Hosts Tracy Swain and JaVonne Williams are joined by Tina Louise Penn. Tina is the CEO of Cloud Plus Services which supports the needs for small and medium-sized businesses in fulfilling technology needs of a business. New technologies in IT, Telecommunication and Cyber Security Training allows a business to create environments that can thrive, be efficient, productive, security technology at the human level, enjoy teamwork and collaboration, think outside the box. Cloud Plus Services focus is to provide problem solving solutions so a business can focus on what is important for them and their growth and in the process, they experience exemplarily service. Growing up in South Central Los Angeles to the westside of Los Angeles and trained by the first Black ice skating star of Holiday on Ice, Mable Fairbanks, Tina became a competitive figure skater turning professional in 1977 and skating for the most prestigious show in the United States and Canada, the Ice Capades and touring with Gold Medalist Dorothy Hamill. Tina credits her growing years to her amazing mother in a lifestyle that prepared her for her life's journey. Tina has always placed herself in free flowing and interesting jobs and careers. And, as a result she has worked as a ski lift operator in South Lake Tahoe, PBX operator, in retail sales, and as a real estate agent which all these jobs required people skills, that prepared Tina for what was yet to come. As a risk taker, inquisitive, outgoing, supportive and loyal person, Tina prides herself for creating meaningful, personalized, and authentic experiences for customers that will continue to be a focus for companies. It is what customers want, and it is in a companies' best interest to cultivate and train their employees to be able to deliver authentic service. Tina is also an author featured in her coming soon book Black, Brilliant, and Beautiful. This book written by Women of Color share their success stories of encouragement about their journey of becoming an influential business leader. To learn more about Tina Lousie Penn and her Cloud Plus Services, visit her website: www.cloudplusservices.com or Facebook, Linkedin & Twitter Pages: @cloudplusservices or Email Tina at tina@cloudplusservices.com.

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068: How to be Inquisitive and Unstoppable with Tina Louise Penn

Hosts Tracy Swain and JaVonne Williams are joined by Jennifer Jayne. Jennifer is the Creative Business Coach behind Jennifer Jayne Coaching. Jennifer believes that everyone deserves to live their best life, right here and right now, and that it's possible with the right goals, mindset and clearly defined core values. In today's episode, Jennifer shares some tools and tidbits to assist with defining business goals and how to build an achievable business action plan. Through her company, Jennifer helps entrepreneurs identify their BIG dreams in order to make them a reality. She starts by building a solid foundation of intentional goals, detailed core values and routines that are mapped into an action plan so that her clients are focusing on the right direction -- to success.  Jennifer has nearly a decade of blogging experience with her lifestyle website, Busy Being Jennifer. She's also the mastermind behind Jayne Media, a digital content marketing business, that delivers high-level content curation and social media management. In her spare time, Jennifer is busy snuggling her rescue pup. When she indulges a few moments to herself, she enjoys cozy corners with a great book and a steaming hot cup of coffee. To learn more about Jennifer Jayne and her Coaching services, visit her website: thejenniferjayne.com (coming soon) or Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/marketingconfidence or Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/thejenniferjayne/

067: How to Lead with Your Core Values with Jennifer Jayne

Hosts Tracy Swain and JaVonne Williams are joined by Vance Morris. Vance Morris, is a birth control factory security guard turned Disney leader turned entrepreneur turned Client Experience Strategist.  In today’s market, what can a business or organization do to stand out from the crowd? In today's episode, Vance shares some invaluable methods to help our audience through their businesses - stand out in a Crowd. Make sure you take notes.....!!! Vance spent 10 years working for the mouse at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. He was on the opening team of the Yacht & Beach Club Resorts, a Night Club Manager at Pleasure Island, Service Trainer aboard the Empress Lilly and on the revitalization team of the Contemporary Resort. At the Contemporary, Vance got his crowning achievement, designing, opening and operating Chef Mickey’s, Disney’s flagship Character Dining experience. After leaving Disney (yes, people do leave), he utilized his skills to rescue or improve many of America’s companies and government agencies. His clients include Legal Seafoods, NASA, Rain Forest Cafe, Compass Group and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Tiring of corporate life (and 2 layoffs), Vance opened his own bricks & mortar business in 2007. After meteoric growth of his service business, other entrepreneurs began to seek him out for advice and council. Vance has shared the stage with Dan Kennedy, Steve Spurrier, Lou Ferrigno, Joe Theismann, Lee Cockerell, Dave Dee, Penn Jillette and many of the worlds premier entrepreneurs. His articles appear in industry publications and is often featured as a guest expert on customer service for several business radio shows. Please welcome to the show… The Disney Guy… Vance Morris To learn more about Vance Morris and his Consulting services, as a Speaker or his books visit his website: www.deliverservicenow.com or Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/VanceMorrisDisneyGuy or Linkedlin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vancemorris/

066: How to Stand Out in a Crowd with The Disney Guy, Vance Morris

Hosts Tracy Swain and JaVonne Williams are joined by Betty-Anne Howard. Betty-Anne grew up “poor” by Canadian standards and her Father couldn’t read or write. She’s been driven all her life with a passion to learn and share information that is practical, accessible and fun! She is an author, professional speaker, course creator and Financial Planner managing over $40 Million of assets in her thriving business. In today's episode, Betty-Anne shares with our audience her personal call to action, which guides her daily life, and how she has continued to live her hero’s journey. Betty-Anne Howard, a CFP, CLU, CHS, CEA is an award winning certified financial planner, speaker and author. For over 20 years, Betty-Anne has been guiding women, couples and families to realize their financial dreams and has shared her vision with audiences around the world. In addition to being a financial planner for the past twenty years, she also holds a BA in Psychology and a Master’s of Social Work. Her first career saw her doing clinical social work with students while teaching at St. Lawrence College and Queen’s University. Currently Betty-Anne's focus is on helping people Imagine Their Legacy: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond - Living the Hero’s Journey. To learn more about Betty-Anne Howard and her financial planning services or her books visit her website: www.bettyannehoward.com or Twitter @Bettyannecfp, her Instagram Page: BettyAnneHoward, or Facebook Page MakingDreamsaReality.

065: How to Live a Hero's Journey with Betty-Anne Howard

Hosts Tracy Swain and JaVonne Williams are joined by Robert A. Belle. Robert joined us from Kenya, Africa and is a transformational speaker, author and ACCA Qualified Accountant. He helps people who feel stuck in their career or life journey to break away from the “norm” and find new paths that reveal their true value. In today's eposide, Robert discusses how everyone has creativity and how to tap into their creatvity, his journey to entrepreneurship and how he manages work-life balance. With his new book "Blow The Lid Off!", Robert is on a global mission to help individuals who feel inferior and have given up on their dreams to think freely, create unapologetically and live abundantly. As a Champion of Creativity, Robert helps people who feel stuck in their career or life journey to break away from the “norm” and find new paths that reveal their true value. To learn more about Robert Belle, his services and his new book, on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robert_A_Belle, on Linkedlin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-belle-acca-creativity-speaker/, on Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/RobertAgufanaBelle, on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert_A_Belle, on his Youtube Channel: https://m.youtube.com/user/BlackRobb55, or his Website: https://robertabelle.com/.

064: How to ‘Blow the Lid Off’ Your Creativity with Robert Belle

Hosts Tracy Swain and JaVonne Williams are joined by Amani Roberts. Amani Roberts is a Washington, DC born and bred creative and graduate of Howard University, who has been a DJ since 2008. Amani currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and is the Chief Musical Curator for his entertainment and production company, The Amani Experience. Amani has produced remixes of numerous popular artists and hosts a weekly podcast called “The Amani Experience Podcast” where he interviews creative professionals from all over the world about why they took the leap from corporate life to the creative life. Amani is also an adjunct professor at Cal State University - Fullerton (CSUF), teaching Entertainment Money Management in the Mihaylo School of Business & Economics as well as the Co-Director for the Center for Entertainment & Hospitality Management. Amani’s first book, “DJs Mean Business: One Night Behind The Turntables Can Spin Your Company’s Success” was released in April of 2020. To learn more about Amani Roberts and his podcast or Amaniexperience, on (Instagram/Facebook/Twitch/Twitter) @amaniexperience, Website: www.amaniexperience.com.

063: How to Spin Up Good Business with Amani Roberts (DJ AmRo) of The Amani Experience

Hosts Tracy Swain and JaVonne Williams are joined by Robert Danger Workman. Robert Danger Workman is a 40-year veteran in face-to-face, day-in and day-out selling. He has published numerous sales training/human development programs and spoken to thousands of sales reps nationwide and internationally. His consistent track record as #1 in sales includes top producer titles from companies with 100 to 800 reps, but also includes being fired while producing consistent superlative results – for making too much money. Danger is literally his middle name; he has never taken the safe road anywhere. He is an entrepreneur, a connoisseur and a raconteur who supports exotic cat rescues, has lived with several mountain lions and a pack of wolves as house pets, owned half a dozen Ferraris and currently resides in a downtown warehouse in Dallas. Robert has purchased Ferraris and has had his phone turned off and his gasoline card seized at gas stations because he couldn’t pay the bills - then bounced back to - purchase Ferraris by writing a single check. Robert’s highly anticipated second book, Hired Gun II: The Essential Guide for Top Salespeople, is an entertaining journey through the highs and lows of an outrageous and hilarious successful professional career in sales. His first book Hired Gun was released earlier and both books can been purchased via Amazon, Books-A-Million, Barnes & Nobles, or Apple Books. To learn more about Robert Workman and his books, visit his LinkedIn: Robert Workman, his Facebook Page: Facebook: The Original Hired Gun, or his Website: www.HiredGun2.com

062: How to Master Sales with Robert Workman

Hosts Tracy Swain and JaVonne Williams are joined by Suzanne Tulien. Suzanne is the Co-founder of Brand Ascension, an experiential consulting and training firm that works with organizations & solopreneurs to achieve transformational and sustainable brand success through strategic internal brand defining and aligning practices. As pioneer of the brand defining methodology —Brand DNA (Dimensional Nucleic Assets®) and the Brand DNA Journey™—she has helped numerous small, to medium-sized businesses create consistent, relevant, and distinctive experiences that engage, inspire, and win their employees and customers for life; not to mention position their Brands for extraordinary growth. She is author of three books: Brand DNA, Personal Brand Clarity, and The 6 Myths of Small Business Branding. Her goal is to clarify the client brand’s value position and guide them to walk their talk and deliver on their promise every time. In 2011, Suzanne reengineered her Business Brand DNA methodology to support the solopreneurs of the world and engage them into becoming more conscious, strategic, and deliberate in assigning deep meaning to their own personal brands as they show up in their business. Since then, she has been running Personal Brand Presence masterminds, workshops, and speaking and training. In 2020, Suzanne launched a comprehensive online course, “Ignite Your Personal Brand Presence DNA,” to help the solo-professional identify, define, and align themselves to realize their unique distinction and ultimate competitive advantage to live their potential from the inside out. As a certified trainer in experiential and accelerated adult-learning methodologies, BA delivers highly effective brand consulting and facilitation sessions onsite, online (virtual web-based), and on demand that engage the different learning styles and ways humans process information: Auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and intellectual. Her techniques maximize and ensure each person’s contribution to the brand-building process. This approach transfers the discovery and understanding of the critical elements of a brand that make the 178 Personal Brand Clarity business unique and supports the overall strategic positioning of the brand as part of the organization’s core business strategy. To learn more about Suzanne Tulien and her company's services, visit her LinkedIn: @linkedin.com/in/suzannetulien, her Facebook Page: www.Facebook.com/BrandAscension, or her Instagram Page: www.Instagram.com/BrandAscension

061: How to Ignite Your Personal Brand Presence DNA with Suzanne Tulien

Two Chics in the City is a podcast focused on growth and learning for small business owners as they travel through the entrepreneurial journey.  Guests at various stages of the journey join hosts Tracy Swain and Javonne Williams as they take a comical yet educational look at the common struggles, concerns and successes of small businesses. 

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