Money Tales

Money Tales

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  • Breadwinner Moms, with Michele Madansky
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Dr. Michele Madansky. Michele is a digital advertising expert and sought-after media and market research consultant. She is also co-author of the most widely cited research study on gender bias in tech, “The Elephant in the Valley”. Michele acknowledges that money isn’t a popular discussion topic and she observes that people definitely don’t talk about relationships where women out-earn men, which is even more of a taboo.
    Michele leads a media and market research consultancy specializing in digital media and advertising. She has worked with some of the top digital brands including Spotify, Postmates, Disney+, BuzzFeed, Pinterest, Brave, Adobe, Twitter, YouTube, Chegg and BabyCenter.
    In the early 1990s, Michele was the first interactive specialist at BBDO (pre-Netscape). She also authored the first Ph.D. dissertation focused on online advertising. From 2003 to 2007, Michele was Vice President of Global Market Research for Yahoo! Prior to joining Yahoo!, she was managing partner at Grey Insight Partners, an analytics consultancy.
    Michele holds a Sc.B. from Brown University, and an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. She is a frequent industry speaker at events ranging from the ARF, i-com and the Youth Marketing Summit, and was a keynote speaker at SXSW in 2016. Michele is on the Advertising Research Foundation’s Women in Analytics Advisory Board and on the program board for i-com (Global Forum for Marketing Data and Measurement). She has also been a lecturer at Haas Graduate School of Business.
    37 min
  • Love To Spend, Hate To Waste, with Tovah Feldshuh
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Tovah Feldshuh. Chances are you’ve seen her in one of her many performances which have spanned Broadway stages, film and television. Tovah is also an author, having recently published a memoir entitled, “LILYVILLE: , Mother, Daughter and other Roles I’ve played.” She is currently raising funds to bring a theater production called “Becoming Dr. Ruth to New York.”
    Tovah is a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee and has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. She has won four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress.
    Tovah is a playwright, concert artist, and author. Her memoir, “LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played” was named #1 New Release in Parent Child Relationships and #8 in Theater Biographies on Amazon. TV credits include: “Holocaust, Law & Order”, “The Walking Dead”, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”, and HBO mini-series “Scenes from a Marriage.” Films include: the just completed “Armageddon Time” opposite Tony Hopkins and “Start Without Me” with Finn Wittrock, “Kissing Jessica Stein”, “A Walk on the Moon”, “The Idolmaker”, and “Clifford The Red Dog.” Broadway: “Yentl”, “Golda’s Balcony”, “Irena’s Vow”, “Pippin”, etc. Most recent theatre portrayal: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “Sisters in Law” by Jonathan Shapiro and Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer in Becoming Dr. Ruth by Mark St. Germain which just closed Off-Broadway. Tovah most recently returned from a concert tour of “Tovah is LEONA!” where she plays the infamous real estate mogul and hotelier Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley. Follow Tovah on Instagram @tovahfeld, and on her websitetovahfeldshuh.com.
    39 min
  • Sound Planning, with Julie Gustafson
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Julie Gustafson. After nearly three decades in wealth management and banking, Julie decided to dramatically change gears; she left her reliable job and transitioned to video and documentary production - this was quite a pivot from financial services. The common thread was that her work continued to focus on harnessing personal experiences. Julie and her business partner were telling the stories behind the art collections of their clients for the benefit of those who will inherit the collections, whether that be next generation of the family, a museum, or an unknown future buyer. When choosing to take this career risk, Julie followed her guiding principles: Begin with plan A, have plans B and C available if you need them, and talk through large expenses before plunging in.
    Julie is President of MJG Advisory LLC, a company that works with clients in the business, art, and philanthropic sectors to identify and to develop their unique story—their “voice”—for use in marketing, fundraising or other strategic needs. Julie’s first career (in Finance and Banking) began while still in college, and what started as a part-time job turned into a successful journey spanning nearly three decades, most recently with U.S. Trust (now Bank of America Private Bank) in Chicago. In addition to finance and her three “must haves” (families, art, and philanthropy), she has deep interest and experience with the often complex financial and emotional dynamics associated with multigenerational wealth.
    Prior to launching her own business, Julie served as Co-Founder and President of Heirlooms on Video, a company which produced video documentaries for art collectors and others in the art world. Outside of work, Julie serves on the boards of Special Olympics Illinois Foundation and Arts of Life, and is Co-Chair of the Chicago Chapter of ArtTable, a national organization whose mission is to support and to provide opportunities for women leaders in the visual arts.
    34 min
  • Wealth Beyond Reason, with Sanford Livingston
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Sanford Livingston II. Sanford is from Trenton, New Jersey, and a question he often heard from his mom while growing up was, “What are you going to study? Because you’ve got to get a job”. And, as Sanford explains, where he came from job stood for Just Over Broke. As a result of talking money with his college roommate, who came from a very affluent family, Sanford realized his own money orientation was focused on working and surviving rather than on living and thriving. This shift in perspective had a profound impact on Sanford and the way he approached his life going forward. He’s redefined wealth and is now working on passing that along to the rising generation of his family.
    Sanford is currently the acting CEO of Nor-Cal FDC. He is charged with the responsibility of establishing relationships with lenders, fintech innovations experts, and political and community leaders. Sanford has overall strategic and operational responsibility for Nor-Cal FDC’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. He also builds partnerships in new markets by establishing relationships with lenders, and political and community leaders.
    Sanford previously served Nor-Cal FDC as Chief Operations Officer; directing all operational and strategic responsibilities, and as Senior Director Program Development; responsible for increasing the number of microloans underwritten by Nor-Cal’s lending partners in this category. In this role, he grew loan volume by 50% while working with individual lenders to streamline process for efficiency.
    Prior to Nor-Cal FDC, Sanford served as Senior Vice President, Strategist, Commercial Strategies, Commercial Banking Group Wells Fargo Bank, where he provided innovative strategic business plans to all commercial banking divisions.
    Sanford has served on several boards including: Urban Financial Services Corporation; Advisory Board, Life Steps; Trustee Board Member, Coro Political Leadership Organization; Former Trustee Board Member, San Francisco Maritime Association; Board Member, and Wesleyan University: Former Board Trustee.
    Sanford has a B. A. in Economics from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. He is also a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated.
    35 min
  • Find Your Yes, with Sharon Reynolds
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Sharon Reynolds. Sharon is a successful serial entrepreneur. Her first entrepreneurial role model was her grandfather, who had to hide money in the walls of his home to protect his earnings from the Klan. She had the same perseverance as she launched her first start-up in high school as a seamstress and bespoke neighborhood designer. Today, she’s in the process of raising $70 million in series A round for one of her latest ventures.
    Sharon, President and CEO of DevMar Products, LLC, began her company with the idea to develop and distribute environmentally friendly, innovative products that eradicate pathogens while creating healthy spaces and sustaining the environment.
    DevMar Products, LLC was launched in December of 2007, right on the cusp of the financial crisis. By 2011, DevMar was recognized as a “Green Hero” of Nashville by the “Nashville Post” and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. In 2012, DevMar was selected as the recipient of the Women Impacting Public Policy Business Leadership “External Communications” award. Afterwards, the company was named one of the NEXT 50 Companies to Watch by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. In February 2013, DevMar was featured by the Office Depot Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s Top customer profile. The company is proud to be featured in publications such as Essence Magazine, WE South, WE USA, Diversity Professional, CleanLink, Beyond Exclamation, Enterprising Women, the Her Story of Success Podcast, MBE Magazine, The Tennessee Tribune, Black EOE Journal, Nashville Post and Business Williamson.
    Most recently, Sharon was honored as a 2021 Women to Watch in the Nashville Medical News. 2020, for all its challenges, also brought a few opportunities. Enterprising Women selected Sharon as one of the Top 20 in 2020 Award Recipients. Sharon was selected to participate in the prestigious Million Women Mentors Program sponsored by Wells Fargo; DevMar Products was awarded Beyonce’s #BeyGood for Black Businesses Grant in collaboration with the NAACP; and DevMar continues to develop products that Clean, Disinfect, and Protect.
    Sharon received the 100 Black Men/Women President’s Organization Women of Color Achievement Award and was honored with the Power Moves Award as Best Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. She was one of the 100 Leading Women in 2018 and in the same year, received MBE Magazine’s WBEs Who Rock Award – an honor established to provide special recognition for women business owners who exemplify passion, courage, and leadership in their pursuit of business success. In September 2017, DevMar was named the WBEC South Tier I Supplier of the Year.
    In 2015, the Nashville Black Chamber of Commerce named DevMar as the Small Business of the Year recipient and Sharon successfully graduated the SBA Emerging Leaders Initiative for Entrepreneurs. June of 2014, DevMar Products was selected by WBEC South as the WBE Spotlight company and was recognized a 2014 Small Business Awards recipient.
    In October of 2013, Sharon was selected as a WBENC scholarship recipient and attended the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, WBENC Executive Program at IBM in Palisades, New York. She was a Nashville Business Journal 2013 Women of Influence award recipient and was featured in the People Issue of the Nashville Scene for her contributions to sustainability through her line of specialty green products.
    Before earning her Executive MBA from Tennessee State University and graduating with distinction, Sharon earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management with a focus on Green & Sustainable Enterprise. She was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society at TSU and the Sigma Nu Tau Entrepreneurship Honor Society at Belmont University.
    Sharon continues to promote parity and equity for women through her position on the Board of Directors of the Women Business Collaborative and her role as Co-Chair of the Advisory Board for the same company. One of the many ways she serves her local community is through her seats on the Boards of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, Nashville State Community College Foundation, the Enterprising Women Magazine’s Advisory Council, and the Board of the Women’s Business Enterprise Council South in New Orleans, a Regional Partner of WBENC. She is a former Board member of the West End Home Foundation Board and Ni-Q.
    DevMar is a family of companies, consisting of a diverse group of businesses that all serve to better the lives of citizens where we live, work, and play. In 2012, Sharon launched DevMar Manufacturing, LLC and to collaborate with larger manufacturers to formulate cleaning and sanitizing solutions to meet the sustainable goals of Fortune 100 and 500 companies. In 2016, DevMar Global Healthcare Solutions, LLC was formed and guided by Sharon’s partnership with Ni-Q, LLC to launch a commercially- – sterile human donor milk for micro-preemie and premature infants in the NICU. In 2018, Bryla J Couture Clothiers, inspired by Sharon’s granddaughter, was born.
    Every day, the President and CEO of DevMar Products makes it her mission to manufacture and distribute products that keep employees safe in the workplace, and communities safe where they live, work, and play. She and her husband DeMarco Reynolds Sr. are proud parents of two adult sons, and grandparents to a confident and very clever granddaughter. Sharon is a 5th-generation “Nashvillian” and now resides in Brentwood, Tennessee.
    40 min
  • The Gift, with Patrick Veroneau
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Patrick Veroneau. Patrick found himself in a cush job; the money was great, he was good at the work, and the boss … well … they just didn’t see eye to eye. Patrick was pretty sure he was going to get fired, which turned into the ultimate push to make the leap into a financially risky position of starting his own business. The transition was possible as result of leaning on his wife to carry the family financially during the start-up phase. Fortunately for them, her career was taking off right at that time.
    Patrick is the founder of Emery Leadership Group (2008), co-founder of Candor Development Solutions (2019) and also hosts a weekly podcast called, Reimagining Leadership (2018).
    He has a Master’s in Organizational Leadership and has trained extensively in the areas of emotional intelligence, influence and personality. Many of the models he has developed are rooted in the research and real-world experiences from these three disciplines.
    Patrick has focused his career on helping individuals, teams and organizations reimagine what it means to lead and succeed on a more conscious level.
    As well, he is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, the National Speakers Association and is an adjunct instructor for SMCC.
    28 min
  • Fair Money, with Johanna Zeilstra
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Johanna (José) Zeilstra. Johanna wants to change world, and she’s doing that by harnessing the power of how we spend our money. Johanna is the CEO of Gender Fair, a platform where you can find out which companies support gender equality and use your dollars to drive fairness by buying only from the best. The Gender Fair Seal and 100-point scoring system make conscientious consumerism easy and give companies clear benchmarks and guidelines for improvement.
    Johanna is an established business strategist and an accomplished leader for both start-ups and global corporations. Over the past two decades, she has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and JPMorgan Chase, and with over a dozen client corporations, including Delta Airlines, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Philips, Lucent, Disney, Bank of America, and Occidental Petroleum. Her career has led her to work in Canada, China, Indonesia, France, and The Netherlands. She acts as a coach to senior executives on boards and top teams and has a passion for supporting and advancing professional women. She is an active board member of the Woman Business Collaborative (WBC), the largest women’s business movement for gender equality and diversity.
    Johanna currently runs Gender Fair, a platform that uses data analytics to determine an organization’s progress toward gender equality and diversity. Prior to this, Johanna co-founded GiveBack, an innovative platform that makes it easy for companies to build authentic and impactful cause marketing, workplace giving and other social responsibility initiatives. GiveBack was launched on the Oprah Winfrey Show during her final season in 2011 and was subsequently acquired by one of the nation’s largest benefits administrators.
    Johanna is originally from the Netherlands and was educated in Canada where she earned an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a Masters degree in Business Administration. She resides in Westchester, NY, where she runs the Women Entrepreneurs Network and serves on several boards, including CEO Forum, Harbor Island Conservancy, and Princeton Faith & Work Initiative.
    33 min
  • Beautiful Budgets, with Suzanne Wertheim, Ph.D.
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Dr. Suzanne Wertheim. Suzanne started her career as a professor of linguistics. When a university-based research contract fell through, Suzanne’s expected income level disappeared, dashing her plans to improve the fixer-upper home she had recently purchased. Suzanne got creative and pivoted to a new path, leveraging her expertise by applying social science to the real-world problems of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
    Suzanne is a national expert on language and bias. After getting her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Berkeley, she held faculty positions at Northwestern, University of Maryland, and UCLA. In 2011, she left the university system in order to apply her expertise to real-world problems.
    As head of Worthwhile Research & Consulting, Dr. Wertheim specializes in analyzing and mitigating bias at work. Using the tools of linguistic anthropology, she guides clients to more inclusive language, content, and workplaces. Her popular online course on inclusive language is available on LinkedIn Learning and Cornerstone on Demand.
    44 min
  • Rethink Money, with Andi Simon, PhD
    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Andrea J. Simon, Ph.D. (“Andi”.) Andi is a culture change expert and an explorer at heart, someone who is interested in the stories we tell ourselves and each other. She advocates for smashing those myths that hold us back. In this episode, Andi brings her expertise and tools to money conversations, helping us understand what we can do to create new money stories for ourselves.
    Andi is an international leader in the growing field of corporate anthropology, an Axiom bronze Best Business Book of 2017 winning author of “On the Brink: A fresh lens to take your business to new heights,” and the founder and CEO of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC). SAMC was recognized in 2020 and 2021 as the best New York Corporate Anthropology Agency. Andi’s new book is entitled “Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business.” Rethink shows how women today are challenging the expected norms of business.
    Her talks on Change Matters and Blue Ocean Strategy have been featured in over 500 engagements. She is widely covered in the media. Her podcast, On the Brink, is ranked among the top 20 for futurists and is in the top 5% of global podcasts.
    Her clients come from across the globe and span industries as she helps them come “off the brink,” and learn how to soar again.
    39 min
  • The Power of Choice, with Lisa Danforth

    In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Lisa Danforth. Lisa woke up on her fiftieth birthday needing change. With her eyes closed, heart racing and mind running 100 miles an hour, she knew that this was unsustainable. Lisa was an entrepreneur several times over; at that time, she had a catering company and was launching her fifth business. Lisa made the intentional decision to focus full-time on her new coaching practice.

    Now Lisa’s mission is to help business owners and leaders develop a saner approach to success. She helps clients establish goals, priorities, and a framework to build the business that will sustain the life they want to live, not consume it.

    Dubbed by her clients “the hand-holding ass-kicker,” Lisa matches just the right amount of push with a dose of love. She brings clarity, compassionate curiosity, and a healthy dose of humor to her coaching while providing graceful accountability that inspires her clients to lead in a way that holds space for their whole Self.

    Lisa grew up in a family business and knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur by the ripe old age of eight. Over the past 30 years, Lisa has opened and operated two catering companies, a professional cleaning company, and an international wholesale childrenswear company which she sold for more than 35 times her initial investment. For the last eight years, Lisa has been a Business Strategist and Leadership Coach.

    She received her Bachelor’s in Business from the University of Southern Maine. She is certified by the Coaches Training Institution (CTI), the most rigorous in the coaching industry, as well as being a certified facilitator of The ONE Thing, a certified Co-Active coach, and a graduate of Tara Mohr’s Playing Big Facilitators Course.

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    30 min

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In American society, money is a taboo topic. By not talking with loved ones and friends about money, we miss opportunities to sort through the noise and learn the vocabulary and skills we need to…