Working Mom Mentor

Happy Mom Mentor, Pamela Zimmer, experienced a life-changing transformation after she quit her architecture career to become a stay-at-home mom. Little did she know that what she thought would make her happy only threw her into a 3 year battle with Postpartum Depression. Pamela shares her story of how important it is to free yourself of working mom guilt and shame and take charge of your happiness by putting yourself first. Self-care is not seflish. Pamela is also the author of, Reclaim the Joy of Motherhood: How I Defeated Postpartum Depression.

Tameika Isaac Devine is the founder of The Possibilities Institute, a peak performance consulting and public speaking firm specializing in providing personal and professional development for people who are called to a life of change. Tameika became the first African American female elected to Columbia, City Council. She is a partner in her own law firm.Tameika Isaac Devine consistently teaches, mentors, and trains women on facilitating change in their lives and community. Tameika serves on several professional law and political organizations. Tameika Isaac Devine is a skilled communicator, an inspiration in her community championing many initiatives which have sparked change. She embodies change and her messages serve as catalyst for the strengthening of community, self-esteem, self-value, faith, empowerment and courage as she shares her personal struggles and triumphs, including losing a baby at her 37th week of pregnancy.She stresses the use of calendar and schedule in both professional and personal life. S

Kathy Dreyer is an Executive Leadership Coach, Consultant and HR expert.Kathy draws on her over 25 years of corporate experience in the field of Human Resources. She has had overwhelming success in developing relationships, leading teams, and implementing change with a variety of different corporations. She has a thriving practice with her coaching and consulting services, and is an inspiring motivational speaker and workshop leader.  Additionally, Kathy is also an author, and is currently writing her book, The Corporate Detox. From her collective HR expertise/corporate experience, Kathy values the lessons and accolades of all her experiences. Kathy shares tips and strategies such as feedback, bodylanguage and expressions for effective communication for women in the corporate world. 

Monica is an extraordinary working mom living in Buffalo. After 10.5 years in Corporate America, working in Channel Marketing for a Fortune 100 company, she quit her corporate job in January 2016 to work for a small company where she negotiated flexible benefits. Dealing with Women maternity leaves, Time management and Flexible work options are her focus areas. She is now an online entrepreneur, freelance marketing expert and soon to be eBook author. Her eBook is called Busy Moms Building: 12 Steps to Running Your Own Online Business for Busy Moms and it is to launch in September 2016!She shares with the host Sable Badaki, the amazing things she is doing in her journey.Her passion is to help other working moms build their own online businesses so that they can achieve the ultimate flexibility in their careers on their own terms!

Patrina King is a dedicated Human Resource professional, Entrepreneur, Youth Advocate and Founder of Golf Women Mean Business, LLC. Patrina understands that being successful is not always a straight process. She decided against choosing any of the 36 opportunities to play collegiate golf and attend college without any extracurricular activities in order to focus on getting her career started.Patrina believes the best way to serve the people is by taking an informative and realistic approach to everyday activities and issues.  She shares the benefits of women learning golf to their career. She shares the major difference in playing competitive golf and business golf and how you can avoid the big mistakes others make.