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Business Solutions for Growth with Barry and Catherine Cohen

July 25, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Business Solutions for Growth with Barry and Catherine Cohen

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Business Solutions for Growth with Barry and Catherine Cohen

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Business Solutions for Growth is Barry and Catherine Cohen. Married since 1996 and in business together since 2003, they created their business coaching company after years of working with their business owner clients. The more Barry and Catherine went back to basics with their clients, even established business owners, the more success those businesses had.

Barry and Catherine brought together all their skills, experience, and talent to create a magical toolbox of ideas, plans, inspiration, and focus, designed to help the ir clients get unstuck in business and achieve greater levels of success.

Barry Cohen is the co-founder of Business Solutions for Growth. A more technical thinker with a 30-plus years of experience in computers, Barry is the systems guy. Whether it’s the systems on the computers or the systems that run the business, it’s all about order and organization. He is a passionate researcher, able to find answers and resources to almost everything, and is a speaker on topics ranging from computers to podcasting to business strategies to working with your spouse. He actively consults with clients to offer business solutions that work.

Catherine Cohen is the co-founder of Business Solutions for Growth. A more creative force, Catherine is the ideas person. Ideas and inspiration seem to just co me to her. Her specialty is taking a client’s talent, experience, desire, and skills, and reworking them into new offerings, laying out the groundwork to get a new business started, or creating a path of growth and renewal. Catherine enjoys crafting solutions that make sense to each client’s unique situation.

Connect with Barry and Catherine on LinkedIn and follow Business Solutions for Growth on Facebook.

LADIES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Anjali Patel and Kellie Callahan and Alexis Firehawk of Carpenter Hazlewood Delgado and Bolen LLP

July 25, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

LADIES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Anjali Patel and Kellie Callahan and Alexis Firehawk of Carpenter Hazlewood Delgado and Bolen LLP

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LADIES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Anjali Patel and Kellie Callahan and Alexis Firehawk of Carpenter Hazlewood Delgado and Bolen LLP

Embracing the mantra “practice within your personality”, these attorneys, and the rest of the team at Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen LLP, are making a positive impact on the industries they serve. This focus helps them stay ahead of the pack along with their commitment to mentorship and collaboration. Listen in as we learn how these things have played an important role in attracting female attorneys to their practice; and, in furthering the advancement of females in law nationwide.

Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen was founded in 1993. We are a full service law firm devoted to representing businesses, nonprofits, individuals and community associations. With offices in Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott, San Diego, Durango, Salt Lake City, Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, we have more than 40 attorneys providing legal services to our clients. We handle a variety of practice areas and have the resources to handle nearly any issue encountered by our clients.

At Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen we live by the motto, “Client First.” We are responsive. We are always available. We are accessible and we speak in plain English. We take the time to find out how we can help our clients in the most efficient way possible. We solely exist for our clients, and their needs always come first.

Before attending the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, Anjali Patel obtained her undergraduate degree in Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology from Arizona State University with a Certificate in the History and Philosophy of Science. During law school, Anjali had the tremendous opportunity to intern with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Washington, D.C. and extern for Federal District Court Judge Stephen McNamee.

Admitted to practice in Arizona since 2010, Anjali has assisted countless individuals, nonprofit associations, small businesses, and independent contractors in a wide variety of matters ranging from new entity formation and contracts negotiation to criminal defense. Throughout her career, she has focused on detailed legal research and analysis as well as thoughtful and practical solutions to address her clients’ needs.

In her free time, Anjali enjoys spending time with her family as well as creating and supporting the arts, from painting to attending live theater and everything in between.

Kellie Callahan joined the firm in 2007 and became a Shareholder at the firm in 2016. She practices in both Arizona and New Mexico. Kellie oversees the firm’s Enforcement practice group and focuses her practice on civil litigation, general counsel representation and insurance defense. Kellie represents small businesses, nonprofit corporations, planned communities and condominiums. She also has significant experience in collections litigation, electronic discovery disputes, business and employment law issues, and with respect to serving as general counsel to the firm’s business and planned community and condominium clients.

Kellie has served as a member of the CAC-CAI Public Relations Committee, as a liaison to the CAC-CAI Education Committee, and has taught numerous community association related courses through AACM and the Leadership Centre. Kellie is originally from Boston and is an avid Boston sports fan.

Alexis Firehawk practices in the areas of business law and litigation. She focuses on entity formation and dissolution, securities, general counsel, and civil litigation. Alexis counsels nonprofit and for-profit organizations of all sizes, across industries, regarding business transactions and strategy, capital market transactions, intellectual property disputes, and conflict resolution.

Alexis’ practice includes advising companies, boards of directors, and individuals on statutory and regulatory compliance; assisting clients with respect to employment and consulting agreements, contract interpretation and negotiation; and advising clients with regard to compliance with internal policy and procedure.

Alexis also represents companies on both sides of civil litigation, bringing affirmative claims and providing litigation defense.

Prior to joining the firm she created corporate policy for global companies and advised on Information Governance and eDiscovery issues including privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.

Follow Carpenter, Hazelwood, Delgado and Bolen on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

ABOUT LADIES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Ladies Leadership Circle (LLC) is brought to you by the women who lived it, in partnership with Phoenix Business RadioX. LLC radio is an empowering program for any woman as any topic which affects women will be discussed and “brought to you by the women who lived it.” Since everything in today’s world affects women every topic is up for discussion such as health, family, faith, career, parenting, community, education, government, pets, cooking, shopping and the list goes on and on. The LLC mission is simple: we are women inspiring and thriving to celebrate and find a happy positive world while maneuvering and|or facing head on the challenges we face.

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

JoAnn Holland‘s experience in different business environments over the past 33 years both for profit and non-profit, including internationally, and in small, medium and fortune 500 companies in addition to her community engagement has given her a unique perspective on leadership-one that contradicts much of what is out there already on the subject-and is reflective of the kind of female leader we need in today’s, at times, unstable and unpredictable business environment, family life, community outreach and political arena. JoAnn is the curent President and CEO for Central Phoenix Women, Scottsdale Women, East Valley Women and North Valley Women – organizations for women who have established themselves professionally and demonstrated their commitment to the community. Members are individuals who wish to enhance their leadership by connecting with like-minded women to share information, ideas, contacts and opportunities. Members value relationships that enhance their business, social and community endeavors.

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For more than 25 years, Karen Nowicki has been helping organizations and the people who lead them drive their business strategies more effectively and as a result her clients move from success to significance. In 2008, she was awarded the “Mompreneur of the Year Award” for the Southwest. Karen is a published author, accomplished speaker, and trusted adviser to business owners, senior executives and educational leaders. In 2016, Karen and her partners sold $99 Social to Wired Investors, affording her the opportunity and time to become a Studio Partner for Business RadioX – serving Arizona-based businesses by increasing their visibility and helping to accelerate the right relationships.

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LADIES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Former Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and Managing Partner with Quarles and Brady Nicole Stanton

July 23, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

LADIES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Former Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and Managing Partner with Quarles and Brady Nicole Stanton

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LADIES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Former Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and Managing Partner with Quarles and Brady Nicole Stanton

With a sincere passion for community, sustainable resources and a thriving economy, former Phoenix Mayor, Greg Stanton, steps fully into his campaign for Congress in Arizona’s 9th District. Nicole Stanton, Managing Partner with Quarles & Brady, shares that they love campaigning together and this time around, their children are old enough to understand what’s taking place and what it could mean for Arizona progress. Greg connected with us by phone from Washington, D.C. and it was a special treat to hear him sincerely applaud and acknowledge Nicole in all she does for their family, our community and her law firm. Listen in to hear what’s most important to the Stanton’s and how they manage two high-profile and influential careers on this segment of Ladies Leadership Circle.

Mayor Greg Stanton grew up at 39th Ave and Dunlap, attending Cortez High School. Greg then attended Marquette University and went on to earn a law degree from the University of Michigan. Before he was elected to his first term as mayor in 2011, he served nine years on the Phoenix City Council and as Arizona’s Deputy Attorney General.

In 2015, Stanton won reelection for Mayor and successfully led one of the most ambitious transportation initiatives in the country – a plan that is now working to triple Phoenix’s light rail system, expand bus service and build 1,000 miles of new bike lanes over the next 35 years.

Now, Greg is taking on a new challenge, running to represent Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since October 2017, Greg has been running a robust, grassroots campaign for Congress focused on bringing new ideas and new leadership to Washington to better serve the needs of hard working Arizonans and their families.

He and his wife Nicole have two children.

Nicole Stanton is the Managing Partner of the Phoenix Office of Quarles & Brady LLP and Assistant General Counsel for the firm as a whole. She previously served as adjunct faculty at the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her practice is focused on business litigation. She was selected as one of the Top 100 lawyers in Arizona for the past three years, listed in Best Lawyers in American for legal malpractice law since 2012, and a Southwest Super Lawyer 2013- present.

Nicole founded the state-wide anti-bullying initiative, Stop Bullying AZ/The Dion Initiative in 2012. She is a member of Charter 100 Women, graduate of Valley Leadership Class XXIX, Founding Board Member/Past President of the Women’s Metropolitan Arts Council, and Arizona Equal Justice Foundation board member. She has co-chaired the RED Brunch, a World AIDS Day celebration benefiting Aunt Rita’s Foundation and was the Co-Chair of the Night for Life gala benefiting the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS.

Nicole is the wife of former Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and mother to Trevor and Violet. She is a foodie and loves the Phoenix Mercury.

Connect with Greg and Nicole on LinkedIn, and follow Greg on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

ABOUT LADIES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

jchollandco@gmail.com
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Karen.Nowicki@BusinessRadioX.com
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Blockchain in Real Estate with Sarah Richardson and Tru Realty

July 23, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Blockchain in Real Estate with Sarah Richardson and Tru Realty

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Blockchain in Real Estate with Sarah Richardson and Tru Realty

There is a lot of buzz around blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. In this segment of Phoenix Business Radio, we get to hear from Sarah Richardson, Designated Broker / Founder of TruRealty and Professional Speaker, to learn about blockchain within the real estate industry and the incredible possibilities on an international level.

Tru Realty is a dynamic real estate firm bringing an innovative approach to the ever-changing market. The firm specializes in wholesale, residential and commercial real estate — including: traditional, luxury, multi-family, REOs, short sales, and HUD homes and Fix and Flip opportunities.

Sarah C. Richardson is one of the preeminent leaders of residential real estate in the Phoenix area. As the designated broker and founder of Tru Realty, she is responsible for both the daily operations and oversight of the multiple growth strategies that the brokerage carries out. Sarah launched Tru Realty in 2010 as a way to serve a marketplace that was seeing a shift from auction centric fix/flips to an MLS flow. Sarah built a solid team of capital lenders, general contractors, investors, and other specialists unique to each deal. She achieved in a big way reaching over 450 deals in a span of six years. Nearly every one of these deals was profitable yielding double-digit returns.

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CULTURE CRUSH RX Juan Kingsbury with Career Blindspot and Adam Wong of Rockstar Workforce

July 23, 2018 by Karen

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CULTURE CRUSH RX Juan Kingsbury with Career Blindspot and Adam Wong of Rockstar Workforce

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CULTURE CRUSH RX Juan Kingsbury with Career Blindspot and Adam Wong of Rockstar Workforce

In this episode of Culture Crush Rx, Host Deb Caron chats with Juan Kingsbury of Career Blindspot and Adam Wong of Rockstar Workforce about how understanding people’s inherent traits and motivating forces helps build better working environments. Juan and Adam are both experts in self-awareness and peer-awareness and give us some excellent insights into the power of DISC assessments and discovery of motivating forces. For some reason, Zumba comes up often, too… you’ll have to tune in to figure that one out.

Listen in to learn how getting to know yourself and others better can lead to a happier, more fulfilling workplace. Whether you’re a leader looking to get more out of your team or an employee wondering how you can enjoy your job more, you’ll find this episode valuable.

Workshops and Tools That Turn Human Bias Into Opportunity. At Career Blindspot we train people to understand people, so conflicts don’t impede trust and results. We believe when leaders understand their people and vice versa they will always succeed. Without understanding why people work, accountability is lost. Proudly based out of Phoenix, AZ, since 2007, Career Blindspot has assessed thousands of employees and candidates in a variety of roles – entry level, business development and executive level for selection and development purposes. We work with leaders who see value in learning more about themselves and their people. Our clients understand that people seek out the work they think they deserve and they can do better.

As a talent consultant, Juan Kingsbury guides teams and individuals to turn self- awareness and peer awareness into opportunities. He believes that, put in the right environment, any individual can and SHOULD be a superstar performer and be eager to prove it. Additionally, he collaborates with other consultants, recruiters, trainers and executives to foster their own expertise in talent management and recognition with Career Blindspot training and coaching.

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Rockstar Workforce helps businesses grown by maximizing the potential of their people. They specialize in identifying and developing emerging leaders resulting in a more productive and results-driven organization.

Adam Wong brings over 15 years’ leadership and business management experience to Rockstar Workforce, including expertise in building high-performance teams, leadership development, sales, operations and administration. Most recently, he held key leadership roles at TTI Success Insights, a global leader in talent management. As Senior Vice President of Professional Services, he worked with mid- to enterprise-size businesses, leading efforts to implement new hiring and people-development initiatives.

In July of 2018 he launched his own consulting and leadership development company, Rockstar Workforce.

Adam is a professionally certified emotional intelligence analyst and a professional behavioral analyst. He has personally trained over 1,000 business professionals in the areas of emotional intelligence, self-awareness and the DISC behavioral assessment.

Adam holds an M.B.A. from Grand Canyon University and a B.A. from Northern Arizona University.

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.

E11 Fabrice Allibert from Talaia and Tom Stokes from Workday

July 23, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E11 Fabrice Allibert from Talaia and Tom Stokes from Workday

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E11 Fabrice Allibert from Talaia and Tom Stokes from Workday

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Joe Pusz, PMO Joe has a great discussion with special guests Fabrice Allibert from Talaia OpenPPM and Tom Stokes from Workday. We are also excited to officially announce the partnership between Talaia OpenPPM and THE PMO SQUAD! As the US Partner for Talaia, THE PMO SQUAD will be assisting in the Sales process to US prospects as well as supporting Talaia’s US clients with Professional Services.

Joe begins the show discussing the July Phoenix PMI Chapter dinner meeting and the presentation from Special Guest Steven Fullmer. Mr. Fullmer lead an entertaining and thought provoking discussion on how our brain works and what causes “Funnels and Logjams” with our thinking. This is great topic for Project Managers to help us better understand how our teams can be utilized more efficiently.

Joe kicks off the Project Management discussion with Fabrice learning more about the Talaia OpenPPM solution and how it differs from other products currently on the market. Talaia OpenPPM is the first PPM tool built according to the PMBOK standard. We also learn Talaia is a mid-tier solution not competing with Enterprise class tools such as Planview and Clarity or Task Management tools such as Asana and Trello. Fabrice responded to a tweet regarding AI in the PPM space. Tom offers many years of perspective and experience working for several leading organizations. He shared with us his key personality traits of a Project Manager. Tom responded also provided a response to a listener tweet asking about Soft skills vs Technical skills. We engaged in a great discussion on debate of Waterfall vs Agile, with some new responses compared to what we’ve heard on previous shows. There are many more topics discussed in this fast moving one hour show!

Thank you to our Sponsors, TALAIA and THE PMO SQUAD. TALAIA is a European based PPM Software solution provider which is entering the US market. To sign up for a free 30-day trial and learn more about this PMBOK aligned solution visit – http://en.talaia-openppm.com

Fabrice Allibert, graduated in Business Administration by the University of Jonköping (Sweden). More than 15 years working on IT companies. Started to work as a Service Manager in Packard Bell, than as Service and Support Director in NEC Computers International managing partner alliances and services for the EMEA and LATAM region. In 2007, started to work for SM2 Software and Services Management where he is in charge of business development. In 2012, Fabrice initiated the new TALAIA OpenPPM Business line and is currently the director of the division in charge of the overall business management.

TALAIA OpenPPM is a 6 years old solution. TALAIA started in 2012 and is today present in more than 15 countries. TALAIA is a business line of the company SM2 Software and Service Management. SM2 is a 120 person company established more than 20 years ago. SM2 provides end to end solutions delivering projects and Consulting services, integration systems, outsourcing services, software products; helping to empower its customers with the latest IT Technology.

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Tom Stokes is the Release Manager with Workday. Tom has an engineering background, coupled with experience in testing and process implementation. As a Project Manager since 2005, he lived through the evolution from CMM waterfall to today’s Agile methods. Being very philosophical, Tom simply looks for the best methods to suit the current business context. Outside work, Tom is an competitive formation skydiver and curler.

Connect more with Tom on Linkedin and Facebook.

Workday is a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) product providing a single system for Finance and HR. With updates every Friday and major releases twice a year, “the power of one” means every Workday customer is running the same version. A 98% customer satisfaction and 30% revenue growth shows that Workday is in the right place at the right time.

ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned. Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”

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.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

Project Management Office Hours is powered by The PMO SQUAD and TALAIA OpenPPM.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

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.

Dominique Hypolite of because Event Space and Shayla Van Hofwegen of Owl Love You Forever E5

July 23, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Dominique Hypolite of because Event Space and Shayla Van Hofwegen of Owl Love You Forever E5

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Dominique Hypolite of because Event Space and Shayla Van Hofwegen of Owl Love You Forever E5

because Event Space (“because” stands for beauty and events for a cause), is a family-owned Phoenix event venue that gives back to seven local charities in a major way.

The space’s success is largely due to its generous heart. For every event booked in the Phoenix event space, 10 percent of your booking cost goes back to a charity of your choice. Patrons can choose from seven different charities – The Arizona Humane Society, Children’s Cancer Network, Owl Love Your Forever, Vet Tix, Phoenix Rescue Mission, Hustle Phoenix or Chrysalis. If a nonprofit books the space, 10 percent of their booking cost goes back to their own charity.

In addition to giving back, because is focused on enriching the space with local art from dozens of Valley artists. The walls are lined with original, colorful works that brighten the clean, stunningly decorated space.

The space itself has so many flexible options for events, from weddings to film screenings. There is a theater, cocktail space, rooms for brides and grooms to get ready, business meeting spaces and much, much more.

because is the passion project of the Sweet family, who truly live up to their name. The family owns automätik, the award-winning, all-encompassing automotive training facility directly next door to because.

With a past life as a dancer and musician and over 15 years of customer service experience, Dominique Hypolite is a kind of because renaissance-woman performer/musician/logistics genie. Known to friends as Dee, she is as inimitable as they come! Born in Germany, and raised in Beantown, this Southie has been all over the map—Chicago, Houston, and Missoula each hold a spot in her heart, but more recently Dominique calls Phoenix home. No stranger to the spotlight, Dee is not afraid to bust a move when the mood strikes her, reliving her stint dancing with the prestigious Boston Ballet, no doubt. Whether ballet to breakdance to coordinating the fine details of an event, Dominique has got all the right moves!

Born with a servant’s heart, Dee has spent most of her life giving back, volunteering for many charities, and organizations. From balancing several events into perfect harmony, to finding the perfect florist, Dee has a lock on all things logistics. She’s here at because to help make your vision become a reality! Taking charge behind the scenes, and serving as a “human arrow” from time to time, has opened her eyes to a career that fits her creative, eclectic personality to a “T”. Through all the chaos that comes with event support, Dominique still finds time to relax and enjoy her family. With two amazing kids, plus all things because, there is never a dull moment in her life—and she wouldn’t have it any other way!

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Owl Love You Forever’s hope is to create a memorable and positive hospital experience for families that lose their baby before, during, or shortly after giving birth. We provide boxes with meaningful items for the families, including specially designed blanket sets and a soft stuffed owl. Help us fill these grieving mom’s arms by donating online today.

Shayla Van Hofwegen, along with her husband Arie, founded Owl Love You Forever to help turn tragedy into joy after saying having to say goodbye just a few hours after her twin’s birth.

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About 3C Amplified

3C Amplified is a space to highlight businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals collaborating to amplify their impact in the community. We share real world examples for how partnerships allow for growth both within our businesses and our communities. Listen in as we share how others are connecting, creating and collaborating and how you can be part of something greater.

About Jacqueline Destremps

Jacqueline Destremps is a creative marketing strategist and founded Another Hand Advantage, LLC in 2014 to help community minded small business owners and nonprofit professionals move forward more confidently with their marketing strategy. After graduating from Arizona State University with a degree in Psychology, she has spent her professional career working in both the nonprofit and for-profit sector.

She now enjoys being self-employed and the flexibility it provides to allow more time to volunteer, serve on nonprofit boards, choose pro-bono projects, run 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun (which she co-founded in 2014) and travel the world. Jacqueline believes in creating connections between businesses and nonprofits in the community to stimulate growth and collaboration.

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CULTURE CRUSH RX Brenda Silveus with Pioneer Title Agency

July 13, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

CULTURE CRUSH RX Brenda Silveus with Pioneer Title Agency

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CULTURE CRUSH RX Brenda Silveus with Pioneer Title Agency

In this episode of Culture Crush Rx, Deb chats with Brenda Silveus of Pioneer Title Agency. Brenda shares the details of several of Pioneer’s incredible initiatives to give back to the community and foster a work environment where everyone feels like family. Pioneer Title Agency has 70 offices across the state of Arizona and more than 600 employees – yet the company president Keith Newlon knows each person’s name and makes an effort to connect. Brenda shares about their 30th anniversary partnership with the Arizona Trails Association in which the entire company teamed up to cover all 811 miles of the Arizona National Scenic Trail and doubled their goal of raising $30,000 for the organization and their ongoing to efforts to engage the staff in loving the communities they serve.

Culture Crush Rx listeners will enjoy learning about a family-run business that truly cares about its people and its communities. If you’re wondering how you can cultivate a business based on doing good, this episode is for you!

Pioneer Title Agency has operated under the basic philosophy of ‘Commitment to Service’ since its inception in 1985, which extends to a commitment to service to the community. A proud family-owned business with 76 branches including Pioneer offices as well as sister company, Yavapai Title Agency, focuses on title insurance, escrow, trustee sales and builder-related trust services.

This is a business deeply rooted in their people, each of whom helps to drive far more than just the bottom line. They have helped us to embody a culture that is firm in its belief of helping others, their communities and each other.

Brenda Silveus is the Northern Arizona Area Manager for Pioneer Title Agency.

Named the 2017 Citizen of the Year by the Arizona Daily Sun and both the 2011 Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce Athena Award Winner as well as a 2016 Phoenix Business Journal Outstanding Women in Business honoree, Silveus has been a member of Pioneer Title Agency since 2003. She is currently the president of the Flagstaff Symphony and a past-president and graduate of the Flagstaff Leadership Program as well as a past-president of the Northern Arizona Association of REALTORS, Northland Family Help Center, Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona and Soroptimist International of the Arizona Peaks, respectively.

Currently, Silveus also serves on the board of directors for Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona. In 1997, she helped to found Hope’s Closet, a non-profit organization working to provide clothing to women who are working on returning to the workforce for professional interviews and meetings.

Silveus is deeply involved in the community stewardship vision, ideas and program development for Pioneer branches across Arizona.

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Theresa DiNatale-Lyon and Claudia Castaneda with Enchanted Island Amusement Park and Laura Pahules with Arizonans for Children E4

July 11, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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The theme of this week’s show was community partnership. Now in its 8th year of partnership, Laura Pahules from Arizonans for Children and Theresa Lyon from Enchanted Island Amusement Park shared what made for their successful partnership.

Listeners will want to tune in to hear how sometimes all it takes is simply asking a potential partner for what could benefit your organization. That’s what happened 8 years ago when Laura’s husband walked into the offices of Enchanted Island Amusement Park. Growing from that one simple ask has been years of making dreams come true for families affected by foster care.

Enchanted Island Amusement Park is an amusement park in Encanto Park with 11 rides and attractions as well as has a boat dock for Pedal Boat rentals. Enchanted Island hosts Company Picnics, Birthday Parties, Group Outings and a day “Just for Fun”! Enchanted Island Amusement Park works to assist non- profits in the Phoenix Area. Their goal is to give back to the community that they are a part of. They work diligently with Arizonans for Children to host an annual Foster Festival at Enchanted Island where we serve over 3000 foster children and their foster families.

Enchanted Island is grateful along with Arizonans for Children for our local vendors that come along side to support such a huge undertaking. One of the many goals of the Foster Festival is to provide a day of complete fun for these foster youths as well as reach new adults that help volunteer during this event to consider being mentors to one of these children in need. For additional information please contact Arizonans for Children in Phoenix.

Theresa DiNatale-Lyon has been the owner of Enchanted Island Amusement Park in Phoenix since 2005 as well as the operator of the Daisy Mountain Railroad in Anthem, AZ since 2002. Theresa is married to Kraig Lyon, the co- owner of these businesses, and the mother of 3 children, the oldest of which just graduated from Northwest Christian School and is headed to NAU for this fall. While attending college Theresa worked full time at the Target Stores and quickly was promoted to an Executive Team Member. In her early years Theresa received a Nursing Assistant Certificate.

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Claudia Castaneda is the General Manager of Enchanted Island Amusement Park.

Arizonans for Children’s mission is to facilitate opportunities that provide effective solutions to alleviate hardships and improve the fragile lives of the abused, abandoned, neglected children in foster care.

Laura Pahules is the Executive Director of Arizonans for Children. She came to Arizonans for Children in 2016 after working with homeless families and vulnerable children in various capacities including Juvenile Court.

Arizonans for Children allows Laura the ability to make systemic changes that actually improve the lives of the vulnerable children in foster care. Laura is a wife, a grandmother and an advocate for vulnerable children.

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