Like the Greek mythology of the Phoenix rising from the ashes, women live a multitude of lives in one, never cease to amaze in displaying their strength, transforming their situation, usually in the face of challenges. Whether it is career setbacks and resets or true personal transformation, each story adds to the tapestry of what is Phoenix Tales. Hope you enjoy the show! Follow to get notified on new episodes and please share your rating or voice message. New episodes are available every T ...
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Honoring the Fragility of Life with Jimin Han
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Honoring the Fragility of Life with Jimin Han Today Yuliana is joined by Jimin Han, the author of the novel, A Small Revolution. Born in Seoul, Korea, Jimin grew up in the United States, eventually attending Cornell University and earning an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing can be found in a number of publications, and A Small Revolutio…
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Welcome to the Phoenix Tales Podcast
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Welcome to the Phoenix Tales Podcast Show Notes: Welcome to the premier podcast episode of Phoenix Tales, a show about women overcoming challenges in their lives, and, like the Phoenix, being reborn with their lives reimagined. Joining our host, Yuliana Kim-Grant, this week is Ginger McKnight-Chavers, author of In the Heart of Texas. A graduate of …
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Expressing the Fullness of Who You Are with Kim Thai
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Expressing the Fullness of Who You Are with Kim Thai Joining our host, Yuliana Kim-Grant, this week is Kim Thai, an Emmy-award-winning producer, writer, activist, and mindfulness teacher. She is the founder of GaneshSpace, a community organization dedicated to creating spaces to dismantle internalized oppression and explore identity through the len…
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Love, Pain, Grief, and Learning How to Overcome with Cat Partheniades
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Love, Pain, Grief, and Learning How to Overcome with Cat Partheniades On this week's episode, Yuliana welcomes Catherine ‘Cat’ Partheniades to the show to talk about the moment she found out she was adopted. She was 30 when this happened, and shortly after this discovery, both of her adoptive parents passed away. Today she chats with Yuliana about …
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Finding Peace and Purpose in a Journey through Healing with Dana Heller
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Finding Peace and Purpose in a Journey through Healing with Dana Heller Holistic self-care specialist Dana Heller joins Yuliana today to share her inspiring story with listeners. From the life changing doctor’s visit where she found out she had a brain tumour, to her experiences going through multiple surgeries, Dana has come out the other side to …
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Thriving After Illness with Dr. Susan Lovelle
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Thriving After Illness with Dr. Susan Lovelle Functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Susan Lovelle, joins Yuliana today for a truly fascinating conversation. Currently the Founder and CEO of Premiere Wellness, Dr. Susan spent 14 years as a professional ballet dancer after which she became a physician specializing in plastic surgery. In her current r…
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Embracing and Preserving Democratic Values with Tzveta Raynova
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Embracing and Preserving Democratic Values with Tzveta Raynova This week, Yuliana is joined by Tzveta Raynova, a media executive in New York City and former international student from Bulgaria, who shares her journey of overcoming the difficulties of obtaining a student visa in the US, especially after the events of September 11th. Tzveta highlight…
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Lifting Yourself Up and Starting All Over Again with Hourig Messerlian
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Lifting Yourself Up and Starting All Over Again with Hourig Messerlian On the show today, Hourig Messerlian, Senior Director of IT Business at Computing and Information Services - The City University of New York, joins Yuliana to tell her remarkable and truly inspiring story of how she got to where she is today. Starting with how she fled a country…
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Life Lessons Learned through Immense Loss with Judy Glassman
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Life Lessons Learned through Immense Loss with Judy Glassman How does the death of a parent redirect the course of one’s life? Judy Glassman joins Yuliana on today’s episode as she recounts the painful experience of losing her mother to brain cancer, the joy of finding yoga, and transitioning into a new career at a later age for a meaningful life. …
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Rising Above Life’s Challenges to Follow a New Passion with Kathy Casey
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Rising Above Life’s Challenges to Follow a New Passion with Kathy Casey Kathy Casey sits down with Yuliana today to share her own phoenix tale of how she reinvented herself and followed her passion after losing a part of herself to her divorce and forced retirement. Both of these life events naturally had significant impacts upon Kathy and the path…
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Starting Life Over with Ellen Greenberg
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Starting Life Over with Ellen Greenberg Today’s guest is Ellen Greenberg. a designer and the owner and director of Quick Culture, a global, art tour and cultural travel company. Among her other roles, Ellen has also been an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, has guest lectured at UCLA, holds Docent Program certificates a…
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Guided by Something Greater than Yourself with Rhonda Powell
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Guided by Something Greater than Yourself with Rhonda Powell In this episode of Phoenix Tales, Yuliana has the pleasure of interviewing Rhonda Powell, a leading attorney in the media landscape who has faced not one but two health crises that nearly took her life. As you will hear today, through these challenges Rhonda has emerged with a deeper focu…
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Emerging from Challenges with Courage and Resilience with Roni Jackson
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Emerging from Challenges with Courage and Resilience with Roni Jackson Roni Jackson, Co-Founder of Red Flag Mania, joins Yuliana today to share her inspiring phoenix tale. Roni identifies and expands upon two inflection points in her life that altered her trajectory considerably. The first, losing her mother at a young age, and the second, being fo…
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Revisiting... Overcoming Feelings of Abandonment with Ji Young
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Today on the show, Yuliana is joined by Ji Young, the founder of the Tide Film Festival. An attorney turned non-profit executive, producer, writer, speaker and facilitator, Ji is the Founder of DreamMaker DreamDoer DreamSupporter, inc, - 3D, and is the creator, producer and host of the web series ‘Not Your Average’ for KoreanAmericanstory.org. as w…
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Finding Your Own Healing with Gabriella Barnstone
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Today, Yuliana introduces Gabriella Barnstone, a certified yoga therapist, and together they talk about the pivotal moment that redirected the course of Gabriella’s life. For her, it was her father’s mental illness and eventual suicide that changed everything. As she says, everything in her life was leading up to that moment of the untimely death b…
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Growing Through Pivotal Moments with Helen Dellheim
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This week on the Phoenix Tales podcast, Yuliana welcomes Helen Dellheim, a former attorney of law and currently a real estate executive. After going through the untimely death of her mother, nothing was ever the same for Helen. Although tragic, this event turned out to be a pivotal turning point in her life, giving her the courage to make dramatic …
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Overcoming Addiction and Embracing Healthy Healing with Penni Feiner
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On today’s episode, Yuliana welcomes Penni Feiner to the podcast to talk about her brother’s entry into inpatient drug rehab, why it forced her to confront her own cocaine addiction, how she has managed to stay 25 years sober, and why yoga and mindfulness helped save her. As a lifelong feminist, executive director, and yoga enthusiast, Feiner has c…
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Loretta Turner on Her Journey from Code Switching to Community
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Today Yuliana welcomes nonprofit executive and leadership development coach, Loretta Turner, to the Phoenix Tales podcast to chat about the importance of community, code switching, and embracing authenticity. As a young black girl growing up on the East Coast, Turner felt like she almost had to live a double life: one that felt true and family-cent…
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Turning Trauma into Power with Maryam Banikarim
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On this episode of the Phoenix Tales podcast, we get to hear another inspiring story from yet another courageous Phoenix. Joining Yuliana today is Maryam Banikarim, a Purpose-Driven Marketer and Co-Founder of NYCNext. Maryam takes us through her seminal moments in life, from surviving the revolution of 1979 in Iran and moving across the globe to ha…
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Changing Lives through the Power of Storytelling with Kate Tellers
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Joining Yuliana today is Kate Tellers, a staff member of The Moth and a co-author of How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling. Kate shares her phoenix tale today of how she lost her mother at the young age of 28 and how this shaped her life. She shares how lessons she learned from her mom set her on the path to storytellin…
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Celebrating the Creativity and Happiness Within with Berny Serrão
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Yuliana welcomes Berny Serrão, the c0-owner of Paraiso Escondido, an eco-friendly sanctuary in Portugal. Berny shares her courageous tale, one filled with the ups and downs of being a nomad her entire life, seemingly not belonging anywhere. She also recounts feeling like an outsider before searching within to create her happiness and how she extend…
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Making a Shift in Life with Geri Topfer
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Joining Yuliana today is Geri Topfer, the founder and president of Kula For Karma and co-founder of BeStill. Geri shares her phoenix tale involving her sobriety and how she gained strength to look inwards into her life and not just observe as an outsider. Geri recounts the feeling of being armored in her marriage due to past abandonment issues, and…
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Experiencing the Different Sides of Humanity with Therese Murphy
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Therese Murphy joins Yuiliana on the show today to share her courageous phoenix tale. Therese worked as a former nonprofit development manager and found herself unemployed during COVID. She recounts how this propelled her to get a job as the hostess at a restaurant where she was faced with the duality of human nature and how her experiences taught …
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Career Crises and Finding Yourself Again with Natalie Wilson
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Yuliana welcomes opera singer and teacher Natalie Wilson to today’s Phoenix Tales episode to discuss Natalie’s decision to abandon her opera career and how this choice, coupled with a divorce not too long after, marked a rather poignant moment for her. Having felt that she’d wasted decades of her life embarking on a career path that she no longer d…
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Finding the Power Within with Laura Hill
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This week, Yuliana is joined by guest Laura Hill, who opens up the episode to talk about the moment she decided to leave her husband after 30 years of marriage. Having met when she was 19 and he was 10 years her senior, Laura had to mature at a young age, eventually realizing that she had a lot of growing to do, and that this needed to take place o…
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Gina Vild on the Power of Love and Resilience
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This week on Phoenix Tales, Yuliana welcomes author, speaker, and former Associate Dean and Chief Communications Officer, Harvard Medical School, Gina Vild to the podcast. Gina talks today about losing her mother, her father’s stroke, and her own subsequent divorce, noting that her parents’ deaths played large roles in her decision to get a divorce…
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Breaking Bonds and Making Strides with Sharon Simpson
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Sharon Simpson joins Yuliana today to talk about her work in the art industry and what it was like growing up in Belfast during the war. She opens up the conversation by talking about a tough time she went through when her husband’s new job forced her to move away from hers. She notes that she felt worse, not because she lost an income, but because…
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Redefining ‘Impossible’ through Life Experiences with Leehe Segal
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This week on Phoenix Tales, Yuliana talks to Leehe Segal, a jewelry designer and the owner of Bleecker and Prince. In their conversation, Leehe delves into her experiences in the Israeli army, what it was like delivering her second child at home, and moving to Singapore. She starts today’s conversation by recounting her decision to have an at-home …
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Giulia Pline on What it Means to Heal Physically and Emotionally
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On this week’s episode of Phoenix Tales, Giulia Pline joins Yuliana today to discuss the skiing accident that changed her life mentally, physically, and emotionally. An ex dancer turned yoga instructor, Giulia feels that the accident taught her to appreciate her body and its resilience. After breaking her arm, collarbone, six ribs, puncturing her l…
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Persevering through Trauma, Loss, and Grief with Ann Shin
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Documentary filmmaker and author Ann Shin joins Yuliana on the podcast this week. Ann’s documentary My Enemy, My Brother was shortlisted for a 2016 Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy. Her previous documentary, The Defector: Escape from North Korea, won 7 awards including Best Documentary and Best Documentary Director at the 2014 Canadian Scree…
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Rising from a Challenging Childhood to a Journey of Healing with Kelly Fife
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On this episode of Phoenix Tales, Yuliana welcomes Kelly Fife, a psychologist in the public school system who hopes to help children who grow up with troubling family situations. She opens the episode by describing the moment her father suggested that she attend her first Al-Anon meeting. Growing up with parents who abused alcohol, she notes that t…
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Navigating Grief and Identity Crises with Pam Reece
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On this week’s episode of Phoenix Tales, Yuliana welcomes Pam Reece to the show to talk about the moment when her father lost his job, his subsequent battle with Alzheimer’s disease, and how those events shaped her outlook on life. A former yoga instructor who now offers her many skills to help women in corporate America achieve success, Reece open…
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Surviving and Thriving as an Immigrant in America with Paola Garcia
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Yuliana welcomes New York City lawyer, Paola Garcia, to the podcast today. After running away from her sheltered life and home in Mexico at the age of 18, Paola was forced to reckon with her status as a Mexican immigrant in the U.S. and American culture at large. She recalls the shock she experienced when coming to the U.S. after growing up in the …
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Finding Balance and Resilience While Caring for a Parent’s Mental Health with Rahshaana Green
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Rashanna Green joins Yuliana today as the pair discuss Green’s mother and her life-altering battle with late onset Schizophrenia. A Dartmouth graduate turned nonprofit executive and forest yoga lineage guardian, Rashanna details the moment she decided to institutionalize her mother, how that choice impacted her own psyche, and the stigma surroundin…
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No Colon, Still Rollin' with Rebecca Babcock
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Joining Yuliana today is Rebecca Babcock, CPC, ELI-MP, CLDS. A career and executive leadership coach, Rebecca has an advanced degree in Human and Organizational Development and Group Dynamics from Vanderbilt University and over 20 years experience as a Sales and Marketing Executive at global blue chip companies and tech startups including Conde Nas…
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Finding A Write Way to Journey through Grief with Maryanne O’Hara
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Author, grieving mother, quotidian philosopher and optimist, Maryanne O’Hara, joins Yuliana on the podcast today. A remarkably accomplished individual, Maryanne has earned her MFA from Emerson College, taught creative writing at both Enerson and Clark University, and has written short stories, the novel CASCADE, and the memoir LITTLE MATCHES. She h…
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Finding The Strength to Survive Cancer and Help Others with Michelle Lepp
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This week’s very special guest is Michelle Lepp, a fully accredited NASM personal trainer and 500 hour yoga instructor with an emphasis in yoga therapeutics whose passion is helping others improve their physical and mental health. Michelle is also a cancer survivor, and today she shares her inspiring phoenix tale of how she was faced with her cance…
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Surviving Trauma and Fueling Yourself to Help Others with Gina de la Chesnaye
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This week's episode of Phoenix Tales contains descriptions and discussion of sexual abuse and trauma. Listener discretion is advised. In today’s episode, Yuliana is joined by Gina de la Chesnaye, who shares her phoenix tale of surviving parental sexual abuse to become a humanitarian worker with traumatized communities. In her work, Gina draws on he…
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Starting Life Over with Ellen Greenberg
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Today’s guest is Ellen Greenberg. a designer and the owner and director of Quick Culture, a global, art tour and cultural travel company. Among her other roles, Ellen has also been an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, has guest lectured at UCLA, holds Docent Program certificates at both The Getty Center and LACMA, and i…
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Moving Beyond Surviving to Thriving with Yolanda Colon
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Yolanda Colon, an executive in the finance industry, joins Yuliana today to share the tragic story of the stillborn death of her son and also how she found the strength and courage to take back her life after the brutal end of her 24-year marriage. Her story is one of courage and self-awareness which, as you will hear, has made her the phoenix that…
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Approaching Your Fears with Courage and Stretching Yourself with Christina Chiu
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What does it take to nurse a child with special needs? Author, shoemaker, and health advocate Christina Chiu knows just what it takes as her son was born with a rare syndrome. She joins Yuliana today to share her inspiring phoenix tale on how she takes on the challenges that come her way and how she continues to do what it takes to give her son the…
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Rising Above Life’s Challenges to Follow a New Passion with Kathy Casey
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Kathy Casey sits down with Yuliana today to share her own phoenix tale of how she reinvented herself and followed her passion after losing a part of herself to her divorce and forced retirement. Both of these life events naturally had significant impacts upon Kathy and the path her life was following, Through courage and compassion, Kathy overcame …
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Becoming a Vessel of Compassion and Understanding with Sari Velar
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Joining Yuliana today is Sari Velar, a yoga teacher and yoga therapist, to share her incredible phoenix tale. Over 20 years ago, Sari turned to yoga as an alternative therapy after a life-threatening cancer diagnosis and a subsequent battle with an eating disorder and addiction. These days, Sari facilitates classes at local cancer and mental health…
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Emerging from Challenges with Courage and Resilience with Roni Jackson
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Roni Jackson, Co-Founder of Red Flag Mania, joins Yuliana today to share her inspiring phoenix tale. Roni identifies and expands upon two inflection points in her life that altered her trajectory considerably. The first, losing her mother at a young age, and the second, being forced to give up her long time career, both had significant impacts upon…
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Thriving After Illness with Dr. Susan Lovelle
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Functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Susan Lovelle, joins Yuliana today for a truly fascinating conversation. Currently the Founder and CEO of Premiere Wellness, Dr. Susan spent 14 years as a professional ballet dancer after which she became a physician specializing in plastic surgery. In her current role with Premiere Wellness, she is thrilled to…
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Developing a Life-long Devotion to Nurturing Others with Dr. Karen Lee
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Chiropractor, cookbook author, food blogger and healthy living proponent, Dr. Karen Lee, joins Yuiliana today to share her story of how she navigated being a child immigrant in a new country and having to take on the responsibility of caring for her brothers at a young age. This caring nature, developed over the years, helped form Dr. Karen’s love …
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Having the Courage to Make a Life-Altering Sacrifice with Coco Cohen
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Joining Yuliana this week is Coco Cohen, a leading fitness professional based in New York. Coco tells her courageous story of giving up her daughter for adoption to give her daughter the wonderful life that she, herself, was unable to provide. As any mother would testify, this has to be the most painful sacrifice a parent could make, and today, Coc…
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Stepping Out of the Shadow of Tragedy with Liz Bailey
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Losing a parent has a devastating effect, and losing the parent to suicide can bring compounding grief and anger. On the show today, Liz Bailey, a solicitor living in London, joins Yuliana to discuss losing her father to suicide and how the work she put into dealing with it gave her the courage to step outside the shadow cast by this tragedy and fo…
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Creating a Happy and Purposeful Life with Meta Wagner
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Joining Yuliana on the show this week is Meta Wagner, the author of What's Your Creative Type: Harness the Power of Your Artistic Personality, and an instructor of creative and communications writing at Emerson College. In addition to her writing and teaching careers, Meta has held executive positions in the marketing and public relations fields, r…
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