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Invite Leslie Tagorda

Invite Leslie to be a podcast guest, speaker, or expert source. Business astrologer, brand strategist, and author of Astrology for Changemakers (Weiser Books, September 8, 2026). Founder of Star Powered® and creator of the AstroBrand® Method.

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For Book Coverage

Astrology for Changemakers reframes the birth chart as a leadership tool, beyond personality typing or prediction, for an audience — changemakers, founders, and leaders who don’t fit traditional molds — the publishing industry has historically overlooked. Leslie is the first traditionally published astrology author of Filipino heritage, and the first born and raised in Hawaiʻi. Foreword by Theresa Reed

For Expert Commentary

Leslie speaks fluently on astrology and brand strategy, AANHPI identity in leadership, and reclaiming non-Western frameworks in professional spaces. Available for interviews, panels, and written commentary.

Biography

Who Is Leslie Tagorda

Leslie Tagorda helps changemakers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries lead with their stars, turning astrology into a liberatory tool for identity, purpose, and impact.

A multiracial, Hawaiʻi-born third-career astrologer, brand strategist, and professional classical clarinetist, Leslie brings twenty-plus years of brand-building and a decolonial approach to astrology rooted in the Hawaiian values of aloha (love) and kuleana (responsibility). As a woman of color at the intersection of polycultural wisdom and modern leadership, she offers a viewpoint rarely represented in astrology or business: one that reclaims the stars as a tool for self-actualization, and reframes your lived experience as your expertise.

She is the founder of Star Powered® Podcast and creator of the AstroBrand® Method, a proprietary framework guiding leaders, especially those excluded from traditional models, to attune to their true identity, connect with their calling, and make their mark.

Leslie speaks to reclaiming astrology as a leadership tool for change, leading from your original design instead of fighting it, and why representation and decolonial thinking matter in spiritual and business spaces alike.

What happens when you stop fighting yourself and start leading by your stars? — Leslie Tagorda

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Leslie Tagorda is the creator of the AstroBrand Method and author of Astrology for Changemakers (Weiser Books, 2026), which reframes the birth chart as a leadership tool.

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The Book

Astrology for Changemakers.

Find Your Strength, Fuel Your Purpose, and Lead with Your Stars.

Change doesn’t begin with becoming someone else or fixing what you think is broken. Change happens when you stop fighting yourself, claim your lived experience as expertise, and attune to your astrological design — the cosmic imprint you were born with. This is the book Leslie was born to write. A practical, powerful guide for the leader who knows there is more — and is ready to find it written in the stars.

Publisher	Weiser Books
Publication Date	September 8, 2026
Foreword By	Theresa Reed
ISBN	1578639069
Format	Paperback + Kindle
Retailers	Best Book Shop Corp, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Best Bookstore, Indigo (Canada)

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Who We Serve

Story Angles & Interview Topics

01

The Big 4 Framework

Your Big 4 gives you an integrative framework to live and embody your leadership: your Sun is what, your Moon is why, your Rising is how, and your Descendant is for whom. We add your people to your Big 3, because you can’t lead alone.

Most people know their Sun, Moon, and Rising. What’s the fourth placement you say we’re all missing?
How does knowing “your people” through your chart change the way someone leads?

02

Born to Lead in the Age of Aquarius

Aquarius doesn’t only imagine a better future; it redesigns the systems to build one where leadership is expressed across the many, not the few, and your differences are exactly what make you irreplaceable to the polyculture.

What is the Age of Aquarius, and why do you connect it to a shift in how we lead?
You talk about leadership moving from “the few” to “the many.” What does that look like in practice?

03

Decolonizing Astrological Thinking

Long before astrology was separated from astronomy, it was cosmology, the wisdom Polynesian wayfinders used to navigate by stars, currents, and story. It’s not lost. It lives in your bones.

Your book connects astrology to Polynesian wayfinding traditions. How does that differ from how most people think about astrology today?
What does it mean to “decolonize” the way we think about our own charts and our leadership?

04

Lead with Your Stars

Astrology is a leadership development tool, more than personality typing or prediction. Your birth chart reveals the innate strengths and leadership style you were already born with, turning the question from “how do I become a leader” into “how am I born to lead.”

Your book flips the question from “how do I become a leader” to “how am I born to lead.” What’s the difference?
How can a birth chart actually function as a leadership development tool?

05

Your Lived Experience Is Your Expertise

True expertise isn’t adorned with titles or pedigrees. It’s born from lived experience, the mastery gained through what you’ve overcome.

You say expertise doesn’t need a title or a pedigree. Where did that belief come from in your own story?
How do you help someone see their hardest experiences as an asset instead of something to hide?

06

Whoever Interprets Holds the Power

For too long, other people got to interpret your chart, your story, your worth. The moment you claim that power for yourself, interpretation becomes reclamation.

What do you mean when you say interpretation itself is an act of power?
How does reclaiming who gets to interpret your chart change someone’s relationship to their own story?

07

Astrology as a Language of Change

Every part of your chart is about change. Zodiac signs are archetypes of change. Planets are processes of change. Houses are where change happens. Aspects are the relationships of change.

You describe zodiac signs, planets, houses, and aspects each representing a different kind of change. Can you break that down?
Why frame astrology as a “language,” specifically?

08

The Publishing Gap This Book Fills

Astrology for Changemakers is a first-of-its-kind leadership book, written for the changemakers, leaders, and founders the industry has historically excluded.

What was missing from the leadership and astrology sections of the bookstore that made you want to write this?
Why are you the person to write this?

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What People Say

Their words say it best.

“Leslie reframes the power of the birth chart from a polycultural perspective, truly the expansive lens we need for the Age of Aquarius.”

Tali & Ophira Edut, The AstroTwins

“She doesn’t ask you to become a leader. She proves you already are one and hands you the map you were born with.”

Jen Kem, National Bestselling Author of Unicorn Team

“This book is nothing short of an answered prayer. I’ve often felt that astrology, if it is to meet this moment, must critically reexamine our relationship to power and Astrology for Changemakers by Leslie Tagorda accomplishes exactly that.

Colin Bedel, CoFounder of QueerCosmos and Best-selling Author

“Leslie Tagorda reimagines the birth chart as a tool for self-liberation, leadership, and conscious participation in collective change.”

Celeste Brooks, Astrology by Celeste

“This book is a call to courage to leave behind the harmful ways of dying systems and lean fully into more human and community based ways of being.”

Amina AlTai, Author of The Ambition Trap

“A grounded and liberating invitation to return to yourself as the source of your leadership.”

Asha Frost, Author of You Are the Medicine

“A guide for the changemakers who feel called to do things differently, with their own stars as their compass.”

Colette Baron-Reid, Intuitive, Educator, Author

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A multiracial, Hawaiʻi-born business astrologer, brand strategist, and author. Founder of Star Powered and creator of the AstroBrand Method. Author of Astrology for Changemakers (Weiser Books, 2026).
A framework that uses the Big 4 placements of the natal chart (Sun, Moon, Rising, and Descendant) to inform brand strategy and leadership development, treating the chart as a guide rather than a prediction.
A leadership book that helps changemakers reclaim their lived experience as the foundation of their leadership, structured around the Star-Powered Leadership Spiral Journey. Releases September 8, 2026 from Weiser Books.
A four-stage leadership framework: Stage 1, You Are the Expert (Sun); Stage 2, Uncolonize Your Mind (Moon); Stage 3, Lead With Your Stars (Rising); Stage 4, Be the Change (Descendant).
Yes, for podcast interviews, written press, and speaking engagements on astrology and leadership, brand strategy, and multiracial/AANHPI identity in professional spaces. Contact aloha@starpowered.com.

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