The Amber Weitzer Podcast | Silhouettes of Success

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Daniella Genas is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, strategy, and innovation expert. Through her business, She's The Boss International Daniella helps SME's to transform their businesses. She has used her techniques, experience and training to generate significant results among the companies she has worked with. Key metrics include increased turnover and profits, increased staff, launch of new products/services and increased brand awareness across several businesses, in a diverse range of sectors. Daniella launched her first successful business in 2007 and her second business in 2014. She sold both businesses in 2015.

In addition to her entrepreneurial endeavors, Daniella lists University Lecturer, Charity Trustee, radio presenter and Visiting Industrial Fellow as roles in her portfolio career. Daniella's current focus is empowering SME's to build profitable, sustainable, systems driven businesses. With an MBA and Masters under her belt, alongside her entrepreneurial experience and formal business training, Daniella has a breadth of knowledge which has proven invaluable to the clients she works with. She has a proven track record of supporting clients to grow revenues by 6 figures.

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Jennie Blumenthal professional speaker, author, and CEO and founder of Corporate Rehab, an acclaimed professional coaching consultancy that has helped hundreds of executives ditch workplace hustle culture and find their path toward a greater sense of purpose. spent 20 years as an executive in Corporate America counseling Fortune 500 companies on growth strategy and digital transformation and left during the pandemic pivot. She now coaches executive women to do their own Corporate Rehab and grow in their existing career or in a new opportunity. Jennie is highly engaging and has been featured across top- tier media.

Her new book CORPORATE REHAB: Ditch The Hustle Culture and Thrive Again recently released on October 1, 2022. In her book, Jennie shares the stories of more than 300 women who finally decided to leave behind the hustle culture for a thriving, balanced life and the challenges and triumphs they encountered along the way.

Introducing our V.I.P. Featured Guest Jennifer Sey: Jennifer spent close to 23 years at Levi Strauss & Co., holding a variety of leadership positions. She began in 1999 as an entry level marketing assistant and became the Global Brand President in 2020, the first woman to hold this post. As a child, Jen led an intense life of dedication, challenge and competition. She won the U.S. National Gymnastics Championship title in 1986, less than one year after having suffered a devastating injury at the 1985 World Championships.

In 2008, Sey released a memoir, "Chalked Up," a New York Times E-Book Best Seller detailing her triumphs and struggles within the world of competitive gymnastics. In 2020, with the release of "Athlete A", an award-winning documentary on Netflix laying bare the abuses in the Olympic movement, Jen added Emmy winning Producer to her list of credits.

In 2020 Jennifer spoke out about the harms to children from school closures during the pandemic. Her calls to prioritize children went against the mainstream narrative and she faced pressure from the company she had committed more than two decades of her life to to stay quiet. After 28 years in the corporate world, Jennifer Sey left it all to speak her mind. Now she's doing just that. She has a book coming out in November 2022. The memoir will focus on what it's like to be a woman in newly "woke" corporate America.

She also has a Substack newsletter called Sey Everything which is focusing on many of the same themes and aims to be a place where independent thinkers can share their views and challenge today's prevailing media narratives. Lastly, she is producing and directing a feature-length documentary film that focuses on the impact to children from school closures and other restrictions during the pandemic.

Jennifer Sey may have lost her job, but she kept her voice, and she aims to use it.

Introducing our V.I.P. Featured Guest Amy Day, President of Cowtown Creative has spent the last 22 years growing brands and helping business leaders define and refine their brand stories. A Fort Worth native, Amy's years of study at UTA and SMU primed her for a lifelong pursuit of personal and professional excellence through continuous learning. She's been recognized as a Cox Distinguished Business Leader, is certified in Customer Service Excellence by the Disney Institute and was recently named among Women's Business Enterprises' Outstanding WBE CEOs of 2022. Since 2007, Amy has brought her growth mindset and love of client collaboration to Cowtown Creative clients, still managing to make time for family, reading, running, camping, and fishing. Married with four children ages 13, 11, 6, and 2, Amy finds that work-life balance is a mental health imperative and has made it part of her company's structure for herself and her team.

Introducing our V.I.P. Featured Guest Michelle Emmick, she spent 20 years of her career working in the field of medical aesthetics as a sales and operations leader. Seeing a critical need in the market for transparency when it came to elective procedures, in 2018 Michelle co-founded MyCoachMD, a platform that provided consumers education and support prior to having a cosmetic procedure. She is the author of the Best-seller book, Blue-Collar Beauty, Confessions of a Plastic Surgery Coach, which provides insider knowledge in a fun and empowering way with a message that beauty starts from within.

Off the success of her book, Michelle wanted to expand her platform message and challenge the mainstream by promoting truth, transparency, and a mission of defining beauty on our own terms. In 2021 Michelle co-founded Ask Us Beauty, a quarterly digital and print magazine with content designed to educate, empower and inspire individuals on all things beauty and wellness. Whether it's through products, services, procedures, or personal brands, Ask Us Beauty challenges the status quo and brings together people of all backgrounds to share their stories and experiences, leaving you with inspiration to live your best life.

Introducing our V.I.P. Featured Guest Julie Swift:

Having spent time on each side of the manufacturer-broker relationship in senior and executive leadership roles across sales, marketing, digital, business development and DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging) Board service, I treasure just over thirty years in foodservice. From my father's supermarket business to senior and executive leadership positions in foodservice manufacturing and brokerage, it's an industry I love, that's dedicated to providing families and friends with opportunities to gather, celebrate, and enjoy one another. Those years also, though, included functions I wasn't invited to, conversations that didn't include me, meetings I was excluded from, times when it felt as though the industry itself wanted me to remember I didn't fully belong. Somewhere along the way, I counted the toll that years of sexism's nicks and cuts, and of hiding my disability, had taken on me. I became very determined to call foodservice back to its own hospitality and generosity. Full transparency: there came a time in my career when not budging my values cost me my job.

My position now, independent of any company or firm, allows me to work more effectively toward the flourishing, profitable future I imagine for our foodservice industry. From maximizing sales and broker effectiveness, to marketing and DEIB, I help companies identify where they are and where they'd like to go, and then map a solid process for getting there. All in an environment where each of us gets to bring our full selves to work, so that both individually and as an industry, we come together at the table authentically.

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Eva Jannotta helps women defy the status quo, amplify our influence, and expand our wealth and power with thought leadership. Eva and the Medusa Media Group team train and advise authors, speakers, coaches and consultants to generate strong leads and grow engaged audiences by publishing their best thinking. She works with women in her programs "Micro Marketing Method" and "Exponential Audience", and privately. Eva lives on O'odham Jeweḍ, Akimel O'odham, and Hohokam ancestral land in Phoenix, AZ.

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Amy Marks-McGee is an award-winning creative marketing professional with over twenty-five years of success within the fragrance and flavor industry. Her work experience includes fine fragrance, air care, and personal care marketing for three leading fragrance houses. Amy founded Trendincite LLC a consulting company to help clients cull through, distill, and translate pertinent trend information into tangible products. Amy's strength is her ability to identify and analyze emerging trends early. She recognizes patterns across a variety of industries and concisely synthesizes the information into new product ideas. The company's core values are to engage all five senses, capture inspiration from unexpected places, and make the creative process enjoyable. Her clients include fragrance and flavor suppliers, consumer packaged goods manufacturers, and market research firms. She has been recognized by Women in Flavor & Fragrance Commerce, Inc. for the 2011 Woman of the Year Award for her excellence in marketing and leadership. A writer and public speaker, she writes the Forward-Thinking column in Perfumer & Flavorist magazine and contributes articles to industry specific trade publications.

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest Shelby Whitfield has been trained by one of Dallas-Fort Worth's premier interior designers and has earned her own Interior Design degree. She's worked on renovation projects in the most prestigious estate home communities such as Preston Hollow, Park Cites, Westover Hills in addition to vacation homes across the country. She has been featured in Architectural Digest Pro and Voyage Dallas. She is the Owner and Principal Designer of Modern Menagerie, a full-service interior design firm based in Fort Worth Texas and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and beyond.

Our V.I.P. Featured Guest author, Laura Downey Hill has a wealth of leadership experience, is a recipient of numerous business and philanthropic awards. She is a two-time recipient of the Southlake Chamber Citizen of the Year Award. Laura was a 4-term city councilwoman and the first female mayor of Southlake, Texas.

While mayor, Laura was a stalwart supporter of the police, fire departments, and a champion for school safety initiatives that positioned school resource officers on every campus.

Laura is an accomplished businesswoman who knows what is required to not only create jobs but also sustain and grow jobs. Laura is the co-owner of three successful companies, Downey Publishing, Glen Coe Enterprises and Texas Ice Cream. Downey Publishing, established by her father in 1986; is an independent directory company serving over 10,000 small businesses throughout rural Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Texas Ice Cream is a mobile fleet of ice cream trucks, founded by Laura's husband, Joe, in 2008. Her newest venture, Glen Coe is developing retail commercial property in Justin, Texas.

Laura's passion for youth and their education motivated her to become the founder and co-founder of several youth-focused organizations. S.P.A.R.K. (Students and Parents Against Risks to our Kids), SASO (Scholars and Athletes Serving Others), and S.K.I.L. (Southlake Kids Interested in Leadership) all of which are geared towards empowering students to reach their full potential as they mature into next generation leaders.

Laura is married to Joe McSweeny and is the proud mother of three grown children, Maggie, Preston, and Trent, all of whom live in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. With a philanthropic heart, Laura founded the Downey Art for Education program, which has donated more than $1.5 million to rural school art programs. She has served on several boards, including the Recovery Resource Council of Tarrant County, Frost Bank Advisory Board, the Association of Directory Publishers and is a mentor at the University of Texas at Austin, LBJ Woman's Campaign School.