LeadingShe

22/05/2024

"Mental Monkey Chatter Can Limit High-Achieving Women"

🎧New LeadingShe™ Podcast Episode Available with Donna Carlson, Business Network Architect, CXO. Listen Here: https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/41a31368/mental-monkey-chatter-can-limit-high-achieving-women

Donna Carlson leads in a unique way, as she works toward bringing awareness of the importance of recognizing mental health, burnout, and depression in the workplace. Her childhood was characterized by an alcoholic and abusive mother, and she realized that she was often on her own when it came to emotional support. In her book, Crazy, As Usual she profiles a wonderful story of two women, a young executive and a retired CEO which outlines some great advice for women leaders. Donna began a movement for women to model the women in the book through her group: Fridays at Five She experienced her own depression and learned that embracing good sleep, joy, play, gratitude, and meditation has transformed her life. Donna urges corporations to shift their focus toward recognizing the need to integrate the whole person, one who might need flexibility and respect around personal life challenges to experience better mental health---which will pay off with higher morale and higher profits! What great messages from a fantastic leader!

Book "Crazy as Usual": https://www.crazyasusual.com/
Website: https://donnacarlsoncxo.com/

17/03/2024

"Keep Your Ambitions Alive as You Juggle All of Your Responsibilities"

🎧New LeadingShe™ Podcast Episode Available with Lillian Mills, Dean at The University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. Listen Here: https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/24148033/keep-your-ambitions-alive-as-you-juggle-all-of-your-responsibilities

Dean Lillian Mills is the first woman female dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin, and is an internationally renowned expert in tax and accounting. Her responsibilities with the college include teaching, publishing, and serving the college locally and nationally. She urges career women to determine what they excel at, and pursue this, and says then the passion will follow. Dean Mills wishes she had volunteered to take on more responsibilities earlier in her career versus waiting to be asked. She advocates for herself and her accomplishments within her current position and asks to be considered for future opportunities. She says it's important to create a circle of advisors for ourselves, a “kitchen cabinet” of trusted people we can call to obtain excellent advice about important decisions and to encourage us. Dean Lillian Mills has learned to say ‘no’ to requests for which she does not have the time to devote and delaying these decisions has proven useful. What an inspiring leader with great wisdom for future leaders!

18/02/2024

"Follow Your Passion and Purpose and the Money Will Come"

🎧New LeadingShe™ Podcast Episode Available with Judith Mackey, Co-Owner of the Garden of the Gods Resort and Club. Listen Here: https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/2e6b20eb/follow-your-passion-and-purpose-and-the-money-will-come

Judy Mackey is a partner in five companies and an owner of Garden of the Gods Resort and Club in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her journey began in her 20s after a serious medical diagnosis as she healed through holistic Eastern medicine and her passion and purpose began. In this episode, she provides much advice about starting and growing businesses.

Judy credits her success to determination and ambition, focusing on vision and strategy while surrounding herself with excellent partners. She built relationships through listening closely to her clients and tapping into her intuition to meet and exceed their needs. Judy Mackey deals with business challenges by using meditation, journaling, tapping into forgiveness and gratitude and empowering herself. What an inspiring entrepreneur!

21/11/2023

"Put Your Big Girl Pants On and Let’s Go!"

🎧New LeadingShe™ Podcast Episode Available with Kelley O’Keeffe, MBA, Founder and CEO, Empowered Engagement LLC! Listen Here: https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/fe21f892/put-your-big-girl-pants-on-and-lets-go

As founder and CEO of Empowered Engagement, Kelley O’Keeffe is one of the youngest leaders we have hosted on LeadingShe. Having had a very successful 15-year career in sales with several large tech companies such as IBM, she is prepared to coach women toward success. An ambitious, high-energy, and hard-working leader, Kelley gives wonderful advice based upon her experience along with research data which allows women to become more strategic and tactical in their careers with a focus on sales and entrepreneurship. She recommends women use their gifts and talents to advance their careers and advises women to make sure they have advocates and sponsors in their companies. Kelley had humble beginnings which she overcame through sheer determination and the drive to succeed. She provides great networking tips to women in this episode and discusses different gender styles. Microaggressions, perfectionism, resilience----it’s all in the episode—Listen in!

27/10/2023

"I Know There Is No Such Thing as a Dream Too Big"

🎧New LeadingShe™ Podcast Episode Available with Joanie Bily, Chief Experience Officer, Employbridge 👉 https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/1d2e37ee/i-know-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-dream-too-big

Joanie Bily, Chief Experience Officer at EmployBridge, an accomplished executive with two of the world’s largest employment companies, wrote a Book: Dive in D.E.E.P.: Strategies to Advance Your Career, Find Balance, and Live Your Best Life in which she tells many stories and gives great advice about enjoying career success. A frequent contributor to many networks as an expert on the job market, she tells the story about how she began doing this by filling in for an executive at her company. She discovered her gift for speaking to the media and despite her fears….she said ‘Yes’! Ambitious and driven even as a child, she believes strongly in goal-setting each year along with reviewing how she did reaching the set goals at the end of the year. She says it is important to know who our influential ambassadors are, who are speaking positively about us when we are not in the room. Joanie says women have a hard time giving themselves kudos for their accomplishments but need to do so. What an inspiring leader Joanie Bily is!

Dive in D.E.E.P.: https://www.amazon.com/Dive-D-P-Strategies-Advance/dp/1956914846

Joanie's Website: https://joaniebily.com/

13/09/2023

🎧New LeadingShe™ Podcast Episode Available with Mary Miller, Chairman of the Board & Former CEO, JANCOA Janitorial Services, Inc.👉 https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/1fd10163/i-allowed-me-to-step-into-who-i-was-meant-to-be

"I Allowed Me to Step Into Who I Was Meant To Be"

In 2022 Mary Miller’s company Jancoa celebrated its 50th anniversary and today she and her husband Tony have achieved the succession plan of their dreams by turning the company leadership over to their children. Mary continues to chair the board and her daughter has stepped into Mary’s shoes as CEO. The company began with just two office workers and 63 part-time cleaning employees and today Jancoa has 85 percent of the cleaning market in Cincinnati with over 500 employees. Her early life was filled with financial and personal struggles yet she is highly positive and a born entrepreneur and learned to take big risks to achieve success in her company and have a great life. Part of her success came from her gift of being able to read, connect with and develop relationships with people.

To distinguish her company to employees from other companies, she and Tony created a culture of caring and developed a program called Dream Engineer to help her employees enjoy better lives. She wrote a book: Changing Direction: 10 Choices That Impact Your Dreams and plans to write another one soon. What a positive and inspiring leader Mary Miller is on this podcast!

02/08/2023

Molly North, President and CEO of Al Neyer is a fearless, driven leader and one of the very few women in the country heading a commercial real estate development company. She was our 10th guest on the LeadingShe podcast and an inspiring panelist on our discussion earlier this year titled 'Navigating in a Changing World as Woman Leader'.⁣
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Listen to her episode through the link in our bio to hear her advice on many topics that are helpful for aspiring and current woman leaders, including the topics of resiliency and determination! ⁣

01/07/2023

🎧New LeadingShe Podcast Episode Available with Kathy Boe, Founder of Boecore 👉 https://bit.ly/LeadingShe-Kathy-Boe

"You've Got This!"

Kathy Boe, founder of Boecore, Inc., is an award-winning entrepreneur, engineer, and leader who has worked in support of the Department of Defense for over 25 years. Having begun her career at Hughes Aircraft, she has enjoyed a long career in a very male-dominated industry having founded Boecore over 22 years ago. We discuss topics like confidence, facing fear, and crying in the workplace. Kathy donates her time to several initiatives including non-profit work, and is the Founder and President of her family foundation. She encourages women to consider careers in STEM fields. What an inspiring leader and entrepreneur Kathy Boe is!

02/06/2023

🎧New LeadingShe Podcast Episode Available with Sonita Lontoh 👉 https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/37c5e6f5/leaders-have-to-act-like-owners

"Leaders Have to Act Like Owners"

Sonita Lontoh has been an entrepreneur as well as an executive with several large companies including HP and Siemens, and serves on corporate boards. Her advice to women is to be patient and realize their career journeys are long and moves may not be linear. Sonita’s leadership style has changed over her career and she says that while she has always had a technology-focused approach, she has become more customer-focused. Sonita urges companies to truly integrate their female employee resource groups with more involvement by the company CEOs and the corporate boards which will lead to more opportunities for women.

10/05/2023

🎧New LeadingShe Podcast Episode Available with Kathy Bader Courtney 👉 http://ow.ly/fggq50Okg0R

"Don't Let Anyone Put You In A Box"

Kathy Courtney, is the COO of GreenState Credit Union , one of the largest credit unions in the country, and is a strong leader. During her long career, she worked with large financial institutions in big cities in the U.S. and internationally yet returned to her home state of Iowa to work with GreenState Credit Union. http://ow.ly/Cs5050Okg0S

Kathy talks about calling out gender bias treatment in a non-confrontational yet direct way. She recommends women take the next level up positions offered and though there may be fear, career growth is likely. After her husband’s serious health diagnosis, she reorganized her priorities placing more emphasis on family and not working quite as hard. Kathy says offering flexible work options to employees builds strong company loyalty. What a great LeadingShe episode and wonderful leader!

31/03/2023

🎧New LeadingShe Podcast Episode Available with D Sangeeta, Founder & CEO, Gotara - Women in STEM+ 👉 https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/39935e2f/sometimes-you-have-to-change-break-the-rules

"Sometimes You Have to Change (Break) the Rules"

D. Sangeeta is a PhD, and founder and CEO of gotara.com who started the company during the pandemic to help improve the gender gap in STEM positions for women. Sangeeta cites the statistics of women leaving STEM positions at twice the rate as men and in her work, she identifies reasons for this such as non-supportive managers, lack of opportunities, lack of recognition and lack of communication. The mission of Gotara is to offer career support and a global career network to women in STEM professions. Her 26-year corporate career included top executive positions Amazon, GE and Neilsen. Sangeeta admits to experiencing fear around taking on new positions yet she took the risk. She suggests women should risk accepting new positions and opportunities especially when someone is recommending them. She talks about being straightforward and vocal which has been a strength during her career. Sangeeta faced various gender bias and ethnic bias experiences during her career and has some great wisdom to share. Listen in, it’s a great podcast! www.gotara.com

22/03/2023

🎧New LeadingShe Podcast Episode Available with Gay Gaddis, CEO, Gay Gaddis, LLC 👉 https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/3112e2f3/find-the-personal-power-within-you

"Find the Personal Power Within You"

Gay Gaddis founded her company T3, an advertising agency, which she grew into the largest, woman-owned independent agency in the U.S. Her experiences are extraordinary as she relates the messages from her great book, Cowgirl Power, Kick Ass in Business and Life. She talks about the importance of tapping into our gut instincts when making decisions. Gay talks about how she survived and thrived after she lost her biggest client after she set a boundary with this client. She says she learned long ago to embrace criticism as a way to improve her work. Long-term employee loyalty was built at her company by beginning a unique and revolutionary approach to supporting employees who became parents. Her remedy for burnout was to change her environment and take breaks. Gay Gaddis, she’s a Cowgirl!

23/02/2023

🎧New LeadingShe Podcast Episode Available with Joyce Russell, President, Adecco Group US Foundation 👉 https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/229e8157/tell-stories-so-others-can-be-successful

"Tell Stories So Others Can Be Successful"

Joyce Russell served as President of Adecco, leading the largest business unit of Adecco Group North America, which is one of the largest employee staffing businesses in the world. She is energetic, positive and ambitious! Joyce tells many stories which she profiles in her book, Put a Cherry on Top: Generosity in Life & Leadership about going above and beyond in efforts to serve clients and the challenges of combining career and family. She talks about how we must become very good at hiring people and talk to their direct supervisors/managers as references. Joyce emphasizes the importance of preparation for presentations and setting priorities to achieve success. Self-care is important to her including getting enough sleep and exercising and recommends these ways to stay healthy and effective. Joyce says that confrontation and dealing with employees directly shows them we care. What a great book and wonderful guest Joyce Russell has been on LeadingShe!

09/02/2023

🎧New LeadingShe Podcast Episode Available with Elizabeth M. Tanner, Esq., Secretary of Commerce, State of Rhode Island. 👉 https://lnkd.in/ggdgWd5e

"Take On The Impossible Project"

As the state of Rhode Island’s first woman Secretary of Commerce, Liz Tanner is passionate about making it easy for businesses to deal with the government processes by using technology for better efficiency. She says that when she brought more work balance into her life it made her a better leader. Liz insists that we need to have our voices and call out a lack of fairness or bias when we see it or experience it if we expect things to change. What a great guest Liz Tanner has been on LeadingShe!

01/12/2022

🎧 New Podcast Episode Available with Julie Fasone-Holder 👉 https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/25eae2a9/networking-lives-within-everything-we-do

"Networking Lives Within Everything We Do"

Julie Fasone-Holder was a C-Suite executive with Dow Chemical and spends much of her time now providing executive coaching through her company JFHinsights. (jfhinsights.com) She says that women negotiate many things throughout their lives yet often they do not negotiate on behalf of themselves. Julie says men often view networking as a safety net for their career success while women view networking as a job. She says it is important for women to self-promote internally about how their contributions benefit their companies. Listen in to a fascinating episode!

20/10/2022

"Failure is Just a Learning Experience"

Episode 65 of the LeadingShe Podcast is available with Ann Hambly, CRE! Listen to Episode & Subscribe 👉https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/26ae8bb8/failure-is-just-a-learning-experience

Ann Hambly, the Founder, and CEO of 1st Service Solutions, Inc. took the risk 17 years ago to start her company with a pioneering idea and though there have been many ups and downs, she has weathered them. We talk about taking risks, not burning bridges, and raising children while developing our careers. Ann recommends that career women who are mothers be fully present to their kids when with them and fully present to their careers when there, not longing to be elsewhere. She has learned to pivot the direction of her business in response to changes in the market and economy. Ann and I discuss being resilient and not taking things personally. An eternal optimist, she recommends that we take our time and do much due diligence before we enter into business partnerships and consider giving up any part of the company we have built. What an insightful podcast guest Ann Hambly has been!

29/09/2022

"When It Needs Bold and Different leadership, You Will See More Women Chosen to Lead"

🎧Episode 64 now available with Colleen Birdnow Brown, Corporate Board Director, Former CEO & Fortune 500 Executive!

🔗Link to Listen: https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/2fe6f065/when-it-needs-bold-and-different-leadership-you-will-see-more-women-chosen-to-lead

Colleen Birdnow Brown has held many leadership positions with the companies Fisher Communications, Lee Enterprises, Gannett Company and American Apparel over her career and now serves on a number of corporate boards. She says often women are called upon during corporate crisis situations to bring bold leadership to challenges. Early in her career she learned when everyone on the team was successful, she and her organization were successful. Her leadership is characterized by collaboration and strong communication while she always guarded her reputation and that of her companies. Colleen is honest about many past failures yet through incredible resiliency she learned in early childhood, she did not focus on failures as she learned from them and made important changes.

09/09/2022

🎧New LeadingShe episode available! Episode 63 with Jill McIntosh, Senior Partner at Simpactful Consulting.

Listen to episode: https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/1cdfce10/if-you-dont-fail-you-are-not-trying-hard-enough

Jill McIntosh is a Senior Partner at Simpactful Consulting and was a corporate executive with Kroger for 16 years. Through her leadership with an executive women’s organization and attending a Catholic girl’s school, she has long believed that women should fully support each other. She has encouraged her three daughters to play sports and to be confident, find their voices as they advocate for themselves speaking the truth in respectful ways. Her leadership has been characterized by taking risks and risking failure. Jill believes corporations are benefiting by having more women on their boards in terms of diversity of experiences and opinions.

28/07/2022

For anyone who has achieved some level of success, what failures can you share that helped your fail forward? Let's discuss!

Quote Credit: Arianna Huffington

25/07/2022

🎙️New podcast episode available!

Enjoy Here: https://www.leadingshe.com/podcast/episode/2670d931/there-is-no-truth-to-men-outperforming-women

In this episode, hear from Coco Brown:
⚫ Founder and CEO of Athena Alliance
⚫ Discusses "loneliness at the top"
⚫ Created a women's dinner group which grew to 150+ members and led to Athena Alliance
⚫ Believes the # of women in C-suites, on corporate boards, and receive venture capital is still too low
⚫ Speaks to women investing in themselves during their careers
⚫ & More!

18/07/2022

Grab hold and believe in your greatness. Make it a great week!

30/06/2022

🎙️New podcast episode available!

Enjoy Here: http://ow.ly/SLsL50JL9ZK

In this episode, hear from Heather Ettinger:
⚫ Founder and CEO of her firm, Luma Wealth
⚫ Thrives in the male-dominated financial management industry
⚫ Guides women toward financial wellness with knowledge and insights
⚫ Says we need to take risks in our lives and pursue stretch opportunities
⚫ Is an ice-hockey player and says that choosing her husband Jeff was one of the best decisions of her life
⚫ & More!

21/06/2022

How are the behaviors you have today influencing how you'll be remembered?

10/06/2022

🎧🎉New Podcast Episode: https://bit.ly/LeadingSheJaniceEllig

Episode 6️⃣0️⃣ with Janice Ellig, CEO of Ellig Group is now available!

Janice Ellig is CEO of the Ellig group, known as "The Closer", she is one of the top recruiters in the country specializing in the placement of executive women in C-suites and on corporate boards.

She says that though there has been gender parity progress, it is still an issue at the top corporate levels and on corporate boards. Janice points out that statistics prove that better decision-making happens and that corporations are more successful when leadership and corporate boards are diverse.

There are some great messages from Janice in this episode as she talks about brand, persistence, confidence, and continually reinventing ourselves. She says we must take responsibility for having our voices heard and making sure our facts are correct otherwise it could affect our credibility.

What a great episode with Janice Ellig!

07/06/2022

to start off the week!

"Failure is the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."
-Henry Ford

What failures taught you lessons that allowed you to succeed the next time you tried? Drop them in the comments to motivate others!

24/05/2022

Episode 59 of the LeadingShe podcast is now available with Nicole Eckels, Co-Founder and CEO, Sapphire Group (Glasshouse Fragrances US and Circa Home)! 💃 Listen Here: https://bit.ly/LeadingShe_NicoleEckels

"Listen to Your Gut and Just Lean In and Do It!"

Nicole Eckels is a highly-focused and driven entrepreneur as Co-Founder and CEO at Sapphire Group and Glasshouse Fragrances. She moved to Australia in 2005 from New York City and when she could not find a good candle, she decided to start her business. In this episode she talks accepting that rejection is simply part of life and how being decisive is critical when leading in business. In the fickle world of retail and e-commerce, she continues to adjust the company’s vision and business model for success by being resilient to changes in the business. What a great conversation with Nicole Eckels!

18/05/2022

Final day to secure your tickets to the discussion!

Don't miss out on these two powerful panelists, Amy Spiller, President, Duke Energy Ohio and Kentucky, and Lisa Knutson, President, Scripps Networks The E.W. Scripps Company!

Tomorrow, May 19th via Zoom Webinar

8:30am-9:30am will be the facilitated discussion

9:30am-9:45am will be live Q&A from the attendees - make sure to get your Q&A in the chat discussion during the event so they can be addressed! Any questions there are not time for will be responded to and emailed out after the event.

🎫Secure your spot today: https://bit.ly/LeadingSheEventMay19

10/05/2022

The countdown is on for our upcoming discussion! Do you have your tickets? 🎟Click the link below to secure your spot!

Our topic for the discussion is Break the Bias, Claim Your Power, and Take Your Career to the Next Level! Sound like it could benefit you or someone you know? Share with your network!

Our panelists:
Teri Arvesu González, SVP of Social Impact & Sustainability, TelevisaUnivision
Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO & Chief Strategist, Quill Intelligence
Lisa Knutson, President, Scripps Networks, The E.W. Scripps Company
Amy Spiller, President, Duke Energy Corporation Ohio and Kentucky

Facilitated by Susan Branscome, Creator & Host of the LeadingShe podcast.

Thank you to our sponsors Glasshouse Fragrances , The E.W. Scripps Company, Donna Salyers Fabulous-Furs, and Duke Energy Corporation!

Join four leading women and the host of the LeadingShe Podcast in this thought-provoking virtual discussion on female empowerment topics.