About

Jessica Norwood works in Digital Sales Effectiveness for Cisco Systems, as the Global Digital Sales Content Strategist. By day, she helps digital sellers do the best work of their lives. At night, she is the author of the Your Hair is Magic line of children’s books and co-host of The Sugar Daddy Podcast, focused on financial literacy for elder millennials. “Your Hair is Magic: Bed Head” was featured on LIVE with Kelly and Ryan on ABC in 2021, and was most recently read live by Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, The Duchess of York. In 2022, she earned her Lean Six Sigma green belt, was a Social Impact Scholar for The Leadership Consortium (Harvard Business School) and was named a Mover & Shaker by Cary Magazine. She earned her B.A. in German from the College of Charleston, an M.Ed. in Administration from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and an M.Ed. in Divergent Learning from Columbia College. Jessica lives in North Carolina with her husband, Brandon, two children and one year old Doxiepin, Remi.

Brandon Norwood is a licensed financial planner, and owner of Oak City Financial, a financial planning business. Oak City Financial LLC has been a WRAL Voters’ Choice Award finalist the past three years in the financial services category. He has been in the financial services industry for over a decade and started his career at Fidelity, later moving to New York Life, before starting his own firm. He serves as co-treasurer on the executive board for WakeUp Wake County, a local nonprofit focused on advocacy that leads public engagement on housing, transportation, climate change, and other land use issues in the Triangle. He is also an adviser with the startup, WhiteFlag Inc., a mental health app that provides immediate customized peer support that is currently working on their series A fund raise. Brandon attended the College of Charleston and has a BS in Corporate Communications. Brandon lives outside of Raleigh, NC with his wife Jessica, two kids and dog, Remi.