TAMPA BUSINESS RADIO Speaker and Influential Leader Kristy Sobel
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Kristy Sobel is a Prizefighter, Influential Leader, Inspirational World Renowned Speaker and A Global Goodwill Ambassador as a Humanitarian. She has been a trailblazer as an entrepreneur for over 25 years. She found herself in need for something that did not exist. Kristy created multi-functional and fashionable purses designed for those with neck and back problems and special needs.
Kristy has been featured in the Business Observer, InStyle, Entrepreneur (twice), Postmark, Better Homes & Gardens, Metropolitan Women, US Weekly, OK, In Touch, Gulf Coast Business Review, and Who’s Who In The Industry. She was also featured on E! Fashion Makeover, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, and MTV Swag Bags. She has been a guest speaker on NBC, Making It Count, The Summit,, Addiction Fighters, Women In Transformation, NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners), BPW (Business Professional Women), WIT (Women in International Trade), e-Women, WATT (Women at The Top), and at The University of Tampa.
She is a member of Global Leaders Council, Judicial Reporting, Toastmasters, advocate for the Special Force Pararescuefoundation.org, Veteran Support, Social Media Marketing, Innovation People, Sundance Film Festival, Film and TV Professionals. Kristy spoke on stage at the Democrat and Republican Conventions, Summits, and Countless Committees which take laws to the hill for reform, and awareness on artificial devices.
Michele Trent with Remembered Well and PK Fields with ElderSense
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Michele Trent, Remembered Well
Michele Trent is a personal historian and owner of Remembered Well, a company that helps families save the stories and memories of their loved ones before they are lost. Future generations deserve to know about those who came before them, Remembered Well provides a simple solution to ensure that all members of the family – today and future generations – can hear their relatives share stories in their own powerful voice. A Remembered Well historian starts the process by conducting a recorded conversation to unlock treasured memories from the past. The recordings are then edited into a chaptered audiobook that can be easily shared and saved. Sharing those stories today means the entire family can enjoy and connect in an even deeper way.
Michele is an advocate for preserving memories and stories and sharing them with future generations. Michele embarked on this new career after recording her own father before he passed away from cancer. This process resulted in a priceless gift for her family. Prior to founding Remembered Well, Michele spent 25 years as a communications professional for various non-profit and for-profit companies. She regularly speaks on the subject of legacy and legacy preservation. Michele is a member of the International Practitioners of Personal Histories and co-hosts “Healthy Senior Living,” an internet radio show airing weekly on StarWorldwide Networks.
Connect with Michele Trent on LinkedIn, and follow Remembered Well on Facebook and Instagram.
PK Fields with ElderSense
PK Fields is founder and CEO of ElderSense, an inventory management and marketing tool for memory care and assisted living centers. Similar to Hotels.com or an MLS system, ElderSense allows case managers, social workers and consumers, to go online and search adult group homes and assisted living facilities by location, price, real time availability, see pictures and connect with the community or home directly.
PK initially worked in entertainment in Hollywood California. Next time you see the movie, “A Christmas Story” you will see PK’s credit as a casting assistant one of her fist jobs. She then went on to work in film production of various feature films. She moved on to vice-president of marketing at Billboard Entertainment, then made the bold move to Las Vegas to head of digital marketing and content development for all six Mirage Resorts and all 16 Caesars Entertainment properties, including the Bellagio, Treasure Island, Mirage, Golden Nugget, Golden Nugget Laughlin, Bally’s, and Hilton Gaming Properties.
Her expertise in all things marketing, media, and hotel hospitality, have served PK well for her current role as founder of ElderSense.com. Of all the hats she’s worn, building ElderSense.com that focuses on care and compassion for a good cause is the hat she loves to wear most.
Connect with PK Fields on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and follow ElderSense on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
The Arizona 100: Preview of the June 27 Issue
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The Arizona 100
The Arizona 100 is a twice-monthly digital publication that provides quick and concise, yet thorough, news of the people, events, activities and news shaping Arizona. Each of the 100-word stories or 100-second videos focus on the arts, entertainment, history and restaurants to business news, management, healthcare and real estate.
The Arizona 100 has international and national “100” partner markets, which publish any article/ video upon request providing a combined reach of more than 300,000 readers across 15 markets.
The Arizona 100 is a project of HMA Public Relations, a full-service public relations and marketing communications firm in Phoenix.
To subscribe to The Arizona 100, visit thearizona100.com. Submit story ideas to editor@thearizona100.com
WIT Connect 2019
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WIT Connect 2019 is the most engaging and interactive events for science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) leaders! Since its inception, WIT Connect has raised more than $3.2 million to support the development of young girls and the advancement of women in STEAM. This unique executive auction continues to offer the opportunity to compete for a meeting with Atlanta’s top corporate executives that can potentially propel your company or career skyward.
Dalia Aly /Deloitte Consulting Intern
Angel VanEllison / Fiserv Intern
Laurissa Wolfram Hvass / Mailchimp
Maria Vilar / Student
Briana Hickson / Student
Alexa Lopez / Student
Shelby Cuaron / Student
Dorren Schmitt / The Weather Channel
Norah Jean-Charles / Student
Jaya Carter / Student
BRX Pro Tip: When the Show Ends
Trouvaille Travel Talk on Tucson Business Radio, Ep#1
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Guests
Chuck Mai (pronounced “may”),
Vice President, Public & Government Affairs (Ret.)
AAA Oklahoma/South Dakota
Born in Chicago, Chuck was reared in Des Moines, Baldwin City (Kan.) and Columbia (Mo.). It was in Columbia that Chuck attended high school and the University of Missouri – School of Journalism, earning his Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1972.
For 15 years, Chuck pursued a career in broadcasting, working in the news departments of radio and television stations in Aspen, Denver, and Tulsa.
In 1987, Chuck joined the staff of AAA Oklahoma/South Dakota as head of the Public Affairs department. His duties included not only handling the club’s public and media relations and legislative/government affairs activities, but also administering the club’s many traffic safety programs, serving as the club’s community service projects coordinator, and editing Home & Away magazine, now AAA World, the member publication sent six times annually to all AAA members in Oklahoma/South Dakota.
AAA serves as the voice of AAA members, representing them in the halls of state legislatures, in Congress and before the many agencies and departments within state government. The club’s primary advocacy issues continue to revolve around highway funding and traffic safety.
Chuck retired in the fall of 2017 and now pursues freelance travel writing assignments for publications such as Oklahoma Magazine. He and his wife Nancy enjoy life in Carlton Landing, a new town embracing “new urbanism,” located on the shores of Lake Eufaula (Okla.), the “Gentle Giant,” the largest lake in Oklahoma at 105,000 acres and 800 miles of shoreline. Chuck enjoys raising herbs, walking, cooking, travel (of course) and their beautiful new grandchild, Sadie, age five months.
Kristal MacDough
kmacdough@tucson.com
Other: Phone: (520) 909-2923
Kristal MacDough was reared an Air Force “brat,” giving her the itch for travel from a very young age. Her family lived in all four corners of the United States, from Michigan to Texas, New York to Alaska, and Georgia to California. She transplanted herself in 1984 to Arizona, which has been home since then.
Kristal is currently an account executive with the Arizona Daily Star and oversees advertising efforts for SaddleBag Notes, the SaddleBrooke community’s monthly newspaper. Throughout her career, Kristal has served as Director of Advertising and Communications for KB Home, Marketing Manager for Meritage Homes, worked in Development for the University of Arizona’s College of Architecture and the Eller College of Management, and was Director of Communications & Special Events for a national securities firm in Phoenix.
Her travels have taken her to Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Scotland, Ireland, Hawaii, Canada, and numerous points in between, just to name a few.
Kristal is also a Certified Life Coach and Meditation Instructor, and a writer currently working on her first novel. She is a self-proclaimed “sunshine gal” and is never disappointed with Mother Nature’s gifts of deserts, mountains, and valleys, and summer monsoons, to the Grand Canyon State.
Therese Perreault
Creative Business Professional
901 N. 3rd Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85705
520-780-6856 • theresep@mac.com
901 N. 3rd Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85705
520-780-6856 • theresep@mac.com
Business professional with the proven ability to stay mission-focused while improving operational effectiveness and increasing brand visibility.
Areas of expertise, include:
• Highly adept at converting ideas and plans into specific deliverables and manageable budgets
• Effective brand and content management across multiple (and changing) media platforms
• Strong visual vocabulary; effective communicator; High attention to detail and accuracy; versatile and resourceful
Therese’s work history includes:
- United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona: Sr. Director ELDER Alliance, Senior Strategies
- Community Foundation for Southern Arizona: Marketing and Communications
- Kore Press, Marketing and Operations Director
- Tucson Embedded Systems: Communication Specialist
- Arts Marketplace: Arizona: Executive Director, Founder
- Community Storytelling Arts: Producer, Fine Art Documentary Photographer, Digital Storyteller
HOST:
Paul Hardersen
Trouvaille LLC – Trouvaille HQ
6790 E. Calle La Paz, Tucson, Arizona, United States
(520) 300-1056
Website: https://www.trouvailletravel.org
Email: travel@trouvailletravel.org
Phone: 520-820-8662
Toll-free: 1-800-983-3652
Voted Best in Group Travel 2018 
https://www.trouvailletravel.org/
Trouvaille ~ We are a lucky travel find, for you!
Week 1 Crowdfunding Update: We Have Liftoff!
Paul S. Hardersen, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Founding Partner.
Paul S. Hardersen, CEO, Ph.D.
Stephanie Schull with Kegelbell and Wendy Breakstone
Stephanie Schull, Kegelbell
Stephanie Schull is CEO of Matter|Mission and inventor of Kegelbell, the world’s first weight training system of its kind to strengthen the hard-to-reach pelvic floor muscles that are so essential to vibrant women’s health. She designed Kegelbell to help busy modern women do a super kegel in less time with incredible results. Unlike kegels alone, plastic balls or complicated inserts, Kegelbell allows women to easily and naturally strengthen the pelvic floor muscle for better bladder control and enhanced sexual function in a five-minute session just three times a week.
Dr. Schull, an academic researcher-turned-inventor-and-entrepreneur, created Kegelbell in response to a loved one’s debilitating health problems that had started with surgical approaches to pelvic floor issues. Kegelbell gives women the easiest way to do their kegels, so pelvic floor problems will no longer stop them from living fully. Kegelbell solves the problem of kegels gone bad (or not done at all) with a patent-pending weight training system that allows women to do perfect, muscle-strengthening, kegel exercise in less time, with no fuss, quickly building these important yet hardest-to-reach muscles.
Stephanie believes in the need for Kegelbell, the first product from her company Matter|Mission, to de-stigmatize women’s health and give women remedies to the problems that have interrupted their happiness for years. Matter|Mission will achieve this through thoughtfully and creatively developing solutions that challenge the status quo, bring social issues to the forefront, and give women bold new options.
Connect with Stephanie Schull on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and follow Kegelbell on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Wendy Breakstone
Wendy Breakstone is a Business Management & Operations Consultant for 6- & 7-figure entrepreneurs who want to 2x their success while creating more freedom in their life. She’s the creator of the Scalable Success Operating System, which provides multi-6-figure companies a solid framework for structuring their business to double their revenue.
Wendy’s genius is in her ability to make managing a business simple and streamlined. As a seasoned entrepreneur who built multiple 6-figure companies, she brings more than 20 years of experience to her clients operations. Wendy helps established CEO’s remove roadblocks and move through plateaus that are holding them back from scalable success. She works with CEO’s to help them strengthen their foundation, focus their business offerings, and leverage their team so that they can reclaim their freedom, expand their impact, and 2x their revenue.
Wendy believes that scaling your business to 7-figures doesn’t have to be complicated. The key to making it happen is a simple, scalable business framework that optimizes your systems, team, and operations. Many companies reach a plateau or hit a growth ceiling in their revenue largely because they don’t have a strong foundation to support scalable success. She has worked helped dozens of entrepreneurs and companies including best-selling author Marianne Williamson, celebrity entrepreneurs, and managed million-dollar marketing budgets for high-tech companies like GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar.
Connect with Wendy Breakstone on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
Lisa Dunavin with Cresa and Betsey Dahlberg and Paul Allen with Hope Springs Distillery
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A highly esteemed veteran of commercial real estate in Atlanta, Lisa Dunavin is the Market Leader and Managing Principal of Cresa Atlanta. Ms. Dunavin became the first woman Atlanta market leader of a global commercial real estate company in the city when she joined Cassidy Turley in 2014.
In 2015, she was voted one of Atlanta’s Most Admired CEO’s by readers of the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She retains the first woman designation as the recently announced Atlanta market leader for Cresa. She started her career working for investors of office buildings and worked with some of the most renowned firms in the industry including Hines, Trammel Crow, Equity Office, and most recently, Cushman & Wakefield. She worked on some of the city’s most prominent developments including Ponce City Market and Bank of America Plaza.
At Cresa, which is the world’s largest occupier-centric commercial real estate firm, Ms. Dunavin leads a team of 40 professionals in advising and assisting tenants and occupiers of office and industrial buildings with their real estate needs. She is charged with growing the Atlanta office with an ongoing focus on outstanding client service and partnership.
Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn.
Hope Springs Distillery is a local craft distillery that produces premium, small batch spirits made for the discerning drinker. The distillery was established in the heart of Lilburn in 2017 by co-founders Paul Allen and Betsey Dahlberg, later joined by master distiller Jaz Jarzewiak. The team currently produces Top Hat Vodka, Jetty Absinthe and Garner Creek Gin made with premium, Georgia-grown products. The distillery’s tasting room is open for tours and sampling on most Fridays and Saturdays and products can be found in local liquor stores and retailers throughout Georgia.
Follow Hope Springs Distillery on Facebook.
