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Helping Others Helps The Community E41
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Helping Others Helps The Community E41
Community, company culture, covid stories, entrepreneurship, personal development, social impact, and more were talked about in this Collaborative Connections Radio Show and Podcast episode.
Kalani Fo, Business Development Manager at Bitwise Industries, Jeff Toppel, Partner at Farhang & Medcoff, and Cameron Harman, Co-owner of Workhorse Digital Solutions were on-air with host, Kelly Lorenzen.
If you want to hear great anecdotes, positive stories, tips, and advice from entrepreneurs, a scaling business that cares about its social impact, and an attorney, then check out this outstanding episode.
Workhorse Digital Solutions is a digital marketing firm based out of Mesa, Arizona that specializes in lead generation through Google Ads and only Google Ads. Working specifically with service based industries and working on the local level, they form working partnerships with their clients and help them not only with lead generation, but setting up systems, providing trainings, and helping their clients optimize their sales processes.
Workhorse Digital Solutions started in 2021 and just celebrated their second year in business and look forward to many many more.
Cameron Harman was born and raised here in Arizona and started his entrepreneurial journey in 2020 after spending the last 10 years as a software developer.
After working at larger companies like Boeing and Republic Services, he made the switch to developing software and working on servers for smaller local companies before finally starting a Digital Marketing agency with his business partner.
Cameron spends his free time running trails, reading, trying different kinds of food, coaching volleyball, and hanging out with his wife and four daughters.
Bitwise Industries is dedicated to building tech economies in underestimated cities across America, providing meaningful tech opportunities, and transforming lives through modernized technology.
Our team of experts can create custom applications and websites tailored to your business and maximize daily workflows, resulting in increased ROI and improved client engagement.
Kalani Fo is a powerful business driver whose entrepreneurial instincts and clarity of vision have helped multiple organizations achieve rapid and continuous growth. Kalani is distinguished by his passion for business, focus on collaborative team-building, and commitment to meeting customer and market demands.
Outside work, Kalani is an environmentalist, surfer, snowboarder, and trail runner. As much as he loves his Mother Earth, the most important women in his life are his wife and daughter.
Follow Bitwise Industries on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Farhang & Medcoff is an Arizona law firm with offices in Tucson and Scottsdale. F&M is a minority-owned law firm that is focused on finding cost efficient and creative solutions for its clients in a number of practice areas.
F&M delivers impactful results to its clients across a range of practice areas, including probate litigation, corporate law, real estate transactions, labor and employment law, and mergers and acquisitions.
Jeffrey Toppel represents employers and high-level executives in a wide range of employment-related disputes, including wrongful termination and discrimination claims before various state and federal governmental agencies, as well as the entire spectrum of NLRB, general labor relations and employee relations matters.
His preference is providing proactive advice to prevent his clients from finding themselves in litigation.
Jeffrey has served as a member of the Arizona Society of Human Resources Professional’s State Council as its Director of Government Affairs and has testified before the Arizona Senate’s Rules Committee on a proposed labor reform statute.
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About Collaborative Connections
Kelly Lorenzen started the “Collaborative Connections” show to bring her clients and favorite charities together to meet each other, connect and collaborate in life and business.
She hopes to build a stronger community one show at a time.
About Our Sponsor
KLM is a one-stop support shop for small business owners who are starting, growing, or trying to sustain. Our purpose is to foster the growth and prosperity of small businesses in our community.
Entrepreneurs & small business owners come to KLM for support in all areas of business. KLM clients think of us as a concierge, business snuggy, another arm, or duplicate for the business owner; They call us when they need us. Business owners can continue to do what they love while having the support they need when they need it.
About Your Host
Kelly Lorenzen, CEO of KLM, is an award-winning entrepreneur with over 15 years of business-ownership experience. She is also a certified project management professional.
Kelly’s expertise is in business development, customer service, marketing, and sales.
Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn, and follow KLM Consulting on Facebook.
Brian Ellerman, Rafael Tapia and Flora Tromelin with FORGE
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Brian Ellerman, Rafael Tapia and Flora Tromelin with FORGE
FORGE (Finding Opportunities and Resources to Grow Entrepreneurs) is a unit of University of Arizona Research, Innovation and Impact. FORGE develops programs and events that engage students, entrepreneurs, researchers, mentors, and investors in entrepreneurial thinking and startup acceleration.
FORGE has three missions: cultivating entrepreneurial mindset in all students, advancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem where the University of Arizona operates, and driving the scale and launch of promising startups. Become part of the mission at forge.arizona.edu
Brian Ellerman founded FORGE (Finding Opportunities and Resources to Grow Entrepreneurs) in 2019.
Ellerman has over 25 years medical and health technology experience and has traveled the world connecting top incubators, accelerators, startups, and venture firms to critical business problems and corporate ventures.
Ellerman is active in the startup community, founding several companies and serving on the board of the Desert Angels.
He is a strong advocate for expanding access to expertise and capital for early-stage entrepreneurs. Ellerman holds degrees in Medical Technology; Management Information Systems; and Legal Studies.
Brian Ellerman is joined by FORGE Mentors in Residence Rafael Tapia and Flora Tromelin.
Rafael F. Tapia, Jr., of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, is the Native FORGE Mentor in Residence and Vice President of Programs at Partnership With Native Americans (PWNA) serving hundreds of reservation communities in 9 states and improving the quality of life of Native citizens residing in mostly remote and under-resourced communities.
Rafael’s experience is concentrated in human, economic, workforce, and community development. He served as the senior advisor to the office of the chairman of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Arizona Department of Commerce Tribal Liaison to the 22 Arizona Indian Tribes, consultant, and is a small business owner.
Rafael holds an MBA from the University of Arizona and an Economic Development Certificate from Oklahoma University College.
Flora Tromelin is a FORGE Mentor in Residence and the founder and CEO of FCT Strategies, an LLC located in Phoenix, Arizona.
Flora is an expert in public affairs and communication, with over 20 years of experience in management, diplomacy, marketing, communication, international protocol, and event management, and many years of experience supporting local initiatives for non-profit organizations.
She received her master’s in marketing and management in Reims, France. Flora is the former Chief of Protocol to the U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco where she was one of the Ambassador’s close advisors. She oversaw creating and implementing cross-cultural diplomatic events and projects.
She is passionate about building relationships that foster long-term partnerships on an international scale. She is the wife of a now retired U.S. Army officer and the proud mother of 2 teenagers.
Brandon Fougnies with Strict Vision Athletics
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Brandon Fougnies with Strict Vision Athletics
Strict Vision Athletics is the most elite private training facility in Arizona, offering private and semi-private training and physical regenerative one on one work.
Strict Vision Athletics is home to the Becoming the 1% Podcast studio and is currently the number one elite 1:1 training facility in Arizona.
Brandon Fougnies started training with professional athlete and NFL strength and conditioning coach Ian Danny during his senior year at Gilbert Christian High School. Brandon continued to train with Danny over the years as an intern and eventual part-time trainer.
Brandon graduated Westmont College with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology and Exercise Science. Between graduation of his bachelor’s degree and the start of his master’s degree in Exercise Science at Concordia University, Brandon started Strict Vision Athletics Training Facility.
Brandon has spent 13 years in the fitness industry and is celebrating his 9th year as the owner of Strict Vision Athletics Training Facility.
Because of the training facilities success, Brandon was able to create his own podcast studio where he hosts the 1% of leaders in diverse industries Each podcast guest shares their story of how they became one of the most successful leaders in their respective industries.
Connect with Brandon on LinkedIn and follow Strict Vision Athletics on Facebook and Instagram.
Are You In the Dark? E142
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Are You In the Dark? E142
Ismael Navarro joined Tycoons to talk about cybersecurity and some of the things you can do to stay safe on the web. He discussed what to avoid and what to do when being online both personally and professionally.
Tune in to hear Ismael talk about the dark web, email safety and logging on in public. To learn more you can go online to thecounterveil.com
Counterveil is a boutique Cyber Defense organization used for cybersecurity content development and resource augmentation to support a range of cybersecurity applications needs for large scale organizations.
Counterveil also offers XDR and SOAR products.
Ismael Navarro is an Army veteran who worked in security and defense services for over 20 years before moving into Cyber Defense.
He has worked as a cybersecurity subject matter expert for organizations like Microsoft, Gilead, T-Mobile, MUFG and Union Bank.
He is the author of several patents in cybersecurity and has provided Advisory services for countless CISOs.
Connect with Ismael on LinkedIn.
About the Show
Tycoons of Small Biz spotlights the true backbone of the American economy, the true tycoons of business in America… the owners, founders and CEO’s of small businesses. Join hosts, Austin L Peterson, Landon Mance and the featured tycoons LIVE every Tuesday at 1 pm, right here on Business RadioX and your favorite podcast platform.
About Your Hosts
Austin Peterson is a Comprehensive Financial Planner and co-founder of Backbone Planning Partners in Scottsdale, AZ. Austin is a registered rep and investment advisor representative with Lincoln Financial Advisors. Prior to joining Lincoln Financial Advisors, Austin worked in a variety of roles in the financial services industry.
He began his career in financial services in the year 2000 as a personal financial advisor with Independent Capital Management in Santa Ana, CA. Austin then joined Pacific Life Insurance Company as an internal wholesaler for their variable annuity and mutual fund products. After Pacific Life, Austin formed his own financial planning company in Southern California that he built and ran for 6 years and eventually sold when he moved his family to Salt Lake City to pursue his MBA.
After he completed his MBA, Austin joined Crump Life Insurance where he filled a couple of different sales roles and eventually a management role throughout the five years he was with Crump. Most recently before joining Lincoln Financial Advisors in February 2015, Austin spent 2 years as a life insurance field wholesaler with Symetra Life Insurance Company. Austin is a Certified Financial Planner Professional and Chartered Life Underwriter. In 2021, Austin became a Certified Business Exit Consultant® (CBEC®) to help entrepreneurs plan to exit their businesses.
Austin and his wife of 23 years, Robin, have two children, AJ (21) and Ella (18) and they reside in Gilbert, Arizona. He is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts in French and of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management with a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in sales and entrepreneurship.
Connect with Austin on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Landon Mance is a Financial Planner and co-founder of Backbone Planning Partners out of Las Vegas, Nevada. He rebranded his practice in 2020 to focus on serving small business owners after operating as Mance Wealth Management since 2015 when Landon broke off from a major bank and started his own “shop.”
Landon comes from a family of successful entrepreneurs and has a passion and excitement for serving the business community. This passion is what brought about the growth of Backbone Planning Partners to help business owners and their families. At Backbone Planning, we believe small business owners’ personal and business goals are intertwined, so we work with our clients to design a financial plan to support all aspects of their lives.
In 2019, Landon obtained the Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) designation through the Exit Planning Institute. With this certification, Backbone Planning Partners assists business owners through an ownership transition while focusing on a positive outcome for their employees and meeting the business owner’s goals. Landon is also a member of the Business Intelligence Institute (BII) which is a collaborative group that shares tools, resources and personnel, and offers advanced level training and technical support to specifically serve business owners. In 2021, Landon became a Certified Business Exit Consultant® (CBEC®) to help entrepreneurs plan to exit their businesses by counseling owners about exit options, estimating the value of the business, preparing the business for exit and tax considerations.
Landon enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, stepson, and new baby twins. He grew up in sunny San Diego and loves visiting his family, playing a round of golf with friends, and many other outdoor activities. Landon tries to make a difference in the lives of children in Las Vegas as a part of the leadership team for a local non-profit. He regularly visits the children that we work with to remind himself of why it’s so important to, “be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Landon received his B.S. from California State University Long Beach in business marketing and gets the rest of his education through the school of hard knocks via his business owner clients.
Connect with Landon on LinkedIn.
Fear is Love That has Forgotten Itself E15
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Fear is Love That has Forgotten Itself E15
A “common feature of fear – it usually highlights where we need to grow,” we read in “Unfear,” the book that Rooted & Unwavering guest Gaurav Bhatnagar wrote together with his colleague Mark Minukas. Believing that we are separate and forgetting that we are all part of the same essence, consciousness, causes us to lose our sense of well-being.
Being exhausted is a sign that we have are not yet recognizing we are part of an infinite energy that is always available to us. We begin to wake up to this recognition by taking the perspective of the observer – realizing we are not our thoughts and feelings and that we have thoughts and feelings.
Deeply seated in this knowing, we experience joy and play, that allows us to practice ‘detached engagement’ with the challenges around us. We know who we are in essence, don’t get lost in our own thoughts and feelings that may be about trying to fix something, and we keep self-regulating: is this thought helpful now? How be and do what is needed now?
Co-Creation Partners is a consulting firm specializing in change management with a proven approach to creating large scale performance and culture transformations. The firm’s proprietary “inside-out” approach to business transformation, is detailed in the widely acclaimed book “Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Results and Well-Being” co-written by Gaurav with Mark Minukas (McGraw Hill Dec 2021).
The “inside out approach” first addresses mindsets as a basis for creating sustained and profound shifts in behaviors for individuals, teams and entire organizations and then proceeds to technical/systemic solutions; it works first at the level of the individual, then proceeds to teams and finally to the whole organization.
Gaurav is also an evangelist for the idea of Co-Creation – working WITH organizations not ON them, partnering with and guide leaders and staff to make their own choices about how to transform. This approach is essential to building excitement and commitment within the client organization for the transformation.
Gaurav Bhatnagar is the founder of Co-Creation Partners and has dedicated more than two decades to working co-creatively with organizations to deliver performance and culture transformations and enhance leadership development. He has been a trusted adviser/ coach/ counselor to C-suite and other senior leaders in the process of transforming their organizations, with a special focus on coaching them on personal mastery, difficult conversations, and strategic thinking.
Since founding Co-Creation Partners in 2010, Gaurav has designed and led performance and culture transformations for private, public, and social-sector clients across multiple industries, including financial services, basic materials, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology. His journey in this space started in 2003, with work that his colleagues and he did on themselves and their own organization at McKinsey and Company, South Africa.
After many failed attempts, they were able to step change both performance and employee engagement and make the Johannesburg office one of the best performing offices across the McKinsey system. Just as importantly, after many years spent, he felt an enormous sense of well-being and vitality from connecting to meaning and developing a deep awareness of his own internal processes and mindsets.
This was the origin of his belief that human beings are the DNA of the organization and when a critical mass of human beings in an organization transforms the whole system tips over into a different way of being and doing. This insight is the basis of Co-Creation Partners’ proprietary “inside-out” approach to business transformation, as detailed in the widely acclaimed book “Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Results and Well-Being” co-written by Gaurav with Mark Minukas (McGraw Hill Dec 2021).
The “inside our approach” first addresses mindsets as a basis for creating sustained and profound shifts in behaviors for individuals, teams and entire organizations and then proceeds to technical/systemic solutions; it works first at the level of the individual, then proceeds to teams and finally to the whole organization. Gaurav is also an evangelist for the idea of Co-Creation – working WITH organizations not ON them, partnering with and guiding leaders and staff to make their own choices about how to transform.
This approach is essential to building excitement and commitment within the client organization. Some of Gaurav’s recent work includes: • Enhancing the transformation and change capabilities of the transformation office of a leading financial services organization in the US.
About Rooted & Unwavering
Peace, Compassion, Wisdom, Purposefulness, Creativity and Strength come online in us when we deeply connect with the true, unwavering greatness that lives within ourselves and others.
In this podcast and radio show, Hylke Faber, seasoned transformational coach and author of the award-winning Taming Your Crocodiles series, engages in deep inquiry with leaders from all walks of life about courageously connecting with our true selves, others and the world at large.
How do we stay connected to our true selves and our greatness, especially when we are challenged? How do we rest in the heart, also when our mind keeps us restless? What becomes possible when we truly stay committed to our own and others’ best selves, also when we don’t feel it? How do we practice staying connected to our true selves, in the midst of our busy lives?
Join us and leave inspired to act on your heart’s greatness and that of the people around you.
About Our Host
For as long as he can remember Hylke Faber has been curious about what this life is about. His ongoing inquiry has become his work: helping people individually and collectively to discover what is possible in life and express that authentically and fearlessly.
Hylke started his work life with Towers Perrin as consultant and then as Partner with Strategic Decisions Group, serving a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer electronics and life sciences companies. A major shift occurred during this critical phase of his life. He had become the typical, hard-charging, 16-hours-a-day strategy consultant, and was burning out at a rapid clip.
When he discovered meditation, everything changed. He was so taken by his new discoveries that he chose to bring to business what he was learning: that there is a way we can have it all – we can be fulfilled, do work we love, and create extraordinary results with others. He thinks of it as creating a sense of ease in business.
He learned how to coach and facilitate human transformation completing his coaching certification with Newfield Network and by working at Axialent, the culture and leadership company. After a few years, he founded Co-Creation Partners together with other leaders in the field of transformation and personal development. Then he formed Constancee to help people grow by creating the conditions where deep personal, interpersonal and organizational shifts happen routinely.
He leads Growth Leaders Network, the culture and team development consultancy. He has also taught coaching at Columbia Business School Executive Education and has contributed to Harvard Business Review. He is currently teaching a course on Climate Conscious Leadership at Arizona State University. His award-winning book, Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader, was published by Dover in 2018.
His next book, Taming Your Crocodiles Practices for Leadership Depth, came out in 2020. Besides helping others grow, which he loves, he is a trained opera singer, enjoys hiking and writing, is an avid reader, in particular of biographies, and is always in the process of growing himself. He integrates all of what he learns in his work with executives.
Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.
About Our Sponsor
Realizing Your Greatness
We are a team of experienced facilitators and coaches dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive by helping them recognize their innate greatness and putting it to work.
- Executive Coaching: we work with clients individually to help them connect to their calling and use every challenge as an opportunity to help them grow more into what makes them great.
- Team Performance: we help teams evolve to their next level of excellence, connectedness and impact by working on the root drivers of team performance.
- Culture Development: we help organizations to evolve their culture by creating clarity about where they aspire to go, and by building role models, coaches and systems that catalyze people being energized to work the new way.
- Key Notes: we deliver powerful speeches at conferences and other events that help audiences become energized, more connected to themselves and each other, more open to discovery and ready to commit to the next stage of learning in their career and life journeys.
Growth Leaders Network (GLN) serves Fortune 500 companies, smaller organizations and non-profits globally.
GLN clients report that we catalyze significant business transformational impact and profound shifts in people, team and organizations at the root cause level.
Learn more about the Growth Leaders network here.
Common Mistakes to Avoid in eCommerce E4
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Common Mistakes to Avoid in eCommerce E4
Attention all ecommerce entrepreneurs! In this episode of eCommerce Insights: Trends, Tips and Lessons Learned, atmosol discussed things to avoid when building your online store. Here are a few of the valuable insights:
- Don’t skip the planning phase.
- Don’t skimp on design and user experience.
- Poor product descriptions lead to loss of sales.
Listen to this episode of eCommerce Insights: Common Mistakes to Avoid in eCommerce to learn valuable information to help you succeed in your eCommerce ventures.
Thom Stricklin is a Solution Engineer for atmosol and has been with the company for nine years. He has been involved in web development since creating his first simple website as a high-school sophomore over 25 years ago.
Through the years, Thom has picked up a wide range of related skills, from front-end development, design and UX; to back-end development and application architecture; and as diverse as server management, DevOps, branding, logo design, and sales.
The marriage of technology and creativity is a driving force for Thom’s interest in the Web. Though he spends less time these days working on front-end development, his “first love” as technologies go is CSS. This same joining of the technical and creative can be seen outside of work, as well–some of his favorite personal interests are photography, woodworking, and smart-home technology.
Before joining atmosol, Thom worked in the public sector, helping to develop a world-class content management system for K-12 education as well as undertaking one of the largest re-branding projects in the state of Arizona.
This background has formed his career at atmosol, as he brings the same spirit of service and care to each and every merchant. He knows all too well that businesses with limited technical resources depend on their partner agencies to make informed choices, and strives to maintain atmosol’s reputation as a company that merchants can trust.
Connect with Thom on LinkedIn.
Jorge Garcia’s journey through design and development has run the gamut of web and software development. He is Front End Development UI/UX with atmosol. He has been fortunate enough to work with talented teams building small and large websites.
He has gained additional experience with web applications and software, creating customer support websites, and data center management infrastructure solutions. He also spent some exciting and rewarding years in the games industry, where he worked with teams making mobile and console games.
Throughout his practice, he has learned a lot of methodologies, development models, and engineering theories. This has allowed him to couple his foundation in art and design with development know-how to create user interfaces that provide real solutions.
User experience is an essential facet of great interface design. He has spent years learning and applying established UX practices to his design and development process. He loves analyzing user data, mapping out interaction models, creating and testing prototypes, and studying use cases. He has applied user experience practices across different applications, websites, and software that resulted in great interfaces with valuable and long-lasting results.
He enjoys making prototypes, from wireframes and paper prototypes to low-fidelity prototypes in XD, or Balsamiq, to rapid prototypes in HTML/CSS/JS. He believes that modeling out interactions and use cases leads to great software, and he uses prototyping and wireframing to quickly and efficiently meet his development goals.
About eCommerce Insights
eCommerce Insights is about bringing people together to discuss the vast landscape of eCommerce covering topics like technology, conversion optimization, branding, and marketing. The show focuses on how to build, manage and grow your online business using scientific and predictable methods thereby reducing uncertainty and risk. Our guests include vendors, merchants, experts, and technology partners shaping the world of eCommerce.
About Our Hosts
Ram Mohan is CEO and partner at atmosol, an ecommerce and technology company. He has spent over two decades in technology and eCommerce consulting helping companies ranging from small to fortune 100 achieve their business goals using technology.
As CEO, Ram leads atmosol’s eCommerce and SaaS services business working with our clients. In addition, he leads a team that runs an eCommerce portal in the meetings and events sector focusing on the EMEA market. He is also responsible for several SaaS products that are envisioned, built, and marketed by atmosol in different verticals and geographies.
Ram enjoys keeping up with and gaining a deep understanding of the latest trends in technology and eCommerce so he can help atmosol and our clients avoid hype and adopt trends that offer a tangible impact on our businesses.
Honey Olesen is the Director of Operations with atmosol and has substantial experience in leadership, management, operations, project management, digital marketing, human resources and data analysis. She deeply understands how businesses work and can take complex concepts and make them easy to understand for both employees and customers. She has worked at atmosol for over 11 years and has had the opportunity to work with some great brands and people in ecommerce, marketing and business.
Before entering the world of technology, Honey worked with some fantastic business owners in the building industry – soaking up knowledge of business day-to-day operations and growing her professional development.
She believes that in order for businesses to be successful, they need to have a clear mission and purpose, make sure the business goals are aligned with the values and stay focused on what’s important. She believes this is the same for individual success: find a place where your mission, purpose, goals, and values align with the company.
About Our Sponsor
Atmosol is a technology company working at the intersection of eCommerce and SaaS software. Our deep expertise in web development in addition to our long partnership with eCommerce platforms enables our clients to break through eCommerce platform barriers and build experiences that amaze their customers. Being in the eCommerce business ourselves running a meeting and events sales portal in the EMEA, we know the trials and tribulations our customers face firsthand.
In addition to eCommerce, we also build highly scalable SaaS products for our clients. We’ve also built and marketed our own successful SaaS products in different verticals.
Follow atmosol on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Brandi Powell and Carla Eunice with Village of the Valley
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Brandi Powell and Carla Eunice with Village of the Valley
Village of the Valley is 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Phoenix, Arizona helping women who’ve experienced abuse, heal and grow from the effects left behind.
Brandi Powell has been a Transformational Life Coach since 2013 receiving her certification from Southwest Institute of Healing Arts.
Her primary focus has been working with women who have experienced trauma and abuse.
In 2017, she founded Village of the Valley in order to fill a gap in social services and create larger access to mental health wellness.
Carla Eunice has been a Transformational Life Coach with Village of the Valley (VOTV) since 2020. Carla supports women in their healing journey through one-on-one life coaching and co-facilitating Coaching from the Couch workshops.
She has served on the VOTV Board of Directors, but recently stepped down to focus on her passion for working with the ladies. Prior to becoming a life coach, Carla was a 2019 graduate of the VOTV program. After experiencing such an incredible transformation, she knew she had to give back to the organization.
Carla believes unhealed trauma and abuse surface in destructive ways. The only way to heal from abuse and trauma is by dissecting the emotional wounds, cleansing them, and reconstructing them in a way that beneficially serves us.
Carla says that walking beside women as they heal can be emotionally difficult, but the rewards outweigh the heaviness when she witnesses the transformational change her clients experience.
“In a perfect world, there wouldn’t be a need for the work that VOTV does, but this world isn’t perfect. Trauma is part of the human experience; but so is courage. And so is healing. It takes courage to heal. So be courageous in the pursuit of you!”
Alan Underwood with Angel Flight West
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Alan Underwood with Angel Flight West
Angel Flight West delivers health and hope using donated flights to serve those with healthcare or other compelling human needs. In the air, Angel Flight West links volunteer pilots and commercial airlines with people whose non-emergency health needs require air transportation to access care. On the ground, volunteer drivers ferry passengers to and from their departure and destination airports.
The ability to travel easily across the country is something that most of us take for granted. But for those in critical situations, the financial, physical, and emotional burdens can make an ordinary trip extraordinarily difficult. That’s when they turn to Angel Flight West. Our network of 1,800+ volunteer pilots fly their own planes and pay for all costs out of their own pockets in order to make these important journeys.
From our headquarters in Santa Monica, California, our dedicated team manages the process that make our work possible: arranging all missions, matching pilots with passengers, spreading the word throughout the healthcare and social work communities, and continuously recruiting new volunteers. It’s much like running a small airline, carried out with extra compassion. All services are free to our passengers, their families, and healthcare organizations.
Not only have we earned the gratitude of our passengers, we’ve earned the trust and respect of a long list of organizations: large research hospitals, children’s hospitals, VA hospitals, specialized treatment centers, small rural healthcare center, children’s protective services, domestic violence shelters, and special camps for children with medical needs.
When someone’s transportation needs are a barrier to accessing the care they need, organizations both large and small know they can depend on Angel Flight West. We’re proud to help them.
Alan Underwood is a pilot, entrepreneur, commercial real estate investor, multi-family real estate developer, a single-family real estate investor and a committed go-giver.
He’s also a Command Pilot and the Arizona Outreach Coordinator for Angel Flight West.
As an Angel Flight Pilot, Alan gets the privilege of using his training and skills to help people who need medical treatment but can’t afford the cost of transportation.
Alan has launched and scaled multiple businesses from $0 to multi-millions in the restaurant, automotive, aviation, insurance, and real estate industries. As an entrepreneur, he understands how to help people, businesses, and capital grow.
More importantly, he’s a husband and father (8 awesome kids and one labrador). He’s been blessed in his life to have learned from numerous failures and a few incredible successes.
