Meet Your Coaches
About Jazmin
Jazmin Chavez is a co-founder of Alma Mia Coaching and a certified healing-centered and somatic abolitionist coach. She uses her gifts of intuition and powerful listening to support culturally diverse, first-generation, immigrant, undocumented communities, and social change organizations to center on who they are becoming.
As an undocumented Latina, she has lived and embodied the multiple ways in which white supremacy, colonization, globalization, and patriarchal systems have contributed to the false narratives of who we think we must be in order to be accepted by white dominant cultures as well as progressive and movement based communities. Her coach's stance focuses on a consistent practice of pausing, reflecting, releasing, healing, and unlearning who you are to return to your most authentic being and your journey of who you are becoming, on your terms returning back to your soul, Alma Mia. Professionally, she has over 20 years of experience working with nonprofits, progressive movements, government bodies, digital agencies, and philanthropy, and has served on boards and as a C-Suite executive.
In this journey towards liberation, together we will shift your habits, triggers, and mindset by challenging white dominant culture narratives, experiences, and personal stories, to heal and learn new ways of being. By confronting white dominant culture, while rooting down like agave in your authentic truth, we can create a bold vision for you and our collective power.
About Armando
Armando Somoza, is a co-founder of Alma Mia and a certified coach. As a parent, artist, educator, and serial entrepreneur, his coaching stance supports clients in tapping into their creative genius, surfacing and expressing their authentic voice, and activating their vision for impact in the world. The approach is rooted in helping people center in order to be their best selves for others.
His life’s work has been committed to the creative application of powerful story-telling and digital technologies as an agent of provocation, immersive learning experiences, decolonization, cultural entrepreneurship, and social change. Equity, transformation, advocacy, the creative arts, and education are at the core of his worldview and practice. As a serial entrepreneur, he has experienced and healed through numerous failures and has learned to surface and honor the lessons and insights that build the foundation for the next idea.
Our work together will activate your genius mode as we examine how to express your gifts in every aspect of your life - personal and professional. We focus on mind, body, and spirit as you activate your talents to be your best self in the service of others. We will live courageously and center on your unique genius as you walk boldly into the life you’ve imagined.
Work With Alma Mia
Services
Group Coaching
Customized group coaching and learning resources to help your students or teams navigate change, white-dominant narratives, white supremacy, and other challenges while anchoring in strength, authenticity, intuition, and ancestral wisdom.
Cultivated for:
- First Generation College Students
- Mid-Career Professionals
- Fellowship & Leadership groups
- College Graduates
1:1 Coaching
Individual coaching is primarily for communities of color who are in a leadership role at a senior or executive level or who are making a professional transition. We focus on remembering who you are as a leader and how your experiences have shaped you. We will return to your purpose and values to identify who you are becoming in this season of your life.
Cultivated for:
- Executive & C-Suite leaders
- First Generation College Students
- Mid-Career Professionals
- Fellowship or Leadership groups
- College Graduates
- New Parents
- Resume Review & Interview Prep
Organizational Coaching
Facilitated authentic conversations to create a culture of care and liberation inside organizations to cultivate a sense of belonging, sustainability, transparency, and purpose. In collaboration with your teams, we design new ways of being to build strong relationships with your staff and community while exposing white-dominant narratives in the world and workplace that derail individuals and organizations from connecting to their true purpose.
Cultivated for:
- Non-profit Organizations
- Companies
- Government Agencies
