Kimberly D. Scott also known as #That Kimberly

This episode of Industry Celebrities, Kimberly D. Scott interviews Rachel Ani, a talented licensed hairstylist and makeup artist at Salon D.  

In 2002, after Rachel graduated, she started her basics at the University of North Texas. After she finished her freshmen year, she was offered by her uncle, Ardem Keshishian - the owner of Salon D - to work as a part-time receptionist at his Salon. With her background in makeup, she used the opportunity to hone her skills by doing events like weddings, proms, and special occasions. While working at the salon, she had thought about going to cosmetology school. The turning point was when she was sitting in her accounting class and she felt like she was drowning by being there. She never went back after that because she knew that she did not want to be trapped on something she did not want to do. This decision made her parents upset. It’s understandable because every parent would want their child to be able to finish a degree. 

What’s admirable about Rachel is the fact that she was brave enough to pursue what she was really passionate about. Her heart belonged behind the chair so she took a leap and studied Cosmetology at Paul Mitchell School and graduated with honors. The beauty industry gave sparks of joy to Rachel because aside from creating and immensely improving her client's beauty, she loved the feeling of being with clients who were always happy to get pampered by her. This was the kind of joy that made her love her work even more. 

So to all those who wanted to get into the beauty industry, she wants to remind all the aspiring hair and makeup stylists to be prepared, to always take the challenge on doing something out of your comfort zones and never stop improving yourself because these are the best ways to hone your skills. 

Looking back, after every road that she traveled, her piece of advice for her younger self and to those who are feeling unsure on which road to take for their career is to take the time to explore all the options and to never follow someone's cookie cutter mold they put out for your life. Listen to your heart, ponder on what career you want for yourself and know what it’s going to take to get you there without fully worrying on the dollar amount that goes with that career. 

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 Caregivers Stories podcast, Kimberly interviews Tracey Lawrence, Speaker-Trainer, Family Coach and Author of Dementia Sucks A Caregivers Journey – With Lessons Learned.

Way back in 2003 Tracey had a successful career in graphic arts and was living with her husband in New Jersey while her parents were living a happy retirement in Florida. It was spring when she visited them. She remembered it so well because that was the time she found out that things were not going great for her father. There was a lot of cross complicating illness, and he had been misdiagnosed several times. It was Tracey who figured out that her dad had vascular dementia because he had coronary heart disease. Her father wished not to prolong his life and so around a year after he passed away. Her mother remained in Florida for a while, but when things started to become hard for her to live alone, Tracey asked her husband if her mother could live with them. Her husband agreed, so they packed her things and moved her to their home.  It was 2010 when they moved her to be with them permanently, and she died on her 64th wedding anniversary, the year 2015. So over five years, her mother experienced every kind of caregiving on the caregiving spectrum. From a combination of living with Tracey and having to hire people in the home to help them and at the end of her life, she was on Hospice in a group home.

As a way to cope with the rollercoaster ride that Tracey was on, she poured her heart out on a journal. She blogged her experience and gained a lot of followers. She was glad that she recorded it because she realized that the book she wanted to write already exists. After polishing it, she found someone who helped her and she got a publishing deal in July 2017. The book aims to help readers to understand the process of realization that your loved one is developing this problem and the kinds of things that you really need to do to prepare yourself for it. It also highlighted the importance of self-care for caregivers have the tendency to forget to take of oneself.

Listen to the rest of the interview for these two wonderful daughters shared their experience on what is it like to become a caregiver to a parent who has dementia. Don’t miss the chance to hear their heartwarming stories and the remarkable lessons that came along with it.  Visit Tracey's website or connect and follow her on IG, Twitter, FB and LinkedIn

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On this episode of Industry Celebrites Podcast, Kimberly interviews Stacy Westbay, the founder of Revenue Edge. Stacy holds an MBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University. A firm dedicated to assisting multifamily organizations by providing revenue management solutions.

Before she became a seasoned professional in the Multifamily Real Estate, she started her career as a part-time leasing consultant for JPI in 1996 then while she entered grad school, she interned at Verde Apartment Communities. She was an Asset Manager and eventually became their Vice President of Asset Management. After Verde Apartment Communities sold to Camden, Stacy decided there was a need to teach others about revenue management and started Revenue Edge. With revenue management, she had the opportunity to help people on their strategic initiatives from a pricing perspective and also get to focus on helping those who don't have a deep understanding about what revenue management is and how it can help their business.

She shared what she liked the most about working in the industry, and it’s being able to channel her passion for educating people on the business side. She enjoyed imparting her knowledge and expertise to non-believers for she knows that she can make them believe in the system that her company is offering.  Listen to the rest of the episode where Stacy shares some valuable pieces of advice for her younger self and those who want to be a part of the multifamily industry.  

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 Kimberly D. Scott, a former Video Girl, and now Podcast Practitioner interviews Lisa skinner author of Not All Who Wander Need Be Lost: Stories of Hope for Families Facing Alzheimer’s and Dementia.

Lisa is a behavior specialist dedicated to helping families understand the behaviors that are associated with dementia-related illnesses and the challenges they face on a day to day basis. She entered the world of dementia 40 plus years ago when her grandmother started to display some pretty bizarre behavior. It turned out she had some form of dementia, which at that time did not have a concrete label yet. She was just a teenager at that time, and over the years as she grew, eight of her family members was diagnosed with dementia.

She discussed the lacking comprehensive understanding of brain diseases, the behaviors that are associated with it, and how to respond to it accordingly. Her book is one of the most needed guidelines to navigating the challenges of having a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias. It provides the tools that people need to have a better understanding about the disease that will help everyone grasp what's happening with their loved one and to know how to respond to the different behaviors because even though a person might have dementia, it does not mean that he or she is lost to the world.

Listen to the rest of the interview for Lisa and Kimberly exchanged handful information about how to handle a person with dementia and how to cope up with the rollercoaster ride that comes along with taking care of someone who has no short term memory.  To check Lisa books visit amazon.com. Connected with Lisa on LinkedIn and FB. Listen to other episodes or signup to be a guest on a Podcast: here

Kimberly D. Scott, interviews Leah Stanley, Alzheimer’s and Dementia speaker and author of Goodnight, Sweet: A Caregiver’s Long Goodbye.  In this episode, Leah also shared how important it is to take the time to talk to the doctor who's diagnosing the patient and learn more about the type of dementia that your loved one has. This will not only let you understand the symptoms but it’s also for you to be equipped on what you need to do as a caregiver.   

After her grandparents passed away, Leah felt the need to write down their journey to share what they have experienced and to help those who needed guidance as a caregiver to someone who has Alzheimer’s and dementia. The book as she describes it details her entire experience from the moment she received the first phone call to settling their estate nearly four years later.  Listen to the rest of the interview for Leah and Kimberly discussed a whole lot of stories and insights that will help your caregiving journey a little less difficult. 

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On this episode of Industry Celebrities, Kimberly interviews Jermaine Hagan, the CEO of Harmony Herb Company. Jermaine is a self-taught health guru, and his company offers healing alternatives, dietary planning, and life coaching workshops to help in preventing disease and restoring health. He and his team believe that health is wealth, and their goal is to help people achieve optimal mental and physical well-being.

He grew up in a big family in Los Angeles, California, and ever since he was small, he was already inquisitive. He would tend to ask a lot of questions, and he always made sure to look for its answers. This positive trait became a gateway for him to open a company that extensively offers help to those who wanted to achieve health and wellness in a natural way. He explains that love is the highest vibration of healing and so if we all want to maintain balance and be of sound mind and body, we should all learn to take care of ourselves. 

As someone who has been in the industry for 20 years, he shared his advice to his younger self; the first would be to look through life through the lens of ‘Everything is your teacher.” Because life itself is a University of Learning, and even as we grow old, we should never stop learning new things. And second, would be is to never compare yourself to others for you have your own unique path in life. These two things are one of the most important things that we should all take a note from. 

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On this episode of Industry Celebrities, Kimberly got a chance to talk to an old friend, John S. Bower and his passion for people and Church Planting.  John shares with Kimberly how he goes from Apartment Industry to Lead Pastor and an Elder of Normandy Community Church. 

John shared how he discovered his passion for people. He always had this inkling fascination with helping and building incredible relationships. That is when he wanted to start Church Planting, a friend of him told him not to, but this did not stop him because he had a vision and he took every chance he had to start the organization.  He did not just enjoy having and processing his vision he also loved seeing other people’s vision come true. He found his true calling and now he is on a mission to help others find theirs.

One of the pieces of advice that he wants to plant in our minds, is to be grateful always. This is a note for us, to remind ourselves to live in the moment and just trust the process because everything that we do, will lead us to where we should be. 

If you want to learn more about John and Normandy Church visit their website or connect with John on IG, FB and LinkedIn. 

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On this episode of Caregivers Stories Podcast, Kimberly interviews Jane Marks, former Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Association, West Virginia chapter and currently running the website SandwichCaring.com. 

For 21 years she offered her expertise in running non-profit organizations and transforming complicated sets of circumstances into a person-centered solution. When she started working at the Alzheimer's Association, she became immersed in the world of dementia and got the chance to work along with caregivers and medical practitioners. But after 13 years of serving, she retired from her post, for she needed to take care of her mother as her illness progressed. She shared that just like all those who were diagnosed with dementia, her mother wasn't following any set pattern, but she noticed some changes, and at that time, a newly coined term was given for her condition: mild cognitive impairment. 

During one of the seminars that she attended, she was able to talk to a neurologist who encouraged her to have her mother checked. When they did, they found out that she had Parkinson's with some form of dementia. Jane did not know that her mother felt the tremors internally. Her handwriting changed, she started to have some balance issues, her voice had gotten much softer, and at that time, she did not know that these were all symptoms of Parkinson's. This was when she learned that one of the biggest misconceptions about dementia is that you have to have a specific diagnosis and have a similar set of pattern to be able to tell that one has dementia. As one of the broadest and complex diseases, our philosophy should be changed from following just one set of guidelines, to dealing with whatever manifestation is showing. We need to get rid of the idea that everybody is going to go through a similar pattern because there aren’t any stages and everybody will have a different set of experience. Caregivers and the family members should assess carefully on what will work for their loved one who is diagnosed because what might work for others might not work for them. She also pointed out that even though when things will get really tough, one should never forget to take care of oneself because to fully take care of someone, we need to take care of ourselves too. 

Often caregivers ignore the fact that they too are experiencing trauma. Disregarding mental health can cause a lot of problems and would eventually cause a hindrance from fully functioning. It would be best to always check on yourself, to not be ashamed of admitting that you too are going through a tough time and you need help. 

Listen to the rest of the interview as Kimberly and Jane shared so many heart-tugging stories and lessons from their experience as a caregiver for their mom. Make sure to check out Jane’s page at Sandwichcaring.com or connect with Jane on LinkedIn. 

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On this episode of Industry Celebrities, I am blessed to interview an industry legend and my friend, Anne Sadovsky. Connect with Anne

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On this episode of Caregivers Stories, Vicki Tapia, author of Somebody Stole My Iron and Co-Founder of AlzAuthors.com shares invaluable insights that will help anyone that is traveling down the same road of being the primary caregiver to their parents. Vicki also shares why she co-founded AlzAuthors.com, which is a community of authors with the mission to share Alzheimer’s and dementia stories to light the way of others. If you know someone that could use Vicki’s knowledge, share the episode and if you want to know more about Vicki, visit her website at www.vickitapia.com and www.alzauthors.com. You can also connect with Vicki on: Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn

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