EmpowerMind Talk

A heartfelt reflection on returning to Kenya where Maureen rediscovers roots, gratitude, and the Ubuntu spirit through family, community, a workshop, and a book launch.
She invites listeners—especially those in the diaspora—to pause, feel permission to receive both grief and joy, and let deep gratitude root them as they move forward.
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
 
I wish you peace beyond understanding
Peace of I
 
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My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
You Were Never an Imposter: https://amzn.eu/d/09u7Msiq
Ubuntu in Action the African way- soon available on amazon and in bookshops in Kenya
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In this episode Maureen, a life and purpose coach and mental health advocate, explores imposter syndrome—what it is, where it comes from, and how it shows up in five common patterns (perfectionist, superperson, natural genius, soloist, expert). She explains the costs of living with these feelings and offers compassionate insight into why feeling like an imposter often proves you’re not one.
Maureen shares practical tools to heal: naming the feeling, documenting achievements, reframing effort and failure, separating feelings from facts, speaking openly, leaning on community (Ubuntu), and seeking support when needed. The episode closes with grounding exercises, three anchoring truths, and a daily affirmation to help you claim your belonging.
 
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
 
I wish you peace beyond understanding
Peace of I
You can DM or Reach out to me:
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
You Were Never an Imposter: https://amzn.eu/d/09u7Msiq
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The Keynote on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ASZc4KFzONY

Maureen shares the quiet, powerful lessons she learned through pain, delay, and responsibility — showing how hardship often becomes preparation for purpose.
This episode explores resilience without clarity, identity revealed under pressure, the danger of disappearing while adapting, and how timing and persistence meet opportunity.
She reframes success as inner growth and healing, invites listeners to ask "What is this teaching me?", and leaves you with three anchoring truths and a grounding affirmation.
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
 
I wish you peace beyond understanding
Peace of I
You can DM or Reach out to me:
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
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The Keynote on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ASZc4KFzONY
 

Lessons I learned the hard way: coming home through truth. In this episode of Empower Mind Talk, host Maureen reflects on hard-earned lessons about kindness, silence, being undervalued, and staying too long in hurtful spaces, exploring how these experiences affect mental health and growth.
She offers compassionate insights and three core truths — hard lessons teach, it’s okay to outgrow what once fit, and wisdom comes from experience — inviting listeners to choose themselves, heal, and find belonging.
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
 
I wish you peace beyond understanding
Peace of I
You can DM or Reach out to me:
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
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Microaggressions, the small cuts that reach the soul — this episode of Empower Mind Talk explores how subtle comments, questions, and jokes accumulate to harm mental health, belonging, and trust.
Host Maureen names the lived experience of those quiet wounds, explains why impact matters more than intention, offers grounding truths and an affirmation, and invites listeners to protect their energy and trust their perception.
 
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
 
I wish you peace beyond understanding
Peace of I
You can DM or Reach out to me:
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
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An article in the BNN (Karlsruhe) shares Maureen’s journey from selling mandazi in Kenya to pay for school, to moving to Germany, facing racism, and rebuilding her life through education and work.
She reveals how resilience, a life-changing apprenticeship, motherhood during crisis, and the Ubuntu philosophy led her to become a coach, author, and mental health advocate — a story of strength, belonging, and hope.
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
 
I wish you peace beyond understanding
Peace of I
 
You can DM or Reach out to me:
 
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
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The Keynote on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ASZc4KFzONY
 

In this episode Maureen explores psychological safety at work, explaining why having a job or merely surviving does not equal true inclusion or belonging.
Through the story of Maya, she shows how constant self-monitoring and code-switching erode mental health—leading to chronic stress, imposter syndrome, burnout, and disengagement.
She shares three core truths and an affirmation: safety supports performance, you deserve to bring your full self to work, and inclusion without safety is incomplete, encouraging listeners to name the truth, set boundaries, and seek support.
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
I wish you peace beyond understanding
Peace of I
You can DM or Reach out to me:
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
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Host Maureen explores how repeated racial harm becomes embedded in the mind and body, creating hypervigilance, numbness, self-doubt, and chronic stress. She explains that these reactions are survival responses, not personal failures, and offers grounding truths and practical steps toward healing by creating safety, community, and self-compassion.
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
 
I wish you peace beyond understanding Peace of I
You can DM or Reach out to me:
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
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Raising children in a foreign home while carrying the constant weight of fear and vigilance. Host Maureen, a life and purpose coach and mental health advocate, explores how parents protect and nurture their children amid subtle exclusion, chronic worry, and emotional exhaustion. She offers compassion, practical reassurance, and three gentle truths to help caregivers find presence, rest, and belonging.
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
 
I wish you peace beyond understanding
Peace of I
You can DM or Reach out to me:
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
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Visibility and representation — why being seen changes everything. You are listening to Empower Mind Talk, navigating mental health, strength, and belonging.
Host Maureen explores how true representation heals, builds psychological safety, reduces imposter syndrome, and opens pathways for collective belonging.
Whether you're seeking to advance your career or relationships, launch a new business, find your purpose, increase your productivity, boost your confidence, or simple become the best version of yourself, then you at the right place!
I wish you peace beyond understanding Peace of I
You can DM or Reach out to me:
My Coaching offers: 1:1- Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Speaking:
Mail: motivatedbymaureen@gmail.com
Via my website: www.motivatedbymaureen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motivatedbymauree1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066969400881
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maureen-burgstahler-56b3bbb0
Web: https://motivatedbymaureen.com/
My books both available on Amazon:
Englisch Version - Ubuntu Within: https://amzn.eu/d/3W1kf2W
German Version - Ubuntu in mir: https://amzn.eu/d/5o9lcIp
The confident me Rise up: https://amzn.eu/d/7xTrz5m
Integration can it work? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/eWfYUUu
Kann Integration gelingen? Amani: https://amzn.eu/d/3crinjV
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