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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 f...

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 hea...

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 I...

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 I...

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 dedicated to humanizing and empowering the conversation around alopecia. In this episode, Sheri and Olivia West sa...

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 Maga...

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 ju...

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 H...

Mita Mallick is a corporate change-maker with a track record of transforming businesses and cultures. She is the head of inclusion, equity and impact at Carta. Mita is a columnist for SWAAY, and her writing has been published in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Post and Business Insider. In this raw episode, Mita shares with us about her background, experiences of hate and bullying and ho...

In this episode, Sheri and Olivia West sit down with the amazing powerhouse, Shellye Archambeau. 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...

In this episode, Sheri and Olivia West sit down with the fearless young CEO - Alexis Curtis! Alexa is the 23-year-old Founder & CEO of “Life Unfiltered with Alexa”, a lifestyle website and podcast for teens & parents discussing topics such as social media and mental health. You may be familiar with her from her Radio Disney show called “Fearless Everyday with Alexa Curtis”.   Listen to Alexa, Sher...

In this exclusive interview, Sheri and Olivia West sit down with the inspiring and esteemed, Amy Siskind who shares advice to young women on how they can stand up and be heard! Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A former Wall Street executive, she’s President and Co-founder of The New Agenda, a national organization working on...

In this episode, Sheri and Olivia sit down with Julie Lythcott-Haims and talk about EVERYTHING as it relates to the importance of black authors building more inclusive spaces, how she experienced bravery in changing her career, courage in dealing with the media, advice to young women on standing firm and sooo much more! Julie Lythcott-Haims is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-heli...

Illana Raia is the Founder & CEO of Etregirls.com and Author of "Être: Girls, Who Do You Want To Be?" Illana contributes to HuffPost, Ellevate, Ms. Magazine and Thrive Global and was named a Mogul Influencer in 2017. She has appeared in the HuffPost "Talk To Me" video series, participated in the 2018 Balance Project Interviews and the 2019 #WomenWhoRock campaign. In this interview, Sheri and Olivi...

Abigail Okpebholo is a leading human rights advocate in Nigeria who's passionate about gender equality, inclusion and equity. Through the work she carries out in rural communities, villages, slums, clans and hard to reach regions across Nigeria, she's aggressively bridging the gender gap in Girls education. Her work has been featured in several international websites, podcasts and blogs such as Th...

October 11th is International Day of the Girl (IDG) and we are excited to kick off our LiveGirl celebration with a very special podcast guest who has made it her mission to change the way people value girls and girls’ education. Christina Lowery is the Co-Founder & CEO of Girl Rising, a non-profit dedicated to changing the way the world values girls and their education.. In 2009, she was part of t...

In this super special episode, we sit down with Laura Brounstein! Laura is an award-winning journalist, strategist, speaker and team-builder who helps companies and individuals develop their content strategy, define their narrative and form smart partnerships. During her media career, she developed and launched magazines for Airbnb and Bumble and was an editor for Seventeen, Self, and Cosmopolitan...

We are excited as ever to sit down for a (virtual) conversation with Kiara Thompson. Kiara is from Romulus, Michigan (also the home state of LiveGirl Founder, Sheri West!). 
In this episode, Kiara talks body positivity, why she describes pageants as esteem-boosting, and how she uses her Miss Michigan platform for advocacy. Kiara is also extremely passionate about mental health - listen in as she b...

LiveGirl is honored to have interviewed such a fun, fierce and accomplished guest to the LiveGirl community - CNN anchor, journalist, author, mother of three, and CT resident Alisyn Camerota! Alisyn is a phenomenal woman and role model for girls and women everywhere. In an exclusive Camp LiveGirl interview moderated by Sheri and her 16-year-old daughter, Olivia - followed by a LIVE Q&A from our ca...

At LiveGirl, our mission is to build confident leaders and contribute to a world free from racial and gender inequality. We are called to work together to create an antiracist society and build leaders who listen to and understand lives different from their own. In the past, we have interviewed fierce female leaders to learn their leadership lessons. But lately, it has really resonated with us how...

We’re SO excited to introduce this episode’s guest who has made history. Stacey Tisdale, a more than 20-year veteran TV broadcast financial journalist, and financial behavior expert, is one of the first women, and the first African-American to report from the New York Stock Exchange as a reporter for Dow Jones’ Emmy Award winning, Wall Street Journal Television. She then went on to become one of t...

In this episode, we sit down with Brennyn Lark, Broadway performer, singer, songwriter and actress. She went from playing Eponine in Les Miserables on Broadway just a few years ago to the starring role in Dreamgirls in London, and most recently she took her talents to the small screen in Amazon’s award-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She has been described as a star on the rise.

In this episode, TEDTalk speaker, Yifat Susskind, shares how the “think like a mother” lens is available to everyone, gives an important message to the next generation and tells about the mission behind the extremely CRUCIAL work the MADRE is doing with grassroots women organizations in some of the hardest hit places in the world as part of the fight for feminist futures and gender justice.

“I just hope that girls do feel that they have a place and that they can speak up and can go after their dreams. That’s not always easy, but we have a right to be there and actual build our dreams as much as men do. Representation is key. But it will take time to change that. It starts with women saying 'yes'. I have a rule to always say yes, even if I feel uncomfortable. Say 'yes' first, then thi...