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Color Your Dreams

Elaine Lou Cartas

The Color Your Dreams Podcast is for women of color and allies who are running a business or creating a career. Are you ready to align and purposefully pivot your business or career, while c...

Episodes

20 of 141 episodes

140: Imposter Syndrome, Burnout & Being a Child of Immigrants

I’m stuck on a boat with a therapist and HR leaders and we coach each other on: How to have difficult conversations How to scale a small bus...

79:31Aug 27, 2026

139: Stop Performing, Start Closing: Follow-Up Over Followers

Main Points In this episode, I break down the exact live pitch I just gave to 100+ minority small business owners, the one that's helped me...

17:51Aug 20, 2026

138: My 9-Year Business Anniversary: What I Quit to Go From Chaos to Calm

Main Points It’s my 9 Year Business Anniversary and I’m sharing: How I surpassed last year's revenue in cash flow already, and increased my...

39:01Jul 30, 2026

137: Difficult Conversations & Self-Defense: In the Boardroom and on the Streets

Main Points Self-care is more than just getting a massage, mani/pedi, it’s listening to those whispers of what you need to change in your li...

69:37Jul 16, 2026

136: Should You Blowup Your Career in Midlife? And Other Questions Women Ask Themselves with Meredith Herrera

Main Points It seems like every millennial I’m talking to is going through a mid-life crisis. My former client turned friend and fellow coac...

72:54Jul 2, 2026

135: Workplace Trauma: What To Do When You're Stuck with Maya Borgueta, PsyD

Main Points Common themes I’m hearing from clients include burnout and microagressions. In this podcast episode, I connect with Dr. Maya Bor...

49:08May 21, 2026

134: Executive Influence at the Queen Mary: Using Conscious Conversations® to Lead, Communicate & Get What You Want

I did a talk on emotional influence and how to get raises and start a business at the Queen Mary in Long Beach. It was for a women’s retreat...

60:12Apr 30, 2026

133: Balancing It All As a Woman: Leadership, Anxiety & Self-Advocacy with Amazon

As a female leader, unfortunately, you aren’t alone when it comes to leadership, anxiety and self-advocacy. This is part 2 of my keynote rec...

62:21Apr 16, 2026

132: My Amazon Keynote: Why Conscious Conversations® Is Your Emotional Intelligence Supply Chain

My SoCal Amazon Women’s Conference Keynote is live, we cover: How your trauma responses are showing up at work; and what to do about it Why...

46:13Apr 9, 2026

131: You’re not Behind, You’re Human. What to do & the Science Behind it

Every single time I listened to my body instead of pushing through, it worked out. The reality is, we are humans. We have a full life outsid...

19:40Mar 12, 2026

130: Strengthening Communication in High-Stakes and Contentious Discussions

Main Points When conversations get tense at work, how do you make sure you don’t over-explain, shut down or things escalate? In this episode...

19:20Feb 19, 2026

129: How to Grow & Scale Your Business with Executive Presence

Main Points It’s the second month of 2026 & despite the uncertainty, my business is growing not by hustling, but with more calmness and focu...

31:07Feb 5, 2026

128: Burned out? You're over-available to everyone & everything, here's weird things I’m doing.

Main Points Burnout seems to be a trending word, so what do we do? It’s not about working harder. In this episode I share: Why you SHOULDN’T...

24:45Jan 22, 2026

127: 2026 Marketing Trends: Why My ‘Losing’ Pitch Still Drove Sales (with Monica Schrock)

Main Points Why my losing pitch led to sales Personal brand > AI: my actual techniques on how my conversion rate is 70% How I grew my ema...

62:22Jan 8, 2026

126: Birthday Reflections: Rest, Recalibration, and How I’m Setting Aligned Goals for 2026 (So You Can Too)

Why I stopped drinking alcohol, it’s been 9 months now How pausing, rest and reflection helped me get Five reflection questions to help you...

28:37Dec 19, 2025

125: Future Jobs & AI: Why Emotional Intelligence is Important (replay from Dubai)

This episode is the replay of my biggest talk to 10,000+ AI founders and engineers at /function1 Dubai. I spoke about Emotional Intelligence...

40:49Nov 25, 2025

124: Addicted to Being Busy: Why High-Achieving Women Struggle to Rest (and How to Stop)

Addicted to chaos and busyness? Maybe it’s cause your body learned that busyness felt safe. In this episode, we explore how to unlearn that...

25:21Nov 6, 2025

123: Let’s Talk Money: Technical, Psychological & Cultural Truths for BIPOC leaders with Uchechi Kalu

Main Points Money isn’t just math, it’s a relationship. In this conversation with Certified Financial Planner and poet Uchechi Kalu, we unpa...

51:35Oct 23, 2025

122: From Layoff to Landing Contracts: How Uchechi Kalu Already Hit 50% of Her 2026 Revenue Goal

How do you even start a business in 2025!? I sat down with my client (and friend) Uchechi Kalu, CFP®, 2024 Olympic Poet to talk about what i...

62:38Oct 2, 2025

121: Having a Mid-career (& life) Crisis? What to do.

Do you remember when the American Psychological Association came at us in 2023 and declared that middle age starts at 35 ? The absolute disr...

18:01Sep 18, 2025