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From Plan A to Global Impact with Ann Marie Sorrell

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Brand authority doesn’t start with a logo—it begins with a decision about how you want to show up. We sit down with Ann Marie Sorrell, president and CEO of the Mosaic Group, to unpack the strategy, grit, and heart behind a 20‑year journey from West Palm Beach to a growing Caribbean footprint. Ann Marie breaks down positioning that goes beyond aesthetics, showing how message, culture, and behavior align to create trust. Then she gets practical about content: why story matters, how to tailor for each platform, and what it takes to move people from scrolling to action.

The conversation turns personal and powerful as Ann Marie recounts surviving the recession, canceled contracts, and foreclosure by clinging to a single Plan A and a daily bias for execution. That resilience paved the way for a bold move during the pandemic—scaling a regional forum into the National Black Economic Conference with global voices and tangible resources for Black entrepreneurs. We talk about designing events around outcomes, not optics, and building communities that leave with pathways, not platitudes.

Ann Marie also opens the door to a complex, high‑growth space: cannabis. When rooms stayed closed, she built a new table through Cannabisiac to advance equity, access, and education in a highly regulated industry. We explore how to turn advocacy into credibility, translate policy into opportunity, and help underrepresented founders participate across the value chain. Finally, she unveils Mosaic Global Group, a unified structure that ties marketing, tech, coworking, philanthropy, and M&A into one platform built for scale and impact.

If you’re a founder, marketer, or leader hungry for clear positioning, smarter content, and resilient execution, this conversation is your playbook for turning vision into a movement. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs the push, and leave a review to tell us which insight you’ll act on first.

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SPEAKER_01:

Welcome everybody to the Fun Ran Podcast. This is your host, Grant McGall, and I get to bring it all the way back to West Palm Beach, Florida. And I get to teach, I mean, talk to one of my favorite people. I've been knowing her for so long. We've been running in the same circles. We always see each other. I mean, if it was a uh Nazi event, she was there. If she's doing something at Palm Beach, I'm there. And we're going back and forth. And here it is. You know, I lived in Miami Gardens for almost 30 years. She is doing big, big things in the city from a marketing perspective. I am so, so very, very proud of you. So very proud to have you, the CEO and owner of the Mosaic Group on the Follow the Brand show. So I want to thank you. Please introduce yourself and then we'll get into our discussion.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, Grant, thank you so much for having me. Um, you know, I've been a fan of you since my early days in Nasi, which was like 200 maybe four or five before I even started Mosaic. That's something. So um, so I'm I'm I'm really happy to be on the show. Um, thank you for having me. I'm Anne-Maurice Sorrell, president and CEO of the Mosaic Group. Uh, we're an award-winning marketing, advertising, public relations, and community engagement agency. We have been in business for 20 years. We just celebrated our 20th anniversary two weeks ago. And um, you know, looking forward and cheers to 20 more and beyond. Uh, so just super excited about the work that we get to do and honored about the communities that we get to serve, um, not just in South Florida, but we recently expanded to the Caribbean as well. So we're looking forward to building our footprint through the Caribbean with our headquarters in Jamaica and, you know, hopefully beyond throughout the CARICOM.

SPEAKER_01:

Man, I am I'm loving that. You know, I made my move to St. Croix, you're in Jamaica, we talked about that. We really got to just create that brotherhood that that that is there. And you've been doing, I'm telling the mosaic group, people don't know, you've delivered more than 500 campaigns. 500, that's a big number. That includes some major work like what we just talked about with Miami Gardens. You're doing some premier global events. A lot of these are event destinations. But my question for you is this, and we talk about brand authority. What have been your keys to building brand authority, not just for your clients, but for yourself as a leader?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I think it's first, first the key is understanding and setting a goal of how you want to position your brand. Like, how do you want to show up for people, your consumer, your target audience, if it's the healthcare industry, your patient population, whatever that audience, that constituency is, like, how do you want to be positioned for them? How do you want to show up for them? Uh, branding is not just about a logo, it's it's the look, it's the feel, it's the messaging, it's the attitude, um, it's the culture, it's the representation, it's all of that about the brand. So when we're working with our clients, we're really trying to understand how do you want to be positioned in the marketplace? Um, and then it gets into more of the how do you want to be found, accessed, et cetera. So the same thing with mosaic, you know, how do we want to be positioned in the marketplace? We've always been that company that's about impact, right? And how do we not only make impactful campaigns and meaningful campaigns for our clients, but how do we work on issues that matter, causes that matter, um, things that are gonna change lives, empower lives, move, move the needle, um, things that are movement, right? Um, so that's our that's been our brand positioning, our brand focus. And it makes us super proud of the work that we do, especially when we know we're we're here, um, whether it's it's bringing employment to a community or education to a doorstep or uh a healthcare issue that some of us may not be aware of, um, that you should be, you know, checked out for and tested for whatever. So it's it's it's all of that. It's it's the brand positioning. So that's that's the the main tip is how do you want to show up? How do you want to be positioned? How do you go beyond just the logo? Um, what's your key messaging, what's your look and feel, what's the culture um of your brand. So that's those are just some of the key tips.

SPEAKER_01:

No, those are great keys. You know, I do a lot in the personal brand space, and I'm I I just I just love how you gravitated to positioning because it is so important. And then how you back into everything that I always bring to my clients. And that is you have to have a point of view, that's a point of differentiation. What is your point of view that then you know bolds into your personal story, and then you have to have some type of platform, right? Some kind of platform that you're gonna deliver that particular message on, you know, and then you get into that position. You said it so so well. Now, you often say content is king, but marketing is queen. So I want to know from that philosophy, how does that philosophy shape the way you help businesses and communities stand out in a crowded market?

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. So storytelling, right? Um, every person, every brand, every company has a story. And the story continues to evolve, it continues to um change whether on a daily basis or whatever time frame, um, stories evolve. But for a lot of companies, um no one knows their story. And if no one knows your story, then how are you resonating? How are you relating? Um, so how how can you be relatable? So um when it comes to content, it's first of all, do you have a story to tell? And then can you create content around that story? Um, for some people, they think content is just, you know, videos or photos um or uh a text here. It's all of that, right? It's it's all of it before it was called content, you know, we called it copy. Copywriting, you know, we called it that. But um content is a combination of um various things. But what it comes down to is is it relatable? Does it connect, right? And does it cause the the targeted person or audience to take action? Right? Is it actionable? Um, because if your content is just out there and there's no action to it, then you're just kind of, you know. So, so and it goes back to that initial comment, you know, what we said in the beginning was um, what's the positioning? How do you want to show up? What's your goal? What's your objective? So developing a content strategy, and and this is the very important part. Yes, the strategy. A lot of folks, so let's just take social media, for example. Oh, I have a social media account, I just put out whatever on there. And that's fine if you don't want to have an intentional purpose, if you don't want to connect, if you don't want to have action taken, then yeah, just put anything out there. But you need from a business perspective, you need a strategy. So what's your story? What's your strategy? And then how do you now develop content that fits that story and strategy and on the appropriate platforms because all platforms are not created equal. So each platform has a specific audience and they respond in a specific way. So your content also has to speak to that audience and how they respond. So content in itself is such a um it's uh it's literally like his own discipline within marketing, literally. I agree.

SPEAKER_01:

I totally agree with what you said there. I mean, you just took us through, I would say a master class, and when you're looking at uh marketing for what it really is, people don't, I think they they overgeneralize what you can do in the marketing context. Meaning you just went like, yeah, you could do it yourself and you can you know put some content out there. They've made it so easy to put content out there, but if you don't have the intentionality and understanding, again, understanding your own story. What is important to your audience, not just to yourself, but what's important to your audience as you're building that out. And if you don't think along those lines, you're just like on Facebook. Facebook really is a social uh media platform, right? I mean, really social, family, friends. They might be interested in what you did last night and interested in you know getting together with certain people and you're celebrating this like we just had, you know, some time in the holidays and that kind of thing. Very, very good platform may not resonate as well like on a LinkedIn platform. That's more of a business platform. So understanding platform is very, very important in what you're looking to do. Now you also brought up something I love, and that's the personal story. You have a personal story, and your personal story as I've gone through it, to me, it resonates with resilience. You've spoken about your journey from Jamaica to Paul King and the resilience it took to grow from those roots into a global influencer that you are today. My question is this what has to you most? And how did your faith help you keep moving forward?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh man, what moments tested me most, man. Who um I would say the the recession, right? Because that was a moment of just it was so much happening, right? There was um this this you know new business within the first three years, things are going great, we're climbing, and then all of a sudden the recession hits, Bernie Madoff happens. We had a lot of nonprofit organizations, and we just got contract canceled, canceled, canceled because these nonprofits didn't know what they were gonna do because their money was tied up in this scandal. And then you had the recession hit. We had some government contracts who were just getting into government contracting, and those were paused. Big initiatives like big reservoir projects, multi-million dollar projects, paused indefinitely. Um, so going from income to no income, having to get super creative. I had only been a homeowner for about um two and a half years, um, had gone through a horrible relationship, just broke my heart into pieces, not to mention also finances and everything else. And so during that time, it was just turmoil. So business, like trying to keep the doors open, trying to figure out where I'm gonna live. My house went into foreclosure, um, and then uh became an overnight parent to my niece. So during that time, it was like, oh my God. And mind you, I had just turned 30. I think I was like 29, 30, whatever, somewhere in that phase. Um, and so all of this was happening at the same time, and I honestly did not know how I was gonna survive at all. Um, I just knew that I had to have a tremendous amount of faith. Um, I had to rely on some relationships with my family and close friends. Um and I just I had to continue to believe in that this is gonna work. Um, I remember a couple of years before I had read Think and Grow Rich, and it was a part in there about plan A and plan B. And I was like, this is my plan A. There's no plan B. I gotta make this work. And that means if I have to create events, if I have to and charge$5, if I have to do some pro bono work, I went and taught as an adjunct professor at our local college, whatever I needed to do to make sure that I survived, the company survived, my family survived. I did every single thing that I needed to do. Um, a penny pinch, I remember like living on$20 for like two weeks. Yes, yeah. My friends like teased me, like, well, you just had curry tilapia, baked tilapia, fried tilapia.

SPEAKER_01:

I feel you. Yeah, at least you had tilapia, that's good.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, but that's that's real. That was, you know, that's and and and to me, that was one of the most resilient times. And I had to learn from that to go from here to like rock bottom and try to rebuild, you know, and thank God like I had so many lessons in that experience, and I was able to rebuild to where we are today. Um, it's amazing. It's an amazing testimony. Um, and I I don't I have no regrets because had I not gone through that, I wouldn't be able to survive the pandemic and God knows whatever we're going to do right now.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, I I I'm glad you brought that up. I want people to really lean in what you just said, because leaders are not trained. I think leaders are forged. That kind of experience forged you into the person that you are right now. And without it, you wouldn't be as uh diligent and resilient that that you are in order to face so many different things. Now, you also launched the the first national black economic conference, I think it was in 2020, that was during the pandemic. Uh, and you that took courage, right? That took a lot of courage to do that. My question again is in this resilience world, because resilience is a part of my my my brave framework. And I I hit on that because so many people, when they start out in business and they look so fun, you know, they they get these this the messaging that comes out like, hey, if I just do these three things, I'm gonna be rich. If I just do this, this is like driving up to a fast food restaurant. Like you're gonna need some resilience. So, what did resilience look like for you in that moment as far as the National Black Economic Conference? And I think now you're in your 11th year, how did that grow out of a season of uncertainty?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh man, so just to backtrack a bit, so in 20 um 10, again, around this time, I don't even know. I was reading the Black Enterprise magazine, and there was an article in there about National Black Business Month. And I remember seeing that, I was like, well, I've never seen anything happen for National Black Business Month. I never heard of this. And so I remember reaching out to some colleagues and I said, hey, we got to do something here in South Florida. So I initially created the State of the Black Business Forum and invited the founder of one of the founders of National Black Business Month, flew him out from California, brought him here, and he did, he was here to facilitate our first um National Black Business Month event. And we did the state of the black business for, I believe, six or seven years. Um, and then we turned it to the South Florida Black Economic Forum. So we changed it to that because I said, you know what? We know what the state of the black business is.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

How do we talk economics? Because that's really what it comes down to. So we came the South Florida Economic Forum for about three years, and then the pandemic happened, George Floyd's situation happened, or murder, let's call it what it is, happened. And we were not going to be able to do the conference that year. And it was the year that we were like, we're not launching this nationally. And so that was already the vision pre-pandemic to say, okay, 2020, we're going to make it the National Black Economic Conference instead of the South Florida, because we wanted to bring in speakers from around the country. But it wasn't just about speakers. Again, we know what the problems are. What are the solutions? What are the opportunities? What are the economic opportunities? How do we really create wealth in our community? And so that was the vision and mission of the forum from the start. And so here it is, 2020. Businesses are closing left and right, pandemic, people dying. We got the murder of George Floyd that had just happened that June. And I told my team, I was like, we can't just sit back. We can't. I'm not a sit back type of person. We got to do something. Let's figure this thing out. We'll make it happen virtually, right? And so we found a platform that we could do the conference and the expo and everything virtually. And man, when I tell you, we had some of the most amazing talent from around the country and even internationally. We had the um His Excellency from Ghana. Um we had uh some ambassadors and um ministers from the Caribbean, we had South Florida leaders, we had um uh what was it, uh NBC's VP at the time, um Honeypot uh founder. Just we had some heavy hitters in business, but more importantly, we gave people the opportunity to learn about emerging markets, to learn about what resources were available to them, grants that were coming out from these corporations who, you know, felt like, oh, we gotta do something. Um it was it was probably one of the most phenomenal virtual or even events as a whole that we had put on. Um and from we we didn't have sponsors, we didn't, this was just like we're doing it because we gotta make it happen. We gotta do some kosher.

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That's what it was.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm glad you did. I think that bodes well in what you just described, and in what I call it, my blueprint strategy is around authenticity and being authentic in your brand, authentic in what you're doing. So you say, no, this is not just about the money, this is about my beliefs. This is what I know that is the right thing to do. And I I feel that from you, the authenticity of it. Now, you wrote a book called uh Chronicles of a serial data, which blended a bunch of humor. It was, you know, you had some fun in it, but it showed your vulnerability, a lot of live lessons. My question for you is is around, and I think this will help people when it comes to the authenticity and what they're doing. Some people have this um, you know, what do you call it? The uh uh uh imposter syndrome type thing. You know, I want to know from you what makes embracing authenticity in such a personal way teach you about leadership and about influence.

SPEAKER_00:

Um well, when I look at authenticity, and it's I'm glad you asked this question because I often get this from um a lot of professionals, especially women, you know, especially women in corporate. You know, how do I how do I show up as my authentic self? How do you how do you do it? You just you you just seem so authentic. And so the first thing I say is, well, I I only know how to be me. I only know how to be myself, number one. Um, and I think once you you tap into yourself, like who are you? Or when you ask yourself, who am I? Who am I at my core? What are my core values? What does life mean to me? What is my purpose? Why am I here? And and even in every decision you make, what's my why? Right? Um, so I I I do my best to show up as me, like all of me. Um, and all of me may not gel with everyone. I get that, right? Um, but I believe that when you show up as your true self and you're able to honor and walk in your truth, whatever your truth is, I just share some things that some people know, some people don't know, right? But that's my truth. When I wrote the book Chronicles of a Serial Dater, it was my truth. It's not that I'm a serial dater on purpose. No, it's just how life has kind of evolved about dating and relationships. And it's my truth. And I I bared my soul in that book. And there were so many people, men and women, who were able to relate to it. But I showed my vulnerability. I said, well, hopefully there's a lesson in every story, good, bad, or indifferent, or funny, even, for for every woman who reads it, or in every man who reads it. Because I I had a lesson for men, a lesson for women after every story. But it was my truth, and it was what I thought someone else could gain from it that may resonate with them. So um, authenticity is really just standing in your truth and living your truth every single day. Don't hide from it, don't put the mask on. Everybody wants you to wear a mask, right? To send your representative. No, I'm not sending my representative. This is Anne-Marie Sorrell. This is who you get every single time. These are my beliefs. And again, they may not be in alignment, and that's okay, right? Um, so I think that that's the main thing is if you're being your authentic self, people will appreciate that. I always tell girls that I mentor, don't try to be who you saw on Instagram or TikTok nowadays, or that celebrity you admire. Yes, you can be inspired by, but you can't be them. God created you uniquely. That's right. You got to be who you are and who God creates you to be. And sometimes you don't know who you are. It develops. We're all developing, discovering, and refining along the way, but embrace who you are, both on the outside and the inside. And once you embrace it, everybody else will. When I when I uh decided to wear a bald head because of alopecia, I could have done all types of other things, wore a wig, except maybe now and then I play around with the wig. But I didn't feel like I was being me. I remember wearing a wig for like six months before I just said, I'm done. And I didn't feel it was something about it, just didn't feel genuine. It didn't feel like it was me. It felt like I was just putting on this mask every day. And I couldn't go out into the world with this mask on. It just didn't feel like it didn't feel right, Grant.

SPEAKER_01:

I was whatever. Oh man, I'm I'm hey, I'm here, the audience clapping right now, being your authentic. So it had to be freeing for you as well. Look, it's who I am, I'm good with it. I hope you're good with it.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. And if not, that's okay. Okay, it might not be your cup of tea. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

That's nothing, it's but you have to get above that, right? That that's overcoming your own inner self, your own inner fears, some of the hang ups that you have.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01:

And it takes a bold, you don't have to be bold and then step out on some faith about that, but you being your authentic self. Now, one of the other things that you're doing that I I think you stand in that authenticity is around your, I think it's Kenobiziak, right? Kenna Biziak, yes. Now you this this is cool. People, you're gonna love this because she you centered around equity and access in the industry that's often closed off to minorities. You know, we're talking about the the health world, right? Now, how do you use authenticity to advocate for inclusion while also building credibility in a highly, highly regulated market?

SPEAKER_00:

Um well, let me let me backtrack because um I think it's important to understand the the birth of Cannabisiac. The birth of it was that um as I was looking for information myself, trying to be educated, trying to understand where the economic opportunities were in the industry, the doors were closed or the circles were so tight that people that looked like you and me was not there. We weren't at the table.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm talking about specifically here in Florida. It was very few of us at the table in the room. Um, the rooms that I went in early on. And so I remember like reaching out to people after I'd go to an event and didn't get a call back, didn't get an email back. And I'm like, all right, cool. No table. What do we do? We build one. And so that was the birth of Canabizia to say I can't be the only one looking for this information. I can't be the only one that's interested in this industry, and I definitely can't be the only one who wants to know how we can build our community economically and address certain health disparities because we gotta look at the health side of the plant. And so that's how Canabizia came about was creating something that I knew was missing because I was looking for it. Um, and so that's where where we came about. Um, and so again, to do that authentic authentically is this is my truth, and I'm sure it's true for others. Let me create an opportunity, let me shed light on something that's taboo. Let me and let me inform especially our community of where we may be potentially missing out because we're still conditioned by what we were taught about cannabis or marijuana or ganja, whatever you want to call it about it, and the war on drugs that literally destroyed our communities. But others are benefiting and making millions of dollars from this plant while our community, many people from our community are still locked up and spend time for the plant. So I wanted to bring awareness to the injustice. I wanted to bring um awareness to the benefits, health benefits, medical benefits of the plant, or even just social benefits. And I wanted to bring awareness to the economic opportunities because I do believe that the cannabis industry can be the great equalizer for brown and black communities, especially black communities. But we gotta learn and be educated about it.

SPEAKER_01:

You got the the vision that you have is spot on and said some we are usually the end user, let's say, of the plant, but we're not the producer or the distribution of uh of the hemp and what you can be used in so many different ways, so many so many different ways. So then if you then you begin to see what traditionally has been happened in our community, that you're just locked out of the economics of how this is happening, right? And then you've got to open it up because you're about when you look at MBEC, it's a signature platform for you, it's the black economic empowerment. And I'd say this in in looking beyond its origins, how do you see your like now you've you've got all these different platforms that you're working on? What is the long-term vision and role that you feel that you have in reshaping opportunities nationwide from the Mosaic Group?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I'm glad you said that. Um, at our 20th anniversary two weeks ago, we just launched Mosaic Global Group. Um, and what we're doing is streamlining all of our various brands, Mosaic Group, Mosaic Co-work, Mosaic Wired, which is our technology arm, uh, Mosaic Marketing, which is our Caribbean headquarters, and then, of course, our different initiatives, which includes the National Black Economic Conference, Mosaic Cares, which is our philanthropic arm, um, and eventually um Canabiziac plays a role in that as well. Um we're streamlining um under a consolidated brand, Mosaic Global Group. So you heard it here? Second, because we announced it at our uh event, but we haven't announced it publicly. On our social platforms yet. So Mosaic Global Group, which is also an opportunity for us to acquire and merge with other brands. So we are looking for collaborative opportunities. We're looking for MA opportunities to grow our talent, to grow our footprint, and more importantly, to grow our impact across the US as well as other countries. So that's the that's the big picture. You know, Grant, I come with a big picture. That's an envision. That's the big picture. But, you know, we can't do it all alone. I can't do it all alone. It's going to take a lot of strategic partners, um, um a lot of support from our community. And I thank God for just the people like you, Grant, who, you know, if I called and said, hey, Grant, I need you to just show up to this event or promote this or do whatever, you never said no, right? So I'm so grateful for people like yourself, all those who supported any effort initiative that has been put in my spirit to launch over these 20 years. I support, I appreciate that support. And as we grow internationally, we're gonna need more of that. We're gonna need a lot of that.

SPEAKER_01:

All of us got to work together because this is so important. That's when you get into what I call the execution role, right? That that last part of the braid framework, execution. You're executing now. Now, you won more than 25 awards for your leadership, your community service, you've got a lot of execution strategies, you're grounded in discipline, you've got daily practices, what you need, and your faith. How does that all come together for you? And more importantly, I want you to tie in women, immigrants, minority entrepreneurs who've been who are inspired, you've inspired, and that are inspired by your story. What execution advice would you give about turning a bold vision that you had into a movement that will last?

SPEAKER_00:

Um first I'd say if you have vision, you're a visionary, stand by your vision. Because you will have you're gonna have both naysayers that are just like thinking you're crazy and don't do this and oh that's too risky, or you know, why now? Or you're gonna have a lot of that, right? And some of it's valid, right? For from from some people, right? But then you're gonna have those who are like, I got you, no matter what you're doing, I'm on board, let's go. Um, and you you kind of need a balance of both because some people are gonna give you that reality check for you to at least think about and and ponder on. But if it's your vision, and I I feel like everything I've done has been spirit-led. So, and and and that's why I'm able to move by faith and with faith. Um, so if you have a vision, move forward, stand by it, no matter what. Like just stand by it. Um, I believe in plan A's. Like if that's my plan A, that's what I'm moving on. Because when you have those plan B, C, D, E, F, you create this level of doubt. You create this level of, okay, well, if that don't work out, let me just move over here. And that's why some people never really move their projects or their dreams forward because they got too many backup plans, right? So um I have an unwavering faith about my plan A. Um, even if I got to pivot, tweak it, pause, come back to it, it's the plan A that I continue to work and my plan A just evolves, as you can see, with different branches, but they all come back to my core purpose and mission. So also know your mission. What's your personal mission? My personal mission is to make an impact, meaning that I make the world, and that's my world around me. I can't make the big world, but maybe, maybe the big world, I don't know. But the people around me, my family, my friends, my community, my employees and team, are they better when they left than when they before they met me?

SPEAKER_01:

Are they better off with or without you? You cannot deny the result of all the things that you've done. When you look at the outcomes, they speak for themselves. You put in the hard work, you stay with your plan B, and then here you are mosaic group 20. 20 years later, here you are, you you're doing it big. Now I only got one more question to ask you. Probably my most important question today is now this is your first interview on the Fall Abrand podcast with me. How did you feel?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, it feels great. Like I'm I'm with you, Grant. First of all, Grant, you yourself, let me give you your flowers. Um, you've been such a tremendous leader in our community, whether it's in the field of healthcare, leadership, IT, you are a tremendous leader. Like I said, I got an opportunity to meet you years ago. Um, and you've been so supportive. Um, my my my baby girl, when she was enrolling and looking to enroll in the healthcare administration program, I called you. You're the first person I was like, hey, can I can I have a reach out to you? Can you give us some pointers, right? So I know you've mentored young people. Um, so to be here and share a stage with you, a spotlight with you, for you to spotlight me, this is amazing. Like, I'm honored. I'm honored, I'm humbled, and I appreciate you. And I thank you for all you do, all your support over the years. Even if we don't talk every day, every month, or every year, I know that when I call you or when you call me, we're gonna pick up the phone. And I just I'm so grateful for you. So thank you for this opportunity. This feels great. This is amazing, and I'm honored.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh man, back at you. This is beautiful. Thank you for those flowers. You know, they're very colorful. Yes, they're very nice. So you gotta tell the artist how to contact you. How do they get in touch with the mosaic group? How can they get on board? Because you are more than a marketing agency, you are a movement, and people that that resonate with you, they they want to say, hey, I need to bring my vision, what I'm doing, and make it visible. And you can do that with the mosaic group.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. So you can reach the mosaic group at mosaicgroup.co. Um, if you want to learn more about our global initiative, mosaicglobalgroup.co, um, of course, you can call us at 561-651-9565 is our corporate headquarters number. Um, and of course, follow the mosaic group on social media so you can get all of our updates, all of our great content that we're rolling out. Um, and if you are in need of a marketing firm that's going to take you to the next level, of course, we're here to help you do that. But we are also looking for collaborators, strategic partners, investors. Um, if you're a company or agency out there and you're about to retire and you want to work with an agency or, you know, transition with an agency, that's what Mosaic Global Group is about. If you're a new startup and you want to be a part of a growing global entity, we're looking for you as well. So many opportunities to partner with us. And of course, come to um our upcoming events that we have as well.

SPEAKER_01:

And you got your new show. You said I was gonna invite me out to that show. I can't wait.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. So um, if you don't, uh, so two things. Uh you can follow me up with MIA Media Group. It's not my company, but I'm a show host for Legacy Leaders, where um we have great leaders. Um, looking to have Grant on the show soon. But then Tea with Anne Marie is gonna be a relaunch. And with that, we're launching the Live Audaciously segment, which ties into a uh planner and journal that I am currently publishing that will be ready for um the 2026 year. So look out for Live Audaciously, uh, which is like a new uh branding campaign, personal branding campaign, because I do believe in living your most audacious and authentic life and launching the planner and that segment on Tea with Anne Marie, which Grant will be a guest on. So listen out for that coming up soon as well. And you can also go to annmarie sorrel.com, which will be updated with all that information as well.

SPEAKER_01:

Excellent, excellent. Thank you again. And your entire audience can tune in to all the episodes of Follow Brand at Five Story BDM. That is number five. That is STAR, that is B for brand, D for Development, Informasters.com. I want to thank you so much for being on the show.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_01:

You're welcome.