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Welcome Karina Sanchez to the podcast this week! She is a powerhouse woman who is the author of "Leadership for the New Female Manager" among many other things. Which we all get access to by the way right here .... but don't forget to leave an incredible review for Karina. She is owed more than that for sharing her knowledge with us. Click here to leave your review please. Over the last 15 years,...

Welcome Tanya Weaver to the podcast this week! Tanya Weaver is the Executive Director of American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA), a role she has held since 2005. In addition to directing AFCA's day-to-day activities, Tanya frequently speaks about AFCA and AIDS to students, community organizations and religious organizations. In 2007, Tanya created and held the first Climb Up so Kids Can...

Welcome Jane Finette to the podcast this week! She is the Founder and Executive Director of The Coaching Fellowship, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of young women leaders in social change. A leadership expert and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Jane has dedicated her life to achieving equality for women — empowering them to create impact and build the world of...

Meet Faith Jones this week! Faith empowers business owners with clear and straight-forward legal knowledge so they can set their businesses up with confidence. She coaches them on a personal level to step into their power as successful entrepreneurs. She is a passionate, articulate advocate for women's' empowerment and business leadership. Her mission is to inspire and equip women with the ability...

Leah JM Dean is the author of the best-selling book, Assemble the Tribe, and an expert on leading with a "tribe mindset." She is a former Chief Human Resources Executive and Board member who, for more than 20 years, successfully led multiple people integrations and developed leading HR strategies. As the Founder and CEO of Conduit International Ltd., Leah has worked with organizations and executiv...

Jill James is a female powerhouse, who helps self-funded business owners go from being the founder to CEO. This is the cure for entrepreneurs who work 80+ hours a week, which can be fixed in a matter of a couple of weeks, without losing any profits. She is not the one to give generic advice like "raise your prices" or "hire more people."  Jill comes from humble beginnings – she comes from a small...

We're back! It's Motivation Monday with Maya on MaYapinion with another amazing guest, Dayo who is the founder of the newest and hottest social audio app, Wisdom! Here is a bit more about Dayo: Dayo started as an IT Management Consultant at Accenture and Deloitte Then, driven by the lack of diversity in London's tech ecosystem, she joined the founding team of OneTech, London's largest diversity in...

Join me on the MaYapinion™ podcast this week as I recap the top five solo episodes and top five interviews on the podcast. This was actually recorded LIVE on https://www.joinwisdomapp.com/ where I am a top mentor and would love for you to join us! I have a weekly show on Monday's at 6pm EST, "Maya's Motivation Monday" where you can interact with me one on one in front of a live audience. I hope yo...

It's our 99th episode since the relaunch and we want to thank each one of you for continuing to support the podcast. I am closing out this year and relaunch until February 2022 with this important topic. The power of leadership is not something to be taken lightly, and it is something that is important that we not only understand but also, recognize positive and negative ways of using our power as...

"No" is a full sentence. This is a concept that was introduced to me in 2020, and I really understood it from my core by the end of this year, 2021. As leaders, we must know how to say No, even more than we need to know how to say yes. Let us know what you think about the second episode in the power series this week. Check us out: https://mayapinionpodcast.com/ https://mayapinionpodcast.com/blog/...

This is the first episode in the power series and I am discussing leading by letting go. I personally always thought the tighter the grasp I could have on "things" then the more "control I had or the better leader I could be as I would know "everything" and I could do "everything." Well, I learned quite early that is the farthest thing from the truth.  However, I find as women especially, we pride...

This week on the MaYapinion™ podcast, we have Christie Marchese who is the founder and CEO of Kinema. She is also, of course, a true leader of her life and knows a thing or two about leadership. Kinema is a new social cinema platform that is building a world-wide network of screening hosts, filmmakers and filmgoers. Under her helm, the company's ultimate goal is to expand access to engaging film a...

This week, we have Hilary DeCesare, owner and founder of The ReLaunch Co. In her own words, she says, "we help women through transitions into major transformations in their business, relationships and personal lives. We have a special model around The 3H Effect that takes a person through the heart, the head, into the higher self to manifest midlife magic." 01:43  Hilary talks about her two coming...

This week we have Amy Lynn Durham, the founder of Create Magic at Work, on the podcast. Create Magic At Work's intention is to offer Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) tools to energize and transform the workplace.  As an expert in building positive company cultures, Amy designed Create Magic At Work to bring a variety of services and strategies to aid in cultivating teamw...

Jennifer Love is a wealth philosopher, money therapist and the founding CEO of The Living Wealthy Institute. She is a sought after advisor to world leaders and an international speaker, author and educator weaving the aspects of our humanity into her garden conversation about the nature of wealth. Award winning, 5x career entrepreneur with 20+ years under her comfy Keds, Jennifer Love is a thought...

Joy Clausen Soto joins the podcast this week and she is a keynote speaker who inspires audiences with her story of perseverance. She followed her dream to SeaWorld, San Diego to become a dolphin trainer. After that Joy continued following her dreams and attended film school. Then at age twenty-five she found a lump on her throat and was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Joy decided to m...

This week, we welcome Sheevaun Moran, who is the founder of Energetic Solutions®. She is an expert at impact, influence, and income wizardry where a business is stagnant or starting up. She will like to share with you and your audience her unique approach using energetic techniques & principles to help innovate small businesses into big successes. Sheevaun has worked with over 25,000+ entrepreneur...

This week, we welcome Jodi Woelkerling to the MaYapinion™ Podcast! Jodi Woelkerling works with individuals and businesses to help them to build resilient cultures and resilient individuals within that culture. Much of her work is with leaders, assisting them with their own resilience and with leading resilient teams. She is the author of "World Class Leadership" for Senior Executives as well. 01:1...

This week on Motivation Monday, we have Angelina McEwen. She owns her own business and discusses the importance of visual content and her journey to entrepreneurship. Angelina was born in Donetsk, Ukraine and moved to the US in 2005. As she focused on learning the English language, she successfully graduated from Newnan High School and went onto receiving an Associates Degree in Television Product...

Let's talk plant based this week! Here a little more about our guest: Pamela's interest in health and wellness blossomed in her twenties when she began a quest to absorb all of the nutrition information she could get her hands on. She had just graduated college where she ate fairly well but had some struggles with her health nonetheless. Her resultant health quest soon led her to learn about the m...

Gabrielle Dolan is considered a global expert in business storytelling and real communication. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker and best selling author of seven books. Her client list is extensive including the likes of Visa, Amazon, EY, Uber, Accenture, Telstra, Australia Post and the Obama Foundation. The professional highlight of her career so far is meeting Barack Obama while deliv...

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Juli Geske-Peer is our guest this week talking about the "5 Senses for Success" which is her new book. She shares with us the five senses and how we can apply them to leadership and our lives. We also spoke about my favorite topic, empathy, and shared our opinions about the importance of relationships.  1:17 Juli talks about her new book "The 5 senses for success" and when it will come out 5:22 Th...

Purpose reaches a different depth to any conversation and leadership is not exempt. In my opinion, we spend our entire lives trying to figure out what our "purpose" in this life actually is and do we have one? Well, I think we all have a purpose, in fact, many "purposes" in our lives. As far as leadership goes though, purpose is a direct reflect of your value in many ways and it's why it's importa...

Understanding your mission in this life is key to understanding how to become the leader of your life. There are a lot of misconceptions about "your mission though." I feel the word itself can sometimes be intimidating for a lot of people. But think of it this way, if a company or brand does not have a mission, then are we going to understand it, let alone support it? Probably not. That's one of t...