UNBOSSED by Marina

Wepa! I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian. ;)

UNBOSSED is “Stories of Amazing Women in Chicago”.

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I interviewed Ellie Bahrmasel. A serial strategist with a creative core, Ellie has spent her career growing and transforming organizations, programs, and products through design. Her diversity of experience - from government to Fortune 100’s to venture backed startups - has given her insights that fuel her ability to help teams maneuver around and through their biggest growth challenges.

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Wepa! I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian. ;)

UNBOSSED is “Stories of Amazing Women in Chicago”.

If you are a new listener to UNBOSSED, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today!

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marina-malaguti

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I interviewed Genevieve Custer Weeks, Founder and CEO at Tutu School Franchises.Genevieve was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She received her early ballet training there, and took part in her first dance productions in the middle of her parents' living room.

At the age of fifteen, Genevieve moved to Chicago to study at the School of Ballet Chicago, and that same year became a founding member of the Ballet Chicago Studio Company. In addition, Genevieve supplemented her training with study at the San Francisco Ballet School, American Ballet Theatre, and with Suzanne Farrell at The Kennedy Center.

A contract with the Oakland Ballet brought Genevieve to the San Francisco Bay Area. Beginning in 2006, Genevieve began performing as a freelance artist, dancing principal and soloist roles throughout North America, and started dreaming of opening her own boutique school that would celebrate the things she loved most about ballet. During a break in her performance schedule, Genevieve's husband, Andrew, finally asked, "Why wait?" and Tutu School was born.

Since the founding of that first initial studio, Tutu School has grown into a collection of more than forty boutique ballet schools all over the US and Canada, and Genevieve – who retired from performing in 2012 – now divides her time between Tutu School and her life with Andrew, a photographer, and their three adorable kids.

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Patricia Brown Holmes  is the first African-American woman to lead and have her name on the door of a major law firm that is not women- or minority-owned.

A woman of exceptional talent, intelligence and vitality, Patricia Holmes has chalked up enough accomplishments to fill three lifetimes. Over the course of her distinguished legal career, she has practiced law on both sides of the bench in courtrooms at every level, serving as Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, assistant U.S. attorney, assistant state's attorney for Cook County, and Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel for Municipal Prosecutions for the city of Chicago.

By the time she ventured into private practice in 2005, Patricia’s skill and experience were firmly established and widely acknowledged. She is one of a handful of Illinois lawyers who have tried cases in state, city and federal court as well as state appellate, federal appellate, and Illinois Supreme Court. She is also co-writer of a brief that was presented before the US Supreme Court.

Over the past decade, in her role as a successful and sought-after defense attorney, she has represented a wide range of public and private corporate clients in complex commercial, regulatory and class action litigation as well as in internal investigations involving financial and accounting fraud, corporate whistleblower allegations, contract disputes, and mail and wire fraud.

Patricia practices the art of communicating with government officials by employing equal measures of conviction, clarity and tact. Her nine years on the bench and her experience teaching judicial seminars have given her valuable insight into how judges think about and analyze cases. This rare combination of judicial knowledge and trial experience make her a powerful asset, valuable partner and trusted counselor to a wide range of corporate clients in several industries, including education, transportation, manufacturing, entertainment, industrial, health care, and food and beverage industries.

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Marina interviews Nicole Johnson-Scales, CEO & Executive Career Strategist at NJS Consulting Group.

For over 20 years, I have worked to climb the ladder in Corporate America. Throughout these years, I found the best way to thrive as an executive was to be ambitious in the climb and develop professional joy along the way. This why I created NJS Consulting Group; to help executives find courage, confidence, and a powerful strategy to lead with impact.

When working with executives, I help them get out of their own way, develop a strategy to get to their next level of success and find more purpose in their careers. Outside of my one-on-one work with executive leaders, I facilitate team leadership workshops to help the team show up as more impactful leaders and deliver positive change to their organizations. I also offer consulting services to businesses to mitigate risk, support growth initiatives, and create positive transformation with their leadership teams.

I hold an MBA from Olivet Nazarene University and am a certified coach through an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited program. I am an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University, Chicago, and Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, where I teach courses on Values-Based Leadership, Leading Organizational Change, and Corporate Social Responsibility. I am a Founding Guide at Chief (Chicago), the social network dedicated to women’s leadership.

When I am not serving my clients, you can find me watching a movie with my husband, shopping with my daughter, or laughing on the phone with my son, who lives out of state. I love to travel and spend time with friends and family.

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Dr. Christine Izuakor is the CEO of Cyber Pop-up, an on-demand cybersecurity service platform powered by vetted and highly skilled cyber freelancers. Izuakor is also the author of the “Ultimate Guide to Building a Career in Cybersecurity” available now at shop.cyberpopup.com/career-guide !

She has over a decade of experience leading cybersecurity functions within Fortune 100 companies and recently played a critical part in embedding cyber security in large enterprise DNA by training the global workforce on cyber security, supporting execution of the organizations security strategy, and developing cyber talent pipelines. Prior to this, she led numerous security functions from vulnerability management to handling legal implications of data security. Today, through Cyber Pop-up, she helps corporations of all sizes and industries solve a diverse range of strategic cybersecurity challenges on-demand.

Dr. Izuakor is also active in the diversity and inclusion community. She was a co-founder and former Vice President of Gen Trend, United Airlines’ Millennial business resource group, served a 2 year term as the Head Editor of the Illinois Diversity Council Editorial Board and volunteers as a cybersecurity mentor with Year Up. She is dedicated to increasing diversity within cybersecurity and has continually curated cybersecurity development and scholarship programs to further this agenda.

Christine is a first generation Nigerian in America, native Houstonian, Chicago resident and avid traveler. She appreciates learning about different cultures and shares her journey on social media, igniting travel curiosity in folks across the globe.

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0:00   Introductions

5:00   The early days

12:00  Getting as advanced education

17:00 Being a black woman in Cyber

23:00 What is cyber and how do we protect ourselves?

29:00 The pivotal moment - Starting Cyber Pop-up

35:00 About practicing appreciation

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Debbie Reynolds “The Data Diva” is a world-renowned technologist, thought-leader, and advisor handling global Data Privacy, Cyber Data Breach response, and complex cross-functional data-driven projects. Ms. Reynolds is an internationally published author, highly sought speaker, and top media presence about global Data Privacy, Data Protection, and Emerging Technology issues.

Ms. Reynolds has been named to the Global Top 20 CyberRisk Communicators by The European Risk Policy Institute, 2020, and recognized as one of the stellar women who know Cyber by Cybersecurity Ventures in 2021. Ms, Reynolds also produced the Top Five Data Privacy Podcast in 2021 called “The Data Diva” Talks Privacy.”

Oh Hey, and I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian ;)

UNBOSSED IS… “Paths To Success of Amazing Women in Chicago”

I welcome you to ask questions, participate, and join me as we explore these topics by emailing me at [email protected] or visiting www.unbossed.io.

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Tracy Baim is co-publisher of the Chicago Reader newspaper. She is owner and co-founder of Windy City Times, a 35-year-old LGBTQ newspaper. She is the author or co-author of 12 books on LGBTQ history (including Out and Proud in Chicago, Obama and the Gays, and Gay Press, Gay Power), producer of four films, creator of the That’s So Gay! LGBTQ trivia game, and a longtime journalist and organizer. Major events she has helped lead include Gay Games VII in Chicago in 2006, and the March on Springfield for Marriage Equality. She founded the LGBT Chamber of Commerce of Illinois in 1996, and has won numerous awards for her journalism and activism, including the Studs Terkel Award. Baim has been inducted into the National LGBT Journalists Association Hall of Fame, Association of Women Journalists-Chicago Hall of Fame, and the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists-Chicago.

Oh Hey, and I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian ;)

UNBOSSED IS… “Paths To Success of Amazing Women in Chicago”

I welcome you to ask questions, participate, and join me as we explore these topics by emailing me at [email protected] or visiting www.unbossed.io.

Available on-

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Jennifer Clark is Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence at Cresco Labs.  She leads the organization’s Quality, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), and Continuous Improvement functions, ensuring that the company is delivering high quality, safe, and consistent products to customers with cost effective and efficient operations.   She is a results-driven leader who builds highly effective teams and challenges the status quo to identify new and better ways of accomplishing objectives.  Prior to Cresco Labs, she led multiple operational aspects within the healthcare industry at Abbott and AbbVie.  Jennifer graduated with a science degree from the University of Illinois, however also attended the acclaimed Kendall College of Culinary Arts, owned a personal chef business for a short time, and is pursuing her Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management starting in the fall of 2021.  Jennifer serves as a mentor and role model for other women leaders, hosting events focused on themes of women empowerment and giving back.  In her free time, she enjoys cooking, traveling, playing tennis, and spending time with her family and friends.

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The Global Cannabis Executive Summit, A Gathering of Innovators, Pioneers, and Leaders in Toronto, Canada on Nov 2-3, 2021

Oh Hey, and I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian ;)

UNBOSSED IS… “Paths To Success of Amazing Women in Chicago”

I welcome you to ask questions, participate, and join me as we explore these topics by emailing me at [email protected] or visiting www.unbossed.io.

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Maria Elaine Hadden is a Chicago politician and community activist. She is a member of Chicago City Council, serving as alderman for the city's 49th ward. She won election to that office after defeating 28-year incumbent Joe Moore in the 2019 aldermanic elections. The 49th ward includes most of Rogers Park and portions of West Ridge.

Hadden was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1981. She earned her bachelor's degree in International Peace and Conflict Studies from the Ohio State University, and subsequently moved to Waukegan, Illinois to begin a job with the AmeriCorps VISTA program in 2003. She moved to Chicago in 2004. She later earned a master's degree in International Public Service Management from DePaul University.

Before becoming Alderwoman, Maria Hadden was the Executive Director of Our City Our Voice, a national nonprofit organization she founded to enable communities and governments across the country to redesign democracy for more empowered and equitable participation. Her expertise in public participation is grounded in grassroots organizing efforts for social change.

Before launching her own organization, Maria was a founding board member of The Participatory Budgeting Project, where she worked for 8 years with communities and government officials in the Midwest and South to create and facilitate democratic processes around public budgets. In this role, Maria has also worked with Aldermen throughout Chicago to design participatory budgeting processes around Aldermanic menu money, school budgets and TIF funds.

Maria lives with her partner, Natalia, and their two rescue dogs in Rogers Park. She enjoys living in a place where neighbors are friends and community is family - and she is proud of her community's resilience and motivation to work together in difficult situations. In her free time Maria is a photographer and artist who leads screenprinting workshops for young people.

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Oh Hey, and I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian ;)

UNBOSSED IS… “Paths To Success of Amazing Women in Chicago”

I welcome you to ask questions, participate, and join me as we explore these topics by emailing me at [email protected] or visiting www.unbossed.io.

Available on-

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTz6_FepG04QTs1BjFLBjw/

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Emily Achler is the CEO and Co-Founder at Italic Type. She believes in using our time and skills to make the world a better place. She is a creative entrepreneur on a mission to develop human-centered technology and help more people read more books through the power of decentralized, virtual book clubs.

She is also a seasoned freelance writer and content strategist. In writing for clients, she specializes in data-focused, short and long form content that crisply and clearly informs readers on the important information they want to know. I've worked in a number of different B2B and technology industries and can synthesize layered, complex topics into simple, accessible core concepts.

Oh Hey, and I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, podcast host, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian ;)

UNBOSSED IS… “Paths To Success of Amazing Women in Chicago”

I welcome you to ask questions, participate, and join me as we explore these topics by emailing me at [email protected] or visiting www.unbossed.io.

Available on-

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTz6_FepG04QTs1BjFLBjw/

Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eUhfH8E

Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e7cWtBv

Google Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/enjChPt

And others..