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The People Side of Funding and Being Funded Guest Shona Elliott

Shona Elliott is an experienced senior leader who is passionate about helping other senior leaders connect and engage with their greatest assets – their employees – for the purposes of building trust, increasing employee engagement, and achieving an organization’s strategic goals. As a previous CEO, with fifteen years of senior leadership experience, Shona understands the many challenges and competing priorities of busy executives. Having been in their shoes, Shona recognized and harnessed the power of a positive, anything is possible mindset. This mindset coupled with her leadership philosophy of alignment with employees helped Shona achieve her organizations’ goals all while increasing employee engagement. In March, 2020 Shona’s first book: Create Value as a Senior Leader achieved best-selling status on Amazon. It is scheduled for print and audio publication in the fall and will be in bookstores in April, 2021. Shona has been a guest on many podcasts and is scheduled to be interview...

Building Wealth through a Career in Financial Services: One Woman’s Journey

Beth co-founded Socium Fund Services to bring the alternative asset community a private fund focused administrator that combines advanced technology with high-touch consultative client service. Beth has over 25 years of financial services experience in institutional fixed income portfolio management and fund administration. Beth’s passion for providing superior client service has fueled her desire to offer boutique fund services to the private fund industry. Check out this episode!

How Executive Jennifer Jackson of Hungry Howie’s Pizza is Helping Mom's Get Into Business

Jennifer has been involved with Hungry Howie’s Pizza since age 10 and officially started as a Hungry Howie’s employee in 1998 as Fundraising Coordinator. In 2000, she was promoted to Director of Marketing and in 2005, Jennifer was named Director of Marketing & Franchise Development. After taking a brief hiatus to work in various other marketing and franchise positions, Jennifer returned to Hungry Howie’s in 2012 as Director of Franchise Development, restructuring the department and qualification process. Today, executive mom Jennifer is Vice President of Development and has helped the company open nearly 550 locations in 21 states! The concept has emerged as a major player within the pizza marketplace, consistently ranking in the top 10 of the nation’s largest pizza franchises. Tell us about Hungry Howie’s and how the business has been during these past few months? Please tell share your career journey and lessons you’ve learned along the way. How did you manage work-life balan...