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LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN Kay Eskridge with Images by Kay and Tiffany Divelbiss with Wildfire Crossfit

September 20, 2018 by Karen

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LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN Kay Eskridge with Images by Kay and Tiffany Divelbiss with Wildfire Crossfit

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LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN Kay Eskridge with Images by Kay and Tiffany Divelbiss with Wildfire Crossfit

Combining her passion for photography and her love of people, Kay Eskridge’s studio, Images by Kay & Co. has earned a sterling reputation for high-quality lifestyle portraiture. Kay takes great pride in not only the imagery she creates but also the high level of customer service she provides. Her state-of-the-art residential studio boasts many different vignettes perfectly placed throughout the one-acre portrait garden. Clients may be photographed in areas representing Arizona with a desert and western flair as well as the beautiful green and lush garden in the back. A waterfall and Koi pond are a huge hit with the kids as they are able to feed the fish when the session is complete. An old pickup truck bed makes for a perfect vintage backdrop and the corrugated metal wall can give any image an urban feel. The camera room is light and bright and features natural window light for a soft feeling image. A large dressing suite provides a spacious place to prepare for your image and the feeling of ‘home’ gives each client a sense of peace.

Specializing as a lifestyle portrait artist, Kay’s clientele has come to rely on her to capture images from all of life’s special events, from maternity to newborns, tots to ‘tweens’, High School Seniors to summer family vacations and even intimate images captured through the CelebrateSexy division of her studio. Her focus on relationships, creative approach to portraiture, unique perspective on customer service and clear vision about business has provided her with much success doing something she loves.

Kay is a member and Past President of the Arizona Professional Photography Association and is one of Kodak-Alaris’ Approved Speakers. She is a PPA Certified, a Master-Photographic Craftsman and holds numerous awards, including the National Award, the Arizona Photographer of the Year, the Kodak Gallery Elite Award, the Phoenix Portrait Photographer of the Year, and the Arizona Illustrative Photographer of the Year. In addition to running a successful local business, Kay is an accredited and sought-after educator for her industry. She has traveled to China, Japan and Europe to teach other photographers and is well known for leading workshops and seminars throughout the United States. She is considered by her peers as a leader in her field and serves as a Trustee for the Professional Photographers of American’s Charity.

Connect with Kay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

WildFire CrossFit is a fitness program like no other where we believe that every person deserves to live life to its fullest surrounded by a community that encourages them. Everyone is welcome who wants the opportunity to be better at life.

“Set your life on fire, seek those who fan your flames”.

This fitness program develops all ten areas of physical fitness using functional movements that are constantly varied and performed at high intensity. We combine weight lifting, cardiovascular endurance, body weight movements, and flexibility in a professionally coached program that produces results, never gets boring, and creates a strong community of people who work together to improve their lives through fitness. The workouts and exercises can be infinitely scaled to fit whatever fitness level each person may be or even to accommodate an injury concern. The environment produces results in areas beyond what we typically think of in fitness such as increased confidence, teamwork, positive attitude, stress relief, productivity and more.

WildFire CrossFit’s programs include: CrossFit, WildFire Weightlifting Club, Endurance, Gymnastics, CrossFit Kids & Teens (ages 5-17), WildFire Nutrition, Competition Classes, WildFire Boot Camp, Personal Training, and currently the Off Ice Training for the Pinnacle Hockey Club.

WildFire CrossFit is the spark that ignites life into those it touches. Through fitness, nutrition and/or the positive influence of its community.

As a Justice Studies major at ASU, fitness and nutrition wasn’t exactly a huge priority for Tiffany Divelbiss. She discovered it after she got a job at a weight loss clinic in Scottsdale. She found she had a passion for helping people. She understood how challenging losing weight could be and was able to help people by developing specific plans of action that would hold them accountable and produce results.

In 2008, Tiffany rented an office in a Wellness center to start her own Nutrition Consulting business. The personal trainer at the center started offering CrossFit classes and she started training with them as a compliment to her own nutrition program. It wasn’t long before she began coaching fitness in addition to her nutrition consulting and became a Level 1 CrossFit trainer. She helped to launch CrossFit Scottsdale, one of the first CrossFit affiliates in the area, and for the next few years coached adults, ran the gym and the nutrition program, and even started a CrossFit program for kids.

Tiffany’s mission in life has always been to help people be their best selves. She understands that by helping people to focus on fitness and nutrition, they will have the building blocks for a strong foundation of living their best life. Coaching people to find and build that strong foundation has become more than just a passion for Tiffany, it is a way of life.

In October of 2012, Tiffany and her husband, Skip, started WildFire CrossFit in North Phoenix where they are celebrating their 6-year anniversary next month. They have built a fitness community where everyone is welcome. They believe that everyone, no matter what their fitness background, deserves the help they need to live their best life, and that’s what they provide.

Connect with Tiffany on Facebook and Instagram.

The Leadership Lowdown was created to share the REAL story behind valley leaders’ rise to the top, and the truth about what it takes to TRULY succeed in life and business. Hear the raw stories of these leaders’ journeys…the pitfalls, the victories, and all of the heartaches and triumphs in between.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Jodi Low is an accomplished corporate trainer, inspirational speaker, and the Founder and CEO of U & Improved. Jodi has trained thousands of entrepreneurs and executives on how to build a booming business, master a mindset for success, and achieve the lifestyle they desire through heart-fueled leadership.

Through U & Improved—an award-winning personal and professional leadership development company based in Scottsdale—Jodi has redefined traditional leadership training by creating a sustainable and actionable model that is personal, challenging and meaningful to each and every individual who enrolls in any of the two-and-a-half-day experiential training classes. She and her elite training team have advanced the charge in heart-based leadership
development and empower U & Improved graduates with knowledge, tools and awareness to immediately be more effective and responsive leaders at work, home and within their communities.

Among her many accomplishments as a Valley leader, Jodi launched a teen leadership program in 2014 to empower young adults to become more confident, motivated and focused stewards of our future. In 2016, she founded a non-profit arm of the company—the U & Improved Leadership Foundation—that makes the program more accessible to deserving teens.

Jodi has been recognized by industry publications and organizations for her work in leadership development and serves as a source of inspiration within the community. In 2015, she was honored as an “Outstanding Women in Business” by the Phoenix Business Journal and by the Phoenix Suns and National Bank of Arizona with the “Amazing Women” award. She has received both the prestigious “Diversity Leader of the Year” and the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce’s “Sterling Award.” She was also awarded a Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 and was a finalist for the Junior League of Phoenix’s Valley Impact Award. Jodi is a devoted single parent who volunteers her time at her daughters’ school programs and with organizations such as Angel Mamas, where she’s served on the board for three years.

Jan Whalen President of Whalen Voices LLC with Ellen Harrington and María Tomás-Keegan and Kelly Lorenzen

September 20, 2018 by Karen

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Jan Whalen President of Whalen Voices LLC with Ellen Harrington and María Tomás-Keegan and Kelly Lorenzen

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Jan Whalen President of Whalen Voices LLC with Ellen Harrington and María Tomás-Keegan and Kelly Lorenzen

Whalen Voices made its début in Cedar Rapids, Iowa over two decades ago as Personal JAZ, a seminar and presentation coaching firm. Founder Jan M. Whalen, MASL delivered powerful, intriguing workshops and seminars to a multitude of organizations— from corporations like General Mills, Rockwell International and AT&T to local Boys and Girls Clubs, United Way volunteers and church leadership groups.

Jan Whalen is an award-winning author, speaker and coach who guides individuals in telling their story whether it be for speaking, writing or publishing. Whalen Voices, LLC acts as a catalyst for speakers and writers to find their unique Voice–in speaking formally, socially, in business settings; or writing for publication or simply legacy writing for family.

Over the last 25 years, Jan has coached hundreds of speakers—including CEO’s, politicians, engineers and sales people. So to capitalize on this experience and expertise after moving to the Phoenix area, she wrote the book Rock Solid Confidence: Presenting Yourself with Assurance, Poise and Power, which was chosen as the 2012 Global Ebook Award winner in the category of Communications. Her next publications were: Character Safari: Remember and Write the Stories of Your Life, My Trust Journal and You are the Perfect Age: Celebrate Your Life .

Jan guides individuals in telling their story–in speaking formally, socially, in business settings; or writing for publication or simply legacy writing for family with a new tool “The Perfect Age© Story Card.” She also continues to speak at seminars, conferences, corporations and women’s groups.

Connect with Jan on LinkedIn, and follow Whalen Voices on Twitter and Facebook.

Ellen Harrington, Chandler Sister Cities

María Tomás-Keegan, Transition and Thrive with Maria

Kelly Lorenzen, KLM Consulting and Marketing

THINK FIT-GET FIT-STAY FIT Kyle McInstosh with MAC6 and Brian Mohr with Conscious Capitalism Arizona

September 17, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

THINK FIT-GET FIT-STAY FIT Kyle McInstosh with MAC6 and Brian Mohr with Conscious Capitalism Arizona

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THINK FIT-GET FIT-STAY FIT Kyle McInstosh with MAC6 and Brian Mohr with Conscious Capitalism Arizona

Our first show is in the books for “Think Fit, Get Fit, Stay Fit”, hosted by Scott Marsh, sponsored by Mind and Body Strengthening, and his guests Kyle McIntosh with MAC6 and Brian Mohr from the AZ Chapter Conscious Capitalism.

We found out great background information on how each of them came to be in their current positions and how wellness plays an important role in all they do. Discussing their thoughts and experiences with corporate wellness programs, and the benefits to their employees, including the companies ROI. We shared the concern for obesity, including childhood obesity and the lack of physical education/activity today in schools.

Lastly we discussed how health and wellness fall under the four Conscious Capitalism tenets, 1) Higher Purpose 2) Stakeholder Orientation 3) Conscious Leadership 4) Conscious Culture.

This segment of “Think Fit, Get Fit, Stay Fit” is for anyone interested in learning more about Conscious Capitalism and what it means, what MAC6 to offer, especially in the health and fitness areas. MAC6 has a gym that anyone working in their work-space has access to with an on site Personal Trainer.

One of the main key points in a company wellness program, is that its success starts with its leaders at the top. If a company is considering incorporating a wellness program and is looking for an example, MAC6 has done a wonderful job of making it part of their culture.

With a background in marketing, in various for profit and not for profit companies, Kyle McIntosh wondered, “How can I pair the passion and commitment to community progress of a non-profit with the sustainability and reach of a for profit company?” From this question and perspective a mission evolved to tear down the false distinction between the two sectors and to promote companies with Conscious Capitalism® business models through MAC6.

Kyle is the President and Creative Excitant of MAC6. Day to day, his main operational role is on the “spaces” side of the business, focusing on creating thriving communities in the commercial office buildings, the co-working space, and the co-manufacturing space. The other role that he plays is that of EOS implementer, working with clients to bring the Entrepreneurial Operating System, from the book Traction® to their businesses. Additionally, he sits on the boards of Conscious Capitalism Arizona, telling the stories of good businesses in Arizona, and The Tempe Chamber of Commerce, sustaining Tempe’s quality of life and keeping our community and economy vibrant.

Kyle loves Arizona and wants to see us all collectively find great success based on the awesome things that are happening here every day.

Follow MAC6 on Facebook and Twitter.

Brian Mohr’s career-to-date has been a learning-based journey with an intense focus on people, purpose, values, culture, leadership, and advocating capitalism as a force for good. Brian was a founding member of Jobing.com, one of the original online job boards, which he helped grow to over 350 employees and $38M in revenue over an 11-year period. He later became director of talent strategy & acquisition for P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and Pei Wei Asian Diner restaurants before joining forces with his co-founder, Max Hansen, to create the first purpose-based leadership search firm, Y Scouts, in 2012. In the summer of 2018, Brian doubled down on his commitment to leveraging business as a powerful force for good and joined the Arizona Chapter of Conscious Capitalism as its first President. Together with Scott McIntosh, Founder & Chairman of the Arizona Chapter of Conscious Capitalism, Brian is focused on helping the Arizona business community practice capitalism with both a long-term view and a stakeholder-centric orientation; a model of business that creates prosperity for all.

Brian is on the Global Board of Trustees of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., a member of the Board of Directors of the Better Business Bureau of the Pacific Southwest, and anticipating the launch of his first book, “Hiring on Purpose – How the Y Scouts Method is Revolutionizing the Search for Leaders”. Brian’s most important and cherished responsibilities are being the lucky father to his 2 daughters, Taylor and Riley, and the proud husband to his wife, Jackie. In his spare time, you’ll find Brian practicing guitar and enjoying an occasional game of Texas Hold ’em Poker.

Connect with Brian on LinkedIn, and follow the Arizona Chapter of Conscious Capitalism on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

ABOUT THINK FIT-GET FIT-STAY FIT and SCOTT MARSH

Scott Marsh is the Founder and Owner of Mind and Body Strengthening which is the culmination of working in the Physical Therapy and Fitness Industry for 26 years. Scott is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (C.S.C.S.) through the NSCA (National Strength and Conditioning Association), a Precision Nutrition Level 1 Coach and a Professional Member of the Medical Fitness Network. Scott also donates his time to the New Warrior Program, which he started to help recruits with their nutrition and physical training before they leave for Boot-camp.

Two of Scott’s favorite sayings are “Change doesn’t come from just knowing what to do, it comes from consistent daily practice” and “You need to align the way you think with the results you want”. These sayings are the basis for Scott’s THINK FIT-GET FIT-STAY FIT radio show; and, the solid foundation and wisdom that Scott uses to help people achieve their goals and maintain a healthy lifestyle over the course of their life.

JOURNEY RADIO Erin Lyons with Child Parent Center and Desiree Cook with I Am You 360 and Anita Scott with Diamond Daughters

September 17, 2018 by Karen

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JOURNEY RADIO Erin Lyons with Child Parent Center and Desiree Cook with I Am You 360 and Anita Scott with Diamond Daughters

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JOURNEY RADIO Erin Lyons with Child Parent Center and Desiree Cook with I Am You 360 and Anita Scott with Diamond Daughters

This Journey radio segment is a dynamic conversation with three dynamic leaders of non-profit organizations that make a difference in our community by providing services to children, youth and women. Enjoy a discussion with Erin Lyons, Desiree Cook, and Anita Scott as they share how their life’s journey has given them the tools to lead organizations that make a difference.

Erin Lyons is Chief Executive Officer of Child Parent Center a non-profit with a 28-million-dollar budget, local and national leader in early childhood education. Desiree Cook is Founder, and Director of I Am You 360 and winner of the AKA Sorority Community Service Award, Sparkle Cleaners Non-Profit of the Month, and Vantage West Credit Union Non-Profit of the Year. Anita Scott, Founder of Diamond Daughters, is an ordained Minister in Glendale, Arizona, and author of “The Power of Transformational Thinking.”

These three women combined provide early childhood development, service for foster children, homeless youth and women. Their mission is to foster life transformation, develop literacy, and to ensure the emotional and physical well-being of those serviced.

Tune in and discover why they embody the Diamond Daughters Empowerment Summit theme “Fearless Women Called to Success.”

Child-Parent Centers, Inc. (CPC) is a community-based, not-for-profit corporation incorporated in 1967. CPC is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and a Head Start Parent Policy Council that consists of enrolled parents. Its primary purpose as the Head Start and Early Head Start grantee for southeastern Arizona is to provide comprehensive early childhood, health and nutrition, and family development services to low income families with children birth to age five. CPC has successfully implemented Head Start and Early Head Start services for over 50 years. With an annual operating budget of over 28 million dollars, 560 employees, and services provided to more than 2,800 young children, CPC has an established reputation in the local and national early childhood community as an organization that places excellence at the forefront of all of its work.

Head Start, first launched in 1965, was designed to be a comprehensive school readiness program addressing the emotional, social, health, nutritional, and educational needs of preschoolers from low-income families. A program created as part of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, Head Start has now grown to serve infants, toddlers, and pregnant women in addition to preschoolers, and is a nationally recognized, dual-generation approach to ending the cycle of poverty.

There are three programmatic components of CPC’s efforts: school readiness, health, and family engagement. Health services include ensuring that children are up to date on medical screenings and immunizations, are connected to health insurance and a medical home, have a dental home and dental exams, and ensuring parents have information related to healthy eating and nutrition and the importance of physical activity for their children. CPC provides these services throughout five counties in Southern Arizona, including Pima, Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, and Santa Cruz, and serves rural and urban areas including Tucson, Marana, Nogales, Rio Rico, Safford, Pima, Duncan, Bisbee, Willcox, Benson, Catalina, Sierra Vista, Douglas and Ajo

Erin Lyons joined Child-Parent Centers in October 2014 as its CEO. She possesses a diverse combination of professional experience ranging from classroom teaching to management of adolescent residential facilities and organizational and community development activities. Her most recent tenure was as Senior Regional Director with First Things First, Arizona’s statewide early childhood initiative. In this position, she worked with local Regional Partnership Councils in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties as well as the tribal communities of Pascua Yaqui and the Tohono O’odham Nation. Her work involved oversight of the planning and implementation of annual budgets that infused nearly $100 million dollars in grants and contracts for early childhood and family education services throughout the Southeast area of the state between 2009-2014.

Lyons has also established a presence in the non-profit sector in the Tucson community and has experience both as a direct service provider and senior administrator as well as a volunteer. In addition to programmatic knowledge in the fields of education, child welfare, and behavioral health, she has a breadth of experience in establishing community partnerships, strategic planning, budgeting, quality assurance and compliance activities, and various aspects of employee and organizational development. She has also been affiliated with a number of community entities such as COPE Community Services, the Behavioral Health Coalition of Southern Arizona, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona’s First Focus on Kids Impact Council, and the Southern Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children.

Lyons began her career as a teacher and kicked off her classroom experience with preschool students at Marva Collins’ Westside Preparatory School on the west side of Chicago. She eventually taught at various grade levels ranging from first grade through high school. As an undergraduate, she attended Yale University and then Northwestern University where she completed a Bachelor of Science in Education. She is also a proud University of Arizona Wildcat and earned her Master of Public Administration at the Eller College. Erin lives with her family in Tucson where she has lived for the better part of her life.

For more information and to get involved, find ChildParentCenters on Facebook and Twitter.

I Am You 360 is a 501c3 non-profit organization that focuses on providing personalized and life skills services for primarily foster care and homeless youth in Pima County improve confidence, appearance, school attendance, academic achievement, and overall well-being.

Services include: Full size, new hygiene and hair care products according to ethnicity and gender to promote healthy hair and skin in a personalized backpack. Participants are served at one of three of I Am You 360 Hygiene Dispensaries, and each participant can have their hygiene bag refilled every 6 weeks to continue a healthy personal care routine.

They also provide a 9 week life skills programming which includes: Self Esteem, Self Awareness, Positive Thinking, and Be Good to your Mind.

Desiree Cook was born in Newark New Jersey and lived in Brooklyn New York. Mother of 7 children and married to Terry Cook. She has been a Tucson resident since 2002. She is an active member of Gideon Baptist, local hair stylist at Artistry since 2012, and created I Am You 360 in November of 2013 and became a 501c3 non-profit in July of 2014.

To learn more and to get involved with IAmYou360 find them on Facebook , Instagram or email iamyou360@hotmail.com

Diamond Daughters Motto – I am you, you are me and we are ONE. It is a global womens movement geared toward empowerment and transformation helping women reach the potential inside of them. We provide tools and resources to improve and enhance goals and vision. We recently held our 5th Anual Diamond Daughters we had the privilege to honor women in the community who were making an impact in different areas. This was the second year we also gave a scholarship to a young lady preparing for college. Our attendance was 300 women from all over the valley and surrounding cities. We host a fashion show annually to show women their worth. Women who come from Human Trafficking, , domestic violence and single mothers are part of the fashion show.

My name is Anita Scott and I was born in Hobbs, New Mexico. I’m married to Freddie Scott and we have three beautiful children..I’m an ordained Minister and have been a resident in Glendale, AZ since 2006. Diamond Daughters was founded in 2012 and established a 501c3 in 2014. It is my belief that every woman has the potential to be and do something great no matter the past or background. I have recently authored a book The Power of Transformational Thinking designed to change thinking patterns.

Connect with Anita and Diamond Daughters at aitruth@yahoo.com and Arise and Pray Ministries

ABOUT JOURNEY RADIO

Tune into Journey Radio to learn from successful professionals who will provide you with a roadmap for your own Journey to success. Our guests are individuals who want to share stories, tips and guidelines based on their own journey. Listeners will be encouraged to stay the course after learning that a journey that ends successfully is not a straight line but is a winding road of experiences that teaches life lessons that can be built upon, providing us grit and knowledge to complete our Journey.

Journey Radio’s mission is to ensure all listeners have the opportunity to learn from guest’s experiences, failures and successes enabling Journey listeners to complete their “Path to Success” at a faster pace, with fewer failures. Every lesson learned does not need to be through experience, but can be learned by listening and learning from other’s experience. Journey Radio connects listeners with guests who have completed the journey that the listener is on.

Journey Radio is powered by Divinity Beauty Bar

Tucson’s Leader in Extensions, Color, Healthy Hair and All your Spa Needs. Connect with Divinity Beauty Bar on Facebook and Instagram and via email.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Journey Radio’s host and sponsor Enid Moore-Cranshaw is a consummate business professional. Enid holds a Master’s Degree in Finance and Accounting from Regis University. She is the Immediate Past District Director of Toastmasters International, District 3 (state of Arizona) with a membership of over 4,000. District 3 Toastmasters is ranked seventh in Arizona’s networking and is one of the top organizations for communication and leadership development in the world. She is a Financial Professional and owner of Divinity Beauty Bar. Divinity Beauty Bar specializes in nails, hair styling, wigs, hair extensions, maintenance and growth. Enid is the Immediate Past Board President of Child Parent Centers (Headstart). Child Parent Centers is a leader in early childhood development and serves Southern Arizona’s underprivileged children. Her passion is early childhood development, community service, personal development, effective communication and empowering others to realize their full potential.

Emerald Williams of Creative Process with Joli Love of Crowned Boutique and Trell Hayes of Hayes Photography

September 16, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Emerald Williams of Creative Process with Joli Love of Crowned Boutique and Trell Hayes of Hayes Photography

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Emerald Williams of Creative Process with Joli Love of Crowned Boutique and Trell Hayes of Hayes Photography

Emerald “E. Will” Williams started her fashion career in 2014. She decided to go to school at Mesa Community College in 2015 for fashion design and merchandising. While there she learned about the history of fashion along with traveling to Las Vegas for Magic fashion convention, from there she knew that this is something she should what to make a life long career of. In 2016 she started a fashion assistant intern with Lisa Acquafredda with Stay Classy TV. Emerald assistant Lisa with pulling clothes and styling fashion segments at local news stations. Including news channel 3, channel 12, and Sonoran Living. Emerald worked for Lisa for the whole year of 2016, she learned a lot about the fashion industry and personal styling. By 2017, Emerald was on her own styling local artists, athletes, models, and business men. Emerald has worked featured in magazines, music videos, and red carpets. Emerald explained the goal for Creative Process is to style the top artists and athletes and be featured in fashion shows around the world.

Connect with E Will and Creative Process on Instagram and Email

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While pursuing a double major in bioinformatics and medical physics, Joli Love needed to find a way to provide for my daughter and I. Having a full time job, while going to school full time wasn’t something that worked for me, so I needed to find a source of income that would work with my 16 credit school schedule. I’ve always wanted to start an online boutique, but didn’t know where to start. After months of doing research, I was able to find the perfect vendors for hair extensions, eyelashes, apparel, and the information I needed to make sure my business succeeds and looks the way I need it to. Finally, after I got all the resources I needed I was able to start Crowned Boutique.

Connect with Joli and Crowned Boutique on Instagram and Email

CULTURE CRUSH RX Scott Peltin the Chief Performance Officer with Tignum

September 15, 2018 by Karen

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CULTURE CRUSH RX Scott Peltin the Chief Performance Officer with Tignum

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CULTURE CRUSH RX Scott Peltin the Chief Performance Officer with Tignum

This episode of Culture Crush Rx is a can’t miss! Deb talks with Scott Peltin, Chief Performance Officer with TIGNUM, the world leading Sustainable High Human Performance development firm. You get some excellent tips that you can use right now to start showing up as your best self in all your roles in life. You’ll also learn about the power of mindset and how the stories you believe about who you are impact the choices you make in life. If you’re wondering how you can “Rule Your Impact” in business, at home, and with your social circles, you’ll want to tune in now!

And, when you do listen in, you’ll here Scott refer to “cat thrower” blog. We want you to have the link for this great story and metaphor.

Tignum is the world leader in creating executive Sustainable High Performance. They work with top leaders and their must win teams to help them maximize their impact on themselves and on everyone they touch. Tignum helps clients develop a Performance Mindset and then support this Mindset with their Performance Nutrition, Performance Movement, and Performance Recovery strategies. Whether it is preparing for a key presentation, a must win negotiation, a critical meeting, or an important personal event, Tignum helps business professionals show up and perform at their best.

Scott Peltin is the co-founder and Chief Performance Officer of Tignum, the world leading Sustainable High Human Performance development firm. He is the key developer of the Tignum content and methodology and the co-author of Sink, Float, or Swim. Over the past 15 years, Scott has helped numerous CEOs, C- level executives, business professionals, professional athletes, professional coaches, and military leaders maximize their performance and impact. Scott’s unique personal experience and education, combined with his authentic and practical approach, allows him to help his clients develop their best Performance Mindset so they can multiply their impact on others by giving them more energy, being more resilient, and being more mentally agile.

ABOUT CULTURE CRUSH Rx

Culture Crush Rx is an exploration of what makes a great company culture, how successful leaders create it, and how it affects the overall success of the company. We highlight the companies in our community who are crushing it with culture and get practical tips from local experts on how to do the same.

Each episode, we dive into real-life experiences, tips, and best practices for creating a healthy work environment in which everyone is functioning at their highest level and finding joy and satisfaction in their work. Whether you’re a top-level leader, a startup entrepreneur, or part of team, we aim to provide you with valuable insights to help make your work enjoyable and your life well-rounded.

If company culture isn’t consciously created, it will still be created.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Deb Caron is the owner and principal consultant of Anahata Marketing, a Phoenix-based marketing and brand communication consultancy that focuses on empathic listening and content creation to foster real connection between businesses and the customers they serve. She hosts Culture Crush Rx as part of her personal passion for helping people live healthier, more fulfilling, well-rounded lives. Deb is also a registered yoga teacher and she truly enjoys sharing her knowledge and love for the practice with her community. Deb can be reached at deb@anahatamarketing.com and on Linkedin.

Dioly Alexandre with BlackShield Sentinel and Todd Davis with Ideaology Consulting Group

September 15, 2018 by Karen

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Dioly Alexandre with BlackShield Sentinel and Todd Davis with Ideaology Consulting Group

In today’s technology-driven world, innovation moves much faster than the security that protects it. Cybersecurity has now become more of a critical subject than ever. With that being Said, few companies understand what it truly entails and many of the self-proclaimed “IT Security” companies have very little to no understanding of the modern threats facing this industry. BlackShield Sentinel comes into this industry with a very strong advantage.. the company was started by Hackers and those with the same mindset. BlackShield is concerned about not just how to protect the business from bad hackers getting in, but also what happens after those hackers get into your network. BlackShield originally began with an emphasis on small to medium businesses, but their expertise and advanced strategies have also attracted city and government organizations. With some of the highest profit projections in the industry, BlackShield is the innovative and impactful Cyber Warfare company you’ve never heard of.

If Mark Zuckerberg had chosen to hack a network instead of rate college girls in his dorms, his name would be Dioly Alexandre. An immigrant born in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere of Haiti, Dioly immigrated to the United States at the age of five and lived in one of the highest crime rate areas in the United States. From a young age he possessed an entrepreneurial mindset and a determination to overcome the overwhelming statistics around him. He did so by starting his first business at the age of seven selling artwork to tourists in the markets of Charleston, South Carolina. With the cultural difference of a new country, Dioly had a growing interest in computers due to a lack of friends and very little family. As he states, “Computers brought me to exploration, which led me to gaming. Gaming led to graphic design, which led to coding, which ultimately led to hacking simply because I wanted to know more and more about everything”.

After discovering the world of hacking, Dioly practiced many of his new found skills on his own school system, infiltrating library networks and district servers as his skills and tactics became more advance. After gaining some recognition among peers but never directly being caught due to lack of proof he did the acts, his skills landed him a job at the largest electronic retailer in the world at 16 years old. By the age of seventeen Dioly was working for the largest restaurant chain in the world, and after several years as a Naval Sea Cadet through high school, Dioly graduated to work for the largest department of criminal justice in the country at 18 years old.

After doing many short term contracts for Fortune 500, Fortune 100, government, and small to medium businesses alike, Dioly decided it was time to launch the company which would utilize the skills he had learned over the years to protect small to medium businesses in Arizona, and eventually across the country. Now at the age of 20 years old, Dioly heads BlackShield Sentinel Corporation, a fast growing cyber security company located in northern Scottsdale which specializes in small to medium business cyber security. His whole concept of operation is to go well beyond the antivirus and firewall standard of the industry. His favorite motto’s which moves his company forward are, “Not all Hackers wear Hoodies”, “Technology can’t stop people, it takes people to do that” and “Information is Power”.

Dioly also leads a non profit corporation named BlackShark, which aims to serve underserved and minority youth within our communities across Phoenix by providing the education and resources they need to enter the IT field out of high school. The Motto of BlackShark is “Competition, Innovation, Future”. In his own words Dioly states, “Competition is the only fuel required to push Innovation into the ever moving Future.” Alexandre shows just how much his passion for security and information assurance has brought him this far, and as he and many would agree, there is a long and bright road ahead of him.

Connect with Dioly on LinkedIn.

iDeaology Consulting Group is a brand and business development company that takes a brand through its idea stage and to its launch. They develop a specialized development and marketing methodology that creates ongoing growth for a small to large business. They teach, train marketing to individuals and businesses.

Todd Davis speaks marketing( leads, solutions, strategy, and content) for Nonprofits, Lawyers, Realtors, Doctors, Financial Advisors, Startups, Kidpreneurs, and Mompreneurs. He’s also am an evangelist for podcasting for professionals.

He believes in utilizing Social Media Channels to create a balance between traditional marketing and a Fluid Digital Marketing Strategy(DMS). His insights about the process of establishing the right social channels and developing the right social media programs will help you generate leads and understand the return of relationship.

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E14 Dimitri Ponomareff Co-Founder Kanban Zone

September 14, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E14 Dimitri Ponomareff Co-Founder Kanban Zone

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E14 Dimitri Ponomareff Co-Founder Kanban Zone

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Joe Pusz, PMO Joe has a great discussion with special guest Dimitri Ponomareff, Co-Founder & Agile Coach with KanbanZone.com. We also had scheduled Laura Barnard, Founder & CEO with PMO Strategies but due to technical challenges we weren’t able to have Laura join us. Laura was going to discuss her leadership experience assisting organization with Value driven PMOs. Laura is also organizing the PMO IMPACT Summit which starts on September 10th with over 40 presentations from top industry experts sharing their knowledge and experience with Project Management Offices, PMOs. PMO Joe is presenting on September 12th, his topic is Improve Project Management Results by Repairing your Plumbing!

Dimitri provides an energetic detailed overview of the Agile world and specifically Kanban. He provides technical insights but also speaks at a level which doesn’t require you to be an Agile expert to follow along. He utilizes real life examples to help paint a picture of what is a Kanban board, how to use a Kanban board, different types of Kanban boards and the differences between Kanban and Scrum. In addition, Dimitri shares with us some experiences from Coaching engagements and how his organization sets expectations upfront on how to gets lasting benefits from their engagements. This was a fantastic episode to learn about Agile, Kanban, Scrum and Coaching from an expert in the field, Dimitri Ponomareff.

Joe also shared with his audience that he is running the 2018 Marine Corps Marathon and is fundraising for charity Team Red, White, and Blue which enriches the lives of Veterans by connecting them to their community through physical and social activity. Joe is leading the nation in fundraising for this marathon and would to get your support. To assist our Veterans and support Team Red, White and Blue please visit Joe’s fundraising page today and make a donation!

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KanbanZone.com is a visual process management solution that leverages every aspect of the Kanban methodology. It promotes prioritization, focus and clarity by helping individuals, teams and entire organizations improve the way they collaborate in real-time.

Torak.com provides coaching and training services for Agile, Scrum, Kanban and DevOps. We focus on building happy effective teams and transforming organizations to flow work more efficiently to achieve greater results.

Dimitri Ponomareff is a passionate coach, facilitator and public speaker. He has the ability to relate to people from all walks of life and at every level within an organization. He can motivate and energize individuals, teams or entire organizations. Dimitri is consistently recognized as an effective and successful change agent who is able to mobilize people on a path of continuous improvement. Dimitri is a certified coach and “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” facilitator and uses his vast experience to build highly- focused, productive and happy teams. Dimitri has coached for such organizations as American Express, Charles Schwab, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Choice Hotels, Best Western, JDA Software, LifeLock, First Solar, and Infusionsoft.

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Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t. Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better. Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results. Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

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THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise. Contact Joe at 678-591-7868. Follow The PMO Squad on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

SCOTT-FOUNDATION THOUGHT AND SERVICE LEADERS KIDS and HORSES

September 4, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

SCOTT-FOUNDATION THOUGHT AND SERVICE LEADERS KIDS and HORSES

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LOVE, PEER SUPPORT & SENSE OF FAMILY

Scott Foundation has big aspirations and a different path for Arizona foster youth. They imagine a journey that changes the face of humanity and inspires their kids to be their absolute best today while making tomorrow’s world a much better place for all. They imagine an education and societal system focused on the power of community rather than competition; and they imagine a world where children are taught we are not separate, but instead, we are all a part of something much bigger than ourselves – we are one.

Scott Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that invests in the future of Arizona foster youth who wish to make the world better than they found it. The foundation produces year-round experiential programming that highlights, inspires and educate youth on the importance of social emotional well-being, while mindfully developing their heart and purposeful career path.

WHAT DO YOU LEAVE BEHIND? What kind of person do you want to be? Life/Legacy Plan – What is the history of your future? How can you make the world better than you found it?

Motivated by tragedy, youth transform to find their true self and become self- supporting, successful, community-minded, “compassionate people”.

Colleen Walski, Former Intel Manager, turned entrepreneur, who’s founded a philosophical service learning organization that also serves the social emotional well-being of youth in the Arizona foster care system; free of charge.

Colleen’s soulful story of resilience and purpose began on her intended journey of re-building hope after her only son, Scott tragically passed. The transformative power of selfless service is revealed as she finds the Universe has oddly aligned the destiny of many to make an inspiring impact that continues to unfold and enrich the fortune of Scott’s legacy and her own!

Frustrated by traditional thinking of the nonprofit business model, health and crisis intervention statistics at an all-time high, a failing education system, and inadequate support for children’s social services, Colleen mindfully surrounds herself with present Thought Leaders, Change-Makers, Philanthropists and Executives that like to take action, and begins serving the market in a way that it’s never been served before.

Colleen is as a very results-driven and active community member, providing ongoing leadership in humanitarian services to local youth programs with ongoing commitment to increase awareness for peace and support of community partnerships.

Connect with Colleen on LinkedIn, and follow Scott Foundation on Facebook.