“Trust that what you believe in and what you value is worthy and so it will come to fruition and will be successful.” Mary Chan
E190 – ‘all that we are’ team on Creative Entrepreneurship, Sisterhood and Podcasting on Creative Entrepreneurship, Sisterhood and Podcasting
Courageous Visions
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About this interview:
How do we grow wholesome sisterhoods and creative futures?
Mary Chan . Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada to immigrant parents, Mary Chan was told to stay quiet, even when she was laughing, and not ruffle any feathers. She wasn’t allowed to have a voice and craved for someone to speak to. Today, Mary gives women self-confidence with their voice because she felt that she didn’t have one growing up.
Mary Chan is a Podcast Strategist, Voice Coach, and Voice-Over Artist who believes in empowering women to reclaim their voice. After working in radio for 20 years, she struck out on her own and founded Organized Sound Productions, a podcast production and consulting company. She collaborates with women entrepreneurs and women-led organizations who want to invest in creating a professional-sounding podcast to grow their brand while eliminating the overwhelm that comes with producing their own show. She offers podcast consulting, editing, voice coaching or serving as her client’s voice as a Voice-Over Artist. But it’s when she gets to show women how to use their voice to build awareness, credibility, and influence; that’s the best part of what she does. It’s how they build authority in their industry and Mary gets to keep working to empower more women to tell their stories through the power of their natural voice.
When Mary’s not at her sit/stand desk doing the podcasting thing, she’s either knitting, sewing or creating a great meal (usually Chinese or Asian food!) from scratch. But she’s not a hermit and loves to get outside on her adult trike exploring the great outdoors of Victoria, BC – the unceeded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples.
Annegret Affolderbach . East German born Annegret Affolderbach is an artist and cultural futurist. With wide-reaching vision for planet and people, her work awakens us to the unexpected rooted in ecologies, cultures and lifestyles. She weaves together sensory artworks, experiences and creative strategies in response to landscapes and cultural elements found within. Her works are powerful activations that raise awareness about the interconnectedness of people and our ecologies reminding us of our kinship with the living world.
For 20yrs she has been living and travelling across the global North & South, creating works centred around water, land, sustainability, over-consumption and cultural transformation addressing human impacts on life-giving ecologies. Her background in pioneering sustainable fashion and experience as an editor & curator have equipped her with unique insights and perspectives making her a valuable voice in the fields of art, fashion, culture and sustainability.
She is a sought after mentor and visioning coach guiding creatives and cultural change makers, businesses and organisations on their paths of building visionary and wholesome futures. Amongst her clients are creative visionaries, entrepreneurs, designers, writers, artists, photographers, film directors & producers, curators, creative directors & cultural strategists, architects & structural engineers, activists, healers, wellness and beauty practitioners and more.
She is co-host of ‘between conversations . a doula & an ecological artist’ podcast, co-creator of ‘For Water For Life – The Water podcast’, Co-Curator of the BIG DO Design Hackathon for Textiles&Fashion 2030 Sweden and writer at ‘all that we are’, a podcast series challenging the dominant world story weaving activism, the sacred, creativity and regeneration.
Amisha Ghadiali . Amisha Ghadiali is a facilitator and host of the globally acclaimed podcast all that we are (fka The Future Is Beautiful). She is interested in where our inner and outer worlds dance. Amisha is an experienced facilitator and has a gift of bringing people into connection with themselves, each other and the earth. She creates brave, tender and inclusive spaces and has hosted many retreats. workshops and rituals around the world, and designed programmes including The Heart of Transformation, Wild Grace, and a five month residential fellowship in community facilitation leadership.
Amisha hosts the ‘all that we are’ community membership for creative, connected and courageous living. It’s a space of care and practice offering guidance and wisdom for embodied sacred activism, diving deeper into the themes explored in the podcast. Its focus is on what it means to be a human at this time, a “university” fit for the 2020s, which covers many of the core skills we need that are not taught in our education and cultural systems.
She also works one -to-one with her Leadership Mentoring programme, which supports the transforming of unconscious patterning, opening up new qualities within and anchoring daily practice and rituals which support a lifestyle that recognises the sacred, the importance of intuition and creates deeper connection and embodiment of what this time calls forth in us. This is accompanied by The Beautiful Leadership Immersion covering themes, such as decolonisation, vision and edge-walking.
Her own training has included yoga teacher training, meditation teacher training, energy medicine, priestess initiation and deep time learning with mystics, teachers, swamis and nature. This deep commitment to understanding truth combined with over 15 years of experience working in Politics, Design, Tech and Sustainable Fashion gives Amisha a strong base of Community Weaving, Sacred Activism and Innovation.
She had key roles in visionary projects and social enterprises including: Ethical Fashion Forum, Impact Hub, Provenance, Fashion Revolution and Compass. She created the collaborative book, The Future Is Beautiful – A Collection from Think Act Vote. Upon leaving university, she set up her own ethical jewellery label, with the tagline “elegance rebellion” which received several awards and accolades. Amisha brings this creative vision with social justice and the healing arts to everything she does.
Amisha’s words have appeared in publications including The Huffington Post, Rebelle Society & Ecouterre and she has spoken at events and festivals around the world such as TEDx Oxbridge, Bali Spirit Festival, Sunday Papers Live and UnBox. Amisha wrote a book called “INTUITION” during the global lockdown of 2020 which was published by DK Books.
To connect or work with Mary, visit organizedsound.ca
To connect or work with Annegret, visit Annegret’s Instagram
To connect or work with Amisha, visit amisha.co.uk
artwork video: Amalita Pereira // artwork portrait: unknown
Resources and links from this episode:
- Mary Chan Instagram
- Annegret Affolderbach website
- all that we are . E2 – Annegret Affolderbach on Sustainable Fashion, Change-Making & The Berlin Wall // Forging new forms in the heart of luxury
Connect more with us:
- Beautiful Leadership mentoring
- Amisha’s One-to-One sessions
- Amisha’s book – INTUITION
- all that we are membership
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