In episode 28, I interview Layla Alexander. Ms. Alexander is an investment analyst at Female Founders Fund, a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. Prior to joining Female Founders Fund, Ms. Alexander worked at Goldman Sachs on the Real Estate Investing Team in addition to her work at Google, Harlem Capital, and Cleo Capital. Layla’s passion for supporting marginalized communities began at her alma mater, Columbia University, where she worked with the Columbia Organization for Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE) and Almaworks, CORE's startup accelerator, which focused on mentoring undergraduate and graduate student founders.

In episode 27, I interview Debra Hare, who leads us through an exclusive personal branding exercise. This lesson on one's personal brand is vital in capitalizing on personal strengths, growing from weaknesses, and developing an authentic corporate personality.

Ms. Hare has spent over three decades focusing on providing business development and leadership coaching to service firms. Right now, she serves at Morgan Lewis as a business development coach, and she aims to help lawyers cultivate successful relationships while promoting the firm’s goals and projects. In addition to her background in legal marketing, she spent over 15 years as a businesswoman at highly successful architecture and engineering firms. I hope you enjoy the 20 minute background and advice from Ms. Hare before her insight on personal branding!

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EXCLUSIVE INFO: sneak peak! During the episode, Mrs. Weed shares a story about writing Get Me Carlucci she's never told before. Listen to learn more!

Mrs. Weed is the author of “Get Me Carlucci: A Daughter Recounts Her Father's Legacy of Service.” Get Me Carlucci combines former Secretary of Defense Frank C. Carlucci’s own words with interviews from his contemporaries and context from Mrs. Weed, who completes her late father’s story while keeping his “characteristic deadpan humor and tell-it-like-it-is sensibility.” Despite having never seeked the spotlight, Carlucci was once called “Washington’s Ultimate Survivor” by the Washington Post after serving over 6 presidents and ultimately shaping the world. Mrs. Weed has displayed incredible research skills in her writing after scouring through both newspapers in her attic and in the Library of Congress.

In episode 25, I interview Bria Peace. Ms. Peace is an Assistant Vice President at Bank of America in New York City, focusing on wealth management and hedge fund origination. She sources, structures, and manages equity hedge fund products for Bank of America's wealth platform, working with hedge fund managers to select offerings for ultra-high net worth client portfolios. Bria also recently joined the board of En Garde Arts (engardearts.org), an artist-centered non-profit theater production company, that supports playwrights, directors, composers and designers creating site-specific work through New York City. As a board member, Ms. Peace assists En Garde with fundraising, business strategy, event planning, and increasing viewership.

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In episode 24, I had the pleasure of interviewing Tanika de Souza, a remarkable individual celebrated for her prowess as a business coach. With appearances on major news networks like MarketWatch, NBC, FOX, CBS, and ABC, she has showcased her exceptional skills in empowering women entrepreneurs to achieve the milestone of earning 100k in their own unique ways. Tanika isn't just a coach; she's a thriving entrepreneur herself, having founded both the 100k Society and her own delightful bakery, Cupcake Dropoff.

In episode 23 I interviewed Alison Mudditt

Ms. Mudditt has been CEO of the Public Library of Science since 2017 and is committed to building an open, equitable, and sustainable system of scientific knowledge production and sharing. Prior to her current role, Alison served as Director of the University of California Press, and as Executive Vice President at SAGE Publications. The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine.

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In episode 22, I interview Marjorie Brennan.

Ms. Brennan is the Medical Director Children's National Hospital Ambulatory Surgery Center and Imaging Center. She is the founder as well as the current director of the JDT Foundation, which addresses educational and environmental challenges in Haiti. Additionally, Ms. Brennan is a nationally recognized speaker on issues of health fairness in the developing world.

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In episode 21, I interviewed Leonorah Boulter.

After studying Construction and Cost Management Engineering in 1992, Ms. Boulter worked for the United Nations to build a massive airbase in Africa. In Hong Kong in 1994, she helped engineer some of the world’s biggest bridges and airports. From 2007 to 2016, she worked in Dubai on the Formula 1 race track Abu Dhabi. In addition to all of this, she started her own company, Evercreate.

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