Boardroom Sessions Podcast

A special Mid Quarantine podcast with some of my favorite people and mentors. They share their thoughts and advise on how to THRIVE during this collective pause in our lives. Some amazing content shared here and super excited for you to hear it.

We hear from Risa Groux of Risa Groux Nutrition, Dave Rhoads CEO of Blue St Capital, Jeff Harden of Ingram Micro, Bob Groux of Coast Brands and Kristan Sergeant Consultant and Therapist at Kristansargent.com

In this episode we meet my good friend Susan Kenny. Susan has spent the last 17 years working for some amazing and productive organizations such as the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), the Ronald McDonald Hose of OC and now CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). We discuss her journey to this rewarding line of work, the different organizations and their causes. We talk about the various ways her and the team generate donations and resources for the cause. I know everyone who listen will take something away from this one. Hope you enjoy.

You can reach Susan here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-kenny-80b6988/

Evan Jafa is the CEO of Cloudify, Inc. a cloud services brokerage, consultancy, and solutions company. He is also the founder of InnovateOC , an Orange County based startup incubator and also acts to help Start Ups and the investor community. Prior to Cloudify, Evan served as the CIO of First American Corporation and CIO of CoreLogic. With this corporate IT Leadership experience Evan gives us a lesson in the homework needed to make a move to the Cloud. You can find Evan here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanjafa/

http://www.cloudifyinc.com/

http://www.agapemissionprojects.org/

In this re-visit (Dave was my first guest) we catch up on the phenomenal growth at Blue Street Capital and Goal setting for the New Year and for life! We break it down in good detail so hope you have a note book nearby. Enjoy and get after it!

Meet Dan Connor, former Marine One Helicopter pilot to Presidents Bush 42 and Obama. Dan and I met at Cal Poly Pomona when we were in school and are both lifelong members of Sigma Chi fraternity. We discuss Dan's rise through the ranks of the Marine Corps to the elite position of Marine One pilot. Dan is now part of Rams Head Consulting (http://ramsheadsolutions.com/) where they offer Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or Drone, consulting, operational, training and education, and program management services. We get deep in to the Drone and UAS market and current state. Hope you enjoy.

Don has such an amazing energy and light about him that is very event in this podcast. I know him as an IT Security Professional who is incredibly knowledgeable and super well connected. What we learn here in this conversation is that he is a multi-faceted man. We discuss his refugee story from Viet Nam, his illustrious career in the US Military, private sector vs public sector and most of all his life dedicated to service. I know you will want to meet Don after this and the good news is everywhere. Hope you enjoy.

Don's LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donciso/

Tony Petros – Partner at LSA & Associates a very well respected Environmental Planning firm here in OC. Tony is true renaissance man with success in so many facets of his life, as a business leader, public servant, Public Policy expert, educator, innovator and athletic Bad Ass! Proud to call him a friend and mentor. We cover topics like the homeless problem, compassion, what's wrong with politics, triathlon and urban planning. Hope you enjoy.

In this Boardroom Sessions episode we go on the job site to a Spec Home building site where we meet Nick Lind, Owner and President of Revere Real Estate and his media guy Nick Kosta Managing Director of Revere Media. We explore this residential real estate venture project currently underway in Huntington Beach. Everyone has seen the older houses in their neighborhood get torn down and replaced with newer, larger houses that sell for far more. We dive deep into this business model and how Revere is making their splash in the market. Hope you enjoy.

www.revererealestateco.com

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On this Boardroom Session we meet Pernille Sires-Lopez in a very engaging and candid conversation around Personal Growth and lessons learned from leading the iconic company IKEA. Pernilla is the author of an amazing book that I am a huge fan of called Design Your Life and we go deep into the tools she lays out for you to use to improve your life. Currently she serves as the Chairman of the Board of two large Non Profits - Homeboy Industries and Save the Children International, and two major for profit corporations – ECCO and Meijer Corp. You can see more about Perille and her book at her company site called Good Life Designed https://goodlifedesigned.com/