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Submitted by Douglas Newsom on 19 April 2021

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Executive Shine with Jill Wright & Jeanie Holzbacher and guest Michelle Holderness

Michelle M. Holderness is a Colorado licensed attorney and has practiced in the consumer financial services industry for over 20 years. She is a native of Colorado having graduated with a BA from The Colorado College and having received her JD from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She served as managing attorney for SquareTwo Financial Corporation where she managed its legal collections via law firms nationwide and was responsible for a monthly revenue of approximately $10 Million Dollars. As in-house counsel, she had oversight responsibility for defense of counterclaims and collaborated over 2 years with the IT department to help create its own proprietary collection software. After implementation, Michelle continued to counsel the company regarding its proprietary collection software and on a myriad of other financial collection laws and regulations.

Her legal career started as an Assistant Deputy District Attorney (Denver) having conducted over 50 jury trials where she honed her skills to think quickly on her feet to successfully convince judges and juries that the facts and law were on the People’s side.

Michelle has a passion for leading and inspiring people to a faith-based life, including her recent founding of the Facebook group called “Confidence Chats” where Michelle inspires this group to live life from an inner confidence Faith perspective.

It is her goal to have women understand that true confidence comes from understanding of who you are in Christ and not from external sources.

Michelle has been happily married to Fred for the past 20 years and they have a 17 year old son; she has a 34 year old step-son, and a four-legged son, Bruiser. She enjoys cooking, working out, traveling to see her son in fencing tournaments and skiing with her family.

Facebook Confidence Chats Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/491825184526507
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