Hey Boss Lady!

Trent Oliver wanted to be Evil Knievel when she was growing up. While she never actually became a motorcycle stuntwoman, she never followed a traditional career path either. Today, she is founder & principal and managing director of Blue Telescope, a multi-media company that is all about “expanding the human experience”.  She talks with Hey, Boss Lady hosts Kristi Atwater and Andrea Goeglein about the importance of storytelling in all of its forms. Storytelling is her way of making a better world.

Chef Natalie Young overcame personal challenges and beat the odds of making it to the top in the culinary world. She owns two celebrated restaurants in Las Vegas, eat and Old Soul, and her modus operandi is “keep it simple”.  Not only are her restaurants thriving, she found a way, during the pandemic, to help feed the local community. She talks with Hey, Boss Lady hosts Andrea Goeglein and Kristi Atwater about how she made it from line cook to chef/owner and what gives meaning to her work.

Jerelyn Rodriguez started out as a teacher, but even in her early career years she saw a need for change. Students from low-income and underserved communities often found themselves left out of the college track, and she wanted to do something about it. She’s now co-founder and CEO of The Knowledge House, a nonprofit that has trained hundreds of students for well-paying careers in technology fields and is well on its way to going national. On this episode of Hey, Boss Lady, she talks with hosts Andrea Goeglein and Kristi Atwater about her work.

Sheila Ronning started her professional life as a receptionist at Best Buy. A college drop-out, she found a path in management there that she says paid better than the salary she would have made as a teacher. She’s now an entrepreneur and head of an organization she started called Women in the Boardroom. And she’s on a mission to get more women on  corporate boards. She joins Hey, Boss Lady hosts Kristi Atwater and Andrea Goeglein to talk about why there are still so few women in those powerful seats and what she’s doing about it.

Elizabeth Blau is founder and CEO of the restaurant development company Blau + Associates and is widely credited with transforming Las Vegas into the world-class culinary destination it is today. She joins Hey, Boss Lady hosts Andrea Goeglein and Kristi Atwater to talk about why so few women are in leadership roles as head chefs and restaurant owners in the food world, and what her organization, the Women’s Hospitality Initiative,  is trying to do about it.

Imagine leaving your career as a successful attorney and starting a new business--in the pandemic. That’s what Alisia Ford did. She’s the founder of Glory Skincare, a new company devoted to products for women of color. The company is filling a void in the marketplace, and it’s meeting a need for Alisia to follow her dreams. She talks with Hey, Boss Lady hosts Andrea Goeglein and Kristi Atwater about how she did it.

Our guest on Hey, Boss Lady! today is Sabrina Serafin, a partner at Frazier and Deeter, and a corporate partner of Hey, Boss Lady. She’s made it to the upper echelons in her field, but  she says one of the secrets to her success is the attention she pays to the “soft skills”. She joins Hey, Boss Lady hosts Kristi Atwater and Andrea Goeglein to talk about how she mentors her younger colleagues in the male-dominated world of accounting.

Our guest this week on Hey, Boss Lady! is Kema Ogden, an entrepreneur and a community advocate making big waves in Nevada that resonate far beyond the state itself. She started the Ogden Family Foundation, and she’s an advocate for social justice, medicinal cannabis and access to health care for all.  She joins Hey, Boss Lady hosts Kristi Atwater and Andrea Goeglein to talk about what drives her to make change.

On Episode Two of Hey, Boss Lady, we have a special guest: Tom Colicchio. The chef and owner of Crafted Hospitality is perhaps best known for his role as a head judge on the popular television series Top Chef, but he has a lot to say about women leaders in the restaurant business. He joins hosts Kristi Atwater and Andrea Goeglein to talk about what goes on between men and women on the show and in professional kitchens, the impact of the pandemic on restaurants, and his passion: local, healthy food for all.

Nadia Hansen went to college to study art. In her home country of Pakistan, her parents wanted her to be a lawyer or a doctor. She went in a completely different direction--technology-- and navigated a male-dominated field to become a digital change agent. She’s now the Chief Information Officer for Clark County, Nevada, leading a digital transformation of county services. From her inside seat in the tech world, she talks with Hey, Boss Lady hosts Andrea Goeglein and Kristi Atwater about how technology is both liberating us and tying us down, and what she does to break away from it all.