Sarah Epting: Journey from Nonprofit to Tech
Tech divas come from all different backgrounds with all kinds of experience. For Sarah Epting, it may have began as a love for offset printing or helping her friends hook up internet in the dorm, but her story goes beyond that. Sarah took her own experience working at a nonprofit and establishing systems to being a founder. She owned her skills and wasn't afraid to try things. Just a few of the many tips you will hear as she shares wisdom from her career journey. You will leave ready to take action, keep going, and ready to celebrate the community of women in tech.
Chelle Johnson: Positive Intelligence for Tech Divas
Many women in tech have that moment where they feel like they are not good enough or question if they are up to the challenge. By listening to our soul inspired wisdom, we can not just reignite our flame, but burn brighter than ever before. Listen to this podcast with Chelle Johnson, career resilience strategist, as we talk about ways to live a more lucrative life. Chelle breaks down a framework based on the work and book Positive Intelligence. Work out your mental fitness and tune in. You will leave with some easy ways to change your mindset and reflect on what is speaking to you.
Mike Ungar: Perfect your Personal Strategic Plan
Building a personal strategic plan is one way you can reach your full potential. Looking 3, 5, or even 10 years out, it can help to know what success looks like in many aspects of your life. We sit with business coach Mike Ungar to discuss purpose, vision, and mission. It's a great time to reflect on your own journey and mentally map your own strategic plan. Join us for a great conversation with an ally for tech divas.
Genein Letford: YOU are a unique gem
What do creativity and culture have in common? You will leave this insightful conversation with Genein with plenty of intersections and gems that will help you unlock the biggest gem -- YOU! Join as we sit with Genein Letford, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of CAFFE Strategies, and enjoy her perspectives on sustainable organizational equity and inclusion. Let's talk about innovation and how all her work applies to women in tech. She is a creative force and shares her vision that can make us all better. Join us for the conversation and let's embrace our uniqueness in a new way together.
Cathy Derksen: Permission to Dream Big
In the fast paced world of technology, it can be hard to stop. Stop to think about the life you are creating. Are you dreaming big and expanding what is possible for you? We talk with Cathy Derksen about giving yourself that permission to expand your possibilities. She brings her passion for STEM, experience in her own career, and her financial advisor background to the table. She shares her own career journey to inspire you to find your joy in life and at work. We dig deep so join the conversation with a listen. We celebrate all Tech Divas and hope you are enjoying our community here to encourage and help more women find success in technology.
Ansonia Gibbs: Secrets of Speech Crafting
Ansonia Gibbs has spent years in the public school space and has a passion for speaking. It is one thing to talk to friends, but in business we want to do more than talk to communicate. We need to be more prepared to speak to all the people in the room with all the tools you have available to you. Ansonia is bringing the tech divas a wealth of information around presenting that will help you own the room in any situation. Tune in for tips to move from presenter to speaker, best practices for your presentation, unlocking the power of storytelling, and additional speech preparation tips.
Margaux Miller: Tech is Awesome! Join the fun!
What does designing wine cellars and having super human hearing have to do with a career in tech? EVERYTHING! Join this podcast episode with Margaux Miller, now serving as the Head of Community for TopTal as we talk about all the reasons why a career in technology is the best. We discuss the vast amount of opportunity in tech and how it is a great place for women and all kinds of diverse thought. We tie that to innovation and even the flexibility of working in the world today. Margaux and our host, Nicole, have shared the stage a few times at Women Tech Net Global Conference, so it is a lovely conversation.
Divya Vellanki: Share Your Story
All it can take is one breakthrough moment. In this episode, we sit with Divya Vellanki, App Developer at VMware to learn about her realization. She shares her story to motivate other women in tech to share their own. She speaks of her mindset shift from successful student into her career. Learn how she shifted from being shy to share her wins and losses to being more bold to speak to these. You will also see the role that the Diversity and Inclusion community can do to raise you up and bring you the additional perspectives on life we can all use to get 1% better. We talk about finding your passion, growing from sharing, and most of all why it is great to network with other women in tech to share your story. You never know who you will impact!
Tammy Yang: Moving Mountains
Tammy Yang is a leader that will move mountains for her customers and her teams. Tammy brings her leadership lessons from a variety of backgrounds into the show. Not only did she serve in the United States Military and graduated from the naval academy, but she went on to lead in the contractor space. Her time spent blazing trails in male dominated fields proves that you can do anything you put your mind to. She takes the combination of lessons learned throughout her career into her new role as SVP of delivery for Compass Data Centers and shares that with our Tech Divas on this episode. Don’t miss out on her wisdom and perspective coming out of the pandemic during this wonderful conversation.
Jack Canfield: Set Goals, Accept Feedback, Take Action
Tech Diva Success is on a mission to spark tech diva success for women in technology. This podcast is part 2 with Jack Canfield is America’s #1 Success Coach, co creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and leader of a training company sharing these proven success principles. In this episode, we go beyond fundamentals and talk about the importance of setting goals. The most successful people set goals that are SMART. Then, we talk about the power of feedback and asking for what you want. The strongest message in this episode is taking action. This is a timeless episode and provides key reminders that can make you 1% better everyday with each ACTION you take towards your goals.
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Jack Canfield: ERO and The Law of Attraction
Tech Diva Success is on a mission to spark tech diva success. For our Chief Tech Diva, this entire journey began with the book The Success Principles by Jack Canfield. Jack Canfield is America’s #1 Success Coach, co creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and leads a training company sharing these proven success principles. These are the foundation of the Tech Diva Success Collection, so this is a breakthrough podcast where Jack shares with the Tech Divas how to own your fire, decide what you want, and leverage the law of attraction. Tune in for part 1 of this engaging and life changing interview with Jack. Make sure you subscribe to catch Part 2 or search our library once released.
Jillian Michaels: Trust the Process
Jillian Michaels is a well known fitness coach who has transformed many lives through shows like Biggest Loser and her own fitness app. She has not only helped millions of people on their fitness journey, but has her own experience finding success in the field. Now, the Tech Divas get to benefit from her experience as we work on our ‘career fitness’. Many of the concepts popular in her traction in the fitness space can apply to our career journey. Tune in as we talk about her perspective on finding your why, working through a career plateau, and leave with her success secrets. Leave with her advice on trusting the process and so much more in this fun conversation.
John Deel: Increase your Impact and Income
Change is constant, but the pandemic has caused even more change than we can imagine for businesses and our personal lives. Not only has John Deel served as a CIO, he has also helped thousands of companies with their own change management. Change is in his DNA and he even helps others become practitioners. He shares his insight on business and technology with a lens on how tech divas can be on the next level. He drops a top ten list and it will leave you thinking about how you can increase your impact and your income.
Gabrielle Crichlow: Lessons From In Person to Online
The global COVID pandemic has brought significant change to the world of technology, but has touched every part of our lives. For Gabrielle, her tutoring business had a soaring demand with in home school. She quickly had to adjust from an in home service to a virtual service. She learned so many lessons along the way. She shares her wisdom of moving from in person to virtual during the toughest year so far. She handled everything from technology to virtual time cards. Listen in as we discuss her own lessons learned from leading her own tutoring company through these changing times.
Katherine McCord: Hire the Person, not their wrapper
We all know that discrimination runs rampant in the application process, right? That is why we need both mindset and technology to help eliminate bias in the workplace. Katherine McCord is a tech diva leading change in the hiring space with her wisdom and as a leader for an application aimed to improve and eliminate bias in hiring. We discuss trends in diversity hiring and best practices when you are looking for a job. Tune in as we discuss topics like branding and networking. Get out of your comfort zone and tune in to get 1% better.
Alicia Thorp: Close your mental tabs
Mindset matters. Simply being more present and aware can really change your life. In our conversation with Alicia Thorp, a mindset coach, she shares how to have a rich experience in life. When we live in this way, we can release anxiety, guilt, and live in alignment. This fundamental change will help us all become successful tech divas. Think about what you do when you first wake up in the morning or how you multitask in life. Sometimes when you try to do everything, you do nothing. Tune in for advice on how to care for yourself so you can take care of others and own your career.
Philip Topham: Bringing Tomorrow’s Future Today
In this Information Age, there is no lack of browsing and great ideas that exist. We learn how to get on an information diet on this episode. Philip Topham is the Savvy Founder with decades of experience in Silicon Valley. Now, he helps those with great ideas perfect their pitch and round out their business idea. In this episode, we talk about an information diet, startups, and how to best build your net worth. Learn more about his consume, digest, and reflect model and more from our conversation.
Kelly Edwards: Today is a Gift
Kelly Edwards started her first business in 2006 and learned many things in that process. She took some time to pursue her passion for social work for many years and after the pandemic she is back! Now, she celebrates fellow entrepreneurs with The Business Shower Events intended to motivate. On this episode, she shares her latest success secrets with our tech divas around building systems and manifestation. Don’t miss this episode with Kelly where we are reminded that today really is a gift and we are happy you have the gift of hearing from Kelly’s life and business success.
Simone Knego: Believe in Yourself
Sometimes we just need a reminder that the little things you do in life can have a big impact. Simone Knego is a best selling author that shares her life stories and enjoys the human connection. We connect to discuss some of her life lessons, stories, and inspiration she got being raised by a strong woman and now as she has six kids herself. Listen and leave with ways you can improve areas like self love and mindset while finding YOUR success.