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Zeynep Z Ekemen

@z_silverdefender

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✨ Self-Made Entrepreneur
✨ Inventor of @silver_defender
✨ Principal of Z Realty Group
✨ Inventor of @connectbysignal

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🏎️🥂🦞 @southamptonanimalshelteradopt @pbchistory

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Great times out East 🍾🎉😎🐶🙌🏼
@pbchistory @randluxury @southamptonanimalshelteradopt @hamptonsconcours #Simply

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TOA Awards 2026 Finalists Announced
180 Finalists Advance to the Jury for the Selection of America’s Most Influential Turkish Americans

Here is the finalists for Business & Entrepreneurship Category • Ali Berke Ayazlı – President, ASKON USA
• Ayla Annac – President & CEO, InvivoSciences
• Bülent Başol – CEO & Co-Founder, Active Layer Parametrics (ALP)
• Dinçer Ocak – President, Turkish American Unity for Commerce & Industry (TUCCI)
• Evren Özkaya – Founder & CEO, SCW.AI
• Fuat Kırcalı – Founder & CEO, SYS-Con Media
- Gokhan Yavuzer, CEO, Hurrem Hammam & Wellness SPA
• Hakan İnan – CEO, Galaxy Group
• İsmail Akdeniz – President, Turko Global
• İsmail Alptekin – Founder & CEO, Puff City
• Kürşat Ceylan – Co-Founder, WeWALK
• Ramazan Patak – Founder & CEO, Globaltex Fine Linens
• Selçuk Atlı – Founder & CEO, Building Bunch
• Selin Kurnaz – Co-Founder & CEO, MassiveBio
• Tolga Sağiroğlu – President, Imtrex Inc.; U.S. Gourmet Food; Galatasaray USA
• Zeynep Ekemen – CEO, Silver Defender Corp.
@berkeayazli @bulent.basol.14 @dincer_ocak_ @hurremhammams @hakan.inan.1 @ismaillakdeniizz @alptekin_8 @ramapatak @tlgnygs @z_silverdefender

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There’s a particular kind of darkness that comes when you’re becoming someone new...

The old life doesn’t fit anymore.

The new one hasn’t shown up yet.

The people you expected to stay started to pull away.

And you’re doing the thing anyway... in the quiet, in the gap, with the lights still off.

My conversation with @z_silverdefender this week was one of those episodes that reminded me why this show exists.

Because she didn’t just survive that gap. She tripled down in it. 💚

The new episode is live now on all platforms.

Comment SEND, and I’ll send you the link.

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Cher. Diane Keaton. Jesus.

Quite possibly the most unexpected panel of role models for single women everywhere… and yet here we are. 😂💚

My conversation with @z_silverdefender this week is one of those episodes that sneaks up on you.

She is building a multi-industry empire entirely on her own terms, and somewhere in the middle of us talking, she said the thing.

The thing every woman who has ever wondered if she needed a partner to feel complete has quietly been waiting to hear.

Not from a book. Not from a podcast.

From a pastor. A Cher interview. And a Sunday morning with her girlfriend.

I love it when wisdom arrives from the most unexpected places.

This episode is pure joy, my loves. 💚

The full episode is live now on all platforms.

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When everything pointed to walking away… she bought everyone out and kept going. 💚

Z launched Silver Defender at the start of the pandemic.

The timing couldn't have been more uncertain. And somehow, it worked.

Until it didn't.

The world reopened. The demand shifted. And the people she had built it with decided they were done.

Most people would have read all of that as a sign.

She read it as a clearing.

There is a particular kind of woman who doesn't need perfect conditions to keep moving forward.

She just needs to believe in what she's building more than she fears being alone in it.

This conversation left me genuinely in awe. 💚

New episode with @z_silverdefender is live now on all platforms.

The full episode is live now on all platforms.

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🥂🍝 Bellinis pasta repeat #pitstop

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When everything pointed to walking away… she bought everyone out and kept going. 💚

Z launched Silver Defender at the start of the pandemic.

The timing couldn’t have been more uncertain. And somehow, it worked.

Until it didn’t.

The world reopened. The demand shifted. And the people she had built it with decided they were done.

Most people would have read all of that as a sign.

She read it as a clearing.

There is a particular kind of woman who doesn’t need perfect conditions to keep moving forward.

She just needs to believe in what she’s building more than she fears being alone in it.

This conversation left me genuinely in awe. 💚

New episode with @z_silverdefender is live now on all platforms.

Comment SEND, and I’ll send you the link directly.

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NY Atatürk Okulu, 55. kuruluş yıl dönümünü coşkulu bir gala gecesiyle kutladı.

55 yıldır yurt dışındaki Türk topluluğunun kültürel belleğini canlı tutan okul, binlerce çocuğa Türkçe öğretmiş, onları kendi kökleriyle buluşturmuştur. Bu kurum için düzenlenen gece, hem bir vefa hem de bir dayanışma gösterisine dönüştü.

Galada Türkiye’nin New York Başkonsolosu Ahmet Yazal, BM Daimi Temsilcisi Ahmet Yıldız ve KKTC New York Temsilcisi Murat Soyal’ın yanı sıra çok sayıda sivil toplum temsilcisi ve dernek başkanı yer aldı.

Sesi ve duruşuyla her sahneye ayrı bir ağırlık katan Zuhal Olcay, güçlü performansıyla geceye damgasını vurdu.

Arda Türegej @ardaturegun ise seslendirdiği parçalarla davetlilere unutulmaz anlar yaşattı.

Konuşmaların odağında ise yurt dışında yaşayan Türklerin çocuklarına Türkçe eğitim verilmesinin giderek artan önemi vardı. Amerika Türk Kadınlar Birliği Başkanı Berna Gürdal da yaptığı konuşmada Atatürk Okulu’nun yeni nesiller için taşıdığı anlama dikkat çekti; okulun yalnızca bir dil kurumu değil, bir kimlik köprüsü olduğunu vurguladı.

Gecenin bir diğer önemli ayağını açık artırma oluşturdu. İmzalı formalar ve özel koleksiyon parçaları için açılan tekliflerden elde edilecek gelirin, okulun eğitim materyalleri ve teknolojik altyapısı için kullanılacağı açıklandı

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Taskin Bakery’den Anlamlı İftar Buluşması 🌙

Bu akşam Taşkın Bakery’nin @taskinbakery düzenlediği iftar yemeğine davetliydik. Ramazan ayının birlik ve beraberlik ruhunu yansıtan anlamlı gecede toplumun önde gelen isimleri bir araya geldi.

Geceye New York Başkonsolosu Ahmet Yazal ve eşi Zeynep Yazal’ın yanı sıra, KKTC New York Temsilcisi Murat Soysal ve eşi Tanem Soysal, çok sayıda dernek başkanı ve iş insanı katıldı.

İftar, Din Ataşesi Ali Tos’un okuduğu ezan ile açıldı. Manevi atmosferin hâkim olduğu gecede oruçlar açıldı.

Program, Mountainside Venue’de gerçekleştirildi. Birbirinden lezzetli yemekler ve özenle hazırlanmış tatlılar misafirlere ikram edilirken, sıcak sohbetler ve samimi buluşmalar geceye damga vurdu.

Taskin Bakery, geleneksel tatları özenli sunumla buluşturan marka, bu özel gecede misafirlerine hem damaklarda hem gönüllerde iz bırakan bir iftar deneyimi yaşattı.

Ramazan’ın bereketi ve dayanışma ruhu bir kez daha aynı sofrada hissedildi.

📸 @dogankumova

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Closing weekend with @andresvalenciaart at Chase Contemporary

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