Posted by Elena del Valle on April 29, 2013
Suk Park, cofounder, Dramafever Corp.
Photo: Dramafever Corp.
A podcast interview with Suk Park, cofounder, Dramafever Corp. is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses his company with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Suk oversees licensing and revenue-generating activities, including advertising sales and redistribution partnerships to multiple top-tier platforms at his company. He has 15 years of international business experience, striking joint ventures and licensing partnerships in 24 countries throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe. Prior to DramaFever, Suk led the international division of Ziff Davis Media, and was director of International Business Development at Citadon.
Born in Korea and raised in Spain, he began his career at Salomon Smith Barney after earning a Masters of Business Administration from New York’s Columbia Business School and graduating cum laude from the University of Rochester in New York. He lives in New York with his wife Boram and his daughter.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Suk Park” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on “Get HMPR Podcast” on the right side of the homepage. The podcast will remain listed in the April 2013 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on April 25, 2013
Information provided by Event and Program Partner
The National Hispana Leadership Institute’s Latinas Learning to Lead Program
The Latinas Learning to Lead program targets college-enrolled, 18-24 year old Latinas that are seeking to impact their community. The program promotes and fosters the career and educational development of young Latina leaders through training, mentoring opportunities, and access to national networks.
The LLL program annually selects about 22 fellows. Session topics include effective communication and presentation skills, advocacy training, public policy issues affecting the Latino community and other professional and leadership development topics, such as financial literacy and career opportunities.
Application and program deadlines are as follows:
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 5 pm EST: Application deadline
- Mid May: Application notifications
- July 21-27th, 2013: Leadership Training in Washington, DC
- July 28th and beyond: Participate in Mentorship Programs
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July 2013-2013 Fall semester/quarter: Leadership projects implemented in communities
For more program and application information visit www.nhli.org or contact NHLI at Programs@nhli.org.
Posted by Elena del Valle on April 24, 2013
By Viola Sanchez
Southeast Division, Vice President
PS Business Parks
Viola Sanchez, vice president, Southeast Division, PS Business Parks
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I am a woman. This is not a new found realization or one that should come across as a monumental statement. However, in my line of work, commercial real estate, it still remains a pejorative point of differentiation, albeit less so in recent years. Nevertheless, it is time we move past false rhetoric and forge a future of equality based on factual data and a little “women’s intuition.”
Commercial real estate and its myriad of sectors and nuances make for a fascinating field. Recently women have begun to enter the industry in earnest and currently account for 43 percent of the workforce. However, many have yet to reach the higher ranks of leadership.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on April 22, 2013
Tatiana Pages, CEO, Greencard Creative
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A podcast interview with Tatiana Pages, chief executive officer, Greencard Creative is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses a contemporary approach to the American Latino market with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Tatiana is also chief creative officer of Greencard Creative, a New York City branding, strategy and design firm. She combines her love of design, art, branding, and social responsibility and sustainability to create targeted campaigns and brand insights for companies in the food and beverage, beauty, science, fashion, social, cultural and personal care industries.
In 2007 she coined the term American Latino market to redefine Hispanic stereotypes and uncover their rapidly changing behaviors and rituals. Through in-depth research, she has examined human behavior and key consumer insights to help build global brand movements. She has worked with Smirnoff Ice, Pepsico/Ocean Spray, Heineken, Diageo, Petit Nectars, Gallo Winery, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, Frito Lay, Campbell’s, and the country of Ecuador.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Tatiana Pages” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the April 2013 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on April 19, 2013
Pound Foolish book cover
Photos: Andrew Walker
In the 1950s, less than 5 percent of Americans had stock market investments. By the 1980s, that number had quadrupled to one in five Americans and by the millennium more than half of the population had ties to the stock market, according to journalist Helaine Olen.
She is convinced that a financial products and self help industry promoted a dream to Americans. It had the allure of magic, Olen says in her book Pound Foolish Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry (Portfolio/Penguin, $27.95), promising to make up for stagnant salaries, unequal income and dwindling financial safety nets. The sellers? People, businesses and organizations who stood to gain from the public’s buy in of the dream. The personal finance and investment industrial promised many things it couldn’t deliver, she says.
The 292-page hardcover book she began working on in 2009 was published in 2012. It is divided into nine chapters: What Hath Sylvia Wrought?, The Tao of Suze, The Latte Is a Lie, Slip Slidin’ Away, The Road to Pas Tina, I’ve Got the Horse Right Here, An Empire of Her Own, Who Wants to Be a Real Estate Millionaire?, Elmo Is B(r)ought to You By the Letter P, and We Need to Talk About Our Money.
Olen concludes that given the current economy personal financial success born of following the advice of self proclaimed self help gurus is unlikely. Financial planning can help people get out and stay out of debt, be instrumental in preparing for retirement and reaching long term goals; but no amount of financial planning can overcome a downward economy or bad circumstances, she says. What to do? She recommends being honest about our personal situation and beginning a conversation about our community’s financial situation.
Helaine Olen, author, Pound Foolish
A freelance journalist formerly in charge of the Money Makeover series at the Los Angeles Times, Olen’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon and Forbes. She lives in New York City with her family.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on April 15, 2013
Maureen Francisco, author, It Takes Moxie
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A podcast interview with Maureen Francisco, author, It Takes Moxie, Off the Boat, or Out of School, to Making It Your Way in America is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses her book with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
After graduating from college Maureen spent the five years rising in the ranks of the media world as a TV news reporter or weekend anchor at station affiliates around the country, ending up at a station in the top-twelve market of Seattle, Washington. She worked in sales for a while before following her next big dream: reality TV. She was the first contestant on CBS’s Power of Ten with Drew Carey, joined the reality show Solitary 3.0 and segued into modeling, acting, and writing.
She is co-owner of NW Productions, a media and production company and working on her first screenplay. She is also the co-president of the Seattle Ascend Chapter, a non-profit organization that nurtures Pan Asian leaders.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Maureen Francisco” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the April 2013 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on April 8, 2013
Pamela Wible, M.D., author, Pet Goats & Pap Smears
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A podcast interview with Pamela Wible, M.D., author, Pet Goats & Pap Smears, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses ideal medical care with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Pamela is a family physician born into a family of physicians. Her parents warned her not to pursue medicine. She followed her heart only to discover that to heal her patients she had to first heal her profession. So she led a series of town hall meetings inviting citizens to design the clinic of their dreams. Celebrated since 2005, her pioneering model has sparked a populist movement that has inspired Americans to create ideal clinics and hospitals nationwide.
A graduate of Wellesley College, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and University of Arizona’s Department of Family and Community Medicine Dr. Wible is author of Pet Goats & Pap Smears: 101 Medical Adventures to Open Your Heart & Mind. She is also coauthor of two award-winning anthologies, Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change with Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey and Optimism: Cultivating the Magic Quality that Can Extend Your Lifespan, Boost Your Energy, and Make You Happy Now with Jimmy Carter, Steve Jobs and others. Her model is featured in the Harvard School of Public Healthʼs newest edition of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration, a textbook examining major trends with the potential to change the dynamics of health care.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Pamela Wible, M.D.” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the April 2013 section of the podcast archive.
The author offered to give away three copies of her book Pet Goats & Pap Smears to responders in the United States. Listen to the podcast for instructions.
Pet Goats & Pap Smears book cover
Posted by Elena del Valle on April 5, 2013
The Resilient Woman book cover
Photos: Patricia O’Gorman
Patricia O’Gorman, Ph.D., a psychologist who has worked on women, trauma and substance abuse issues, believes women are wired to try to make others happy. When they don’t live up to these self-imposed expectations, she says, they blame themselves for the hardships that follow. In The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power ( HCI Books, $15.95), she proposes that the messages women learn from a young age drive them to self-sabotaging Girly Thoughts that dictate who they are and how they should act.
She defines a resilient woman as one who overcomes a traumatic event or experience such as divorce, job loss, move, marriage, motherhood, health crisis, aging or a childhood trauma. In the book, she offers an analysis of the Girly Thoughts which she equates with anti-resilience, and self-evaluation tools for readers to identify their thoughts and behaviors. She also proposes seven daily steps to lead women to create and strengthen their own resilience.
Patricia O’Gorman, author, The Resilient Woman
Society expects women to have many of the same characteristics that our grandmothers and mothers had, she says. Based on insights shared by women at workshops the psychologist has conducted, many women feel trapped believing that if they accomplish their career goals they become less desirable or not desirable; but if they seek to be desirable they must sacrifice parts of who they want to be. These beliefs often lead to anger and depression and feelings of low self esteem so prevalent women become unaware of them or their source, she says.
The 300-page softcover book published this year is divided into three main sections: Warming Up: Detecting and challenging Girly Thoughts; Start Dancing: Develop a Resilient Mind-Set; and Daily Action Steps to Develop Conscious Resilience; and 13 chapters. One of the first researchers of issues related to children of alcoholics in the early 1970s, documenting the impact of alcoholism and sobriety on adolescent development, O’Gorman created the Department of Prevention and Education for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD).
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Posted by Elena del Valle on April 1, 2013
The University of Iowa invites applications for the position of Vice President for Strategic Communication. The Vice President will serve as a key leader responsible for advancing the University’s mission and goals through the design, development, and execution of a strategic communications plan to inform, educate, and garner support on behalf of the University.
Read the entire Vice President for Strategic Communication The University of Iowa
Posted by Elena del Valle on April 1, 2013
James Bernstein, M.D., chairman, Eniware
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A podcast interview with James Bernstein, M.D., chairman, Eniware is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses the business of doing good with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Jim is also chief executive officer of Eniware, a company that intends to provide portable, power-free, low temperature, low-cost sterilization of medical instruments in low-resource settings to change the health care in the developing world, disaster relief work and in militaries throughout the world. A serial healthcare entrepreneur driven by a vision and passion for social impact he has 35 years of experience leading innovative enterprises in the United States and abroad.
A graduate of Harvard College and Cornell University Medical School he worked in Peru and India as a hospital based surgeon while in medical school. He trained in internal medicine at the Second Division at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and general, thoracic, vascular and transplantation surgery with Marshall Orloff at the University of California San Diego, University Hospital.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR James Bernstein, M.D.” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the April 2013 section of the podcast archive.
