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I met Ieva Trejia when I was speaking at a conference and marketing lab in Latvia. Bright, practical, and ambitious, I admire her drive to improve her community. She is the host of the Baltic Startup Mafia podcast, editor of Labs of Latvia, and serves clients as a content marketing strategist. She is also a Certified Facilitator in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method, which is totally awesome. I hope y...

I met Reggie Burton of RB Group when I was working at the Las Vegas Urban League. We had received a grant for installing public computer centers all around the Las Vegas valley, along with trainers and scheduled programming. Reggie worked on public relations for the project and I did the marketing. We've stayed in touch now for over a decade. I've always admired his integrity and communication ski...

This is my longest podcast yet on "1 Luckygirliegirl." I have leaned hard on Dane Wilson for creative projects, for content creation, and for managing projects in business for YEARS. Not only is he a hiLARious comedian, he probably has one of the kindest hearts you will ever encounter. He's been leading a writer's group in LA for nearly 13 years. He has directed and produced films and has written...

I know Deborah Porter from community events around Las Vegas. She's a marketing professional who always has some exciting new company or project or event that she is promoting. I caught up with her on a call earlier this month and we chatted about her newest business: Noir Culinary Experience, which brings together black-owned restaurants and patrons for special events like their sold-out Father's...

Hanae El Bayousfi is head of Engagement and Marketing at xHUB, a global IT company and she is also co-founder of DevoxxMA, the largest tech conference in the middle east and Africa region. I actually met Hanae's husband, Badr, FIRST while keynoting their tech conference. At the time of that first meeting, we were all enjoying a delicious lunch of fish and vegetable tagines just outside the Hassan...

I met Amy Kapernick through speaking at tech conferences. As a front-end developer, she's been her own boss since January 2014. She is a co-organizer for DDD Perth as well as a volunteer at many other tech organizations in Australia. She's also a Twilio Champion, Microsoft MVP in the category of Developer Technologies, and apparently, a purveyor of cows. I really miss these in-person conversations...

Martine Dowden is a UX designer born in Thionville, in the Northeast of France. Creative, grounded, and apparently handy around the house, I first became friends with Martine through the tech community while speaking at conferences. She's super talented (you should ask her about the time she replaced their downstairs toilet and remodeled the entire bathroom on a random afternoon). Her success in b...

I spoke at BuildStuff in Lithuania and Ukraine in the "before times" about emotional intelligence. BuildStuff organizer, Neringa Young, was the quintessential conference host. She runs a beautiful conference, from branding, to the vendors, to the VALUE delivered. I've spoken on all 7 continents and never have I attended a tech conference where 50% of the attendees were female. In this podcast epis...

I met Tania Kampana a few years ago while delivering a keynote and a training workshop at VoxxedDays in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since then, we've stayed in touch while she moved up the career ladder, negotiating a pay increase, and then landing a DevOps position at a new company. She understands the value of how maintaining your physical health also improves your mental health. This is especially im...

I met Ceciley through a mutual friend about 3 or 4 years ago. Since she works in the casino industry, it's convenient for us to meet in Downtown Las Vegas after work for food, drinks, or other events. We always have a blast together. Her quick-witted and candid way of telling stories just cracks me up. These are the everyday moments with friends that I have missed since the novel coronavirus inter...

If there was a conversation where you want to be a fly on the wall, this is it. Leisa and I have been friends for ...wooooo! 8 years? 9 years? I tell her that I measure the timeline of our friendship by the age of her kids. I think I was mentoring her daughter, Kyndl, when she was just becoming a teenager. And then her other wonderful daughter, Kevyn. And now they both have blossomed into smart, h...

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc, and creator of agilelearner.com . He's trained tens of thousands of software developers worldwide. He's also among my most humble and generous friends. Plus, he's a pretty funny guy. I sat down to chat with my friend, Venkat, at the end of last year, about not-technology this may be a side of him you've never seen...

I wasn't sure about putting out any content lately. I was supposed to put out this interview last month, but the political climate in the United States has just been tumultuous, what with that armed milita storming the US Capitol. It's been quite chaotic. Regardless, it seems like governments are beginning to distribute the COVID vaccines and the United States is moving forward from the failed cou...

"We need to be humans at the end of the day." ~Debbie O'brien   Buy Denise Jacobs book on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/Banish-Your-Inner-Critic-Self-Doubt/dp/1633534715   I met Debbie O'brien in 2019 at the BuildStuff tech conference in Vilnius, Lithuania... then again in Kyiv, during BuildStuff Ukraine. She's got this optimism that is infectious. Plus, she exhibits leadership that is encouragi...

I met Shawn Wildermuth and his wife, Reza when we attended AntarctiConf in January 2020. It was the first-ever Tech Mastermind Conference in Coastal Antarctic Waters. Shawn is a really sensitive and empathetic person. I enjoyed dinner conversations or singing karaoke with him and Reza on the cruise ship to Antarctica. Listen to this interview as we discuss overcoming poverty, bullying, and his new...