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Vince Edwards has worked for Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, banking, and financial institutions. In 2006 he started his own consulting firm, Empire Builders.

As a business consultant, Vince has worked with companies from every industry and level. He has helped raise millions in capital for these companies. He has served as CEO, COO, CIO and CMO along the way for many of the companies he has helped. He recently graduated from the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program and led the first US based group to complete this rare distinction.

Empire Builders
https://www.ebuilders.us

Empire Builders Foundation
https://www.empirebuildersfoundation.org
Helping individuals from marginalized communities and disadvantaged areas with the dream of entrepreneurship start and become successful business owners. 

Kathie's note: Vince and I met in the late 1900s at a chamber of commerce event. He's a talker, I'm a talker, wouldn't you like to be a talker too?!? We've become business besties over the years, and started meeting at various local Starbucks once a month, then every three weeks, and then at some point said, fine, every Tuesday morning.

I've kept a running list of some of his quotes over the years. We discuss some of them in this episode. Hey, the list would make a good blog post (adding to to-do list).


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Sofia Hussein is  the founder and editor-in-chief of DINYA magazine. She is a creative powerhouse driven by her love for music, photography, and design. Raised in a multicultural family, Sofia's upbringing bestowed upon her a diverse set of influences that enriched her artistic perspective.

With a background in fashion and costume design, Sofia pursued her education in renowned institutions across Europe, including Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid, Spain. Along her journey, she cultivated her passion for photography, mastering both traditional film techniques and digital processes.

Having lived and worked in various countries such as the UK, Italy, and Spain, Sofia now calls Bulgaria home, drawing inspiration from her namesake city, Sofia. With DINYA magazine, she provides a platform that celebrates creativity and diversity, embodying her vision for a vibrant and inclusive artistic community. Through her writing, Sofia invites audiences into a world where music, photography, and culture intertwine, fostering a sense of connection and community among creatives everywhere.

www.dinya.eu/en
www.sofiafromsofia.com
Insta: @dinyamag / @sofiafromsofia
FB: @dinyamagazine / @sofiafromsofiadesign 

Kathie's note: I met Sofia in a breakout room during a CreativeMornings FieldTrip. The topic was goal setting and planning. Make that three breakouts, according to my notes that I liked to have never found—what with flipping through umpteen pages of this spiralbound notebook to find. Anyhoodles. Sofia (Sofi!) was delightful and I knew she needed to be on this podcast. So much talent, so many stories.


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Henry Chien is a writer bringing investing insights to empower individual investors.
 
A former equity research analyst, Henry has a decade of Wall Street knowledge. His work has been used by the world's largest trading desks and investment funds, including J.P. Morgan, Citadel, Credit Suisse, and Bank of Montreal.
 
Henry’s work has been featured in the Financial Times, Barron's, and Institutional Investor. He is a CFA charterholder and a graduate of Brown University.

https://www.henrychien.com

Henry Chien is the author of Better Investment Decisions: Guide to Fundamental Investing in the Stock Market, available on Amazon.

And he has a Stock Investor Accelerator course on his website so you can learn professional investor skills.


Kathie's note: Henry is a fellow Cavedweller at Caveday.org, where people around the world get our individual work done in the presence of others. He is super chill, and fun, and smart.

In this episode I take one  for the team, admitting I know nothing about stocks or investing or financial finances. I mean, we're talking "I know vegetable stock is actually a broth, not a stock" level of money acumen is where I land. I had so much fun interviewing Henry without the need to do a ton of research. I didn't have to put on airs (or hard pants, for that matter, thanks to Zoom).

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Hanna Wheeler is a Belgian Canadian living in Toronto, where she works as a copywriter and translator from Dutch into English. You can find her at her desk by the big window or in one of a dozen of her favorite coffee shops in the city (her favourite in Canada).

As a translator, she has worked on both fiction and nonfiction, from historical biographies and coffee table books to YA novels, children’s picture books, and graphic novels. She also translates creative marketing copy. As a writer, she loves working with not-for-profit organizations, innovative brands, and creative agencies.

On a personal level, Hanna appreciates a good ampersand, makes herself a vanilla latte every morning, and owns a scraggly dog who may or may not be a tiny werewolf. She loves the word flabbergasted and was able to sneak it into all three of the romance novels she translated last year.

 https://www.hannawheeler.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannawheeler

https://www.instagram.com/pepperunlimited

 
Kathie's note: Hanna is a fellow Cavedweller in my favorite productivity place, Caveday. She has a delightful personality! Love, love, love a good giggler. 


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Donna Ison is a playwright, award-winning performance poet, and the author of two novels, with a third on the way. She also produces activist theatre, including the upcoming "The Art of Audacious Aging." She currently serves as the managing editor for Eyes On Eyecare digital magazine. 

Kathie's note:  When did I meet Donna? Early aughts, I guess. At least 20 years ago. We meet for coffee as often as possible. Third Street Stuff and North Lime Coffee & Donuts are faves. 

In this episode, we share writing tips and processes: our thoughts on proofreading, editing, quote attribution, revisions, and fonts. I love shoptalk.

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Natalie Ferris is a marketing strategist, direct response copywriter and the founder of Story Strategies. She's been obsessed with storytelling since second grade, when she used to skip recess to hide in the classroom closet and write "novels."

It wasn't until her first years in the working world that she discovered the power of storytelling to move revenue; as communications officer for a global nonprofit, a single success story she wrote resulted in an 18-month extension to a program that was on the chopping block. 

Since 2014 she's applied that wisdom to help female entrepreneurs tell stories that attract attention, build relationships and ultimately, inspire sales. Natalie believes that everyone has a story to tell, they just need courage and clarity to put it out there— and that's where she comes in!

Natalie lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and her mischievous Havanese, Meeko. She still hasn't tried hot dish, but she loves going Up North.

https://storystrategies.com

Kathie's note: I met Natalie in a breakout room during a Caveday sprint. I'm kind of obsessed with Caveday and basically consider it my office. When Natalie introduced herself as a story marketing strategist, I popped up like a prairie dog and said, "Do what?!? Tell me everything." And I asked her on the podcast so you could hear it also.

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Carla King is an adventure travel author, journalist, blogger, speaker, and writing and publishing coach.

In 1995, Carla pioneered the art of the internet travelogue (now called blogs) with stories about breakdowns in small towns all around the USA from the saddle of a Russian Ural sidecar motorcycle. Other trips on unreliable indigenous motorcycles took her to India, China, Europe, Baja, and Morocco.

Carla is founder of the Destination Published author coaching service, Self-Publishing Boot Camp workshops and courses, the Author Friendly Podcast, and a post-covid Virtual Travel Writing Group.

She speaks widely about writing and publishing in the adventure travel and literary worlds, at events like Overland Expo and the SF Writer’s Conference. Carla wants to help you write and publish a great story!

www.carlaking.com
www.selfpubbootcamp.com

Kathie's note: Carla and I met in Jen Lehner's Front Row VIP.  This was probably in 2020? We Zoomed after a group Zoom one time and just talked and talked. Jen is super duper cool. Carla rides motorcycles, so she's cooler than cool. I like hanging around the cool kids.


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Lisa Van Hoever is a writer and the designer behind Local Color Branding. Through Local Color, Lisa accidentally fell into small-business marketing as well, which is where you’ll find her delving into the world of digital advertising, communications automation, content marketing, and the like. In her former life, she served as an executive assistant in the aerospace industry. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

She currently live in Asheville, North Carolina, with her family. She spends a considerable amount of time listening to podcasts, reading, rearranging furniture, exploring all things spiritual, and daydreaming about future travel.

You can find Lisa on IG @localcolorbranding or @lisavanhoever.
https://www.instagram.com/localcolorbranding/
https://www.instagram.com/lisavanhoever/

Lisa Van Hoever and Emma Scott host the podcast There Are No Tangents.

Kathie's note: Lisa and I were professional email colleagues for at least two years before we happened to talk on the phone one day and one of us accidentally blurted something about a new moon in Gemini or Mercury in Gatorade or some such, and we instantly clicked. "Wait, you like astrology?" Wait, YOU too? "What about human design?" Love it! "Enneagram and all the woo?" Yes, yes, and all the yeses.

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Amanda “Mandy” Ralston is a founder and CEO, award-winning entrepreneur, international thought-leader, and 25-year veteran practitioner and subject matter expert in behavior analysis and autism. She has been certified as a behavior analyst since 2002. During her career she has founded two clinics that provided applied behavior analysis services to hundreds of families, schools, and individuals with autism or other developmental or intellectual disabilities. She successfully exited to the fourth largest ABA provider group in 2019. 

Her latest venture is NonBinary Solutions, a data analytics and technology firm making Clinical Decision Support Systems for providers and other constituents of applied behavior analysis and neurodiversity.

Her behavior continues to be shaped by its impact on a world where autism exists, and the field of behavior analysis. Mandy was the recipient of the Autism Innovation Award at the Autism Investor Summit in 2023.

Kathie's note: I wrote an article about Mandy in Business Lexington magazine in early 2017. I can't remember how that assignment came about; maybe I met her through a chamber event and pitched the idea to the editor? Hmm... She's one of those people I feel as if I've known forever. And a fellow Libra.

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Jin Maley (they/them) is a classically trained actor who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2012.

Jin portrays the Communications Officer Ensign Kova Rin Esmar in Star Trek: Picard. Their other television credits include Silicon Valley, Shameless, As We See It, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Criminal Minds, and Bones. Their film credits include Bodied produced by Eminem and the viral music video for the song Happy by Mitski.

Their theater credits include the roles of Ratcliffe and Rivers in a reading series of Richard III with Al Pacino, and the role of Ariel in The Tempest at Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. As a member of the New York-based physical theater company Sinking Ship Productions, Jin co-created and starred in Cassandra, An Agony, an original piece commissioned by the Getty Villa.

Jin trained in acting at Oberlin College, the American Repertory Theater, and the Moscow Art Theater School.

Book a tarot reading with Jin! 

Kathie's note: I met Jin on (in?) Caveday, a pretty fabulous online coworking space. Jin is one of the facilitators, aka Cave Guide, whose energy and presence I just loved from the beginning. Also, I had a really fun tarot reading with them. Again with the presence, and being fully engaged.

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