Mary Kurek, Frontrunners Development President and CEO updates on impact connections and results. Connections resulting from interviews with former US Congressmen, businessmen, foreign diplomats, health tech innovators, education NGOs, and more. Listen in as Kurek shares happenings (and how these introductions happened.) See the video and pictures below. Update from Mary Kurek About Frontrunners Development Frontrunners Development is a business …
What I’ve Learned from Frontrunners by Mary Kurek
It’s amazing when I look back on how many people I’ve interviewed over the last eight years. I’ve begun keeping count of the countries in which I’ve established a rapport with a “Frontrunner.” My definition of a Frontrunner, by the way, is a person who is out front with their ideas, innovation, activism, diplomatic service, programs, devices, and so on. …
Feature: Author Jerry B. Bowden on Winning Against Adversity
From the streets of Brooklyn, this 16-year-old kid managed to catch the attention of a US Army recruiter who asked him his age. When he answered that he’d turn 17 in few months, the recruiter told him to do something most abandoned kids wouldn’t do – to get permission to sign up from his mother, a mother whom he hadn’t …
Feature: Dr. Jacqueline King Launches Black Women Empowered Media Platform
Dr. Jacqueline King is the Founder and CEO of Black Women Empowered, Inc., a multi-million participant network connected through various social media platforms. Initially begun as a spiritually-based means of helping people in crisis, the network has evolved into a large and growing media platform to disseminate encouraging, positive, and yes, fun, content that continues to hold strong to its …
Feature: Saray Khumalo Climbs Peaks to Raise Education in South Africa
Saray Khumalo is a remarkable young woman mountaineer and adventurer who is on a mission to climb the world’s highest peaks in order to raise funds to build libraries and offer educational opportunities to areas of South African in need. She’s accomplishing that mission quite well, as the first black African woman to summit Mount Everest. That’s not the only …
Takeaways from 2020 Frontrunner Interviews and How They Could Impact Your 2021
We’re so blessed with a magazine full of interesting people and loads of rich interviews that provide us all with a nice big dose of inspiration to fulfill our own mission toward impact. The year 2020 provided me, as the Publisher, with plenty of “aha” and “you’re kidding me” moments. I’ll list some of them here with links to the …
Fill Your Mind With Namara: Human Trafficking Interview with Survivor Francisca Mbuli
Modern slavery: it exists, and that isn’t the only problem, a lot of us don’t know it…and that’s why I’m here. We will learn about it together. Now, many of us would be surprised by the fact that slavery still exists, especially after having an entire topic in our history classes dedicated to how it was abolished. But unfortunately, it …