JAX Exchange - Spring 2026 - Magazine - Page 10

WO M E N D E F I N I N G
S AC R A M E N T O
T H E N A N D N OW
TINA
D R . D AW N T É
DONNA
BOBBIN
REYNOLDS
E A R LY
LUCAS
M U LVA N E Y
The Jacquelyn Social Exchange is a podcast
powered by Sacramento’s most crucial and
in昀氀uential voices. The people who’ve shaped the
city’s pulse by paving their own lane. This podcast
is a blueprint hiding inside a conversation. Each
episode pulls back the curtain on how visionaries
actually built what they built, not the polished
retrospective, but the decisions, pivots, and
moments that quietly changed everything.
Few 昀椀t this description more than four iconic
Sacramento women who Co-owner Mary Da昀케n
recently hosted. Tina Reynolds, Dr. Dawnté Early,
Donna Lucas, and Bobbin Mulvaney, all of whom
have charted a di昀昀erent journey to success in
separate industries, share the same impactful
thread: women-led leadership is in a class of its
own, and fueled by a ‘chronic resiliency’ and drive
that’s at times even hard to comprehend.
These four Jacquelyn Founding Members share
their journey through their own unique challenges;
showing how true leadership is forged not in
comfort, but on the winding road of growth, where
they’ve encountered the kind of obstacles that
either break you or build you.
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TINA REYNOLDS
Built from pure passion, Tina Reynolds founded
Uptown Studios, a more than 30-year-old company
that helps businesses and nonpro昀椀ts transform how
they connect with their communities.
Earlier in her career, she assembled a separate,
similar enterprise and what felt like a perfect life,
only to lose nearly everything, professionally and
personally. In this deeply honest conversation about
self-identity and reinvention from a born-to-be
leader, Tina’s mantra of continuing to show up,
even when life is working against you in its highest
form, sets the stage for a moving dialogue.
She discusses her profound relationship with grief
and joy, a bond she’s learned can coexist. And in
the midst of her many messages is this: never give
up on yourself.

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