Seasons

Our featured guest today is a Bangladeshi - American medical doctor and surgeon who grew up as an inner New York City immigrant kid. She currently owns her own agency and manages teams out of Tampa, Florida but works with clients nationwide. Her mission now has become to educate and inform growing entrepreneurs about their health insurance options and how to navigate the healthcare systems of America, so the patient/customer always wins, not big insurance. In addition to a strong clinical backg...

Our featured guest today is Owner, Mindful Art Facilitator and Trainer at Mindful Creative Muse. She has always had a strong interest in cultivating awareness and creative self-expression through art and movement. In 2010, after being diagnosed and treated for cancer, her exploration deepened with Restorative Yoga, Reiki and SoulCollage® (an intuitive-based expressive arts collage and journaling process developed by Art Therapist, Seena Frost). She has been a professional artist since 2004 and...

Our special guest today has spent her entire corporate career as a business leader in fashion retail working for some of the top specialty fashion brands in the retail world. She has a track record of delivering exceptional sales results through People Development and Team Building, leaving a legacy of talent in her wake. Her coaching role presented itself when she became the casualty of a retail bankruptcy and had to decide whether staying in retail or leaving. She made the difficult decision ...

Our featured guest today is a Decision Science Consultant, Teacher, and Best-Selling Author who helps people get real, move forward, and minimize regret. She has spent over two decades studying how people make decisions in a variety of contexts, from business to politics to relationships. She teaches Decision Science at the University of Washington and is founder and owner of Kabiri Consulting, where she uses Decision Science principles to help her clients make the right choices. She is also c...

Everyone’s journey through the world of fertility looks different, but we can all agree on one thing: attempting to conceive is not always as fun as it sounds. While you are jumping hurdle after hurdle of blood tests and invasive ultrasounds, it stings to see your friends’ breeze past you with their easy pregnancies. If there are doulas to help coach women through the labor process, why can’t anyone coach you through infertility? Today we have two special guests, one is a wife, stepmom, dog mom...

Our special guest today is a Jane of many trades whose career spans across Entertainment and Technology. A Chicago native, she is an American Entertainment Artist who is rapidly changing female M.C.s' game in the Hip-Hop Soul arena. She offers a variety of talents and rapping, ranging from lyrical storytelling and writing to performance art. Rather than adhering to the pressures many women in the music industry face, she speaks from her experience and wisdom, not superficial glitz and glam. Aff...

Our special guest today has made a career offering stories as a service. She helps leaders craft their stories to communicate and connect better through concise and compelling ghostwritten social media posts. She also writes engaging, original, and authentic Career Stories for her clients, positioning them for success and changing how others perceive, pay, partner with, and promote them. In all her work, she provides her clients clarity of messaging to strengthen their personal brands and thoug...

Today, our special guest has lived and worked in Virginia all her life and has always had a passion for marketing, starting at a very young age. She is the proud mom to three exceptional children and the owner/founder of a social media management firm. She worked in the automobile industry for over nine years, spearheading and overseeing departments in business development and marketing. During that time, she earned her degree from Old Dominion University and began pursuing her MBA from Liber...

Our special guest today is a God-fearing servant, award winning publicist, and business owner. She is known by some as a former athlete but known to most as one of the best publicists in the city, she continues to make an impact in her industry. As the owner of Lifestyle and Sports Public Relations Firm MayLee Media and Creator of “It’s Just PR”, she has a passion for exposing the unexposed and branding the unknown. She received her undergraduate degrees from The GSU, Georgia State University. ...

Our special guest today is a a former Army Officer who flips adversity on its tail, a Chicago native, Disabled Army Veteran, Cancer Survivor, Veteran and Disability Advocate, and Speaker who gave over 17 years of service to this great nation, she is also an Oprah Winfrey Standing Ovation Recipient, CNN Hero, People Magazine Hero Among Us, YWCA Women of Distinction and US Army Chief of Staff Outstanding Civilian Service Award. She travels the world speaking about Leadership, Diversity, Entreprene...

Our special guest today was born in the heart of Mexico, Mexico City. Her mother alone immigrated with her and her two older siblings when she was two years old. She became a mother at the young age of 19 and has always struggled with mental health but was caught up with the poison of the mental health stigma until a moment in her life made her realize that she must allow herself first to help others. She has been married to her husband for ten years, and they have six kids together. They have b...

Today, our special guest is the CEO and Founder of Agility Leadership Group, LLC, a company that helps companies, organizations, and entrepreneurial firms develop leadership teams and strategies that create longevity and higher profit. She has a passion for fast-growing companies, having worked 14 years with T-Mobile USA to grow from 700 to over 42,000 employees. She served in several roles there, leading in Sales, National Training & Development, Employee Engagement, and Strategy & Insights be...

Our special guest today is the CEO of Accelity, a Milwaukee-based agency that helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) start-ups get to revenue and grow faster, and a co-founder of Women’s Entrepreneurship Week. She is highly active on LinkedIn; she sparks discussions about the daily life and challenges of growing a bootstrapped company. She mentors student start-ups via The Commons, an initiative of The Greater Milwaukee Committee, a non-profit civic organization dedicated to making the region the b...

Our special guest today grew up in a small town in Southern CA with humble beginnings. After graduating high school, she decided to join the Navy. Her first duty station was NAS Whidbey Island, WA, where she met and then married her husband. As a Veteran herself, she supported, understood, and encouraged her husband's 20-year career. While building her career, they did five deployments; they are thankful that he retired four years ago. She currently works as a Loan officer; throughout her care...

Our special guest today has a BA in Clinical Psychology, and she is working on her MBA with a concentration in project management. She currently works at a progressive Jewish organization called IKAR, as their Development Associate. She enjoys doing work that has a purpose and knowing that her work is making a difference in the world. She was married at 19, had her son when she was 22, got divorced at 24, and now she is engaged to her ex. They had a troubling marriage due to his traumatic yout...

Our special guest today is a native San Diego, and he is a recent college graduate. He graduated in the early stages of the pandemic in May of 2020 from Ohio University. He graduated with majors in Sport Management, Finance, and Business analytics. He has gone on to work for the National Sports Forum, a sports conference company, as a Business Development coordinator. He also works with USA Football at marquee events, such as the Super Bowl & the NFL Draft, to promote football to youth in the h...

Today, our special guest is a business consultant, motivational speaker, business strategist, life coach, and professional tennis coach. His career started in financial services back in 2006. Forward 2009, the stock market crashed when his career was firing on all cylinders; right at that moment, he was engaged and having his first little girl, he knew he had to do something, so he had to decide and do it fast. Somehow Tennis fell into his lap; he was out watching an older white gentleman play...

Today, our special guest is a love and relationship coach, intuitive healer, heart-centered artist, people connector, and lover of nature. Growing up in a divided home requiring the management of a variety of complex relationship structures from a very young age, she has spent most of her career focused on helping her clients find love within themselves such that it may become an external expression in their lives. A lover of adventure and new experiences, her eclectic career history has taken...

Our special guest today is born and raised in the Greater Seattle area. She went to the University of Washington with a degree in Business. She did the "try somewhere new" after college and went to San Diego. After a year of being in a corporate job she hated, she said it's time to do what I've wanted to do since a kid and got her real estate license. For most of her childhood, her mother was a single mom, and not only that, she was an immigrant from Moscow, Russia. She saw her struggle, she s...

Today, our special guest is the CEO/Founder of Enchanted Hearts Alzheimer's and Dementia Association. She trains memory care professionals and caregivers to care for individuals with Alzheimer's. She is the CEO/Founder of Charlie's Home for Vets, which assists homeless veterans with housing, clothing, shoes, hygiene items, and community education courses. She is also the CEO/Founder of the nonprofit organization, The Jacqueline Smith Foundation, which addresses active military, veterans, homeles...

Today, our special guest is a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Coach, Chiropractor, Speaker, and Author of the Bestseller WHY... Are You Sick, Fat, and Tired? Published in December 2019. She has helped thousands over the last 35+ years stop adapting their lifestyle to pain and chronic problems by focusing on the whole person. The result is that her clients and patients find out the WHY and the CAUSE of the problem and identify the starting point: what, why, where, and how to begin th...

Our special guest is an Interior Electrician that served 20 years in the US Air Force in Law Enforcement and the last 12 years in Recruiting. He currently works as a Global Lead Technical Recruiter for Lockheed Martin. He was a contract Recruiter for F5 Networks, a contractor for Experis-IT/ManpowerGroup, a contractor for Boeing, a contractor for USAA, and a full-time employee for Wyndham Vacation Ownership. His transition from the Air Force was challenging, which fuels his passion for paying ...

Today, our special guest was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of (5) children. He attended and graduated from the Atlanta Public School System and attended Morris Brown College, where he marched in the Marching Wolverine Band as a Drumline and Drum Major member. He received his Associate Degree in Biblical Studies from the Andersonville Theological Seminary, and he is currently completing his bachelor’s degree in Theology. Since the age of 11, he has served in music ministry,...

Shonda and Gregory explore her 2018 book release entitled, "All of Your Energy is Going to Your Mouth." A self-documentary of the fastest-growing energy thieves of the 21st century - Unproductive conversations. Our special guest today has been a public servant in higher education for over 20 years. She currently serves as the Associate Director for the Center for *Computational Chemistry at Jackson State University. The Center focuses on computational applications to improve health and environm...