Amanda Gorter is the founder of Lēto Foods. After spending over a decade advising the world’s leading consumer packaged goods and healthcare companies at a boutique strategy consulting firm, she set out to make smart, healthy eating easier and launched Lēto Foods. When Amanda noticed several of her pregnant friends were having a hard time determining what was safe to eat, she set out to make a change. We discuss her career pivot from corporate strategy to starting her own food brand as well as her hopes and plans as a food entrepreneur.

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People come to Karen Ross when they feel anxious, scared, or just plain stuck. Karen helps find the root cause of an issue, faulty beliefs that were formed, and then creates freedom from emotional and mental pain through hypnosis and coaching. Karen loves sharing how the mind works and how we can use it to make life easier, calmer, and healthier. 

She previously worked as a radio show host, where she interviewed experts renowned for presenting ground-breaking personal development ideas anyone could implement.  Today, her practice provides a safe place for people to discover exactly what is causing their emotional or physical pain and move forward - often beyond their own expectations. We discussed her journey from executive recruiter to radio show host and now hypnotherapist and coach and what careers in the future will look like.

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Mark Ratfelders is a Success and Leadership Coach who believes that greatness is within all of us. He spent decades in Sales and Sales Leadership roles with global corporations. He discovered that Real Leadership is an “inside job” that begins with Awareness, Energy and Love. 

Mark’s passions have included distance running and a regular yoga and meditation practice. His passion for yoga has led him to become a certified yoga instructor. Mark’s favorite quote is from meditation leader, Sharon Salzberg, “We can always begin again.”

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Rob “YB” Youngblood is an author and the President/Chief Connecting Officer of YB Connects, LLC a Richmond, VA based professional training and coaching firm that empowers entrepreneurs and executives to enhance business relationships and communications skills.

As an engagement specialist, he teaches his clients how to establish and facilitate connections that lead to outstanding outcomes. He is known as “The LinkedIn Locksmith” because of his ability to unlock the power of LinkedIn for professionals who are responsible for attracting new clients and generating revenue. Since 2016, he has coached nearly 1,000 entrepreneurs and executives to leverage LinkedIn as a tool for increasing their visibility, credibility, and profitability.

We discuss his unique career path and why he believes that we must be comfortable with change.

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Angela V. Harris is a collaborative Leadership Coach, Technology Leader, and Philanthropist with over twenty years of business experience in Fortune 500 companies.  She is focused on female leadership and the advancement of Black women in the tech industry. In her coaching practice, Angela helps clients strategically navigate the corporate landscape so they can be seen, feel valued, and get promoted. Her intuitive approach brings clarity, direction, and positive support to her clients. We discuss her pivot from technology leader to leadership coach, the value of diversity and how she plans to change corporate America from the outside.

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Mel McSherry (she/they) is an International Business & Life Guide, Speaker, Author, and Podcast Host. She works with inspired entrepreneurs who are exhausted and overwhelmed by what they think they need to do in order to be successful. She helps them to honor their lives and engineer success through Human Design, spiritual and traditional business development frameworks.

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Dr. Constance Craig-Mason, MRFC® is the CEO of Concierge Financial Group Agency and the President of Money Concepts Wealth Management & Financial Planning. As a dedicated Financial Advisor, passionate international speaker, and an eight-time bestselling author, she teaches her clients to correctly manage their money so they can live the life they want without worry.

She has received numerous awards for community impact in her field including a medallion "In Recognition of Excellence, Service & Sacrifice" from the Comptroller of Maryland. Dr. Constance has also received an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy for her eminent contributions to financial literacy, financial advancement, and entrepreneurship empowerment. She is a 2022 honoree of the Association of African American Financial Advisors' 50 Under 50.

She talks through her journey of a childhood in poverty to helping people achieve financial independence.

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Noelle Cellini is the owner and personal stylist of My Best Foot Forward and founder of Lifting the Veil, a site and podcast dedicated to helping people transition to a natural, harmonious lifestyle.  She is passionate about taking the confusion out of fashion and educating people on how to avoid matchy, matchy!  Noelle is a food-loving, makeup wearing, stylish modern woman who loves to help people learn how to eat clean and listen to their intuition for greater personal and professional abundance. We chat about her unconventional path from business school to personal styling and why she believes that sometimes you just have to trust the universe.

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After witnessing the struggle and inconvenience he and many of his friends had to go through to get African foods, Boyede embarked on a journey to remedy this problem. This journey led to the creation of OjaExpress.  Boyede and the OjaExpress team seek to enhance the lives of immigrants and cultural food lovers by making cultural foods easily accessible through the OjaExpress digital marketplace.

Boyede Sobitan is the Co-founder and CEO of OjaExpress, a digital marketplace for culture-specific grocery stores. Boyede’s route to tech and entrepreneurship is very unlikely given his background.  Boyede is a healthcare administrator. He graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago’s College of Nursing with his BSN and School of Public Health with his Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA).  Boyede has a passion for mentoring, community development, and social responsibility. We discuss his path to entrepreneurship and the struggles founders of color often face when building a business.

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Erica Holthausen is the founder of Catchline Communications and a strategic thought partner to consultants who wish to build their authority and increase their visibility by publishing articles in industry trade journals and business magazines like Inc., Entrepreneur, and Fast Company. A writer and freelance editor, Erica started her career as a litigation attorney in Boston. She credits her legal training at The University of Virginia School of Law with teaching her to use persuasive writing techniques, ask the right questions, and communicate complex ideas with power and clarity.

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