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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Johnathan Grzybowski: Assess Your Time
On this episode, we spend time with a startup ally who shares his best success secrets with our tech divas. Johnathan Grzybowski is the co-founder of Penji, an online subscription platform with on-demand access for designers. From his startup experience, he has many lessons to share with the audience. He shares tips on how to assess your time to help find your own success and even some tech tool hacks. He is on a mission to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs so he is ready to share best practices to make you 1% better.
Lisa Anderson: Finding Your Voice
By day Lisa Anderson is a Chief Human Resources Officer for a technology company, but she also has her own passion as a leadership and career coach for Positively in Pursuit. She sees first hand the need for women to rise in organizations, so she helps prepare women to lead. She helps them with gaining more visibility as well as helping them build their leadership brand. On this podcast, we talk about this and things like credibility, building your brand inside and outside the company, and most of all finding your voice. Learn tips on how to build your craft and get 1% better on this episode.
Jennifer Chapman: Focus on What you Control
Jennifer Chapman is a recovering workaholic who was known as a high achiever always able to get things done. She left the corporate hustle to evolve into an expert leadership coach focusing on STEM managers and leaders. Her wisdom really helps women in tech accelerate their success, if you simply apply a few basic methods. The first success secret is to actually manage your manager and set up success guidelines that you believe in. We talk more in depth on boundaries and leading with empathy. Jennifer also shares her most valuable advice on being present and making sure you focus on what you can control. Don’t miss this great episode as we celebrate Women’s Month. Make sure to contact her today for your own Emotional Intelligence Evaluation to understand what could be getting in the way of your career: https://ambitionleadership.com/
Hang Black: Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
How do you overcome adversity and end up on top? Embrace your unique identity! Join us as we spend time with Hang Black, a Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, seasoned technology executive, and author of the new book, Embrace your Edge. We go into the real meaning of minority and how cognitive diversity is really what unlocks innovation. She shares her own method on how to Reflect, Recalibrate, and Reset in order to achieve your definition of success. Then, she leaves us with a C-L-E-A-R path to move forward where we can be unapologetically ambitious. Listen in and celebrate International Women’s Day with Tech Diva Success. New episodes released Tuesdays. Visit us online at TechDivaSuccess.com for more links from this episode.
Ashley Armstrong: Hidden Rules of Success
Want to talk about skiing, million dollar amazon revenue, and the secrets of a mom hustler? Then, you are in the right place as we spend time with The Hidden Rules Expert, E-Commerce Consultant and Best Selling Author, Ashley Armstrong. She grew her own career with her business while also building up a community of women during her 14 years in Cabo San Lucas Mexico, she learned a variety of success secrets she shares. You will also be surprised how much we can learn from skiing as well. Don’t miss this episode where we talk about Visual Selling, living your best life, growing Teams, and supporting Women.
Sabrina Shafer: Transform Into Yourself
Get hit with a sunshine tornado in this Tech Diva Success episode. Sabrina Shafer is the CEO for Transformation Continuum, a consulting firm focused on digital enablement, that can help organizations empower and revolutionize corporate cultures through education. Her consulting firm works to understand the enablement needs of their customers to transform their business so she knows what it takes to be a tech diva. Ironically, the transformations we make in our business mirror the ongoing transformation within ourselves. When you transform into yourself, it simply means that you are constantly looking at how you can bring your strengths into your career journey. Just like technology, you are never quite done evolving. We are all constantly evolving as leaders and as people to become our best selves. Listen in on stories and inspiration to become your best self on this episode. New episodes released Tuesdays. Visit us online at TechDivaSuccess.com for more links from this episode. Check out more about Transformation Continuum here: https://transformationcontinuum.com/
Dr Sreyoshi Bhaduri: The Data Behind Pay Equity
Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri is passionate about people research and analytics understanding how things like organizational structure, behavior, talent, talent acquisition, hiring, terminations, learning, development, and culture are related to the life cycle of employees at organizations. Dr. Bhaduri currently leads Global People Research & Analytics at McGraw-Hill, where her work betters inclusion in the workforce, and addresses global challenges using innovative research methods, data-backed and researched informed strategy and empathetic leadership. Sreyoshi also serves as Vice President at Society of Women Engineers - New York. In this episode, we discuss the pay gap in detail and ways organizations and individuals can elevate the conversation so we can hopefully improve pay equality in the world. We discuss solutions that can help narrow the pay gap over time.