WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk
By Elaine Lou Cartas
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Struggling with what to do next? Need honest realtalk cause you're tired of the curated highlight reels on the socials? And want strategies to get out of your own way?
Your host, Elaine Lou Cartas, a first-generation Filipino immigrant, is an award-winning Business and Executive Career Coach for women of color and allies. Elaine is like you - she’s been fired, quit jobs, changed careers three times, and been in debt. Elaine’s success story? She’s always done what’s true to herself and wants you to know it’s possible too. She’s a former grassroots organizer and nonprofit fundraiser who raised $11 million.
LA Weekly awarded Elaine as the #1 Thought Leader in 2023, and MSN recognized her as the Best Leadership & Executive Coach in 2024. Elaine has online courses with LinkedIn, Duke, Brown, Penn and USC.
On the WOC and Allies: Business and Career Realtalk™ Podcast (formerly known as the Color Your Dreams podcast), Elaine reminds you that your definition of happiness in work and life can evolve. Elaine's podcast guests include team members, clients, friends, and even family members who discuss real challenges and how they honored their own voices. As a business owner and career leader, this podcast is here to help you overcome overwhelm, while protecting your peace. So bring your coffee, tea, or boba for some realtalk every other Thursday! @elainelou_ // www.elainelou.com
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116: How to Work Right Now as a Woman of Color Leader Without Betraying Yourself
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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115: My Mid-Year 2025 Check-In: What’s working, what’s not & my predictions
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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114: My 1st Place Pitch Replay from SCMSDC + How I Hit My 2024 Revenue by May
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May 22, 2025 |
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113: Networking Over Followers: My Strategy for Landing Speaking Gigs and Clients
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May 08, 2025 |
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112: How to Lead Boomers, Gen Z, and Everyone In Between with Jackie Dacanay (replay from HR Retail)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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111: How to Effectively Communicate with Different Personality Styles: Why It Takes Practice and How AI Can Help (replay from Warner Center - West Valley Chamber of Commerce)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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110: How EMDR Therapy HEALED Me (& why you might need it too) with Jennifer Oh, LCSW
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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109: How to Lead Teams in Chaos and Change with Chéla Gage
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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108: Career Moves in Uncertain Times: Should You Stay, Quit or Pivot?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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107: Personal Branding Replay from Soho Works
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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106: 2025 Marketing trends with Monica Schrock (we told you so)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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105: How To Protect Your Peace & Prioritize Your Needs from the LA fires (or any moment of crisis)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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104: The tea on my 2024 lessons learned + my 2025 glow-up plans
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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103: How to Make Consistent Income Without A Big Social Media Following
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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102: Didn’t hit your goals this year? 6 things you can do.
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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101: Protecting your peace post-elections during the holidays
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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100: My Mistakes and Triumphs From 100 Episodes
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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99: How to develop executive presence & own the room you’re in (My Talk from NextUp Summit)
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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98: How I Prepared for My Talk to a Full House of 200+ People, and How I Dealt with Speaker Problems
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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97: I Had a Concussion. Readjusting Expectations in Body, Mind and Health (don’t worry I’m fine now)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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96: How to Brace Yourself for Q4
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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95: How I Reduced 50% of My Business Expenses and How You can too, and a Business Update
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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94: How to Embrace Anxiety to Work for You
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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93: Growth Doesn't Always Mean More, Bigger and Better. How to Redefine "Growth" to Align for You
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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92: 7 Years, 7-figures + 7 Lessons in Business
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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91: How to Balance Work and Life This Summer
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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90: How to Start Your Business and Get Your First Paying Clients
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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89: How to Work with Gen Z with Keely Antonio
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May 30, 2024 |
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88: How to Manage Your Boss and Team as a WOC Leader
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May 16, 2024 |
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87: Getting Fired, Quitting a Job, Getting Laid Off and Changing Careers BTS On My Failures
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May 02, 2024 |
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86: Considering Foster Care With My Ex-boss, Mark Daley
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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85: How To Honor Your Emotions, And Protect Yourself From Others Emotions with Lidia Galvez
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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84: How I Redefined “Success” For Myself and How You Can Too
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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83: How Do You Know When To End Your Business And Get A Job Or Downsize with Monica Schrock
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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82: Have a Job? Why and How to have a Personal Brand with Visa VP Matt Story
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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81: How To Ask For A Raise
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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80: How To Ask For Help With Dominick Morales
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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79: How To Create Psychological Safety With Starbucks VP Global Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer Chéla Gage
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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78: Motherhood, Parenting Our Parents, ADHD, Marriage, and being a 9-figure Multi-passionate Entrepreneur With Danielle Kitzes
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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77: How To Find A Meaningful Career With Luna Clara Muñoz
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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76: Why I'm Bringing Back My Mastermind To Simplify My Business With Monica Schrock
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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75: How To Sell In This Economy with Jamie Gulino Davis
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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74: How To Be A Gentle Parent With Boundaries With Justine David
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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71: How To Be Confident With Your Own Decisions With Iryne Carrasquillo
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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72: How To Find A New Job Or Industry
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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73: What To Do When You Hate Your Business
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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70: Our Big Podcast Mistake - Why We Decided To Change Our Name With Monica Schrock
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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69: Why Doing More Is A Problem, Do Less. You’re Enough
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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68: How To Rebound From A Tough Year
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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67: 6 Ways For Business Survival In 2024 With Tiffany Neuman
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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66. 4 Steps To Reduce Financial Anxiety With Claudia Rucker
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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65: How To Plan For The New Year
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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64: How We Get Consistent Clients Without Launching with Monica Schrock
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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63. How To Change Careers Successfully with Ava
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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62. Beyond Small Talk: Networking as an Introvert with Monica Schrock
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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61. How I Became #1 On Google, and how you can too with Andres Aguero
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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60. Sleigh the Q4 burnout: Avoid the hustle, enjoy the holidays
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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59. How To Keep Our Humanity In A World Of AI And Technology With John Gauntt
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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58. How To Create A Client & Team Centered Retreat
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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57. How to work when you or a friend is neurodivergent (ADHD, Bipolar, Anxiety) with Monica Schrock
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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56. How to Give Feedback
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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55. Growing Your Business Online and Offline
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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54. Work Life Balance: The Lie with Natalie Kuhn
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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53. How I Made My Business Work for Me Off the Grid
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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52. 3 Tips to Get Your Time Back with Amy Fritz
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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51. 6 Years in Business: My Mistakes + Triumphs
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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50. Prioritizing YOU VS. Other People’s Expectations with Christene Joy
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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49. BTS of My Brand Evolution and Why It’s More Than a Logo with Tiffany Neuman
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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48. Smackdown: Marketing vs. Systems vs. Strategy - Which One Do You Need? with Monica Schrock and Juliana Wise
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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47. Scripts and Strategies for Boundaries and Negotiation for WOC Leaders with Accion Opportunity Fund
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May 18, 2023 |
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46. 5 Retreat Reflections with Business Owners + Corporate Leaders
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May 04, 2023 |
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45. How You Can Have a Fulfilling Job and Life with Mac Prichard
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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44. 5 Business Tips to Be a More Sustainable + Conscious Female Leader with Kim Kiel
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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43. Leading Change + Managing Overwhelm for You and Your Team with Juliana Wise
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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42. Should You Get ICF Certified as a Coach? with Dez Stephens
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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41. Redefining Success as a WOC and First Generation Immigrant with Kat Magsaysay
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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40. Why Difficult Conversations Improve Our Life + Work Relationships with Erica Courdae and India Jackson
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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39. Your Relationship With Your Coach Shouldn't Be Codependent + How to Trust Yourself
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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38. Part 2. One Year Later, How I Became Less Dependent on Social Media with Monica Schrock
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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37. Dealing with Stress and Burnout as a BIPOC Leader with Nicole Caruth
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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36. Resting is a Revolution: What We Can Learn From Nature and Seasons and How Capitalism Doesn’t Honor Rest with Brenda Moreno
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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35. 14 Reflections on My 35th Birthday on Life and Grief
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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34. How October Was My Best Month in Business With No Launch, FB Blocking Me, and 6 Weeks of Vacation
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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33. 5 Reflections from My Retreat with Established Business Owners
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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32. Supportive Ways to Make Money While You Enjoy the Holidays + Life
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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31. How to Advocate for Yourself as a WOC in Corporate America with Lindsey Ingram
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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30. In a Moment of Reinvention? BTS of What I Did and What You Can Do
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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29. How to Plan for the Rest of the Year
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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28. The Importance of Trauma-Informed Spaces with Adria Moses
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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27. Changing Careers and Increasing Your Salary as a First-Generation Immigrant with My Brother Daryl
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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26. Simplify Your Business by Knowing More + Doing Less
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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25. Coaching vs. Therapy: Which One Do You Need? with Dr. Nazanin Moali
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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24. 5 Years in Business: The Good, the Bad, and my Business Predictions
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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23. Get Clients With Ease Through Referrals and Renewals
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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22. Creating a Better Relationship with Money with Katherine Pomerantz
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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21. 7 Tips For Sustainable Revenue this Summer
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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20. Unlearning Being Performative with Paula Shepherd
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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19. Staying True To You: The Color Your Dreams® Approach
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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18. How to Honor the Evolution of You and Your Business with Amanda Walker
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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17. Burnout, Grief, and Realigning Your Life with Tricia Chinnici
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May 26, 2022 |
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16. Accessible Money & Advice for Your BIPOC Business with Accion Opportunity Fund
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May 19, 2022 |
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15. The 5 Financial Pitfalls to Avoid in the Coaching and Consulting Industry with Parker Stevenson
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May 12, 2022 |
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14. Less is More: How to Simplify Your Business to Have the Life You Want
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May 05, 2022 |
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13. Mindset, Marketing, and Money for BIPOC Business Owners and Allies with Troy Sandidge
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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12. Creating Premium Pricing to Honor Our Ancestors with Jenny Valles
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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11. Identity Crisis? How to Quit or Realign Your Business or Career With Your Life
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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10. The Privilege and Burden of Healing Generational Trauma for WOC and Allies with Harpinder Mann
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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9. Why I’m Ending My Mastermind + How I’m Simplifying My Business (And How You Can Simplify Your Business Too)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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8. Scaling and Hiring: Letting Go of Control to Scale with Jenny Jones
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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7. From Cancel Culture to Conscious Conversations in Business and Life
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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6. Charging Your Worth as a WOC and Being an Imperfect Ally with Erica Courdae and India Jackson
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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5. Time and Energy Management to Get Your Life Back
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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3. How to Scale Your Business Without Copying Everyone Else
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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1. What is Color Your Dreams?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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2. Why You Need to Selfishly Put Yourself First as a WOC and Ally with Nicole Cruz
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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4. How to Start Being Less Dependent on Social Media with Monica Schrock
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Welcome to Color Your Dreams with Elaine Lou Cartas
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Jan 24, 2022 |