Life Changing with Dori Fern

Life Changing with Dori Fern is a podcast about the seeds that make us, the communities that shape us, and our lives in progress. This is a show for people open to change at any (st)age.

Podcast music is Cool Jazzy Bass & Vibraphone by Marc Serra / M33 Project
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Contributors

Host

Dori Fern

Dori Fern was born and raised in the Bronx, NY, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She spends most of her time these days writing, learning how to podcast, volunteering for local community fridge organizations. mentoring, doing consulting work, and (she hopes) becoming a better version of herself. Her last full-time position was as Director of Integrated Marketing for Neustar, an information services and technology company. Before that, Dori held a variety of marketing, content strategy, and editorial roles, specializing in food and CPG, at companies including Meredith, Aol, and Martha Stewart Omnimedia. She received a culinary arts diploma from the Institute of Culinary Education in 2011.

Dori has two mostly-grown children, both in their 20s. She loves to cook, see live music, and dance at house music parties. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @dorifern.

http://dorifern.com

Guests

Guest

Jennie Baird

Jennie Baird was instrumental in the launch of smartmoney.com and went on to co-found the cult baby naming website, babynamewizard, held digital-editorial leadership roles at Entertainment Weekly, iVillage (RIP), and Aol, where she and I met. Fast forward, she was global head of product at NewsCorp and is now the Chief Product Officer for BBC Studios. Jennie also serves as board chair of the Ethical Tech Project, a nonprofit think and do tank and, outside of work, she’s certified in mental health first aid and volunteers as a suicide bereavement support facilitator.

Guest

Ken Gibbs, Jr

Ken Gibbs Jr. has held leadership roles at EBONY Media, Money20/20, Spotify (their first Global Head of Social Media Marketing), Amazon Prime Video (Head of Social for the Action/Thriller vertical) and BET Networks (their first Vice President of Digital Video & Social Media Marketing Strategy) throughout his 25 year career.

Gibbs, Jr began his digital career as part of the original staff of Henry Louis Gates’ Africana.com and remained when it merged with AOL to become what was known as the new Aol BlackVoices.com. Over the next two decades Gibbs Jr would play a crucial role in building the digital foundation for brands like Urban One, Essence Magazine and more. Today he offers insights to consumer and personal brands on website and social media platform conversion strategies through his consultancy Diasdi LLC.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kengibbsjr/

Guest

Khori Petinaud

Khori Petinaud is a performer, dancer, choreographer, educator, wife and mother who has been in Broadway shows including Lempicka, Aladdin, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, and her Broadway principal debut in the company of Bob Fosse's Dancin, where she landed a Chita Rivera award nomination for Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Show, and won the award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway Show. She also has TV credits that include Up Here, Rent Live, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Vinyl, and The Knick.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Khori-Michelle-Petinaud/

Guest appearance on:

Trusting the Process with Broadway Performer Khori Petinaud

Guest

Nicole Taylor

Nicole Taylor is a James Beard Award-nominated food writer, home cook, producer and author of Watermelon and Red Birds, a cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations, which is the first cookbook from a major publisher to celebrate the holiday.

In addition to her previous cookbooks, the Up South Cookbook and the Last OG Cookbook, Nicole has written for Rezzy, Food Print, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, and Food and Wine. She has been featured in the LA Times, The Today Show, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Washington Post, NPR, and on BET. A

In 2017, Brooklyn Magazine named Taylor to its list of 100 influential people in Brooklyn culture.

https://www.nicoleataylor.com