Rosemary Ravinal is a public speaker and executive speaker coach who works with high-profile  leaders in Spanish and English to fulfill their fullest potential when they speak. She is recognized  as America's Premier Bilingual Public Speaking Coach after decades as a corporate  spokesperson and media personality in the U.S., Hispanic and Latin American markets.

Rosemary is a former international media executive and broadcaster who has transitioned to her  first love, public speaking and transforming lives. In 2019, she left her role as vice president of  public relations for the entertainment division at TelevisaUnivision Network, the world’s largest  Spanish-language media company, to establish her consulting practice.

In 2020, she adapted her coaching model for the virtual stage and created the ZoomScore™ based on 10 essential elements of professional video meetings. Her first book, titled The Joy of  Thinking Out Loud, which chronicles her struggles with stuttering, will be published in 2023. 

Earlier, Rosemary was a senior corporate communications leader and spokesperson for Fortune  100 companies, non-profit organizations and agencies in New York and South Florida. These  include Avon, AT&T, A+E Television Networks, History Channel, Lifetime, Discovery Channel,  Sony Ericsson, and Toyota. She was the first Hispanic contributing news analyst for MSNBC and hosted numerous award-winning radio and TV shows in the New York area.

A member of the National Speakers Association, Rosemary is co-director of the Florida Speakers  Association Academy and president of Miami-Wynwood Toastmasters. She is also director of  PechaKucha Night Miami, the Japanese style of concise storytelling popular in more than 1,300  cities and presented before a live audience.

Rosemary was born in Cuba and raised in suburban New York. She made South Florida her home  in 2000 and currently lives in Doral with her beloved silky terrier named Chucho. Her hobbies  include Spanish cinema, collage art, gallery hopping, and tours of historic places.

Website: https://rosemaryravinal.com

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

https://www.facebook.com/rravinal

https://www.facebook.com/rosemaryRspeaks

Instagram: @rosemaryspeaks  Twitter: @rosemaryRspeaks  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rosemaryravinal

Matt Kroll is principal and founder of Chalmers St. Consulting. Chalmers St. helps companies achieve their growth potential by aligning their operations with their aspiration and engaging their employees to achieve their full potential. Chalmers St. has return hundreds of thousand to millions of dollars back to client’s margins.

Matt’s formal background is in Industrial Engineering. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Northern Illinois University in 1999. He joined Motorola directly after completing college where he earned both his Black Belt and Master Black Certification. In 2009, he earned a Master’s in Business Administration from the Chicago Booth School of Business.

Continuous improvement has been his passion for over 20 years. As a Master Black Belt, Matt has been responsible for developing improvement programs that deliver millions of dollars in operation efficiencies and revenue enhancement. He has worked in a variety of settings from manufacturing to police departments, to call centers, to healthcare. He has seen firsthand that every environment can benefit from the application of continuous improvement.

Matt resides in the far west suburbs of Chicago, USA with his wife and two children. He produces and distributes free content on continuous improvement and looks for opportunities to help other people develop. He believes it is important to be active in the local community. He is President of the Fox Valley Children's Choir and Committee Chair for Boy Scout Troop 60 in Geneva. He spends most of his free time with his family.

Website: http://www.chalmersst.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrkroll/

Some goals are stubborn, they elude us for years. We keep after them because the alternative is unthinkable. What is keeping us from breaking through? To start off this new year, let's focus on the mindset that we have as we pursue our goals. I'm not big on making the new year the catalyst for setting goals, but I've learned that there is a tremendous wave of energy at the start of a new year that you can build momentum from. We all can identify the spoils of war, but can we effectively communicate the strategy and tactical effort to win the war. A big part of it is mindset. Let's get the new year started off right and win the battle of the mind. 

It's hard to believe that there are 18,000 registered homeless teens in Chicago. Ms. Jones has formed StayTrue to assist this forgotten population. Her educational background in in Psychology with a specialty in children's mental health and family counseling. She has worked in the social services field for nearly 20 years, with 12 of those years being spent as the director of the Domestic Violence Children's program.  Her non-profit organization StayTrue provides resources for these displaced teens who don't know where they will live from one day to the next. Make this episode a priority for awareness of a critical problem that effects not only Chicago but the entire country.

If you have ever endeavored to write a book? This episode is for you. If you want to know how to start and the tips that will help you move quickly? This episode is for you. And it doesn't have to take years to write your book. It can literally take 30 days. Make it a goal to listen to this episode and then make it a goal to become an author. You can do it. Listen to the end to hear our guest's amazing story and our discussion on mental health. It will help you power through and obliterate any excuses.

Chrissy Das is a nonfiction ghostwriter, book coach, and editor who founded (i)nvisible writer to serve service-based business owners and creative professionals who want to use the best words to communicate life-changing ideas. They rely on Chrissy to help them better communicate their thought leadership and grow their business. Since 2015, Chrissy has ghostwritten more than a dozen business books and edited more than 100. In 2021, she started book coaching her clients when she realized that they needed more support to meet their goal of writing a book.

You can find her on Instagram @nvisiblewriter and visit her website at www.nvisiblewriter.com.

Laura Terrell is an executive coach with over twenty-five years of experience as a legal and business leader.

She offers an insider’s perspective for business, legal and corporate professionals, working to help her clients to improve and achieve success in their work lives.

Prior to coaching, she was a Special Assistant to the President at the White House, a senior level appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice, an equity partner in two large, global law firms, and in-house counsel at a publicly traded company. Laura has also led and managed teams of people across multiple countries, serving as a top advisor to many Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies. 

Partnering with her clients, she enjoys helping them reach their goals and build confidence in their careers. Learn more about Laura and follow her blog at www.lauraterrell.com.

Connect with Laura at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauralterrell/

As an African-American little girl born in Alabama in the 60's, there weren't any expectations for her future. However, a supportive family taught her that she could accomplish anything she set her mind to. And she did! As Group Director, Business Development Retail at Catalina, Phyllis Johnson is responsible for leading a team that manages the needs of retail clients by demonstrating Catalina’s value in the marketplace. She also participates in advancing Catalina’s Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives. Phyllis measures her success as a leader in terms of how she is helping others. Helping others is her primary purpose in her workplace and personal life.

Phyllis has over 25+ years of retail expertise and experience. During her career, she has worked with numerous US retailers such as Ahold, Southeastern Grocers, Giant Eagle and Price Chopper assisting them with private brand strategy development which included: Private Brand Portfolio Optimization, New Brand(s) Creation, and Private Brand Sales and Penetration Growth. Phyllis also spent time in London, England working with Sainsbury and their private brand supplier community. She led a team of 45 associates who covered Sainsbury’s total footprint to enhance private brands on-shelf positioning/merchandising and to drive expert bakery training for in-store associates.

Phyllis is known throughout the industry as a true professional who strives for results without compromising her integrity. She is a proven leader who leads by example and puts service to her team first and foremost. In 2021, Phyllis was awarded the Store Brand 2021 Game Changers Award by StoreBrands Magazine. The award recognizes people, private brands and company innovations that are taking store brands to the next level. In addition, she was named one of WISE’s 2020 Top Women in Store Brands. She now sits on the WISE Board of Directors and mentors the WISE Junior Board. She is also sought after as a speaker/panelist for various industry conferences, such as the Velocity Diversity Conference on August 4, 2020. Her topic was “A Seat at the Table: Why Diversity Matters”. It explored issues relating to both black industry professionals and consumers and how retailers and their brands can create more diverse and inclusive organizations, experiences, brands, and products.

Prior to joining Catalina, Phyllis worked with various celebrity chefs, TV personalities and their agencies assisting them in bringing their brands and products to the retail marketplace.

Phyllis loves giving back to the community and supports various nonprofit organizations by volunteering her time to teach and mentor young and upcoming business professionals. She is also a fitness and health enthusiast.

Contact @: LinkedIn: Phyllis Johnson (She/Her), Instagram: phyllisjohn77, TikTok: phyllisj1963

Kenny Harper works with businesses to save time and increase profits by optimizing and elevating the experience they provide their customers. Kenny is an author, speaker and passionate thought-leader on success habits and behavior transformation. He is the co-founder of Growth Amplifiers, a podcast and community of entrepreneurs with the attitude, expertise and drive to thrive. You can find Growth Amplifiers on YouTube, many top podcast channels, LinkedIn and at https://growthamplifiers.com. Join our conversation as we talk about how you can build winning habits, identify behaviors that are sabotaging your success, and develop the mindset to accomplish your goals.

Allyson Hernandez defines the word multi-passionate as a published Author, Executive Coach, Entrepreneur, Composer, Singer, and Mom.  As President and Founder of AH Coaching Group, LLC she empowers clients to embrace their "extra" and boldly follow their dreams.

After a 20+ year career in Corporate Human Resources, in the past year, she launched a business, wrote and published her novel Ballad of Dreams, a novel with Music, was interviewed and performed her original song "It's Never Too Late" on national TV on the Tamron Hall show.  Allyson has performed at the acclaimed Apollo Theater and her EP, Soul Stories can be found wherever you stream music. She has a BFA in Musical Theater from Syracuse University, is a member of the Actors Equity  Association, and holds her ACC credentials through the International Coaching Federation.

During Covid, and as the lead for a corporate culture transformation initiative in a $20B project in Africa  and Europe, Luis brought his passion for fitness to life and developed a global Fit & Fun at Home  program to help with the physical and mental wellbeing of the corporate project teams worldwide that  was incredibly well received.

After an overwhelming success in impacting not only the personal wellbeing of participants but also helping to improve cross-functional work within the company, he decided to pursue his passion for  fitness and healthy living full time and developed an innovative online wellness and fitness app that he  named World Record Fitness, inspired by his extraordinary achievements as a multiple Guinness World  Records holder.

Luis has established a staggering 20 official fitness Guinness World Records, all of them after his 50th  birthday! Listen in as we discuss how to do what others think is impossible.