Mana Wahine of Hawai'i and the Power of Land
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Happy International Women's Day! In honour of International Women's Day, Fempower is releasing this special episode on the Powerful Women, the Mana Wahine, of Hawai'i and the Power of Land. This episode was recorded live onsite in Waikiki, Hawai'i and is a cumulation of Dr. Kraj's research and learning as a Fulbright Scholar on exchange. Dr. Kraj works with Indigenous communities, sustainability and community power for energy resilience. In this episode, Dr. Kraj speaks with Native Hawaiians Aunty Ku'uipo Kumukahi, an entertainer, award-winning recording artist and record producer, as...
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Rewiring to Find Joy with Keira Poulsen
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We talk about Joy, seeking joy, what happens when joy get interrupted by trauma and rewiring for joy in order to choose joy everyday. Today has been 1-year of “pandemic living” or lockdown and insecurity. The weight of which has left us all living with this collective trauma. Today’s guest is Keira Poulsen, a spiritual entrepreneurship coach for Lightworkers, healers, change-makers and leaders. She helps women create their soul work and successful businesses derived from their gifts and purpose.
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Celebrating Being CEO
Fempower
In this episode we celebrate small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the people behind these businesses, the mom and pops, the CEOs, the people who are keeping our economy running during these incomprehensible times. Today’s guest is CEO Heidi Reimer Epp of Botanical Paperworks. We look back on all we have collectively gone through and reflect on the lessons learned. We need to pause and celebrate the CEO – the toughest job in an SME.
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Social Media Detox
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Is Artificial Intelligence Manipulating your Reality? This episode discusses why we need to reevaluate our relationship to, and usage of, social media and calls on doing our individual part to address our role in the matrix; how we can regain our self-sovereignty of our information that we consume and contribute online, and the structures that exist to enable you to do just that.
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Love, Loss and the Resilience of 2020
Fempower
Dr. Andrea Kraj reflects on the end of the year 2020, what kept her away from the mic until now and she picks two key words to sum up her take on the year, calling on all to continue to "Love Big Right Now". www.fempower.ca
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The Power of Purpose with Angella Rainford
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On today’s episode, we talk about Love and Purpose. Guest Angella Rainford is doing remarkable work in the solar industry in the Caribbean and it all stems from her deep connection to her own purpose. More at www.fempower.ca
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Elevate to Your Authentic Self
Fempower
Hello 2020! A fresh start to a new decade, a new year and a new you. Dr. Andrea Kraj gives her take and advice on the best way to elevate your life with tools and tips that are very practical, while explaining what "vibes" really are when you hear live a "high vibe" life or "good vibes" only from an energetic and scientific point of view, and how this merges in the realm of spirituality. Find out what she has "dived" into this new year and what she means about being bravely imperfect!
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October Monthly Message on Fempower
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Here's a rebroadcast of the October message for insiders in case you missed it.
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December Monthly Message on Fempower
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Bonus content and insight at the top of each month for free for subscribers to the Fempower Insiders Club! Subscribe at INSIDERS and on www.fempower.ca
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November Monthly Message on Fempower
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Bonus content and insight at the top of each month for free for subscribers to the Fempower Insiders Club! Subscribe at INSIDERS and on www.fempower.ca
info_outlineI am so excited for today’s episode! Joelle Foster is an amazing women with so much life experience. She has mentored, coached and inspired so many entrepreneurs in their journey and she knows what it takes. Joelle has been there for me when I was faced with the challenge of taking my business to the next level and she has been a sounding board for so many. Her passion and positivity is contagious and this episode is full of amazing advice, stories, experience, laughter and real life. It’s always a treat to get to spend some time with Joelle and having her on Fempower is extra special because her message is so foundational to this show and to so many of our lives – helping us to find our inner power, to believe in ourselves and to face our fears, to know our worth and to thrive.
Joelle is best known as a spirited activist for entrepreneurship in Canada. In March 2018, she left Winnipeg to lead the new University of Calgary Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking as the inaugural Executive Director. Prior to this, Joelle was a Director for Futurpreneur Canada, for 7.5 years overseeing Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nunavut and NWT. Under her leadership, in Manitoba alone, 325 businesses opened their doors. She achieved a 91% success rate over 7 years. She has affectionately earned the title of “Start-Up Mom”.
Supporting a wide range of entrepreneurial initiatives, she currently sits on the Board for North Forge Technology Exchange and the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE). In recognition of her work, Joelle was the 2017 recipient of Volunteer of the Year Award from the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and she received the Board of Directors Excellence Award from the Manitoba Business Council in 2016. She was a nominee for the YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Business in 2015, a finalist for the Spirit of Winnipeg awards in 2015 and was the Runner Up for the Start-up Canada Award for Ecosystem Builder of the Year in 2014.
We discuss:
- Her background, growing up in Nunavut and the early challenges she faced
- Her business foundation in college and her toolkit of skills
- How to learn the skills you need in life and business that you won’t get from post-secondary learning
- What drives Joelle’s passion and motivation for entrepreneurship
- The books that Joelle recommends (links in show notes)
- How Joelle can tell if an entrepreneur has the characteristics for success
- How to decipher the skills of a good vs. bad mentors
- What type of entrepreneurs Joelle would invest in
- The importance of Failure
- How to survive entrepreneurship
- The differences between men and women in their approach to business and advice that Joelle has to help women excel
- The challenges that Joelle has faced and advice she gives
- Things she would have liked to tell her younger-self
- Why she left Winnipeg as a Women leader
- Joelle’s definition of PMS - it’s not what you think!
- The importance of mentoring others
- How Joelle uses her feminine vs. her masculine power in leadership
- What women should be doing for seeking funding or investment for their business
- Understanding VC funding
- Knowing your worth and having the confidence to walk out of the room.
- Motherhood, adoption, supporting relationships, and role-models
- Joelle’s take on work-life integration
- The entrepreneurial life-style with small children
- Joelle’s most important things that she has learned in her journey so far
- Where Joelle finds the energy within herself to give as much as she does
- How shifting her mindset changed her life and what defining moment made it happen.
- How Joelle selects her tribe
- How Joelle hires people and why
- Joelle’s take on the entrepreneurship at the International vs. Canadian scale – where Canada is at and what we can learn from the rest of the world and timelines for Canada to make an impact globally
- How women can succeed in funding at a global stage
- Joelle’s hidden talents and desired super powers!
- The Goddess that I assign to Joelle