Stories from the edges of music and media with a focus on Chicagoland area, comedy, popular culture, writing... Interviews with far from the mainstreaml artists, musicians and directors. "On the fly" episodes (while she's driving the mean streets)...where your host hairdresser, writer, musician and girl on the street...will keep you informed about exciting goings-on- with mind blowing commentary and stuff you did't even know you gave a shit about!
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The Honest Field Guide presents intimate conversations with entrepreneurs and business owners that share their origin stories, startup strategies and their surprising discoveries during their journey to success. The podcast is produced by Birk Creative, a research and creative strategic consulting agency that designs and implements social and digital media solutions, develops brand and visual identities and implements multichannel strategies for business. Theme song "Sam's Ranch" provided co ...
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Ep 69 How To Design and Create Conditions for Liberatory Joy and Not Oppression A Conversation with Dr Dori Tunstall, Author Decolonizing Design A Cultural Justice Guidebook
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Join JinJa Birkenbeuel, host, and Dr. Dori Tunstall, Design Anthropologist, as they delve into the challenging conversation surrounding decolonizing design. Discover how outdated ideologies have hindered progress and learn how to create a more inclusive and just design space. Learn more about Dori here https://dori3.typepad.com/my_weblog/%20(Blog A…
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I am a Non Playable Character by JinJa Birkenbeuel
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JinJa Birkenbeuel reads her latest personal essay "I am mediocre. I am a non-playable character. And I am okay with it." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-honest-field-guide/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-honest-field-guide/support…
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Ep. 68: How To Build A Thought Leadership Business Using Professional PR. A Conversation with Judy Kalvin of Kalvin Public Relations
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All content ©Birkdesign Inc. This podcast represents the personal views of JinJa Birkenbeuel, CEO of Birk Creative and its employees. Please subscribe and the donate to our show. We would love your dollars to keep going! We can take a donation to support our podcast here and we will shout you our when you do it on an upcoming podcast: https://ancho…
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Ep. 67 - What Do Curls Have To Do With Love, Success, Transformation and Business? Lots! A Conversation with Curly Hair Innovator Cally Raduenzel from Cally's Curls, Chicago
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Calling all curly, Afro'd and natural-haired people! You have got to check in!I am soo excited y'all! I have an incredible conversation with Cally Raduenzel, curly hair innovator and founder of Cally's Curls and Company in Chicago releasing tomorrow.Some of you may know, through my brand channel Birk Creative, and also my personal story that I rele…
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My Sunday Morning Got Sidetracked by Deep Thoughts...in a comical way...
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Get on your treadmill, start up your car, hop on the L Train and listen to my most poignant thoughts which will be anchored in comedy. Ramble with me for a hot 23 minutes as I solve the problems of the world while listening to some cool ass music and giving you the straight dope on this fine Sunday morning in Rogers Park, Chicago, USA! Headphones r…
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Lunatic Fringe/Rubber Rodeo/Quimby's/Chicago Stories, The Nails...and more Music and Mayhem!
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Music, mayhem and connecting the dots! My love of all things weird and wonderful and the road to possibly finding a new vision for Chicago Stories my book of "fly on the wall" moments. Talking here about lost bands, reads and places that need rediscovering.By Cally Raduenzel
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The Birk Creative Reset 8: Review of "All Black Errythang" A Book of Poetry by Chanel Murray
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In this episode, I share my experiences at the Sundance Film Festival and highlights an entrepreneur artist, writer, and poet named Chanel Murray. I continue to reconnect with people that I met at the festival and my conversations with Poet Chanel Murray are among the best ones. In this Creative Reset, I read from Chanel Murray's book of poetry, 'A…
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New Limited Edition Talk Show: Part II The Honest "Political" Guide, feat. Two Vibrant Entrepreneurs From Chicago [JinJa Birkenbeuel x Mary Nisi]
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Welcome to The Honest Field Guide Season 3 kick-off. For the first time, I have a podcast episode that requires a disclaimer: "Listener Discretion" advised. My guest Mary Nisi (Toast & Jam DJs) and I are 100% funny, and at times, are using strong language. Some topics in this episode may make some listeners cringe. But this IS the HONEST Field Guid…
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Ep. 66 - Live from 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A business conversation with Alex Lora Cercos, Director of the Sundance Grand Jury Award “The Masterpiece.”
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Film Director and Writer Alex Lora and I sit down to discuss his latest film "The Masterpiece" which just hours earlier, won the Sundance Grand Jury Award. Alex was in shock and also battling a bad cold during our conversation. But nothing dampens his creative spirit and how fortunate I was to have stumbled across Alex to have this conversation! En…
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The Birk Creative Reset 7: Featuring the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
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Hi welcome back to my show. A quick update: I will be at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival representing Full Spectrum Features as a newly appointed Director to their board, to participate in the premier of their first film "Desire Lines." I am also reporting in on the festival for WVON 1690 AM Chicago to discover the latest independent films created …
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The Creative Reset 6: 6 minutes of inspiration for burned-out entrepreneurs
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Burn-out is real. A year-end inspirational and hopeful reading "Practical advice on burnout—what works and what sucks—from someone who’s dealt with it" by JinJa Birkenbeuel. Happy new year everyone! *At the end I meant to say "See you in 2024!" Not 2022. 🤣🤣🤣 All content ©Birkdesign Inc. This podcast represents the personal views of JinJa Birkenbeue…
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Ep 65 - How A Small Business Owner Can Innovate With Their Own Mini Supply Chain with Michelle Covey, Vice President at GS1 USA.mp4
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Michelle Covey is here on my show today. She is the Vice President of Innovation at GS1US, where she overseas delivery of programs and services designed to support efficient and accurate GS1 standards implementation for companies of all sizes. When you are a manufacturer or a retailer, you need an authentic way to identify your products if you want…
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New Limited Edition Talk Show: The Honest "Political" Guide - Part I., feat. Two Vibrant Entrepreneurs From Chicago [JinJa Birkenbeuel x Mary Nisi]
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The city of Chicago right now is feeling really, really awkward to me. I don't know what's happening here or, what we need to do. But I want to talk about this awkwardness, so I decided to incorporate these little local politics conversations on my show with my fellow outspoken entrepreneur Mary Nisi, owner of Toast and Jams DJs. Chicago: What the …
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The Creative Reset 5: 15 minutes of inspiration for entrepreneurs read by JinJa Birkenbeuel
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How to be who you are. An inspirational and hopeful reading from "1000+ Little Things Happy Successful People Do Differently" by Marc & Angel Chernoff All content ©Birkdesign Inc. This podcast represents the personal views of JinJa Birkenbeuel, CEO of Birk Creative and its employees. Please subscribe and the donate to our show. We would love your d…
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Ep. 64 - Doreen Lorenzo on Why Attending College Still Matters for Creatives (and how to create a sustainable career as a woman in design)
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Doreen Lorenzo is a successful leader of global creative firms; as the former president of frog design and Quirky she has advised companies on design and innovation issues for decades. In 2016 she started the Center for Integrated Design at the University of Texas at Austin. The success of that program led her in 2017 to be appointed Assistant Dean…
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Ep. 63 Every Gen Z Entrepreneur Needs To Listen Up to Matt Burzec, Sneakerhead and Founder, Kicks of Chicago
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I interviewed Matt Burzec at the start of the pandemic. He was a senior in high school, and had so many plans that withered away. The one plan that didn't was his nascent dream of entrepreneurship. Little did he know, that my initial interview of him in mid 2020, would spark his long view entrepreneurship journey, one that would send him to Univers…
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The Creative Reset 4: 15 minutes of inspiration for entrepreneurs read by JinJa Birkenbeuel
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A bonus track to share before I release my next episode. Also, my first video/audio track. Here I am discussing the release of my first story, that is published by Fast Company Magazine. It's a story about my professional brand crisis brought on by my decision to allow my hair to go natural. All content ©Birkdesign Inc. This podcast represents the …
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Ep. 62 - Christie Hefner: An Intimate Conversation With The Powerhouse Behind The Playboy (That Saved One Of The Most Iconic Brands In The World)
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Show notes coming shortly! ---- Music found on this episode is available on Apple here https://music.apple.com/us/artist/utah-carol/137984081 and provided courtesy Utah Carol (ASCAP). All content ©Birkdesign Inc. This podcast represents the personal views of JinJa Birkenbeuel, CEO of Birk Creative and its employees. Mastering by Kris Zarnoch. Pleas…
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David Berman/Purple Mountains/Critical Thinking and Margaritas At The Mall
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David Berman was a great song writer who killed himself. BUT he left behind one of the most profound YET bouncy/ poignant/ and unforgettable music albums with his band Purple Mountains. He was a smart man, deep soul, wordsmith and in my humble opinion genius. His music greatly affected my life and he is the topic of one of my Chicago Stories....hea…
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The Creative Reset 3: 10 minutes of inspiration for entrepreneurs read by JinJa Birkenbeuel from "No Idea Is Final" Published by Phaidon Books
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I cleansed my spirit by reading from a brand new bright orange book that just arrived in my mailbox 'No Idea Is Final" published by Phaidon Books. It's packed with thoughtful and grounding quotes by some of the most famous creators of all time. This book is a creative cleanse for anyone that thinks and creates, anything. ---- Thank you for joining …
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Chicago Musicians/ Neal Francis and The Metalliques
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Two of my favorite "new" Chicago bands you may not know about and will love. Neal Franics is funky, instantly gratifying and will hook your ear from the get go. We will be talking about him on Lunatic Fringe. The Metalliques and smoky, haunting and like watching a movie in a song- they will put a spell on you...don't fight it! #metalliques #nealfra…
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This is one of the stories from my soon to be published book "Chicago Stories: An Outsiders View from the Inside". These are true life tales by yours truly shared for your reading/listening pleasure! I hope they inspire some fun conversations about your personal "Chicago Stores"...this specific story is about the perils and pleasures of "Riding The…
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The Creative Reset 2: 5 minutes of inspiration for entrepreneurs read by JinJa Birkenbeuel from "Taxi Driver Wisdom" written by Risa Mickenberg
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After a long week, sometimes, it feels good to touch grass, or read a real book or think and then repeat it outloud. Today I do this by reading excerpts from "Taxi Driver Wisdom" written by Risa Mickenberg. This book has inspired me for years and years. Not only because it's about New York City, the greatest city in the world. But rather, by the me…
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Ep. 61 Candace Nelson, Sprinkles Cupcakes - How To Establish, Build, Grow and Scale a Business That You Can Sell--From Scratch!
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Thank you for joining me today. You could be listening to any podcast in the world right now, but you are choosing to listen to mine. If you are a new listener to my show, please subscribe to my show on Apple or Spotify podcasts or search on Google “The Honest Field Guide Podcast” and look for Google Podcasts where you can listen to my show right f…
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Update from JinJa Birkenbeuel: The Creative Reset
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Hello everyone! I've received messages and emails asking "Where ya been JinJa?" So, I wanted to share this quick message to let you know, I'm still here and have a line up with some amazing entrepreneurs coming up this month and next. :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-honest-field-guide/messageSupport this …
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Chicago Stories Memoir/ Reintroducing Lunatic Fringe
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Cally will re-introduce Lunatic Fringe her podcast, which focuses on stories from the edges of music and media. She will discuss lively topics from local dive bars like Phyllis' Musical Inn to author/artist Dmitry Samarov and how he influenced the conception of her book. She'll also tell you a little bit about her forthcoming book Chicago Stories: …
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Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Winner of The Pulitzer for Fiction
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Happy new year! 2023 is going to be the Year of the Creator, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. You've been waiting for this opportunity your entire work life. I thought it would be helpful to share what entrepreneurship looks like from the lens of a Pulitzer prize winning author, who was raised by entrepreneurs that overcame extreme adversity. And i…
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Ep 60 - Jenny Wood: How To Be Extraordinary While Navigating Your Career From Within (a whale)
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Ep. 59 - Bethanie Baynes: How To Navigate Your Life In America As A Bread-Winning Woman
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Ep. 58 - Blackness On The Edge of Town with Lisa Beasley, Entrepreneur, Comedian and Actor
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Loving the conversation because I ask Lisa how her home at the kitchen table experience with her family may have mirrored Jim Carrrey’s who frequently talks about his life at the dinner table with his father growing up as a young boy. This episode is sponsored by CPASS Foundation. CPASS (CREATING PATHWAYS AND ACCESS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS™) Foundation…
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Ep. 57 - NFT Maven Michelle Reeves: The Hunter and Gatherer of the NFT Fashion Business
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Ep. 57 - NFT Maven Michelle Reeves: The Hunter and Gatherer of the NFT Fashion Business Michelle Reeves is an ecosystem of knowledge. As Cofounder & CEO of MAVION.world a fashion and NFT marketplace, her journey from growing up in Australia, the younger sister of a superstar athlete brother, born to military parents, she was already groomed for a p…
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Ep. 56 - The Story of the $200 Digital Sticker That Converted to Six Figures, with Matt Schapiro
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The NFT art space reminds me of THE WORST parts of high school. It’s *traumatizing* to be here! You have to be have the ability to SILENCE ALL CRITICS, including yourself. Otherwise, you will be destroyed (or self-destruct). In comes Matt Schapiro, owner of imnotart, an NFT gallery located in Chicago, to save us from the eve of destruction. In our …
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Ep. 55 - Traveling Down the Rabbit Hole of NFT Wonder with Futurist Artist Giovanna Sun aka dubwoman
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Giovanna Sun, aka dubwoman, is a futurist, writer, a blockchain advisor, artist, curator and owner of several platforms that you can find on linktr.ee/dubwoman. Giovanna is also a specialist in creating original art and selling them as NFTs (non-fungible tokens). NFTs are controversial and complex and are now trending, for better or for worse, in t…
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Ep. 54 - How To Create The Sound of Curiosity with Cymatics Innovator Jacob Adlington
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Jacob Adlington is a visual sound artist and photographer from New Zealand, based in Brisbane, Australia who has a deep belief in the power of music and sound to shape our physical and mental realities and beyond. I met Jacob after stumbling down the Instagram rabbit hole of wonder, and discovered his vibrant and gorgeous channel representing the c…
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Ep. 53 - Dr. Akilah Cadet on How To Be An Accomplice While Dismantling White Supremacy
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Dr. Akilah Cadet, is founder and CEO Change Cadet, a global agency that prepares individuals and companies to be soldiers of change in the workforce so there can be more women and people of color at the top. Our vibrant and at times uncomfortable conversation will have you questioning your own internal narratives about race and will challenge you o…
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Ep. 52 - Rana Reeves, CEO of RanaVerse - How To Create Equity in Business
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Rana Reeves, CEO of global ad agency RanaVerse, shares his unique and spidey-sense upbringing journey from London to NYC, the impact that the recent American #blm movement had on his continued transformation of self, as well as strategies on what leaders in advertising can do to nudge brands to change -- from the inside. Visit RanaVerse at https://…
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It's the Preparation H of podcasts! You were burning and scratching to know more about this ticket to paradise...literally all in one book! Lisa Marie Peabody interviews Cally Raduenzel your host of Lunatic Fringe ( the podcast about stories from the edges of music and media in the Chicagoland area...and more)! Cally Raduenzel wrote a book and it t…
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Ep. 51 - Desperately Seeking Erika Gerdes, Founder, The Art of Undoing
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Visit Erika Gerdes at https://erikagerdes.com. When superstar Madonna stepped off the mic and onto the big screen for “Desperately Seeking Susan,” she had no idea how it would transform her life and career and cement her as a timeless global icon. Meet Erika Gerdes, a business leader formerly from Google who turned herself from outward reflection t…
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Ep. 50 - The Oprah Winfrey of Plants: A Growing Conversation with Nika Vaughan, Founder of Plant Salon
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Welcome to season two of the Honest Field Guide Podcast! Ep. 50 - The Oprah Winfrey of Plants: A Growing Conversation with Nika Vaughan, Founder of Plant Salon We've missed you all! It's been a minute since we've released an episode. 2020 may have slowed us down, but it didn't take asunder! No sir! Excited to present our first conversation of 2021 …
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The hits keep on coming....actually this is more of an actual review of Technicolor Paradise, a CD compilation by Numero Group of an amazing assortment of "a musical cocktail...two parties easy listening, one part jazz..." conga drums, bird calls, alluring sexy vibes, "mosquito bitten torch singers, mad genius band leaders, D-List actors," who need…
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Permanent Vacation/Oahu/Lounge Tiki Lifestyle...
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Polynesian Village, remember that...or Don Ho? Well in this shorty episode we will cover a fun new compilation CD called Technicolor Paradise, which according to the label who put it out, Numero Group...it's all about "rum rhapsodies and other exotic delights' from the music of Les Baxter to Martin Denny. Then we will chat about Permanent Vacation …
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Repeat - Stories From The Frontlines Interview with JinJa Birkenbeuel, CEO, Birk Creative
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This is a great time to reintroduce our audiences to our founder JinJa Birkenbeuel's story, which was originally broadcast in 2018. Given the recent earned media interview of JinJa by legendary designer Doreen Lorenzo in Fast Company Magazine (https://www.fastcompany.com/90596177/want-to-succeed-in-design-and-business-support-women), we thought it …
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Ep. 49 - Dr. Jeffreen Hayes: A Conversation on The Whiteness of Being, with a Capital W
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How do you stay driven, purposeful, focused and positive while being Black at work? Listen in as Dr. Jeffreen Hayes, Ph.D., founder of for the love of blk, https://www.fortheloveofblk.com, and Executive Director of Threewalls, https://three-walls.org, talks with The Honest Field Guide about how she stands her ground for Blackness during her magnifi…
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Ep. 48 - Forbes Contributor Cheryl Robinson: Pivoting On Purpose
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Guiding question: How are you surviving being a business owner during the pandemic? #### Follow our show on http://www.instagram.com/honestfieldguide or at http://www.twitter.com/thehonestfield. We would love your dollars to keep going! We can take a donation to support our podcast here and we will shout you our when you do it on an upcoming podcas…
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Ep. 47 Coach David Stephens On How To Keep a Swim Team Thriving During a Pandemic
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David Stephens, owner of Chicago's premier youth swim team CWAC Swimming (https://www.teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=iscwac) saw a big gap in the Chicago youth sports market. Coming from one of the country's number one swim states, Georgia, the city of Chicago had no elite swim teams, and no one seemed to be thinking of starting one. Chicago IS known …
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Ep. 46 Nicholas Whitaker The Accidental Entrepreneur's Journey To a Job at Google
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Take a ride and listen in on our rich and passionate conversation with Nicholas Whitaker, mindfulness and wellness coach and strategic partner lead for news at @google. The topic of health and wellness is so relevant for right now.Why? Because we, as entrepreneurs and small businesses in the United States, are all in what is turning out to be an in…
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Ep. 45 - Talal Raf On The Promise of Global Entrepreneurship A Young Leader Brings Change In Sri Lanka
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We speak with The World Economic Forum nominated and Forbes contributor Talal Rafi from Sri Lanka to hear his undertones of hope and promise of a better world for all entrepreneurs. Listen all the way to the end to find out what he would like from Apple for the future. Find our more about Talal https://profiles.forbes.com/members/business/profile/T…
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Ep. 44 - The Creative Spirit Never Dies a Conversation with Artist Jackie Kazarian
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How in the world does a young science student go on to earn her B.S. in Zoology to become an international fine artist, a cultural diplomat in Syria and Kuwait for the United States Department of State, and an entrepreneur all at the same time? Armenian-American artist Jackie Kazarian shows us the way in this rich conversation around creativity, cu…
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TALKING ABOUT...Covid Conversations. Chats or moments I would've never had if it weren't for COVID/ quarantine!By Cally Raduenzel
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Ep. 43 - Finding Beauty a Conversation with Dayna Isom Johnson America's Top Trend Expert from NBC's Makin' It and Etsy
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Dayna Isom Johnson knew from when she was eight years old making and selling mud pies in rural Virginia, that she wanted to be in the creative fashion industry. Think about this: Eight years old, and you already have your career planned out and designed! Dayna speaks brightly about the clarity of her creative path unsupported by racial "mirrors," b…
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