Trauma, Trust & Triumph with Sharitta Marshall

Trauma, Trust & Triumph with Sharitta Marshall

Trauma, Trust & Triumph with Sharitta Marshall

Sharitta Marshall whose mission is to create lives filled with more love, laughter, and growth grew up in Detroit, MI before moving to Washington DC to attend Howard University for her undergraduate studies. She started her postgraduate career in New Jersey before moving back to MI to conclude her manufacturing career. In 2009, she moved to Arizona to obtain her postgraduate degree in Arizona State University, where she began working in the software industry. In today's episode, Monique talks with Sharitta as she talks about her journey through pain, peace, purpose and pleasure. We will also be sharing with you the unfailing willingness to continue believing in yourself.

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:50] – Monique introduces her guest, Sharitta Marshall.

 

[2:08] – Tell everyone who you are, what you do and where you’re hanging out right now.

  • I am the author of my upcoming book, “My Mosaic Life” and also owner of the wellness product company called “Her Divine Alchemy”.
  • I’m currently hanging out in Tempe, Arizona, so I’ll be here for a while, depending on how 2020 goes.

[3:27] – How did you grow up?

  • I grew up around my cousin, my grandmother, my aunt.
  • I grew up in the middle class.
  • My parents were divorced.

 

[10:17] – Sharitta talks about going through an extensive-feeling journey, which also brought her to writing her book.

 

[13:39] – What kind of trauma caused the pain? 

  •  One that I was talking about in our group was the sexual trauma.

 

[17:21] – Sharitta talks about acknowledging the pain from trauma while people did not believe her.

[23:41] – How often do you think women do things in a relationship to make the men happy without actually wanting it? But them not being really aware that we don’t really want it?

  • I think women are programmed from a young age that it is all about pleasing a man. It’s all about making sure his needs, desires and wants are fulfilled. 

[31:45] – What usually triggers the trauma?

  • Having conversation with other women that have gone through sexual traumas is typically a trigger.

[33:34] – Why do you need to work on these triggers?

  • I worked on the triggers because I needed to understand what they were based in.

[49:24] – Who do you think should be reading your book?

  • Particularly black women or any women of color that have ever felt like they are unseen and unheard, that’s my audience.

[52:47] – If you could go back in time, would you change anything?

  • I would love myself and be gentle with myself a hell lot more than I did, I won’t  say I wouldn’t make the same mistakes, but I would have loved myself a lot better through them.

[53:26] – What does efficiency mean to you?

  • Efficiency means to really prioritize. 

[54:07] – Which of the three things would you keep doing over and over again to get back to success?

  • I would have found a way to invest in Google
  • My family would have gone in together as a company and purchased some land that right now is making a killing.
  • I would have made my mom take a lot more vacations in her life before she died.

IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

I think women are programmed from a young age that it is all about pleasing a man. It’s all about making sure his needs, desires and wants are fulfilled.

Sharitta Marshall.

Efficiency means to really prioritize.

Sharitta Marshall.

If you want me the way that I show up in a relationship, then that’s something that you have to have worked out, it’s not negotiable.

Sharitta Marshall.

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Depression, Determination & Drive with Nathanael Zurbruegg

Depression, Determination & Drive with Nathanael Zurbruegg

Depression, Determination & Drive with Nathanael Zurbruegg

Nathanael went from having an incurable chronic illness with a medical prognosis along the lines of ‘He shouldn’t be able to walk, talk, amount to anything and be dead six times by now’ to becoming an entrepreneur, global inspirational speaker and victorious mindset mentor. HIs own story made him realise that anyone can live efficiently no matter the limitations, struggles and setbacks. After 4,500 life-saving treatments, 40 surgeries, 80% hearing loss, depression and burnout, life can be lived efficiently by creating a victorious mindset. In today’s episode, Nathanael and Monique are talking about a guy who loves life despite suffering 30 years from an incurable, chronic illness, called Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (aHUS) that led to full kidney damage early on in his life. Despite uncountable health issues, psychological meltdowns, emotional breakdowns and hitting the graveyard almost 6 times, he turned around to live life as any other healthy person does!

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:16] – Monique introduces her guest, Nathanael Zurbruegg.

 

[1:39] – Tell everyone who you are, where you are and what you do.

  • I’m an inspirational speaker and victorious mentor.
  • I grew up on a big mountain in Switzerland.

 

[2:19] – How do you define victorious mindset?

  • It’s all about seeing the victory in everything, in everyone and keeping moving.

 

[3:32] – When was the point that you needed to start to develop your own victorious mindset in your life?

  • When I was seven years old.
  • That was the time when I had my second kidney transplant.

 

[14:28] – After the second kidney transplant at age seven, you had these for two and a half years, was it the first time for you to go to kindergarten or school?

  • I actually started kindergarten shortly after I got a transplant.

 

[18:33] – Have they been bullying you in school?

  • I was never bullied.

 

[21:05] – Nathanael talks about what happened when his kidney got destroyed again.

 

[29:48] – What were your friends doing in these times, did they visit you? Did you allow them to visit you?

  • Absolutely not.
  • I actually wanted to be on my own.

 

[38:16] –  Let’s talk a little bit about the time where you finally got out of everything, a little bit happier, you got a little bit more stable in your life. When was that?

  • When I was 10 years old. And I just kept going, going to school.

 

[46:22] – What is your favorite exercise to do for yourself?

  • So mostly in the morning, what I usually do is five minutes of being grateful, five minutes asking for what I need. 

 

[48:42] – What does efficiency mean to you?

  • Staying on track of not giving up, developing a routine that you would like to do.

 

[50:09] – Which of the three things would you keep doing over and over again to get back to success?

  • Being grateful and being content in everything.
  • Developing the positivity of looking at the positive things in life and not looking at the things that don’t exist.
  • Developing a mindset of looking at the big picture.

    IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

    Always stay on track of not giving up and developing a routine that you would like to do.

    Nathanael Zurbruegg

    I realized that nothing at a certain point in life that you can’t do it by yourself anymore, or nobody can help you, so you need someone that is way above you.

    Nathanael Zurbruegg

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    Perfectionism, Personality & Pride with Falyn Satterfield

    Perfectionism, Personality & Pride with Falyn Satterfield

    Perfectionism, Personality & Pride with Falyn Satterfield

    Falyn Satterfield is a mystical Brand, Content, & Marketing strategist. Specifically, she works with highly ambitious, impact-driven, conscious service-based entrepreneurs to design an authentic, influential, and profitable brand position, marketing message, & content so that they can stand out online, enhance their divine impact, build conscious influence in their industry, and consistently + increasingly monetize their genius using Facebook and Instagram. In today’s episode Falyn and Monique are talking about how Falyn chose to become independent when she was 17. Later she dropped out of college and is now running her own business. The way she teaches marketing is based on a higher level of consciousness so you can attract your ideal clients.

    HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

    [1:50] – Monique introduces her guest, Falyn Satterfield.

     

    [1:59] – Please introduce yourself and tell us: who you are, what you do and where you are located?

    • My name is Falyn Satterfield.
    • I’m a brand content marketing and influencer strategist.
    • I run my own online business. I work with service-based conscious entrepreneurs to build a standout brand position in their industry. We also create content that is authentic, influential, and profitable.

     

    [2:55] –  What is this conscious marketing branding that you’re talking about? How does it work?

    • Conscious marketing is a term that I have really culminated in the online space and brought a lot of awareness to.

     

    [5:33] – How did you get to see that there’s something going wrong in the marketing industry?

    • It was kind of the same thing as being in the industry and then seeing all of this copy and pasted model of verbiage regurgitated value like no uniqueness whatsoever.

     

    [8:22] – Where did you grow up? And also: how was the whole experience of growing up for you and how did it influence you on how you do marketing right now?

    • I’m originally from Indianapolis, Indiana.
    • My parents were divorced before I even turned one year old.
    • I guess you could say my childhood was super unstable. I had a lot of issues with my parents.

     

    [30:33] – When did you come out to your mom and she started treating you badly?

    • It wasn’t that I even got the chance to come out. She had gone through my phone.
    • She found out on her own by invading my privacy.

     

    [42:45] – What do you think is the most empowering thing for you about having your business?

    • The most empowering thing about having my business is definitely the ability to be fully expressed. And to express my creative freedom.
    • I found that using my voice is actually really healing for me.

     

    [44:36] – What do you do about backlash coming in for real?

    • The people who are doing that are very unconscious to their own privilege.
    • Sharing awareness and speaking out, using your voice is important, but when it comes to the backlash, it’s literally not useful to respond and argue with them.

     

    [51:39] –  What does efficiency mean to you?

    • It means being able to do things quickly in the easiest and simplest way.

     

    [52:01] – Which three things would you keep doing, again and again, to get back to success?

    • Live streams 
    • Consistent content creation 
    • Energy and mindset work.

      IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

      I found that using my voice is actually really healing for me.

      Falyn Satterfield

      Sharing awareness, speaking out and using your voice is important.

      Falyn Satterfield

      Efficiency means being able to do things quickly and the easiest and simplest way.

      Falyn Satterfield

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      Introversion, Immigration & Identity Raj Subrameyer

      Introversion, Immigration & Identity Raj Subrameyer

      Introversion, Immigration & Identity Raj Subrameyer

      Raj Subrameyer is a motivational speaker, writer, and tech career coach who helps people step into the leadership role of their dreams through his services and speeches. He is helping countless people to discover their zone of genius and leverage it to live the life that they love. In his spare time, he loves traveling with his family and discovering new experiences which include craft beer.In today’s episode, Raj and Monique are talking about how overcoming self-doubt, low confidence, and low self-esteem as an introvert helped Raj become one of the top keynote speakers in the tech industry. The episode also goes into detail about discovering new ways to be highly productive and produce impactful work throughout this journey.

      HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

      [01:27] – Monique introduces her guest, Raj Subrameyer.

       

      [01:38] – Tell us about who you are, where you from, and what you do?

      • I’m a tech career coach.
      • I do speaking and writing for companies, I speak at various conferences on different topics, which includes AI, software development, and also non-tech topics like leadership, motivation, and then self-confidence.

       

      [07:19] – When was the point that you felt like you had to change something to get out of this “inferiority syndrome” that you felt trapped within your family? 

      • The trigger-event was in the 2nd year of under-grad 
      • My family and me were in my room and I was again advised on what career path to take and it just didn’t feel right 

       

      [09:13] – What made you think at that moment when you step up and speak up and prove them wrong?

      •  It’s all those small moments, which actually brought me to that moment where I had the blow-up with my parents. And I think it was all a gradual transition of small wins, which gave me the confidence.

       

      [11:38] – How did your parents react? 

      • They were pretty shocked. 
      • And they were taken aback and they didn’t see that comment at all. 

       

      [14:44] – What do you think did this situation cause within your brother, watching all of that?

      • My brother was oblivious, in terms of what was happening inside me, not to ay that he’s a great guy.

       

      [21:17] – Talk to me about the decision to move to the US.

      • I came to the US in 2008 to pursue my master’s in software engineering.

       

      [38:01] – Raj shares his experiences on the intercultural differences.

       

      [48:34] – What was the biggest thing that changed for you being an introvert?

      •  I started looking for opportunities where I could get out of my comfort zone. 

       

      [53:36] – What are you doing at that moment to overcome this fear and still introduce yourself?

      • The first thing is I realized everyone was human and they started from somewhere, everyone comes out as a baby.

      [57:19] – What does efficiency mean to you?

      •  It would be trying to optimize processes. You can help to solve complex problems with simple solutions, and also help to finish work ahead of time.

       

      [58:14] – Which of the three things would you do over and over again, to basically build your success up again?

      • Finding your purpose. 
      • Serving others to be happy in life. 
      • It’s never too late to make a change.

        IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

        You can never find a small-minded traveler.

        Raj Subrameyer

        You can help people solve complex problems with simple solutions.

        Raj Subrameyer

        Efficiency means trying to optimize processes.

        Raj Subrameyer

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        Falling, Faith & Family with Mohammad Gharbieh

        Falling, Faith & Family with Mohammad Gharbieh

        Falling, Faith & Family with Mohammad Gharbieh

        Mohammad Gharbieh is a Leader of HVAC company. Offering only the best heating and cooling systems around. Quality and excellent customer service have helped them grow to become one of the most trusted HVAC experts in the area.An unexpected injury changed his life. Mohammad fell off the back of a van only moving 5 mph and hit his head on the concrete. The consequences were extreme: no memory for 6 months, 3 doctors said he was gone. But somehow, someway he came back to work within 9 months only. In today’s episode, Mohammad and Monique are talking about safety as the number one factor at work, how to overcome such extreme challenges, and how faith and family play a huge role in recovery.

        HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

        [01:27] – Monique introduces her guest, Mohammad Gharbieh.

        [01:57] – Tell us about who you are, where you from, and what you’re doing?

        • My name is Mohammad Gharbieh, I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas.

        [4:20] – How is it like to be working with your dad, uncles, and your mom as well? 

        • Fortunately enough, we all work together as a team. We all appreciate everybody’s efforts.

        [05:52] – Do you think it’s a little bit of a cultural aspect that maybe your family business operates differently than traditional American Families?

        • I don’t know how many others are family companies, but a lot of companies are successful because they do treat people fairly. 

         

        [06:55] –  So how does it look like right now for you and your business, to take care of all of your employees, your family during a pandemic?

        • We’re trying to continue to grow the service and maintenance and replacement business to keep our guys busy. Even if they’re not working full-time we’re still paying them as if they were.

        [08:42] – What do you think about wannabe gurus out there who just fired 80% of their team?

        • I definitely think it’s about holding on to their money.

        [11:01] –  Mohammad talks about the crazy accident and what happened

         

        [15:16] – What do you think was the biggest lesson afterward that you would take from that experience?

        • Safety is the number one factor in everything that we do at work.

         

        [17:47] – What was it that impacted others so much that they would come to you for so long, so often, or maybe from far away?

        • I was a young kid who worked really, really hard, and tried to make the best for myself and my family. 
        • I never ever thought about myself. I was always a caring person for anybody and everybody around me.

         

        [19:08] – How did your wife help you after the accident when you had to recover, to get through all of that?

        • It’s really difficult because my wife, we found out a couple of weeks before I got hurt, that my wife was pregnant with our second baby.
        • The situation did not put her in a good place. But she constantly prayed for me, she prayed for me night and day, and she would beg God to get me better and she cared about me so much.
        • Nur (Mohammad’s wife) explains how she and her family handled the situation and how they cared for Mohammad in the hospital

         

        [33:56] – Do you even make any plans for the future? What are the next steps that you want to achieve for your family and for your business and for yourself just in general?

        •  Just be more efficient in everything that I do.

         

        [44:56] – Tell me what efficiency means to you?

        • Efficiency is improving and doing the best that you can do in any situation.

         

        [45:32] – Which of the three things would you do over and over again to get back to success? 

        • Trying new things.
        • Always show the best effort and everything that you do.
        • Stick to doing best for other people. 

        IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

        Whatever happens is what’s written for us already.

        Nur Ashour

        Safety is the number one priority for us, even above the quality of the qualities in our name.

        Mohammad Gharbieh

        If you pray for something, you have to pray with the faith knowing that God is going to answer your prayer.”

        Nur Ashour

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        Practice, Patience & Persistence with David Schloss

        Practice, Patience & Persistence with David Schloss

        Practice, Patience & Persistence with David Schloss

        David Schloss is an online entrepreneur who began marketing in 2007 from his college apartment.Over the years, he has helped hundreds of businesses improve their website traffic, customer acquisition, and revenue using social advertising.His business, Convert ROI, enables businesses to succeed by taking complicated social ad plans and seamlessly turning them into easy-to-follow revenue-producing campaigns. He manages over $2.5mil per month in paid advertising via Facebook and Instagram.In today’s episode, David and Monique are talking about how he started in online marketing 13 years ago from his college apartment while managing a full school schedule. He built the entire business on school loans and reconfigured his schedule to focus more on business than school while still getting his degree.

        HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

        [01:27] – Monique introduces her guest, David Schloss.

        [01:55] – Tell everyone who you are and what you’re doing?

        • I’m an ad agency owner. I basically operate an agency out of Colorado first started in Florida.

         

        [03:43] – David talks about how life is in Miami.

         

        [06:08] – Are your parents also born in the US?

        • My dad was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My mom was born in Havana, Cuba.

         

        [06:48] – Did you ever feel like in between cultures having a mom from Cuba?

        • Yes, so I was automatically supposed to know Spanish. That’s a default. 

         

        [11:05] – David talks about how he got into entrepreneurship.


        [23:45] – How did you get to the point of depression and how did you deal with it? 

        • It was all in my head and plenty of nights of crying and figuring out what the hell am I doing?
        • I just recorded what I’m thinking and feeling while changing my life simultaneously? 

         

        [34:45] – What happened when you were about to lose your business?

        • At that time I had a mentor I just began working with this guy. And he didn’t want anything from me.
        • He told me that it was in his own business that the seven-year mark was when things broke down, rebuilt it, and came back 10 times stronger. 

         

        [47:26] – What do you think was the top three or five pieces of advice you’ve got from different people that actually replied, that helped you snapping you out of this scenario?

        • So I came up with the idea of practice, patience, and persistence. 

         

        [1:00:20] – Tell me what’s the meaning of efficiency to you?

        • Efficiency now has to do more with not just taking an action to get something done, but it is meaningful action towards the bigger goal.

         

        [1:02:29] – What would be the three things that you would keep doing over and over again to get back to success?

        • I would have continually done move in the direction of having An agency.
        • I also believe that I would have to take my health a lot more seriously along the way.
        • I would have continued the day trade.

        IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

        If you can’t get to the seven-year mark to your business and have some sort of downfall. It’s inevitable that it’s going to happen.

        David Schloss

        When things broke down, rebuilt it and came back 10 times stronger.

        David Schloss

        Keep practicing your craft. Be very persistent with continuing to do it. And then your patience comes along.

        David Schloss

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