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Maria Morukian (Gen X), recognized organizational development practitioner specializing in training, coaching, and facilitation with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and intercultural competence, joins Yo to discuss trends in DEI, emotions that can be present when leading DEI initiatives, and how “jaggedy” those efforts may appear. They also get into intergenerational expectations an...

In today’s Sound Bite, Yo continues the discussion started in episode 101 with Dana Rubin, author of the book, Speaking While Female, and creator of the Speaking While Female Speech Bank (SpeakingWhileFemale.co). Her purpose with the speech bank is to broaden our understanding of the role of women orators in history. It’s the world’s largest online archive of women’s speeches from around the world...

Dana Rubin, author of the book, Speaking While Female, joins Yo to discuss why it’s been so hard for women to speak in public historically. They also take a look at why speaking in public can be difficult and Dana offers some advice to help overcome the discomfort. Lastly, Dana (Boomer) offers great insights into how younger generations are leading the way when it comes to speaking up with confide...

After recording our Ep 98 with Meenakshi I knew I needed to write a letter for our 100th episode…and it needed to go to my daughters and you, dear listeners, to share what I’ve learned about leadership over the past 100 episodes. Thank you for being here and for taking this journey with us! Related Episodes: Ep. 98 , A Daughter is Special with Meenakshi Sinha: Letters from a Mother in India to her...

After doing Eps. 98 and 97 my heart was full thinking about my Hispanic heritage. With the kick off of Hispanic Heritage month today, I wanted to share my family's story - we're the other Chavez family. Enjoy!!

Today’s Sound Bite episode builds on Ep 98 where we discussed the book A Daughter is Special by Meenakshi Singh which was about the letters sent by her mother in India while she was studying in the U.S. – it brought the following question to mind for me after that episode: What do we think about letter writing, as defined as either handwritten or typed AND mailed versus an e/m sent digitally?   So...

Meenakshi Sinha (GenX) and her 11 year old daughter, Radhika Chandra (Gen Z), join Yo to discuss a book Meenakshi put together based on letters from her mother, Mridula Sinha, in India while she was in the U.S. working on her PhD. During the episode we explore some of life’s biggest lessons that Mridula wanted all daughters to know, the biggest being they are special. Originally the letters were w...

In this Sound Bite episode, Yo continues the Labor Day celebration discussed in Episode 96 about Dolores Huerta.   Mentioned in the Episode:   Cesar Chavez, Autobiography of La Cau sa by Jacques E. Levy Cesar Chavez by HalMarcovitz Cesar Chavez , (film) Related Episodes: Ep 96 Dolores Huerta: The Woman Who Led the Farmworker‘s Movement Alongside Cesar Chavez Ep 65 . The Power of Latino Leadership,...

In this episode, Yo celebrates Labor Day, the national holiday in the U.S. that remembers all those that have contributed  and when she thought about what leaders best represented the American labor movement she was drawn to the efforts of Cesar Chavez, maybe it was because Chavez was her maiden name, or that he resembled her own father’s looks, or that SJSU has a monument to the man in the center...

Canny girls, Emma and Kiki, are back in the house to join Yo. The 3 of us recently went to see the movie, Barbie, together and wanted to share some of our key takeaways. When originally thinking about the movie and doing an episode around it, I wondered if it might be too silly but what really convinced me to see the movie was hearing the monologue Gloria makes in the movie about it being literall...

Courtnei Lee (Millennial) joins Team Canny (Emma, Yo, Kiki) in this episode to discuss OYT Cosmetics (OYTC), a company she founded and where she is CEO. During the episode we get into some really delicious conversation about authenticity & beauty, plus we got to play and talk about her cosmetic line! What fun is that?!   OYTC  is a Vancouver-based, LGBTQ2+-owned and operated company committed...

Today’s Sound Bite episode builds on Ep 92 where we began our interview with Bessi Graham, an award-winning entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience working with business owners, governments, and large funding bodies to bring doing good and making money back together. You may remember from that episode, Bessi talked with us about Emotions, Discernment, Powering-Through, Clarity, & being c...

Bessi Graham (Millennial) joins Yo to talk about leadership by examining emotions, and cultivating discernment and clarity. They also take a look at “powering-through” and its connection to burning out. One area of particular interest in the discussion was how the body plays in a role and keeps score! Bessi Graham is an award-winning entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience working with busin...

Dena Patton (GenX) joins Yo in this episode to discuss her book, The Greatness Game and living a more inspiring life.   Dena Patton has been an elite business and leadership coach and consultant for the last 20 years. She works with world changing business owners and purpose-driven leaders to help them go from good-to-great in their leadership, income and impact. Her 3-Pillar coaching approach hel...

This short Sound Bite comes from the documentary on Apple+: Stephen Curry – Underrated. There were so many gems we just had to share some of the most inspirational moments from the film. We hope you’ll be left with a feeling of ambition and tenacity just like Steph. Enjoy the listen!! Mentioned in the Episode: Stephen Curry: Underrated Ways to reach Yo: eMail  yo@yocanny.com   Public FB group: Gir...

In this episode, Andrea “Baba” Canny furthers our discussion about ageism (from Ep 88) and provides some great interviewing tips. We also get into pay gaps, career expectations, talents, gifts and dreams.   Andrea is in her mid-50s and since the pandemic finding steady work has been a challenge. She’s shown great resilience and looks for the gifts present with the challenges. Her story is inspirat...

Nori Jabba joins Yo to discuss her book Keeping Your Seat at the Table, A memoir and guide on Regaining Confidence in Middle Age. Together they explore ageism, strategic partnerships and hero lists. Nori explains the many aspects of The Table as a theme throughout her book. There were so many cleaver table uses like “Flip The Table”, “Don’t Table Yourself”, “Don’t Get Pulled Under the Table” discu...

You may remember from Ep 86 where we discussed Machiavelli for Women by Stacey Vanek Smith. In today’s episode we got a bit deeper into that book where she wrote one of the main ways power is reflected in the workplace is pay. Oh Yeah! She states that after closing the pay gap between 1980 and 2000, the gap stopped shrinking. More and more women got degrees and entered the workforce, but the pay g...

When you hear the name Machiavelli, what do you think? Historical figure? His work “The Prince” which offered pragmatic and often controversial advice to rules on how to gain and maintain power? Maybe an Amoral Realist who believed the end justifies the means and that rules should be ready to employ deceit and cruelty to achieve their goals? And if someone uses the adjective “Machiavellian” it’s d...

Jacqueline Farrington joins Yo to discuss Strategic Presence, Authenticity, and Connection based on her new book: The Non-Obvious Guide to Better Presentations: How to Present Like a Pro (Virtually or in Person).   There are so many gems that Jacqueline offers us about tuning into our audiences and connecting with what they want. Here’s one of her quotes: “Communication is all about intent. We nee...

This Sound Bite is a combination of building on a previous episode which was Ep 83 where we explored intuition by digging into the Trust Your Gut of the book, Trust Yourself, by Melody Wilding, and we are gathering inspiration from Robin S. Sharma’s book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.   Sharma’s fiction book is about courage, balance, abundance, and joy through eyes of the character Julian Mantle,...

Today’s Sound Bite show builds on Ep 82 where we discussed the book Trust Yourself by Melody Wilding. There were an additional gem Yo wanted to share with you about the chapter Trust Your Gut. Takeaways: 1.    It’s tricky to differentiate between intuition and fear. 2.    Fear can speak loudly and dramatically while intuition is quiet, without drama.   As mentioned in the episode: Trust Yourself b...

Do you see yourself as a high achiever and who happens to be really sensitive to things? If so, this is the episode for you! We dig into Melody Wilding’s book, Trust Yourself, Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions at Work. She uses the term “Sensitive Strivers” for those of us that are high achieving sensitives and it describes Yo to a T. We’ll explore when our sensitive traits can be a liab...

Today’s Sound Bite show builds on Ep 80 were we discussed the book Emotional Agility by Susan David, PhD. There were a couple more gems Yo wanted to share with you: 1.    It’s all too easy to be hooked on the notion – known as correspondence bias – that someone else’s behavior can be attributed to fixed personality traits. 2.    Caring too much can cause us to lose perspective – might be better to...

In this episode Yo digs into the book Emotional Agility by Susan David, PhD, to explore the science-based approach to navigate life’s twists and turns. It’s about getting unstuck, embrace change, and thrive in work and life. She states that how we deal with our thoughts, feelings, and self-talk ultimately determine how successful we’ll be. David has a special chapter on Becoming Real and she works...