The Courage Effect

Owning Your Story: Suzanne Weller

#12 | 6.21.2023: Providing insight into why she started The Courage Effect, Suzanne shares some personal stories about why courage is a recurring theme throughout her life – which she’s reminded of every day in the form of a scar. She talks about courage as a practice, what we gain by focusing on what we can control, and learning through the lens of regret.
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Building a Collective with Keren Sachs

#11 | 6.14.2023: Keren and Suzanne delve into their love of photography and the power of visual storytelling. They discuss working in an industry fueled by passion, the joy (and power) of creating community, and supporting underrepresented professionals. Keren shares the challenges of being a female founder and the courage it took to build her own business from the ground up (at 5 months pregnant!).
Keren Sachs is the Founder and CEO of The Luupe, a one-stop production marketplace helping underrepresented photographers and creators connect with one another and brands all over the world.
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Leveraging Your Courage Chamber with Wayne Kimball, Jr.

#10 | 6.7.2023: Wayne Kimball, Jr. specializes in business strategy and enterprise transformation as an investor, startup advisor, and an independent board director who currently serves as Principal for Google Cloud's Go-to-Market Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions business. He is also the founder and global leader of Google’s TechAMPLIFY: an initiative to accelerate the growth and sustainability of traditionally untapped, diverse startups.
Wayne talks through “leveraging his own courage chamber” and how he welcomes elements of the unknown into his life – starting with leaving his hometown in rural North Carolina for boarding school as a teenager, moving to the Silicon Valley to start his career, and cultivating a healthy relationship with risk as an investor, board member, and his work in mergers and acquisitions.
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Willingly Facing Fear with Iliana Quinonez

#9 | 5.31.2023: Iliana shares her story about facing a challenging medical diagnosis and she found courage in naming her fear, visualizing a positive result, and a dose of humor to stay the course and successfully recover.
Iliana Quinonez is a powerhouse Latina Trailblazer in the High Tech Industry, who builds and scales high performing teams in addition to developing the next generation of people leaders. She’s a strategic startup advisor for the ICA fund (an organization that provides coaching, connections, and capital to grow Bay Area businesses and close the gender and racial wealth gap). Ilana is a passionate advocate and ambassador for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace, and a certified Beyond Barriers Coach focused on women professionals.
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Stepping Out In Faith with Ruby Love

#8| 5.24.2023: Ruby Love defines courage as stepping out in faith. She talks with Suzanne about how her upbringing during the civil rights movement shaped her values, the importance of learning to take risks (and the greater risk we all face when we don't say yes), and how our lives change when we tap into courage to unlearn destructive practices.
Ruby Love is the Principal of Love Resource Development Group. Based in Seattle, she is a transformational business leader, entrepreneur and strategist advocating for socially responsible business and community organizations.
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No Regrets with Carmen Cano

#7 | 5.17.2023: Always at the intersection of business, design and technology, Carmen Cano has led teams and organizations in product, innovation and design. She's currently the SVP of Product Design at Seismic and is passionate about solving problems by creating a vision that enables everyone to do their best work. Her motto: "Leave it better than you found it."
Carmen shares her story about love inspiring her move to the US from Madrid, what her “no regrets” mantra has brought to her life and work, and how fear of failure is what holds us back from learning and innovation.
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The Power of Wonder with Michelle Grover

#6 | 5.10.2023: Michelle Grover is Chief Technology Officer of Slalom, a global management consulting firm headquartered in Seattle. She’s been named by Business Insider as one of the 100 People Transforming Business in Emerging Tech, is a member of the Greycroft and Sierra Ventures Technology Councils, and dedicates her time to mentoring high school young women and people of color in the technology field.
Michelle shares how she broke away from expectations to launch a career in technology as a black woman, her work mentoring young people to open up fresh perspectives, and why she values not being able to give advice to her younger self.
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Passion and Perspective with J.R. Siegel

#5 | 5.3.2023: J.R. and Suzanne anchor their conversation on the topic of passions – they discuss seeing the macro view to ensure we’re pursuing what matters most to us and J.R. shares his recurring self-review process where he tests what he “loves, likes, can’t, and won’t” do. He also touches on how empowering it is to hide self-view on video calls (a smaller but still courageous act!) and what opens up when you stop hiding behind the work of others.
J.R. Siegel is a sustainability strategist, writer, and business leader based in Seattle. He’s the Senior Director of Product Innovation of Worldly (a Series B Sustainability SAAS Company), a member of the scientific and technical advisory committee for the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation prize; and the author of Bright Spots, a newsletter that unpacks good news about the climate that you may have missed.
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Courageous Communication with Julie Pham

#4 | 4.26.2023: Organizational development leader Julie Pham, PhD and Suzanne discuss the role courage plays in communicating with others: the ways it’s challenged by our speed of work, the trend of self-censoring becoming more common, and how trusting our intuition surfaces the ability to stay true to ourselves. Dr. Julie Pham is the founder and the CEO of CuriosityBased, an organizational development firm based in Seattle. She’s been recognized with numerous awards for her community leadership, and has applied her community building approach to creating strong, collaborative and curious teams. Her books include 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work (2022) and Their War: The Perspectives of the South Vietnamese Military in the Words of Veteran-Émigrés (2019).
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Styling Courage with Mellicia Marx

#3 | 4.19.2023: Mellicia – a self-proclaimed iconoclast – talks about tapping into courage to make new memories (bikini included!), the power of claiming your authentic style, and how having a child allowed her to make more intentional choices for the life she creates for herself and her family.
Based in Seattle, Mellicia Marx is the founder of Poplin Style Direction, a boutique personal styling consultancy in Seattle. Since 2013, Mellicia has helped hundreds of cis and trans women across the country look and feel their best through personalized, one-on-one style mentoring.
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