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Billy Boughey with Elevate Experiences and Sylvia High with Aiming High

February 7, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Billy Boughey with Elevate Experiences and Sylvia High with Aiming High

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Steven Julian, Billy Boughey, Sylvia High, Mike Sammond

Bill Boughey/Elevate Experiences

Billy Boughey has a personal media brand that provides physical and digital resources to help leaders grow. Billy is the Founder and President of Elevate Experiences, a business focused on the Leadership Culture, helping companies Live and Lead at a higher level.

Sylvia High/Aiming High

Aiming High is a mindset that empowers people to live the most fulfilling lives possible. They will provide you with highly effective tools to initiate and sustain the groundbreaking redesign of your life now, and into the future. Discover what you don’t know, that you don’t know. Bust up the hidden beliefs that may be standing between you and the career, business, or relationship that you want. Cultivate beliefs that grow your ability to achieve, even when the goal seems far out of reach. They probably won’t teach you very much, but you’ll learn more than you may ever have thought possible when you undertake the Aiming High Experience.

Live and Learn Program Coordinator Kristin Chatsworth and Arizona Career Pathways Director Kerrie Adney-Walker E11

October 15, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Live and Learn Program Coordinator Kristin Chatsworth and Arizona Career Pathways Director Kerrie Adney-Walker E11

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Live and Learn Program Coordinator Kristin Chatsworth and Arizona Career Pathways Director Kerrie Adney-Walker E11

Arizona has one of the highest poverty rates in the United States, and this poverty disproportionately affects women and children. Seventy-nine percent of the state’s single-parent families live in poverty and are headed by women, and 24% of Arizona’s children live in extreme poverty. At the same time, Arizona has a failing education system. The state ranks 45th in the nation for educational quality and has a high-school dropout rate that is among the highest in the country, at over 23%. This climate of high-poverty and low-education traps Arizonans in a cycle of generational poverty, which is when a parent’s poverty hinders the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral development, as well as the educational and professional attainment, of their children. Generational poverty spurs higher poverty rates with each subsequent generation. This becomes everyone’s problem as high poverty rates lead to higher taxes, higher rates of incarceration, higher crime, and less stable communities.

Live and Learn’s research-based economic empowerment program seeks to end this cycle. We are a Phoenix-area nonprofit that serves women whose lives have been affected by severe poverty, violence, and homelessness. Our mission is to break the cycle of generational poverty through life-skills and career training for women that leads to financial self-sufficiency. Live and Learn was founded in 2012 as an initiative of the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation. The Live and Learn Program piloted under the umbrella of the Arizona Foundation for Women for three years with great success. Having proved its efficacy, Live and Learn became an independent 501(c)3 in 2015.

Our program works by providing structured, individualized support to clients. This support focuses on the five crucial aspects needed to reach economic independence: education, career planning, psycho-social support, life-skills development, and financial literacy. Success in the Live and Learn program is achieved when clients complete training and education programs in areas with high employment demand, when there is a realistic opportunity for clients to pursue further education and advancement in their field, and when clients secure and retain employment that offers a livable wage. Eighty-five percent of women who enter our program successfully complete it within two years, allowing them to lift themselves out of poverty and create a better future for their children.

Kristin Chatsworth has been our Program Coordinator since 2015, when Live and Learn became an independent 501(c)3. Her passion for our mission and clients has made her a vital part of our team. In her role as Program Coordinator, Ms. Chatsworth oversees the Client Coordinators, assists with clients in crisis, and coordinates the supplemental support offered to clients. Ms. Chatsworth has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Chapman University.

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Arizona Career Pathways is a workforce development intermediary program that responds to the needs of workers and key employers. Our mission is to demonstrate the substantial social and economic benefits that are achieved through investment in long-term credential and degree attainment for those who otherwise would not have the opportunity. Arizona Career Pathways defines the needs, identifies resources and brokers relationships that impact the education and training of a quality workforce, regional economic sustainability, and business growth.

Arizona Career Pathways recruits individuals who are unemployed, welfare dependent and/or underserved, living at or below 200% of the U.S. Poverty Guideline. Participants receive long-term job training resulting in a nationally recognized certificate or degree in a high demand Allied Health occupation that leads to high skill, high wage employment with benefits. High demand occupations are defined in collaboration with area workforce and economic agencies and key area employers. Examples of supported programs include Medical Assisting, Nursing, Physical Therapy Assisting, Surgical Technology, EEG/END, and Respiratory Therapy.

Arizona Career Pathways provides case management and life skills coaching, financial assistance, peer mentoring, job placement assistance, and other valuable support services to ensure successful educational attainment and long- term career success. ACP’s proven program model provides our students with the support and motivation required for them to achieve the workforce skills and experience that will help them to develop occupational skills, degree and certificate attainment, and the confidence that will ensure their employability. Arizona Career Pathways consistently implements and adapts innovative programs and advance systems to track program outcomes.

Kerrie Adney-Walker joined ACP in March 2011 and is currently serving as the agency’s Director/Counselor. Prior to joining ACP, Ms. Adney-Walker worked as an Academic Advisor in a university setting guiding students toward successful degree completion. Additionally, Ms. Adney-Walker has extensive experience in social services and case management empowering individuals with disabilities to thrive by helping them achieve their personal goals. In addition to holding a BA and two Master’s Degrees in Education, Ms. Adney-Walker is uniquely qualified to assist students seeking opportunity through education.

Widowed at a very young age, Ms. Adney-Walker worked full-time while trying to finish school and raising four sons on her own. She has faced the same types of barriers many of the current students also face – work, finances, childcare, transportation, time. This experience provides valuable insight into possible solutions and offers hope that despite a difficult situation, students can finish their education!

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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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Titania Huff with L².I.F.T Professional Services and Cindy Pitts Gilbert with Sister Knowitall

September 13, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Titania Huff with L².I.F.T Professional Services and Cindy Pitts Gilbert with Sister Knowitall

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Steven Julian, Cindy Pitts Gilbert, Titania Huff, Mike Sammond

Titania Huff/L².I.F.T Professional Services

L².I.F.T Professional Services is a coaching and consulting firm which enables entrepreneurs and small business owners to establish a strong foundation in business start-up and growth through Millionaire Mind shifting Masterclasses, Wallet-Whippin’ Workshops, WOW-Worthy One-on-One Programs, Tantalizing Trainings and Limitless Living Empowerment Events.

Cindy Pitts Gilbert/Sister Knowitall

A thirst for knowledge and genuine interest in people led her to where she is now; a certified trainer with over 30 years of corporate, small business and personal development training. Cindy’s has a wide range of experience as a district manager, national trainer , project manager, marketing specialist and system sales specialist for both National and International corporations. Ten years as a small business owner of a local coffeehouse and special event planner. Her desire to help others succeed stemmed from her role as a corporate trainer in corporate America. Cindy is a certified trainer and her personal journey as a advocate for health and wellness lead her to use her passion as a trainer to become “Sister Knowitall” helping others build better relationships and become healthier by teaching whole food nutrition, disease prevention, and natural alternatives to live a happier simpler healthier life.

Corrina Steward with Soul Wealth Coach and Michelle Lee with Athena Rising Now

July 31, 2018 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

Corrina Steward with Soul Wealth Coach and Michelle Lee with Athena Rising Now

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Corrina Steward with Soul Wealth Coach and Michelle Lee with Athena Rising Now

Corrina Steward is leading Team Prosperity to bring more than 150 conscious entrepreneurs who are changing wealth and business on the planet to her business coach, Shanda Sumpter’s, annual ZONE Event. Both Corrina and Michelle Lee emphasize that this event is one they never miss and is a must for entrepreneurs that want to change the world doing what they love… and to prosper at the same time.

The ZONE Event will be held September 28-30 in Phoenix, Arizona, where you’ll learn from HeartCore Business™ Founder, business coach Shanda Sumpter and her carefully selected roster of speakers how to do what you love – and make millions at it.

Shanda went from being completely broke to building several multimillion-dollar businesses, and she’s helped thousands of her clients build their movements to the six- or seven-figure mark.

When you come as Corrina’s guest you will also be invited to her private kick off the evening of September 27th where you will get her update on her New World Bank vision, how you can be involved and a live wealth activation. Because Corrina is a client of Shanda’s, she has a limited number of special priced guest passes for $197.

You can get access to these tickets here and join leading edge entrepreneurs changing wealth and business on the planet.

Corrina Steward is a Soul Wealth Coach. She is known for activating peoples soul purpose and creating miracle money and life breakthroughs to live their dream life. Corrina is an energy re-alignment specialist and teacher of the Spiritual Science of Heart Manifestation. A former United Nations consultant and Ivy League graduate, she awakens the transformation leaders to pioneer evolutionary change on the planet.

Following many years of awakening into her soul purpose, her “activation” into her divine spiritual blueprint (Corrina calls this the New Human Embodied!) occurred during a near death experience during the birth of her son Emmanuel.

What followed afterwards was an expansive opening into love and the knowing that money is love. Corrina uses her gifts of healing, intuition and manifestation to lead the Money is Love revolution and activate transformational leaders soul’s wealth to manifest abundance and money required to fulfill their souls mission.

Soul Wealth Coach is made up of a group of people, who collectively help other’s activate their soul purpose and create miracle money and life breakthroughs. Corrina Steward and her team, are using her gifts of healing, intuition and manifestation to lead the Money is Love Revolution and help others find their souls purpose.

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Michelle Lee is the founder of Athena Rising Now, LLC, has been a women’s empowerment coach for 16 years and is a powerful conduit of the Sacred Feminine. She deeply understands that when women are healed the planet can thrive.

Michelle’s Soul’s purpose and mission is to transform the female experience on the planet by helping women embody their innate value and worth, identify their Soul’s purpose and turn it into a thriving business that fits their desired lifestyle.

Women working with Michelle, shed their doubts and fear of inadequacy, learn to trust their intuition, tap into their unique expression and live as the sacred being they were born to be.

Michelle is the author of Fall in Love…with your Self hypnotic journey CD and the creator of countless weekend workshops including Mind Magic and Self-Love How to Get There from Here and most recently her book, Women: From Profit to Power, Your Guide to Claiming Your Worth.

Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn and follow Athena Rising Now on Facebook and Twitter.

NAWBO Phoenix Business Impact Award Finalists

May 30, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

NAWBO Phoenix Business Impact Award Finalists

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NAWBO Phoenix Business Impact Award Finalists

In this segment of Phoenix Business Radio, Host Karen Nowicki, sat down with incoming NAWBO Phoenix President, Ronit Urman, and the “Business Impact Award” Finalists to talk about their journeys to success, the challenges they’ve faced along the way and their untiring commitment to help others. While each of these leaders represent different industries and have their own unique perspective, talent and skill set, you’ll hear the shared enthusiasm, joy and mutual respect that quickly developed as their stories unfold.

The NAWBO Phoenix Business Impact Award is presented to a woman business owner who has built a successful and prosperous enterprise in spite of obstacles or challenges. This individual demonstrates innovation in her or his industry, gives back to the community, and has had a positive impact within her or his industry, community and economy of the metro Phoenix area. The Business Impact Award is one of several distinguished awards acknowledged by NAWBO each year.

Join NAWBO Phoenix for the 2018 “Desert Diamonds” Awards Gala honoring these women and many others who positively impact our community. The event will be emceed by Susan Casper, host of ABC15 TV’s Sonoran Living.

Wed, June 13, 2018
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM MST

The Clayton on the Park
7343 E. Scottsdale Mall
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

The National Association Of Woman Business Owners chapter (NAWBO) is the voice of America’s 10.6 million women-owned businesses. Since 1975, NAWBO has helped women evolve their businesses by sharing resources and providing a single voice to shape economic and public policy. NAWBO is the only dues-based national organization representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs in all types of businesses. There are chapters of NAWBO in almost every metropolitan area. NAWBO is represented in 33 countries across the world through its affiliation with Les Femmes Chefs d’ Enterprises Mondiales (World Association of Women Entrepreneurs). NAWBO’s strength comes from the diversity of its membership – all sizes from sole proprietorship to hundreds of employees; every industry from construction, importers, retailers to service providers – and in all areas of the country. Membership is open to sole proprietors, partners and corporate owners with day-to-day management responsibility. Active members who live in a chapter area automatically join both chapter and national. There is an At-Large Chapter for the women business owners outside the chapter areas

The Phoenix chapter is one of the top 10 chapters in US and has been around for 33 years.

Ronit Urman is the Designated Broker and CFO for Urman Enterprises, LLC, a family owned and managed real estate firm in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ronit began working in real estate in 1987 in Montreal, Canada, and has a lengthy background in accounting.

She and her husband Eitan have been working together for 31 years and have 2 grown children.

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Arizona Sunrays provides the highest quality programs for children of all ages, abilities and needs. Programs include: recreational and competitive gymnastics, dance, yoga, aerial arts, Ninja Zone, Supercamp, Active Preschool, field trips, birthday parties and adult classes. Arizona Sunrays’ mission is to offer a variety of high quality programs to our community as well as to empower individuals through fun and fitness! We are families serving families!

For 28 years Julie Witenstein has provided children’s movement activities that are the highest in safety, quality, fun, and inclusiveness. The generations of family support and long time connections are the wonderful bonus’s that have come from years of nurturing the dancers, gymnasts, campers and staff of Arizona Sunrays. Julie has employed hundreds of enthusiastic, caring people over the years, while maintaining a dedicated, core staff that has remained for decades! Arizona Sunrays, through Julie’s direction, developed a successful community outreach class program that lead to the opening of their first, brick and mortar satellite location in Arcadia last January.

Julie strives to use local businesses and vendors for cleaning supplies, equipment, cafe food and drinks, and the realtor, architect and builder for Arizona Sunrays’ new building. Julie has elevated Arizona Sunrays to be a leader in their industry by continually adding programs, such as year-round camp, a licensed Active Preschool, cafe, gift shop, affordable staff childcare, continuous training, education, and certifications for their staff and much more. Most recently, she spearheaded the building of their dream facility that opened in September of 2017. Mayor Stanton stated, “Arizona Sunrays’ building is the crown jewel of North 32nd Street!”

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Rose Law Group pc is a full-service real estate and business law firm practicing in land use, zoning, renewable energy, government relations and lobbying, administrative law, family law, transactional real estate, employment law, water law, Native American relations, ADA compliance, infrastructure finance, special districts taxation, business formation/corporation transactions, business litigation, school law, cyber-defamation, cyber-privacy, drone law, cannabis law, intellectual property, estate planning, asset protection, private litigation, class actions and DUI’s.

Rose Law Group pc values “outrageous client service.” We pride ourselves on hyper-responsiveness to our clients’ needs and an extraordinary record of success in achieving our clients’ goals. We know we get results and our list of outstanding clients speaks to the quality of our work.

Jordan Rose started Rose Law Group pc, leasing space for just herself in another lawyer’s storage room and has, in eighteen years, grown the firm to the largest woman-owned law firm in Arizona history.

Jordan’s passion is adding value to her client’s business propositions – her goal being “to make my clients more money”. The Phoenix Business Journal once asked Jordan what she enjoys most about the practice of law and she responded, “the ability to help people solve their problems.”

Connect with Jordan on LinkedIn and follow Rose Law Group on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

AMS Renatus Investing is an investment company focused on value add single family and multifamily investments. Strength in management and an emphasis on customer service has led to strong tenant retention and maximized ROI.

POTER Inc, is a 501C3 non-for-profit that provides over 50 support programs and outreach to various families, primarily focusing on refugees. The programs target infants, children, adults and seniors on a holistic level to help them become integrated and self-sufficient New Americans.

The combination of the for-profit and supporting non-profit leads to the success of the resident value as well as turning long time residents into vested homeowners within the immediate community, leading to the increased broad reaching neighborhood revitalization.

As the managing member of AMS Renatus Investing LLC since August 2011, Anna Sepic focuses on renovating homes with a specialty in the repositioning of large multi-family properties facing mismanagement and blight across the Greater Valley, with expertise in West Phoenix and Glendale. She has several other investment companies with her partners, all with the same mission and vision. Her oversite includes acquisitions, repositioning, management and dispositions for her companies. Grassroots community organizing is also a critical component that leads to such tremendous success of the housing projects and leads to overall large-scale community revitalization of the surrounding neighborhoods.

Anna is extensively involved in community work with refugees and the Hispanic communities. A firm believer in education, both formal and informal, she has seen the need for a multi-faceted approach at addressing complex social issues. As a result, POTER INC. was created back in 2013, whose vision focuses on formalizing the critical components necessary for empowerment and true raising up of the entire community. POTER INC takes a comprehensive approach to providing necessary tools to engage and empower the disenfranchised and marginalized. Its success lies in the extensive public-private partnerships with churches, schools, government agencies, businesses and other non-profit entities to provide trainings, orientations and various supportive programming for children, adults and seniors. POTER Inc. is officially active 501 (c) (3) since November 2015.

With a heavy community service attitude, Anna is very active in various community programs and boards. She has gone through several leadership and development programs as the youngest graduate at the time, including the DPS Citizens Academy, the Phoenix PD Citizens Academy as well as the FBI Citizens’ Academy, and most recently the MCAO Citizen Academy (2016). She also received the 2014 City of Phoenix “Volunteer Impact Award” from Mayor Stanton and Councilwoman Laura Pastor.

Anna also participated in the first two consecutive years of the St. Luke’s Health Initiative’s (now Vitalyst Foundation), invitation only, “Fellowship Cohort” that was established in 2013. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Maryvale Revitalization Corporation and working with various community groups in the Canyon Corridor as well as the North Mountain Redevelopment area, and was a graduate of the Valley Leadership Advance, Class #2 (2016).

A graduate from the W.P. Carey School of Business from Arizona State University with a Masters of Real Estate Development (MRED), she is now a “double devil” having previously completed her undergraduate degrees in just two and a half years (2011) with a double major and minor: Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Bachelor of Science in Justice Studies and Social Inquiry, and a minor in English. She stays in close contact with her Xavier/Brophy alumni as well (2008). In her spare time, she continues her passion for volunteer work by mentoring refugee youth, tutoring in English and writing and speaking at various engagements about refugees, innovative housing, and a young business leader, most notably to the recent Mandela-Obama scholars visiting Phoenix in June 2017.

Connect with Anna on LinkedIn and follow POTER, Inc. on Instagram.