Live Bold & Boss Up

By Stephanie Markese and Ashley JarockiSociety & Culture Business

Live Bold & Boss Up episodes

June 01, 2021Live Bold & Boss Up: How To Create A Great Company Culture with Andi Graham, CEO of Big Sea
Steph & Ash talk to Big Sea CEO, Andi Graham and talk about her journey of starting her own company and how she organically got there. Everything that happens starts with a conversation. An agreement or an idea. A connection. That conversation can take place almost anywhere, at any time, through the digital devices always in front of us. It’s my job to make sure my client’s voice is consistent, strong, and memorable when their customers are looking for that connection. This is Andi’s vision and just one reason why she is so successful.
Andi is the founder of Big Sea, a digital marketing agency founded in 2005 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Their clients include universities, health and wellness providers, attractions and museums, and B2B service providers (among many, many more) all over the country. Andi was a 2016 finalist for Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Businesswoman of the Year in Technology, serves on the faculty of USF’s Digital Marketing program, has presented research at academic and professional conferences all over the country, serves on advisory boards, and founded Tampa Bay’s chapter of Girl Develop It.
Boss Bites
Ask your employees “what are your life goals? what’s your passion?” rather than just work goals.
Culture is intentional.
What does success mean to you? Don’t follow someone else’s version of success.
Set boundaries with your clients and employees…and setting expectations.
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May 18, 2021Live Bold & Boss Up: The Secret To Happiness
Steph & Ash discuss the secret to happiness. It’s so easy to focus on the negatives, and let stress and unhappiness take over your life. What is true happiness and what little steps can you do every day to achieve that?
Boss Bites
Short-term happiness vs long-term happiness – both are good but the goal is long-term.
When a negative thought or feeling comes to you, try to think of the positive behind it then distract it.
Long-term happiness includes surrounding yourself with good people, love, doing fulfilling work (ie; volunteering or giving back), and being in a job you enjoy.
Take care of yourself – get enough sleep, eat healthy, & exercise.
Try to avoid things that you know cause negativity or trigger bad feelings.
Keep a gratitude journal.
If you are thinking negative or suicidal thoughts, talk to someone.
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May 11, 2021 Live Bold & Boss Up: Raising Our Future Leaders Starts At Birth With Bob Buesing
Raising successful leaders of our future starts as soon as a child is born. Bob Buesing, business leader, and attorney, was honored as Lightning Community Hero on May 5th, 2021 for the Talk, Read, Sing Campaign at the Tampa Bay Lightning game. Since 2001, Bob has advocated for quality, early education services for youngsters, volunteering thousands of hours to improve the lives of more than 17,000 children born in Hillsborough County each year. He dedicates a lot of his free time to Champions for Children, an organization dedicated to building stronger families through education. Find out why this is important to our future leaders and why you should care.
Boss Bites
• The first 5 years of a child’s life are crucial to brain development and sets them up for success for their entire life.
• Hillsborough county reported that 47% of children were not Kindergarten ready
• From the time a baby is born, talk (or jabber) to them as much as possible!!
• Read at least 30 mins a day to your child. This is a bonding experience.
• Children that are exposed to music at a young age are better in math & science when they are older.
• Adding books in laundry mats, barbershops, and any professional workplace will
How to get involved: talk to your company about adding a book room or corner, donate books or money to the children’s organizations below, or just sit down with your child and talk, read and sing to them. Check out TalkReadSing.org and the Champions For Children website.
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May 04, 2021 Live Bold & Boss Up: Never Forget A Name Again! – Tips To Improve Your Memory
Have you been in the situation where you just met someone and poof you instantly – I mean right always as it leaves their mouths and hits your ears you then forget what they said? Do you find it hard to recall important facts that you really need to know? How about telling everyone “oh I’m terrible with remembering names or facts or that stuff!” Not anymore!
Today, we have got the keys to unlock that big sexy brain of yours!
Boss Bites
• First, you must get those distractions under control. Don’t multitask!
• No Cramming! It’s easier to remember if you spread smaller chunks of information across a longer period of time
• A good brain diet, exercise, and adequate sleep is important to you
• Mnemonics can help you remember certain facts or information. They can come in the form of a song, rhyme, acronym, image, phrase, or sentence. Mnemonics help us remember facts and are particularly useful when the order of things is important.
• Rest periods are important when studying and trying to remember large amounts of information – take a shower, walk, or mediation will help give your brain a break so you can recall the information when needed.
• Take notes! Writing down other details and also making charts, pictures, etc with help job your memory.
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April 27, 2021 Live Bold & Boss Up: Turn Fear Into A Competitive Advantage
We all have fears. Don’t let them keep you from achieving your dreams. Steph & Ash talk about how to use your fears to your advantage.
Boss Bites
1. Identify what your fears are
2. Put yourself in a situation where you have to face your fear
3. Don’t make excuses
4. Surround yourself with others that support you and are that are successful
5. Change your mindset, your fear is a growth opportunity
6. Mistakes are OK
7. Visualize the goal (Vision Board, write it down)
8. Growth is uncomfortable….but the outcome makes it worth it!
9. Accept that you may fail
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April 06, 2021Live Bold & Boss Up: How Being On A Board & Involved In Non-Profits Can Catapult Your Professional Career With Penny Parks
Steph & Ash talk with Penny Parks on why being involved in the community and on boards can move you forward in your career. Penny is the President & Founder of Links Financial LLC. In addition, Penny serves as the Chair of the University of Tampa Board of Fellows. She chaired the CEO Council of Tampa Bay in 2020. Currently, she serves as a Board Member for the Tampa Bay Wave, a Board Member of the Greater Tampa Chamber, a Copperhead Board Member for the Valspar PGA Tournament, and a University of South Florida Women in Leadership & Philanthropy member. She also served on the Dean’s Advisory Board for the University of Tampa Sykes College of Business, and Honorary Commander at MacDill and as an Executive Committee Member for the Go Red for Women of the American Heart Association. She has previously served as the Secretary of the Global Board of the Association for Corporate Growth as well as the Chapter President of its Tampa Bay chapter. She has previously chaired the local Make-A-Wish Board, as well as the American Cancer Society’s Breast Cancer Walk. Last but not least, Penny is currently the Treasurer of Ruth’s List of Florida. Whew!
Boss Bites
Volunteer for something you are passionate about. Research the organization and learn how you can contribute.
Taking a leadership role as a volunteer for a non-profit can give you skills needed to
Never ever EVER give up. Don’t let negative thoughts & self-doubt bring you down.
No one can ever take away an education.
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March 30, 2021Live Bold & Boss Up: Top 5 F* Ups That Entrepreneurs Make With Chuck Papageorgiou
Steph & Ash talk with Chuck Papageorgiou, the Founder and Managing Partner of Ideasphere Partners, LLC, a think tank and consulting company that works with high-tech companies on bringing innovation to product development and operations. Chuck was the Co-Founder and CEO of World Watch Plus an award-winning SaaS Know Your Customer Global Due Diligence AI platform that was sold to Dun and Bradstreet. He served as the Operations and Delivery executive for NeoPollard Interactive, a company that brought multiple US Lotteries online. He brings his global experience in Technology, Operations, and Sales Operations, both as a serial entrepreneur, a consultant, and an executive to actively assist and guide management teams of companies he founded or has invested in, as well as client companies, with strategic, operational, and technology leadership challenges, corporate development and growth strategies, international expansion plans and overall management aspects of their organizations.
As an entrepreneur he has founded and launched a number of companies and products, raising over $20M in startup capital, and as a corporate executive and consultant, he has managed organizations ranging from five-person spin-off divisions to 15,000+ employee international operations. He has led or acted as a Sr. Advisor on completed M&A and restructuring transactions worth over 9 billion dollars.
So, Chuck has made plenty of screw-ups and has learned along the way. He shares them with us, so you don’t have to learn them the hard way!
Top 5 Screw Up (MAJOR Boss Bites)
1. Confusing PoC with MVP – A Proof of Concept may resemble a Minimum Viable Product, but it is not even remotely adequate to assume it is a Market Viable Product.
2. Confusing Founder Equity with Friendship Equity – Your college roommate is not necessarily your 50/50 co-founder
3. Confusing a data point with a trend and using it as proof – Selling one (or 100) products/subscriptions may simply be a data point and not a trend if your scaling plan assumes you will sell to millions
4. Thinking raising capital is a metric of success – Raising capital is the creation of an obligation that comes at an expected cost to fulfill. The best capital structure is one you can support on your own or through the 3F’s (Friends Family and Fools). The second best is one you can support through your customers. The third is a grant or government funding you can leverage without equity. The fourth is a bank loan without personal guarantees. The fifth is a loan with personal guarantees. The sixth is smart equity from Venture Capital investors. The seventh is blood equity from Vulture Capital Investors.
5. Not doing enough due diligence on investors – There are Great Investors, Good Investors, Bad Investors, Horrible Investors, Investor wannabes, and Predators! Need to know the difference before taking their money.
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March 23, 2021Live Bold & Boss Up: How He Built A 7 Figure Company By Thinking Outside The Box (AND Making A Difference In World) With Lester Morales
Steph & Ash speak with Lester J Morales, Founder & CEO of Next Impact LLC. Lester is a true consultant in the human capital and employee benefits arena.
Focused on innovation and changing the “status quo,” Next Impact is a full-service employee benefits and human resource marketing and consulting company, committed to helping other companies grow and add value to their clients. Before he founded Next Impact, he cofounded Incela, a benefits administration company focused on helping advisors support their clients with ACA compliance. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Lester served nearly three years as Executive Vice-President and Chief Growth Officer for Willis’ Human Capital Practice, one of the largest insurance brokerages in the world. In this role, Lester led over 200 producers/consultants in 40 + offices as part of a $350,000,000 practice-Willis’ single largest practice in North America.
During a previous eight-year stint at Willis, Lester was consistently among the top five consultants nationally. He is a highly sought-after speaker at industry conferences, on the subjects of on-site clinics, private exchanges, self-funding, wellness, pharmacy carve-outs, compliance, captives, and other cost-mitigation strategies.
Boss Bites
Failure is a great learning tool (a common theme with LBBU!). You wouldn’t be where you are today if it wasn’t for the lessons along the way.
If you are going to wake up and grind every day, then make sure you are loving what you do!
You have to start with your WHY.
Don’t regret the things you didn’t do.
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March 17, 2021Live Bold & Boss Up: Celebrating Bad Ass Women With Vasti Amaro
Steph & Ash talk with Vasti Amaro, a Holistic Life Coach guiding people to become the Whole Human Being they were purposed to be. She was a transportation expert for 30-years working for government agencies, global firms and starting her own transportation consulting business in 2014. Vasti took a sabbatical in 2020 to be still in order to develop her life purpose. From that experience, The Whole Person Health Life Coach program was birthed. Vasti studied Business Management at the University of Phoenix and is a graduate of the WTS Leadership program. She has served on many association and non-profit boards and is currently an Advisory Board Member and Director of Girls Golf Site Director for Women of Color Golf Youth Initiatives.
Major Boss Bite
Don’t be afraid to reinvent yourself! Do what you are passionate about that fulfills you.
Women of Color Golf (WOCG) & Girls On the Green Tee (GOTGT) are a not-for-profit 501c3 organization located in Tampa, Florida. The mission of Women of Color Golf is to increase diversity and inclusion in the sport of golf for women and girls through instruction, on-course play, mentoring, networking, special events, health, and career-related opportunities.
The mentoring program Girls on the Green Tee (GOTGT) is designed for girls ages 10 -17, and college students, to answer the ever-present need for strong, accomplished, and resilient female role-models. (GOTGT) seeks to create a spark of interest and inspiration in the game of golf. This inspiration is then turned into action by connecting the motivated girls to mentors in our golf community through various activities and events.
The Women of Color Golf (WOCG) and Girls on the Green Tee (GOTGT) initiatives have grown into a nationally recognized community program with recognition by the United States White House as Champions of Change for Extracurricular Enrichment for Marginalized Girls.
For more information, visit Women Of Color Golf and the Clearview Golf Club online.
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March 09, 2021Live Bold & Boss Up: Tips On Overcoming Adversity With Gary Montoute
Steph & Ash talk with Gary Montoute about what it takes to become a leader, interviewing tips, and how to overcome adversity. Gary Montoute is an IT leader with broad experience in areas that have afforded him the opportunity to see the information technology thread move through and bind great organizations together. He believes that an IT organization should never fall into the realm of ‘order takers’ but be partners, enablers, and solution providers.
Gary’s focus outside of his professional career includes helping the underserved youth learn what it means to work for someone else as well as what it would take to become an entrepreneur. Gary co-owned and operated a martial arts franchise for over 22 years. He walked away from self-employment to focus on what matters most, his family. In the diversity space, Gary contends that he is an embodiment of diversity, multicultural lineage, supporter of diverse hiring, and has fought the good fight to be at that table as well behind those doors where people that looked like him were not historically invited or approved.
Boss Bites
Everyone should have a mentor. A mentor should be someone that is not your boss, and not just a friend that you grab a beer with. Someone that will give you advice and has your best interest in mind.
When interviewing, ask questions like “What is the culture like?”
Diversity brings new ideas, well roundedness, and culture to companies.
When interviewing for a job, do a test zoom meeting with a friend to make sure everything is working and ask for their feedback.
To elevate yourself: Talk to leaders and ask their advice, refresh your resume, research companies and know what you want.
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