Carissa Begonia on Clubhouse

Bio

✊🏽Entrepreneurship is my activism.

👋🏽 Business x life design coach, corporate drop out helping BIPOC entrepreneurs and white allies to also confidently leap off the corporate ladder, to liberate themselves from the golden handcuffs of corporate America and leave the capitalistic, patriarchal, colonized rat race behind.  

👐🏽 Co-founder of AARISE - Asian American Racialized Identity and Social Empowerment, a community for AAPI identifying folkx to process and heal. @aarisecommunity, bit.ly/AARISE

🗣 Love chatting about conscious awakening, designing lives of purpose and meaning, imagining what our liberatory futures could look like together and making good sh!t happen.

✌🏽 I believe rest is resistance, that hustle culture is white supremacy culture, and I consciously try to prioritize self-care as an entrepreneur.

💪🏽Former head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Zappos, now consultant for small businesses in moving beyond DEI training and human capital quotas to operationalize strategies that move towards racial equity and social justice.

🇵🇭 Co-founder of @Greenmangointl, a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting educational opportunities for school children in the Philippines / a living thank you letter to my dad.

🙏🏽 I’m very spiritual and am on a journey of decolonizing my Catholic faith while simultaneously exploring my ancestral pre-colonized Filipino spiritual practices.

💗 2021 is my year to embody radical self love and live in the Filipino spirit of Kapwa by embracing our shared identity and compassion for fellow beings.