I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to interview Safia Porter and hope you do also. She is warm, caring, and visionary.

She actually selected the same word to describe herself. Safia shared a story from her childhood about her love for the performing arts & music. She believes it helps to awaken our imagination and we should all lean into our inner child. I totally agree with her and have experienced a direct relationship with music and how it impacts my emotions. What about you?

Her life is spent on making a positive impact in the world. She is part of an organization called Easy Water for Everyone. Here is a sobering question - Think about drinking water that is brown?

That should make you pause for a moment. There are 663 million people in the world that lack access to clean water. Easy Water for Everyone delivers clean pure water to remote villages with contaminated water sources. They use simple sustainable technology that does not require electricity and is validated by research. This makes the water safe to consume.

There are now 35 village sites with these water filtration devices in developing countries to provide clean drinking water to the villagers.

Do you want to make an impact? You can, Safia shared that there will be a Water & Health conference in October 2024 at University of North Carolina. The theme is “Imagine a Day Without Water.” https://www.easywaterforeveryone.org/

Lastly, one of my favorite questions is what is the best mentoring advice she would like to share. She took us back to advice her father gave her. “Keep going no matter what life gives you.” Like Dory - just keep swimming.

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Denise Musselwhite is the founder of Tech and Thrive. She is a dynamic person that is memorable. We have been connected through a number of Women’s groups that focus on technology. One of the words she shared to describe herself is Deliberate, and the definition of this word means to carefully think or talk something through. Slow and measured, the pace of this kind of careful decision making. As the daughter of immigrants to the US she learned to move through life with a heavy focus on her serving her clients. She believes this is essential for success for her clients as well as her own business.

She grew up in an entrepreneurial family that focused on service. She helped her family by translating technical writing into Spanish for her parents.

When thinking through what she wanted her career to be, she knew it would be in technology. She was the first gen in her family to attend college and started with Valencia College when it was a 2-year college.

As a woman in technology and working her way to become a Chief Information Officer, she represents less than 2% of the workforce as a latina woman in the tech world. She started her own business because she grew up watching her family be entrepreneurs. She went back to get her masters degree when she turned 45 and focused her master’s thesis on the barriers that hold women back in their careers. Before COVID, she discovered that stem careers focused more on men rather than women. Women are still not represented in technology leadership roles. Only 26% are leaders in the tech world. Less than 3% Latinas make it to the top of the tech leadership.

When asked what is the best mentoring advice you want to share with our listeners? Her response was that in order for you to accelerate your own growth and development you have to understand who you are and decide who you are. If you allow someone to decide who you are for you. One needs to understand what you need and a strategy with a plan of action to move towards your strengths

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Andres Goyanes is a personal coach on a mission to help people become their best version of themselves. Andres spent a lot of time thinking about his purpose in life. As he looked forward , he also looked backwards and thought about how he helped people.

Some really great wisdom nuggets that came out of the show are:

• Celebrate successes and learn from failures.
• Communication is one of the best ways to grow.
• Advice his dad said when he was growing up. When you own your business, you drop your plate to take care of business. That is the responsibility of every entrepreneur.

Future of Work opportunity for anyone thinking about going into life coaching. The market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.85% from 2023 to 2030 to reach USD $2.1 billion by 2030. What does this mean for you? Consider this your side business. As the world continues to work, play, and connect remotely - it will be important to have a coach to help stay balanced.

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