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Hi! I'm Maria

I'm an advocate for women's worth, wealth, voice, and empowerment, and a catalyst committed to breaking the cultural patterns that silence and diminish women, and keep them from their potential. I bring visibility to the lived experiences women are taught to ignore, minimize, or survive quietly, so women can step up, step out, and move through the world with greater confidence, agency and awareness.

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New Episode 🎙️ The Art of Being “Too Much” | Why Playing Small Isn’t Keeping You Safe—It’s Keeping You Stuck

How you doin gorgeous? Have you ever been told to tone it down? To stop being so extra? To take up less space so others could feel more comfortable?If you’ve ever felt like your light made people squint—this episode is your reminder that the problem was never you. It was the room you were in.In this raw and unfiltered episode of The Femme Cast, I take you behind the curtain of the subtle and not-so-subtle ways we’re made to feel like we’re “too much” in friendships, workplaces, and even...