Freeman Means Business' Wonder Women in Business Podcast

Shaquana Johnson is a 34-year-old single mother, healthcare technology attorney, MIT Challenge winner, angel investor, and health advocate. She hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her ten-year-old son, Evan, he is the light of her life. Additionally, she enjoys advocating for health while serving on the Healthy Lifestyles Ministry at her church. She is particularly passionate about maternal health and regenerative farming. When she's not watching a movie with Evan or researching the healing powers of food she is deeply invested in reading her bible.

Barbie Cervoni, MS, RD, CDN, CDCES is a Registered Dietitian (RD) and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES). She currently serves as the diabetes expert and wellness board member at verywell.com, and counsels patients privately. Throughout her patient counseling, she realized that the wealth of information accessible via internet is often confusing and misleading. Therefore, she has dedicated her career to providing people with credible and relevant information that suits their lifestyle and health goals. She believes in individualized nutrition counseling and uses her writing to educate a large population of people.

Barbie graduated from New York University with a Master of Science in clinical nutrition in 2008. Barbie completed a Dietetic Internship and training from Mount Sinai Medical Center and is certified in Adult Weight Management. She has been quoted in a variety of media outlets, including Today’s Dietitian, Everyday Health. When she is not reading or writing about nutrition and diabetes, she is in her in the kitchen, cooking nutritious and delicious meals for her family, exercising, or being active with her husband, two sons, and labradoodle. She believes that food can be medicine and has spent the last four years learning about what foods help her to control cancer and autoimmune disease. She is currently finishing up her plant-based culinary certification with Rouxbe. Lastly, she is an advocate for rare cancer research and participates in Cycle for Survival every year.

Deb Feder is a business development coach, strategist, owner and CEO of Feder Development LLC, a consulting firm focused on helping lawyers bring in consistent clients through curious, confident conversations and changing the way we view productivity for professionals.

Deb believes in dropping excuses and simple productivity solutions. Using LinkedIn as a platform to validate and share ideas, Deb helps professionals engage in meaningful content and connections. For the last decade, Deb has committed herself to changing the way we think about work-life balance and tackle high stakes work, allowing for big careers and enjoying our free time. Deb leads the community in dropping excuses, getting productive, and bringing in business through the monthly membership program, Focus30.

Prior to founding Feder Development, Deb practiced corporate law for 15 years and holds a history degree from the University of Michigan and her JD/MBA from the University of Iowa. Deb completed her coach training and certification through New Ventures West and completed the training in The Daring Way™, which is based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. As a contributing author to the best-selling anthology #Networked, Deb shares her common-sense approach to building business relationships. Deb is a frequent speaker at conferences, podcasts, CLE programs, and corporate retreats on business development, productivity, networking, authenticity, and communication.

Kat de Haën is a co-founder of The Fourth Floor, a curated community and tech-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem that seeks to get more womxn on the boards of womxn founded start-ups and established companies, so they can be more successful in raising capital, building wealth, and having a say in the future of industry. She is passionate about women’s initiatives and evolving new opportunities to support other change-makers, leaders, and founders. She delights in bringing together people who can help each other in business, career, and life.

Kat is also an inventor and successful businessperson. She invented and brought to market a popular consumer beauty product and launched an upscale silk fashion line. She started her career in sales and product development in the fashion industry working with major retailers.

Born in Zurich, Switzerland and raised in Seattle. She currently lives in New York City with her husband, Jon Colman and their daughter Sophie.

Belle Walker is the Founder and Lead Consultant of Belleview Consulting.  As the only Organizational Efficiency Engineer she knows, Belle takes her clients from friction to focus by ensuring that their structures and processes are aligned with strategic goals.  She has worked with clients in industries ranging from Tech to nonprofits and from professional services to cannabis to recapture lost efficiency and engagement.

Belle began her career at Google, where she built a nation-wide aerial photography operation and supported the Street View vehicle roll-out.  After Google, Belle earned a master’s degree at USC where she specifically studied the application of systems engineering and operations research to organizations.  Her work demonstrated that the principles apply equally well to systems of humans as to systems of steel or code.

Breen Sullivan is the Founder of The Fourth Floor, an innovative ecosystem reimagining the board room, investment, and how we support female entrepreneurship. Women have a hard time getting board seats and they also have a hard time raising money to scale their companies. To solve for this, the Fourth Floor brings female founders and professionals together to increase the number of women on boards, be more competitive fundraisers, and create wealth for entrepreneurs and investors.

Breen is a C-Suite executive with concentrated experience in operations, commercial contracting, human resources and employment matters; organization, corporate and deal strategy; Board of Director communications and responsibilities; privacy and risk management; financial matters, and occasionally novel challenges. As a career general counsel, Breen has worked with startup and high-growth companies for nearly a decade, specializing in technology, SaaS, energy efficiency, and data science.

Breen and The Fourth Floor have been featured by Forbes, Corporate Counsel Magazine, Law.com, The American Lawyer, Above The Law, Women On The Record Podcast, and Her CEO Journey: The Business Finance Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs. She holds a JD from Tulane and a BA from Yale University. She has earned certificates and completed coursework at Boalt Hall, Berkeley, Universita Degli Studi di Firenzi, and Humboldt-Universität Zu.

Breen also personally invests in startups and enjoys serving as a Board Advisor to startup and growth companies.

Manisha Arora is director of a team that builds strategic alliances between technology partners and ServiceNow, reporting to the Chief Innovation Officer. She serves as alliance architect for the most strategic platform partners of ServiceNow - driving product planning, engineering, and go-to-market efforts. She is an industry speaker, platform evangelist, and trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executive partners and customers.

Emily Woloschuk is an award-winning marketing and business development professional who helps lawyers build their book of business and deliver outstanding client service.

Driven by the belief that effective communication is key to one’s success, Emily takes pride in providing strategic guidance on business development efforts, marketing and public relations, client feedback programs, and digital marketing.

Most recently Emily was the Director of Marketing & Business Development at a litigation boutique. She worked with the lawyers on business development initiatives that supported the firm’s strategic plan. For her work in helping the firm achieve national recognition as a top-tier trial firm, Emily received a Your Honor Award from the Legal Marketing Association Southeast region (LMASE).

Emily is the 2021 President-Elect of the LMASE Board of Directors.

Her passion for communications can be traced back to the 12th grade, where Emily spent significant time working on a speech honoring the Civil Rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth at the 1992 opening ceremony of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

Outside of the office, Emily enjoys cooking, gardening, travel, and yoga.

Jory Des Jardins is CMO of the @ Company, builder of an internet protocol designed to put control over online data and user experiences back into the hands of People. She is passionate about making capital funding and business building resources available to talented, underrepresented founders. She is VC in Residence at the W Fund. Jory pioneered social marketing as Co-Founder and President of BlogHer, a media marketplace representing thousands of digital influencers, which reached 100 million monthly unique viewers at the time of its acquisition. Jory has advised dozens of scaling startups, focusing on companies that are evolving digital influence, social content, media models, consumer marketplaces, eCommerce, Blockchain/token-based economies, and AR/VR/MR. Among the companies she has formally advised are PracticalXR, Lifescape, AIKON, and the entrepreneur network SheWorx.

Kenya Dunn, Founder & CEO of the Power-Filled Woman is a coach, speaker, teacher, community advocate, entrepreneur, and an experienced corporate executive. The Power-Filled Woman’s mission is to impact the lives and businesses of 1 million women across the globe. Kenya is fulfilling her mission through her annual conference, Power-Filled. She also launched the Power Tribe earlier in 2020, a community created with women of color in mind.

Professionally, Kenya has a coaching and consulting firm, PFW, LLC. She helps business leaders improve their bottom line through diversity, equity and inclusion strategic planning, leadership development and cultural transformation.

Prior to starting her own company, Kenya spent 20 years in corporate America. She held executive leadership positions in both Customer Service & Retail organizations, building high performing teams producing phenomenal results. She also helped countless people grow their own careers and launch businesses. She matriculated from the University of Phoenix with a B.S. in Management.

In her spare time, Kenya enjoys reading books, traveling, meeting new people, and spending time with her family and close friends.

Kenya is a Ted Ex Charleston speaker coach. She was also the YWCA’s 2020 What Women Bring honoree for Women in Business.