Strong Life Coach Podcast

As were many of the Alamo defenders, Alan Sisk is a Tennessee native but decided it was time to get his wife, Clara back to Texas. He earned his B.S. in Business Marketing from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  Prior to relocating to Texas,  Alan was a partner of an independent insurance agency in Nashville, TN and has been in the insurance industry since 2007. While in Nashville, he was a board member of the Insurors of Tennessee and a past Young Agent of the Year award recipient. Being the sports enthusiast that he is, Alan was also on the board of directors for the Nashville Sports Council.  He has also brought the Tennessee Titans/Houston Oilers fandom back to Texas and wants to remind all of us to “Titan Up!”

Young agent of the year! How did you become the young agent of the year?

How did you get your started in the insurance business?

What do you enjoy most about your profession?

What separates you from the competition in dealing with prospective clients?

What advice would you give someone entering the commercial industry?

What is the most odd experience you have had in your business?

What is your favorite quality about your wife Clara?

Joseph Warren is a co-owner and financial planner at Financial Planning HQ, where he works to inspire his clients to visualize and create the future they desire. He completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry from Schreiner University. Joseph has served as the Treasurer, Vice President of Membership and Vice President of Education for his local Toastmasters club. During his down time, he enjoys playing the piano, running, and reading as well as discussing science fiction and personal development books. One of his passions in serving the community is displayed, Blinded Veterans and grant writing for Broken Warriors Angels.

You had a unique experience with graduate school; tell us about your time at UCLA.

Broke in your 20s is a three part series you published on Linked In, what motivated you to write the series?

What inspired you to get into Financial Planning?

In the Linked In series, you talked about receiving a $30,000 commission check. Tell me about that experience.

How did you get involved in Toastmasters?

What is the most memorable moment you have had in Toastmasters?

You are an avid reader of self-development books - you describe it as an addiction. Addiction to trying to get getter. When was your genesis moment in self-development books?

You have a drive to serve veterans in need, tell me about that.

Top 3 Self-Development Books of all time.

Erica Kirkwood was born and raised in the small town of Falfurrias, TX where she earned honors for being an exceptional student athlete. She completed her biomedical sciences bachelor's degree at Texas A&M University-Kingsville with an athletic scholarship to compete on the Javelina Cross Country and Track teams. She met her husband, Jonathan Kirkwood, while attending Loma Linda University in California where she graduated with a masters degree in occupational therapy. They have 2 daughters, Kaleila (age 5) and Adiella (age 3). After a 6 year hiatus from running, Erica put her running shoes back as an outlet in her busy life as a full time working mom. Within a few months of consistent running, her competitive side returned full throttle when she decided to train for a marathon with a goal to qualify for the Boston marathon. In Sept 2019, she crossed the finish line at 3:02:27 and realized how close she was to achieving the Olympic Trial Standard of sub 2:45:00. She put her Boston dream on hold to instead pursue a chance to run alongside the best of the best female marathoners in the country in the 2020 US Olympic Marathon trials. In June 2019 at Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota, Erica achieved this goal with a time of 2:44:48.  She represented south Texas in Atlanta, Georgia by running in the US Olympic Marathon Trials in Feb 2020. 

Questions Covered:

You just finished running in the US Olympic Marathon Trials last month in February.

(1) What inspired you to get into running in the beginning?

(2) What stands out as a meaningful moment running on an athletic scholarship at Texas A&M University-Kingsville?

(3) When you stopped running for those 6 years, did you ever think you would be running in the US Olympic Marathon Trials?

(4) If you had to narrow down to one person who helped you become your best in training for the US Olympic Marathon Trials, who would you say and what did they do?

(5) Talk about your experience at the US Olympic Marathon Trials.

(6) What were the big lessons you learned from the US Olympic Marathon Trials?

(7) What is your favorite quality about the members of your family?

Fernando Rizo is the Program Director of the basketball organization Nike Proskills in San Antonio, Tx. This episode, Fernie answers the following questions:

Where did you start and where are you now?

When you consider tangible results, what stands out to you?

What kind of opposition did your program face?

How have you gone about building your staff?

How does you program separate itself from the competition?

How is your program bigger than basketball? 

What do you appreciate most about being on the leadership team with Nike ProSkills?

Bailey Baker State Farm Agency Owner. 3 years going strong.

Newly engaged on New Year's Eve! Exciting! Congratulations to you and Branden.

Graduated from UT Austin with a degree in Business Marketing.

Favorite Hobbies: Shopping, Sewing, Sleeping, and Trying New Restaurants

Activities of Interest include Socializing, traveling, design, and marketing.

BNI President of Local Chapter in San Antonio.

How did you get your start in the insurance business?

What do you enjoy most about your profession?

What separates you and your organization from the competition?

What advice would you give someone just starting in the agency owner?

What one thing would you do with your business if you knew you were not going to fail?

What do you see as the coming trends in the insurance industry?

What ways have you found to be the most effective for promoting your business?

How has your Mom inspired you in your business journey?

Delilah D. Walter is a native of San Antonio, Texas and graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School, a product of its award-winning Army JROTC program.  She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology, minor in Sociology. While obtaining her degree Delilah was hired on by Dell, Inc. where she was a Technical Support Analyst and Data Analyst for 8 years.  

To continue to expand on her analytical skills she returned home to San Antonio, Texas to obtain her Juris Doctorate from St. Mary’s University School of Law.  Upon graduation, Delilah worked as a Supervising Attorney to a long-standing local law firm establishing processes, implementing quality improvements to productivity and legal work, and leading attorney teams in the practice of SSI/Disability and Personal Injury law.  While doing so, Delilah provided Real Estate legal services to an in-house lender then established a Real Estate legal department that represented clients in residential Real Estate legal matters to include Foreclosure law, Real Estate closings, Mortgage Discrepancies, Homeowner Finance transactions, Title analysis, and Landlord Tenant Law. Delilah, then transitioned to Weisinger Law Firm, PLLC bringing her Real Estate practice with her and expanding her legal service to others into Estate Planning, Probate, and Guardianship law. Delilah launched her own law firm - Walter Law in October of 2019 - where she focuses primarily on Real Estate, but also includes work Probate, Estate Planning, and Guardianship.

Her family mottos rooted at childhood were Hernan Cortes’ “Burn the Boats!”, and “Grip Fast”, the motto engraved on her paternal Scottish clan’s shield.  Raised to believe that hard work and persistence are the key to success Delilah provides support to all who need it with avid commitment. 

Delilah is blessed to be married to a strong supportive husband, Craig, and has 2 beautiful children:  Allura and Enrí.  In her spare time, she loves travelling with her family, and spending quality time with them at unique cultural events and shows throughout the city, to expose them to what the world has to offer.

What inspired you to become an attorney?

What do you enjoy most about being an attorney?

What has helped you establish work life balance as an attorney?

One of your passions is being a shining light to people without knowledge of how the law works with estate planning and real estate; what would you like to do to help?

What advice would you offer someone considering law school?

What advice would you offer someone starting out as an attorney?

Being a woman, being a Hispanic woman, what has this meant to you in being an attorney?

What is your favorite quality of each of your family members?

Dana Rasier is an Israeli homeland expert and business owner. Born and raised in Israel, Dana served her country for two years at the Israeli Navy, and after a long trip of almost a year in South America she finished her BA and MA with honors in the field of Global Terrorism and Homeland security at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)  and also volunteered for the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT).

While doing so, Dana at 2010 opened her first and current international business Dana Translators, which Specializes in five main services: Professional Translation (in over 30 languages), Transcription (for businesses, courts, and simultaneously in live events and webinars), Text Editing, (re-writing), Text Proofreading (grammar check, spelling, phrasing) and subtitles Assimilation (in clips and movies).

Dana Translators is operating for 10 years now in many different countries while hiring translators from across the world, which are holding some special advantages such as translating to their mother tongues, holding academic degrees in the field and others. The company gives unique services that upholds the values of the company, that includes credibility, integrity, perseverance, giving, service minded, honesty, investment, professionalism, friendship and ambition.

Dana is also donating 10% from all of the companies income to selected charities, while sharing the vision of the company – "Cross cultural accurate and professional message delivery for the benefit of international success, and good first impressions, while providing personal and professional services stemming from simply loving what we do".

In her spare time, Dana enjoys reading self-developments book, playing the guitar and being a part of the Israeli academia world. So far, she is not married, but is looking for the right guy.

Questions Covered: 

What inspired you to work in the translation field?

Did you had doubts about continuing with it?

Who inspired you to grow the most as a professional woman? What did they do and why was it meaningful for you?

What is a unique challenge that you had to overcome?

How do you handle the changes of COVID-19 on your business?

What is a challenge in your line of work?

What advice would you give to someone that wants to start working in your industry?

One of the most powerful influences over your journey is that of your father; what do you most admire about his impact on your life?

Dr. Yirielis Sanguinetti is a pediatrician in San Antonio, Texas and is affiliated with University Health Systems. Born and raised in Guayama, Puerto Rico, Dr. Sanguinetti received her Bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA in 2002 and her medical degree from the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA in 2006. She completed her Pediatric Medicine training at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio in 2009 where she currently lives and practice pediatrics. 

Her love and passion for all children has taken her to use her medical knowledge and skills in the mission field with HOPE WORLDWIDE Community Service Brigades in Central America since the year 2012. She has truly become an international pediatrician.

Yirielis has a passion for personal, spiritual, and emotional growth and she finds herself reading books about these topics. Professionally she is working towards obtaining a certification with the Institute of Functional Medicine in order to learn how to better serve her patients in achieving health in a true holistic way.  Personally, she is an active member of Mission Point Christian Church where she serves in the Kids Point Sunday Bible Program. She has the heart of a coach and teacher and she is committed to sharing her own healing story with the intention of inspiring others to embark on their own journey towards healing.

In her spare time she enjoys self-care activities like sleeping, getting massages, doing yoga at The Pearl, or taking walks in the park with her 4-legged companion Sunny Day. She also loves to travel, read, dance, and go to the beach. 

Segment 1 00:00 - 04:38

When did you first know you wanted to be a doctor? 

Segment 2 04:38 - 10:37

Did you have any doubts in the journey in becoming a doctor?

Segment 3 10:37 - 20:52

When you reflect on Medical School and Residency, what was the most difficult part of that experience?

Segment 4 20:52 - 35:20

When someone tells you: "I want to be a doctor." What advice do you have to offer?

Segment 5 35:20 - 39:26

What is the most rewarding part of being a Pediatrician?

Segment 6 39:26 - 45:11

What disadvantages did you experience in being Latina becoming a Doctor?

Segment 7 45:11 - 48:02

What misconceptions do people have about doctors?

Segment 8 48:02 - 52:18

Who influenced your growth the most in your professional and personal journey?

Segment 9: 52:18 - 55:33

Tell us about the favorite time together about your Mom and your Dad.

Suhavna Ramdeen is an Associate Attorney at Mac Naught and Company a firm of Attorneys that specialise in property and commercial law, in South Africa.

She is a highly skilled negotiator  and excellent communicator which was developed through working in private practice with a vast array of individuals ,entities and trial matters , which refined her to be a litigator.

Suhavna heads the litigation department at Mc Naught and Company ,and contributes success by practicing being articulate and adept in communication with others and  being a good listener with a developed sense of intuition and timing.

She constantly constructs a network of vast business liaisons which enables her to have skilled resources readily available .

Outside her illustrious legal career she aides as creative counsel to academics and published authors.

In the simpler life  Suhavna ,enjoys a morning run along the ocean shore and is a wife and mother and believes this has been her greatest success and achievement in  life.

Segment 1. What inspired you to become an attorney?

00:00 - 7:36

Segment 2. With your responsibilities as a litigation attorney, career focused woman, mum, and wife, how do you maintain a successful balance?

7:36 - 14:16

Segment 3. On top of all this, you are 30 years young. Wow! Talk about the journey of being this young with all these responsibilities.

14:16 - 20:30

Segment 4. With the example you set for people, women, and your family, what is the most important lesson you want people to obtain from your journey?

20:30 - 33:55

Segment 5. What unique challenge have you overcome in your journey as an attorney?

33:55 - 44:38

Segment 6. Who motivated you the most in becoming an attorney? What did they do?

44:38 - 49:46

Segment 7. What advice do you offer someone who wants to become an attorney?

49:46 - 56:52

Segment 8. Tell me your favorite quality of the members of your immediate family.

56:52 - end

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