Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose, and her special guest Dawn Sherie Ferguson chat in the “Collaboration Over Competition” Podcast Mini-Series.

This empowering series explores what becomes possible when women stop competing against one another and start building together. We’re shifting the focus from comparison and competition to connection, shared purpose, and collective success. Because when women support women, celebrate each other’s achievements, and share their knowledge and resources, everyone has the opportunity to grow.

Through honest conversations, inspiring stories, and practical insights, we’ll discover how collaboration creates stronger relationships, opens doors to new opportunities, and multiplies the impact we can make in our communities and beyond. From celebrating another woman’s success to building meaningful partnerships, we’ll explore how a spirit of generosity and teamwork can transform the way we approach life, business, and leadership.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a community leader, a creative, or a woman working toward your next big goal, this series will remind you that you don't have to do it all alone. Your success doesn't diminish someone else's, and another woman's achievements don't take away from your own potential.

Join us as we celebrate the power of women coming together, lifting one another up, and creating opportunities that are bigger than any one of us could build alone.

Dawn Sherie Ferguson is a native of Newark, New Jersey she is an all around creative. Known for her podcast Mz O In The Mix, an Author of Platform: 14 Steps to a Brand New You, medium physic, intuitive reader, energy worker and abstract fantasy artist. She goes by the name Mz Originator and has been blessing us with her tough love and motivational guidance for over 20 years. Follow her on Instagram at mz_originator.

We explore what it really means to grow through disruption, using tarot archetypes like the Tower and Death as practical metaphors for change, healing, and rebuilding on a stronger foundation. We also get honest about self-worth, people pleasing, and how small daily choices can shift your mindset, your body, and your business.

• collaboration over competition and why community accelerates growth
• Ms Originator’s work across podcasting, motivational teaching, tarot, and mediumship
• the Tower as a life reroute and why unstable foundations crumble
• the Death card as transformation and a clean new beginning
• bridging spirituality with entrepreneurship without chasing approval
• self-talk, apologizing, and how language shapes self-worth
• manifestation, nervous system cues, and practical mindset rewiring
• unhealed trauma stored in the body and why movement helps
• discernment, red flags, and choosing spiritual practitioners with integrity
• receiving support, setting boundaries, and starting with five minutes of real rest
• what to expect from the Platform-based masterclass and why the book is a tool

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Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose, in “Collaboration Over Competition” Podcast Mini-Series.

This empowering series explores what becomes possible when women stop competing against one another and start building together. We’re shifting the focus from comparison and competition to connection, shared purpose, and collective success. Because when women support women, celebrate each other’s achievements, and share their knowledge and resources, everyone has the opportunity to grow.

Through honest conversations, inspiring stories, and practical insights, we’ll discover how collaboration creates stronger relationships, opens doors to new opportunities, and multiplies the impact we can make in our communities and beyond. From celebrating another woman’s success to building meaningful partnerships, we’ll explore how a spirit of generosity and teamwork can transform the way we approach life, business, and leadership.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a community leader, a creative, or a woman working toward your next big goal, this series will remind you that you don't have to do it all alone. Your success doesn't diminish someone else's, and another woman's achievements don't take away from your own potential.

Join us as we celebrate the power of women coming together, lifting one another up, and creating opportunities that are bigger than any one of us could build alone.

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We lean into fall as a natural reset and use it to build healthier habits before the holiday rush knocks us off track. We share a simple six week challenge, talk accountability without shame, and break down food pairings that help your body absorb more nutrients.

• reflecting on fall as a homecoming season and a cue for gratitude
• treating wellness like a practice built through daily habits
• using collaboration, accountability, and healthy competition to stay consistent
• starting a six week October challenge to prepare for holiday stress
• pairing foods to support absorption and digestion like tomatoes with olive oil and beans with rice
• making golden milk work better with black pepper and healthy fat
• using citrus to boost nutrients in meals like spinach salads and green tea
• choosing snacks that stack benefits like apples with nut butter and blueberries with walnuts
• balancing discipline with self forgiveness after stress eating or diet slip ups

For more Divas That Care Network Episodes visit www.divasthatcare.com

Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose, in “Collaboration Over Competition” Podcast Mini-Series.

This empowering series explores what becomes possible when women stop competing against one another and start building together. We’re shifting the focus from comparison and competition to connection, shared purpose, and collective success. Because when women support women, celebrate each other’s achievements, and share their knowledge and resources, everyone has the opportunity to grow.

Through honest conversations, inspiring stories, and practical insights, we’ll discover how collaboration creates stronger relationships, opens doors to new opportunities, and multiplies the impact we can make in our communities and beyond. From celebrating another woman’s success to building meaningful partnerships, we’ll explore how a spirit of generosity and teamwork can transform the way we approach life, business, and leadership.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a community leader, a creative, or a woman working toward your next big goal, this series will remind you that you don't have to do it all alone. Your success doesn't diminish someone else's, and another woman's achievements don't take away from your own potential.

Join us as we celebrate the power of women coming together, lifting one another up, and creating opportunities that are bigger than any one of us could build alone.

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We guide a meditation that transforms jealousy and envy from painful comparison into clear direction about what we truly want. We connect competition to insecurity and lack, then practice a grounded visualization that helps us step into desire with self-worth, gratitude, and choice.

• competition rooted in insecurity, lack mentality, and comparison
• jealousy and envy as signals that reveal a real desire
• using reflection questions to identify what we want
• guilt as feedback after misaligned actions and reactive words
• pausing to move from reactivity into conscious choice
• meditation as training for the inner observer
• “door” visualization to explore envy safely and without self-judgment
• integrating fulfillment and releasing the feeling of separation

For more Divas That Care Network Episodes visit www.divasthatcare.com

Come and listen to our Host, Gia-Raquel Rose, in “Collaboration Over Competition” Podcast Mini-Series.

This empowering series explores what becomes possible when women stop competing against one another and start building together. We’re shifting the focus from comparison and competition to connection, shared purpose, and collective success. Because when women support women, celebrate each other’s achievements, and share their knowledge and resources, everyone has the opportunity to grow.

Through honest conversations, inspiring stories, and practical insights, we’ll discover how collaboration creates stronger relationships, opens doors to new opportunities, and multiplies the impact we can make in our communities and beyond. From celebrating another woman’s success to building meaningful partnerships, we’ll explore how a spirit of generosity and teamwork can transform the way we approach life, business, and leadership.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a community leader, a creative, or a woman working toward your next big goal, this series will remind you that you don't have to do it all alone. Your success doesn't diminish someone else's, and another woman's achievements don't take away from your own potential.

Join us as we celebrate the power of women coming together, lifting one another up, and creating opportunities that are bigger than any one of us could build alone.

Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.

We explore why collaboration over competition is the mindset that keeps yoga honest, safe, and deeply personal. We share how a skilled teacher helps us trade comparison for body awareness through smart alignment cues and real world modifications.

• noticing how mirrors can trigger comparison and pull us out of presence
• reframing “competition” as ego pressure rather than healthy growth
• choosing collaboration with body, mind, and breath as the core of practice
• why a teacher’s eyes beat a mirror for alignment and injury prevention
• breaking down chaturanga mechanics and the common shoulder dumping pattern
• explaining why knees, chest, chin can be a poor strength progression
• using modified push up work to build triceps, core, and safer form
• protecting the low back when moving from cobra or up dog to down dog
• offering wrist friendly vinyasa options with dolphin, sphinx, and dolphin plank

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with inspiring guest Nicole Middendorf for our “Speak Up & Stand Firm” Podcast Mini-Series.

This powerful series is all about finding your voice, trusting your truth, and having the courage to stand firm in what matters most. We’ll explore what it means to speak with confidence, create healthy boundaries, advocate for yourself and others, and stop allowing fear, guilt, or the opinions of others to silence you.

Through honest conversations, real-life stories, and practical wisdom, we’ll encourage DIVAS to step into their power—not by being the loudest person in the room, but by being confident enough to know that their voice matters.

Whether you’re learning to say “no,” having a difficult conversation, standing up for yourself, or finally speaking the truth you’ve been holding inside, this series will remind you that your voice has value, your boundaries deserve respect, and your story deserves to be heard.

Nicole is a money maven, a knowledge junkie, a survivor, a single mom, and a born coach. She is an entrepreneur who left Morgan Stanley in 2003 to run her own wealth management firm, Prosperwell Financial. Nicole is the author of five books, a world traveler, philanthropist, and an accomplished public speaker.

https://theliveitlist.com/

https://prosperwell.com/our-team/nicole-n-middendorf-cdfa/

We sit down with wealth advisor and Live It List founder Nicole Middendorf to talk about rebuilding a life after control, trauma, and a painful divorce. Nicole shares how experiences, purpose-driven money choices, and community can restore confidence and help us thrive.

• Nicole’s path into financial planning and business ownership
• Starting over as a single mum and redefining “success”
• Turning a bucket list into a positive Live It List
• Why experiences often create more happiness than things
• Using money as a tool for purpose, freedom, and healthy boundaries
• Building confidence by doing one brave thing a month
• Joining a global community through trips, events, coaching, and classes
• Practical tools like the happiness wheel, journalling, and vision boards
• A reminder to give yourself grace and stop chasing perfection

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with inspiring guest Blair Golden for our “Speak Up & Stand Firm” Podcast Mini-Series.

This powerful series is all about finding your voice, trusting your truth, and having the courage to stand firm in what matters most. We’ll explore what it means to speak with confidence, create healthy boundaries, advocate for yourself and others, and stop allowing fear, guilt, or the opinions of others to silence you.

Through honest conversations, real-life stories, and practical wisdom, we’ll encourage DIVAS to step into their power—not by being the loudest person in the room, but by being confident enough to know that their voice matters.

Whether you’re learning to say “no,” having a difficult conversation, standing up for yourself, or finally speaking the truth you’ve been holding inside, this series will remind you that your voice has value, your boundaries deserve respect, and your story deserves to be heard.

Blair Golden is the Founder and CEO of PairLuv, the first AI real-time avatar dating coach App designed to provide personalized support, guidance, and safety tools for people navigating modern dating.

Blair built PairLuv on a foundation of large language model (LLM) architecture, real-time conversational AI, behavioral psychology, and a deep relationship and dating knowledge base engineering a system that doesn't just respond to users. It learns you. It remembers your patterns and shows up in the moments that matter most, whether that's decoding a confusing text, recognizing a red flag before it becomes a relationship, or getting safely out of a bad date.

Under Blair's leadership, PairLuv has become a trusted companion for everyone from first-time daters in their 20s to individuals returning to dating after long-term relationships, proving that clarity, safety, and confidence in love are things everyone deserves, at every stage of life.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairgolden/

https://www.pairluv.com/

We meet Blair Golden, founder of Pair Love, and talk about how AI can support safer, clearer online dating when you feel unsure or pressured. We focus on trusting your gut, spotting red flags early, and using practical tools to protect your confidence, boundaries, and safety.

• Blair’s shift from a long marriage to modern online dating realities
• Why people can seem charming at first then turn toxic later
• How an AI avatar coach can give real-time dating and relationship guidance
• Red flag analyzer for texts, dates, and confusing situations
• SOS tools to exit an unsafe or uncomfortable date
• Why unbiased support can be more helpful than friends and family
• Using boundaries and self-trust to speak up and stand firm

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with inspiring guest Nicole Rodrigues for our “Speak Up & Stand Firm” Podcast Mini-Series.

This powerful series is all about finding your voice, trusting your truth, and having the courage to stand firm in what matters most. We’ll explore what it means to speak with confidence, create healthy boundaries, advocate for yourself and others, and stop allowing fear, guilt, or the opinions of others to silence you.

Through honest conversations, real-life stories, and practical wisdom, we’ll encourage DIVAS to step into their power—not by being the loudest person in the room, but by being confident enough to know that their voice matters.

Whether you’re learning to say “no,” having a difficult conversation, standing up for yourself, or finally speaking the truth you’ve been holding inside, this series will remind you that your voice has value, your boundaries deserve respect, and your story deserves to be heard.

Nicole Rodrigues, founder and CEO of NRPR Group, is a recognized public relations expert, digital and social media marketing and crisis communication pro with 25+ years of experience under her belt. In her tenure, she has developed and successfully executed strategic campaigns for some of the biggest names in business including: Yahoo!, Dolby, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony PlayStation, Hulu, M-GO, Toon Hero, Demand Media, Heal, MOBITV, Los Angeles Comic Con and the Oakland (now Las Vegas) Raiders. Amongst some of the most notable campaigns she was charged with, Nicole ran the first and only official mommy blogger campaign for Yahoo!, she devised and launched the PR strategy for all of Hulu's first original
shows, and she helped develop YouTube’s creator and influencer PR strategy to produce more impactful campaigns at the forefront of the creator economy boom.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolerpr/

https://x.com/NicoleRPR

We talk about what it really means to speak up and stand firm, using Dolly Parton’s unapologetic confidence as a mirror for our own lives. We also share a practical 1% better daily challenge, spotlight a new AI tool for safer dating choices, and remind ourselves to lead with kindness as the holidays approach.

• Dolly Parton’s example of authenticity under public scrutiny
• How criticism about appearance can turn into quiet bullying
• Why women are not competition and how comparison drains confidence
• The 1% better every day challenge and how to apply it
• Turning pain and confusion into a strength by building solutions
• Pear Love as an AI companion for dating red flags and reassurance
• Holiday season grief, loneliness, and making space to pause and heal

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Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with inspiring guest Laura-May Culver for our “Speak Up & Stand Firm” Podcast Mini-Series.

This powerful series is all about finding your voice, trusting your truth, and having the courage to stand firm in what matters most. We’ll explore what it means to speak with confidence, create healthy boundaries, advocate for yourself and others, and stop allowing fear, guilt, or the opinions of others to silence you.

Through honest conversations, real-life stories, and practical wisdom, we’ll encourage DIVAS to step into their power—not by being the loudest person in the room, but by being confident enough to know that their voice matters.

Whether you’re learning to say “no,” having a difficult conversation, standing up for yourself, or finally speaking the truth you’ve been holding inside, this series will remind you that your voice has value, your boundaries deserve respect, and your story deserves to be heard.

Laura-May Culver is a visionary success coach, acclaimed author, and inspiring speaker with over 25 years of experience in human behavior and mindset transformation. She is the founder of KnowSelf Services, creator of The Joy Journal©, and host of the Hot for Success podcast.

With Master's degrees in Social Work and Culture and Spirituality, Laura-May brings a unique blend of clinical insight and spiritual depth to her transformative work. She empowers individuals and organizations worldwide to tap into their inner "spark of the divine" and achieve self-defined success.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotforsuccess
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-may-culver-72ab861b/

We welcome mentor and author Laura May Culver to our Speak Up and Stand Firm series and dig into how Guided Joy builds confidence by helping us focus on what is true and working. We talk fear, outside influence, sustainable success, and a practical way to reconnect with ourselves when the world gets loud.

• why standing firm starts with recognizing our inner blueprint
• creating a separate joy journal to harvest what is working
• making room for feelings without feeding negativity
• how the reticular activating system shapes what we notice
• questioning “whose fear is that” to clear outside influence
• defining authentic success and sustaining it when life happens
• ways to work with Laura May through coaching, workshops, and groups
• her Hot for Success podcast and the idea of a worthy ideal
• unplugging from screens to plug into our inner voice through simple childhood basics

For more Divas That Care Network Episodes visit www.divasthatcare.com