Wonder Woman in Business, Geneviève Pépin

Geneviève Pépin

Wellness through comedy & play

Geneviève Pépin is an accredited life coach (IAPC&M), certified mindset specialist, productivity and leadership development coach (Fortune 500 companies), improv facilitator, and podcast host. She is passionate about helping high achievers go from busy & stressed to happy & productive, as a result of her own journey in the professional world.

Before coaching, Geneviève built her career internationally in event management and marketing, living, working, and traveling in more than 20 countries, in four different languages.

Connect with her on LinkedIn! Or learn more here www.nettolacoaching.com.

Stop boring your team with bland wellbeing tricks. 🛑 It doesn't work. And the problem is: a stressed workforce is costing you BIG dollar$. Since the pandemic started, we are facing unprecedented levels of depression (up 53%), and anxiety (up 55%) in the workforce (Oracle).

In fact, $300 Billion is lost by US businesses each year as a result of workplace stress. Plus, 86% of employees and executives cite a lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for workplace failures (Salesforce).

And YET, the market is flooded with training on “stress management” and “work performance”, the vast majority of which are bland, boring and cite basic tips and strategies that can be found on Google in 10 seconds or less.

The problem with these types of solutions is that they are just like infomercials – they make sense in the moment, but most people forget and never take action once the show is over.

That is why Geneviève created Joy Not Stress.

👉Let’s take wellness, mental health, and healthy performance from theory to practice.👈 And have a laugh in the process. 😂

Enjoy the podcast.

Geneviève Pépin

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Wonder Woman in Business, Jan Anne Dubin

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Jan Anne Dubin

A legal industry pioneer, Jan Anne Dubin is CEO and Founder of Jan Anne Dubin Consulting.  Jan is an award-winning consultant with over 35 years of experience leading, innovating, and serving as a change agent and connector. 

Celebrating more than 10 years of delivering value and results to more, JADC assists organizations and individuals to better serve client needs by focusing on developing long-term relationships, strategic communications, revenue generation and by building brand, profile, and visibility.  Jan serves as an executive coach, providing strategic guidance and counsel to organizations and individuals by assisting them to achieve breakthroughs.  Jan has coached hundreds of lawyers, law students, and marketing professionals, including corporate law department and law firm leadership as well as high-potential individuals.  Jan is a career-long champion of diversity and inclusion and is passionate about her work in this area.

She serves as a strategic business partner to the Association of Corporate Counsel and has worked with ACC to create an executive coaching program and career development workshops.  She is a partner to Seyfarth Shaw’s The Belonging Project having created a three-part series for them on Empowered Resilience: Tools for Thriving in 2021.  She is also an advisor and business partner to the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and provided instrumental assistance to create and deliver its forum on Women’s Transformative Leadership: Empowerment by Improving Participation and Representation.

Jan served as the Chief Growth Officer of LifeXT, LLC (lifecrosstraining.com), where she was responsible for new client engagements by educating organizations on LifeXT’s wellbeing tools and resources.   Prior to starting JADC, she served as the first North American Business Development Director for Baker & McKenzie LLP and as the Director of Client Relations for DLA Piper US LLP and its legacy firms, where she held various senior management and leadership roles for more than 17 years.

Selected by StreetWise, Inc., as one of 20 recipients of its 2019 Inspiring Chicagoan award, Jan was also selected by Chicago Business Journal as one of its 2018 Women of Influence.  Jan was inducted in 2017 as a Fellow into the College of Law Practice Management (COLPM) and in 2016 into the Legal Marketing Association Midwest Chapter’s Hall of Fame.  She has been recognized by Today’s Chicago Woman magazine as one of 100 Women Making a Difference and has received the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award.

In 1994 Jan was recruited by former First Lady Michelle Obama (then executive director of Public Allies Chicago) to join its board of directors; Jan later became its board chair and today serves on the emeritus board.  In 2020, Jan was recruited to serve on the i.c. Stars Chicago board and has been active in the Anti-Defamation League’s Women of Achievement annual dinner committee, having previously chaired the fundraising event for 27 years.

A 1994 M.B.A. graduate of The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, she holds a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism.  Jan lives in Chicago with her fiancé David Abrams and Shetland sheep dog Quinn.

Enjoy the podcast.

Jan Anne Dubin

Connect with Jan Anne

Jan Anne Dubin, MBA

CEO and Founder

312.399.3116

jan@janannedubinconsulting.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janannedubin

Twitter: @JanAnneDubin

Wonder Woman in Business, Sonja Elise Freeman

Sonja Elise Freeman

Sonja Elise Freeman, EMBA BA CTM; Inaugural Ms. WIBOP 2020; Miss WIBOP Photogenic 2020; and Women in Business Pageant

Resplendent, Compassionate, Inspiring, and Beautiful are some of the words often used to describe Sonja Elise Freeman, Inaugural Ms. WIBOP 2020 and Miss WIBOP Photogenic 2020, Women in Business Pageant system, who is driven by her faith in God, love for serving the community with her platform with the Diva’s Diamonds: Words to Inspire, Empower and Encourage Online Empowerment Movement by sharing her gift of encouragement on Anchor.fm and Instagram Live weekly. She is the Sole Proprietor of Divine Voices Media, a multimedia production, brand marketing strategy and entrepreneurial consulting firm. She is also a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway & Broadway Producer/Star of Strength of a Woman: A Phyllis Hyman Tribute of the only Phyllis Hyman tribute approved and supported by the Hyman Family, Friends and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and former Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray of the City of New York. 

She is a proud HBCU 2x time PVAMU Alumna and a PVAMU Alumni Affairs 5 Year Class Reunion Ambassador at Prairie View A&M University College of Arts & Sciences, a part of the Texas A&M University system, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance with a minor in Fashion Merchandising & Design in 1991. She is a recent MBA-Executive Magna Cum Laude with a 3.75 GPA/4.0 GPA scale graduate from Prairie View A&M University College of Business Class of 2021 where she was a member of Graduate Student Organization, Toastmasters International, and National Association of Black Journalists. She also earned a Doctorate in Divinity (Honoris Causa) in 2021 from the Omega Bible Institute and Seminary in  Monroe, Louisiana for 30 years of service as a Psalmist and Christian Multimedia Educator as a recording artist, radio personality, podcaster, publisher, and inspirational influencer. She completed a Women’s Entrepreneurship Certification from Cornell University/Bank of America Institute, WE NYC Kauffman FastTrac Powered by Grow with Google Entrepreneurship Program in New York City, Rice University Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies in Music Business & Law, Leadership Certificate Charter Class Inspire Women Leadership Institute at the Dallas Theological Seminary in Houston, Texas, Certificate of Achievement from Fashion Institute of Technology State University of New York Beauty Essentials and Bloomberg Market Concepts Certificate from Bloomberg LP.

She is competing in the Ultimate Queen WBLEP Pageant 2022 on June 16-19,2022 for the “Queen of Queens” Business Pageant within the Women Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs Pageant system and presently working with the Rhythm and Blues Preservation Society in Atlantic City, New Jersey as an Artist-in-Residence, VP and COO to get funding for recording a tribute album and documentary of her Phyllis Hyman tribute. She has a beautiful and talented 24-year-old daughter named Gabbie Gabs, an award-winning Toastmaster, Filmmaker, and Music Video Director. She is an alumna of University of Rochester with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Media Studies.

Enjoy the podcast.

Sonja Elise Freeman

Connect with Sonja Elise Freeman

Rev. Dr. Sonja Elise Freeman "Queen Diva"

Founder/Sole Proprietor

Divine Voices Media

Email: sef@divinevoicesmedia.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/divinevoicesmedia/

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Wonder Woman in Business, Cynthia McCollough

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Cynthia McCollough

Cyndy McCollough is the founder of McCollough Consulting, a digital marketing agency specifically focused on professional services organizations. On a project basis, Cyndy manages rebrands, leads website redesigns, produces corporate video, and offers soup-to-nuts martech strategy and implementation.

Cyndy's understanding of the importance of customer journeys and user experience was forged early in her career in enterprise software sales, and she spent the next 20 years applying these best practices in-house for law firms. Now she is a leading voice in the legal marketing industry, a prolific marketing technology blogger, and a member of University of Richmond’s Customer Experience (CX) Advisory Board.

Cyndy lives with her husband, pup, and cats in Great Falls, VA.

Enjoy the podcast.

Cynthia McCollough

A Couple of Cyndy’s Favorite Books

Bird by Bird

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author: An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come.

For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title:

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”

Buy the book

How We Fight for Our Lives

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper’s Bazaar; Elle; BuzzFeed; Goodreads; and many more.

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’”

Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another—and to one another—as we fight to become ourselves.

An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that’s as beautiful as it is powerful—a voice that’s by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. How We Fight for Our Lives is a one-of-a-kind memoir and a book that cements Saeed Jones as an essential writer for our time.

Buy the book

Connect with Cyndy

Blog: mccollough.consulting/digitalmarketingblog/

 Mobile: 202.569.1675

Email: cyndy@mccollough.consulting

Wonder Woman in Business, Lisa Shawver

Lisa Shawver

Lisa Shawver is an Entrepreneur, Author, and Empowerment Coach who loves to motivate and inspire women to transform their lives and achieve the health, wealth, relationships, love, and success that they deserve.

Lisa is a former Olympic athlete who now helps others achieve Olympic-level success through mentoring, mind skills coaching and motivational speaking. As a business owner, author, and dog mom of social media influencer and celebrity, One Up Max, Lisa lights the spark and fans the flame you've been holding within you.

Enjoy the podcast.

Lisa Shawver

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Wonder Woman in Business, Carrie Fabris

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Carrie Fabris

Carrie Fabris is known for her energetic force and passion that can fill a room instantly.  As a corporate citizen for 20+ years working for awesome brands like Google, Travelocity, Sabre, Travel Leaders Corporate, and some start-ups along the way, Carrie has learned from some of the best and most influential leaders while spending 14+ years in leadership herself.  From this, she shares her experiences combined with 6+ years of studies in psychology, self-improvement, coaching, and wellness that have helped her build her corporate coaching business, CareerFrame LLC.   Carrie is first and foremost, an influencer. She’s graciously assertive with getting things done and applies her  energetic knowledge plus certifications in CliftonStrengths®, Emotional Intelligence, and Situational Leadership® to help people and teams meet their professional and personal goals.  As Founder of CareerFrame, she uses this platform to reboot, realign and reform leaders and teams.  Born, raised, and residing in Dallas, Texas, Carrie is a mom of two spirited children and married to a Travel tech entrepreneur. Her family loves to travel and have fun. Carrie is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (Hook ‘Em!) with a Bachelors in Advertising, a twice-published author, and is passionate about helping others grow, personally and professionally. To learn more about Carrie, visit www.carriefabris.com

In this keeping-it-real memoir, certified leadership coach Carrie Fabris shares her journey through the ups, downs, and sloppy sideways of momming hard while finding the inner strength, courage, and determination to create the career she long craved.

Through hiring coaches and advisors, attending seminars with fire walks and ice baths, and doing a whole lot of looking in the mirror, Carrie embarked on a quest to juice up her life from the inside out. Her story demonstrates that stepping into a livelier, bolder, and more empowered version of yourself is not only possible – it’s essential.

Weaving relatable, working-mom truths with humor and the occasional F-bomb, ALL IN provides the incentive and the inspiration to juice up your own life because investing in yourself will always provide the highest return.

At the conclusion of ALL IN, working moms will have a new appreciation for the concept of putting on their own oxygen masks first. By choosing self-love as their number one imperative, they will tap into the energy and the desire to be fully present for everyone else, especially their kids. This book motivates women to take action; going ALL IN is hard, and the results are beyond rewarding.

Buy the Book

Enjoy the podcast.

Carrie Fabris

Connect with Carrie

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/in/cfabris-reframe-coaching-training

Email:

carrie@careerframe.com

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