Dr. Eliza Chin is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She has been actively involved in AMWA for over a decade, serving as President during AMWA’s 95th Anniversary Year. She has a particular interest in the history of women in medicine and the stories of women physicians during all stages of their careers. She is the author of, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine. Working with and collaborating with women physicians leaders is her passion and she is honored to be AMWA’s Executive Director, to serve the organization that has provided her with so much support. Dr. Chin is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Harvard Medical School, and Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. She was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia for many years before relocating to California where she continues to teach medical students and practice medicine part-time.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• How Dr. Chin is able to practice medicine part-time and balance everything else in her life
• The different phases of Dr. Chin’s life where different aspects of her life were her main focus
• Why Dr. Chin brought her kids to work — and how that impacted the lives of her children and her patients
• The niche of medicine that she practices and the challenges and rewards that come with that niche
• What it’s like working with patients at the end of their lives
• The most memorable stories she learned from her elderly patients
• Getting past feeling overwhelmed after the birth of her second child
• Dr. Chin’s book “This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine”
• Why she decided — for a brief period of time — to take some time to be a stay at home mom
• Why Dr. Chin moved around based on opportunities for her husband’s career (he’s also a physician) and why that was more than okay with her
• Why she would love to move back to New York

Resources:

• Book: “This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine”

Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Chin will air on 11/16/2016.

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Dr. Devona Williams founded Goeins-Williams Associates, Inc., (GWA) a successful performance consulting business in 1986 to help organizations achieve greater productivity in strategic work environments. As President/CEO of GWA, Dr. Williams has contributed her talents to helping more than 50000 individuals in hundreds of organizations increase their performance and effectiveness. GWA focuses on People, Process and Performance™ and works with clients to develop solutions to meet organizational and individual objectives and achieve lasting results.

Williams is a frequent keynote speaker on business, diversity, leadership, motivation, and success willfully shares her philosophy strategies for overcoming obstacles in her career and personal challenges to live her dreams and deliver content to motivate and inspire others. Dr. Devona is author of The Intentional Consultant: How to grow a sustainable consulting business, and contributing author to the inspirational book, Remarkable Women and creator of the national best selling Spice of Life® Diversity Card training tool.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• How Devona has sustained her business for as long as she has
• How Devona made the leap from being an employee to starting her own business
• The services Devona’s business provides
• Devona’s book
• How Devona’s business survived 2008
• What life was like growing up for Devona and how her entrepreneurial spirit was born in those days
• How Devona earned and spent money as a child
• Strategies for increasing the value of your assets long term
• Marriage, having a child, divorce, and other defining moments in Devona’s life
• What Devona learned as an executor for her mom’s estate
• Why Devona doesn’t see herself retiring completely but is looking at making changes in the next couple years

Ways to contact Devona:

• Website: www.goeinswilliams.com
• Book: “The Intentional Consultant: How to grow a sustainable consulting business”

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Dr. Nichole Danova attended Michigan State University where she completed her Doctoral Veterinary Medicine degree in 2000. She completed an internship with an emphasis in surgery at North Carolina State University. Dr. Danova then spent one year as a surgical research fellow in the Comparative Orthopaedic Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, and remained to complete a three-year Small Animal Surgical Residency.

Dr. Danova was a staff surgeon in multi-specialty practices in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and the Philadelphia area before joining a referral hospital in Northeastern Pennsylvania as a surgeon, veterinary director and chief operating officer in July, 2008. In December 2009, Dr. Danova established the Veterinary Surgical Center. VSC quickly grew and was expanded into the Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center, which opened in South Abington Twp., Pennsylvania in May, 2010.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Why Nichole is very proud of her veterinary hospital
• The story of how Nichole won her Porsche in a raffle (and named it Lola)
• Why people will be there when you need them if you’re there when they need you
• How Nichole learned as a kid that the world revolved around money and the decisions she’s made in her life because she learned that
• Why Nichole decided to be 101% committed to becoming a surgeon
• Why she chose to work with animals instead of humans and where the passion for surgery came from
• Nichole’s experiences losing money on real estate and men
• Why starting her own business was the best financial decision Nichole ever made
• Why if you pick the right people and do good work — everything else will follow
• How Nichole decided she needed and ultimately found the people she needed for the business side of her business
• Situations that Nichole has run into when hiring
• The influential women in Nichole’s life
• Why Nichole absolutely sees retirement in her future — and what she thinks that will look like
• What keeps Nichole busy outside the day-to-day of her hospital
• What Nichole does to protect her future

Ways to contact Nichole:

• Phone: (570)587-7777
• Website: www.vrecpa.com

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Jennifer Maffei is the Founder & President of VEA Services, LLC. Her mission is to help Executives to get their time back.

Jennifer comes from a unique perspective. She has both owned businesses, and had been an Executive Assistant at Fortune 500 Companies – overseeing and coaching multiple Assistants.

Over the years, Jennifer saw that there was a disconnect between the Executive and Assistant relationship. There were many seminars to go to, but no one was working with both the Executive and the Assistant to find out what their actual needs and styles were and then coaching both parties to work better together. Not in a generic form, but specific to their situation.

Jennifer has changed all that.

In 2014 she founded VEA Services to work with both the Executive and their Assistants. Coaching them to work better together and Maximize the Executive and Assistant Relationship. Also working with Executives who have never used an Assistant before and then helping them to identify their specific needs and coaching them on how to manage their new Assistant correctly.

In addition, Jennifer travels the country educating Executive peer groups on the need to reclaim their time back and how to work with an Assistant to maximize their effectiveness. Moving from Vancouver, Canada to the United States in 2004, Jennifer now resides with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Gaining three bonus months a year by delegating two hours of tasks a day
• Why you shouldn’t fall into the trap of thinking you’re the best person to do everything
• Why batching time is a fantastic strategy
• Jennifer’s first jobs
• How Jennifer did two years of college in nine months
• Jennifer and her ex-husband’s decision to build their own house in their mid 20s, how they then flipped the house, and how they repeated the process over and over
• The story of her move to the US
• Why she decided to get back into the Executive Assistant business instead of going into real estate
• Jennifer’s six years with Williams-Sonoma
• How she tore — completely tore — her back and the three year recovery from that injury
• How VEA Services was born
• Why divorce was the most threatening thing to Jennifer’s financial security
• Why Jennifer doesn’t want to scale too quickly yet sees a massive growth in the future
• Why Jennifer and her husband (the love of her life — not the ex) were evicted from the home they were leasing and then bought a dream house when it was very cheap
• Jennifer and her husband’s financial goals for the future
• How she’s managed to maintain a healthy balance while learning at home
• Why retirement isn’t really something Jennifer sees in her future
• Why Jennifer’s first corporate boss was the most influential woman in her life

Ways to contact Jennifer:

• Website: VEAServices.com
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jennifermaffeivea
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/JenniferMaffeiVEA
• Twitter: @VEASvcs

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Dr. Marcie Beigel has redesigned behavior for professionals, families, schools, and businesses for close to 20 years. Her specialty is engaging with behaviors directly and giving clear and insightful directives to clients who are oftentimes business owners looking for balance at home to help create balance at work or new approaches to become better leaders. Her approach is heartfelt, but filled with tough love. You can get her weekly behavior newsletter at BehaviorAndBeyond.net. Dr. Marcie is also featured on NBCs Parenting Toolkit. Her upcoming book, “Love Your Classroom Again,” is filled with actionable strategies to manage behavior, is out this fall.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Dr. Marcie’s new book, “Love Your Classroom Again”
• Craniosacral therapy and other things that she does for fun
• Where Dr. Marcie’s desire to get into behavior analysis and special education came from
• What she learned through her own challenges as a student
• What Dr. Marcie does in her private practice where she comes into the homes of the families she serves
• The four categories that all behavior problems fall into
• How Dr. Marcie works with businesses on behavior
• How she divvies up her time between families, schools, and businesses
• Dr. Marcie’s life growing up and her first memory around money
• The times when Dr. Marcie’s clientele vanished and how she battled through those tough times
• The three most defining moments in her life
• Why Dr. Marcie can’t see retirement in her future
• Why she wants her financial future to be better than she could ever dream
• Using what she knows from her career in her personal life
• The relationship between Dr. Marcie and her mom
• Why she delegates investing to her dad

Ways to contact Dr. Marcie:

• Website: www.behaviorandbeyond.net
• Email: info@behaviorandbeyond.net
• Book: “Love Your Classroom Again: Realistic Behavior Strategies for Educators”

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Karen Davidson is a health care attorney and the managing member of the Law Offices of Karen E. Davidson LLC. She’s been helping physicians strategically negotiate their business arrangements for over 25 years. She’s a graduate of Temple University James Beasley School of Law and licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and Maine. She represents physicians in virtually all medical specialties and helps them analyze and negotiate all manner of arrangements including employment agreements.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Why Karen is licensed in Maine in addition to Pennsylvania and DC
• Why she got into the healthcare side of law
• Issues many women have when negotiating
• Some of the unique requests Karen has had to negotiate for her clients
• Why she doesn’t recommend negotiating for everything someone wants in their contract
• The differences in contract negotiation for healthcare people in major systems vs. smaller practices
• How Karen’s clients find her
• The complex formulas for compensation and why women shouldn’t just accept what they’re told
• A client of Karen’s that was given a deal, decided not to take it, and why she’s happy that she made that decision
• Why Karen’s work requires her to be respectful and courteous

Ways to contact Karen:

• Email: karend@kdavidsonlaw.com
• Phone: (610)308-7725

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Anne Deeter Gallaher is Owner/CEO of Deeter Gallaher Group LLC, a marketing, public relations, and digital media firm with offices in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania and Nashville, Tennessee.

Driven by measurable performance, Anne and her team create award-winning results for clients in financial services, food and retail, engineering, banking, commercial real estate development, construction, healthcare, and music entertainment.

Serving on The Salvation Army Harrisburg Capital Region advisory board and the Harrisburg Regional Chamber/CREDC board, Anne is also a member of Urban Land Institute, the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, and The Wall Street Journals Women in the Economy Task Force. She is also the founder of Harrisburg Social Media Club.

Anne is the co-author with Amy D. Howell of Students in High Gear: A Guide for Students and Aspiring Game Changers in Transition from College to Career (2015) and Women in High Gear: A Guide for Entrepreneurs, On-Rampers, and Aspiring Executives (2013). Published in The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, PA Banker, Pennlive, Pennsylvania Business Central, Central Penn Business Journal, Strategy + Business, The Patriot-News, Ragan Communications, and a contributor to several blogs, Anne holds bachelor degrees in English and Communications/Journalism.

Honored as one of Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business, she is a frequent speaker and writer on entrepreneurship, executive positioning, women in business, social media, and PR.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• What the Deeter Gallaher group does differently from other PR firms
• Why Nashville is a great place for entrepreneurs right now
• Anne’s two books and why she wrote them
• What women entrepreneurs need that their male counterparts might already have
• The critical decisions high school and college students have to make when jumping to the next level
• The lessons about money Anne learned as a kid
• Overcoming great financial anxiety
• Why Anne doesn’t see retirement in her future
• Why you should wait 24 hours before buying something

Ways to contact Anne:

• Website: www.deetergallahergroup.com
• Twitter: @annedgallaher

Resources:

• Book Website: womeninhighgear.com
• Amazon: www.amazon.com/Women-High-Gear-Entrepreneurs-Rampers/dp/061578125X
• Twitter: @WomeninHighGear
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/WomenInHighGear
• Book Website: studentsinhighgear.com
• Amazon: www.amazon.com/Future-Belongs-Students-High-Gear/dp/0692380884
• Twitter: @StudentsinHG
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/StudentsinHighGear

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Lori Jones has recently started her own podcast series: Integrate and Ignite. Integrate & Ignite is a twice-weekly podcast for entrepreneurs, fast growth, movers and shakers, marketing gurus, and anyone who is motivated to grow their business and their brand.

As a marketing integration guru, Lori has knowledge and experience in all aspects of branding, marketing, advertising, PR, and digital and social programs. Where Lori truly shines, however, is her ability to bring each of those areas together. She participates in strategy development and big picture program planning with her team at Avocet Communications to bring a real-world vision that increases customer count for some of the nation’s leading brands. She is a co-author of Secrets of Ad-Agency Owners: Our Best Marketing Advice and Secrets of Ad-Agency Owners: The Biggest Mistake I’ve Ever Seen. Lori publishes the Integrate & Ignite blog and podcast, both of which focus on integrating marketing, leadership, and entrepreneurialism. She is a member of the Forbes Agency Council and serves on the board of several nonprofits.

Lori became president of Avocet Communications at age 32. She was in charge of strategic planning and new business development achieving steady growth thru 2012. Once she was able to have all of her children in school, and spend a little more time at work, explosive growth was seen throughout the agency. Under Lori’s strategic leadership, Avocet was given 2014 and 2015 Northern Colorado Fastest Growing Business accolades, as well as making her mark on Colorado’s Top 50 women owned business. The agency’s program consistently creates double-digit customer count growth for its clients.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• The “sea of sameness” that plagues businesses
• Lori’s background and how her career led to her owning an agency
• What Avocet Communications does differently to increase customer counts for their clients
• The changes Lori’s seen since she joined her industry
• Inbound vs outbound marketing: what you need to know
• What changed in Lori’s senior year of college that led her to pursue marketing instead of her planned career of broadcasting
• Lori’s Integrate and Ignite podcast
• The lessons Lori learned the first time she had to worry about money after her dad’s security was no longer there
• What Lori learned after maxing out her first credit card
• The best and worst financial decisions Lori ever made
• Why Lori doesn’t lend anyone money anymore
• The wonderful story of how she met and fell in love with her husband
• The extracurriculars that Lori is involved in with her children and what her family always does over the summer
• What Lori teaches her kids about money

Ways to contact Lori:

• Twitter: @LoriJones
• Website: avocetcommunications.com

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Brenda J. Esopi has diverse experience in healthcare management for over 20 years. Initially, she obtained a diploma in nursing from Robert Packer Hospital School of Nursing which served as the stepping stone to further her education where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Syracuse University. Further, Brenda went on to successfully obtain an M.B.A. from Saint Joseph’s University, which solidified her educational track and assisted her in a highly successful managerial career path.

Brenda served as the Executive Director of Cardiovascular Alliance of the Delaware Valley, Executive Director of Mainline Arrhythmia and Cardiology Consultants, Executive Director and Vice President of Main Line Health Heart Center and currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of Urology Health Specialists since 2007. Over the years, Brenda has made strategic decisions that have increased revenue, developed infrastructure and grown practices all while maintaining the leadership required to sustain focus and dedication.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Why Brenda got an M.B.A. in Finance instead of Healthcare
• How health care has morphed into a business over time
• Why Brenda got into nursing in the first place
• Why Brenda decided to get a Bachelor’s degree when she did
• The lessons of money that Brenda learned from her mother at a young age
• Brenda’s long-term career as a babysitter before her real career
• The uncertainty of the healthcare market, the vulnerability of her job, and what Brenda is doing about it
• The best and worst investments Brenda has made
• How Brenda manages distractions by changing what she sees as her distractions
• How Brenda juggles everything in her life
• What Brenda does for fun
• The accountant that was a huge mentor in Brenda’s life
• What Brenda would tell a young woman today
• What Brenda sees herself doing in retirement

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Stacey Alcorn is an entrepreneur, author, business owner, attorney, blogger, and mom. Stacey’s keynotes, blogs, and radio show continue to offer a compelling message about defining and achieving your dreams.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Stacey’s entrepreneurial journey coming from nothing, amassing wealth, losing it all, and what she’s done differently since then
• How Stacey has gotten past the naysayers in her family
• Stacey’s story of getting into real estate by flipping 20 properties while in college
• Stacey’s book “Reach” and helping an audience who feels helplessness
• How Stacey created an army of people who have helped her achieve her dreams
• Lessons that Stacey has learned from being a mom
• Stacey’s other business, Little Black Box, a subscription business for jewelry and accessories
• Why Stacey signed up for law school on her 30th birthday and why achieving that bucket list goal made her rethink her entire list
• Stacey’s life-changing experience volunteering in an orphanage in Haiti and why she wants to spend time making the world a better place
• Stacey’s regimented schedule and what she needs to accomplish to win the day
• Stacey’s system for saving money that she doesn’t touch
• The vision board that Stacey uses

Ways to contact Stacey:

• Website: www.staceyalcorn.com

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