The First With Dr. Sandi Webster

Tynesha N. Frazier is a member of my Omni Toastmasters club. Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. This club is a little known "secret" group that helps professionals or family members to overcome speech impediments or overcome their fear of public speaking. Tynesha is the first in...

Meet Liz Castelli. She is a co-founder and COO of Tinsel Experiential Designs – this name gives me visions of joy at Christmastime! She started this company with college friends when they found each other after separate careers. They entered the Power Up Business Plan contest at the Brooklyn Library and won. Now, they are in their eleventh year of business! Liz comes from a family of mechanics, en...

Lina Rugova is not the typical immigrant – she did not want to leave Kazakhstan to come to America because her mother immigrated here! On June 2, 2021 at 6pm, listen to how a fifteen-year-old Lina arrived in the USA speaking British English and going directly to the Bronx with a Spanish-speaking stepdad in a Puerto Rican-dominant neighborhood! Of course, hilarity…and life…ensued. She got married y...

Tanya Ricketts is the host of The Tanya Experience, a Canadian podcast that she started during COVID. One of her favorite topics is courage. We all have a Tanya in our lives – people whom we've known forever but don't know anything about them. Tanya is that person for me – I had no idea who the adult Tanya is —a wife, mother, daughter, friend. Tanya discusses how she displayed courage in breaking...

Elman Woodson, today's guest, is currently an attorney – the first in his family; however, it wasn't an easy road for Elman. But his strong belief in the power of self pushed him out of banking into law. Elman's new book, Looking Up, will be coming out in May. It captures his story of all the things he had to overcome in order to become a lawyer. Let's welcome Elman Woodson to The First podcast.

Nell Merlino is an icon and a legend in her own right. She has a list of firsts that will impact generations. She was at the forefront to change the outlook on Aids during the Aids epidemic by handing out condoms with the Gay Men's Health Crisis as an Awareness campaign. She utilized that campaign opportunity to springboard starting the first girls' initiative, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, whil...

When you listen to Dr. Larry McCord tell his story, you swear you saw the movie! He is someone whose life is simply beyond belief! He has so many firsts that I couldn't possibly list them all here. In this podcast, we focused on some key turning points in his life. His athletic career made him the first in his family to win college scholarships, which enabled him to leave his hometown of Lutcher,...