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Wonder Woman in Business, Meg Miller

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Meg Miller

In today’s world, busy has become a badge of honor. We are hyper connected through our screens. Hard to navigate buzz words of burnout & self-care flying at us. We feel exhausted, always on, craving more & unsure where to start. The intention of this movement is built on the power of connection, of community, of real-life conversations mask down & human first, leaving together with science backed microsteps on how to start living, not just existing & sharing in bite size nuggets what it took me 7 years of hard long work to uncover.

Megan Miller is an International Best-Selling Author, TedX Speaker, Intentional Living Expert, & host of Attention to Intention podcast. Megan is dedicated to offering high performing go-getting professionals simple, daily micro-steps for putting attention to intention so they can stop sleepwalking through life and start living with inspiration and fulfillment.

Connect with Meg

o   Website: https://www.megan-miller.com/

o   Instagram: @megan.b.miller

o   LinkedIn: meganmillerintention

o   Free 4 Question Download: MicrostepJournal.com

o   Book: https://www.megan-miller.com/the-book/p/voicesofthe21stcentury

o   TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wJHAnlqzc

Wonder Woman in Business, Caren McVicker

Caren McVicker

Born in Oklahoma, Caren lives in Vermont with her hubby, a rescue pup, and a barn cat turned happy house kitty. Caren is also a mom to two incredible humans and is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. Henderson House is her first novel. 

Caren’s career spans more than three decades as a communications professional with experience in public relations, technical writing, and social media consulting. Caren’s past clients include Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Frito-Lay, and Nabisco. Since moving to Vermont in 2014, she has consulted for The Artist Book Foundation, Southern Vermont Arts Center, and The Vermont Association of Realtors. Caren is an active member of her local community theater, The Dorset Players, with recent roles including Aunt Eller in Oklahoma and Ethel Banks in Barefoot in the Park . She is a member of The Dorset Church choir and serves as Vice Chair of Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s Foundation Board. When she is not writing, you can find her in the kitchen, in the garden, or out enjoying the beauty of Vermont with her rescue dog, June Bug. 

In her own words

Welcome to Act Three: My husband and I often talk about life having three acts. Act One opened at birth and ran into our early careers. Act Two opened not so much when we got married, but when we had children. Now, the curtain is rising on my Act Three. At fifty-seven, I am a debut novelist. And it started when my father was dying. I traveled from Vermont to Florida as often as I could while my dad was ill. During a November 2017 visit, we reminisced about our Memorial Day trips to Oklahoma. We would fly to Tulsa, pick up my grandma, drive to Bartlesville, pick up my Great Aunt Boo Boo, and head to the cemetery in Claremore. As a teenager, I was fascinated by these tiny, ancient sisters tottering around the headstones, arguing about what color plastic flowers to place on each grave. Both were born in Indian Territory in the late 1890s. One lost her husband early. The other was an old maid in her forties, living in a boarding house when she fell in love. They were as close and as different as only sisters can be. Reliving these visits with my father reawakened the inner voice of teenage me saying, “You should write about them.” On my way home that November, I got stuck at the Atlanta Airport. Settling in for a three-hour delay, I took out my laptop and began writing what would become the breakfast scene in Henderson House. I hadn’t written fiction since college. I gave up my dream of being a novelist when I was nineteen, taking the safe, steady-paycheck route, and changing my major to Public Relations. But that’s the beauty of Act Three; you don’t have to choose the well-lit path anymore. Act Three frees you to do something scary and unexpected, like writing a novel set in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Now, I have the honor of sharing this story with you and the privilege of writing the next story and the next. The curtain is up. My Act Three is underway. What will you do with yours? 

Enjoy the podcast.

Caren McVicker

Connect with Caren:

Henderson House a novel by Caren Simpson McVicker

me@carenmcvicker.com | 802-379-8921

carenmcvicker.com | Insta @carenwrites | FB @carensimpsonmcvickerwriter

Genres: Historical Fiction/General, Romance/Historical Fiction/American, Fiction/Family Life/Siblings Themes: Later-in-Life Romance, Sisters, Women’s Friendship

Publisher: Inkshares

Publishing Date: August 1, 2023

ISBN: 9781950301553

Contact: Noah Broyles, Deputy Publishing Director, noah@inkshares.com , 856-282-9736 

Henderson House

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"Like a love song to my Oklahoma roots. Henderson House offers a sweet window into a past when lives and loves moved to the gentle rhythm of small-town cafes, front porch swings, and old two-lane highways."

— Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours

An enchanting boardinghouse tale of sisters, secrets, and later-in-life romance,Henderson Houseinvites you to pull up a rocking chair and lose yourself in the heartaches and hopes of 1940s Oklahoma.

In May 1941, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, hums with talk of spring flowers, fishing derbies, and the growing war in Europe. And for the Blackwell sisters, who reside in a quiet neighborhood boarding house, the winds of change are blowing.

Bessie Blackwell, copy room manager at Phillips Petroleum and faithful churchgoer, is the reluctant owner of a new pair of glasses. The young women in the office swear by Bessie's romantic advice, despite the fact she's a self-proclaimed spinster. Frank Davis, Henderson House’s newest tenant, throws that status into question with his gentle eyes and ready smile. But the scar on his forehead and rumors of divorce speak of a troubled past.

Bessie’s sister, Florence, a sales assistant at the men's clothing store downtown, knows all about troubled pasts. Her husband is dead, and it’s only with her sister's help that she’s able to raise Johnny. Life at Henderson House is luxurious compared to growing up in Cherokee Indian Territory, but Florence wants more for her boy than a rented room. When the flagship store in Tulsa offers her a management position, Florence sets her sights on the future and keeping the family together. And neither future nor family includes Frank Davis.

Mrs. Henderson, the landlady, cook, and adopted matriarch of the Blackwell clan, possesses an uncanny intuition about all her boarders. She knows true love when she sees it. But soon even her vision becomes clouded as Florence schemes to undermine her sister’s budding romance. In a desperate attempt to keep Bessie by her side, Florence exposes the sisters' darkest secret. A secret that will change their lives, and the lives of those they love, forever.


Wonder Woman in Business, Anne Gallagher

Anne Gallagher

Anne Gallagher is a Chicago-based writer, actor and communications professional. Anne is the executive director of the Luxury Law Alliance and a member of the editorial team for The Global Legal Post. She has spent her 30+ year career consulting, writing, training and creating strategy for business and legal organizations and professionals. As an actor, she has appeared in film and commercials and recently narrated the audio book Her Name Shall Remain Unforgotten, the story of a holocaust survivor whose mother was murdered at Auschwitz.

She recently completed the manuscript for her debut book, Two Weeks to $10 Million: A Memoir of Financial Infidelity, Fraud and Redemption (working title), which tells the story of how her marriage to a charismatic con man devolved into a true crime story rife with forged loans, mob hits and federal indictments and a criminal trial. “It’s important to tell our true stories,” she says. “No matter what has happened, we must move forward. Every life has meaningful pain and it can open us up to new understandings, opportunities and great new chapters in our lives.”

When she’s not working on her next book, Anne spends time with her two adult children and is an avid tennis player.

Connect with Anne:

Visit www.annegallagher.com for more information.

Enjoy the podcast.

Anne Gallagher

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Wonder Women in Business, Amanda Scott

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Amanda Scott

At Willis Towers Watson, Amanda Scott is the Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Leader based in London. She leads a global team that helps clients evaluate and address the critical people-related issues, assets, liabilities, risks and opportunities surrounding corporate transactions. She inspires people to think differently about the future as they implement large-scale organizational change to drive innovation, diversity, and positive growth.

She is also the CEO/Founder of Mike’s Mates, a mental health charity in the UK. Additionally, Amanda is a Board Member for Global Women 4 Wellbeing (GW4W) and the Viviana Durante Ballet Company; remuneration committee member for Pensions Management Institute (PMI), and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion council member at Bayes Business School.

She regularly publishes industry thought leadership, provides commentary to the UK press and social media, and is an active public speaker. She has also received awards for Excellence in Leadership from Consulting Magazine; Corporate Leader of the Year by National Business Women’s Awards; HERoes for Inclusion and Diversity by Yahoo Finance; and was awarded as one of the UK 50 Leading Lights for Leadership & Kindness from Women of the Future.

Amanda graduated with an MBA in Management & Organization, and Finance from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. There she was the 2007 President and 2006 Vice President of Finance of the Board of Directors for the Part-Time MBA Association. Additionally, she holds a BA in Natural Sciences from Johns Hopkins University.

Enjoy the podcast.

Amanda Scott

Connect with Amanda

Email

Amanda.Scott@WTWCo.com

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/amandabscott

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Wonder Woman in Business, Michelle Banks

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Michelle Banks, Esq.

MICHELLE BANKS is a Senior Advisor at BarkerGilmore specializing in providing executive coaching to corporate general counsel. She also leads law department strategic retreats and professional development workshops. Michelle is co-founder of UCLA Law Women LEAD, a network of more than 3,000 women law students and alumnae at her alma mater, where she also guest teaches annually in the professional development program. Before joining Gap Inc. in 1999, Michelle worked as legal counsel for the Golden State Warriors NBA team and in Tokyo as American counsel for Itochu Corporation. Her prior law firm practice with Sheppard Mullin and Morrison & Foerster in California and New York focused on corporate finance and international commercial transactions.

Enjoy the podcast.

Michelle Banks, Esq.

Connect with Michelle

LinkedIn:

in/michelle-banks-a462087

Women in Law: Discovering the True Meaning of Success Edited by Tatia Gordon-Troy Foreword by Heidi K. Brown Introduction by Angela Han Copyright 2022 Women Lawyers Book LLC Publisher: Ramses House Publishing LLC Find it on Amazon Amazon ASIN: B09SYHGZ24 ISBN: 979-8985565300 (paperback) Paperback: $21.95; Kindle: $17.95

Wonder Woman in Business, LB Adams

LB Adams

LB Adams is an award winning TEDx Speaker and Emcee, and the CEO of Practical Dramatics. It’s her quest & vocation to awaken women to the strategic power of what their voice can accomplish. Through deliberate language, positive word choices and all-around killer communication skills, LB works to help women step into their confidence and achieve the life and relationships they desire. During her multi-pathed career, LB has been an actor, corporate executive, director/producer, and, yes, even a shark-diving scuba instructor. She recently released her debut book, The Irreverent Guide to Spectacular Communication (available in paperback, ebook & audiobook) to rave reviews. You can see LB’s popular Zoom-based interview show, Snack-Sized Business - 1 show, 2 people, 3 questions, 4 minutes, each week by subscribing to Practical Dramatics’ YouTube channel. She is a transplanted New Yorker soaking up the sun outside of Charleston, SC and lives with her husband, daughter and Golden Retriever.

The Irreverent Guide to Spectacular Communication: Take Charge of Your Words and Craft a Greater Life

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CONNECT with LB

LB Adams, CEO  

Practical Dramatics

843.771.0753

www.practicaldramatics.com

lbadams@practicaldramatics.com

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