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In this episode, Megan Nivens-Tannett discusses being a single mother and launching her own business. She also discusses the importance of leaving our egos at the door and how, with the proper people and the right mentality, our business can grow. Megan has served in various roles including Vice President for Huntsville-based startup accelerator The Foundry; Director of Digital Marketing for IoT tech firm Synapse Wireless; has held multiple roles with leading advertising firm McCann Erickson (in support of the US Army), and prior to that, served as the Executive Director for the Muscular Dystrophy Association where she opened the first office in North Alabama. In this episode: Megan shares about her background and how she found Flourish Transitioning from the corporate world to being a mentor for high school students taking up entrepreneurship You can't do everything by yourself Equip yourself with the right information to be successful Key Takeaways: Learning to be vulnerable can help you be successful Being honest and transparent about yourself and business sets you up for success Surround yourself with the right people so you can flourish Learn to leave your ego at the door Tweetable Quote: “I really learned to be courageous and I quickly had to check my ego at the door and realize what I was good at versus what I wasn't good at. And I very quickly learned that I could not do everything on my own. And in order for me to be successful, I really needed to let my guard down, be vulnerable, ask what one would call the stupid questions, and surround myself with people again that are way better at certain things than I was. ” - Megan Nivens-Tannett Connect with Megan: Website: https://www.flourishconsultingservices.com/ (https://www.flourishconsultingservices.com/ ) Social Media:https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-nivens/ (LinkedIn) Connect with Denis: Email: denis@leadingchangepartners.com Website:http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ ( http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/) Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/ ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/) Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/)
Megan's background ranges from working in non-profit to multi-million-dollar organizations, engaging in digital marketing, public relations, strategic communications, business development, and more. Prior to starting Flourish in 2018, she served as Vice President for Huntsville-based startup accelerator The Foundry; prior to that, she served as the Director of Digital Marketing for Internet of Things (IoT) tech firm, Synapse Wireless. In addition, she held various roles with leading Advertising firm McCann Erickson, where she managed marketing and public affairs for their client, the U.S. Army, for both USAREC and ROTC Commands. Prior to that, she served as the Executive Director for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, where she opened the first office in North Alabama. Megan's passion is people and finding solutions to problems – whether it's mentoring students, guiding non-profits, helping her kid's maneuver life's challenges, or working with clients to determine areas for growth and overall success. In addition to managing her business, she volunteers her time, including serving as a mentor for the Madison, AL CEO high school program, being an active student mentor through the University of Central Florida (go Knights!), serves as a business coach for The Catalyst Center for Business and Entrepreneurship, volunteers as a communications committee member for Semper Fi, speaks at various events to educate and inform about the public relations/marketing/communications field and was most recently chosen for Leadership of Greater Huntsville's Flagship 35 class. 0:00 Start 3:45 Intro 4:40 Shoutout to Morgan Vick 6:20 Fall Break and Client Strategy 12:20 Marketing Concept Flip 15:20 Teaching Employees the Flourish approach 16:40 UNA shoutout 18:50 Special Mother/Daughter Relationship 25:22 Megan's Family 30:09 A Father's Impact 32:26 Clearwater FL 35:50 Application to the Wheel of Fortune 39:05 UCF days and journalism 44:15 Creative freedom 48:26 Competitive Nature 52:35 Fake it till you make it ? 59:37 Starting Flourish 01:10:50 The idea behind the SheBoss! Podcast 01:24:25 Toni Eberhart and Urban Engine 01:27:24 Ragnar, Fitness, stress management 01:41:50 The Zegan World Tour 01:50:56 The Pic 6 - Outdoor Venues 01:58:56 The Quick 6 02:04:40 Conclusion Host/Interviewer: M. Troy Bye, Owner, Our Town Podcast a brand of the Our Town Company, LLC Website: www.ourtownpodcast.net Spotify Channel: https://spoti.fi/3QtpT8z Audio available on all platforms. Just search for "Our Town Podcast"
Randy discusses the UYS and Correlate partnership, Synapse Wireless presents SimplySnap Facility Performance Optimization solutions, designing lighting (dl) features the article Eclecticism Mixes with Tradition, Fluxwerx is looking for a Regional Sales Manager, USIlluminations has an opening for a Technical Solutions Sales Manager, and ArchLIGHT Summit takes place next week.
Winners of the 2022 Women in Lighting Awards will be unveiled 10 JUN. IALD appoints Christopher Knowlton as CEO. VOLT Lighting appoints John DiNardi as President. Synapse Wireless expands its sports lighting solutions. Peter Brown is the latest guest on Get a Grip. Early submission discount for the 2022 LIT Awards ends 30 JUN. Lumascape is looking for a Customer Accounts Specialist.
Randy discusses IES and IUVA's new standard for UV LEDs, introducing The Lighting Index of Everything (LIE), GE Current officially leaves Nela Park, UK research shows street lighting increases car thefts, Sri Lanka turns off street lights, larger booths to return to LightFair 2022, Synapse Wireless release ZHA-S1 Zhaga controllers, and Tresco Lighting has a career opportunity.
Randy discusses the NLB's first light and health webinar, R.I.P. Richard Quinn, Get a Grip podcast has a new episode, Synapse Wireless unveils a new website, and VOLT has a career opportunity.
Randy discusses how glow in the dark plants could act as passive lighting, Recolight posted a discussion about the specifier's role in the circular economy, Get a Grip has a new episode featuring Sandra Vasconez, designing lighting (dl) features an article by Scott Zimmerman, Synapse Wireless expands with Energy Insights, and Wasmer has a career opening.
Michael Davidson and Jamie Britnell are both Directors at Synapse Wireless and they joined Michael and Greg from the floor of LightFair International 2019 to share their thoughts and knowledge on connected lighting; the unofficial theme of LightFair and (perhaps) the future of the industry. The switch has been the only real control for lighting and we’re in a scenario more options are becoming viable on the consumer level. As much as connected lighting can make an argument for savings, there are other, better value that smarter lights can add. Michael and Jamie are more interested in systems that can inform users when lamps fail, or offer real time energy use data, and tools that store usage statistics to validate warranty claims, and all manner of personalized problem solving the IoT can offer.
James Grenning (@jwgrenning) joined us to talk about Test Driven Development, dealing with legacy code, and cleaning out very large pipes. James is the author of Test Driven Development for Embedded C. If you want to take his live online course, check out the remote delivered TDD classes on Wingman Software. His blog has many great articles including TDD How-to: Get Your Legacy C into a Test Harness and TDD Guided by ZOMBIES. Book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers James mentioned Given-When-Then, a testing design pattern (brief intro). Kent Beck also wrote about test && commit || revert style testing. James and Bob Martin present IoT implementation strategies in a series of videos on Clean Coders. James mentioned working with a Synapse Wireless radio.
On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood, Ward Bell, and Alyssa Nicoll discuss NGRx with Mike Ryan. Mike is a senior software engineer at Synapse Wireless, Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama and is a core team member of NGRx. What he does in work is that he builds real-time interactive UIs for industrial applications. Stay tuned to learn more about what NGRx and what he currently enjoys doing related to web development!
On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood, Ward Bell, and Alyssa Nicoll discuss NGRx with Mike Ryan. Mike is a senior software engineer at Synapse Wireless, Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama and is a core team member of NGRx. What he does in work is that he builds real-time interactive UIs for industrial applications. Stay tuned to learn more about what NGRx and what he currently enjoys doing related to web development!
On today’s episode, Charles Max Wood, Ward Bell, and Alyssa Nicoll discuss NGRx with Mike Ryan. Mike is a senior software engineer at Synapse Wireless, Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama and is a core team member of NGRx. What he does in work is that he builds real-time interactive UIs for industrial applications. Stay tuned to learn more about what NGRx and what he currently enjoys doing related to web development!
In this episode of the IoT Time podcast, Ken Briodagh, editorial director of IoT Evolution (iotevolutionworld.com), sits down with Jonathan Heath, solutions architect at Synapse Wireless, and they talk about what it means to make the IoT practical, and applicable to real users' lives and businesses. Tweet us @KenBriodagh and @IoTEvolution.
In this new podcast, Ken briodagh, editorial director of IoT Evolution (iotevolutionworld.com) interviews Kathryn Caspar, VP & GM, Synapse Lighting Controls about how lighting will be the hub of the IoT in connected homes, businesses and cities of the future.
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