BLACK & WHITE - AMBITION IN PERSPECTIVE

Funda Dervisoglu is in Program Management Leadership in the Cloud Division of Google. She has navigated her career through the tech industry with a tenacious conquer-the-world track record in sales, project leadership, and management, but has recently opened her life to include a little more...living. Can you be a super achiever and still find balance and happiness? Listen in as Funda and Joe both describe lives of purpose and direction ultimately tempered by gratitude and a sense of duty. Joe Klemczewski is a pioneering health scientist and fitness entrepreneur who academically moved from orthopedic physical therapy to nutrition and then health education as he built his company The Diet Doc, LLC. He later pursued personality and developmental psychology through a masters of fine arts in creative and professional writing. After finishing his MFA in the Department of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process at Western Connecticut State University, he studied social psychology at Harvard for two years before transferring to finish a Masters of Social Sciences at Ohio University. Klemczewski's goal for the second half of his career is to help fitness professionals and nutrition coaches integrate a level of social intelligence and awareness into their service models in an effort to help clients achieve more complete, sustainable health transformations. The Black & White Podcast joins his media efforts including The Diet Doc Life Mastery Podcast, Contest Prep University Podcast, and hundreds of interviews and lectures by adding a unique twist. With Black & White already in the planning phase, the racial tensions and riots of 2020 pushed Klemczewski to expedite production and begin with a series of interviews exploring our common values. The Black & White Podcast crashes into the nuances of culture, it challenges binary thinking, labeling, and dividing. The human race is ready to move beyond black and white thinking and the Black & White Podcast is ready to deepen connections. The Diet Doc exists for one reaso