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Transcript:
Neil Amato: Welcome back to the Journal of Accountancy podcast. This is your host, Neil Amato. We’ve got a lot of news to go over, including the release of the IRS’s annual “Dirty Dozen” tax scams. First lesson: be very wary of investing in any Maltese IRAs.
And there are more examples of scams detailed in JofA coverage in the past week, which we will highlight after our main interview, with an ENGAGE keynote speaker who explains the meaning of the term “performance currency.” You’ll hear that after this word from our sponsor.
Amato: I’d like to welcome Carla Harris to the Journal of Accountancy podcast. Carla is a keynote speaker at ENGAGE. She is an author. She is a holder of several titles at Morgan Stanley, and we’re glad to have her on the podcast. Carla, thank you for being here.
Carla Harris: Thank you for having me, Neil.
Amato: There’s a word out there that’s prevalent in some of your books, maybe also in your keynote speeches. It’s the phrase powerful presence. What I’ll start with for you is this: what does it mean to you to have powerful presence?
Harris: It means to basically command attention, Neil, so that when you’re in a room, your energy of intentionality is felt by everybody in that room. That’s…
