Chatting with Christine: Tech Careers & Badass Women

Monica is a tech executive with a strong background in healthcare, public health, and growth strategy. She started her career on the provider side of healthcare, working on growth initiatives for one of the nation’s largest integrated delivery networks at Highmark Health. Shortly after, she entered the tech space through a lead go-to-market role for a fast growing healthtech startup, launching her...

Julie Cropp Gareleck is a respected and trusted leader in business communities that extend from the Northeast (Philadelphia, New York City, and D.C.) to the Southeast (including the Greater Atlanta region and Charleston, South Carolina.) and that includes CEOs and entrepreneurs of small to midsize businesses as well as the Fortune 1000. As the CEO of Junction Creative, an award-winning strategic a...

As someone who strives to be a social entrepreneur or someone who just wants to help the world and give back, I've always been very interested in the world of nonprofits. I never had such a good and deep conversation about nonprofits until today! Welcome Breanna Lashell, a nonprofit coach! She founded and ran a nonprofit at the age of 16 called Speak Love and has been on many nonprofits since...

I've never interviewed a woman in the security domain, so when I heard about Nadine, I had to interview her! Security is something we all know we should care about and do, so today we peel back the layers with her experience as an ex-security consultant at Capgemini, navigating the security world, and being a CISO at Zivver, a secure email platform! Zivver sells a secure email solution that he...

We've never had a pharma guest before, but Randi Roberts is an ex-pharma executive, and it's pretty hard to find a female pharma executive! We had a lot to learn from her, and from her own journey, she tells us how to find satisfaction within your job (or outside) but also her biggest tips on advocating yourself to advance in your career. Before becoming a certified coach, Randi had a very...

We're nearing the end of the year, so naturally, people are thinking about what they want to do and evaluate for the new year! This is also when college students are interviewing for full time jobs, so definitely give this a listen on what you can do to ensure your next (or current) job makes you as happy as you can or if it's time to jump ship! Jessica Weiss is an organizational leadershi...

Jen Dary is a highly sought-after leadership coach, entrepreneur, brain tumor survivor, mom, podcast host, and founder of Plucky where she coaches CEOs, entrepreneurs, and leaders at every level to create healthy work dynamics and a better work life for all humans. Jen had a lot of golden advice on the types of questions we should ask in informational interviews and in mentorships! She even has pr...

Ramona Shaw is a certified professional leadership coach, podcast host and an author! I dove in deep with her to learn about her perspective on leadership and very interesting situations mid-level managers can find themselves in and her advice on how to approach them such as if an individual contributor made a racist or sexist comment, what should you do? She is passionate about helping new and mi...

I love chatting with founders of social enterprises, and in this case, it is Brooke McKean, the cofounder and co-CEO of Reach Pathways and President of Chicago Scholars! Reach Pathways is a virtual world for students to build skills while showing off their marketable skills to employers and universities which serves as a great double sided market! I chat through Brooke's experience as a female...

My two loves in this episode with fintech and boss women! In this episode, Tilly Tanga, co-founder and director of operations of fintech startup in the P2P personal loan space, talks about her experience being at the forefront of fintech, being a co-founder and director of operations, and advice she has for budding entrepreneurs!  Connect with Tilly Tanga: https://www.facebook.com/usepigeon/...

Emily Glass is currently President & CEO at Syncro, a combined RMM and PSA platform, that helps Managed Service Providers start, run and grow their business. Being in the MSP space, she is in tech and the service industry! She shares a lot of her experience getting up to this point and also being a president and CEO at Syncro! This is the first podcast episode of 2023!  Connect with Emily...

Alicia is an executive leadership coach and creator of women's leadership programming. She has been doing this work for 7 years and has had a long winding career rooted in followed her curiosity. That path included things as wide as running strategic partnership and product teams for a data technology company to running a wedding planning business to spending time as a farmer. Beyond work, she lov...

Kalpa is the Founder and CEO of Knekxt Group, LLC a consulting firm with a mission to create an equitable world. Today she speaks about being a sexual abuse survivor and how that led to her mission and activism in bringing others like her together. She is a product management leader with a track record of building trust and consistently delivering innovative experiences while leading diverse and i...

Danae is disrupting the UK legal industry with technology that makes legal resources and services more accessible to everyone and giving the power back to employees to recognize workplace harassment and abuse. I sit down with Danae to talk to her about her journey doing this as well as her outlook on the future of employment! Connect with Danae: https://twitter.com/danaeshell https://www.linkedin....

As a cat owner, cat sitter, woman in tech, and entrepreneur, I have a deep appreciation for Aparna and SpotOn. Pet for the value and solution it provides for me as someone who always has a need to transport cats! I sit down with Aparna (and her pet pig!) for this episode. SpotOn. Pet is a ride-hailing transportation app for pets and pet-parents. The app connects you with trusted drivers that will...

Amy Edelstein is a nonprofit leader, author, and educator. Her mission is to hare powerful ideas that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. The focus of my work illustrates the insight that comes from viewing all our experience in a vast context, as we learn to weave together the evolutionary history of the cosmos, the developmental shifts in global culture, and the subtletie...

Kimberly Spencer is an award-winning high-performance, trauma-informed coach and trainer, Amazon best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and the founder of CrownYourself.com, helping visionary leaders transform their self-limiting stories, build their empire, stand out fearlessly, and make the income and the impact they deserve. Let's dive deeper on how you can find your zone of genius! Connect with Ki...

I met Sid back in college at Boston University when recruiting for the Personal Finance Club, and we both were on our journeys towards consulting! He is now a consultant at Deloitte based in New York City, and it wasn't without hardship as he did it as an international student when many companies and firms have been restricting recruitment of international students due to the risk of the sponsorsh...

Mari Taksa was pivoting away from her work fundraising for a nonprofit through a coding bootcamp that helped her connect to Accenture's apprenticeship program where she is now a Data Engineering Associate! She tells us all about her experience and her tips for the Accenture apprenticeship program!  Watch Video Interview Here: https://youtu.be/dbk6r96x-xk Connect with Mari: https://www.linkedi...

This is admittedly an area I know nothing of (truly), yet I'm so curious about it, so I was excited to interview Becky Postar! Becky is a veteran banking officer of 20 years who has extensive experience in business development, lending, and compliance training for multiple banks. She has deep domain expertise in BSA, AML, KYC and the evolving cannabis regulations. She is now the COO of HDCS. HDCS,...

Salary negotiations are not talked about enough in society and we need to close that gap for women in tech and consulting! Claudia Miller, MPH owner of Claudia T. Miller, LLC: Career coaching, is a bilingual (Eng/Spa) Career Coach & Host of her own Podcast 'Roadmap To The Executive Suite'. She helps serious professionals secure dream jobs, with dream salaries, at their dream companies including fa...

I worked with Ivan on a job application strategy to enter into technology consulting! Sometimes pivoting in isn't that hard if you think about the important and relevant skills needed and pull it from everywhere, not just your work experience! We also spoke about how to stand out by networking (and some juicy tips using Linkedin), as well as the interview process and how to prepare! I've covered i...

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Most consulting firms do follow a "recruitment season" to hire entry level, specifically from schools like college, university, or graduate programs. So many people ask me what they should prepare or how should they even get started, so here's all of my advice jam packed into one video so you can get that job offer! FOLLOW ME: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ChristineWong Instagram: https://www.i...

Something I pride in a lot about myself that really helped me achieve as much as I was able to at this point is simply how I don't give a f*ck. Because of that, I can recover very fast and start taking action to improve, reinvent, or pivot. I don't exactly have a method per se, but I broke down what goes on in my head into 5 digestible steps and hopefully this can help you as well! I think a lot o...