The Passionistas Project Podcast | Passionate Women Empowerment Hosts

Meredith Rhoades is an award winning Thryv Digital Business Advisor for local business owners. Meredith and her team offer an all in one software client experience platform that helps with the many things busy owners don't know how to do, want to do or have time to do. They solve the problem of using many different systems that don't talk to each other — or no software system at all — and getting...

Crystal Lynese Walker has over 15 years of experience helping organizations develop operational processes to curate equitable and inclusive workplaces through result driven methods. With a background in organizational communication and social and economic justice, she uses cultural intelligence to catalyze change and disruption within the diversity, equity, and inclusion sector. Crystal Lynese is...

If you're old enough like us, chances are you grew up watching The New Zoo Revue. The show was syndicated from 1972 to 1977, and episodes ran well into the 1990s with 3 million viewers per season in its heyday. After 50 years and 40 years out of the public eye, they are back. The show was the brainchild of Doug Momary, who, along with his wife, Emmy Jo, created the answer to Sesame Street, focusin...

Dr. Hokehe Eko is a mom, board certified pediatrician, TEDx speaker, author and CEO of GLOW Pediatrics, LLC. She partners with parents and children of ADHD and autism to address the root causes of their children's behaviors so they glow with health from the inside out. She's also the CEO of Kids of Hope, a5013c organization sharing love, hope and dignity with children in foster care. Learn more ab...

Vee Christian is the founder of the Mindful Love Relationships & New You Coaching. Vee is a highly successful certified relationship coach and published author of two books “They Tried. You Won.” and “Ladies Leave Your Dick at Home.” She has a 100% success rate for helping clients remove the blocks to attract an exclusive relationship and has been coaching for nearly 15 years. She enjoys helping h...

Nikki Porcher is the Founder of Buy From a Black Woman. Nikki ensures that Black women are seen, supported and heard. She opens doors for Black women business owners and advocates for them at every level of the business ecosystem. She pushes for change at the policy level, champions supplier diversity at the corporate level, mentors Black women, founders at the business level, and also educates co...

Passionistas Project Founders Amy and Nancy Harrington, chat with Power Passionista Julie DeLucca-Collins to share their journey to launching The Passionistas Project Sisterhood. They take a deep dive into their inclusive sisterhood where passion-driven women come to get support, find their purpose and feel empowered to transform their lives and change the world. Learn more about Julie. Learn more...

  Jessica Clark is an out queer actor of projects such as True Blood, Alien Harvest and the film A Perfect Ending. Now she brings us her latest project coming out for Love The first US dating competition show focused on queer women, 16 women who love women. And one romantic lead all live under the same roof in the Palm Palace of Palm Springs. Learn more about Jessica. Learn more about Coming Out f...

Patricia Rae has been a professional actor for the past 35 years. An outspoken activist for racial and gender equality, she's struggled to make Latinas visible in a positive light in television and film. Her big break came in an Oscar nominated film where she portrayed a Colombian immigrant living in New York City. Learn more about Patricia. Learn more about The Passionistas Project. Read the show...

Coco Madari is a BIPOC, queer, multi-talented, creative being who helps HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) creatives manage their projects and endeavors without overwhelm. They are also a music producer, singer/songwriter, visual artist, poet and DJ, living on the unsurrendered land of the Tsunemu First Nation (Colonial name: Nanaimo). Learn more about Coco. Learn more about The Passionistas Project Re...

Jen Rafferty is an educator, author and founder of Empowered Educator. Since its inception, the Empowered Educator has reached teachers and school leaders all over the world. Jen has been featured in Authority Magazine, Medium, Thrive Global, Voyage MIA and was on the TEDx stage with her talk Generational Change Begins with Empowered Teachers. She's also the host of the podcast, Take Notes with Je...

Benedetta Jasmine Guetta, an Italian food writer and photographer. She was born in Milan, but she lives in Santa Monica, California. In 2009, she cofounded a website called Labna, the only Jewish/Kosher cooking blog in Italy, specializing in Italian and Jewish cuisine. Since then, she has been spreading the word about the marvels of Italian Jewish food in Italy and abroad, teaching the recipes of...

Joanna Barbolla has always been pulled into the exciting world of international wines and abstract art. After a three-decade career in New York City's corporate America, and several years in the wine business, Joanna started a second career in teaching after relocating to Florida. While both rewarding and challenging, Joanna never gave up on her first love, wine and art, and created DIVULGE D'VINO...

India Henry, Cindy Cale and Marisil Wright-Pennant had the brilliant idea of forming a forensic DNA laboratory to provide quality and accurate science together. The DNA Mavens have over 40 years of experience in forensic evidence processing, and interpretation and testimony. They provide consultation, research and laboratory services as well as education and training programs,   Learn more about D...

Jen Dallas is the founder of Jen Dallas, Inc. Jen melds sophistication and history in creating the design of each house project. Well versed in many periods and styles, she has a true appreciation for the old meets the new. She strives to add character throughout her well-chosen design details. In addition to site visits and client meetings, her studio has its own line of textiles and matching cer...

Lauren Best is a certified hypnotherapist and Provoker of Possibility. She supports Conscious Companies, Creative Leaders and Entrepreneurs, and Curious Individuals to unlock potential, envision new possibilities for their work and life, connect to their intuition, understand their unique abilities, and strengthen their mind-intuition-body connection to take authentic action. Learn more about Laur...

Melanie Childers is a business master coach for values led coaches, course creators, and CEOs . She helps you grow and scale to multiple six to seven figures with her simple evergreen process. She disrupts internalized patriarchy and hustle culture so you can build a successful business that supports you and your community. Without burning out, so please welcome Melanie Childers. Learn more about...

Marlene Forte, a Cuban American actress born just outside of Havana, Cuba, and raised in North Jersey. Marlene has shaken the Hollywood stereotypes and broken the glass ceiling many times as a woman, a Latina, a mother and an “older” actress. At sixty-something year old, Forte seems to have defied the rules of aging showing that age is nothing but a number. The mum-of-one proves you can have a hug...

Michelle Danner is a film and stage director, author, world renowned acting coach and founder of the Creative Center for the Arts. She has taught acting for the last 27 years and has worked with many A-list actors, privately and on set, including Zooey Deschanel, Penelope Cruz, Andy Garcia, Selma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Donald Sutherland, and many others. She was brought in for her expert coach...

Luz Nazario is the creator and founder of NEDA's Coquito, and a veteran educator with more than 25 years of experience preparing and educating the future game changers. More than five years ago, Luz decided to make some game-changing moves for herself that Christmas as funds ran low. She needed to do something quick to tie the family over until she returned to work, using the ingredients already a...

Lauren Smith is an author, speaker and host of the Date in Peace podcast. She combines her own personal success story with her professional mindfulness training. Lauren empowers singles to ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they so deeply deserve. She is also the author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts" and creator of the Metta Date Journal mo...

Louise Palanker co-hosts “The Media Path Podcast” with legendary Los Angeles weatherman Fritz Coleman. Together, they explore your creative obsessions, from books to movies and everything in between. Louise has a prolific career in the entertainment world herself. She's a co-founder of “Premiere Radio Networks,” which is now a division of iHeartRadio. Her documentary “Family Banned the Cowsills St...

Marissa Alma Nick is a choreographer and author who just released her first novel called Rebel in Venus. Although labeled a novel, the book is a semi-autobiographical, powerful, and honest story of redemption and an intimate portrait of friendship, the impact of trauma, the power of first love and loss. Marissa illuminates queer experiences with an authentic perspective on emerging concerns, inclu...

Michelle C. Smith is the go-to expert on sets for some of today's leading actors, holding the title of Queen of the Lightsabers, having been featured in Vogue for her work with Grimes on her music video player of games, as well as catching the eye and praise of Daisy Ridley. Michelle is best known for her viral content on her social media platforms and YouTube channel. Michelle has amassed nearly...

Holly Berry is the founder of aNatural Design, where she connects people to nature through the language of flowers. She shares the gifts of the Zen feelings that come from a Pacific Northwest hike and walking in an arboretum to help melt away the concern and worry in your day. Learn more about Holly. Learn more about The Passionistas Project. See the show notes and full transcript. Learn more abou...