Women in AEC: Wine After Work

In this episode of Wine After Work we have the pleasure of sitting down with a remarkable individual, Kasie Purvis. A mother, military spouse, podcaster, and speaker, Kasie's life journey is an inspiring testament to resilience, faith, and service. Meet Kasie Purvis: Kasie introduces herself as a mom to two delightful boys who bring constant laughter and joy to her life. She proudly carries the ti...

Welcome back to another episode of Wine After Work. Today, we have a very special guest with us, someone who has a wealth of experience in the world of communication, from corporate boardrooms to the bright lights of broadcast journalism. Join us in welcoming Gary Ross. Gary is a communication expert who works with individuals at every level of organizations to help them become better communicator...

In this episode of "Engineering Excellence," we are joined by Angela Thurman, a seasoned Electrical Engineer and Project Manager with over three decades of experience in managing complex technical projects. Angela's illustrious career has seen her working in both commercial and government positions, including a notable stint at NASA. Today, she brings her wealth of knowledge and expertise to serve...

Staci Berkovitz is the founder of On the Exhale, a Holistic Wellness Company. Her coaching uses the Calm Code Method which focuses on breathwork, guided meditation, mindset, movement, stretching, and nervous system regulation tools to help equip people to feel their best. In her spare time, she teaches Zumba and yoga, travels around the globe, organizes retreats, leads corporate wellness, workshop...

Dee Williams, Audacionaire is on a mission to move unconventional leaders into the center of their "zone of influence" by using hardships as fuel to empower, inspire, overcome, create, and transform. As a Resilience Expert, she is dedicated to helping the slept-on, underrated, underrepresented, and underestimated individuals of the world become CEOs of their own careers, and companies, while maste...

 Janifer Wheeler is a rule-breaking entrepreneur on fire. After 25 years of assisting schools and small businesses with process design, internal structure, education, and workplace culture, she founded The JOYFully BadAss Business App™ to help side hustlers & solopreneurs break away from society's BS so they can be more effective in their DO LESS BE MORE productivity mindset.  Her international sp...

Amy is changing the way people think about money and their approach to building wealth.  She's on a mission to help professionals and growth-minded business owners raise the bar on their financial potential, versus struggling with the mainstream "shrink your way to wealth" advice.  As a professional wealth coach and founder of The Capital Life, Amy empowers financial freedom seekers to confidently...

Meet Tammy Alvarez, CEO, and founder of Career Winners Circle. A comprehensive collection of coaching and training programs designed to strengthen leaders to grow their careers quickly and sustainably. Her spirited "Break all the Rules" approach blends decades of C-Suite experience on Wall Street with a pragmatic, results-based coaching style. She helps business professionals like you create impac...

Khadirah Muhammad is a Marketing Automation & Systems Engineer, and CEO of Omnipotent Consulting who went from breaking into the entrepreneurship world at 18 with the goal of retiring her parents, to falling in love with systems and automation. Her notable projects include taking a client's 2 -person operation from $15,000 to $80,000 per month in revenue in 60 days with the systems she set up. Kha...

I had the pleasure of speaking with my first husband and wife duo! Megan and Erik were amazing. Megan is the mom of 3 girls (11, 8 & 5 years old), teaches homeschool full-time, helps motivate working moms to find happiness and fulfillment in their lives and is a partner with her husband in several businesses they run together. Erik and Megan have been married for 17 years next month. He's a busine...

Melissa is a Finance and Accounting Executive, bringing over 20 years of experience driving sustainable business growth and optimizing business strategy processes.  She has worked across multiple industries and internationally.  Melissa is passionate about building high-performing teams, leadership, and maximizing every opportunity. She has broad-based expertise, including strategic planning, proj...

Marika Messager is a Conscious Leader, visionary, teacher, and researcher in consciousness, elevating individuals, businesses, and the global community into a new paradigm of positive and purposeful impact. We cannot create a conscious world without conscious individuals.  ConsciousLeadership.org is both a movement and a community; a way of bringing together global leaders to mobilize collective p...

Danny Golovinsky is a bicoastal business professional frequently living between New York and San Francisco. New York is homebase where he currently works at LinkedIn's Manhattan office as a Senior Account Director. His professional experience varies across Marketing and Sales roles, but his passion lies in mentorship and investing in young talent, college students, and early in career development—...

Claire Chandler is an EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP ADVISOR and Founder of Talent Boost, Claire Chandler specializes in aligning HR and business leaders so they can deliver strategic outcomes… both today and in the future. She taps into over 25 years of experience in people leadership, human resources, and business ownership to help leadership teams work together more effectively in less time, with less cu...

Over the years Revolution Studios has grown into a powerful multi-media creative brand. Their passion at the studio and its continued success lie in their ability to ignite confidence through imagery, content, and creativity. Their team is built of expert artists and storytellers who LOVE capturing the essence of individuals, companies, and brands. Somer Handley started the business with Photograp...

Claudia is a sought-after Career Coach for Women In Tech and she's helped her clients land fulfilling jobs at a senior level. She also partners with companies and organizations in identifying rising stars within their organizations and providing strategic insights and support in developing a leadership and talent pipeline with a focus on Women and Women of Color. Due to her efforts, she's worked w...

Kyle is the founder and CEO of Enspire. Enspire is a network for job shadowing opportunities that helps connect students to businesses in a whole new way, helping students discover what they want to do with their lives while helping companies recruit while giving back to their communities. He has always been a big believer in getting out of your comfort zone, whether that be in entrepreneurship, t...

Erin Longmoon's mission in life is to eradicate toxic workplaces. She believes that everyone deserves to love their job and feel like they are contributing to a greater purpose. As the owner of Zephyr Connects LLC, she accomplishes this mission by matching great small businesses with their UNIQUE FIT™ employees. Zephyr Connects 800.204.6958 / Ext 200 www.zephyrconnects.com

If this is the next 30 yrs of your life, is this enough?  That's what Genevieve Piturro asked herself and then everything changed! That was the question that started it all for her and it came from her heart. Listen to what she has to say: Now, everything I do is about empowering you to create a more fulfilling life and be a more purposeful and impactful leader. As I like to say, it starts with FI...

Hi party people!!  Like many people, I've decided to give dry January a go.  Almost three-quarters — 71% — of people who took part in Dry January said they slept better and 67% had more energy , according to a University of Sussex study. More than half, 58%, lost weight and 54% reported better skin. All great reasons to give it a try.  I need you all to hold me accountable and I'll let you know ho...

Today I'm a guest on Rachel King's podcast Feed Yourself.  We discuss how sports had a negative effect on my body image. "Historically, in terms of gender, I think we would we have seen higher numbers of females with the experience of disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image concerns and thoughts," says Streno. For some perspective, roughly 80 percent of women in the U.S. reportedly are...

Kathy has been excited to start her company, shorten the struggle, to help single moms navigate anything from the divorce process to the new norm of single parenthood. She is a single mom of two children and has raised them on her own for 11 years now. She knows the road to raising kids on your own can be quite challenging and she hopes to help as many single moms as she can realize their strength...

Sloane Heffernan is a two-time Emmy award-winning journalist and founder of Storymore, a brand storytelling business that helps organizations clarify their message, connect with their desired audience and bring their unique brand stories to life with click-worthy video content.  We share laughs, business advise and encouragement for women.  Sloane@story-more.com IG @storymoremarketing Facebook - S...

How do you feel about networking? A good bit of us absolutely hates it.  Next time you have a networking event ask how you can make it fun. How can you make a game out of it? I absolutely love Mel Robbins and she shares some tips for instantly connecting with people which I recap in this episode.  Mel shared her four secrets to creating an instant connection with someone: 1) Proximity. Put yoursel...

Complaining rarely solves anything. I walk through life with a heart of gratitude. It is an approach that produces more positive results for me. Complaining is destructive and takes my mind off the blessings that surround me. Things get tough sometimes, but I have the tenacity to deal with them. Instead of moaning about them, I rise above the negative energy. Complaining robs me of opportunity. It...