Emily Farkas Interview

The Business of Life Podcast 

Hosts: Debbie Lundberg & Barb Zant 

Digital Engineer: Brianna Connolly 

Music: www.bensound.com 

Debbie: Hello and welcome! It’s a spectacular time for another episode of The Business of Life Master Class. The podcast for people who thrive on opportunity, drive to get to results and seek input and ideas to quickly incorporate in life and in business. Hi there, it’s Debbie Lundberg. Author and founder & CEO of Presenting Powerfully a Tampa, Florida based national firm providing individuals and organizations four things; Keynotes & Talks, Strategy & Facilitation, Teaming & Training and Executive Presence Coaching al contributing to the enhancement in communication, behaviors and relationships. 

 

Barb: Hi, Barb Zant here. Corporate sales leader, founder of the lifestyle brand @thestayatworkmom and fashion stylist. As a lifetime learner it’s all about the simple things and finding joy in things we do every single day. So Debbie who is this WOW community leader, that driven individual and all around impressive person who has chosen to make time for all of us today?  

 

Debbie: Well Barb, this person comes to us as a Lieutenant Colonel, she is the deputy commander for the sixth maintenance group at the Macdill Air Force base in Tampa, Florida where we are today. She oversees the generation sustainment and the repair of 24 KC-135’s and 3 C-37’s the gulf stream B aircraft that supports worldwide aerial refueling, air lift and special assignment missions for the US and allied forces, as well as, providing direct support to combative commanders. She’s married to a retired Lieutenant Colonel, can you imagine how organized they are? And together they have 2 sons. She got a degree from Michigan State University, Go Big 10, and a masters from Chapman University in California, where you’re from Barb. So this is a genuine privilege to welcome a fellow Orange Theory loyalist, who has more metals than you could even imagine we couldn’t possible share them all here, so impressive. She has been selected for promotion to Colonel effective May 1st, 2019. So let’s get chatting with Emily Farkas.  

 

Barb: Wow! Welcome Emily. 

 

Emily: Thank you! 

Barb: Before Debbie gets started with the interview we like for our listeners to hear something special, unusual or defining about you that for some reason if we don’t hear about it in our podcast we might not know about you. So Emily, do tell what is that one thing that no one knows? 

 

Emily: Well thank you foremost thank you Debbie and Barb for choosing me among many of your professionals you have in the Tampa Bay area, I’m honored to join your podcast um and one thing that we wouldn’t necessarily know about me right off the bat is that I am the first of my family to go to college. My Michigan State experience was uncharted territory, I didn’t really have great mentors to reach back to so that experience was life changing for me. I hold that experience at Michigan State dear to my heart, I’m a loyal Spartan through and through um just because it did help and shape me to become the person I am today. Um another thing is that I can tear up the karaoke stage without one one drop of alcohol.  

 
Debbie: What!? Really? 

 

Emily: I can! I love karaoke, I love singing, I love music. I have a 1900’s Grand Piano in my home that has traveled at least 6 times with us in the Air Force so it’s a little bit of information for when you walk into my home and you see this Steinway and of course my boys are learning piano and it

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