12 episodes
Someone Like You Liz Marie
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Someone Like You highlights the experiences of women, immigrants and people of color who are building empires, creating amazing things and changing the world. It celebrates underrepresented stories and unheard voices. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/someonelikeyou/support
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Marjorie Yan on navigating pressure, finding success & finding the right path
Marjorie Yan is founder of 329 Events, a wedding and special events planning company, and a realtor with Lashmet Group. After years in the corporate world, at the height of the pandemic, she took the leap into full-time entrepreneurship. On this episode, we talk about navigating pressure as a first-generation American, finding success based on happiness--not money--and how all the wrong paths prepare you for the right one.
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Priya Sodha on mindset, leadership, navigating your career as a woman of color and pushing back against the norms of her Indian culture.
How do you as a woman speak up against micro-aggressions in the workplace? How do you as a woman speak up for yourself and navigate your own pathway... and then allow yourself not to be mistreated or find the triggering signal to say, 'I've had enough.'?
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Jason Taylor on trusting the process, ministering through your work and navigating identity as a proud Afro-Latino.
THIS EPISODE MADE ME TEAR UP!
Jason Taylor (@actknowledgeit) is a filmmaker, photographer, mentor and coach. On this episode, we talk about trusting the process, ministering through your work, creativity as a coping mechanism, giving women the credit they deserve and navigating identity as a proud Afro-Latino.
Jason is one of the most positive and uplifting people I know, and you not only hear that in this episode--you understand how he became such a force for good.
It was really a blessing to catch all this wisdom he spit!
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Tony Arave on Mexican culture, integrity, prioritizing time over money and putting family first as a business owner
THIS EPISODE IS THE MOST PERSONAL AND RAW YET!
Tony Arave is a father, husband and owner of Antonio Arave Plastering, a construction company that specializes in high-end, multi-million dollar custom homes for the likes of Bruce Willis, Will Smith and Robert Downey Jr.
He's also my step-dad, who gave me a daily dose into the life of an entrepreneur.
On this episode, we talk about Mexican culture, integrity, prioritizing time over money and putting family first as a business owner. It's funny, real, no-BS and full of life lessons!
My step-dad is a pretty private guy, so it meant so much to me to be able to interview him. It was amazing to reflect on how he shaped my life and experience as an entrepreneur.
And if you give it a listen, here's your *EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING* in advance. Now you know where I got my foul mouth from!
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Sylvia V. Reid on dream-killers, self-care and living elegantly
Sylvia V. Reid is an ordained minister, life coach and the most elegant person I've ever met. After a lifetime of working in the church, she launched A Seat At Sylvia's Table, a lifestyle coaching non-profit that helps women move from merely existing to truly living. In this episode, we talk about dream-killers, embracing your many identities, prioritizing yourself, especially as an African-American woman, and what it means to live elegantly.
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Brittany Diego on Goal-setting & Reverse Engineering Success
Brittany Diego is a celebrity stylist and founder of Fashion Mentor, an education startup that helps Black and Brown millennials lead successful careers in fashion. On this episode, we talk about gaining confidence after bullying, goal-setting, reverse engineering success as an immigrant and being Black in the fashion industry.
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