Armenian Women Empowerment

Seriously though, why are we doing this to our young women and men in fact? Why do we continue to feed our kids crap and then shame them for being fat? In this day age of a plague that seems to pray on the obese, we can do a much better job of encouraging healthful lifestyles for our youth while not shaming them for getting off track, or simply being a kid who’s body growth changes are normal. The...

Do you need a break, a recharge or a new fresh view on life? Of course you do! We all need to take an artist date for ourselves and get back to nature and nurture to be the empowered women we are meant to be. Don’t tiptoe around eggshells, stomp on them and get out there again! You deserve that and need it to be whole again.

Are we pinning women for faults and wrongs more than men? Absolutely! We are quick to judge and pin a women even if she’s been wronged. Let’s challenge ourselves this week and find opportunities to compliment and praise the women in our lives!

May 28 is not just Armen in Independence Day it is also my independence day yay! I have survived and thrived from four years of independence from a very toxic and abusive relationship and marriage. Take a listen excuse me two things I have learned and over come throughout the years.

Do we still practice the archaic bride kidnappings in Armenia? You betchya! Unbelievable to be wasting time on this antiquated inexcusable practice of female dominance when we have bigger things to worry about, like elder care of our women and financial and emotional wellness. Let’s get out of the dark and call this junk out of our culture for good.

Dance at your kids birthday. Make it a special day just because you had them. It’s empowering to celebrate life any which way you can. When you’re empowered you can achieve full independence and freedom you’ve always wanted! Cheers and happy Mother’s Day!

What did the empowered armenian women do to help quell the storm of looming clouds of doom? How did they stay strong and press on? It’s a mystery to me still and I know what a super human my own grandmother must have been to go through it all and still manage to live some kind of life. Let’s remember our loved ones during this 106th remembrance. Let’s also look forward president Biden speak the wo...

We don’t celebrate our Armenian women enough or not at all. Even when they’re billionaires, we judge and make it seem bad. Kim kardashian is a self made billionaire and did so in her own good talent graces. Let’s celebrate this and not demonize it just because you were raised to see women in the wrong light.

What are we actually doing for our aging elders? What more can be done to service our own hard working armenian women? What about helping our own here in the states? That and more about Megan markel speaking out against the apparent disparagement of her by the royals.

We offer free donuts on international donut day and free coffee on that day, why not free diamonds or flowers on women’s day? C’mon now, these days are simply to reminds us how much more work we have to be done. Why not celebrate it doing something special for women only? Make that phone call to a friend, mother or sister and listen to their story.

Join me in a listen today of an interview I had with Maro Matosian, founder and executive director of Armenian Women’s Support center of Armenia. This is an important subject very near and dear to my heart as a survivor of domestic abuse. It’s going to thrill you to know how we got this far in Armenia to include such an important center for women to have if needed.

Are we still teaching our boys to be our daughters keepers? The oddest thing I ever heard was when my friend Taline had to get her two year older brothers permission to go to the movies with me. I was like, really? You’re not going to aak your parents? Totally disempowering the girl who grows up to be a woman who cannot confidentiality decide for herself and has a skewed view of authority figures....

How are you manifesting love in your life? Valentine’s Day is overrated sometimes, but the bigger picture is always more important than the temporary day. Let’s think long term and rid ourselves of the toxicity moving forward.

News getting us down about our role as diasporan Armenians? Totally, I get it and you’re not wrong to feel strongly about that. The fact is that diasporan Armenians have been doing the best they can under circumstances beyond their control. Praise your kids quickly and surely when they make strides to turn poison into medicine for hayastan any chance you get! We are woke and are on the right side...

I thought I knew what the title of this one was going to be until I got spammed with angry emojis. I still cannot understand what the anger is all about toward Armenian women in leadership roles. I will never understand how it’s acceptable in this day and age when Armenian women are caught up in a game of chauvinism and sexism. It makes no sense why we shouldn’t support and uplift and empower each...

Please, only adult ears for this one as it is sensitive subject matter. Sexual abuse isn’t just a violent rape or angry and yelling and screaming sex. It’s way more than that and all falls under the umbrella of emotional abuse. It may even be more debilitating than that of violent sexual abuse.

Do you have any habits you’d like to break, shake and develop? I think that an old habit shaken should replaced with a new more productive and healthy one, and what better time to do that than in a new year! You’ll learn about how I broke one and then set some measurable s goals and habits that keep me accountable and that is empowering! Also, please continue to buy Armenian and help our brothers...

Join me for a lovely and important conversation with the developer and CEO of handmade in Armenia. We discuss the importance of advocating for buying from Armenian artisans and how it empowers them, especially WOMEN!

Are we still stuck in the old world? A world where the woman’s circumstances dictated how she’d be chosen or not by a man? We can’t control our circumstances and where a woman lands doesn’t mean she’s got a scarlet letter, yet we still stereotype threat that she does. In this episode I’m dissecting this important piece that we should lose as a society and doesn’t serve us anymore if it ever even d...

An empowering way to start off this new year (we deserve it) is by giving yourself the gift of a word to live by. I’ve narrowed my word of the year down to two. Which one do you think I should chose? I’ve been living my years by one word since 2018. It’s a resolution, only way more encompassing and no way to really fumble on it as it’s all encompassing.

In this episode I’m talking about how I’m staying the course of empowerment even in covid careful and tenuous 2020 times. It’s been a hell of a year for us as Armenians, so taking little steps to stay empowered leads to big improvements down the line. I’m featuring two Armenian authors here as well while I continue the buy Armenian is the season project. Enjoy this listen!

How appropriate to be advertising Linda’s art today on this podcast about empowering our dadigs, medzmoms and nenes. Are we forgetting about the elders in artsahk who just moved their whole lives out of their homes at the hands of the terrible Turk? Are we forgetting they need empowering words of encouragement too? Listen to this podcast about how my sons AYF is hosting a letters to grandmas for t...

We aren’t going to be stereotype threatened anymore. We don’t have 20 years to waste on bosses, coworkers, partners or family members that participate in the stereotyping of us into submission. We have bigger things to do and invent, and create and work on than eating out time with those that negatively affect our good decision making skills. Let’s get out of that funk and move ahead.

The pressure to repopulate Armenia isn’t new, but is it more important now that we’ve lost so many of our soldiers? Aren’t we just continuing the same old same old and keeping our women hunkered down and away from their truth and potential? It’s not a simple fix and I’m going to talk about why we need to pull the brakes on that pressure. We have bigger things going on now and need all hands on dec...

Happy to present the fourth and final buy Armenian is the season. This episode reminds us to stay UNIFIED and unwaveringly healthy in spirit for our brothers and sisters in artsahk and Armenia. We cannot let the narcissist and nay sayers to drag us down. We have the power as Armenians in this world to stick to the focused plan of a free/azad Armenia with every fiber of our being. We can do this hu...