Business as UNusual

Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to create new ways of doing business. This week we are speaking with Robinne Alexander of Robinne Alexander & Associates and Melanated Moms of Children with Autism Initiative.

Robinne Alexander is an unapologetic servant leader and consultant with over 14 years of experience in leading and creating initiatives that help fortify the mission of others.

Born in the small town of Port Arthur, TX, Robinne Alexander was always determined to walk to the beat of her own drum. She attended Port Arthur public schools where she was a good student but struggled to keep up with the status quo of traditional classroom learning. After failing and repeating multiple grade levels in school, she knew that something different had to happen. Against her parent's will, she dropped out of 10th grade still determined to figure out life, yet again, on her own terms. It goes without saying that there was no indication of the remarkable journey her life would quickly unfold in the years to come. All the while, unknowingly having Autism, Dyslexia and ADD.

In 2005 she found herself having a pivotal opportunity that led to her working with her first celebrity from BET Network as a Personal Assistant. Over the next few years of learning the business of being an entrepreneur, she eventually found herself working with more television stars, sports figures, and all levels of government and C-Suite executives for her own entrepreneurial ventures.

Prior to becoming a full-time Autism consultant and advocate, she was known as the Millennial's "go-to" licensed financial expert. Some of her most notable exposure include being an Academy Instructor for Live Richer Academy, and a guest financial consultant for Black Enterprise.

After 2 wildly successful businesses and working with the Autism community, she knows what it means to be neurologically diverse and still achieve meaningful change for herself and others.

Robinne's Website: https://www.robinnealexander.com/

Follow Robinne on Social Media:

instagram @lipstickstilettoshustle

facebook @mmocainitiative

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Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to create new ways of doing business. This week we are speaking with Dan Mahle of Wholehearted Masculine.

Dan Mahle (pronounced Ma-Lee) is an executive coach and seasoned group facilitator with a passion for partnering with leaders to build more thriving, equitable, and inclusive cultures.

Dan is the founder of Wholehearted Masculine, where he specializes in supporting White male leaders to participate in building equitable workplace cultures by journeying inward to become more courageous, confident, and accountable partners in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) work.

As an ICF-certified coach, Dan helps leaders connect to their authentic power in accountable ways by exploring and expressing vital parts of themselves that are often undervalued in start-up and corporate business environments.

Dan's website: www.WholeheartedMasculine.org

Find Dan's next event:

I host events on a regular basis, which can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/engaging-white-men-in-dei-958129?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Follow Dan on Social Media:

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

https://www.facebook.com/danmahleofficial

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Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to create new ways of doing business. This week we are speaking with Julie Kratz about Allies as Coaches and her business, Next Pivot Point.

Next Pivot Point exists to promote allyship and inclusion across all dimensions of diversity in the workplace to make sure everyone feels seen, heard, and belonging at work.

Julie Kratz is a highly-acclaimed TEDx speaker and inclusive leadership trainer who led teams and produced results in corporate America. After experiencing many career “pivot points” of her own, she started her own speaking business with the goal of helping leaders be more inclusive.

Promoting diversity, inclusion, and allyship in the workplace, Julie helps organizations foster more inclusive environments. She is a frequent keynote speaker, podcast host, and executive coach. She holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, is a Certified Master Coach, and is a certified unconscious bias trainer.

Her books include Pivot Point: How to Build a Winning Career Game Plan, ONE: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality and Lead Like an Ally: A Journey Through Corporate America with Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion, her children’s book Little Allies, and Allyship in Action: 10 Strategies for Living Inclusively.

Fine out more about Julie's work and Next Pivot Point on their website: https://nextpivotpoint.com

Check out their newest program - Lead Like an Ally https://nextpivotpoint.com/lead-like-an-ally/

and be sure to follow her on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekratz/

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Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to create new ways of doing business. This week we are speaking with Stephanie Hurne about getting your words out.

For as long as she can remember Stephanie has written stories. She still remember being at primary school speaking to her teachers about the fantasy worlds she'd created, or demanding (!) that her friends act out the scripts she'd written.

Eventually she went to university to study Media Production, specialising in script writing because when else in her life was she going to be able to dedicate one year of her life to her own little world?

After many years and a lot of "Dutch courage" she self published her first book “The Light” but it went well and between that book and it’s follow up she sold around 800 copies.

In 2018 she came up with the idea for The Diseased but didn’t let herself start writing it until 2020 because she had to finish the second half of The Light.

In the four years since she first ever hit publish she's learnt a lot, and after setting up her own indie publishing house I’m learning even more. She's hoping one day she can use all the lessons she's learning on her own books to help other writers get their stories out into the world.

Find out more about Stephanie Hurne on her website:

WWw.smthomas.co.uk

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One is never too old, or young for that matter, to truly commit to, and go after, a dream. It just takes a lot of hard work, planning, and belief in one's self.

Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to create new ways of doing business.

Rich had a personal epiphany in that as he hit middle-age and was looking in that self-reflective and metaphorical mirror, He asked himself the question, "why Rich are you not doing your passion?" He didn't have an answer for himself and decided right then and there to commit, with all his heart, to bringing his passion and dream to fruition. He often joke with others that when he hit his "mid-life crisis," he didn't go buy a convertible and get a young girlfriend, He instead went out and bought a new guitar and started writing and recording his songs!

Follow Rich:

https://www.facebook.com/richchambers...

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https://www.youtube.com/c/RichChambers

https://twitter.com/RichChambers5

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Learn from a seasoned professional about streaming -- the modern way of sharing yourself.

Mikey is an innovator and creator who has worked to hone his craft through trial, error, and dedication.

Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to create new ways of doing business.

St. Louis native, Mikey Famine, is a musician and audio producer by trade that started podcasting in mid 2018. He has recorded and streamed nearly 1000 hours since then. Mikey has a made a commitment to using his platform and skills to promote and advocate for worthy causes like humanism and social justice. Learn about this new medium, his journey, and the opportunities you too can access with your laptop and some patience.

Find Mikey https://solo.to/mikeyfamine

Follow him on YouTube- YouTube.com/mikeyfamine

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Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to build new ways of doing business.

We are delighted to present Jeremy Hale- Jeremy's got a vision. A world in which people will be driven by collaboration instead of ego, impact instead of greed, and focused on maximizing resources available instead of single use waste.

Find Jeremy on LinkedIN- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyhalesustainability/

Jeremy graduated with a BS in Biological Sciences from Bowling Green State University, where he played rugby and discovered his passion for traveling. After Bowling Green, Jeremy worked for a flavor company as a confectionery technologist working on the creation and innovation team and earned his certification as a chocolatier from the Barry Callebaut Institute in Chicago. He moved on to work in various marketing and sales roles before buying a one-way ticket to backpack Europe working as a web developer and content writer. He would come back to the US for a short time before moving to Asia to teach and rediscovering his passion for sustainability from the pollution he experienced daily.

Jeremy has worked on numerous grants as a writer and project manager. He was also involved in the XPrize Carbon Sequestration as an Academic Liaison for Drawdown Hemp and constructed the life cycle analysis for the proposal. Jeremy’s currently a member of The Global Hemp Association, The National Hemp Association, International Biochar Initiative, Hot Planet Repair Team, ABBRI, to name a few; and is currently a voting member for establishing standards in multiple industries for ASTM International.

Today his focus is on systemic solutions for communities focused on regenerative agriculture to improve quality of life. His work is based on the premise of providing food, shelter, and clean water, before scaling industries and establishing infrastructure to support generational financial stability. As a scholar-practitioner he develops research projects with universities to support industry development and support communities through sustainable strategies and innovations.

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Love TaShia Asanti, award-winning journalist, activist, commentator and author of 7 books, will be a guest on the acclaimed podcast, Business as Unusual, with Host/Producer, Aicila Lewis of Bicurean Consulting.

Love and Aicila will engage in a bold, frank discussion on everything from the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown, the mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, the killing of Tamla Horsford and Life After Covid 19. Love will also read an excerpt from her newest novel, Sheep and the Wolves (Noble Trinity Media) which is set against the backdrop of the Opioid crisis in America.

More about Love’s work can be found at www.officialtashiaasanti.com or www.nobletrinityenterprises.com

Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to build new ways of doing business.

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Picture of Maren Krings with some information about the livestream on 4/11.

Maren is a Climate Impact Storyteller who believes in science and thinks in images.

She will be sharing about her book "H is for Hemp" - and how it delivers proof of concept, that hemp can be a part of the puzzle to mitigate the climate crisis.

Business as Unusual is the new podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. Join us every other week to hear from someone who is saying yes to the opportunity to build new ways of doing business.

Maren Krings, is a German documentary photographer, focusing on the social and environmental impact of the climate crisis. She has a B.F.A in Photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design (USA). For the last six years, she has been documenting the worldwide rediscovery of industrial hemp, photographing more than 200 projects, carrying out interviews with over 80 industry experts and traveling to 26 countries to find out about hemp’s potential to mitigate our world’s ecological crisis.

Find Maren online

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maren_krings_photography/ https://www.instagram.com/hisforhemp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/360marenkrings

Twitter: https://twitter.com/marenkrings

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maren-krings-a9936713a/

Things we referenced in the show:

Hash, Marijuana, and Hemp Museum in Amsterdam https://hashmuseum.com/en/

Paulien Bakker- Story Doctor https://www.schrijfkracht.nl/en/ https://narratively.com/author/paulien-bakker/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulien-bakker-88a3865/

Anais Lopez- Photographer https://anaislopez.nl

Donut Economics in Amsterdam https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

Hemp Market and Traveling Exhibition https://www.obeliskfarm.lv https://www.facebook.com/obeliskfarm https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=obelisk%20farm

Order H is For Hemp- American shipping option https://marenkrings.com/product/usa-only-h-is-for-hemp-limited-collectors-edition-tree-free/

Maren Krings at the Her Many Voices Earth Day event https://www.hermanyvoices.org/earth-day

Learn more about Maren’s work at:
https://marenkrings.com

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Picture of Alicia Fall with some information about the livestream on 3/28.

Alicia builds coalitions to serve her vision of a world in which we come together to care for our Mother Earth.

This new series from BiCurean Consulting, Business As Unusual, presents entrepreneurs, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. Join us every other week to hear from someone who is saying yes to the opportunity to build a new way of doing business.

Alicia has been an educator, performing artists and public speaker for over 35 years, addressing humanitarian issues.

Alicia is the Founder of the nonprofit, Her Many Voices Foundation, a TEDx Talk presenter, a recipient of the New York State Assembly Citation Award, board member for the Coalition Against Global Genocide and for Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, both as a representative for Indigenous Peoples.

Ms. Fall has been on the International Hemp Speaking circuit, speaking on Hemp and Humanity. Presentations include: the ASACON Hemp Conference (Asahikawa, Japan); the Euro Hemp Tour (Milan, Italy; and Naklo, Poland); at the Posner Center for International Development and The Asian Hemp Summit (Kathmandu, Nepal).

Learn more about Alicia’s work at:
https://hermanyvoices.org

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