Seven years ago, Carmen started her real estate business from scratch. Within her first year, she ranked in the top 1% of her field, brought her engineer husband on full-time, and grew her team to four full-time employees. Her success came from embracing challenges, leveraging smart strategies, and surrounding herself with a goal-driven community. By focusing on community engagement, social media, and the high-contact nature of real estate, she has built a powerful brand and become a top choice for clients—always delivering value, building relationships, and helping everyone win together.

You can connect with Carmen Reese on Instagram @closewithclr. Here is the list of resources that she mentioned during her interview:

- Tom Ferry Coaching

-Book recommendations: Ninja Selling and Exactly What To Say For Real Estate Agents

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Suzanna Finnegan Guyton, a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor with over twenty years of experience. Suzanna deeply values creating a safe, chill place for her clients to find their authentic, congruent self. We all, at times, create barriers/discrepancies which prevent us from going towards the life we want. With the counselor-client rapport being the driving force, Suzanna assists clients discover what and who is most important in their life. It sounds simple, yet trauma, insecurities, defense mechanisms, etc. blur our value system (who and what is most important) which is how barriers manifest— and then enter said client not going towards their desired life.

You can connect with Suzanna Finnegan Guyton on her website here. Here’s a list of the Tips she shared during the interview:

-Find quite time for yourself!

-Be curious about your thoughts! “I am not my thoughts.”

-Evaluate who and what is most important to you today.

-Look at yourself today and evaluate your values. Purchase value cards to help you with this exercise here.

- Book recommendation: The Liberated Mind

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She is a proud product of immigrant parents from Jamaica and Costa Rica who instilled in her the curiosity and independence to build and tinker with her father working as a machinist and mother working as a carpenter for over 25+ years each. She is currently a Sr Manager of Software Development at Amazon, leading diverse teams of software managers, engineers, and program managers to deliver $1B+ in revenue. Prior to Amazon she was a Sr Software Engineer and Technical Product Manager at IBM where she was awarded 4 U.S. patents working on social applications for the workforce and improving digital experiences for other businesses.

Latoya earned her Bachelor's in Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University and her MBA from Northeastern University. Over the years she has been involved with various activities and organizations that promote technology awareness, directly mentored over 100 tech professionals, founded mentoring programs for women, and partnered with others to increase the pipeline of tech professionals in underrepresented groups. She was recently recognized with a Shero Trailblazer Award by the Amazon Black Employee Women’s group for her efforts in pioneering DEI initiatives.

Originally from Boston, she resides in Maryland with her Husband and 2 girls (ages 9 and 7) who she is eager to teach coding in addition to enjoying play time and traveling.

You can connect with Latoya Davis on LinkedIn here. Also, you can connect with her directly by emailing her at latoya@techinclusivityconsulting.com. Here is a list of tools/resources she's shared on the episode to check out:

-Udemy

-Coursera

-Career Specific Meetups/Facebook Groups

-Professional Conferences

-Professional Associations

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