The Reset Podcast

Today's episode, I have a great chat w/ Ed Casabian, who's created this amazing social impact project, Year Volunteer. We chat about his early days at Uber as one of the first employees at the NY office and helping it scale. We chat about the importance of volunteering, how NYC ranks as one of the lowest cities in the country for volunteering, which is shocking. We taped this episode before covid...

Today's episode I talk with Chris-Tia Donaldson, who's CEO of Thank God It's Natural. We talk about how she went from working at Oracle as a senior counsel to building a hugely successful brand, who's products are sold at Target, Whole Foods, Sally’s Beauty, CVS and Walgreen's. She's also a breast cancer survivor and we talk about how she was building TGIN, while going thru treatment. She wrote a...

Today's episode, we have a great chat with Kay Hsu, Global Director, Instagram, Creative Shop. We talk about creativity, starting her career in politics and then moving to the US on the agency side. We discuss about the  importance of taking the leap,  jumping into opportunities and of course, pop culture, innovation & tech in the time of 'rona. Check out my online course:  One degree of connectio...

We have made it to 100 episodes!! I'm excited to have a fantastic conversation with Angela Brown from GSD&M, where she is an amazing Sr. Social Strategist. She worked on some amazing campaigns, most notably Popeyes the "ya'll good" tweet that launched millions of delicious chicken sandwiches. We talk about listening to culture, how no one is an overnight success and building your career is never a...

Today is Launch day of my online course, One Degree of Connection in collaboration with GenConnectU! We have a very special episode with Nancy Spears, who's the amazing CEO of GenConnectU. We talk her incredible career and what prompted her to create an online e-learning platform. We will also talk about why I created my course and what we hope people will learn from it. There's a special discount...

Today's episode is with  Leeann Leahy, who's CEO of the VIA Agency. She has had a remarkable career in advertising and she talks about how she made her own way, knew the right time to jump to a new challenge and what it's like to run a top tier agency from Maine. We also talk about being a leader times of crisis & tragedy and be supportive .  She also definitely wins for youngest 1st job, as she w...

Today's episode, I have a great conversation, with Chris Hirst, Global CEO, of Havas Creative. He has an awesome story how he built his career, and why he wrote the book, No BullSh*t Leadership.  We talk about how being an empathic leader, especially during this time of the pandemic, how we can be more open and vulnerable and that's a good thing. We also talk about Chris' amazing bread making skil...

In our last episode as part of our #glowpodcastnetwork @glowvoices series, we have a fascinating conversation with Felicia Hinds-Clark, founder of Sakred Soul. We talk unlocking your purpose, how to understand your deeper consciousness and where to begin how to understand crystals and what they mean. It's a great conversation of how she went for working at one the biggest investment firms in the U...

Next episode in the #glowpodcastnetwork series we chat with Amber Wuollet, who's the Director of Marketing at innovative insurance company, Bold Penguin. We talk about what types of insurance that you need as a small business owner,  why it's so important and what you need to do to in the cases you need to actually use the insurance. She also talks about how she balances commuting to another state...

Today's episode, which is part of the #glowpodcastnetwork series with Michelle Aspinwall, who's a coach & entrepreneur. We talk about  wellness, finding yourself after 40, peri-menopause, and building new products to help women navigate this part of life. She's built and amazing roster of products and helps women improve their sleep, mood, even their anxiety, using eastern & western medicine. Lear...

Today's episode we talk with Jennifer Willey, who's the CEO of Wet Cement. She teaches organizational leaders to be fearless. We talk about how she transitioned from being a CBO to creating incredible consultancy, where large brands and organizations to support women leaders and help men be strong actionable allies. She also talks about how the landscape of business has changed because of Covid-19...

Today's episode, which is part of the #glowpodcastnetwork series, we talk with Bernadette Joy, who's a debt free expert. She gives great and practical advice about how to dig out of student loan debt. She talks about her own struggle to become debt free and why she feels it's important to share what's she done. She has an awesome new campaign, the 1 million mission to empower professional millenni...

This episode is part of the #glowpodcastnetwork series. We have a wonderful chat with  Janel Muhammad, who's the CEO of Destination Own, a luxury travel service and real estate company. It's not so much about travelling but making an investment in the incredible places you travel to. We talk about the dos & don't of travel and how she found her way to luxury travel on a budget. Learn more about yo...

This episode we talk with Hunter Hindman, who's the Chief Creative Officer at the SF-based ad agency, ARGONAUT. We talk about Hunter, a self described Misfit, who has built an awesome agency that brand come to when they don't want to play it safe, but play it smart. He's built an agency that has been super adept at helping brands have a "comeback". He talks about how everyone has the capacity to b...

Today's episode is next is in our #glowpodcastnetwork series, and we have a fascinating conversation with Heather Carlucci, who's a Psychic Medium & Medical Intuitive. We talk about how she went from being an award winning pastry chef and working in the restaurant industry for 20+ years and then fully embraced being a medium and medical intuitive. We learn about what that all means, how she works...

This very special episode features, Nancy Rhodes, who's a shoe designer & CEO of Alternew. We talk about her journey to becoming a shoe designer and her new company, Alternew - where she matches seamstresses/tailors with the people who need them. As a result of the coronavirus she's decided to use her army of seamstresses to create masks for doctors. They have partnered with a bunch of hospitals a...

This episode is part of my series with the #Glowpodcastnetwork, where I'm interviewing 7 fantastic women. First up, is Dr. Rosenna Bakari who is an amazing Author, Poet & Scholar. We talk about her incredible story, how she was one of the first people to help articulate language for sexual assault survivors and how she's written every single day for over 10 year to be a guiding light for survivors...

On this episode, we chat with Clair Carter-Ginn, Partner at the Forecast Agency. She has an awesome story about how she got We talk about retail, the operations around fashion and where it's going. We also talk about how brands have to be smarter about how culture infuses everything they do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our final #29daysofmagic series, we have the incredible Queen & J, creators & hosts of the fantastic, Tea with Queen and J, Podcast. We have an awesome conversation around how and why they started the podcast, what it means to be womanist race nerds, how they run the largest black podcast event in the country & so much more. We talk pop culture, misogynoir, supporting black women led businesses...

Today's #29DaysofMagic guest is #29DaysofMagic is Rashida Bobb, Principal at Bricks Health. We talk about her awesome journey from deciding at the last minute not to go to medical school, to building a health care career on the operations side. We also talk about her decision to give up her career in NYC, and try out the startup world in Berlin and then be greatly successful.  We also discuss how...

Today's #29daysofmagic guest is Amani Duncan, SVP/Head of Music at MTV. She is the definition of a rainmakier, from interning at Def Jam being persistent enough to get a full-time marketing director. Then becoming the 1st black woman to run all of Music at Virgin Records, then ran all the marketing at Sean Combs Enterprises, then pivoting oldest guitar company in the world and turning them into a...

Today's #29DaysofMagic guest is Courtney Oliver, Sr Director of HR at ViacomCBS. We talk about how she  started out with her resume in a bin at a job fair  and a year later, getting a call that would change the course of her life. She talks about the importance of listening to people in your career, not everything requires your response and often times, deeply listening gives you the chance to lea...

Today's #29daysofmaigc guest is Zoe  Bogan, from  KPMG, where she does Corporate Development. We talk about what it means to build a career inside of a large association and asking for what you want to get to the next level.  We talk the importance of not just allies but sponsors within corporations. She talks about her new role that enables her to run a new program for KPMG to help women, BIPOC f...

Today's #29DaysofMagic guest is Sheereen Miller-Russell, GVP, Ad Sales & Partnerships,  at OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network. She talks about her incredible journey starting out as a teenage working in customer service at her local newspaper to Time Inc, MTV and now OWN. We speak on the importance of storytelling of the varied multi-layered black women and how OWN has laser focused on that to great s...

Today's #29daysofmagic guest is Esosa Ighodaro, the Co-founder of Nextstar & Black Women Talk Tech. We talk about her planning her life till she was 70, only for that to change when she entered the startup world. We also talk about why BWTT was founded and the needs that it serves to help black female founders and other under represented founders. The BWTT conference is 2/27-2/29 here in NYC. As a...