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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans 2018 Recipient: Shawn Thompson

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans Shawn Thompson Shawn Thompson is a professional problem solver. With 18 years of industry experience and six years as a business owner, Thompson has grown his idea into a leading company within a competitive $21 billion industry. He helps his faithful customers decide which promotional items will yield the greatest rewards both in brand awareness and in name recognition. Thompson is quite adept at finding solutions to complex issues. For him, problem solving is what entrepreneurship and leadership is all about. “Great leadership is critical to the success of any entrepreneurial effort,” Thompson said. “A successful entrepreneur is one who has the ability to solve [...]

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WilliamsonBusiness.Com 100 Leading Women 2018: Debbie Greer Chamberlain

Click Here To Listen Williamson Business 100 Leading Women Debbie Greer Chamberlain Debbie Greer Chamberlain is the Marketing and Sales Coordinator for Jon Sidwell of Farmington Mortgage. In her current position, she combines her talent of building strong and lasting relationships with her passion of motivating and encouraging others. Debbie believes the ultimate outcome of these relationships is to reach beyond the business deal and extend the relationship to a partnership of growth for all. Debbie encourages and works with those that possess integrity to themselves and those they work with. Many know Debbie through her work with the Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home (TBCH). It is there that Debbie and her siblings were dropped off [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Susan Vanderbilt

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Women Susan Vanderbilt Born and raised in Nashville and currently residing in Murfreesboro, Susan Vanderbilt is native to Middle Tennessee. She studied social science and speech and hearing science at Tennessee State University and proceeded to hone her knowledge and skills as a communication specialist. Passionate about helping people grow and connect, her transition to business development and diversity inclusion was a natural fit. With encouragement from project executives of several local, national, and international construction management firms, Susan started Entrée Savvy in 2013. She has had the pleasure of performing as the diversity inclusion manager on the construction management teams for the Music City Center Project [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Lolita Toney

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Women Lolita Toney LoLita Toney is a business and community leader who is driven by her passion of helping people and organizations connect the dots. She is the director of development and chief of staff for the National Museum of African American Music. LoLita is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Business Psychology from the The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and is a graduate of Nashville's Trevecca Nazarene University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with an emphasis in Human Resources, and successfully completed a master's degree in Organizational Management and an MBA. She built a successful career as an entrepreneur with Ivy [...]

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WilliamsonBusiness.Com 100 Leading Women 2018: Shannon Taylor Gygi

Click Here To Listen Williamson Business 100 Leading Women Shannon Taylor Gygi Shannon Taylor Gygi serves as the Director of Community Engagement for Freedom’s Promise, a locally-based nonprofit that seeks to prevent human trafficking in Southeast Asia through community development. She also oversees marketing and communications for the local nonprofit social enterprise ThriftSmart. Originally from Athens, Georgia, Shannon received her BA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and an MA in Nonprofit Management from the University of Georgia. Shannon has over 18 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, both in the US and internationally, including leadership in organizations focused on human trafficking, women’s and children’s issues, health care, social enterprise/retail and international missions. Prior [...]

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WilliamsonBusiness.Com 100 Leading Women 2018: Kathie Moore

Click Here To Listen Williamson Business 100 Leading Women Kathie Moore Kathie Moore is a REALTOR with Benchmark Realty, LLC. Moore has been a successful, top producing REALTOR since 1998. She holds a Broker’s license in the State of Tennessee. Prior to becoming a REALTOR, Moore was CEO of Pathways, in Martin Tennessee. During that time, she was on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Association of Mental Health Centers and served as President. Additionally, she was a management consultant specializing in professional coaching and quality management, Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Tennessee at Martin, a nursing instructor at Union University and Director of the Nursing Lab at Medical College of [...]

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They Knew Lincoln Edited By Kate Masur Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Kate Masur Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by his grandmother's elderly friends--stories of escaping from slavery, meeting Lincoln in the Capitol, learning of the president's assassination, and hearing ghosts at Ford's Theatre. He also mined the US government archives and researched little-known figures in Lincoln's life, including William Johnson, who accompanied Lincoln from [...]

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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading Women 2018: Angela Morrow

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Women Angela Morrow Angela Morrow is an Administrative Assistant and Prayer Partner Coordinator with the Total Christian Television (TCT) Network in Nashville. She intercedes for people from all over the country who call in to the network for prayer. She also recruits, trains, schedules, and supervises volunteer prayer partners. She considers it a privilege and an honor to serve God in this way. The Nashville station receives over 300 prayer calls per month, resulting in many people being saved, healed, encouraged, and set free! Angela grew up in Topeka, KS where she received 11 years of private piano instruction from the late Dolores Collins Studio in Topeka, [...]

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WilliamsonBusiness.Com 100 Leading Women 2018: Mindy Tate

Click Here To Listen Williamson Business 100 Leading Women Mindy Tate Mindy Tate has been Executive Director of Franklin Tomorrow since 2011, having previously served the non-profit community visioning organization as a board member and president during her almost 30-year career in the news media. A native of Indiana, Tate grew up in Nashville, attending David Lipscomb High School before pursuing a journalism degree at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. She first came to Franklin and Williamson County in 1982 as a summer intern at The Review Appeal and returned full-time as a staff writer and photographer in 1983. After five years at The Review Appeal, she joined the Brentwood Journal as News Editor, [...]

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WilliamsonBusiness.Com 100 Leading Women 2018: Carrie Zeier

Click Here To Listen Williamson Business 100 Leading Women Carrie Zeier Carrie Zeier and her two sons, Zeke and Ike, have made Tennessee their home for the past eleven years. She is a native of Georgia, where she grew up in a family who owned a chain of 50 supermarkets. Within that company, they purchased and leased real estate. Here, Carrie learned about leases, commercial real estate, and eventually residential real estate investments. After graduating from the University of Georgia, where she earned a Business Administration Degree in Speech Communications, she began investing in properties in strategic areas of coastal Georgia and Florida. Ultimately, this led Carrie to a full-time career in real estate with [...]

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