Plan A Konversations

Season 7, Episode 5 - You Get To Define Your Value - I Learned To See Myself In A Different Light - Amanda Stecco, Global Social Media Manager, Nike

About Amanda
Amanda Stecco is a social media strategist living in Brooklyn, NY, currently working as the Global Social Media Manager of Nike Football. When she's not working, she enjoys running, planning her next tattoos, watching documentaries, and winning over her roommate's cat.

Connect + learn more about Amanda: LinkedIn + IG.

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Season 7, Episode 4 - You Get To Define Your Value, Klay S. Williams, Founder, Host + Wellness Coach 

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Season 7, Episode 3 - Inspiring All Human Beings To Be Their Greatest Possible Selves, Inside + Out - Mike Simone, Fitness Entrepreneur

About Mike
It was at some point in 2009, when I sat at my desk at The New York Times, in between sales calls, I decided I needed a change. Fitness, nutrition, health, surfing, and travel were my passions. I asked myself everyday, "how could I do something with that while also helping a lot of people? "

​I took to Facebook and started to write short motivational thoughts that came to mind, posted images during my workouts, and shared my favorite (but oftentimes, boring, meal choices). Once I started seeing such a positive response to what I was doing, I decided I wanted to build a site and blog. But, I didn't just want this to be a blog about "Mike working out." I wanted to promote and lift up others in the industry. 

It started small, but slowly more and more people joined on and started contributing in different capacities. (And I'm forever grateful for their efforts and enthusiasm.) 

​After joining MEN'S FITNESS magazine's digital team  (2012-2017), many of the contributors began producing content and being featured on MENSFITNESS.com. This was a home-run for building audience, traffic, and views. (See the "Leadership" tab for specific growth numbers.)

 Over the course of what is approaching a decade, the HUMANFITPROJECT brand has brought together trainers, models, athletes, nutritionists, outdoor enthusiasts, photographers, videographers, and designers to create HUNDREDS of workout programs and healthy lifestyle-related content. 

The brand currently serves a quickly growing audience of 300,000+ followers and an email subscriber list just shy of 20,000. 

Connect + learn more about Mike: HUMANFITPROJECT, Michael D. Simone, IG, Twitter + FB.

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Season 7, Episode 2 - Our Purposeful Antiracist Journey As A White Family In America - Lindsay Weatherhead, Guest.*

*Note: Curious to hear more about Lindsay's husband, Dr. Garrett Weatherhead's experience? Listen to his interview in Season 4 of our podcast HERE. 

Lindsay's book suggestions for parents, children + families:

https://akidsbookabout.com/products/a-kids-book-about-racism

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Leaders-History-Vashti-Harrison-ebook/dp/B072V4QDCF

https://www.rebelgirls.com/

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Season 7, Episode 1 - On Audacious Dreaming In Action: Darnell L. Moore, Director of Inclusion Strategy for Content and Marketing at Netflix

Darnell L. Moore is the author of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award-winning memoir, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America, which was listed as a 2018 NYT Notable Book and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers' pick. Moore is also a writer-in-residence at the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice at Columbia University, and a 2019 Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. His writings have appeared in the New York Times Book Review; Playboy; VICE; The Guardian; The Nation; EBONY and other outlets. He is the Director of Inclusion Strategy for Content and Marketing at Netflix. And he is currently at work on his second book, which is tentatively titled, Unbecoming: Visions Beyond the Limits of Manhood.

Connect + learn more about Darnell: IG - @mooredarnell + Twitter - @Moore_Darnell.

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Season 6, Episode 12 - On Making The Impossible Possible: Lan Tran, Head of L&D Governance, Technology, and Operations (The Kraft Heinz Company)
 
Lan Tran is the Head of Governance, Technology, and Operations for Learning & Development Team at the Kraft Heinz Company. She sets the vision and direction for L&D governance and Kraft Heinz’s Learning Ecosystem. Prior to joining Kraft Heinz, Lan was a Learning Design Director and the VP of Client Technology and Strategy at Socratic Arts, where she specialized in designing immersive learning experiences for large corporations that improved workforce performance and influenced behavioral change.

 Connect + learn more about Lan: LinkedIn.

Today's episode is SPONSORED by Mateo Records. Be sure to purchase Joshua Mateo's new single, "Let's Dance Together" on iTunes HERE and album "In Session" wherever you buy music.

Individual Sponsors:
Adriane Birt, MD
James J. Rollins


ALSO, we are stoked to welcome sponsorship at the Corporate, Community Partner or Individual levels. Please use the email below to connect us to any potential opportunities. Thank you. More Please, in advance.

Thank you for listening! Share your thoughts and follow Klay on your favorite social media: @PlanAwithKlay and use the hashtag #PlanA101​. Want more Plan A? Subscribe to Klay's website: KlaySWilliams.com.

Season 6, Episode 11 - On Reimagining Purposeful Policing In The US, Barbara Chen

Barbara Chen is an independent consultant and writer who has held major communications roles at the NYPD, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Columbia University. She currently co-directs “To Protect, Serve and Understand,” an empathy-through-improvisation training that convenes communities and police in a multi-week workshop and public performance created by the Brooklyn-based Irondale Ensemble Project. Formerly an ABC News producer and New York chapter vice president of the national Asian American Journalists Association, Barbara graduated cum laude from California State University Fullerton, where she was commencement speaker for the College of Communications in 1999, and inducted into its Alumni Wall of Fame in 2017. She is an alumna of Columbia Business School's Police Management Institute, and of the Minority Writers Seminar hosted by the Freedom Forum Institute at Vanderbilt University. Barbara provided pro bono marketing communications and brand strategy to nonprofits in New York City for 10 years through the Taproot Foundation.

Connect + learn more about Barbara: LinkedIn.

Today's episode is SPONSORED by Mateo Records. Be sure to purchase Joshua Mateo's new single, "Let's Dance Together" on iTunes HERE and album "In Session" wherever you buy music.

Individual Sponsors:
Adriane Birt, MD
James J. Rollins

Want to support the show through a monetary donation? Feel free to donate via PayPal.

ALSO, we are stoked to welcome sponsorship at the Corporate, Community Partner or Individual levels. Please use the email below to connect us to any potential opportunities. Thank you. More Please, in advance.

Thank you for listening! Share your thoughts and follow Klay on your favorite social media: @PlanAwithKlay and use the hashtag #PlanA101. Want more Plan A? Subscribe to Klay's website: KlaySWilliams.com. 

Season 6, Episode 10 - On Flying Free - Karyn Parsons, Actress, Author + Producer

Karyn Parsons is best known for her role as Will Smith’s ditsy cousin Hilary Banks on NBC’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. After leaving acting behind, Karyn has gone on to found and produce Sweet Blackberry, an award-winning series of children's animated films, to share stories about unsung black heroes in history, featuring narration from stars such as Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah, and Chris Rock. It's been screened on HBO and Netflix, and enjoyed by schools and libraries across the country.

Based on Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to earn her pilot's license.

Connect + learn more about Karyn + her work:
https://www.sweetblackberry.org/
https://twitter.com/swtblackberry
https://www.facebook.com/SweetBlackbe...
https://www.instagram.com/swtblackber...
https://www.instagram.com/karynparson...
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Season 6, Episode 9 - On Reimagining Purposeful Policing In The US, Barbara Chen

Barbara Chen is an independent consultant and writer who has held major communications roles at the NYPD, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Columbia University. She currently co-directs “To Protect, Serve and Understand,” an empathy-through-improvisation training that convenes communities and police in a multi-week workshop and public performance created by the Brooklyn-based Irondale Ensemble Project. Formerly an ABC News producer and New York chapter vice president of the national Asian American Journalists Association, Barbara graduated cum laude from California State University Fullerton, where she was commencement speaker for the College of Communications in 1999, and inducted into its Alumni Wall of Fame in 2017. She is an alumna of Columbia Business School's Police Management Institute, and of the Minority Writers Seminar hosted by the Freedom Forum Institute at Vanderbilt University. Barbara provided pro bono marketing communications and brand strategy to nonprofits in New York City for 10 years through the Taproot Foundation.

Connect + learn more about Barbara: LinkedIn.

Today's episode is SPONSORED by Mateo Records. Be sure to purchase Joshua Mateo's new single, "Let's Dance Together" on iTunes HERE and album "In Session" wherever you buy music.

Individual Sponsors:
Adriane Birt, MD
James J. Rollins

Want to support the show through a monetary donation? Feel free to donate via PayPal.

ALSO, we are stoked to welcome sponsorship at the Corporate, Community Partner or Individual levels. Please use the email below to connect us to any potential opportunities. Thank you. More Please, in advance.

Thank you for listening! Share your thoughts and follow Klay on your favorite social media: @PlanAwithKlay and use the hashtag #PlanA101. Want more Plan A? Subscribe to Klay's website: KlaySWilliams.com. 

Season 6, Episode 8 - Grace Is Not Void Of Consequences, Klay S. Williams

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Today's episode is SPONSORED by Mateo Records. Be sure to purchase Joshua Mateo's new single, "Let's Dance Together" on iTunes HERE and album "In Session" wherever you buy music.

Individual Sponsors:
Adriane Birt, MD
James J. Rollins

Want to support the show through a monetary donation? Feel free to donate via PayPal.

ALSO, we are stoked to welcome sponsorship at the Corporate, Community Partner or Individual levels. Please use the email below to connect us to any potential opportunities. Thank you. More Please, in advance.

Thank you for listening! Share your thoughts and follow Klay on your favorite social media: @PlanAwithKlay and use the hashtag #PlanA101. Want more Plan A? Subscribe to Klay's website: KlaySWilliams.com.