Take Up Space Sis
By Marlana Baylis
Hey! Welcome to the Take-Up Space podcast with Coach Marlana! Life & Leadership Coach Marlana Baylis discusses how to find and leverage your power to achieve your personal & professional goals with self-care intact. Women, especially black women, deserve to experience freedom in a world that tries to condition you to put yourself last. This show is for driven women looking to provide self-sustaining emotional wellness practices, insights, personal stories, and strategies to live fully. You can move forward toward new opportunities, people, and places that create your best life.
Take Up Space SisNov 17, 2020
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4 Ways To Not Let Anxiety Derail You
This week, Coach Marlana shares four strategies for overcoming your anxiety when it shows up. Work and life as a Black woman can be hard and feeling anxious makes it so much heavier. There are 4 tools I've personally used to help myself move through it faster. Join me in this conversation, to find your way over your next hump.
Feb 02, 202316:38
Stop Stressing & Start Living
This year is about you. We are kicking off this season with a short & sweet strategies for beating stress so we can start walking in our power today. This episode is about the simple tools you can use to manage everything coming at you so begin to discover you again. You were meant to thrive not to endure. Tune in today to hear the steps Coach Marlana is sharing for the ambitious driven woman today.
Jan 10, 202316:13
How To Win Against Procrastination?
Does procrastination cause you to be distracted or discouraged? This podcast episode is for you! Coach Marlana explains how to recognize you are experiencing procrastination, what you can do to win against it, and how to shut it down and build momentum. You deserve to Boss Up Your Life. Listen in for a special invitation at the end of the episode!
Jul 07, 202216:04
The Lies Black Women Believe
What lies have you believed that have held you back? Today's episode is about the lies black women hear and sometimes think about themselves and the world. How do these lies hold us back, and what do we need to replace them with. Megan Ilibeno joins Coach Marlana for this discussion; with a background in DEI space, she is used to being a voice for others and change. Listen to this powerful, juicy, and authentic conversation today!
Jun 16, 202255:44
How To Decide To Quit Your Job?
When experiencing burnout or boredom, it can be tough to show up for your goals. The first idea can be to pivot out on your own. In today's episode, Coach Marlana breaks down what to consider when you want to launch a company and leave your job. How to think about moving from employee to entrepreneur? What questions to ask yourself? This episode is a jam-packed conversation with tangible steps and motivating insights. Here to guide you in making a critical decision. Listen now
May 20, 202219:11
Protect Your Energy
How can you protect your energy? Listen as Coach Marlana talks about when you preserve your energy, how more clarity and insights show up for your career & life. This introspection can create new opportunities and lead to more fulfillment in your work. Exhaustion does not lead to more productivity, even when you love what you do. Let's reconnect with yourself and fill up your energy bank today!
Apr 28, 202220:19
Invest In Your Self- Move Past Doing It All
Are you doing it all? What can investing in you change in your work and life? As career-driven women, we get caught up in doing everything, often based on not being comfortable investing in ourselves. Join Coach Marlana as she breaks down what's stopping you from self-investment, what can change when you do, and how to choose the right ones. Learn the questions to ask to live your true purpose. It's time for women to take up space in your life. Listen now.
Apr 21, 202227:17
Revamp The Checklist
There is often a checklist of success, as we go through career shifts things get checked off we can notice the results don't always feel as good as it looks. How can that happen? How do we miss the mark on what makes us happy in our work? Before COVID very few people stopped to look within. Join Coach Marlana as she interviews Vanessa Williams, a Marketer for Meta, Fintech |Tech employee, and Founder of Lean On, on how introspection led to a whole new checklist and how you create more alignment in work-life. What we can learn through your feelings and not looking only at the high valued jobs over happiness. Learn yourself, create the freedom to think outside the box.
Apr 14, 202251:41
Changing Your Story
Coach Marlana Baylis sits down to talk about how your personal stories and narratives can propel us or hold us back in our lives. We expand on a few things, like identifying the rules you have about success and opening up your perception of your world, so you get past the conditioning of your mindset to shift it. Your rules can change to find your power.
Feb 23, 202222:19
Living Into Joy
The Innovations Lab Coach Marisol Rodriguez joins Coach Marlana to discuss what it means to be Living Into Joy, how to grow when life feels like it's on pause from the pandemic and constant change, what it can look like to spark joy and how she’s helping others to reengage with life versus waiting for for things to go back. Marisol also discusses how she rediscovered her power to cultivate joy and how you can too!
Feb 10, 202251:05
Want To Make Your Career Growth Easier?
Listen as I break down what makes career growth challenging, so you know what to do instead. I go over how the past can trip you up, avoiding addressing some issues and support for today's ambitious woman looks like to be at the top of your game without the stress, earning more authentically as you!
Dec 09, 202121:31
How To Be More Confident
In this episode I breakdown tools and strategies to being confident so you trust yourself to make better decisions and grow your career & income in the process. Listen now & subscribe to the podcast!
Dec 02, 202133:23
The Gift of No
In this episode Coach Marlana breaks down the four gifts of no and how to leverage them to step in to your power. Does guilt or confusion keep you from using No? It doesn’t have to be this way, listen for a new way to see the word No as a Powerful Woman.
Nov 15, 202123:57
Letting Go Of Perfection
In this episode we breakdown strategies for letting go of perfection and what you need to put in it's place as career driven woman. Get ready to make a shift with Marlana.
Mar 09, 202110:49
Increase Your Peace For 2021
On this episode Coach Marlana Baylis sits down with sought after psychotherapist and Workplace Wellness Expert Farah Harris. Featured on platforms such as Therapy for Black girls podcast, Bustle, Forbes and Essence to name a few, where she disrupts toxic work environments. We cover what it means to move forward in 2021, the lessons learned, when to tap out and rest, grace vs. superwoman thinking , and investing in getting the support you need to ride the wave of life no matter what comes your way. Hit play now!
Jan 05, 202147:57
Work for yourself and Your Employer.
Coach Marlana sits down with Kesia King to talk about what it means to be a boss with a boss. Kesia knows all about this as founder of CHOP CHOP Mobile Salon & Barber. She launched in 2016 while being a wife, mother of two, mentor and full-time marketing manager. We cover the bases of what to consider when planning to launch a business from conception to your exit strategy. Kesia shares how your exit strategy keeps you from becoming an employee in your own business. We also talk about what Grown Black Women need to do to scale, so we create generational wealth and don’t burn out on our dreams. Hit play now!
Nov 17, 202052:46
12. Shut down your fears?
Coach Marlana discusses what is fear, how it drives you, what to do when you hear it. She offers practical tools that allow you find the gift of fear. With today’s election fear has never been higher, as Grown Black Woman choose practices that support who you are and where you’re going!
Nov 03, 202027:46
11. 6 Lessons To Win At Work
Coach Marlana interviews Corporate Maven, Tumsheen Qureshi, Director of PMO at Grainger, on some of the unspoken she’s used to win at work.
We unpack how to be yourself when it’s uncomfortable. How does self awareness help your career? How can tough conversations free you? As well as self management tool and boundaries in the workplace.
What we can do right now to make an impact?
We unpack how to be yourself when it’s uncomfortable. How does self awareness help your career? How can tough conversations free you? As well as self management tool and boundaries in the workplace.
What we can do right now to make an impact?
Oct 27, 202044:51
10. No more time to waste!
In this episode Coach Marlana breaks down how we as professional women fall into wasting time in jobs or companies that don’t honor our work, how to move past it when you feel you’ve wasted too much time, how to know if you are and what to do to avoid it. Listen in and comment on this episode.
Oct 20, 202021:59
9. How to lead at work and in your life?
In this episode we dive into leadership, what it means and how we can demonstrate it. Coach Marlana shares the component that make Grown Black Women leaders and what can get in our way. You will walk away with action and feeling less pressure to do more.
Oct 13, 202024:34
8. What Now?
The world has changed and so have we. We are now the Grown Black Woman podcast. We cover the purpose of the change, what we will be offering and how to get present with with what’s here for you now, so can find it what’s next. Happy to be on this journey with you sis.
Oct 12, 202012:16
7. What to do when there is nothing to do?
Coach Marlana discuss 3 ways we can manage the unknowns of working in and living during forced stillness due to the virus. It will leave you encourage and equipped to raise the bar even when we don’t know what’s next.
Mar 22, 202015:33
6. How to stop self sabotage?
In this episode Coach Marlana dives into what is self sabotage and the ways you can stop it from keeping you reach your potential. She provides some tools on how to recognize when you are self sabotaging and how to manage the internal struggle that is the only true barrier to your success.
Feb 24, 202018:38
5. Love Your Worth
Right on time for Valentine’s Day Coach Marlana shares what it means to love your own worth, showing others how to love you and being in a place to give love to others. This is all about raising the bar on loving you so you can move your world!
Feb 13, 202017:55
4. You are enough!
This episode Coach Marlana shares the impact of believing you are enough on raising the bar for yourself.
Feb 06, 202013:02
3. Legacy & Kobe
Coach Marlana discusses the loss of Kobe Bryant and how building a legacy can help us make the shifts we want to make in our lives & businesses.
Jan 29, 202011:46
2. Resilience & Vulnerability - How to tap into both as you shift?
In this episode Coach Marlana covers how we build and sustain resilience and how it’s important when you shift. She also details the importance of vulnerability and why high achieving black women may find it hard to tap into it. How vulnerability help us shift and lastly how to leverage it. Let’s create a shift!
Jan 23, 202019:05
1. How to get past the how’s and start!
This episode is about how you get stuck on not knowing exactly how to do something hold you back from starting your dream, goals and or visions of greatness! Coach Marlana provides tips on how to get past the how and start now!
Jan 15, 202012:29
January 14, 2020
Jan 14, 202000:59