Talks with Dom

Meet Marie Cohan in this episode with Dominique Ramirez! Marie is an absolute powerhouse in her field of IT with a passion for professional development and a career dedicated to making a difference. She was recently honored with the Outstanding Women in Texas Government Professional Development Award in 2024, a testament to her hard work and dedication. Check out all the different feats Marie has...

In this episode, get ready to meet Dr. Virginia Bailey, a talented plastic surgeon who has built an impressive career in the field of medicine. Dive into her journey from studying biology at UT Austin to earning her medical doctorate at UT Health Houston, and how her experiences at her residencies shaped her into the surgeon she is today. Dr. Bailey shares what it was like to transition from being...

Meet John Mayo, an engineer, robotics enthusiast, and mentor who’s made some seriously impressive strides in the world of space exploration, robotics, and engineering. John’s journey began in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, which led him to earn his master's degree at MIT. From there, he landed a dream job at NASA as a robotics engineer, working on cutting-edge projects. Jo...

Meet Matt Lara in this episode with Dominique Ramirez. Matt has called Austin home for over a decade, and in that time, he's made his mark as a Global Crisis and Issues Communicator. His job? To work behind the scenes, preventing potential disasters from hitting the headlines. But, as he likes to say, 'I know I’m doing my job right if nobody knows who I am.' Matt’s journey from serving...

Listen in to this episode to learn with Dominique Ramirez about Jack Sweeney—a developer, creator, and mental wellness advocate. Jack is the creator of Coherence - Breathwork, an app that helps people with their breathing for anxiety, sleep, and more. But before Coherence, he dropped out of college after three years, created other apps, ran a YouTube channel with 25k subscribers, and even surfed a...

Join Dominique Ramirez’s interview with Allie Thompson. Allie is passionate about giving back to the community and has a wealth of experience in the world of consulting, specializing in communications and change management. Dive into her journey—from earning degrees in Business Management, French, and Leadership, to building a successful consulting career that helps organizations navigate change....

Learn more about Joseph Liu with Dominique Ramirez in this episode. Joseph goes into depth about his educational pursuits from National Taiwan University to Harvard and Texas McCombs School of Business as well as how he keeps his faith front of mind in everything he does. He also shares how he transitioned from working solely in the corporate tech world to focusing on angel investments not only he...

Join Dominique Ramirez in this week’s episode interviewing Ashley Zapata, a Senior Marketer at Visit Austin. Ashley shares how her father instilled the importance of education, resilience, and hardwork to achieve success in life, and boy has she proven him correct! She studied at UT Austin and even though she originally went to pursue a degree in biology, she committed to communications and advert...

In this episode, join Dominique Ramirez interviewing Pat Frost, a senior geoscientist. Pat lived all over the world growing up due to her dad being in the Navy, which allowed her mom to introduce her to all kinds of adventures in nature be it at the beach, mountains, or other. Today, she volunteers in her free time as a Capital Area Master Naturalist in the Travis Audubon Society and enjoys starga...

Meet Amy Lohr in this episode, a fellow native Austinite! We’ve been friends since kindergarten, so it’s been fulfilling to watch her grow over the years from attending UT Austin, taking a gap year in Hawaii to re-discover herself, changing majors, publishing a book called Like the Sun at Midday , and becoming a Creative Director. Don’t miss hearing about her journey to finding out who she is and...

Learn with Dominique Ramirez in this episode about David Galvin’s journey through school to his professional career. He was inspired by rollercoasters to pursue engineering and went to the University of Texas at Austin to study mechanical engineering. A wrench was thrown into his life plan with battling stage 4 cancer, but he beat it and ended up graduating with his degree and continued pushing fo...

When you look up the definition of “energizer bunny” in the Webster Dictionary, you’ll find this episode’s guest’s picture right next to it! Montana Bruhl is a hard worker bouncing between occupations from coaching at OrangeTheory and Nike Running Studio to helping fellow Austinites find their next home. She studied business at the University of Texas at Austin as well as had multiple other jobs t...

Ashley Scroggs is one of the lucky few who has continued down the same path from her college days to what she does today! Discover with Dominique Ramirez how she studied Landscape Architecture at Texas A&M University, then began her professional career first as an intern and worked her way up the ladder to make Technical Director and Partner. She has many interests from Harry Potter, photograp...

Learn more about Meghan Romere Dedear in this episode with Dominique Ramirez. She grew up in the Austin area and attended Texas A&M University for undergrad. She then extended her studies at UT Austin for her masters and achieved law degree status. She bounced between a couple of jobs to find the right fit where she works at today: the Silverleaf Legal Group. At the end of her college years, s...

Introducing Nick Moser, Dominique Ramirez’s childhood friend! Learn more about his academic career from getting his undergrad degree in mechanical engineering to pursuing his Masters degree in robotics. In terms of his professional career, he found his first job in Munich, Germany and now works at Contoro Robotics in the Austin area. He balances his lifestyle with reading, gaming, and leading D&am...

Happy New Year, everyone! Let’s start the year off right with high energy and positivity with this week’s guest speaker: Taylor Sheeran, a middle school English teacher in the AISD. Join Dominique Ramirez in learning what a person can consider doing to become a teacher (e.g., join Teach for America), how teaching today is similar and different to the Abbott Elementary show, the inner workings of t...

Happy Holidays! Join Dominique Ramirez in this episode interviewing her cousin, Gio Estrada, and his outstanding life of travel, engineering, and current seminary school experiences. He goes into depth of how his love of math and science led him to planning oil companies' pipe systems, traveling from Singapore to Africa, as well as going to bible study which rejuvenated his Catholic faith years be...

Courtney Dickey, Chief Legal Officer at ZenBusiness and President of the Junior League of Austin (2024-2025), is the honored guest for this week’s episode with Dominique Ramirez. Learn more about her career journey from studying law, moving to Austin, making connections through her sorority, leading an IPO process, and even being nominated President Elect for The Junior League of Austin (JLA)! Dis...

Learn with Dominique Ramirez from Lauren Overstreet in this episode about Lauren’s life lessons and experiences. She originally thought she would pursue a career in dermatology and ultimately decided to pursue a career in human resources, and hasn’t looked back since. She’s then worked her way up from HR Coordinator to HR Director. Throughout the years, she has helped mentor people as well as prob...

Join Dominique Ramirez interviewing Sam Austin, man of many talents. He studied marketing and Chinese back at Baylor University and took on the world to conquer sales and help others translate and understand different languages. Did you know he moved to Canada for 6 months and can speak multiple languages?!  Want to connect with Sam about languages or his career after the episode? Find him on Link...

It's a special week and what better way than Dominique Ramirez bringing back her sister, Bianca Ramirez, to the podcast to talk about family traditions, tattoos, and football rivalries! Listen in to what Dominique has learned about podcasting over the past few months, the upcoming Texas vs. Texas A&M game as well as some things they're grateful for during this season of gratitude.

Tara Sekerak is this week’s honored guest on Talks with Dom. Listen to her discuss with Dominique Ramirez her journey from getting her degree in education to diving headfirst into supply chain as well as how she has learned to become a leader, traits of being an elder sister, trials of being a Disney adult, and more! Interested in learning more about supply chain from Tara Sekerak? Find her on Lin...

This week, Dominique Ramirez interviews Rachel Thornton, the wizard behind the curtain for the Instagram page: @austinfoodstagram . Learn more about her career journey from studying to become a speech pathologist to becoming an Instagram influencer in the Austin area as well as how she shares her wealth of knowledge through consultations and mentorship at different organizations including the Univ...

Here at Talks with Dom , we ran into some technical difficulties this week, so we pivoted and decided to give y'all an update of what to expect from the podcast the rest of the year, including the following interviewees: Rachel Thornton, the powerhouse behind the Instagram handle @austinfoodstagram. Tara Sekerak, a member of Junior League of Austin and a Senior Operations Manager at Arrive Logisti...

This week features hostess Dominique Ramirez interviewing her college sorority sister: Katie. Katie is a lab technician who tests water samples, enjoys reading, goes scuba diving on the regular, and defeats mind flayers in her Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Discover more about Katie’s experience studying biology and entomology at Texas A&M University, how sorority life helped her, and how s...