My guest this week on Trina Talk is Maureen Ross Gemme, MS Ed., CEO of Emerge Leadership Academy, who began training leaders across New England in 2015 after a 30-year corporate career. A motorcycle riding grandmother and personal growth advocate, Maureen trains and coaches leaders who want to make an impact.   She is passionate about helping her clients step to their full potential and develop others on their team. As a personality expert, Maureen helps her audiences own their gifts and embrace the differences in the diversity of others to build better relationships. After living through her teenage years as a drug addict and alcoholic, Maureen stepped into recovery and created an awesome life. She has deep compassion for helping others to emerge, evolve, and lead their best lives and created the Recovery@Work program to help those who are ready.   Website: emergeleadershipacademy.com Course: Recovery at Work Podcast: Emerge. Evolve. Lead.   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin

Isabelle Hardesty is a Miami native who uses her creative work to share her experiences growing up in South Florida. She is committed to creating rich and strong female characters in her books. Hardesty wants young people and women of color to see themselves in her novels and know they are a meaningful part of the world they’re in. Hardesty received her BFA from Pratt Institute and has worked in NYC as an assistant fashion designer. Her rich and textured life experiences allow her to create characters and plots that engage readers. One common thread in all of her professional experiences is that storytelling is always king.   Quote: "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis   Connect with Isabelle: Website: isabellehardesty.com IG: isabellehardestycreates   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin

Iggy Perillo trains leaders and cultivates masterminds for professionals and athletes seeking excellence in their work, sport, and life. She created WSL Leadership to develop leaders and teams who make the world a better place through enhanced connection, communication, and trust. Iggy works with individuals and teams around the world so they can overcome challenges and function like champions.   Quote: "It’s okay to admit what you don’t know. It’s okay to ask for help. And it’s more than okay to listen to the people you lead – in fact, it’s essential." —Mary Barra   Connect with Iggy: Website wslleadership.com   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin

Jeff Seckendorf is the owner of Coach Me Strong. He works with the Parkinson's community and after COVID started, Jeff found that when gyms and programs closed, Parkinson's patients were not exercising and their diseases were progressing.   Being a masters bicycle racer and having been coached for a decade, Jeff applied the traditional endurance athlete coaching model to three constituencies: people with Parkinson's, other neurological challenges like MS, Alzheimer's, and traumatic brain injury, and the third group is what he calls Gen O/W, for Generation Older/Wiser. Quote: You Attract What You Are, Not What You Want If You Want Great, Then Be Great.   Connect with Jeff: Website: www.coachmestrong.com   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin

Dorsey was born on January 16th, 1977, with a congenital disability known as Apert’s Syndrome. When Dorsey was born, his forehead was pushed outward, his nose and mouth were pushed inward, and his fingers and toes were fused, meaning he had no individual movement of them. Doctors gave Dorsey’s parents no hope for his survival and advised them to put him into an institution. His parents both knew and trusted in God, and they believed that God would do great things in Dorsey’s life. Throughout his life, Dorsey has had to overcome a lot of obstacles, and trials, being bullied, called names like monster and freak, and undergone multiple operations. Teachers told Dorsey he would not make it in college, and with all odds against him, he entered Queens Borough Community College. After four years there, and after attaining an associate degree, he entered the University of Valley Forge. After years of hard work and perseverance, he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Youth Ministry. His life saying is, "can’t is not in my vocabulary" because, for most of his life, he has never used the word can’t. He believes that with God, all things are possible and that he can do all things through Christ who gives him strength. It’s with God’s help he is overcoming life’s obstacles.   Quote: "Can’t is not in my vocabulary." - Dorsey Ross   Connect with Dorsey: Website: www.dorseyrossministries.com   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin

Meridith Alexander is a best-selling author, powerhouse mompreneur, and top female motivational speaker who has become known for inspiring high-level professionals and entrepreneurs to venture beyond the place where their beliefs stop them -- all thanks to a plummeting boulder that almost killed her daughter and that changed her "old normal" into the destiny that she embraces today.   She challenges you to explore the boundaries of endless possibilities, positive expectations, and deliberate creation. With the near-death accident of her daughter and the challenges that were laid firmly at her feet, she learned that it's these tiny individual seeds of Greatness that live waiting to be cultivated within our own minds. Then, as we master our own mindset and discover the real beauty within our own story, we become free to empower others and to go on to create "impossible" things.   Quote: "It always seems impossible until it’s done." – Nelson Mandela   Connect with Meridith: Speaking Website: meridithalexander.com Coaching Website: gritmindsetacademy.com Free 20 minute strategy call: bit.ly.goepicnow Book: The Sky is the Limit   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin

Sean Tyler Foley has been acting in film and television since he was 6 years old. He is an accomplished film and stage performer and has appeared in productions including Freddy Vs Jason, Door to Door, Carrie, and the musical Ragtime.

Tyler is passionate about helping others confidently take the stage and impact an audience with their stories. He is currently the Managing Director of Total Buy In and author of the #1 best-selling book The Power to Speak Naked.

Quote: "Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot." – D. H. Lawrence   Connect with Tyler: Website: seantylerfoley.com Book: The Power to Speak Naked (purchase on bookshop.org)   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin    

 

Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect and Founder of The Women’s Code. She provides strategies blueprints and results-oriented, tangible tools and techniques that unify your teams, give you clear steps to improve your business systems, and strengthen your leadership skills. A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly successful global business and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal. She is amongst the "Top 100 Global Thought Leaders" by PeopleHum and "One of 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs" by HuffPost.   Quote: "Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." –Nelson Mandela   Connect with Beate: Free Gift: airtightavatar.com Website: Beatechelette.com Book: Happy Woman Happy World   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin

Dr. Ava Thompson Greenwell is the author of Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News, filmmaker of "Mandela in Chicago," podcaster, and journalism professor.   She is a Chicago native and director/producer of Mandela in Chicago, a documentary film about the city’s anti-apartheid movement. She is also the author of Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News. Greenwell, an academic life coach, has been a freelance correspondent for WGN-TV and Chicago Tonight, a PBS news program. She also worked as a reporter at WFLA-TV in Tampa, FL; WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, MN; and WEHT-TV in Evansville, IN.   Quote: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." - Marianne Williamson   Connect with Ava FB: Avathompsongreenwell Film: mandelainchicago.com Podcast: Ladies Leading Book: Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News   Show hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin

Sheila Farragher-Gemma moved to the states in 1989 for a job in Boston. She figured she would stay a few years before returning home to Ireland, but 30 years later, with a husband, two children, and a handful of successful businesses under her belt, she may be here to stay.   Sheila has an entrepreneurial spirit which led her to the world of marketing consulting. Through her company, Connected Sponsor, she helps event promoters monetize their events by building long-standing relationships and partnerships with Sponsoring companies. Some events she’s helped are Traffic & Conversion, ProfitCon, Underground, and MFA Live.   Quote: "Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come." -- Diane Helbig   Website: Connectedsponsors.com Free Training: connectedsponsors.com/findingsponsors FB: Connected Sponsors   how hashtag: #TrinaTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trina-l-martin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinaTalk Instagram: @trina.l.martin  Twitter: @TrinaLMartin