Learning the Business Side of Professional Practice - with Dr. Allison Kawa - Part 2
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Release Date: 01/19/2021
After a Break, Career Re-Discovery - with Pamela Daves
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“I want parents to feel empowered. I want them to feel appreciated and know that they're not alone. I learned that from my dad at a very young age. So helping people and being of service, it's quite natural and it feels good to me,” says Pamela K. Daves, Esq. She is a special education lawyer who focuses on improving the lives of children with disabilities. Over the years, Pamela has successfully represented several hundred families. Her record on cases heard before an Administrative Law Judge is undefeated. Pamela has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of...
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Live in the Moment - with Angela Elbert
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“I ended up specializing in insurance law because I met a mentor who was doing insurance work, took an interest in my career, and helped me not just learn insurance, but share a passion about insurance law. I started to really enjoy it. And the more I got into it, the more I realized that it's a niche that a lot of people don't know about.” Angela Elbert is Partner & Chair of the Insurance Policyholder Practice Group at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP. She counsels corporate policyholders on complex risk management and insurance issues and develops custom strategies to maximize...
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Learning the Business Side of Professional Practice - with Dr. Allison Kawa - Part 2
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“As I've gotten older, I've gotten better at figuring out what I know and what I don't know. I hired a business coach. That was a stroke of genius -- if I do say so myself -- because I don't know how to run a business,” says Allison Kawa, PsyD. Dr. Kawa is a licensed clinical psychologist -- turned mompreneur -- who founded her first private practice in 2010. She opened the Los Angeles Center for Integrated Assessment in 2018, and -- in response to the changing field, will be launching a new practice...soon! Dr. Kawa shares a lot about being a working single mother, how she took career...
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Learning the Business Side of Professional Practice - with Dr. Allison Kawa - Part 1
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“I've been running a business for ten years and ...they don't teach you how to run a business in psychology school,” says Allison Kawa, PsyD, yet she’s successfully founded and owned more than one. In this episode, Dr. Kawa shares how she’s become a businesswoman and psychologist. Dr. Allison Kawa is a licensed clinical psychologist who is the Founder, Owner, and Clinical Director of the Los Angeles Center for Integrated Assessment. The LA-CIA is a boutique psychology practice that comprehensively conducts developmental, neurobiological, educational, and psychological evaluations of...
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A Better World - with Jes Wolfe
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Jes Wolfe is the CEO of Rebel Girls, a girl-driven edutainment company on a mission to inspire and instill confidence in 50 million girls over the next 5 years. Rebel Girls has sold 5.5 million books, translated into 49 languages in 85 countries, and has 8+ million downloads of its award-winning podcast. Under her leadership, the Company is expanding its offerings to television, live theater, merchandise and digital. Jes is an entrepreneur, an operator, an investor and an advisor. Prior to joining the Rebel Girls team, she was the Chief Operating Officer at Hoodline, a hyper-local media tech...
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The Best Beginning - with Melanie, Dr. Michele & Guests
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We’re saying goodbye to 2020 -- the year that will go down in infamy. It pushed the “pause” button on Life as we knew it, but also prompted us to discover new ways to adapt and become resilient. This brief episode helps you take the best of what was 2020 and use it to leap into a fulfilling, successful 2021. Melanie and Dr. Michele have new tips and guidance for you and are joined by former amazing guests -- Cabbane Howard, Erin Germain, Dr. Jacqueline Schaffer, Amy Lloyd, Dr. Deborah Beidel, Thomasenia Duncan, Dr. Shahrzad Fattahi, and Renata Simril -- who will inspire you to begin your...
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The Gift of Gratitude - with Melanie, Dr. Michele & Guests
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We’re grateful for you and for all of our listeners around the world. To show our gratitude, we’ve put together a special tips episode from our incredible guests - Kristen Agee, Lisa Walker Brown, Robyn Young, Dawn Strickland, Mauri Konell, Angela Daves Haley, Dr. Annie Chiu, and Leslie Spencer. We hope you and your loved ones are healthy, and safe, and that this episode lifts your spirits and inspires you. Happy Holidays.
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Take What You Know & Make What You Love - with Valerie Shumaker
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“I'm just going to relax into what the flow is right now of our world and our country and find other things that I love,” says Valerie Shumaker. She is the founder and CEO of Lux Custom Suit and Suit-D, two companies that design and custom-make power suits for women and men. Almost every woman wants to “suit up” and feel powerful, sexy and have a feminine edge. Originally coming from the entertainment industry as a make-up artist before entering the clothing world, Valerie has an incredible eye for fashion, especially when it comes to flattering a woman's body and providing a...
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Compelling Content for Thought Leaders - with Shanna Belott
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“Strategy without marketing is a white board of ideas that will never leave the room. Marketing without strategy is sound and fury signifying nothing and content without strategy is a jumble of pointless words languishing on your website.” Meet Shanna Belott, Chief Content Officer at PreDiction a Nashville based content marketing firm for thought leaders. For more than a decade, Shanna has been ghostwriting SEO-savvy content for CEOs and other business leaders across multiple industries. She’s created more than a hundred widely-viewed guest posts for Forbes and HuffPost, ghostwritten...
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Anxiety and Reality - with Dr. Deborah Beidel - Part 2
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Dr. Beidel is the Director of UCF RESTORES, a clinical research center dedicated to trauma and PTSD. Besides being a dedicated mentor and professor, Dr. Beidel has received over $31 million in federal research funding. Her work currently focuses on developing effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for veterans, active duty personnel, first responders and survivors of mass shootings, using technology to enhance treatments. Dr. Beidel is the principal investigator of a study funded by the Joint Warfighters Advanced Development Group to treat PTSD in active duty military...
info_outline“As I've gotten older, I've gotten better at figuring out what I know and what I don't know. I hired a business coach. That was a stroke of genius -- if I do say so myself -- because I don't know how to run a business,” says Allison Kawa, PsyD. Dr. Kawa is a licensed clinical psychologist -- turned mompreneur -- who founded her first private practice in 2010. She opened the Los Angeles Center for Integrated Assessment in 2018, and -- in response to the changing field, will be launching a new practice...soon!
Dr. Kawa shares a lot about being a working single mother, how she took career chances, and how she learned to become a very successful business owner... especially coming from a discipline where how to launch and operate a business was not taught in school. In the second half of our interview, listen to Dr. Kawa to learn the “can do’s” for professionals who want to run a business too.