178: Overcome Your Unconscious Biases with Dr. Ali Mushtaq, Founder of Getting Wolfie
The Out Entrepreneur | Bringing Our Whole Selves to Work | Conversations with Leading LGBTQ Bosses
Release Date: 11/03/2020
The Out Entrepreneur | Bringing Our Whole Selves to Work | Conversations with Leading LGBTQ Bosses
Enrico Frezza, is the Founder and CEO of Peace Out Skincare. His goal was to develop the first-ever skin care product to fight acne while healing the skin. After three years of tireless research and 14 prototypes later, Peace Out Acne was born and recruited into an exclusive partnership with Sephora. From its home base in San Francisco, Peace Out continues to exemplify a new generation of companies, with a team that works tirelessly to bring state-of-the-art skincare to its community.
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Dr. Aimee Harris-Newon is a double board certified integrative and interventional psychologist, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and master success coach. She and her team have worked with major brands including FedEx, UPS, McDonald’s Red Bull, and the U.S. Army. You can find Dr. Aimee speaking at Harvard and on ABC, NBC, and FOX when she’s not busy hosting her popular radio show, Mind Over Matters on AM 820.
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Anna DeShawn is a seasoned media professional and the founder of E3 Radio, a 24/7, 365 day media production company that amplifies the stories and music of Black, Brown, and Queer folks. When Anna isn’t busy building her business, she dedicates her time to serving her communities. Currently she serves as Board President for Affinity Community Services, a social justice organization serving the needs of Black LGBTQ+ communities in Chicago with a particular focus on Black women.
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Andy McNeill is a travel and hospitality entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience. He is the CEO and founder of American Meetings, Inc., an industry leading meetings and events agency that produces thousands of live and virtual meetings annually for Fortune 500 clients. Andy is a significant voice in the hospitality, meeting and travel industries.
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Ed Hellman is an award-winning filmmaker and music video director. They are Co-Founder of the video production company PUNCH CARD Films, a 100% queer-owned, Certified LGBTBE®, that turns consumer data into short-form entertainment. Their recent project for Thinc Design and ESRT is on permanent exhibition in the Empire State Building. Ed's music videos have premiered on Vevo, The Fader, Blackbook Media, and Impose Magazine.
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Gena ("Jenna") Jaffe is the Founder of connecting rainbows - a national LGBTQ+ database connecting individuals and families to lawyers who specialize in family formation and estate planning as well as provides fertility resources. The overarching theme is to start, grow + protect your family. As a lawyer, mom and member of the LGBTQ+ community, she saw a huge need for this service after learning that so many people struggled to find lawyers who knew how to handle the specific needs of the community.
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Lizzy Goddard is a UK-based online business strategist and educator for entrepreneurs. Over her five years in business, she’s helped over 9,000 students learn how to do business the easy, fun, and profitable way. She has grown her business to multiple six-figures - all while breaking almost all of the marketing “rules.”
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James, with his utterly impressive 25+ years career, is a beauty maven who is obsessed by achieving absolute perfection. James oversaw several major launches as head of creative services producing the photo shoots and casting for many iconic brands. James decided to use his knowledge, experience and talent to help models frustrated by the damage continuously done to their hair with no real solutions in sight -- and set off on a 10-year journey to create the clean, hydrating formulations that are now MASAMI.
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Luis Báez is a business strategist serving entrepreneurs, service providers and course creators, with a particular dedication to empowering underrepresented entrepreneurs through his training and coaching. He teaches online business owners how to scale their revenues and impact by creating and selling high-end offers — including coaching, masterminds and memberships.
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Brandi Lai is Founder and Owner of Best Laid Pens, a content strategy, ghostwriting, developmental editing, and consultancy company. Best Laid Pens amplifies the stories of underrepresented and marginalized people who may not have the opportunity to share their thoughts, ideas, and lived experiences. She founded her company to create change and ensure that LGBTQ+ people, and in particular transgender and nonbinary people, have the opportunity and platform to speak their truth.
info_outlineDr. Ali Mushtaq is the founder of Getting Wolfie, a consulting firm that empowers market researchers to inclusively collect data while overcoming personal biases. He deliver his consulting services to also help communities within media, journalism, and even for online content creators like podcasters and youtube channel curators. Ali earned his PhD in sociology from UC – SF and his Masters in demography at UC – Irvine. He is currently co-authorizing a book on Black women AIDS activists that will be published by Lexington Press in 2021.