Get your WIT together

One spring day in 2017, Vanetta Partners' founder and CEO, Andi Vanetta Smith, woke up to a sea of frantic texts from her clients begging her to hire more women. There was a new buzz in the air. The paradigm shift had begun. Join us to hear this expert Silicon Valley recruiter walk us through her story, the long-awaited realization that tech companies need diverse teams, and the key factors to help you to hire and keep them.

This episode we talk to blogger, software engineer and our favorite burner (yes, we're talking about Burning Man), Jackie Luo, about radical pay transparency. When we don't know how much our peers are making, it disproportionally impacts minorities like women and people of color. On the contrary, when we do know how much our peers make, it gives us grounds to ask for the right

Tech Stars Claudia and Carolina Recchi take us to school - first time founder school. These superstar sisters run through the trials and tribulations of founding Edsights together and confirm/deny some age old myths: 1. Fake it till you make it? (Yes.) 2. Ask for money and get advice, ask for advice and get money? (Not quite.) 3. Size matters? (JK we didn’t talk about this one.)

What would women's healthcare look like if it were imagined and executed by women for women? This week, we sit down with Carolyn Witte, founder of Tia, to find out. From cycle tracking on your smartphone to an appointment booking UX and waiting room that feels like Soul Cycle, Tia is taking a new approach to healthcare. Tune in for our *hot* take on startup naming, how to navigate fundraising as a FFTF (female first time founder), and Tia's superpower.

For GYWT's very first book club, Hilary, Julia, and returning guest, Steffi (catch her on episode 3) get real about Silicon Valley's infamous WIT, Elizabeth Holmes, and John Carreyrou's national bestseller, Bad Blood. If you've read the book or you're as obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes as we are, this episode is your chance to talk about the hard hitters: When did Theranos turn from aspirational to fraudulent? Why is Sunny Balwani so gross? Is Tyler Schultz single? This is our last rant about Holmes this season, we swear on Theranos.

Like this week we like sat down with linguistic experts Carrie Gillon and like Megan Figueroa, hosts of the Vocal Fries Podcast. We like talked about like why vocal fry is totally important and how like valley girls like Kim Kardashian are like seriously impacting the way women like speak! But seriously, we covered what vocal fry is, up speak, filler words and reclaiming the fry! Obviously also discussed literal fries.

Our first ~famous~ guest, Claire Drumond, T-shirt blogger extraordinaire, gets real about the Silicon Valley uniform. Be honest ladies, when was the last time you actually felt good about wearing one of your weirdly "women's fit" company T-shirts? Like the word fetch, we WITs need to stop trying to make tech T-shirts happen. They're not going to happen.

GYWT gets real about women to women dynamics at work. Is it fair for women to be tougher on each other? Do people expect you to be friends with the other female on your team JUST because she also doesn't have a Y chromosome? Do we have a responsibility to sponsor other women and help raise each other up? (hint: the answer starts with Y and ends with ES)

Do you use exclamation points in your emails? What about your Slack channel??!?!!!!!! Are emojis fun or unprofessional

Have you ever cried in your office? We have. Ain't no shame in some tears here and there (at least in theory) but why then do we have the urge to hide in the bathroom? GYWT discusses the ins and outs of the inevitable reality that is getting emotional at work.