Virtual Campfire #43: Collaboration vs. Competition with Rubina Dhani + Raye Zaragoza

Rubina Dhani, LMFT holds a Master's degree in psychology, is a Holistic Life Coach, trauma healer, EMDR trained and is a loving dog mom. When we met at an event in Orange County for Women's History Month almost exactly one year ago, she lit up the room when she walked in and I knew I wanted to collaborate with her someday. Rubina immediately puts folks at ease, and she's absolutely brilliant.

After graduating from Cal State Northridge University, she obtained her master’s in arts-psychology and she now has a practice here right here in San Diego that primarily serves multicultural individuals, immigrant children, families, and intercultural couples.

with musical guest Raye Zaragoza

Raye Zaragoza is a galvanizing presence, a self-assured artist making music to fight for, represent, and celebrate those left too long outside the spotlight. Known for tenacious feminist anthems and fearless protest folk, her stage presence teems with determined morale. However, Zaragoza was not always the fortified woman of color who takes the stage today.

As a Japanese-American, Mexican, Indigenous woman, Zaragoza spent much of her early life trying to assimilate with the world around her, to meet punishing standards of beauty synonymous with just one color of skin—and not her own. Raye confesses, “I truly thought that in order to be beautiful, you had to be white.” She has come a long way from that youthful pain, proclaiming “I am proud to be a multicultural brown woman with insecurities and a vibrant intersectional identity that I continue to grapple with. I hope young girls of today will know that the It Girl is whatever the hell they want to be.” This rightful confidence radiates across Woman in Color, Zaragoza’s sophomore album out now on Rebel River Records, her own independent label. The album delivers powerful missives about embracing one’s own identity and discovering the power behind it, all across brisk, emotive, compelling folk melodies. Once deemed “one of the most politically relevant artists in her genre” by Paste Magazine, Raye Zaragoza now offers an intimate exploration of coming into her own, in a country where for many, simply existing is political. ABOUT THE SHOW The Hiking My Feelings Virtu /// We're hiking ONE MILLION MILES for diabetes awareness.Join us: https://hikingmyfeelings.org/diabetes Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/hikingmyfeelings Join the Hiking My Feelings Family: https://family.hikingmyfeelings.org Read the book: https://hikingmyfeelings.org/book Blaze Your Own Trail to Self-Love: https://hikingmyfeelings.org/byot