This week we break the glass ceiling with Shaz Kahng!

About Our Guest: Shaz Kahng is a visionary leader and inventive thinker who is passionate about consumer-focused businesses. Shaz brings a wealth of experience running companies and businesses such as Gymboree, Lucy Activewear, Nike, and working with brands like Staples, Carters, Sephora, Tiffany, Levi Strauss, Macy's, Quaker Oats, Kraft, and P&G. She currently serves on the public corporate board for GoPro & is an advisor to PE and VC backed businesses and is on the Investor Advisory Council of AVG Funds, a venture capital firm. Shaz is also the writer of two novels in her Ceiling Smashers series. Shaz graduated from Cornell and Wharton and is the mother of twin girls.

Learn more about her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shazkahng/

Join us on this week as we return for episode 6 and discuss the importance of electing women to office with women’s leadership advocate and executive director of the Yale campaign school, Patti Russo!

About Our Guest: Patricia Russo is a nationally recognized leader focused on improving the quality of life for women in the United States. For over thirty-five years she has held numerous leadership positions in public, private, and non-profit organizations centered on women’s rights. She has also held leadership positions on federal, state, and local political campaigns. Currently, Patti serves as Executive Director of The Campaign School at Yale University, a non-partisan training program dedicated to increasing the number of women in elected office. Patti also speaks extensively on women’s leadership at both the national and international levels.

Learn more: https://tcsyale.org/

Join us on earth day as we return for episode 5 and discuss advocating for climate justice with Diana Kapp!

About Our Guest: Diana Kapp is a journalist and author with an MBA from Stanford who has written about education and entrepreneurism for most of the major media outlets (NYT, WashPo, WSJ, ELLE, Marie Claire -you name it). She has also published two novels: Girls Who Run the World and her most recent Girls Who Green The World, published just in time for Earth Day. Diana lives in San Francisco.

Nov. 30, 2021: Four students were killed, seven injured, and hundreds terrorized at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit, Michigan when a 15-year-old gunman entered with a weapon he found at home.

This week, we sat down with Karen D. McDonald, Oakland County Prosecutor, and discuss how she sparked a national conversation on gun accountability when she pressed unprecedented charges that she “felt in her gut was right”. Known as a "creative, unsparing prosecutor, crusading for justice,” McDonald provides a masterclass in leading with compassion.

McDonald charged Crumbley’s parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, after evidence emerged that they had supplied the boy his weapon while ignoring a litany of warning signs about his dangerous state of mind.

Join us this week as we return for Season 4 and discuss paying it forward with Illana Raia!

About Our Guest: Recently named one the first 250 entrepreneurs on the Forbes Next 1000 List, Illana Raia is the founder and CEO of Être - a mentorship platform for girls. Believing that mentors matter early, Illana brings girls directly into companies they choose (Spotify, Google, YouTube, NYSE…) to meet female leaders face to face.
Illana is a member of the International Space Station National Lab Education Subcommittee, serves on the National Girls’ Collaborative Champions Board, and has authored 60+ articles for HuffPost, Ms. Magazine and Thrive Global. Her award-winning book Être: Girls, Who Do You Want To Be? was released on Day of the Girl 2019, featuring wisdom from 40 luminary women like Arianna Huffington, Debra Messing and Reshma Saujani alongside quotes from 50 girls.
Prior to launching Être in 2016, Illana was a corporate attorney at Skadden Arps in NYC and a guest lecturer at Columbia University. She graduated from Smith College and the University of Chicago Law School, and remains unapologetically nerdy.

Pre-Order The Epic Mentor Guide: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Epic-Mentor-Guide/Illana-Raia/9781637630495

Learn more about Etre Girls: www.etregirls.com

Join us this week as we return for Season 4 and discuss leading change with Uma Amuluru.

Join us this week as we return for Season 4 and discuss ending period poverty with CT State Representative Kate Farrar and some inspiring Gen Z activists!

Our discomfort in discussing periods prevents us from having the critical and necessary conversation about period poverty. In the United States, 1 in 4 menstruators is unable to afford an adequate supply of period products required for their health due to the burden of expense. The cost of these products makes them inaccessible for many individuals who are low income, forcing them to substitute tampons or pads for unsafe and unhygienic alternatives.

Featuring Kate Farrar: CT State Representative Kate Farrar was elected in November 2020 to represent the 20th District in West Hartford, CT. Kate has over 20 years’ experience as a non-profit advocate and active community volunteer, championing working families and women and girls. She has also worked to pass laws ensuring equity in healthcare, education, and the workplace. Kate has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Connecticut and a master's in public administration from Syracuse University.

Also - Gen Z activists: Asija Qyteza (UConn) and Joy Ren (Wilton HS)