Happy Talks

Happy Talks bridges the gaps seen in our client's busy lives and their well intentioned goal of talking with their aging loved ones. 

Our membership guarantees your loved one is talking with a trained and background checked conversationalist. 

Your loved one gets connection, your family gets peace of mind!

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Chief Happiness Officer

Engel & Völkers Atlanta 

Managing Broker from January 2019 to May 2022. As a part of the leadership team, I led our advisors with market knowledge, transaction and marketing support. 

Part of sales team that sold out at a new construction townhome community. 

Working with clients from over 25 countries throughout my career, I managed personal clients and a team that worked with our buyers, sellers and investors in Atlanta and across the world.

Associate Broker

Atlanta REALTORS® Association

With over 10,000 members, the ARA is the largest real estate association in the state of Georgia and considered to be one of the strongest and most successful REALTOR® Associations across the nation.

With ARA serving as a central source of information for our members, the main focus of the association is centered on three key areas, 1) Promoting professionalism and standards in the industry, 2) Protecting our members ability to transact business, and 3) Defending private property rights.  Promote, Protect and Defend!

Founded in 1910, the Atlanta Realtors Association has been an instrumental factor in the growth of organized real estate in the state of Georgia for over a century.

Throughout its history, ARA has exerted its influence in civic affairs in its capacity of representing a substantial segment of the business community across Atlanta. The Association has contributed representatives to the Atlanta Aldermanic Board, City Zoning Boards, the Mayor's Committee on Urban Renewal, the office of Vice-Mayor, the Mayor, County Commissions, and the Atlanta Housing Authority. 

ARA has consistently, for many years, exerted its influence on behalf of the real property taxpayers. Additionally, the Association played a major role in the creation of the Georgia Real Estate Commission and has continued to play an integral part in the development of the Georgia License Law.

Previously served a one year term in 2014 as President of Women's Council of Realtors Atlanta Network.

Board of Directors Member

Village Realty - Atlanta

- Manage and grow brokerage resulting in increased gross sales of over $50 million in 2016 alone.
- Execute risk management tools, guidelines, and procedures.
- Teach agents sales strategies, financial structures, client care, and marketing.
- Direct annual brokerage education initiatives.
- Manage digital marketing and recruiting initiatives and campaigns. 
- Prepare international investors for EB-5 Visa program.
- Work with real estate consultants in other countries, specifically, the Caribbean & South America to facilitate client purchases
- Manage a team that assists homebuyers and sellers with their needs analysis, search, and negotiation of their purchase or sale.
- Create and maintain alliances with service providers.
- Oversaw the largest transaction in Atlanta home sales for 2016 at $8 million with our agent as the Selling Broker.

SVP/ Managing Broker

Keller Williams

- Work with international clients on their real estate purchases in Atlanta. 
- Assisting homebuyers and sellers with their needs analysis, search, and negotiation of their purchase or sale.
- Maintain alliances and build relationships with vendors.
- Develop and distribute monthly newsletters to client database.
- Implement systematic marketing programs
- Facilitate the procurement of retail and other commercial property as well as vendors for site selection comparisons, feasibility programs, etc.

REALTOR - Residential & Commercial

She-EO Inc.

Business Development for World's First Exclusive Female Cigar Accessory Line.

Our brand furnishes luxury cigar retreats, cutters, lighters, punches, our patented HumiClutch purse and more!

Managing Partner

Redmond Law, LLC

• Client Development: Relationship development, Brought in double the amount of new clients in a 12 month period for the firm.

• Opportunity analysis:  Discovered contracting opportunities that resulted in government contracts and local government work.

• Brand development:  Oversaw new website vendor selection and construction.

•Consulting: including annual marketing plan, new client development plans, social media management

Communications Consultant

Aficionados Cigar Lounge

Consult with management and cigar vendors for events, education and product reviews.  Create new business opportunities and establish relationships on a local and international scale.

Consultant, Global Partnerships & Events

New Day Financial

• Prepared and edited organizational publications, biographies and marketing material. 
• Developed monthly internal newsletter targeted to attorneys, contractors, senior management and project managers. 
• Revised and maintained marketing collateral, client databases and acquisition guidelines

Director, Investor Relations 

Interep National Radio Sales

Acted as liason and managed accounts between radio stations across the US and buyers at national advertising firms for accounts such as Home Depot, Albertsons and more.

Account Executive

Over 17 years experience with residential and commercial real estate sales and development as well as business and client development consulting experience.  Over 8 years as a Managing Broker, I co-managed over $2 billion in real estate contracts, in addition to my personal and team sales. 

While spreading happy through real estate has been my passion, the highs and lows with clients and their aging parents helped me to develop Happy Talks. I am now a founder in the Age Tech space changing the way older adults, that are shut in, in assisted living or socially isolated, stay connected. 

Message me to connect for more information and make sure to spread some happy today!

Nurses have always been revered like rockstars to me. 

As a kid, I would roam the halls of Johns Hopkins Hospital with my dad, a Respiratory Therapist. 

File this under things that would never happen in 2024: the nurses would let me go on rotations with them, talk to patients, hold babies in NICU and the list goes on and on. 

As an adult, I am ecstatic to be a part of the conversation with nurses exploring the world of entrepreneurship.  Nurses have a front row seat to care, the health care processes/systems and have an innate adaptability. 

Tomorrow evening, the Beyond the Bedside event will take place co-sponsored by Frontline Innovation (founded by Dr. Shadé Reid and Bryanna Marshall MN,RN) and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University's Nurses' Alumni Association. 

Featuring two sessions - a Q&A at 5:30pm on the nuts and bolts of starting a new business and a panel discussion at 6:30pm digging a little deeper into healthtech and what nurses can bring to the startup ecosystem. 

Share with a nurse in the Atlanta area and register at this link: https://lnkd.in/escHzUdG

This is going to be good!!!

#nurses #healthtech #agetech #sdoh 

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