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Women With Strength is an inter-generational podcast that strives to provide a space for women of all backgrounds to share their communal story.

Women With Strength


    • Sep 5, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • weekly NEW EPISODES
    • 44m AVG DURATION
    • 27 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Women With Strength

    Final Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 35:40


    Today is bittersweet, we are posting our final episode of both the Bloom and our Mainline podcast. For the past 6 months we have enjoyed an incredible run of inspirational women sharing with us, the stories that defined them and those that they did not let define them. We thank everyone who joined us on this journey, and hope that you felt as strongly a part of the community that we were trying to connect as we did. For more info please listen to today's episode on Apple/Spotify/Patreon. Our catalog will remain available for the foreseeable future. We do have a few ideas up our sleeves for Women With Strength, and this will be our primary channel for the future. Thanks for lending us your ears!

    Rose and Sarah

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2024 51:53


    Our guests this week are Rose and Sarah, co-founders of Period Project NC. They started the organization during their sophomore year as a reaction to their negative experiences with having their periods at school. As the age of menarche has been decreasing (Sarah and Rose had their first period at 10 years old), they have found education, conversation and products to be inadequate. Period Project's goal is to normalize menstruation in conversation and ensure that all young women can experience their periods in dignity.

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    LaToya Faustin

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 48:09


    Our guest this week is LaToya Faustin, Executive Director of She Built This City. She Built This City is a nonprofit organization, whose goal is to build pathways for women in industries that they have had low historic representation, the skilled trades. In our conversation we learn about LaToya's history of service as a teacher and community builder. She talks us through the ways the organization confronts the barriers to women successfully developing the skills necessary to land the job and how She Built This City ensures everyone leaving this program has the skills, confidence and tools for the trade. Please visit shebuiltthiscity.org for more information on how you can donate or volunteer with them.

    Michelle Grasty-Colont

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 48:04


    Our guest this week is Michelle Grasty-Colont, who grew up right down the road from Summer in the Appalachian mountains. She shares her journey of learning to embrace - and merge - both of her familial cultures into one that is uniquely her own. Through the medium of food, she combines her Ashkenazi Jewish roots with her Appalachian roots into meaningful and delicious meals. Her substack, Ashkelachian, beautifully presents a combination of storytelling and recipes to share her journey. Check it out at the link in our episode description, and keep an eye out for a special event she's planning this fall.

    Je'Nen Chastain

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2024 46:50


    This week we are joined by Je'Nen Chastain to discuss her professional journey through a recession most Millennials know all too well. The fact that the 2008 US financial crisis focused in banking and housing, certainly didn't help someone in the last year of architecture school start their career with a good foundation. What would you do, in year five of a specialized program, when your professors tell you that you had better find something else to do with your degree, because you won't be designing buildings? Je'Nen shares with us how she navigated the recovery while finding her path, and how she may have ended up exactly where she was supposed to be all along.

    Linda Breen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2024 54:59


    Our guest this week is Linda Breen. She joins us to share her story of growing up in South Boston, the moment she realized she was a lesbian, and how she eventually came out to her family. Linda went on to build a career in non profit, with a focus on social justice. She was instrumental in the formation and operation of multiple organizations including the Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Fund. Linda is a powerful voice in our time and we hope you enjoy the episode as much as we do.

    Brittany Canaski

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 46:45


    This week's guest is Brittany Canaski, who is no stranger to Women With Strength. Brittany was a speaker at the first WWS conference last year. She joins us for a discussion on what life coaching is, and why she left a successful career in marketing to pursue it as a fresh start. Brittany can be found at www.hellovelocity.co and on instagram @hellovelocityco

    Aynsley Szczesniak

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 36:16


    This week our guest is Aynsley Szczesniak founder of Speak Out Sisterhood. SOS is a global network elevating youth to eradicate barriers to equality for women in STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics). Aynsley shares how her unique primary school experience helped her develop the skills to: enter Chapel Hill at the age of 16 in pursuit of medical school, start a global organization of mentorship connecting professional women working in STEM with students, and still have time to binge Grey's Anatomy. For more information on SOS you can check out speakoutsisterhood.org , or follow @speak_out_sisterhood on instagram.

    Lee Syria

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 46:24


    On this week's episode we are joined by Lee Syria. Lee is the CEO and President of Every Age, a series of not-for-profit senior living facilities in North Carolina and Virginia. In our conversation Lee shares how we might make some adjustments to our workplaces to accommodate more diverse voices. In her field Women represent only 20% of senior leadership, while filling 80% of the non-senior roles. Lee also shares some insights on how she was able to make her way to this role at a young age, by always saying yes to new opportunities and never avoiding asking for help.

    Patreon Unlocked: 50 Years of Ms.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 36:46


    Nancy and Summer discuss the 2023 retrospective "50 Years of Ms. (The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine that Ignited a Revolution)".

    Tish Atkins

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 39:42


    Vicky

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 41:56


    This week's episode is a story of survival and forgiveness. Our guest will remain anonymous to protect the details of her story, and she will be referred to as Vicky. This is a very important story to us, and our guest's perspective on life is aligned with our reasons for starting the podcast. Our hope is through sharing these interviews, we can provide some support, insight, and hope to those who have been in similar situations. [Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of Violence and SA]

    Becky Lipkin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2024 37:17


    On this week's episode we are joined by Becky Lipkin to discuss her journey through addiction, and how Alcoholics Anonymous saved her life.

    Patreon Unlocked: Chisholm '72 Unbought & Unbossed (ft. Chelsea Navarro)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2024 28:44


    Chelsea Navarro sticks around to join our discussion of the 2004 documentary "Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed".

    Nancy & Nancy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 44:26


    On this week's episode Nancy Baer returns to join us in a conversation about friendship. Nancy and Nancy have been friends for 49 years, and have only lived in the same city for a year and a half when they were 19 years old. We will be discussing the ways they make their long distance friendship work, and the importance of finding a best friend.

    Emmie King

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2024 53:10


    On this week's episode we are joined by Emmie King. She joins us to discuss growing up with undiagnosed learning disabilities, selecting a path that allowed her to focus on her strengths and pivoting in an entirely new direction later in life due to circumstance. Emmie shares how sometimes a new direction may not be so new after all, and how she now sees her disability as her super power.

    Tracey Hartzog

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2024 45:23


    This week's episode features Tracey Hartzog, who joins us to share the story of her experience using an adoption agency, and how sometimes bending the rules can transform something good into something great - a lifelong friendship.

    Kimberly Mobley

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 64:34


    This week's guest is Kimberly Mobley, AIA. She shares with us her journey to becoming a licensed architect: from Clemson to Gantt Huberman, taking her seat at the table, the role architects have in resolving complex issues in our society, and carrying the legacy of her mentor Harvey Gantt.

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    Chelsea Navarro

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 47:14


    In this week's episode our Woman With Strength is Chelsea Navarro. Chelsea joins us to discuss the challenges in becoming the primary care giver to her younger sister, when she was a teenager herself. Chelsea shares how this experience has informed her approach to becoming a mother, and some of the career choices she has gone on to make.

    Ashley McEneny

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 55:15


    This week, our Woman with Strength is our very own Ashley McEneny - Nancy's daughter and Summer's bonus sister. Ashley joins us from Seattle to share a story about a time she made a CHOICE that is threatened in our country and has been reduced drastically or removed in many states (choosing our words for the algorithm). Tune in to learn how she made that choice, how she healed from her experience, and what the future holds for her.

    Lori Avery

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 47:18


    In this week's episode our Woman With Strength is Lori Avery. Lori joins us to discuss the work of Pat's Place Child Advocacy Center, an organization where Lori serves as Chief Development Officer, and a little bit about the path she followed to find herself advocating for child maltreatment.

    Patreon Unlocked: She's Beautiful When She's Angry

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 40:53


    Today we are unlocking the second episode of our Patreon. We do an additional episode each week for only $5 a month. Each of these episodes will be focused on conversations surrounding some of media that we are currently engaging with, to help us inform some of the conversations we are having with other strong women. In this episode we discuss the 2014 documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry. You can subscribe to The Bloom through the link on our website.

    Sally Syria

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2024 40:10


    On this week's episode Sally Syria joins us to discuss: growing up in eastern North Carolina in the 1950's, being an independent woman at a time when that was highly unusual, and her love of bourbon.

    Hope Hembree

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2024 47:36


    Hope shares with us her journey through the foster care system, the process of adoption, and her career as a social worker.

    Patreon Unlocked: Our Bodies Ourselves (ft. Nancy Baer)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2024 42:05


    In this episode Nancy Baer sticks around to discuss the ground breaking 1970 book about women's health and sexuality Our Bodies Ourselves.

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    Judy Martins (ft. Nancy Baer)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 36:53


    In this week's episode we feature our first Woman With Strength, Judy Martins. We are joined by her sister Nancy Baer to share her story and honor her memory. Our host Nancy has been best friends with Nancy Baer for 48 years, and in this episode they discuss some of the logistics of making a long term friendship work.

    WWS: Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2024 43:31


    In this episode Nancy and Summer give you a rundown of who they are, how they came together, and the origin of the podcast. In addition they will cover some of what you may expect in upcoming episodes.

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