The Power of Owning Your Career Podcast

Lisa DeFalco is the CEO of TPG TeleManagement, Inc. She is this week's guest on The Power of Owning Your Career Podcast. She says she has failed more than she has succeeded. She speaks passionately about motherhood and building her 8 figure empire. She says tenacity and grit are key skills to succeed.

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More About Lisa:

Lisa DeFalco is the founder of TPG and an original pioneer in the Independent Quality Assurance market. Her inner circle boasts about her humble success as the creator of her annual 8 figure company, TPG. TPG is best known for the origin of the line "This call is being recorded for quality assurance purposes...". TPG is considered to be the voice of the consumer experience among the Fortune 500 and to some of the world's largest brands including American Express and United Airlines. TPG assesses consumer experience in 9 countries and 11 languages and their impact is felt vast and worldwide.

Host Simone Morris opens up Season 6 with Charanya Kannan, who leads Global Customer Insights and Strategy at a FinTech Company. She talks about her career progression from India, South Korea, Boston, and Silicon Valley. In our discussion, Charanya shares how she moved from being subservient to finding her voice and embracing feminism.

Her career tips include:

👉🏾Figure out what's important to you and turn your attention to that.

👉🏾Ask for what you want (projects, promotion, salary)

👉🏾Do your research for those important career conversations

👉🏾Find your community (Facebook Groups, Alumni Groups, Regional Groups, etc.)

👉🏾Build influence within your organization

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Host Simone Morris closes out Season 5 by celebrating two years of hosting The Power of Owning Your Career Podcast. She talks about what it feels like to deliver 90 episodes of the podcast as well as her career success tips:

1. Connect the dots by evaluating your career data points
2. Find evidence of pivots that inspire you to continue pivoting in your career
3. Rewrite your career story
4. Collaborate with others
5. Bet heavily on yourself
6. Embrace education as a career lever
7. Immerse yourself in 90 episodes of inspiring career stories and advice for owning your career

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Managing Attorney of Transcendent Law Group, Michelle D. Craig is this week's guest on the podcast. With over 18 years of law firm experience, she became the first African-American female Partner the New Orleans Office of an Am 200 Regional law firm before starting her own firm. Michelle shares her keys to success:

1) Do something that scares you. What you want is on the other side of fear.

2) Have a success team that tells you when you're wrong and when you need to take it down a notch.

3) Make time for your mental and physical well being.

We have a riveting conversation about careers. Subscribe, listen, share and review this episode.

Reach Michelle at [email protected] | https://tlg.law/

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Leadership Expert, International Best Selling Author and Podcaster Eddie Turner joins The Power of Owning Your Career Podcast. Eddie shares his keys to success:

1) Never get complacent and let others make decisions for you

2) Have many mentors for the seasons of your career; have them speak for you in rooms that you aren't invited to

3) Invest in education to give you access to build relationships

We have a riveting conversation about careers. Subscribe, listen, share and review this episode.

Reach Eddie at www.askeddieturner.com.

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Dawn Reshen-Doty, CEO, Benay Enterprises, joins this week's Power of Owning Your Career Podcast. Dawn shares how she has managed to remain successful managing a million dollar business with fifteen employees. Dawn helps us to understand why we must be fearless in asking for help in our careers. She talks about the importance of nurturing relationships and gives us some tips on how we can do so. Learn why patience is key in nurturing relationships as Dawn shares a success story on landing a new client after 10 years. You don't want to miss this week's episode. Subscribe, listen, share, and review.

To connect with Dawn, find her on LinkedIn and connect via www.benay.com.

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More About Dawn:

Dawn Reshen-Doty is the CEO of Benay Enterprises, Inc. a 34 year old Connecticut-based business management and bookkeeping firm with offices in Danbury and Portland, Maine. She is also the founding partner and publisher of For Beginners, LLC, and publisher of the For Beginners series, an internationally recognized graphically illustrated non-fiction book line.

She holds a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, was a White House intern during the Carter administration and serves on the boards of many organizations and non-profits. She is the recipient of the 2016 CT SBA Minority Business of the Year award, Sage software's 2019 Bookkeeper of the Year award and her company has 3 times been voted CT Law Tribune's "Best General & Administrative Outsourcing" (2015-2017) and holds certificates from Georgetown School of Business and Goldman Sacks 10K Small Businesses.

In this week's episode, Simone catches up with The Power of Owning Your Career Podcast listeners. She shares a bit about her journey to the driver's seat and how it's changed as an entrepreneur. Listen as Simone reflects on changes from this season and prepares listeners for what's to come. Listen to how you can win book giveaways from guests on the podcast. That and more on this week's episode of the podcast.

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Djuana Beamon joins this week's podcast to encourage listeners to keep focus on their careers during a pandemic. Djuana and Simone talk about diversity and inclusion and how 2020 has changed the career game. Listen and enjoy this week's episode.

About Djuana

Djuana is a seasoned diversity and inclusion practitioner and thought leader with more than 20 years of experience in various business capacities. She has served as a diversity, equity and inclusion professional in several industries and sectors, including Fortune 5 and Fortune 100 companies building and implementing strategies to create inclusive environments that strengthens business and encourages a workplace of respect while embracing our unique differences and celebrating our collective similarities.

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Fun fact about this week's guest! She has traveled to every continent except for Antarctica and has visited over 30 countries. This week, we are joined by Attorney Dionnie Wynter Pfunde. She shares her journey from Jamaica to New York to Michigan and to Florida, all in pursuit of her passion for immigration law. Hear Dionne talked about how her business caused her to answer her calling to be her own boss. She says we must show up as our authentic selves. Catch this week's episode of The Power of Owning Your Career podcast with host Simone Morris. Subscribe, listen, and share. Be sure to leave us a review as well.

Books Mentioned during interview:

• Brand You - Dr. Hume Johnson
• Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

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Paris Forest is this week's guest for the Power of Owning Your Career Podcast. Paris shares her career secrets for lasting at one company for 22 plus years. Paris says her formula for owning her career is about owning your value, communicating your value, and being intentional about arriving at your destination. Learn what one resource helped Paris to ready herself for an executive role. Subscribe, listen, review and share this week's episode of the podcast.

About Our Guest:

Paris Forest is the Director of Strategy Operations Solutions for Boeing Information Technology & Data Analytics (IT&DA), responsible for defining strategy and action planning for an initiative aimed at transforming IT&DA from a project driven to product managed organization at scale. In this role, Paris current serves as the IT&DA Optimal Enterprise Integration Program Manager, responsible for executing the integration of 17 subsidiary businesses focused on reduction of risk to the Enterprise. Paris also serves at the Technology Business Management (TBM) Director, responsible for implementing and operationalizing IT&DA's Technology Business Management solution.

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