All Over Again

Taboo Talk with Ginni Saraswati

“I think we need to remind ourselves sometimes, especially those of us who've had that trauma as a child, were conditioned as children to be like, ‘Oh, this is what life is going to be like. They’re in charge.’ But when we are an adult, we realize, “Actually, no, we're in the driver's seat.’ Your inner child can sit in the passenger seat and you say to yourself, ‘You can chill. I got this. We don't have to go through this again.’” Ginni Saraswati is the founder and CEO of Ginni Media, a podcast and content production company that specializes in podcast strategy, production, and creation for entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies. She is also co-founder of both the Podcast Accelerator, a program designed to coach clients to a fully realized podcast in just 8 weeks, and Metro Podcast Studio, a podcast and video recording studio in the heart of NYC. In addition to her entrepreneurial projects, Ginni is the host of The Ginni Show, a multi-award nominated podcast that gives listeners a front row seat to stories from movers and shakers about how their lives were changed through travel, human connection, and adventure. Ginni shared with me how the misunderstandings and judgment around mental illness have affected her and her family’s lives, the lack of protection around her that led to deep trauma, and why she believes so deeply now in the power of setting boundaries. We also talked about Ginni’s experience quarantining in Australia in order to see her gravely ill mother and the sacrifices her family expected her to make after her passing.  What we explore in this episode:  * The circumstances during Ginni’s early childhood and even before her conception that influenced the rest of her life (01:15) * The effect that fighting and lack of stability in the home has on a young child (08:02) * How Ginni learned to stop people pleasing for the sake of her own happiness (17:26) * The delayed grief that Ginni experienced after her mother’s death (21:51) * Ginni’s experience coming out as gay as a Sri Lankan immigrant (28:16) Connect with Ginni: * Ginni Media [https://www.ginnimedia.com] * @TheGinniShow [https://www.instagram.com/theginnishow/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginnisaraswati/] Connect with Nathalie: * AllOverAgainPodcast.com [https://alloveragainpodcast.com] * @AllOverAgainPodcast [https://www.instagram.com/alloveragainpodcast/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliecarpenter/]

Failing Forward with Katya Libin

“All of my experiences led me to this point… I love the parts of my story that are messy and could be thought of as a failure, because you cannot grow without failure—you just can't. That is how you get there.” Katya Libin is the founder of Katya Libin & Co, a leading innovative and founder first holistic executive coaching practice for leaders looking for a paradigm shift through the Divine Feminine Leadership Program and the 64 Collective.  Katya  is also co-founder of HeyMama, the largest private network for moms in business in the US, built with the goal of growing the community she was lacking in her own life as a single working mother. HeyMama’s revolutionary platform in support of working mothers was recently acquired by MJR Ventures,  making it part of the 1% of female founded businesses that sold a majority stake over the past decade. As a 28-year-old single mom of a 2-year-old daughter, Katya tackled motherhood while running a successful startup. Katya has no regrets about the messiness of her growth and evolution into who she is today and she credits her reeducation to the mindfulness practices and manifesting techniques to live a more positively vibrational life that she now teaches through her latest community building effort, the Divine Feminine Leadership program. Katya and I discussed her experience as an overworked, burnt out single mom and growing up as an immigrant in the US, along with the one message she’d like to share with the entire world… She also shared why she’s so passionate about supporting other women as well as how she’s teaching her daughter and other young women to locate their intuition and trust their bodies in the journey to manifesting their wildest dreams. What we explore in this episode:  * Katya worked to build HeyMama without a clear model of feminine leadership (04:29) * Why Katya wouldn’t change anything about her growth process (10:20) * The change in dynamics when investors are brought into a business (15:24) * Being present as a mother and as a startup founder  (20:12) * How you can tap into your spirit when you’re feeling lost (38:35) * How to be the love of your own life (55:30) Connect with Katya: * KatyaLibin.com [https://katyalibin.com] * Divine Feminine Leadership Program [https://www.linkedin.com/in/katyalibin/] * @katyaslife [https://www.instagram.com/katyaslife/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/katyalibin/] Connect with Nathalie: * AllOverAgainPodcast.com [https://alloveragainpodcast.com] * @AllOverAgainPodcast [https://www.instagram.com/alloveragainpodcast/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliecarpenter/]

How to Claim Your Confidence with Lydia Fenet

I always say, being an auctioneer is not dissimilar to stand-up, you just kind of get beaten up by the crowd, until the point where you almost create this Teflon skin. And you really try to figure out what works. And what started to work for me was  being myself,  Lydia Fenet is a two-time author, podcast host of Claim your Confidence, and the founder and CEO of the Lydia Fenet Agency, a boutique agency representing best-in-class charity auctioneers. Over her two-decade-long career, Lydia served as the Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for Christie’s and reshaped the fundraising landscape as the world’s leading charity auctioneer. She has single-handedly raised over one billion dollars for more than 800 organizations and broken-down countless barriers for women in the auction industry, and all over the world by educating women on how to claim their confidence. As a 24-year-old working for the world-famous Christie’s auction house, Lydia was given the chance of a lifetime to try out to be an auctioneer—a field that was completely male-dominated. After climbing the ranks and becoming the head of Christie’s auctioneering program, she had an “a-ha” moment that completely changed her career trajectory.  Lydia shared her best advice for anyone suffering from a fear of public speaking, how she stays present, the power of our words, and finding fun in failure. Lydia and I discussed how her career inspired her to claim her own confidence and inspire others through her words in her latest book, Claim Your Confidence.  Lydia also shared deeply about the harrowing car accident that she experienced with her family which changed her life and her outlook on it.  What we explore in this episode:  * Lydia’s strategy for immediately commanding the attention of a room (05:17) * Showing up and being your authentic self (06:35) * Auctioning Bruce Springsteen’s guitar with him on stage at Madison Square Garden (14:47) * Why it’s all about the  delivery of your words  (24:35) * How Lydia and her family miraculously survived a near-fatal car accident and live life differently(43:23) Connect with Lydia: * LydiaFenet.com  [https://lydiafenet.com] * @LydiaFenet [https://www.instagram.com/lydiafenet/?hl=en] * Buy the book: Claim Your Confidence by Lydia Fenet [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Claim-Your-Confidence/Lydia-Fenet/9781982196691] Connect with Nathalie: * AllOverAgainPodcast.com [https://alloveragainpodcast.com] * @AllOverAgainPodcast [https://www.instagram.com/alloveragainpodcast/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliecarpenter/]

Getting Uncomfortable with Misasha Suzuki Graham

“I get we're not going to know all the answers. But that, to me, is not a reason to not have the conversation.”  As the daughter of a Japanese immigrant, Misasha used to represent leading intellectual property tech and entertainment companies and complex commercial disputes. Now, Misasha uses the power of storytelling, the lenses of history and law, combined with psychology and belonging, and practical tips to fight for her biracial children and all children living life at the intersection of identity. She does this with her business partner, Sarah, through the Dear White Women platform, which includes a podcast and a subsequent book for using law as a support system for how they choose to use their voices.  I sat down with Misasha Suzuki Graham, lawyer, author, devoted mother, and co-founder of Dear White Women LLC, to get uncomfortable talking about racism to make actual change. We discussed the creative but intentional ways to have difficult conversations with your kids and your community, her experience as a Japanese American woman and how it has transformed her lens on these issues, the root of performative perfectionism, how our education system is impacting our children, and so much more!  What we explore in this episode:   * Misasha's “why” behind building her platform, Dear White Women (2:20)   * Growing up as a first-generation Japanese-American woman (13:30)  * The importance of asking 'why’ (21:40) * What we’re unlearning in adulthood after being conditioned in childhood (29:10)  * Misasha’s decision to move forward with the Dear White Women platform (33:00)  * About higher education’s true purpose (42:20) * Finding a middle ground between America’s loud extremes (51:40) * What Misasha would do all over again (1:19:10)  Connect with Misasha:  * Dear White Women (Website) [https://www.dearwhitewomen.com/about]  * Dear White Women (Book) [https://www.amazon.com/Dear-White-Women-comfortable-Talking/dp/1951412311] * Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/misasha]  Connect with Nathalie: * AllOverAgainPodcast.com [https://alloveragainpodcast.com/] * Instagram  [https://www.instagram.com/alloveragainpodcast/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliedeberry/] Please note that this episode was recorded in two parts - in July of 2023 and in April of 2024.

Autoimmune Infertility to Inspired with Caryn Johnson

“I feel that personally, I had to go through these deep, deep levels of [loss] so that I could help people in the future from having to do that… A lot of what I went through was with purpose, which helps on the other side of it.”  Caryn Johnson is the co-founder and CEO of Bond, an innovative line of supplements that reimagines hormone and reproductive health. Inspired by her experience with her autoimmune fertility and her journey to bring her two children into the world, Caryn is on a mission to address women's health more holistically, and encourage a more proactive conversation around reproductive wellness. When Caryn began her conception journey as a newlywed, she had no idea what a life-changing experience it would be. After a year of trying to conceive without a single positive test and subsequent unsuccessful fertility treatments, Caryn began to explore the idea that her struggle getting pregnant went beyond just her reproductive organs. Frustrated and confused, Caryn took charge of her situation and became her own advocate, eventually learning that her infertility was actually caused by her immunocompromisation.  Caryn and I talked about the difficulty she had getting her doctors to take her concerns seriously, how her spiritual beliefs helped her cope with loss, and how she eventually found answers by working with doctors at a reproductive immunology clinic. We also discussed the harrowing and miraculous pregnancy that gave Caryn her son and her experience of having a surrogate carry her daughter. What we explore in this episode:  * Caryn discovered that she was immunocompromised after struggling with infertility and early loss (03:59) * Becoming your own advocate (06:07) * The shift that discovering infertility causes in your life (11:37) * How Caryn dealt with her career during her fertility journey (24:25) * The anxious, uncertain feelings we experience during a pregnancy after loss (27:41) * Caryn’s infertility experience directly inspired the creation of BOND (38:34) Connect with Caryn: * @_bondlife [https://www.instagram.com/_bondlife/] * @itswhoopi [https://www.tiktok.com/@itswhoopi] * Bond Supplements [https://bond.life/pages/our-story] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/caryn-johnson-64a17b9/] Connect with Nathalie: * AllOverAgainPodcast.com [https://alloveragainpodcast.com] * @AllOverAgainPodcast [https://www.instagram.com/alloveragainpodcast/] * LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliecarpenter/]