Parlay From Away
Parlay From Away is a digital conversation series by Parlay House. Our inclusive live video events bring intimate conversations online and ignite meaningful bonds between strangers across the globe. By creating a universally accessible community to connect authentically, we create a deeper sense of belonging.
Parlay From Away
Workshop | Navigating Life’s Hardest Moments
Workshop | Discovering a Healthy & Happy Balance
Workshop | Take Back Your Brain
Finding Your Personal Power
Crafting an Authentic Success Journey
Money Hacks
The Road to True Nourishment
Coming Back Into the Light
Finding Your Role as a Philanthropist
Workshop | How to Thrive When the Unthinkable Happens
When the Greatest Moment of Your Life… Isn’t
Workshop: Building Your Personal Brand
Are You Your Parents’ Daughter?
Think Twice About Immigrants
Channel Your Inner Entrepreneur
Fertility Rules
Workshop | Finding your SUPERPOWERS and Presenting them with CONFIDENCE
Media Consciousness and You
Detox Your Imposter Syndrome
Taking Charge of Your Health
Intelligence of the Heart
How to Have Difficult Conversations
Screening Event | PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest
Workshop: What it Means to Know Oneself
The Good Your Money Can Do
MindFULL Movement & Meditation Hour
Real Talk: Mental Health and Recovery
Community Led Conservation
Finding The Courage to Go For It
Flipping the Boys Club on its Head
Innovating Holistic Healthcare
The Emotional Side of Real Estate
F@CK THIS JOB
DARKNESS TO A DREAM COME TRUE
ARE YOU IN A PERSONAL RUT?
HOW DO YOU MEASURE YOUR VALUE?
HOW DO YOU MOVE AND MEDITATE?
THRIVE IN YOUR OWN SKIN
THE STORIES OUR MOTHERS TELL
STAR POWER
WHAT TO SAY (AND NOT SAY)
PRODUCTIVE ISN’T GOOD
PARTING WITH PERFECTIONISM
WOMEN AND WILLS: ESTATE PLANNING 101
HOW TO NEUTRALIZE YOUR KRYPTONITE
Building Confidence & Emotional Intelligence
Breaking the Cycle
The Skinny on Skincare
Food Relationships
Matchmaker Matchmaker
Finding a New “Normal”
Toxic Families: Is There a Treatment or Cure?
Talkin’ Bout My Generation
From Shame to Celebration
The Science of Dreams
Pain & Possibility: Losing My Religion
Reaching Radical Empathy
The Lost Art of Connecting
410 Days of Isolation
The Perpetual Pivot
Is Social Making You Antisocial?
Resilience to Gold
Writing Women Back into Cocktail History
A Woman’s Best Friend
Finding Power From Life Transitions
Taking Control of Your Health(Care)
Commanding Respect
Cook Along: Food with Founders
25 Years of Silence
Understanding the Empath
Learning Femininity
Child of The Moonies
Most of us have had “a-ha” moments when we realize that the parents and institutions that shaped us are far from perfect. Our speaker Cara Jones is no exception.…
Wisdom From Our Younger Selves
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…
Money Changes Everything
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…
How Patriarchal Bullshit is Policing Our Sexuality
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…
Black Womanhood, Universal Sisterhood
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,…
HerMoney, Your Money
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…
Unstoppable
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…
A Boy Named Penelope
“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…
Sweet Home Alabama
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…
Life Lessons From a Civil Rights Icon
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…
From Fear to Fearless
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…
The D Word: Money & Divorce
Let’s talk about Divorce – and more specifically, how to manage our finances before, during, and after this difficult life transition. We welcomed financial superstar and two-time Parlay House…
Privilege Through The Looking Glass
There are many privileges beyond skin color – access to resources, wealth, geography, age, religion, attractiveness, body type, and more. Sometimes we openly accept certain privileges to cope with…
The Thing About Death & Aging
When we gathered for this talk, many of us were reeling from the death of someone who we likely didn’t even know: #NotoriousRBG. Because she was an icon, a…
The Power of Pause
When we learned that only 36% of women say they feel like they’re following their dreams, and over 60% of women are rethinking their lives during the pandemic, we…
Accompliceship: Disrupting the Legal System
Let’s talk about JUSTICE. Imagine a world in which a single mistake could cost you everything and continue following you like a dark cloud, for the rest of your…
Embracing the Unexpected
**TRIGGER WARNING** The following Parlay From Away conversation discusses sexual child abuse, incest, and other related potentially triggering subjects. Please put your mental safety and comfort first before moving…
Unapologetically Ambitious
It’s a time when “doing it all” feels harder than ever. While there is no right answer for everyone, our speaker, Shellye Archambeau, has written a highly-acclaimed new book…
Moving Mountains
We all have mountains in life that seem impossible to climb. The longer we avoid taking our first step, the higher each peak seems to become. This week’s…
Dealing with A Narcissist
Narcissists. For some of us, their daily presence in our lives wears us down and tears us apart. For others, we watch them from afar and are completely confounded…
Design Thinking to Save Lives
Many students are given assignments in school that encourage them to innovate. Very few come up with ideas that become life-saving solutions worldwide. In our desire to feature women at…
Lessons From Rock Bottom
Still I Rise
Leading From A Distance
Leadership has become increasingly complicated for all of us. “Leading from a distance” is our new normal, and those of us with responsibility are having to be exceptionally creative as…
New Year, New Heights
How many of you have seen the Oscar-winning movie Free Solo? It’s a National Geographic documentary about professional rock climber Alex Honnold as he attempts to conquer the first…
Beating Burnout
Let’s face it. It’s only January and we’re already burned out. Actually, we are still burned out from 2020… After nearly a year of remote work, we’ve settled into new…
Women, Language & Power
Since childhood, women have been told to sit quietly, lower our voices, wait our turn, avoid attracting attention, and many other orders that men simply weren’t. Cut to adulthood…
Taking Up Space
Celebrate Black History Month, Loud and Proud! What better way to kick-off Black History Month than a conversation with Wanda Holland Greene? A renowned expert in K-12 education, innovation,…
The Science of Happiness
Who doesn’t want a big dose of happiness? While happiness is obviously a fluctuating emotion, we want to maximize it as much as possible. If you do too, we hope…
Artificial Intelligence as a Force for Good
For many of us, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a loaded term. Whether it’s tied to science fiction or tainted by fears of machines replacing humans, many of us don’t…
A New Framework for Female Sexuality
Thinking about ourselves as sexual beings can feel awkward and uncomfortable in the best of times and the idea of talking about our sexuality in the middle of a…
The Art of Negotiation
Good negotiators are aggressive, stubborn, and unemotional, right? Wrong, says author, Wharton Business School Faculty Member, and this week’s Parlay House speaker Mori Taheripour. Join us to hear her radically…
To Thine Own Self Be True
We live in a world full of judgment, discord and anger. Relationships are strained, lines are drawn and the issues that divide us seem to be more heated than…
A Work in Progress: Body Image & Control
For most of us, there is often a disconnect between how we look and how we feel. Being “thin” is admired, and considered the definition of health and beauty. It’s…
No Wrong Answer
Let’s say someone asks you to read a poem or tell them about your reaction to a work of art. How do you feel about it? If you are like…
Spotlight The Allies
We’re all about finding ways to lift each other. But we can’t always do it alone. Tune in as we spotlight three important allies: men who are lifting the women…
IT’S OKAY TO LAUGH
Joy can be a powerful healer during scary moments in time. It can relieve stress in an instant – even if only temporarily – and bond us to others who…
Redesigning Self Love
For our first event of 2021, let's start off with a bang: strengthening our foundation of self-love. But we’re not talking about self-love in a traditional way. Our speaker, Board…
Challenging Conversations & Confrontations
Communication is tough enough on a good day. Add in the stress of a global pandemic and the relationship strains that come with quarantining for weeks on end and it…
View From a Cult
Most of us feel trapped by the restrictions that are keeping us tight in our homes. Many of us feel afraid of the unfamiliar new world and now though the…
Be Heard in A Digital World
“Speak your truth” – “Have your voice.” We hear these bits of advice all the time. But what on earth does it mean exactly, and how do we do it,…
Behind Frenemy Lines: Rising Above Female Rivalry
Women don’t always support each other. There, we said it. While Parlay House is all about connecting authentically and uplifting each other, we know that outside of our safe space,…
Hypnotic Success Habits
You’ve probably learned that it’s the language we tell ourselves on the inside that dictates the output we experience on the outside, but did you know that you have the…
Centering Through Overwhelming Emotions
Enjoy this meditation to turn the table on overwhelming emotions. In this time of isolation, many of us feel alone and disconnected. But what if we find a way to…
Tales From a Non-Conformist
Let's get the inside scoop on how one woman took “being different” and turned it into a global beauty empire. Tune in to hear Leslie Blodgett, Founder of the bareMinerals…
Financial Wellness in a Crisis
With an uncertain future looming for all of us, Parlay House wants to make sure that our members are as well-equipped as possible to make it through the transition.…
Accessing the Full American Dream
Is college still a path to the American Dream? While there are 1.2 million low-income or first-generation college graduates each year, only one in four will receive a strong…