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How to Develop Your WOW Factor | Lisa Alexander

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an award-winning documentary filmmaker and marketing expert. Through her consultancy work, she helps small business owners grow their operations with strategic marketing and branding strategies. She has worked as an art director, graphic designer, and marketing consultant over the past 20 years. She also developed her photographic eye over the years. Lisa Alexander loves helping clients develop their WOW factor for all their big marketing red carpet events.

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How to Open the Sales Door the Easy Way | Caryn Kopp

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Caryn Kopp is the Chief Door Opener at Kopp Consulting, whose door opening services have had thousands secure initial meetings at the executive level in almost every major company. She is a bestselling author, nationally recognized speaker, and an expert in Business Development. She has held board positions for major organizations and has also received various leadership awards.

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How to Be Creative Behind the Scenes | Raynette Halvorsen Smith

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Have you ever wondered how those fabulous scenes for plays are created? Meet Raynette Halvorsen Smith, a retired Professor from Kent State University’s School of Theatre and Dance where she served as School Director from 1991-1996. In the early days, she wasn’t always welcomed as a woman and was a “first and only” woman scenic designer. Raynette shares her first-hand experience with the disparity in pay for women professors.

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How to Know Yourself and Your History to Move Forward in Life: Janise Graham

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When her mother’s friend died in a plane crash in 2001 having no plan for his family or his business upon his death, Janise Graham saw the devastating effects a lack of financial planning can have. She knew then that business insurance and succession planning were her callings.

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TV Commercial Star at Age 80 | Mildred Morgan Ball

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Mildred Morgan Ball – Imagine yourself in a store. Someone walks up to you and says, “Would you like to be a TV star in commercials?” At age 80, she became a local and regional “star” of 136 TV commercials! Mildred Morgan Ball provides her journey on a career peppered with being the “first and only”, starting with her high school career in the late 1940s, and continuing through a career of promoting gender and racial equity for young athletes and the performing arts.

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Lies My Teacher Told Me | James W Loewen

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Racial History and Sundown Towns Ep. 142 – James Loewen’s gripping retelling of American racial history as it should, and could, be taught, Lies My Teacher Told Me, has sold more than 1,500,000 copies and continues to inspire K-16 teachers to get students to challenge, rather than memorize, their textbooks. Top Takeaways: Fighting for the

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How to Discover a Career in Helping the Homeless | Betty Lou Larson

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Betty Lou Larson talks about Housing First as the best, but expensive, program and provides an example of how this worked for a chronically homeless mentally disabled individual. She has worked in transitional housing as a bridge, especially for families and lets us know about the school services for homeless children.

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Women on Boards | Annette White-Klososky, Sowmya Shridhar, And Christa Short | Purse Power

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Three women on boards Annette White-Klososky, Sowmya Shridhar, and Christa Short talk about the advantages of women on boards and why women should advocate and pitch for board positions. These highly successful women from all walks of life talk about women advocating for women.

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