How Yai Vargas Built an Empowering Network that Elevates Latina Professionals
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How do you elevate yourself and other Latinas?
In today’s episode of Ellas, Yai Vargas is an empowering Latina who truly elevates other Latina professionals. Her passion to help our community has resulted in building a strong community and Latina network.
Yai Vargas is the founder and CEO of The Latinista, a national network of women and Latina professionals invested in professional development and career mobility. The impact that Yai creates through The Latinista is offered through skill-building, activity-driven, and hands-on sessions that cover perfecting a pitch that resonates with your audience and creates action to salary negotiation tips to create a successful journey.
Yai shares about being a fearless Latina and stepping up to land her first dream job at Mercedes-Benz and how she used her Latinidad and immigrant experience throughout her 15 years of working in corporate America. She also talks about the pivotal moment that pushed her to focus and grow The Latinista.
Paving a successful journey requires sharpening your career skills and if you’ve been looking for ways to achieve your professional goals or find the necessary motivation to step into your greatness, then this episode is for you. Grab your notes app because you’ll want to have Yai’s amazing career tips and powerful words in your phone when you’re feeling unsure about demonstrating and amplifying your voice and value.
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2:35 - Yai Vargas shares with us how passionate she is about giving back to Latinas and women of color who want to learn and hone their business skills
3:55 - Yai shares how she actually wanted to be a graphic designer and switched to advertising and marketing communications
5:58 - Discover how Yai followed her love for cars and landed her dream job at Mercedes-Benz
10:13 - Yai shares how she has utilized her Latinidad, Spanish skills, immigrant experience and culture in every job she has had in the past 15 years
11:28 - Listen how Yai is such a fearless woman
12:36 - Yai shares how you can land your dream job during our new reality
15:44 - Discover how Yai learned to keep the feeling of passion and enthusiasm in her corporate career
20:25 - Yai talks about choosing her worth and taking the step of focusing on The Latinista
23:26 - Listen to how Yai left her corporate career to focus full time on The Latinista
28:19 - Yai shares the steps she took to start The Latinista and prepare her finances to hit the ground running
33:06 - Yai shares how she builds programs to create solutions to help organizations invest in their diverse employees’ career and leadership development
37:44 - Discover how Yai creates trust with the organization’s employees to create powerful solutions
40:28 - Yai shares the moments of change she’s proud of due to being a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant
44:13 - Yai opens about how it’s important that the CEO of the organizations need to be on board when starting diversity and inclusion solutions
48:53 - Listen to the two biggest moments that Yai is proud of doing through The Latinista
50:52 - Yai talks about the amazing women that are part of The Latinista and how they’ve helped build the amazing community they have
53:15 - “It takes a lot of clarity, it takes a lot of focus on what this platform and this community are going to be and what it’s not going to be.”
1:00:02 - Yai shares the number one thing that you need to know to build your brand and stand out
1:03:11 - Do you know what you’re passionate about, where you want to work, and develop your unique skills?
1:07:38 - Yai shares how COVID-19 helped her to pivot and provide more value towards diversity and inclusion in the workplace
1:11:40 - Listen to what Yai positive and impactful changes she wants to see in the workplace
1:13:50 - “Give myself the space and knowledge and courage to stand up for myself.”
1:16:00 - Follow Yai!