TrailBlazers Impact
326 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsEmpowered women and men share their secrets to success in extraordinary stories. Stories that touch your heart and soul and make you realize it is possible to prevail even in the face of gender bias and/or racial discrimination to blaze your own trail when there is no clear path ahead. Super entrepreneurial "how-to's" to help you launch your own business!
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Ep. 68-Gina Goree Hitchens: Keep Your Tribal Sisters with You
February 02, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 28.8 MBGina Goree Hitchens wants women to create a life of their calling. A major component is a firm financial foundation, and it’s what she helps clients develop through her practice GHG Financial Consulting. Hitchens empowers women with financial skills and knowledge to prepare for the uncertainties of life. Hitchens believes in getting to know her clients and helping them develop a vision for the future, such as retirement and how to provide a financial legacy. She especially relishes assis...
Ep. 67-Lisa Alexander: Faith, Family, and Filmmaking from a Prolific Marketing Expert
January 26, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 29.2 MBLisa N. Alexander details the personal and professional journey to becoming The Marketing Stylist™. The owner of PrettyWork Creative LLC and PrettyWork Studios, Alexander is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and marketing expert. Through her consultancy work, she helps small business owners grow their operation with strategic marketing and branding strategies. Alexander shares the challenges she faces in a male-dominated industry, and how she has built her business through intense ded...
Ep. 66-Linda Vines-Bright: Every Child is a Magnificent Individual
January 19, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 42.1 MBLinda Vines Bright has devoted her career to children. She’s passionate about supporting learners with special needs, using her methods to address and support many different learning styles. As a child she was very active, quickly finishing her work and wanting to help other students — but this behavior at the time was considered disruptive. When building out her career she wanted to support children through holistic education practices and helping children feel loved and listened to, whic...
Ep. 65-Barbara Daniel: The Fight Isn't Over Yet
January 12, 2020 07:00 - 37 minutes - 35.5 MBAs Founder of the Cleveland Women's Journal, a digital and print magazine, Barbara knows what it takes to start a new business after being in another field for many years. Barbara and Nan talk about entrepreneurship, women's health and well-being, spousal abuse, sex trafficking, and dealing with breast cancer and death of a spouse. As a woman who knows who she is and where she's going, Barbara's thoughts are enlightening, inspiring, and helpful.
Ep. 64-Vanessa Elle Wilde: Dare to Suck
January 05, 2020 07:00 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MBVanessa’s approach to life’s challenges and stresses is to reignite your creativity with play. She gives you her recipes which include hot yoga, silent discos, and fires on the beach with your girlfriends. And to remember there’s always a chance for failure and that’s OK. Her company’s mission is to unlock clients’ potential with improv, helping businesses achieve happier and healthier teams. With women’s groups, she uses the power of play to foster greater confidence, self-trust, and deeper...
Ep. 63-Rosemarie Harris: Don’t fear to strike out on your own
December 29, 2019 07:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBRosemarie Harris has maneuvered effectively through the ins and outs of corporate life, spending 22 years at a large company before starting her own. Her only regret — not making the leap to launching a business sooner. Charting her path has been the right move. Secured Systems Consulting helps clients nationwide with regulatory compliance in the affordable housing industry. Her joy comes from helping her clients with the many challenging administrative tasks involved in working with HUD. ...
Ep 62-Lisa Kleissner: Change Moves at the Speed of Trust
December 25, 2019 07:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MBAdvocacy started early for Lisa Kleissner. During her high school days in Hawaii, she pushed for environmental causes, earning the ire of school administrators when bringing in scientists and activists who challenged prevailing wisdom. Kleissner’s desire for change continued throughout her life, culminating in her founding of the KL Felicitas Foundation. Together with her husband Charly, she supports entrepreneurs who have the vision for a business with a social mission but require the men...
Ep. 61-DeeDee Strum and Nan McKay: Growing Up Black vs. White
December 22, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.6 MBTrailblazers Connect host DeeDee Myers shares with friend and fellow co-host Nan McKay how her family’s experiences with racism inform her dedication to lifting up women and people of color. Myers describes her father being turned down for a corporate management job in 1960s Detroit because white workers would not accept authority from a black man. This led him to the military, while still imperfect, offered greater opportunity for him to move up the ranks. Myers was determined that the ...
Ep.60-Sherese Brewington Carr, I come from generations of social change agents; I am who I was Intended to be!
December 15, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBSherese Brewington Carr provides a rapid-fire delivery of her professional insights into the world of migrant farm work, the criminal justice system and what it takes to help both veterans and ex-offenders to successfully transition into the contemporary workplace. She shares her foundational beliefs established as a childhood "farm girl" who benefited from the larger culture of rural community activism and a world class educational opportunities gained at two Historically Black Colleges and...
Ep.59-Carnela Renee Hill: The power of ‘walking afraid’
December 11, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBDesign is about more than aesthetic choices for Carnela Renee Hill. It’s building relationships and new opportunities for strengthening others. Hill shares her journey of tackling each day as it comes, relying on belief that God will guide her in what she sees as her ministry. Her design business accelerated in 2015 when she was invited to help decorate the White House at Christmas for an HGTV special. She's the owner of the CR Hill Design Group, which is the culmination of a journey out ...
Ep. 58-Carena Lemons entertainment law and an acting career.
December 08, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes - 31.7 MBCarena Lemons can seemingly do it all, with a successful law practice and an acting career. In this episode, Lemons explains how career choices are often intertwined, lending strength from one to another. Her Raleigh, N.C.-based law firm, which she’s worked hard to build over the last 13 years, is strengthened by her knowledge of the entertainment industry. With that experience, Lemons has done considerable work in entertainment law and can connect well with her clients. As for acting, i...
Ep. 57-Jewel Burks Solomon advocate for representation in and access to the technology industry.
December 04, 2019 14:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MBThe joy of entrepreneurship was instilled in Jewel Burke Solomon at a young age. Growing up in Mobile, Alabama, she was inspired by the pride her parents had in their business and the sense of respect the community showed them. Her childhood was filled with warm memories of international travel and a passion for the arts. An entrepreneurial drive set in early, as she sold her own paintings while in high school. Solomon thrived while at Howard University, parlaying her success to an inter...
Ep.56-Linda Dupre Hull: Sr. level financial managers are "problem-solvers" and not worker bees.
December 01, 2019 14:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBLinda Dupre Hull, age 67, provides powerful insights into a childhood where at age 12 she became a partner with her father in developing the family budget and managing the family finances out of the necessity of ensuring the family could survive off of his earnings. She shares the backdrop of being a life-long resident of New Orleans; a city defined by its history of segregation and poverty, and coming to understand very early on the absolute necessity for adopting a personal budget, managin...
Ep.55-Rocio Cavazos: Engineer Turned Successful Investor.
November 27, 2019 14:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBGrowing up in a society where gender bias was prevalent, Rocio Cavazos always found that she was attracted to professional industries where women were few and far between. She started out as an engineer then later transitioned into finance where she worked on Wall Street for 12 years in another male dominated industry. Being passionate about empowering women and wanting to create an impact through social purpose led her to focus on micro-finance where she could empower low income women in ...
Ep.54-Teri Ljeoma: Successful Stocks Trader Top 4 Trading Secrets
November 24, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBTeri Ljeoma shares her 4 secrets to trading in the stock market. Her interest in the stocks market started when she was in high school, and she worked on Wall Street to learn the trade. She credits her mother and her grandmother for her success today, her drive to persevere and that motivation to keep going. Creating her course "Trade and Travel" has been one of her major contributions, teaching individuals how to invest in the stock market and how to make their money work for them. The succ...
Ep.53-Jennifer L.W. Fink: Single Parenting, Depression, and Writing about Boys
November 20, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MBJennifer gives her thoughts on the journey of raising four boys, much of the time by herself as a single parent. She has struggled with depression, thinking that depression equals sadness and when people aren’t exhibiting sadness, she felt they must be pretending. She talks about her real love, writing, and her transition, starting with journalism, to becoming an award-winning freelance writer. Surviving a divorce, home schooling, and parenting and then getting remarried, she has experience ...
BONUS-Donna Miller: We Have It! Let's Use It! Women Helping Women
November 17, 2019 14:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBDonna Miller founded a company called Purse Power, providing everyone an opportunity to purchase from women-owned businesses, including businesses with 20% women on the board. Knowing that one out of four women is impacted by domestic violence, she wanted to accomplish two goals: provide more shelters for abused women while giving more economic power to women to make choices to support other women. She also has built a phone app to locate women-owned businesses near you. Since women make 80%...
Ep.52-Ellen Walsh: A Global Perspective of Discrimination
November 17, 2019 14:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBEllen Walsh reflects on a childhood filled with the joy and discoveries of living in Hawaii, Japan and Iran, along with the pain-filled memories of living in Mississippi in the mid-to late-1950s; a state where segregation was the "law of the land" and witnessing her mother's pain as a brown skinned Polynesian married to a white Portuguese engineer. Her mother was directed to the "colored door" while her father was directed to the front door. Her mother chose to stay home rather than bear the...
Ep.51-Betty Lou Larson: Insight into the reasons and magnitude of homelessness.
November 13, 2019 14:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBWorking for Catholic Charities as a homeless advocate, even into retirement, she still represents the organization's priorities in homelessness at the State Legislature. She provides an insight into the reasons and magnitude of homelessness. She talks about Housing First as the best, but expensive, program and provides an example of how this worked for a chronically homeless mentally disabled individual. She has worked in transitional housing as a bridge, especially for families, and discuss...
Ep.50-Debbie Feinberg: Living her convictions to stay close to her authentic self.
November 10, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBDebbie grew up in an environment of helping others and was a creative entrepreur as a child. She talks about her Jewish heritage and living in Israel for a year during a particularly tumultuous time politically. We went on to talk about children and gun violence, including her fears for her own children. She discusses living her convictions and staying close to her authentic self at all times. We discuss roles for women, both traditionally and today. We discuss her career, focused on marketi...
Ep.49-Sharon Hirota: Quit my Job or Stay?
November 06, 2019 14:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBSharon Hirota, a native of the Big Island of Hawaii, was faced with a difficult decision. Her boss had resigned, she was chosen to replace him, and then he decided not to quit. She was at a crossroads. Should she go back to her old job or should she leave? She had been with the agency for 16 years. She had demonstrated her creativity. When her housing program needed a shot of creativity in decreasing the waiting list turnover, she developed a new program for families on the waiting list, usi...
Bonus: Kent Watkins: I Helped Write the Civil Rights Act
November 03, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes - 31.7 MBKent’s podcast is a gift for students of history! He was directly involved in the passage of the The Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Kent gives us inside information on how the law actually was passed and what it is like to participate in the March on Washington. He also describes his work at HUD as Secretary Weaver’s Chief of Staff and involvement in prod...
Ep.48-Diane Jackson-Chapman: Standardized Tests Said Below Average to Average - Now Have My PhD
November 03, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBDr. Jackson-Chapman revisits memories of growing up in the days of a vibrant, thriving Gary, Indiana; a steel-mill city devasted by the decline of manufacturing in the 1980s-90s and the disinvestment that followed. She reflects on her lessons-learned as a young parent determined to fully achieve her academic and professional dreams. She discusses the many women (and 2nd husband) who became the "wind beneath her wings" propelling her across the finish line with her PhD and all while taking on...
Ep.47-Janice Stewart: Birmingham Church Bombing: I Was There
October 30, 2019 14:00 - 38 minutes - 36.2 MBOne of our most powerful episodes to date, Janice Stewart describes seeing the 16th Street Church in Birmingham burning as she was headed to Sunday school. Sunday, September 15, 1963, at 10:22 a.m., the church became known around the world when a bomb exploded, killing four young girls attending Sunday School and injuring more than 20 other members of the congregation. In this episode of Trailblazers Impact, Janice transports you to the scene of the bombing and makes you feel like you were w...
Ep. 46-Brianna McDonald: A Champion Against Bullying
October 27, 2019 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBBrianna McDonald was bullied as a child, including being held under water in a lake by five girls, until it became so bad, her parents had to move to another town. It still affects her today as she struggles with the Imposter Syndrome. As President of Keiretsu Forum Northwest, a funder of women-owned businesses, she explains how company investment works and how women-owned companies can qualify for funding. She discusses alternative investment opportunities in futuristic companies. She talks...
Ep.45-JoAnn Yukimura: It's the Greatest Joy to See Things Work!
October 23, 2019 14:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MBJoAnn Yukimura explains her love of Kauai, her early years on the island, and her efforts to preserve and protect her island home. As Mayor and County Councilperson for Kauai, she learned to use her voice to influence policy including restrictions on development for setback and height limitations. One of her most signficant contributions was the development of public transportation which made it easier to get to work because of the high cost of living. She founded a cooperative for electrici...
Ep. 44-Verna Jones-Rodwell: Hope, Health and Healing in Elected Office
October 20, 2019 14:00 - 28 minutes - 27.4 MBVerna Jones-Rodwell shares her early start as a community organizer and advocate for affordable housing and community development where she worked to improve the living conditions of Baltimore's poorest families. At age 34 she launched her first campaign for political office seeking to represent her district in the Maryland House of Delegates. She talks about the lessons learned after losing that race, but vowing to herself that she would not be defeated. She subsequently won her next four c...
Ep.43-Sharon Cossey and Gail Gillespie: Life, Discrimination, and Divorce
October 16, 2019 14:00 - 19 minutes - 19.1 MBSharon, Gail, and Nan, long-term friends on a retreat in Las Vegas, talk about a variety of subjects from growing up experiences to going to Maya Angelou's Black Tie birthday parties given by Oprah to discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere. Gail gives some great advice on choosing a marriage partner, surviving an abusive household, and being a young woman in today’s climate. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Pl...
Ep. 42. Molly McKay Williams: The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage
October 11, 2019 14:00 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBDaughter of Nan McKay, Molly shares what is was like being on the front lines of the fight for marriage equality in California for over 15 years. As co-founder and Media Director of Marriage Equality USA, Molly describes her journey through the the early days of marriage equality advocacy all the way through the day that LGBT marriage became legal. She shares what it was like to be Grand Marshall of the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, then marrying a woman after marriage was legal, to the sa...
Ep.41-Case Lane: Prepare for the Future!
October 09, 2019 14:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBHaving been to 100 countries and lived in 11 of them, Case Lane describes her experience as a foreign diplomat and global traveler. Educated in communications, political science, business, law and economics, her website, readyentrepreneur.com, provides advice to people thinking of starting a business all the way to experienced entrepreneurs. As an author, she discusses her process of writing and getting published. As a futurist, she has had a front row seat in Hollywood where she witnessed t...
Ep.40-Patzetta Trice: Own Your Dreams
October 06, 2019 14:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBPatzetta Trice recounts a childhood fueled by the leadership and sage advice her father shared with his daughters to include the values of "Faith, Family and Community". Living these values became her personal mission informing the professional and civic outcomes that led to the receipt of local, national and global awards. She shares her personal perspective on "success" as being that of "what she could help facilitate for other"s as she climbed the corporate ladder at GM; often "embraced",...
Ep. 39-Marisa De Lecce: New Swimsuit Line Featured in Oprah!
October 05, 2019 00:35 - 22 minutes - 21.5 MBIn this episode, Marisa takes us on her journey that started with a career in healthcare and moved into launching a now very successful swimwear line, Hermoza Swim. With Colombian and Mexican parents, her family went from rags to riches through hard work, dedication and perseverance. Before starting the swimwear line, she worked for the non-profit, Rivers of Hope, owned by Chargers' quarterback Philip Rivers and his wife Tiffany. She and Tiffany hit it off so well that they formed a company ...
Ep. 38-Raynette Halvorsen Smith: Scenic Designers Now in Video Games
September 29, 2019 16:01 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MBRaynette discovered she was the only female in her profession and shares her first-hand experience with the disparity in pay of women professors and the resulting changes, in part due to Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the advent of the birth control pill, and the changes brought about by the civil rights movement and the 60's and the relation to the current environment. She talks about jobs today in scenic design with an emphasis on video games. Her work as a designer and scenic artist has tak...
Ep. 37-Elsie Escobar: Fireworks Sound Like Gunshots!
September 25, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBElsie is a woman icon in podcasting with 4 shows including She Podcasts! With a background in acting, she transitioned seamlessly into her new career and now works for Libsyn, a podcasting hosting company. She discusses her challenges with immigrating from El Salvador, especially dealing with the after effects of growing up in a country in distress. When she first came to the U.S., she was ridiculed for her inability to speak English, and was afraid of letting her voice be heard. She w...
Ep. 36-Mildred Morgan Ball: A TV Commercial Star at Age 80
September 22, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBMildred Morgan Ball takes us through her incredible journey filled with many instances where she found herself as the "first and only.” Starting with her high school experience in the late 1940s, and continuing through an illustrious career of advocating for gender and racial equity in athletics and the performing arts. At the age of four, she experienced the formidable passing of her mother and witnessed her father became a widower with eight children to raise. A “salt of the earth” stee...
Ep. 35-Lisa Preston: No Secrets in This Family
September 18, 2019 07:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBIn a world that seems to be growing increasingly more dangerous by the day, Lisa Preston, a former hostage negotiator, provides important tools for parents about how to guard against potential child abusers and gives valuable advice about how to speak to your children about safety. Drawing from her background in the police department where she worked in vice, and crimes against children, she talks about the biggest cases she worked, and what she learned from them in regards to the most effec...
Ep. 34 Cara Gillette: Community and the Joy of Bringing New Life in this World
September 15, 2019 07:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBOne life changing moment changed the way she looks at human rights. She believes every woman should give birth the way she feels most comfortable and there is no wrong way or one more spiritual than the other. She believe without the roadblocks she wouldn’t have grown. Three years after her divorce, while raising 4 children, she decided to further her education. One thing that was key for her was to be there for her children. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above a...
Ep 33-Janise Graham: I Have Clubs, Too!
September 11, 2019 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBWorking within a male-dominated industry, she discusses how she dealt with the challenge of fitting in. She talks about knowing your history so you know how to move forward in life and the importance of women knowing who they are and their purpose. She also gives advice on the key insurance coverages for businesses, especially business succession planning. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Please visit our website for...
Ep. 32-Anita Harden: Mentors Made the Difference
September 08, 2019 07:00 - 36 minutes - 34.4 MBAnita talks about her personal battles to overcome recurring attacks of self-doubt fighting back the absence of self confidence born of her introverted personality but all the while recognizing her abilities to achieve each goal she established. Her career was fueled by mentors and personal cheerleaders helping her to elevate from nurse to hospital president to entrepreneur as she entered retirement. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with...
Ep. 31-Janice Greene: I Lived in Two Different Worlds: Black and White
September 04, 2019 19:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBJanice established the distinction between purpose and mission and what she wanted personally in childhood. She talks about how to wend your way through the corporate environment to survive. She shares her thoughts on dealing with racist attitudes and gives advice to young women today. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Please visit our website for more inspiring stories: www.TrailBlazersImpact.com Subscribe to our ...
Ep. 6. Beth Cole: “Segregation Now, Tomorrow, and Forever?" Hell, No!
September 02, 2019 23:57 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBPart 1: Beth Cole’s history of activism and social change dates back to the presidential campaigns of Bobby Kennedy and George McGovern. This demonstrated commitment caught the attention of McGovern’s campaign coordinator, Frank Mankiewicz, such that when he assumed the position of president, National Public Radio, the federally financed radio network of news, public affairs and cultural programming for much of America, he brought Beth on with him. Beth eventually became a Vice-President of ...
Ep.30-Penny Wing: Part 1. I Love Building Companies and Taking Risks
September 01, 2019 19:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBPenny shares the story of her globe-trotting life from England and Germany to Japan and back to America. She describes making the challenges associated with the transition between a variety of countries cultures. She shares with us the experience of working with Professor W. Edwards Demming; the guru credited with the beginning of quality, productivity, and competitiveness. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Please vi...
Ep.30-Bonus-Penny Wing Part 2: Aging Parents, A Struggling Business, and a New-er Marriage
September 01, 2019 19:00 - 21 minutes - 21.3 MBDescribed as a serial entrepreneur who has created and sold several businesses, Penny talks about how to deal with the work-life balance when you have aging parents with health issues, a business that needs a new home, and a still-young marriage to keep alive. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Please visit our website for more inspiring stories: www.TrailBlazersImpact.com Subscribe to our email list to get all our l...
Ep.29-Diana Vellos Coker: Be a Voice for Those Who Can’t Speak for Themselves
August 28, 2019 19:00 - 21 minutes - 21 MBAs a daughter of a Belizean immigrant, Diana Vellos-Coker decided to become an immigration lawyer to bring about a change she saw needed in the immigration system. She had to convince her father that being an attorney was appropriate for her as he was of the belief that there were certain occupations that were appropriate for women like being a nurse and there were other occupations that were less honorable like her choice of profession. Diana Vellos-Coker also shares some of the fears exper...
Ep. 28-Emily Loya: Lost My Dad to the Bermuda Triangle
August 25, 2019 19:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBEmily shares her early childhood family trajedy of losing her father, a 1934 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who was subsequently "lost", along with his entire flight crew, in the infamous "Bermuda Triangle" towards the close of WWII; her early years of nursing at a time when "doctors were Kings" (and nurses their "subjects"); the social challenges of entering into an mixed race marriage in the early 1970s and raising children in the formally segregated south right at the start of integra...
Ep.27-Jocelyn Bronson: Don’t Listen to the Negative Voice in Your Head
August 21, 2019 19:00 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MBJocelyn’s journey to finding self is a journey shared by so many other women caught between the world of “low expectations of women” to her world of high expectations for herself. She shares her-story of moving from a young “self”, replete with marital trials, a major medical diagnosis and marrying men “like my father”, to college grad at age 42 and climbing the ladder to Town Clerk. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network...
Ep. 26-Tara Peters: 16 Year Old Teen Mom to PhD at 36
August 18, 2019 19:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBTara describes the challenges and difficulties in being pregnant in high school and then being a teen mom. She is a role model for teens facing the same issues today. She credits her family for helping her raise her son who has become an attorney today. She has a passion for traveling to 30 countries and talks about her first solo experience in traveling to Switzerland. Her professional career in education provided her an advantage point to shape the future. She discusses teen suicide and s...
Season 2 Bonus: David Northern: Overcoming Challenges, a Change in Direction and a Determination to Make a Difference
August 14, 2019 19:00 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBDavid’s biological father was a gangster; he was in the burn unit with severe burns in 3rd grade; and he grew up in the murder capital of the U.S in the 90’s. Overcoming challenges and obstacles, he has risen through many positions to become an executive director and leader in the affordable housing industry. He is a community leader and inspiration to all. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Please visit our website fo...
Ep. 25-Robin Kardon: Authors: How To Get Published
August 14, 2019 19:00 - 23 minutes - 22.7 MBRobin grew up in a dysfunctional family looking for love, craving attention. She shares what she learned did and didn't work. She went on to : lawyer, pilot, interview coach, author. She explains the process for writing, and publishing a novel. SHOP for her book, Fly Girl, on the trailblazersimpact.com website. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Please visit our website for more inspiring stories: www.TrailBlazersIm...
Ep. 24-Carmella Davis Watkins: Research, Publish & Present! if You Want to Call Yourself a "Scientist"
August 11, 2019 19:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBCarmella Davis Watkins became a research scientist and meteorologist after completing her undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Maryland College Park accomplishing advanced studies in meteorology at Penn State. She became a trailblazer dedicating her 35 year career to researching the science behind climate change and weather. If you liked what you heard, please hit the SHARE button above and share this episode with your network! Please visit our website for more ins...