She's Heard Podcast

Meet the wise, insightful, catalyst for change, Dr Leslie Carr. Dr. Carr, (http://lesliecarr.com) is a licensed clinical psychologist. She lives in San Francisco and offers psychotherapy and coaching in person, over the phone, and via Skype or FaceTime. Her primary expertise is in helping people to overcome internal obstacles so that they can become the best possible version of themselves. She gre...

Meet ritualist, musician, activist, and yogi Suzanne Sterling (suzannesterling.com). Suzanne has been performing and teaching transformational workshops for over 20 years. She is the founder of Voice of Change, inspiring people to find their unique voice as a tool for conscious evolution. Suzanne has been featured at hundreds of international festivals and conference centers including Yoga Journal...

Amber Field is a talented musician, captivating performer, and master teacher in San Francisco. Amber has the unique gift to share music and expressive arts as healing, liberating, practices for individuals and communities. Amber’s mission is to free our voices in harmony with others as we co-create a world of collective liberation. And they have programs kicking off in the San Francisco bay area...

Meet Emily Webb, co-founder, and teacher of Mission Fusion Dance in San Francisco. She is also a Krav Maga instructor. In this episode, we learn about what it’s taken for Emily to heal from abuse and find her voice. We learn how Emily was able to transform her experience from walking around in a perpetual state of fear to embodying and asserting her power. She helps us understand how trying on the...

Welcome to Season 2 of the She’s Heard Podcast! This is the place where extraordinary everyday people from different professions and walks of life, share with YOU - the empath, change-maker, truth-teller, disruptor, creator, and lover of humanity and life - about how to honor our voice and live with more power, creativity, and joy. In this episode - I (Emily Jennings, the host of the She’s Heard P...

Meet Catherine Ashton, trauma therapist, yoga teacher, mother, grandmother, and social change activist. Catherine is the founder of Yoga to Transform Trauma (http://www.yogatotransformtrauma.org/). Catherine offers several different trauma-informed yoga training programs and intensives for settings such as the yoga studio, community centers, hospitals, and incarceration centers. In this episode, w...

Meet Jasmine Hines. She is a mother, an athlete, yoga instructor, innovator, and transformational leader. Jasmine is also the founder of The Inspower Agency (http://www.theinspoweragency.org/) and founder of Amplify and Activate (http://amplifyandactivate.com/). Jasmine facilitates difficult conversations in various organizations ranging from the construction industry to historical museums, to yog...

Torey Ivanic (www.openspace4.com) is the author of “No Big Deal From Athlete to Advocate: A Memoir of Childhood Betrayal and a Journey to Justice.” Torey is a mom, wife, and founder of Open Space. Torey coaches people to navigate life changes with a sense of fun, adventure, and appreciation and respect for nature. She grew up in Ohio, worked her way west to California, then replanted her family in...

Michelle Cassandra Johnson (www.michellecjohnson.com) is the author of "Skill in Action, Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World". Michelle has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit and heart. Her experience and awareness as a black woman, allow first hand knowledge of how privilege and power operate. She understands the physical, emotional, mental, and s...

Dr. Sapana Doshi is a professor at the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. She teaches and researches about the oppressive social, cultural, and political systems of global capitalism and the possibilities for liberatory social transformation. Dr. Doshi is a daughter of immigrants from India, She grew up feeling like an outsider, never really fitting into any single c...

Meet Jerri Chou, Reiki Master, experience designer, and founder at www.feastongood.com. Jerri is originally from New York, and now primarily lives in L.A. Jerri started The Feast, which is a moment collective that brings people together to connect with their authentic selves, and each other as well as something greater than themselves, with the intention to live with more joy, fullness and purpose...

Meet sacred rebel, courage and authenticity coach Debbie Burns (www.debbieburns.me). Debbie is the best selling author of “The Path to Courage”. She’s been described as a Molotov cocktail in Hello Kitty packaging, dropping glitter truth bombs on a mission to help us believe in ourselves so strongly that the world can’t help but believe in us too. Deb’s navigated trauma, has weaved hard earned trut...

Meet holistic health nerd Lacou Flipse, founder of Enlightened Munch (enlightenedmunch.com). Lacou is a Nutritionist who holds a Bachelors of Science in Dietetics and Nutrition. She helps those struggling with nutrition and emotional eating get to a place of total wellness. Lacou uses her passion and creativity for food, nutrition, mental health, and mindfulness to help folks overcome imbalanced e...

Meet Dr. Phyllis West; a fierce, compassionate, lover of humanity, a power-house, a trail blazer, and a beautiful force of nature. She is a professor of Social Work and Public Health at Governors State University in Chicago Illinois. She was also a Peace Core volunteer in the Sierra Leone Liberia region of West Africa during the war. In this episode she gives us a glimpse of what it was like growi...

Meet Aimee Heffernan (http://aimeeheffernan.com/). Sex and Family Therapist, mother of three boys; Aimee courageously shares publicly for the first time about being a feminist mormon. She gives us a behind the scenes peek into what it was like growing up and starting a family in the Mormon church, navigating the nuance of being a feminist and believing in gay rights, while taking a stand for healt...

Sahar Paz's diverse career in New York City spanned from banking, to fashion, to nonprofit. She is currently the Director of Culture and Communications at PinkCilantro, a Digital Brand Building Agency, in Houston. She is an author, speaker, and hosts online training to help people find their voice at www.findyourvoice.world. Sahar's thought-provoking keynotes have been presented at respected confe...

Meet mama yogi and change agent Krissy Shields (mahamama.com). She’s empowering women to own their voice and assert their agency through her educational pre-natal yoga classes and teacher trainings. Krissy shares about her struggles and triumphs through recovering from addiction. She shares how becoming a mother was the catalyst to reclaiming her voice and asserting her agency. We discuss the impo...

Growing up between multiple cultures and multiple countries, presenting as white, identifying as Latina, Marie-Elizabeth sheds light on the difference between fitting in and belonging. She shares her journey to reclaiming fractured parts of herself and the freedom that comes with reclaiming your voice. Marie-Elizabeth (memali.com) is a life coach, poet, and underwater photographer. She currently b...

Meet this trailblazing force of nature who is bridging social justice and art. As a retired lawyer, Jolyn Gardner Campbell (jolyngc.com) helps teens educate their peers on the school to prison pipeline. She’s the creator of Afro Jazz Fine Art. She also curates art of the African Diaspora. Jolyn is disrupting the elitist, exclusive art world through her virtual art gallery. DO NOT miss this intimat...

In this episode Emily, the host of the podcast, introduces herself and shares a couple key experiences that helped her speak up and own her voice. She also answers questions she will be asking future guests who will be featured in upcoming episodes. Go to shesheard.com for more info