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NABWIC Talks with Lisa Colon on Law and Legal Contracting Issues

Lisa Colon is a Partner in the Fort Lauderdale Office of Smith, Currie & Hancock, LLP. Lisa is Board Certified in Construction Law by the Florida Bar, and is certified by the Florida Supreme Court as a Mediator. Sher represents owners, contractors, subcontractors, design professionals in public and private real estate and construction matters. Lisa has experience with federal, state and local government contracting issues.  Lisa is deeply immersed in matters relating to small and minority businesses. She serves as General Counsel for the National Association of Minority Contractors. She is a fellow with the American Bar Association, Forum on Construction Law, and regularly lectures on a variety of construction and government contracting issues. Lisa received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Miami.

Contact:

Y. Lisa Colon, Esq. 

Partner

Board Certified Construction Attorney

Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP

101 N.E. Third Avenue | Suite 1910

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

T 954.761.8700 | D 954.769.5329

F 954.524.6927 | M 954.830.7522

Lorenzo Jones, a NABWIC member with the Texas Chapter, resides in Houston Texas where he has worked for the past two years as an architectural designer with PBK  an award-winning architecture and engineering firm specializing in education, sports, and corporate work environments.

Lorenzo’s educational background consists of two bachelors in architecture and construction science in addition to a masters in architecture of which he acquired at Prairie View A&M University.  Serving as an assistant project manager, he recently completed a 150,000 square-feet construction project for an early learning center.

As he continues to develop his career, the young professional is in the process of obtaining his license to be a licensed architect and plans to open his architectural firm in the near future.

Lorenzo is a member of NABWIC and is active in the Texas Chapter.

Women from all over the country attended NABWIC's Mid-Year Meeting and Congressional Black Caucus Conference in Washington DC on September 11-14th.  

In this podcast, you will get a chance to hear perspective and benefits derived from attending the meeting, especially the meeting with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Interviews were live at the scene, so please overlook the background noise.  Interviews conducted with Ann McNeil, Kimle Nailer, Shirley Everett, and Shellie Ransom-Jackson.

NABWIC Talks about Wealth Creation

Kimle Nailer returns to NABWIC Talks for another special interview.  

This time the dynamic speaker and author talks with NABWIC concerning her passion, politics and the power and influence of women.

Kimle Nailer is a heart-centered entrepreneur committed to empowering women and girls to boost their self-esteem to reveal their inner essence of beauty and power. She is the owner of several companies, including Nail-Rite Construction which she began in 1995. In her role as President of Nail Rite Construction, Kimle is responsible for securing construction contracts, managing projects to within budget and ensuring superior satisfaction for owners. Kimle is also passionate about and very active in the development of apprenticeship opportunities in the drywalling trade.

She currently serves as the President of the National Association of Black Women in Construction and is committed to empowering women and girls in wealth creation by leveraging the construction industry.

She encourages women to seek careers in construction to increase their wealth through real estate development. Today she integrates her corporate background into her business as a real estate investor and builder to unite women to seek development project in inner cities across the nation to elevate economically.

Born in the 1960s when dark skin infringed limitations, she has triumphantly defied the odds and redefined her future at the age of 36 years, obtaining her bachelor’s degree in business and serving as an analyst working for fortune 500 companies.

She transformed her mental capacity to find her inner beauty that created new worlds of limitless possibilities as a licensed builder, real estate investor, and serial entrepreneur.

She is also the owner of Positive S.I.S.T.E.R.S. and Fairport Investments.

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Host Jackie Perry talks with entrepreneur and IT Project Manager  Melissa Hong and Retiree and Former Small Business Development Manager, Nadine Carswell about the Three Key Steps to Wealth Creation and the role of Minority Enterprise Development Week (MedWeek) in that process.

MEDWeek is the largest Federally-supported Conference that is held in honor of minority-owned businesses. In response to an annual Proclamation by the President of the United States, various states, municipalities and organizations across the U.S. have been hosting MEDWeek Conferences for the past 34 years.

Join the First Coast Business Alliance as they celebrate MEDWeek in Jacksonville, Florida from November 4-8, 2019.  For more information, visit the website at http://www.fcbainc.com

NABWIC TALKS airs Wednesday mornings at 8:30 a.m. E.T. as a benefit to the members of the National Association of Black Women In Construction. It is offered as an educational serivice to our listening audience. We bring our members and industry experts to you each week to educate, motivate and encourage professional connections.  www.nabwic.org.

Today's guest, Kelcie Jackson was introduced to golf at the tender age of six (6) with 2Up Gold Club of Miami.  She developed an unending passion for it and brought home her first medal from her first summer camp with the First Tee of Miami in 2007.  Through perseverance and encouragement from her family and coaches, Kelcie developed and improved in her skills and began competing in junior tournaments such as Mayor’s Youth Sports Championship Series, USKIDS and Gold Coast Junior Golf Foundation (GCJGF).  As a result of her outstanding performance with GCJGF, the Foundation awarded her brand-new McGregor golf clubs and push cart.

From these humble beginnings Kelcie Jackson continues to win. In 2017 she was featured on the front page of the sports section on The Greenville News – “Making The Green A Place For Everyone.”   Today, she holds several medals including her latest; a silver medal from her win in the All American competition played at Palmer Colonial Golf Coast, Robina Australia.

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NABWIC TALKS airs Wednesday mornings at 8:30 a.m. E.T. as a benefit to the members of the National Association of Black Women In Construction. It is offered as an educational serivice to our listening audience. We bring our members and industry experts to you each week to educate, motivate and encourage professional connections.  www.nabwic.org

Valencia Warren-Gibbs is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Network Logistical Solutions LLC (NLS). She always dreamed of owning her own business. She spent most of her career working for small to large corporations in a financial capacity throughout finance. It was not until she worked for woman-owned business (joint-venture) and working on a doctorate did she see a bigger picture. She now leverages her business background, ability to identify and manage “risk”, and accounting skills to achieve profitability and growth. 

In 2014, inspired by doctoral studies of business while working for a woman owned business who started her business ventures off in trucking, she decided to start a trucking company. She has learned how to leverage her business into win-win partnerships and joint ventures. She uses her vision and leadership to build from trucking into business consulting, landscape property management, and human resources services. She understands that financial literacy and management is the catalyst in all industries of business. Once responsible for overseeing budget spending and billing to determine viability of the project through effective cost estimating and management has led her to take the risk for pursuing other business endeavors outside of trucking.

She helps companies build on his or her strengths from branding to seeking new customer opportunities. Her belief is to learn from the greats that have already done the work and understanding the importance of changing the mindset.

NABWIC TALKS airs Wednesday mornings at 8:30 a.m. E.T. as a benefit to the members of the National Association of Black Women In Construction. It is offered as an educational serivice to our listening audience. We bring our members and industry experts to you each week to educate, motivate and encourage professional connections.  www.nabwic.org

Our guest today is Tylene Henry, Nabwic Detroit Chapter president journey to Dakar Senegal.with Anothony Cameron

Author and speaker, Kendy Ward first garnered recognition as a winner of BET’s First Time Writer’s Competition when her short story, The Perfect Story, was published in the BET Books anthology All That and Then Some.  Later her first non-fiction work was published in the inspirational and empowering compilation, No Glory without a Story.  In 2012 she took her a writing career to another level when she authored her first self-published work, God-Esteem: Seeing the God in You.  Her first full length work of fiction, Oh Romeo, Romeo, the first book in The Knight in Shining Armor series, was released in October 2015.  The second book in the series, Knight Fall, will be release in the summer of 2019.

As a Toastmasters International award winning speaker, Kendy has spoken throughout South Florida and the Bahamas on topics of faith, empowerment and self-improvement. 

She was ordained as a minister at Hope United Church in 2015 where she serves in the women’s ministry, as Foundation Class instructor, in the children’s ministry and other ministry areas.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business and Management from Northwood University, and is currently a manager at MCO Construction and Services, Inc., where she has been employed for the past 16 years.

She is the daughter of Kenneth and Trudy Ward, the sister of Denise Poitier and Quincy Ward, and the proud aunty of Zylen, Zaire, Zeden and Zion.

You can visit her blog at therebirthoftruth.blogspot.com, follow her on Twitter @kendyward and on Instagram @queenkendy or connect with her on Face Book.