Maverick Podcast

Amanda is an executive leader with 20 years of experience in business transformation and financial expertise in the oil and gas industry, government sector, banking industry, non-profit sector, and consulting services. She is the founder and Co-CEO of LYT Consulting Group which recently launched helping clients overcome challenges, innovate and adapt, and take advantages of opportunities to better our community. She previously served as a Client Account Executive at Accenture, a leading global professional services company, she helped clients add value by strengthening their strategy, optimizing operations, accelerating revenue growth, and enhancing services. Before joining Accenture, she served as the State of Oklahoma's first Chief Financial Officer charged with oversight of $23 billion in state and federal funding, providing leadership to drive strategic financial decisions, solutions, and outcomes. She directly advised the Governor and Cabinet Secretaries as well as negotiated across the House and Senate on state financial matters. Prior the State CFO role, Amanda worked at Chesapeake Energy leading critical initiatives in Internal Audit and Accounting. During her time in the oil and gas industry she led teams with a focus on empowering people, enhancing and protecting organizational value, and helping the organization achieve its strategic, operational, financial, and compliance objectives.

Sharik Cervantes, a visionary photographer and artist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with Mexican Roots. She captures the essence of life through her lens. Growing up in a low-income neighborhood, Sharik found her calling behind the camera, using it as a tool to document her surroundings and unravel the layers of her identity. She now travels to different places and encapsulates her environment with photos.

Growing up in Des Moines, IA, Bianca Flores was always fascinated by science and thinking about how it could be applied to the real world. That same curiosity would eventually lead her to pursue a PhD studying neuroscience at Vanderbilt University, offering her a window into how memories are formed and how connections between people are made. Her research continued at John Hopkins University, where she  completed a doctoral fellowship. Throughout her time in academia, Bianca was often keenly aware that she was one of the only Latina in her social and professional circles. As a result, she found herself drawn to groups like SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) and the NIH-IMSD (National Institutes of Health funded Initiative for Maximizing Student Development). Thanks to groups like these, she was able to discover the undeniable power of community and connection, bringing her research full circle. In hopes of sharing that same empowerment and understanding with others, Bianca is developing a start-up that aims to create community by connecting young Latine professionals through networking opportunities, dating and supporting local businesses. When she’s not building community and reading about neural pathways, you can find Bianca trying new restaurants, seeing live music, and spoiling all three of her canine companions/children. 

Corazon Sazon:

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Guadalupe Garcia is the owner of Trompudo’s Tacos, a fast-casual restaurant specializing in traditional tacos. Guadalupe was born and raised in South OKC. Guadalupe’s parents, Marcelino and Esperanza Garcia are from a small rural town located in the municipality of Calvillo, in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Guadalupe is 1 of 5 children. He and his four siblings grew up in and around the food service industry. In 1989, His father founded and opened Chelino’s Mexican Restaurant.

Madison Horn has over a decade of experience in cybersecurity, defending American interests against foreign adversaries, nation-states, and terrorist organizations. She began her cybersecurity career at the startup, Fusion X, before moving to Accenture, where she played a lead role in building out their Global Cyber Defense practices, including incident response, hacking, threat intelligence, and threat hunting offerings. These experiences gave her the ability to pursue roles to build out PricewaterhouseCoopers Cloud Security Practice and to be a part of the founding team of Siemens Energy Global Security practice, building cybersecurity capabilities and services for energy companies around the globe.

On this episode of the Maverick Podcast we feature singer Sylvia Juarez.

Sylvia Juarez:

https://www.tiktok.com/@sylvia_lavozdelacumbia

On this episode of the Maverick Podcast we feature Marco Salas.

On this episode of the Maverick Podcast we feature producer and engineer Loudmouf Beats.

Jose Scott is a Hispanic artist impacted by art at an early age. Jose, an Oklahoma City native, was influenced by the graffiti art culture in South OKC turning influence into practice and then a profession. Jose has mastered his artistry in graffiti art, enhancing Oklahoma City’s art scene through his creative eye and mural projects. Jose’s detail-oriented work is letter-driven, character building, paralleling the shapes, forms and subject matter around the flow of his typography.

On this episode of the Maverick Podcast we discuss news, finance and tech with Daniel Solis and Jorge Solis.