Melissa Blatt has over 20 + years of business development and marketing experience. She has found success in executing innovative campaigns, strengthening the customer base and expanding market reach in New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Phoenix.

When she left the corporate world to go out on her own, she was desperate for quality affordable healthcare.  Knowing she wasn't alone and part of a growing economy of 57 million, she learned self-employed people pay over 3x the rates or go without healthcare. In 2019, she took her biggest leap and created indipop, a healthcare marketplace for the Independent Population of self-employed professionals. Curating high value plans with stellar reviews to fit individual, family or small business budgets and needs. lndipop is now in its second year and expanding services, resources and health plan options.

www.indipop.co

Stacie Marlowe has spent over a decade in the non-profit world, from front-line worker to Director of Development. As Stacie embodies the GSD Factor of being an Innovative Solutionist, she brings her passion for changing her corner of the world in all her endeavors.

Does your client base know you well enough to tell your story for you? Well, they should. Creating ambassadors and building community is what it’s all about. But how can you do that in today’s world? By innovating, learning, building new tools, constantly stretching, and growing. Join us to learn from Stacie Marlow as she spotlights what it’s like to be a non-profit leader! 

staciemarlowe.com

Lauren Ruth Martin is a ‘woo girl,’ turned licensed professional counselor speaker and host of The 9toKind Podcast. Her primary clinical focuses are maladaptive perfectionism, chronic depression, and over-control burnout. She is dedicated to assisting people in unlearning the hustle culture and living a life that is guided by their values.

She joins us to discuss “burnout” and offer tips on creating minor adjustments that can significantly impact your work and home life.

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The 9toKind Podcast

www.laurenruthmartin.com

Melissa Unsell-Smith is a company founder three times over, an automation expert, and a data privacy leader. She joins us to chat about Catalytic Icon, a platform for female founders to collaborate, grow, and gain proximity to role models. 

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Rectify

Elisa Stampf is a passionate advocate for improving workplace culture and ensuring that everyone feels welcome. She spent over 13 years in financial and insurance industries feeling out of place. In 2021 Elisa co-founded Insure Equality to change the displacement she felt in an industry that is about taking care of people. She loves art (making it and viewing it), and board games with friends. You can find her curled up on her couch or traveling (no in-between). 

https://insureequality.org

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-stampf-she-her/

Awais Farooq is the US Insurance Practice Lead at ActiveOps, responsible for helping industry leaders drive measurable results in their organizations through innovative technology and management process automation. Awais has over fourteen years of insurance industry experience, both operationally and including serving as a trusted leader at organizations including State Farm, Chubb and Berkshire Hathaway Guard Insurance Companies.

Awais holds a Master’s degree in Insurance Management from Boston University. He holds numerous designations and is an active member of the insurance community where he serves as a mentor to professionals in various areas.

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Guests Emilio Goldenhersch and Luciano Lopatin from Mind Cotine join us to discuss their ground-breaking technology that has achieved unprecedented results. MindCo is changing the game on care delivery in behavioral health, by improving adoption and efficacy directly from home to close the gap of access, by providing an outpatient/remote immersive cognitive training platform to help millions of people.

Mind Co Website https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindcotine/

Emilio Goldenhersch https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilio-goldenhersch-909394119/

Luciano Lopatin   https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciano-lopatin/

www.gsdfactor.com

Misha Bleymaier-Farrish is the founder of GSD Factor. She is highly organized and can get a lot of sh*t done by talking and acting fast. She believes that every single one of us has the GSD Factor inside of us and desires to help you realize that you are the key to changing your outcomes.

Misha is an entrepreneur, CEO, career coach, speaker, technology strategist, insurance expert, program management specialist, military family member, board member of a non-profit organization, mentor, wife and mother.

Welcome to the GSD Factor Podcast.

GSD Factor Podcast features conversations with leaders and experts in various fields and industries ranging from insurance and diversity in the workplace to technology and everything in between.