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The Power of a Warm Embrace w/ Jane Chen

Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators

Release Date: 10/20/2019

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Jane Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Embrace, a social enterprise that aims to help the millions of vulnerable babies born every year in developing countries through a low-cost infant warmer. Unlike traditional incubators that cost up to $20,000, the Embrace infant warmer costs around $200. The device requires no electricity, has no moving parts, is portable and is safe and intuitive to use.

About Jane Chen:

Jane Chen is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Embrace Innovations, a social enterprise that aims to help the 20 million premature and low birth weight babies born every year, through a low-cost infant warmer. The Embrace Infant Warmer costs less than 1% of a traditional incubator and has helped over 50,000 babies to date. The company's vision is to create a line of affordable healthcare technologies for women and children around the world.

Chen is a TED Senior Fellow and was selected as one of Forbes' Impact 30 in 2011. She was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012, and a Schwab Social Entrepreneur in 2013. She and her co-founders recently won the 2013 Economist Innovation Award.

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