Freeman Means Business' Wonder Women in Business Podcast

Kym is an attorney admitted in the States of New York and Florida. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Psychology from Union College. Her interest in psychology and passion for advocacy and problem-solving, lead her to attend Pace University School of Law where she earned her J.D.. Kym continued her studies in the law and earned an L.L.M. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law the fol...

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...

Lauren A. Tetenbaum, LMSW, JD, PMH-C is an advocate and therapist certified in perinatal mental health. With an approach grounded in empathy and emotional intelligence, Lauren counsels millennial and young women on romantic relationships, career choices, pregnancy and parenting, anxiety, and family dynamics. A mother of two with a decade of experience in the legal industry, Lauren is passionate ab...

A respected and experienced business executive, Marcie Dickson is pursuing her vision to make alternative dispute resolution more transparent, inclusive, and diverse – by opening it up beyond the small club of insiders who dominate the industry. Leveraging nearly 20 years of business development experience – including as the only Black female Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer in A...

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 he...

DR. VIVEK GUPTA Board Certified in Obesity Medicine Board Certified in Internal Medicine Welcome to Mindful Weight Loss! My name is Vivek Gupta and I am a physician who is board certified in obesity medicine and internal medicine and a daily practitioner of mindfulness meditation. I am passionate to help those who struggle with excess weight. I have wrestled with weight issues myself and discovere...

Joyce Kyles is an award winning, international speaker, 2x Amazon best selling author, life and thriving skills coach, and consultant. She is the CEO of Joyce Kyles Consulting & the Executive Director & Founder of Walking Into A New Life. A graduate of Arkansas State University, she has received certifications from Cornell University in Women’s Entrepreneurship, the University of South Flo...

Madison Carroll is a multidimensional singer and storyteller. Her intelligence shows through her musicianship, acting, writing, and political research and activism. Madison’s abilities, coupled with her dedication to practice and performance has led her to fruitful opportunities both professional and personal. The innate urge to move and heal others (and herself) through fields such as music, thea...

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 executiv...

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...

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 h...

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...

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...

After 22+ years of a career spanning companies like Travelocity, Google and more + as a business owner helping businesses like Axios, KidKraft, American Airlines, and many others, I’ve noticed one thing…. Many leaders are unknowingly limiting their team’s performance and full potential (and therefore the revenues of their business) by not fully understanding if their teams are functioning at a str...

Bianca N. Cotton is a thoughtful, strategic, entrepreneurial leader with extensive nonprofit program management, curriculum development, and training facilitation experience. Bianca is driven to develop leaders who are managerially and emotionally competent in their professional practices. Passionate about intentionally creating positive social change in underrepresented populations and communitie...

Kaaren Whitney-Vernon is a serial entrepreneur who is interested in solving communication problems. Whether its communication between brands and consumers or employers and job seekers, she believes there is a better way to connect. She has just launched a new venture to help women in tech find inclusive companies to support their growth. Before joining Shaftesbury as the head of the XR Department,...

Jennifer Marino Thibodaux is the founder of JMT Speaks, LLC. She is a seasoned, professional speaker and writer who draws on 15+ years of experience as an attorney and storyteller. She is obsessed with helping other professionals find and embrace their authentic selves to lead their best personal and professional lives. Jennifer speaks about authenticity, overcoming the imposter syndrome, and the...

E. Leigh Dance Corporate legal and compliance leaders turn to Leigh to help them improve performance, develop strategy, promote the value of legal/compliance, advocate for their business, lead remote global teams, organize their retreats and assist with particular needs. Leigh is known for her in-depth international experience , and her unique understanding of both buyers and sellers of legal serv...

Sumathi Pundit is a trusted leader in the business intelligence domain for professional services firms. In 2004, Sumathi founded Evalueserve Canada, the Canadian agency for global market intelligence and analytics firm Evalueserve, where she led the initiative to set up offshore market intelligence teams for the Canadian arms of two of the Big 4 accounting firms, among other clients. Following the...

Doina Dumitru, PharmD, MBA, FASHP is currently a Director of Professional Services at Becton Dickinson (BD), with responsibility over the national implementation teams for the Pharmogistics and BD Cato automation solutions. She completed her PharmD at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy and an executive MBA at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Prior to joining BD...

Vanessa Kuroda is an electrical systems engineer for a well known commercial space company, working on a heavy lift orbital rocket. She was previously the Staff Telemetry and (RF) Communications Engineer for Stratolaunch Systems, which builds hypersonic aircraft from the ground up. Vanessa is an experienced aerospace communication systems engineer, with wide experience across the aerospace industr...

For over 20 years, as both a senior legal executive and a coach, Sheila Murphy has been working with intelligent, accomplished lawyers to gain greater control over their careers, compensation, and courage. Her passion is helping women in the profession to go from uncertain and uninspired to unstoppable. After 20 years of successfully litigating and developing and coaching talent in corporate Ameri...

Nastrah Carr is an Entertainment creative strategist, published creator, singer, and holistic healer. Overall, Nastrah is D'Empress of many trades with a mission to assist creatives in manifesting their dreams and goals through networking, researching, and protecting their mentality. As a native of Paterson NJ, with Jamaican roots, she strives to do more for her community through uplifting and mot...

Melissa Dinwiddie is the founder, CEO and lead facilitator of Creative Sandbox Solutions, a Silicon Valley-based consultancy that specializes in working with innovative, people-first companies grappling with boring (or nonexistent!) virtual trainings and events. She designs creative, interactive, playful experiences that attendees rave about because they acquire new skills and behaviors and build...

Michelle Calcote King is the Principal & President of Reputation Ink, a public relations and content marketing agency focused on professional services firms, including law, architecture, engineering and construction firms. With more than two decades of marketing and PR experience, Michelle has worked around the world, including stints in London and Australia. Her firm celebrated its 10th anniv...