The Amber Weitzer Podcast | Silhouettes of Success

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest lives in Dallas, Texas with her three children and husband Ben. High school sweethearts they have been together since they were 16 years old have founded and scaled multiple organizations over the last 15+years. They are the founders of The Gents Place and Rascal...two iconic brands in the men's grooming and personal care industries...along with Operation Gentleman a 501c3 non-profit that serves both our Veterans and Dallas homeless communities. She is passionate about making a positive impact and loves hearing stories from those that spend their most precious resource of time making Dallas a better place for all. She recently launched a new endeavor a video podcast For the love of Dallas with Lauren Davis, a show highlight people that are using their time to make positive impact in the community. She also working with a friend on a new fashion line of conservative style of dresses, be ready!

Our Silhouette of Success V.I.P. Featured Guest, Jenica Oliver has a passion is to provide organizations with a blueprint for success.

She is the founder and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Blueprint Marketing Group, LLC, a DFW-based marketing and promotions consultancy. Oliver has 20+ years of marketing experience and currently serves as a fractional CMO for consumer products organizations in need of executive marketing leadership on an interim or as-needed basis. Oliver specializes in providing consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies — ranging from fortune 500 companies to emerging brands — the marketing leadership they need to grow their omni-channel businesses.

Prior to launching Blueprint Marketing Group, LLC, Oliver held positions with national and international companies such as Yum! Brands, Gruma Corp/Mission Foods, and served as brand marketing leader and head of innovation for Borden Dairy Company, a division of Grump LALA.

Jenica advocates for small and minority-owned businesses and serves in several leadership roles with non-profit and corporate organizations. Her affiliations include serving as Executive Chair and member of the Board of Directors for DFW CPG, member Board of Directors for Women's Business Council – Southwest, 2nd Vice Chair for DFW National Supplier Development Council's Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (MBEIC) and is an Advisory Board Member for Tasty Clean, Inc. Blueprint Marketing Group, LLC is certified Women-Owned by Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and certified Minority-Owned by National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Anna Brakefield is the Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Red Land Cotton. Founding the company in 2016 alongside her father, Mark Yeager, Anna has grown Red Land Cotton from her father's cotton gin office with 2 racks of shelves to a company that directly employs more than 30 people and indirectly employs well over 1,000 Americans across nine states. Having started with just two styles of 100% cotton bed sheets online, Anna and her father have now expanded their offerings to include quilts, towels, blankets and lounge wear all made from cotton grown on the family farm and manufactured solely in the United States.

Anna is not only a founder and a business owner, she's also a wife and a mother to two amazing children. Motherhood gives her a unique perspective as she manages the challenges of business ownership. The empathy and persistence learned in motherhood shows up daily as she continues to manage and grow Red Land Cotton.

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Mindy Robbins, Creator and Founder of Happy Sparkles Treats. She was born with food allergies and had to drastically adjust her diet in 2017. Even worse, her daughter Ruby was also diagnosed in 2nd grade with the same food allergies as mine. They had to eliminate everything with gluten, dairy, nut, and soy–even their favorite brownies! After experiencing the lack of options available, Mindy was determined to solve this problem. Her vision wasn't just to make the best gluten-free brownies. It was to make THE BEST BROWNIES! Brownies that are so delicious you would never know they are gluten, dairy, nut, and soy free! After countless revisions and fine-tuning, Mindy finally created the winning recipe. Her favorite part is taste-testing with people that don't have food allergies. They can't believe they are gluten, dairy, nut and soy free! It brings her great joy that her family and friends are as excited as we are about these brownies. Her vision grew. Mindy wanted to make these brownies available everywhere! She was blessed to be introduced to the talented and accomplished Michael Robins, a Certified Master Chef in America and President of Integrated Culinary Systems, Inc. Together they were able to turn her recipe into a shelf-stable ready-to-eat product that ALL can enjoy!

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest, Betsy Kauffman is a globally recognized Organizational Agility Coach with more than 20 years of experience working in Fortune 500 companies as well as the Founder, CEO, and Coach at Cross Impact. She is a speaker, and mentor the Charlotte Women in Business Mentoring Program. In addition to a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University, she spent 20+ years working in corporate America trying to figure out how to balance motherhood, working full time, and climbing the corporate ladder in a competitive tech environment.

Introducing our V.I.P. Featured Guest, April Slapa. She is an entrepreneur and business owner. With a degree in both business and dance, after dancing professionally, April went on to open a dance studio in her home-town where she grew up. After successfully running and expanding the business, April and her husband Vince, knew it was time for the next step. They both sold their separate businesses and took the family to Texas. They knew what they wanted to accomplish, and set out to do it. They currently have a packaging company, Western Packaging, that provides end to end solutions for flexible packaging and fulfillment. April and Vince also own and operate a real estate portfolio of investment and rental properties that they started back in 2007. April has always had a passion for business ownership and loves talking with other entrepreneurs on their goals and aspirations.

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Gaby Orta was born in México and came to the United States of America 19 years ago. She lived in Chicago for 13 years and in 2015 she came to Texas to visit family and never went back. She's had a variety of jobs: waitress, clerk, cashier, customer service, visual merchandiser, housekeeping…yet since she was a little girl her dream was become a beauty artist and work with models like the ones she saw in magazines while working at her jobs. Her desire it that every client that sits in her chair to feels good, confident, happy and beautiful as she loves to enhance their own natural beauty. She is an independent Makeup and Hair artist, mom of two handsome boys, 13 and 5 years old and has been married for almost 20 years!

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Elise Baughman is a multifaceted actress, TV host, speaker, and coach.

On camera, Elise has appeared in numerous films, TV shows, national commercials, corporate videos, and print campaigns. Her film & TV work include roles in films such as "I am Gabriel" and "Hoovey" and on TV series on NBC and the USA Network. Her corporate and commercial clients include companies in the retail, communications, technology, security, medical, food, banking, and automotive industries.

As a TV host, Elise has done everything from hosting morning talk shows – to traveling the country in an RV – to interviewing celebrities on the red carpet. Celebrity interviews have included Ray Romano, George Lopez, Alyssa Milano, Cedric The Entertainer, and Michelle Kwan – to name a few.

Elise is an expert in teleprompter and media skills and has been asked to train people including a country music artist with her own show on The Country Network, along with the Chief Strategist of Standard & Poor's with a weekly online show and frequent appearances on CNN and MSNBC.

As a voice over talent, she has voiced thousands of radio and TV commercials, along with multiple animation and anime characters. She is best known for voicing the character of Pan in the popular anime series, "Dragon Ball GT". She gets booked at comic cons and anime conventions across the country for that and other anime and animation roles. She also gets booked as a media guest to conduct celebrity actor interviews for her YouTube channel, "Anime Adventures with Elise".

After earning her degree in accounting and an MBA in marketing, Elise began her career in corporate America before making the "natural transition" to the entertainment world. Because of her corporate and acting experience, she now coaches and speaks on voice acting, on-camera presence, teleprompter skills, goal setting, and living with intention.

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Barb Schwarz is The Inventor of Home Staging and is Internationally know around The World for Creating and Building The Staging Industry from The Ground Up. Her Creative, Intensive, Inspirational Hard Work Has Changed The Real Estate Industry Forever with Her Invention of Home Staging! She has taught over 37,150 hours of Home Staging Education in over 3,790 Full Day Seminars and Personally Taught More than 1,475,000 People in Her Live Seminar Classes and author of several books.

Introducing our Silhouettes of Success V.I.P. Featured Guest, Friska Wirya!

Friska is a Top 50 Global Change Management Thought Leader, TEDx speaker, and international management consultant who transforms organizations to enable them to better respond to the changing environment. Often the only stiletto in in a room full of flats, she has worked for the biggest names in mining, engineering and technology. A change and transformation expert for a decade, she's led change programs influencing up to 23,000 people across 6 of the seven continents.

Through her experiences driving change around the world, she's had to hone her influence, communication and persuasive capabilities to encourage people of all backgrounds to do things differently from the way they've always been done.

Her expertise has been sought after at Microsoft, Salesforce, Culture Amp, Cox Automotive, KBR, SMEC, Expert360, NCR, Women in Construction & Engineering, Women in Leadership Asia, Future of Mining Sydney, Female Influencers in Tech, Swiss Cognitive, Women in Tech, Women in Leadership Summit Melbourne, Contino's The Leadership Panel, Wonder Women Tech, Women in Mining & Energy Indonesia and Minerals Week Canberra. Friska contributes her thought leadership to The Future Shapers, Thrive Global and Delivering Happiness and was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald.