Diana Ross

Drew is joined by “Black-ish” star Tracee Ellis Ross on her thirst trap photo, why her text chain with her girlfriends is called Keanu Forever, growing up with Diana Ross as her mom and more. Drew and Ross Mathews and serving the news sunny-side up revealing which popular TV cast was sent to cowboy camp after landing their roles. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On our debut episode of The Mothers of Reinvention , host Jess Zaino welcomes Author of middle grade children's book Lone Bean , Business Owner of Books and Cookies, and Chief Kid Officer of The Jane Club, Chudney Ross. She shares high school stories of her mismatched shoes, her purple car in a sea of Range Rovers and embracing her geekiest self while growing up around the world in the "Ross-Naess Bunch" with sisters and brothers Rhonda Ross Kendrick, Evan Ross and Tracee Ellis Ross and their mother, Diana Ross. She takes us on her high school journey of reinvention from geeky (but proud) standout girl to runway Supermodel hanging with Kim Kardashian. Hear how she carved her own path as a Literacy Advocate and how she fiercely parents her two girls to embrace their best selves. CHUDNEY ROSS is a Writer, Teacher, Entrepreneur and most importantly, a Mom. After graduating Georgetown University, she became a teacher with AmeriCorps's Teach for America program. After years of teaching elementary school, Chudney's love of children's literature and her advocacy for children's causes motivated her to open Books and Cookies . Her hope was to create a positive and fun-filled learning environment and to be an active and positive part of the community while promoting the joy of literacy! Now, Books and Cookies is a mobile literacy enrichment program focused on rethinking the way that we share books, bring stories to life and build community around literacy. Her love of books also led her to write a middle grade children’s book called Lone Bean, which was published by HarperCollins. Additionally, she’s the Chief Kid Officer at The Jane Club where she created a space for children to learn, play, and grow alongside their working mothers. Her daughter Callaway (age 8 years) loves to learn, play, read… and eat cookies, too and the newest addition, Everlee (15 months) is a book lover, too). GIMME MOR: If you like what you hear on this episode, you can join our personal development community at http://patreon.com/jess_zaino which offers extra content with behind-the-scenes outtakes, additional interviews with industry leaders, journal prompts, accountability groups and one-on-one teaching time with Jess. ~~~ Empowered woman, Self empowerment, Empowerment, Women Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur, Personal development plan, Personal growth, Self worth, personal growth, female founders, creators, mothers, Mom, Mama, Leaders, Female leaders, Boss, create, independence, education, success, trailblazing, innovator, authors, self-confidence, actors, musicians, Achiever, recreate, reinvention, reinvent, community, women, female host, female podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jesszaino/support

In this episode, Ben and Daniel talk about Diana Ross's 1976 one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, for which Diana won a special Tony Award after the show's run at the Palace Theater on Broadway. The show includes classic Diana hits as well as a surprising number of songs from A Chorus Line. Ben and Daniel also discuss Bette Midler, Johnny Bristol, Grace Jones, Mame, Mahogany, Bruce Vilanch, Judy Gold, Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, Stephanie Mills, The Wiz, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, and The Supremes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ross Keating experienced redundancy a few times in his corporate career, and that, in itself can hold you back from moving forward. But for Ross the saying "Age is only a number. Don't let a number hold you back," is a thought he lives by in fact, it has helped him move forward. At the age of 50, Ross and his family moved to Australia and he decided to establish a consulting practice, which he called The Client Orchardist. Having previously experienced redundancy a few times in his corporate career, Ross learnt the importance of identifying and clearly understanding what your transferable skills are. That's not easy when suffering from the effects of redundancy and neither is the next step deciding where you want to end up! To identify where your opportunities may lie, start by looking at your past work experiences and personal interests. Taking time on this step is important as it sets the tone for the next step, says Ross, which is learning simple ways to set goals. Doing this, will help you focus on your new ventures so you can work towards your goals. Applying for jobs when you're over 50 and not being successful is tough and demoralizing which Ross knows well, and is why he talks about how to overcome these challenges and start again in business, whatever your age. Using the analogy of growing an orchard of trees Ross highlights a key to this process, is in understanding what you want from life and how a business venture is a part of the "orchard" to make it happen, and how to tend to "your orchard" to bring your dreams and goals to fruition. You can learn more about Ross on his LinkedIn profile and through his blogs, workshops, webinars, mentoring and coaching programs.

Back in the cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in what used to be Portland, Oregon for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Number one hundred and sixty-one. Geeze. Today we’ve got one of the finest musicians in Oregon and beyond. He’s a Jazz pianist and composer but in addition, has been Diana Ross’ pianst since 1980. Think about that for a minute. He’s been all over the world with her in large and small ensembles, while at the same time maintaining a busy schedule of gigs back here. I’ve been as curious about his work with Diana Ross as I have enjoyed his Jazz playing. So what’s it like playing with Diana Ross for so long? How did he get the gig? And all those other questions. You know. Meet George Mitchell.