Michelle Cho has walked in our shoes. She was a woman working in technology making great money, when she made a change to spend time with her young son. At that time, she dabbled in the financial market where she ran into some challenges. She used her experience to fire up her game in the financial service industry to learn all she could about investing. Her heart then called her to help women in STEM learn how to successfully invest. However, our episode goes beyond financial capital to discuss how to also build your human and social capital. Success is investing against all three and Michelle is an expert. Listen in to see what your accounts look like in all three areas, all worth investing.

It’s election day in America, so instead of our usual episode, we chose to publish a brief episode encouraging voters and providing some tips on how to successfully vote in the Presidential election this year. You will hear encouragement to engage in the process and more information to help you feel safe voting in the 2020 American election. We did try to remain bipartisan and respect the right given to each person to make their own decision in their vote. We also do encourage women to make their own informed decision to vote and consider running for local elections.

For more information, contact your local voting location and officials.

Juman Doleh-Alomary is a security trailblazer and leader in technology. She has also learned some success tips along the way that show how you can benefit from the path of MOST resistance. Get her personal and professional lessons from her own career experience in security. She also has gained a lot that shines through from her vast volunteer experience on boards and with organizations. She has experience from two different cultures from the auto industry and education verticals.  We touch on the value of mentors and collaboration. Listen to get her biggest secret to success.

Alana Karen shares her success secrets to help women in technology from her robust career at Google and leadership experience. Learn how you can own your awesome with some of her success secrets from her journey in technology and from her recent interview research for her book Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay. You will leave reflecting on how to strengthen your resilience muscle, the importance of marketing yourself for the amazing success you have already had, and how to find support in difficult moments so you stay in tech. The best part is Alana sharing how to own your awesome! Listen to this episode for a great sample of questions you can ask yourself to know when and what you might want to change in your career plan.

Tamara Shoemaker brings both her passion for cyber security and for living her best life to this episode. In her role as the Director for the Center for Cyber Security & Intelligence Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and President of the Michigan Midwest Regional Chapter of CISSE (MCISSE), she is committed to helping address the need for cyber security professionals. She is a connector of private, public, and educational institutions to help accomplish her mission. She met her own goals of getting into a security career from an untraditional background, and now she has learned many success tips throughout her leadership and influence in this space. Listen as we talk about mentoring, setting goals, and most of all why we must take the scary out of cyber. One great resource we discuss is the Cyber Patriot program where Tamara is leading the way for Michigan! They are a great resource for K-12 kids, so their website is a great resource: www.micyberpatriot.com.

Are you an employee or are you a brand? How can you leverage your amazing accomplishments to create a brand? Join the ‘career rehab’ expert, author, speaker, and tech diva Kanika Tolver on this episode to learn how to create a successful brand. We discuss success secrets on how to grow your career in technology or how to transition into the field. It’s all about going above and beyond to put your knowledge and expertise out there in different formats. In the conversation, we start with basic advice on job searching, resumes, and LinkedIn. We continue the great conversation around building a network and creating a complimentary marketing strategy. Learn usable tips on how to level up and turn any anxiety into accomplishments.

There is so much we can learn from those that have walked before us. Gladys Kong has a career background of engineering, a heart for founding companies and has been the CEO of two companies in her career. She has lots to share about how to build an open culture for all types of diverse talent and how individuals can own their success. She really believes that you can do anything you put your mind to. She talks about how an open mind can help attract top talent and more tips on how to be intentional about diversity. Also, check out her company UberMedia over at UberMedia.com to see how they make mobile data actionable with thoughtfully-built technology and a deep foundation in data science.

It should be top of mind to be intentional about how to attract and retain diverse talent in the tech industry. Deja Adams brings her expertise in partnerships that she has seen first hand in her career. She shares her experience from her work at the Flatiron school with easy ways employers can improve their hiring practices to increase diversity. Clearly, partnerships with organizations, like Flatiron, which provide bootcamps, training programs, and tech focused trade programs is one way to create this change. In addition, there are some great tips packed in this episode around employers tapping into diverse candidate pools, improving job descriptions, and various hiring strategies that can improve traditional hiring systems. Leave understanding how to remove limits within your company and keep the needle moving in system improvement.

This episode is for every single person that is trying to influence or create a diverse, inclusive culture. Learn from an expert who will take us to the intersection of practice and research around gender equity. Join Siri Chilazi for an engaging conversation on the effectiveness of unconscious bias training, systemic change, microsponsorship, and goals, all of which are important aspects of understanding real change. Discover the power of examining the data and driving decisions in D&I like the rest of the business. Leave with some ways you can take action today to help drive gender diversity.

Are you considering or interested in Data Science? Then learn the steps to become one in this episode with Simran Yadav. She will use her experience as a Masters student in this space to give you practical tips on how to get into the field. Although these are targeted tips, they include universal lessons on lifelong learning and having an open mind.

Neha Kumar is passionate about growing with intention and scaling for impact. This drives her philosophy for building teams while building products. She takes her 10 years experience in the tech and startup space to share success tips on team building and culture. She will make you think about how your culture really shows up and focuses on how that can help drive company and professional success.

Are you looking for some lessons on how to be an inspirational leader? Do you want to talk about leading through challenging times? Learn from the wisdom of Karlin Sloan, CEO at Sloan Group International, with multiple books and even a new app on leadership. She talks about the power of positivity, defines triple bottom line measures, and speaks to making impact. Leave with a usable exercise that can help move people from a mindset of complaining to one of requesting actionable change. Make sure to grab Karlin’s new book ‘Inspiring Leadership for Uncertain Times” on Amazon: https://bit.ly/InspiringKarlin.

Imagine the perspective you gain from working across customers, borders, and cultures in a highly consultative leadership role. Chitra Madhwacharyula, a Customer Success and Consulting Leader with close to 20 years of global customer experience, shares the power of perspective on this episode with stories from her business travels. Learn from professional and personal experience on how to hit the ground running and ultimately how to embrace diversity on a whole new level.

Janelle Lynnae shares her success secret on how women in tech can break through barriers and take their confidence to the next level. She takes her passion for discovering limiting beliefs and shares several actionable steps our listeners can take today to start their journey. With a journaling exercise, tips on a morning ritual, and by sharing her own journey, she levels up your mindset so you leave the episode more confident than when you arrived.

Neha Misra comes from a tech background, but packs tons of heat in the area of financial literacy in this episode. She is the CEO of the Fit Lit Project, so she is constantly working to increase financial literacy in this community. In uncertain times, financial literacy becomes even more important and women statically lack in this area. With her baby steps to financial literacy and mindset method that will get you track, this is a must listen to get you in the hot seat of your finances.