Motherhood At Your Best Beri Gebrehiwot

Marron Gebremeskel is an Immigration Attorney and daughter of Eritrean refugees. For more than a decade, Marron owned and operated her immigration law practice where she advocated for immigrants. She has also served as an Asylum Officer and as an Immigration Services Officer for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security in Houston, Texas. She recently served as a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Fort Worth, Texas.
She continues to consult immigration attorneys through her law practice and is an adjunct professor teaching Immigration Law.
Since childhood Marron’s writing has served as one of her favorite hobbies and as therapy, and she continues to use it as such while navigating through life. Cactus Fruit is her debut book about her life experiences.
Marron is a wife and mother to three boys, her greatest accomplishments.

Join us as we dive into her book and explore what it looks like to hold space for our genuine emotions.

Lidiaana is an Award Winning Eritrean singer, dancer and confidence coach Lidiaana embodies one of London’s brightest new entrepreneurial talents, with the passion, prowess and creative dedication of a genuine artiste.

She relocated from Germany to London to kick-start her career. She’s performed alongside the likes of Justin Timberlake, the 1975, and London’s Philharmonic Orchestra. Touring in her Eritrean motherland saw her win the Raimoq Award #3 for the best single of the year.

In conjunction with her music, she also branched into charity work by founding the ‘Lidiaana Foundation’, which gives deprived children a chance of an education. Moreover, she has been modelling, appearing in adverts and music videos and keeping us very happy and entertained with her Happy Monday Videos aka #AfroliciousMonday.

In 2014 Lidiaana started working as a dancer and choreographer in Music Videos and worked with the likes of Grammy Award Winner Jennifer Hudson, Zayn Malik, Fergie, Stormzy, Emeli Sandé, Olamide, Stefflon Don and many more.

She then decided to start her own dance company “Shégitu - Sensual Dance for Ladies” in 2016 to help women become more confident in their bodies through dance and confidence coaching.

In 2021 she released her first e-book ‘5 Steps to becoming a more Confident You”.

Haben Girma, the first deaf blind woman to graduate from Harvard Law is a trailblazer in her own rights. As a disability rights lawyer, advocate, author and speaker she is bringing disability advocacy and inclusion to mainstream media and making a difference.

Not only has she opened our eyes to the world of possibilities for people with disability, notably through her own achievements as a deaf-blind woman, but she is making strides in creating a world that does not put limitations on people with disabilities, but instead changes the environment to include them.

Adey Chekol is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, working with the body, mind and spirit together for transformation that goes beyond the physical body. As a single mother of two, a working mom and a woman with such an incredible journey, Adey is full of so much wisdom and experience. I was honored to chat with her as she shared her childhood as a young creative, the devastation of losing her mother at a young age, a divorce with young children in tote and her journey to discovering her true self in the midst of it all.

I could have talked with Adey for several hours. She’s calm, thoughtful in her responses and full of great insight in Motherhood and self discovery. This interview is packed with so much goodness as Adey talks about her recent social media break, what she has gained as a result and what signs You should look for to determine whether a break from social media is a good idea for you.

Timert Shimelis is a blogger, a podcaster and the founder of an incredible platform, Unchaining Me.

In this episode, Tiemert gives us a look into the unraveling and unchaining process that took place in her life, how her early childhood experiences shaped her identity and became a catapult for what she would later experience as an adult and her mission to help other women undergo the same unchaining journey that she has embarked on.

Her personal experience with depression has equipped her with specific tools to not only help herself, but influence and empower an entire community of women who typically shy away from conversations about mental health due to cultural stigma and taboo. Her genuine ability to share openly and courageously is captivating and inspiring.

Lean in to this episode with attentiveness and mindfulness as she shares some key signals to look for when we're not feeling ourselves and how to break the cycles that we've been repeating and resulting in unwanted results that keep us chained.

Technical Sgt. Ruta Dew is an Airman in the U.S. Air Force, a wife and a mother of 3. Motherhood comes in all shapes and sizes and in this episode, I have the honor of chatting with Ruta about the journey that led her into the Air Force, how she manages being a mom and wife while serving our country, and why structure is important in order to build the life you want.
Ruta is straight forward about the challenges of balancing motherhood, her career, marriage and aspirations. She likens her role to running a business, saying “Your marriage and family IS your business, so you have to operate it like one."