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Everyone knows that there will be highs and lows in life; however, the mindset of ‘progress is a process’ will help you navigate your pivots. My conversation with Free the Vision helps frame highs, lows, momentum and keeping the focus on progress.
More about Free:
Free Warren, creatively known as Free The Vision, is a creative director and tv producer that lives at the intersection of music, storytelling, and live experiences. He is a world traveler driven by curiosity and the inner workings of culture. Free is originally from New Jersey, and raised in Atlanta, GA where he got his start as the innovator behind music videos for notable artists like Tyrese and Birdman, which landed him in the world of production. He has directed commercial campaigns for the Mark Zuckerberg Foundation in addition to spirit brands such as Tito’s and Jack Daniels. Free has produced for networks that include BET, WeTv, AMC and ALLBLK. However his artistic journey has always been quite unique.
Free started his creative consulting and production company, Free 3 Creative as a means to serve as a vision architect for strategy and development. One of the many things that has set him apart is his talent reflecting that of a marketing chameleon building 360 experiences into his work. This distinct skill has afforded him the ability to move beyond just the art of visual storytelling and into a world of developing the roll out executions for artist releases as well as consulting record labels (UMG’s Cinematic, Slip-N-Slide). As an intentional builder of relationships and community, Free began to bridge his love for artistry and experience by producing live music events and partnering with global brands like Soho House.
Taking his wealth of industry connections, he began to construct platforms for artists to perform and touch their audiences in intimately impactful spaces. Free’s signature events, “Turn Up the Volume” and “On the Mic,” have given artists like Coco Jones, Eric Bellinger, India Shawn and Grammy winning and multi-platinum producers Bryan Michael Cox and Kosine the opportunity to perform to sold out crowds.
Free The Vision is a multifaceted talent that exercises all of his creative prowess. He is the author of three published book titles, Fragment Reality, Hypocrites Know Best and Sh!t I Learned in Route to 30, and was named “Top Influencer to Work With” by Huffington Post. He relentlessly strives to unify the worlds of storytelling and experience. As a tv producer of shows like Social Society, he materializes his passion for amplifying Black culture and bringing their narratives to the forefront. There is no space or team that Free The Vision encounters that he does not leave positively impacted. He is a vision architect that insistently sets his mission on bringing the world creativity that inspires and shows the multiplicity of those who look like him. Free The Vision is beyond a moniker, it is a calling.
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Dr. Chris Kawa, founder of Discover Chiropractic, shares how getting your body right, sets your mind right. He created an algorithm to help his patients understand the stressors of their body and what areas should be targeted; it helps people see their progress. Adjustments help the nervous system repair itself and start functioning correctly.
More about Dr. Chris Kawa:
Dr. Christopher Kawa has been practicing chiropractic care for over three decades. He is the founder and owner of Discover Chiropractic, Inc., serving patients in the local community since 1991. With a passion for health and wellness, Dr. Kawa aims to provide tailored treatment plans to help his patients achieve optimal function and live pain-free.
Outside of work, Dr. Kawa enjoys an active lifestyle and spending time with family. Married with three grown children and three grandchildren, he takes advantage of the local beaches and mountains to go surfing, skiing, and boating. Dr. Kawa also has strong interests in politics, business, and finance.
After 32 rewarding years in practice, Dr. Kawa remains dedicated to delivering excellent chiropractic care and promoting whole-body health and wellness
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Dr. Holly Fennell, ND, founder of Age Quencher, shares why it’s important to have a clear and healthy mind as you pivot. She is a distinguished Canadian Naturopathic Doctor with twenty years in clinical practice where she integrates her extensive knowledge to empower individuals on their wellness journeys. As a prominent figure in the field, Dr. Fennell, ND runs a bustling practice in the heart of downtown Toronto. She is a highly sought-after speaker with her profound understanding of the biology of aging, women's health and the intricate world of Naturopathic Medicine.
Dr. Fennell's exceptional contributions have not gone unnoticed by the media, she has been featured across esteemed platforms such as CBC, iHeart Radio, Best Health, The Kit, Summer Style, The Globe and Mail and HELLO! magazine. She is the founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Age Quencher.
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Kara Gooch, Engagement & Career Coach for active Apprentices with her dream company, Accenture, participated in Goodwill’s Rising Together training program. After completion, she was offered a role within Accenture.
Accenture is a partner of Goodwill’s Rising Together initiative, which connects people, particularly those from populations that have been historically marginalized, with a wide range of resources, including skills training, transportation and internet access to support entrance into and longevity in the workforce. As a Goodwill partner, Accenture expands its Skills to Succeed services for youth and young adults, which provides skills training and resources to help them navigate their careers. The program also uses immersive virtual reality training to help people impacted by the criminal justice system learn to tell their stories on a personal level to interviewers and other people in their lives.
Accenture recognize the important role professional apprenticeship can play in closing the skills gap in North America and increasing access to digital economy careers. It believes that apprenticeship programs create new career pathways for previously untapped talent and re-skill those whose jobs have been – or will be – disrupted by technology.
The Apprenticeship Program at Accenture is an earn-and-learn model with benefits that provides a pathway to a full-time role with Accenture after a typically 12-month-long apprenticeship—a role with career opportunities for continued growth. Since launching the Accenture North America apprenticeship program in 2016, it has onboarded more than 2,000 apprentices.
WorkingNation, a nonprofit media company focussed on the future of work, has released a short documentary film called "Glory in Overcoming."It focuses on three women ofcolor, all single mothers, who completed a skills-training program called the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator. Kara Gooch, one of the women, had three daughtersunder age four and was getting divorced when she entered the training program she says changed her family's lives. The two other women, Chelsea Rucker and ShaheeraAlnatshia, also overcame significant obstacles before pivoting and finding tech careers.--Most people associate Goodwill with donation centers and thrift stores.
The Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator is a training program designed in partnership with Google and with more than $29 million in funding and grants from Google.org. Since 2017, Goodwill says more than 1.5 million people have upgraded their digital and tech skills throughthis and its other training programs, and that more than 350,000 U.S. workers have landed jobs (both in the tech industry and in "non-tech" industries where tech skills are in demand.)
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There’s a difference between keeping moving forward and moving up. Everyone can move forward but, in the scheme of things, few people actually level up. When successfully pivoting, it’s important strategize how to move up to get to where you want to go.
Executive director of Dining Out Jersey Shore, Tara Jean McDonald, joins me on this episode to discuss how to deal with idenity loss when moving up.
Tara Jean McDonald is Publisher of Dining Out Jersey Shore magazine. She is a versatile journalist who has researched, interviewed, and produced for content in publications such as Dining Out Jersey Magazine, Fashion Haunts Magazine, Our Town News Publication and NJ Discover. She has 15 years of experience in Production and Postproduction of TV Commercials, Live News Coverage, TV Entertainment Segments and Live Theatrical Events. She has co-hosted a live talk show for radio and TV with NJDiscover TV, and she is currently helping to create Dining Out Jersey’s YouTube channel. She consistently brings a special warmth, caring, insight and humanity to her stories and her reputation flourished with on sight reporting about Hurricane Sandy, homelessness and Tent City, pervasive hunger in New Jersey, and Jersey’s iconic music and film scene. She remains at the epicenter of what’s happening around the county and state.
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Amanda Bybel shares the importance of redefining success at each stage of life. As a recovering addict, she learned to take the positive side of the situation and use it to grow her coaching business. Her persistence keeps her dreams alive.
She’s an entrepreneur, a motivational speaker, a yoga enthusiast, a wife, a mom, corporate dropout and Founder of The Inner Beauty Bybel + The Sparkle System Coaching + Practitioner Certification!
Amanda is on a mission to empower women to rebirth themselves so that they can create a legacy, become their own best friend and heal the future generations to come. This is so much her mission that she has created an internationally recognized and board accredited certification to help equip you with the tools you need to create the ripple effect in the lives of your clients and your communities.
As a Trainer and Expert in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, manifestation and the subconscious mind- Amanda teaches you to utilize revolutionary and out of the box teachings to help people find their own personal power to create their dream lives!
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Before you can successfully pivot, you have to map out your direction. Having a strategy will help you with figuring out what vehicle you’ll use to get you there. Steve Spiro, host of the Master Connector Show on LinkedIn, shares how to identify your vehicle and build relationships to get you to the next level of your career.
More about Steve:
In November of 2020, he was approved to do a LinkedIn live show, called the Master Connector Show. Along with Cameron Toth, they broadcast live on Wednesdays 1pm EST. The show’s mission is right online with my personal mission which is to be the light, uplift and inspire.
The Master Connector Show and Steve’s other LinkedIn activities has created a lot of buzz and has catapulted him as a speaker. He’s been asked to speak at events and workshops, both live and virtual, along with appearances on podcasts and live broadcasts.
Additionally, he’s a Business Automation consultant with Quadient, helping companies streamline and automate how they communicate and connect with their customers, leveraging artificial intelligence, with both hardware and software.
There are three things he lives life by: the power of mentorship, growing oneself through self development and continuing to create meaningful connections through building a large network. -
Maria Doughty, a former corporate attorney, strategist and advocate turned president and CEO of The Chicago Network (TCN), shares how understanding and owning a P&L will advance your career. At the end of the day, companies need to generate profit to remain in business. Being able to read and act on a profit and loss statement will guide you in scaling a company.
More about Maria:
She has been with TCN, Chicago’s premier leadership organization engaging the city’s most influential women, since April 2020. Before that, Maria spent 20 years with Allstate Insurance Company, most recently as Director of Public Policy and Regulatory Investigations and Examinations and Corporate Counsel. She served as chief legal counsel for field operations, managing counsel and Corporate Litigation Division member.
Like TCN’s members, Maria serves on a number of local civic and philanthropic organizations, including Leadership Greater Chicago, Latino Policy Forum, Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and Illinois Task Force for Employment and Economic Opportunity for Persons with Disabilities.
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We all have a money story. What’s yours? Is it holding you back? Melissa Houston, founer of She Means Profit, shares how money is tied to your self-worth. Let’s start believing that deserve what we’re worth and make some profit!
More about Melissa:
She’s a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) with over 20 years of work experience.
Additionally, she’s a Finance Strategist, who works with Small to Medium-sized business (SMBs) owners and the senior-level finance person in their business to ensure financial and business strategies are in place so that profit is optimized. Melissa monitors KPIs regularly, manage cash, provide audit support and many other finance functions.
In the past, she’s worked with business owners and project managers in high-tech industries, public accounting and government. Also, she has extensive experience with corporate accounting, financial planning, SRED work, Internal Controls and ITGCs.
She has a column at Forbes.com, Entrepreneur and other large publications where she shares her personal and business finance knowledge with entrepreneurs. Melissa’s passion is helping entrepreneurs and business owners how vital it is to understand their business numbers as the CEO of their business.Melissa just launched "Cash Confident: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating a Profitable Business.” The book helps entrepreneurs understand their new money journey.
I am a Financial Strategist for CEOs, which means that I help successful business owners increase their profit margins without increasing sales to put more cash in their pocket. In addition to offering Fractional CFO work, I offer 1:1 coaching services and sell online digital courses.
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Living in an attention economy used to all the noise can be hard taking online courses that are more isolating than socializing. Martin Ramsin, CEO & cofounder of CareerFoundry, shares how important it is to make online learning human-centric. The less isolating the experience is the more the success rate.
More about CareerFoundry:
It’s an online school for career change to tech, offering programmes in full-stack web development, user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design, digital marketing and data analytics. CareerFoundry is a new kind of school for a new world of work, equipping the workforce of the future.
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Sometimes you just have to take a deep breath, spread your wings and just do it. It’s scary. The unknown is staring you in the face, but the regret of not trying is greater than the regret of actually going for it. Brandy Schultz, founder of Adventure Nannies, and Shenandoah Davis, cofounder and CEO, took a chance on themselves; they pivoted as they built and scaled the Adventure Nannies.
Their story is one of trial-and-error, courage, letting things go and figuring it out as they went along.
More about Brandy:
Brandy founded Adventure Nannies after 8 years of working as a travel nanny herself—cliff diving with kids in Italy, farming in Southern France, attending Burning Man, and learning survival skills in the Rocky Mountain wilderness.
These experiences, combined with Brandy’s background in education reform and gender studies, led her to create Adventure Nannies. Her passion for active families and dynamic visionary leadership has propelled our agency from its infancy into the high-touch boutique nanny agency it is today.
When Brandy isn’t at home with her son and two dogs, she’s out on the road with her husband’s band, The Lumineers.
More about Shenandoah:
Originally brought in as a small business consultant, Shenandoah joined Adventure Nannies in 2016 as Chief Operations Officer and transitioned to CEO in 2018. Shenandoah holds a Bachelor’s degree in opera performance and English and, as a touring musician, has performed in 12 countries spanning 4 continents. She volunteers with Rain City Rock Camp in her free time and loves reading and preparing meals for family and friends. Shenandoah lives with her puppies Pawlina and Batman and rabbit Meatball.
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When pivoting, leaning on your community is so important. What happens though if your community is struggling too? It’s time to change your money mindset and help raise up the community. Darlene Goins, Executive Vice President, Head of Banking Inclusion Initiative at Wells Fargo, shares the importance of health wealth and how uplifting up a communities literally change lives.
More about Darlene:
Darlene Goins is executive vice president and head of Banking Inclusion Initiative for Wells Fargo. Launched in May 2021, the initiative is Wells Fargo’s commitment to help more people who are unbanked gain access to affordable, mainstream bank accounts, with a focus on removing barriers to financial inclusion for Black and African American, Hispanic and Native American households, which account for more than half of America’s 5.9 million unbanked households*. Goins leads the overall strategy and cross-enterprise teams building out programs that support and track the progress of the initiative.
Previously, Goins served as head of Financial Health Philanthropy for the Wells Fargo Foundation, responsible for investing Wells Fargo’s resources in national nonprofit programs that open pathways to economic advancement for underserved communities. She led strategic initiatives in collaboration with nonprofits and community stakeholders designed to increase financial inclusion and access, reduce debt, drive savings and wealth-building behavior, and transform systems. Goins joined Wells Fargo in 2016 as head of Hands on Banking®, the company’s award-winning financial education and capability program thathas benefitted more than 12 million youth, adults, seniors, military andentrepreneurs.
Earlier, Goins was a scores executive at FICO, where sheled FICO® Score Open Access, a consumer credit score program that earned accolades from the Obama administration, regulators, and consumer advocacy groups, among others. She also held leadership positions at analytic-based software companies Nomis Solutions, First Data Corporation, and ALI Solutions.
A member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and active community leader, Goins is based in San Francisco and currently serves on the boards of national nonprofits Prosperity Now, the BAI and the American Bankers Association Foundation, where she is vice chair. She also serves as treasurer of the San Francisco Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., and on the Marin County Priority Setting Committee. Goins was named Diversity Woman Magazine’s Class of 2023: Elite 100 Black Women Leaders in Corporate America and in 2022 one of San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in Engineering-Economic Systems (now the Department of Management Science) from Stanford University.
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You never know when a pivot is going to occur. Sometimes you just have to roll with it or go with the flow. Jessi Miley-Dyer, Chief of Sports at the World Surf League, shares how to roll with it and speak up. As a former professional surfer, there was a significant difference in pay for the men versus women. When she started overseeing the competitions after retirement, she began to speak up about the pay gap and how they could find a solution. Today, the men and women surfers earn equal prize money.
More about Jessi:
Jessi Miley-Dyer is the Chief of Sport for the World Surf League (WSL), the global home of surfing. Miley-Dyer, a former Championship Tour (CT) competitor, oversees the entire competitive landscape for the WSL’s Tours and competitions, including the Championship Tour, Challenger Series,Qualifying Series, Pro Junior Series, Big Wave, Longboard, and specialty events/series.
Since joining the WSL in 2012, Miley-Dyer has been integral to professional surfing's growth, particularly in developing the women's Tours. Miley-Dyer has held several positions within the Tours and Competitions team, including the Women's Championship Tour Manager, and Vice President of Tours and Competitions. Miley-Dyer most recently held the role of Senior Vice President of Tours and Head of Competition. Miley-Dyer has led milestones for professional surfing through her work with the WSL. In 2022, the WSL hosted the first fully-combined men's and women's competition schedules for the Championship Tour and Challenger Series. Miley-Dyer was key in the WSL's groundbreaking 2018 announcement to award equal prize money to male and female athletes for every WSL-owned and operated event from 2019 onwards, becoming the first and only US-based, global sports league to
do so. Miley-Dyer also introduced the WSL Rising Tides program, a community engagement program to inspire the next generation to take to the surf. Her work has received worldwide recognition for surfing and women's sport. Most recently, she was honored as a 2022 Sports
Business Journal (SBJ) Game Changer for her groundbreaking work at the WSL.
Before joining the WSL, Miley-Dyer spent over 10 years as a professional surfer. She earned numerous accolades, including winning the first World Junior Championship and spending six years competing on the Championship Tour, where she won the Billabong Pro Maui in her rookie year. During her competitive career, Miley-Dyer also took on the Surfers' Representative role, allowing her the opportunity to help grow the sport as an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Board Member and Director.
Miley-Dyer was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, and earned her Master's Degree in Business from the University of New South Wales. Miley-Dyer is based in California at WSL's Santa Monica headquarters.
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As you pivot, you have to have a vision of where you are going. Chloe Gottlieb, founder of DesignMeCo and UX Leadership Coach, shares how stepping into your future before building the present can provide you with power and influence. Remaining focused on the vision and being open to different strategies takes practice and a willingness and desire to succeed.
More about Chloe:
She’s a renowned leader in the fields of Leadership Coaching and UX consulting. With over twenty years of experience in Executive UX Leadership and Digital Product Design, Chloe has a unique approach to helping individuals, teams and businesses reach their full potential. Her career includes chapters as the Product Design Director of Google Shopping, of Google Workspace and as the Co-Chief Creative Officer at R/GA, where she partnered with major brands such as Nike and Samsung to create innovative digital products and services. Today, she’s going to talk to us about how to find your career path.
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How do you stand out in the attention economy, especially as an indie musician? Clayton Durant, Director of Emerging Media at MikeWorldWide, shares how during the pandemic he inked a partnership with SoundCloud to keep his artists front and center.
More about Clayton:
Clayton Durant is a marketing and music industry entrepreneur with expertise in social strategy, entertainment marketing, music management, and brand partnerships. Currently, Durant serves as the Director of Emerging Media at MikeWorldWide while simultaneously advising CAD Management, a music and entertainment consulting firm Durant founded in 2016. Under the leadership of Durant, CAD Management has managed and consulted over 30+ artists and brands, while also successfully launching a record label arm of the business that in 2021 partnered with SoundCloud’s artist services division, Repost, becoming one of the first companies to develop an A&R partnership with the streaming service. Durant is an avid writer for publications like Adweek and EDM.com where he covers the music business. He is also an adjunct professor at NYU's Clive Davis School of Recorded Music and Long Island University's Roc Nation School of Music and Sports Management.
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Forced pivots are the hardest; it can feel like the rug is being pulled out from underneath you. If you look at it as negative and filled with scarcity, that’s all you find. But, if you see it as an opportunity to try something new and the abundance that comes with it, you can create something magical. Michelle Fishburne, author of Who We Are Now, found herself without a job, spouse or house during the pandemic. She packed up her RV and drove around the country listening to others’ stories, which led her to write a book.
More about Michelle:
Until her life turned upside down in 2020, Michelle Fishburne had taken a fairly traditional route in life -- law school, attorney, stay-at-home mom, and then public relations when she reentered the workforce. All normacy went out the window, though, when she lost her job in the COVID spring and could not find another one, despite months of trying. When the lease on her post-divorce house was up on July 31 and her youngest was heading off to college, Michelle found herself without a spouse, a house, a job, or a kid to take care of. She moved into her 2006 motorhome with her dog, Buddy, and started driving. That was the beginning of a breathtaking pivot.
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If you don’t invest in yourself, no one else is going to invest in you or your goals. It’s about being your own CEO; take inventory of how you lead your life. Giuseppe Cenzuales, District VP at LA Fitness, shares how you can observe, adapt and apply what you learn to your next career pivot.
More about Giuseppe:
I am the son of Italian immigrants-- My father works two jobs, full time tech delivery and a server. My mom works for the Italian embassy. My entire life I grew up with a very specific set of values: Cherish your family and work harder than anybody else in the room. Quietly, but harder.
Prior to my LinkedIn background, I had about 10 years of retail sales and leadership experience. All I knew was technology and people. I dabbled in the entrepreneurial life in my mid 20's when a previous electronics employer went bankrupt. That was the moment I learned we as a species can do anything we put our minds to if the circumstances arose. The company I was working for went bankrupt and in a matter of a week, I was able to pull in two friends to start a home automation consulting business. I would go into people's homes or businesses, and design their theatre rooms, multi-room audio configurations, networks, and simplify the entire setup through automation. I essentially would design the project, sell the equipment, and then come back with my installers/programmers to then do the additional labor for it. That moment in time did something to me. It created this professional explorer bug inside me where I wanted to learn more, do more.
After a few years, I exited the business and began my work in the Health and Wellness industry. Back to retail, but in a different industry. I trusted my newly earned skill sets of consulting and project management; while continuing to develop my existing leadership and sales capabilities. In a year, I was able to grow my career at LA Fitness from an assistant General Manager in NY to District Vice President overseeing Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. That role and the responsibilities it came with, opened me up to a ton of new skills in people management. That's where I learned the difference between a leader and a manager. I wanted to be a leader. I wanted to help people be better. Get better. In their jobs, their lives, their minds. I wanted to inspire people.
Fast forward to today, I am working with LA Fitness to design their talent acquisition & recruitment function nationally, I just finished my first children's book named 'My First Resume' (It's a how-to series for kids and readers), I am working on a fun active wear clothing line and I have my hand in a few private projects in which I am testing my boundaries.
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When pivoting, it’s easy to second guess yourself or make excuses why you shouldn’t do something. Karin Taylor, founder of Mandalay Farms, shares how to keep moving forward without knowing what’s to come.
South Florida’s Karin Taylor does it all. She’s a single mother of five, just launched a series of podcasts and is founder and owner of Mandalay Farms, a private oasis where you can connect and interact with a variety of animal ambassadors. The 20-acre property in Jupiter Farms, Florida is home to a Noah’s Ark like menagerie of over 70 domesticated and exotic animals including horses, donkeys, pigs, kangaroos, goats, emus, otters, a variety of birds, lemurs, porcupines, and an assortment of reptiles.
Taylor worked as a model and actress. She got her start as a dancer at Walt Disney World in the Electric Light Parade and launched her modeling career at the age of 18 when she was discovered by the Ford Modeling Agency in Miami Beach. Her career really took off after she posed as June’s Playboy Playmate in 1996, an experience she describes as positive, respectful, and a place she found lifelong friendships. After Playboy, Karin went on to land guest starring roles on “Baywatch” and “Malcolm & Eddie”. She guest hosted for E! Entertainment Television, appeared on HGTV’s “Smart Design,” and in Horace Brown’s music video for the song “Things We Do for Love.”
Taylor discovered the healing power of animals after the loss of her daughter, Hunter, to Trisomy 13. A few years later, she purchased the 20-acre property, now known as Mandalay Farms, to mark a new chapter in her life and connect with her children through horses. It was the tranquility of the farm and healing power of the horses that inspired her to learn more about equine therapy. That lead to her being certified in Equine Assisted Learning (EAL). She also founded the nonprofit Mandalay Farms Zoological Society to serve at-risk youth, children in foster care, and individuals with special needs through science-based animal interventions.’
Taylor is now also taking on yet another venture with the launch of several podcasts. Her goal is empowering women who are on their own individual journeys. Some of her first guests included former Playboy Playmate Ulrika Ericsson and second wife of former President Donald Trump Marla Maples – both women who shared their own journeys of life’s transitions.
For more information on Mandalay Farms, please visit MandalayFarms.com and follow them on Instagram @mandalayfarms and Facebook @MandalayFarms where Taylor frequently posts news about happenings at the farm, as well as animal photos and videos.
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When pivoting, it’s easy to psych yourself out of doing something you’ve always wanted to try. Maegan Griffin, founder and CEO of leading skincare brand Skin Pharm, saw a gap in a market and decided it was now or never. Starting with one brick-and-mortar clinic location, she has now expanded into multiple markets and product lines.
Maegan Griffin is known for her innovative work in cosmetic dermatology, facial rejuvenation techniques and aesthetic medicine utilizing the latest cutting-edge technology. An early adopter of injectables and skin laser technologies, Maegan’s artful work has secured her reputation as a practitioner who helps her patients create meaningful internal and external changes in their lives while finding a balanced approach to anti-aging and beauty. In addition to her busy practice, Maegan enjoys giving back and supporting a variety of local nonprofits. She is an avid traveler and loving mother to her 3 young children. Maegan completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Belmont University and her Master of Science in Nursing at Tennessee State University. She is a Family Nurse Practitioner with experience treating patients of all ages, but specializes in aesthetic medicine to address common skin concerns and the aging process.
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Bill Squires, or as I know him as Professor Squires from Columbia University’s Sports Management Master’s program, emphasizes the importance of being curious. Curiosity and being kind go a long way. It’s just not about networking, it’s about making connections that can lead to friendships. He has an amazing story of how he started working in the sports business and continued to pivot. Additionally, he’s now the president of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation NJ Chapter.
More about Bill:
Bill is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy (Class of 1975) and served on active duty as a naval aviator for 12 years before joining the Naval Reserves. Bill retired from the Naval Reserves as a Commander after 24 years of service. In 1987, following active duty in the United States Navy, Bill entered the sports facilities and event management business. He has held top-level positions with the following facilities: Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium (two tours), Cleveland Browns Stadium (currently known as First Energy Stadium) and Disney’s Wide World of Sports (currently known as ESPN Wide World of Sports).
Bill was involved in the design, construction, and operations of ESPN Wide World of Sports, First Energy Stadium and MetLife Stadium. His responsibilities included budgeting, staffing, training, event execution, maintenance, and capital improvements as well as many other responsibilities. Bill is a Past President of the Stadium Managers Association which has members from the National Football League, Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the Canadian Football League, Universities/Colleges, and other facilities, both national and international, that host sports and entertainment events.
Bill currently has his own consulting business featuring clients such as the New York Football Giants. Bill is the liaison between the team and the New Meadowlands Stadium Company which operates the $1.6 billion MetLife Stadium. Many of his other clients provide products and services to the sports facility industry. Bill also works as an expert witness in lawsuits that involve sports teams and venues.
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