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Ep. 58-Carena Lemons entertainment law and an acting career. Dec 08, 2019

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Carena Lemons can seemingly do it all, with a successful law practice and an acting career.

In this episode, Lemons explains how career choices are often intertwined, lending strength from one to another. Her Raleigh, N.C.-based law firm, which she’s worked hard to build over the last 13 years, is strengthened by her knowledge of the entertainment industry. With that experience, Lemons has done considerable work in entertainment law and can connect well with her clients.

As for acting, it’s a passion that is fulfilling and enables her to expand her client base through her dual role. Most recently she has a part in the film Harriet, along with other work. On top of all this, she juggles her family commitments with a husband and two children.

Running a law firm is a business, and it’s that side of her work where there’s been the most to learn. Over time she’s discovered that by approaching the firm with a business mindset, nurturing and growing her organization with a solid client base. And she’s tapped into her work as an actor, gaining the trust of clients who work in that industry. The value of bridging these worlds and finding your right path an important message she continues to share.

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Ep. 57-Jewel Burks Solomon advocate for representation in and access to the technology industry. Dec 04, 2019

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The joy of entrepreneurship was instilled in Jewel Burke Solomon at a young age. Growing up in Mobile, Alabama, she was inspired by the pride her parents had in their business and the sense of respect the community showed them.

Her childhood was filled with warm memories of international travel and a passion for the arts. An entrepreneurial drive set in early, as she sold her own paintings while in high school.

Solomon thrived while at Howard University, parlaying her success to an internship at Goldman Sachs in New York. She then leapt across the country to join Google, where her enthusiasm translated well to sales, pitching Google apps and products to enterprise customers.

She returned to Alabama to assist a family member with health issues, then moved on to Atlanta. It’s where she thought of the business idea that would be her big break. Her grandfather, a farmer, was frustrated in how difficult it was to find parts for his tractor during harvest season. She founded Partpic to solve issues just like this — the company built visual search software so that customers could submit a picture and the algorithms would find just the right part.

Solomon sold the company to Amazon in 2016, and she has since moved on to new challenges as an investor. Solomon credits her parents with instilling a sense of belief in herself, and she hopes to inspire other women to achieve their goals in business.

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Ep.56-Linda Dupre Hull: Sr. level financial managers are "problem-solvers" and not worker bees. Dec 01, 2019

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Linda Dupre Hull, age 67, provides powerful insights into a childhood where at age 12 she became a partner with her father in developing the family budget and managing the family finances out of the necessity of ensuring the family could survive off of his earnings. She shares the backdrop of being a life-long resident of New Orleans; a city defined by its history of segregation and poverty, and coming to understand very early on the absolute necessity for adopting a personal budget, managing your finances and growing your personal wealth by purchasing a home as early as you can in life and vacating the role of a renter. She shares her advice for baby boomers trying to decide whether to take their social security benefits at age 62 or "wait" for full retirement. This is an interview every woman (and person) can learn from!

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Ep.55-Rocio Cavazos: Engineer Turned Successful Investor. Nov 27, 2019

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Growing up in a society where gender bias was prevalent, Rocio Cavazos always found that she was attracted to professional industries where women were few and far between. She started out as an engineer then later transitioned into finance where she worked on Wall Street for 12 years in another male dominated industry.

Being passionate about empowering women and wanting to create an impact through social purpose led her to focus on micro-finance where she could empower low income women in the developing world.

As an investor, she decided to focus on the plant-based sector which is primarily run by women.

Cavazos finds working with entrepreneurs very energizing, invigorating and inspiring. She admires how passionate they are about what they do and their devotion and dedication to solving some of the world’s major problems.

In this episode, she reflects on her passion for empowering women and the focus it gave her. One piece of advice she wants to pass on to young people is to “live their life being pulled by their vision for the future instead of pushing by their past”.

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Ep.54-Teri Ljeoma: Successful Stocks Trader Top 4 Trading Secrets Nov 24, 2019

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Teri Ljeoma shares her 4 secrets to trading in the stock market. Her interest in the stocks market started when she was in high school, and she worked on Wall Street to learn the trade. She credits her mother and her grandmother for her success today, her drive to persevere and that motivation to keep going. Creating her course "Trade and Travel" has been one of her major contributions, teaching individuals how to invest in the stock market and how to make their money work for them. The success of her students keeps her motivated.

She also shares some of her travel tips from using Airbnb to renting an apartment.

Ljeoma is passionate about her faith and being an Angel Investor where she invests in ministries that are creating an impact around the world. One life lesson she wants to pass on to the younger generation is to “do it afraid.”

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Ep.53-Jennifer L.W. Fink: Single Parenting, Depression, and Writing about Boys Nov 20, 2019

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Jennifer gives her thoughts on the journey of raising four boys, much of the time by herself as a single parent. She has struggled with depression, thinking that depression equals sadness and when people aren’t exhibiting sadness, she felt they must be pretending. She talks about her real love, writing, and her transition, starting with journalism, to becoming an award-winning freelance writer. Surviving a divorce, home schooling, and parenting and then getting remarried, she has experience in and thoughts about many areas, including counseling, anxiety, and today’s issues our children are facing.

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BONUS-Donna Miller: We Have It! Let's Use It! Women Helping Women Nov 17, 2019

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Donna Miller founded a company called Purse Power, providing everyone an opportunity to purchase from women-owned businesses, including businesses with 20% women on the board. Knowing that one out of four women is impacted by domestic violence, she wanted to accomplish two goals: provide more shelters for abused women while giving more economic power to women to make choices to support other women. She also has built a phone app to locate women-owned businesses near you. Since women make 80% of the purchase decisions, this goal can be realized if women purchase from women. Women can register their business on pursepower.com to be included. The value you have is in the difference you make. Women have been marching since 1913. Economics is a new way to drive change. In this episode, we discuss executive coaching, raising triplets and managing the work/life balance, the effect of social media and bullying on children.

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Ep.52-Ellen Walsh: A Global Perspective Nov 17, 2019

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Ellen Walsh reflects on a childhood filled with the joy and discoveries of living in Hawaii, Japan and Iran, along with the pain-filled memories of living in Mississippi in the mid-to late-1950s; a state where segregation was the "law of the land" and witnessing her mother's pain as a brown skinned Polynesian married to a white Portuguese engineer. Her mother was directed to the "colored door" while her father was directed to the front door. Her mother chose to stay home rather than bear the repeated humiliation only to encounter another form of humiliation as a "western woman" living in Iran during the 1960s when her husband became a civil engineer with an American firm. Ellen shares the impact from a society where women were marginalized by being denied the benefit of education, the inability to have their own independence through something as seemingly "small" as the right to drive a car, and living by cultural mores that said "a woman's place is in the house". It was another period of time where her mother became a recluse rather than live by the norms. But, it also fueled both her father and mother to ensure all four daughters would return stateside and go to college as a means of validating their value as women and ensuring their economic independence. She now believes that her motivation to earn her B.S., M.S. and complete her doctoral studies was highly influenced by these multi-cultural experiences. She believes that if all Americans traveled outside the U.S. they would find that people are more alike than they are different and that they want the same things for themselves and their children.

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Ep.51-Betty Lou Larson: Insight into the reasons and magnitude of homelessness. Nov 13, 2019

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Working for Catholic Charities as a homeless advocate, even into retirement, she still represents the organization's priorities in homelessness at the State Legislature. She provides an insight into the reasons and magnitude of homelessness. She talks about Housing First as the best, but expensive, program and provides an example of how this worked for a chronically homeless mentally disabled individual. She has worked in transitional housing as a bridge, especially for families, and discusses the school services for homeless children. She describes how the federal government's lack of funding for developing low-rent housing in the 1980's has affected homelessness. She tells us about Hawaii's Rental Housing Revolving Fund. We discuss how our passion has carried us into retirement by still doing important work.

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Ep.50-Debbie Feinberg: Living her convictions to stay close to her authentic self. Nov 10, 2019

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Debbie grew up in an environment of helping others and was a creative entrepreur as a child. She talks about her Jewish heritage and living in Israel for a year during a particularly tumultuous time politically. We went on to talk about children and gun violence, including her fears for her own children. She discusses living her convictions and staying close to her authentic self at all times. We discuss roles for women, both traditionally and today. We discuss her career, focused on marketing products in the medical device and health care fields. Debbie currently serves as Vice President of Marketing in a company providing a body risk assessment through machine learning and artificial intelligence affecting longevity. We discuss millennials in the workplace and her passion as a connector with people.

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