Dr. Nancy O'Reilly

Dr. Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPT, tells her personal story of not recognizing that she had burnout until it was almost too late and how she founded Platform Wellness and developed ReST Revive, Strive and Thrive TM using her expertise in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine to help others by working with corporations and individuals experiencing burnout. Her words of wisdom: Mindset is medicine.

Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr., speaks from a 40 year career in law enforcement and leadership of how the sudden death of his wife and losing everything while raising seven sons transformed his life, showed him his vulnerabilities and helped him understand the suffering of others. His book, Beyond Midnight, tells the whole story and this conversation shares wisdom about power and presence and receiving help from surprising places.

Cindy Couyoumjian shares her experiences from 36 years experience as a woman in the finance industry, founder of Cinergy Financial and the research and advice in her new book, The Rise of Women and Wealth: Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future. She urges women to become financially literate and take control of their money to provide for their futures and leave a legacy for their loved ones. Surprising fact: Women own 51% of assets today.

Marlene Chism tells her story of becoming a gifted speaker, narrative coach and author from work a 20 year career at a factory. Her fifth book, From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading, works through mismanagement of leadership in ways to help us all benefit from redefining conflict and developing the capacity to deal with it rather than avoid it.

Julie Castro Abrams tells about How Women Lead, her social justice organization that brings women together to make an impact. Over 14,000 women become fierce advocates for each other and help one another in many ways, including investing in women-owned businesses and recommending them for seats on corporate boards. Julie stresses the need for women to step out, speak out and work together for gender and racial equality.

Lucina Di Meco describes how #She-Persisted works to stop social media attacks against women leaders. False claims and targeted threats prevent young woman running for political office and threaten the safety of those in the spotlight. She calls it a threat to democracy and free speech. In fact there is no free speech for these targeted women. We can all help. Lucina explains how.

Jennifer Faust talks about Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara and how they equip girls with the confidence to become women who live successful lives. Besides being a voice for girls, the programs of Girls Inc. National and the affiliates in the US and Canada provide numerous supports including mentoring, sports and a network of girls who go on to lead as women.

Amanda B. Cunningham is COO of Her Future Coalition and the social profit partner, Yoga Medicine® Seva, which both serve the mission to end human trafficking in India and Nepal. These are the epicenter for the sale of human beings, mostly girls, throughout the world. Amanda describes cultures that see a girl's value as how much she will bring when she is sold. Her organizations provide education for girls to lift them out of poverty and give them worth beyond what they can bring as products. Successful graduates often serve their communities filling roles that need women to help with problems caused by viewing women as "less than."

Susan Whiting is Chair of the National Women's History Museum Board and is excited to announce that after 26 years of offering online programs about women's contribution to the founding and development of our country, NWHM is to become a museum in residence at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Washington, D.C., It's a museum reimagined, still offering online programs and events, but reaching out to the community to help foster and continue women's stories through recording and exhibition of women in history who have remained unknown until now.

Gary Lee Price summarizes the story of his horrific experiences as a child and how teachers in school lifted him up by recognizing his talent as an artist, however no one stopped it. Gary has written a memoir, Divine Turbulence about his life, and his passion to install 305 foot The Statue of Responsibility, the brainchild of Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankel, which Gary has designed and built replicas of as a symbol that we have to act responsibly to keep our freedom.

Kelli Thompson talks about advice from her book to be released this fall, Closing the Confidence Gap, a leadership book for women that guides them past the barriers they have created trying to adapt to male-dominated business practices, upper level jobs and doing business as usual. Kelli says, "By changing the workplace, women can change the world."

Tiffany Shlain tells about her new program for companies called The Future of Work and Wellbeing based on the 15 years of using a hybrid work model at her workplace, Let It Ripple Film Studio, which allows for two days of collaboration and three days of working at home. She has combined several films about character and neuroscience with her book, 24/6--about unplugging from screens once a week to recharge and get more creative and productive--to produce a 4-week program to help companies transition into a new work model that supports employees and management to get people back to work.

Michele Meyer-Shipp tells about her career full of pivots based on building relationships and engaging the power of the collective--moving from law into DEI, she became a transformational leader in multiple industries including Major League Baseball, where she brought together DEI strategies for 30 major league and 120 minor league teams at the height of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. Now she had joined Dress for Success Worldwide as their new CEO where she will bring together over 140 chapters in 25 countries to empower women at this very challenging time.

Jensine Larsen founded the online platform World Pulse when she recognized the power of interconnectivity of the internet. Her original attempts to share heart-breaking stories from women fighting for their survival amidst war and environmental catastrophies as a journalist won awards as a glossy magazines, but it's the 80,000 voices in over 200 countries that are changing live s for women around the world today. Listen to her story and heroic women's stories in this conversation and how you can help lift women up and use technology for good.

Dr. Jacqueline Sanderlin tells how her "Why Not" attitude ignited a positive attitude among students and engaged the community to provide resources in a very challenged LA school district. Reaching out to everyone from The Grammys to mom and pop shops, Dr. Jackie recruited help to elevate student performance beyond anyone's expectation. As CEO of The Why Not Incubator and author of The Why Not Challenge, Dr. Jackie offers guidance to other educators to follow this path asking "Why Not?" for their own schools.

Tara Jaye Frank discusses how anyone not in the learning loop (women, black or brown people) need someone to make a way for them to enter top management. An executive for many years herself, she says many upper managers want to do the right thing, but they don't know what that is and fear making a mistake. Her new book, out in May, The Waymakers, show them how, and Tara's consulting business walks them through the process, bridging where they are to where they want to be.

Bobbie LaPorte talks about how training and participating in six Ironman Triathlons have changed the way she thinks about leadership. She stresses that you cannot plan, but you can prepare. In business and in endurance events, you can't know anymore what will happen moment to moment, so you need to prepare for change and use that change to discover the possibilities, focus on the strengths of your team and connect them to stay in the race and come out ahead.

Samantha Karlin describes the events that lead her to pursue a course to found Empower Global and broadcast her podcast Samanthropolitics to advance social change and women's rights around the world. With advanced degrees in law and diplomacy with a specialization in global gender analysis and conflict resolution, she is especially equipped to reveal ways to make significant change that cause women to be pawns in the world's struggle for power, and also train women to use their own power to lead, which she does through her Women's Leadership Challenge.

Katie Steele Danner tells how the Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge educates emerging women leaders about the needs of the communities throughout Missouri and how their abilities can help to solve problems and provide opportunities for leadership in areas that may be new to them. Now in its 32 year, the Challenge has more than 1,300 graduates leading in the state and around the world providing a vast network among a large array of industries and public service.

Kelly Nevins, CEO of the Women's Fund of Rhode Island shares how WFRI advocates for change at the systems level to benefit women. Although some women run for office because of what they learn from WFRI training, the group is non-partisan, supporting advocacy and training to help women create and advise the decision makers in their communities and workplaces. Kelly also gives advice to women looking for jobs and career change today, plus resources for women's funds throughout the country.

Colonel Ron Garan shares the story of how he became an astronaut and how his experiences in space elevated his perspective to see the unity of everything and everyone on earth. Working with people from 15 other countries taught him the power of diversity of perspective, and the awe and wonder of seeing earth from space showed him how interconnected we all are and expanded his view of how even the small things we do shift the trajectory of everything and everyone we touch into the future.

Dr. Sheila Robinson's message of knowing you have the power in you to be happy, work hard, fix broken systems for win-win results orbit around her own story of being raised to do that. She was not raised to take care of herself. Now, having lost 25 pounds, she feels younger, is more productive and much better at taking care of others. So her 2021 National Diversity Woman Media Business Leadership Conference is about being "Empowered to Lead." Sign up now for the virtual experience coming up November 4-5.

Gloria Feldt tells about her new book, INTENTIONING: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone's) Good, and how she made up the word to differentiate from ambition. Ambition is the hope and the dream--the fuel to start it. And intentioning is the action. Now I'm doing it. Nine power tools for leadership are contained in this newest book, which is available now where ever books are sold.

Terra Renee tells the story of why and how she founded African American Women in Cinema, the trajectory of her career in filmmaking and the qualities in women that have held them back, and more recently how she has seen women supporting women in various places and careers around the country. Terra is hopeful about the advancement of women and has numerous programs to support them in filmmaking.

Jon Macaskill describes how he learned about mindfulness and meditation as a Navy Seal Commander, but called it "taking control." Later he volunteered to help vets with the skill and learned how he could take control of his own emotions through a counselor. Now, he has a podcast "Men Talking Mindfulness" and is a keynote speaker and corporate consultant where he shares how it works to increase productivity in high-achieving teams.

Linda Rendleman talks about ways she has helped women from founding one of the first women's websites to her charity, Women Like Us, which has helped transform womens lives in the U.S. and the world. Currently the Women Like Us Center educates women in Kenya skills to make them economically independent and help them feed their families. And Linda has also started coaching women to rediscover their self worth and redefine their life path.

L.Y. Marlow shares her life story about intimate partner abuse through 5 generations of her family and how it took a life-threatening moment to make her vow to "save promise," which became the name of her organization focused on preventing the cycle of abuse. Prevention is key , she says and her latest book, Don't Look at the Monster, examines how the monsters within us keep us from changing ourselves to look at our lives in terms of "a gift, a lesson or a blessing."

Former FBI Agent and Corporate Security professional, Allison Sands describes the soft skills she teaches in her company, Project Hummingbird to derail violence and potentially life-threatening confrontation. Everything from police and front line workers to individuals in daily life are covered in this conversation. Listen and stay safe.

Elissa Fisher Harris shares her childhood story steeped in adversity and how she channeled that into stepping outside of herself to help others. Her podcast, "A World On Purpose," features people who have pivoted to living a life of purpose and helping others, and her position as Chief Impact Strategist and Partner of 5th Element Group where they unite organizations and people to amplify their efforts to make a global impact.

Helen Knost tells Dr. Nancy her story of multiple cancer diagnoses and her progress of fighting it and recovering and doing what doctors said she wouldn't do, her discovery and work with the Livestrong Foundation and her new business using skills of being a friend to others and helping them make the world a better place, which she named "My Friend Helen."

Libby Tyson is heading up The Women Writing History: A Coronavirus Journaling Project for the National Women's History Museum. She tells Nancy why she chooses to work as a curator and archivist, why history is important as the story of humanity for future generations and what she finds hopeful about the journals currently submitted during the pandemic crisis.

Anne Beiler shares her life's story of growing up in a loving Amish household, living a fairy tale life, then losing her daughter in an instant. The journey through abuse, and out again, starting the largest soft pretzel franchise in the world, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, then turning the whole experience into her life's purpose to help others "Overcome and Lead" became the topic of her new book.

Dr. Barbara Walker Green shares her insight into the importance of being accountable for your actions and of the power that women have when we come together. We are born sheroes and her new book and website urge women to unite and contribute to the Shero Nation to promote positive change for women and all people of the world.

Rachel Feldman tells about what it's like to be a female director in Hollywood and about her new screenplay "LILLY," a political thriller which tells the personal story of fair pay icon Lilly Ledbetter who took her case against Good Year Tire Company to the Supreme Court and to Congress to get the fair pay act passed in 2009.

Award-winning financial journalist, Stacey Tisdale shares insights into how our attitudes about money are formed in childhood and why it's important for us to change them to our advantage, For Example: only 7% of women graduates negotiate the pay of their first job and it costs $500,000 by the age of 60. Also introduction of Wealth Wednesdays, a program targeting the Black community to manage their money.

Dr. Sheila Robinson founded Diversity Woman Media to help promote diversity and inclusion in corporations and help women of all colors, cultures and backgrounds achieve equality in the workplace. She provides her perspective of how systemic racism holds us back and how we can overcome it with systems that promote diversity and inclusion like the more than 100 corporations she partners with.

Angelina Rosario tells her inspiring story of how heart break and near death transformed her life into one of purpose dedicated to showing women how they can transform pain into purpose. Angelina shares her story with others and tools for a successful life through her book, Thank You for Walking Away, her website "She Fixes Crowns," and her podcast Move Out the Way (MOTW)

Phyllis Chesler talks about the feminist movement of the late sixties, her history with writing and feminism and how she sees women today. She wrote her new book, Requiem for a Female Serial Killer to dispel the myth that women choose to be prostitutes instead of being trafficked or abused into a life not of their free will. The running theme of this conversation is how women need to support each other to change the culture that keeps them from equitable leadership and makes them victims of various societies in which they live.

Roxi Hewertson tells Dr. Nancy O'Reilly the key points in her new book, Hire Right Fire Right, and how companies get it wrong by not spending enough time preparing for the interview and relying on outdated methods that result in expensive failures. Roxi says that hiring is relational, not transactional and developing a relationship with new hires is critical to success.

A. Margot Blair tells about her journey from a childhood complicated by adversity and allowing her circumstances to define who she is to discovering her value and calling as a young adult. Margot turned that calling to partnership and collaboration with major organizations and founded DiscoverHer to help teens and young women get beyond their own adversities.

Sharon Melnick, PhD, tells Dr. Nancy how a woman's power is found at the intersection of her skills of resilience, confidence and influence, and it's through using these that a woman advances in her career. Importantly, when a woman advances, she brings others along with her. Dr. Sharon founded her virtual coaching business, Next Level Leader to help women move to the next level in weeks, not months or years. Her e-book, Pigeon Holed to Promoted, details how to do this and more.

Michele Weldon tells her childhood story of how she started her first newspaper at 10, starting a lifetime of story telling as a career journalist. Her award-winning essays are published everywhere and this collection reflects on Life, Work and Meaning. Michele hopes it will provide a respite for these chaotic times, help people relocate their dreams, empathize and be generous with others, and find a purpose to reach out and create change for good,

Renessa Boley-Layne tells the story of how she worked for years as a highly paid engineer, then management consultant and other jobs she hated, until she found her gift: helping others find their gifts and purpose. Then she founded The Perfect Academy and wrote the book, "Fast Lane Wrong Direction" to share her story and help others make the u-turn to real success.

Dr. Sheila Robinson tells how her company Diversity Woman Media helps organizations use diversity and inclusion to deliver results, and women advance their careers through her magazine and annual conference. Power Forward, the Diversity Business Women's Leadership Conference is virtual this year on October 8 and 9. Listen for more information and register soon.

Rachel Vogelstein tells Dr. Nancy O'Reilly about the formation of the National Women's History Museum, the online curricula and resources it provides for students and why it's important to include women who shaped our nation in its history books, to serve as role models for future generations of girls.

Krista Peryer tells how The Geek Foundation, which she co-founded helps underserved people learn about different opportunities in the tech industry, how well-paying jobs are always available and many do not require a 4-year college degree. The Geek Foundation has provided free training through grant funds and plans to provide more. Krista's goal is to help people get the training they need to access well-paying jobs in the tech industry.

Felicia Davis is a riveting speaker, author and award-winning leadership coach who works with emerging and experienced women leaders to develop effective leadership brands, compelling communication skills and the confidence to show up and be the leader they want to be. She tells Dr. Nancy what keeps women from using their voice and how leaders must lead in the post pandemic world.

Stacy Jurado-Miller has a radical idea that if we apply our passion to a mission-driven business, we can transform the traditional profit-driven business model and change the world for good. She shares her ideas of what makes a great leader and why success and profits are guaranteed if we create businesses to fix the issue we can't ignore.

Stephanie Rimmer talks about the reforms she is convinced will transform our government into a body that serves the interests of the people, not the politicians. She is running for Congress in the 6th District of Arizona. Listen to find out her personal story, and more about her life of community service and the passion behind her bid for a Congressional seat.

Monica Nyiraguhabwa tells the story of her life as a young girl in the slums of Kampala, Uganda, and how the injustices she faced because of a culture that does not value girls inspired her to change the lives of young girls. She co-founded Girl Up Initiative Uganda to help girls find their voices, and be empowered to lead, thrive and share their knowledge with their families and communities.

Corporate gender strategist Jeffery Tobias Halter talks with Dr. Nancy O'Reilly about why having more women in corporate leadership is important and why they cannot do it without men, who are currently 80% of leadership. Motivations and strategies for getting more women into management are outlined in addition to his book, WHY WOMEN: The Leadership Imperative to Advancing Women and Engaging Men.