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Neely Tamminga is CEO and Chief Whiteboard Artist of DISTILL. During her 20-year career on Wall Street, Neely would routinely apply seemingly imperfect and disparate data to help ground conversations about consumer behavior to money managers and institutional investors.  Neely is considered a consumer behavior expert with insights that span all demographics and across all key areas of discretionary spending. Key career awards include top sell-side analyst in The Wall Street Journal Best on the Street analyst.

Today on Purse Strings our guest is Kateri Ruiz, founder of MAIA. The MAIA community is an online directory that connects consumers with women-owned businesses. As women, we influence or control trillions of dollars spent in the U.S. annually and with that influence, we have the incredible opportunity to use our money to affect change. Through our online directory, MAIA gives you access to millions of woman-owned business across the country. If every female in the U.S. bought her tampons from women-owned companies. for 1 year, the females of the US would spend $2.7 billion more with women-owned companies than all Venture Capital funding did with women-owned companies in 2017. Our money matters.

Talking about Millennial Women and Wealth Management as Maria Reitan welcomes Jaime Hansen, vice president, and financial advisor from RBC Wealth Management.
Jaime has created a relationship-based wealth planning practice that incorporates each individual’s personal values and desired lifestyle as a foundation for comprehensive wealth planning and investment management. Jamie is dedicated to serving the woman’s market, focusing on women in transition and providing education as a tool for empowerment.

Today on Purse Strings our host is joined by Cheryl Leitschuh. For the past 31 years, Cheryl has had her own consultancy – her clients call her a “yoda” for small woman owned small businesses and solopreneuers. She describes herself as a Leadership Results Consultant. Providing leadership coaching, leadership training and consulting. Add speaker, podcast host and author to that list.

Talking about Sports Marketing Women as Maria Reitan welcomes Ishveen Anand, CEO and Founder of Open Sponsorship - the largest marketplace connecting brands to athletes and with clients such as Birchbox, Vita Coco and Hint water.They work with brands looking to target women in a unique way using sports - whether that be female athletes who are recent mothers, or male athletes who have a large female following.

Maria Reitan speaks with Chief Moxie Officer Shauna Armitage, a vocal advocate for women in business,  about her mission to redefine what it looks like to be a working woman and how this mission led to the founding of Making Moxie, a community for female entrepreneurs to share their stories and insights, guiding one another in growing successful businesses.

Today's guest on Purse Strings is Inecke Snyder-Lourens, is Director of Professional Services at Cognifide, the WPP digital technology consultancy. She leads a team of 39 Consultants, Experience Analysts and Experience Architects, the biggest specialist team of its kind in London. Her background lies in advising large organizations in business process re-engineering, IT strategy, operating models, cost analysis and business change. She has worked with some of the world’s best-known brands, such as Ford and Unilever.

Today on Purse Strings our gues is Keisha Rivers, Chief Outcomes Facilitator for the KARS Group. The KARS Group faciliates outcomes for personal and professional success and offers a development series for women called Mindset 2 Mastery.  This program takes into consideration the various other factors that women face in their careers (i.e, work-life balance, diversity and inclusion issues, confidence, self-talk, etc.) that men traditionally don't have to worry about and creates applicable solutions.  We assist women in creating supportive learning communities where they can receive support, guidance and insight to help them achieve their goals and provide guidance in the creation of win-win strategic partnerships and collaborative relationships. Keisha A. Rivers is the founder and Chief Outcome Facilitator of The KARS Group, LTD, specializing in facilitated outcome strategies and action planning for clients of all sizes and industries. She is also the founder and Executive Director of The KARS Institute for Learning Collaboration, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide training, resources and support to new and emerging nonprofits.

Anna Sabino is the designer behind the jewelry brand Lucid New York, which she started after leaving her Wall Street career. Her jewelry collections are sold in more than 100 stores all over the world and have been featured in People Style Watch, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan. Sabino is a contributor to Huff Post and Medium and is a certified career coach. She speaks and leads workshops on growing your creative business, generating multiple streams of income, and working remotely. You can find valuable business advice at AnnaSabino.com.

Today on Purse Strings our host Maria Reitan is joined by Bryce Austin, the CEO of TCE Strategy and a leading voice on emerging technology and cybersecurity issues. With over 10 years of experience as a Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Bryce actively advises the boards of companies in industries as diverse as financial services, retail, healthcare, technology and manufacturing industries. He was the CIO and CISO of Wells Fargo Business Payroll Services from 2004 to 2012, and a Senior Group Manager at Target Corporation during the 2013/2014 PCI data breach.Bryce holds a CISM certification and is known as a thought leader, cybersecurity expert and internationally-recognized professional speaker. He started his technology career on a Commodore PET computer and a cassette tape drive.