Press Play On Your Passion

Make your mark, build your legacy - whatever you want to call it, it’s time to get inspired to take your passion project to the next level.

Episode Notes:

Sponsor: Making a lifestyle change in 2018? There’s one important first step to take and we hip you to it on the latest segment of Ask Rickey! Ask Rickey! is brought to you by Rickey Bowen, CRPC, CEP, financial planner with Gateway Financial Advisors, Inc.

Join the Circle: As a member of The Ambassadors Circle, you are joining like-minded individuals on a mission to inspire and equip all of us to #DoMoreGood. Click here to learn more!

Time For Some Action:
The holiday season is one of encouragement and good cheer, so our action today is to click on our episode page, peep our guest bios and click around on the provided links to show some love to Above the Bottom Line, Look What SHE Did! and The Sports Fan Journal. Our guests are all working hard to inspire and equip you in their areas of passion... let's all say thank you!

Above the Bottom Line
Look What SHE Did!
The Sports Fan Journal

Guest Profiles

Eddie Maisonet, Content Creator at FoxSports, Editor in Chief, Sports Fan Journal
Eddie Maisonet is the editor-in-chief of The Sports Fan Journal, a digital media publication that provides a platform for emerging voices to share their thoughts on the crossroads of sports and culture. Eddie also serves as a social media producer for Fox Sports Digital, covering the UFC. Eddie's life philosophy echoes from Oakland A's slugger Reggie Jackson's quote, "I am the straw that stirs the drink." The Sports Fan Journal Website | SB Nation | Facebook | Twitter | IG | YouTube

Rose Lopez, Ambassador; Faculty, Archbishop Mitty High School
Rose is a Bay Area native who attended San Francisco State, earning a B.A. in French and later completing a Master’s Degree in French Literature at San Jose State. While she was at San Jose State she was an exchange student in Paris, where her love of the French language and culture blossomed. She then moved to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne, earning a second Master’s Degree. After moving back to the U.S., she worked at the French American School in Cupertino and in the President’s Office at Stanford University. In 1997 she joined the faculty at Archbishop Mitty High School where she has served as lead French Instructor, Community Service Coordinator and peer Educational Technology Instructor. Rose is a recognized leader in educational technology and has been a presenter at the Exam Soft Educational Assessment Conference and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She recently joined the Advisory Board of Look What SHE Did! LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook

Julie Hebert, Writer, Director; Executive Director, Look What SHE Did!
Julie is the Executive Director and creative force behind Look What SHE Did!, a nonprofit promoting untold stories of amazing women. Look What SHE Did! produces and promotes short video interviews with crazy-great women talking about crazy-great women. Julie is also an award-winning writer/director of theater, film and television. She began her creative life in San Francisco; she was a founding member of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Her plays have twice been honored with the PEN Award for Drama. She adapted her play Ruby’s Bucket of Blood for Showtime with Angela Bassett, and her film Female Perversions, with Tilda Swinton, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at SunDance. Her 9/11 documentary, In Their Own Words, co-directed with John Wells, was honored with the George Foster Peabody Award. Julie has written and directed for several television series including The West Wing, ER, Numb3rs and American Crime. Currently, she is developing her own series and working on a new play. Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | IG | YouTube

Nikita Mitchell, Founder, Above the Bottom Line; Sr. Manager, Strategy & Planning, Cisco
Nikita speaks and writes about why CEOs need to think beyond the bottom line. She is the creator of Above the Bottom Line, a newsletter dedicated to keeping you informed of how the world’s most influential companies are taking a stance on social and environmental issues. Cited as Diversity MBA Magazine’s Top 100 Under 50 Executive & Emerging Leaders, Nikita is an infinitely curious business strategist and keynote speaker. She received her M.B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, Haas School of Business where she was a Principal of the Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund. A fierce advocate for women’s rights, Nikita serves on the Board of Trustees for Planned Parenthood Northern California and the Watermark Board of Directors. She started her career at Deloitte as a management consultant in Washington, DC. In her spare time, you can find Nikita catching up on her never ending reading list, training for a half-marathon or planning her next vacation. Website | Above the Bottom Line Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest

Top 5 Events:

• A Noh Christmas Carol from the Theater of Yugen in San Francisco, until Dec 24
• GAME RECOGNIZE GAME, at SOMArts in San Francisco, now until Jan 10, 2018
• SantaCon, Dec 9, Union Square, San Francisco & the Silicon Valley Santa Run on Dec 17
• Band Together 2: Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lucas Nelson, benefitting the North Bay Fires, Dec 14, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco. Tickets
• Craneway Crafts Fair, in the Richmond Marina, Dec 17 & 18. Tickets are $12 at the door

What’s the 411:

• San Francisco defends sanctuary status as backlash mounts
• Brock Turner appeals sexual assault conviction
• In business news...PG&E 'Recloser' Devices Implicated As Possible Wildfire Cause As Another Lawsuit Is Filed
• Tech Companies Come Out In Force Against Trump's DACA Decision

Production Credits: 
Sound Design by Courtney Grace with Hosts Becca, LT, Christianne Harder and j-
Guest Relations by Andrea Rush with Production Assistance by Jen Huynh
Content Development by Sophia Cross
360BayArea Intro Music by Courtney Grace with vocals by ElleT

Featured Music + Clips:  
Courtney Grace - Ask Rickey Theme Music, What’s the 411 Theme Music                                       
Yuval Maayan “Doin It Right”
Davis Absolute “The Body”
K. Solis “Creator” & “For You’
Tarante Groove Machine “Open”
Panth Lab “Edit Beats”
Tomer Ben Ari “10”
Mike Arnoult “Honey”
The French Connection “20 Minutes”
Phil David “Spin Cycle” , “Last Day On Earth”, & “We Chillin”
Nomadic XXL “Party On”
Tinker Materical “Play Pause Stop”
D.A.H. Trump “Mm Mm Mm”