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Judy Ferraro & Associates, Inc.

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Sales & Leadership Talent Development Values: C.A.R.T. - Care-Assist-Respect-Trust

11/26/2025

Have a nice Thanksgiving. While I know there is not much rest in store at this time of year, I at least hope your Fantasy Football teams do well.

07/17/2025

An excerpt from the On Being a Girl chapter of my upcoming book, Everyone Wants to Name the Dog.

I’m glad that this story does not end with me walking down a makeshift runway in a mall modeling Montgomery Ward clothing for free, in an attempt to become a better girl for some boy. It instead became the beginning of my entrepreneurial spirit. While I soaked in the basic etiquette skills I learned at Wendy Ward (I still use the skills I learned on how to get out of a car in a miniskirt without exposing my private area), my eye was on the modeling opportunities at the end of the classes.

As expected, my parents were unable to send me completely through the entire Wendy Ward experience. It was ok. I knew from a young age that their money could be better spent on groceries or electricity. It didn’t matter that I didn’t finish the classes; I would take what I learned and make it work for me.

07/16/2025

An excerpt from the On Being a Girl chapter from my upcoming book, Everyone Wants to Name the Dog.

While having breakfast with a young professional who also happened to be a female, she was unhappy when women were specifically welcomed to our industry meetings, I wasn’t following. She explained, “that’s like welcoming the dark-skinned people, LBGTs and so forth.” She’s right. We’re not different types of people, we’re all just people.

When our son was 4, he and I were watching a post-MJ (Michael Jordan) version of the Bulls. I asked Eric the name of one of the new Black guys. He corrected me, “He’s not a Black guy Mom, he’s just a guy.” He was a toddler. I believe the up-and-coming generations will change the world. We need to stop singling any group out as different from the rest of the people in the room. As a friend said to me, “We are not the women in the room, we are just in the room.”

05/25/2025

On Memorial Day, let’s never forget the brave men and women who have died in service to our country and take a moment to honor their bravery and selflessness.

04/18/2025

Enjoy!

12/24/2024

Happy Holidays! Enjoy this season of love and light.

09/29/2024

Every time DJT does stuff like this, women are subject to this sort of attack from the men in their lives. Young male voters love this guy and they will be who your daughters date, work with/for, etc. And the week he proclaimed himself to be a protector of women, he said this

“Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,”

He sets the tone for many.

09/11/2024

The weather was much like today's weather. The skies were bright and clear. And then it became one of the darkest days of our lives. But together we got through it. I will never forget the victims, the first responders and all of the families impacted by 9/11. And I will never forget how our country came together to survive. We became a kinder nation. I miss that.

08/22/2024

An excerpt from the chapter Dancing on Bars from my upcoming book, Everyone Wants to Name the Dog. This chapter was fun to write and brought back memories!

The Cal City crowd moved from Shine’s to the new tavern, Wilbur’s. The man who owned the bar, Wilbur Albion Murray, was a nice enough guy and seemed genuinely pleased we were there. He asked us to call him Bud, but I rarely did. At first impression, he was popular since he provided lots of free drinks. On the first night, the Shine’s crowd infiltrated Wilbur’s, we drank his beer cooler dry. Yep, not one beer left. We all seamlessly shifted to hard liquor and told him that like the boat in “Jaws,” he needed a bigger cooler.

Wilbur’s was smaller than Shine’s and didn’t have a pool table. When we got there, the jukebox selections needed work, but that was easily remedied and before long, all our favorite Rat Pack tunes were there. Along the far wall, there was an automatic bowling machine where the game was to push a metal puck through what was sawdust that looked like grated parmesan. The sawdust made it glide faster and we called it bowling cheese. There was both technique and skill to be good at bar bowling and I was able to master both.

The bowling machine was also a sturdy place for a trio of women to jump up on and sing, dance, and act out every movement of the Supreme’s “Stop! In the Name of Love.” And Wilbur let us do whatever we wanted. I celebrated my 21st birthday two years in a row at Wilbur's.

Women In Recycling Women Hold Up Half The Sky Women's Networking Society Women & Children First Bookstore Recycled Materials Association Karen Davids Yanson Bunny Sebock Laura Fleener Fanta Leslie Fleener Sandy Drabek Urbanik Greg Beilfuss

05/26/2024

This week, a veteran I know well and admire took the time to emphasize the true meaning of Memorial Day - it's not about veterans, but about those who served, fought, and died for our freedom. Let's take a moment to honor their memory and hold them in our hearts. 🌟

04/22/2024

Happy Earth Day! What do you do personally that is conscientious that others may try to do?

04/06/2024

What's happening in Women's Basketball is not a moment in time, it's a movement.

Just a couple of years ago, women's teams in the NCAA tournament were not allowed to use the March Madness logo let alone air all the games on TV. Now that the women have sold tickets for as high as $11,000 per ticket, I'm sure they will be bequeathed with more male privileges.

When women finally got the right to vote in 1920, it was ultimately something financial that moved the needle.

What makes me very proud is that our son Eric Gruber wasn't following the money when he chose a career coaching women's basketball in 2017, he was embarking on a movement. So exciting.

SIUE Women's Basketball Women's Networking Society Women Entrepreneur and Founders Helping Each Other Awmi Headquarters AWMI St. Louis Chapter Awmi Mid-Atlantic Chapter Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. The Female Lead

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