Happy New Year, everyone! Let’s start the year off right with high energy and positivity with this week’s guest speaker: Taylor Sheeran, a middle school English teacher in the AISD. Join Dominique Ramirez in learning what a person can consider doing to become a teacher (e.g., join Teach for America), how teaching today is similar and different to the Abbott Elementary show, the inner workings of training for a half marathon, and how faith keeps Taylor grounded. Listen in today!

Happy Holidays! Join Dominique Ramirez in this episode interviewing her cousin, Gio Estrada, and his outstanding life of travel, engineering, and current seminary school experiences. He goes into depth of how his love of math and science led him to planning oil companies' pipe systems, traveling from Singapore to Africa, as well as going to bible study which rejuvenated his Catholic faith years before discerning he could potentially become a priest. Don't miss it!

Courtney Dickey, Chief Legal Officer at ZenBusiness and President of the Junior League of Austin (2024-2025), is the honored guest for this week’s episode with Dominique Ramirez. Learn more about her career journey from studying law, moving to Austin, making connections through her sorority, leading an IPO process, and even being nominated President Elect for The Junior League of Austin (JLA)! Discover how she embodies the JLA motto of "Empowered Women Empower Women" in her everyday life.

Want to connect with Courtney? Find her on LinkedIn today.

Learn with Dominique Ramirez from Lauren Overstreet in this episode about Lauren’s life lessons and experiences. She originally thought she would pursue a career in dermatology and ultimately decided to pursue a career in human resources, and hasn’t looked back since. She’s then worked her way up from HR Coordinator to HR Director. Throughout the years, she has helped mentor people as well as problem-solved issues that have risen from calming down fights to dealing with an employee who flashed her subordinates when they did a good job!

If you're looking for advice on pursuing a new job, today's the episode for you to learn from Lauren the dos and don’ts of interviewing and preparing for a new job, too!

Join Dominique Ramirez interviewing Sam Austin, man of many talents. He studied marketing and Chinese back at Baylor University and took on the world to conquer sales and help others translate and understand different languages. Did you know he moved to Canada for 6 months and can speak multiple languages?! 

Want to connect with Sam about languages or his career after the episode? Find him on LinkedIn.

It's a special week and what better way than Dominique Ramirez bringing back her sister, Bianca Ramirez, to the podcast to talk about family traditions, tattoos, and football rivalries! Listen in to what Dominique has learned about podcasting over the past few months, the upcoming Texas vs. Texas A&M game as well as some things they're grateful for during this season of gratitude.

Tara Sekerak is this week’s honored guest on Talks with Dom. Listen to her discuss with Dominique Ramirez her journey from getting her degree in education to diving headfirst into supply chain as well as how she has learned to become a leader, traits of being an elder sister, trials of being a Disney adult, and more!

Interested in learning more about supply chain from Tara Sekerak? Find her on LinkedIn today.

This week, Dominique Ramirez interviews Rachel Thornton, the wizard behind the curtain for the Instagram page: @austinfoodstagram. Learn more about her career journey from studying to become a speech pathologist to becoming an Instagram influencer in the Austin area as well as how she shares her wealth of knowledge through consultations and mentorship at different organizations including the University of Texas at Austin.

Want recommendations for food, activities, and travel in the Austin and Texas Hill Country area? Be sure to check out her content on Instagram: @austinfoodstagram

Here at Talks with Dom, we ran into some technical difficulties this week, so we pivoted and decided to give y'all an update of what to expect from the podcast the rest of the year, including the following interviewees:

This week features hostess Dominique Ramirez interviewing her college sorority sister: Katie. Katie is a lab technician who tests water samples, enjoys reading, goes scuba diving on the regular, and defeats mind flayers in her Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Discover more about Katie’s experience studying biology and entomology at Texas A&M University, how sorority life helped her, and how she became a STEM woman today.