The Empowering Women Podcast

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Dr. Cat Shrier began her career in legislative offices, campaigns & agencies. After joining an environmental consulting firm where scientists & engineers turned brownfields into playgrounds on projects driven by regulations with public funding, she knew her career would lie at the intersection of science, engineering & policy on water & sustainability.    Dr. Ca...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Chloe Arsenault is a second-year student in the Civil and Mining Engineering Technician program at Collège Boréal. Having been involved in the skilled trades for some time, she noticed the lack of female role models in these industries. It was the spark Chloe needed to use her voice in women's empowerment movements; sharing her skills and personal stories to help pave the...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Carolyn Alessi is the Regional Director for Community Health and Well Being for Trinity Health of New England. Here she provides project and leadership support to the Joan C. Dauber Food Pantry, social care and clinical integration within the surgical service lines and safety net clinics, and has oversight of the Hospital Violence Intervention program.    Her expertise is in se...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Lauren is a mindset speaker, the author of “Go With Your Gut: Then Keep Going”, and the host of the podcast, Go With Your Gut.   Lauren is committed to motivating, inspiring, and leading others who feel stuck personally and professionally. She loves to use her experiences and what she's learned to help others learn to manage their mindset, find the opportunity in difficult...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Miranda Eisermann is an Early Talent Program Manager at Trane Technologies. Miranda has her Bachelors in Business Management, Minor in Human Resources from Upper Iowa University and Masters of Education Professional Development from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. She has over 19 years of multi-functional experience (14 years at Trane Technologies) in the areas of proje...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Alison Lange was raised in West Texas, bringing with her a legacy of hard work and service. She waited tables 10 hours a day to put herself through college, graduating Magna Cum Laude from Angelo State University with a bachelor’s degree in communications and an English minor — all within three years. She spent the next 25 years becoming a marketing leader in San Antonio where...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Kamille Tacub is the current reigning Miss Hawaii International. She’s a 23-year-old Honolulu, Hawaii resident currently working for Starbucks as a 4-year partner and trainer. She is her store’s representative for all round table quarterly meetings, and recently was selected to be 1 out of 5 to represent her store and district at a collaborative season with some members from th...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Mary Verrone is the founder of Change Management Pros consulting where she is passionately committed to driving great user experiences for those whose jobs change due to systems, tool, process, or organizational change.     Mary is an industry thought leader, strategist, experienced speaker, trainer and mentor in Organizational Change Management with a wealth of global experien...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Erin Galloway is the founder of The Habitized Life & Habitize Publishing where she helps individuals, families, and large corporations create customized mindful, healthy habits for home, school and work .   Erin’s entire career has focused on behavior change and how small choices add up to have a big impact. Much of this work has been in supporting families, communities, an...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Erin Twamley is an award-winning children’s book author and educator. Through her educational consulting group STEM Superheroes™ Erin leads hands-on encounters for kids and writes publications focused on  STEM.  She aims to share the careers, stories and superpowers of women in STEM careers to spark their interest and build girls' confidence in STEM. She is the coauthor of...

Episode 8 (Season 4)  ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Kristin Winkle Beck, Kristin Winkle Beck is an enthusiastic coach, optimistic problem solver, and servant leader. Kristin brings a mix of energy, collaboration, and perseverance to her work as an executive coach, entrepreneur, and strategic nonprofit leader. She thrives on building relationships, tackling new challenges, and delivering exceptional results....

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Jacquie Abram, is the international best-selling and award-winning Author featured in FORBES of Hush Money: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job.    Before Jacquie began her journey as an Author and DEI and Antiracism Consultant, she had a career in higher education that she was very good at and that she enjoyed. A career that paid her a lucrat...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Carla Vallone, is a marketing and communications strategist for business-to-business organizations and leaders who are commercializing highly-technical, mission-critical products and services.    Marrying business-to-business insights and buying habits with an organization’s inherent expertise, Portavoce PR mobilizes marketing strategies the remove barriers to activation, gener...

ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Jamie Dandar McKinney, MBA, is the best-selling author of Speak Up, Sister! The Professional Woman’s Guide to Confidence and Success as well as a certified professional coach for businesswomen, a keynote speaker, and a virtual workshop leader. Jamie ignites action by sharing key lessons learned while working her way up in heavily male-dominated industries.  Recognized by the De...

Episode 4 (Season 4) of the Empowering Women Podcast ABOUT OUR GUEST:   Perri Richman is a strategist and marketer blending leadership at complex global public corporations with advisory of private placement portfolio companies to further ESG principles and winning innovation for consumers, businesses and investors. She has guided communications, brand and digital efforts for industrial technology...

ABOUT OUR GUEST:   Vanessa Mathews ,as the founder and chief resilience officer of Asfalis Advisors, the co-owner and host of the Business Resilience DECODED podcast, and an adjunct professor at Savannah State University, is unmatched in her experience and knowledge with a unique ability to translate complex topics with personal anecdotes Vanessa is a catalyst for change in the world of business a...

Nicole Calhoun is a high-energy and results-oriented professional who has worked with diverse multi-cultural teams around the world. She brings 25 years of corporate and technology experience to her training workshops.  Nicole’s technical experience includes enterprise level technology systems with such roles as Software Engineering, Business Systems Analysis and Project Management.  Her industry...

Episode 1 (Season 4) of the Empowering Women Podcast ABOUT OUR GUEST:   Cherie Hicks is a thought leader in leadership development, program design, facilitation, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She considers herself a learning technology champion, with experience in developing and implementing virtual learning strategies using a variety of different platforms. As a member of the Leadership E...

Episode 15 (Season 3) of the Empowering Women Podcast ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Wende Goble is a curious, fact finder who does not like the word NO and CAN’T when finding creative outlets to solve problems, who leaps tall orders during disasters and will find generators and deliver water in a quick nano second in an emergency situation.  Friendships and networking are her game; she loves to hear others...

Episode 14 (Season 3) of the Empowering Women Podcast ABOUT OUR GUEST:   Michelle Taylor is the New Product Quality Director for Trane Technologies where she leads the North America Commercial HVAC new product quality team in delivering product development excellence within the new product development lifecycle and the quality transformation process.  She is also responsible for leading the Qualit...

Episode 13 (Season 3) of the Empowering Women Podcast ABOUT OUR GUEST :   Amy Crosby is a degreed electrical engineer leading customer experience for drives at ABB. She has been in the Industrial Automation field for over 20 years, starting her career as a Field Service Engineer.  Over her career, Amy has developed a passion to grow STEM talent from early career new hires to late career profession...

Episode 12 (Season 3) of the Empowering Women Podcast ABOUT OUR GUEST:   Karen Laos is a keynote speaker specializing in communication and leadership. She is fiercely committed to equipping women in business to speak with clarity and stand out with unshakable confidence. Over her 20+ year career, she has had rave reviews from Facebook, Google, Netflix, Sephora, Sony, NASA, Uber, Fidelity, Charles...

Michelle Gymiah, is the Director of Equality Pays, a gender and ethnicity equality consultancy dedicated to closing workplace pay gaps.  With gender pay gap reporting regulation, possible ethnicity pay gap reporting and a workplace talent shortage looming, redressing gender and racial inequalities in the workplace is more important than ever. Michelle is a passionate advocate for enabling women (a...

Episode 10 (Season 3) of the Empowering Women Podcast GUEST:  Anna Nguru, Product Management Specialist BIO:   Anna Nguru , an inspiring multi-faceted leader, is a mechanical engineer, immigrant, activist, social media content creator, and rising entrepreneur. She recently launched her journey in Product Management using her successful experiences of aligning business strategy and engineering prin...

Episode 9 (Season 3) of the Empowering Women Podcast GUEST:  Gina Covarrubias, Founder of Deliberate Doing, LLC BIO:   Gina Covarrubias is the founder of Deliberate Doing LLC, an exclusive STEM coaching service dedicated to helping technical professionals defeat career despair.  Her distinctive background blends life coaching expertise with 12+ years engineering/technology experience in government...