Breaking Glass

Jeffery started his career in human resources and sales but pivoted when he realized that if he was not advocating for women’s issues at work, then he was not shaping the world that his daughter would inherit. Since then, Jeffery has built yWomen, a consulting firm with deep expertise on creating space at the table for women in corporate America. He addresses questions of his white male privilege...

Carol Fishman Cohen is an expert on helping mid-career professionals - the vast majority of whom are women - relaunch their careers after extended breaks. The global pandemic and its crippling impact on the female workforce has made Carol's expertise especially valuable to women. Carol’s story starts more than two decades ago when she stepped out of a successful finance career to raise her ch...

Suzi Weiss-Fischmann's parents were Holocaust survivors and her country of birth was overrun by the oppressive communist party of the 1960s. There was nothing easy about her origin story. Suzi fled Hungary as a child and capitalized on the American Dream to become co-founder of one of the largest beauty corporations in the world, OPI. Having built a billion dollar company, Suzi reflects on a...

Tena Clark has never been one to question her own integrity. A songwriter and producer with one of the most impressive careers in the music industry, Tena's story starts in rural Mississippi where she embraced her own sexual identity and defied tradition, her family, and gender boundaries to pursue a career as a female drummer and live her most authentic life. In this episode we explore the m...

Ifrah Ahmed's childhood was fraught with violence. There were no educational opportunities for young girls, there was only survival. Against this backdrop of instability, Ifrah was one of hundreds of millions of girls worldwide who endured female genital mutilation (FGM). She was a teen when she fled the country alone and resettled as a refugee in Ireland. Connected with medical professionals...

Robert Egnell is an unassuming feminist. Vice-Chancellor of the Swedish Defence University, Robert is internationally renowned for his expertise in women in combat and gender in the military. Based in Sweden, he shares his perspective on gender neutral conscription, the implications of integrating women into the armed forces, as well as the complex relationship between strength, masculinity, and g...

A decade ago, Erin Loos Cutraro founded She Should Run, a nonpartisan nonprofit encouraging women from all walks of life to run for public office. Today, her work is even more relevant and timely than ever before. Erin shares the great strides we have made as a nation to lift up women to public office, the long way we have yet to go to achieve equity and representation in our government, and why i...

A problem solver and entrepreneur, Tina Hay believes that every woman should have a strong foundation in financial literacy. Money touches every aspect of our life - from relationships to health to job opportunity - and as the Founder of Napkin Finance Tina has dedicated her career to making financial literacy resources available to more than 80 million households. Today, we're unraveling the...

Dr. Agnes Binagwaho did the unimaginable and returned to her home country of Rwanda just 2 years after the mass genocide of one million Tutsis. An outsider in her home country, Dr. Binagwaho worked tirelessly to save lives and was eventually appointed Minister of Health. A pediatrician by training, she has spent the past 25 years rebuilding the Rwandan health care system from the ground up, ultima...

For decades, a scarcity of opportunity created a culture of women undercutting each other to ascend. But what happens when women support each other and create community in order to push forward? They become stronger, more influential, and open spaces for more women to join the movement. In this conversation, best-selling author and philanthropist, Angella Nazarian talks about the benefits and need...

Her country of birth is a patriarchal Middle Eastern culture that became oppressive toward women after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. After leaving Iran and trying to find herself reflected in countries and cultures far removed from her own, Nassrine Azimi has planted her roots in Hiroshima, Japan. But it's the journey along the way that we explore with her. Nassrine shares how the decision tha...

Greta Francesca Iori is an unassuming rockstar. Ethiopian and Italian by origin but currently residing in London, Greta has both the confidence and the poise to star in commercials and to intimidate international criminals, alike. Still early in career, she shines a light on gender dynamics in wildlife crime and what happens when women become engaged in environmental conservation. From risking her...

Norma Bastidas is known for completing ultramarathons and setting the record for the longest triathlon in the world, but her story wasn't always one of athleticism and physical strength. Norma endured a childhood in Sinaloa, Mexico filled with violence and sexual assault only to unknowingly escape into a sex trafficking ring in Japan. After years of abuse, violence, and intimidation, Norma&ap...

Ailbhe Smyth is a feminist and civil rights activist who has dedicated her career to advancing women's rights in Ireland. In 2018, she co-led the Together for Yes campaign to successfully repeal one of the world's most restrictive bans on abortion. Ailbhe takes us back to her roots, telling us what it was like growing up in Ireland struggling with mental health and depression, how she na...

After having a visibly successful career styling some of the biggest names in the industry, Jeanne Yang is now one of the top men's celebrity stylists. Her path to success didn't come without redefining feminism and her self-worth within Hollywood. But to whom does she attribute her success? To her Korean mother who scraped through job after job to provide for her family in a foreign cou...

Overcoming gender discrimination and isolation, Dr. Winnie Kiiru climbed to the top of the wildlife conservation industry in Africa. Today she is one of the only Black female conservationists in Kenya and is leading the industry with her cutting edge research on human-elephant coexistence. In this eye-opening conversation we explore how Dr. Winnie defied social norms by refusing to fill the slot t...