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Women and Entrepreneurship The Science & the Art of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a big-vision act of creativity.  It is one that has an experienced felt impact – both for entrepreneurs and those they serve.  An entrepreneur creates opportunities for self and others, jobs, economic stimulus, products, culture, and services.  This is why many call it “The Science or the Art of entrepreneurship”.

In this episode, serial entrepreneur and founder/ CEO of Catalyst Coaching Solutions, LLC, Rayana Starre explains the Art & Science of Entrepreneurship and what it really takes to be a successful entrepreneur.  Can anyone become an entrepreneur or are you born with that intrinsic, God given talent?

An award winning strategic business coach who is also certified in NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy, and Time Line Therapy, with a degree in Psychology- Rayana has coached thousands of entrepreneurs and real estate investors for 22 years.

 

Rayana has started up several of her own businesses and bootstrapped them to 6-7 figures all on her own efforts, and coached hundreds of entrepreneurs to do the same.

She is passionate about sharing her experience in business and real estate to empower women entrepreneurs to succeed by leveraging proven processes and systems, technology, and other people’s time and talent, so you can do less and achieve more.

 

She believes in working smarter not harder and inspires other women business owners to face their fears, fail forward and learn and grow, as you take action to build the life of your dreams.

 

Rayana focuses on empowering your mindset, developing habits and routines centered on revenue-generating-activities, and then providing support and accountability to help you succeed.

 

If you are an entrepreneur or thinking of becoming one, this is an episode you do not want to miss!

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‘And Now What?’ : COVID and All, Moms Juggle it All

The pandemic has been difficult for all of us.  We’ve all had to adjust to a new way of life, finding creative ways to do things and ‘life’ differently.  Moms, however, particularly ‘working moms’ have had the greatest of challenges.  They had no choice but to wear multiple hats, juggling dozens of roles, striving and working hard to keep the day-to-day operation of their careers, family and kids’ lives as smooth as possible. 

In this episode, we hear from 3 amazing women share from their experiences and how they found the strength and courage to juggle it all throughout the pandemic and navigate even more change as the world aims to open up again.

Sara Citak, Anita Gastelum and Rachel LaForce are three phenomenal, do it all, strong women.  These women are not only career women juggling multiple companies, but they’re also moms, wives, cooks, therapists… keeping it together for themselves and everyone else amidst a crazy world that has gone through so much change in the past 2 years and continues on to go through even more change.

Listen in as they have a conversation and share from their wisdom on how they did it, kept it all together and continue to do it all.

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And Now What? Burnout

Do you feel exhausted and worn out? Perhaps you have become super reactive, edgy, and numb all at the same time? Do you find yourself completely depleted and nothing left in you to give to yourself or anyone else?

 

Listen in to our second podcast in a 3-part series: And Now What? addressing this most important, critical, and timely topic: Burnout. The pandemic has brought upon us unprecedented change as well as uncertainty. We have all had to adapt to a new way of life while having to simultaneously manage numerous responsibilities with our jobs, families, kids, and sadly but unfortunately, the death of loved ones.

 

So, why is there such a high incidence of burnout? Especially now, as we are slowly coming out of the height of the pandemic? How did we get to this phase? Are there different stages that lead to burnout and exhaustion? What type of practices or methods can we implement early on to prevent burnout?

 

Angelica Churchian, MA, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist at Avedian Counseling Center in Los Angeles, explains how Burnout is best defined as chronic stress that has not been successfully managed. She goes on to explain the 4 stages of burnout and how in its fifth stage, a critical phase known as “Habitual Burnout Phase”, if burnout is not addressed, it will undoubtedly open the door to depression and anxiety.

 

Angelica stresses the importance of NOT IGNORING the physical, behavioral, and emotional signs of burnout and explains how to identify those signs and address them. This is a discussion you do not want to miss. If it’s not happening to you, it sure is happening to someone around you.

 

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’And Now What?’ Balance is a Myth with Sarah Rodgers

And Now What?

Balance is a Myth ~

It’s been two crazy long years living with the COVID-19 Pandemic.  We’ve all been going through unprecedented change, trying to understand, cope and find balance in everything that’s been happening to us and around us.  Many of us are confused and simply no longer understand or know how to find balance and order in our lives. 

 Now that we are slowly coming out the height of the pandemic, we have new changes coming our way.   What changes have we all gone through? We have established new norms, but they have grown out of survival mode, thanks to COVID.  The world looks so different now, where do we go from here? What is the new normal?  As women, how do we balance a career along with daily demands of work, family, finances, aging parents, young children, spouse and even death. We are women.  We are resilient but when is enough, enough?  

We seek to find balance in our perfectionism and often, we fail.   We wonder and strive to understand the secret recipe to attain that perfect balance and yet we fail again.  Then we ask ourselves; is balance real or is it a myth? 

In this episode, our guest, Sarah Rogers, a health, wellness and life coach explains the intricate nature of the multidimensional roles we play in our lives and that finding perfection and balance at the same time is simply a myth.  However, does that mean we can’t have balanced and harmonious lives?  Tune in and hear Sarah share her insights.

 

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About Sarah Rogers:

Sarah Rogers is a dynamic professional with experience in program management, team leadership, career development and mentoring.  She is skilled in working with individuals on creating personal change in their lives as well as continuing to work with companies on effecting positive change for their businesses. As the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Empower Change ME, Sarah has handled multiple corporate consulting change management engagements as well as consulted on merger and acquisitions for best practices and program development. Sarah’s excellent listening, communication, and interpersonal skills have helped her write and implement successful coaching programs and workshops for personal change management through best practices in nutrition, fitness, financial, and career goal development.

Prior to formalizing her career in change management consulting, Sarah was a Managing Director at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) in New York City and Los Angeles. There, she was responsible for the overall communication management of various departments on local and global levels ensuring an understanding of current activities, common dependencies, and prioritized efforts. Her extensive leadership experience and success with managing departments and mentoring project teams helped earn her several honors over the course of her career. Prior to her joining MUFG, she was Vice President at TD Bank where she successfully founded the Enterprise Program Management Office as well as provided executive leadership for over a dozen merger and acquisitions. 

Sarah is an Internationally Certified Health and Wellness Coach, holds a BS in Business Administration and her MBA in Business Management.

 

We believe the world needs more strong women who inspire and build each other up. By providing a platform that helps women learn, grow, and connect with other successful women, we empower them and help them build the life they want. By building up women to be successful and self-sufficient, we help build up society. Tune into The Avanti Woman Podcast and join your host Nairy Ghazourian. #theavantiwoman #avanti #women #woman #empower #build #connect #enterprising #branding #trademarks #business

 

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The Avanti Woman #012 - Women and Medicare: Understand Medicare with Hana Eicher and Ingrid Van Eckert

This week on The Avanti Woman Podcast, Nairy is joined by friends & experts, Hana and Ingrid, to talk about the importance of Medicare. We also cover all the information you need to know about selecting the right plan, the best insurance broker and where you can find resources to make the whole process easier.

Women and Medicare (Why women should understand Medicare?)

Medicare is a federal health insurance program that funds basic healthcare services for over 62.6 million individuals over 65 and with those who have certain disabilities. This number is increasing by 11,000 baby boomer beneficiaries per day until 2030!  Without Medicare these millions of individuals would have difficulty accessing or paying for hospital care, physician visits, diagnostic tests, preventative services and prescription drugs.

 

According to a very large longitudinal study and data from US Department of health and human services and the 2020 report from talentinnovation.org,  a global think tank, these consumers are overwhelmingly female.  The researchers demonstrated that regardless of their marital status and whether they have children, 94% of women make healthcare decisions for themselves and 59% make healthcare decisions for others.  Among those who work and have children under 18, 94% make decisions for others.  The authors have called these decision makers the Chief Medical Officers of the Family, CMO’s comprise the industry’s core consumer segment, as they set the health and wellness agenda for themselves and others, choose treatment regimens, and hire and fire doctors, pharmacists and insurance providers. 

Although women are the CMO’s and decision makers within the home, the problem researchers observed was that 58% of CMO’s lacked confidence in their decision making.  Women also lack knowledge.  They’re bombarded with information but don’t know what to believe or trust.  78% do not fully trust their insurance provider.

So what’s the solution?  We need to understand the CMO’s and gear our message to them.  Overall 80% of women are the healthcare decision makers within the home.  Women must understand the basics of Medicare, timelines for enrollment to avoid penalties and how to find the right resources in order to help their family members; mothers, fathers, uncles, grandmothers, aunts, and…. For themselves.

The majority of individuals receiving Medicare are women.  They constitute more than half of the individuals with Medicare.  The program is therefore critically important to preserving the health and well-being of our mothers and grandmothers.

 

We believe the world needs more strong women who inspire and build each other up. By providing a platform that helps women learn, grow, and connect with other successful women, we empower them and help them build the life they want. By building up women to be successful and self-sufficient, we help build up society. Tune into The Avanti Woman Podcast and join your host Nairy Ghazourian. #theavantiwoman #avanti #women #woman #empower #build #connect #enterprising #branding #trademarks #business

 

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Hana Eicher

 

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The Avanti Woman #011 - Breast Cancer Awareness with Dr. Karin Kazanjian

Breast Cancer Awareness Month, something that is very personal to us here at The Avanti Woman, and something that so many of us are effected by. Dr. Karin Kazanjian is a board-certified radiologist with subspecialty training in Breast Imaging. She completed her undergraduate education at UCLA. She subsequently attended the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine where she earned her MD in 2007. After completing her medical internship at UCSD, she pursued her residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at Loma Linda University Medical Center followed by a fellowship in breast imaging at the same institution. Dr. Kazanjian served on the full-time faculty at Loma Linda University as an Assistant Professor in the Section of Breast Imaging prior to being recruited to Providence St. Joseph Breast Health Center in Burbank where she is currently the chief breast radiologist. She enjoys providing the full-spectrum of breast imaging services to the community which include mammography, ultrasound, and MRI, as well as performing breast biopsies and preoperative localizations. Dr. Kazanjian is certified by the American Board of Radiology and is a member of the American College of Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging.

We learn about the importance of prevention, how to self examine as well as how early women should start thinking about preventative help and he measure that we can take to live long, healthy lives.

We believe the world needs more strong women who inspire and build each other up. By providing a platform that helps women learn, grow, and connect with other successful women, we empower them and help them build the life they want. By building up women to be successful and self-sufficient, we help build up society.

Tune into The Avanti Woman Podcast and join your host Nairy Ghazourian. #theavantiwoman #avanti #women #woman #empower #build #connect #enterprising #branding #trademarks #business

 

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The Avanti Woman #010 - The Pandemic And Our Mental Health with Dr. Catipon and Silva Karageozian

Empower, Connect, Build. Today we have on Dr. Christine Catipon and Silva Karageozian to talk about the struggles with Mental Health during Pandemic, finding the right therapist, and being the expert on YOU!

We believe the world needs more strong women who inspire and build each other up. By providing a platform that helps women learn, grow, and connect with other successful women, we empower them and help them build the life they want. By building up women to be successful and self-sufficient, we help build up society. Tune into The Avanti Woman Podcast and join your host Nairy Ghazourian.

#theavantiwoman #avanti #women #woman #empower #build #connect #enterprising #branding #trademarks #business

 

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Silva Karageozian @skarageozian

 

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The Avanti Woman #009 - Understanding Menopause and Women‘s Health with Maryon Stewart

Empower, Connect, Build. Today we have on Maryon Stewart to go in depth about Menopause and women's health topics they need to know!! We believe the world needs more strong women who inspire and build each other up. By providing a platform that helps women learn, grow, and connect with other successful women, we empower them and help them build the life they want. By building up women to be successful and self-sufficient, we help build up society. Tune into The Avanti Woman Podcast and join your host Nairy Ghazourian. #theavantiwoman #avanti #women #woman #empower #build #connect #enterprising #branding #trademarks #business

 

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The Avanti Woman #008 - Employment Law and Business with Durdana Karim and Patil Derderian

Empower, Connect, Build. Today we are excited to have part three of our business and entrepreneurial series with Durdana Karim. This time around, Durdana Karim joins us again, along with Patil Derderian of Derderian Law, to discuss the nuances of Employment Law, hiring employees, and other Business questions we all wonder! We believe the world needs more strong women who inspire and build each other up. By providing a platform that helps women learn, grow, and connect with other successful women, we empower them and help them build the life they want. By building up women to be successful and self-sufficient, we help build up society. Tune into The Avanti Woman Podcast and join your host Nairy Ghazourian. #theavantiwoman #avanti #women #woman #empower #build #connect #enterprising #branding #trademarks #business The Avanti Woman @theavantiwoman Brought to you by Too Much Content! toomuchcontent.live

The Avanti Woman #007 - Understanding Healthcare and Insurance for Women with Dawn McFarland

Empower, Connect, Build. Today we are excited to explore healthcare and insurance with Dawn McFarland! Dawn McFarland is the Founder and President of M & M Benefit Solutions Insurance Services. She has found a passion as an agent who helps individuals, especially Medicare eligible, navigate choosing how they receive their health care. Dawn currently serves as the VP of Legislation for the State of CA Association of Health Underwriters, on the Medicare Advisory Council for NAHU, the National arm of the Association of Health Underwriters, and is currently a member and Past President of the LAAHU board of directors. Dawn is the proud recipient of the NAHU Distinguished Service Award 2021.

 

We believe the world needs more strong women who inspire and build each other up. By providing a platform that helps women learn, grow, and connect with other successful women, we empower them and help them build the life they want. By building up women to be successful and self-sufficient, we help build up society. Tune into The Avanti Woman Podcast and join your host Nairy Ghazourian.

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Nairy Ghazourian @nairygh @theavantiwoman

 

Dawn McFarland www.mnmbenefitsolutions.com.

 

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