Join Jean as she chats with Nada Ali Musleh about dealing with grief after sudden or any type of loss. Nada will share her personal story and how it impacted her to create this thriving business helping others through grief.
She also offers group coaching for in several different areas!
About Nada… Nada is an Arab America mom of 2 incredible children, wife, former educator, and stay at home mom.
Nada is a former elementary educator and stay at home mom turned Wellness and Resilience Coach after her father passed away suddenly two years ago. He was the light filled with wisdom for her family and community. Every persons go to guy!! It was her duty to continue his legacy to motivate others as they push through knowing there is always a way as light awaits at the end of the outcomes they set up.
She took her tragedy of loss and grief experience to help others cope with vulnerable traumas.
Nada says, “There is life of a new normal after a sudden loss. We are capable of change while planting that seed to create the new reality of success”.
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Have you gone through a recent divorce or break up, & are having a difficult time moving on? Well, you are not alone.
Join Jean & Paula as they share their personal journeys through divorce, overcoming them, and how they’ve taken those potential stumbling blocks in life and have grown.
You can be all that you want to be, you may just need a bit of help getting there, and Paula can for sure be that help. With her sensitive and understanding nature, she will help guide you down a path to find happiness & fulfillment in your life… after divorce or a breakup.
Paula published her book, “What are you Waiting For? Today’s the Best Day to Start Living! What Are You Waiting For? was written to activate your mind, body, self-talk, and resilience. This, Paula Lesso’s first book, tells stories about a personal and professional journey to a period of awakening. She shares pain, difficulty, and a time of creativity and understanding how personal resilience makes the difference between extreme success and extreme failure. And throughout, the book offers life lessons to encourage change.
\Join Jean each week as she chats it up about gardening, cooking, organizational tips & tricks, chatting about healthy lifestyles, and of course having conversations with incredible entrepreneurs!
About Paula…
No matter what, divorce stinks! Knowing how to assess the need for or navigate divorce gracefully is not something we inherently understand.
Seemingly overnight what has been comfortable can become unbearable. Where is the passion? Where is the communication? What happened? Where did it go? When did it go?
Paula was “comfortable” in her marriage for many years, and then it all changed in a blink of an eye. She took her situation and embarked upon a personal journey to find new comfort and started living her best life. She now encourages other women to do the same.
Whether it is a Go or No-Go scenario, in the throws of a divorce, or post divorce, Paula helps women find harmony, movement, and joy each and everyday.
Paula leads an active lifestyle that includes Running CrossFit, Triathlons, Ballroom dancing, watching Sports (or playing them), and oddly enough she is a Foodie!
Join Jean as she talks to Deondra Parks, President & CEO for The RFC Group.
Deondra has quite a story to tell! Listen as she shares her journey from being an abused, homeless, single mother to championing her own company to help others. Deondra tells her story with passion, as she inspires all listening on how you too can create stepping stones out of stumbling blocks!
You can be a part of this conversation, just watch on YouTube here!
“The RFC Group is a recruitment center whose core focus is to ensure talent is placed into long-term positions. Amidst placement, we endeavor to minimize any barriers or blockades the candidates may be experiencing, put a plan of action in place and help present before our clients a better version of the talent. We recognize through past personal experience; individuals cannot give 100 percent of themselves if they are operating on 90 percent hardship.”
-Deondra Parks, President & CEO of The RFC Group LLC
“Individuals in work cannot give one hundred percent in any role if they are operating out of ninety
percent hardship.”
About Deondra Parks
As president and CEO of The RFC Group, excellent outsourcing is what Deondra Parks delivers best. Deondra Parks has serviced many of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the capacity of executive administrative support. With thirty plus years of experience, her extensive knowledge and hands-on experience are fundamental in outsourcing exceptional support personnel and resources. A proud native of Detroit, Michigan, Deondra developed a strong interest in clerical office support during her adolescent years. She has been successful to rebuild her first love of staffing and has now become an excellent staffing resource in the community.
Deondra is a certified MBE of the National Minority Supplier Development Council a certified woman-owned business through Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), as well as a member of the National Entrepreneurs Association (NEA), and National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Ms. Parks is a graduate of the TUCK Executive Education program at Dartmouth. She is also active within her community as an Ambassador for the Southfield Area Chamber of Commerce (SACC), a member of the Detroit Regional Chamber (DRC). She sits as member for the South-Oakland YMCA Board of Directors, and The American Society of Administrative Professionals (ASAP). Outside of work, Deondra is a loving, dedicated mother of four adult children: Ti’Ane, Justyn, Madison, and Juanita. Her life’s journey instilled within her a love for community, servitude, and stewardship. “When The Lights Came On” is a book written and authored by Deondra Parks, which details her personal journey from homelessness to Entrepreneurship.
Join Jean each week as she chats it up about gardening, cooking, organizational tips & tricks, chatting about healthy lifestyles, and of course having conversations with incredible entrepreneurs!
Are you a female owned business? Are you a woman who is wondering how to start a business? Do you have a product or service that you just don’t know how to take from a concept to reality?
Well if you answered yes to any of these questions, then you don’t want to miss today’s episode, or any of the others during the month of August!
The Great Lakes WBC is an incredible organization! Their team of experts will help guide you down the incredible entrepreneurial journey into success. With the many certifications they offer, as well as help connect you with, you will build brand awareness and credibility.
About the Great Lakes Women’s Business Council Great Lakes Women’s Business Council (Great Lakes WBC) is a nonprofit champion for women and minority business owners. We provide access to capital, corporate procurement opportunities, certification for women-owned business enterprises, and small business educational support. We represent more than 1,400 Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) certified women’s business enterprises generating approximately $8.6 billion in annual revenue and employing 48,000 U.S. workers as well as 90+ corporate partners in a diverse range of industry sectors. We provided $8 million in loans to small business owners who created 1,800 jobs. Through the Michigan Women’s Marketplace and in-person sessions, we have trained more than 15,000 business owners and entrepreneurs.
About Veronica… Veronica Johnson is the Director of Certification for the Great Lakes Women’s Business Council. She came to the organization in 2007 and began as a Certification Assistant. Since then, Great Lakes WBC has seen an increase of over 800 certified women owned businesses. There are currently 1,450 certified women business enterprises representing $ 12.3 billion in annual revenue and 48,500 U.S. workers. Veronica is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the certification process, program growth and staff, along with managing certification review committee meetings and representing Great Lakes WBC in the community.
Are you a small business owner, or someone who is thinking about starting up a new business? Well then you NEED to listen to this!
Today Jean will chat it up with Laketa Johnson, District Director for Michigan District Office on the programs and resources available for FREE to anyone who is interested in starting a new business, as well as current business owners looking for that edge to take their business to the next level. This is NOT just for Michigan residents! The SBA is a national government organization who is there to help United States business owners start, grow, & develop their business.
From lending strategies to personal one on one coaching, The SBA is there for YOU~ Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn more!
Laketa Henderson, Deputy District Director has been with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for nine years. During her tenure with the SBA, she has worked in the Washington Metropolitan District Office (WMADO), the Alabama District Office as a Business Opportunity Specialist (BOS) and as a Supervisory BOS. Prior to joining the Michigan District Office (MDO), she was the Deputy District Director at the San Antonio District Office. Currently, at the Michigan District Office, as the Deputy Director she is an executive leader, responsible for the operations of the MDO. She provides effective leadership, management and oversight required to optimize the deployment of SBA programs and services. She manages a team that counsels and provides resources to small businesses to help facilitate their development and growth in the 8(a) Business Development Program. She collaborates with the public and private sector agencies, organizations, and individuals to ensure that identified underserved communities have knowledge of and access to SBA and other federal, state, and community programs and resources that support entrepreneurs and small business owners. Just prior to joining the SBA, Ms. Henderson was a Marketing Director and Community Relations Manager in the Medical field in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area. In those roles she created marketing strategies and campaigns to aid in determining customers and to target markets; she managed marketing technologies, resources and tools to fulfill those needs. She organized and managed events to boost brand awareness which resulted in an increase in sales. Ms. Henderson began her private sector career in the automotive industry with General Motors at the Cadillac Assembly Center in Detroit, Michigan, where she was selected to attend the North American Operations Process Engineering program. She became the first non-Engineer at the Cadillac Assembly center to be selected to such a position. She then went on to work with Toyota Motors Manufacturing in Princeton, Indiana (TMMI) and was a part of the team that launched the East Plant where the tundra and sienna were built. She was also a part of the team that launched the first Greenfield North American operations plant for Hyundai Motors Manufacturing (HMMA) in Montgomery, Alabama in 2003. Ms. Henderson is a Detroit Native and a Wayne State University graduate, who holds a bachelor’s degree in public affairs and a master’s in business administration; she is also an Army Veteran who served abroad and stateside.
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“SBA works to ignite change and spark action so small businesses can confidently start, grow, expand, or recover.
Created in 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to help small business owners and entrepreneurs pursue the American dream. SBA is the only cabinet-level federal agency fully dedicated to small business and provides counseling, capital, and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.”
Join Jean as she chats it up with Christa Graham, Owner of Christa Graham Wedding’s and Events.
As many of you know, Jean was in event management for over 20 years, so this is a super fun conversation. Christa shares her unique style of creating one-of-a-kind weddings and events for her clients. If you are looking for a planner who thinks out of the box, and isn’t going to create another cookie cutter wedding or event, than Christa is your gal!
Tune in to hear how Christa & her team can make your special day the most wonderful day ever!
Christa Graham is a wedding planner in the Detroit area who specializes in planning weddings for unconventional couples. Every couple should have the most important parts of themselves and their relationship infused throughout their wedding. We work with clients who are non-traditional and a little eccentric. They are Detroit natives, dog lovers, tattoo wearers, gamers, queer folks, tarot card readers, plus-size individuals, or self-proclaimed nerds. Or, all of the above. We understand how hard it is to find wedding professionals who know how to meet the needs of clients like these.
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Eva coaches sensitive high achievers to embrace their unique gifts so they can have the impact, freedom and success they desire. She has a master’s degree in somatic psychotherapy as well as life coach certification, and works with sensitive leaders across a wide variety of industries, including Fortune 500 companies, universities, hospitals and startups. She brings a mix of playfulness, deep listening and strategic thinking to her work, and helps sensitive high achievers turn their sensitivity into a superpower.
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BUT—your life feels dry and flat. You want to feel lit up and inspired by your work and relationships. You don’t know how to bridge the gap between your black-and-white reality and the Technicolor version you know is possible…
That’s where I come in.
I can help you flesh out the vision for your ideal life and create the structure and support you need to make it a reality.
Ready to take the next step?
I am currently offering complimentary introductory sessions for new clients!
I offer a complimentary first session for people who are interested in working together, so they can get a taste of what it’s like to work with me by talking through somewhere they’re feeling stuck, or a dream they have for their life. By the end of that session I have a road map for how I would want to work together, which generally involves a practical strategic component and an emotional component.
Clients who are interested in their classes will have a variety of options and paces they could join in at their own desire or inquiry. Classes that are good for beginners and led at an accessible pace as well as relaxing, in addition offering classes that are challenging and active.
Everyone at their own pace and intuitive wisdom are welcome to join and connect with their own inner sage.
Leadership & Executive Coaching
You’ve worked so hard to get where you are.
You put in so much time and effort and HUSTLED to be successful and that dream has come true—but you’re not happy. You thought your success would bring fulfillment, but instead you find yourself going through the motions, feeling drained. Your life is barreling ahead at full speed and you’re wondering where that leaves you…
You’re at the top of your game professionally…but despite all the effort you’ve put in, you still haven’t cracked the relationship code…and sometimes you wonder if there’s something wrong with you.
I work with ambitious, creative, successful people who’ve done all the ‘right’ things to put themselves out there, but they’ve been missing the secret sauce that makes it all work–vulnerability.
In order to have satisfying relationships, you have to be willing to be vulnerable.
I recently participated in an Ultimate Blog Challenge. What this entails is crafting a blog post everyday for a month. I participated in this challenge several years ago, and was excited to see the opportunity present itself again.
I will admit… I had ulterior motives. I was hoping to meet some incredible entrepreneurs and bloggers to possibly invite to be a guest on this podcast. I wasn’t disappointed. I met a couple incredible ladies, and today’s guest is one of them.
Please let me introduce Lisa Carmichael. Lisa is a published author, entrepreneur, and marketing professional who lives in Minnesota. She is the owner and creator of EPIK Mastermind.
Click this LINK to listen as Lisa & I chat it up about how you can make your dream of business ownership a reality!
Here’s what Lisa has to say about her concept of the 3 M’s of Successful Entrepreneurs are & how they can incorporate them to have a successful business:
“As female entrepreneurs, we need to evolve. We need to embrace change. One thing that’s consistent for us as entrepreneurs, is change. So let’s embrace that. Initially, when I came up with the three M’s. They represented Mentorship, Mindset, and Masterminds. Because that’s my story. I learned about Mindset through a mentor and a result I created EPIK Mastermind. Now, I’ve evolved the 3 M’s into Mindset, Marketing, and Money.” Lisa Carmichael
Join Jean as she chats it up with Dawn Green, Horticulturist & Owner of Dawn Gardens, LLC.
Dawn & Jean are definitely kindred spirts as they both love anything involved with being in the dirt! Today they will discuss what they are both doing in their personal gardens, as well as professional.
About Dawn…
Dawn Green is a lifelong Michigander, minus a short stay in Alabama while she served in the Army. She grew up in the U.P. with Lake Superior and Tahquamenon Falls as her playgrounds. Growing up in a family of hunters, fishermen, and gardeners she learned quickly the grocery store was not the only source of food. She leaves the hunting and fishing to other family members, but gardening has always been her passion. She often says I says she not only has a green thumb, but is “green through and through”. She is the mother of two amazing young women and grandmother of 3 adorable grandchildren. She moved to Oakland County shortly after leaving the Army and has been here ever since.
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Join Jean each week as she chats it up about gardening, cooking, organizational tips & tricks, chatting about healthy lifestyles, and of course having conversations with incredible entrepreneurs!
Join Jean as she chats it up with Amanda Shreve, Executive Director for the Michigan Farmers Market Association.
During the month of May Jean will be focusing on local food and how to source it, along with talking to professionals in the industry who fight the good fight advocating for fair food. Jean couldn’t think of a better organization to include than MIFMA~ Michigan Farmers Market Association and its wonderful Director, Amanda Shreve!
Amanda has been part of the MIFMA team since November 2009. She says, “I am passionate about connecting the public with agriculture and growing awareness of what it takes to produce our food supply in a safe, equitable and environmentally sustainable way. I recognize that farmers markets are a very visible and tangible way to establish, maintain and grow this connection.”
Amanda obtained her Bachelor of Science in Horticulture from Michigan State University. She enjoys floral design, gardening, and spending time with her husband and two dogs.
Mission: MIFMA places equity at the forefront of supporting the viability of community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect ALL consumers to local farms and businesses.
Vision: MIFMA places farmers markets at the forefront of the local food movement and works to ensure all residents have access to healthy, locally grown food and that Michigan farmers markets receive policy support.”
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