Hi, my name is Marilyn McNeal and I am the producer for Work Life 24.

Work Life 24 is a podcast where I talk with friends, former students, project partners, and colleagues - about work. I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their work skills and career and what it is in the early 21st century to be a worker.

In this episode, I get into conversation with Lauren Taylor, a Principal at REDF where she supports investments in entrepreneurs and enterprises scaling revenue and impact. REDF is a venture catalyst investing in the country's most innovative social enterprises.

Lauren is also Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Zero Gravity Agency, a mission-driven consulting firm that supports investors, funders, and entrepreneurs with capacity-building technical assistance that accelerates growth and impact.

Outside of these roles, Lauren is a mentor for Nasdaq, as well as a member of Hustle Fund’s Angel Squad and Pipeline Angels, two groups that invest their personal income in early-stage entrepreneurs.

Lauren M. Taylor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/contactlaurenmtaylor/

Angel Squad
https://www.hustlefund.vc/squad

Zero Gravity
http://zerogravityagency.us/

Pipeline Angels
https://pipelineangels.com/

Marilyn McNeal
https://marilynmcneal.com

Work Life 24 is a podcast where I talk with friends, former students, project partners, and colleagues - about work. I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their work skills and career and what it is in the early 21st century to be a worker.

In this episode, I get into conversation with Lindsay P. Conn, CPCC, PCC, MNLP. Lindsay is the
Founder of The Wellspring and is a Certified Executive, Career, and Life Coach and a Workplace Culture Consultant.

In this conversation, Lindsay shares her thoughts on the workplace from her perspective as as certified coach of 20+ years.

Lindsay P. Conn, CPCC, PCC, MNLP
Founder, The Wellspring
Certified Executive, Career, and Life Coach
Workplace Culture Consultant
240.687.9357
lindsay@yourwellspring.com

Coaching & Courses for Women
thewellspringwithin.com

Career Coaching for Men
levelup.thewellspringwithin.com

The Wellspring Women's Collective
thewellspringforwomen.com

Here are links to some of the people and organizations Lindsay mentions during our conversation.

Working Mothers Magazine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Mother

Alliance for Workplace Excellence
https://www.linkedin.com/company/alliance-for-workplace-excellence/about/

Dr. Claire Zammit
https://femininepower.com/about-claire-zammit/

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills.

John de Graaf is a filmmaker, author, public speaker and environmental activist. He has made more than 15 national PBS documentaries and won more than 100 regional, national and international awards.

His books include the international best-seller, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic and
What's the Economy for, Anyway?

He recently completed the feature documentary Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty and is currently directing a new film, Loyal to the Truth: Katherine Lee Bates and The Story of America The Beautiful.

He is also writing a book on the politics of beauty and lives in Seattle. He is a former board member of Earth Island Institute.

Here are links to people and organizations John mentions during the conversation.

Films
https://www.johndegraaf.com/films-1

John Bernard
https://www.mnopedia.org/person/bernard-john-toussaint-1893-1983

University Community Video
https://www.vdb.org/artists/university-community-video-minneapolis

Garden Song
https://youtu.be/vRVQc3ht9oU?si=UxxGZ1bV9mO2F4PW

Stewart Udall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Udall

Katherine Lee Bates
https://www.filmmakerscollaborative.org/loyal-to-the-truth

Hearts and Minds
https://archive.org/details/HeartsAndMinds1974

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills.

Lisa Rybovich Crallé is an interdisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Her drawings and sculptures explore the relationship between body language, memory, and material history.

Her work has been presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (CA), Cornell University (NY), the Berkeley Art Museum (CA), the Detroit Institute of Arts (MI), the Manetti Shrem Museum (CA), Fort Mason Center (CA), Mills College (CA), and other venues.

She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center (VT), Ox-Bow (MI), Arteles Center (Finland), and the Bubec Sculpture Studio (Prague).

In addition to her studio practice, Lisa runs Personal Space in Vallejo, CA and Heavy Breathing, a series of experimental artist-led movement seminars.

She is also an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Drawing at Berkeley City College.

Lisa Rybovich Crallé
https://lisarcralle.com/

Personal Space
https://personalspace.space/

Heavy Breathing
https://heavyheavybreathing.com/

Derek Jarman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jarman

Liza Sylvestre
https://linktr.ee/liza_sylvestre

Christopher Jones
https://bio.site/cripasterisk

Sarah Kate Hayden
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkatehayden/

Winslow House Project
https://linktr.ee/winslowhouseproject

Jessalyn Aaland
https://jessalynaaland.com/Info

Current Editions
https://currenteditions.bigcartel.com/

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills.

In today's episode, I speak with Ally DeArman. She is the Executive Administrator at Women's Foundation California. Ally partners with the CEO, Leadership Team and Board of Directors on the overall administration and operation of the virtual offices. She comes to the foundation with more than a decade of event management and organizational leadership experience.

Previously, Ally worked UC Berkeley's Executive Education, directed the non profit Food Craft Institute, and helped produce Oakland's Eat Real Festival for 10 years running. She served three years on the board of Community Foods Market, justice social enterprise in West Oakland.

Ally has lived her entire life in California, born and raised in San Diego County, relocated to the Bay Area to attend Stanford University, and currently residing in Oakland's Diamond District with her pets and partner.

In this conversation, Ally talks about her path from teenage restaurant hostess to Stanford grad, from produce worker to UC Berkeley Associate Director and beyond. Lots of insights and laughter in this food, community and leadership-themed episode.

Bi-Rite Market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-Rite_Market

18 Reasons
https://18reasons.org/

East Bay Asian Youth Center
https://ebayc.org/our-journey/

Eat Real Festival
https://www.eatrealfest.com/

Food Craft Institute
http://www.oaklandmomma.com/2016/09/16/food-craft-institute-fosters-the-art-of-the-edible/

Women's Foundation California
https://womensfoundca.org/

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills. In today's episode, I speak with Seth Eisen.

Today’s episode is an intimate conversation with San Francisco-based artist and producer, Seth Eisen. Seth is the Artistic and Executive Director at Eye Zen Presents, a San Francisco-based transdisciplinary ensemble theater company founded by Seth Eisen in 2007.

I met Seth when I was a resident artist at a live work arts collective in San Francisco’s Mission District. I participated in two shows that Seth ran and got to know him as an ever exploring creative person.

In this episode, Seth talks about the ups and downs of prioritizing his creative work over the past 30 years of living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was lucky enough to be mentored by some of the Bay Area’s seminal art figures of the 70’s and 80’s so you definitely want to tune in and hear his recollections of working with and being influenced by art makers past and present.

Eye Zen Presents
https://www.eyezen.org/

Nancy Frank
https://arthousesf.org/who-we-are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mamelle,_Inc./Art_Com

Bonnie Sherk
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/arts/bonnie-sherk-dead.html

Million Fishes Art Collective
https://www.facebook.com/millionfishes/

848 / CounterPULSE
https://counterpulse.org/mission-history/

Remy Charlip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Charlip

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills. In today's episode, I speak with Taylor Willy.

Taylor is an experienced fundraiser skilled in relationship building, event planning and public speaking. She is passionate about the donor experience and ensuring that donors have a fulfilling partnership with the organizations they generously support. She received her BA from Purdue University in Educational Leadership & Administration and earned a Certificate in Fund Raising Management from Indiana University in 2020.

Taylor is the Vice President of Development and Communications at Teen Works, a youth empowerment and economic mobility program for teens based out of Indianapolis, Indiana. Taylor is an avid believer that no dream is too big.

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills. In today's episode, I speak with Jaclyn Edds Konczal.

Jaclyn is an artist, floral designer, writer, and mother living in Northern California on the ancestral lands of the Pomo People.

She is Lead Floral Designer at Front Porch Farm, an organic flower farm in Healdsburg, CA.

Jaclyn is a floral artist known for her unconventional, wild, and sculptural work. Her background as a visual artist coupled with her deep connection to the natural world results in design evoking romance, history, time and place, and human connection.

Website: https://www.jaclyneddskonczal.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaclyneddskonczal/