Why You Should Stop Sacrificing Your Sleep Now
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Release Date: 05/21/2019
How To Build Communities That Matter w/ SC Moatti, Darryl Grant & Anne Devereux-Mills
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Having a supportive community full of inspirational people surrounding you can be the difference between success and failure. You can find your community online, through social networks, but it’s even better to find a group local to you to get that inspiration face-to-face. Today’s guests, SC Moatti, Darryl Grant, Anne Devereux-Mills, are all founding members of women’s communities who find great comfort and support within their groups.
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Leslie Schrock on Bumpin
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
If you want to write a book, the best advice out there is that you really need to like writing because the whole process is time-consuming and, to be perfectly honest, kind of hard! My guest, Leslie Schrock, joins me to talk about the process she went through writing Bumpin’ while she was pregnant and some of the best parts of her book.
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What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table w/ Minda Harts
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Black women exist in corporate America and the more we talk about, advocate, and acknowledge them and their differences, the better their experience will be. Minda Harts is here to talk about how black women can be their own advocates to advance in their life and career.
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Gender Equality In Corporate America w/ Julie Des Jardins
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Opening the conversation about gender equity in and out of the workplace is the first step to creating productive and positive allies. Women have always been in positions that promote a culturally feminine leadership, often behind the scenes or beside strong men. Historian Julie Des Jardins joins Powerful Conversations to discuss feminine modes of leadership in today’s political climate.
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Food Justice Rock Star w/ Anna Lappé
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
The state of our nation’s food industry is in complete disarray. From pesticide use to over-farming to ads for sugar-laden drinks and snacks targeting our children, we need to completely overhaul the system. Anna Lappé is here to talk about food sustainability, health, and justice.
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Anita Sands On Board Service And Being A Leader
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Being the only woman in the boardroom doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, Dr. Anita Sands thinks this situation can actually be something positive and memorable. It’s all about making a difference, standing out, and being recognized, something every professional woman should aspire to.
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Entrepreneurs and the Power of Being Young
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
If you haven't started following through on your dreams yet, I hope this episode will inspire you to start now. We are going to hear from three young entrepreneurs who share their passion and engagement with us and the stories of their journeys and their incredible accomplishments.
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Innovation and Opportunity in Virtual Reality
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Don't miss this interview with leading innovators in virtual reality as they share how it is being used and future opportunities to connect to a new world through VR.
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Bringing Diversity To The Tech C-Suite w/ Sandra Lopez
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Will the actions you take today have a positive impact on tomorrow’s society? That’s a question that Sandra Lopez, VP of Intel Sports Group asks herself every day. She’s not only creating a new world of sports technology, but she’s also a diversity advocate for women in C-level careers.
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The Power of a Warm Embrace w/ Jane Chen
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Jane Chen has spent years working on health issues in the developing world. Listen in and learn more about the impact she is making in the world so that mothers don't lose their babies because of a lack of access.
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In this episode, we talk about the power of sleep and what happens when we don't get enough of it. Join us as Dr. Michael Twery discusses the significance of sleep on our whole self including the effects on growth and stress hormones, our immune system, appetite, breathing, blood pressure, and cardiovascular health.
Dr. Twery, Ph.D., is the director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Division of Lung Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
He has led the NIH’s sleep and respiratory neurobiology scientific research group since 1996, and has served as director of the NCSDR since January 2006. In these roles, Dr. Twery oversees the support of research and research training related to sleep disordered breathing, the fundamental functions of sleep and circadian rhythms, and sleep disorder epidemiology and clinical trials.
Dr. Twery served as the program officer for the SleepAcademic Award program, the Specialized Centers of Research on sleep neurobiology effort, and initiatives to study the link between sleep disorders and short sleep duration with cardiovascular disease risk factors such as the metabolic syndrome, diabetes and obesity.