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Chatting with The Experts with Paula Okonneh

Chatting with The Experts with Paula Okonneh

By: Paula Okonneh | Coach Podcaster Digital Marketer
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This revamped podcast aims to reach and empower the often-overlooked population of Africa and Caribbean immigrant women. These bold adventurers have left their motherlands for the great unknowns of the Western world, most especially, the UK and the U.S. and Canada. In conversations featured on this new version of "Chatting with the Expert," we will talk about contending with cultural shocks and how step-by-step we can overcome the obstacles that lie ahead in foreign lands.Copyright © 2024 Chatting With The Experts| All Rights Reserved. Career Success Economics Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Stop Leaving Money on the Table

    Stop Leaving Money on the Table
    Jun 26 2026
    Avenice Thompson, profit-acceleration strategist, focuses on doubling profit without spending on marketing. Avenice shares common business-owner mistakes she observed in her corporate career, including underpricing, poor invoicing, and weak cashflow management, illustrated by a vendor unaware he'd been paid $1.2 million. She explains her proprietary profit acceleration tool that benchmarks a company's profit margin against industry standards and sets short-term goals. Avenice emphasizes "mindset over money" and her success formula: mindset and movement plus competence, confidence, and commitment. She offers no-cost strategies like the "three 5s" (cut cost of goods sold 5%, cut overhead 5%, raise revenue 5%), reactivating past clients, eliminating unused subscriptions, negotiating rent, and defining a market-dominating position through differentiation and joint ventures. Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome and Topic 01:25 Money Left Behind 04:40 Profit Tool Benchmarking 06:11 Mindset Over Money 08:05 2M Plus 3C Formula 11:07 Three 5s Profit Boost 13:36 Reactivating Past Clients 16:01 Cut Costs and Negotiate 17:27 Market Dominating Position 19:56 Joint Ventures Referrals 23:42 No Cost Differentiation 24:41 Daycare Value Example 28:03 Contact and Programs 30:51 Wrap Up and Free Call Get In Touch: If you're interested in connecting with Avenice Thompson, you can reach her via her website (https://yourbiznessbar.com), via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/YourBiznessBar/), via Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/yourbiznessbar/ ), or via her LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/avenicethompson). For those interested in sharing their own stories on "Chatting with the Experts," reach out to Paula Okonneh through her website at chattingwiththeexperts.com or connect via LinkedIn.
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    32 mins
  • African Women in Tech

    African Women in Tech
    Jun 19 2026
    Dr. Susan Isiko Strba is the Counsel and Senior Fellow at the Geneva Center of Knowledge Governance and co-founder/Senior Research and Policy Advisor at the International Lawyers and Economists for Development (ilaed.org). She discusses women in technology in Africa. Dr. Strba says Africa's tech landscape is often described as "bleak" in global comparisons, yet technology exists across a spectrum and must include women who run 80–85% of the informal sector that sustains much of the continent's GDP. She links tech adoption to practical needs such as phones and social media marketing for farmers and small producers, including training on faster, smarter posting and scheduling, and extending to AI tools. She highlights African women building AI models for disadvantaged communities (e.g., DAIR), emphasizing culturally and linguistically relevant systems, intellectual property, and careful data access, and notes the importance of collaborations among researchers, users, funders, and countries, including under the African Continental Free Trade Area. Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome to the Show 00:37 Meet Dr Susan Strba 02:32 Tech in Africa Today 03:38 Women Powering Informal Economy 06:48 Defining Technology Spectrum 08:46 Agri Tech and Market Access 11:34 Social Media Skills Training 13:06 AI Tools and Cultural Norms 16:03 Building African AI Models 20:16 Collaboration and Funding 24:44 How to Connect and Closing Get In Touch: If you're interested in connecting with Dr Susan Strba, you can reach her via her website (http://www.ILaED.org ), via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ilaed.org), via Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ilaedorg/), via Twitter (https://x.com/ilaedorg) or via her LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ilaed-org/ ). For those interested in sharing their own stories on "Chatting with the Experts," reach out to Paula Okonneh through her website at chattingwiththeexperts.com or connect via LinkedIn.
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    27 mins
  • Setting the Room's Temperature

    Setting the Room's Temperature
    Jun 11 2026
    Rebecca H. Mott, a founder of ReThought LLC & an author of Amazon #1 new release The Meeting Room, and "The Meeting Architect", discusses how the energy you bring into a room sets the tone for conversations, decisions, and outcomes. Rebecca shares a lesson from early customer service work that smiling affects tone even on the phone, and explains how stress and "nervous energy" influence how others receive you before you speak. She emphasizes this is learnable through awareness and breath control, describing how marathon training taught her to pace breathing and notice stress indicators like holding her breath in meetings. She contrasts being a "thermometer" versus a "thermostat," urging intentional calm presence, especially for leaders. Rebecca also shares her October 2024 diagnosis of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, encourages mammograms, describes completing treatment and being cancer-free, and credits faith and responsibility in healing. Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome & Guest Introduction 02:35 Energy as Data: The Origin Story 03:44 Smiling Through the Phone 05:48 Setting the Temperature Before You Speak 09:13 Breath as Your Superpower 09:34 The Running & Side Stitches Lesson 12:29 Neuroscience of Calm Presence 15:20 Thermometer vs. Thermostat 18:21 Leading with Intentional Energy 21:28 Rebecca's Cancer Journey & Faith 24:35 Advice to Her Younger Self 27:17 Connect with Rebecca Get In Touch: If you're interested in connecting with Rebecca Mott, you can reach her via her website (http://www.trainwithrebecca.com) or her LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/in/rebeccahmott ). For those interested in sharing their own stories on "Chatting with the Experts," reach out to Paula Okonneh through her website at chattingwiththeexperts.com or connect via LinkedIn.
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    29 mins
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