Brand for Good

How can you build an event business that differentiates itself and creates memorable experiences?

In this episode, Lorraine speaks with May Yeo Silvers, a successful entrepreneur in the field of events and hospitality. May boasts over 20 years of experience as an event planner and owns the event company M2 Hospitality. She also founded Events4Anyone, a mentorship company that teaches other entrepreneurs in the wedding and event planning industry how to start and scale their businesses. In addition to being a successful entrepreneur, May is a happy wife and proud mother.

May began her journey working in hospitality at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore before eventually moving to Miami, Florida. She shares how branding M2 as a hospitality business helps distinguish her in the events field. She discusses taking leaps of faith and the importance of investing in your personal and business growth in order to serve your clients better. She also talks about how she managed to build a profitable and sustainable business that shifted from serving big companies and celebrities to serving coaches and consultants.

M2 Hospitality Website: https://www.m2hospitality.com/ 

Events4Anyone Website: https://www.events4anyone.com/ 

Facebook: @mayyeosilvers

Instagram: @mayyeosilvers

LinkedIn: May Yeo Silvers

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Is it possible to run a company while embracing your purpose? Can you lead by design and build a business that supports people and the planet above all else?

In this episode of The Prosper Project, Lorraine interviews a truly inspiring business owner, Jenny Kitchen. Jenny is CEO of a multi-award-winning digital design agency, Yoyo Design. She works with clients such as Marie Curie, Vivo Barefoot, Mercedes Benz, and Universal Music Group. The agency regularly wins awards for their work and their company culture, and they were recently included in Campaign's "Best Places to Work 2022." Jenny was also named one of Management Today's "35 Women Under 35 2021" and was crowned "Young Business Person of the Year" at the Royal Tunbridge Wells Business Awards in 2016. Yoyo Design is a certified B Corporation. As a B Corp ambassador, Jenny promotes having a triple bottom line of profit, people, and planet and supports other companies as they undergo the accreditation process. She also speaks at conferences about the importance of building better businesses that put people and the planet at the heart of the organization.

Jenny shares how and why she started Yoyo Design and reports on her experiences during the company's first few years in business. She expresses her thoughts on naïveté and taking leaps of faith, and she reveals what inspired her to lead by design and how it better serves her clients.

Tune in to this motivational episode to listen as Jenny discusses her projects, exposes her creative process, and reveals how embracing your purpose can help you lead your company to success.

Yoyo Design Website: https://yoyodesign.com/

Yoyo Design IG: @yoyodesign_

Facebook: @yoyo.social

Yoyo Design LinkedIn: Yoyo

Jenny's LinkedIn: Jenny Kitchen

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At some point during every professional's journey, they will experience failure. When this happens, it's natural to wonder, "What's next?"

In this episode of The Prosper Project, Lorraine talks with life-long entrepreneur Elizabeth Ribons about her choice to embrace failure by being excited for what comes next. As Founder of NEXT, Elizabeth created a platform with resources and workshops that utilize the knowledge she has implemented for 30 years. She shares with listeners the tools necessary to navigate through changes in your career and develop the steps, space and framework to create your NEXT!

Website: https://www.elizabethribons.com/ 

Elizabeth's IG: @elizabeth_ribons

Elizabeth's Facebook: @elizabeth_ribons

LinkedIn: Elizabeth Ribons

Podcast: NEXT with Elizabeth Ribons

NEXT Career & Life Website: https://www.nextcareerlife.com/ 

NEXT Career & Life - Elizabeth Ribons IG: @nextcareerlife

NEXT Career & Life - Elizabeth Ribons Facebook: @NEXTCareerLife

The COVID-19 pandemic deeply affected professionals around the world. In the United States, this led to the great resignation, which later became the great reassessment. Now, how is this new phase affecting entrepreneurs?

In this episode, Lorraine reveals the most interesting trends she has noted throughout conversations with over 30 women entrepreneurs from November 2021 to April 2022. She also shares her personal reassessment of her business, Prosper for Purpose.

Lorraine hopes entrepreneurs will find this episode to be helpful as they conduct great reassessments of their own businesses!

If you want to more about the trends, the insights, and how you can apply Lorraine's research and make them work for you, you can send her an email with the subject line "Your Great Reassessment" to: [email protected] 

Episode 6: Success Without Struggle with Allyson Chavez: https://open.spotify.com/episode/566b9Z8FxcPWLxsTto6tVX 

Episode 12: Addressing Entrepreneur Loneliness with Julie Stenberg: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rtnldlKSFFiWCMeQV0xqW 

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How do you scale your business while serving your customers with faith and joy?

In this episode, Lorraine interviews an inspiring, powerful and joyful guest, Judy Weber. Judy teaches successful Christian women how to scale their businesses in a way that is faithful and unapologetic. Her mission is to help six-figure female entrepreneurs scale to the next level with joy. In doing so, she teaches them to live out their faith by boldly pursuing their God-given purpose to be powerfully innovative CEOs and influential heart-led thought leaders.

Judy shares details about her incredible career, from being a lawyer and interior designer to–after a summer spent curling up on the couch with her Bible–becoming a coach for successful women. She discusses what inspired her to become a coach and explains how "joyful scaling" creates an impact on the people she serves.

Website: https://judyweber.co/ 

IG: @judyweberco

Facebook: @judyweberco

LinkedIn: Judy Weber

YouTube: Joyful Scaling for Female CEOs

Podcast: Joyful Scaling for Christian Female CEOs and Entrepreneurs

Pinterest: @judyweberco

Grab Judy's The Ultimate Scaling Guide Workbook where you can learn 4 strategies for exponential growth to impact more lives and dramatically increase revenue, towards that coveted 7-figure mark here: https://judyweber.co/

How do you find and define your purpose? Is purpose the same as passion?

In this episode, Lorraine talks about three important topics. First is finding the difference between passion and purpose, second is recognizing competing purposes or passions, and third is becoming aware of your professional purposes. She also shares an exercise that can help you align your purpose with your skills.

The intention of this episode is to help you find your purpose and create a clearer path to the things you wish to achieve. So, listen in and enjoy the journey!

Listen to Episode 4: The Magic of Tiny Business with Sharon Rowe of ECOBAGS here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/the-prosper-project/id1604989158?i=1000548469789 

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How citizens of a democracy choose to exercise their right to vote has a significant impact on their country. That is why it is so important for voters to be informed about the views of potential candidates and the policies that affect their nation and, potentially, the world.

Enter, ActiVote…

In this episode, Lorraine talks with Sara Gifford, advocate of informed voting and Co-Founder of ActiVote. Sara is a dynamic, dedicated executive offering 15 years of experience in sales, consulting, software development, project management, implementation, leadership and coaching. She and her team of technology experts use their skills to enhance voter knowledge and encourage citizens to exercise their right to vote.

ActiVote is a nonpartisan app that changes the way U.S. citizens engage with their federal, state, and local governments by offering facts about current issues and matching individuals to candidates whose policy positions align with their views. In this episode, Sara discusses how she and her co-founders came up with the idea for ActiVote and developed the software. She talks about what inspired her to create the app and the valuable information she's learned from the data provided by app users. She also shares the experiences she's had and feedback she's received since launching the app. Finally, Sara explains what being an entrepreneur has been like thus far, how she and her co-founders manage the business, and why they chose to have ActiVote B-Corp certified.

LinkedIn: Sara Gifford

ActiVote Facebook: ActiVote US

Download the ActiVote App here: http://www.activote.com/prosper

Can you find success and create a positive impact in people's lives as an entrepreneur?

In this episode, Lorraine talks with former lawyer turned baker, Daphne Subar. Daphne is the Chief Baking Officer and Founder of SubarzSweets​​–an online gift-giving service that specializes in the unique baked good, Subarz, which combines the crunchy texture of biscotti with the sweet flavor of cookies. After practicing law for two decades, Daphne chose to practice her passion by opening her own bakery. She launched her baked good, Subarz, after receiving ample encouragement from family and friends, and since pursuing her dream, she has been enjoying sweet success.

Daphne takes the audience along her journey as she shares the bumps and sweet surprises of being an entrepreneur. From revealing her creative process to discussing how the pandemic impacted her business, Daphne offers listeners her recipe for fulfillment. She also explains how her family helped inspire her business, her thoughts on fostering creativity, and what the future entails for SubarzSweets.

Listen to this episode to be inspired by Daphne's success and learn how she inspires others, one bite at a time!

Website: https://www.subarzsweets.com/ 

IG: @subarz

Facebook: @Subarz

How do you lead your own business or organization?

In this episode, Lorraine interviews an exceptional, inspirational leader and CEO, Brandi P. Sheffield. Brandi has led teams of 100+ people by using and teaching "executive presence" - an effective way of influencing and impacting people and organizations. As a Sr. Executive Director, Brandi has built a legacy of leaders by coaching executives and lower management on how they can transform their leadership. She is the CEO of Learning Associates and Designer/Founder of the Career Acceleration Incubator program, The Outlier Leader, for which she equips highly skilled career women with the ability to move up or move on to their next, higher-paying role.

Brandi takes you on her journey from being an executive to becoming a business owner. She shares the skills she teaches her clients and the results they have achieved. She also discusses her thoughts on leadership, the struggles that business women often face, and her advice about how to earn a promotion.

Listen until the end to hear Brandi reveal why she has chosen to exit her other social media platforms and stick with only LinkedIn for her business.

LinkedIn: Brandi P. Sheffield 

Join Brandi's live event 10X Your Career! 10X Your Income! next LIVE event beginning March 29th for the process that will help you draw the straightest line to your next-level role, based on Brandi's 25+ years of experience in leadership, leadership development, and as a career accelerator. (Replays available for 72 hours)

Register here:  https://go.theoutlierprograms.com/live-nar1

When you started your business, what was the impact you hoped to make? Have you successfully accomplished that goal, or do you wish your impact could be bigger?

March is International B Corp month, and this has inspired Lorraine to share with you how doing good is good for business. She offers 10 ideas to increase the positive impact that your business has on people and the planet while simultaneously building your brand around your purpose and values.

By the end of the episode, you will have actionable steps that you can use to begin creating positive change as early as today.

Check out B Corp here: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/ 

Check out We The Change here: https://wethechange.net/ 

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