Humanity Chats with Marjy

Katherine McCord chats with Marjy Marj about neurodiversity and accessibility in the workplace, schools, and within communities. She shares her personal story of neurodiversity, the importance of inclusion, and how to embrace individuals with different abilities.

From being the little girl who played HR (even firing her mother when she was five years old), Katherine is a neurodiverse (Bipolar, OCD, Misophonia) and physically diverse (multiple diagnosis including a seizure disorder) human. She enjoys speaking about diversity and inclusion, HR, hiring, HR Tech, entrepreneurship, and general empowerment.

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Osnat Benari joins Marjy Marj to discuss how to manage change in the workplace. 

Osnat is a product leader, strategist, builder, advisor, and a coach for startups and young professionals.

Over her twenty-plus-year career in product management, she cofounded Dragons Can Fly, a Web3 product strategy and design agency, and led product partnerships for BBG Ventures. She has also led product and innovation groups at AOL Studios and Verizon. As part of the founding team at WeWork Labs, she helped build the company’s physical and digital experiences, and she most recently served as senior vice president of Product Management at Diligent.

Osnat was one of the product-led-growth top 25 influencers and currently serves on the advisory board for Audioburst and Hunter College. She is an alumni committee member at the American Friends of Tel Aviv University.

Osnat is an advocate for resilience and mental health in the workplace and a founding member of Chief, a network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders.

(Bio provided by Osnat Benari)

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Melody Murray joins Marjy on the chats to discuss ways to identify and combat suicidal behaviors.

About Melody:

• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Child Mental Health Specialist.
• Former comedian.  Did standup in Los Angeles for 5 years at the Hollywood Improv, the Ha Ha, Comedy Store and the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club
•  Interviewed by the NY Times, the Business Insider, "The Doctors", E! Networks and "Peace of Mind with Taraji" on Facebook Watch
• Former reality tv producer and director on several shows including MTV’s The Real World, Next, Bad Girls Club, Janice Dickinson’s Modeling Agency, etc
• Recently completed my first book, “Mourning the Living:  When The Loved One You’ve Lost is Still Here”'
•  Four years as a Hospital ER Mental Health Evaluator assessing homicidal and suicidal patients. 
• Former Children's show co-host 

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Khala Marande Hawes talks about being a mother of three, managing her business, and supporting mothers.

She is a serial entrepreneur. For the past seven years, she has been helping businesses to build, elevate and market their brands through her branding and marketing company, Agency24. She co-owns alongside her husband and partners, Oak and Ave Property Group, a real estate brokerage and development company in Spartanburg, SC. She also serves as the founder of Mom Got Goals, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping mothers reach their goals. And, is the program coordinator for Start:Me Spartanburg through the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Khala received her undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina
Upstate where she studied a combination of Education, Entrepreneurship and
Nonprofit Administration. And later, received her Master’s Degree in Digital Marketing from East Tennessee State University in December of 2021.

Khala’s mission is to help people tell their stories.  As the parent of a special needs child, she is an advocate for female entrepreneurship and providing women with the tools necessary to be successful, create freedom, and build generational wealth.

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Martina Clark (mar-tee-nah clah-rk), she/her, joins Humanity Chats to talk about her HIV journey.

Martina is the author of My Unexpected Life: An International Memoir of Two Pandemics, HIV and COVID-19. She worked for more than 20 years for the United Nations system and now teaches writing and critical reading for CUNY. She’s been living with HIV for more than half her life – 30 years and counting – and survived COVID-19 in 2020.
Martina has traveled to more than 90 countries and conducted condom demonstrations in at least 50 of them. She's traveled by boat, bus, and plane, but never by elephant or camel. My Unexpected Life is her first book.

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Shannon Petrovich chats with Marjy about strategies to help one break free from an abusive partner, parent, adult child, sibling, or work-colleague.

Shannon earned her Bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College, and her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Connecticut. She earned her clinical licenses in Social Work and Substance Abuse Counseling, and is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work.

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 Certified Divorce Recovery Coach Leah Marie Mazur Shares About Recovering from Divorce.

Leah Marie Mazur is a certified Divorce Recovery Coach and founder of Mindfully Ready, LLC. She specializes in helping moms through the mental and emotional side of divorce so they can heal, move forward, and thrive in their new chapter. She also provides a safe, judgment-free community for women rebuilding after divorce in her private Facebook group Divorced & Empowered.

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Learn about Higgins4Books.

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Learn about the Book Blackout from the South Carolina Education Association

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Dietician Alexandra Lautenschlaeger shares tips on diets.

About Guest
Alexandra Lautenschlaeger graduated from Clemson University in 1997 and 1998 with Bachelor Degrees in Biological Sciences, Modern Languages (German), and Sociology. She continued some graduate work in Food Science and Nutrition. In 2002, she was accepted to the Department of Health and Environmental Control Dietetic Internship Program. She was hired by Sodexo to work in at Wallace Thompson Hospital as a clinical dietitian in 2003.

In 2006, she participated in a grassroots campaign to overturn then Governor Sanford’s veto on dietetic licensure. It was overturned. In 2009 she became the nominating chair of the Piedmont Dietetic Association. That same year she won the Young Dietetic Dietitian of the Year Award from the South Carolina Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. That National Dairy Alliance chose Alexandra to be on the
“top nine” for their campaign in the Southeast. In 2010, she served as the PDA President. After that, she served as President Elect, President, and Past President of SCAND.
In 2013, Alexandra served on the board of the Clinical Nutrition Management DPG. That same year, she was chosen to help write the competency standards for today’s CDR. She also has managed to bring Past President’s like Ethan Bergam to speak at SCAND’s annual meeting. In 2109, she presented to UPAADE regarding CKD and Diabetes.
To this day, Alexandra participates in all grassroots campaigns to better dietetics. Now she promotes serving local food campaigns to help the food deserts in Spartanburg through Food Share, the Farmers Market, and USDA Farm to Families programs. She goes on local radio stations to promote all things nutrition. At the end of the day, she loves all things local, her fur babies, networking, her church, and most of all family.

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