To celebrate Mother’s Day this year, we have created a special three-part round up of some of our most popular guests’ reflections on the best advice they’ve ever received.
This episode features Sherice Torres, Rachel Martin, Elsie Escobar, and Julie Lythcott-Haims.
Sherice Torres, Google Marketing Director
Sherice Guillory is an inspirational leader with nearly 20 years of experience in marketing, brand and product management, strategic planning, change management and organizational development. As Marketing Director in Google’s Brand Studio, she creates programs to illustrate Google’s values in the areas of Environment, User Care, Crisis Response, and Employment Branding.
“I would say I wasted… a good six or seven years beating myself up, thinking that the only reason my life didn’t look the way I thought it should is because I wasn’t working hard enough.”
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Rachel Martin, Author of The Brave Art of Motherhood
Rachel Marie Martin is the author of the Brave Art of Motherhood and FindingJoy.net. Her articles have been translated into over 25 languages, her site reaches millions of visitors per month, and she has a robust, engaged Facebook community. Rachel speaks worldwide, encouraging moms and entrepreneurs to live each day with purpose and drive.
“ We each have these unique capabilities and visions and ideas and when we try to put somebody else’s coat on, it never fits correctly; but when we are comfortable in who we are, then we can really flourish and blossom.”
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Elsie Escobar, Libsyn’s Community Manager and Podcasting Veteran
Elsie Escobar is Community Manager for Libsyn, the most prominent publishing platform for podcasts since 2004. She is a veteran in the industry and inductee to the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame. She co-runs She Podcasts, a podcasting community for women that has over 10,000 members.
“Notice and allow. I have kept those words with me for so long because what I was doing… is that I was feeling all the feels and having the thoughts, and I would get stuck.”
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Julie Lythcott-Haims, Author of How to Raise an Adult and Real American
Julie Lythcott-Haims is deeply interested in what prevents humans from thriving. She is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap which gave rise to one of the “Top TED Talks of 2016” with 2.5 million views and counting. She is also the author of Real American: A Memoir, which is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning memoir which examines racism through her experience as a Black and biracial person.
“I would say follow your heart sooner. Don’t be so worried about what other people think of you.”
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