YouMeWe Amplified - Conversations w Wave-Making Women: Transforming Lives with Social Solutions

As a leader, your responsibility is to pull people up. But sometimes, our natural inclination to surround ourselves with those like us can hinder progress. In the face of affinity bias, it becomes crucial for leaders to pave the way for diversity and create growth opportunities.

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This blog explores the importance of promoting diversity and fostering growth as a leader. We will focus on:

1. Creating a Pathway for All
2. Giving Everyone a Stake
3. Knowing When to Let Go

By implementing these strategies, leaders can drive innovation, foster inclusivity, and build a sustainable future for their organization. Embracing diversity, creating growth opportunities, and empowering individuals will pave the way for success.

Chenny Xia played a leadership role at multiple design consultancies for over a decade before deciding to focus on one big, hairy challenge: creating a more equitable healthcare system through decolonization.
Interview highlights:

• What is the biggest challenge of home care, and what can increase the quality?
• Gain insight into how co-create to launch a service to have a social impact
• The Benefits of becoming a social enterprise.
• The importance of measuring your impact
• Using the ‘Theory of Change’ to meet your desired social impact
• One of the biggest hurdles as a social entrepreneur and how it can hold back your impact

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At YouMeWe Amplified Podcast we have conversations with sheIMPACTpreneurs t ransforming where WE Live & Work with Sustainable Social Solutions.
Hosted by Suzanne F. Stevens, CSP, international speaker, author, coach, sheIMPACTpreneur Community Builder, and Multi-Award winning IMPACTpreneur.
Receive actionable insights into what, why, and how to make a social impact to empower you, your organization, and your community!
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Be empowered to make your contribution count!
In this episode, we have a conversation with Jordana Guimaraes, co-founder of Fashinnovation Inc. I have never laughed so hard in a podcast!
Fashionnovation marries fashion, technology, and sustainability.
Jordana and her partner Marcelo created a community where affordability, structure, and sustainability in fashion meet. They offer budding designers and fashion entrepreneurs internationally access to information, innovation, and collaborators, providing the inaccessible and making it, and them, accessible. As part of Fashinnovation business mission, they give opportunities to talent in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jordana also advocates for sustainability and SDGs goals by sitting on the board of different organizations.Conversation highlights...

1. Discover the one fundamental must-have for every budding business.
2. The benefits of democratizing content as a business and social impact strategy.
3. The one thing that can stop social and environmental progression.
4. Business strategies to go from rags to riches.
5. The opportunities in the Fashion industry.
6. Two not-to-be-ignored keys to Fashinnovation’s sustainable business.
7. Collaboration strategies to grow your business and impact.
8. How do you take the emotion out of an emotional business?

...and more

One of the biggest barriers to being a Conscious leader is minimizing unconscious biases. This means we need to start by listening with all our senses. This will help us hear the message behind the words. There are, however, many obstacles to being an effective listener, such as:

• External noise
• Mind chatter
• Being self-consumed
• Not knowing what to listen for (I have spent years training people on this skill, particularly leaders, sales teams, and project managers.)
• Our perceptions, beliefs, and biases of the person

In this episode, we will explore the reality of biases and what you can do to limit their influence on your relationships and leadership.

WE all seek respect, especially in a work environment where we spend most of our waking hours. To earn respect, we need to give it. Organizations can create a culture of mutual respect through transparency and effective communication.

In today’s world, diverse workplaces are becoming the norm. People from different backgrounds, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and cultures work together. The challenge is to create a culture that respects and includes everyone.

This is why respect is integral to creating Team Spirit, Empowerment, and Effective leadership in the Colleagues’ Hierarchy of Needs.

So, what can you, as a conscious leader, do now to demonstrate a culture of respect?