Smart, Amazing Conversations with Dr. Nancy

Dr. Denise Caleb is president of HR Standards Institute. She admits that women are being impacted disproportionately by COVID, whether "by choice or by request, women did leave the workforce during COVID 19 at a higher level and rate." She says that we have to be very careful as a workforce to make sure we recapture those levels of talent among those that want to come back to work. She urg...

Katica Roy tells Dr. Nancy about her own journey as a breadwinner mom to achieve equal pay and decided there must be an easier way through advanced technology. She founded Pipeline Equity, an SaaS platform that provides companies with augmented decision tools to determine if decisions will result in equitable outcomes before they are made. Katica says that all decisions need to be made with a gend...

Michelle Li is an award-winning journalist and news anchor in St. Louis, MO, who was also born in Korea and raised in the U.S. In this interview she tells about how on New Years Day, she was given a piece to read about foods to celebrate the New Year. After reading about the American traditions, she added that she had rice cake soup (Duk Guk) that a lot of Koreans eat for New Years. She received a...

Barclay DeVeau barely survived a rare bacterial infection that went undiagnosed by doctors for months. In fact no one would believe she was ill until she had a seizure. Now Barclay, an award-winning filmmaker, is basing a film trilogy called The Cassandra Project on her story and the stories of two other women who’s situations reached critical levels when they went unheard and ignored. Listen to h...

Dr. Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH, tells her personal story of not recognizing that she had burnout until it was almost too late and how she founded Platform Wellness and developed ReST Revive, Strive and Thrive (TM) using her expertise in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine to help others by working with corporations and individuals experiencing burnout. Her words of wisdom: Mindset is medicine....

Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr., speaks from a 40 year career in law enforcement and leadership of how the sudden death of his wife and losing everything while raising seven sons transformed his life, showed him his vulnerabilities and helped him understand the suffering of others. His book, Beyond Midnight, tells the whole story and this conversation shares wisdom about power and presence and receiving h...

Cindy Couyoumjian shares her experiences from 36 years experience as a woman in the finance industry, founder of Cinergy Financial and the research and advice in her new book, The Rise of Women and Wealth: Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future. She urges women to become financially literate and take control of their money to provide for their futures and leave a lega...

Marlene Chism tells her story of becoming a gifted speaker, narrative coach and author from work a 20 year career at a factory. Her fifth book, From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading, works through mismanagement of leadership in ways to help us all benefit from redefining conflict and developing the capacity to deal with it rather than avoid it. Get full access to Dr. Nan...

Julie Castro Abrams tells about How Women Lead, her social justice organization that brings women together to make an impact. Over 14,000 women become fierce advocates for each other and help one another in many ways, including investing in women-owned businesses and recommending them for seats on corporate boards. Julie stresses the need for women to step out, speak out and work together for gend...

Lucina Di Meco describes how #She-Persisted works to stop social media attacks against women leaders. False claims and targeted threats prevent young woman running for political office and threaten the safety of those in the spotlight. She calls it a threat to democracy and free speech. In fact there is no free speech for these targeted women. We can all help. Lucina explains how. Get full access...

Jennifer Faust talks about Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara and how they equip girls with the confidence to become women who live successful lives. Besides being a voice for girls, the programs of Girls Inc. National and the affiliates in the US and Canada provide numerous supports including mentoring, sports and a network of girls who go on to lead as women. Get full access to Dr. Nancy O’Reil...

Amanda B. Cunningham is COO of Her Future Coalition and the social profit partner, Yoga Medicine® Seva, which both serve the mission to end human trafficking in India and Nepal. These are the epicenter for the sale of human beings, mostly girls, throughout the world. Amanda describes cultures that see a girl's value as how much she will bring when she is sold. Her organizations provide educati...

Susan Whiting is Chair of the National Women's History Museum Board and is excited to announce that after 26 years of offering online programs about women's contribution to the founding and development of our country, NWHM is to become a museum in residence at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Washington, D.C., It's a museum reimagined, still offering online programs and event...

Gary Lee Price summarizes the story of his horrific experiences as a child and how teachers in school lifted him up by recognizing his talent as an artist, however no one stopped it. Gary has written a memoir, Divine Turbulence about his life, and his passion to install 305 foot The Statue of Responsibility, the brainchild of Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankel, which Gary has designed and built rep...

Kelli Thompson talks about advice from her book to be released this fall, Closing the Confidence Gap, a leadership book for women that guides them past the barriers they have created trying to adapt to male-dominated business practices, upper level jobs and doing business as usual. Kelli says, "By changing the workplace, women can change the world." Get full access to Dr. Nancy O’Reilly an...

Tiffany Shlain tells about her new program for companies called The Future of Work and Wellbeing based on the 15 years of using a hybrid work model at her workplace, Let It Ripple Film Studio, which allows for two days of collaboration and three days of working at home. She has combined several films about character and neuroscience with her book, 24/6--about unplugging from screens once a week to...

Michele Meyer-Shipp tells about her career full of pivots based on building relationships and engaging the power of the collective--moving from law into DEI, she became a transformational leader in multiple industries including Major League Baseball, where she brought together DEI strategies for 30 major league and 120 minor league teams at the height of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movemen...

Jensine Larsen founded the online platform World Pulse when she recognized the power of interconnectivity of the internet. Her original attempts to share heart-breaking stories from women fighting for their survival amidst war and environmental catastrophies as a journalist won awards as a glossy magazines, but it's the 80,000 voices in over 200 countries that are changing live s for women aro...

Dr. Jacqueline Sanderlin tells how her "Why Not" attitude ignited a positive attitude among students and engaged the community to provide resources in a very challenged LA school district. Reaching out to everyone from The Grammys to mom and pop shops, Dr. Jackie recruited help to elevate student performance beyond anyone's expectation. As CEO of The Why Not Incubator and author of The...

Tara Jaye Frank discusses how anyone not in the learning loop (women, black or brown people) need someone to make a way for them to enter top management. An executive for many years herself, she says many upper managers want to do the right thing, but they don't know what that is and fear making a mistake. Her new book, out in May, The Waymakers, show them how, and Tara's consulting busine...

Bobbie LaPorte talks about how training and participating in six Ironman Triathlons have changed the way she thinks about leadership. She stresses that you cannot plan, but you can prepare. In business and in endurance events, you can't know anymore what will happen moment to moment, so you need to prepare for change and use that change to discover the possibilities, focus on the strengths of...

Samantha Karlin describes the events that lead her to pursue a course to found Empower Global and broadcast her podcast Samanthropolitics to advance social change and women's rights around the world. With advanced degrees in law and diplomacy with a specialization in global gender analysis and conflict resolution, she is especially equipped to reveal ways to make significant change that cause...

Katie Steele Danner tells how the Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge educates emerging women leaders about the needs of the communities throughout Missouri and how their abilities can help to solve problems and provide opportunities for leadership in areas that may be new to them. Now in its 32 year, the Challenge has more than 1,300 graduates leading in the state and around the world providing...

Kelly Nevins, CEO of the Women's Fund of Rhode Island shares how WFRI advocates for change at the systems level to benefit women. Although some women run for office because of what they learn from WFRI training, the group is non-partisan, supporting advocacy and training to help women create and advise the decision makers in their communities and workplaces. Kelly also gives advice to women lo...

Colonel Ron Garan shares the story of how he became an astronaut and how his experiences in space elevated his perspective to see the unity of everything and everyone on earth. Working with people from 15 other countries taught him the power of diversity of perspective, and the awe and wonder of seeing earth from space showed him how interconnected we all are and expanded his view of how even the...