Work Life 24 Marilyn McNeal | marilynmcneal.com

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills.
In today's episode, I speak with Ally DeArman. She is the Executive Administrator at Women's Foundation California. Ally partners with the CEO, Leadership Team and Board of Directors on the overall administration and operation of the virtual offices. She comes to the foundation with more than a decade of event management and organizational leadership experience.  
Previously, Ally worked UC Berkeley's Executive Education, directed the non profit Food Craft Institute, and helped produce Oakland's Eat Real Festival for 10 years running.  She served three years on the board of Community Foods Market, justice social enterprise in West Oakland.
Ally has lived her entire life in California, born and raised in San Diego County, relocated to the Bay Area to attend Stanford University, and currently residing in Oakland's Diamond District with her pets and partner.
In this conversation, Ally talks about her path from teenage restaurant hostess to Stanford grad, from  produce worker to UC Berkeley Associate Director and beyond. Lots of insights and laughter in this food, community and leadership-themed episode.
Bi-Rite Market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-Rite_Market
18 Reasons
https://18reasons.org/
East Bay Asian Youth Center
https://ebayc.org/our-journey/
Eat Real Festival
https://www.eatrealfest.com/
Food Craft Institute
http://www.oaklandmomma.com/2016/09/16/food-craft-institute-fosters-the-art-of-the-edible/
Women's Foundation California
https://womensfoundca.org/
 
 
 

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills. In today's episode, I speak with Seth Eisen.
Today’s episode is an intimate conversation with San Francisco-based artist and producer, Seth Eisen. Seth is the Artistic and Executive Director at Eye Zen Presents, a San Francisco-based transdisciplinary ensemble theater company founded by Seth Eisen in 2007.
I met Seth when I was a resident artist at a live work arts collective in San Francisco’s Mission District. I participated in two shows that Seth ran and got to know him as an ever exploring creative person.
In this episode, Seth talks about the ups and downs of prioritizing his creative work over the past 30 years of living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was lucky enough to be mentored by some of the Bay Area’s seminal art figures of the 70’s and 80’s so you definitely want to tune in and hear his recollections of working with and being influenced by art makers past and present.
Eye Zen Presents
https://www.eyezen.org/
Nancy Frank
https://arthousesf.org/who-we-are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mamelle,_Inc./Art_Com
Bonnie Sherk
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/arts/bonnie-sherk-dead.html
Million Fishes Art Collective
https://www.facebook.com/millionfishes/
848 / CounterPULSE
https://counterpulse.org/mission-history/
Remy Charlip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Charlip
 

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills. In today's episode, I speak with Taylor Willy.
Taylor is an experienced fundraiser skilled in relationship building, event planning and public speaking. She is passionate about the donor experience and ensuring that donors have a fulfilling partnership with the organizations they generously support. She received her BA from Purdue University in Educational Leadership & Administration and earned a Certificate in Fund Raising Management from Indiana University in 2020. 
Taylor is the Vice President of Development and Communications at Teen Works, a youth empowerment and economic mobility program for teens based out of Indianapolis, Indiana. Taylor is an avid believer that no dream is too big.
 

In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills. In today's episode, I speak with Jaclyn Edds Konczal.
Jaclyn is an artist, floral designer, writer, and mother living in Northern California on the ancestral lands of the Pomo People.
She is Lead Floral Designer at Front Porch Farm, an organic flower farm in Healdsburg, CA.
Jaclyn is a floral artist known for her unconventional, wild, and sculptural work. Her background as a visual artist coupled with her deep connection to the natural world results in design evoking romance, history, time and place, and human connection. 
Website: https://www.jaclyneddskonczal.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaclyneddskonczal/

This is Work Life 24.
In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills. In today's episode, I speak with Anna Nicholls.
Anna's current role is director of corporate partnerships at the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business - one of the top-ranked business schools in the US. 
She leads the school’s relationships with both large employers and funding partners, focussing on climate and sustainability, social impact, organizational culture, and entrepreneurship. 
Previously Anna spent ten years leading partnerships at urban planning think tanks and nonprofits both in London and San Francisco. 
She recently graduated as a fellow of Climatebase, an accelerator for highly motivated professionals to study applied climate solutions.
MENTIONED DURING CONVERSATION
Orange Skies Day
 
 

This is Work Life 24.
In this podcast, I ask each guest to reflect on the evolution of their career path and work skills. In today's episode, I speak with Jonathan Taylor.
Jonathan is a chemical engineer by vocation with a decade of experience in plastics research, development, and manufacturing.
He currently works as a consultant for the Fashion industry focused on producing sustainable alternative materials to fossil fuel derived textiles, primarily polyester and nylon. 
In addition, he also works on advanced recycling processes for handling pre-consumer and post-consumer textile waste which would otherwise be sent to a landfill or incinerated.
When he is not working on plastic, Jonathan also works as a garden photographer for The Gardens at Lake Merritt, which is a free botanical garden in Downtown Oakland California. 
On the weekends, he can often be found walking in the garden barefoot and with his camera. Known as “greenteatherapy” on social media, he posts pictures highlighting the abundance of floral beauty around the bay area combined with introspective monologues about mental wellness.
Greentea.Therapy: https://www.greenteatherapy.com/shop
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-taylor-648b7a127/