Still Winning Podcast Mikala Brown

Today’s guest has a long list of accomplishments, including being the first black female to earn the Dispatcher of the Year Award in Florida.  She’s a single mother to two boys and a business owner.  Dominique Mathis is a strong, black woman that’s overcome a lot to get to where she is today.  However, her many achievements didn’t keep her from experiencing depression.  Through therapy and journaling, she’s been able to improve her mental health. She’s learned to nourish her mind and be thankful for the small things in life.  Today, she’s here to share her journey.

Jenny is a former Case Management Supervisor for people with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities, and she served over 500+ families in the state of Indiana until about 2012. 
Jenny decided to stay at home with my then 2 children (now 3). Around 2015 after her 3rd daughter was born, she needed more in my life. Jenny was then bitten by the Small Business bug and ran with it. Through her size-inclusive boutique, she now serves about 5000 women and helps them feel the best they can in the skin they are in. Through her overwhelming sales and blessings. The Finley family has collectively given back over $20k to local charities, schools, and other non-profit services in our community.
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Lou Lopez Senechal is a 23 years old Senior and basketball player at Fairfield university.
Recognized as the MAAC rookie of the year in 2018/2019. Also recognized  in the MAAC all championship team in 2020/2021.

Cynthia was born in Munich, Germany in 1948. She is 73 years old. Cynthia is the oldest of six children, raised and schooled in Michigan. A retired educator, she graduated from Western Michigan University, where she earned a B.A. in Education and an M.A. in Counseling and Personnel. She also studied for an M.B.A in Logistics, relocating to California two courses shy of the degree. Cynthia’s California Administration credentials were earned at Chapman and Redlands universities.
 
During her tenure as an educator, she served as an elementary and college teacher; middle school and high school counselor; middle and high school administrator; and finally a director at county and district levels. Cynthia worked for Kalamazoo Public Schools, Grand Rapids County Vocational Schools, Perris Union High School District, Riverside Public Schools, and San Bernardino Public Schools.
 
Cynthia is a mother of two accomplished daughters and a grandmother to seven. She currently resides in Shelton, Connecticut.
 
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Andrea Hernangómez, from Spain she is 21 years old, and a senior student-athlete at Fairfield University. Andrea won her first award last season, and was the sixth player of the year. 
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From teen mom to creating new statistics. Mikala Brown has set numerous “out of the ‘expected’ box” goals and creates her own life/career success. 
From purchasing her first home as a single mom at the age of 25, to receiving her Master’s Degree in Special Education at the age of 28, to building a 6-figure at-home business while teaching in the “public school,” system and raising 3 kids. She is on fire and ready to continue to, as she puts it, “live the new statistic” daily. She is breaking barriers and is ready to empower. 
This is an invitation to shatter your own and others’ expectations and live your true success story. Mikala wants everyone to WIN and will demonstrate this through EMPOWERMENT, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, GENERATIONAL STORY TELLING & COACHING. Dreamers and doers, LET’S GO! There is no such thing as a Dream that is too big. Let’s Dream and climb to the top TOGETHER. 
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Dr. Regina Patton Stell can still remember the middle school teacher who first inspired her to teach: a “strikingly beautiful,” six-foot Black woman who drove a Mustang, loved to write and dressed immaculately. 
 
Dr. Stell has now known decades of leaving her own mark on students in classrooms and on school systems at large. For more than 30 years, she served as a special ed teacher-turned-principal and director, having been appointed the first Black assistant superintendent of her school district in Riverside, California. Later, she’d go on to hold a different office in Riverside as the president of its NAACP county branch, a position she still holds to this day.
 
What’s gotten her here, she says, is an unflagging sense of adventure, a hunger for autonomy and a knack for thriving under adverse circumstances. Combined, it all adds up to a spirit of perseverance that’s defined her life choices. 
 
“I’m at my best when I’m under adversity and in a corner, because I’m coming out swinging,” she says. “And I’m going to win. The best times in my life have been when I’ve done something you told me I couldn’t do.”
 
On this episode of the Still Winning podcast, Mikala hears from Dr. Stell about her origin story as a child of eight growing up in 1950s and 1960s Chicago, the impact she’s made in her career, and how she learned to become her own best cheerleader. 
 
What You’ll Learn:
The advice Dr. Stell’s mother gave her that helped her pursue her doctorate degree while raising four kids Why having a “spiritual base” is a superpower, and what that’s looked like for her The morning routine that kicks her creativity into motion And much more!  
Favorite Quote:
“You’ve got to have a vision and you’ve got to have a dream, or you’ll perish. That’s biblical.”
— Dr. Regina Patton Stell
 
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