Raising a Powerful Girl

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The Myth of the Starving Artist - A Tale of Empowerment May 15, 2019

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Miriam Schulman has made her living as a professional artist for over 15 years. In addition to selling paintings, she also teaches her techniques through her online site, the Inspiration Place and is the host of a top-rated podcast of the same name. Schulman abandoned a hedge fund career after witnessing the devastation of 911 to work on her art full time. Rejecting the starving artist myth, her watercolor and mixed media paintings have been seen on NBC, published in art magazines & home decor books and collected worldwide. In addition, New York museums have carried her artistic accessories in their gift shops. She has been published in art magazines such as Art of Man, Art Journaling Magazine by Stampington and is a regular contributor to Professional Artist magazine. She is a host of her own podcast, The Inspiration Place, a podcast for artists to learn how to market and sell their art; and for other people who want to become artists quiet their inner critic and reconnect with their lost creativity. On today's Podcast Interview we talk about why we have to stop telling our daughters that they can’t make a living doing what they want to do! Miriam’s daughter is pursuing a degree in music education and neither of them listened when naysayers said that she should pursue a liberal arts degree instead. Miriam talks about how if you have a daughter who wants to become an artist the best thing you can do is help her develop the skills she needs to pursue that. We also talk about how the stories and criticisms we hear early in life become our limiting self-belief.
For more information on Miriam, you can find her at theinspirationplace.net
To find out more about how to empower the girl in your life please visit www.EmpoweredGirlMovement. com and join our facebook group called “Moms raising powerful Girls” we look forward to seeing you there!

Breaking the Body Image Cycle and a Vulnerability Hangover May 08, 2019

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Today's episode I am chatting with Jennifer Roth of Gaia Dawn studios in NJ. Jen is not only an incredible photographer and yoga instructor but she also coaches women on a variety of issues from self-esteem, body image, confidence and more. Jennifer joined our team at the empowered girl movement as one of our ambassadors running empowered girl experience days in her community. Today's conversation we talk about
How important it is that we model self-love and a positive body image of ourselves to our daughters so that they do not feed into the societal standards and views on what women are "supposed to look like". This toxic cycle is what creates low self-esteem and self-hatred and it is our power and responsibility to break that cycle and teach our daughters how to love themselves as they are... We must do it for ourselves first.

Sharing Stories to Raise Feminist Boys May 01, 2019

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In 1998 Tanya Fox she started her own Accounting and Bookkeeping company in Ottawa, Ontario specializing in startup and small businesses. In 2005 she got news she was waiting years for! She was expecting her first child. She left her career behind to focus on being a full-time Mom. After 1 year her family begged her to go back to work as she was driving everyone nuts with knitted and crocheted items. She again, stepped into the President role at her accounting company and opened its first western branch in Camrose Alberta. She also stepped back into her role as Vice-President of Fox TaeKwon-Do Schools a 28 year old company owned by her husband. Her biggest passion is as a Speaker, Motivator, Podcaster and Collaborator who specializes in business education and how sharing your legacy can change your life and others.
Tanya Believes In raising powerful girls we also need to raise knowledgeable boys. Having an only child and a son has made Tanya want to be sure that she send him out into this world truly understanding that no matter what your background, race, or gender nothing should stop you from reaching your dreams but in that we also need to be the champions to help those that are struggling on the path and lift them up along their journey for one day we may need that hand up also. That it is not ok to only know what is right but that we must be willing to stand up and speak up against those that do not.

en(gender)ed - Why we need to Raise Feminist Daughters Apr 24, 2019

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Teri Yuan is a social entrepreneur, feminist business consultant, and the host of the weekly podcast, en(gender)ed, which explores the systems, practices and policies that enable gender-based violence and oppression and the solutions to end it. The podcast uses gender as a lens to better understand power and oppression and its impact in the private realm, so as to better recognize and confront it in the public sphere. Teri's journey as an intersectional feminist began in college, where she studied feminist film criticism, post-colonial pedagogy and cultural criticism. Along the way, she has added to her identity--survivor and survivor advocate. She believes that by developing a cultural literacy around power and abuse of power, we can reclaim how we define liberty in relationships and in civic life and solve many of our most urgent social (justice) challenges.

Finding Calm in the Midst of Parenting Chaos Apr 17, 2019

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Stephanie Nichols is a first-time author from Milwaukee
She is known for her passionate personality and telling it like it is. She is a strong believer in the ripple effect. She believes that if we moms can do the work it takes to find that calm and heart-centered place inside ourselves, we can make a difference in the lives of our children. We can raise children who value their true selves and find worthiness in who they are as people, simply because they have moms who are fully committed to the same.
Her mission as a Life Coach is to help overwhelmed moms learn how to take back their lives without feeling guilty in the process. She's working to create a world where moms stop judging and comparing and start living their best lives.
Join us on this powerful conversation where we share real truths of how to find moments of calm in the middle of parenting chaos, how creating calm in your life is a powerful force to combating todays mental health crisis and increasing anxiety in not only girls but boys today and how we can learn so much when we take time to reflect on those moments of chaos that make us often times feeling less than.

Parenting through Presence | Hand in Hand Parenting Apr 10, 2019

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Marilupe de la Calle is the mother to two marvelous girls who inspire her to grow, be present and let go of fear every single day.
Very early on her parenting journey Marilupe found herself overwhelmed and lonely, oblivious of her own needs, and unsure about how to help her daughter with the intense emotions she was showing around the clock.
Then she discovered Hand in Hand Parenting and, with it, the good information, practical tools, and support she so desperately craved.
When laughter, sparkly eyes and healing for everyone in her family followed, she decided to become a certified instructor to share this gem with others and, since 2016, she enjoys empowering parents by sharing the beauty of the Parenting by Connection approach through online and in-person classes, consultations, talks and during rich, juicy conversations like the today

The Beginning of your Life Book Club Apr 03, 2019

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Emily Akins is an Editorial Director at Hallmark Cards, Inc. She is also the host of a podcast called The Beginning of Your Life Book Club, which explores the transformative power of children's literature and the magic of picture books. She loves books, coffee, local vegetables, crossword puzzles, and real mail with interesting postage stamps. She lives in Kansas City, MO with her partner, Sergio, and their daughters, Julia and Clara.
TO check out the infographic discussed during this interview you can find it at https://readingspark.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/picture-this-reflecting-diversity-in-childrens-book-publishing/

The Empowered Homeschool Experience Mar 20, 2019

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homeschooling can be an empowering avenue for raising powerful girls.
Trained in nature-based coaching and permaculture design, Katie is passionate about homesteading and connecting with nature as a vehicle for living her own version of what Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes calls “the handmade life”. Katie on a mission to empower herself and others to create a sustainable, custom-made life that empowers every person in the family and sacrifices no one. These individual choices also end up helping build more sustainable, compassionate communities and a regenerative planet as well.
By designing our own hand-made live, spending our times on exploring curiosities and building on strengths instead of constantly focusing on deficits, discontinuing the pattern of hammering the square peg in the round hole, we create a new pattern and platform for our children to share their gifts and connect with the world.
More than just catering to her girls, Katie has found homeschooling to be a powerful vehicle for living life on her own terms as well, and making sure their life reflects and is aligned with their deepest values and intuition.

Raising a Mini Mogul and Project Resiliency Movement Mar 13, 2019

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Althea Bates has worked in social services and workforce development for over 16 years. She is a Jamaican native, an entrepreneur, a professor/lecturer, a nonprofit leader and a champion for women empowerment issues. She received a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from Temple University, Masters of Science from Springfield College in Human Services with a concentration in Organizational Management and Leadership and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Capella University.
Althea, is the CEO and Founder of A. Bates Consulting which provides a range of training -related consulting services to nonprofits/municipalities relative to topics and areas in youth development, case management, workforce development and human services practices. As well the CEO and Founder of Project Resiliency Movement one of the most fasting growing social movements to encourage and empower women of color in areas of resiliency and self care through conference, seminars , workshops and forums.
She also has recently helped her Mini Mogul daughter Sakinah Bates to launch a mobile doll spa party event business which teaches girls about healthy hair maintenance and positive self-identity through hair care tutorials sessions for girls ages 5-12 and their dolls.

Cultivating a Healthy Food Relationship even with Picky Eaters! Mar 06, 2019

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When girls grow up feeling confident in their own bodies they can do important things that matter and change the world. Confidence is like a snowball effect. When we have more confidence we try more things, which builds confidence, etc. When we are pre-occupied by weight and food, we are less likely to go after (and get) what we want out of life, which is a snowball effect of its own.
Cassandra Padgett is a Health Educator, certified health and nutrition coach, pediatric health coach by day and owner of VivFitness after bedtime. (viv rhymes with steve).
She's passionate about helping moms be a healthy and confident example to their kids by teaching foundational nutrition principles (no diets here!) -but most importantly- she teaches women to learn to listen to their bodies by practicing intuitive eating, while saying goodbye to diets for good.
She's on a mission to help women show love to their postpartum bodies and feel comfortable in their skin... because our daughters will do as we DO!
Cassandra spends her days coaching families in a pediatric clinic, privately coaching women on the side, and loving on her little family by the beach in Sunny San Diego.

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