Today’s topic is Improving Yourself and Your Business Through Education. We have Mario Garcia as a guest once more to share his personal experiences, such as earning an MBA and being an avid self-learner. In this episode, we discuss some insights on the value of both formal and informal education. 

In this episode, we invited Clifton Alexander to share his experiences he has gained through marketing. Clifton emphasizes emotion based-marketing, the need for  starting small, and the importance of combining different media. 

In this episode, Mario Garcia shares his experience with job searching and past employment. Here, we dive deep into key factors that employees appreciate in their work environment. These included communicating, working from home, and fostering a honest work environment.

In this episode, Bianca Martinez Garcia, shares her lived experience as a minority in business, which only represents one piece of her identity. She explains that you should be aware of where you fall on the cultural humility spectrum and look for opportunities to move along the spectrum. Bianca also discusses implementing Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategies, to promote more inclusive work environments.

In this episode, Kevin Jeffries shares his insights on the importance of improving one's self to becoming a leader, knowing your strengths and weaknesses, and the importance of business owners investing in sales and marketing. 

In this episode, Vic Teevan shares the experiences he has gained in the business industry and building personal connections. Vic emphasized on understanding your numbers, being relatable and personal, not doing everything at once, and treating others how you want to be treated in order to build personal connections 

How can improving your personal brand benefit you? This episode, we invited Amy Pham to give a little advice on personal branding and how it helped her get where she is today!

Looking to start of the year with a bang? Try focusing on quarterly goals. In this episode, I'll talk about why you should focus on a quarter instead of an annual goal, how to set a GOOD quarterly goal, and some gotchas you might run into.