This week Sheri and Olivia celebrate 10 years of LiveGirl by being interviewed by Heather Cabot.
Heather is a critically acclaimed author, award-winning veteran journalist, and former ABC News anchor. Author of bestselling Geek Girl Rising, she is currently writing her fourth book with Hopi journalist and FRONTLINE filmmaker, Patty Talahongva called Indian School Road.
Instagram @IndianSchoolRoad
This week Sheri and Olivia discuss embracing your quirks as you accelerate your career with Kate Pozeznik.
Kate is the CEO of Quirk. Quirk delivers Executive Resumes, LinkedIn Profiles, Career Consulting, and Leadership Team Branding services to accelerate the careers of executives and rising professionals.
Connect with her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kpozeznik/
As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!
Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
This week Sheri and Olivia discuss how to follow your passion and own your career with Lisa Mayer, CEO and Co-Founder of Boss Beauties.
Lisa Mayer is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and CEO / Co-Founder of Boss Beauties, a media and entertainment brand that inspires girls to be everything they want to be. Boss Beauties became the first female- founded, venture-backed digital collectible company, with original investors including Serena Ventures. Now, a selection of those digital collectibles will be featured in the company’s first book, Boss Beauty: Inspiration to Be Everything You Want – coming out on March 12, 2024.
Show notes:
Boss Beauty: Inspiration to Be Everything You Want
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Boss-Beauty/Lisa-Mayer/9781685553487
As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!
Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
This week Sheri and Olivia discuss following your passion with Community Reinvestment Officer at M&T Bank, Carolyn Gonzalez.
Carolyn Gonzalez has devoted most of her career to community and economic development in Connecticut and especially, her hometown, Bridgeport. Carolyn was ALSO a founding member of Groundwork Bridgeport and the Greater Bridgeport Latino Network in 2003.
As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!
Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
This week Sheri and Olivia sit down with two brilliant teachers who are advocating for an AP Women’s History course.
Kristen Kelly and Serene Williams have taught history for a combined 38 years. In addition, Kristen Kelly also presents annually at the National Conference for Social Studies, the American Historical Association, and the National Women’s Studies Association. Serene is also an independent historian who publishes articles about women’s political history. Both currently teach at Sacred Heart Prep in California. [Today- we also have a guest student- Hamsika, a sophomore at Mountain House High School in California.
https://19thnews.org/2023/09/ap-us-womens-history-course/
As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!
Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident!
This week we discuss female-founded companies with Carolyn Driscoll!
About Our Guest: Carolyn Driscoll is the Founder & CEO at UncommonGood, a cloud-based software solution for Nonprofits, Community Organizations, and Small Businesses. Carolyn launched the company after a 20-year career in both small businesses and scaling startups. In her free time, she travels, sails, gardens, and hikes with her dogs.
Learn more about UncommonGood: https://www.douncommongood.com/
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 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)
This week Sheri and Olivia have recorded a special podcast episode on mental health to tell you: “You’re not alone.”
These are some of the most recent national headlines:
“Children’s mental health is a national emergency”
Gender and race intersect with mental health disparities in local youth.
Eating disorders increase among teens during pandemic
Suicide attempts among adolescent girls surged more than 50% during pandemic, CDC says
Listen in to hear Sheri and Olivia’s thoughts on destigmatizing mental health and advice on coping with stress, anxiety.
Angela Scott is the Executive Director of Boston-based MEDIAGIRLS, a nonprofit whose mission is to teach girls and young women to become critical media consumers. She has been involved with MediaGirls for over four years, teaching girls to navigate social media, and seeing up close the deleterious effects on their self-esteem. We reached out after the recent WSJ expose, “Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show”. Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue, including contributing to anxiety, depression, and body image issues for 1 in 3 teen girls.
Listen to this episode to learn what parents and girls can do to curate a positive social media experience, including using social media for social good.
Renee Reyes is the Founder/CEO of The AloPeace Project, a Spokesmodel, and part-time Horticulturist. She is also the reigning Miss Stamford USA - proving that you don’t need hair to be beautiful. This beauty pageant winner is using her platform as a way to spread awareness about alopecia and to change today’s beauty standards for the better. She also was the recipient of the Miss Connecticut USA Community Service Award for her efforts in starting The AloPeace Project nonprofit dedicating to humanizing and empowering the conversation around alopecia.
Joan Kuhl is an author, speaker, and unabashed champion of girls leadership and advancing women in the workplace. She speaks internationally and consults with Fortune 100 companies and top 20 Business Schools as well as serves as a Board Member for the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute and Girls Inc.. Her expertise has been featured in the NY Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC Success Magazine and she is a regular contributor to ForbesWomen. Joan is the author of 3 books, including “Dig Your Heels In: Navigate Corporate BS And Build The Company You Deserve”. She earned her MBA from Rutgers University where she studied global business strategies in China and is the mother of two daughters.
Colleen Ammerman is the director of the Gender Initiative at Harvard Business School. She works with faculty leadership to support a research community and a platform for disseminating insights for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in organizations. She is also co-author of the book: Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work (a book for EVERYONE, not just women and gives actionable advice to be a change agent).
Dr. Charlene Alexander is the Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Oregon State University. Previously, she served as the associate provost for diversity and professor of counseling psychology at Ball State University for 20 years. Dr. Alexander’s research interests are in the areas of multicultural counseling, school counseling, and international psychology. She is the co-editor of the Handbook of Multicultural Education, currently in its 4th edition.
Shellye is the former CEO of MetricStream, which landed her as one of Silicon Valley’s first Black Female CEOs, and built the company from a struggling start-up to a global leader. She was named the second most influential African American in IT by Business Insider and has guest lectured at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and The Wharton School of Business.
