Girl, Take the Lead‪!‬ Yolanda Canny

In our previous Episode 157 we heard about Mothers’ Day
Movement and the African Education Program and I was struck with the fact that $35B is spent on Mother’s Day gifts. How could that be? And what’s the history
of the holiday? And where’s the motivation coming from? So I dug into some articles and searched for insights I thought you might find interesting.

 

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day
Mother’s Day 2024



https://time.com/4771354/mothers-day-history-origins/
The Surprisingly Sad Origins of Mother’s Day, by Olivia Waxman, 2018

 

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/mothers-day-origins-more-than-a-commercial-holiday
Mother's Day origins: More than a
commercial holiday, by Buse Keskin, 2022

 

Brene Brown, Atlas of the Heart

 

Katherine Lane Antolini’s
Book: Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for the Control of Mother’s Day.



5 Languages of Love: https://5lovelanguages.com/


⁠https://www.popneuro.com/neuromarketing-blog/consumer-psychology-mothersday-guilt⁠Consumer
Psychology And Mother’s Day Guilt



Samsung’s Texts From Mom Campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEVsiKYnSBs



Ep. 42, Receiving Feedback & Resentment, Shame, Anxiety, Fear, and Curiosity – With Help from the Masters (Brené Brown, Parker Palmer, & Cory
Muscara)

 

Ep. 157, Mothers’ Day Movement 2024: Supporting African Education Program

 

Ep. 68 Mothers’ Day Movement 2023: Addressing Global Maternal Mortality

 

Ep. 14 Mothers’ Day Movement 2022

 

Mothers’ Day 2024 AEP campaign:
https://www.africaneducationprogram.org/mothersdaymovement

 

Donation Link Mothers’ Day Movement

 

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Dominika Turkcan, from Mothers’ Day Movement (MDM) returns to join Yo in this episode. The Mothers' Day Movement is an organization that grew out of a column in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, where he made the case for moving the apostrophe in Mother’s Day so it honors not just one mother, but underserved mothers everywhere. It advocates shifting a portion of Mother’s Day gift giving to a carefully selected charity each year in honor of a woman or person they love.

 

Since 2011, the group has raised almost $1,000,000, in maternal health, education, hunger, clean water, and human trafficking, and has been featured in The New
York Times, Ms. Magazine, and NPR.

 

The episode also includes Julie-Anne Savarit-Cosenza, Co-Founder & Executive Director, African Education Program (AEP), MDM’s 2024 beneficiary. AEP unlocks the potential of African youth and adults by building and growing community-led organizations in Zambia and Rwanda. AEP’s flagship Learning & Leadership
Center in Kafue, Zambia is a thriving hub where children,

 

Here are the 3 Takeaways:

 

1.   For the price of a bouquet of flowers, we can save a life by donating to MDM.



2.   In 2024, AEP will reach over 4,000 children,
youth and women: 750 will attend daily programs at the Learning & Leadership Center, 3,000 youth will be reached through our Peer-to-Peer Education Program in local schools, and 300 rural youth will access HIV awareness programming through their Kids to Care Initiative. In addition, one of the extraordinary things that AEP provides Special Education support.

3.    Our donation to MDM can help achieve AEP’s
mission and the 750+ children, youth, and women access highly impactful programs and resources at AEP’s flagship Learning & Leadership Center every week.  

 

We hope you’ll enjoy this episode!

 

As mentioned in the episode:

 

Ep. 14 Mothers’ Day Movement 2022

 

Ep. 68 Mothers' Day Movement 2023: Addressing Global Maternal Mortality

 

Jonathan Haidt

 

Mothers' Day 2024 AEP campaign:
https://www.africaneducationprogram.org/mothersdaymovement

 

Donation Link Mothers’ Day Movement

  

More about Dominika:

Dominika is a policy analyst and serves as the Director of Research at DCIIA, an organization dedicated to enhancing the financial security of Americans throughout their lives. She employs interdisciplinary collaboration to focus on advancing economic advancement initiatives for individuals, especially women. She is a Partner at the Mothers’ Day Movement, Board Co-Chair
of the Dean’s Alumni Board at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice, and a pro-bono non-profit consultant for PennPAC.



More about Julie-Anne:

 

Julie-Anne is a dynamic and vulnerable leader with a deep commitment to community-led transformation. As the Executive Director of the African Education Program (AEP), she spearheads efforts to unlock the potential of African youth and adults by building and growing community-led organizations focused on quality education, health, and community development.

 

Her journey with the AEP began in 2004 as a 10th
grader.  Julie-Anne and three friends created the organization to provide books and computers to disadvantaged youth in Kafue, Zambia. Two years later, she worked with Kafue community leaders and youth members to open AEP’s flagship Learning & Leadership Center. During this time, she earned a magna
cum laude degree in international relations with a focus on African development from American University.



Ways you can contact Mothers’ Day Movement:

 

eMail

info@mothersdaymovement.org

 

Website

www.mothersdaymovement.org

 

IG:

https://www.instagram.com/mothersdaymovementmdm/

 

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/mothersdaymovementMDM

 

Ways to reach Yo:

eMail 

yo@yocanny.com 

 

Public FB group: Girl, Take the Lead!

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This is a shorter episode with Yo Canny building on our previous episode where we explored
Amber Ontiveros’ near-death experience. I had so many questions after hearing her story, I knew I wanted to know more so here are some of the ones we explored:


What are common near-death experiences based on research? BTW you’ll hear me refer
to near-death experiences as NDEs.
What happens in the brain during a NDE?
What can we learn from experiencers of NDEs?

The expert we’ll cover is Bruce Greyson, MD – professor emeritus of psychiatry and neuro-behavioral sciences at Univ of Virginal School of Medicine. He was the co-founder and president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies and editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he has received national awards for his medical research.

And he’s written a book which we’ll use to ground us
titled: After, A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond, copyright 2021.

 

As Mentioned:

Ep. 155, Love and Light: Transforming Bias with
Amber Ontiveros

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/TxWcOJdZfJb

Bruce Greyson, MD’s book
Article: Distressing Near-Death Experiences: The Basics
⁠https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6173534/



How to Reach Yo Canny:

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You can send a message or voicemail there. We’d love to hear from you!

 

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Amber Ontiveros, Gen X, joins us to discuss her book ‘Heal The Four Woundings, A Guide to End Discord and Discrimination’. After a life-altering near-death experience, Amber recognized the limitations of traditional racial equity conversations and was inspired to innovate. Amber is an Unconscious Bias coach and has crafted tools grounded in the neuroscience of unconscious bias to heal herself from beliefs that result in discord, discrimination and oppression.

Here are the topics we covered in the episode:
  
2:28 Ambers amazing background  

     
15:11 Different kinds of biases and what happens in
our brain    


19:18 Dr. Martin Luther King’s quote about
love/light 


23:03 The four wounds  

  
24:20 Mindfulness listening  

    
28:29 Loved Awakening Grace


Here are the three takeaways:

1.   "Everything is not accidental".

2.   The only way to combat darkness is with light.

3.   The secret is self-love…you can’t give what you don’t have.

 

As Mentioned:

 

Her book: Heal The Four Woundings, A Guide to End Discord and Discrimination

Ep. 115 PART 1: Inside Out: Unveiling the Layers of
Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Uri Talmor
Ep, 116 PART 2: Inside Out: Unveiling the Layers of
Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Uri Talmor

  

More About Amber:

 

Amber Ontiveros, a longtime civil rights advocate, served in advisory roles at the US Department of Transportation for the Bush and Obama Administrations, and now runs
Ontiveros and Associates specializing in change management, policy development, executive and spiritual coaching.

 

How to Reach Amber:

 

amber@aoassociates.biz

 

https://healthefourwoundings.com/

 

How to Reach Yo Canny:

 

Our website:

www.girltaketheleadpod.com 

You can send a message or voicemail there. We’d love to hear from you!

 

email:

yo@yocanny.com (Yo)

 

FB group: Girl, Take the Lead

https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share

 

IG:

yocanny (Yo)

 

YouTube

 

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/

Today we conclude our conversation with our returning guest, Andrea Mein DeWitt, and we’ll continue to discuss her new workbook, Name Claim & Reframe Workbook, Your Companion Guide to A Well-Lived Life, which you can preorder now and will launch April 30.

In this episode we’ll also get into reframing feedback, accepting a compliment, flying helicopters into stormy
weather, and end with some healing words.

Her workbook is the perfect companion to her ‘Name Claim & Reframe’ book which we’ve covered on a previous episode.

I had the opportunity to receive an advance copy and wrote the following book jacket endorsement:

 

“Andrea provides a gentle path to examining the origin of our core wound beliefs and limited thinking on a deeper level so we can let go of people pleasing and quiet even the loudest inner critic. Her step-by-step process is a masterful blend of transformative insights and practical exercised designed to awaken an inner power that is both empowering and impactful. Can I get an Amen to that?!”

 

Here are 3 Episode Takeaways from the Series:

1.    The 9 Core Wound Beliefs can help us outline our negative core beliefs and the personality we develop to compensate for those.

2.    The people pleasing inner critic is rooted in fear and is
focused on earning love.

3.    We should remember what Andrea’s mom had to say about accepting a complement: “When someone is giving you a compliment, NEVER interrupt.”

 

As mentioned in the episode:

Andrea’s Workbook, Name Claim & Reframe Workbook

 

Andrea’s Book: Name, Claim, & Reframe

Ep. 72, Andrea Mein DeWitt, Name Claim & Reframe (NCR) author, returns and relates her book Name Claim Reframe to female bullying

 

Ep. 48, A Discussion with Andrea DeWitt about her
book, ‘Name, Claim, & Reframe’

 

You can get a free copy of the masculine and
feminine trait grid mentioned in the episode here: Website: www.andreadewittadvisors.com – just sign up for the free tool kit. If you have the book, check
out page 24.

 

Event Coming Up:

Andrea has an upcoming NCR Salon on THURSDAY, MAY 16TH

Using Name, Claim and Reframe to Heal Past Conflict

Zoom 2:00pm Eastern (11:00pm Pacific)

$97.00

Program description:

What if you could heal past relationships with refreshed
vision? 

Use to use NCR tools to understand past conflicts so you can REFRAME a negative experience with new perspectives and a refreshed vision for the person you are becoming. You’ll learn tools so proactively processing a regret within the structure of Name, Claim and Reframe® and harvesting learning, insights and maybe even some intentional strategy for the future you hope to create.

 

Link to May 16th NCR Salon

Link to Fall 2024 NCR Theme Programs-Starting
September 5

 

More about Andrea: 

Andreas holds a M.Ed. in Reading
Leadership from UC Berkeley and is a Certified Professional Coach through the
International Coaching Federation and the Co-Active Training Institute. She
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

Ways to reach Andrea: 

Andrea Mein DeWitt, M.Ed., CPCC, ACC
Life and Leadership Coaching | DeWitt Advisors
www.andreadewittadvisors.com
| andrea@dewittadvisors.com


Learn more about her BOOK

Watch her WEBINAR
Read her BLOG
Follow her on Instagram

 

Ways to reach Yo: 

eMail: yo@yocanny.om

Website: https://www.girltaketheleadpod.com 

Public FB group: Girl, Take the Lead! https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share  

IG: https://www.instagram.com/yocanny 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/  

YouTube: @girltakethelead

Andrea DeWitt returns to “Girl, Take the Lead!” Podcast to discuss her new workbook, Name Claim & Reframe Workbook, Your Companion Guide to A Well-Lived Life. Yay!!

This is Part 1 of a 2-Part Series.  

I had the opportunity to receive an advance copy and wrote the following book jacket endorsement:

“Andrea provides a gentle path to examining the origin of our core wound beliefs and limited thinking on a deeper level so we can let go of people pleasing and quiet even the loudest inner critic. Her step-by-step process is a masterful blend of transformative insights and practical exercised designed to awaken an inner power that is both empowering and impactful. Can I get an Amen to that?!”

 

Here are 3 Episode Takeaways:

1.    The 9 Core Wound Beliefs can help us outline our negative core beliefs and the personality we develop to compensate for those.

2.    The people pleasing inner critic is rooted in fear and is
focused on earning love.


3.    We should remember what Andrea’s mom had to say about accepting a complement: “When someone is giving you a compliment, NEVER interrupt.”

 

As mentioned in the episode:

Andrea’s Workbook, Name Claim & Reframe Workbook 

Andrea’s Book: Name, Claim, & Reframe

Ep. 72, Andrea Mein DeWitt,
Name Claim & Reframe (NCR) author, returns and relates her book Name Claim Reframe to female bullying

Ep. 48, A Discussion with Andrea DeWitt about her book, ‘Name, Claim, & Reframe’ 

You can get a free copy of the masculine and
feminine trait grid mentioned in the episode here: Website: www.andreadewittadvisors.com – just sign up for the free tool kit. If you have the book, check
out page 24.

 

Event Coming Up: 

Andrea has an upcoming NCR Salon on THURSDAY, MAY 16TH

Using Name, Claim and Reframe to Heal Past Conflict

Zoom 2:00pm Eastern (11:00pm Pacific)

$97.00

Program description:

What if you could heal past relationships with refreshed
vision?

Use to use NCR tools to understand past conflicts so you can REFRAME a negative experience with new perspectives and a refreshed vision for the person you are becoming. You’ll learn tools so proactively processing a regret within the structure of Name, Claim and Reframe® and harvesting learning, insights and maybe even some intentional strategy for the future you hope to create.

 

Link to May 16th NCR Salon

 

Link to Fall 2024 NCR Theme Programs-Starting September 5

 

More about Andrea: 

Andreas holds a M.Ed. in Reading Leadership from UC Berkeley and is a Certified Professional Coach through the International Coaching Federation and the Co-Active Training Institute. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

Ways to reach Andrea: 

Andrea Mein DeWitt, M.Ed., CPCC, ACC
Life and Leadership Coaching | DeWitt Advisorswww.andreadewittadvisors.com
andrea@dewittadvisors.com


Learn more about her BOOK

Watch her WEBINAR
Read her BLOG
Follow her on Instagram

 

Ways to reach Yo: 

 

eMail: yo@yocanny.om

Website: https://www.girltaketheleadpod.com 

Public FB group: Girl, Take the Lead! https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=share  

IG:  https://www.instagram.com/yocanny 

YouTube: @girltakethelead 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/