Chats with Yvonne

Being an Entrepreneur, Finding Community, & Leaning Into Competition with Humor. Numbers Witch and Bookkeeper Regan Bashara is conjuring empowerment for passionate, open-hearted entrepreneurs in the United States. Regan helps you track and organize your numbers to quickly build wealth while aligning with your principles and ethics. Wealth allows you to take back your financial agency and start...

Does Chat Gpt writing your speech breed self-doubt? Does it make you feel authentic in your expression? I read a speech Chat GPT wrote for me & give you my thoughts on using the tool to write your speech. Thank you for tuning in!

Meet Jennifer Aguilar, a small business owner & current graduate student, getting her Masters in Organizational Leadership and Management. Jennifer began her lipstick business, Muttats, in 2021 and it’s about Empowering beauty without harm, as her lipsticks are organic and only have seven ingredients.  She is also the daughter of an immigrant single mother and a DACA recipient and hopes to one...

Today's episode is dedicated to providing you all a step by step guide for creating a speech and telling your story. Like I mention in the episode, check out my website to learn how you can be a guest on my podcast as a part of the Speaker Spotlight Series. Thank you for your support. It means the world to me!

Embracing Efficiency: The Journey of Learning to Leapfrog Meet Salena Davila-Schilling, the powerhouse Project Manager and founder of The Traveling Project Manager. As a Latina and first-generation business owner, Salena brings a rich tapestry of experiences and perspectives to her work. With a dual Masters in Clinical Counseling and Behavioral Psychology, complemented by a Project Management Cert...

Today’s episode is going to cover self doubt. I experienced a pretty severe case of it recently and I want to share it, not to propose a solution, but to hopefully remind all of us that we’re here, together. And that I can almost guarantee it happens to all of us to some extent. Is it inevitable? Does it stem from us or pressures from the world around us?

Today's episode is all about Improv. I start off sharing what improv is, the benefits of engaging in improv, and then I improvise the rest of this episode. I looked up random prompts (with no prep) and the stories that came up, reminded me that we all have many, many stories to tell that have taught us lessons or impacted the way we approach life, but we haven't been given the space to bri...

Today’s episode is the last of our mini series where we explore the 4 types of introversion. We’ve chatted about social, thinking, and restrained introverts and today’s episode is dedicated to exploring what it means to be an anxious introvert. Sources: https://psychcentral.com/stress/how-introverts-deal-with-stressful-situations#how-to-deal-with-stress-as-an-introvert https://medcircle.com/articl...

Today’s episode is dedicated to exploring what it means to be a restrained introvert & how it can be your strength as a speaker. As a part of this mini series, I talked about social and thinking introverts in previous episodes. So, if you haven’t listened to those and you’re interested, go check them out. Sources: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/types-of-introverts https://www.diaryofan...

Today’s episode is dedicated to exploring what it means to be a thinking introvert & how it can be your strength as a speaker. Last episode I talked about what it means to be a social introvert, so if you haven’t listened to that one and you’re interested, go check it out. Sources: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/07/neuroscientist-shares-coveted-skills-that-set-introverts-apart-their-brains-work-...

Are you an introvert that gets confused as an extrovert or ambivert? You might be a social introvert! I’ll briefly go through each type of introvert, but spend most of the time talking through social introversion. I’ll look into the differences between a social introvert and ambivert, and I’ll end with some insight into how to use your social introversion as a speaker and what it might say about y...

Today I’m talking about how you can start getting paid to speak. I share the first time I ever got paid to speak and what that process was like, how much you can expect to be getting paid even as a beginner, and what things should be included in your speaker portfolio to ensure you’re ready to go when opportunity comes knocking. Note: I mention my upcoming workshop Build Your Public Speaking Toolk...

In today’s episode I reflect on something that I have gone back and forth on for many years. Do I need to say that I am Latina? I’m going to share some key moments in my life that have shaped my ever changing, often contradicting perspective on this as well as some thought leadership in this topic of identity from literature that I think discusses it really well. Thank you so much for being here....

The goal of this podcast is for us to reflect on our lived experiences and use them to form the foundation for how we show up as speakers. In today’s episode, I’m doing a look back on 2023, the lessons I’ve learned (and in some cases still learning) that have shaped me into the current version of myself as a Public Speaker. And, because our comfortability with public speaking is mostly in our prac...

In today's episode we chat with Daisy Lopez, Founder of The Liberated Latina®️ brand, Marketing Creative Strategist, Somatic Vocal Healer, and host of The Liberated Latina Podcast. We explore authenticity in our voices and in our marketing as Latinas, the power in understanding our voice's (literal) strength and its vibrational power, and we redefine what our goal should be. Listen to lear...

In today’s episode titled: Changing what academia looks, feels, and sounds like. We’re talking with Jennifer Cabrera about how she’s doing just that with her platform Academic Latina. We’ll hear about her upbringing, how her sense of community started at home, and we’ll get a behind the scenes into one of her recent speaking engagements.  Jennifer Cabrera is a first-generation Latina and proud dau...

Hola, Everybody! Thank you for tuning in. In this episode, we chat with Melissa Aguilera, an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at El Paso Community College. Topics covered: How we create meaning from our cultures to inform our communication styles Navigating your career & interests as a First Gen college student & professional The importance of inclusivity in public speaking Huma...

This episode is part 2 of my conversation with Abby Benedetto, Educational Consultant and Founder of Core Shifts.  https://core-shifts.com/ We chat public speaking, anti-racism in the classroom, and how she is changing the education game. Abby Benedetto has taken on designing and changing systems for the last two decades from a wide variety of roles and perspectives - honing her skills around...

This episode is part 1 of my conversation with Abby Benedetto, Educational Consultant and Founder of Core Shifts.  https://core-shifts.com/ We chat public speaking, anti-racism in the classroom, and how she is changing the education game.  Abby Benedetto has taken on designing and changing systems for the last two decades from a wide variety of roles and perspectives - honing her skills...

In this episode, I share my story. I tell you how I got started in public speaking and what I did to start getting paid for it. I also offer ways for you to start getting booked.  Thank you so much for being here. If you enjoyed today's episode, use your beautiful voice and let me know. Rate this podcast, share your comments with me on my social platforms, or send this episode to someone you...

In this episode, we sit down with Wendy Barba, VP of Brands at mitú to learn about her career in media as a First Gen Latina. We tap into leadership, the role of community, and her upbringing to learn how it plays a role in how she navigates her career.   Of course, this wouldn't be a Chats with Yvonne episode if we didn't tap into her public speaking journey. We'll hear about how she fe...

Hola, everybody! I am currently training for a marathon and I've realized a couple of things along the way in my process. I share some of the lessons I've learned and how you can use those to inform your own public speaking journey.  Here's a sneak peek:  Getting started is always the hardest. Practice is essential, but you have to find the type of practice that works for you.  No p...

You've created various versions of your resume, you've had friends look over it, and now you're ready to apply to jobs and prepare for interviews. This entire experience can be nerve-racking, but you don't have to do it alone.  We chat with Alejandra Velasco, a Cyber Security Consultant for a Big 4 firm and an alumni from the University of California, Berkeley. Having graduated during the Cov...

You're not a public speaker like them. You're a public speaker like you. In this conversation with Karina Mora, we hear her story of the time she decided she was no longer going to assimilate to the white "standard" and instead amplify and honor her cultura in all spaces. We learn about what that turning point was for her and why today her work focuses on helping people move past assimilation to r...

What can we do to make the world a better place for everyone? In this episode, we explore public speaking as activism. I get real about some things that have been on my mind and bring in the best person I could imagine to talk to: Ari C aka Decolonized Puta. She walks us through what it means to decolonize, how important community is, and what we can do to find our strength in the movement. We end...