EIC 053: A Radically Honest Conversation About Spirituality in The Diaspora with The Bratty Brujita, Yvette Montoya

Happy Latinx Heritage Month! Today we're covering an extremely personal topic on the podcast: spirituality.

We're talking to Yvette, The Bratty Brujita, about how she fell into becoming a spiritual practitioner & being paid for it, how it has helped her heal from previous traumas, and why we ALL need to be more in tune with spirituality.

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EIC 052: Women of Color in Venture Capital and the Immigrant Experience with Surbhi Rathore of Symbl AI

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We are BACK and coming back strong! Today we have our first-ever venture capital-funded entrepreneur! Surbhi is a co-founder of Symbl AI and is an immigrant. Today she shares her story getting into tech, becoming a startup founder, and even a little bit about being an entrepreneur on a visa and what that process has been like. 

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EIC 051: Dealing With A Career Crossroads & What To Do

We are BACK and coming back strong! Today we have our first-ever venture capital-funded entrepreneur! Surbhi is a co-founder of Symbl AI and is an immigrant. Today she shares her story getting into tech, becoming a startup founder, and even a little bit about being an entrepreneur on a visa and what that process has been like. 

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EIC 050: Intersectionality and Pride

We want to close out Pride Month talking about something that impacts how we approach everything we do at Empowered in Color: Intersectionality.

If you've been following us for a while you're likely familiar with the term already, but we think it's always good to have a refresher and relate it back to Pride because even many people of color still aren't fully on board with supporting the LGBTQ+ community, many of whom are poc and in our communities themselves.

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EIC 049: Ask HR about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion with Patricia Figueroa of Your Human Resource

One year after the murder of George Floyd, support for the Black Lives Matter movement and police reform has gone down especially from white folks, and many companies haven't done much change internally to make significant strides towards true Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI). 

Today's episode was taken from our first-ever workshop/webinar back in April where we had HR professional Patricia Figueroa talk about how people can navigate discussions and concerns over DEI in the workplace, as well as offer some insight from a human resources perspective.

 

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EIC 048: The "PI" in AAPI with Lilian Dirrebes

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While the month of May is meant to celebrate both the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, Pacific Islander (also known as Pasifika) folks are often tokenized or completely left out of the conversation and celebration.

Today I'm sitting down with Lilian Dirrebes, a Palauan American from Portland, Oregon to talk about her identity as a Pasifika person, how she's managed to stay true to her identity in a place so white like PDX, and how people need to be more intentional and considerate of the Pasifika community when we have these conversations around the "AAPI" umbrella. 

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  • Empowered in Color Instagram - Follow us to see when we share "who to follow" lists during heritage/history months

  • Kriselle's Twitter, Lilian's Twitter

  • Lilian's Instagram

  • Lilian's Art Website, IG

  • The "Pasifika Connection" Twitter List

  • 33 Pasifika Creatives to Follow on IG:

    • @guma_gela

    • @byclayjosh

    • @hafaroldy

    • @rockin_roquin

    • @gilli.art

    • @diechee

    • @jerryfish103

    • @shaycolorway

    • @despicerorak

    • @kathyjkijiner

    • @infinitedakota

    • @ngaiire

    • @kaiit_isshe

    • @melanesianmarks

    • @teptok

    • @sunameke

    • @lumailabel

    • @_sketchydreamer_

    • @the_art_serge

    • @ropate_kama

    • @jeffry_feeger_art

    • @jahra.wasa

    • @ahuacollective

    • @fafswag

    • @patityrell

    • @tuloucollective

    • @sloaneleong

    • @_lehuauakea_

    • @vkukua

    • @GystForKickz

    • @reina_the_poet

    • @numanaturesgentleman

    • @jamie_berry_artist

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EIC 047: Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month

After a monthlong break, we are back to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPIHM) as well as Mental Health Awareness Month!

Today's episode is a short reminder of how we all need to be better in celebrating this month for the AAPI community by being intentional about inclusion and not just tokenizing us. It's also quite fitting that Mental Health Awareness Month is during the month of May as well. 

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EIC 046: Anti-Asian Violence and How Podcasting has Shaped My Voice

This episode was originally going to be a reflection of the last 3 years of Empowered in Color, but with the recent Anti-Asian events, I decided to focus on that with a little bit of reflection on how podcasting with EIC has helped me be able to speak the way I am speaking about these events today.

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EIC 045: How to Become an Unapologetic Woman and/or Support them in Your Life

March is Women's History Month, and earlier this week we celebrated International Women's Day! In honor of that, I'm sharing with you my story on how I have become more confident in myself and who I am as a woman and woman of color. I'll even share some practical, actionable tips for you whether you are a woman working on yourself or a man listening but want to support the women in your life.

Tips for Women to be more Unapologetic about who They Are:

  1. Practice with the little things, like saying no if you don't want to do something or don't have the bandwidth to do it.

  2. Surround yourself with encouragers. I'm not saying yes-people who will never tell you if you've messed up, but encouragers will be there to remind you of your worth and capabilities when imposter syndrome takes over.

  3. Shift your mindset to "just do it." This is something that will happen over time as you begin to do the first 2 tips, but they will also need to be paired with you continuously reminding yourself to shoot your shot. Think of it as constantly giving yourself mini pep talks. Even if something doesn't work out, reframe it to a lesson learned for next time rather than a failure.

For Men to Support the Women in Your Life:

  1. When a woman asks you for something or tells you a story about something that's happened to them, pause before you respond. Don't be reactive. If you find yourself getting defensive when they ask for something like a raise or you don't immediately believe an incident of harm to them, ask yourself why you are reacting like that. I can almost guarantee you that there is a deeper, possibly subconscious reason as to why. After the conversation, I encourage you to think about that and examine it.

  2. Learn about women's history. It sounds obvious but you'd be surprised how much men don't know about the things women have done for society or how laws have treated them in the past. Read books by women, listen to women, use Google to jump start your research. Google is free.

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EIC 044: Let's Network and Get Work

We're releasing an online course! After years of putting it off out of fear, we are releasing Network and Get Work, the ultimate guide to connecting with people online and offline, no matter the situation so that you can further your career.

The course will be released by April 2021 at the latest, but here's what you can expect in today's episode:

  • Why we're putting it off until further notice instead of launching this month like originally intended

  • The story behind the course

  • The fear that prevented its release for 4 years

  • What to expect to learn in the course

If you're interested in learning more about the course and would like to be the first to know when it's officially released (special deals will be available ONLY for email subscribers), head over to the course page: Network & Get Work

I'm speaking at Podfest! If you're interested in attending for FREE, use code AAPODCASTERS at this Eventbrite link.

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EIC 035: Building Empires with Joy Valerie Carrera

After months of talking about her on the podcast, I'm so glad that I finally got to sit down and actually *record* one of my conversations with Joy, the mastermind behind Basic Brown Nerds, Carrera Digital, and her personal brand, Build with Joy.

After months of talking about her on the podcast, I'm so glad that I finally got to sit down and actually *record* one of my conversations with Joy, the mastermind behind Basic Brown Nerds, Carrera Digital, and her personal brand, Build with Joy.

We talk about her story being one of the few women of color in her STEM programs throughout high school and college, ADHD life, making profit ethically, and our dreams for our platforms and how we can transform our communities. 

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EIC 034: Representation and Philanthropy with Steven Hernandez

We're kicking off Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month early with Steven Hernandez, a corporate philanthropist based in Detroit, Michigan! Today, Steven shares his story of how he got into his current career, which perfectly encapsulates the reason behind Empowered in Color: exploring career paths you may have never considered before because of seeing someone like you in these industries.  Mentioned on this episode:  Joy Valerie @joyvaleriee Gentefied on Netflix  Steven's Youtube Channel, Twitter, Instagram Take our audience survey!


We're kicking off Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month early with Steven Hernandez, a corporate philanthropist based in Detroit, Michigan! Today, Steven shares his story of how he got into his current career, which perfectly encapsulates the reason behind Empowered in Color: exploring career paths you may have never considered before because of seeing someone like you in these industries. 

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EIC 032: Destigmatizing Mental Health - ADHD, Therapy, Meds, and More

Mental Health Check: We just want to make sure you're all taking care of yourselves the best that you can during the pandemic. I also wanted to talk a little bit about my recent ADHD diagnosis and why it's important now more than ever to make sure you are taking care of your mental health and that we are all destigmatizing what that looks like as well.

Mental Health Check: We just want to make sure you're all taking care of yourselves the best that you can during the pandemic. I also wanted to talk a little bit about my recent ADHD diagnosis and why it's important now more than ever to make sure you are taking care of your mental health and that we are all destigmatizing what that looks like as well.

We will always affirm you in that the things you're feeling are valid and that you're not crazy. Having a mental illness is normal and we urge you to take care of it, the same with your physical body. 

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EIC 031: Taking Up Space with Ryann Richardson

Today's episode was recorded back in January prior to the pandemic, but I believe that its message is evergreen and is even more important and relevant now!  Ryann Richardson is Miss Black America, a tech founder, a keynote speaker, and so much more.

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Today's episode was recorded back in January prior to the pandemic, but I believe that its message is evergreen and is even more important and relevant now! 

Ryann Richardson is Miss Black America, a tech founder, a keynote speaker, and so much more. Today we are talking about the concept of "taking up space," especially for women of color. 

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