TrailBlazers Impact

As Assistant Dean for the College of Agriculture and Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs, Dr. Pamala Morris introduced change in the university system by starting a new department that has now expanded change throughout the university. Dr. Pamela Morris serves as an assistant dean and full professor with the college of agriculture at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. She developed and implemented two awareness courses that serve as two out of three ways to fulfill a new Multicultural Understanding Requirement at Purdue. In this episode, Pamela narrates her journey from an elementary educator to a higher learning educator with excellent achievements in change efforts. Listen in to learn how Pamela was able to work smarter under much opposition to develop programs. 

• How to surround yourself with people that inspire you to want to do more with your life
• The importance of advocating within the education system

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Crystal Oakes gives us some of the best advice ever on branding your product, media, or whatever your business creates. The brand is the corporate soul. It is the overall personality and presence of the business. The key question to answer is “What’s the one thing you want to be known for as an organization?” And then lets you know how to find the answer. In this episode, Crystal teaches in detail the meaning of branding and how to build a successful and memorable brand. Listen in to learn the importance of building a brand that completely relates to your customers and ideal customers for it to be successful. You will also learn the difference and relationship between personal branding and organizational branding.

Key Takeaways:

• The importance of having a brand that your customers can find themselves in
• How to shift your mindset and understand who your brand is
• How to communicate your brand’s message through the visual elements you put out there
• The importance of giving your company a face by building your personal brand
• Understanding the relationship between personal branding and organizational branding

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Patty Lynn Wyatt – What would you do if someone walked into the room you were in with a gun and said, “I’m going to kill you all.” That is exactly what happened to Patty and this was the pivotal moment that completely changed her purpose and gave her a passion and direction for her life. Patty Lynn is a highly sought-after professional speaker, business coach, and radio show host. Listen in to learn the importance of being self-aware and getting out of your comfort zone to pursue your passion. You will also learn the importance of listening to understand and networking to create a successful brand.

Key Takeaways:

• How to use a crisis to choose to be better and to shift your life
• Learn to be self-aware in life and to develop a passion for something that impacts others
• How to get out of your comfort zone and prepare for the battle of life
• How to invest in yourself by journaling, visualizing your future, and affirming things in your life
• Learn to just do it without expecting the beginning to be perfect
• How to be a successful podcaster staying true to your brand and finding a reason to impact others

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You are as likely to encounter Francine Farkas Sears entertaining royalty as you are to find her breaking out of a Polish prison. She has done both. You may hear about her most recent trip to her villa in the South of France or she might tell you about the time she surprised a husband (there have been a few!) with a good bottle of champagne….in Nepal. She recounts such stories with a nonchalance that leaves you questioning whether you heard her correctly. One is also left with the impression that Francine most always has an outrageously good time, regardless of where she is, what she is doing, or how hard she is working. Join us as we speak to a truly inspirational female CEO, board member, philanthropist, and reining dynamo of Women in Business. 

Listen in to learn the importance of taking care of your mental and physical wellbeing to balance life and work as a woman. You will also learn the importance of being knowledgeable about your wealth and that of your family as a woman.

Key Takeaways:

• How to prove yourself to be deserving by not giving up and showing up fiercely
• Learn to love yourself as a woman as much as you love your work by taking things step by step
• How to get away from daily life to make a clear decision
• The importance of knowing your business and having an attitude of gratitude
• Take what others do and make it your own to find success as a young person

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Cat Crosslin is the Owner and CEO of Instar Performance. Some people talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. Cat Crosslin does. Her point is “If I don’t continue to grow, I can’t help others be the best they can be. Because each time I advance in the career work, I know I need to be better. I’m driven in my own leadership journey by if I’m going to bring the best out in them, I’d better be challenging myself.” In this episode, Cat shares her passion for leadership and personal development and that of the making of champions. Listen in to learn how to overcome your internal limitations to become effective and successful. You will also learn the importance of having a clear picture of what you want and focusing on it. 

Key Takeaways:

• The importance of having a clear focus on things you want instead of what you don’t want
• How to utilize video conferencing as a complementary way of connecting with your audience
• The importance of overcoming your internal limiting beliefs to become effective
• How to make your life engaging by taking risks, traveling, eliminating any negative feelings, and reach out to mentors

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How do you get your foot in the door to make that sale? It seems like you’ve tried everything!  But have you tried Kopp Consulting? Too often the process of opening new prospect doors receives minimal attention from business owners and salespeople in terms of time spent, consistency, and strategy – three critical elements for prospecting success. Have you ever heard someone say, “When I’m in front of the right decision-maker I close the sale most of the time. I just can’t get in front of enough of the right people!” Kopp Consulting provides an easy solution for this with the Door Opener® Service. In this episode, Caryn describes how she and her team represent vendors to get them in the door of executive-level decision-makers to sell. Learn the five planks of the door opening success. Learn why you should pay attention to your mentors/ bosses to learn business or professional lessons and apply them in your journey. You will also learn the importance of having strong business development skills as a leader to grow your business.

Key Takeaways:

• Why you should have a mentor to guide you and help you develop professional and business skills
• Learning how to be even with things to be successful in business and career
• The importance of developing your business during the pandemic to stay ahead of time
• How to get help as a leader struggling on the business development side of things

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Meet Muriel Tillinghast, a human rights activist from the 1960s to today! She takes us on a long but fascinating journey from the initial civil rights activities in the 1960s through an extensive career in revenue generation and oversight to mediation and negotiation to educational teaching and administration. She describes her experiences in NAG and SNCC in both desegregation and tenant rights. She tells us about her advocacy work in AIDs, immigration, medical experimentation, murder/false accusation, alternative sentencing, prison reform, and housing issues. She was even a Green Party candidate for Vice-President in 1996! This woman has LIVED it!

Top Takeaways:

• • Understanding that not everyone who doesn't look like you is the enemy or the problem
  • Why the US needs to grow and recognize the difference between freedom and morality
  • How voter fraud and black face were conducted for some people to keep holding on to power over others
  • Learning how to stand up for yourself as a black person without fear when faced by lethal racist beasts
  • The importance of taking action towards structural change by pinpointing certain things you don't like and focusing on them

Listen in to learn the major historical experiences that Muriel has lived through and how she and others had to fight for their place as African-Americans.

James Loewen's gripping retelling of American racial history as it should, and could, be taught, Lies My Teacher Told Me, has sold more than 1,500,000 copies and continues to inspire K-16 teachers to get students to challenge, rather than memorize, their textbooks.

Top Takeaways:

• • Fighting for the true history especially when it's ugly and controversial
  • Understanding when racism increased, how we make a racist society, and how we can make a non-racist society
  • The history of the sundown towns and the racism behind them
  • The power of telling the truth about the past to bring justice to the present
  • Why you need to stand for something as a leader while being impartial and non-manipulative
  • How social injustice and pollution of the environment is slowly destroying society

He gives an explosive interview and tells us all about sundown towns and their effect on race relations and fair housing.

Annette White-Klososky, Sowmya Shridhar, And Christa Short talk about the advantages of women on boards and why women should advocate and pitch for board positions.  These highly successful women from all walks of life champion women advocating for women. This program is sponsored by a former TrailBlazers Impact Interviews guest, The Financial Diva and advisor to millionaires, Victoria Woods with ChappelWood Financial.

Key Takeaways:

• Why you should stay safe by taking a COVID test and choosing PCR testing
• How to harness your tech skills to add value to an organization and attract board and executive positions
• How to be a trailblazing pioneer woman by supporting other women
• How to be willing to get on the board as a woman even when you’re the only one
• How to develop the confidence to take advantage of available resources to get ahead as an entrepreneur or professional

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Sheri Bryne-Haber - Does your website meet accessibility standards? Do you know that 98% of the websites in the world are not accessible? Plus there are over 4000 lawsuits filed in the last year over digital accessibility. If you are an employer, do you know what you should do to ensure workplace accessibility? All these questions and more are answered by Sheri Byrne-Haber, a disability expert consultant and blogger. Find out where your own liabilities are! Sheri talks about digital accessibility in corporations and disability inclusion or lack thereof. Listen in to learn how you can digitally and manually test for your website accessibility and how you can improve. You will also learn the importance of advocating for the disabled since the majority of the population is disabled in one way or the other.

Key Takeaways: 

• How to improve your website accessibility by considering things like transcripts and captioning
• The importance of advocating for disability rights and policies for your future self
• The importance of educating people about accessibility and disability to create a more diverse workplace environment
• How to understand and account for the five different groups of disabilities

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