Stephanie Oddo is an educator, entrepreneur, and Laguna Niguel City Council candidate. Most recently, Stephanie has found much reward in serving as Director of Government for the League of Women Voters of Orange Coast. She launched the League’s first-ever Observer Corps. The Corps inspires, trains and empowers volunteers to observe and report on their local city and county public meetings. The program currently observes 7 cities and 4 county boards.
Stephanie is the founder of Healthcare Mask Collaborative (HMC). HMC served almost 150 organizations, had over 220 sewers who sewed and distributed over 65,000 cloth masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the first Democrat to ever run a serious campaign in Laguna Niguel, Stephanie earned over 11,000 votes and was the next on the ballot to win in the 2020 election. Stephanie is now launching a new nonprofit with her business partner that will empower and educate women on how to report certain crimes against them.
Stephanie has also served as President of the Laguna Niguel Rotary Club where she spearheaded two efforts that are still in practice today: a free local dental clinic that serves approx. 100 people a year and an effort to obtain the club’s first Global Grant (raising money for medical equipment that trained doctors in Latin America how to perform free surgeries to burned children). This propelled her to serve as Chair of International Service for Rotary District 5320 (Orange County and Long Beach) and to train others how to obtain Global Grants.
Previously, Stephanie was a public relations and web services consultant for government, nonprofits, and businesses in the Washington, DC. area. Some of her clients included Microsoft Government, Verisign, Maryland Dept. of Energy, EPA, NASA, U.S. Dept. of Justice, DC Healthy Families, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and the nationally televised Hispanic Heritage Awards.
In this episode of Critical Mass Business Talk Show, Stephanie joins host Ric Franzi to discuss her career path, as well as her initiatives in Orange County and beyond!
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Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at Renaissance Executive Forums Orange County.
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interview Paul Nelson, Managing Partner at Nelson Kirkman (Episode 1337)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Monica Challingsworth, President of Eustress & Demeter (Episode 1336)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Leigh Lester, Founder of Ubuntu Institute of Learning (Episode 1335)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Ronald Stein, Founder of PTS Advance (Episode 1334)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Steve Reinharz, CEO of Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions, Inc (AITX) & Robotic Assistance Devices (Episode 1333)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Andy Nguyen, Co-Founder of Afters Ice Cream (Episode 1332)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Lisa Rehburg, Rehburg Life Insurance Settlements (Episode 1331)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Michelle Beauchamp, Founder of The Champ Group (Episode 1330)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Adrian Garcia, CEO of FynCom (Episode 1329)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Anna Lisa Lukes & Jay Lukes, Co-Founders of The Lukes Network (Episode 1328)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Mike Flynn, Founder & Owner of O SEA (Episode 1327)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Guita Sharifi, Chief Financial Officer of Lifelong Learning Administration Corporation (Episode 1326)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Corey White, Founder of Cyvatar.ai (Episode 1325)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Zeena Dhalla, Founder of VerticAlign Posture & Ergonomics (Episode 1324)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Frank Riedel, CEO of YOUFLY Inc. (Episode 1323)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Jonas Muthoni, CEO of Deviate Agency (Episode 1322)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Dane Groeneveld, CEO of HUDDL3 Group (Episode 1321)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Jure Bratkic, CEO of SkipQ & BreakThrough (Episode 1320)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Shellee Howard, President of College Ready (Episode 1319)
Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Shelly Yorgesen, Founder & CEO of Executive Networking Events (Episode 1318)
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