Author: parlayhouse

 You see Emily, but do you SEE Emily? We were thrilled to welcome our youngest ever speaker to the Parlay House stage. Her name is Emily Amador and at 15 years old, and she is blazing a trail of resistance and confidence for young people growing up in South Central LA. Emily discusses the […]

 Let’s say you come into a ton of money. Sounds great right? Not always so great. The minute it hits your bank account, it hits your relationships, it hits family dynamics, and hits in many other unexpected ways. Money can change everything, and yet it’s something we never talk about. So let’s go there. […]

 Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference.’ She’s coming to talk with Parlay House about how dating younger men led her to start the world’s first and only user-generated, human-curated social sex video sharing platform, with the mission of ending rape culture; the gender-biased challenges that […]

 How do we best change our perspective of the experiences of those who are different? Tune in for an all-important conversation with two members of the Parlay House community, Adimika Arthur and Carla Vernón. They will talk about their personal journeys through life, Adimika as a Black woman and Carla as an Afro-Latina woman, […]

 You asked, and we listened. Tune in for round two of exploring financial wellness – this time with the CEO of HerMoney, New York Times & Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author, Jean Chatzky. The much-needed waves of change have arrived in many forms. With them comes an uncertain future looming for all of […]

 Unstoppable. Many of us try to power through the obstacles life throws our way. But our guest speaker Jessica Oliveira-Haddad, takes unstoppability to a whole new level. Born to undocumented immigrants in NYC, Jessica had to grapple with her parents’ challenging status at an early age, and find her own path as a first-generation […]

 “Mom, everyone thinks I’m a girl and I’m not. I’m a boy. I don’t feel like a boy, I am a boy, mama.” These are the words Jodie Patterson’s two-year-old child spoke to her one day following a streak of anger and frustration. She initially thought she was losing her daughter who seemed to […]

 Being a strong, successful Black woman and working mother means you break through a lot of barriers to get to where you are. Doing it in the Deep South where gender roles and racial barriers are still ever-present requires a whole other level of persistence and resilience. Tune in as Shwanda Shallow, Chief Instigator […]

 Want to make a difference in the world but don’t know how to start? While all transformation happens by taking a small step, very few people have walked the miles and impacted lives as deeply and broadly as civil rights icon and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Dolores Huerta. She was the inspiration for […]

 Growing up in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, Shabana Basij-Rasikh and her family risked their lives to send her and her sister to underground schools. At that time, educating women was a crime punishable by death. Shabana not only became college-educated (a privilege of just 6% of women in Afghanistan at the time) but she […]