Book of the Month
SPEAK UP! Tell your Story to Influence Others: A Guide to Storytelling with a Multicultural Approach
Author: Susana G. Baumann
Publisher: Excel Brands, LLC
ASIN: B0D53F8BWX / ISBN-13: 979-8989833009
SUMMARY:
Author Susana G Baumann believes there has never been a timelier moment to publish a book that speaks to the increasing assaults on our multiculturalism as a people and our diversity as a country of immigrants. As diversity expands in the United States, ethnic, cultural, gender, and ability gaps widen in the workplace and the community. The tension caused between forces that resist change and those pushing for change can be addressed with stories that teach, inspire, and bring us together.
Learning these storytelling tools will build your strengths upon your leadership values and skills, character traits, and cultural attributes to increase opportunities to hold your ground and finally overcome your fear of public speaking or “imposter syndrome.” Get ahead and achieve your personal, work, or professional purpose with these simple tools that will make you stand out from the crowd and influence those who really matter.
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“A refreshing, inspiring book on how to tell your story. Susana Baumann’s authenticity makes this book a compelling read.”
—Melanie Staff-Parsons, VP, Talent
“I highly recommend the book to anyone looking to grow professionally.”
—Mariela Dabbah, CEO, Red Shoe Movement
“Susana’s workshop is an incredible opportunity to see the value our uniqueness brings to our careers and businesses. It is such a treat for this workshop to be available in a book for all to enjoy!”
—Cameryn Friesz, DEI Advocate
“This valuable literary treasure trove provides thoughtful insights, practical tools, and heartfelt stories from Susana’s perspective, keeping you engaged and reflecting on how to apply them to your advantage. It is a go-to resource for you and anyone looking to discover, develop, and articulate their unique voice and value proposition.”
—Dr. Ginny A. Baro, CEO, ExecutiveBound
About the Author:
An award-winning multicultural communications expert and strategist, public speaker, journalist, and small business advocate, Susana G Baumann, MAA, MLS, is the President of Excel Branding LLC., and the founder, former Editor-in-Chief of Latinas In Business.
Susana is the author of SPEAK UP! Tell Your Story to Influence Others, ¡HABLA YA! Cuenta tu historia para ser más influyente, and ¡Hola, amigos! A Plan for Latino Outreach.
An Argentinean immigrant, Baumann started her own business, LCS Worldwide Multicultural Marketing Communications, over 20 years ago. offered multicultural leadership and staff development training to major pharmaceutical and healthcare corporations, national nonprofit organizations, and government agencies in healthcare and education. A highlight of Baumann’s career included being part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Spanish Outreach Program trainers’ cohort at Web Junction in 2007 and 2008.
In 2014, she launched Latinas In Business, an initiative that advocated for the economic empowerment of Latinas and other minority women entrepreneurs, and working in Corporate America. Named “Journalist of the Year” by the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey for her service and advocacy to Latino small businesses, she is a keynote speaker who often speaks to businesses, Chambers of Commerce, and women’s organizations.
Baumann has been invited to conduct her workshop, “Speak Up! Tell your Story to Influence Others,” at the Working Mother Media Multicultural Women Summit and Latinos in Social Media Week at Google in New York City. She has also presented for consulting clients, including USBank Business Resource Multicultural Groups.
In 2019, Baumann was invited to become a SheSource Expert at Women’s Media Center (WMC), a progressive, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem to raise the visibility, viability, and decision-making power of women and girls in media to ensure that their stories get told, and their voices are heard.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sgbaumann_author/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sbaumann342
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BADASS BONITA: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera
Author: Kim Guerra, MFT
Publisher: Balance
ISBN-10: 1538742438 / ISBN-13: 978-1538742433
SUMMARY:
From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a “powerful and necessary guide toward self-discovery and metamorphosis” (Dr. Mariel Buqué) that can help transform not only your life but the lives of everyone in your community.
Almost every Latina has heard the phrase calladita te ves más bonita—you look most beautiful when you are silent. It’s a message rooted in machismo passed from generation to generation, and one that poet and Latine therapist, Kim Guerra, grew up on.
In Badass Bonita, Guerra tells a story of coming into her own power, and guides readers through the process of finding their own. Rejecting what she was taught as a girl, she learned to use her voice and the more she listened to that inner niña, the more she unearthed her inner guerrera. Vowing never to be calladita again, she now teaches Latine women to find their voices, healing the stories and emotional wounds that have kept them silent.
Tackling tough conversations around machismo, mental health, trauma, and intersectional identities, Badass Bonita is a guide that will help readers:
Understand underlying sources of wounds and trauma,
Shift from self‑silencing and into revolutionary self‑love,
Build confidence and bring positive change to relationships, family and community.
Lyrical and accessible, written in Kim’s signature poetic, Spanglish style, Badass Bonita is perfect for readers of My Grandmother’s Hands and Este dolor no es mío, — for mothers, daughters, therapists, and mujeres poderosas everywhere ready find their wings.
About the Author:
Website: https://brownbadassbonita.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/badassxbonita
