In honor of election day in the United States, Jayzen is excited to bring back a fan-favorite episode with a very special guest, Congressman Mark Takano, who proudly represents California's 41st district. Starting his career as a teacher, Mark has always been a huge advocate for education and has worked to improve his community for over twenty years. In 2012, Mark became the first openly gay person of color to be elected to Congress. His family roots in Riverside, CA go back to his grandparents who, along with his parents, were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II. After the war, these two families settled in Riverside County to rebuild their lives.

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Guest Bio

Mark Takano, Congressman for the 41st District of California

For more than twenty years, Mark Takano has worked to improve the lives of Riverside County residents, both as an elected official and as a teacher at Rialto High School.

Born and raised in Riverside, Mark's commitment to public service began at an early age. His family roots in Riverside go back to his grandparents who, along with his parents, were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II. After the war, these two families settled in Riverside County to rebuild their lives.

Mark attended La Sierra High School in the Alvord Unified School District, and in 1979 he graduated as the school's valedictorian. Mark attended Harvard College and received his bachelor's degree in Government in 1983. As a student, he bussed tables to help make ends meet. During his senior year, he organized a transcontinental bicycle ride to benefit the international development agency Oxfam America.

Upon graduation, Mark returned home to Riverside and began teaching in the Rialto Unified School District in 1988. As a classroom teacher, Mark confronted the challenges in our public education system daily.

In 1990, Mark was elected to the Riverside Community College District's Board of Trustees. At RCC, Mark worked with Republicans and Democrats to improve higher education for young people and job training opportunities for adults seeking to learn a new skill or start a new career. He was elected Board President in 1991 and helped the Board and the District gain stability and direction amid serious fiscal challenges.

In 2012, Mark became the first openly gay person of color to be elected to Congress.

Mark Takano represents the people of Riverside, Moreno Valley, Jurupa Valley and Perris in the United States House of Representatives. He serves as Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and as a member of the Education and Labor Committee.

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As we roll into the holiday season from Halloween to Diwali, Thanksgiving, and beyond, it’s also a critical time in your career. That’s right, it’s performance review time! Now is the time to formulate your plan and maximize the opportunity. Remember, your review is not just for your manager, but a reflection of you that many in the organization will see. You have to think about your performance review as your own advertising. That’s right, it is like creating your own personal billboard for leaders in the company to see. If you’re not thoughtful about completing it, it is like a brand leaving a huge billboard on the highway blank as people drive by. Don’t pass up an opportunity to market yourself when you control the message!

Tune in to this week’s show to hear Jayzen’s top three steps to make the most of your performance review. First, focus on your top accomplishments from the year. What did you do that you are proud of? What moved the needle? Then, with two or three in mind, use the S.T.A.R. model to highlight your success and tell your story most compellingly. Finally, you have to determine what your towering brand superpowers are and the skills that are going to help you achieve your next career breakthrough. Jayzen breaks it all down and gives you the info that will count!

This show, Jayzen welcomes Francesco Clark, the CEO & Founder of Clark’s Botanicals. After suffering a paralyzing spinal cord injury at the age of 24, Francesco started Clark’s botanicals in his kitchen with his father. As a side effect to the injury, he developed rosacea, eczema, and a hypersensitivity to ingredients. Literally, nothing helped his skin feel and look normal. Through an unexpected outcome of a social meeting with his former boss, the editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, the brand was born and quickly moved from his kitchen to being sold at Saks Fifth Avenue and around the world. A truly remarkable and inspirational story.

Guest Bio

Francesco Clark

CEO & Founder

Clark’s Botanicals

Francesco is the author of Walking Papers (2010, Hachette publishing), and CEO/Founder of Clark’s Botanicals skincare, which has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ALLURE, PBS, CNN, CBS, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and many other publications. His company has won Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Award, Allure’s Best of Beauty Award (6 time winner), Oprah’s Best of Beauty, WWD Best Beauty Products of All Time, Town & Country Best of Beauty, Cosmetic Executive Women’s Indie Brand of the Year, as well as Wallpaper’s design award.

Recently, Francesco purchased Clark's Botanicals back from Warburg Pincus, reclaiming his independence as the sole investor and CEO. His steadfast leadership reflects his unwavering commitment to excellence and his entrepreneurial spirit. Since acquiring the brand back, Clark’s Botanicals has reaffirmed its place in luxury skincare, recently launching in: Goop, Saks Fifth Avenue, and most recently signed a distribution agreement launched the skincare line as the highest revenue Cache Program launch to date in 25 Bluemercury doors in February 2024.

Francesco's involvement as an active board member with organizations such as the Johns Hopkins Institute for Bioethics and NYSCF (The New York Stem Cell Foundation) reflects his deep commitment to giving back to the scientific community to help better the lives of others. He is honored to be an ambassador for the Reeve Foundation, which strives to improve the lives of people with spinal cord injuries and their families.

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Fall is a huge season of conferences for many of us, both in-person and virtual…and it’s your chance to maximize the impact of your networking and meet those key individuals who can help you on your career journey. Tune in this week to hear Jayzen’s top tips on networking and how to put them into action. Including the Five/Ten Rule for interaction, his Ask/Tell/Listen model for effective conversations, key ways to build rapport and meaningful relationships and his top piece of advice for live events and interaction…. GET OFF YOUR PHONE! That’s right, when we have the chance to meet new people, it’s critical that we put our phones away and engage in conversation. He includes tons of tips and tricks that are useful for any situation.

Jayzen is excited to welcome an old friend to the show, Christel Miller. She has been responsible for and worked on some of the top shows on television that we all know and love, including Jury Duty, Superstore, Dexter and the upcoming Cruel Intentions series on Amazon Prime. Starting her career in the medical profession, she realized that she’d rather tell the stories of working in a hospital instead of actually doing so and quickly shifted gears. She has an incredible career story to share with fantastic advice we all can appreciate.

Guest Bio

Christel S. Miller

Head of Scripted Hybrid

Amazon MGM Studios

In her role, Christel oversees series through their entire lifecycle from pitch to launch, and was responsible for building original content on Freevee from the ground up including JURY DUTY (Emmy Nominated), PRIMO, BOSCH: LEGACY, SPRUNG, HIGH SCHOOL, along with the upcoming Prime Video launches CRUEL INTENTIONS, CLEAN SLATE, PRADEEPS, MOTORHEADS, and DICK WOLF’s ON CALL. Miller previously worked at NBC as VP of Current Programming on numerous series including New Amsterdam, Superstore, Parenthood, Good Girls, Blindspot, and Grimm, and at Showtime Networks during the Dexter and Nurse Jackie era.

She is alum of Rice University and UCLA’s Film and Television Producing Program. She has been honored as one of Glamour’s 2004 Top Ten College Women, Outsmart’s 2005 Top 12 GLBT Houstonians, Producers Guild’s 2006 Diversity Award Winner, NBCU’s 2011 Entertainment Associates Program Participant, NBCU‘s 2012 Going The Extra Mile Award, Power Up’s 2012 Rising Star LGBTQ Award, GO Magazine’s 2019 One Hundred LGBTQ Women We Love Award, and Rice University’s CSWGS 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award. Christel is a member of ColourTV, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and has been serving on the Board of Directors for GLAAD since 2017, which received the Emmy’s Governor’s Award in 2024.

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