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In this powerful and candid episode of the HumanizeHer Podcast, we sit down with tech royalty Parisa Tabriz , VP and General Manager of Google Chrome , the browser billions of people use every single day. She's also known as Google's "Security Princess" - a title she gave herself on a business card almost twenty years ago that ended up sticking for life.   Parisa has been at Google for nineteen ye...

In this episode of the HumanizeHer Podcast, we sit down with Mandy McClung , Managing Director at Morgan Stanley , for her podcast debut. Balancing career wisdom with approachable personal insights, Mandy demystifies the massive world of wealth management and shares actionable ways to build long-term financial independence.   Financial independence is freedom and no one knows that better than Mand...

In this episode of the HumanizeHer Podcast, we sit down with  Dr. Hema Raghavan , the CTO and Co-Founder of Kumo.ai and a true pioneer in the artificial intelligence space. As former LinkedIn colleagues, HumanizeHer host Erica Lockheimer and Hema take a trip down memory lane of their days together at LinkedIn .   Hema is an absolute powerhouse building at the absolute frontier of deep technical AI...

In this powerful episode, we sit down with Libby Leffler , the Co-Founder and CEO of First (affectionately dubbed the "TurboTax for prenups"). Libby spent two decades helping build the world's most powerful rocket ships - from Google and Facebook to SoFi and Compass . But at the height of her corporate career, with a newborn at home, she chose to step away and finally do the thing she was scared t...

HumanizeHer x Shangri La "Visionary Voices" brings HumanizeHer's signature conversations to Shangri La , a Center of Cultures & Ideas and Museum of Islamic Art in Honolulu, Hawai'i, featuring three special episodes with visionary women leaders from Hawai'i.   In this episode, we are sitting down with one of the most powerful forces in venture capital building from the Pacific. Chenoa Farnsworth is...

HumanizeHer x Shangri La "Visionary Voices" brings HumanizeHer's signature conversations to Shangri La, a Center of Cultures & Ideas and Museum of Islamic Art in Honolulu, Hawai'i, featuring three special episodes with visionary women leaders from Hawai'i.   In this episode of HumanizeHer, we sit down with Dawn Lippert - and this conversation might just change the way you see the planet. It starte...

For the first time, we crossed the ocean and brought HumanizeHer to Hawaiʻi, gear in tow, women to meet, and a community to build.  HumanizeHer x Shangri La brought HumanizeHer's signature podcast conversations to Shangri La, a Center of Cultures & Ideas and Museum of Islamic Art in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, for our Visionary Voices event, celebrating culture and building community during Women's History...

HumanizeHer x Shangri La "Visionary Voices" brings HumanizeHer's signature conversations to Shangri La, a Center of Cultures & Ideas and Museum of Islamic Art in Honolulu, Hawai'i, featuring three special episodes with visionary women leaders from Hawai'i.   In this episode of HumanizeHer, we sit down with Meli James - born and raised in Hawai'i, she left for Cornell University and caught the entr...

We are kicking off a new series called IRL (In Real Life) HumanizeHer . This series gives you a behind-the-scenes, unpolished view of conferences, gatherings, and our on-the-ground action. We are showing the raw effort, the amazing connections, and the technical brilliance that goes into building this movement. We recently held our Annual HumanizeHer Event — a celebration of one year of commitment...

In this episode, we welcome the legendary  Pat Wadors - current Chief Human Resources Officer at Intuitive and former HR visionary at LinkedIn , ServiceNow , and Yahoo . Known for her transformative leadership and for coining the concept of DIBs (Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging), Pat dives deep into her journey of "stumbling" into HR and eventually becoming one of the most influential voices i...

In this insightful episode,  Karen Catlin , former VP of Engineering at Adobe with over three decades in the tech industry, shares her evolution from a "declared computer science major who had never touched a computer" to now leadership coach and one of the most influential voices in workplace inclusion as an acclaimed author of the Better Allies book series.   Highlights of the Conversation: "Gol...

Margaret Abe-Koga (Santa Clara County Supervisor) joins the HumanizeHer Podcast to pull back the curtain on a life dedicated to public service, representation, and resilience.   In this episode, Margaret shares the raw and inspiring narrative of an immigrant daughter who became the voice for those who feel voiceless. From an "anchor baby" born at Stanford Hospital to a seasoned policymaker managin...

In this episode, we get to celebrate a massive milestone with Jody Mettler , the Chief Operating Officer of BitGo and their President of the Trust Company.   As BitGo rings the bell on its recent IPO, Jody shares her journey from a 20-year career at Citi to leading the "backbone" of the digital asset industry. This episode serves as both a high-level masterclass in crypto infrastructure and a pers...

In this episode of the HumanizeHer Podcast, we sit down with Mauria Finley - a powerhouse entrepreneur, Stanford lecturer, and current Vice President at Google .   Mauria shares a deeply personal and strategic look at a career that has oscillated between massive corporate scale and the high-stakes "grit and resilience" of the startup world. From building product spreadsheets in her living room to...

From pioneering one of the world's most used digital platforms to taking her first-ever career break,  Deb Liu (Former CEO of Ancestry and Former Product Exec at Facebook , PayPal , eBay ) joins the HumanizeHer Podcast for a deeply vulnerable and strategic conversation about power, transitions, and the one thing that matters more than a resume: your health.   In this episode, Deb shares the mental...

From the elite lecture halls of the Indian Institutes of Technology ( IIT, Delhi ) to the driver's seat of an Uber delivery run, Aarathi Vidyasagar (VP of Engineering and Science at Uber ) defines what it means to lead with both technical craft and deep empathy.   In this episode of the HumanizeHer Podcast, Aarathi joins former colleagues Erica Lockheimer and Elizabeth Wendorf-Bloesser to share a...

Join us for a fantastic and nostalgic conversation with Tanya Staples and Vida Forrest y Salazar , the co-owners and managing partners of Ace Camps Travel ! This duo, who first met working together at Lynda.com and navigated the acquisition by LinkedIn , share their incredible journey from corporate executives to entrepreneurs redefining success on their own terms.   Their LinkedIn Backstory: Tany...

Join us for the inspiring and deeply personal story of Xitlali Curincita, a first-generation college graduate, current UC Irvine graduate student, and former 2022 Youth of the Year award winner from the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula . Raised in North Fair Oaks, she shares what it felt like growing up between cultures and often navigating spaces where she didn't fully feel she belonged.   From...

Join us for a candid conversation with  Anu Muralidharan , COO of Expensify , as she shares the deeply personal story of the intense drive and competitive pressure she inherited from her late mother, who taught her that "being second was unacceptable." Anu opens up about how this drive led to debilitating stress and "scarcity thinking," culminating in a rock-bottom moment where she risked it all w...

In this insightful conversation with  Cynthia Teniente-Matson , President of San José State University (SJSU), shares her journey from being a first-generation college student and CFO to leading the oldest public university on the West Coast.   She explains how SJSU, often called "Silicon Valley's Public University," is now at the forefront of the AI revolution. Learn about the groundbreaking part...

Join us for a deeply informative conversation with  Joanna Strober , Founder and CEO of Midi Health , the pioneering telehealth platform transforming women's midlife health.   Joanna clarifies the hormonal chaos of perimenopause (which often starts in your 30s) and the shocking truth behind the decades of fear surrounding Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). She reveals data showing estrogen alone m...

Join us for a lively conversation with Cherie Brooke Luo and Jean Luo , the Tiger Sisters ! This dynamic sister duo, both successful tech product managers from LinkedIn and Snapchat, made a radical pivot to earn their MBAs from Harvard Business School and Stanford GSB to then become full-time content creators and entrepreneurs.   They pull back the curtain on how they built their brand and busines...

💡 "I play in the spaces where tech, storytelling, and entertainment intersect." Author–filmmaker Abigail Hing Wen joins us to talk about her newest universe, The Vale—a novel with a short-film prequel and a companion Roblox experience about a boy navigating an AI-driven virtual fantasy world. We dig into how she builds story worlds with real AI literacy behind them, drawing on years as an AI tech...

Kirthiga Reddy , a trailblazing leader and first female Investment Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, shares her incredible journey from growing up in India to becoming an influential figure in tech. She details her time as a Director of Engineering at Silicon Graphics and the first employee to launch and lead Facebook (now Meta ) in India. This episode is packed with invaluable insights, including:...

Join us on The  HumanizeHer Podcast for a powerful and candid conversation with Nidhi Gupta , a trailblazing leader with a chemical engineering background who rose to become a Chief Technology & Product Officer - then ventured out to create her own business and become a Co-Founder and CEO!  Nidhi shares her incredible journey from growing up in India, where she was one of just a few women in her e...