24. Sonia Ashok - Channeling rest and self-care daily to be more productive, forging your own career path and collaborating with other women to foster a community.

25. Dheandra Nicolette - Manifesting your dream career, creating a powerful vision board and ignoring viral trends to solidify your brand and social presence.

Dheandra Nicolette is a marketing professional, entrepreneur, and host of The Manifest Daily Podcast. She’s spent her first few years working at amazing companies in their marketing departments learning the ins and outs of leveraging social media to achieve business goals. She’s worked alongside amazing thought leaders at major brands such as TripAdvisor and Dunkin’ Donuts. In her trending and steadily growing podcast The Manifest Daily she provides listeners with all the energy and support needed to return to their highest selves and live their best lives. Seriously, listen to one episode and you’ll be hooked! I found Dheandra in a time of need and when I felt extremely alone, throwing on any of her episodes makes you feel connected and like she’s right there in the room cheering you on. Take a listen to Episode 42 [https://open.spotify.com/episode/27chsvIZ7mGvsaGrkKbVBO?si=Bd3hYd5aTdWX0_QPM3g4rw] to get a better understanding of Dheandra and the phenomenal work she does. In this episode, we are talking about: 📝 Are you loving this podcast? If so, leave a review here [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/her-defined/id1552810781] - it’s the best way to support! 💭 Helping you define and make the most of your ideal career. 🤍 Follow on Instagram - @herdefinedpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/herdefinedpodcast/] 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts

24. Sonia Ashok - Channeling rest and self-care daily to be more productive, forging your own career path and collaborating with other women to foster a community.

Dr. Sonia Ashok [https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniaashok/] is a Career + Leadership Coach and the founder of Connective Coalition, a community to empower women in the workplace. She is a physician who pivoted into health policy and then tech startups. Her experiences navigating career advancement and toxic environments as a minority woman inspired her to support others in climbing the ladder. She is a certified yoga teacher and diversity, equity, + inclusion (DEI) specialist. She lives in San Jose, California, with her husband and lots of plants. In this episode, we are talking about: * 4:26 - Defining moment of the week. * 10:34 - How to figure out if you want to quit your job. * 11:52 - Blocking out societal expectations and tuning in to what we want for ourselves and our career. * 20:57 - Including self-care into your workday to maximize your productivity. * 23:49 - Why do women have to work harder to stand out and succeed in the workplace? * 27:03 - What does burnout look like and the factors attributed to it? * 28:07 - What is the busyness epidemic? Sonia’s Should I Stay or Should I Go Quiz [https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/5f299c2b8d40c200148feb01] Sonia’s Website [https://www.connectivecoalition.com/] 📝 Are you loving this podcast? If so, leave a review here [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/her-defined/id1552810781] - it’s the best way to support! 💭 Helping you define and make the most of your ideal career. 🤍 Follow on Instagram - @herdefinedpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/herdefinedpodcast/] 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts

23. Rubina Ahmed Haq - The best kept secrets to freelancing, "tweaking" as the new budget setting and understanding your financial position.

Rubina Ahmed Haq [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubinaahmedhaq/] is a personal finance expert. She says she lives at the intersection of journalism, finance, and public speaking. Rubina’s passion for all things money started at a young age and was shaped by her parents. Their money-saving ways stuck and built the foundation for her work today. For twenty years she’s been reporting news and stories with CBC, Global News, CTV, Yahoo Finance, and others. In this episode, we are talking about: * 4:00 - The difference between the best-value option and the cheapest option. * 6:28 - Rubina’s highlight reel. * 13:50 - Feeling secure when you’re starting out as a freelancer. * 19:14 - The gender pay gap and how we can eradicate it. * 26:49 - Rubina’s take on investing in cryptocurrencies. * 29:08 - How to stop the toxic spending. * 31:15 - Try “tweaking” rather than budget setting. * 36:24 - Which debts should you pay off first and successfully pay off all your debt. * 44:44 - Tips for freelancers to price their services accordingly without feeling guilty. Rubina's Website [https://rubinaahmedhaq.com/#worktogether] 📝 Are you loving this podcast? If so,leave a review here [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/her-defined/id1552810781]- it’s the best way to support! 💭 Helping you define and make the most of your ideal career. 🤍 Follow on Instagram -@herdefinedpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/herdefinedpodcast/] 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts

22. Becca Slaughter - Surviving the night shift, finding your purpose outside your profession and starting all over again.

Becca Slaughter [https://www.linkedin.com/in/becca-slaughter-a2492567/] has spent the majority of her career working as a TV producer for a large news network morning show in Oklahoma. Though, her passion for her job soon diminished as she realized there were never enough hours in the day to get everything done and that she was becoming more and more consumed by her 9 - 5. She mentions everything in her life revolved around that news network. The majority of her friends were people she met at work and when they all hung out, their job was all they would talk about. Becca also says that her all-consuming job was leading her to feel burnt out, disengaged, and generally not a nice person to be around. From all of that, her employer at the beginning of 2020 decided for Becca that it would be best for her to leave her position. Aka she literally got fired as a pandemic was about to start. She details her unemployment experience in an article [https://theeverygirl.com/what-i-learned-while-unemployed/] she wrote for theeverygirl.com [https://theeverygirl.com/], where she realized her biggest struggle wasn’t in that she didn’t have a job but that she thought she required one to have value. In this episode, we are talking about: * 0:22 - Honouring the seasons of change in your life. * 3:57 - Defining moment of the week. * 7:20 - Starting your workday at 1 am and surviving the night shift. * 12:30 - Being fired at the start of the pandemic and the stigma of being unemployed. * 19:40 - Are we obsessed with our jobs? * 26:23 - reclaiming your identity outside your profession 📝 Are you loving this podcast? If so, leave a review here [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/her-defined/id1552810781] - it’s the best way to support! 💭 Helping you define and make the most of your ideal career. 🤍 Follow on Instagram - @herdefinedpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/herdefinedpodcast/] 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts

21. Megan Walker - Why we need more women in positions of power, finding your ideal workplace and the balancing act of work and personal life.

Megan Walker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-walker-15220a8/] is a former elected member of London City Council (1994-2000) who recently retired as the Executive Director of the London Abused Women’s Centre [https://www.instagram.com/endwomanabuse/] (1997-2021). She is a feminist abolitionist who advocates for systemic changes to end male violence against women. Megan was Canada’s North American lead during the United Nations Beijing, European and America’s consultation meetings. She has spoken in Paris, New York, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Guyana and South America. Megan has appeared numerous times as an expert witness before Municipal, Provincial, Parliamentary and Senate Committees to provide expert testimony on matters relating to male violence against women and victims’ rights. In this episode, we are talking about: * 2:21 Defining moment of the week. * 6:39 The underrepresentation of women in political and professional leadership positions and why that is. * 13:45 What is inclusive leadership? * 15:06 The balancing act of having a competitive high profile job while maintaining a fulfilling family life. * 18:40 Is the Pay Equity Act [https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/canada-s-pay-equity-act-to-take-effect-5844928/] really making a difference for women? The Equality Model Research Paper [https://www.lawc.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Choosing-the-Nordic-Model.pdf] 📝 Are you loving this podcast? If so, leave a review here [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/her-defined/id1552810781] - it’s the best way to support! 💭 Helping you define and make the most of your ideal career. 🤍 Follow on Instagram - @herdefinedpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/herdefinedpodcast/] 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts