Hi friends,
Welcome to another edition of Addition! I am your host, Addy Snowden, Quantum Life Coach, helping you get HAPPIER, HEALTHIER and WEALTHIER by jumping into the reality of your dreams!
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Episode 82 continues Additions Black Woman BOSS series, where I interview Black women bosses with inspiring success stories! Today, I interviewed Khayla McCoy, Founder of Ed. Opal + Strategy & Analytics leader at Google. Khayla shares how she went from small-town Tennessee to an career in Analytics at Fortune 500 companies like Estée Lauder, BlackRock and Google - in ADDITION to founding her startup, Ed. Opal. Khayla and I have frank conversations on money, mentorship, and being a Black woman at the workplace.
Show notes & timestamps:
00:00 Intro and welcome
00:12 Book a Quantum Life Coaching Session with Addy Snowden: https://calendly.com/additionpod/
00:15 Check out my updated website! https://adenreleadewusi.com/
00:22 Where to find me online
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00:28 Introducing Khayla McCoy
Khayla’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaylamccoy/
Ed. Opal’s website: https://edopal.com/
01:44 Khayla’s career journey
06:08 Khayla’s entrepreneurship journey
09:00 Khayla talks about her financial education company, Ed. Opal
12:02 Black women’s challenges with the personal finance industry
16:15 Khayla’s definition of success
18:20 Overcoming doubts, challenges, and obstacles
20:25 Tweetable moment!
26:00 Khayla’s pivotal BlackRock experience
30:58 Khayla’s biggest career lesson: Community
36:35 Is mentorship dead?
40:00 Khayla’s thoughts on sponsorship
41:51 Khayla’s goals for the future
44:22 Data analytics career Q&A
General Assembly: https://generalassemb.ly/
48:55 What Khayla is geeked out about this week
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Cheers,
Addy
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