Episodes
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Senior Manager, Merchant Partnerships & Strategy, Ryan D'Wolff Munro
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Enjoy the conversation as Mark and Ryan, High School classmates catch up. Ryan shares his career journey starting with a story of coming to terms with what he learned after pursuing an entrepreneurial opportunity that didn’t come to fruition. He explains his path from the legal profession, to Wall Street to an MBA to his current role using all of his skills managing a team of strategic partner managers. This father of 4 with infant twins said he enjoys cold calling as a learning tool and as a way to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Ryan also talks about his commitment to being more mindful, practicing patience and the power of luck and timing in your career
Click here to connect with Ryan on LinkedIn
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Retired Executive, Jim Wall
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
This successful HR executive’s first job was a grave digger, yes, really! He shares the lessons he and his firm learned from the 9/11 tragedy and how to focus on connecting and connectivity and how it’s still important today. He reminds us that most of the “jobs of the future” haven’t been created yet and shares one of his favorite quotes from Colin Powell “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier”. Learn how his masters in Higher Ed helped him transition to corporate America and make a difference at one of Big 4. Enjoy our conversation with Jim Wall.
Connect with Jim on LinkedIn
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Lynn Turner, Business Growth Strategist
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Learn about Lynn’s “Non-Lynn-ier” career path that zigged and zagged over the years … from her medical focus in college to becoming a branding specialist working with the NBA and Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes to how she started her own business while pregnant and how that didn’t work out. These various experiences along with following her mantra “Be aware of opportunities, they come in different shapes and forms” led her to starting a Leadership Coaching business and radio show that showcased others in her profession and why she didn’t think of them as competition. Lynn has never been afraid of reinventing herself and trying new things and it has paid off.
Working is part of her DNA and she has trusted her gut to make decisions over the years. Today, she along with her business partner help others make important decisions for their lives and businesses through the use of their decision-making framework. Enjoy our conversation with Business Growth Strategist, Lynn Turner.
Check out her company Clear Vision Alliance
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Photographer and Filmmaker, Chris Cardoza
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Photographer & Filmmaker: Hear stories about Chris’s first job making pizza boxes at a pizzeria in Fall River, MA to making videos with Pro Football Player JJ Watt at his house. One of his favorite projects is “Shooting Touch” a video docu-series he shoots and supports in Rwanda. This program’s goal is to promote equal access to physical activity and wellness. He talks about the amazing athletes he’s worked with, famous and not, and the challenges of starting his own company. He shares why he doesn’t want to be tied to a studio but prefers to work his own projects and documentaries and how he’s undaunted by failure.
Visit Doza Visuals
Learn about Shooting Touch
Check out his latest project https://www.dozavisuals.com/motion-reel
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Executive Director, Marlborough Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
“Be unapologetically who you are”. She never thought she’d go into public service and now she heads the Marlborough Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and is focused on attracting and retaining business in the city. From her first job in a hair salon to why her wedding cake was a replica of City Hall, Meredith Harris shared ideas and insights into how she got here and what she’d tell her 22 year old self-it has to do with student loan debt. Listen and enjoy our conversation.
Visit the MEDC on Facebook to see what's happening in Marlborough
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Head of People and Culture at Vicarious Surgical-Ann Whittaker
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
You'd never guess that this high energy people person who has been on the ground floor and helped shape, grow and hire several teams of brilliant engineers loves to hang on the couch and read with her 78 pound Black Mouth Cur named Mis Dos who hails from Georgia.
Ann recounts her adventures in start-ups, including her hopes for her newest role. During our conversation she touches on nurturing people, communicating with leadership teams, her words of balance and her thoughts on leadership-it's not about power.
Her career path went from fashion and expanded into administration and communications, higher ed and being a women in the early days of robotics will keep you engaged and wanting more.
Join us for our podcast with Ann Whittaker.
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Patty Flaherty Donahue- On making personal connections
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
There's this saying in life "It's all about who you know" - and Patty knows just about everyone!
Hear the secrets to her personal connection focus and why. Learn her journey from humble beginnings lying about her age to get a job as a "store lady" to becoming one of Greater Boston's better networked professionals!
Check out her story!