Project Manager, Business Developer, Entrepreneur, Corporate Trainer, B2B Solutions Guru. Lynn Hammonds Hayes has spent years teaching others how to recruit, hire, and build teams that are not only effective but happy. Lynn talks with us about managing through the uncertainties of a cancer diagnosis and treatment during COVID-19.

Recent Penn State graduate Alex Troisi discusses the importance of networking and goal setting for college students and young professionals. She believes everyone can change the world for the better if they are willing to build a strong support system around them. 

Joel McCauley, owner of Freedom Fit Gym in Ashland, talks about the gym's shutdown, business survival strategies, and what managing a high touch business is like during phases one and two of Virginia's reopening.

Eugene Holloman talks about what it was like to grow up as a star athlete with pro aspirations only to have that derailed by injury. He shares how it led him to start writing "The Athlete-Student" book series and become a content creator for MVP kids, a line of children's books that promotes positive mental health.

When the Covid-19 crisis created a massive need for PPE, Jim Setzer, President and Operating Manager at Images by Design, LLC in Virginia Beach, VA. and some of his associates, stepped up and created a 3D model for face shields. He shares the genesis of the project and logistics of managing it today.

Dr. Denise Foster discusses the topic of hemp, CBD, and health. With all the buzz about hemp in use as medicine, food, and industrial products, some of the most important questions focus on how CBD works to maintain well-being and restore health. Denise helps to answer some of those questions.

Robert Jones, Master Barber/Stylist and owner of Parkside Barbershop and Lounge, talks about the strange regulations regarding COVID-19 as well as the protests and growing movement around the country. Robert was born in New York and raised in Richmond. He is a graduate of Hermitage High and Virginia State and also served in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years.

David Hebel will be speaking about our first responders in Richmond during the current pandemic.

CEO of Expect Renaissance, founder of The Safe House Project and Christian Hip Hop artist, Legin, uses gospel-based Hip Hop to better the culture of youth and young adults. Through inspirational speaking, racial reconciliation work, and combatting sex trafficking through the Safe House Project, in which his nonprofit provides housing to recently rescued victims of trafficking, Legin is a potent force for good.

Sylvia Farbstein and Yuki Weaver, two Local Leaders in the Synapse community, will talk about the new Synapse Book Club!  These special sessions are scheduled from 2 to 3 every other Friday afternoons, so you should definitely Zoom in for the next one!