Skipping a Saturday Morning Sleep-In!
Marge Johnsson
Award-winning serial entrepreneur, educator, strategist, consultant, and author.
Skipping the Saturday Morning Sleep-in? It helps that Lauren Martin and her LWOO Show guests are so beautiful they don’t need their beauty sleep.
Northeastern Illinois University’s (NEIU’s) Business Innovation and Growth (BIG) Center's bootstrapping entrepreneurs skipped their Saturday morning sleep-ins, overcame obstacles, and re-launched the LWOO Show, on time, on schedule, although not on-location, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus shutdown of NEIU’s historic Carruthers Center auditorium, where the LWOO show was originally scheduled to be conducted live, reminiscent of the early Oprah Winfrey days.
BIG Center business planning course graduate, Lauren Martin (whose Mom is an NEIU alumna) uses her journalism training from Northwestern University’s School of Journalism to teach Chicago’s Public School youth the art of self-motivation and self-confidence, through her LWOO Academy speaking engagements, pep rallies, boot camps, and YouTube videos. To re-launch her show on Saturday morning, April 18, 2020, Lauren interviewed (via live streaming) fellow business planning cohort entrepreneur, Chanin King, (Ordered in All Things – family organization solutions, especially for home schooling families), and NEIU BIG Center business planning instructor, Kristen Evans, a consumer research and insights, marketing, and brand specialist, who's a David Ogilvy award-winning from Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods.
The Live-Streaming show, attended by an audience of 30+ persons who also skipped their Saturday morning sleep-in, was made possible by a third BIG Center business planning graduate, Nancy Reid, (independent sales representative for entrepreneurial businesses), and her client, Mitchell Norinsky, of Back Start Creative Media – Chicago’s Webcasting Experts, who came to the rescue and provided their services free-of-charge when they heard Lauren was going to have to cancel her show’s re-launch. https://www.buzzfile.com/business/Backstar-Creative-Media-Inc.-312-467-0425
Thank you, Mitchell, Nancy, Lauren, Chanin, and Kristen for proving when there’s a will, there’s a way!
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4 年Awwww ?????? this is beautiful, thank you so much Marge Johnsson for posting this and it was an honor and a pleasure to work with all of these people. I’m excited to continue the partnership.
It was a pleasure to work with Lauren Martin, Chanin King and Kristen Evans. And Marge Johnsson, thanks for making the introduction to Mitchell Norinsky, Backstar Creative/SureCast and to me. #greatful #inspiringothers