Entrepreneurs and the Power of Being Young
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Release Date: 10/27/2019
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
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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
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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
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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.
info_outlineDo you remember what you were passionate about when you were 24? Do you still have those dreams?
What about when you were seven years old? What did you want to be when you "grew up"?
I believe it is never too late. 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.
About Christine Souffrant
A globally recognized speaker, Christine Souffrant is a Haitian American entrepreneur with 7 years of business management experience across 30+countries. As the founder of Vendedy (a mobile network connecting global travelers to street vendors of developing countries), she has been featured with IBM, Microsoft, Fast Company, Manatt Ventures, etc.
Learn more about Vendedy at Vendedy.com
Vendedy was selected as a Poverty Alleviation commitment by the Clinton Global Initiative and won global competitions for social impact including the 2015 Digital Entertainment World Competition, Master Card Priceless Pitch, and the $1 Million Dollar Chivas Venture USA competition.
As the Managing Director of Startup Grind Dubai, she works with dozens of leading CEO’s within the Middle East and around the world. She has spoken on leadership, disruptive entrepreneurship and tech social impact innovation at conferences located in Trinidad, Dubai, New York, San Francisco, Russia, Romania, LA, and more.
About Daniel Fine
Daniel Fine is the founder & CEO of Team Brotherly Love and The Fine Companies, which includes sunglass company Glass-U, medical app Dosed, and Boston based tutoring firm NexTutors. Team Brotherly Love has raised over $2.1 million for Type-1 diabetes research. Glass-U makes fully-folding sunglasses and is licensed to hundreds of universities and many greek organizations in the US. It has been featured at events ranging from The Rose Bowl to Lollapalooza and this past summer was an official licensee to produce sunglasses for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Dosed is a mobile solution intended to revolutionize the way that diabetics manage and track their insulin dosage.
Learn more about Daniel at DanielFine.com.
Fine has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 25 International Leaders of Tomorrow and one of the World’s Top 5 Young Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneurs Organization. He has received the “President’s Volunteer Service Award” twice and is a Fellow of the Kairos Society.
About Ladislas de Toldi
Ladislas is a 26-year-old biotech engineer, passionate about computers, robotics & spearfishing. He is the founder of Leka, a young startup whose goal is to develop smart and innovative educational toys for children with disabilities.
Learn more about Leka.io.
Leka is currently developing Moti, an interactive spherical rolling robot specially designed for children with autism spectrum disorders.
Ladislas is in charge of hardware design & technical development. After graduating as a biotech engineer he learned robotics on his own to build the first prototypes of Moti.
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