Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®

Faith Saunders, founder and CEO of Discover a New Future, joins us today to discuss emotional wellness during these uncertain times. Faith is involved in New Jersey Hope and Healing, an initiative created in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and designed to help individuals and groups cope and adapt to the new norm. Listen in as Faith shares insights about coping during stressful times.  Join us e...

Our guest today is Dr. Sheri Mello, an audiologist at the Raleigh Hearing and Tinnitus Center. While conducting curbside appointments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mello realized that her patients were struggling to hear and understand her because she was wearing a face mask. Now, she's working on an innovative solution to that problem.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle W...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the teaching world has seen incredible change over the past few months. Our special guests today are Mary Ann Jones and her daughter, Kelly Jones, and they are fourth-grade teachers in New Jersey. Mary Ann and Kelly have transitioned from teaching their students at school and in-person to teaching through a fully remote, distance learning program. This has brought both...

Ann Logan is a medical professional with more than 30 years of leadership experience. She works for CarePoint Health and is the Chief Hospital Executive at Hoboken University Medical Center in New Jersey.  Listen in as Ann shares an inside view of what she and her team are experiencing on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio...

Laura Vanderkam, a productivity and time management expert, joins us this week to share practical, easy-to-follow tips on how to make the most of your time and establish what you want to get out of life. Laura is the author of several time-management books and co-hosts the podcast, Best of Both Worlds . She blogs at https://lauravanderkam.com/ . Laura lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband...

After surviving domestic violence, Cara Brookins was faced with the stark challenge of providing for her four children, with no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home—but without the means to buy one—she did something incredible. She built her very own 3,500 square foot home from scratch by using YouTube tutorials while rebuilding her family. Join us every other week on Women's We...

In 2019, Ruth Riley was named to the 21st Class of Inductees to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. She led Notre Dame to their first national championship in 2001, and she is one of the few players to win an NCAA title, two WNBA titles, and an Olympic Gold Medal. Ruth joins us today to share her journey as a professional basketball player, an Olympic athlete, a radio and TV broadcaster with the...

Kimberly Caccavo and Kate Nowlan are founders of the women's apparel brand GRACEDBYGRIT and co-authors of an international best-selling book "Graced by Grit: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Guide to Starting a Business With Power, Passion and Purpose." Today they share how they took their women's athletic apparel store, GRACEDBYGRIT, the first community-driven, direct-to-consumer premium athletic appa...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's Disease, is a neurological disease that takes a heavy toll on those who are diagnosed with it, as well as their families. Jodi O'Donnell-Ames came to understand how difficult it was when her husband was diagnosed with ALS. As Jodi cared for both her husband and her 2-year-old daughter, she found that there was a serious lack of resources for chi...

Today, less than 10% of packaging plastics are recycled. The rest is sent to landfills or becomes pollution. Our special guests today are long-term friends who are working together to change that statistic. They are entrepreneurs, environmental advocates and inventors, Miranda Wang and Jeannie Yao, are co-founders of BioCellection, a company that turns unrecyclable plastic waste into valuable chem...

Sylvia Alcala, President and Founder of J. Anthony Group, a supply chain consulting and contract labor firm in the aerospace & defense industry, has a closely-held belief that education is the key to opportunity.  Throughout her career, she has had an interest in helping students obtain a college degree, particularly those who want to further their education but might think that it's beyond their...

Sangeeta Rao, Ph. D., Assistant Dean for Student Mentoring Programs at Rutgers University, is passionate about empowering women. Sangeeta oversees Women BUILD , a leadership program designed to give high achieving, talented women undergraduates at Rutgers Business School the opportunity to reach their full leadership potential as business students. She also co-leads a new Women's Initiative at Rut...

Lynn Griffith, CEO of Welcome Events and President of Welcome Walks, has multiple successful businesses under her belt. After 25 years of working in the corporate events industry, Lynn has turned her focus to something new. In fact, she's altering the travel landscape with digital walking tours. An active member of the WBENC Women's Enterprise Forum, Lynn has been honored as a WBE Star. Join us as...

Rebecca Grzybowski shares her journey from collegiate rower, to training for the Olympic trials, to becoming a head coach, and what motivated her through each step. As a mother of two, Rebecca had to adjust to not only leading a team of women, but to also caring for her two sons, and learning how to "flex the muscle" of asking others for help along the way. Named the head coach of Temple Universit...

Hetal Parikh is a dynamic entrepreneur who drives innovation with a culture of empathy. She co-founded Rangam Consultants, a minority, woman-and disability-owned workforce solutions company, with her husband in 1995. She has worked to create a company culture of inclusion and collaboration through innovation in special education, disability hiring, and reemployment of veterans and with mottos of "...

This week, Susan is joined by Judith Germano. Judith is an adjunct professor at NYU Law, the founder of Germano Law, a senior fellow at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, a mother of two, and a triathlete. Judith joins Susan today to talk about cybersecurity law and women in the field of cybersecurity. She gives helpful advice on the importance of blending together multiple disciplines in cybersecu...

  October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and in this episode, Susan is joined by Dana Donofree, founder of AnaOno. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 at the age of 27, Dana applied her degree in fashion design, a successful fashion industry career, and her 15+ years of experience toward designing, launching and growing AnaOno, a line that is made for those just like her, with ling...

Laurie Cummins and her daughter, Alexandra Groezinger, join Susan Michel and Carol Ann Fernandez to share their story. Laurie and her husband started their business, Groezinger Provisions, Inc. in 1982. As a woman in business, especially in the male-dominated food industry, Laurie has faced and overcome challenges to achieve the success that her business has today. Her daughter, Alexandra, joined...

This week, Susan Michel, CEO of Glen Eagle Advisors, is joined by guest Ande Frazier, a successful finance and insurance industry executive. Ande has had many ambitions and plans for her life both personally and professionally. Despite going through a divorce at a young age and being a single mom, Ande was able to excel in her role as a mother and simultaneously pursue her career passions. Through...

Today, Susan is joined by Rita Goodroe, founder of Rita Made Me DO It! Rita founded "Women's Business Garden," a free, global community that provides education and community events to women entrepreneurs, in 2015. She was a lawyer for 13 years, but after realizing that she wasn't happy with her career choice, Rita quit her job to become a dating coach and a mentor to women in business. Listen as s...

At the age of 15, Lauren Galley became the founder and CEO of Girls Above Society, a nonprofit designed to give girls confidence and cybersmarts in our media-driven society. Today, the 24-year-old award-winning teen mentor, Amazon Best Selling Author, TEDx Speaker, and Girl Power Expert is dedicated to empowering young girls to be confident and cybersmart as they face the tough pressures of living...

Internships have increasingly become a popular way for young adults to spend their summers. Having an internship provides work experience, learning experiences that are not gained in the classroom, and networking connections to many college-age young adults looking to get their foot in the door in today's workforce. This week, Susan is joined by Carol Ann Fernandez, and the four interns working in...

Caryn Kopp is the Chief Door Opener ® at Kopp Consulting, the company she built from the ground up, which specializes in helping business owners land initial meetings with high-level decision makers at big-time companies. She is also a best-selling author, nationally-recognized speaker and expert in business development who can be seen in Inc., Forbes, Fortune Magazine and Newsweek and has been fe...

Any mom of an athlete knows the battle with the never-ending odors coming from their children's sports gear. After months of trial and error, research and planning, Krista Woods, mother of three, decided to take matters into her own hands. She invented GloveStix®, an award-winning and patented odor management system using all-natural ingredients. With no previous manufacturing or e-commerce experi...

Lara Currie is a coach, speaker, and the author of "Difficult Happens," who works with professionals in high-stakes, high-stress, purpose-driven fields. With more than 27 years of experience in high conflict positions such as an investigative journalist, private-investigator and court appointed child advocate -- all while raising children of her own -- she has a unique and intuitive understanding...