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Elsie Escobar works in the cross-section of technology, digital media, and holistic living with a heavy bias on podcast strategy and creative use of audio. A podcaster since 2006 and was one of the first female Indie podcasters using audio to teach yoga. She’s behind the Elsie Yoga Class that has now been downloaded over 4 million times! She is also the co-host and producer of The Feed, the official Libsyn podcast.

Elsie is co-founder and co-host of She Podcasts. She focuses on podcasts’ impact on society, diversity, and culture as well as their power to drive social change, personal development, and bring a voice to support underrepresented communities & initiatives. But before she discovered her talent in podcasting, she experienced being in different industries that eventually honed her to be a better podcaster.

“I think it was acting... Being on stage in front of lots of people and sharing… possibly my first step was in taking the stage… and at that point, giving voice to other people's words...”

Elsie said that she is already equipped with experience when she started podcasting. Back in her high school days, she is performing theatre arts. It was the first time when she dealt with a huge audience watching her from the stage. She had years to mold her confidence in acting. Then, she also earned money from it after finishing school.

“And then, the next stage was probably … my yoga classes, my physical yoga classes. ”

She handled several students in her class. It was around 50 to 100 students per day. She said that it started in 2002 until it became a podcast in 2006.

“And then when podcasting came around, maybe I could just record my classes and then that way they can get them like I was thinking of my own students, and saying like ‘you guys, well, you can come to my class, but if you can't, if you don't have access, you can take me with you, like you've been asking.’"

“So, I started to study up. I got a book on RSS. It really was a great book. It actually broke things down so well.“

Elsie did the preps — like having a website, recorder, microphone, a host, and set up her social media accounts. Confidence was not a big problem in her podcasting journey and sharing yoga classes lead her to create her own podcast. Then, eventually, She Podcast was created to articulate, voice out, and help women to overcome barriers.

The long journey of Elsie towards podcasting was very inspiring. Her experiences were the initial steps for something bigger.

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Amber Mac, Speaker, Author, Host, Entrepreneur on Ah-Ha Moments for Success Podcast with Anita Heidema

I am an entrepreneur, bestselling author, blogger, keynote speaker, and TV/radio host. I started my career during the dot-com boom in San Francisco and have since been at the forefront of reporting on and participating in digital innovation.

OFFICIAL BIO: AMBER MAC, PRESIDENT, AMBERMAC MEDIA

Amber Mac(Arthur) started her career in San Francisco and Boston during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s. As a strategist for Razorfish and Director of Marketing for an e-procurement software company, she spent four years in the technology start-up trenches.

Amber left the start-up world to join Microsoft to build one of the first female-focused lifestyle portals. In 2006, with her brother, she started her own digital agency called Konnekt. The company’s first client was world-renowned business coach, Tony Robbins. Her company’s clients include Microsoft Xbox, Ford Motor Company, Tony Robbins, Canada Goose, Fast Company, PayPal, Canadian Blood Services, and many more leading organizations.

“With few equals,” writes YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, “MacArthur continues to demonstrate a keen insight towards the continually evolving fabric of the social web.”

In 2010, she wrote the national bestselling business book Power Friending (Portfolio: New York).  In 2016, she co-wrote an Internet safety book called Outsmarting Your Kids Online (with security expert Michael Bazzell). Amber has keynoted more than 300 events around the world.  Topics include business innovation, Internet of things, online safety, and what it takes for companies to adapt and grow.

She is a regular business host and expert for Fast Company, CNN, Bloomberg TV, CBS, BNN, The Marilyn Denis Show, and Sirius Radio. She was recently hired to serve as an entrepreneur advisor on a new reality pilot called Dream Funded: Let the Crowd Decide, created by Mark Burnett.

As a child, Amber attended a two-room country schoolhouse and shared a party telephone line with neighboring houses. She is now recognized internationally as an innovation and technology leader.

https://ambermac.com/about/

 

ABOUT ANITA HEIDEMA

I am many things to many people but mostly a Mindset Coach and Business Strategist to entrepreneurs who want to live powerful, passionate, rich free life.

It all starts with knowing where you are with our “Rich Life and Business” download here http://anitaheidema.com/richlife/

I am also a speaker, TV Host, NLP Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, Author to Amazon best-seller Vitality Knocks, creator of Mind Your Business Class, Mind School & Ah-ha! Business Academy for entrepreneurs, 21-Day Journey to Success and various meditations and other programs for business and leadership success. As Hypnotherapist and Travel creator of “Getaway to Find Your Way”, I create programs and destination getaways and online programs that build your mindset and strategies for business and leadership success.

I have a personal passion for promoting awareness for Lewy Body Dementia to as many people as possible as early diagnosis is extremely important. I have created a foundation “The Fenna Heidema Lewy Body Foundation” in my mother’s name.

I love sharing and learning about cooking, travel, books, personal mind control, business strategies, health with special attention to brain health, our aging population and memory and brain power issues.

My Motto is “Instill an internal legacy to live life fully and to your true potential. Learn, experience and love”. I live this in my life and business every day and love helping others.

I created tools and programs to create Ah-ha! moments for entrepreneurs and their business that produce the riches and freedom they desire. I was a 27-year professional, corporate management advocate that had the bottom pulled out from under me. With this ah-ha moment, I knew what I was made of. My mindset and strategies created the business I am leading and the financial freedom and time I desired. I am never looking back. I share all the tools I have in all my programs so you can have all you desire as well.

I bring true joy and passion to everything I do. I love seeing my amazing entrepreneurs succeed.

You are what you think and do. Make it happen today.

To Your Success, Happiness & Ah Ha Moments,

Anita