Theme: My Neighborhood, Our World

TEDxMariettaSquare is a gathering of voices that will speak to conditions that occur locally, but can have a global effect. Examples such as; environmental issues, family, economic issues, art and entertainment. https://www.facebook.com/TEDxMariettaSq/

Virtual Event
The Comfort of Your Home of Office
Marietta, Georgia, 30060
United States

Anna Szabo

Host of The Anna Szabo Show podcast.

Anna Szabo is an award-winning author, Christian speaker, poet, artist, blogger, and a podcast host of The Anna Szabo Show. She is the founder of Online Discipleship For Women, a ministry committed to helping alleviate suicide among women globally by sharing hope in Christ at OnlineDiscipleshipForWomen.com After enduring violence during her early life, Anna emigrated from Russia to AMERICA in 2008 hoping to live her happily-ever-after with her real-life Prince Charming. She was abused by Prince Charming and rescued from him by the police in 2009. She was then homeless, taught herself English in 18 months listening to Frank Sinatra, and graduated with an MBA from GSU in 2013. That year, her award-winning book was also published, “Turn Your Dreams And Wants Into Achievable SMART Goals!”

Bernadette Harris

Accountant

Bernadette is an accomplished entrepreneur, skilled accounting professional, published author, and distinguished public speaker with deep experience in business development, business training, forensic accounting, strategic planning, and financial management. She is a focused, goal-oriented, and enthusiastic relationship builder with a keen eye for details.

Donald Jenkins

Donald Jenkins is the President and Co-Founder of the Purpose Development Institute. His unique approach to purpose allows him to wear the title of a Master Purpose Development Coach. Purpose Development™ is the product of almost thirty years and well over 20,000 hours of researching deficiencies in personal and spiritual growth. Mr. Jenkins refusal to settle for a status quo definition of purpose has positioned him as a pioneer in helping individuals and organizations minimize the threat of Purpose Deficit Disorders™ (PDD). He has become the nations leading expert in helping individuals raise their Purpose IQ™ to reach their highest growth potential. Being a pioneer in personal and spiritual growth hasn’t been easy. After ending a twenty-year marriage that left him homeless and broke, Mr. Jenkins proved the power of purpose by turning his setback into a comeback by writing, training, and consulting individuals and organizations on how to leverage the strength that comes from purpose. His dedication to exploring the sophistication of purpose has positioned him to disrupt the life coaching industry with solutions that delivers superior results. He is married to Dr. Lily Jenkins and they have three kids Asia, Jordan, and Joshua.

Ellakisha O'Kelley

Attorney

Ellakisha O’Kelley was born and raised in Albany, NY. She attended the University at Albany where she was initially accepted into the top nationally ranked School of Criminal Justice program while competing as an athlete on the track team. After breaking all the program's sprint & hurdle records, earning Division II All-American honors three times and conference champion six times, she transferred to the University of South Carolina (UofSC) to finish up her last two years. C

Jamahal Richa'd

J.Bles Born (Jamahal Richa'd) is a southern Atlanta-based rap artist and motivator with a crazy unique flow and infectious way of speaking. The Atlanta native, who is signed to himself, has been working in the industry as a writer and producer. The rapper fell in love with rap when he was introduced to the smooth, rhythmic flow of legendary rap group, Outkast, whose passionate lyrics contributed to J.Bles wanting to experiment with poetry and rhyming at a young age. J.Bles, who defines his music as "Experience Rap", is an artist who struggled with depression; "I never really knew what it was I just knew I didn't feel right and that my mood would be extremely down. I went into a deep depression that ended up with me enrolling myself in therapy which to this day was the most impactful decision I ever made for myself and my career. It defined me, help me find myself and allowed me to take my music to do a different level and gave me my story to speak and inspire others. I now use my experience with depression to advocate for mental health awareness and motivate people to be the best version of themselves.

Jessica Frazier

Sex Trafficking Advocate

Jessica Frazier is the Founder and Executive Director of Straight Street Life Center, Inc. Straight Street’s mission is to Make a Difference (Jude 1:22) … by informing the public and intervening in the sex trade of minors. Jessica Frazier is no stranger to ‘the Life’, having been exploited at fourteen. She uses both her personal and professional experiences over a span of twenty-five years, working with youth in; detention centers, psychiatric hospitals and group homes. Straight Street Life Center offers an Awareness Initiative to inform the public and promote community involvement concerning Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking. Jessica Frazier is a Certified Adolescent Life Coach with a Bachelor in Business Administration.

Joseph Madison

Joseph R Madison II Joseph is a community builder who has experience building both on and offline. Offline, his work in community planning resulted in infrastructure improvements throughout the State of Maryland. Online, he has contributed to building communities that reach over 5,000,000 monthly followers via social media.

Latasha Bailey

Mrs. Bailey is the CEO-Chief Empowerment Officer of The Lifted Lifestyle® LLC a training and development company focused on personal and professional development. As a result of working with The Lifted Lifestyle, her clients are experiencing greater confidence, more effective communication and increased productivity and profits! Mrs. Bailey is an active member of the Forbes Coaches Council and has contributed to their expert panels that are designed to aid business owners in running high achieving businesses. She was named one of “Houston’s 40 Professionals to Watch Under 40 Years Old” by I-10 Media and she was also named Entrepreneur of the Year by Houston Power Professionals. Latasha is an internationally certified coach, globally sought after speaker and business trainer. Mrs. Bailey is an expert at blending her training, personality and natural ability to connect into the perfect formula needed to move you into action! After building and streamlining multiple successful businesses; Latasha enjoys traveling the globe with her husband, drinking coffee with her grandmother and finding new things that make her laugh from her belly.

Neha Negandhi

Neha Negandhi is a social change strategist who thrives at the intersection of business and community. For the better part of five years, Neha has been studying, speaking and strategizing about social impact. Her consulting company helps small and mid-size companies define and practice social impact. She hosted a weekly radio show on WMLB-Atlanta interviewing leaders/celebrities about social responsibility. She spent years researching, interviewing and publishing in major publications profiles on social change leaders including Nobel Peace Prize winner, US Ambassadors and Pulitzer-Prize winners. Her 10+ years leading corporate marketing and branding teams at Fortune 100 companies helps her company, Social Measures, tell client’s social impact brand story.

Rebecca Boskovic

YouTuber

Leader, Writer, Coach, YouTuber, Business Woman, Servant, and Beacon for those who are lost, Rebecca Boskovic believes that at the end of the day, we are the only ones responsible for our own happiness. By developing a growth mindset, setting our goals for the long game, and engaging our free will, we set ourselves up for a life of empowerment and healthy self-love. In addition to loving her family, Rebecca’s passion is to lead women who are chained to their pasts through self-hate to walk into the sunshine, feel the warm sand between their toes and experience joy. She believes that when a woman likes the person in the mirror, her world and that of everyone whose life she touches, becomes a more beautiful place to live. The owner and head coach of The Fittest Me, a personal training and subscription fitness business.

Ritchie Thomas

Ritchie is an honorary ATLien with a salt-water heart still in Charleston, SC. He was fortunate enough to have put on the military uniform for 6 years, where he was trained to push himself and others while learning a great sense of inner pride in belonging to something that was deeper than the dollar. He’s survived through a combat zone in Afghanistan, jumped out of airplanes, hit 15 countries (35 if we count Epcot), & survived 3 hurricanes. His gift is helping military servicemembers grow and helping them adjust from a soldier’s mindset to a business professional’s mindset.

Shaneequa Cannon

In order to be the person she felt she needed as a teen, stumbling through life following a suicide attempt, sexual assault (rape), and unwed teenage motherhood, Shaneequa Cannon became a public high school Language Arts teacher. During those 13 years as an educator, Shaneequa’s mission was to be the change she wanted to see and the beacon of possibilities in the lives of others. But, after narrowly surviving a bout with pulmonary embolisms in her lungs, Shaneequa had to confront her mortality and habits of mediocrity. This brush with death gave her a fresh pair of eyes and a fervent desire to see the women around her rise out of their own mediocrity, winning through telling their stories on stage and on the page. This led her to start a business as the Master Brand Story Coach, drawing on her love of teaching and her fascination with storytelling, helping women entrepreneurs embrace the power of their story so they could move forward with permission and purpose. This is a new multi-faceted mission that Shaneequa takes to the stage, page, and screen as a speaker, author, and screenwriter. She's a graduate of the University of Miami and Full Sail University.

Shawna Schuh

We have an interesting challenge in leadership today -- how do we continue to get better and evolve? Shawna Schuh, is a Certified Speaking Professional, Master Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner, business owner, and leadership coach. She also owns a horse boarding facility and lives in rural Western Oregon with horses, dogs, and one old cat. Her passion project is the Women in the Pet Industry Network which she leads with the mission to unite women pet leaders worldwide. Shawna believes that leaders who use our pets’ best traits can rebuild our neighborhoods and the world.

Shelly Koren Skeen

Consultant

Shelly Skeen is a builder and a fixer, with natural abilities to navigate in crisis. In her journey, she started by organizing faith-based startups with multiple leaders that were great visionaries, but lacked organization. This ignited Shelly as a resourceful consultant, while working her way through college, to faith-based organizations and budding alumni entrepreneurs with operational and funding concerns for organic growth. This is her specialty; to identify a need, focus a team around solving it, create and execute a plan to fill that need. She connects the mission with the resources needed to pay for the solution. In her element, she facilitates and conducts 'how-to' courses for a myriad of clients. Her greatest joy is writing critiques and updating policy to ensure the work is done right.

Stephanie Ghoston-Paul

Stephanie Ghoston Paul is an internationally recognized speaker, facilitator, organizational development consultant, life coach and recovering lawyer. She brings over 15 years of experience in advancing equity, fostering inclusive leadership, and sparking systems transformation using racial justice and healing frameworks. Stephanie's unique approach skillfully and wholeheartedly combines her sharp legal mind, problem solving skills, and love of people to powerfully serve clients and challenge existing systems. She has coached leaders and staff in the nonprofit, for-profit, education, foundation and public sectors to integrate equity and inclusion into the core identities of those organizations. She is well versed in assessing organizational culture, tool building, and strategic coaching for equity. Through her individual life coaching work, she is dedicated to helping clients fully embody being free, whole and enough. Her one-on-one coaching program specifically helps high-achieving leaders embrace their brilliance so that they can fully step into their power and activate their potential. Stephanie walks alongside her clients as they discover ways to stop hiding, prioritize themselves, and start living on purpose. She is also on the board for the Global Youth Leadership Institute, a program she completed in high school as a member of its founding cohort. Stephanie currently resides in Atlanta, GA. She enjoys cooking spicy dishes with her partner, playing recreational flag football, and finding new flavors of delicious tea.

Taurea Vision Avant

Founder of URBAN CEO Network

Taurea is originally from Hampton, VA and a graduate of the BEST HBCU in the land Hampton University. She is the author of more than 15+ books with the latest two books being “A Six Figure Vision” & “How Not to Be a Broke Author”. Her talents and vision have put her many on media outlets like ABC, Fox, CBS and more! In 2009, she founded Show Your Success Co. where she has helped more than 5000+ entrepreneurs to primarily write books designed to grow their businesses and build at least 3 streams of income. In 2019, she expanded her business to a monthly membership called the Book Profits Club. During that year, she also became the founder of URBAN CEO Network which is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help empower and educate entrepreneurs from the Urban Community in a non-intimidating way. Her life’s mission is to impact the lives of 20,000,000 Men & Women in Mind, Body and Soul.

Tee J Mercer

When you know you’re the solution to someone’s problem or the answer to someone’s prayer, you have a responsibility to FIND YOUR VOICE and MAKE SOME NOISE! And TeeJ Mercer’s genius has helped thousands do just that. As the Chief NoiseMaker of the Media Mavericks Academy, TeeJ uses her insider expertise as a 20+ year Hollywood veteran to coach her Mavericks how to unapologetically rock their own genius on networks like ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW and on shows like The Steve Harvey Show, The Doctors, and Dr. Oz. TeeJ’s Mavericks have also displayed their authority in The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Inventors Digest, The Breakfast Club, and too many radio shows and podcasts to count. A four-time author who is nicknamed The Walking Exclamation Point and The Beast in Media Streets, TeeJ has spent over two decades influencing the lives of millions through her storytelling for both behind and in front of the camera. As an award-winning TV Editor, her resume is peppered with notable names such as VH1, MTV, Animal Planet, SpikeTV, OWN, Bravo, Dreamworks Studios, The Walt Disney Company, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Access Hollywood, The Bachelor, Swamp People, Clean House, My Cat from Hell, LA Hair, and Bar Rescue to name just a few. Publicity and DVD features for gigantic box office hits such as Shrek, Chronicles of Narnia, The Incredibles, Cars, Princess Diaries, Cinderella are also in her arsenal, plus much more. She also was the Behind-The-Scenes Producer for comedic giants Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish’s $100- million comedy of 2018, Night School as well as Summer 2019’s hit Shaft with the billion-dollar icon Samuel L. Jackson. As a loquacious child who loved to tell stories, TeeJ’s mother often begged and tried to bribe her with the promise of coins for her piggy bank if she would just give her mom five minutes of no talking. Let’s just say that TeeJ’s piggy bank was never in danger of overflowing. But the tables eventually turned. TeeJ got the last laugh as she regularly reminds her mom that people now pay her to run her mouth as an international speaker. As a firm believer of using what’s in your hand, during the pandemic of 2020, TeeJ, a proud graduate of the most prestigious HBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universities), raised over $1 million dollars in less than four weeks and hosted the most epic series of Bingo games (TeeJ’s HBCU Bingo) for the 2020 grads of HBCUs, earning the title, Auntie TeeJ, The Bingo Boss. Today, with a mission to make God smile and be Somebody’s Answered Prayer, TeeJ wakes up everyday committed to love on God’s kids by living up to her moniker as The World’s Greatest Hugger.

Yoeshikoe Nicole Creer

Philanthropist

Yoeshikoe Creer resides in Atlanta Georgia with her husband and together they have 6 children. Yoeshikoe is a philanthropist, 9-time Inspirational Published Author, Motivational Speaker, Mindfulness Coach and Entrepreneur in which she has been committed to for over 16 years. For the last two years Yoeshikoe has been running her own Independent Production Company called Six Kids Productions in which she is a Screenwriter and Producer. Before starting her own production company Yoeshikoe worked as a Production Assistant for major studios and networks. She got her start in the film industry by doing extra and background work, she fell in love with set life and enjoys working in the film industry. For over 17 years Yoeshikoe continues to partner with creditable agencies to house and care for trafficked victims, disabled veterans and children, immigrants and refugees. Yoeshikoe also mentors college students who aspire to be published authors, travel writers, bloggers and screenplay writers.