No Ceiling by SBJ Podcasts
Women from the Springfield, Missouri-area share their journey to the top of their professions and the challenges and triumphs they faced along the way. They’re rewriting the script on success and there’s no ceiling. Interviews by Springfield Business Journal's Christine Temple.
Episodes
42 episodes
Christina Ford
Christina Ford is the founder of The Rebound Foundation, which provides housing and support to survivors of domestic violence, and the owner of Kids Inn Child Care Center, which provides drop-in care. Christina and her family moved to Springfie...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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51:35
Paula Dougherty
Paula Dougherty is a certified financial planner and private wealth adviser leading the Achieve Private Wealth office of Ameriprise Financial Services. Starting out in the field in the mid-1990s, Paula says she had to learn how to trust herself...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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53:05
Alex Erwin
Alex Erwin is the manager of scientific programs at Susan G. Komen. Her work involves bringing together industry leaders and patient voices to identify gaps in breast cancer research and needs in patient care. She moved back to the Springfield ...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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46:22
Heather Lyons-Burney
Heather Lyons-Burney is one of the founders of Faith Community Heath and My Neighbor’s Charitable Pharmacy. She’s also a clinical associate professor at the UMKC School of Pharmacy. Heather was the first pharmacy resident at CoxHealth – and she...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:04:25
Jamie Dopp
Jamie Dopp is the manager of marketing and communications for White River Valley Electric Cooperative Inc. This conversation takes us out of the office and on the journey to receiving a rare diagnosis for her daughter, Lillie. Five years ag...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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43:27
Mary Kromrey
Mary Kromrey is the executive director of Ozark Greenways Inc., leading the efforts to maintain and grow the region’s trail systems. Her love of nature began in childhood. She got back to those roots in 2016 when she joined the nonprofit after ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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58:18
Stephanie Stenger
Stephanie Stenger is the president of Ron Stenger Cos., overseeing the legal and financial side of the family residential development business. She was also part of the group that in 2010 purchased the Moxie Cinema and turned it into a sustaina...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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57:19
Sherry Coker
Sherry Coker is the owner of Coker Consulting LLC, assisting businesses with education and training solutions. She spent 17 years in workforce development at Ozarks Technical Community College, leaving in 2023 to pursue a long-held dream to run...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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54:59
Yolanda Lorge
Yolanda Lorge is the founder and president of Grupo Latinoamericano. She also provides translation services for many organizations, like the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the state court system, and teaches English and Spanish language courses....
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:04:37
Brandi VanAntwerp
Brandi VanAntwerp is the executive director of Foster Adopt Connect Inc. While her journey to that role is a full circle story, the path had many turns, including a childhood dream to practice law and become a country music singer. But her love...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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56:22
Stephanie O'Connor
Stephanie O’Connor is the vice president and chief information and people officer for City Utilities of Springfield, where she’s worked her entire career. She spent most of those years in IT, but in 2017, she joined the executive leadership tea...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:01:20
Norma Champion
Norma Champion’s career started in the 1950s, hosting a children’s television show on KY3. After returning to school to finish her degree, she worked as a professor teaching broadcasting at Evangel University. In a twist to her career, she was ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:00:04
Melinda Burrows
Melinda Burrows has had a love of food her whole life. That passion has sent her around the world, cooking for Paul McCartney, Phil Collins and INXS while on tour, to name a few, and preparing private dinners for Brad Pitt,&...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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59:19
Cicely Woodard
Cicely Woodard is a math teacher at Kickapoo High School, and her approach to education has earned her national recognition, including the Tennessee Teacher of the Year and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teachi...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:09:10
Sarah Jenkins
You might know Sarah Jenkins best as a writer and performer on “The Mystery Hour,” a once-syndicated late night talk show based out of Springfield. But her work has reached far past her roots. A “Mystery Hour” skit she stars in, “Instagram Husb...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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56:33
Christie Love
Christie Love leads The Connecting Grounds, a church with a mission to clothe, feed and care for those in need with compassion. Christie admits she was an unlikely candidate for full-time ministry. She grew up in church, but struggles in adulth...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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54:10
Teresa McGeehan
Teresa McGeehan is the owner/operator of 19 McDonald’s restaurants in the Ozarks. She started at the restaurant as a teenager in an entry-level job and worked in nearly every leadership position before becoming an owner. At that time, she was o...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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42:43
Dami Odunewu
Dami Odunewu is the founder of Purpose Connect, a software that takes a new approach to hiring by eliminating the resume. A company motto reads: We’re on a mission to make hiring more human. Dami says the idea comes from her own story. When she...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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54:11
Kaitlyn McConnell
Kaitlyn McConnell is the founder of Ozarks Alive, where she shares stories of the rural Ozarks with the goal of preserving culture and documenting the region’s people and places. She also has shared her stories through two Ozarks guide books. H...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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50:32
Michelle Billionis
Michelle is the owner of downtown shop The Coffee Ethic. It’s a role she took on suddenly six years ago after the death of her husband, Tom. She says she’s been on a journey since then, to navigate trauma, raise her children and assume the resp...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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55:44
Dee King
Dee says life is unpredictable, and that was no more true than in February 2020 when her husband, Todd, was diagnosed with cancer. He died six months later. Countless doctors’ appointments and long hospital stays marked those months, with Dee b...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:01:14
Francine Pratt
Francine wears many hats. She’s the outgoing director of Prosper Springfield, the executive director of the Missouri College Access Network and the co-owner of Queen City Soul Kitchen. Francine says her love of cooking sparked the concept, alon...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:00:40
Christie Snelson
Christie Snelson is an artist and the gallery director at Obelisk Home. She says her work evolves as she does. At one point, it was as a self-employed artist taking commissions for people and pet portraits. She’s since taken on landscapes and p...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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41:26