Women Influencers

In this week’s episode of Women Influencers, I spoke with the inspirational Cindy Carrillo, a businesswoman for over 40 years who has started several of her own businesses, including being the Founder and CEO of a national B2B company that provided work/life services to employees of top Fortune 500 businesses. Cindy has extensive leadership experience from her businesses, in her leadership roles on community non-profit boards, and as the former Founder of the Women’s Council that brought hundreds of women business leaders and young business professionals together to inspire leadership development. Now, Cindy is all about helping folks find their Nxt through coaching.

We discussed her upbringing with parents who told her she could do anything, and helped her do it. When Cindy was early into her college career, she followed her parents to Colorado and they opened a family owned, boutique plant shop. The shop paid Cindy and her father’s school ways through school - her father had decided to switch careers and go to law school - before they decided to close it after graduation.

We talked about her influential career highlights, she shared a piece of advice, and then we talked about handling change.

“Let’s Not Be Afraid of Change” - Cindy Carrillo

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In this week’s episode of Women Influencers, I spoke with Candis Pressley, founder and CEO of Trinity Property Advisors - a commercial real estate firm operating in the North East United States.

We discussed how she grew up inspired and mentored by her Grandmother, who kept her focused on achieving her goals. Candis graduated from Temple University for her Bachelor’s, worked in Real Estate for a few years, and then attended University of Florida for her Master’s. Although she founded her company in 2020 amidst the pandemic, she remained calm and stuck to the plan and found success.

We discussed the challenge of transitioning into CRE, her influence on 2 recent graduates, and her advice for our listeners.

“Stay Involved” - Candis Pressley

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I spoke with Janet Perez Eckles this week on the Women Influencers podcast. She is

an author, international speaker, radio host, and founder of JC Empowerment ministries. We spoke about how she overcame losing her sight to Retinitis Pigmentosa at the age of 30 and became a powerhouse of motivation.

We discussed her family’s immigration to the U.S. from Bolivia to get away from the revolutions and adversity when Janet was only 12. During her last year of college she met her first husband and they went on to have 3 children. Unfortunately, when her boys were 3, 5, and 7, Janet’s eyesight began to worsen until she was left totally blind. Despite this and many other challenges she faced, Janet was able to find solace in God’s word.

She decided that although she had blindness, blindness didn’t have her. She focused on taking care of her boys and moving forward. This led her to become a Spanish/English interpreter, and her tenacity led her to rise the ranks and become a trainer of interpreters. 

Now, she is a best-selling author and motivational speaker.

"The Secret is Gratitude" - Janet Perez Eckles

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I spoke with Natasha Falconi this week on the Women Influencers podcast. She is a Real Estate Investor focused on value-add multi-family properties who loves revitalizing neighborhoods by improving under-performing assets.

We discussed her upbringing as a 1st generation American born to Cuban parents, and how this influenced her to pursue accounting. Natasha worked at a Big 6 accounting firm, ending up in the Real Estate Tax department. After switching to a comptroller position at a client’s business, Natasha worked up the ranks to President of the company over 16 years. Then, she decided to start her own company in 2019. She didn’t worry about how COVID affected her new business, she just focused on finding the opportunities that arise in every market.

Natasha and I spoke about how sharing your story can give others courage, how investing in Real Estate is possible for anyone, and how I got started investing in Real Estate.

"Invest in Real Estate" - Natasha Falconi

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This week on Women Influencers, I spoke with Kortney Ross. She is a business consultant and podcaster who helps leaders support working parents so that they can create workplace cultures that attract and retain the best people.

We discussed how she grew up with young parents in a tight knit family, and became the first college graduate of that family. Her whole life she wanted to be a teacher, and that is a goal she achieved. She taught music in Nashville to children of all age groups ranging from Pre-K to High School. Her career began to change when she had her son only 2 weeks before the COVID Pandemic lockdowns began. As you can imagine, adjusting to life as a new parent and teaching in a newly remote environment was a challenge.

Eventually, Kortney found that although teaching had been a goal and a joy for so long, it came to the point that it wasn’t working for her and her family any more. She had to be brave and make a change. 

We spoke about bravery, influence, and DEI.

"Be Brave" - Kortney Ross

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This week on Women Influencers, I spoke with Rubi Zetino. She is the Founder and CEO of Charizma Co., which helps industry leaders build and sustain a recognizable and undeniable brand presence.

We discussed her upbringing as one of seven children under the care of her single mother. Rubi credits her upbringing and the example her mother set for giving her the grit and tenacity she needed to become successful.

Rubi picked up working as a wedding photographer in order to leave her 9-5 job and spend more time with her son. Eventually, after some hardship, Rubi had to make a decision, either she was going to give up her hobby, or she was going to dive into the world of entrepreneurship. I think she made the right choice.

We spoke about influence, mindset, and the importance of not separating your personal and business lives too much.

"Stay True to Yourself" - Rubi Zetino

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This week on Women Influencers, I spoke with Denise Berry. She owns and manages Luciano Equity and Co-founded Medical Industries of the Americas after having served a 400 day deployment to Iraq as a U.S. Army Combat Medic.

We discussed the challenges she faced in her childhood and early adulthood, having been raised in the mountains of Santa Cruz, California with her brother by their Father who is disabled. When things got tough, and they did, Denise remembered the recurring dreams she had of a future where she gave public speeches and helped people in different countries.

After her deployment, Denise took the opportunity provided to her by the G.I. Bill to complete her college education, earning her Bachelor’s and her Master’s degrees at California State University. She never felt she really fit in at any of the various jobs she tried, and after a boss refused her request to leave work to care for her sick sister, she decided she would make it her mission to never have a job again and quit on the spot. As Denise said, some people are just meant to be Entrepreneurs. 

We spoke about challenges, influence, and Denise shared some great advice from Mother Theresa.

"Don't Compare Yourself to Others" - Denise Berry

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This week on Women Influencers, we compiled three of the great questions my guests have asked me. I am honored to have the opportunity to chat with amazing, influential women on the podcast and iit is always an honor to consider and respond to insightful inquiries.

Marissa Limsiaco asked me about my motivation to break into a new industry.

Renee Savage, CPM, CCIM asked what advice I would give to women in their early careers, and if it would be different for women in their mid to late careers.

Sarah Ware asked what could be done to change the face of commercial real estate.

Watch to find out how I answered!

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This week on Women Influencers, I spoke with Monica Cataluña Shand. She opened her own company, KoRes, in 2007 and serves as Broker and Developer. She is also the President-Elect (‘24-’25) of CCIM in the Fort Lauderdale/Broward district.

We discussed how she was born and raised in Puerto Rico and how, around the time Monica was graduating High School, her mom told her that the family was moving to the United States. After the move to Coral Springs, she racked up the family’s long distance phone bill keeping up with her friends and feeling homesick. At the time it didn’t seem like it, but now she knows the move was the best thing for her.

Monica attended FAU studying Business and Marketing in her undergrad and earning her MBA. After college, she worked a few corporate jobs and did a bit of residential Real Estate on the side until deciding to open her own brokerage. A few years into doing residential Real Estate full time, Monica realized it was not her forte and switched over to commercial.

We spoke about challenges, regrets, and Monica shared some advice for those in CRE.

"Prospect, Use a CRM & Seek Help" - Monica Cataluña Shand, CCIM

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This week on Women Influencers, I spoke with Allison Weiss, who built a successful CRE recruiting company from scratch and lives, works, and travels the U.S. from her camper.

We discussed her upbringing in a military family, which meant she lived in 13 different places by the time she was 15! After moving from Wisconsin to California in order to relocate for a job that required travel, Allison found herself out of sorts - even showing up to work with mismatched shoes. This led her to switch to legal recruiting, and then finally she transitioned her career to CRE Recruiting after receiving a promising message on LinkedIn. She has now been in the business for 10 years.

We discussed her decision to move into a camper, special moments throughout her career, and we both gave a piece of advice.

“H.O.P.E. - Help One Person Everyday” - Allison Weiss

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