Guest featured in this episode:

Sherile is a Psychotherapist, with significant experience in creating content for clients as they develop transformational mental health products and services. Sherile is a Mindfulness practitioner and has created content for world-leading Apps such as Calm, Inwords and Dream.

​She is the author of a number of industry books for Therapists and their clients dealing with  Anxiety and is also the Author of Befriending Emotions a Mindfulness meditation guide for Pause + purpose. 

​Sherile has written over 1000 mindfulness, spirituality and healing meditations. Her meditations have been viewed millions of times on YouTube. She is an in-demand speaker representing clients in the mental health, coaching and healing spaces, appearing on webinars, and at industry conferences. 

Things you will learn in this episode:

• How 2020 affected her business? 

• What are the trends in Mental Health especially this past year?

• Her experience working with the Calm app.

• Her most important lessons learned through her life transitions.

• Myth about surrendering she’d like to debunk.

• and much more…

Guest featured in this episode:

Nuzayra Haque is a virtual attorney based out of Los Angeles, California. Nuzayra counsels U.S. and international clients on obtaining and protecting trademarks and copyrights, branding strategies, IP portfolio management, trade secrets, data protection, GDPR and U.S privacy law compliance and other commercial matters.

As a creative entrepreneur and small business owner herself, Nuzayra loves working with startups and creative professionals and has represented clients in cannabis, technology, design, fashion and entertainment.

One of the first attorneys to successfully obtain federal trademark protection in the cannabis industry, Nuzayra was named in the Daily Journal‘s ‘Top Women Attorneys’ for 2017. Since 2015, she has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in Southern California for intellectual property, an award made to only 2.5% of attorneys in the region. She is often featured in legal and business outlets as an expert in intellectual property, her latest interview on intellectual property rights for cannabis brands was published on Yahoo! Finance. She also recently served on the Board of Directors of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California.

Nuzayra holds the honor of being both a California attorney and a barrister in England and Wales, having been called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in London. She attended the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, where she was awarded the Dean’s Merit Scholarship. In the UK, she received law degrees from BPP Law School in Leeds and Northumbria University, graduating with honors, in Newcastle.

During her spare time Nuzayra loves hanging out with her husband and their pet cat Kiba while entertaining friends and family. As a virtual attorney, she loves traveling to new countries and exploring new destinations while working for the protection and growth of her clients’ businesses. Being virtual helps Nuzayra save on traditional costs of running a law firm and allows her to pass on those savings to her clients while providing top quality service.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• What a trademark is?

• Does it matter what industry or product/service you are in when it comes to trademarking?

• Say starting an LLC, do you need to trademark that company name? Or logo? Or program, course, podcast? 

• Do you need an individual trademark for everything you use in your business? For example your slogan? 

• Can you publicly search on the web to see if your name is in use? 

• When can you put a ™ sign on your names? 

• What’s the difference between a registered trademark and an unregistered trademark? 

• What’s the difference between ™ and R in circle symbols? 

• The trademark application process can seem overwhelming, how does the process really look like? 

• How long is a trademark valid? 

• If you apply for a US trademark, are you protected in other countries?

• and much more…

What is Awareness?

By definition by Merriam-webster dictionary:

Awareness is the quality or state of being aware: knowledge and understanding that something is happening or exists.

Before we put “any word” into action, first, we need to put the word “awareness” into action.

How are things happening around us or within us? If you want to understand anything in life or improve anything in life or business, awareness is the key to everything.

Start noticing

How are you responding physically or mentally to a situation?

How are you behaving in front of a person or a situation? 

What emotions are you experiencing?

What makes you do what you do?

What makes you happy?

What do you really want for your life or for your business?

What no longer serves you?

What areas do you need to improve?

What is really the problem?

I challenge you to tune in and start practicing awareness and watch your life change. 

Guest featured in this episode:

Maya is a podcaster (host of the MaYapinion Podcast) and focuses on leadership and inspiring women to be the leaders of the future. 

She also teachs podcasting and coach women how to be effective leaders.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• What platform is best for you
• Mic and equipment selection
• Where to record
• Budgeting
• How to narrow down your niche
• Identify if you need a co-host
• How to find guests
• Editing techniques
• How to monetize with a small audience
• and much more…

Guest featured in this episode:

After facing unexpected adversity as a college student, Jasmine Williams hit rock bottom. She spent years going through the motions of life, no longer ambitious to change the world or even reach her full potential. And in this episode, she tells her story to inspire you. 

Now, as a successful adversity and resilience speaker, Jasmine guides audiences how to thrive through the plot twists in their own lives. She’s spoken on college campuses, to businesses, and at conferences across the United States.

Jasmine is also a speaking coach for female entrepreneurs. She teaches women how to deliver a polished message with confidence. And as a thank you for listening to the podcast, Jasmine is offering a free 15-minute speaking coaching consultation for each of our listeners! You can learn more about working with Jasmine at www.JasmineCWilliams.com

Jasimine Williams and Lucy Liu met in the Mic Drop community. If you are interested in becoming a speaker, check out MICDROP.