I am so excited about today's guest. She is a family friend of my husband Craig's and has become a friend and mentor of mine. She happens to also be a stepmom and a Kickass one at that.

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Gay Gaddis is an entrepreneur, author, artist, and trailblazer. She's the founder of T3, one of the largest woman-owned independent advertising agencies in the U.S., which she led for over 30 years. She's a popular speaker on women's leadership, company culture, and entrepreneurship, and wrote the book Cowgirl Power: How to Kick Ass in Business & Life.

She's a contributor to Forbes and founded Women Who Mean Business, a women's development program that she co-teaches at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.

Gay has received numerous awards including the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Texas, 2021 Hall of Fame Award by the McCombs School of Business, the Liz Carpenter Lifetime Achievement Award, Fast Company's Top 25 Women Business

Builders, Inc. Magazine's Top 10 Entrepreneurs of the Year and C200's Luminary Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.

Gay is also an amazing artist and her bold and vibrant paintings have been shown in a number of prestigious galleries around the country including New York City and Santa Fe. Texas Monthly magazine named Gay as one of "10 Artists to Collect Now." Gay and her husband own and operate the historic Double Heart Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, home to Gay's private art studio and gallery, Fossil Ridge.

You can snag a copy of Gay's book HERE, and you can find Gay:

LinkedIn: GayGaddisInstagram: @GayGaddis Facebook: @Gay.Gaddis

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