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First Gen Healing - Latinx Healing and Awakening JourneysTalks w/ a FirstGen Cycle Breaker: Breaking the Silence, Healing Out LoudHola! We hope you enjoy this part 2 with Carlene Fonseca, the Founder and CEO of The Greatest You Consulting!Let me know what resonated from this episode and what question you would have asked Carlene! -------------------------------Get to Know Today's Guest: Carlene Fonseca is the Founder and CEO of The Greatest You Consulting and Executive Director of The Wellness Hub. She is a first generation Cape Verdean American from Rhode Island. She is a consultant, speaker, and writer who uses her lived experience as a trauma survivor and person in recove...
2025-10-0237 min
First Gen Healing - Latinx Healing and Awakening JourneysRebirth: Choosing a Different Life Beyond Addiction and AbuseHola! In this episode I was joined by Carlene Fonseca, Founder and CEO of The Greatest You Consulting. If you've ever heard of the tower card in tarot or seen the house fall down in Encanto ... that is what Carlene's story reminded me of ... years of moving through life without addressing the things she held in led to a moment that could have been the end until one day she decided she was going to change her life and in just a few years she has become who she is today. We hope you enjoy today's episode and that i...
2025-09-1857 min
Celebrate YourselfBecoming a Cyclebreaker: Finding Purpose Through Pain with Carlene FonsecaHealing isn’t about being strong all the time—it’s about breaking free from cycles that no longer serve us and choosing to live consciously. In this episode, we’ll explore the weight of generational trauma, the unlearning of toxic resilience, and the power of true healing. My guest, Carlene Fonseca shares her personal journey of transformation, offering wisdom on setting boundaries, releasing shame, and embracing a life rooted in self-awareness and growth.Carlene Fonseca is the founder of The Greatest You Consulting, a healing centered, trauma-informed wellness business. Her core services include an 8 dimensions wellness workshop...
2025-05-191h 09
How Do You Say Success in Spanglish?Transforming Adversity into Empowerment - Carlene FonsecaSend us a textWhat if you could redefine success through the lens of personal struggle and cultural identity? Join me, Raul Lopez, as I sit down with Carlene Fonseca, a dynamic leader who has transformed her experiences from Central Falls into a thriving career in leadership and community engagement. As the CEO and Chief Consultant of The Greatest You Consulting, Carlene opens up about her journey as a first-generation Cape Verdean-American, navigating cultural expectations, academic triumphs, and a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis. Together, we explore how she embodies more than just professional titles and her commitment to...
2024-11-181h 07
Providence College PodcastPolicing, Race, and Potential for ChangeCatch up on the Providence College Summer Anti-Racism Series on the Providence College Podcast. Kat Kerwin of the Providence City Council and Eugene Monteiro, executive director of the Mt. Hope Neighborhood Association and investigator for the Providence External Review Authority discussed policing, race, and the opportunity for change during their Anti-Racism Summer Series presentation in August. Kerwin and Monteiro focused on the intersections of policing and race in our local community of Providence and across the nation. Carlene Fonseca of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service and Dr. Keith Morton, professor of public and community service studies, ser...
2020-09-071h 10
IRC WASHWASH Talk EP16 - Public Finance and Accountability w. Carlene Van der Westhuizen & Catarina FonsecaIRC's podcast series WASH Talk shares ideas on changes the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector has to make in order to contribute to achieving universal access by 2030. To do so speakers from all over the world are given a voice in this podcast series. Find out more on www.ircwash.org/washtalk.
According to the World Bank, global WASH public resources needed to meet Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 and 6.2 on drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6) are behind by about US$ 116 billion per year. This presents massive hurdle to achieving the goals by the 2030 deadline.
In response to this challenge, WASH...
2018-07-0621 min