I Surrender with Adonica Shaw

Navigating Imposter Syndrome, Self-Care & Finding your voice with Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin

This week on the I Surrender podcast, Adonica talks to Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin about her relationship to self care and personal advocacy in the workplace and how it shaped her career. Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin is a licensed psychologist and executive coach, with a focus on career advancement and leadership development. She is a co-founder and partner of Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting, a career and executive coaching consultancy, where she works mostly with high potential managers and executives. She earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. Her views about career advancement, job transitions, leadership, and diversity & inclusion are regularly sought by the media and she has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, NBC News, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Refinery29, Business Insider, and Insight Into Diversity. She has also been honored as a Top Voice on LinkedIn in the area of Job Search and Careers. Dr. Orbé-Austin has been an invited speaker at various national conferences. She recently gave a TEDx talk entitled "The Impostor Syndrome Paradox." She regularly consults with organizations in the private sector, non-profits, and educational institutions in supporting their employees and senior leadership teams to address gender bias, diversity, equity, & inclusion concerns, leadership development, effective communication, team cohesion, and managing conflict management. Her book, Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt, and Succeed in Life (Ulysses Press, 2020) co-authored with her partner, Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin, was released in April 2020. For more information, please visit her online at www.dynamictransitionsllp.com

Self Care Stores : How Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Transformed Aimée Derbes for Life

This week Adonica talks to Dr. Aimée Derbes DACM, LAc, about how she transformed her life with Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. Aimée Derbes, DACM, LAc, is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, licensed acupuncturist, breathwork healer, and writer based in New York City. In addition to being a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, she is a nationally certified Chinese herbalist, a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, and a Certified Breathwork Healer. Dr. Derbes helps people reconnect with their innate vibrancy and wholeness, so they can navigate being human with more ease. Her healing arts practice, Align Acupuncture, is a refuge for people who are ready to be deeply supported as they let go of living in chronic stress, refill their wells, and heal in a sustainable, lasting way. Approaching each of her patients as a beautifully complex individual, she draws upon the richness of both East Asian medicine and energy medicine to craft personalized treatments that support each individual exactly where they are. She offers acupuncture and Chinese medicine sessions to New Yorkers, and works with people all over the country through virtual breathwork and reiki sessions and virtual breathwork groups. To learn more about Aimée, visit her online at https://alignnewyork.com/ You can purchase her book here: https://alignnewyork.com/shop/seed-heal-now

#MMHAM Series - Upward Trends in Mental Health Concerns Amongst People & Public Figures in the Black Community

In this special episode of the, I Surrender Podcast Adonica talks to Cyrell Roberson about the impact of mental health on Black celebrities and public figures as well as the uptick in reported suicides in the African American community. Cyrell Roberson provides psycho-educational assessments, neuropsychological evaluations and therapy at Summit Center for children, adolescents, and adults. Cyrell is a doctoral candidate in School Psychology at UC Berkeley where his research focuses on the psychosocial development of underserved gifted students. His work has been published in several journals including the Journal of Advanced Academics, the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy, and the American Psychological Association. Cyrell has a wide range of experience in private practice settings, as well as K – 12th grade public, independent, and charter schools in the Bay Area. His previous professional experience also includes working at Educational Testing Service (ETS) on the Fairness Review, teaching education and psychology courses at UC Berkeley, and interning at The White House where he worked on education policy and advocacy initiatives of the Executive Office of the President. He earned a B.S. in psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana and an M.A. in education from UC Berkeley. For more information about Cyrell Roberson, visit him online at https://summitcenter.us/about/team/cyrellroberson/

MMHAM - Jane Elliott Uncut on Mental Health, Racism, Police Brutality & Re-educating America

In this special episode of the "I Surrender," podcast Adonica interviews Diversity Educator https://janeelliott.com/ on the Impact of Racism and Police Brutality on the Mental Health of American Americans. This interview is one of several special episodes for Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, in which Ms. Shaw has interviewed various mental health professionals on issues like the Strong Black Woman Schema, Racial Microaggressions and PTSD amongst Veterans impact the black community. Jane Elliott is an internationally known teacher, lecturer and diversity educator. Elliott is considered to be the forerunner of diversity training, with the controversial ["Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes"](Blue Eye Brown Eye Exercise) exercise that was used in a third grade classroom the day after the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior in 1968. Her now-famous exercise label participants as inferior or superior based upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. For more information on Jane, please visit her online at https://janeelliott.com/ Topics & Concepts Mentioned in this Episode: References https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human/Scientific-classifications-of-race https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-racism-was-first-officially-codified-in-15thcentury-spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_United_States https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200609/covid-19-ravages-the-navajo-nation#1 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001668.htm#:~:text=In%201987%2C%20the%20number%20increased,to%2024%2F1%2C000%20in%201987. https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/health/abortion-surveillance-cdc-2015-bn/index.html Maps https://www.businessinsider.com/mercator-projection-v-gall-peters-projection-2013-12 Books Referenced https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/ https://www.amazon.com/color-man-Robert-Carl-Cohen/dp/0394810392 https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Pinhead-Parents-Karen-Bliss/dp/1412071313 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2979293-racial-conditioning-of-our-children

#MMHAM Series - Beating Burnout by Living More Intentionally with Dr. Lisa Battle-Gwathney

In this special episode of the, I Surrender Podcast Adonica talks to Dr. Lisa Battle-Gwathney about beating burnout by living more intentionally. Dr. Lisa is the founder and owner of Enhancing Wellness Counseling & Consulting, LLC, and Beyond Grand Coaching, LLC, and has been active in the mental health arena for 11 years. In private practice work, she focuses on relationships and trauma. In the past few years, Lisa has become aware of the need to address burnout. As a result, Lisa has become the Intentional Coach & Strategist to support women in living intentionally. Dr. Lisa Battle-Gwathney is certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and has training in Play and Expressive Arts Therapy. For more information about Dr. Lisa Battle-Gwathney, visit her online at https://www.enhancingwellnessllc.com/about.