How Women Inspire: Invest, Lead, Give
How Women Inspire: Invest, Lead, Give sets out to bring the voices of empowered and inspiring women forward to share their stories of stepping into leadership positions. We aspire to share what is possible and encourage more women to leap, striving for these board and c-suite positions themselves to change the path towards a more inclusive future. This podcast will share stories on how women lead and how their leadership opens the doors for the greater value of opportunities for others. By listening to this podcast, listeners will feel empowered to level up themselves or invest in women-led and women-founded companies to change the world of business. Find out more about How Women Inspire at https://www.howwomenlead.com/
Episodes
142 episodes
Unlocking Barriers to Cancer Screening and Care with Vinona Bhatia
Women’s health continues to be an important issue for many of us, and more and more medical technoplogy startups are getting on board with turning their attention to women’s health issues across the globe. Dr. Vinona Bhatia, a trailblazer in me...
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Season 1
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Episode 143
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20:52
Using Your Business as a Force for Good with Coco Sellman
Growing a business is no easy feat, but here at How Women Lead, we have the pleasure of knowing many women who are leading high-growth companies. Their difference? The companies are not only high-growth, but high-impact, aligning their business...
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Season 1
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Episode 142
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22:48
Leveraging Entrepreneurship to Drive Positive Change in Latino Communities with Marisela Barbosa
If anyone knows about the importance of grit and determination, it’s immigrants. Hispanic people are the fastest growing worker group in the US, and young Hispanic people attending college and universities are truly the workforce of tomorrow. D...
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Episode 141
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21:50
Overcoming Barriers with Confidence, Resilience, and Determination with Deborah Smith
Even if we think our career is on a straight path, life has a funny way of presenting us with unexpected opportunities and changing our trajectories. Deborah Smith knows this firsthand, having moved around in the financial industry and taken al...
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Episode 140
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22:56
Balancing Innovation and Responsibility with Jessica Nall
As technology advances quickly, it can be hard for regulation to keep up with innovation. So what are developing technology companies to do when regulations are so vague, and standards are yet to be developed? One answer is to work on self-regu...
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Episode 139
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31:35
Mentorship, Resilience, and the Power of Relationships with Shannon Nash
One of the most powerful tools you can have as you navigate your career is a well-rounded network. The relationships you build with mentors and colleagues have a massive effect on your trajectory, and few know this better than Shannon Nash. Sha...
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Season 1
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Episode 138
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36:40
Unlocking the Wealth and Influence of Women with Mandy Bynum
There has been a significant increase in women-led venture firms, going from 12 in 2010 to nearly 300 in 2020, emphasizing the potential for women to manage $30 trillion in wealth by 2030. And despite women-founded companies outperforming their...
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Season 1
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Episode 137
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30:52
Leaving Normal and Embracing Change with Dr. Keera Godfrey
Everyone has a different path and purpose in life, and those on the entrepreneurship journey often feel it most. But fighting loneliness by building community with and supporting other women and women entrepreneurs leads to incredible collabora...
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Season 1
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Episode 136
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29:33
Leveraging Venture Investing for Impact with Gaby Darbyshire
Women currently own 52% of wealth but receive only 2% of venture funding, despite returning 34% more to investors. It’s our mission here at How Women Lead to lift each other up in every way we can, including funding women startups and business ...
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Season 1
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Episode 135
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32:16
Investing in Women CEOs with Patricia Lizarraga
Women CEOs are incredible - they have to be to get to the top - so it only makes sense that their companies outperform others in the stock market. So why aren’t more people actively investing in women? Patricia Lizarraga is here today to...
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Season 1
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Episode 134
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27:29
Do Good While Doing Well with Marcia Dawood
The importance of getting more women involved in venture and angel investing cannot be understated. As more women earn more money, the value of getting women seats at the table and in positions that decide what their money is being used for gro...
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Season 1
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Episode 133
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29:45
Designing Human-Centered AI with Ewa Ding
It feels like AI has taken over the world since Open AI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022. The widespread use of large language models, however, has shown a great deal of bias and misinformation, in addition to being less than intuitive. So h...
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Season 1
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Episode 132
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26:42
Embracing Unabashed Visibility as Women Leaders [Credo #4]
Women’s voices have been and continue to be culturally dismissed and discouraged. Women are very rarely quoted in science and financial journals, as well as make up only about 25% of all of the people who are quoted as experts in the news media...
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Season 1
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Episode 131
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18:46
Amplifying Women’s Voices to Reshape the Future [Credo #3]
Every woman has an instance in her childhood where her voice was ignored. Maybe she was told to be seen and not heard, maybe she was looked over in class to speak, or maybe she was told to take up less space. This cultural bias against women’s ...
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Episode 130
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14:46
The Power of Making Introductions and Saying Yes [Credo #2]
“Deals are made on the golf course.” “Your network is your net worth.” How often have we women heard these phrases throughout our lives, only to be scolded or warned against doing these same things that men are encouraged to do? It’s time for u...
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Season 1
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Episode 129
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13:47
Fierce Advocacy: Lifting Women Up and Transforming Work Culture [Credo #1]
In a world where women leaders are still facing immense challenges and criticism, our role as advocates for each other has never been more important. Too often, we've seen women tear each other down, rather than lifting each other up. But when ...
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Season 1
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Episode 128
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18:04
Unlocking the Power of Latina Investors with Emma Rodriguez-Ayala
The workforce in the US is more diverse than ever. And with a large part of the educated workforce being made up of Latina women, strategies and ideas around investments are shifting. Emma Rodriguez-Ayala is here today to talk about how investo...
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Season 1
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Episode 127
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29:23
Elevating Latina Voices with Marilyn Alverio
While women in general are underrepresented in leadership roles and corporate America, those least represented are Latina women. Despite being one of the largest sections of the workforce, Latina women make the least money of any demographic in...
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Season 1
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Episode 126
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30:16
Hot Flashes! Investing In Her Wellness with Ariane Tom
Women-led venture firms grew from 12 in 2010 to over 300 in 2020, representing new opportunities for women in leadership and innovation. As the first generation of women with decades of work experience and control of 50% of wealth, it’s up to u...
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Season 1
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Episode 125
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26:56
Intersectional Reproductive Justice with Kwajelyn Jackson
As we mark two years since the Dobbs decision which overturned Roe v. Wade, highlighting inequality in healthcare is more important than ever. Limiting access to essential reproductive care disproportionatelty affects women of color, non-Englis...
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Season 1
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Episode 124
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39:33
Transforming Communities through Visionary Leadership with Aja Brown
Local politics is often regarded as the most important level of government. It is where decisions are made that affect you and those in your community directly and daily, and where people come together to improve where they live. Aja Brown beca...
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Season 1
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Episode 123
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33:35
Building an Inclusive Culture for High Performance with Nancy Geenen [Replay]
Having diverse perspectives in your workplace is good not only for productivity and output, but also for creating a comfortable environment where all people can do their best work. In recent years, however, we have seen shifts on diversity, equ...
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Season 1
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Episode 122
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27:25
Venture Voices: Women Leading Change in Startups and Capital with Winsome Kirton and Tatijana Janko
As women-founded companies receive only 2% of venture funding year after year, it’s more important than ever for women founders and women venture capitalists to band together to reshape what it means to be an investor and an entrepreneur. Winso...
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Season 1
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Episode 121
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30:43
Inspiring and Funding Native American Entrepreneurship with Betsy Fore
In the world of founders and business owners, you’ll find many people who start more than one company. You’ll be hard-pressed, however, to find someone who has not only started multiple successful companies and a venture fund, but imbues all of...
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Season 1
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Episode 120
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24:58
The Future is Female: Investing with Purpose and Power with Barbara Iyayi
Women control 52% of wealth in the United States. Despite that, less than 5% of women who can invest in venture capital actually do so. Venture capital is often portrayed as an avenue of wealth for the “bros” but if we come together as women, o...
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Season 1
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Episode 119
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31:44