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On today's episode Ashley is joined by the brilliant and inspiring Maria Ramos, founder of The Money Making Esthetician Facebook group—a thriving community designed to empower beauty and wellness professionals to confidently embrace their value, raise their standards, and grow their businesses.Maria and I dive into how estheticians can use AI tools like ChatGPT to streamline their workflows, craft authentic marketing content, and even refine their pricing strategies. Maria shares her personal experiences with AI, including how it's saved her time and money, helped her overcome limiting beliefs, and supported her in growing a community centered on empowerment and financial literacy.We also touch on key risks to be mindful of when using AI, why staying authentic is critical, and how AI can help you connect with your ideal golden client. This episode is packed with actionable insights you can start using in your business today!Plus, I share some exciting news: Registration is now open for my masterclass, Pricing on Purpose! This class is perfect if you're ready to:Raise your prices with confidence in 2025.Build trust while increasing your revenue.Determine your real cost per service.Calculate and track your profit margins for maximum ROI.Register here: https://www.goldenexperienceguide.com/offers/NDTLVkcg✨Special Offer: https://www.goldenexperienceguide.com/offers/nuLzLvuj?coupon_code=ALIGNMENT Register before my birthday on December 3rd and use code ALIGNMENT for a discount! Plus, you'll be entered into a drawing to win a Golden Ticket for an all-access pass to all my 2025 classes.What You'll Learn in This Episode:How AI can save you time, money, and mental energy in your business.The importance of tailoring your marketing to your ideal golden client.Risks of relying too much on AI and tips for staying authentic in your messaging.Maria's inspiring story of resilience and how she built The Money Making Esthetician group.Practical prompts you can use with AI to make smarter business decisions.Links Mentioned in This Episode:Register for Pricing on Purpose Masterclass: https://www.goldenexperienceguide.com/offers/NDTLVkcgRock Your Retail: https://www.goldenexperienceguide.com/offers/oYCj2KR8The Money Making Esthetician Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1409647245887211/Blog post that was referenced: https://www.themoneymakingesti.com/post/how-ai-can-transform-your-esthetician-businessMaria's Instagram: @themoneymakingestheticianJoin the Conversation: Follow me on Instagram @goodskincircle and let us know your biggest takeaway from this episode!GOLDEN EXPERIENCE GUIDE Superpower Your Solo Practice 2024 MastermindBook Private 1:1 Virtual Mentorship with Ashley

August 16, 2024 —1 - Albion residents responded to a Caltrans call for community comment on a draft environmental impact report at a meeting Tuesday night at the Whitesboro Grange in Albion with a demand that Caltrans include the rehabilitation option in the EIR. “For a good ten years plus, Caltrans has been talking about this being a rehabilitation or a replacement program,” said Jim Heid, a member of Albion Bridge Stewards, a local group that has carried out its own studies of the bridge's structural integrity. “All of a sudden the words rehab, rehabilitate, and rehabilitation disappeared from the project description.” 2 -What does a white male folk singer born in 1912 in Oklahoma have in common with a 23-year-old Mexican American female educator born in 2001 in Fort Bragg? Only the things that matter most: resilience, respect, the ability to remember, and a steadfast belief in the power of song. Listen to our interview with Maria Ramos, who plays multiple roles in Woody Guthrie's American Song, playing at the Mendocino Theater Company through August 25.

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://efm-industry-insights.podigee.io/61-spotlight-edition-a-personal-conversation-with-beki-probst 263f15d4ecb12ac9c20aa1ada76eecf0 Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast is presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale. Hosted by Matthijs Wouter Knol, this episode spotlights an important figure in the history of the EFM through a personal conversation and a journey through time. This special episode revolves around the former EFM director Beki Probst through a conversation that took place during the Cannes Film Festival between her and Matthijs Wouter Knol, who himself has been in the seat as director of the EFM as a successor. Beki depicts her journey through the film industry with anecdotes from her life in the film industry, from her starting out as a young journalist traveling to Cannes, to suddenly finding herself in Berlin. She shares stories of people she crossed paths with along the way, how the Berlinale took place right after the fall of the wall and draws a picture of the future industry through her own expectations and lived experiences. This all adds to the portrayal of the woman who came to found the European Film Market as we know it today. Beki Probst is considered the grande dame of the film world. Under her direction, the European Film Market has developed into one of the largest and most important trade fairs for cinema on the international scene. Beki Probst was born in Istanbul, where she first worked as a journalist after completing her studies in law and journalism. In 1960, Probst moved to Switzerland, where she became the general manager of the Probst-Kinobetriebe, known today as Quinnie Cinemas. From 1981 to 1988, Beki Probst served as the Berlin International Film Festival's official delegate for Turkey and Greece. Up until 1995, she also served as a member of the selection committee for Locarno International Film Festival. From 1988 to 2014, Beki Probst was the director of the Berlinale's European Film Market – Probst rebranded the former “film fair” as the European Film Market and subsequently transformed the event into one of the most significant industry meet-ups for the international film business. In addition, from 1988 to 1996 Beki Probst was artistic director of the Geneva-based festival “Stars de Démain”. She has served as a jury member on multiple occasions at international film festivals, including appearances in Toronto, Jerusalem and San Sebastián. In 1992 Beki Probst was decorated as “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture, was honoured with the Berlinale Camera in 2018 and in 2019 with the Honorary Award of the Swiss Film Award. In 2024 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande der Bundesrepublik Deutschland). Since 2021, Dutch-born Matthijs Wouter Knol is the CEO and Director of the European Film Academy. Before reading and graduating with an MA in Contemporary History at Leiden University and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, he worked as a magazine editor and journalist. From 2001 onwards, he worked in Amsterdam as creative and associate producer on 30 award-winning documentary films, with renowned directors such as Heddy Honigmann, Maria Ramos, and Mani Kaul. For ARTE, he co-produced a digital edition of 40 re-mastered works of Dutch documentarian Johan van der Keuken, which was awarded the Prix Cahiers du Cinéma (2006). After a short stint at IDFA (2007-2008), he formed for 12 years part of the senior Berlinale team, first as Head of Programming of Berlinale Talents (2008-2014), then as Director of the European Film Market (2014-2020). Apart from launching several new training and industry platforms over the course of his career, Matthijs is an advocate for more Diversity and Inclusion. He initiated D&I schemes at both EFM and the European Film Academy, and was one of the founders of the Anti-Racist Taskforce for European Film (ARTEF). He teaches and coaches at various film schools and is a regular moderator and speaker at international film industry events. Matthijs has been part of the main jury at the festivals of Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, Istanbul and Locarno. The Berlinale's European Film Market is the first international film market of the year, where the film industry starts its business. Industry Insights - The EFM Podcast puts a spotlight on highly topical and trendsetting industry issues, thereby creating a compass for the forthcoming film year. The year-round podcast is produced in cooperation with Goethe-Institut and co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA. full no Beki Probst,Film Business,Entertainment Industry,Future Trends,Berlinale,European Film Market,Cannes,Collaboration Film Industry,Media Industry European Film Market 1725

DECAL will celebrate Children's Mental Health Week in Georgia May 6-10, 2024, as we have done for the last four years in the first full week of May. Similar to Georgia's Pre-K Week, and Inclusive Early Learning Week, this special week in May reminds us that the early years in a child's life provide a key opportunity to establish safe and secure relationships and support healthy social and emotional development. Joining us to talk about Children's Mental Health Week is our own, Laura Lucas, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Director at DECAL and our guests: Lisa Pace, Director of Operations from Georgia Parent Support Network (GPSN), Erin Harlow- Parker, Manager of Child Advocacy Programs, Behavioral Mental Health from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) and Maria Ramos, Senior Program Specialist from Voices for Georgia's Children. Support the show

Maria Ramos is a news anchor on TRT World and loves her work. Tune in to our conversation and be inspired ! Maria was raised bi-lingual in London and has a passion for communication, languages, oratory, the world, human rights. And her Mother has been a huge inspiration to her. Maria started her career in the Arab world in Bahrain in 2002… and francophone Africa . Maria has been involved in Sustainability issues for more than a decade in London, where she created one of the first communications agency specialised in sustainability, and helped Alejandro Agag launch his idea of E Formula 1. She has been the MC for many sustainability events, recently in Brussels and in Baku. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mediterranean-sustainable/message

Déborah Danblon propose des pépites pour la reprise : L'oracle fabuleux de Emilie Chazerand et Emmanuelle Houdart, éditions La ville qui brûle L'art de ne pas lire de Elisa Sartori, éditions CotCotCot Trois petites lumières de Maria Ramos, éditions l'école des Loisirs Merci pour votre écoute Tendances Première, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 10h à 11h30 sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes de Tendances Première sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/11090 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Ep 101: Sit Cho country ass down mane: T.D. Jakes Spirit airlines placed an unaccompanied 6 year old on an incorrect flight to Florida from Philadelphia. The child traveled unaccompanied Dec. 21st to Ft. Myers Florida to visit his grandma but they sent him to Orlando instead. The grandma, Maria Ramos said she went into panic mode after the flight landed and he was nowhere to be found. The boy called her and told her he was in Orlando and she drove 160 miles to get the child. Spirit offered to reimburse her for the driving Woman's long time bf of 4 years tells her he gone give her son his older son computer for Christmas cause he buying him a new one. The night before Christmas she wanted him to put it all together. He said he would do it in the morning cause he wanted to spend time with his family who came from outta town. She got mad and said why my son can't enjoy his stuff cause you wanna be lazy and he responds well why don't I just not give him the computer then? They doing this at a dinner at a friends house. She decides to go put the computer desk up herself when she gets back home. He say “Idk what you putting up a computer desk for when you ain't got no computer.” He stood on that in the morning. She breaking up wit him. These holidays be tearing y'all ass up Kanye apologizing again to the Jewish community, this time in Hebrew. “Your forgiveness is important to me.” Who in the wrong? Girl cheated on her bf when she was drunk but her friends let her leave with the dude Country views on breaking news: A 23 year old mother down in Florida was shot and killed by her younger brother, 14, by the name of Demarcus, who shot her over unequal Christmas gifts exchange. He was mad his older brother Darcus was getting more. 2 teenage girls were attacked on Christmas morning inside Grand Central Station in NY by a random man by the name of Stephen Hutcherson who was mad about being kicked out a restaurant. As he was getting kicked out, he allegedly yelled, “I want all the white people dead… I wanna sit next to the crackers.” Then he lunged at the girls stabbing the 14 yo in the thigh and the 16 yo in the back. He was arrested and charged with attempted murder, assault, and endangering the welfare of a child. Taraji said she fired everybody after Cookie cause her whole team dropped the ball. She said that's why we ain't seen her in so long. They had nothing set up for her after that. 50 said he ready to work with her The Color Purple has the second biggest Christmas Day opening of all time after making 18 million at the box office Mail/promo/merch Phone calls SUPPORT MANESTREAM PODCASThttps://youtube.com/@youknowmaaacus#5150 #Manestream #5150nation Seamoss promowww.nickokitchenshop.compromo code: MANESTREAM Mane Stream: Country Folk In The City Podcast

Virginia author/science fiction writer Steve Bates talks about his latest release “Castle of Sand” diving deeply into the world of AI & making us ask what would the world look like if AI took over? This follows the story of Maria Ramos finding herself on a distant planet with six others & an AI sharing the task of saving humanity after an apocalypse! Steve worked as a former reporter for the Washington Post winning numerous awards, plus Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), AARP, Nation's Business Magazine and his other books including “I Am Joey”, “The Patient”, “Afterlife”, “Welcome to Your Dream Hour” and more! Check out the amazing Steve Bates and his latest release on major platforms and www.stevebateswriter.com today! #stevebates #author #sciencefictionwriter #virginia #castleofsand #AI #washingtonpost #SHRM #AARP #nationsbusinessmagazine #iamjoey #thepatient #afterlife #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerstevebates #themikewagnershowstevebates   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/support

Virginia author/science fiction writer Steve Bates talks about his latest release “Castle of Sand” diving deeply into the world of AI & making us ask what would the world look like if AI took over? This follows the story of Maria Ramos finding herself on a distant planet with six others & an AI sharing the task of saving humanity after an apocalypse! Steve worked as a former reporter for the Washington Post winning numerous awards, plus Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), AARP, Nation's Business Magazine and his other books including “I Am Joey”, “The Patient”, “Afterlife”, “Welcome to Your Dream Hour” and more! Check out the amazing Steve Bates and his latest release on major platforms and www.stevebateswriter.com today! #stevebates #author #sciencefictionwriter #virginia #castleofsand #AI #washingtonpost #SHRM #AARP #nationsbusinessmagazine #iamjoey #thepatient #afterlife #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerstevebates #themikewagnershowstevebates   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/support

Virginia author/science fiction writer Steve Bates talks about his latest release “Castle of Sand” diving deeply into the world of AI & making us ask what would the world look like if AI took over? This follows the story of Maria Ramos finding herself on a distant planet with six others & an AI sharing the task of saving humanity after an apocalypse! Steve worked as a former reporter for the Washington Post winning numerous awards, plus Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), AARP, Nation's Business Magazine and his other books including “I Am Joey”, “The Patient”, “Afterlife”, “Welcome to Your Dream Hour” and more! Check out the amazing Steve Bates and his latest release on major platforms and www.stevebateswriter.com today! #stevebates #author #sciencefictionwriter #virginia #castleofsand #AI #washingtonpost #SHRM #AARP #nationsbusinessmagazine #iamjoey #thepatient #afterlife #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerstevebates #themikewagnershowstevebates

File photo of farmworkers at work at strawberry fields in Pajaro Valley, Monterey County. Photo By Lance Cheung/USDA. Last Friday, the Pajaro River breached an old levee and flooded the small agricultural town of Pajaro in Monterey County, which is home to a large population of migrant farmworker families. The rising waters displaced about 2,000 people and destroyed the area's strawberry fields, the key source of income for these families. While news of the levee breach has been making headlines and financial aid and emergency supplies are now flowing into the area, local organizers and farmworker advocates are concerned that this help isn't being distributed equitably, largely because of many preexisting systemic and socio-cultural barriers. To understand what these barriers are and how we can get beyond them Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra, Nancy Faulstik, executive director of Regeneración – Pajaro Valley Climate Action, Eloy Ortiz, Regenracion's Special Projects Manager and Board President of the Center for Farmworker Families, Maria Ramos, Founder of Campesina Womb Justice, a mutual aid project for womb justice and healing for Indigenous Campesinas. Maria grew up in a farmworker family in Pajaro and is currently working to provide community members with direct aid. The post Getting Farmworker Aid Right in Pajaro appeared first on KPFA.

Kelly Callaghan connects with Maria Ramos, creator and admin of The Money Making Esthetician group and owner of The Beauty Plug day spa, to talk about influencers, collaborations, and how you can grow your beauty business by working with others. By the end of this episode, you will learn about: Maria's start in the beauty industry, How to attract influencers and create opportunities for collaboration, Building confidence and adopting an abundance mindset, Converting free collaborations to paid partnerships! You can find Maria on Instagram (@bymaria) and The Money Making Esthetician on Facebook. To follow Kelly's story, connect with her on the Beauty Business Babes Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/beautybusinessbabes, website at www.spraytanclass.com, https://xtansunless.com/, via email at info@spraytanclass.com, and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/iam_kellyann. Kelly also posts on her YouTube channel, Kelly Callaghan.  And of course, don't forget to join us next time for another episode of Beauty Business Babes!

Creative duo, Angela Maria Ramos and Rebecca Rivera, sit down to chat about their respective journies into entertainment, when they decided to partner as collaborators, and how they are making the transition from theater to film. You can connect with Angela and Rebecca here: IG: @angelaramss @rebeccalexaaa @ryrsproductions HOSTED BY: Ingrid Nin PRODUCED BY: André Fernández , Luna Cubides, and IRL Media EDITED BY: Kelley Mayer FOLLOW ENTERTAINX: @entertainxpod --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/entertainx/support

Where is the first place people go to share recommendations, give reviews, and connect with other people in their communities?   Facebook AKA the new “digital word-of-mouth” platform.   You'll often hear me talk about how in order to attract new clients, you need to meet them where they are online. That place is inside Facebook groups.    In this episode of Spa Marketing Made Easy, Maria Ramos, known to her 80,000 Facebook group members as “The Money Making Esthetician,” joins me to share how she gained 250+ new leads by implementing a Facebook groups marketing strategy she heard right here on our podcast.   Before we dive in, I want to preface that today's episode is not about building your own Facebook group from scratch (which could be a good strategy depending on your business), but rather how you can leverage established active Facebook groups in your area.    In this episode, we discuss:  Results Maria experienced after implementing this Facebook group strategy Importance for new providers to get hands-on experience during the onboarding process The use of a Google Form to capture lead information and segmenting those leads by area of interest Focusing on providing a quality experience for every client, especially when it's for new providers' practice   To read the full show notes for this episode, visit: http://www.addoaesthetics.com/blog/309.   Keep the conversation going inside the Spa Marketing Made Easy Community by clicking here.

Op 2 oktober zijn er in Brazilië verkiezingen. De huidige rechts-populistische president Bolsonaro neemt het op tegen de linkse oud-president Lula. Bolsonaro heeft al aangekondigd zich niet neer te leggen bij een eventuele nederlaag. Lula staat op winnen, maar werd bij de vorige verkiezingen op juridische wijze uitgeschakeld, waarbij het recht door de politiek werd misbruikt. In de documentaire ‘Amigo Secreto' reconstrueert de Braziliaans-Nederlandse regisseur Maria Ramos deze zaak, en hoe onder leiding van Bolsonaro de politisering van het recht een hardnekkig probleem werd.

Programa especial unitario sobre el Hospital General de Agudos Jose Maria Ramos Mejia Conducción: María Lauro - Co-conducción: Yamil Hussein - Coordinación: Matías Pérez - Columnas: Tatiana Scorciapino e Ignacio De Vita Redes: Luciana García TEA - 3A Turno Noche

JUAN MARIA RAMOS PADILLA, un ciudadano que trabajo de juez.... Con una amplia trayectoria en la justicia federal y de la ciudad de Bs As, el juez Ramos Padilla opina sobre la justicia actual, el intento de proscribir a Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, las declaraciones de Aldo Rico, y el proyecto de ampliación de la SCJN a 25 miembros, entre otros temas. Los intentos desestabilizadores del gobierno, no pueden quedar impunes. Es necesario comenzar a tomar algunas decisiones con respecto a los comportamientos fuera de ley. Para hacer cumplir leyes existentes no hace falta el acuerdo del Congreso.

Está no ar o novo episódio do Viração. Neste programa, lembramos com vergonha dos 58 anos do golpe civil-militar que assolou o Brasil em 01 de abril de 1964. E para tratar deste tema, recebemos a professora Ana Maria Ramos Estevão, autora do livro "A Torre das Guerreiras" sobre suas memórias enquanto presa política da ditadura. O programa Viração é uma produção da Assessoria de Imprensa da ADUFPel e vai ao ar todas as segundas-feiras, às 13h, na RádioCom 104.5 FM, e aqui em formato podcast. Não deixe de assinar nosso feed para receber sempre os novos episódios. Siga nossas redes sociais ADUFPel: instagram / twitter / facebook Compre aqui o livro da professora Ana Maria.

Welcome back to another episode of LNXdance with your hosts Marcus Mantilla-Valentin and Mari Vasconez! Take a few minutes to get to know our next guest, Franklin Liranzo. 8X World Salsa Champion, Internationally-acclaimed choreographer, teacher & photographer, creator of NudeYorker, now known as RudeYorker, and proud Veteran of the US Navy! A multi-faceted and talented individual that we are lucky to call a friend. We absolutely cannot wait for you to listen to this episode. Let us know one thing that surprised you about our dear friend, Mr. Franklin Liranzo, by leaving a comment on this episode!Get more of Franklin: Website: https://www.franklinliranzo.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/franklin_liranzo/RudeYorker: https://www.instagram.com/rudeyorker/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franklinliranzoAuthentic Truth with Maria Ramos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCJI52-J-c&feature=youtu.beLNX x FuegoDanceShoes Brand AmbassadorsAñadele Sazón by wearing Fuego Shoes! Use our code LNX10 for 10% off. Click the link to learn more!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the Show.--Brought to you by MotionScoop Dance Corp, LNXdance Podcast is a series of conversations FOR Latinx dancers and educators BY Latinx dancers and educators. Join Mari & Marcus -M&M- as they dive deep into important topics in the dance industry and explore how being part of the Latinx community affects us, our contributions, decisions, and careers. We hope you enjoy our sip and chat, don't forget to subscribe and leave a comment with what you loved, questions and topics for next time! Follow us on our Instagram page LNXdance to interact with our community and with us.For business inquiries and to apply to be a guest, please email motionscoopinfo@gmail.com ¡Adiós! Hosts: Marcus Mantilla-Valentin & Mari VasconezSponsors: MotionScoop Dance Corp.

Caesura is a project born from the collaboration between artist Ángela Maria Ramos and WILPF. In our fifth episode, Sara Dominguez and Selma Asotić talk about the role of poetry in today's world, and whether it can change and shape new feminist narratives. This is our last episode - we hope you enjoyed Caesura and our time together as much as we did. And now, come take a last break with us!

Caesura is a project born from the collaboration between artist Ángela Maria Ramos and WILPF. In our fourth episode, Sara Dominguez, Ángela Ramos and Lepa Mlađenović talk about how we can heal, both individually and as a society, from sexual violence through sisterhood and feminism. Come take a break with us!

Caesura is a project born from the collaboration between artist Ángela Maria Ramos and WILPF. In our third episode, Sara Dominguez and Oswaldo Montoya talk about access to justice for the victims of Operation Condor and Latin American dictatorships, the way men can amplify women's voices and the role women play as agents of positive change in South America. Come take a break with us!

Caesura is a project born from the collaboration between artist Ángela Maria Ramos and WILPF. In our second episode, Sara Dominguez, Cynthia Enloe and Diana Maria Salcedo talk about demilitarization, the role women have played in the Colombian peace process and how we can produce a positive change within local communities. Come take a break with us!

Caesura is a project born from the collaboration between artist Ángela Maria Ramos and WILPF. In our first episode, Sara Dominguez and Ángela talk about Ángela's poetry, her experience with intergenerational trauma and heritage as the daughter of a survivor and the representation of Latin American communities in pop culture. Come take a break with us!

State Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos joins us this week live from Washington, D.C. as Texas House Dems advocate for voting rights legislation at the federal level. Ed, Wesley and pinch host Chris Mosser ask for an update on how the D.C. Dems are holding up, her take on the national press, the attention from the U.S. Congress they've gained, what's at stake - and what's coming next.

Ensuring safe, equitable vaccination campaigns is a challenge for communities across the country. But the rollout for an immigrant in New York City can look quite different than it does for one in small-town Iowa. This week, Ali talks to Maria Ramos, a city council member in Storm Lake, Iowa. Maria discusses how her small-but-diverse town has responded to the pandemic, and how she sees her role as a leader in the immigrant community and the town as a whole.

The Rand is a star performer. Maria Ramos replaces Sipho Pityana at AngloGold. Sygnia releases FY results. Q3 GDP numbers are sobering.

The Rand is a star performer. Maria Ramos replaces Sipho Pityana at AngloGold. Sygnia releases FY results. Q3 GDP numbers are sobering.

On Chisme#11, Kim chats with Maria Ramos, worldwide known dancer and creator of "Womanity" (a dance team and movement) and they discuss how some of us women exude more masculine than Femenine energy not only in the workplace but in relationships as well. We navigate the power of being feminine and how to balance these two type of energies.  We also talk about how this energy has helped Maria succeed in the Latin dance community and helped her overcome a "canceled or call out" incident, in which it did not only affected her emotionally but it jeopardized her reputation as a dancer.    Maria was the first female latin dance studio owner, D'COR Studio in NYC for 3 years and is now a GLOBAL sensation with over 20 franchise teams all around the world called ``WOMANITY``. With over a decade of professional latin dance experience, Maria has accumulated a tremendous amount of valuable knowledge that she now wants to share with others. She believes that while perfecting your skills is a necessity, developing the right mindset is just as important. Maria is truly passionate about bringing full awareness to the power of community, compassion, sisterhood and acceptance all around the world. She really looks forward in meeting all of you beautiful souls from all around the world. We got this! You can follow Maria's journey  at:  IG: @mariaramos_official website: www.mariaramosofficial.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chismethatmatterspodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chismethatmatterspodcast/support

Episode Notes Gabriel Firmo 0:08 Oh, welcome to the state of the arts podcast by two idiots on NBN. My name is Gabriel Firmo. And I'm Lucas Bezerra. And this podcast is kind of hard to describe. We are both-Lucas Bezerra 0:19 Pitch it like you pitched it to me.Gabriel Firmo 0:20 Yeah, we're both artsy people on NU campus. Yep. Self, self determined artsy people-To be verified.Lucas Bezerra 0:27 Our authority on this is nil,Gabriel Firmo 0:28 Yeah. And I pitched it to Lucas just being like talking essentially, to the artsy people we find interesting on campus and also just talking about being an amateur at this level and college artists and you're right about to be at the level where you are doing something super serious, but you're also not quite there yet. Most of the time.Lucas Bezerra 0:47 A little bit of a round table just discussion about arts, you know?Gabriel Firmo 0:51 Yeah. And by no means do we pretend to be experts, right? We're not, but we are enthusiasts, I'd say. So like, We're not trying to talk about like, "Oh, this is how you do it." "That's how you make it." "This is what's important." "This is what isn't," that sort of those kind of tired questions. We mostly just want to have fun talking to interesting and exciting people about interesting and exciting stuff. So that's, that's the goal, right?Lucas Bezerra 1:14 Yeah. For this first episode. We'd usually be starting with a question about creativity, about the arts in general. But we're going to just tell you a little bit about ourselves started with that. You want to start? Sure. So I'm Lucas, I'm a freshman here at NU. I'm a philosophy major, which I guess I could say, puts me on about the same job prospects as if I were not in college and doing something artsy like selling paintings on the beach. I did theater most of my life. I love music. I do music too. And really, I definitely stick to what most people would call like an amateur artist, even on campus like I'm not in Bienen. I'm not in the theater program. I'm just I just do things because I think they're fun. Gabriel Firmo 1:58 Yeah. I mean, That's- Lucas Bezerra 2:01 That's what we're here for.Gabriel Firmo 2:02 At this point. No one's doing it for the money. So yeah, you're doing it because it's fun. Or to put it on a resume.Lucas Bezerra 2:07 Yes. How about you?Gabriel Firmo 2:10 So I am Gabriel. I am a Computer Science, English, Korean, some sort of major and minor combination of those three things. So like in terms of art, it's like complicated. I have my finger-fingers in a lot of pots, right? Like I am interested in game design. And I am a writer, like I write a bunch of short stories, not just for class, but I've been trying to send them into like publications and that stuff. I do amateur voice acting on the side, I do this podcast now. Like, I try to do a whole lot of everything. And I'm not amazing at any particular one. But like, this is one of the reasons we were excited about the show where it's like, we're going to be talking hopefully to, you know, theatre kids. Yeah, like amazing theatre kids, on campus, amazing dancers, amazing singers. Amazing-you know, we're trying to capture the whole gamut of Like the arts experience at Northwestern like being a bit like being a jack of all trades myself, I'm super excited. Yeah,Lucas Bezerra 3:04 I'm stoked for this. I think our first guest is going to be great. I mean, yeah, I'm excited for her because she comes from my area, you know, theater. Yeah. And I just want to talk to her about that. So do you want to tell them who she is?Gabriel Firmo 3:17 We're going to be talking to Duda Ramos who is a, another Brazilian on campus. We are both Brazilians. She's an Econ and CS major but she's kind of like been in theatre for like a lot of her life. She's done semi professional to like full professional theatre and is nowLucas Bezerra 3:32 In Brazil?Gabriel Firmo 3:32 Yeah, in Brazil, and is now you know, at Northwestern producing for Waa Mu. So like, she's kind of been all over in terms of like the theater spectrum there and back again, kind of like The Hobbit. So she's, she's fascinating. And so she's our first guest. So actually, we'll just turn that interview now. Let's go for it. Yeah.Lucas Bezerra 3:57 Alright, so this is our first guest Duda Ramos.Duda Ramos 3:59 Hello. Lucas Bezerra 4:00 We're going to talk to her a little bit about theater and the other theatrical performance stuff that she does.Gabriel Firmo 4:05 Yeah. And before we just get into like our proper first question, would you like to introduce yourself like tell us what fun artsy sh*t are you doing?Duda Ramos 4:12 Okay, so my name is Duda Ramos also known as Maria Ramos around campus. I'm econ and CS but I am involved right now in Waa Mu in assistant production management along with Lucas here, right side and yeah, that's like the first thing I actually let myself do that's artistic, just Waa Mu.Gabriel Firmo 4:30 And, you would say like in terms of it's not just like theatre and acting that you do. You are-you sing, like what are areas just in general, not just on Northwestern like what do you do?Duda Ramos 4:39 I guess like all performers, like musical theatre performance would have to be like really good at singing, dancing and acting. Dancing is definitely my weak spot. Like I'm not much of a dancer, but I did do a lot of acting like I did theatre school at A Escola de Atores Wolf Maya which is like school of actors Wolf Maya in Brazil and some other theater courses. Also for singing I did a lot of musical theatre and opera singing Lucas Bezerra 5:04 Awesome, so we know you, we know that you--in Brazil--you were in professional productions. So I guess we wanted to start off with, tell us a little bit about what it's like to leave that sort of professional world of the arts and go back into the amateur world. Duda Ramos 5:18 Yeah, so I got into theatre, I guess it's like been basically a lot of my life because I got into it when I was 16. I had my first professional job. I was called for a theatre production called 33 Variations. A year after that, I got called for the Brazilian version of Promises, Promises, and then I was touring Rio and São Paulo and that was like right before coming here.Gabriel Firmo 5:37 Oh, that was right before coming here?Duda Ramos 5:39 Yeah, it was from January to March.Gabriel Firmo 5:42 And what actually did you start? How young were you when you started like doing theatre stuff?Duda Ramos 5:46 When I really wanted to start this, I was like, 13, 14 it was the first time I like saw Phantom of the Opera in London, and I fell in love. So I just, like, started doing a lot of singing classes and trying to do dancing glasses, but basically focused on singing and then... Yeah, and then I got into that acting school. So, it was just like my whole life for a long time was just focused around wanting to be on Broadway and wanting to be a musical theatre person. And then all of a sudden, then I just came here and started doing economics. So life changes, like talk meLucas Bezerra 6:15 Talk me through, like, grappling with that sort of--going where you think your life has to go and where you want to go.Duda Ramos 6:22 It's kind of funny, it's because like, in my college essays coming to Northwestern, I was always writing like, Oh, I'm really excited to find a balance between econ and theater. Because even like, performing and doing things I kind of miss a little bit of, like, the studying part and just like doing math equations and stuff like that, it seems very, very weird but-Gabriel Firmo 6:43 I have never once been like, writing something and gone "Man, I wish this was a math equation. Like, if this was an integral my life would be better," like that is not--Duda Ramos 6:54 It's the general feeling of like, at the same time you kind of--I don't know, I feel very weird about it. It's just, I've always been like doing both things and I know that one day that won't work out. Like I can't--I can't do both for the rest of my life. It's almost be like a child's dream being like, "Oh, I'm gonna be an economist and musical performer." No, that's not gonna happen.Gabriel Firmo 7:14 Yeah, kind of a rough, rough mix.Duda Ramos 7:16 No, I mean, you can. If you do then it's usually more stuff like you get into the production part which is a little bit of both.Gabriel Firmo 7:22 Yeah, it does. It reminds me a little bit of a--she was an actress on... I haven't even watched The Big Bang Theory, but I know of her story, because she's like, She's was a neurobiologist first or something like that. She had like a PhD. And it was like you very rarely hear--because it's such an all-in career. You rarely ever hear of someone being like, "Yeah, I mean, you know, I act most of the time. But on the side, I studied neurobiology," you're like, wait, sorry, what?Duda Ramos 7:45 it's actually like a quote and--Gabriel Firmo 7:47 You want to swing that with Econ. Sorry, I interrupted you.Lucas Bezerra 7:50 And is in our DNA, you know.Duda Ramos 7:54 Um, there's a quote by a really famous Brazilian actress called Fernanda Montenegro, which she says that it's kind of funny because, I guess you hear a lot of actors becoming economists and lawyers and having degrees like that, but they always come back. It's almost, I feel like that emptiness where it's like you're missing something, you're missing a part of it, and you kind of end up where you were before.Gabriel Firmo 8:16 So you think it's kind of like a predestination like you can try to escape it, but--Duda Ramos 8:20 I think so. I'm still going to try to figure that out. Because like, I really like Econ, and I'm really--I was actually nervous getting to here it was like, "Oh, am I gonna like it? Am I going to always feel like I should be acting, but actually, I'm just doing this." But I actually am liking econ and my classes. So it's gonna be--it's very complicated right now what I'm feeling but--Gabriel Firmo 8:38 I mean, the way you described it, it's a little sinister. Like, you can try to get away but--Lucas Bezerra 8:43 The theatre is gonna pull you back. I mean, it's true. It's very much true. I, I came in here, I guess, with very much the same thought that you did, which is I'm going to keep doing balancing theater and philosophy or whatever else I decide to do with my life. But I just feel it, you know, tugging it's kind of this, this very weird feeling.Gabriel Firmo 9:02 It's very eldritch horror.Lucas Bezerra 9:04 Yeah, yeah. Now, now we're working together in Waa Mu. And I just know that like when it comes to winter quarter and we have a cast, and then we start rehearsals in Spring. I'm like, man, I really miss doing that. You know?Duda Ramos 9:14 Exactly. I feel it's almost like a first love kind of thing. Yeah, like it's your first crush, your first love and then it's your first heartbreak. And then I don't know, you kind of never forget it. So it's really really hard to get over.Lucas Bezerra 9:25 I think the way it kind of snowballs is that you start doing one thing and you start with, like, production management. Duda Ramos 9:30 Yeah. Lucas Bezerra 9:30 And then you start seeing rehearsal and you're like, Oh my god, I really miss doing that. And then you do it again. And then you just keep going. And then somehow you find yourself doing it entirely, you know? Gabriel Firmo 9:38 Just acting again? Like you're relapsing?Lucas Bezerra 9:41 Yeah.Duda Ramos 9:42 I feel like everything sums up to like, almost everything is the same, but you need to find stuff that you're passionate about. And then it just depends on like, what you fall in love with at the time? Maybe that's just like, romanticizing my life decisions, but, y'know.Gabriel Firmo 9:56 You gotta justify them somehow.Lucas Bezerra 9:58 Okay, let me bring you down to earth a little bit. Econ here at Northwestern sort of the stereotype is like, Oh, you go into consulting. Yeah, you know. And I think if we look at that career and acting, those are probably like the two-- among the two most cutthroat businesses that you can get into. Duda Ramos 10:15 That's true. Lucas Bezerra 10:16 So talk to me about that.Duda Ramos 10:17 Actually, I did work with consulting, like this summer. And I found that it's like, honestly, it's one of the best ways you can come together with the stuff you like, and also the econ world because, in consulting you can like you go into so many different cases about so many different things that you can grab onto experiences you had before and bring it to somewhere else.Gabriel Firmo 10:39 Yeah, you can just be all over the place.Duda Ramos 10:41 Which is like--which works for me because I think that the "and is in our DNA "thing is kind of funny, but yeah, but I mean, it's true. Like I really like how here I can have the liberty of having both sides of me and not feeling weird about it. Like I have to choose one. Eventually I kind of will, but I feel happy right now being able to express them both. Lucas Bezerra 11:04 Tell us about auditions. I mean, I've never been in an audition. I don't know if you've been in audition.Gabriel Firmo 11:08 I only do voice auditions like I'm not I'm not there with the person. The great thing about voice acting and wanting to do voice acting is for... especially for amateur projects I just send them a link and they go "Cool, we like it" or you never get a response. But you don't get you don't get nos. You just get complete radio silence. Duda Ramos 11:25 Oh yeah, that's auditions. But I've auditioned for a lot of productions and I've gotten callbacks before but I've actually never landed a role like--all my other productions I was either... Well that's a lie. No wait I take that back. Yeah. Because my first--Gabriel Firmo 11:44 "No wait, I'm brilliant."Duda Ramos 11:44 No, no, my first theatre, my first audition I remember you had to sing something I don't remember now... I think it was just like a vocal test or something that they made us singGabriel Firmo 11:54 So just like scales?Duda Ramos 11:55 Yeah.Lucas Bezerra 11:55 Yeah.Gabriel Firmo 11:55 Jesus.Duda Ramos 11:55 Cause it was more about--because like my first production the way it was, it was like, we would sing at the end. I think it was, yeah. One of Beethoven's songs, which was called "Kyrie Eleison."Yeah.Gabriel Firmo 12:08 I'm gonna chime in with a "No". No idea what that is.Duda Ramos 12:13 I do really well in vocal warm ups because I'm a soprano. So, yeah, they really liked it. I remember them calling my name. And I was like, I smiled from cheek to cheek. I remember one of the actors who was working with me, like, didn't even know me at the time was like, "I was so happy you got in because you were so happy." And I feel like auditions are like that either you're just bursting with emotions or you're really sad, but--Lucas Bezerra 12:35 Or you're completely destitute.Gabriel Firmo 12:36 Yeah, its gotta be rough.Lucas Bezerra 12:37 There's a metaphor for life in there somewhere. I don't know if I fully get it. But--Duda Ramos 12:42 One thing you definitely learn how to do is like, lead with rejection. I think that's one of the most important things I've learned for jobs and everything from that.Gabriel Firmo 12:52 Yeah, I mean, there's also this thing--I mean, I'm not in the theater world. But there is this sense like I'm big into I'm into fiction, I write. And so this thing is like, it can be just a character thing. It's not like "you're a bad actor, so you didn't get it." There's a lot of, especially if it's an original thing and you're talking to the person who wrote it and now like a casting team 200 years after, there's really a sense of this person has really an image and you could take you could have a take on that character. That's like valid, interesting and cool, but it isn't what they eactly had in their mind--that's a hard guessing game to play, right? Like, there's no way for you to know that. Lucas Bezerra 13:26 I mean, in Brazilian theatre, there's this expression for like, having the lines fit the mouth of the actor. It has to be, like, right for that person. I think. Usually, sometimes that falls through. Like you have someone who wasn't particularly right for that part. But I think that's the beauty of theatre is you find the parts that really speak you to you. You find the parts that speak to you. And that's what actually shines through.Gabriel Firmo 13:52 Yeah. And there's, for example, there's this website online where I think--it's a crazy policy--I don't really use this website. But, it's for auditions for voice acting stuff. The policy is, you--literally all previous auditions are public. So you can hear the really different takes that people have right? Like, you'll get like two lines of description of this is the kind of voice, this is the kind of place, this is the kind of character--because some of these projects are A. Undeveloped or B. Really unannounced. And you'll get, someone will take, not necessarily their accent but they'll do an accent. Or someone will take an entirely different tonality and voice to them. Yeah, that's that's one of the things that has made me realize... from what I understand from theatre auditions and based on like what I've seen and talked to friends, you're not in the room while other people are auditioning necessarily, right?Duda Ramos 14:44 Absolutely not. Yeah, like not at all. I've had that one time, and it was because there wasn't enough time. So they made us like do vocal warm ups and they made three people stay. Yeah. Which is rough.Gabriel Firmo 14:59 And I mean usually that means you come in being like, I hope my read is good, right? Like, oh, cool I am playing this person as super kind of up in the air and not super focused and they're kind of--and then you arrive and they wanted someone who's totally different.Duda Ramos 15:16 The way at least that Brazilian auditions work. The ones I've been to are like, unless you're called for a specific role. It's open call. So like,Gabriel Firmo 15:23 So they'll fit you to the--Duda Ramos 15:24 They'll fit you to a character. But at the same--Lucas Bezerra 15:27 Like generals.Duda Ramos 15:28 Yeah, exactly. But, like, the thing is, the thing that's complicated is, you can't sing something that the character would sing, like an actual song from the thing, because then they have their own artistic vision. And then you might not be able to--like they know super well about it. So if you're singing something, you're risking, like, "Oh, we actually wanted it this way."Gabriel Firmo 15:46 So you almost want to do something that's kind of divorced from a specific role so that they can fit you in. You want to give them something that they can work in somewhere.Duda Ramos 15:54 Exactly. Like if you want, you have to pick something similar, but you can't pick something that is from it.Gabriel Firmo 15:59 That's really different, I mean, it's very different industries. But, I'm just thinking of voice acting in terms of like, you have a voice. You're you're auditioning for a character, they give you the lines--you're doing for this or for like a commercial, right?Duda Ramos 16:12 But that depends on like... After a while, I got so into the industry. Like I was here in spring and I got called to an audition in Brazil, like, they wanted me to audition for a role.Lucas Bezerra 16:23 Big shot.Gabriel Firmo 16:24 That is cool. Yeah, big shot.Lucas Bezerra 16:27 I love it. I respect it.Duda Ramos 16:30 And I had to send an email like, "I'm sorry, I'm studying. Outside in the United States. I'm in college right now. I can't."Lucas Bezerra 16:36 Did you feel the tug? Was it like pulling you by your hair? Duda Ramos 16:39 To be honest, yes. Because it was like one of the main roles.Gabriel Firmo 16:43 Yeah, oh, man. Yeah.Duda Ramos 16:45 But um, yeah, then you would read for a character, then you would have probably--they'll teach you a song. One thing that I did that I really loved was, I auditioned for Phantom and then I got a call back. So they called me to audition for Christine in Brazil, and then they would actually, you know, they would, they would give me, like, material to read with.Gabriel Firmo 17:09 All these name drops...Duda Ramos 17:14 Stop, why'd you call me on the show? [Laughter]Gabriel Firmo 17:14 No, I mean, I think the reaction is because like, I'm shocked, it's like a cool thing. I'm like, man...Duda Ramos 17:21 Welcome to my life. Yeah, no, it's not like that anymore.Gabriel Firmo 17:28 Now someone calls your name and you're not thinking of it. It's like, "Oh, God, I turned in something late."Duda Ramos 17:31 Yeah, like I live the life of Hannah Montana, now I'm just Miley Cyrus.Gabriel Firmo, Lucas Bezerra 17:35 [Laughter]Gabriel Firmo 17:37 Alright, so we should probably--Lucas Bezerra 17:39 We should do our last little segment where we want you to plug something on campus. It could be a person, it could be a program, it could be something was happening this week or next week when we're going to be putting this out. What's the coolest, artsy, kind of different thing that maybe people haven't heard about that you think is happening on campus.Duda Ramos 18:00 So I don't know if this is, people haven't heard about it, but there's gonna be Fun Home.Gabriel Firmo 18:05 I've not heard about it?Lucas Bezerra 18:06 You haven't? Ok.Duda Ramos 18:08 It's November 8, and it's the Wirtz fall production and one of our co-chairs is starring in it and Emma. She said, it's amazing like, it'll bring you to tears.Gabriel Firmo 18:19 What's it about? I really know nothing about this.Lucas Bezerra 18:21 I have no idea what it's about either.Duda Ramos 18:23 I'm not sure of the story, but I remember that. It was like, at the time that it was created. It was like one of those big, you know, like, Tony, things like everyone. It was a lot of buzz about it.Gabriel Firmo 18:34 Oh, cool. Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess we'll have to go watch that. That sounds cool.Lucas Bezerra 18:38 All right. Interesting. So you heard about it here first or not?Gabriel Firmo 18:42 Probably, probably not. I heard about it here first.Lucas Bezerra 18:45 Gabriel did. So thanks. Thanks DudaGabriel Firmo 18:48 Yeah. Thanks for coming in. Duda Ramos 18:49 Great, thank you guys. Gabriel Firmo 18:51 That was a really fun conversation. Thanks.Lucas Bezerra 18:53 Thank you.Duda Ramos 18:54 Thank you.This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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