Pretty Little Leader

Jen Woods is the Executive Director of Houston Skyline Volleyball, #3 ranked volleyball club in the country. Prior to founding Houston Skyline, Jen was a teaching-professor at Texas A&M in their Sport Management Department. Where her areas of focus were Sport Finance and Sport Marketing. Jen played collegiate-volleyball at Texas A&M, while earning a Bachelor Degree in Communication and Business, then a Masters Degree in Sport Management. Jen is married to Mitch Woods, she is the mother of two boys (their third son is due soon).

Here are a few points discussed during the interview:

• Earning your spot
• Engaging families through team bonding
• Creating a sense of belonging
• Maintaining culture in a large organization
• The value of communication

Houston Skyline Juniors

Website: http://www.skylinejrs.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/houstonskylinevolleyball

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/houstonskyline

Erika Migliaccio is the Managing Founder of Upstream HR Strategies. Where the mission is to delight customers with bold ideas and impact, expand the bounds of “traditional HR” and deliver uncommon HR service that will forever change the way one views their organization talent or personal career.

Erika spent 20 years as an Executive HR Leader at General Electric. Over her years at GE, Erika made the trek up career mountain as an individual, promoted to Executive by age 30, as a coach and as a decision-maker. She realized that by experiencing the career journey from multiple angles, she had a unique perspective. She felt equipped and obligated to become a better “Career Sherpa,” and now focuses her work on equipping others to blaze their BOLD path to career success, utilizing the BOLD Career Compass: a powerful and practical tool that guides individuals and organizations as they navigate the complex path of professional development.

Listen in as we walk through how to use your BOLD brains to develop a strategic plan, avoid typical failure modes, obtain sponsorship, and negotiate your worth.

Upstream HR Strategies

Website: https://www.upstreamhr.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eamigliaccio/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UpstreamHR

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/upstream_hr

Ezenwanyi Abii is a multi-passionate entrepreneur who recently retired from her corporate job in Oil & Gas to focus on building her businesses in Law, Real Estate and Business Strategy. She is the owner/ Managing Attorney at Abii & Associates, PLLC in Houston, TX where she works with business owners and Real Estate entrepreneurs with their legal, business, real estate and estate planning needs. On a limited capacity she advises entrepreneurs or budding entrepreneurs on branding & business strategy.

Her non-working hours are spent with her 2 children, reading, writing, painting, time with friends and other projects as the inspiration strikes. A recent one being FOSHTY (From our – ISH-hole countries to You) a limited-edition podcast featuring open conversations with African immigrants about their life experiences growing up in the US. @abiilegal

Keep connected with Abii Legal.

Abii Legal

Website: https://abiilegal.com

Podcast: https://foshty.com/podcast

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abiilegal

Melissa Guller is the founder of Wit & Wire, where she helps creators launch and grow podcasts with raving fans. She’s a seasoned podcast host and producer, as well as a top-rated instructor at General Assembly New York and online on Skillshare.

By day, Melissa is the Head of Marketing Engagement at Teachable. She’s the host and producer of their podcast, Everything is Teachable, which peaked as the #2 Career Podcast in the USA and was featured in Apple Podcasts under best new podcasts.

Outside the microphone, Melissa has been an online (and in-person) teacher since 2015, with a combined 6,000+ students in her classes and workshops. She is the host of Wit & Wire, the podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes with successful podcasters and industry experts to learn what it really takes to launch and scale a successful podcast that makes an impact.

During this interview Melissa shares how she uses her gift to unlock the potential of others. She provides insight on her intentionality in starting Wit and Wire. We discuss Melissa's effort to create a sense of community amongst new podcasters to encourage them, help with the techy stuff, and provide a platform to share opportunities.

Melissa is a powerhouse! Find out more about the game changing work she is doing to equip and amplify the next wave of podcasters.

Wit and Wire

Website: https://witandwire.com

Podcast: https://witandwire.com/podcast

Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/witandwire

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/witandwire

Annette J. Morris, M.A. is a Professional Mental Health Counselor, Certified Life Coach, Motivational Speaker, Published Author, Entrepreneur and Business Consultant. Her favorite quote which is the philosophy she lives by is "you will get all you want in life if you help enough people get what they want" by the late Zig Ziglar. Her professional career is focused solely on helping others to either accomplish their goals as an entrepreneur or in life as a whole.

Although Annette has accomplished a lot in life, she had very humble beginnings. She was reared for 23 years in a local housing project by a single mother and had to overcome many obstacles on this journey called life. However all that she's endured in her past has helped to form the Annette of the present. Annette is a first generation college graduate and has earned a Bachelors of Art Degree in Psychology from Southern University of New Orleans, a Master's of Art Degree from Xavier University of Louisiana, Expert Level Life Coaching Certification and Extreme Execution Life Coaching Certification with Dr Eric Thomas.

Goal Getter LLC

Website: www.goalgetterforever.com

Instagram: www.Instagram.com/annettejmorrisma

Facebook: www.Facebook.com/annettejmorrisma