Welcome to the 10th month of 2021!   Our theme for October is "Mentoring to Influence Positive Change", and offers the platform to share and highlight the positive impact of mentoring in our lives and careers. Mentoring is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor - in organizations or in your personal life!  Mentors are a part of our success and in many cases are the reasons for our success!

Today, we end our month with the REWIND of a conversation I had with Dr. Lyna M. Matesi, Associate Professor - Leadership Studies and also directs the MBA program at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point.  Dr. Matesi shares her life and career experiences to help you focus on elements of your journey that will prepare you for next.  Dr. Lyna prepares leaders to thrive in disruptive environments.  Regardless of your station in life or where you are along your career path, Dr. Matesi's wise counsel will help you.

Listen as Dr. Matesi shares her very fascinating leadership journey and learn how she uses her sense of "hustle" to make things happen for herself and others. Learn how her work ethic, tactics and excitement for creating, changed her life and the lives of everyone she touches.

Welcome to the 10th month of 2021!  What a Year! This month, we highlight individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in the mentoring space. Mentoring is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor - in organizations or in your personal life!  Mentors are a part of our success and in many cases are the reasons for our success!

So, our theme for October is "Mentoring to Influence Positive Change", offers the platform to share and highlight the positive impact of mentoring in our lives and careers.  Let's give our mentors a BIG SHOUT OUT, this month!

Today, we REMIX a previous interview with Maria Brennan, President & CEO - Women in Cable Telecommunications, is another phenomenal thought leader whose interview was both powerful and fun.  Maria's conversation about "Asking and her strategies for getting what you want", offer perfect tactics that anyone will find helpful and useful.  Over the last decade, Maria has consistently succeeded in the highly competitive, male-dominated media, entertainment and telecommunications industry, where decisions are made by those who are both and strategic.  

Listen to the advice of a leader who has developed a method for asking and receiving what she wants.  Maria shares stories that will help anyone find their rhythm and the courage to ask for what they want AND receive it.  Her wisdom and forward-thinking will anchor your thinking and perspectives for more proactive and solid moves to ask and receive what you want - in your career and in your personal life!

Listen, ponder and take action!

Welcome to the 10th month of 2021!  What a Year! This month, we highlight individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in the mentoring space. Mentoring is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor - in organizations or in your personal life!  Mentors are a part of our success and in many cases are the reasons for our success!

So, our theme for October is "Mentoring to Influence Positive Change", offers the platform to share and highlight the positive impact of mentoring in our lives and careers.  Let's give our mentors a BIG SHOUT OUT, this month!

Today, we REMIX a previous interview with Wendy Davidson, President - Americas - Glanbia Performance Nutrition, is the perfect "grounding" to provide CONTEXT for mentoring guidance, today.  Wendy is a phenomenal leader who has led organizations of all sizes and industries through a myriad of disruptions, and the organizations and leaders she's led and mentored, have come out on the "other side", stronger, better and more profitable!  Her wisdom and forward-thinking will anchor your thinking and perspectives for more proactive and solid moves to weather "disruptions" and prepare for NEXT...BECAUSE NEXT IS COMING!

Listen, ponder and take action!

Welcome to the 10th month of 2021!  What a Year! This month, we highlight individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in the mentoring space. Mentoring is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor - in organizations or in your personal life!  Mentors are a part of our success and in many cases are the reasons for our success!

So, our theme for October is "Mentoring to Influence Positive Change", offers the platform to share and highlight the positive impact of mentoring in our lives and careers.  Let's give our mentors a BIG SHOUT OUT, this month!

Today, we REMIX a previous interview with Ms. Terri Nimmons, Co-Founder/Principal of The Stone Lake Leadership Group, as perfect support for mentors and mentees.  Terri  is a leadership development and brand expert, who has led and guided professionals in careers across multiple industries.  Terri is a "forward thinking thought-leader" who is a data "geek" and "trend tracker" who combines both to provide practical, research-based guidance and support to high potentials, high performers and organizations, that prepare them for the success they seek.

Terri's unique insights into how individuals and organizations should navigate and prepare during and post pandemic are both courageous and provocative in the context of "sense-making"!  How do I prepare now?  How do I determine what my NEXT is? and How do we support and sustain talent?  Listen to her Calls to Action, and be intrigued and more aware!

Welcome to the 10th month of 2021!  What a Year! This month, we highlight individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in the mentoring space. Mentoring is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor - in organizations or in your personal life!  Mentors are a part of our success and in many cases are the reasons for our success!

So, our theme for October is "Mentoring to Influence Positive Change", offers the platform to share and highlight the positive impact of mentoring in our lives and careers.  Let's give our mentors a BIG SHOUT OUT, this month!

Our podcast host, Dr. L. D. Bennett, is our guest today.  Dr. L. D. shares her perspectives on the importance and significance of Mentoring and the connections to her background and family values, as shared by her Mother, the late Mary Eva Bennett.  Dr. L.D. enlightens us with her introduction to the phrase:  "Leave Something In the Field" and how it relates to legacy.  Listen as Dr. L.D. shares a Call to Action to be more Intentional about the legacy you want to leave to better your community and your career - through mentoring!

Welcome to another month of Influencer Podcasting.  This month, we showcased individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in their communities and for their neighbors.  Social responsibility is an ethical process in which individuals are accountable for fulfilling their civic duty, and the actions of an individual must benefit the whole of society. In this way, there must be a balance between economic growth and the welfare of society and the environment.

Our theme for August - September, "Social Responsibility:  Giving Back On and With Purpose", offers the platform needed to share strategies, tactics and projects that are changing lives and communities.

Our podcast host, Dr. L. D. Bennett, is our guest today.  Dr. L. D. shares her perspectives on the importance and significance of social responsibility and the connections to her background and family values, as shared by her Mother, the late Mary Eva Bennett.  Dr. L.D. enlightens us with her introduction to the phrase:  "Leave Something In the Field" and how it relates to legacy.  Listen as Dr. L.D. shares a Call to Action to be more Intentional about the legacy you want to leave to better your community and your neighborhood.

Welcome to another month of Influencer Podcasting.  This month, we showcase individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in their communities and for their neighbors.  Social responsibility is an ethical process in which individuals are accountable for fulfilling their civic duty, and the actions of an individual must benefit the whole of society. In this way, there must be a balance between economic growth and the welfare of society and the environment.

Our theme for August - September, "Social Responsibility:  Giving Back On and With Purpose", offers the platform needed to share strategies, tactics and projects that are changing lives and communities.  

Our guest today is Dr. Valerie Daniels-Carter, President/CEO of V&J Foods, Holdings Company, Inc.  We heard from many subscribers/listeners who want to hear more from Dr. Carter.  This is a REWIND of an interview she gave earlier in the year.

She has a phenomenal story that is grounded in resilience, faith, courage, passion and giving.  She has made history...and continues to do so in ways that change the world around her, as she goes!  Dr. Valerie Daniels-Carter shares how she uses her life principles to make her community and City better!  Her passions and energy will stir you to get moving to give back - "on and with purpose"!

Dr. Carter is an author, university lecturer and highly sought-after speaker!  Listen and be inspired.

Welcome to another month of Influencer Podcasting.  This month, we showcase individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in their communities and for their neighbors.  Social responsibility is an ethical process in which individuals are accountable for fulfilling their civic duty, and the actions of an individual must benefit the whole of society. In this way, there must be a balance between economic growth and the welfare of society and the environment.

Our theme for August - September, "Social Responsibility:  Giving Back On and With Purpose", offers the platform needed to share strategies, tactics and projects that are changing lives and communities.  Given the current atmosphere of social unrest, there are men, women and organizations that have found "pain points" and are addressing that need.

Our guest today is Marcus Thomas - Dream Team Director - Mount Zion Baptist Church (Greensboro, NC) - the largest predominantly African American Church in the Greensboro area— under the leadership of Senior Pastor Bishop Bryan J Pierce, Sr. In his role, Marcus leads a team of over 2,000 volunteers. He provides leadership, encouragement, coaching, and service opportunities in the community. He also leads an expansive community outreach campaign called “Serve The City” that provides gas, clothes, financial assistance, and programs to people in need within the Greensboro community. 

Marcus significantly expanded this city-wide outreach initiative by creating new public and private partnerships in the region and continues this work today. Marcus has a vast resumé of experiences that inform his passion and leadership around social responsibility and giving back on and with purpose.

Listen as this young man outlines a strategic approach to giving back that engages every generation and socio-economic area of Greensboro.  His social responsibility best practices can be used by anyone and any organization...to impact any community.  His perspective on philanthropy is both refreshing and enlightening.

Welcome to another month of Influencer Podcasting.  This month, we showcase individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in their communities and for their neighbors.  Social responsibility is an ethical process in which individuals are accountable for fulfilling their civic duty, and the actions of an individual must benefit the whole of society. In this way, there must be a balance between economic growth and the welfare of society and the environment.

Our theme for August - September, "Social Responsibility:  Giving Back On and With Purpose", offers the platform needed to share strategies, tactics and projects that are changing lives and communities.  Given the current atmosphere of social unrest, there are men, women and organizations that have found "pain points" and are addressing that need.

Our first guest of September, Randy McShepard is Vice President of Public Affairs and Chief Talent Officer for RPM International Inc., one of Cleveland’s leading manufacturing and specialty coatings companies. He is responsible for coordinating external and governmental affairs, including management of the corporate philanthropy programs and corporate purchasing initiatives. 

In addition to his for-profit career, Randy, a social entrepreneur, has more than 15 years of management experience in the nonprofit sector in areas including economic development, workforce development and community service. He has also served as an independent consultant for over 20 years, working largely with organizations in the region that focus on community development, neighborhood revitalization and land use. Randy sees the confluence of urban agriculture and environmental stewardship as exactly what urban communities need to address key quality of life issues such as job creation, entrepreneurship, place-making, community engagement and education. Randy is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of PolicyBridge, a public policy think tank serving the Northeast Ohio region.

Listen to Randy's contagious passion and commitment to social responsibility and his focus on innovation and creativity for "all things" Cleveland!  

Welcome to another month of Influencer Podcasting.  This month, we showcase individuals and organizations, doing phenomenal work in their communities and for their neighbors.  Social responsibility is an ethical process in which individuals are accountable for fulfilling their civic duty, and the actions of an individual must benefit the whole of society. In this way, there must be a balance between economic growth and the welfare of society and the environment.

Our theme for August - September, "Social Responsibility:  Giving Back On and With Purpose", offers the platform needed to share strategies, tactics and projects that are changing lives and communities.  Given the current atmosphere of social unrest, there are men, women and organizations that have found "pain points" and are addressing that need.

I close August with my August Blessings!  This has been a great month to see and hear what others are doing and the progress being made.  So, I share the remarkable updates, pings and alerts about some of the work being done with DE&I, talent, and business values that anchor social responsibility.

Listen as I share my August Blessings and the way I was impacted this month.  Hopefully, this is your daily dose of positive proof of progress and kindness even in the midst of disruptions and uncertainties.  I certainly had a wonderful August!

Stay engaged with us as next month we bring on others to discuss "Social Responsibility:  Giving Back On and With Purpose".