Wake Up Call (The Reboot)

Meet the first guest on the new #FEMSTEM Series! Nilo Rahmani is an accomplished site reliability engineer who's had this passion running through her veins ever since she was little. Heavily inspired by the women in her family who pursued the same career, she always prioritized her education and completed a master's degree in Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, having already a bache...

If there is one word to describe Anna-Maria Pittella, it is courageous. Despite being young and at an early stage of her career, she decided to open her law firm at a time when there were more prominent barriers for women lawyers. Initially dedicated to litigation, Anna-Maria transformed her practice and was one of the pioneers of the family collaborative law movement since it began in New Jersey,...

Let's kick off 2022 with some major inspiration. John Rizvi, better known as The Patent Professor, is a Board Certified Patent Attorney and the founder of an IP law firm located in South Florida. John goes back to his childhood: the time where his interest in engineering and patent law started to peek through (since little, he already had dreams and sketches to create a spherical Rubik's Cube!). H...

Is maintaining a healthier lifestyle included in your New Year’s resolutions? Then pay close attention to this interview with Endocrinologist Rocio Salas, MD. She provides us with great knowledge on topics like metabolism, hormones, nutrition, and more. She's a triple board-certified physician who specializes in obesity, diabetes, and thyroid disorders. On top of all that, she's also succeeding at...

What better way to prepare yourself for 2022 than aligning your energy! #FEMCOACH Robin Jonna Rosenhaus, a world-class energy worker from New Jersey, is here to walk us through the most effective energetic tools we can use to clean and change our energy—all while sharing some of the interesting experiences she’s gone through since she started to follow her path as an energy healer. She is an entre...

Is your relationship on the rocks? Meet Chad Scott, a certified life and relationship coach. Chad has been assisting people in improving their relationships with themselves and their partners for more than 15 years by emphasizing the importance of communication, consistency, and living their truth. In his workshop, How to Stop Negotiating with a Terrorist (referring to toxic relationships), he is...

If there's a lawyer who knows how to favorably ride out the storm, that's Elise Buie. After completely abandoning life as she knew it during Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans-raised attorney had to relocate more than once with her children, all while homeschooling, being a stay-at-home mom, and going through a divorce at the time. From rural Georgia, then to Minnesota, and finally, to the Pacific...

With courage and determination, #FEMSQUIRE Hillary Walsh has proven that no matter how hard the obstacles life puts in your way, it is always possible to turn them into opportunities to grow, achieve success, and become a better version of yourself. She is the owner of New Frontier, a law firm in Phoenix, Arizona dedicated to the protection of immigrants. Her personal experience growing up led her...

Who better to treat your allergies than a doctor who experiences them herself? Practicing in the Sunshine State is Dr. Shreya Patel, an accomplished Allergist and Immunologist who treats her patients from a place of understanding and empathy while helping them improve their quality of life. Dr. Patel completed three years of residency training in Pediatrics at the Goryeb Children's Hospital in Mor...

#FEMSQUIRE Sabra R. Sasson, Divorce Lawyer and Founder of the Sabra Law Group based in New York City, has broken the mold for divorce lawyers.  Sabra gets real about how she found her calling in family and matrimonial law through her own divorce experience.  She shares her vision for the future of her law practice helping others have a harmonious divorce.  Don't think that's possible? Well once yo...

Kathleen Glasgow is the author of the  New York Times  bestselling novel  Girl in Pieces , as well as  How to Make Friends with the Dark and You’d Be Home Now (which drops 9/28/21) .   I first picked up Girl In Pieces at an airport.  (I find the best books at the airport).  I was mesmerized from the first page.  Kathleen portrays beautifully complex characte...

New Jersey Divorce Lawyer and #FEMSQUIRE Donna Legband looks like the head of the cheerleading squad and is married to her high school sweetheart (who, by the way, was QB for their high school football team).  

Gastroenterologist Rashmi Advani MD -- also known as @drscopeswithguts (see what she did there?) -- takes us through her calling to medicine, specifically gastroenterology, and shares some gut secrets with us about the microbiome, medical school cadaver labs, and what a GI doc finds exciting. (Hint: There's more to what they do than colonoscopies).  Included in this conversation: Using social medi...

Remember when Alicia Silverstone said in Clueless that her father was a litigator, the "scariest kind of lawyer"?  Well, that's Elizabeth Lippy.  She's just the right kind of scary.  She knows her way around a courtroom and how to woo a jury.  (Literally, but more on that later).  No matter what hat she's wearing (and there are a lot of them), she's a litigator right down...

Talk about a transformation! #FEMSQUIRE Shamina Taylor, Esq. transitioned from real estate attorney to wealth expert and spiritual mentor. She experienced a pivotal moment in her life where she had an identity crisis and left behind the life she had created, in order to find herself. In just 12 months, she built a million-dollar cash business and is now dedicated to helping successful and powerful...

  Renee Bauer is the mastermind behind a Connecticut divorce and family law firm branded as Happy Even After Family Law .  The enterprise also includes the Happy Even After Podcast and the D Course with Ms. Renee Bauer.  Renee has taken the traditional law firm business to another level.  She has paid her dues though.  She built her firm from the ground up, wearing various...

Susan Smith Blakely's ABA Journal article, "Are women lawyers paying enough attention to upward mobility?" has sparked widespread debate and criticism in the legal community. The ABA Journal quickly attached a disclaimer to the article while the present ABA President and 9 past presidents published a response discrediting the article.  Susan Smith Blakely, Esq. has been largely silent until n...

Marqueta Plum Jenkins talks about her tumultuous childhood growing up on the streets of Norfolk, Virginia, her first entrepreneurial experience as a kid, then smashing the glass ceiling in the street drug trade as the first girl “corner boy,” and escaping it all to join the military. Her hopeful military career was tainted by Military Sexual Trauma (MSA). She’s spent a lot of time running but this...

  Dr. Avi Varma , a Co-Host of the Brown Girl White Coat Podcast , has spent her career dedicated to public health as a family practitioner in Atlanta, Georgia, for uninsured/underinsured HIV and AIDS patients. She currently serves the community as a medical doctor while she's working towards a Masters in Public Health.  Dr. Varma explains how far we have come with HIV and AIDS treatment...

Jennifer Gillman is one of those entrepreneurs that is always ahead of the curve.  She has the uncanny ability to see what trends are ahead and get in front of the crowd.  Although she is a “recovering” attorney, she loved practicing law.  She simply found another calling. As you will see, she’s had several pivots. She also has the unique ability to recognize easily when something i...

You've undoubtedly seen Kerri on TV. She's an outstanding actress, writer, and director that has co-starred with celebs like Jennifer Lopez on Shades of Blue (NBC), Julian McMahon on FBI Most Wanted (CBS), and Peter Coyote on Blue Bloods (CBS). Kerri's acting career was quite a detour from her original plan of medical school. She caught the acting bug in a monologue class in college at West Virgin...

If you think all salespeople are pushy, you definitely haven't met Theophan McKenzie. He is an Executive Sales Coach and the founder of S3, a company that offers sales training using a modern selling system (Smart Systematic Selling), with a conversational approach. Theophan shares with us how his extensive career in sales started and the one circumstance that led him to discover this new method o...

If you ever find yourself in the ER up in NYC, I hope you get to meet Dr. Siri Chamarti, MD.  She's cool, she's smart and she's got "MD" after her name.  She is also an Instagram sensation with 20K+ followers at last count.  She's a foodie, world traveler and has mad ultrasound trivia skills, and she's totally non-judgmental if you get foreign objects lost in your body.  (More...

You’ll surely learn a lot in this interview with Dr. Kaveri Karhade, who brings a preventative perspective to dermatology, influenced by her Indian background. She is a board-certified general and cosmetic dermatologist at Berman Skin Institute in the Bay Area (San Francisco & Los Altos), specializing in laser cosmetic and medical skin care. Having different interests, she first explored the w...

Nancy Burger, the Fear Strategist, shares her extensive history facing fear.  Nancy experienced an eating disorder beginning in her formative teen years, which she carried throughout much of her adult life. Nancy was also diagnosed bipolar late in life and discusses how the highs and lows of being bipolar and how that affected her life.  Nancy also talks about a pivotal event in her life...