A Lesson On the Courage of Choice with Merle Hoffman
Voice Lessons Podcast
Merle Hoffman is an internationally known leader in the struggle for women’s rights, opening one of the first abortion clinics pre-Roe in 1971. Throughout her activism career spanning over 50 years, Merle's mission remains the same; for women to fight for their own reproductive choices and to recognize that each individual woman can make a profound decision for her own life, and has the right to speak up for that choice. You just have to practice courage.
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A Lesson On Saying It with Sugar with Becca Rea-Tucker
Voice Lessons Podcast
Becca Rea-Tucker has been "saying it with sugar" since 2018 and now more than ever, this feminist baker is helping to shift the conversation and inspire change around women's issues by using a more unconventional platform: cakes.
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A Lesson On Creating Joy with Jennifer Freed
Voice Lessons Podcast
Jennifer Freed, Ph.D, M.F.T. is a psychological astrologer who believes that your cosmic DNA serves as a roadmap for your life. Even when we are experiencing oppression from our societies, if we learn to embrace our past traumas, use our unique gifts to create change, and incorporate movement into our day each day, we can make joyful choices that allow us to show up for ourselves and others during times of hardship.
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A Lesson On Belonging with Dr. Sarah Gaither
Voice Lessons Podcast
“What are you?” It’s a question Dr. Sarah Gaither was asked a child growing up mixed race. Now she studies the effects of that question and others related to identity at Duke University's Identity & Diversity Lab. In this episode on belonging, we talk about identity denial, identity accessibility, and why she’s using her own multiracial identity to help create a more inclusive world.
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A Lesson On Seizing Your Upgrade with Dr. Louann Brizendine
Voice Lessons Podcast
Dr. Louann Brizendine was among the first to explain why women think, communicate, and feel differently than men. Now she’s on a mission to rebrand the “M" word: Menopause.
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A Lesson On Forgiveness with Ronit Plank
Voice Lessons Podcast
Ronit Plank's mother left to follow the Indian mystic, some would say cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (also known as Osho) when she was five years old. Through the process of writing her memoir, When She Comes Back, Plank rewrote her definition of forgiveness.
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A Lesson On Turning a Moment Into a Movement with Dana Marlowe
Voice Lessons Podcast
Dana Marlowe turned a moment into a movement. What began with the question, “What can I do with my old bras?” led to the creation of I Support the Girls, a national non-profit organization that provides a source of dignity, self-esteem, empowerment, and support to marginalized women via the donation of bras and menstrual hygiene products. As a human rights advocate in the intersections of feminism, menstrual equality, health, and dignity, Dana works tirelessly to better the lives of the most invisible populations.
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A Lesson In Being You with Brandy Gueary
Voice Lessons Podcast
Brandy G. of Authentically B wants everyone to know that it’s ok to be you. Because when you do, the divine might just present you with your heart’s desires. The moment Brandy decided to be visible as her authentic self was the moment that her transition from full-time school teacher to model and lifestyle influencer unfolded. And she’s owning it.
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A Lesson On the Unwritten History of Women with Kristen Richardson
Voice Lessons Podcast
Kristen Richardson comes from a long line of debutantes but she chose not to debut. In this, “Lesson on the Unwritten History of Women”, find out why curiosity drove her to research this enduring tradition and why the role debutantes play in a family’s story, is much more complicated than it seems.
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A Lesson On Why It's Never Too Late with Mara Smith
Voice Lessons Podcast
Seventeen years after Mara Smith left her career as an attorney to raise her family, she's back full force not only with the valuable skills she learned as a mother but with the drive to start a successful Tequilla brand in the spirits industry. Got a great idea for our next episode? Nominate a guest or send us a note to
info_outlineTOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How being a twin tied into Laura’s career steps and her mission to get women to collaborate.
- Laura’s non-toxic perfume business started as an accident and turned into a passion.
- What Laura learned about environmental risk in the perfume business and how these government regulations started her interest in manufacturing practices.
- Why creatives often become unexpected entrepreneurs and how they succeed.
- What is period equity and why does it matter?
- States collectively make over $150 million annually from taxing menstrual products.
- The tipping point that got the legislature to take action against the period tax in the NY state case in 2016.
- Women were excluded from medical research until the 1980s and early 1990s.
- We need to overcome being embarrassed about the issue of menstruation and use our voice to ask for necessities such as menstrual products.
- Scotland has made period products free.
- The goal of Period Equity and how women can get involved in their own communities.
- How litigation can alleviate menstrual inequality and fund free products for those in need.
- Whey menstrual companies aren’t doing their job when it comes to fighting for period equality.
- Why are most of the world’s billionaires male?
- Why feminine leadership often represents those who don’t have a voice.