Episodes

  • Andrea Bjorkman
    Oct 27 2023
    Andrea discusses her author journey and some of her successes since becoming an author.

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    Bio: Andrea Bjorkman

    Andrea Bjorkman, CEO and Co-Founder of Fizz Enterprises, has seen it all, or shall we say, "lived through it all." Mom to four girls, while balancing a career in Corporate America, Andrea has experienced the highs and lows of life. With a savvy career background that demanded trust and confidentiality, Andrea is empathetic and supportive - systematically tailoring results to the individual.
     
    Candid, yet thoughtful, spirited, fun, and fiercely loyal, Andrea's bubbly personality may have started young as she grew up on Air Force bases around the U.S. and overseas, demonstrating her ability to acclimate to new people and situations. Perhaps this is why her favorite quote is, "We are not what we know, but what we are willing to learn." - Mary Catherine Bateson

    A credentialed Life Coach, Andrea has mentored and coached many over the years, helping clients see patterns in their own lives and ultimately breaking through to find their greater purpose and true story. Andrea is a former corporate executive in the insurance and financial services sectors.

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    12 mins
  • Author 2 Influencer - Fred Moskowitz
    Oct 20 2023

    Do you know anybody relying solely on their paycheck? Fred explains his personal journey from a career in computer engineering to becoming an alternative investment expert.  He also details how authorship continues to open new doors for him, while encouraging others to do it too. Listen Here!

    Connect with Fred:
    www.FredMoskowitz.com
    www.GiftFromFred.com
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    Bio: Fred Moskowitz

    Fred Moskowitz is an author, entrepreneur, and speaker who is on a personal mission to teach people about the power of investing in alternative asset classes, such as real estate and notes, showing them the way to diversify their capital into investments that are uncorrelated from Wall Street and the stock markets. With The Little Green Book Of Note Investing, Fred publishes his concise yet definitive guide for new investors seeking to learn about the market niche of investing in alternative investments. He’s a frequent event speaker and contributor to investment podcasts. You can visit him at www.FredMoskowitz.com.

    The accumulated knowledge in his books will greatly benefit those individuals who seek to achieve higher levels of financial freedom and to develop expertise in the alternative investment arena.

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    11 mins
  • Author 2 Influencer - Curtis Jenkins
    Oct 13 2023

    How would you go about helping 1,000 small businesses with their goals each year? Curtis explains the mission and breaks down his different roles as a dreamer, connector, and teacher/sharer (which make up the ingredients of an ideal influencer). He also emphasizes how everyone has a book inside them. You just need to get it out. Listen To His Suggestions Here!

    Connect with Curtis:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-jenkins-pmp
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    https://www.facebook.com/thecurtisjenkins
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    Bio: Curtis Jenkins

    An author, entrepreneur, and project management executive, Curtis L. Jenkins’ mission in life is to help you transform your life through clarity and execution. 

    After having honed his expertise in project management for more than 20 years, Jenkins came to realize that everything in life is implemented twice. 

    First, as an idea or vision and second as a reality… should someone have the audacity to execute on the vision.

    Jenkins is a graduate of the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration, and The Warton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a master’s degree in management of technology.

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    13 mins
  • Mary Tettenhorst, Talent Impact
    Oct 6 2023

    Building bridges is needed to be a strategic partner in your organization.  Mary Tettenhorst, author of Talent Impact, discusses how to do this.

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    Mary's Bio:
    For nearly 20 years, Mary has worked diligently to engage, educate, and empower others to discover and reach their potential. She is a strong believer that if we help our people grow and create a purposeful environment where people are heard, valued, and challenged…that the business results will follow! 

    Mary brings a wealth of experience in talent and organizational development, career and leadership coaching, performance management, and employee engagement. She has worked with organizations across various industries, large and small, global, and local. With each new adventure, she has had the opportunity to build relationships and learn from others. Her natural curiosity, willingness to ask questions, and eagerness to help solve challenges positioned her as a strategic business partner who was eager to contribute experience, energy, and enthusiasm on her journey to serve others. 

    Mary currently serves as the Sr. Vice President, Learning and Development at Cincinnati’s largest credit union where she gets to exercise her passion for serving others – their team members, their members, and the Greater Cincinnati community. Mary is active in the talent development community and has held leadership roles with the Greater Cincinnati Association for Talent Development where she currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board. More recently, she has also joined to support Level Up Cincinnati, a non-profit that provides coaching, support, and personal development for Black and LatinX first-generation college students. 

    Above all this, her greatest accomplishment is her family. She resides in Ohio with her husband David and their two sons – Sam and Cole. A family that prays together, plays together, and challenges one another each day!

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    23 mins
  • Alan Lindeman, Talent Impact
    Sep 29 2023

    How is a manager and a leader? Join Alan Lindeman, bestselling author of Talent Impact, and Jodi to discuss being a strong leader, how parenting builds a leader and influence.

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    Alan's Bio:
    I espouse that leadership is nothing more than influence - nothing more, nothing less. And don't we all influence someone, somewhere, somehow every day? YES, WE DO! That means that ALL of us are leaders. We are influencers of people. So the next thing we need to think about is how are we influencing people every day. Are we creating good ripples, bad ripples, or some of both? This is why I have become an author, to make more people aware of our responsibility as leaders, and as influencers of people.

    My short story is that I was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH. I have been married to my amazing wife for a lot of years and we're both blessed to have three wonderful children (one son and two daughters). 

    Professionally I worked in the corporate world for thirty years working for a couple of big corporations and one family-owned business. The experiences were fantastic. I have experience in sales, sales management, operations, and general management. I have had P&L responsibility, I ran multiple offices spread out over five states and successfully helped develop a start-up division for my last employer. 

    After leaving the corporate world in 2012, I have been in the business consulting/ training space. It has been such a pleasure working with clients across the country helping them to develop their people personally and professionally. I have a passion for leadership and people development. My passion has led me to develop a leadership model called Responsible Leadership (one of my upcoming books). We are using the Responsible Leadership Model to help companies improve their culture, develop their people, improve cooperation and collaboration, and achieve higher levels of financial success. 

    It is such a blessing to be helping people wherever I can. 

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    19 mins
  • Karen Hewitt, Culture Impact
    Sep 22 2023

    Grace and compassion are key to connection.  Karen Hewitt, author of Culture Impact, discusses this plus how to build an intentional culture.

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    Karen's Bio:
    Culture Creator. Community Builder. Leader. Author. Poet. Artist. Voice. 

    Karen is an invitation.Her work and presence compels others to journey inward, and encourages them to see the world in more expansive and hopeful ways. 

    Karen earned her MS in Mathematics at St. Francis University (PA) and her Master of Arts in Educational Policy and Leadership at The Ohio State University. Ze has been speaking, facilitating, and coaching since 2005. Her career began as a collegiate Women’s Basketball Coach and evolved into a Workforce Development focus. Karen is an Executive DEI Director, co-founder of The Ohio REST Collective and Founder of the podcast and platform the Culture of You. Her areas of expertise are: Culture and Diversity Management, Leadership Development, Intersectionality and Gender and Sexuality. Through hir lived experience, Karen exudes atypical wisdom and lived experience. She is seen as a necessary contribution at various community tables and conversations and is both celebrated and respected for her ability to be strategic in navigating difficult and nuanced conversations and barriers in a brave and productive way. 

    Karen is a creative. She is an improv comedian and improv poet and singer. Ze is a 2020 recipient of the Create Columbus Visionary Award, a 2022 CEO Columbus Future 50 fellow, a 2023 African-American Leadership Academy (AALA) fellow, a 2021 Cohort Poet in Scott Woods’ Rhapsody and Refrain, and an ensemble member in Counterfeit Madison’s Aretha Franklin Tribute; which performed in front of a sold out Lincoln Theatre (Columbus, Ohio) in February 2020. In 2019, Karen published hir first book of poetry, Grounded: A Collection of Healing Spoken Word Poetry; and released: Fire: Poetic Memoirs of a Movement in August of 2021. They are also a contributing author with their top five lessons in love and business chapters in the April 2021 released anthology, The Black Woman’s Guide To Love and Business: A Blueprint To Self-Mastery. Their latest release of a chapter in Culture Impact: Strategies to Create World-changing Workplaces is available as of 6.9.23. Find out how to move from Vision to Implementation in her chapter: Intentional Culture Creation. 

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    17 mins
  • Author 2 Influencer - Lisa Levy
    Sep 20 2023

    How did the unlikely path of becoming an author disrupt this disruption-catalyst speaker? And more importantly, what did authorship do to the natural evolution of her business? Lisa breaks down her 9-month journey overcoming her own personal assumptions/limitations on what it means to write a book and how to reach new audiences/leads. Listen to It Here Now!

    Connect with Lisa:
    LisaLLevy.com
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisallevy
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    Bio: Lisa Levy

    Lisa Levy is the Founder and CEO of Lcubed Consulting, a business that helps enterprise to medium-level organizations elevate through strategic goal achievement. 

    She and her team teach the practice of rapid adaptive transformation to notable global, multi-billion-dollar clients. 

    A frequent guest expert on multiple media outlets including NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX, Lisa is also a frequent speaker at business executive conferences.

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    14 mins
  • Dr. Melanie Rodriguez, Culture Impact
    Sep 15 2023

    Who is an Inclusive Leader? How can a business be inclusive? Dr. Melanie Rodriguez, author of Culture Impact, discusses this, the future of work with AI and her entrepreneurial journey.

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    Melanie's Bio:
    Melanie is a professionally certified, ICF coach who is passionate about empowering others to be the type of leader people want to work for. As a Organizational and Talent Development Specialist of over 19 years, Melanie serves as an executive coach and consultant in the areas of: 

    • inclusion, 
    • leadership development, 
    • systems change, and 
    • organizational capability. 

    Melanie’s experience spans operations, commercial, IT, talent management, government, health care, and academia. She brings a wealth of knowledge about multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-generational differences. Melanie’s knowledge ecompasses how to leverage and integrate them to create organizational cultures that value the individual while also building a sense of belonging for all.  

    Melanie graduated from the University of Houston with a B.A. in Public Relations/Advertising and a minor in Mexican American Studies. She earned an M.A. in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix, and an M.A. in Human Development and a Ph.D. Human & Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University. 

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    15 mins