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Season 7 closes with a powerful discussion between Sahar Paz and Chledin Barlatt Rumer about breaking the status quo by finding your voice. This episode is for the introvert and extrovert alike who are ready to take action by using their personal brand as a resource. Words of wisdom from this episode:  A message for introverts and extroverts about the process of finding and owning your voice. Sticker goals vs. tattoo goals, get clear on what you want with you for a lifetime.  Patience leads to power, a unique equation to help you answer who you are and what you want. ABOUT SAHAR PAZ: Sahar Paz is a communications strategist, professional speaker, and CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm which provides comprehensive branding services for clients ranging from social thought leaders to globally recognized healthcare innovators. Since she launched her first company at the age of 13 she has accrued over 2 decades of leadership, communication, and management experience. From reconstructing corporate branding strategies for global businesses to activating personal brands for pioneering leaders, or serving as a keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies, Sahar’s ongoing mission is to ensure that organizations, companies, and individuals can efficiently hone and use their voice to reach their goals; while remembering the third bottom line - community.  Are you owning your voice? Contact Sahar today! ABOUT CHELDIN BARLATT RUMER   As CEO and Executive Producer of THIS IS IT NETWORK, Cheldin Barlatt Rumer has spent over two decades creating, managing, and executing strategic marketing campaigns for clients within an array of various lifestyle industries. Rumer continues her commitment to communication and marketing education by sharing entrepreneurial stories through her daily morning talk show THIS IS IT WITH CHELDIN.    As a marketing and personal branding expert, Rumer developed her result-driven SCREAM YOUR DREAM instructional platform. This platform along with her SCREAM YOUR DREAM Membership Community encourages remarkable women to learn, create and grow through personal and professional development.   An immigrant from Sierra Leone, West Africa, a mother of two, an adjunct professor, a former Division 1 athlete, and a female personal branding expert, Rumer works to inspire female entrepreneurs to no longer whisper their wishes but to in fact – scream their dreams. Rumer is currently an Adjunct Professor at both Temple and Drexel Universities in Philadelphia where she instructs undergraduate students in the art of Personal Branding, Interactive Media, Online Advertising, and Social Media Strategy.   WATCH NOW: www.thisisit.tv  LEARN MORE: https://thisisittv.com  FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thisisittv INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thisisittv LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thisisittv  LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheldinbarlatt/ (personal)  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ThisisitTV

Hear from two Middle Eastern womxn who put a pen to paper to find and own their voices. Authors, Sahar Paz and Farida D. join forces to wake you up to the privilege of your freedom and the burdens of the patriarchy.    ABOUT SAHAR PAZ Sahar Paz is a communications strategist, professional speaker, and CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm which provides comprehensive branding services for clients ranging from social thought leaders to globally recognized healthcare innovators. Since she launched her first company at the age of 13 she has accrued over 2 decades of leadership, communication, and management experience. From reconstructing corporate branding strategies for global businesses to activating personal brands for pioneering leaders, or serving as a keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies, Sahar’s ongoing mission is to ensure that organizations, companies, and individuals can efficiently hone and use their voice to reach their goals; while remembering the third bottom line - community.    ABOUT FARIDA D. Farida D. is an Arab gender researcher and poet, studying Arab women's everyday oppressions for over a decade. Through the process, she broke up with her hijab and set all of her high heels on fire. Farida has been interviewed by BBC Radio London. Her poems are strolling all over social media, and have been shared by renowned artists including Janne Robinson and Willow Smith. She may be reached for correspondence at: farida-d@outlook.com, or on Instagram at: @farida.d.author  

Season 7 is dedicated to underutilized soft skills like emotional intelligence, cultural awareness, and creating safe space for honest conversations.  Pre-pandemic these skills were deemed as optional or a bonus if a workplace or a leader portrayed these characteristics - in today’s world, post-pandemic, and post George Floyd, these skills are a must.   In this episode, Sahar Paz is joined by Kerrie Mohr and Collette Brown from A Good Place Therapy known for its compassionate approach from New York to San Francisco. Words of Wisdom from this episode include: Developing trust among diverse colleagues Protecting your mental health at work, especially for POC Employee experience, what that means in the 21st Century   ABOUT SAHAR PAZ Sahar Paz is a communications strategist, author, and CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm which provides comprehensive branding services for clients ranging from upcoming social thought leaders to globally recognized healthcare innovators. Her mission is not only to ensure that individuals and organizations can accurately convey their messaging, but that they also give people who have no voice or an underrepresented voice a platform to be heard. Inspired by her experiences as a woman in business and from years of non-profit work, she seeks to combine emotional intelligence and DEI initiatives, with Own Your Voice's services to ensure that organizations and individuals have all the tools strategically and socially to maximize their potential. Learn more at saharpaz.com | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter   ABOUT GOOD PLACE THERAPY | Website | Instagram  Kerrie Mohr is the founder and lead therapist at A Good Place Therapy, a bicoastal private practice offering compassionate psychotherapy for adults, couples, children, teens, and families. Kerrie has focused her career on seeking out solutions to individual, family, and community problems through clinical work, policy reform, and building nonprofit social service programs.   Colette Brown’s journey to becoming a psychotherapist began when she worked with teenagers and their families striving to use education as their catapult over the barriers of systemic racism and poverty. For 15 years, Colette was a teacher working in NYC’s specialized high schools, and that experience informed her understanding of how our intersectional identities influence how we move through our world today. Colette holds a Master of Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, a Master of Education from Brooklyn College (CUNY), and a Master of Afro-American Studies and English Literature from UCLA.  

An episode unlike any other, this week Sahar Paz and Ana Flores, the Founder of We All Grow Latina, have recorded individual messages for you who are ready to bring more ease into your journey.  Season 7 is dedicated to you looking at the patterns in your life, and breaking free from them - and therefore liberating yourself from the status quo.    The words of wisdom in this episode include:  Living, growing and thriving with a traumatized brain.  Self-expression to set yourself free.  Bridges, which ones to build, which ones to burn.    ABOUT ANA FLORES: A community builder and connector at heart, Ana Flores is the founder and CEO of #WeAllGrow Latina, the first network of Latina influencers founded in 2010 with a mission to elevate the voices and stories of Latinas through the power of community. #WeAllGrow has evolved into the go-to community for Latinas driving social and economic impact. The company’s annual #WeAllGrow Summit was named by Forbes.com as one of “19 Conferences Every Creative Should Attend.” Born in Houston, Texas, raised in El Salvador and a graduate of the University of Florida, Ana is now settled in Los Angeles, where she lives with her daughter.   ABOUT SAHAR PAZ:  Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behaviour guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professional on stages to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead.  You can find Sahar on LinkedIn and Instagram @SaharPaz.   

Your self-talk and your spoken voice have an effect on how you feel, in episode 45 Sahar Paz speaks with Ashley Sumner, the founder of Quilt, an app that believes conversation is self-care. Season 7 continues with the theme of breaking the status quo and prioritizing the underutilized skills of the past like emotional intelligence and using your voice. The words of wisdom from this episode include:    Identify in a way you choose to. When you use your voice in a  deeply authentic way and it turns into a cover piece on the New York Times.   Overnight success versus feeling successful.  Learn to talk to yourself, about yourself.   Personal branding and startup success.  Giving your voice more agency.  About Sahar Paz:   Sahar didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in the business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behavior guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stage to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead.  You can find Sahar on LinkedIn and Instagram @SaharPaz.    About Ashley Sumner:  Ashley Sumner is the CEO & Founder of Quilt. Quilt is the supportive audio social app for real-time conversations, built to re-humanize social media with the goal of helping people feel better on a daily basis. Ashley’s startup career started 12 years ago in NYC at a matchmaking company. With an intuitive ability to bring people together, she turned her passion into a career as a community developer for brands such as NeueHouse, Wanderlust, and Breakout ultimately leading to the creation of Quilt, which started as a platform inspiring people to open their homes for intimate conversations and shared experiences and has evolved into this new type of social network, in response to 2020. She now lives in Los Angeles, like every other New Yorker.

Underutilized skills of the past are a priority of the present as we re-enter the workplace and our children return to school. Sahar Paz kicks off Season 7 with a powerful message about breaking free from the status quo in 3 areas of your life:  Mental health Workplace inclusion Your career aspirations For more Words of Wisdom that support every podcast episode, please subscribe to Sahar's newsletter.   About Sahar Paz: Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in the business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behavior guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stage to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. You can find Sahar on LinkedIn and Instagram @SaharPaz.

SHOW NOTES Living with purpose is different for every human being, in this episode, Sahar Paz and Danelia Argueta converse about being a purpose-driven leader and using your personal brand to champion the causes you care about.  Values and purpose are the baselines for everything.  Taking an inward focus when it comes to thinking about your values at work.  Instead of paying attention to data and rules, go with the flow more often.  Personal branding and making an impact.  Using your personal brand to wow your employer.   ABOUT SAHAR PAZ:  Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behaviour guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stages to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead.  You can find Sahar on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram @SaharPaz.    ABOUT DANELIA ARGUETA Danelia is a speaker, business consultant, community leader, and has 20+years of experience in Event, Marketing, and Business Development professional. She’s passionate about empowering individuals to live purposefully by enhancing their leadership skills and developing a faith-based mindset. Danelia holds an International Strategic MBA in Marketing and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics. She is the Founder and President of Beautiful Purpose, a volunteer-managed non-profit organization focused on empowering women to live a purpose-filled life.

Leaders have gone into overdrive taking care of business, and their teams - in this episode Sahar Paz speaks with Toni Cunningham about what leaders need during this time, and how to use their emotional intelligence for their own well-being. Toni Cunningham is the Managing Director with Per Scholas, in this conversation with Sahar, you will hear these words of wisdom:  Why purpose-driven leaders succeed.  Being vulnerable as a leader.  Balancing guilt and well-being.  Responsibilities that come with greatness.  You win, or you learn, adopting a powerful perspective.   ABOUT SAHAR PAZ:  Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behaviour guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stages to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead.  You can find Sahar on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram @SaharPaz.    ABOUT TONI CUNNINGHAM Toni Cunningham is an accomplished leader, motivator, workforce development professional and reboot strategist. As a Managing Director with Per Scholas, Toni provides the vision, operational, and executive leadership for the Columbus team. A seasoned marketing and communications expert Toni’s career includes roles with the Columbus Urban League, American Electric Power, Founder and Principal at Image Anu, LLC. In addition to growing funding, investments, and stakeholders, Toni is a highly sought after conference speaker, presenter and workshop facilitator for organizations like Dress For Success, Women Economic Leadership Development, National Urban League, and Women In Tech. A resident of Columbus, Ohio, Ms. Cunningham’s community and board involvement runs deep. Most recently: Mayor’s Recovery and Resiliency Committee, New Directions Career Center   Board of Directors, Ohio Workforce Coalition Leadership Committee, Black Tech Columbus Co- Founder, Franklin County Tax Incentive Review Commission and, American Association of Blacks in   Energy. Committed to excellence and continuous learning, Toni earned her Master of Science in Marketing and Communication with Franklin University and Bachelor of Science from Ohio Dominican University. She’s also a 2019 American Express Leadership Academy Fellow. Authentic and relatable, Toni is adamant about helping others accomplish their career goals. Her journey reflects what happens when, as she puts it, we find “work in roles that match our souls”. The many awards bestowed upon Toni substantiates her leadership, impact, and results. Including the naming of Per Scholas as one of Columbus Foundation’s Top 5 Nonprofits to Watch in 2018, Women for Economic Leadership and Development 2020 Honoree, BizTech Columbus Business First 2019 Executive of the Year, and Smart Business Magazine in 2018 Smart50; an honor which “recognizes the top executives of the 50 smartest companies in the Central Ohio region for their ability to effectively build and lead successful organizations.” Toni is a leader who believes in helping people to achieve at their highest levels. She truly believes in living out her purpose, which is “helping people get to next” in both their personal and professional lives.

Sahar Paz continues the season 6 theme of refashioning your perspective and refreshing your personal brand with a conversation that reveals the art of the pivot. Because of the pandemic, many people have had to leave their past professions behind and rethink their purpose and future.  We talk about navigating confusion, sadness, and embracing your own power as a woman.    Ready to make a career change?  Finally, want to start that business? This is the episode for you!    MEET SAHAR PAZ & GUEST:  Sahar Paz didn't grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in the business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behavior guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own Your Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stage to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. You can find Sahar on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @SaharPaz.   Lesley Jane Seymour is a media entrepreneur and founder of CoveyClub a new club for life-long learners. From 2008-2016, Lesley served as Editor-In-Chief of More Magazine, the leading lifestyle magazine for women over forty with a readership of 1.5 million. She was also the Editor-in-Chief and Social Media Director of More.com, which attracted over 12 million monthly page views and 600,000 unique visitors. Before taking over More, Lesley served as the Editor-in-Chief for Marie Claire, Redbook, YM, and Beauty Director of Glamour, and copywriter and senior editor at Vogue.    

This week on the Own Your Voice podcast Sahar Paz speaks to Dr. Susan Bernstein, an Executive Coach who describes herself as helping anxious achievers boost their influence, advancement, and impact while decreasing stress and pressure.  After working from home for over a year, many of us are having anxiety about going back to the office, human interaction, speaking up for what we believe in, and even getting dressed.   Words of Wisdom in this episode include: Re-entry anxiety: what it is, and why you're feeling it. Preparing yourself to integrate more and more back to work and personal life. Looking at what we didn't do in the past that we can do now to better our well-being. How to take care of yourself during the process of reentering back to the workplace.  Leaders, how you can help your team to help themselves.   Connect with Sahar Paz: Instagram  |  LinkedIn Connect with Dr. Susan Bernstein: Instagram  |  LinkedIn    

Sahar Paz interviews Norma Kamali, fashion mogul, author, and a woman who proves you can evolve at any age.  This episode is a must for women in their 40’s and 50’s ready to own their voices. Walk away with these words of wisdom:  Longevity and the power of possibilities in your 40’s.  Questions you should ask yourself at 40, 45, and 50.  Vitality, overcoming the feeling that it’s too late.  Inspiration, and evolving at any age.    Connect with Sahar Paz:  Instagram  |  LinkedIn Connect with Norma Kamali: Instagram  |  Facebook

Sahar Paz interviews Wardrobe Stylist, Elsa Isaac about the power of getting dressed. Elsa has dressed celebrities, business moguls, to women in various leadership positions. In this episode we explore emerging from the cocoon of Covid why do we still need to dress for the job (or, the life) that we want, how to use your wardrobe as a powerful tool.  After a year of being in loungewear, it's time to break out of the rut, learn why is it important to do so. Learn how you can use your wardrobe to uplift yourself and your personal brand! Learn how do we curate a wardrobe that is reflective of who you are NOW. What is professional? How much of the patriarchy sets the tone for what is professional - let's talk about it! Connect with Sahar Paz on Instagram + LinkedIn Connect with Elsa Isaac on Instagram   

In episode 37, Sahar Paz kicks off season 6 with 5 easy steps to help you reframe, refashion, and revive your perspective and your personal brand!    Assess your strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. See what fits, clear the clutter.  What do you need to reimagine? How do you want to express yourself now? Where is the sparkle? Adding joy back into the mix.  This season Sahar wants you to try something new! A new way of listening to yourself, a new way of expressing yourself, perhaps going to a new part of town. It’s about refashioning your habits a little bit, waking up your senses, and start imaging a future that includes what’s important to you now.  

In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews Kimberly Lee Minor, CEO, and CMO of Bumbershoot, to get her to take on Diversity Equity and Inclusion, what personal branding has to do with DEI, and why we need to know who we are at the CORE.  Key takeaways are:  Hello GenX! How leadership is changing, and how it’s not.  Echo chambers on social media make conversations harder.  Reframing hard conversations to honest conversations.  Cognitive bias, what it has to do with you, your leadership, and your personal brand.  MEET MY GUEST:  An award-winning executive with an impeccable record of building brands, finding the uncut diamonds, and creating product-based stories. Kimberly is a customer-focused brand advocate and marketer with expertise in building seamless, cross-functional life cycle product processes, digital to brick and mortar customer experiences, as well as recruitment, engagement, and retention enhancements.  Kimberly leveraged her years of leadership experience to create her company, Bumbershoot, a boutique consulting firm that provides cultural and market insights to help business leaders strategically reposition their cultures for collaboration and inclusivity to provide a welcoming and empowering community for career acceleration of women and people of color; creates content and builds networks for support, enrichment, and promotion of niche communities.  She is an empowering mentor and purpose-centric business leader.  Kimberly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and has completed coursework towards her MBA at Drexel University.  She holds an executive certificate in Leadership and Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She and her husband have 2 sons and live in New Albany, OH. CONNECT WITH SAHAR + GUESTS @SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Kimberly Lee Minor on Instagram and LinkedIn.

In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews Jackie Garcia  Executive Compensation Analyst to discuss leveraging your personal brand in negotiations, and how to discover new positions that have evolved from the pandemic. Episode 35  highlights include:  The importance of Personal Branding from a compensation analyst perspective.  Raising your value and finding your niche on LinkedIn.  How to negotiate during a pandemic or down market.   Tips for approaching salary negotiations.  Words of Wisdom for future HR professionals CONNECT WITH SAHAR AND JACKIE Jackie is an Executive Compensation Analyst at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She is an accomplished corporate HR professional with extensive experience in strategic compensation, data analysis, M&A transactions, and developing/ implementing programs. She is a proponent of pay equity, negotiating for higher pay, and helping women know their worth.   In 2019, she founded Elevate Your Pay to help BIPOC women get paid what they deserve through pay equity, advocacy, education, and consulting. As a compensation professional, Jackie has seen the gender pay gap firsthand and is committed to sharing her knowledge to help women of color negotiate higher pay and close the gap. @SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Jackie on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlgarcia2/

In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews Olivia Owens, the Creator & General Manager of IFundWomen of Color to discuss your voice, your worth, and what it has to do with raising capital. episode 34 highlights include:  Understanding your value internally before raising capital Hype yourself up with your self-talk, read the “Untethered Soul” Current status of funding for women of color Your voice is your visibility What your personal brand has to do with raising capital Words of Wisdom from Miss Olivia Owens @SaharPaz | @OliviaOwens | @ifundwomen  MEET SAHAR’S GUEST:  Olivia Owens is the Creator & General Manager of IFundWomen of Color, the platform for women of color to raise capital through crowdfunding, grants, coaching, and the connections needed to launch and grow successful businesses. This funding ecosystem is designed to empower early-stage, women entrepreneurs and bridge the funding gap for women of color. Olivia was a founding team member of IFundWomen and managed Business Development and Partnerships. IFundWomen launched in 2016 and continues to help women raise millions of dollars in capital. Before launching IFundWomen of Color, Olivia’s leadership brokered critical partnerships to help scale the business (Unilever, Visa, adidas). She supported the creation of IFundWomen’s proprietary coaching program and helped build-out one of the nation’s largest connected communities of women business owners through the platform. Olivia previously held positions at Under Armour in People & Culture. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland. 

A new season of #OYVPodcast starts today dedicated to your personal brand in 2021. We kick off a collection of episodes with Sahar Paz talking to you about the pillars of personal branding in 2021, key takeaways for Episode 32 include:  Pillar 1: Personal Branding is your approach.  Pillar 2: How personal is your personal brand.  Pillar 3: Making an impact, Diversity Equity Inclusion  CONNECT WITH SAHAR  @SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram and Clubhouse  

In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews VP of Human Resources Elijah Bradshaw to get his take on personal branding, standing out on LinkedIn, and the importance of understanding emotions in the workplace. Key takeaways are:  Personal Branding demystified from a human resource perspective.  Getting clear on your lane of genius, from your bio to your CV.  HR, company culture, and you.  The importance of LinkedIn Recommendations. How 2020 changed the recruiting talent landscape for hiring managers.  The importance of Emotional Intelligence at the workplace.  MEET OUR GUEST:  Elijah Bradshaw holds the Vice President of Human Resources position on Beeline's Human Resources team. As Vice President of Human Resources, Elijah Bradshaw is an essential member of Beeline's leadership. Elijah Bradshaw is entrusted with maintaining employees’ happiness, whether it be through perks, company outings, or benefits. CONNECT WITH SAHAR + GUESTS @SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Elijah Bradshaw on LinkedIn.

In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews VP of Human Resources Elijah Bradshaw to get his take on personal branding, standing out on LinkedIn, and the importance of understanding emotions in the workplace. Key takeaways are:  Personal Branding demystified from a human resource perspective.  Getting clear on your lane of genius, from your bio to your CV.  HR, company culture, and you.  The importance of LinkedIn Recommendations. How 2020 changed the recruiting talent landscape for hiring managers.  The importance of Emotional Intelligence at the workplace.  MEET OUR GUEST:  Elijah Bradshaw holds the Vice President of Human Resources position on Beeline's Human Resources team. As Vice President of Human Resources, Elijah Bradshaw is an essential member of Beeline's leadership. Elijah Bradshaw is entrusted with maintaining employees’ happiness, whether it be through perks, company outings, or benefits. CONNECT WITH SAHAR + GUESTS @SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Elijah Bradshaw on LinkedIn.

A new season of #OYVPodcast starts today dedicated to your personal brand in 2021. We kick off a collection of episodes with Sahar Paz talking to you about the pillars of personal branding in 2021, key takeaways for Episode 32 include:  Pillar 1: Personal Branding is your approach.  Pillar 2: How personal is your personal brand.  Pillar 3: Making an impact, Diversity Equity Inclusion  CONNECT WITH SAHAR  @SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram and Clubhouse