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Breaking the Mold in Tech & Talent with Lourdes Nanong · Teach Me Something Hosted By DJ Prostyle & Penny Dellas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: This is DJ pro Style and this is Pennydellas.
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  Speaker 1: And this is Teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 2: Brought to you by Berkeley College. We are here with a.
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  Speaker 3: Fabulous guest today who is a leader changing the way
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  Speaker 3: talent meets opportunity, especially in tech.
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  Speaker 2: Which we all need.
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  Speaker 3: We are here with Alu to this no non hey hey,
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  Speaker 3: which is the director of Talent Solutions at per Scholars and.
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  Speaker 2: Also a Berkeley College alumna, Go Nights. Welcome to this.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much for having me, Thank.
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  Speaker 1: You for being here.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, inserts the horns and there pa.
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  Speaker 2: Pa pa.
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  Speaker 1: We love it.
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  Speaker 3: So let's get into your journey. So your career path
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  Speaker 3: reflects incredible discipline and resilience. Take us back to your
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  Speaker 3: Berkeley college days where it all started.
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  Speaker 2: What kept you going?
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  Speaker 3: Working full time, taking full time courses which is taxing?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 3: We both did the business program and it's it's not
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  Speaker 3: for the week, No, it's not, but it's well worth it.
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  Speaker 3: So how did that look like for you, that work
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  Speaker 3: life balance.
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  Speaker 4: I mean at that time, I was just curious about everything.
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  Speaker 4: I think I was just raised a bit different, just
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  Speaker 4: watching my parents, you know, had a multitude of different jobs.
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  Speaker 4: My mom worked in the movie companies or Ryan and
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  Speaker 4: Paramount Pictures, and then my dad was working as a
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  Speaker 4: banquet waiter for some great hotels Hemsley Palace, Intercontinent Until
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  Speaker 4: Hotel and everything, and he also was a bartender as
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  Speaker 4: well in those locations. So I just felt that, you
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  Speaker 4: know what, like especially how a younger brother, he was
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  Speaker 4: also going to go to school too as well, in
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  Speaker 4: college and as well as Stony Brooks. So I said,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, let me help out and see what
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  Speaker 4: I could do.
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  Speaker 2: I was working.
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  Speaker 4: I got a job at Dwayne Made Pharmacy. I started
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  Speaker 4: off as a cashier with there. Found out they got
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  Speaker 4: paid more in the pharmacy tech section, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: so I was just like, oh, they're make twelve fifty
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  Speaker 4: an hour back then, and I was just like, this
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  Speaker 4: is great. So I studied and got my hippo training
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  Speaker 4: and everything and got that job. So I was around
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  Speaker 4: the same time, I was going to Berkeley College studying
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  Speaker 4: business administration management, and you know, it was it was
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  Speaker 4: rough in the beginning, and working like eight hours a day,
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  Speaker 4: going to school at night, and I was just, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was driven by the potential of what I could
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  Speaker 4: do and when I was working at Doane Reid, somebody
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  Speaker 4: was talking to me about bartending. So I ended up
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  Speaker 4: using some money that I made from Doane read went
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  Speaker 4: to bartending school, got a bartending job, and then got
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  Speaker 4: a second.
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  Speaker 2: Job during the time.
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  Speaker 4: It was at Berkeley College bartending at night, Friday and
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  Speaker 4: Saturday nights. So that actually boomed up even more so
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  Speaker 4: for me because I was, like, I think the hustle
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  Speaker 4: was real at that time as well, being a millennial
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  Speaker 4: and all, I just was just you know, focused on
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  Speaker 4: what I could possibly do where I could be. So
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  Speaker 4: I was just you know going through like overdrive at
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  Speaker 4: this point because I was just you know, studying and
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  Speaker 4: seeing money and I was just like super busy, and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I was just excited to where I could potentially go
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  Speaker 4: from from there. And I mean, obviously the great money
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  Speaker 4: from bartending was pretty great, helping out with twition fees
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  Speaker 4: and all that stuff. Five hundred and night Fridays and Saturdays.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's just extended to as well. And I
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  Speaker 4: was just you know excited to what can I could
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  Speaker 4: come through with learning from Berkeley College and maybe potentially
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  Speaker 4: owning my own business in the future. But things lead
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  Speaker 4: me led me to other things after that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and a college. Your potential is our promise.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I love I love the drive, right
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  Speaker 5: and the passion to want more and to do more.
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  Speaker 5: We always talk about these days. Like these days, you
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  Speaker 5: have to wear a multitude of hats in any any
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  Speaker 5: industry you're in, right, You can't just focus or be
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  Speaker 5: with one thing, And that's actually separated people like you
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  Speaker 5: from the people who get kind of comfortable with just
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  Speaker 5: because somebody could, first of all, being a bartender making
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  Speaker 5: five hundred dollars a night, right, that would really make
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  Speaker 5: you think, well, I can show you I should just
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  Speaker 5: do this, maybe maybe added maybe adding a few more nights. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: but you're thinking about the future, and I get it,
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  Speaker 5: and shout to the bartenders out.
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  Speaker 1: There too, because shot night life has that.
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  Speaker 5: But it's also helped so many people, even include obviously
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  Speaker 5: myself and others, to get to where we're at today.
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  Speaker 5: You know, without nightlife helping out those bills, they tend
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  Speaker 5: to add up fast.
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  Speaker 4: Right, definitely. I mean with the pharmacy atmosphere and then
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  Speaker 4: going at night too as well. In the Bard, it
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  Speaker 4: was a whole.
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  Speaker 5: Different she has, like the real connect because she's like,
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  Speaker 5: I got the bar connect and the pharmacy and.
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  Speaker 3: The pharmacy connect listen, and I got high behind it
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  Speaker 3: both behind the counter you ever had the.
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  Speaker 4: Counter both ends basically, and I felt like I learned
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  Speaker 4: a lot too for both jobs too at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: because I felt like counselors at the same time, for
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  Speaker 4: you know, in the pharmacy and bartending to as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, if why the.
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  Speaker 4: Barges take away from being a bartender, definitely the counseling
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  Speaker 4: too as well. Oh the bartending thing, I could say
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  Speaker 4: at that time, I would not recommend this to like newbies,
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  Speaker 4: you know, not having bar backs because I was being
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  Speaker 4: maybe stingy, so you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Want to bar back because you didn't want to give
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  Speaker 1: them a percentage.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I did everything myself, and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 4: like minor a matter because I kept bringing the ice like.
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  Speaker 5: You're bringing the ice bucket, bringing the bottle of the
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  Speaker 5: ice bucket and going back.
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  Speaker 4: To the Yeah, maybe sixteen twenty times up and down
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  Speaker 4: like scooping. I think I grain muscles because of that shot.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, shout out to him because carrying the
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  Speaker 5: bottles and there.
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  Speaker 2: Above their heads. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was not easy.
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  Speaker 1: She was a connector Martine or like.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, the rear it
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  Speaker 3: back education guys. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like the takeaway is teamwork makes you know
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  Speaker 3: the dream work and you can do everything yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But you shouldn't have to know I shouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't You should.
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  Speaker 2: Equip yourself in the back at that time at a
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  Speaker 2: young age.
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  Speaker 4: But I was just doing I mean once I was
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  Speaker 4: like giving out the tips back to the bar. Back before,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, you know, I don't need one. I
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  Speaker 4: could do this by myself. No, that was not a
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  Speaker 4: good idea back then. But I learned from my lessons obviously,
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  Speaker 4: and that's where we achieve towards everything.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right, mm hmm exactly.
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  Speaker 5: You stepped into the director of Talent Solutions role just
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  Speaker 5: ten months after being promoted to senior manager.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to you.
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  Speaker 5: What do you believe led to that level of trust
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  Speaker 5: and rapid advancement.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to.
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  Speaker 4: You know, push push boundaries and the company allowed me
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  Speaker 4: to be more creative to at the same time, and
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  Speaker 4: I guess it was certain situations. There was a lot
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  Speaker 4: of transitions that were forming around that time too, and
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  Speaker 4: I stepped into what I had to, you know, win
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  Speaker 4: my position, and I just took over and assisted in
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  Speaker 4: any way possible to helping out the department and the
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  Speaker 4: team dynamics, and which showcased that they definitely could trust
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  Speaker 4: me in handling certain situations at any given point in time,
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  Speaker 4: juggling multitude.
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  Speaker 2: Of tasks that were provider.
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  Speaker 4: Given, and any any other departments that needed me. I
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  Speaker 4: could definitely give them some answers and provided assistance and
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  Speaker 4: pinpointed basically on how to go about those things on
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  Speaker 4: a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: So I think.
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  Speaker 4: That that's what pushed them to allow me to be
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  Speaker 4: in that role too. And I had definitely achieved and
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  Speaker 4: I was just very excited to be part of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. They're like, she's ready, Yeah, that's elevator quick.
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  Speaker 2: Before we lose her. But it's passion meeting purpose.
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  Speaker 3: And I have spoken about this off the air, tell
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  Speaker 3: us a little bit about per scholars and how that
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  Speaker 3: feeds into your ethos.
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  Speaker 4: With Proscola's I think that it definitely does set some
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  Speaker 4: driven things for me too. At the same time, because
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  Speaker 4: I was I understand and I feel the same way
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  Speaker 4: of those learners and those graduates, you know, struggling and
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  Speaker 4: dealing with situations. They have the drive, they have a termination,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, the struggles do relate to me and
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  Speaker 4: what I went through because at you know, at that time,
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  Speaker 4: when I was in Berkeley College or after Berkeley College,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I didn't have the I guess, assistance and
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  Speaker 4: the mentorship that I would would have loved because like
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  Speaker 4: I said, I was just going overdrive. I didn't have
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  Speaker 4: the additional structure to lead me to a different pathway
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  Speaker 4: just to focus on what I need to be doing.
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  Speaker 4: I just kept going and going and like taking multitude
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  Speaker 4: of jobs, but I wasn't like focusing on what I actually,
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  Speaker 4: you know, came to Berkeley College for. At the same time,
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  Speaker 4: I know I wanted to a degree. I finished and
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  Speaker 4: I got that degree, but I needed some type of
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  Speaker 4: structure in the meantime. And when I was and i'm
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  Speaker 4: in per scholars I met a lot of different mentors
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  Speaker 4: that I've definitely achieved in attaining, which I appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why in for Scholas, I think that.
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  Speaker 4: What we do here does mean a lot of things,
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  Speaker 4: and supporting these learners and graduates and opening up to
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  Speaker 4: a wonderful opportunity in the future. And you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of potential out there too for them because
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  Speaker 4: it isn't a typical norm that they run through. It's
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  Speaker 4: a training. It's a free training obviously, and we you know,
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  Speaker 4: we provide that and we give that opportunity to those
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  Speaker 4: individuals that are unseen and underestimated out there. Is not
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  Speaker 4: like they're the culture fit that everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Sees.
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  Speaker 4: But like I said, the potential is always there and
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what is always missing for other employers
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  Speaker 4: to see that. And this is why I'm here and
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  Speaker 4: I want to talk to those employers and showcase that
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  Speaker 4: these individuals are ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting how we receive this education from Berkeley College
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  Speaker 3: in this institution where it's a non traditional student. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: you didn't find the right fit and you're in this
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  Speaker 3: right this community and you're building this ecosystem, and you
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  Speaker 3: took that and said I want to do this in
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  Speaker 3: my career and you found another organization that continues to
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  Speaker 3: fit that mold, which is unconventional.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so what walk us through what these trainings are?
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  Speaker 4: So these trainings are cloud computing. It supports cybersecurity software engineer.
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  Speaker 4: You also have salesforce and AI tools too as well
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  Speaker 4: that we've been running through. And we also have data analytics,
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  Speaker 4: so interesting, and we are starting off this year too
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  Speaker 4: as well at the end of the year healthcare I
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  Speaker 4: tea as well. So oh, that's so pushing that.
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  Speaker 3: So we had a student on another podcast about cyber
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  Speaker 3: space and our money. So now if we get someone
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  Speaker 3: from cybersecurity to just code all of our things, I
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  Speaker 3: think we're just building a team so.
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  Speaker 2: We can build a report.
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  Speaker 1: I see it.
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  Speaker 3: We're building talent recruitment on the back end exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So that's great purpose driven work.
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  Speaker 3: And you're focusing on building inclusive pipelines for the underrepresented
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  Speaker 3: tech talent, and you spoke about why that's important to you,
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  Speaker 3: and because of your passion, it's shown and you've risen
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  Speaker 3: not only through career advancements, but you've also been recognized
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  Speaker 3: and showcased as the voice in workforce development, celebrating the
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  Speaker 3: per Scholars thirty year impact and piloting initiatives such as
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  Speaker 3: being seen at NASDAC, seen at Hot ninety seven and
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  Speaker 3: having these spotlights. So, first of all, congrats to you,
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  Speaker 3: thank you and doing that. So how does it feel
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  Speaker 3: to see your purpose come to fruition.
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  Speaker 4: I think it just went through full circle and coming
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  Speaker 4: in here. Honestly, being at Berkeley College alone just showcases
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  Speaker 4: that anything is possible. And like I always said, I
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  Speaker 4: don't really know, but back then I was like, that's
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  Speaker 4: not possible, like I don't believe in these things, like
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  Speaker 4: any thing is possible type of situation like everyone goes through.
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  Speaker 4: Like people said, it's luck, it's about.
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  Speaker 2: Who you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's just true, actually who you know at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: But I'll get to that later. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just amazing that it came to light
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  Speaker 4: where I came back and understood my whole purpose, because
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  Speaker 4: back then I didn't know my purpose, Like I was
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  Speaker 4: just taking a different things and just curious and driven
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  Speaker 4: not just with the money but also the experiences that
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  Speaker 4: i've that led me to where I am right now
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  Speaker 4: to at the same time, and Berkeley College, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I had to let go of my dream read job
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  Speaker 4: at that time because I got an opportunity for one
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  Speaker 4: of my macro economics professors told me that there was
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity at Bloomberg for an internship. So I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: interviewed for it, I got the opportunity. I got the
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  Speaker 4: job at the one of the departments, and I was
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  Speaker 4: excited about it at the same time. And then at
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  Speaker 4: that time, it was like eighteen fifty an hour and
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  Speaker 4: Bloomberg and you believe that, Like I was just like
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  Speaker 4: what I was like coming out of Berkeley kidding me
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  Speaker 4: grandson was already bartending and making thirteen fifty, But I mean,
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  Speaker 4: do you need It's like, you know, I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: put that on my resume. I wanted to showcase I
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  Speaker 4: did work at Bloomberg. I you know, wanted to show that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, being in and I just remember the contract
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  Speaker 4: department that you know, I learned more than I could
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  Speaker 4: and that I'm very thankful for giving that opportunity and
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  Speaker 4: that connection to as well, because I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: I have anybody seen Bloomberg in person and seen it
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  Speaker 4: in any time before the tour.
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  Speaker 2: You know you need to.
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  Speaker 1: It's just amazing.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, the six floors, look, the pantries, sections, whatever
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  Speaker 4: you want, like everything's.
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  Speaker 2: Free for you.
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  Speaker 4: I was just I mean, you're you're you're a young kid,
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  Speaker 4: like wondering like, wow, this is everything is free, this
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  Speaker 4: is amazing, and everything's high tech. At that time, there's
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  Speaker 4: TV's in the bathroom two at the same time. So
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  Speaker 4: it was just great to see that, you know, at
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  Speaker 4: a young age. And now I'm still working with them,
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  Speaker 4: working on an event that I'm pushing forward for Proscolas
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  Speaker 4: and having a quarterly session called Tech and Tacos two
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  Speaker 4: point zero and yeah, I'm a two point oh because
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  Speaker 4: I did it two years ago when I first started.
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  Speaker 2: We just invite ourselves everything on this podcast.
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  Speaker 5: Say wow, that's if you follow Pennies.
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  Speaker 1: She actually goes everything I do.
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  Speaker 5: Go.
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  Speaker 4: The whole showcase for Teatacas was like it was just
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  Speaker 4: like you know, those crazy ideas that I had at
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  Speaker 4: that time, and my supervisor was just all for it,
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  Speaker 4: and he said that, you know, let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: And managing director went in and said, we could do
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  Speaker 4: it at Amazon. They're opened up to your idea. And
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  Speaker 4: we had like an intimate setting with twenty five learners
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  Speaker 4: and four employer partners.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I told Penny one time.
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  Speaker 4: That I had this idea that they can come out
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  Speaker 4: after I announced who they were and their their background,
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  Speaker 4: they can come out of any song that they wanted
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  Speaker 4: to come out to, like in Red Schooling or UFC,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And I thought it was amazing and they
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  Speaker 4: just had fun. So so that was just a time
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  Speaker 4: that I was just curious about and actually was wonderful,
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  Speaker 4: and they wanted to do it again, and I pitched
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  Speaker 4: it to Bloomberg and they're opening up some space for
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  Speaker 4: this type of event, and I have different seems like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, women in tech.
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  Speaker 1: Do you record it, do you stream it? Do you
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  Speaker 1: do anything like that?
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  Speaker 4: We haven't recorded, but I think we could start doing
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  Speaker 4: that and seeing if Bloomberg is open to it at the.
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  Speaker 2: Same time would be good.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't mind you guys being part of it too
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  Speaker 4: as well, maybe being one of the panelists.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. Panel It's great.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go see. How are they going to be there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, question of the day they will depict.
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  Speaker 1: This will really get the answer to them. Tackles now.
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  Speaker 3: And you know you touched on something earlier about your network,
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  Speaker 3: and this comes up in.
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  Speaker 2: Every episode lately that we speak about. It's the power
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  Speaker 2: of networking.
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  Speaker 3: And because of that relationship you established through a professor
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  Speaker 3: that you had as a mentorship, that opened the door
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  Speaker 3: to Bloomberg and now years later, full circle, you bring
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  Speaker 3: that back and it's continued continuing to cultivate those relationships
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  Speaker 3: and build that and I.
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  Speaker 4: Think I've been trying to pay it forward even more
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  Speaker 4: so with my connections and connecting.
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  Speaker 1: All my connecting other people everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: To where it makes sense for that and I love it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm not charging them or anything. I'm just
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  Speaker 4: doing it because I'm very passionate about it and I
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  Speaker 4: love working with these people that I've connected with. And
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: it comes back full circle to me too as well,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: which I definitely appreciate. So those wonderful people that I
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: have in my contacts, you know, are very humbling and
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: they're always going to be there for me, and that's
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: how we built those type of relationships. I built this
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: type of relationships for me as well, and it's exciting
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: for me at the same time because I could easily
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: call anybody right now and say, like, hey, I need
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: a favor. I wanted to know if you be part
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: of this event or this and that, like I'm doing
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: with you guys right now, But it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Speaks to your brand, your character and what you represent.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Stories are still open shout out to our connection that
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: connected us, Randy Gomes, which is also an alumna, and
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: she's a friend of the pod and she connected us
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: and you know we not and and synergy and that's
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: how we had up here. It's all about that power
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: of connection and keeping those doors open and if they're.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Closed, kick them. What I say, you make your way.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's all about who you know it really is
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: and building that portfolio up.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: I love it and it actually is a true testament,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: and I'm I would say I want to be an
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: example of it at the same time because I've different
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: connects you know, lead you to amazing things in the future,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: opportunities left and right.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I still get calls.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: In for different companies asking me to come in and
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I was, you know, not to my company, But I
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: just say no because I believe in what I do
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: in Proscolas and I love what we and excites me
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: all the time in completing the journey and assisting in
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: any those alumnis and graduates to fulfill some empowerment and
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: you know potential h uh, you know, salary for them
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: in the future. Just to live a great wage living
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: here in New York City is not easy.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Which is why I drive two hours away just about.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Now, and I do not get paid for this podcast.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: But you're a true leader. That's That's what that which
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: which is your next question? Right?
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: You've led teams across recruitment, talent accusation, career development. How
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: would you describe your leadership in today's world?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Your style?
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: My style today?
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: For me, I believe that, you know, just being honest
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: and being transparent with my team is the way to
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: go at this time. You know, obviously they I do
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: press them on what they need to be doing and
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: you know, continuing their skills and their experience that they
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: had prior to coming with me. But I, you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: chosen for a reason. I knew that they have potential
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: abilities to be part of my team, and that's why,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: you know, I hone into that loyalty. At the same time,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: you know, they trust in what I believe, and obviously
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: I still do hold them accountable on things that they
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: have to go through a day to day basis. But
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: you know, I try to lead with example, like a
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: lot of people would say, but I do lead with
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: example in showcasing that you know, there's rhyme and reason
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: and there's definitely great purposes to achieving things and they
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: see that and they do question and how did you
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: get to where you are? So they follow through on
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: my experience too.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: At the same time, that's transparency is number one, leading
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: by examples number two and mentorship. You know, when you
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: acquire these leadership positions, it's not in the job description,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the mentorship, the therapy, all of these components that are
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: part of Yes, and then once you're in the role,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: you find yourself Okay, this is you know, you're you're
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: a mama bear and you have your cobs, and you're
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: very protective over your team, and you want to promote
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: professional development and ensure that they are exceeding any potential
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: they might have had for themselves. So it's it's definitely
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: an opportunity for growth on both ends. So I'm glad
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: that you spoke to that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: You mentioned mama bear right into the next question.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: There is.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Because not only are you a mama bear to two,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: you're also a wife and you're a senior leader. Right,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: so how do you define balance and what advice would
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: you give to working parents who are pursuing big goals?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I mean for me, you know, obviously it's not easy
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: to balance those out at the same time, but I do.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I do, you know, give the time with intention to
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: towards like separating work and life balance to at the
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: same time being a mom and everything I do thrive
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: and watching my kids grow and at the same time,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I do have a career that I'm growing growing to
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: at the same time. So I believe that there's always
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: there's always ways to have ambition and love in the
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: same ecosystem, and we just have to, like I said,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: just you know, work on the intentions of you know,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: separating the two and just try to balance it out
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: as much as possible. You know, given the time, it's
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: going to be more so with career work and then
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: it's going to be more time in family, So there's
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: always way to level it up, and you know, have
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: some borderlines on you know, pushing the time for each
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: one and just achieving it because like I said, it
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: does it works out that way, and you have to
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: have a good partner who who also helps in that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: You know, the wrong partner could really throw off someone's
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: whole career path if they're not there to back you
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: up or you're not there to back them up, vice versa.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: You know. So, yes, my husband has been very helpful
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: to at the same time, that's.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Awesome since high school actually, and calendars, Oh, yes, calendars,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you know my team last alarms. Yes, I always say,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: if it's not on my calendar, it doesn't exist. You
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: live by the calendar. If it's not there, it'll fly off.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: You have the big digital.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: That's why I we literally that's why I got for Christmas.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: I bought her this big digital. Like, we got this
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: big digital. I don't know if I got what's called Skyland.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not for Skyland. You should have sent me one.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: But no, we got the big one. But but we
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: have so much I could only imagine, but not that.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: But no, it's the calendar is great. My phone goes
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: off every day though, like six times day because between
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: what I'm doing, between she's doing, and then with all
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: of our kids with sports and yeah, it's like being
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: being my phone's just you know, But it's the calendar.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: It's so important, so important.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, each kid have their own like green notification to that.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Uh, you know, my wife, she controls the calendar for
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: all I know did they do? But they definitely have
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: tasks that we put on the calendar that they could
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: win prizes by doing a good idea instead of doing
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: like an allowance, right or something like that. We just
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: our kids are real competitive. Everything's competitive in our house.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: So we did tasks. So they immediately run downstairs in
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: the morning and the first thing to do is they
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: hit their name and they start checking off what they did,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: brush my teeth, fix my bed, got dressed, and they
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: get they earn points and at the end of the
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: week there's a winner, and then you know what, surprised
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: she's the one. Uh well, these kids every weekend is
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: a prize, like whether it's going to like some sort
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: of resort to go like birthday, Yeah it was a
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: holiday weekend, but no they you know, that's my wife's job.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: But the money is not going to fly for them.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: They rather they rather do like things. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: for sure.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Sounds cool. I love it. I love it. I'm excited.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: See I want to check out that calendar, probably a
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: smaller one than pros.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: But they're all kind of like the same price.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: It's like, why would I not spend the extra two
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: hundred bucks you know or something like that? Whatever you
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: got Bloomberg money, stop playing.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: That was the.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Bartend for one night. I do miss that.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I was just like, wow, I don't.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Know if DJ right now? Sometimes I don't want to,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Like I don't even want to.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't. It feels up to me. I stay
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: home now at that point in life. But I still
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: and I still do things just for like things I want.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm going to go to the club because
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: you miss it? Right if I no, I don't miss it? No, no,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: I check off why I'm doing it? Well, I did
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: it because I can make.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: What you make in a night by DJ.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, sure.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I would too.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I got a DJ though I don't know bartenders a.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Sad runs out of air.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: But that was back then.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I don't know how much to make it now, you
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: know what I mean?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: That was a sports bar, so it was different back then.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of money back then.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: That's a whole. But in this podcast.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Today, we close out every episode by asking you to
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: reflect and in one word, what would you want your
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: legacy to be?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I would say fearless.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: I have I've always been pushing so many boundaries. I
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: always want everyone to know that there's and those possibilities,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: even if there's like not a clear path out there,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: just to run right through it, you know, push yourself
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: right through it, because you just never know what's on
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: the other side. And I do have a quote. It's
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: probably tattooed on me somewhere.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: But it's called Faith Loves the Fearless.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: And I always believe in that end, you are in
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: charge of your own destiny at this point.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: So Faith loves the fearless.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, oh, she loves it. I actually want to give you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: I'll give you a tip. I actually kind of got
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: that that. That quote is kind of from this movie.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: A bit of it was from Terminator too, Just letting
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: you guys know.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I love this pro promises a lot of things, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: we don't do that. We're supposed to go ice skating.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I was thinking that you guys are to get a
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: matching tattoo or something. I wasn't sure.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: We're not that close, but I paid for her tattoo.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: The things I.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: End up having.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: But I do want to say, we're gonna call all
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: of that up, but this is our fastest response we've
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: ever had.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, and I love the No.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: That's great, it's good.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I love the I'm so sorry. I love no.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I love the response and I love the meaning behind it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: And she was prepared with a quote she's ready to
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Well, this is why she is who she is exactly.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: That's why you're fearless, fearless prepared. Thank you, I appreciate
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: that's awesome. We're gonna close it out. You want to
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: close it.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Out, bro, Well, thank you for being here and joining
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: us on today's episode of Teach Me Something.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I am pro Style, I am Pennydellas and we.
• 29:20
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• 29:23
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• 29:24
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• 29:32
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• 29:33
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