Kitchen Table Conversations w/ Chef Diana

Bridget Kaigler, CPA, CGMA, CMA, MBA has been captivating individuals most of her life with inspiring and motivational messages. Bridget’s approachable personality and life experiences enable her to engage with colleagues, peers, and working professionals to deliver favorable results and most importantly, promote open communication.

Bridget’s humble beginnings and non-traditional path to becoming a CPA was the foundation and encouragement to begin her own company, Bringing Leadership Back (BLB), LLC. BLB was founded to help aspiring leaders grow. BLB offers a variety of services with a primary focus on leadership development and career services.

Bridget is a seasoned professional with more than twenty years of experience. She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration from University of Phoenix.

She and Chef Diana have a conversation about leadership role in your home as a single parent or career woman. Every one is a leader because someone is always looking and learning.

Follow inspirational messages and current events for Bringing Leadership Back, LLC:

LinkedIn – Bridget Kaigler, CPA, CGMA, CMA, MBA;

FB @BringingLeadershipBack; IG – @bringing_leadership_back

Chef Jennifer Hill Booker has taken her Southern culinary heritage, her belief in healthy, seasonal foods and her classic French training to create a unique cuisine — Modern Southern Healthy Cuisine with a French Accent.

​Chef Jennifer’s culinary path has not always been a linear one. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Tulsa before graduating first in her class; eighteen months later, with an Associate of Occupational Science from Oklahoma State Institute of Technology. Extensive travel while married to a United States Army Officer pushed Jennifer to blaze a trail that fit her unique situation-a female African American chef, living abroad. As a result, her culinary company Your Resident Gourmet was born. Twenty years later Jennifer finds herself once again blazing culinary trails as she wears many culinary hats as chef, cookbook author of Field Peas to Foie Gras: Southern Recipes with a French Accent and Dinner Déjà Vu: Southern Tonight, French Tomorrow, reality TV personality, culinary educator and business owner.

Her focused attention to detail came through loud and clear when she was a contestant on the Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen competition food show. She is an inspiration and role model for girls and modern women who are balancing life’s many challenges.

Please visit Chef Jennifer's website ChefJenniferHillBooker

Jessica Litman is the founder and creative director of The Organized Mama, a professional organizing and media company based out of Chicago, IL. Over the past 7 years, Jessica and her team have helped countless families get organized through in-home services, speaking engagements, and blog + video tutorials. Jessica has been named "Family Organizing Expert" by People.com, and has had her work featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Parents Magazine, and The Boston Globe.

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In our Chef Life series we have conversations with like-minded women chefs who give their all for their dream and passion of being a chef.

This episode features Chef Judith Cage known as Chef Judy. She is an Army Veteran with a passion for cooking and love for people. Her professional ambition and sense of community coupled with her hard work and entrepreneurial spirit have turned her
passion and love into three North Carolina restaurants and three appearances on the Food Network; Chopped, Cutthroat Kitchen, and Restaurant Impossible.
Chef Judy found her delight for food while growing up in Chicago cooking for friends and siblings. She continually shares her skills in the kitchen, love of laughter, and desire to see others succeed in their dreams while accomplishing her own.
Judy is the proud owner of Let Me Cater to You catering company in Fayetteville, NC, as well as Chef Judy's Jaguar Grill in Smithfield, NC, Let Me Cater to You in Pope Army Air Field, NC, and
Uptown’s Chicken and Waffles, in Fort Bragg, NC. Follow her on social media Chef Judy

Mindful and positive habits, consistency, routines and training is what success look likes for Chef Judy.  

With a professional mandate that You don't have to be rich to look wealthy, The Style
Educator Valencia Holland is Founder & Owner of Valencia Holland Enterprises, LLC.
Her company provides personal styling and image consulting services to women.
Specializing in wardrobe revision, closet organization, and personal shopping. Among her many credentials, Valencia served as the Key Stylist for the 2016 Couture
Hair Extension Campaign (working with photographer David Hall of DJHPhotography); as a Volunteer Stylist for Project Hope CT which donates prom dresses, shoes and accessories to underprivileged girls.

Let's discover how to shop for our shape and style our body with  a wardrobe that fits our life.

For more information on Valencia Holland

Find: www.valenciaholland.com

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Chef Robin Lewis is a sought after Personal Chef, Food Consultant, and Lifestyle Blogger. After a decade in the beauty industry, Chef Robin blasted onto the Atlanta culinary scene in 2016.  Chef Robin became a contributing chef to the Atlanta based culinary group, LACE - hosting upscale dinner parties.  A native of Cleveland Ohio,  Chef Robin’s passion for food was developed in her grandmother’s kitchen. Currently, she is the founder and Executive Chef for The R District.  Her company provides unique culinary experience for an array of clients.  For more information about her company The R District or follow her social media here @chefqtrob

Tamika L. Sims is President/CEO of Get Write With Tamika, LLC where she provides Book Writing Strategy Sessions, Author Coaching, and Publishing Consulting. Tamika believes every author is a business and every story is profitable. Tamika also has a passion for women's empowerment. She is Creator and Founder of The Self-Assured Woman Movement, a movement that boasts more than 1,500 women. For more information Tamika Sims or Get Write with Tamika LLC

We continue the conversations on relationships. Its time to take the mask off and be freely you. She and Chef Diana discuss the importance of sharing your story to reach others. Tamika also shares when she knew it was the right time to share her story and be vulnerable with others and the people in her community. This conversation hopefully will get you together as Tamika got Chef Diana together on showing up and picking up the phone to reach out to loved ones and people in your circle. 

Chef Diana Riley

Felicia D. Young is the founder of Higher Minds of Education LLC.  She received her B.A. from Dillard University and her M.Ed. from Northeastern University.  She has been in the higher education industry for over ten (10) years, working in public, private and community colleges throughout Louisiana.  Felicia has been an active volunteer in her church, community and throughout the region as well as on many college and university colleges.  Currently, she is enrolled in a doctoral program at Gwynedd Mercy University for Educational Leadership to advance her knowledge to aid students in their journey towards a degree in higher education. 

Find more information about her services here Higher Minds of Education or contact her directly 318.564.8755

She and Chef Diana discussed the challenges of parenting during a pandemic as an entrepreneur and how to overcome the challenges with advice to endure after the pandemic. 

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Mary Reese-Paul is a passionate and spiritual Certified life coach and devoted Child of God. 

She leads others towards self-discovery and mental liberation with her daily inspiring messages and journey as a Certified life coach. 

In early 2016, Mary launched, MarySeeds Incorporated. It is the foundation of her business as a life coach and motivational speaker. Mary is a compassionate listener, empathy based coach, and determined leader. 

Her first Co-Author book, Collaboration, The Woman Behind The Mask released September 2016. Her first stand alone book, a memoir, Paint My World Purple "Color  Changes As Healing Progresses" released in 2017.

She encourages you to always, "walk in your purpose and to start planting seeds."

For more information: Mary Reese Mary Sowing Seeds

 Irielle Washington, the founder and instructor of Black Masterminds LLC. With a Masters of Arts in Education and as a certified elementary teacher in grades K-5, with six years of extensive experience in all elementary school subjects with English Language Arts and Mathematics being her specialty. Irielle confesses, "I have heard the complaints from families on limited resources and knowledge and I am taking action to eliminate this wide opportunity gap. Become a black mastermind. Not just for your child, but for your grandchildren's future."

Join us as we share resources and information to help busy mamas stay informed of their child's education, answers to the concerns about curriculum standards and how to create a parent teacher relationship that is centered around the best interest of the scholar.

Contact Irielle Washington Black Masterminds LLC or [email protected]