Arts
"Alexa, manage over 200 features in the next NBA app update." As a project manager, that's been the role of a very organized, very effective friend - also named Alexa. She started as a 10-month project hire, but quickly took on more responsibility. Even becoming the voice and face of the WNBA's social media. Now, she's working for the MLB, awarding grants to communities who could use some athletic funding and being a time management boss - inside and outside of work. What you'll hear: what a project manager does, what a standard app update (for a company the size of the NBA) requires of a project manager, the qualities you can start building now to manage such projects, the benefits of being a student athlete, where time management and project management intersect each other and your life, the sister who paved the way, the journey of a sideline reporter, what it takes to be a sports reporter, how that opportunity took her to the All-Stars and Finals and Seattle, the importance of community and using your skills to bring out the best in those around you, finding and cultivating the talents God gave you, reframing big decisions as "not a leap, but a step in the direction you want to go in." Thank you Alexa for being on the show! And once again thank you to all the guests for giving your time in exchange for only a glass a water - and the hope that we might make a difference in someone's life. (Recorded pre-2020)