Live Bold & Boss Up

Steph & Ash sit down with Kyla Callahan, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Ryan Callahan Foundation. She is amazing and started a non-profit from the ground up based on a passion.

The Ryan Callahan Foundation brings unforgettable experiences and moments of family unity to pediatric cancer patients and their families.  A nonprofit which bears her husband’s name, Ryan Callahan former NHL player who was in the league for 17 years.  Their non-profit was officially established in 2016 but began working within the community on its mission two years earlier.

After having two children of their own, Kyla and Ryan couldn’t imagine the hardships a family experiences while battling cancer. Since that time their family and foundation have evolved.

Kyla and Ryan have three children Charlotte, 10, Evelyn,7, and Dominick, 4.  While being a full-time mom, Kyla runs the Tampa-based foundation now from their home base in Rochester, NY, which has recently expanded to New York State serving families being treated at Golisano Children’s Hospital.  The foundation’s programs are inclusive of financial assistance, family vacations, a health and wellness program, days of pampering for the entire family, and outings to professional sporting events but their hard work within the community doesn’t end with their “24 Club, Cally’s Crew, Cally’s Comforts, and their newly curated RISE program”.

Although Kyla and her family have relocated to Rochester, NY she continues to fully operate the Ryan Callahan Foundation while developing further programming in Tampa, FL.

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This week, Stephanie Markese and Ashley Jarocki of NextPath Career Partners talk with the awesome Erica Dhawan live at the Women’s Conference of Florida. Erica is a Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author and Recognized Expert in leading and communicating in a hybrid world. When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth and innovate through teamwork, they call Erica Dhawan.

She is an internationally recognized leading authority, author, and advisor on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. She was named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers.” She is the author of two books, “Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence And Digital Body Language” and “Digital Body Language: How To Build Trust And Connection, No Matter The Distance.” It’s 2022, the world of business is increasingly digital and work practices have changed at a blistering rate. Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020 and featured as one of the management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business, Erica frequently appears in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Huffington Post.

She uses the power of storytelling and humor paired with research findings to provide audiences with interactive, refreshing, practical strategies for modern innovation-driving teamwork.

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Steph & Ash sit down with Wade Swikle, President and CEO of 2 College Brothers. Wade is a two-time graduate of the University of Florida. He holds a Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship (but he likes to refer to it as a Master’s in Moving!). He took over 2 College Brothers after running Smarter Moving Solutions, a competing moving company in Gainesville, Florida when he purchased and merged the two companies in 2013. As the, he focuses on the company’s growth and overall vision while overseeing the upper-level management on a day-to-day basis.  He recently founded 2 College Brothers Franchising Systems to propel the company into nationwide expansion efforts as well at Titan Retreats, a mastermind project that brings together industry-specific business owners to collaborate on taking their businesses to the next level. Wade hosts the Grow Your Moving Company Podcast.

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Steph & Ash sit down with Clay Hutmacher, retired Major General and President & CEO of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Clay became the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation in September 2018.

He was a career United States Army Officer and retired in 2018 having served over 40 years in uniform. As an Army Special Operations Aviator, he commanded at every level during his three tours with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, where he served as the MH-60 Direct Action Penetrator platoon leader, company operations officer, executive officer and commander of 1st Battalion, Regimental Commander, and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command.

Major General Hutmacher’s last active-duty assignment was the Director of Operations in the U.S. Special Operation Command, Tampa, FL. His previous assignment was as the Deputy Commanding General of the United States Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, NC.

A native of Wenatchee, Washington, he was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, a Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval Command and Staff College, and a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College.

Find out more details at Specialops.org.

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Steph & Ash talk with Arlene DeBenigno, Managing Partner at Conversa Co and President/CEO of Women’s Conference of Florida, Inc. Arlene is an amazing BOSS BABE that created a Women’s Conference, with over 1500 attendees. Founded in 2015, the Women’s Conference of Florida offers professional women from across the state a platform to address the most important issues facing women. Annual conferences feature widely respected thought leaders, exhibits, networking, and panel discussions, all designed to empower women to positively influence the world around them.

The sixth annual Women’s Conference of Florida will take place on Friday, April 8, 2022, at the Tampa Convention Center.

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Steph & Ash sit down with Cyn Bastos, an Executive Wellness Coach passionate about the intersection of personal and professional FreedOm. Five years ago, she embarked on a healing journey that reconnected her with herself and got to the real root of her intentions. She was at the peak of her career and thriving professionally when her entire personal life came crashing down abruptly.

After years of doing traditional therapy and holistic healing, she still felt like something was missing and awakened to the realization that she was the only person who’d be able to find it. She spent the next three years getting training and certifications that taught her how to explore herself and how to pave her own pathway to Freedom.

Cyn helps guide you back to yourself and supports you in achieving personal and professional FreedOm. She supports you in getting to the root of your intentions and guides you in actively achieving your commitments. Together, we activate your passion and purpose while creating a vision + strategy for achieving FreedOm.

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Steph & Ash bring you the second half of their conversation with Dr. Jerry Smith, an American data scientist, computer scientist, and cognitive psychologist. He is predominantly known for his work in the field of causal artificial intelligence where he applies neurosciences to advance computational problem solving based on biologically inspired frameworks. For more than two decades, he has been at the forefront of solving and applying complex artificial intelligence problems for companies and governments. On a more personal note, Dr. Smith is one of the few individuals who ran nuclear reactors on submarines (USS Sam Houston) that later went on to fly jets (A-6 Intruder) from carries (USS Constellation, Connie). Dr. Smith is an author and filmmaker. Dr. Smith is often quoted as saying, “change the world, don’t just observe it.”

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Steph & Ash sit down with Dr. Jerry Smith, an American data scientist, computer scientist, and cognitive psychologist. He is predominantly known for his work in the field of causal artificial intelligence where he applies neurosciences to advance computational problem solving based on biologically inspired frameworks. For more than two decades, he has been at the forefront of solving and applying complex artificial intelligence problems for companies and governments. On a more personal note, Dr. Smith is one of the few individuals who ran nuclear reactors on submarines (USS Sam Houston) that later went on to fly jets (A-6 Intruder) from carries (USS Constellation, Connie). Dr. Smith is an author and filmmaker. Dr. Smith is often quoted as saying, “change the world, don’t just observe it.”

Today, we pick his extremely smart brain on the science behind affirmations in part 1 and go more into how sleep and lucid dreaming are important.

BOSS BITES

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Steph & Ash sit down with Kaitlin Moody, Head of Customer Success and Strategy at COI Energy. Her passion and vision are motivating. She talks about what makes a great work environment and a great boss/leader to work for!

Kaitlin Moody joined COI Energy in November 2021 as the Head of Customer Success and Strategy. Kaitlin is leading the operations team responsible for customer success, managing the marketing team, building out the government affairs team, and leading the social impact and strategic partnership initiatives.

Prior to joining COI Energy, Kaitlin worked at New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) as a Policy and Strategy Analyst. During her time at NYSERDA, Kaitlin contributed to the development of the first Carbon Neutral Buildings Roadmap, a policy roadmap that lays the framework on how NYS can achieve a statewide carbon neutral building stock by 2050, and NYSERDA’s first-ever DEI Strategic Plan.

In 2019, Ms. Moody launched an initiative to encourage students from her high school alma mater to consider a career in clean energy. Every year Kaitlin provides a graduating senior with the Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Leadership Award. At the end of the year, one graduating senior who has shown an interest or leadership in clean energy or sustainability throughout their senior year receives a monetary award to put towards books or tuition to help offset the costs for the fall semester. The Awardee is required to do one clean energy or sustainability project during their first semester to receive additional funding for the spring semester. How amazing is this?!

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Steph & Ash talk this week live at Synapse with Ashley T. Brundage, the Founder and President of Empowering Differences. While seeking employment at a major financial institution, Ashley self-identified during the interview process as a male to female transgender woman and subsequently was hired. Starting as a part-time teller, she rose to VP of Diversity and Inclusion in less than 5 years. She captured this 4-step process of using empowerment to cultivate change in her new book and online course. Ashley credits her success to those closest to her for providing actionable allyship including her two teenage sons, Bryce and Blake.

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