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I have been looking forward to talking with our guest, Louise Baxter, for several months. I met Louise through one of our regular podcast guest finders, accessiBe's own Sheldon Lewis. Louise has always lived in Sydney Australia although she has done her share of traveling around the world. She attended some college at night although she never did complete a college degree. Don't let that prejudice you, however. Her life experiences and knowledge rival anyone whether they have a college degree or not.   While attending college Louise worked in clerical positions with some marketing firms. Over time she attained higher positions and began working as a brand or product manager for a number of large well-known companies.   At some point she decided that she wanted to bring a more human-service orientation to her work and left the commercial world to work in not for profit organizations. Part of her work was with the Starlight Foundation in Australia, but she didn't feel she was challenged as much as she wanted to be. So, in 2007 she left Starlight, but in 2009 the Starlight board convinced her to come back as the CEO of the organization.   Louise has brought an extremely positive thinking kind of management style to her work. Starlight in general has to be quite positive as it works to ease the burden of sick children in hospitals and at home. You will get to hear all about Captain Starlight and all the many ways the foundation Louise directs has such a positive impact on sick children around Australia. The life lessons Louise discusses are relevant in any kind of work. I am certain you will come away from this episode more inspired and hopefully more positive about your own life and job.       About the Guest:   LOUISE BAXTER is Chief Executive Officer, Starlight Children's Foundation. Louise has significant experience in senior roles in the commercial and NFP sectors and is described as an “inspiring and authentic leader”. In 2009 Louise returned to the NFP sector as Starlight's Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director. Louise's focus on exceptional experiences and relationships has seen improved metrics across all areas of Starlight. Louise is regularly asked to speak on topics such a positivity, organisational resilience, diversity, and innovation. She is passionate about the creation of organisational purpose and believes this is key to delivering maximum impact through people. She practices positive leadership and has been successful in developing high performing teams within a culture where change is embraced, and innovation is embedded.   Always thinking like a marketer…. Louise's personal journey and reasons behind the shift from corporate to the For Purpose sector. After more than 20 years in marketing and advertising in roles at ARNOTTS, Accor & Johnson & Johnson & in agencies such as Leo Burnett working on brands from Mortein to Coco pops, Louise's journey and the insights she brings as CEO are unique. The very first time Louise became aware of Starlight was actually doing a promotion for one of her clients (when she was in sales/marketing) who was partnering with Starlight. Just seeing the work of Starlight, made her feel so pleased that there was now something that changed and reframed the hospitalization and treatment experience for families like a family she knew as a child with a child suffering from leukemia.    The business acumen needed to thrive and succeed in the For Purpose sector. Often the perception is NFP is a step into the slow lane. Far from it. Louise refers to leading Starlight as if it is in ‘eternal start up mode' and bringing business acumen, finding ways to be efficient and driving growth.     Our business… is the business of brightening lives…. The business growth and success of Starlight since she began from 65 people & 120,000 positive experiences delivered to children, to a team of more than 300 delivering over 1million++ positive Starlight experiences to seriously ill children including more than 13,000 children's Starlight wishes granted.   Louise has lead Starlight through some of the most challenging times. Her positive impact has seen Starlight grow from strength to strength. Starlight enjoys a tremendously creative and innovative culture. Including ‘Most Innovative Company' accolade - an achievement which was achieved under Louise's Leadership.   Starlight Programs growth will be stronger over the next 3 years than it would have been without Covid as programs which Transform and Connect rebuild and programs which Entertain grow. As does fundraising as we layer our face-to-face events back over our digital innovations which have taken off.  We have our creative/innovative culture to thank for this. Stories of personal connections made with Starlight children & families who began their journey more than 20 years ago and flourished thanks to the work of Starlight, including now adults Nathan Cavaleri and Dylan Allcott OAM.   Over the years Louise has been personally involved in many of Starlight's fundraising campaigns, once literally putting her body on the line as she flew over the handlebars and was carried away from the cycling course injured on Great Adventure Challenge.     Storytelling is at the heart of Starlight's success, growth & behind the organisations' ability to connect its stakeholders to its purpose. Louise's has largely led this approach to drive advocacy, differentiation & brand recognition – now one of Australia's most recognised children's charities Passionate about DEI: One of the first things Louise did as CEO was to deliberately approach diversity at Starlight and this continues today. To effectively support the people & families we support, our team members need to reflect this. DEI is addressed at every level.. Inc Board & Exec split to Captains in SER.    Louise considers herself very lucky – her birthday is actually on International Women's Day: IWD, 8 March. She is an active member of Chief Executive Women, an advocate for female empowerment & equity and in incredible role model.   Ways to connect with Louise:   Starlight Children's Foundation Australia Website: www.starlight.org.au Louise Baxter's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/louisebaxter   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi everyone. Welcome once again to unstoppable mindset where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. It's a fun thing to say I am your host. Mike Hingson, our guest today is the CEO of the starlight foundation in Australia, Louise Baxter, we met Louise through Sheldon Lewis and accessibe, which is always fun. Sheldon is a good supplier of folks, and we can't complain a bit about that. It's a good thing. And so today we're going to learn about Starlight Foundation, and we're going to learn about Louise, and we'll see what else we learned. That's why it's often called the unexpected. Meet anyway, Louise, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here.   Louise Baxter ** 02:04 Thank you, Michael, it's lovely to be here.   Michael Hingson ** 02:08 Well, why don't we start the way I love to start. Why don't you tell us kind of about the early Louise growing up and some of those sorts of things and adventures you got into, or anything that you want to divulge? Okay,   Louise Baxter ** 02:20 alright. Well, I live in Sydney, Australia, and have done my whole life I've traveled a lot, but I've remained here in Sydney. And so life in Sydney was just blissful. And I think what I remember most is just having fun with my friends. It was back in the day where, as a child, you'd leave home on your bike early in the morning, and nobody expected you back till later, often in the afternoon, before dinner, and we had Bush nearby. I can remember catching tadpoles I sailed from the age of eight. My father was a skiff sailor here in Australia and and I had my first time in a Sabo at age eight, we went to the beach a lot, so there was surfing and fun in the sun. I played a lot of sports. So I'm a netball player, which is kind of similar to basketball, but a bit different. I played squash, so a lot of things happening, a very busy life, and I grew up. And I think this is the important thing with parents who were not well off themselves, but were, I mean, we were. We had a lovely life, but they were always raising funds, and our house was a center for raising funds for people who were less fortunate, or that helping out with the local netball club and things like that. So, so I grew up with parents who were very committed to working hard but always giving back, even though they weren't, you know, high net worth people themselves. So I think that's, you know, a great basis for for who I am today.   Michael Hingson ** 04:18 So you went to school and and all those sorts of things like everybody else did. How did your attitude about dealing with people who were probably less fortunate than many and so on really affect what you did in school? Or did you really sort of hone that found that that that spirit later? No,   Louise Baxter ** 04:42 no, I was always involved at school and raising funds. And even, you know, it took us a couple of busses to get to the beach back in the day. So I was in a local youth group, and we made a decision to raise the funds so that we could have one of the fathers, so that we could. Buy a bus, have one of the fathers drive the bus and get us to the beach on Saturday in quick time. So always looking for ways to never taking no or that's hard for an answer, I suppose, always being able to be part of the solution and get things done. So that was happening while I was at school as well.   Michael Hingson ** 05:21 That's kind of cool. So you bought a bus so that everybody could get to the beach. How many people were there that had to get there and use the bus? We   Louise Baxter ** 05:28 had about 40 or 50 people. And during the school holidays, we convinced one of the, a couple of the parents to take us on a trip through far west into, I'm supposing, what into our outback. So we went into kind of desert type lands, and we camped and a shearing a sheep station let us sleep in the shearing sheds overnight. So that was quite an adventure as well. And we did that for one school holidays on that bus.   Michael Hingson ** 06:02 So was the the bus? Well, who owned the bus was it? Was it a school bus, or who owned it   Louise Baxter ** 06:09 the youth group that we, the group did fundraising? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 06:13 cool, yeah. That's pretty unique.   Louise Baxter ** 06:17 I have great memories of that with, you know, green tree frogs in the toilets. Whenever you went to use a bathroom, they were always there looking at you and all of those kind of funny things that you remember, you know, watching and learning farm life and seeing some of the animals sitting on the fence while they were being branded and castrated and all kinds of things, but from as a city kid that was that was really valuable,   Michael Hingson ** 06:47 pretty and unique, but certainly the experience was well worth it, as long as you embraced   Speaker 1 ** 06:53 it. Yes, exactly, yeah. So   Michael Hingson ** 06:57 does that bus still exist today? Or does the youth group still exists now with new youth, that's a very long time ago. Michael, well, I didn't know whether it might have continued with new youth,   Louise Baxter ** 07:07 no. And I, you know, moved locations in Sydney, so I'm not quite sure what's happening there. Now, it'd   Michael Hingson ** 07:14 be exciting if new youth came along and took it over, but yeah, things happen and things evolve.   Louise Baxter ** 07:22 I'm just gonna say their parents probably drive them everywhere now. Yeah, it's   Michael Hingson ** 07:26 gonna say probably the adventure isn't quite the same as it used to be. No   Louise Baxter ** 07:30 exactly,   Michael Hingson ** 07:31 and, and that has its pluses, I suppose, and its minuses, but there, there are also more scary things in one sense in the world now than there used to be. Don't you think,   Louise Baxter ** 07:43 yeah, there are, well, there could be, or maybe, maybe we know more about it now because of our media and communications. So you know, all the kind of predators that impact you as children were around then, I suppose the accidents in cars are up because use of cars has increased. So, yeah, there are. There are different things that impact people nowadays. But us human beings, we're pretty resilient and and we always work out a way through, yeah, well, there's also, there's also a story from my childhood that I think is very relevant for what I do at Starlight, and that story is that you know how you have those family friends, who you grow up with, and you go on holidays with, etc. Well, that family for us, their eldest son was diagnosed with cancer, and back then, survival rates for cancer were very different to what they are today, and much lower. And he died when I was about 12, but as a child, I observed him suffering the pain of the treatment, and there was nothing like Starlight back then. And I saw also the impact that his illness had on his family. And I often think back to him, to those moments now that I'm at Starlight, because Starlight would have changed that situation and made it very different and far more positive for that boy and his family, and I think about about him and what they went through kind of regularly. So it's one of those things that's a childhood. It's a lived experience from my childhood, which, you know still kind of resonates with me today.   Michael Hingson ** 09:44 Well, yeah, and you know, we're, we're constantly evolving. So you can, you can think about that, and you can think about what might have been, but at the same time, the the real issue is, what have you learned? And. How can you now take it forward? And I think, as I said, that's all about embracing the adventure,   Louise Baxter ** 10:04 absolutely, absolutely and so absolutely take that forward,   Michael Hingson ** 10:09 yeah, which is really what you have to do. So you went to college, I assume, yeah.   Louise Baxter ** 10:15 And I actually went part time at night, so I actually went straight into a work environment. And for an organization, and was in the marketing team, just doing basic clerical work, and then I studied part time at night, so did a bit differently.   Michael Hingson ** 10:33 Yeah, well, did you end up eventually getting a degree? No,   Louise Baxter ** 10:37 I have no degree. Which is, which is something that's not, is very unusual in the United States. I know, oh, I don't know   Michael Hingson ** 10:49 that it's that unusual. But the the other side of it is that what you learn and how you put it to use and how you evolve is pretty significant. And that's, of course, part of the issue. Not everyone has a college degree, and sometimes the people with college degrees aren't necessarily the the brightest spots in the constellation either. Absolutely, it's,   Louise Baxter ** 11:13 yeah, there's a lot through lived experience, but I have, yeah, I've studied at various times, and most recently, I was awarded a scholarship. And I've had the experience of doing two short courses at Stanford University in the States, and I'm now on the board of the Stanford Australia Foundation, and so that's been a wonderful experience as a mature age student.   Michael Hingson ** 11:42 That's fair. Yeah, I just recently was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, which formed the chapter at my university the year I was leaving, so I was able to go to the organizing meeting, but that was it, because then I got my master's degree and left and through circumstances, it was learned that all that happened. So last year, I was called and asked if I wanted to become an alumni member. So I got to be so I finally got to be a member of fraternity. Well, there you go. Congratulations. Well, it's a lot of fun, yeah, and I, and I treasure it and honor it a great deal, and spent a day down at my old university. I haven't really spent a lot of time there since graduating, well, back in 1976 with my master's degree in some business courses. So it's been 48 years. So there you go. Time flies. Well, so what did you do? So you you were working in the marketing world, in a clerical sort of thing, and what did you do from there? I   Louise Baxter ** 12:55 then became an assistant brand manager, a brand manager or product manager, whatever you want to call it, and I worked at Reckitt and Coleman. I worked at Johnson and Johnson and at Arnot snack foods. And Arnot snack foods was interesting because it was a joint venture with Pepsi foods from the US, because they were interested in the biscuit technology from Arnott's, and Arnot was interest interested in their snack food technology. And so what we had was a situation where we were sharing our expertise, and as a result, I was on the team, and we launched Cheetos, Fritos, Doritos into Australia, so they didn't exist here prior to that. Obviously Johnson and Johnson also, you know, big multinational, as is reckoned and Coleman. And then, after a number of years working on client side, I decided I wanted to move to the agency world. And I moved to Leo Burnett advertising agency, where I stayed for a decade. I was on the board there. I managed accounts like the Proctor and Gamble and kill on businesses as well as local businesses like tourism businesses and and wine so hospitality businesses here in Australia, very big wine company and and also the United distillers business back then. So had a lot of experience from both the client and agency side of working on big brands and growing big brands, which I absolutely loved, and we had a lot of fun, you know, along the way, in those days at all of the organizations where I worked, I made a lot of friends, and it's always important to have great friends from those experiences. And then I considered I actually left after i. Left Leah Burnett, I started an agency with two other people that's called Brave New World, which still exists to this day. I haven't been part of that for a long time, and then I had this moment of considering that I could potentially do something more worthwhile with my skills than than selling the products I'd been selling for all those years, and that's when I first made the decision to move to the what I referred to as the profit for purpose sector, and moved to Starlight in a role, and at that time, that was just a six month maternity position role. And I did that because I had great experience of brands from the client and agency side and promotions, so above and below the line. Promotions. I had worked on promotion supporting charity so cause related marketing campaigns. And I felt that the one thing I was missing if I wanted to go back into a corporate, into a corporate social responsibility role. Was that experience of working in a charity, and so I thought at that stage that my, my of journey was going to be back to a corporate because at that time, if you think this is over 20 years ago, triple bottom line was, and the third sector was really becoming important to organizations and to corporates. And so I thought I'd take my skills and go back to a corporate what I did instead was I went to starlight, as I said. It was a six month contract, but after three months, then CEO came out and said, What would it take to keep you here? I loved what I was doing, and I stayed at Starlight. I did stay for six, seven years. I then left and went back to corporate world, and I came back to starlight. So I left at the end of, what am I of? I left at the end of 2007 I came back in 2009 so I had that experience of back in the corporate world, and I came back as a CEO. It's   Michael Hingson ** 17:20 interesting. You started out in, as you said, in clerical work, but you started out in marketing, which, which you liked, what, what caused you to do that? Why marketing? Why marketing and sales, if you will?   Louise Baxter ** 17:33 Well, I love, I love marketing. I love brands, and I love the fact that, you know, brand is a living and breathing thing, and you can grow and change a brand. And I love, I love all the learnings around consumer insights. That was my specialty within marketing. So actually understanding that consumer behavior, and what I say about marketing is it's, it's hardly rocket science, because if you look at a young child, they recognize that they speak differently and use different language and words, etc, when they're speaking to their friends, when they're speaking to their grandparents, when they're speaking to their teachers, when they're speaking to their siblings, and so already, the concept of I have a different consumer in front of me, and I need to change my language and what I'm saying and my communication skills. Need to tweak. A child understands that from a very early age. So when I think about marketing, that's what you're doing the whole time. You're changing what you're the what you're saying and the way you say it, so that you engage more strongly with your consumer, and that's what I love about it, because communication is just so powerful, and you can take people on a journey. I'm also you know you can change behavior before you change the attitude, but ultimately you can move people and kind of change their thinking and their their their habits.   Michael Hingson ** 19:11 What's a really good example that you participated in of that I love a marketing story, loving sales and marketing as I do, I'd love to hear a good marketing story. Um,   Louise Baxter ** 19:22 well, there's, there's, there's quite a few. And I'll, I'll give you one. There was, I used to work on all the roads and traffic authority business, and at that stage, we were responsible for handling all the campaigns, from speeding to seat belts to drink driving, etc. And what was really powerful about those was your results were that every day you came into work and the road toll was there, and the road toll was, you know, up or down. And to work on campaigns which, over years, reduced the road toll because of the messages that you would keep. Communicate to people about speeding, etc. So whether people believed that they should be going, if you know, 10 kilometers slower in that particular zone or not, the messages of you know of penalties being caught, whatever the messaging you used to slow them down in that moment worked, and that saved lives. So, you know, that's, that's an example. I also worked on brands such as Special K, you know, and and for me, seeing, we created a fantastic campaign here that ran for about 20 years, and it was based on the the traditional Special K ads where women would wear clothes that they had years ago. And this one was about a mini skirt, but it was done in such a way that the woman was Stuart was the strength in the TV commercial. She was the lead. And that grew the business, and grew Special K at that time, at like, three times the market average for any, you know, product growth. So to see those things, and what I love is the results. And you you get it very strongly in those moments and and it's exciting.   Michael Hingson ** 21:17 You mentioned having been involved with working with Fritos and so on, which strikes a nerve when I lived in New Jersey, somewhere along the way, ranch flavored Fritos came into existence, but they didn't last very long, and I miss ranch flavored Fritos   Louise Baxter ** 21:34 we used to do when I worked on those snack food brands. We did so much testing and to to create tastes that are suitable, because tastes do change significantly, you know, region to region, and so ensuring that we had exactly the right flavors that would resonate and and sell here was really important to us. But along the way, we had some shockers, and we did have a lot of the specialist from FRITO lay in the states out working with us to craft those flavors. So we eventually got ones that worked here and for this region.   Michael Hingson ** 22:13 Yeah, and I'm sure that that must be what what happened that ranch flavored Fritos just didn't sell enough. In   Louise Baxter ** 22:20 cell Michael, you didn't have enough friends,   Michael Hingson ** 22:23 I guess not. Well, we didn't know enough people in New Jersey. What can I say? But, but we contributed as much as we could. My wife and I both loved them, and we we bought ranch flavored Fritos every chance we got. But unfortunately, that really probably wasn't enough to keep it going. So we, we mourn the loss of ranch flavored Fritos. But you, you did that, and it's interesting, because if I were to bake this observation, in a sense, although part of your job has changed, part of your job hasn't changed, because it's still all about marketing and educating people. Of course, now you're on the not for profit side, but that's okay, but what you're doing is teaching and educating, and now you're doing it for more of a social cause than a profit cause.   Louise Baxter ** 23:21 You're exactly right what we're doing every day because is, we're marketing our organization, and it's all about communication, and that communication might be very different with, you know, high net donors to community groups who support us in terms of how they connect with us. The impact stories are the same, although you also learn that certain individuals might prefer programs that support children, or might support prefer programs supporting older people, older children, or might support programs that support our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. And so you learn that through all your discussions. So it's all about hearing, because marketing is about really listening and and so I am still, you know, everything we do is about really listening and really hearing from the kids and the young people we support. You know, we need to listen to their situation and what, from our program's perspective, is working for them. So I feel it's very, very similar to what I did, because I was a product manager, so I was always listening to our customers to create more relevant products, and then communicating to people so that they we could sell those products. And the difference here is, back then they were the same people, so you would listen to your customers, then you'd be selling to them. And now what happens is our customers are the children and young people who are seriously ill and hospitalized, and our customers, the people where we're getting the funding from, are the donors who. Support those programs. So you break it into different groups, and we have far more stakeholder groups that you're managing in the profit for purpose sector than you do in the for profit sector. But that keeps it   Michael Hingson ** 25:14 interesting Well, so what is in in what you're doing today? And I'd be interested to to hear a contrast. But what does what does success mean to you today, and what did success mean to you when you were in the marketing world?   Louise Baxter ** 25:30 I think that that's always, you know, being the best you can be, and achieving the the metrics you need to achieve. So that's not changed, and always having really positive relationships with, you know, and partnerships. So for me, none of that's really changed. And I think that, you know, authenticity is very, very important. And so I constantly say, you know, with me, what you see, what you get, I'm the same person, no matter if you're a friend, a colleague at work, whatever, and I think that makes life much easier than if you were different people in different spaces. So I think there's a there's something that's very consistent about that. And I, I am that kind of person who doesn't take no for an answer. It's just okay. That's that's a bit trickier, but how can we get that done? So I'm always, always been solution focused, and I think that's been that's really important. And I think, you know, Obama has made comments about the type of people he wants to employ, people who get stuff done, and that's that's exactly me, and who I look to work with. So none of that has changed, but for me, it's now incredibly important. We're changing lives every day, and I think that what Starlight does in this country is we believe that that happiness in childhood matters, because happiness in your childhood is the strongest determinant of how you perform in your education, your employment, and with long term healthy life behaviors, children who are seriously ill have their ability to be happy significantly impacted. And so what we do is we sort support them with a whole range of programs. And I can talk about our theory of impact, but it builds their well being and resilience. And I know that that that you talk a lot about, you know about fear, and I think resilience is that thing that that gives you the strength to move through those things that may be frightening to you at some stage, and kids who are seriously ill are going through so much that is unfamiliar and frightening to them and painful. And so Starlight has been creating programs which are all about positive psychology and built on the tenants, if we can build, if we can distract a child by something that's positive help them to look forward to something positive. On the other side of treatment, it changes their engagement with their health care, and it changes their health outcomes for a positive and so that's incredibly important, and we were using this a decade before Martin Seligman even coined the phrase positive psychology and and now as as clinicians recognize, and they've recognized this for a long time, but are increasingly recognized the ways this this can be used to create improved health outcomes. And let's face it, you know, healthcare is one of the most innovative, fast moving sectors you can possibly work in, and clinicians have changed and improved health outcomes for every illness and disease you can possibly think of, and that's amazing. And so Starlight has been part of that improvement in healthcare, but the recognition that your mental health and well being is completely connected to your physical health and well being. And so while the doctors and nurses the clinicians look after the physical Starlight is engaging with the child within the illness and helping to lift their spirits, support their well being, resilience, giving back that joy of childhood. Because, you know, a clinician once said to me, Louise, in treating their illness, we steal their childhood. And so what we're about at Starlight is giving those kids back their chance to simply be a child and have that fun of childhood, which is where we started this conversation. You know, childhood should be about fun and having no inhibitions and not worrying, not a care in the world. And children who are seriously ill live in a very kind of adult world where they're dealing with concepts such as life and death. And that's not where any child should really be.   Michael Hingson ** 30:05 So when you're when you're dealing with a child, what, what? What do you do to bring the child back to the child, if you will, as opposed to all the the challenges that they're going through? Because certainly, when you're dealing with a disease like a cancer or whatever, it is, a very tough thing. So how do you bring that child back to being able to be a child at least for part of the time?   Louise Baxter ** 30:32 And that's, that's, you're absolutely right. It's about moments, because, and we talk about moments which matter. You can't do it for 100% of the time, but if you can lift that child and distract them and take them away from that, even if just for a moment, it changes everything. And I, I we have a whole range of programs that cater for this, in hospital and also in community. And last year, we created nearly 2 million so it was 1.9 million positive Starlight experiences for children. And that's the way we talk about it, because they're all so different. But we work in three general areas, and that is, we transform, we work in partnership with the clinicians to transform the healthcare experience, and we even build physical spaces in the hospitals, all the children's hospitals in Australia, which are manned by a character called Captain starlight. So we employ nearly 200 Captain starlights, who are all professional performers, and they work with the children, and they engage. They don't perform, but they use performance skills to engage with the child and the child's imagination, because a couple of things about children is that they are in they have incredible imaginations, and they are also easily distracted. And one of the things about most parents is they they try to work out how they keep their child focused? Well, we use the fact that children can be intensely distracted for good. So, you know, for example. So talking about that transforming the healthcare experience, some of our captain starlets will actually work in a treatment space with the clinicians, and they know how the treatment is going to unfold. Not so they could ever perform the treatment, but be so they know when to distract the child, when to keep the child very calm, etc, throughout that procedure. But let's say it's a burns dressing change that to a child. The pain of having a burns dressing change is like having your skin removed every time the dressing has changed, and what we do is we have our captain starlights there, and children don't have the psychology of pain in their mind. They will be intensely distracted, and their pain threshold then increases by up to 75% by simply distracting them, which means then they don't need to have an anesthetic for their treatment, which means that that child may not have to stay in hospital overnight because of that anesthetic and etc. So by using the power of a child's mind engaging with them, we can change that scenario. They won't feel the pain. Now, for an adult, that sounds weird, because if we were having that burn stressing changed on an arm, even if someone was distracting him, we'd be waiting for the pain, whereas a child just gets absorbed in the distraction and is not waiting for the pain. And so that's the difference. So we transform the healthcare experience, we provide opportunities for children to connect, because social isolation is one of the key issues associated with serious illness and treatment. They're pulled away immediately from their local friends and family, often into, you know, a hospital that's in the city, and that's the way our healthcare system works. The big children's hospitals are in the cities. The kids come out of regional areas and into that so they're away from everything, all their friends that their bedroom, everything that's familiar, and so that social connection is really important. That's part of what we do in our Starlight Express rooms, which are in every Children's Hospital. They also are TV stations within those hospitals and broadcast to the bedside of the child. So if the child's too sick to come into the Starlight Express room, they can be part of that and have that social connection from their bedside. So quizzes, for example, are really important for us, and we run a quiz every day, and sick children have lost that ability to compete in so many ways and have fun and have that little banter that you have with people when you are competing. Yet a quiz brings that all together. And we often have, we always have prizes, but it means a child in their bed who can't physically come into another space with another child for issues in terms of their illness and and. Um and infections and cross infections, etc, they can still be involved, and they can win the quiz, and, you know, be on television and chat with the other kids. So those things are very important. And we also promote entertainment, because entertainment is a great way of of distracting children. And so we talk about what we do. We transform the healthcare experience. We provide social connection that's so missing, and moments of entertainment. And our program sometimes deliver all three, but they're created for one specific reason, and so we're all about having fun. And for me, when I see a child come into a Starlight Express room, especially a child who's recently been diagnosed, you can see they're often in a wheelchair. They're holding an IV drip. They have their head down, their shoulders down, they have the weight of the world on their shoulders. They're looking like no child should ever look and you see this child come into our space and start to lift because a Starline Express room is a haven away from the clinical nature of the ward. They start to lift. They see the space. They see the captain starlights, and for me to observe that same child, 510, 15 minutes later, roaring with laughter, completely forgetting where they are and why. That's the power of starlight, and that's what we do through all our programs every day. And that moment lifts that child and gives them, builds their resilience and gives them the ability to go back into that next round of treatment, surgery, etc. So it is in that moment, and it changes everything.   Michael Hingson ** 36:40 How does the starlight experience differ in America and our healthcare model here as opposed to in Australia? Do you have any idea?   Louise Baxter ** 36:52 Yeah, well, we have, we man all of the spaces in our hospitals. So the hospital, when a new hospital is being built, they they they allocate a section that is the Starlight Express room space. We then build the Starlight Express room, and these are quite large spaces, and then we man it with our own paid team members and volunteers that would never happen in your healthcare system, just with legal issues and liability, etc, you'd never see that happening in in America. So that's, I think, the key, the key difference from things that we do in Australia, we also are a wish granting organization, and we are the largest wish branding organization in Australia, and we have programs called we have a program called Live Wire, which supports young people, so teenagers and up to the age of 20, and that is in hospital. So we then don't have Captain starlights. We have live wire facilitators, and then we have live wire online. We also have a virtual Star LED Express room, which we created and trial during COVID. Because obviously everything around the world and definitely in Australia, was in lockdown, and our programs were an essential service in the children's hospital, but we were restricted, and so we'd been toying with the concept of a virtual Starlight Express room for a long time, and so we used COVID as that opportunity to trial that, and we trialed it. It was very successful, and we're now rolling planet Starlight into every hospital across Australia. All people need there is a QR code. And so we put up beautiful posters, which are also games that kids can play that has a QR code, and they can go directly to Planet starlight. And planet Starlight is set up has live shows of Captain starlights during the day, but also games kids can play directions, how to do art. So if a child's seriously ill, but at home or in another hospital, they can do all of this stuff. And it's it's not that you need a full tank kit. We do it and understanding that children will be able to work with what they have that's near to them. We even have things like I spy for an emergency room space so that kids can stay distracted, no matter what part of a hospital they're in. We also now support families who are in at home palliative care, because 70% of children in this country who are in palliative care are at home. That's not necessarily end of life palliative care, but palliative care can go on for a number of years, and those families are incredibly alone and isolated, and so our Starlight moments program delivers things to uplift that family and have them know that someone's thinking of them during this time. And. Again, it is those moments which really, truly matter.   Michael Hingson ** 40:05 So, um, how did what? What do you know about how it works here, or what actually happens in America? Do you have any real notion about that? I mean, I understand all the legalities and all that, but how does it differ what? What do they do here to be able to foster that same kind of climate. Yeah,   Louise Baxter ** 40:22 they're still about happiness matters, right? Which is fantastic, and they do that with, I'm trying to think of the name now Fun, fun boxes that they have delivered into hospitals with toys, etc, for kids. In some hospitals, they are able to do a refresh of a playroom to make it a starlight space. But it's then not like ours are manned every day with team members. They have little carts that help kids transport round the hospital. So yeah. So they have a whole range of things that they can do within the limitations of the different health system. It   Michael Hingson ** 41:06 must be a real challenge to keep up the spirits of all the people who work for starlight. How do you keep a positive work environment and keep everyone moving forward and hopefully reasonably happy in what they're doing, because they they have to see a lot of challenges. Obviously, yeah,   Louise Baxter ** 41:26 we we're authentic with our commitment to positive psychology. And so getting close to 15 years ago, we started working with a group here in Australia called the positivity Institute, and we started training all of our team members. So every team member who joined Starline is trained in the tools of positive psychology, because you're absolutely right. And I use the airplane analogy, you know, if the plane's going down, you're always told that you put your you have to put your oxygen mask on yourself, because if you don't put it on yourself, you're of no use to anyone else, and POS, psychs like that, you have to care for yourself. And self care is so important, because if you are not caring for yourself, and if you are not topping topping up your own cup, then you're of no use to support and coach and help other people, and so we have positive psychology is the one authentic thing that, just you know, moves right through our organization. It's at the heart of everything we do for the children and young people. And importantly, every question we ask ourselves about every business decision is, will this improve the way we support the seriously ill children and young people, yes or no, and then what we do is we carry that through, because for us to be able to provide the support we do, and you're absolutely right, working often in very challenging situations, we need to know how we can look After ourselves. So POS site flows through the whole organization, and we are an organization that is a great place to work in Australia, there's actually, you know, a survey that's done annually, and corporates and other organizations are ranked, and we're always in the top group of performers there. So it's, it's also very critical to maintain a high performing team, because we need to be sure of able to have our team bring their best self to Starlight every day. And that's what post psych does for us. How does   Michael Hingson ** 43:37 that work? What? What do you do? I mean, you, you obviously have people who go into situations and they get hit with so many sad sorts of things, but obviously you're able to bring them out of that. How do you do that? Well,   Louise Baxter ** 43:52 as I said, Everybody's trained up front and recognizes the tools or has the toolkit for prossite, but we don't just leave it there. So the people who are working in hospitals have daily debriefs. They have a support crew from an employee assistance organizations who work with them. That's the same person who works with those teams. So they then have weekly debriefs, monthly, quarterly. So we're onto it. It's, it's, it's a, May, it's a, it's a, it's very strategic in the way we support them, and it's very considered. And so that support is there for people on a daily basis. So   Michael Hingson ** 44:35 you, you, I'm just thinking of a question I'm going to ask, you're doing a lot with children and all that, which I think is really great. Is there any chance that this kind of approach could also work for older people, adults and so on?   Louise Baxter ** 44:57 Absolutely, and it. It would also work. I mean, we're working with seriously ill, right, and hospitalized children, but it would also work with group, other groups of vulnerable children. So, you know, happiness and positive psychology is something that works for everyone, quite frankly. And so one of the things that's a side benefit of starlight being in a hospital is it lifts the morale of the whole hospital team. So the hospital, the hospital team, is happier. Because if you think of working in a children's hospital, if Starlight was not there, it can be a pretty dour place, and the challenges are every day, but with starlight, they're lifting the spirits, having fun, being silly. It changes everything for the clinicians I know, I've been at the door of a lift, an elevator, as you would say, and and before the lift, the doors open. A doctor who's been waiting there, notices that two captains walk up to hop in the elevator and and the doctor will say, I'm taking the stairs. I never know what those guys make me do between floors, but laughing. So you know, our captain starlights are about that fun. And the thing about Captain Starlight is they come from Planet starlight. So there's a mythology around them, and they fly to planet earth every day in an invisible rocket ship that lands on the roof of the Children's Hospital. And the great thing about this is that the children are then in the gun seat in because they understand everything about Planet Earth, and the captains don't. So the planet the captains will do silly things like pick up a pen and use it like a telephone and go, Hello, you know. And the children will go, No, not that. So it's that merge of slapstick and kind of vaudeville and the child engaging with the child. But they will, can they? Our captain? Starlets will do that silliness with doctors and nurses too, which is also hilarious. And that's the comment from the captain from the doctor. So Right? It keeps the morale of the entire hospital, because, you know, it changes from having children who are crying and distressed and frightened to children who are roaring with laughter, um, despite the fact that they're seriously ill, that's great.   Michael Hingson ** 47:25 How can we bring that to adult patients?   Louise Baxter ** 47:29 Well, do you know what I've been working or I've been walking with our captain starlights as they've had to move through an adult part. You know, some of our hospitals are adults and children's and then the youth are on the other side. As we've walked through, an elderly person stopped and said, Hey, captain, could you sing me a song? And so they had their ukulele there, and they launched into, you are my son. I think he might have requested, You are my sunshine. And you can see immediately the change in the person. So it, it is something that definitely works, but at the moment, we don't have the funding to meet all of the need that we have for children and young people. So while it's, you know, potentially a great concept, it's, it's not something that we can move into in the the immediate future. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 48:24 and you can only do what you can do, but it would certainly, it would seem to me be exciting if people would bring more of those programs to adults too, because adults could could use it. And I'm sure you know that I'm not saying anything magical at all, but I would think there are ways to bring a lot of this to adults that would help lift their spirits. I know when my wife was in the hospital, it was very boring for her. Now she was in a wheelchair, so she was in a chair her whole life. So she had other challenges being in the hospital when she needed to use a restroom or have help with a bedpan, sometimes it took a while and so on. So just a lot of things that could have been better for her, that I think would have made her experience better. And I realized that she was probably, in a sense, a harder case than some, but still, it would just be so nice if we could do more to help all of the different kinds of patients in hospitals and make it a better experience for them.   Louise Baxter ** 49:23 Yeah, that's that's what we're doing about, about changing that healthcare experience,   Michael Hingson ** 49:29 yeah. What about the whole concept of diversity, equity and inclusion and so on? How do you deal with a diverse population? So for example, in all the things that you're talking about, what if you discover that one of the children that you're dealing with is blind in the hospital? How do you adapt so that they get as included as other people in the things that you're doing? Yep,   Louise Baxter ** 49:53 we have. All of our team are trained in dealing with. Children who are blind, who are deaf. We actually recently had training, and we had our captain starlights. They were all blindfolded, and they were going through sensory experiments to teach them how they can better use sound and other things to work with children. So So our team is trained across all of those different areas, because you're right every day, we do deal with children who are deaf, who are blind, who are in wheelchairs, who are non verbal, who are on the autism spectrum, but all of those things. So we have to have teams trained. Our team is trained to understand how they can deliver an exceptional experience to those children, as well as children who don't have those differences. So   Michael Hingson ** 50:56 clearly you have a we got to get it done. Got a really positive attitude to get things done. Where did you learn that attitude? Because that's a very positive thing that I think more companies and more people in general ought to learn. The whole concept of, we're going to get it done no matter what it you know, I don't want to say no matter what it takes, but we're going to get it done, and we're very positive about that. Yeah,   Louise Baxter ** 51:25 I'm not sure that I learned it, but I think that there are people in life who you see that way. I always, I always jokingly call it waiters with their heads up, because, you know, you see when you're in a restaurant often, there's those people who walk past your table and don't pick up the dirty plates, who aren't looking for things to do. And then there are those other ones who you can see are going from table to table, doing stuff everywhere. And I always say they're the people I want to employ, the waiters with their heads up. So I think it's an attitude you have in life. And you can either kind of say, well, that's a challenge, and that's difficult, but how can I get that done? Or you can say, well, that's difficult. I just won't do that anymore. And and, you know, we need people who want to get stuff done and who always have a pot and having a positive attitude just makes you feel so much better than dwelling in the negative. And you know, I hate people who are always who those negative Nellies or nets or whoever they are, and they bring you down. So positivity is something that I think helps all of us every day. And why wouldn't you choose to be positive? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 52:37 and it is a choice. And the reality is that no matter what goes on, I think we can choose to be positive. One of the things that I've been saying for many years, that I learned because of the World Trade Center, basically, is don't worry about what you can control. Focus on what you can let the rest take care of itself. We're so worried about every little old thing in the world that we don't tend to be positive about anything, and that doesn't help any of us. No,   Louise Baxter ** 53:07 I think that being positive is so incredibly important. It makes you feel better and happier, makes everybody around you feel better and happier. So why wouldn't you do it? And I actually use this at Starlight too, because sometimes team members like you reach a point in your in your work life, and I did. I left Starlight because I needed a new challenge, and Starlight didn't have that challenge for me. So why hang around and become that disgruntled person in the corner who's just trying to pull everybody else into their negative little corner and finds fault with everything the organization does. Why would you stay? You know, and if you leave in that instance, you go to somewhere where you can contribute, and you feel great. You're doing a great job. The organization gets someone into your role who really wants to be there, and all that negativity stops. So in positive psychology, the end game is flourishing. And so I jokingly say at my team all the time, if you don't want to be here anymore, if you're not feeling challenged, please go flourish somewhere else. Don't stay here and become that negative person who tries to bring everyone into their negative corner. It's just not good for you or anybody else. So, yeah. So, so the Go flourish somewhere else is a bit of a joke that people say they're going to have printed on my coffee mug at some stage.   Michael Hingson ** 54:30 Well, you went away, but you also came back. That's   Louise Baxter ** 54:34 right, that's right. And so I went away because I needed a new challenge at that stage. And that challenge, potentially, was the CEO role that it wasn't available then. So I went and I did something else that I loved. And then, you know, the board came back to me some time later and said, Would you come back as CEO now? And I said, Yes. So there you go. And then I'd had a different experience, which actually helped. Me to be a better CEO. So as you say, if you're always moving forward, if you don't get hung up about things, and if you choose positivity, that really can set you up for a much better life. What   Michael Hingson ** 55:13 are some of the challenges that Starlight is facing in Australia today?   Louise Baxter ** 55:19 I think that for us it's a nice challenge, because as clinicians recognize the power of positive psychology and the power of the mind in improving health outcomes, they're very creative, and they're coming up with more and more ideas as to how star lack could be used, but we can only deliver if we increase our funding. And obviously, I think globally, communities are under pressure financially, and so those things kind of don't work together. And that's that's a challenge for us. I think we live in a world of increasing complexity and compliance and and we need to within that, ensure we meet the requirements and the criteria, but we do it in the simplest possible way, because simplicity is better for your mental health. It's more effective and efficient. And so sometimes within the the complexity of compliance, people are on making things even more bureaucratic than they need to. So really keeping things simple, I think, is is important against the backdrop of what's happening. And the exciting thing is we work in the sector of health care. And health care is always changing, always improving and and that's a great thing to be part of. What   Michael Hingson ** 56:48 do you think are well, what would you tell somebody from, let's say, one of your former jobs in marketing and so on, what kind of advice would you give them based on what you now know as being the CEO of starlight, for, my gosh, what? For 15 years, 14 almost? Well, 15 years, yes, almost 16 years. Yeah,   Louise Baxter ** 57:10 I think that. I think people have to be true to themselves. You know, you have to be authentic. Choose positivity is something that I would always give advice around, because, as you said, it is a choice, and I fail to understand why everyone, anyone would choose the negative, yeah, side of that equation and really focus on getting stuff done. So never sit back and be lazy. Always be working to be that, that person who thinks about themselves others and cares and gets it done,   Michael Hingson ** 57:55 yeah, we we spend way too much time, because I think we're taught so much to be negative when we don't get taught nearly as much about being as positive as we can be. I know that my parents were always encouraging to me and my brother. I'm not sure my brother always got it quite as much as I did in terms of understanding it, but we were, we were taught that positivity was a choice. We were taught that being innovative and moving forward was a choice. And we also were encouraged to make that the choice that we made too, which is part of the issue, yeah,   Louise Baxter ** 58:37 excellent. And the other thing is, I would say, Do not be a perfectionist. I'm an anti perfectionist. Yeah, I agree. It gets you nowhere. Doesn't exist. And you know, especially in this day, where we can move, and we're very agile, kind of, I say 70% out, because if you say 70% and out, it means people will probably go to 80 or 90% but those people who, if anyone in a in an interview, proudly tells me they're perfectionist, they're gone because all they do is drive themselves and everyone around them crazy. So I don't want to have them in the organization. It   Michael Hingson ** 59:17 seems to me that the thing to say is that I will always do the best that I can do, and I will always give at least 100%   Louise Baxter ** 59:25 Absolutely.   Michael Hingson ** 59:28 Yeah, perfection is something I don't think most of us understand anyway, but if we give it our best, probably we'll achieve perfection, in a sense,   Louise Baxter ** 59:37 yeah, and get it done and get it out, get it happening, right? Because the thing is, if it's not, if it's, you know, if it's not, if it's not perfect, you get it out and you get to use it, and you learn so much more. So you got actually a better shot at getting it towards it. You can tweak it after,   Michael Hingson ** 59:55 yeah, well, well, market, well. And what you do. Do is you do the best that you can do, but you're if you're wise and good leaders. Know this. You also work with a team, and sometimes somebody else on the team can take the lead and enhance what you're doing, which is always a good thing.   Louise Baxter ** 1:00:15 Absolutely, you've got to have way smarter people all around you? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:22 I don't think there's anything wrong with having smarter people around you. Your your smarts is in bringing the team together.   Louise Baxter ** 1:00:29 Yes, that's right. So   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:33 what can you think other regions and countries learn from the challenges that you're facing?   Louise Baxter ** 1:00:40 I think we have, I think the world is so consistent in this day and age more than it's kind of ever been. You know, when you travel, you know, you seek out those places where we're different. Of course, we're different, but there's a lot more that's the same in this day and age than there ever has been and, and, you know, in some instances, I think that's quite sad, yeah, but there's much more consistency. So I think that there's, and there's always something that we can learn from each other, always. And that's what I look for. I'm excited by up learning things and you know, and and something that doesn't go according to plan is fabulous, because you learn so much more from that than something that just smoothly goes along and does everything you thought it would do.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:35 Nothing wrong with learning from things that don't go well. I don't like the term failure and even mistakes, I'm not a great fan of but I think that what happens is that things don't always go as we plan. And the real question is, what do we learn from it? Absolutely which is, which is so cool? Well, Louise, this has been absolutely fun to be able to spend all this time with you. Now it's 10 in the morning where you are, so we should let you go do other things and get something done today. But I want to thank you for being here, and I want to thank all of you who are listening for being a part of our podcast today. I'd love to hear your thoughts about what Louise had to say, and I hope that you will communicate with her. And that's a good point. Louise, how can people reach out to you if they'd like to talk with you and maybe learn more from you, and what you have to say, I'm   Louise Baxter ** 1:02:27 on LinkedIn. So if, if those listening are on LinkedIn, you can find me. Louise Baxter, Starlight, Children's Foundation, Australia and or you can go to starlight.org.au, we if you're looking for us, our website, and you'll find me through that as well. Cool.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:47 Well, I hope people will reach out. And if you'd like to reach out to me, and I hope you will, you may email me at Michael, H, I m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, e.com, and you can also, of course, go to our podcast page, w, w, w, dot Michael hingson.com/podcast, and Michael hingson is spelled M, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s, o, n.com/podcast, you can listen to all of our podcasts there. You can reach out to me. There lots of things you can do on the web. It's an amazing thing to be able to do things on the web. I also would really appreciate it if when you are thinking about us, if you'll give us a five star rating wherever you're listening to us or watching us, we really appreciate your ratings and your comments. So please do that. If you know of anyone who you think might be a good guest, and Louise, you as well. If you can think of anybody else who we ought to have on unstoppable mindset, would definitely appreciate you introducing us. We're always looking to have more people to come on and tell their stories and talk about what they do. That's the best way to learn, is learning by listening to other people and them telling their stories. So hopefully you'll all do that and again, Louise, I want to thank you for being here.

International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8 March, commemorating women's fight for equality and liberation. Women's History Month brings focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. But how many of us know the history behind these two calendar events, and have you heard about Laura X?  Join Christopher & Heather in conversation about why these dates matter to women and men.

International Women's Day (IWD) is a global event aiming to recognise women's achievements, raise awareness about gender equality and promote women's empowerment. It serves as a crucial platform for activism, highlighting enduring gender disparities and advocating for equality.In what is now a tradition at Cxociety, we begin this year's series with a dialogue with Wendy Lee, senior director at SS&C Blue Prism to get her perspective on women participation in the technology sector in Asia and how the IWD's 2025 theme of "Accelerate Action" addresses the challenges and opportunities for women in Asia's burgeoning tech space.1.       Professionally, you've been in the technology sector for much of your career. Is this an active decision on your part?2.       You have been in tech marketing for some time now, can you share some interesting lessons in your journey?3.       In the context of women as active participants and leaders in Asia's technology sector, how would you describe the progress so far?4.       What are some effective ways for women in tech to network and build professional relationships that can help them access leadership roles in the industry?5.       What is your view on mentorship? What has worked and needs more work in this area?6.       What role do initiatives like the SG100 Women in Tech play in inspiring and empowering women to pursue careers in technology, and how can similar programs be replicated across Asia?7.       Aspirations aside, what are the key challenges women face when leading marketing efforts for global tech/AI firms in Asia, and how can they overcome these obstacles to achieve success?8.      IWD's 2025 theme of "Accelerate Action" is a call to action to accelerate participation by women in leading the charge. What is your advice for women who want to pursue a career in tech?

We kick off this week's Uncensored episode with a nod to our favourite female-founded beauty brands in honour of International Women’s Day (IWD) over the weekend. Then, we bring you part two of Mel's fertility journey, answering listener questions and sharing more about her pregnancy experience—covering the highs and lows, managing physical changes, the impact of stress, and our viral IG moment. Plus, we put Ultra Violette's new mineral sunscreen Future Fluid to the test (TGA-approved, of course), and reveal the wellness and lifestyle apps we keep coming back to. Products Mentioned: Laneige Cream Skin Cerapeptide™ Toner & Moisturizer 170ml tbh Skincare rebound skin milk activated cica toner 100ml TIRTIR Milk Skin Toner Light 150ml BEAUTY OF JOSEON Glow Replenishing Rice Milk The Ordinary Saccharomyces Ferment 30% Milky Toner Anua Peach 77% Niacin Essence Toner Ultra Violette Future Fluid SPF 50+ Mineral Skinscreen Join the conversation in our Beauty IQ Uncensored Facebook Group to discuss this episode, swap beauty tips, and submit your questions for future shows. Credits: Hosts: Hannah Furst and Melissa Mason Producer: Jasmine Riley For more beauty insights and exclusive offers, visit adorebeauty.com.au Disclaimer | Privacy Policy Adore Beauty acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and podcast. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

pWotD Episode 2867: International Women's Day Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 327,957 views on Saturday, 8 March 2025 our article of the day is International Women's Day.International Women's Day (IWD) commemorates women's fight for equality and liberation along with the women's rights movement. International Women's Day gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. Spurred by the universal female suffrage movement, International Women's Day originated from labor movements in Europe and North America during the early 20th century, with the modern holiday, March 8, being declared by Vladimir Lenin.The earliest version reported was a "Woman's Day" organized by the Socialist Party of America in New York City on February 28, 1909. In solidarity with them, communist activist and politician Clara Zetkin proposed the celebration of "Working Women's Day" approved at the 1910 International Socialist Women's Conference in Copenhagen, albeit with no set date; the following year saw the first demonstrations and commemorations of International Women's Day across Europe. Vladimir Lenin declared March 8 as International Women's Day in 1922 to honour the women's role in the 1917 Russian Revolution; it was subsequently celebrated on that date by the socialist movement and communist countries. The holiday became a mainstream global holiday following its promotion by the United Nations in 1977.International Women's Day is a public holiday in several countries. The UN observes the holiday in connection with a particular issue, campaign, or theme in women's rights.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:55 UTC on Sunday, 9 March 2025.For the full current version of the article, see International Women's Day on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Olivia.

This International Women's Day (IWD), our hosts, London partner Lucy Winnington-Ingram and ArbitralWomen president Rebeca Mosquera, are joined by Ayse Yazir, Managing Director of Bench Walk Advisors, Alison Macdonald KC of Essex Court Chambers, Natalia Mori, an attorney based in Lima, and Ana Irene Delgado, Panamanian lawyer, diplomat, and politician, to discuss what the IWD theme of “accelerate action” means to them.

The theme of IWD 2025 has been selected as #AccelerateAction.Step forward in solidarity for International Women's Day (IWD) 2025 and help #AccelerateAction to speed up women's equality. At the current rate of progress, it will take 134 years to reach full gender parity in 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, according to data from the World Economic Forum. So, together, let's Accelerate Action to speed up the rate of progress.

For the Rights, Rorts and Rants International Women's Day show feminist and Blue Mountains Unions & Community member Peter Lammiman chats to Debra Smith about the fascinating origins of IWD. We learn how IWD started in Europe in 1857 and spread to Sydney in 1928 to become an annual celebration of women world-wide. The show was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 FM on 8 March 2024 by Blue Mountains Unions & Community and presented by Debra Smith and Peter Lammiman. Podcast produced by Ann-Maree McEwan  If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠leave an audio comment about our show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, which may be added to one of our podcasts. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apply to be a guest on our radio show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Rights, Rorts and Rants on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM, Fridays from 4pm to 6pm or livestreamed via ⁠⁠⁠⁠rbm.org.au.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join a union - 1300 486 466 or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠join online⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.   Join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BMUC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Blue Mountains Unions & Community pays its respect to and acknowledges, the Darug and Gundungurra First Peoples of the Blue Mountains area and acknowledges this is Aboriginal Land that was never ceded. Authorised by D Smith, Secretary, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, 52-52A Great Western Hwy, Mount Victoria, NSW. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rightsrortsandrants/message

On this episode of the Seeing Eye Dogs Show on Vision Australia Radio, Harriet is joined by two guests to talk about International Women's Day (IWD). Seeing Eye Dogs handlers Clare Opie and Linda Blaik join us in separate interviews on this episode discussing IWD and this year's IWD theme of inclusion. We talk about their own experiences as women, what IWD and inclusion means to them, and the role of their Seeing Eye Dogs. If you'd like to find out about Clare's Instagram and how she uses social media to educate, please check out her Instagram profile @ClareAndMabel. If you'd like to find out more about Seeing Eye Dogs head to our website: https://sed.visionaustralia.org/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Mandy (@mandyleft) catches up with Emma Lloyd (@emmajlloyd_).   They talked about Emma's experiences with film in Australia since moving there last year.  Going on a photowalk with members of the film community in Adelaide, independent labs in Melbourne in general and specifically FilmNeverDie (@filmneverdie), what cameras she took, how much film, what she is photographing and the idea of bonding with people in a new country over film.   Then with March being Women's History Month and the 8th being International Women's Day (IWD), they talk about #sheheartsfilm which Emma started while she was working at Analogue Wonderland and current projects they have both planned to recognize and celebrate the month.   Emma is organizing a print sale to benefit women's charities. Photographers can share prints on social media that they would like to sell along with the hashtag #IWDFrameTheGrain. People who are interested in purchasing the print can coordinate with the seller and do so by making a donation to a charity that benefits women. Follow the hashtag and the Grainsplaining IG account (@grainsplaining) for updates on the project.   Mandy would like to put together a zine with portraits of female film photographers. She'd like to make the portraits this year and put together the zine in time for International Women's Day (8th of March) in 2025. Please get in touch if you would be willing to be one of her subjects.

This International Women's Day (IWD), London counsel Lucy Winnington-Ingram hosts women arbitration practitioners across Reed Smith's global platform: Elizabeth Farrell (London), Rebeca Mosquera (New York), Juliya Arbisman (New York), Vanessa Thieffry (Paris) and Alison Eslick (Dubai) for a Q&A session exploring what this year's IWD theme means to them.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2024 On this episode of the Youth Perspective, we celebrate International Women's Day 2024. Imagine a gender-equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #InspireInclusion. Celebrate women's achievements. Raise awareness about discrimination. Take action to drive gender parity. IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere. Inclusion means all IWD actions are valid. I have the fantastic opportunity to speak with Mrs. Tanya Mcfall-Major & Dr. Brittney Jones and discuss this amazing day! With over a century of history and change, the first International Women's Day (IWD) was held in March 1911. IWD isn't country, group, or organization-specific. It's a day of collective global activism and celebration that belongs to all those committed to forging women's equality. Tune in and join the conversation. #March8th #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion Listen on Saturdays @ 8 pm: 107.9FM "THE INSPIRATION STATION" Listen on Saturdays @ 7:30 pm: 1540AM/104.5FM "THE NATIONAL VOICE OF THE BAHAMAS" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/keshagenadderleypodcast/message

In celebration of International Women's Day (IWD), we're delighted to launch our new Women in Sustainability podcast series. The series, dedicated to women working in the field of sustainability, is inspired by the aims of IWD, to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.In our first episode, Tonia Plakhotniuk interviews three exceptional women who work on advancing sustainability at NatWest:• Caroline Haas, Head of Global Climate and ESG Capital Markets• Dr Maria Carvalho, Head of Climate Economics and Data for NatWest Group• Supriya Sobti, NatWest Group's Climate and Purpose LeadTo get future episodes as soon as they're available, remember to hit ‘subscribe', and if you found the content insightful click ‘like' so it's easier for others to find. NB: This was recorded on 27 February 2024. For any terms used please refer to this glossary: https://www.natwest.com/corporates/in... Please view our full disclaimer here: https://www.natwest.com/corporates/di...

Women Leaders is back! The podcast that showcases women experts is with you again, in a new home at ELN, European Leaders Network.To mark the move, and International Women's Day (IWD), we welcome back Rose Gottemoeller, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, to discuss the state of the world. From Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine to the disrupted Middle East, from Russian autocracy to US politics, this is the grand sweep of global geopolitics.The (dire) state of democracy, competitiveness of defence industries, difficulties in creating economic packages — these and many other issues come to light in discussion with host Ilana Bet-El. And as a bonus for IWD, find out who are Women of Mass Destruction — and what may be too pink!Mentions toRose's Women Leaders episode on 8 March 2022Report of the US Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United StatesWomen Leaders - Latin America on the Global StageFinancial Times “General Mark Milley ‘Americans have kind of had it wars'”You can also follow usInstagram @women_leaders_podcastOur partner European Leadership Network social media Twitter, LinkedIn & FacebookIlana Bet-ElRose GottemoellerRecorded on 4 March 2024CreditsProduction: Florence FerrandoMusic: Let Good Times Roll, RA from #Uppbeat (License code: ZXIIIJUU2ISPZIJT) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In honor of International Women's Day (IWD 2024), 3D InCites partnered with SEMI ISS to bring you this episode on how companies are fostering and implementing DEIB and allyship into their corporate culture. Françoise von Trapp speaks with Nigel Wenden, CEO of WGNSTAR, Laura Matz, CTO of Merck KGAA Darmstadt Germany; and Mike Rosa, CMO, Onto Innovation.  They discuss their respective company's success stories with DEIB and their efforts to foster allyship in the workplace. You'll learn about some startling statistics about women and underrepresented minorities (URMs) in the technology industry, and the goals that WGNSTAR, Merck KGAA Darmstadt Germany, and Onto Innovation have set for themselves to address these numbers. The three speakers talk about how a culture of DEIB will positively impact the future of technology.  They also explain their respective company's strategies in using DEIB to address the talent shortage in the semiconductor industry. The speakers also field call-in questions from listeners about fostering a culture of inclusion and building the semiconductor workforce. Shari Liss, of SEMI Foundation asks how companies can foster a workplace culture that not only attracts diverse talent, but also ensures an inclusive environment where everyone, regard feels valued, respected, and empowered to deliver their best. Cath Rossi-Roos of Roos Instruments, asks about the willingness of companies to subsidize education of the next generation of engineers to solve the workforce shortage. Joy Racowski, of EMD Electronics asks how we can better frame allyship as an ongoing effort. Caryn Veach, of Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corporation asks for advice on creating more male allies on the engineering staff. She also wants to know how they can make women engineers in the field feel part of the company when they aren't supported by a local office.  Connect with our speakers on LinkedIn: Nigel Wenden,  CEO, WGNSTARLaura Matz, Merck KGAA Darmstadt, Germany and AthiniaMike Rosa, Onto InnovationWGNSTAR, Inc. WGNSTAR is the leading workforce services and semiconductor asset lifecycle management partner.SEMI A global association, SEMI represents the entire electronics manufacturing and design supply chain. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showBecome a sustaining member! Like what you hear? Follow us on LinkedIn and TwitterInterested in reaching a qualified audience of microelectronics industry decision-makers? Invest in host-read advertisements, and promote your company in upcoming episodes. Contact Françoise von Trapp to learn more. Interested in becoming a sponsor of the 3D InCites Podcast? Check out our 2023 Media Kit. Learn more about the 3D InCites Community and how you can become more involved.

Simone Clarke, CEO of UN Women, Australia is a seasoned executive leader with over 25 years of experience in global sustainability, humanitarian development, and not-for-profit leadership. She advocates for women's empowerment, sustainability, and impactful social programs. With extensive experience at organizations like UNICEF, Save the Children, Telstra, the AFL, and Mission Australia, Simone brings valuable expertise to the table. In our conversation, Simone challenges gender stereotypes and emphasizes the need to focus on leadership rather than gendered labels. Simone shares how she is tackling the very real challenges as a result of the workplace's historical bias towards men and that gender diversity is not just an issue for People & Culture teams. We talk about being a CEO, the continual need to reflect and the skills Simone is still investing in. Lastly, we reflect on the dramatic change in sentiment we felt towards International Women's Day (IWD) celebrations and the potential trivialisation of a fundamental human right. Another brilliant conversation with a powerful leader driving change. -----------------------   Craving inspiration? I send an email each Sunday about leadership reflection, top tips to build an intentional & sustainable life and other things that have captured my attention and are too good not to share! Sign up here. Loving the podcast? Leave us a short review. It takes less than 60 seconds & will inspire like-minded leaders to join the conversation! Ready to take immediate action to manage your energy? Grab my new Activity eBook: 5 Simple Yet Powerful Techniques You Can Use to Elevate Your Energy & Performance - Even If You Don't Know Where To Start. Get access instantly here. Are we friends? Connect with Us. Instagram LinkedIn

A warm Mancunian welcome to all my listeners. Presenting Season 7, Episode 8 of the #MeettheMancunian #podcast #GM #manchester #women #children #SocialImpact #NonProfit. Hosted by Deepa Thomas-Sutcliffe. (https://www.instagram.com/meetthemancunian/).   In the eighth episode, the Meet the Mancunian podcast interviews Fiona Spencer, Vice President, Soroptomist International Manchester Club, about how they support women and girls in UK and in India to reach their full potential. Fiona introduces how she got involved with Soroptomist as an ophthalmologist and introduces the charities the Manchester club supports which include Women Matter, Manchester Action in Street Health, Cornerstone, Pankhurst Trust and refuges in Manchester. Fiona talks about their efforts to support a hospital for leprosy patients and an orphanage in Orissa, India. Fiona emphasises collaboration and harnessing the power of the community.   Did you know? This episode is being released ahead of International Women's Day, 8 March 2024. International Women's Day (IWD) is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Each year, this day serves as a powerful reminder of the progress made towards gender equality and highlights the work that still needs to be done. In 2024, the theme Inspire Inclusion emphasises the importance of diversity and empowerment in all aspects of society.   Key resources Soroptomist International   Timestamps of key moments in the podcast episode and transcript   (02:15) Fiona's Passion for Supporting Women and Children (03:23) Introduction to Soroptomist International (04:54) Local Initiatives and Projects in Manchester (10:10) Challenges and Call for Volunteers (11:43) Impact of Soroptomist's Work (13:42) International Projects and Initiatives (19:57) How to get involved with Soroptomist (22:41) Closing Thoughts and Future Plans   Listen to the episode and read the transcript on www.meetthemancunian.co.uk

Designed by Wardle and engineered by Aurecon, the $650 million  Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) project in Melbourne has a majority women-led team, with six out of seven members being women, including the three most senior roles. With International Women's Day (IWD) coming up, we speak with AIID Executive Director, Rowan Maclean  to offer Architecture & Design about the work her team is doing to use the economic influence of the project's development to influence gender diversity.

In this episode of the Lead to Soar podcast, hosts Mel and Michelle discuss the complexities and often performative nature of International Women's Day (IWD). They examine how businesses frequently fall short in meaningful support of gender equality and issue a clear call to action for more than just superficial acknowledgments of workplace gender equality. The discussion covers a range of topics, including the expectation of women to contribute free labour for IWD events, the role of leadership in fostering genuine diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the importance of intersectionality in understanding the varied experiences of women in the workplace. This episode is a call to action for leaders and organisations to move beyond token gestures (like cupcakes!) and engage in substantive and sustained support and advocacy for workplace gender equality.Lead to Soar is a global online network for businesswomen, a podcast, and we host live-streaming and in person events to help women have a career that soars! The podcast is hosted by Mel Butcher (melbutcher.com) and Michelle Redfern (michelleredfern.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you know that on the very day — International Women's Day — meant to honour and empower women, many female speakers are asked to speak for free? In this episode, Jacqueline unpacks the essence and revolutionary origins of International Women's Day (IWD). To connect and learn more about creating a Speaker Driven Business connect with Jacqueline on LinkedIn. You can also follow Jacqueline on Instagram.

In this 3rd episode of Series 2 of Spreading the Good Stuff we discuss the success and challenges of International Women's Day (IWD), which was held in early March, and chew through what it means and what it should represent. It's an interesting conversation, that has parallels with other struggles for equality and equity. Katrina shares details from a local IWD she hosted and loved peeling back the layers to find out what is really happening behind the scenes (and the Instagram posts) of the women we admire. Leonie took comfort in this insight and shares her feelings about overwhelm, creating the all-important wriggle room we need in our lives, and asking for help. Christy talks about her frustrations with real equality for women, how she is feeling sore, but good, after almost four weeks of her Yoga Teacher Training and is hoping for a bath at some stage this week! We want to thank all our lovely listeners for tuning in, and there's a special shout-out by Lee in this chat to one of our male listeners who recently shared some very special feedback. Find all the show notes for our episodes over at The Splendid Word website here. Thanks for listening, Love Christy, Katrina and Leonie xxx

In commemoration of the 2023 International Women's Day (IWD) celebrated on 8th March, women's rights activists and youth empowerment experts have called on government and other stakeholders to continue to raise awareness about the importance of gender equality and the need for continued action on the part of all stakeholders. This call was made through a Twitter Space event, organized by Development Communications Network in line with the global theme of IWD - #EmbraceEquity. Guest speakers at the discussion titled ‘Bridging the gender digital gap, the role of stakeholders' were Betty Abah, Founder & Executive Director of CEE-HOPE, a Girl Child Rights and Development nonprofits organization, and Iwalola Akin-Jimoh, Executive Secretary, Youth Empowerment Foundation, a nutritionist and strategic behavioral change communicator with extensive years in women, youth empowerment and education. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devcomsradio/message

Embracing equity isn't just about what we say or write about. International Women's Day (IWD) is the "celebration of social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women" and has been observed since the early 1900s. It s a collective movement felt and activated around the world. The theme for International Women's Day 2023 is Embrace Equity. Equity is not something that should be up for debate. It is something we all need to think about, to learn about, to value, and to embrace. Equity should be a part of our individual and collective belief systems, conversations, and actions. It means creating a truly inclusive world. So, the question is what are you doing to embrace equity and contribute to (re)imagining a different future and a different world? Equity vs Equality: What's the Difference? International Women's Day organization drives home 3 points: Equity isn't just a nice-to-have, it's a need-to-have as we push towards global transformation. A focus on gender equity needs to be part of every society's DNA. And it's critical to understand the difference between equity and equality. That last point is particularly relevant because the terms are often used interchangeably or synonymously, In its essence equality is about sameness, where everyone gets the same of something, regardless of needs, circumstances, or lived experiences. Equity is acknowledging where people are in their unique needs and leveling the playing field accordingly. People start from different places and different life experiences, so true diversity and inclusion requires equity as a catalyst. The truth is, we can all embrace equity. We can actively support and embrace equity within our own unique spheres of influence, our homes, our workplace, and our community. In our everyday lives we can avoid stereotypes, call out discrimination and bias, and actively seek diversity and inclusion in whatever spaces we find ourselves. And each of us can heed the call for individual change that fuels grassroots action to usher in global momentum. So, what you are doing or plan to do to #EmbraceEquity everyday?

Tonight ,on The Bows programming as we just celebrated the International Women's Day (IWD) 2023, we talk about MOTHER TONGUE.Mother tongue displays the roots & cultural identity of the speaker.It must not be erased.I personally teach my daughters IBO IZUGBE (central Ibo) as I want my kids to be proud of their roots.Despite my ability to speak Igala, Efik,Hausa,Yoruba,Spanish& French,Iam proud to be of the Igbo extraction and I speak,write and read ibo.The ability to speak your mother tongue enables you to be well equiped to trigger sustainable developmednt (via literacy & other actions of micro sustainability) in your locality and thereby achieve the UN SDG 4 .We use this opportunity to state clearly that The Bow does big fact checking prior to production. Please listen to this episode by visiting The Bow https://anchor.fm/THE-BOW --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/THE-BOW/support

International Women's Day (IWD) is a holiday that has been celebrated globally on March 8 for 100 years. Today, I share a few words from modern women from Malala Yusafzai in Britain (who is part of a short documentary called Stranger At The Gate, which you can stream on The New Yorker's site at https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/stranger-at-the-gate) to the former First Lady Michelle Obama as well as the Rebel Girls app for girls 6-12 years old. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sabah-fakhoury/message

Join us as we celebrate the history and relevance of International Women's Day (IWD).  From it's inception as an outgrowth of socialist labor movements in the early 20th Century to it's modern incarnation as a global day of awareness of the struggles of women, International Women's Day has provided an annual opportunity to focus on female empowerment.  We will touch upon the United States Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and whether this could be the year that American women will have their equal rights enshrined in the US Constitution.  Also, we will talk about this year's UN theme for IWD: "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality."  Women have made many historical contributions to technological development in culture and we will focus on a few of them including those of Ada Lovelace, the mother of modern computing. Vicki Noble, Dawn "Sam" Alden and Sean Marlon Newcombe discuss.

This International Women's Day (IWD), Lucy Winnington-Ingram (London) is joined by international arbitration practitioners Antonia Birt (Dubai), Cheri Leung (Hong Kong), Mathilde Adant (Paris), Rebeca Mosquera (New York), Alison Eslick (Dubai) and Joyce Fong (Singapore) to discuss the IWD theme of “embracing equity.” This episode explores the initiatives our lawyers are involved in that help embrace equity, ways in which they try to incorporate Reed Smith's commitment to the ERE and ERA Pledges in their practice, and what the biggest challenges – perceived and real – are to embracing equity in arbitration. They then celebrate the role models who they believe best embody the “embracing equity” theme.

In celebration of International Women's Day (#IWD), we speak with two inspirational women in fintech: Women of Fintech's founder, Gemma Young and TechPassport's CEO and founder, Layla White. In this episode, we spotlight women in the Fintech industry and look at how we can collectively achieve better equity – from empowerment, collaboration and mentorship to progression and overcoming challenges.

Happy International Women's Day 2023!

International Women's Day (IWD) is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. - இன்று அனைத்துலக பெண்கள் நாள் - International Women's Day. தமிழ் வளர்ச்சி மன்றம் மற்றும் SydWest பல்கலாச்சார சேவை இணைந்து நாளை Blacktown நகரில் கொண்டாடும் பெண்கள் தின விழாவில் கௌரவிக்கப்படும் கேஷிகா அமிர்தலிங்கம் மற்றும் காயா ராஜேஷ் ஆகியோரது கருத்துகளுடன் நிகழ்ச்சி படைக்கிறார் குலசேகரம் சஞ்சயன்.

In this episode we are celebrating International Women's Day (IWD). This year's theme is #EmbraceEquity and aims to get the world talking about why "equal opportunities are no longer enough" - and can in fact be exclusionary, rather than inclusive.We will be discussing the differences between the terms equity and equality and why is it important to understand, acknowledge and value this.Definitions of these terms are provided by IWD campaign, they highlight the differences. • Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities.• Equity recognises that each person has different circumstances, and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.To explore what this means in reality, we have two guests who will speak about the work they are doing to promote equity. They unearth differences as well as similarities across their respective contexts, but draw the same conclusions, “... it's a process. It takes time. You do get some gains and you should celebrate those. So don't feel frustrated and its small steps and nudging and knowing who to reach out to. Most importantly, listening to the voice of the community and those that we want to work with, that's the most critical part”.About our guests:Dr Lilian Otiso - Executive Director, LVCT HealthDr. Lilian Otiso is the Executive Director of LVCT Health, a large Kenyan NGO that carries out programs on HIV, sexual & reproductive health, gender-based violence, mental health and community health reaching over 1 million individuals annually. She is a medical doctor with an MBA in Health Care Management currently pursuing a PhD in Global Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Her PhD topic is on accountability for universal health coverage among pregnant adolescents/teenage mothers. Lilian has over 15 years' clinical, programming and research experience in government and NGO sectors at senior management level. She has been a Principle Investigator and co-investigator of several research studies. She is passionate about the community and has conducted several studies and projects on community health. She has contributed to Kenyan and global WHO guidelines and policies and published several documents and peer reviewed articles. She is the winner of the Trocaire Oscar Romero Award 2021 for protecting vulnerable communities during COVID 19.Dr. Renu Khosla - Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE)Dr. Kholsa is the Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE). Her core values are designed to include, level-up and connect urban low-income communities. She seeks to unthink and reimagine slum development; nudging a change from top-down to bottom-up and state to people-led development. Her work is aimed at strengthening local government capacity for: participative planning, information visualization and analytics using spatial and social media technologies, localizing and de-engineering solutions and strategies and simplifying institutions. Her work has led to deepening of the policy discourse on urban poor and access to services. Want to hear more podcasts like this?Follow Connecting Citizens to Science on your usual podcast platform or YouTube to hear more about the methods and approaches that researchers apply to connect with communities and co-produce solutions to global health challenges. The podcast covers wide ranging topics such as NTD's, NCD's, antenatal and postnatal care, mental wellbeing and climate change, all linked to community engagement and power dynamics.    If you would like your own project or programme to feature in an episode, get in touch with producers of Connecting Citizens to Science, the SCL Agency.  

How far away is the comms industry from reaching gender equity, and what barriers still exist? That's the focus of PRWeek's latest Beyond the Noise podcast, published on International Women's Day (IWD). Guests this week are Jo-ann Robertson, CEO of global markets at Ketchum; Sanjani Shah, global head of PR at The Body Shop; and Jo Carr, co-founder of Hope&Glory and the new president of Women in PR.PRWeek UK's Beyond the Noise podcast, which is published on alternate weeks, looks at some of the biggest issues affecting comms and PR. Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify or listen on your favourite platform.Speaking to host Frankie Oliver, the founder of PR agency New Society, the guests discuss a range of issues, from the impact of COVID-19 and the post-COVID era, ageism in the industry, and employer policies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the GOLD team is delighted to bring you a special International Women's Day (IWD) podcast featuring Pallavi Bansal, Associate Vice President of Oncology, Genitourinary Cancers and Haematology, Merck, and Emma Chaffin, Vice President, Country Head and Site Lead, Galapagos. The two women reflect on this year's IWD theme, #EmbracingEquity, why female representation in pharma is so important and how leaders can foster a sense of belonging within their organisations. Isabel and Jade also discuss the latest GOLD content on female representation and equality in pharma.  Additional resources:  If you're interested in learning more about the topic areas discussed in this episode, check out the following content:  Infographic: Attracting more diverse talent into STEM https://www.emg-gold.com/_files/ugd/b8a9db_153874fc1b484455a9d2840f3118317c.pdf  Elevating pharma's parental leave policies: https://www.emg-gold.com/post/elevating-pharma-s-parental-leave-policies  Reverse mentoring: a how-to guide: https://www.emg-gold.com/post/reverse-mentoring-a-how-to-guide  Setting the stage for a more equitable future: https://www.emg-gold.com/post/setting-the-stage-for-a-more-equitable-future  HBA Gender Parity Collaborative https://genderparity.hbanet.org/ 

In recognition of International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8, this episode features a conversation about supporting women in orthopaedic surgery. AAOS Career Podcast Host Liana Tedesco, MD, leads a provocative discussion with her attending at Columbia University and incoming Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society President Christen Russo, MD, FAAOS. From gender representation and reproductive rights to advancing their careers amidst unique challenges, all topics are on the table. Guest: Christen M. Russo, MD, FAAOS, Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society, President  Host: Liana Tedesco, MD, Chair, AAOS Resident Assembly 

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On March 8th we celebrate the International Woman's Day [IWD] in Australia - although it would be more accurate to state that this celebration is somewhat conditional, for there remain issues that we need to still address in this country with respect to reaching gender parity. Furthermore, as Australians, with respect to our global responsibilities as citizens of the world, we also need to contribute to the acceleration of the quest for women's equality across the entire world. There are still far too many situations which are not cause for celebration in this regard: far too many circumstances where women are far from equal in the scheme of things. And this is although International Women's Day is marked worldwide on March 8th, every year, as it has been since it started as a global event way back in the early 1900s. At CIDSEL this global responsibility is taken very seriously particularly given that the central focus of the Centre is international development – the perpetual quest for inclusive betterment within a global context. There is an explicit commitment to Embrace Equity which happens to be the specific theme for the IWD for 2023. Conceptual frameworks and specific activities for addressing what are referred to as GEDSI matters – Gender Equity, Disability, and Social Inclusion – are incorporated in every development project or program and accepted as moral duties. Richard's guest in this episode, Tami Harriott, assumes special responsibilities for GEDSI issues and has a deep commitment to GEDSI principles and practices within CIDSEL. The fact that she also the General Manager of this Centre, with profound commitments to gender issues consolidated through extensive international experience, further emphasises the importance of these dimensions to the Centre's initiatives - which of course include this podcast miniseries.

Today's episode explores this year's International Women's Day theme, “Cracking the code: innovation for a gender-equal future”.  Offering her thoughts on how women can #crackthecode to success at work is special guest Georgie Williams, board president of UN Women Australia.  Listen now.  Host: Jackie Blondell, CPA Australia Editor Guest: Georgie Williams, a professional director who serves on several boards. She has over 25 years' experience in banking and superannuation including roles as Group Executive Engagement, Advocacy and Brand at Australian Super, and Head of Brand and Marketing at the Bank of Melbourne. She has also held executive positions at NAB in Australia and the UK, including roles in the commercial banking, wealth, strategy and marketing departments. CPA Australia publishes three podcasts, providing commentary and thought leadership across business, finance, and accounting:  With Interest INTHEBLACK Excel Tips Search for them in your podcast service provider.   You can email the podcast team at podcasts@cpaaustralia.com.au  International Women's Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. And head online for more information on UN Women Australia

International Women's Day (#IWD) theme this year is Embracing Equity. Ashley Brush and Navi Samra share what MetroStar's annual IWD event means to them, what to expect at the panel, and their thoughts on the theme. Join us for our hybrid event as our moderator facilitates an engaging discussion among speakers to share their journeys as women in technology, how we can work together for a brighter future, and advice to other aspiring women in technology. Register for IWD Panel: https://mss.fyi/3IKBwaE Stay Connected: + Instagram: https://bit.ly/3Tmi4mx + LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3WbxnRz + Listen to Ashley's episode: https://bit.ly/3pYDGcs + Careers: https://mss.fyi/3lSO2vM

About the Episode In the week that we celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth II and the extraordinary inspiration and impact she had on the world, we are revisting the International Women's Day (IWD) 2022 theme of Break the Bias. Queen Elizabeth certainly made her contribution to breaking the bias and in this episode we explore, in a panel format, how every one of us can also contribute and make a difference to our fellow humans. International Women's Day falls on March 8th, each year, and heralds in a them for the entirety of that coming year. For 2022, the theme is Break the Bias. At Move the World, we endeavour to highlight the theme at the beginning of the year with a panel discussion of that year's theme. We also aim to remind everyone during the year so that focus is maintained and this is why we, at Inspiring Future Leaders are sharing the recording of that panel discussion is this special episode of the podcast. Take a listen and let us know your thoughts on the topics discussed, insights shared and what you are pledging to contribute to Break the Bias. About The Panel Nana-Efua Lawson : Managing Director and Principal Psychologist at Castlegate International Renata Kashiwaya Pinheiro : VP Customer Success David Selorm Atsu : Associate at Credit Suisse How to connect with the Panel and their initiatives LinkedIn: Nana-Efua Lawson LinkedIn: Renata Kashiwaya Pinheiro LinkedIn: David Selorm Atsu Donate to Move the World

Every March 8th, communities worldwide gather to commemorate International Women's Day (IWD). It is usually a time set aside to reflect on the status of women and highlight the many areas in which their rights are still being undermined and also evaluate the progress made. This year is themed 'Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow'. In order to achieve sustainable tomorrow, we must all break all biases facing women in the Society and excel beyond the status quo. It is a day for governmental and non- governmental actors, corporate bodies, development partners and social movements to make commitments to close gender gaps and address the many challenges women still confront in public and private. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Toronto Centre joined the global community in celebrating InternationalWomen's Day (IWD) by commemorating women's achievements, reflecting onprogress made and advocating for women's equality. The panel discussedhow financial inclusion helps combat bias and break the barriers to genderequality and the role of financial authorities in supporting positive change. Read the transcript here. Read the biographies here.

In this episode, recorded on International Women's Day (IWD), we discuss the underrepresentation of women in the tech community. Throughout the year, we highlight the problem solvers, tell the stories that don't get told, and elevate those who are driving change in their field. At the same time, and particularly on IWD, we advocate for EU policies that seek to address the gender gaps in pay and representation, and in this episode, we explain and highlight some of those policies. As always, we also cover tech history, the latest tech policy news from Europe, and our random identifiers.

This month of March is Women History Month and on March 8th is International Women's Day (IWD) celebrated annually. The theme this year for IWD 2022 is - “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. However, Wellness & Wahala Warriors I salute you good women and Queens not just today but always. Every day women, mom, daughters, aunties, grandmas go the extra mile for their families, communities and nations! We always take care of others and sometime fail to take time to pamper ourselves! I am happy the Queens

There's certainly something about hurdler Liz Clay. In the last year, Liz has become the second-fastest Australian hurdler of all time, had an undefeated domestic season and finished in the Olympic Top 10. Yet she says she's "not a natural born sprinter". So what is it? What's made her such an unstoppable force in the sporting world?The answer? Unshakeable self belief.Which weirdly, is the kind of confidence we don't hear women talk about much. And it's why we're featuring Liz as another bonus episode to celebrate International Women's Day. From her incredible rise to the peak of Australian athletics, to her sporting performances, to her snappy social captions - Liz backs herself all the way. Here she chats with our executive editor Kara Byers about self-belief, celebrating big moments and why there's no ceiling to what she can achieve.---The theme of this year's International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8 is #breakthebias. We're being urged to work towards a gender equal world, one that's also diverse and inclusive. Since becoming editor-in-chief, it's been my mission to make sure we're doing that in Women's Health, because I understand what it feels like to not be represented. We're not doing this perfectly by any means. It's taking time, but that's our aim. Pushing for gender equality is also why this week our podcast is dedicated to elevating women in sport, who often do not get the same recognition or coverage as male athletes. Like Paralympian Madison de Rozario says, “When we're at a point where we don't need to say ‘women's sport' that's when we've actually achieved something. - WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin--CREDITS:This podcast was hosted by WH executive editor Kara Byers (https://www.instagram.com/karabyers/) and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin (https://instagram.com/lizza_marie/)For more from Women's Health Australia, check out https://www.instagram.com/womenshealthaus/, https://www.womenshealth.com.au/ or find the print and digital editions of the magazine at https://www.womenshealth.com.au/subscribe-to-womens-health-australia-magazine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Because calendars are unyielding, this podcast is coming to you a day after International Women's Day (IWD). One of the missions of IWD is “to forge inclusive work cultures where women's careers thrive and their achievements are celebrated.” Work leaders in HR are expected to take a lead in blazing that trail, but they are filling their cups from a dry well. Check out the latest from Lance Haun's Work Leader Weekly newsletter. Email marketing@thestarrconspiracy.com for the links mentioned and to sign up. Later. Music by Bonkers Beat Club, “Fifteen on Me.”

Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women's achievements or rally for women's equality. Marked annually on March 8th, International Women's Day (IWD) is one of the most important days of the year to: celebrate women's achievements. raise awareness about women's equality.Photo by Gemma Chua-Tran on Unsplash

Today on International Women's Day (IWD), we are releasing this episode to honour all moms who have lost themselves in motherhood.  Moms are usually overcome with shame, guilt and doubt, often feeling that they are failing as mothers, and more so single moms, as women. Today we speak to Ivy, Peak Performance and Relationship Coach, who was a single mom for fourteen years to her now 27-year-old daughter.  She speaks of her journey to through failed relationships before finding the current love of her life, married for almost fifteen years now.  Through the turmoil, Ivy embarked on a fascinating discovery of self-love, that allowed her to achieve peak states of performance in all areas of her life.   Now she teaches women how to do just that.  Whether you are a single mom or not, you don't want to miss this!   Be sure to listen for: Ivy's story of becoming a single parent right from the birth of her first child The challenges that single moms face How to overcome the guilt and feeling that you are failing as a parent The difference between being a high performer and a peak performer Self-love strategies to fall in love with yourself and transcend from mom to woman How to attract the right partner at the right time Best advice for any mom struggling with loving themselves About Our Guest: Ivy is a Certified Peak Performance and Relationship Coach for the Ambitious Single Woman. As Ivy's work with single women continued to expand, she saw the need for women in leadership roles, who wanted to balance their feminine energy, especially in their personal and love relationships. Ivy's coaching method is a hybrid of spirituality, ancient wisdom, science-backed peak performance and optimal psychology. Ivy's signature training the MAGNETIC LOVE METHOD – is an immersive program that helps  the high-performance woman, attract the love they want and create the life of their dreams! Be sure to connect with Ivy! Website:  https://www.ivymarielim.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ivymarielove Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evolvingwithnatalie (https://www.facebook.com/ivymarielove) YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/c/IvyMarieLove/ About the Hosts: About Dimple Arora – Founder of Mindful Evolution Dimple Arora is the founder of Mindful Evolution (ME) — a parenting movement that aims to empower parents and their kids towards positive transformation and life changing results...one thought, one emotion and one choice at a time. Dimple is an expert in women and teen empowerment and specializes in helping individuals reduce the debilitating effects of stress and anxiety using mindfulness, nutrition, EFT tapping and other energy psychology modalities. Dimple is a Certified Life Coach, EFT and NLP Practitioner, Holistic Nutritionist and Energy Therapist. She holds degrees in mathematics, business, and education and was previously employed in the corporate world and as a high school math teacher. You can book a complimentary coaching call with Dimple on her website at https://www.mindfulevolution.ca/ (https://www.mindfulevolution.ca) and connect with her on social media.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dimplemindfulevolution (https://www.facebook.com/dimplemindfulevolution) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dimplemindfulevolution (https://www.instagram.com/dimplemindfulevolution) About Shaista Fatehali – Founder of Thrive Kids Shaista Fatehali is the founder of Thrive Kids BC where she works with children and families to help nurture connection, empower a sense of self - worth and discover what is needed for individual families to thrive. Shaista is a speaker and the author of the children's book BACK HOME; which has received accolades nationwide. She is a certified children's and parent life coach and works with clients to build soft skills such as interpersonal awareness, effective...

Recorded on Zoom to coincide with the International Women's Day (IWD) 2022, episode 55 features an IWD takeover of the podcast. Vanna Willerton from the team here at Electricity Canada is in the driver's seat, and this episode features a conversation Vanna had with the new Chief Financial Officer at Ontario Power Generation, Aida Cipolla. Aida joined Vanna for a conversation about her journey to become OPG's CFO, the steady increase in the number of women in senior management and around Board tables, and the leadership by some in the sector to move towards greater equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, especially at the most senior levels. Vanna and Aida touch on a range of other topics, from the importance of mentoring, to overcoming doubt. And Aida shares a very timely recommendation for addition to the Flux Capacitor Book Club.

Australia's racing GOAT Madison de Rozario has won an insane number of medals - six Paralympic Games, 10 World Championships and two Commonwealth Games, she holds the world record for Women's 800 metres and has also had a Barbie “Shero” doll made of her. But that packed resume isn't the only reason why she's a GOAT and a badass, she's also a fierce feminist who tirelessly advocates for women in sport and brings attention to the double standard experienced by female athletes and the fact that, in the current world we live in, that double standard runs even deeper for para-athletes. On this special International Women's Day bonus episode, Madison chats with our executive editor Kara Byers, about what we can do to help smash the double standard for all - so we build a world where people's disabilities become the least interesting thing about them and we don't need to say 'women's sport' anymore.---The theme of this year's International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8 is #breakthebias. We're being urged to work towards a gender equal world, one that's also diverse and inclusive. Since becoming editor-in-chief, it's been my mission to make sure we're doing that in Women's Health, because I understand what it feels like to not be represented. We're not doing this perfectly by any means. It's taking time, but that's our aim. Pushing for gender equality is also why this week our podcast is dedicated to elevating women in sport, who often do not get the same recognition or coverage as male athletes. Like Paralympian Madison de Rozario says, “When we're at a point where we don't need to say ‘women's sport' that's when we've actually achieved something. - WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin--CREDITS:This podcast was hosted by WH executive editor Kara Byers (https://www.instagram.com/karabyers/) using the Blue Yeti microphone and produced by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin (https://instagram.com/lizza_marie/)For more from Women's Health Australia, check out https://www.instagram.com/womenshealthaus/, https://www.womenshealth.com.au/ or find the print and digital editions of the magazine at https://www.womenshealth.com.au/subscribe-to-womens-health-australia-magazine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

International Women's Day (IWD) – 8 March – is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women, who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities. Jennie Lenman celebrates the day by speaking with the author of What She Said, Monica Lunin (pictured above) from MOJOLOGIC, who has analysed 40 of the greatest speeches made by a diverse group of strong and empowering women throughout history.

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In honour of International Women's Day (IWD), podcast host Lauren Redfern is joined by author, documentary maker and journalist Kate Muir to discuss the 2022 IWD theme: ‘Break The Bias'. Discussing accessibility, class, race, and more, Lauren and Kate pick apart the nuanced and complex ways in which experiences of the perimenopause and menopause are underscored by certain biases. Drawing upon the personal stories of women from all walks of life, her own journey through the menopause, and conversations with leading medical experts in the field, Kate helps to identify the multiple barriers many are currently facing when it comes to accessing treatment. Kate is currently working on a follow up documentary for Channel 4 and an updated edition of her book Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (But Were Too Afraid to Ask). You can find out more about Kate's work and find links to her social media accounts by visiting her website: www.katemuir.co.uk. The team at the Newson Health Menopause Society are committed to breaking the bias of the perimenopause, menopause and women's hormone health through raising awareness and improving education. The society provides a collaborative space for professionals to digest specialist content from experts in their field, as well as listen to stories and experiences that challenge common misconceptions about the peri/menopause. This hormone deficiency urgently needs to be taken seriously by healthcare professionals to improve the diagnosis and management of symptoms, and to reduce suffering and improve the future health of all women around the world. From all of us here at the Newson Health Menopause Society, we wish you a happy International Women's Day and hope you will join us in helping to #breakthebias.

Today we celebrate International Women's Day (IWD). This is a time to acknowledge and recognize women's valuable contributions to social, economic, and political development across the world. According to the United Nations(UN), this year's theme is "Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow." It is time we appreciate women and girls' actions in creating a sustainable future for all. We should collaborate in breaking the biases, stereotypes, and discriminatory actions which have limited women's participation in sustainable development. Women deserve equal access to resources and opportunities regardless of their gender. "Women Can & Women Will" #BreakTheBias #SDG5 #SDG13 #GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #FemaleLeadership #InternationalWomensDay2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/juliana-makonise/message

The Global Progressive Women Network GPWN presents a virtual International Women's Day #BreakTheBias Luncheon Imagine a gender-equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can break the bias in our communities. We can break the bias in our workplaces. We can break the bias in our schools, colleges, and universities. Together, we can all break the bias - on International Women's Day (IWD) and beyond. Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias makes it difficult for women to move ahead. Knowing that bias exists isn't enough, action is needed to level the playing field. View Video at https://youtu.be/LLHgyjFLgeA --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iamladybbless/message

2022 International Women's Day:  International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness against gender bias, and take action for equality. The theme for 2022 International Women's Day (IWD) is #BreakTheBias. In baseball, many women have had to break bias at some point in their baseball journey, whether it has been as a player, an umpire, coach, scorer, in the media or management positions.  On 2022 International Women's Day, I have chosen to feature and celebrate three women in baseball in Victoria, Australia who are leading by example on and off the field.  Jennie Moloney is changing the game off the field from the scorer's box. A life member and member of the team of the century at the Williamstown Baseball Club, Jennie began her scoring career at her very first game of baseball in 1976. Jennie has since scored at three Olympic Games, is currently one of just five members of the WBSC Scoring Commission, was named the 2019 WBSC Scorer of the Year, and in 2021 was appointed to the Baseball Scoring Director for the Tokyo Olympic Games.  When Janine Thompson saw no women on a list of registered umpires in Melbourne in 2006, she thought would do something about it by umpiring herself. 15 years later, Janine is the only woman currently umpiring in the Baseball Victoria Victorian Summer Baseball League, has umpired countless Women's National Championships, and has also umpired in Hong Kong and the USA. She was part of an all-women's umpiring crew at the Baseball Australia Showcase in 2021 which she will do again in 2022.  Abbey McLellan's journey in baseball has been one of commitment and persistence. Bursting onto the scene as a 11yo playing in Footscray Baseball Club's Under 16 team, the hard hitting catcher's career was almost derailed at just 21 years of age after a knee reconstruction ended her 2016 World Cup campaign. However, in a story of never letting go of your dreams, Abbey came back to represent her country at the 2018 World Cup and is now a leader of the Victorian Women's Baseball team.  #IWD2022 #WomensBaseballInsidePitch #Podcast #WomensBaseball #InsidePitch

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness against gender bias, and take action for equality. The theme for 2022 International Women's Day (IWD) is #BreakTheBias. In baseball, many women have had to break bias at some point in their baseball journey, whether it has been as a player, an umpire, coach, scorer, in the media or management positions.  On 2022 International Women's Day, I have chosen to feature and celebrate three women in baseball in Victoria, Australia who are leading by example on and off the field.  Jennie Moloney is changing the game off the field from the scorer's box. A life member and member of the team of the century at the Williamstown Baseball Club, Jennie began her scoring career at her very first game of baseball in 1976. Jennie has since scored at three Olympic Games, is currently one of just five members of the WBSC Scoring Commission, was named the 2019 WBSC Scorer of the Year, and in 2021 was appointed to the Baseball Scoring Director for the Tokyo Olympic Games.  When Janine Thompson saw no women on a list of registered umpires in Melbourne in 2006, she thought would do something about it by umpiring herself. 15 years later, Janine is the only woman currently umpiring in the Baseball Victoria Victorian Summer Baseball League, has umpired countless Women's National Championships, and has also umpired in Hong Kong and the USA. She was part of an all-women's umpiring crew at the Baseball Australia Showcase in 2021 which she will do again in 2022.  Abbey McLellan's journey in baseball has been one of commitment and persistence. Bursting onto the scene as a 11yo playing in Footscray Baseball Club's Under 16 team, the hard-hitting outfielder turned catcher's career was almost derailed at just 21 years of age when a knee reconstruction ended her 2016 National Championships and World Cup aspirations. However, in a story of never letting go of your dreams, Abbey came back to represent her country at the 2018 World Cup and is now a leader of the Victorian Women's Baseball team.  You can find Women's Baseball - The Inside Pitch on Apple iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music/Audible, Google Podcasts, Podbean, or wherever you listen to your podcasts!   #IWD2022 #WomensBaseballInsidePitch #Podcast #WomensBaseball #InsidePitch

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness against gender bias, and take action for equality. The theme for 2022 International Women's Day (IWD) is #BreakTheBias. In baseball, many women have had to break bias at some point in their baseball journey, whether it has been as a player, an umpire, coach, scorer, in the media or management positions.  On 2022 International Women's Day, I have chosen to feature and celebrate three women in baseball in Victoria, Australia who are leading by example on and off the field.  Jennie Moloney is changing the game off the field from the scorer's box. A life member and member of the team of the century at the Williamstown Baseball Club, Jennie began her scoring career at her very first game of baseball in 1976. Jennie has since scored at three Olympic Games, is currently one of just five members of the WBSC Scoring Commission, was named the 2019 WBSC Scorer of the Year, and in 2021 was appointed to the Baseball Scoring Director for the Tokyo Olympic Games.  When Janine Thompson saw no women on a list of registered umpires in Melbourne in 2006, she thought would do something about it by umpiring herself. 15 years later, Janine is the only woman currently umpiring in the Baseball Victoria Victorian Summer Baseball League, has umpired countless Women's National Championships, and has also umpired in Hong Kong and the USA. She was part of an all-women's umpiring crew at the Baseball Australia Showcase in 2021 which she will do again in 2022.  Abbey McLellan's journey in baseball has been one of commitment and persistence. Bursting onto the scene as a 11yo playing in Footscray Baseball Club's Under 16 team, the hard hitting outfielder turned catcher's career was almost derailed at just 21 years of age when a knee reconstruction ended her 2016 National Championships and World Cup aspirations. However, in a story of never letting go of your dreams, Abbey came back to represent her country at the 2018 World Cup and is now a leader of the Victorian Women's Baseball team.  #IWD2022 #WomensBaseballInsidePitch #Podcast #WomensBaseball #InsidePitch

For International Women's Day (IWD) the CD insights Podcast will look at the role of gender lens investing to impact SDG5, trends in gender investment, and about how innovative startups are mobilising capital to impact women positively. We'll also take a dive into why female leadership and representation in development finance is crucial. To create equity in the sector, to unlock the potential of businesses led by women, and to boost job creation, economic development and GDP - we need to break the biases that exist. This is the theme of this year's IWD, which we're celebrating in this special edition of the podcast.On the line up we have:Guest host Allie Yu, AVP Risk Management, TCX FundAmit Bouri, CEO, The GIINJanice Kotut and Ingwell Kuil Co Founders, Sustainable Links Femke Smeets, Partner at Total Impact CapitalVisit our Insights platform to find out more www.cardanodevelopment.com/insights Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Could you come back from your worst ever career moment to then put it all on the line two days later? That's what today's guest, Australian canoe slalom athlete Jessica Fox, did. And spoiler alert: she killed it. Jess is now the greatest paddler of all time – male or female – in her sport, and finished the last year with eight world championship titles. But it didn't come easy.In this special International Women's Day chat, you'll learn how she reframes disappointments so that she keeps improving – and what she shares is excellent advice that you can apply to your own health, wellbeing or career goals – plus she talks about training around her menstrual cycle, her tools for recovery and how she loves a good ugly cry.--The theme of this year's International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8 is #breakthebias. We're being urged to work towards a gender equal world, one that's also diverse and inclusive. Since becoming editor-in-chief, it's been my mission to make sure we're doing that in Women's Health, because I understand what it feels like to not be represented. We're not doing this perfectly by any means. It's taking time, but that's our aim. Pushing for gender equality is also why this week our podcast is dedicated to elevating women in sport, who often do not get the same recognition or coverage as male athletes. Like Paralympian Madison de Rozario says, “When we're at a point where we don't need to say ‘women's sport' that's when we've actually achieved something. - WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin--This podcast was produced and hosted by WH editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin (https://instagram.com/lizza_marie/)With special thanks to: Olympian Jessica Fox (https://www.instagram.com/jessfoxcanoe/)Jessica Fox is also on the cover of the April issue of Women's Health Australia. Grab a copy here.For more from Women's Health Australia, check out https://www.instagram.com/womenshealthaus/, https://www.womenshealth.com.au/ or find the print and digital editions of the magazine at https://www.womenshealth.com.au/subscribe-to-womens-health-australia-magazine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated.Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can break the bias in our communities. We can break the bias in our workplaces.We can break the bias in our schools, colleges and universities. Together, we can all break the bias - on International Women's Day (IWD) and beyond. My guest for this episode is Mayowa Kuyoro. She is a Partner in McKinsey's Lagos office, in Nigeria. She leads McKinsey's Financial Institutions practice in West Africa and has extensive experience across the continent serving major institutions both in the public and private sector. Mayowa is the co-author of a fascinating and eye opening publication “The power of parity: Advancing women's equality in Africa” conducted with The McKinsey Global Institute. In this episode, we're honoring international women's day and women's history month. We're playing our part by unfolding some of the barriers to gender equality in the workplace and going through real life situations involving gender bias. Do not miss this episode that will undoubtedly help you navigate conversations about gender diversity and help you raise awareness around you. Useful links & references: Read the full report here: “The power of parity: Advancing women's equality in Africa” The book Mayowa refers to: Lean in by Sheryl Sandberg Mayowa's Linkedin Profile Share your comments with us on Apple Podcast (rate & review), Linkedin (click here) and Instagram @manalbernoussi Guest bio: Mayowa Kuyoro is a Partner in McKinsey's Lagos office and leads McKinsey's Financial Institutions practice in West Africa. She joined McKinsey in 2010 and has worked with the several multilateral institutions both within and outside of Africa. She has extensive experience across West, South, and East Africa serving major institutions on topics related to large strategic transformations. Mayowa has working closely with government leaders and ministries, social sector organizations, the private sector, and various other sectors on issues related to performance transformation, corporate strategy, scenario development, financial analysis, and business process analysis.  Mayowa is a co-author of several published research reports including Roaring to life: Growth and innovation in African retail banking, The power of parity: Advancing women's equality in Africa, which is a collaboration with the McKinsey Global Institute, Harnessing Nigeria's fintech potential; How the COVID-19 crisis may affect electronic payments in Africa; and Nigeria's banking sector: Thriving in crisis. She is passionate about the role that access to finance can play in Africa's growth and development. She also co-leads McKinsey's women's initiative in West Africa.  Mayowa has an MEng (First Class Hons) in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Warwick and a Master in Business Administration with Distinction from Harvard Business School.  #Morocco #Nigeria #Lagos #Casablanca #Leadership #WomenLeadership #WomenEmpowerment #LeadersOnPurpose #LeadersOnPurposePodcast #internationalwomensday #womansday #ManalBernoussi #MayowaKuyoro #IWD22 #IWD2022

Pico de Orizaba is the highest volcano in Mexico and preserves a glacier at the top. The volcano is an old structure and has experienced several cone collapses and subsequent rebuilds in its eruptive history of fewer than 600,000 years. Thinking about the potential threat to villages located along the major river drainages, Drs. Katrin Sieron and Blake Weissling submitted a Geoscientists without Borders (GWB) proposal (https://seg.org/About-SEG/Geoscientists-Without-Borders/Projects/detail/veracruz-and-puebla-states-mexico-2) to monitor precipitation at altitudes over 4000 meters above sea level and to better characterize the lahar forming zone at the proglacial ramp. They also wanted to work on lahar (mud or debris flows) detection and monitoring and create a lahar-warning system for local habitants. More than 15 students were involved during the project execution, several of whom worked on virtually supported thesis proposals (geomorphology, hydrology, glacier modeling, lahar modeling, vulnerability studies, etc). GWB granted the project a one-year, no-cost extension, making it possible to finish the project. This episode features Katrin and Blake providing an overview of their project, discussing what they accomplished in Mexico, and reflecting on the legacy of their work. Visit https://seg.org/gwb to discover all the Geoscientists without Borders' projects and how to support this award-winning program. EVENT To honor and celebrate International Women's Day (IWD), the SEG Women's Network and Geoscientists without Borders® (GWB) are holding a joint event (https://seg.org/Events/SEG-Live/session/wnc-gwb-international-womens-day) highlighting some of the efforts that women geoscientists are leading that contribute to a sustainable society, as well as making a positive impact in communities around the world. BIOGRAPHIES Katrin Sieron is a geologist (MSc) and volcanologist (Ph.D.) academically trained in Germany, Canada, and Mexico. She holds a permanent researcher position at the Center of Earth Sciences at the Veracruz University (Mexico). Sieron has published in several indexed and dissemination journals, apart from numerous technical reports and outreach-related works. She has been a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI) since 2014 and participated in multiple national and international research projects, of which she led three. She is a member of the Seismological and Volcanological Observatory of Veracruz State (Mexico) and has presented her work at more than 20 international conferences. Dr. Blake Weissling is an Assistant Professor in Practice at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His areas of specialization include cryosphere, remote sensing, and surface water hydrology. SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Geospace Technologies. As the leading innovator and manufacturer of wireless seismic data acquisition systems, Geospace Technologies offers a series of seabed, wireless seismic data acquisition systems designed for extended-duration seabed seismic data acquisition. Geospace is committed to setting new standards for quality, performance, reliability and cost savings to E&P companies and marine geophysical contractors. Learn more at https://www.geospace.com/. CREDITS SEG produces Seismic Soundoff to benefit its members, the scientific community, and inform the public on the value of geophysics. To show your support for the show, please leave a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It takes less than five seconds to leave a 5-star rating and is the number one action you can take to show your appreciation for this free resource. You can follow the podcast to hear the latest episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Original music created by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary at 51 features, LLC. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Jennifer Cobb, Kathy Gamble, and Ally McGinnis.

In America the month of March is National Women's History Month which also encompasses International Women's Day (IWD) that in 2022 will be celebrated on March 8th. National Women's History Month has been observed annually in the United States and other countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia, every March since 1987. The month is observed in October in Canada. The National Women's History Alliance is known nationally (in the US) as the only clearinghouse providing information and training in multicultural women's history for educators, community organizations, and parents-for anyone wanting to expand their understanding of the historic contributions of women. The Alliance designates a yearly theme for Women's History Month. The 2022 theme is "Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope."Per their website, the theme, “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope,” is both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during the COVID pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways that women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history.Meghan and Harry, as a couple, have  always celebrated International Women's Day and they have now expanded this to include National Women's History Month. As we know,  Meghan has throughout her life championed women and girls issues, first off when living in America, then as a working member of the Royal Family,  and also through the work she did when she was a humanitarian ambassador which took her to countries like Rwanda and India. This past week Meghan and Harry released a statement through their Archewell website, saying  "As we cross into Women's History Month, and ahead of International Women's Day next week, we are announcing a number of non-profit investments in leading organizations working to advance gender equity, build policies that empower women and families, ensure meaningful media representation for women, and provide women with a network of tools and support for gaining employment."Meghan and Harry continued:  "Part of Archewell Foundation's core commitment is to build strong, compassionate, and equitable communities across the world. Although these grants have been announced as we recognize Women's History Month, the work these organizations do is relevant and vital every day of the year."The four non-profits benefitting from the new financial grants are ones that Meghan and Harry have worked with before, namely: 1.   The Center on Poverty and Inequality at the Georgetown University Law Center2.   National Women's Law Center3.   The 19th4.   The UK charity Smart Works Meghan has been Patron of Smart Works UK since 2019. All four organizations Tweeted their thanks to Meghan and Harry saying that they were thrilled to announce their partnership with the Archewell Foundation and were honoured to be one of the organizations chosen.Meghan and Harry wrote that these investments are representative of the approach that they and their Foundation have taken and continue to take towards advancing racial and gender justice.Please keep listening for future podcasts on all things Meghan, Harry, Archie and Lili.  Reach out to me through my blog at https://www.kindthoughtsformeghanmarkle.com/ and on twitter https://twitter.com/JeanetteSongolo

This special International Women's Day episode is brought to you by the Lake Mac Women's Sports Festival – Friday 11 March to Sunday 13 March 2022 - three whole days of celebrating women in sport! To book, head to www.lakemac.com.au/WomenSportFestival or just google ‘Women's Sport Festival' to book! There will be something for everyone: a networking breakfast; two sport symposium days with exceptional keynote speakers including Sam Poolman and Kerri Pottharst; and a family open day with stalls, autograph signings, live music, food trucks and sport games and clinics, including a netball masterclass with Sam Poolman! The kids are going to love it! In this special International Women's Day (IWD) episode of Hey Soul Sista, four accomplished women who are leading the way for others in their communities, discuss the state of the world right now for women, inequalities girls and women face around the world in context of this year's IWD theme – Break the Bias! Special guests: - Mayor Kay Fraser – the Mayor of Lake Macquarie - Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes – Lord Mayor of Newcastle - Lesa Mason – the first female President of rugby union club, the Hamilton Hawks   - Charlotte Thaarup – Founder of The Mindfulness Clinic, International Speaker and Author and Mindfulness Guru. + Follow Mel at @melissahiston + Follow Hey Soul Sista at @sistacode + Subscribe to make sure you hear the next instalment of Hey Soul Sista Podcast + www.thesistacode.com + melissa@thesistacode.com + Produced by Newcastle Podcast Station See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Halo #SahabatLIPI ! Podcast LIPI Press kembali hadir dengan bahasan yang lebih menarik, nih! Di episode 2 kali ini, Podcast LIPI Press menghadirkan seorang narasumber penulis buku LIPI Press, yakni Dr. Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi, S.I.P., M.A., Peneliti senior di Pusat Penelitian Politik LIPI, dengan kepakaran Politik Gender. Pada bincang Podcast kali ini, LIPI Press membedah secara langsung proses & cerita di balik penerbitan karya bukunya yang berjudul "Perempuan Kepala Daerah dan Penanggulangan Kemiskinan Berperspektif Gender di Indonesia" Podcast ini dihadirkan untuk memperingati Hari Perempuan Sedunia atau International Women's Day (IWD) setiap tanggal 8 Maret.

We advocate for affirmative action in favour of women as we celebrate IWD 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/THE-BOW/support

International Women's Day (IWD) is dedicated to celebrating women's achievements in the social, economic, cultural, and political spheres. The day, collectively founded by women, also brings attention to gender parity and women's rights. The color purple has become an international symbol for women since the origination of purple, green, and white signifies justice and dignity . #slayinpurple #ownit # To celebrate Women's Day and Mother's Day on this very episode I give you ways in which women can become stronger queens! "We can actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations, and celebrate women's achievements” . Enjoy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/her-breathing-journal/message

Why listening to your instincts is so important   “Follow your own instincts because they are right for what you need for your life, at that point in time” - Pauline Brogan-Hewitt   Today as part of us celebrating International Women's Day (IWD 2021) throughout March is a very special episode with a very special guest.  A woman who is my original inspiration.  I am so excited for you to hear from Pauline Brogan-Hewitt and her story of following her career dreams whilst raising a family - the juggle for women has always been around.  Enjoy this episode and hear more from my ambitious, brave and inspiring Mum - Yay my mum is on the show and by the end of it, it's obvious to see where I get my values and drive from. “I try not have regrets really, I am sure I have made some mistakes along the way but life is too short to have regrets” - Pauline Brogan-Hewitt   Don’t forget you can get my monthly NEWSLETTER that shares the latest around the gender pay gap, book recommendations and good practices that are happening all over the place that support more women to step up and be recognised for the value they bring.   Get yours by clicking >> https://www.gemmastow.com/newsletter or book a chat  https://calendly.com/gemmastow-1/call-with-gemma What is your company doing to celebrate International Women’s day in March 2021?  Get in touch as I have an excellent lunch and learn session that is being booked by companies right now that focuses on self advocacy and how this builds self promotion for women's career progression so that they can start owning their expertise, and speaking up and asking for what they really want which fit is really well with the theme #ChooseTo Challenge.  Email me for more info gemma@gemmastow.com or book in a call as there us still time to get it booked in the calendar for March.   #Resources     Get the White Paper ‘Visibility at Work: The Importance of Self Promotion for Women’s Career Progression:   https://bit.ly/WP2020podcast     Book a call with Gemma:   https://calendly.com/gemmastow-1/call-with-gemma     Get the newsletter:   https://www.gemmastow.com/newsletter Connect with your host Gemma Stow: Website: https://www.gemmastow.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemmastow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/gemmastow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nomorehidingpodcast

Hey hey, welcome GrowGetters to our very first live podcast event in celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD)! This week we went LIVE with our listeners via Zoom in celebration of IWD 2021. This was the first time we recorded live (on air) in front of people (so forgive us for any fumbles and stumbles we made along the way).We started this podcast because we believe that there is a genuine gap for “future skills” content for women, delivered by women who are also on the constant journey of upskilling, remaining relevant in our careers, and who have a thirst for knowledge in the worlds of business, tech, and leadership.GrowGetters was born with a big ambition: to see more women at the decision-making table, more women crushing it in their careers, and more female-led side hustles and businesses…because we truly believe the more women in business and leadership there - the better the world will be.So in today’s LIVE podcast event recording, we take you through what we believe are the most in-demand skills that women need to thrive in their careers in 2021 and beyond.This is based on research from a variety of credible sources (from HBR, to BCG, McKinsey, and more), fantastic evidence-based business books, as well as in our own experience having worked in both the startup and innovation scenes which typically are some of the most pioneering fields when it comes to “future skills”.Today we touch on the key skills in the following 4 key categories:1. Leadership2. Career3. Business and4. TechnologyRecommended Resources from the Episode:Leadership“The Kim Kardashian Principle” by Jeetendr SehdevCareer“The Multi-Hyphen Method” by Emma GannonBusiness“Business Model You” by Alexander Osterwalder, Tim Clark, and Yves PigneurIKIGAI“Purpose, Mastery, and Autonomy” by Daniel PinkThe Golden Circle model from the book “Start With Why” by Simon SinekTechnologyCrystal KnowsIB Watson Personality InsightsSimilarweb.comUsabilityhub.comKapwingAI WriterPersadoPLUSIf you enjoy listening to the pod there are a few ways you would absolutely make our day (and week, and year!!) and help support us so we can continue to create kickass content just for you!The quickest way is to make sure you click that FOLLOW button on Spotify, and hit SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you get your poddies) to make sure you never miss an episode!And if you are an Apple Podcasts user, we would be thrilled if you can take one minute to leave us a 5-star rating and a glowing review so even more of you fabulous GrowGetters can find us!If you’re more of a social media maven, then you can follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram at @growgetters.io where we post a whole swag of tips, tools, advice, and hacks on future-proofing your career!We run a weekly Clubhouse room to discuss Future-Proofing, Future Skills, The Future of Thought Leadership, and much, much more. FOLLOW US @tiffanyhart and @tanyagarma so you are notified next time we go live.And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to our GrowGetters Growth Hacks newsletter on growgetters.io for a fortnightly fix of the very latest hacks, tools, models, trends, and recommended reads to help you stay in demand and in the know!Chat to you next week... and let’s get GROWING!

This week, The BBL Show joins the global celebration of International Women's Day (IWD) with a few of the strong, inspiring women from our League. IWD is a day when many across the world celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It also serves as prompt to remember our collective responsibility to advocate for women's equality. This year's theme is #ChooseToChallenge and serves as a call to action to stand up to bias and inequality. We carry our IWD momentum as we power a live panel event with the BBL that was held on March 8th. The panelist include WBBL stars Siobhan Prior & Rheanne Bailey, Sarah Booth and our very own Selina Conroy. Today we bring you Sheffield Sharks Managing Director Sarah Backovic, BBL and FIBA referee Kate Unsworth, and London Lions Assistant Coach Andrea Boreland. ALL of this meant the return of our Social Responsibility Correspondent, Yvonne Harris. And of course, we have Scores and Top Performers, Player of the Week Nominees, Lasker Lookback and The Marriott Minute! #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bblshow/support

In this episode, Randall Miller, EY Global Advanced Manufacturing & Mobility Leader, and participants from the Women's Network share insights on the program and challenges women face during their careers. International Women's Day (IWD) is an important global celebration of women's achievements and is an opportunity to highlight what needs to be done to close the gender gap. At EY, we believe that gender equality is the key to unlocking business growth and helping societies to thrive. To underpin EY ambition to inspire and accelerate gender equality and social equity in the working world, the EY Advanced Manufacturing & Mobility (AM&M) Industry Market has established the AM&M Women's Network. The main goal of this network is to support top female talent on their path to achieving their career goals, as well as learning about and removing any barriers that prevent them from having equal opportunities in the firm. Key takeaways: Increasing the number of women in leadership roles is a top priority for the EY AM&M Industry Market. To contribute to the collective effort toward impactful change on gender equality, organizations should promote women's achievements, challenge gender stereotypes and biases, introduce policies that support women's careers and advocate for equal pay. Now is the time to go further and faster in accelerating gender equality and making sure #SheBelongs.

Read my thoughts and follow me on Medium: https://talko.fm/holidaySignificant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women's achievements or rally for women's equality. Marked annually on March 8th, International Women's Day (IWD) is one of the most important days of the year to: celebrate women's achievements. raise awareness about women's equality.#internationalwomensdayPhoto by Sinitta Leunen on Unsplash

Happy International Women's Day (IWD)! In this episode, you'll meet Sarah in her young adult and early businesswoman years. This 3-part series tells the story of a woman who defied the odds through hard work, faith, and Coca-Cola. Learn more about IWD: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/ Organizations to support on IWD and long-term: Women for Women International https://www.womenforwomen.org/about-us CAMFED https://camfed.org/about/ MUSASA https://musasa.co.zw/ Malala Fund https://www.malala.org/about Girls Not Brides https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/take-action/

To celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD), Helena chats with Deborah Thomas about the realities of being a CCO, the relevance of IWD today and views on progress around equality and diversity. The conversation also covers important role models, both male and female, and how to tackle the challenge of attracting more women into tech. To find out more, visit www.exasol.com

International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 seeks to inculcate a global challenge culture and raise awareness of the problems that still exist for women.  In Defence, the women’s agenda has seen considerable movement within recent years.  All roles within Defence are now open to women; the first servicewoman has passed the... The post International Women’s Day 2021 – Wavell Room #choosetochallenge appeared first on Wavell Room.

The Big Themes: 1. International Women's Day - IWD in Japan, 2. Getting the FIRST Woman Mayor in Office in Nagoya City, 3. Climate Change (Pandemics and climate crises stem from the same cause. It's environmental destruction by capitalism), 4. Pandemic Recovery Japan, 5. Children's Welfare, and 6. Gender Equity◆Happy International Women's Day 2021!◆ It was an honor to have the opportunity to mark this Women's Day with a conversation with Japanese friends of IWD, catch up with what's happening there this year with respect to gender equality, and talk with a woman who is embodying the motto for IWD 2021 - "Choose to Challenge" - as she campaigns to become the first female major of Nagoya, Japan's 4th largest city in one of the country's most conservative prefectures. I am also hugely grateful to my guests for agreeing to have this challenging conversation in their second language because after 15 years away, my Japanese sucks! With my guests, Keiko Ogata 尾形けいこ様 and Akane Kurihara 栗原茜様, we talk about Keiko's current campaign in the Nagoya Mayoral election coming up this April 25th and her 4 main campaign planks, all requiring more thorough input, involvement and decision-making by women at every level of power.Like elsewhere, the 2020 Pandemic in Japan exposed many social issues around economic and gender equality and the outcomes have been dire. A new and urgent awareness has been growing over the last few years and activism around International Women's Day is back on the calendar in Japan, with numerous events happening around the country highlighting the need for change. ◆ Connect with these two change-makers【グリーン再生なごや】～尾形けいこと名古屋を変えよう！～代表：尾形けいこmailto:ogatakeikonagoya@gmail.comhttp://ogatakeiko.jp/--------------------------------------------◆Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ogatakeiko202104◆Twitter: https://twitter.com/ogatakeiko758◆Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ogata_keiko_nagoya/　 ◆公式LINE: https://lin.ee/MGTfTPH◆Youtube尾形けいこチャンネル:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz5wdb1YB-eTbVq8VFBI5xwCatch the video version of our interview at https://youtu.be/7D1XZRRAp4s

To mark International Women's Day (IWD) celebration, on My Not So Secret Diary Dr Chioma Opara from Lily field Fertility Hospital joins us to discuss leiomyoma, popularly know as Fibroids, its relation to fertility, causes and treatment, with major focus on the myth, Fact and reality. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mynotsosecretdiary/message

In this episode, host Allie Liu chats to SI President Sharon Fisher on International Women's Day (IWD) about Soroptimist International's 100th year.  Sharon also talks about what IWD means to her, and discusses the events taking place at the 65th Session of Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65).Early bird ticket registration for the SI 100th Birthday Event is to be launched later in March. Please regularly check our website for updates: www.soroptimistinternational.org/members-area/100th-si-birthday-the-big-eventThe Road to Equality President's Appeal: www.soroptimistinternational.org/action/road-to-equalityFind out how to get involved with CSW65:www.soroptimistinternational.org/advocacy/commission-on-the-status-of-women/csw65

The Dress for Success Dublin (DfSD) charity supports women’s economic independence and campaigns for gender equality in the workplace and last month launched its 2021 International Women’s Day (IWD) campaign. The campaign will see organisations across Ireland raising funds on March 8th 2021 to support the delivery of employment and career services to support women into sustainable employment. Dress for Success Dublin are inviting companies to be part of International Women’s Day by doing any of the following: Hosting an event and fundraiser Joining 'Dress for Success Dublin Pecha Kucha Event' and donating Or just by donating their commute to help other women on their journey to economic independence Susan was joined by Jenny Egan, Irish International Sprint and Marathon Canoeist to discuss. For more details go to www.dressforsuccessdublin.org Listen and subscribe to Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8, every year around the world. This is a focal point in the movement for women's rights. Compiled & Presented by : Abdul Credits, Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels

In this episode, we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) as we talk to female leaders working across the board and from across the globe. We get the latest on the COVID 19 crisis more than a year on from Marie Haga, AVP at IFAD. Gender specialist Ndaya Beltchika talks to us about the need for more women in leadership in rural communities. And we hear from Judy Ling Wong – founder of the Black Environment Network in the UK. Plus news on the latest iteration of the world’s biggest fund to help small scale farmers adapt to climate change with Lisa Leclerc. Then we talk Agri-Small and Medium Enterprises with Bettina Prato. News from women working in agriculture in Brazil and Colombia. Plus a special report from Nepal. This is Farms. Food. Future. – a podcast that’s Good for You, Good for the Planet and Good for Farmers brought to you by the International Fund for Agricultural Development. For more information, visit us at http://www.ifad.org/podcasts/episode17 https://www.ifad.org/podcasts https://www.ifad.org/en/climate-and-environment http://www.ben-network.org.uk/  

“An equal world is an enabled world.” We cannot say it any better, women have come a long way when it comes to equality in the workplace. We should all take a moment to celebrate the many great social, cultural and economic accomplishments during this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD 2020). However, we must keep a keen eye on what happens next, and support a passionate drive to iterate and improve. Meaghan Sullivan joined us to celebrate IWD 2020, and to candidly share her experience, dreams, and expectations. She openly discusses her personal experience of being a woman in a male-dominated industry. Meaghan’s perspective illustrates the dynamic qualities of so many women as she shares her advice on this journey and how she thrives in the face of the expectations that accompany her roles. Meaghan Sullivan is the vice president of Global Channel Marketing at SAP. In this role, she is tasked with accelerating global indirect revenue through channel marketing practices as well as the SME route to market overall for SAP. Sullivan focuses on Demand Generation activities to provide SAP partners with innovative programs, campaigns, and resources that enable them to more efficiently market their SAP solutions and services.

To mark International Women's Day (IWD) 2020, this episode features discusses sustainability and energy leadership with representatives from JLL, Mars, Hilton and eXXpedition.

International Women's Day (IWD) has been commemorated since 1908. It has always been a movement for women to gain rights and achieve equality in the economic, social and political fields. It is marked by rallies and actions every year around the world on the 8th of March.For this years IWD, APC brings you an interview with Zoe Xhao, a sociology student on issues of gender, digital labour and transnational social movements, looking at the issues facing the global women's movement.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

The corporate rebranding of International Women's Day (IWD) couldn't be further from the day's revolutionary roots, or any meaningful discussion of women's liberation. It negates any discussion of the nature of power under patriarchy, and how relations of power between women and men might be genuinely transformed.

To celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8, host Alison Rice answers questions sent in by Offline’s community. IWD exists to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, but in Alison’s eyes, it also celebrates the work so many women do each and everyday to support our collective advancement. One of the many ways we can advance the women around us is by sharing our knowledge, and this episode is dedicated to doing just that. Alison gives advice across a range of topics including stepping up as a leader, dealing with toxic co-workers, raising your frequency, finding a job after being made redundant, asking for a pay rise, maintaining your financial independence, the one thing founders need to do in order to scale their businesses and how to be your True Self on social media. She also addresses the discrimination many women face when it comes to pursuing their career or starting a family. Alison hopes this episode leaves you feeling empowered and supported. Remember: informed, kind and compassionate women are unstoppable. And when it comes to achieving social, economic and cultural equality, we’re all in it together. Please note: Alison is offering her advice and her opinion. It’s important that you consult the people you trust the most before making any decisions. Follow Alison on InstagramBook a personal coaching session with Alison Check out Ira Glass and This American LifeMORE FROM OFFLINE AND ALISON RICEBecome a student of Self StudyIf you’re interested in learning about True Self, conscious success and more, consider becoming a student of Self Study — Offline’s school.Book a coaching session Offline’s host, Alison Rice, is an award-winning leader and conscious coach. She offers personal coaching sessions. Find out more or book directly. Early access For early access to new episodes of the podcast, Self Study learning opportunities and Offline events, follow @getoffline.co and @alisonlarsenrice on Instagram or Facebook. Share with those in needIf you know someone who would benefit from hearing these honest conversations, please share Offline with them.Original music by DLakeCreates. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Talking the provincial budget (1:30); Celebrating International Women's Day (12:35) & Manitoba Woman In Construction: Soo Lee from Marwest Construction & Kayla Gervais from Bockstael Construction (19:15); The Couch Potatoes new movie preview (30:30); More budget talk with the Canadian Tax Payers Association (35:40) & Richard Cloutier (42:30); and local app-makers of TrapSpy respond to the Google Maps radar alerts (47:15). 

The origins of International Women's Day (IWD) go back to 1909 when tens of thousands of women garment workers, the majority of whom were migrants, went out on strike in New York, USA demanding equal pay.The fight for justice and equality is still being fought all around the world with working class women at the forefront of the battle against exploitation, inequality and repression.APC was at the IWD march in Melbourne, Australia and brings you some speeches from Aboriginal women and the issues that they are facing.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

International Women’s Day (IWD) is our chance to celebrate women's achievements and successes. This month, Marta spoke to two of our executives, Anna Leibel and Lee Scales, on what this year’s topic of #pressforprogress means to them, the advancement of women in STEM, their own career experiences, and thoughts on what it’s like to be a woman in the modern workplace. Both women have achieved remarkable success in their careers and may not have necessarily taken the traditional path in getting there. Enjoy their stories. SHOW NOTES Your hosts are Rob Demasi, Lyndon Horsburgh and Marta Zyznowska. With thanks to special guests Anna Leibel, UniSuper’s Executive Manager – Technology, and Lee Scales, UniSuper’s Executive Manager – Member & People Services. Read more about how we’re celebrating women’s achievements along with bonus resources at www.unisuper.com.au/women The book Lee mentioned was ‘Not Just Lucky’ by Jamila Rizvi. The book Marta asked about was ‘Lean In’ by Sheryl Sandberg. Have a question or topic you'd like us to explore in future episodes? Write to us at superinformed@unisuper.com.au. You can also join the conversation on Twitter @UniSuperNews or give us a call on 1800 331 685.

International Women's Day (IWD) has a history going back to the early 20th century when urbanised and working class workers started to organise and demand their rights.While there has been a lot of progress in the last century, much remains to be done, especially for working class women in poorer countries. We speak to Jiselle Hanna, one of the main organisers of the IWD rally in Melbourne, Australia, about the demands of IWD and the central role of working class women in advocating and campaining for better rights.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia

International Women’s Day (IWD) coverage on YouTube and VR video (e.g., 360 degrees) where both covered this month in the Official YouTube Blog. I found it interesting that IWD and content with lots of video game related programming appearing (editorially) so close to each other. International Women’s Day The IWD post was published on March... Continue Reading → The post International Women’s Day and VR Video | Youtubular Conversations appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

The first International Women's Day (IWD) was observed on March 19, 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. More than one million women and men showed their support of women by participating in public events. In 1977, following the long-standing movements for women to participate equally in society, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed a day for women's rights and international peace. Following the United Nations' lead, Canada chose March 8 as IWD and it has grown to become a global day of recognition, celebration and action. In many countries it is an official holiday. In Canada, more than 40 events will be held this year. Last year, organizations and individuals around the world supported the Pledge for Parity campaign and committed to help women and girls achieve their ambitions; challenge conscious and unconscious bias, particularly against indigenous people and people of colour; call for gender-balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive cultures. The 2017 IWD campaign slogan is Be Bold for Change and it is hoped that women, men and non-binary people will join forces to create influence and take bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity. However, the World Economic Forum predicts the gender gap won't close entirely until the next century. The speakers will offer their thoughts on what it may take to close that gap sooner rather than later. Speakers: Glenda Bonifacio and Caroline Hodes Dr. Glenda Bonifacio joined the University of Lethbridge Department of Women & Gender Studies in 2005 and holds a BA in Social Sciences major in Political Science (magna cum laude, University of the Philippines); MA in Asian Studies (University of the Philippines); and a Ph.D. from the School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia. In 2015, Dr. Bonifacio was selected as one of the 100 most influential Filipina women in the World in the innovator and thought leader category. The award by the Filipina Women's Network (FWN) recognizes women who have broken new ground in the global workplace and has improved the lives of others. Dr. Caroline Hodes received her PhD from York University in 2013 and joined the University of Lethbridge Department of Women & Gender Studies in 2015. Prior to her appointment in Lethbridge she taught at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston and in Sociology at Trent University's Oshawa campus. Dr. Hodes research interests include human rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian and US feminist constitutionalism, and she has recently won a ULRF grant to fund her current work on representations of the body in Charter equality rights and Aboriginal rights litigation Moderator:   Bev Muendel-Atherstone Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017 Time: Noon - 1:30 PM (30 minutes each for presentation, lunch and Q & A) Location: Country Kitchen Catering (lower level of The Keg) 1715 Mayor Magrath Dr. S Cost:$12.00 (includes lunch) or $2.00 (includes coffee/tea)

The first International Women's Day (IWD) was observed on March 19, 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. More than one million women and men showed their support of women by participating in public events. In 1977, following the long-standing movements for women to participate equally in society, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed a day for women's rights and international peace. Following the United Nations' lead, Canada chose March 8 as IWD and it has grown to become a global day of recognition, celebration and action. In many countries it is an official holiday. In Canada, more than 40 events will be held this year. Last year, organizations and individuals around the world supported the Pledge for Parity campaign and committed to help women and girls achieve their ambitions; challenge conscious and unconscious bias, particularly against indigenous people and people of colour; call for gender-balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive cultures. The 2017 IWD campaign slogan is Be Bold for Change and it is hoped that women, men and non-binary people will join forces to create influence and take bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity. However, the World Economic Forum predicts the gender gap won't close entirely until the next century. The speakers will offer their thoughts on what it may take to close that gap sooner rather than later. Speakers: Glenda Bonifacio and Caroline Hodes Dr. Glenda Bonifacio joined the University of Lethbridge Department of Women & Gender Studies in 2005 and holds a BA in Social Sciences major in Political Science (magna cum laude, University of the Philippines); MA in Asian Studies (University of the Philippines); and a Ph.D. from the School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia. In 2015, Dr. Bonifacio was selected as one of the 100 most influential Filipina women in the World in the innovator and thought leader category. The award by the Filipina Women's Network (FWN) recognizes women who have broken new ground in the global workplace and has improved the lives of others. Dr. Caroline Hodes received her PhD from York University in 2013 and joined the University of Lethbridge Department of Women & Gender Studies in 2015. Prior to her appointment in Lethbridge she taught at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston and in Sociology at Trent University's Oshawa campus. Dr. Hodes research interests include human rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian and US feminist constitutionalism, and she has recently won a ULRF grant to fund her current work on representations of the body in Charter equality rights and Aboriginal rights litigation Moderator:   Bev Muendel-Atherstone Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017 Time: Noon - 1:30 PM (30 minutes each for presentation, lunch and Q & A) Location: Country Kitchen Catering (lower level of The Keg) 1715 Mayor Magrath Dr. S Cost:$12.00 (includes lunch) or $2.00 (includes coffee/tea)

The first International Women's Day (IWD) was observed on March 19, 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. More than one million women and men showed their support of women by participating in public events. In 1977, following the long-standing movements for women to participate equally in society, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed a day for women's rights and international peace. Following the United Nations' lead, Canada chose March 8 as IWD and it has grown to become a global day of recognition, celebration and action. In many countries it is an official holiday. In Canada, more than 40 events will be held this year. Last year, organizations and individuals around the world supported the Pledge for Parity campaign and committed to help women and girls achieve their ambitions; challenge conscious and unconscious bias, particularly against indigenous people and people of colour; call for gender-balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive cultures. The 2017 IWD campaign slogan is Be Bold for Change and it is hoped that women, men and non-binary people will join forces to create influence and take bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity. However, the World Economic Forum predicts the gender gap won't close entirely until the next century. The speakers will offer their thoughts on what it may take to close that gap sooner rather than later. Speakers: Glenda Bonifacio and Caroline Hodes Dr. Glenda Bonifacio joined the University of Lethbridge Department of Women & Gender Studies in 2005 and holds a BA in Social Sciences major in Political Science (magna cum laude, University of the Philippines); MA in Asian Studies (University of the Philippines); and a Ph.D. from the School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia. In 2015, Dr. Bonifacio was selected as one of the 100 most influential Filipina women in the World in the innovator and thought leader category. The award by the Filipina Women's Network (FWN) recognizes women who have broken new ground in the global workplace and has improved the lives of others. Dr. Caroline Hodes received her PhD from York University in 2013 and joined the University of Lethbridge Department of Women & Gender Studies in 2015. Prior to her appointment in Lethbridge she taught at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston and in Sociology at Trent University's Oshawa campus. Dr. Hodes research interests include human rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian and US feminist constitutionalism, and she has recently won a ULRF grant to fund her current work on representations of the body in Charter equality rights and Aboriginal rights litigation Moderator:   Bev Muendel-Atherstone Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017 Time: Noon - 1:30 PM (30 minutes each for presentation, lunch and Q & A) Location: Country Kitchen Catering (lower level of The Keg) 1715 Mayor Magrath Dr. S Cost:$12.00 (includes lunch) or $2.00 (includes coffee/tea)

The first International Women's Day (IWD) was observed on March 19, 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. More than one million women and men showed their support of women by participating in public events. In 1977, following the long-standing movements for women to participate equally in society, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed a day for women's rights and international peace. Following the United Nations' lead, Canada chose March 8 as IWD and it has grown to become a global day of recognition, celebration and action. In many countries it is an official holiday. In Canada, more than 40 events will be held this year. Last year, organizations and individuals around the world supported the Pledge for Parity campaign and committed to help women and girls achieve their ambitions; challenge conscious and unconscious bias, particularly against indigenous people and people of colour; call for gender-balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive cultures. The 2017 IWD campaign slogan is Be Bold for Change and it is hoped that women, men and non-binary people will join forces to create influence and take bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity. However, the World Economic Forum predicts the gender gap won't close entirely until the next century. The speakers will offer their thoughts on what it may take to close that gap sooner rather than later. Speakers: Glenda Bonifacio and Caroline Hodes Dr. Glenda Bonifacio joined the University of Lethbridge Department of Women & Gender Studies in 2005 and holds a BA in Social Sciences major in Political Science (magna cum laude, University of the Philippines); MA in Asian Studies (University of the Philippines); and a Ph.D. from the School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia. In 2015, Dr. Bonifacio was selected as one of the 100 most influential Filipina women in the World in the innovator and thought leader category. The award by the Filipina Women's Network (FWN) recognizes women who have broken new ground in the global workplace and has improved the lives of others. Dr. Caroline Hodes received her PhD from York University in 2013 and joined the University of Lethbridge Department of Women & Gender Studies in 2015. Prior to her appointment in Lethbridge she taught at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston and in Sociology at Trent University's Oshawa campus. Dr. Hodes research interests include human rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian and US feminist constitutionalism, and she has recently won a ULRF grant to fund her current work on representations of the body in Charter equality rights and Aboriginal rights litigation Moderator:   Bev Muendel-Atherstone Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017 Time: Noon - 1:30 PM (30 minutes each for presentation, lunch and Q & A) Location: Country Kitchen Catering (lower level of The Keg) 1715 Mayor Magrath Dr. S Cost:$12.00 (includes lunch) or $2.00 (includes coffee/tea)

According to the United Nations, “International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.” Globally, International Women’s Day (IWD) is a pretty big deal. Many countries observe the day with special traditions and celebrations, some even declaring it a national holiday. However, in the US, observance of International Women’s Day has been quite modest. While most consider the US fairly progressive in terms of women’s rights and equality, the truth is gender equity is actually losing ground in the States, and there’s more reason than ever for the US to recognize IWD and its mission. Two Washington women are working to make IWD a much bigger deal in Seattle: in 2016, they convened a gathering of about 80 women; this year, International Women’s Day Seattle has already outgrown one home, and the event is still a week away. Team genneve is planning to attend (and volunteer, so look for us!), and we hope you’ll join us. We’re even more excited about the event after having the chance to sit down with organizers Kate Isler and Nickie Smith and talk about why International Women’s Day is important and why the work of feminists and feminism isn’t done.   Event details: Facebook event page Date/Time: Wednesday, March 8, 4.30 – 9 PM Location: Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave Tickets: available from Eventbrite.