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WilliamsonBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Cindy Boteler

Click Here To Listen Williamson Business 100 Leading Women Cindy Boteler Cindy Boteler is a Financial Professional with AXA Advisors in Franklin, Tennessee. AXA currently ranks #25 of fortune 500 companies and is located in over 60 countries. AXA is one of the largest life and wealth management companies in the world. Cindy works well with small business owners from investing to providing protection on the business side as well as their personal needs. Her banking background helps her work seamlessly in providing life insurance to small businesses to use as collateral for SBA loans. She works tirelessly to make sure her contacts and clients always feel like a priority. Cindy did not wake up [...]

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WilliamsonBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Dr. Alicia Spencer Barker

Click Here To Listen Williamson Business 100 Leading Women Dr Alicia Spencer Barker Alicia Barker is a Doctor of Audiology at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, in Franklin. She is coordinator of services for the Williamson County clinic and has been affiliated with Vanderbilt since 1998. As a mother of two school-aged children, the PTO was the perfect place for Barker to focus her service-oriented personality. Moving through the PTO ranks to chairperson, the next logical step for her was to run for a position on the Franklin Special School District board of education. She was elected to the board in August of 2012. During the tenure of her board service, she has found particular [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Jennifer Renshaw

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Women Jennifer Renshaw Jennifer Renshaw has worked in the healthcare marketing world for 8 years, focused in the healthcare tech space and experienced in digital marketing, branding, CRM / marketing automation, workflow efficiency, and leadership. As a seasoned marketing director and self-proclaimed data nerd, she is passionate about enjoying her job, serving the community, and advancing healthcare through technology innovation. Outside the office, Jen is involved in the Nashville chapter of the American Marketing Association, Young Leaders Council, and Ronald McDonald House and was a Nashville Emerging Leaders Award finalist in marketing. She holds a degree from Saint Louis University in marketing and international business, with a [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Paula Michelle Farmer

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Women Paula Michelle Farmer Paula Michelle Farmer, is a native Tennessean. She received an Associates Degree from Nashville State Community College where she studied computer technology. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Trevecca Nazarene University with a degree in Human Resources, as well as a Master of Organizational Management, as well. Paula received many certifications. She studied at the Covey Leadership Institute and Tyson McGhee Airforce Base, and has a Black Belt in Six Sigma. In 2011, Paula launched pmfaith Consulting, Incorporated and has helped thousands to implement stronger policies, embrace and cultivate change, build stronger leadership, embrace diversity, and develop people. [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Paula Milam

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Women Paula Miliam Managing Partner & Chief Strategist, TruStar Marketing An innovative thinker, Paula attracts the best talent nationwide and strategically builds innovative, productive teams unlimited by geographic or brick-and-mortar boundaries. Paula’s unique approach fuses the art of the brand with the science of direct response, to accelerate sales and growth for B2B and B2C companies in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, insurance, finance, biotech, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. TruStar Marketing’s “all-star” teams unite the most experienced specialists for each campaign, to generate brilliant and highly profitable results. Dubbed “the Internet Queen” early in her career, Paula has been helping companies drive measurable results [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Tammy Taylor

Click Here To Listen Tammy Taylor is the President and CEO of One EnTiTy, a full service entertainment consulting firm based in Nashville, TN. Under her leadership, One EnTiTy makes an indelible and distinctive difference in the gospel music industry by focusing its work on project management, event planning, promotions and marketing, branding and artist management, and artistic direction. Ms. Taylor formerly lead the Nashville Network of the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment (NABFEME), which under her leadership established its first mentoring program for up-and-coming youth, young adult and women of color in the music industry. Additionally, she chairs the Urban/Contemporary/Gospel Screening Committee for the GMA Dove Awards, is a [...]

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Andrew Santella, Author Of Soon: An Overdue History Of Procrastination, From Leonardo And Darwin To You And Me Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen AndrewSantella A fun and erudite celebration of procrastination An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of history’s greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put off what we’re supposed to be doing and why we shouldn’t feel so bad about it. Like so many of us, including most of America’s workforce, and nearly two-thirds of all university students, Andrew Santella procrastinates. Concerned about his habit, but not quite ready to give it up, he set out to learn all he could about the human tendency to delay. He studied history’s greatest procrastinators to gain [...]

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Dr. Leah Weiss, Author Of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, And Embrace The Daily Grind Chats With Dr. Alvin

Click Here To Listen Dr Leah Weiss I have long thought that what the Buddha taught can be seen as a highly developed science of mind which, if made more accessible to a lay audience, could benefit many people. I believe that Dr. Weiss’s book, in combining such insights with science and good business practice, offers an effective mindfulness based program that many will find helpful.” --His Holiness, the Dalai Lama A practical guide to bringing our whole selves to our professional work, based on the author’s overwhelmingly popular course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In today’s workplace, the traditional boundaries between "work" and "personal" are neither realistic nor relevant. From millennials seeking [...]

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Veera Hiranandani, Author Of The Night Diary Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Veera Hiranandani-The Night Diary In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided country It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her [...]

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Tara Cousineau, Author The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World

Click Here To Listen Tara Cousineau It’s time for a kindness revolution. In The Kindness Cure, psychologist Tara Cousineau draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to show how simple practices of kindness—for ourselves, for others, and for our world—can dissolve our feelings of fear and indifference, and open us up to a life of profound happiness. Compassion for ourselves and others is our birthright as humans—hardwired into our DNA and essential to our happiness. But in our fast-paced, technical savvy and hyper competitive world, it may come as no surprise that rates of narcissism have risen, while empathy levels have declined. We now find ourselves in a “cool to be cruel” culture where [...]

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