Listen in as top executive coach Lacey Leone McLaughlin revisits and discusses some of the most interesting stories and learnings of season two! Featuring Acclaimed HR Leader Ian Ziskin, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim CEO Michael Ouwleeen, TV Executive and Equality Founder Bree Frank, America's Got Talent Executive Producer Sam Donnelly, TV Writer, Director, and Founder Amy Aniobi, Beauty Executive and Founder Melanie Bender, and Finance Executive and Equality Founder Todd Sears.

Sincere thanks to everyone who listened and shared this season - we would not be here without you!

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Amy Aniobi is an award-winning writer, director, producer currently under an overall deal with HBO & HBO Max. She is the founder of production company, SuperSpecial, and industry talent incubator, TRIBE. Amy most recently directed multiple episodes for RAP SH!T on Max and SURVIVAL OF THE THICKEST on Netflix and also previously served as Executive Producer on INSECURE and Showrunner/Head Writer on 2 DOPE QUEENS for HBO. Prior to that, she was consulting on BROTHERS IN ATLANTA, a Story Editor on SILICON VALLEY and a Staff Writer on THE MICHAEL J FOX SHOW for NBC. She also recently co-hosted comedy and wellness podcast, THE ANTIDOTE, named one of The Guardian's "Best New Podcasts of 2022."

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Previously a technology reporter for The New York Times business section, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast, Taylor Lorenz is currently a technology columnist for The Washington Post's business section covering online culture and the content creator industry. Her and her work have appeared in New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Outside magazine, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, the BBC, Netflix, HBO, Hulu, and many more. She was a 2019 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a former affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

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Sam first came to America in the fall of 2012 to join long standing America's Got Talent showrunner Jason Raff, initially only for 8 months. As she now embarks on her 12th season of the show, she has zero intention in moving back to the UK any time soon.

Prior to this 'short adventure' in the US, Sam was showrunner on Britain's Got Talent where she first met Simon Cowell. As Simon and his team were about to launch the US version of X factor, he asked her to jump ship from the BBC and join BGT, a decision that changed her life. Sam had originally ended up at the BBC in her late 20's when she answered an ad in the newspaper for researchers wanted on the prestigious UK Chat show 'Parkinson'. As a former dancer with barely any TV experience, Sam somehow managed to land that role and stayed at the BBC for 12 years working on all manner of entertainment programming.

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With over 20+ years of professional production experience, Bree has produced over 300 hours of unscripted television, including MTV's Room Raiders, TLC's A Makeover Story, and the award-winning television format Wife Swap. She has also contributed to a number of series during a 10-year run in Production Management for ZodiakMedia's New York office.

In 2018, Bree took a leap of faith and moved her family to Los Angeles, CA to begin a new chapter of life. She quickly landed at Matador Content and served as the Executive in Charge of Production, where she managed a robust development slate as well as projects for Disney+, Apple TV+, Crackle, and Showtime. Most currently, Bree was at Hello Sunshine (Reese Witherspoon's media company), as their Senior Vice President of Physical Production for Unscripted where she was tapped four years ago to build out physical production services. Bree's passion is to tell exceptional stories and move the television zeitgeist forward while championing diversity, equity, inclusion and access.

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Todd has spent more than 20 years working at the intersection of finance and equality, first as an investment banker before joining Merrill Lynch as Head of Diversity Strategy and Credit Suisse as Head of Diversity and Inclusion. Todd created the first team of financial advisors in Wall Street focused on the LGBTQ+ community and brought almost $2 billion of new assets to Merrill Lynch from LGBTQ+ couples and nonprofit organizations. Additionally, he is the founding chair of Jeffrey Fashion Cares, which raised more than $8mm for LGBTQ+/HIV causes under his decade of leadership, and is currently the CEO of Out Leadership, the world's premiere global platform for businesses to drive LGBTQ+ equality.

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Melanie Bender's experience spans two decades leading purpose-driven businesses, accruing industry accolades including Fast Company's Most Creative People, WWD's Beauty Vanguard, Glossy's 50, Beauty Independent's Brand Builder of the Year, among others. Starting at Who What Wear as VP of Marketing and Brand Development, she helped build a $150 million annual retail business. Next, she was the founding president of Versed, which under her leadership, became the #1 clean skincare brand in mass channels. Most recently, Melanie was the CEO of Rhode, a minimalism skincare brand that was awarded Allure's "Best of Beauty," Beauty Inc's Newcomer of the Year Award 2022, and already ranked in the top 10 most talked about skincare brands on social media - all in their first year of business!

Fred Mwangaguhunga started off as an attorney on Wall Street but soon became an entrepreneur, founding and running a door-to-door laundry service with elite clients like Mariah Carey and The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. After his successful exit from that startup business, Fred founded mediatakeout.com and has grown it into the number one urban celebrity online news outlet with an audience of over 40 million monthly visitors. Called a "rising star" of New Media by The New York Times and one of the industry's "Top Media" people by The New York Observer, Fred has appeared on many top tier national media outlets like Access Hollywood, Bravo with Andy Cohen, GQ, Wendy Williams, CBS, BET, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, and the list goes on and on.

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