reading are:
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
You can find Carol’s books on Amazon.
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.
