Dreamers to Leaders - Keeping it Real With Melody Podcast

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 31: How The Greek Gods Can Take Your Business To The Next Level

Scott Mason is a speaker, author, podcaster, and coach who helps his clients magnetize and monetize professional freedom using Greek Mythology's' fun, excitement, and deeper, universal meanings to help dislodge toxic myths -- igniting new levels of charisma within. After graduating from Columbia Law School, Scott worked for over 20 years as an attorney and senior executive with a variety of government and nonprofit organizations before successfully growing and scaling a manufacturing company.

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 30: How An Immigrant Doctor Disrupts Cross Boarder Health Care

Dr. Priyanka Mathur is a trained physician with working experience in the healthcare system of 3 different countries India, Russia, United States of America. She is a healthcare visionary, an enthusiast in AI & healthcare intersections, and the founder of MediPocket world a global initiative. She was born and brought up in India and pursued her medical studies in Russia. Later, she returned to India to practice her know-how, before eventually settling in the United States. During her career trajectory, Dr. Priyanka was immensely exposed to three different healthcare systems that helped her identify the major gaps. In her free time, Dr. Priyanka has volunteered to help Rural Educational Development in India and the AIDS Action Committee, NFTE (national youth entrepreneurship programs), women in tech programs, board members at universities entrepreneurship programs. She also has proficiency in five languages including English, Russian, Hindi, Sanskrit, and Spanish.

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 29: How To Get More Clients And Grow Your Business Through LinkedIn

Troy is the founder of ReturnClient & The Troy Agency. Troy has been a CAD draftsman, proudly served in the US Army, creative programmer, UI/UX designer, PM, entrepreneur, & single father. Known as the FIXER he helps solve problems & make things happen. Previously had an award-winning agency for gamification. Troy was lucky enough to develop & support interesting applications for both Fortune 500 companies & startups. From Harry Potter fan-based virtual world, & Xbox mobile app to Coca-Cola branded sites & applications.

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 28: How To Reclaim Your Health Through Alternative Healing

Teresa works with fellow Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs, assisting them in breaking through into their greatness and recognizing and building on their strengths. Her understanding of conscious energy makes her a perfect fit for any practitioner who strives to motivate others. Teresa holds many certifications, including being a Certified Professional Coach, a Certified Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner, PSYCH-K® Preferred Facilitator, PER-K® Catalyst, HeartMath® Certified Practitioner, and Muscle Testing Master. In addition to her private client practice, Teresa works with fellow Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs, assisting them in breaking through into their greatness and recognizing and building on their strengths. Her understanding of conscious energy makes her a perfect fit for any practitioner who strives to motivate others. Teresa holds many certifications, including being a Certified Professional Coach, a Certified Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner, PSYCH-K® Preferred Facilitator, PER-K® Catalyst, HeartMath® Certified Practitioner, and Muscle Testing Master.

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 27: Introverts vs Extroverts - Who is a better leader?

Terrance Lee, AKA The Introvert Leader had always avoided taking on leadership roles in his life. At the age of 13, an experience occurred which caused him to doubt his ability to speak in front of people, and caused him to shy away from the spotlight.  This worked for Terrance until he eventually had to learn leadership skills by necessity at his first engineering job out of college.  When he had been working in his first role for a short time, his mentor put in his two-week notice.  Terrance then found out that he had to take his place presenting to a group of experienced engineers and pilots for a highly technical review.  Despite feeling extremely nervous, the meeting that Terrance led went well; which gave him a giant confidence boost.   Since then, Terrance has taken on many leadership and management roles as an introvert at several Fortune 500 companies in the defense industry, with proven results.  He utilizes his platform to empower introverts to tap into their own inner leadership potential and is never shy about sharing the tips that he has learned throughout his journey.

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 26: How To Stop Analysis Paralysis And Ways To Get Un-stuck As An Entrepreneur

Murielle is a certified Beautiful You Life Coach and ILS Professional Coach, with 500+ training hours and 1500+ coaching hours, and has a Masters in Philosophy. She has more than 20 years of business experience. Before starting her successful coaching practice almost 7 years ago, she was an entrepreneur for 15 years, working in Tech. She’s started, grown, and sold companies both in Belgium and abroad. She has experience in branding, project management, sales and marketing. Her life-long learning includes mindfulness training, transcendental meditation teacher training, yoga, Feel the Fear accreditation, a year-long feminist marketing training, and certifications in positive psychology, conscious business and leadership and holistic health practices. In true multi-passionate creative fashion she’s currently continuing my coaching education in the fields of trauma recovery and attachment theory, she’s training as a financial advisor, and she has also spoken at TEDx. Her favorite things to do right now are saying f*uck it and doing life and business the way I want to, writing (birthing two book as we speak), investing, reading, eating chocolate mousse, and growing plants (lots of plants!).

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 25: How To Help Kids Thrive Socially And Mentally In These Uncertain Times

Lisa Caprelli is an author of 16 books, speaker and innovator with a passion for studying, expressing and writing about human behavior, communication and happiness. Lisa grew up with humble beginnings in the sun city of El Paso, Texas. She is proud of her Latin roots and culture. She has made Southern California her home for the past 20 years and is the mother of two sons. It is important to her to travel and do book tours to be able to reach as many children, educators, parents, librarians and schools with the positive and meaningful lessons she has learned and continues to learn. After 25 years in marketing and branding over 150 CEO's and turning their business into meaningful brands, Caprelli, created SKIP A STEP books and theory and launched UNICORN JAZZ to be able to reach children at very young ages. It is through using the best of SKIP A STEP stories and its journal in practice, that she was inspired to live a PURPOSE FILLED LIFE and create meaning and HAPPINESS out of her own life and be the catalyst to use her voice and turn them into words.

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 24: How Fashion Can Be A Force For Good

Learn how fashion can be a force for good. Grace Achieng is an actress and the Founder & CEO of Gracelandic. A sustainable women's clothing brand. She’s also currently a student at the University of Iceland, taking a BA in Icelandic as a second language.

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 23: How to Get Profitable Government Contracts For Small Businesses

Kizzy Parks owns and operates multiple businesses and have over $50 million in government contract awards. Through her latest company, GovCon Winners, she help service-based small business owners learn HOW to win profitable federal government contracts through the powerful CTC technique to grow their bottom line.

Dreamers to Leaders Ep. 22: How to Grow Your Company by Solving Unconscious Biases Dilemma

Learn how to grow your company by solving unconscious biases dilemma with Kelly Watson.

Kelly Watson is a Managing Partner of Orange Grove Consulting: Gender Equity and Inclusion Experts and a Part-time Instructor in the Executive MBA Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Kelly is also co-author of two books – The Next Smart Step: How to Overcome Gender Stereotypes and Build a Stronger Organization and The Orange Line: A Woman's Guide to Integrating Career, Family, and Life.

 

Kelly has spent more than 25 years as an accomplished operation and organizational development consultant. Prior to consulting, Kelly served as Vice President, Marketing for Telecom New Zealand USA and has held other senior operational roles. Kelly holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and an MBA from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

 

She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Denver.   Kelly is also a Recreation & Parks Commissioner for the City of El Segundo, CA. Outside of work, Kelly helps women and girls reach their full potential through coaching, refereeing, and playing soccer. She also serves on several non-profit boards.