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Who Are You Without the Title? | Michele Novack

Career reinvention after corporate is rarely just about finding the next job. Michele Novack invested 30 years in banking and finance building her identity from the outside in, and eventually had to rebuild it from the inside out.

Her arc moves from a Yonkers childhood marked by early trauma, through single motherhood and night school, to VP roles at Bank of America and Capital One, to founding CardinalsByte, her cybersecurity risk management firm for small businesses, entirely from the ground up.

You will hear:

• How a career becomes an identity, and what happens when that identity is gone
• The mirror practice Michele returns to when she needs to reconnect with herself
• How forgiveness, including forgiving herself, became the foundation of her reinvention
• Why she built her firm entirely through referrals and real relationships
• What small businesses actually need to know about cybersecurity compliance
• What authentic success looks like when a three-year-old grandson is part of the picture

Connect with Michele: Free cybersecurity assessment at cardinalsbytes.com/contact-us

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How to Build an Event Production Career From Curiosity and Calling, With Cameron Magee

Building an event production career from scratch looks a lot like Cameron Magee's story: a curious kid, a mentor who pulled up a chair, and 20 years of showing up and giving more than he took.

In this conversation, the founder and CEO of avad3 shares how a small-town Arkansas boy with no entrepreneurial family background launched a company from his dorm room and grew it into a national production firm trusted by Walmart and the White House. More than the growth story, this is a conversation about identity, service, and what it takes to build a place where people actually want to stay.

You will hear:

• How a mentor at a church sound booth gave Cameron three years of patient instruction and changed the entire arc of his life
• The vending machine principle: give $1.10 back for every dollar someone gives you, and they will send three friends
• How he launched avad3 in college, nearly skipped college entirely, and graduated with the company logo on his cap
• The question at 25 that redirected everything: not "is this it" but "what could this become for others"
• Why avad3 collects next time notes from every crew member after every event, and how 1,400 moments of honest feedback a year drive their culture
• What a mentor told him about having a vibrant personal life that changed how he leads and how he lives

Connect with Cameron: Visit avad3.com to learn more about the team and how they serve event planners nationwide.

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Money Mindset, the Enneagram, and Why Your Financial Patterns Go Deeper Than Money, With Doug Lynam

Money mindset work rarely begins with a monastery in the New Mexico desert, but Doug Lynam's story does, and that is precisely what makes his insights so hard to forget.

Doug is a former Benedictine monk, Marine Corps Officer Candidate, bestselling author, and financial advisor who built his practice around a single conviction: the way you handle money has almost nothing to do with math and everything to do with the wounds you have been carrying since childhood. In this conversation, he traces his own path from a home where money was weaponized in a bitter divorce, through two decades of monastic life, through a monastery bankruptcy he helped reverse, and into the world of wealth management. Along the way, he developed the framework that now anchors his books, his TEDx talk, and his work with clients: the money monster map.

You will hear:

• How growing up in an affluent home where money was used as a tool of control shaped the origin of Doug's own money monster
• Why taking a vow of poverty led him directly into the most intense financial education of his life
• What the Enneagram actually is, and how Doug combined it with Attachment Theory to identify 18 distinct money patterns
• Why capable, intelligent people keep repeating the same financial self-sabotage, and what actually breaks the cycle
• How the pain of staying in the monastery finally outweighed the pain of leaving everything behind after 20 years
• What authentic success looks like after that many complete reinventions

Connect with Doug: Visit douglynam.com to explore his books, TEDx talk, coaching, and speaking work.

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