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Find out how childhood cancer changed Auburn Curry's life, and how her story can change yours!

Women Who Boss Up debuted on the Amazon Best Seller List! Author and life coach Jennifer M. Blair talked with Hollie and Megan about the success of the book, building resilience, achieving goals and more! Check out her website, www.excavive.com

Watcha waiting for?! Launch your dream! That’s what Tokie Cummings did. Tokie is a Kentucky native who worked with other Boss Ladies to bring her dream of being the CEO of a boutique to life. Tokie started with an online store and recently opened a boutique in Elizabethtown. She talks with Hollie and Megan about overcoming fear to pursue her dreams, mentorship, fashion, opening a brick and mortar store during the pandemic, learning on the job, partnering with model Jescanta Lucas and dressing women of all sizes. Visit Tokie & Taylor on Facebook, TokieandTaylor, T&TOnline and Sanamodel4u on Instagram and shop local 428 West Dixie Hwy, Elizabethtown, Kentucky! Call Tokie, 270-300-7954.

Megan and Hollie break ground by having their first male guest on the Boss Lady Coaching Podcast! Boss Ladies, welcome Jerry Mraz! He talks mentorship and its many benefits.

Get to know Jerry Mraz: He enjoyed a 38-year career in the Defense Department, serving for 22 years in uniform in the Army, beginning as a Private and retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel, followed by 16 years as a Department of Defense Civilian, and later Department of the Army Civilian. During his active duty service with the Army he was assigned to various locations around the world, including three combat tours of duty. Mr. Mraz served three command tours, culminating as a Base Support Battalion commander in Germany.

His first five years in Federal Civil Service began with The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington DC. While with DIA, Mr. Mraz worked in operations and support for DIA’s global missions and activities. He moved to a position with the US Army Human Resources Command in 2009, and relocated with the command to Fort Knox, Kentucky. Mr. Mraz was assigned as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel and Logistics for the command, until his retirement in December 2018.

He is a graduate of Idaho State University (BA, Political Science and MPA), the Naval Postgraduate School (MA, National Security), and Norwich University (MA, American History). He and his wife LaAnna reside in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. They have four children, and six grandchildren…and two fur babies, Bella (a Bernese Mountain Dog) and Chole (a sweet rescue dog).

Braving change can be your greatest challenge and help you discover your strongest allies! Megan and Hollie spoke with Sherry Duffy about self worth, the journey to change situations, passion projects, being an empowered consumer of information, taking back personal power during a crisis and gathering around the proverbial campfire to listen, learn and grow.

Sherry Duffy is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the School of Public Health and Information Sciences (SPHIS). Sherry has primary responsibility for the operations of the SPHIS research office and the Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky (CIK), overseeing development and maintenance of the infrastructure related to administration, financial management, communication, community engagement, and content expertise. This entails cultivating relationships with stakeholders, government agencies, funding organizations, faculty, and community partners, as well as organizational strategy and marketing of CIK and SPHIS. Building upon the relationships she creates opportunities for growth, connecting faculty and staff to appropriate community partners and government agencies.
Teaching Part-Time in the UofL Organizational Leadership and Learning program allows her to fulfill a passion of helping adult learners achieve their academic goals. She teaches: HR Fundamentals, Diversity in the Workplace, Needs Assessment, Project Management, Workplace & Information Ethics and Coaching and Talent Management.

What can I do? On this podcast Megan & Hollie talk with Jerisia Lamons. She is the director of Cultural Diversity at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. Jerisia has been with the Boss Lady Network since its inception. Jerisia spoke with us on zoom about a new series she is spearheading at ECTC called R.I.S.E. Rise is an acronym for Race, Inequity, Solidarity, Empathy. We look around our community and watch the news and wonder, what can I do? Listen and share, so we can move beyond scrolling and unfriending on Facebook and take action.