Podcast appearances and mentions of Gloria Feldt

Join Lori as she speaks with Gloria Feldt, Co-Founder and President of Take the Lead, an organization dedicated to advancing women's leadership. Gloria empowers women to embrace their power confidently, joyfully, and with bold intentions, inspiring them to lead with purpose and make a meaningful impact!   Here are the things to expect in this episode: Gloria's journey in founding the organization Take the Lead. The concept of reframing power and how it can empower women to embrace leadership roles. Gloria's vision for women's pay, power, and leadership equality. The success stories of women who have gone through Take the Lead's programs. And much more! Gloria's Website: https://gloriafeldt.com/ Gloria's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gloriafeldt/ Gloria's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GloriaFeldt.PublicFigure Gloria's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gloriafeldt/ Take The Lead's Website: https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/ Take The Lead's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TakeTheLeadWomen Take The Lead's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeleadwomen/   Connect with Lori Kranczer! Website: https://linkphilanthropic.com Email: info@linkphilanthropic.com   

New book alert!  In this episode, Adam Torres interviews Gloria Feldt, Co Founder and President at Take The Lead. Explore Take The Lead and Gloria's new book, Mission Matters: Mission-Based Leaders Share Inspiring Stories on Power and Purpose (Women Leaders Edition, Volume 1).  Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule. Apply to be a guest on our podcast: https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/ Visit our website: https://missionmatters.com/ More FREE content from Mission Matters here: https://linktr.ee/missionmattersmedia

Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Laura Nix Gerson, the CEO & Co-founder of Nix|Gerson Media. She develops and produces content that celebrates women. She is also the co-founder of Venture:F and the producer and host of the Venture:F podcast, the destination for women investing in women.   Laura serves as a Board Director of the Los Angeles Venture Association and as the Co-Chair for Women@LAVA.   She is a business development expert with more than twenty years of expertise and has advised start-ups, entrepreneurs, and major corporations on growth strategy. She has led both agency and corporate environments, where her extensive background in lead generation, marketing, and communications have been the cornerstone of her expertise. Laura has a knack for seeing the opportunities in specific introductions and is known for creating strategic partnerships that garner results.   In her previous role at Worth Media Group she reinstated the Women & Worth community, building out the business and content strategy, to include producing the Leading Voices Series and the 2023 Women & Worth Summit booking such luminaries as Stacey Abrams, Valerie Jarrett, Jenny Just, Gloria Feldt and Sallie Krawcheck.   Prior to this Laura launched FOUNDED, a curated community focused on strategic introductions, to help founders grow and scale their businesses and was the Founder & CEO of MomAngeles Media, where she spent 10 years working with brands in the parenting and women's health & wellness space. During this time she booked 200+ top tier women speakers, all experts in their field, for events and series including: The Riveter Stories, United State of Women Summit, SoCal Wellness Annual Summit, and The MomFair. This was a formative time in her career that she credits with a deeper appreciation for the ability of women to innovate, launching businesses that solve challenges women and moms deal with every day.   As a writer she has contributed to Worth, CBS Local Los Angeles, Babble, and Modern Mom.   https://www.nixgersonmedia.com/ www.sheangelinvestors.com    Follow Us On Social Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn

WTOP's Jason Fraley interviews TV's "Wonder Woman" star Lynda Carter, who will be be honored at the Kennedy Center concert on Sunday, followed by a conference at the National Housing Center in Washington D.C. on Monday for Women's Equality Day. Carter joined WTOP at four consecutive Kennedy Center Honors from 2014-2017. You'll also hear from Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of the non-profit Take the Lead, which is hosting this weekend's festivities. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WTOP's Jason Fraley interviews TV's "Wonder Woman" star Lynda Carter, who will be be honored at the Kennedy Center concert on Sunday, followed by a conference at the National Housing Center in Washington D.C. on Monday for Women's Equality Day. Carter joined WTOP at four consecutive Kennedy Center Honors from 2014-2017. You'll also hear from Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of the non-profit Take the Lead, which is hosting this weekend's festivities. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Gloria Feldt, a nationally acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with expertise from frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker.  Selected for Forbes 50 over 50, she is cofounder and president of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life's passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women of all diversities to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership.     They discuss the Take The Lead, Power Up Concert and Conference, on August 26th, in Washington DC on Women's Equality Day! Get your tickets here:  https://togetherwelead.events.whova.com/registration/ Show Her the Money will be screening after the conference on August 26th! Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-equality-day-dc-show-her-the-money-screening-panel-afterparty-tickets-977207212077     She is the bestselling author of five books. Her latest, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead, shows how we can seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of massive disruption to build back stronger with women at the center of the recovery. Through the lens of women's stories, it delivers a fresh set of leadership tools, skills, and concepts that help all women reach their own highest intentions, purposefully creating new norms, while guiding institutions to break through the remaining barriers to gender and racial parity for everyone's good.    www.sheangelinvestors.com    Follow Us On Social Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn  

Take The Lead prepares, develops, inspires, and propels all women of all diversities and intersectionality to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions. In this episode, Adam Torres interviews Gloria Feldt, Co-Founder and President at Take The Lead. Explore Take The Lead and the upcoming book Gloria will be releasing with Women Connect4Good and Mission Matters. Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule.Apply to be a guest on our podcast:https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/Visit our website:https://missionmatters.com/Support the showMore FREE content from Mission Matters here: https://linktr.ee/missionmattersmedia

This week on the Well Woman Show, I interview Sophia Yen MD is the CEO and Co-Founder of PandiaHealth, providing expert women's hormonal healthcare, convenience, and confidentiality via telemedicine and medication delivery. Pandia Health is the ONLY #WomenFounded #WomenLed #DoctorFounded/Led birth control delivery company. She co-founded Pandia Health because “No one should suffer from ‘pill anxiety' - the fear of running out of birth control and the stress of obtaining it each month.” Dr. Yen enjoys educating the public and physicians about birth control, menstrual regulation, race differences in birth control, BMI and Emergency Contraception, and #PeriodsOptional. Graduated from MIT, UCSF Medical School, and UC Berkeley's MPH program and with 20+ years in medicine, she's a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford Medical School. She co-founded 3 non-profit projects to improve the lives of women. We discuss Why we need to see a doctor is you have painful or heavy periods, or menopause symptoms How so many women don't know that you can #Make Periods Optional and Finally, that not all telemedicine companies are the same. Dr. Yen advocates for women founded, women led companies. As always, all the links and information are at wellwomanlife.com/319show The Power Up Conference and Concert, happening on August 26th, will bring together inspiring speakers, industry leaders, and performers to discuss and celebrate women's empowerment. And I'm excited to share that the Well Woman Show is a media partner for this event. This year, the event will be held both in-person and virtually, allowing everyone to participate, no matter where you are. It's an excellent opportunity to network, gain insights, and support the incredible work being done to close the gender gaps. So let's power up and be part of the movement towards gender equality. Remember, change begins with each one of us. And by supporting initiatives like Dr. Adia Gooden's work, Gloria Feldt's Take The Lead, and attending events like the Power Up Conference and Concert, we can create a more equitable and inclusive world for everyone. Power Up Concert & Conference 2023 https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/events/https/leadtaketheleadwomencom/event/power-up-conference-2023/e485160 Saturday, August 26, 2023 8:00 AM 7:00 PM UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center Los Angeles, CA Your ticket includes a fabulous night of fun and music celebrating Women's Equality Day. Power Up Concert with Indie Pop trio BETTY as well as August 26th 6-8 pm PT / 9-11 pm ET Los Angeles and Virtual Take The Lead Conference has been helping women for years by creating a safe space to teach them the tools they need to be successful in this world. Whether it be in your career, connecting with your family or in your community, get ready to network with women who are ready to support you in your path to success. To top it all off, the day ends with a fantastic concert with big-name performances. You can get a code that gives you 20% off of tickets with POWERUPWWS The books she recommended were: Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk by

This month on the Well Woman Show, the topic is workplaces that work for women because when women thrive, families thrive. And when families thrive, whole communities thrive. I share my analysis of the future of work, workforce development and economic development ecosystems and interviews Zeynep Ton, a Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also president of the nonprofit Good Jobs Institute, where she works with companies to improve their operations in a way that satisfies employees, customers, and investors alike. Before joining MIT Sloan, Ton spent seven years on the faculty at Harvard Business School. She is the author of The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits and the new book, The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay and Meaning to Everyone's Work. A native of Turkey, Ton first came to the US on a volleyball scholarship from Pennsylvania State University. She received her BS in industrial and manufacturing engineering there and her Doctor of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.100 Women Albuquerque members gather quarterly and donate $100 each to the same local nonprofit. Grassroots giving circles likes ours allow us to amplify our impact and turn your $100 donation into thousands. All money goes directly to the nonprofit. Learn more at 100WomenABQ.orgThe Power Up Conference and Concert, happening on August 26th, will bring together inspiring speakers, industry leaders, and performers to discuss and celebrate women's empowerment. And I'm excited to share that the Well Woman Show is a media partner for this event. This year, the event will be held both in-person and virtually, allowing everyone to participate, no matter where you are. It's an excellent opportunity to network, gain insights, and support the incredible work being done to close the gender gaps. So let's power up and be part of the movement towards gender equality. Remember, change begins with each one of us. And by supporting initiatives like Dr. Adia Gooden's work, Gloria Feldt's Take The Lead, and attending events like the Power Up Conference and Concert, we can create a more equitable and inclusive world for everyone.Power Up Concert & Conference 2023Saturday, August 26, 20238:00 AM 7:00 PMUCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center Los Angeles, CAYour ticket includes a fabulous night of fun and music celebrating Women's Equality Day.Use code: POWERUPWWShttps://www.taketheleadwomen.com/events/https/leadtaketheleadwomencom/event/power-up-conference-2023/e485160The Well Woman Show is thankful for support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for the community, mindfulness practices, and strategy to live your Well Woman Life.

Today, we delve into the groundbreaking work of Dr. Adia Gooden, a licensed clinical psychologist focusing on unconditional self-worth, imposter syndrome, and Black women and mental health. And, we'll hear about Gloria Feldt's efforts with Take The Lead and the ambitious goal of achieving gender parity by 2025.  Let's start by talking about the gender gaps in self-esteem and power. These gaps still persist in our society, affecting various marginalized groups, especially women and in particular, Black, Indigenous and women of color. The self-esteem gap refers to the disparity in how individuals perceive their worth and value, and it can have significant implications for personal and professional growth. On the other hand, the power gap refers to the uneven distribution of decision-making authority and influence between genders. As we continue our program today, think about how you would rate your won self esteem and your power, or decision making authority and influence. Is it strong? Is it where you want it to be? One researcher who has been shedding light on this issue is Dr. Adia Gooden. She has focused her work on understanding self-worth and its impact on mental health, particularly among black women. Dr. Gooden's research highlights the unique challenges faced by black women in society and the importance of fostering self-esteem and self-worth for overall well-being. Her work serves as a powerful reminder of the need to address these disparities and to support the leaders doing this work. Now, let's shift our attention to Gloria Feldt, a renowned author and activist who has made it her mission to achieve gender parity by 2025. She co-founded Take The Lead, an organization that empowers women to embrace leadership roles and break through barriers that have held them back. You also may remember her as the former head of Planned Parenthood at the national level. Feldt's efforts have been instrumental in advocating for equal opportunities for women and challenging systemic biases. Join the Power Up Conference and Concert with Gloria Feldt and Take The Lead in Los Angeles! The Power Up Conference and Concert, happening on August 26th, will bring together inspiring speakers, industry leaders, and performers to discuss and celebrate women's empowerment. This year, the event will be held both in-person and virtually, allowing everyone to participate, no matter where you are. It's an excellent opportunity to network, gain insights, and support the incredible work being done to close the gender gaps. Well Woman Show is a media partner for Power Up Conference 2023 Use our special discount code for 20% off tickets: POWERUPWWS  Power Up Concert & Conference As always, The Well Woman Show is thankful for support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices, and strategy to live your Well Woman Life. All the links and information from today's show are at wellwomanlife.com/radio Links: Self esteem gender gap article:

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Gloria Feldt, the CEO of Planned Parenthood from 1996-2005, is a bestselling author and life-long feminist activist. Raised by Jewish immigrants in rural Texas, Gloria became a teen mom at 16 and had three children by the time she was 20. After the birth of her third child, she decided to pursue her dream of getting a college degree. The pursuit of education ended up completely altering her life path.   Join us for the latest episode of All About Change as Gloria discusses her career - empowering women of all ages and how we can continue to rally forces even as the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade threatens to unravel years of progress. Please find a transcription of this episode: https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/podcast-episode/gloria-feldt-feminist-icon/.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The final episode of season 3 is different by how it's edited as well as the level of emotions. So if conversations on abortion, violence against women trigger you, please take care of yourself. My guest today is Gloria Feldt, a speaker, author, and teen mom who became president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She stopped by our podcast not only once, but twice. First we talked about power, sex, and how women will take the lead for everyone's good. And then, the SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade. So Gloria graciously returned to dive deeper into this topic. Not only did she offer valuable insights into "now what" but left us with very tangible, actionable steps. That is the part you will hear first, and then we'll dive into our original conversation.

Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and how women will take the lead for everyone's good! The amazing Gloria Feldt, former head of Planned Parenthood, author & president of Take the Lead joins Coach Clarence for a conversation about brains vs brawn, gender parity, power, privilege, and how disruption and chaos brings about change. Roe vs Wade is on everyone's mind so we'll talk about it. Tap into your power ladies!www.gloriafeldt.com  www.taketheleadwomen.com

In this session, Gloria Feldt, Co-founder and president of Take The Lead, talks about her experience in managing and promoting a diverse workplace. She also talks about her best selling book, Intentioning, explaining some of the important concepts therein. Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and an in-demand keynote speaker. She is co-founder and president of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life's passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by providing breakthrough training, mentoring, and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership. She is the bestselling author of five books; No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, plus her own real-world experience, forms the core of Take The Lead's programs. Her newest book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead is available for presale from your favorite bookseller and will be in bookstores by September 28, 2021. Discussion Timeline: 0:58 Gloria's journey. 6:21 Reason for lack of gender diversity in workplaces. 12:34 How can women be more employable? 16:50 Tips to creating a diverse, inclusive workforce. 21:15 How can women break into leadership positions? 25:20:00 Role models for women leadership. 31:17:00 Where does gender diversity begin in an organization? 35:05:00 Steps to put gender diversity into practice. 40:25:00 On "Take the Lead" organization. 45:55:00 Building a cohort for professional support. 54:02:00 Defining intentioning. 58:48:00 The ideal reader for "Intentioning" 1:01:21 Rapid fire. 1:06:38 Gloria's success mantra. 1:08:37 Gloria's favorite reads. 1:11:06 Closing remarks. About TAO.ai[Sponsor]: TAO is building the World's largest and AI-powered Skills Universe and Community powering career development platform empowering some of the World's largest communities/organizations. Learn more at https://TAO.ai About WorkPod: Work Pod takes you on the journey with leaders, experts, academics, authors, and change-makers designing the future of work, workers, and the workplace. About Work2.org WorkPod is managed by Work2.org, a #FutureOfWork community for HR and Organization architects and leaders. Sponsorship / Guest Request should be directed to info@tao.ai Keywords: #FutureofWork #Work2.0 #Work2dot0 #Leadership #Growth #Org2dot0 #Work2 #Org2

Brother Greg sits down with Gloria Feldt - author of Intentioning - provides tips for how women can take the lead for everyone's good and continues the celebration of Women's History Month.

Gloria Feldt was the CEO and president of Planned Parenthood from 1996 to 2005, the world's largest reproductive health and advocacy organization. She was named by Vanity Fair one of “America's Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour's “Woman of the Year."    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Gloria Feldt, exploring her book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead, and her work as the Cofounder and President of Take The Lead._____LINKSgloriafeldt.comwww.taketheleadwomen.com_____Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker. She is cofounder and president of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life's passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership. She is the bestselling author of five books. Her latest, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead launched September 28, 2021, shows how we can seize the once-in-a- lifetime opportunity of massive disruption to build back stronger with women at the center of the recovery.She is formerly president and CEO of the world's largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was named by Vanity Fair one of “America's Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour's “Woman of the Year,” She Knows Media Inspiring Woman, Women's eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Women Economic Forum Circle of Light award, Texas Monthly's Texas 20, Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award, Diversity Leadership Alliance Diversity Leader Award, and Forbes 40 Over 40.She teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University. Feldt has been widely quoted and published, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Daily Beast, Forbes, Fast Company, Time, Huffington Post, Glamour, Elle and Ms. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America and The Daily Show, and an infinite number of podcasts.Gloria is an awesome chili maker. She and her husband Alex Barbanell live in New York City and Scottsdale, Arizona; they share a combined family of six children and 15 grandchildren._____In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of Fall In Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy.Learn more at https://www.lovechildrenplanet.comFollow Frank on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaefferhttps://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTubeIn Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer PodcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-conversation-with-frank-schaeffer/id1570357787_____Support the show

➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory ➡️ About The Guest⁣ Gloria Feldt is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator, and feminist leader who has gained national recognition as a social and political advocate of women's rights. In 2013, she co-founded Take The Lead, a nonprofit initiative with a goal to propel women to leadership parity by 2025.  She is a former CEO and president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, directing the organization from 1996 to 2005. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Time, NBC, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, and much more. ➡️ Show Links https://gloriafeldt.com/ https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/ https://twitter.com/gloriafeldt/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gloriafeldt/ ➡️ Podcast Sponsors 1. CROWDHEALTH - https://joincrowdhealth.com/99 (Code: SUCCESSSTORY) 2. NETSUITE - https://netsuite.com/scottclary/ 3. HUBSPOT - https://hubspot.com/ ➡️ Talking Points⁣ 00:00 - Intro. 04:15 - Gloria Feldt's Origin Story 12:11 - Inhibition Towards Applying For Jobs You Deserve 18:58 - What Has Happened With Leadership During Covid?  23:24 - Why Has Covid Set Women Back 10-20 Years? 26:45 - Why Is Side Hustle Important? 28:30 - After Covid, How Can We Recover Or Move In The Right Direction? 34:00 - Why Gloria Chose A Particular Word For The Title Of Her Book? 35:36 - What Are The Lessons Or Advice People Can Get From Gloria's Book?  40:00 - How to Find Organizations That Foster Employee Growth 47:41 - Advice Pulled Out Of Gloria's Book 48:05 - Where Do People Connect With Gloria?  49:22 - What Was The Biggest Challenge Of Gloria's Career And How Did She Overcome It? 50:03 - Who Was Gloria's Mentor?  50:51 - A Book Or A Podcast Recommendation By Gloria 51:40 - What Would Gloria Tell Her 20-Year-Old-Self? 51:57 - What Does Success Mean To Gloria Feldt? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's 51%, we hit the books. University of Virginia Professor Andrea Press explains how today's media can better represent women in her book, Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. And Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Take the Lead's Gloria Feldt about her latest title, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good. Guests: Andrea Press, University of Virginia professor and co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism; Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead and author of Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King, our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is "Lolita" by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for tuning in, I'm Jesse King. We've got a pair of interviews with some fantastic authors today — and we're going to start by getting a little meta and talking about the media. The media we consume can be a powerful thing: it can reflect the cultural and social norms of our time, make us feel heard and seen, and challenge society by exposing audiences to new ideas. So how is media faring when it comes to women? Well, if you ask our first guest, not too great — but it's complicated in this digital age. Andrea Press is a professor of media studies and sociology at the University of Virginia, and her new book with Francesca Tripodi — titled Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms — is out now on the State University of New York Press. In it, the pair explore how feminist messaging is blunted (or in some cases, created) in its consumption, and how media can better represent women of all backgrounds. Press says the idea for the book started with an observation she and Tripodi made years ago. "There was this pervasive idea in the culture that feminist activism had been successful and was finished, and there was not an ongoing problem. And that contradicted many experiences that women were having in their everyday lives," Press explains. "And so, as sociologists, we were really interested in that disconnect between experience, and the way people understood their experience, and acted upon their experience. And as media scholars, we felt the media were playing an important role in this disconnect. Just to start off at the beginning, what do you define as media-ready feminism? Well, media-ready feminism was what we found when we examined the iteration of feminism in different media platforms. And the way we define media-ready feminism is a feminism that's focused on the struggles of largely white, very affluent, successful women in the culture. It's a version of feminism that kind of downplays the need for revolutionary change and sort of focuses on much more smaller reforms needed, but purports the idea that feminism is largely an accomplished goal. A good example of media-ready feminism would be the recent #Metoo movement, where we had a focus on the struggles of very glamorous, mostly white, affluent actresses – who did experience horrible instances of sexual harassment, and often sexual assault, at the hands of a very powerful and wealthy media producer Harvey Weinstein. It was still hard to get the story covered, and I don't want to downplay the struggles the New York Times reporters and Ronan Farrow, who's also very powerful and wealthy and a scion of Hollywood royalty, had to go through to get mainstream media to actually cover this story. It was hard. But it was impossible when the label “me too” was coined 11 years earlier by the African-American social worker Tarana Burke to talk about the struggles of her clients, who were distinctly less powerful, wealthy, and media-ready glamorous than the Hollywood actresses that we read so much about in the #Metoo movement. And that's an example of how feminism needs to be media-ready to get into media coverage in mainstream media. When a form of media or a particular message isn't media-ready, how is it typically received by people? How does that back-and-forth usually go? Well, we are scholars of the media audience, so it's where sociology meets media, and we're exactly interested in that moment where viewers and media users interpret what they're seeing. There isn't really one answer to that – we have instances in the book where women see through the sort of media-ready aspects of feminism presented in the media, and instances where they don't. So for example, we have a chapter on work, family balance, and the way media represent that. And we talked about an episode of what was formerly a very popular show, Desperate Housewives, and about one of its characters, who had been a super successful advertising executive, who left her career to have four children. She has to go back to work because her husband loses his job. And it's an interesting episode, because it talks about how hard it was to get the unemployed husband to step up and do childcare, and how difficult it was to get hired when she ended up having baby in tow at the interview, and what she experienced in the workplace being a very visible, working mother. And what we found in that chapter, when we interviewed older women who had been through very similar experiences, they really understood this as a structural problem, something that needed ongoing efforts and ongoing activism to address. And younger women, who had not been through these experiences themselves, sort of glossed over the issue and were not really able to identify this as an area where feminist activism and struggle was needed. Tell me about some of the other forms of media that you looked at in this book, and some of your other findings here. Well, we have a chapter on Game of Thrones, which we thought was very interesting text. You have queens and dragon rulers and, you know, very powerful women – who still were represented according to some of the norms of the way mainstream media often represents women: they were younger than you would expect a ruler to be, for example, they were highly sexualized in the way they were portrayed. And the norms of representing a sexual woman were very predictable according to mainstream media: they were most often white, they were most often blonde, they were most often thinner than the average woman. And so we were really interested in how audience members received these images. Did they focus on women's power? Did they focus on stereotypical representations of women being highly sexualized? There was also a lot of sexual violence in that text. And we wondered if people noticed and found it disturbing, and sort of commented on it in their viewership. And we found both: people commented on how strong the women were, but tended, really not, for the most part, to notice the sexualization and the sexual violence, which even for mainstream television and film is pretty extreme. It is accepted by audience members because it is so pervasive in media representations to have women be highly sexualized, and to represent violence against women as a part of business as usual in our society. Now, we've been speaking about shows that were created than offered to the public, but a lot of today's media is also created within its audience. Can you talk a little bit about what you've been finding on that front, in terms of social media, and more just the way we engage with each other? Well, we have two very interesting chapters in that regard. One is on Wikipedia, which, of course, is the people's encyclopedia, created by the people. And you would imagine the norms of representation on Wikipedia to be egalitarian, but that is not what we found, and broader scholarship on Wikipedia has confirmed this. There actually is an under-representation, which is very systematic, of women and of people of color, of their achievements. Their standards of notability are much higher on Wikipedia, and repeated attempts to get notable women – and especially women of color – represented in that encyclopedia get torn down, they get deleted by the central core of editors that spends a lot of time deciding if people's entries are legitimate or not. And we don't have the answer to why this happens, but we do have a lot of data illustrating that it does happen, and it happens systematically. And of course, this has quite an impact on society, because we have armies of schoolchildren turning to Wikipedia to try to discover who is important in our culture, in our history. If women are not being included in this record, I think that is a very strong message we are sending our children, and it's something we need to be aware of and probably take some steps to rectify. But that is continuing to happen. We also looked at dating apps. We did as series of interviews with college students who use Tinder, and one of the things we found with Tinder is that there is an implicit agreement to sexual activity. There was a lot of to-do in Babe Magazine about a young woman who went on a date with a well-known celebrity, and there was this implicit idea that she was consenting to sexual activity by going on this date. And that is what we found to be an underlying norm of Tinder use – that there was an implicit consent assumed to sexual activity by both men and women going on Tinder dates. And we thought that was interesting. And the sexual assault epidemic on college campuses is not unrelated. I thought that was a particularly like interesting part of the book as well, just because, with dating apps, they're often spoken about as a way for women to take hold of their sexuality, or to have some sort of control over their relationships, and to have some choice there. But at the same time, a lot of people are interpreting swiping right as like, “You think I'm attractive. Done deal.” Swipe right for assault is the name of our chapter. So as you're doing these studies, was there a particular part that connected with you, or that you were particularly surprised by? I would say we were surprised by quite a bit of what we found in this book. And I go back to our original impetus for the book: I mean, we really didn't understand why people did not identify the ongoing need for feminist activism and reform in the culture, and we felt it involved an ignoring of the experiences of everyday sexism – that women do confront sexual harassment, they confront discrimination, they confront an inordinate set of burdens when combining work and family that's not shared by men in their lives. And what was keeping people from identifying this as gender inequality and identifying the need to change this kind of inequality. Seeing that the media do not present it as such, that they gloss over pervasive gender inequality, and they continually support the idea that feminism is no longer needed. That is something that we didn't really expect to find so strongly across media platforms, but it added up to quite a system. And we felt like we were getting into the real inner workings of the way a patriarchy is reproduced. And that's what we felt we found. That kind of goes into one of my next questions. So if audience reaction plays a role in creating or changing the meaning of a piece, or even what goes out there, how can we better represent feminist ideas in media, and more accurately show these everyday sexisms? Well, I think media producers – and it's great to be in an interview here with a media producer – I think we all need to be including media producers much more conscious of the tendency to downplay the continuing need for struggle around gender equity. Because the data show that there is a continuing need for struggle around gender equity. There is harassment, there is assault, there is discrimination. There is a double standard. I didn't talk about this, but we look at double standards around sexual activity, and the way it's just assumed that women should engage in much less sexual activity than men – and they're still called a series of names when they're considered to be too highly sexual. And media need to really be committed to representing this data. I mean, it's there. We know, we're sociologists. It just doesn't really get covered in a way that people pay attention to it. I think the other much more pervasive issue, really, is that people need to not accept the way society is. And media play a big role in that. People need to understand that it is only through action and debate and activism that social change occurs. And we've seen vastly important social changes around issues of gender equity, around racial equity, around sexual discrimination and sexual equity because of the role activists have played in these issues. We see that we have an imperative to work to make our society better and more equitable. And people need to take that responsibility seriously. And I think the media can help this to happen. Our next guest is a New York Times bestselling author, a renowned speaker on women's rights and leadership, and a former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood. Gloria Feldt is also the co-founder and president of Take the Lead, a nonprofit bringing leadership training to women and businesses with the mission of achieving leadership gender parity across all sectors by 2025. In her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good, Feldt shares the stories of various women during the COVID-19 pandemic to detail the power of intention, and offers her tips to help women reach their goals. She spoke with Dr. Sharon Ufberg, co-founder of the California-based personal development company, Borrowed Wisdom, for her 51% segment, “Force of Nature.” How did Intentioning get started? I had started writing Intentioning before the pandemic, and I knew that I wanted to build on my previous work, which focused on women's relationship with power, and gave women leadership and power tools to thrive in the world as it is while changing it. I realized after I had been teaching from that book for almost 10 years, that once you have embraced your power, the next question that has to be asked is, “The power to what?” The power to what? And that's where intention comes in. And I found that, because women have, often, an ambivalent relationship with power, and have to really claim power or learn the power that they have in their hands and their hearts and their minds – that often they don't have the level of intentionality that boys and men are socialized to have. None of this is hardwired, by the way, I'm not saying men or women are better, or boys and girls are. But there are culturally learned traits that we have, and one of them is that we, as women, often don't even hold up our hands and say we want that position, because a.) maybe we don't see ourselves in it, and b.) we haven't been taught to self-advocate as much. So once you know you have power, you have to ask, “The power to what?” Now, I started writing the book by interviewing women, knowing that they would organically give me ideas for a new set of nine leadership tools, which indeed are in the book Intentioning. But when the pandemic came around, I also realized that I had to talk about the pandemics plural, as a social context within which we are all living right now: the pandemic of coronavirus and the pandemic of racial injustice that has been in this country forever, but we've finally started recognizing it on a larger basis. So the book then talks about the opportunity in disruption, the fact that disruption is also rebirth, that race and gender equality have to go forward together, and that traits we've learned as women that used to be things that set us back now can become our superpowers. And then I provide nine leadership and intentioning tools. So that's the framework of the book as it ended up. Books write themselves eventually, you know. You use inspiring individual women's stories to discuss the important concepts and leadership tools in the book. Can you share one with us? I'm going to share first, the story of Marina Arsenijevic. And Marina is a composer and a concert pianist. And the reason I want to share her story is it is such an amazing example of someone who could not practice her profession once the pandemic started. After all, a concert pianist can't perform if you can't go to where the people are. And instead of stepping back, she entered the most productive time of her professional life. She literally turned her house into a recording studio, she began to write music, more so than she had ever done before, because she had more time to do it. She began to, as she calls it, “I'm using my voice now,” so she's singing in some of her music. She has actually acquired, gosh, like 600,000 Instagram followers. And millions, millions of people watch her music on YouTube now. So she has never been more productive, creating new music, recording music. She literally rethought – she didn't change her purpose. In other words, her answer to the question of, “The power to what?” is still her music, but she found a completely different way to deliver it to the public. I love the book, and it's no surprise that my favorite leadership tool in the book is #7: be unreasonable. Can you tell us more about that one? I take it, first of all, from one of my all-time favorite quotes, that stood me in good stead through most of my life as a leader. And it's George Bernard Shaw, who said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adopt the world to Himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Now, he was a little bit of a feminist in his time, so I would sort of give him some slack and assume he would use “women” also, if he were saying that today. But I feel so much truth in that, so much reality in it. And some of the women that I profiled in this particular chapter are women like Charlotte George, who just took rejection after rejection after rejection, and turned it into two very profitable businesses. First, she co-founded Skagen, the watch company that's now been bought by Fossil. I used to have five or six of those watches, because they were so beautiful and affordable at the same time. And then, after she sold Skagen – she actually had skin cancer a couple of times – and so because she's outside a lot, she's an equestrian, she created a new company called Castle Denmark that designs and creates sunscreen, beautiful sunscreen clothing that you can wear outside and protect your body from the sun. So Charlotte is one of those women who, I will tell you, it's like she's just a force of nature. It's always about, “Well, what does the world need or want right now? I'm going to figure it out. And I'm going to do it, and I'm not going to adapt myself to the way it is.” The other woman that I am in awe of, I have to tell you, is Rupa Dash. And I hadn't ever heard of Rupa when she contacted me and asked me to speak at a conference that she put together at the Clinton Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, just a few months before everything shut down. So I'm glad I went – I was like, “Why would I go to Little Rock? It's hard to even get there from anywhere.” – and I was blown away by how she had taken every one of the world's biggest challenges, everything from food insecurity, to women's rights, to the environment, and she had created what she called “her moonshot.” And she's on a mission to engage all the women of the world in solving these problems. And never mind that people may say they're unsolvable. She's going to do it with her moonshots. I just know it, I feel it, it will happen. Take the Lead has a goal of pay parity by 2025. Are we going to make that 2025 parity deadline? What's the prognosis for making that goal? That's the big question right now, Sharon, but I believe we can do it, and I'll tell you why. So we were clipping along at a nice pace. We had moved from 18 percent of the top leadership positions when I co-founded Take the Lead in 2013, to about 25 percent before the pandemic. Now most of the data says that women have been set back by 10 years as a result of the pandemic – but the way I see it is this: that in times of massive disruption, you also have massive opportunity for rebirth, rethinking and reconsidering things. And even old institutions have to be open to new ideas, because otherwise they will not survive. And we now can see that it's perfectly possible for women and men to work from home if need be, to have flexible hours, to have flexible location, to be able to be more flexible in their work and be able to take care of their family responsibilities as well as their work responsibilities. These kinds of flexible accommodations have been asked for by women since we've been in the workforce in large numbers, and yet, our institutions have been very slow to adopt them. Well, now, they all know that it's actually to their advantage [to adopt them], and in fact, if they want to bring these talented women that they have invested in back into their workforce, they're going to have to have those flexibility opportunities, and they're going to have to provide family leave, and they're going to have to do many things that don't actually hurt their business. In fact, it adds to their bottom line ultimately, but they've been very reluctant and unwilling to try. I actually see that in the next three years – if we do it now, things don't just happen on their own, people have to make them happen – but if we gather together and we are absolutely committed to achieving gender parity by 2025, I believe we can still do it. I love your optimism, and I do believe in these moments of great change, great leaps are possible. So where can people find you, Gloria, and where can they find your book? People can get Intentioning at any of their favorite booksellers. You can find out more at my website, gloriafeldt.com. You can also find out about Take the Lead services, where we do training for individuals and companies, and also coaching, and provide many other kinds of programs and services at taketheleadwomen.com. I am a bit of a social media fiend, so people can always find me @gloriafeldt on any platform. You've been listening to 51%. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by me, Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. A big thanks to Andrea Press, Gloria Feldt, and Dr. Sharon Ufberg for taking part in this week's episodes. Thanks to you for joining us this week — until next time, I'm Jesse King for 51%.

On this week's 51%, we hit the books. University of Virginia Professor Andrea Press explains how today's media can better represent women in her book, Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. And Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Take the Lead's Gloria Feldt about her latest title, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good. Guests: Andrea Press, University of Virginia professor and co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism; Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead and author of Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone’s Good 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It’s produced by Jesse King, our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for tuning in, I'm Jesse King. We've got a pair of interviews with some fantastic authors today — and we're going to start by getting a little meta and talking about the media. The media we consume can be a powerful thing: it can reflect the cultural and social norms of our time, make us feel heard and seen, and challenge society by exposing audiences to new ideas. So how is media faring when it comes to women? Well, if you ask our first guest, not too great — but it's complicated in this digital age. Andrea Press is a professor of media studies and sociology at the University of Virginia, and her new book with Francesca Tripodi — titled Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms — is out now on the State University of New York Press. In it, the pair explore how feminist messaging is blunted (or in some cases, created) in its consumption, and how media can better represent women of all backgrounds. Press says the idea for the book started with an observation she and Tripodi made years ago. “There was this pervasive idea in the culture that feminist activism had been successful and was finished, and there was not an ongoing problem. And that contradicted many experiences that women were having in their everyday lives,” Press explains. “And so, as sociologists, we were really interested in that disconnect between experience, and the way people understood their experience, and acted upon their experience. And as media scholars, we felt the media were playing an important role in this disconnect. Just to start off at the beginning, what do you define as media-ready feminism? Well, media-ready feminism was what we found when we examined the iteration of feminism in different media platforms. And the way we define media-ready feminism is a feminism that’s focused on the struggles of largely white, very affluent, successful women in the culture. It's a version of feminism that kind of downplays the need for revolutionary change and sort of focuses on much more smaller reforms needed, but purports the idea that feminism is largely an accomplished goal. A good example of media-ready feminism would be the recent #Metoo movement, where we had a focus on the struggles of very glamorous, mostly white, affluent actresse

On this week's 51%, we hit the books. University of Virginia Professor Andrea Press explains how today's media can better represent women in her book, Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. And Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Take the Lead's Gloria Feldt about her latest title, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good. Guests: Andrea Press, University of Virginia professor and co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism; Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead and author of Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King, our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is "Lolita" by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for tuning in, I'm Jesse King. We've got a pair of interviews with some fantastic authors today — and we're going to start by getting a little meta and talking about the media. The media we consume can be a powerful thing: it can reflect the cultural and social norms of our time, make us feel heard and seen, and challenge society by exposing audiences to new ideas. So how is media faring when it comes to women? Well, if you ask our first guest, not too great — but it's complicated in this digital age. Andrea Press is a professor of media studies and sociology at the University of Virginia, and her new book with Francesca Tripodi — titled Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms — is out now on the State University of New York Press. In it, the pair explore how feminist messaging is blunted (or in some cases, created) in its consumption, and how media can better represent women of all backgrounds. Press says the idea for the book started with an observation she and Tripodi made years ago. "There was this pervasive idea in the culture that feminist activism had been successful and was finished, and there was not an ongoing problem. And that contradicted many experiences that women were having in their everyday lives," Press explains. "And so, as sociologists, we were really interested in that disconnect between experience, and the way people understood their experience, and acted upon their experience. And as media scholars, we felt the media were playing an important role in this disconnect. Just to start off at the beginning, what do you define as media-ready feminism? Well, media-ready feminism was what we found when we examined the iteration of feminism in different media platforms. And the way we define media-ready feminism is a feminism that's focused on the struggles of largely white, very affluent, successful women in the culture. It's a version of feminism that kind of downplays the need for revolutionary change and sort of focuses on much more smaller reforms needed, but purports the idea that feminism is largely an accomplished goal. A good example of media-ready feminism would be the recent #Metoo movement, where we had a focus on the struggles of very glamorous, mostly white, affluent actresses – who did experience horrible instances of sexual harassment, and often sexual assault, at the hands of a very powerful and wealthy media producer Harvey Weinstein. It was still hard to get the story covered, and I don't want to downplay the struggles the New York Times reporters and Ronan Farrow, who's also very powerful and wealthy and a scion of Hollywood royalty, had to go through to get mainstream media to actually cover this story. It was hard. But it was impossible when the label “me too” was coined 11 years earlier by the African-American social worker Tarana Burke to talk about the struggles of her clients, who were distinctly less powerful, wealthy, and media-ready glamorous than the Hollywood actresses that we read so much about in the #Metoo movement. And that's an example of how feminism needs to be media-ready to get into media coverage in mainstream media. When a form of media or a particular message isn't media-ready, how is it typically received by people? How does that back-and-forth usually go? Well, we are scholars of the media audience, so it's where sociology meets media, and we're exactly interested in that moment where viewers and media users interpret what they're seeing. There isn't really one answer to that – we have instances in the book where women see through the sort of media-ready aspects of feminism presented in the media, and instances where they don't. So for example, we have a chapter on work, family balance, and the way media represent that. And we talked about an episode of what was formerly a very popular show, Desperate Housewives, and about one of its characters, who had been a super successful advertising executive, who left her career to have four children. She has to go back to work because her husband loses his job. And it's an interesting episode, because it talks about how hard it was to get the unemployed husband to step up and do childcare, and how difficult it was to get hired when she ended up having baby in tow at the interview, and what she experienced in the workplace being a very visible, working mother. And what we found in that chapter, when we interviewed older women who had been through very similar experiences, they really understood this as a structural problem, something that needed ongoing efforts and ongoing activism to address. And younger women, who had not been through these experiences themselves, sort of glossed over the issue and were not really able to identify this as an area where feminist activism and struggle was needed. Tell me about some of the other forms of media that you looked at in this book, and some of your other findings here. Well, we have a chapter on Game of Thrones, which we thought was very interesting text. You have queens and dragon rulers and, you know, very powerful women – who still were represented according to some of the norms of the way mainstream media often represents women: they were younger than you would expect a ruler to be, for example, they were highly sexualized in the way they were portrayed. And the norms of representing a sexual woman were very predictable according to mainstream media: they were most often white, they were most often blonde, they were most often thinner than the average woman. And so we were really interested in how audience members received these images. Did they focus on women's power? Did they focus on stereotypical representations of women being highly sexualized? There was also a lot of sexual violence in that text. And we wondered if people noticed and found it disturbing, and sort of commented on it in their viewership. And we found both: people commented on how strong the women were, but tended, really not, for the most part, to notice the sexualization and the sexual violence, which even for mainstream television and film is pretty extreme. It is accepted by audience members because it is so pervasive in media representations to have women be highly sexualized, and to represent violence against women as a part of business as usual in our society. Now, we've been speaking about shows that were created than offered to the public, but a lot of today's media is also created within its audience. Can you talk a little bit about what you've been finding on that front, in terms of social media, and more just the way we engage with each other? Well, we have two very interesting chapters in that regard. One is on Wikipedia, which, of course, is the people's encyclopedia, created by the people. And you would imagine the norms of representation on Wikipedia to be egalitarian, but that is not what we found, and broader scholarship on Wikipedia has confirmed this. There actually is an under-representation, which is very systematic, of women and of people of color, of their achievements. Their standards of notability are much higher on Wikipedia, and repeated attempts to get notable women – and especially women of color – represented in that encyclopedia get torn down, they get deleted by the central core of editors that spends a lot of time deciding if people's entries are legitimate or not. And we don't have the answer to why this happens, but we do have a lot of data illustrating that it does happen, and it happens systematically. And of course, this has quite an impact on society, because we have armies of schoolchildren turning to Wikipedia to try to discover who is important in our culture, in our history. If women are not being included in this record, I think that is a very strong message we are sending our children, and it's something we need to be aware of and probably take some steps to rectify. But that is continuing to happen. We also looked at dating apps. We did as series of interviews with college students who use Tinder, and one of the things we found with Tinder is that there is an implicit agreement to sexual activity. There was a lot of to-do in Babe Magazine about a young woman who went on a date with a well-known celebrity, and there was this implicit idea that she was consenting to sexual activity by going on this date. And that is what we found to be an underlying norm of Tinder use – that there was an implicit consent assumed to sexual activity by both men and women going on Tinder dates. And we thought that was interesting. And the sexual assault epidemic on college campuses is not unrelated. I thought that was a particularly like interesting part of the book as well, just because, with dating apps, they're often spoken about as a way for women to take hold of their sexuality, or to have some sort of control over their relationships, and to have some choice there. But at the same time, a lot of people are interpreting swiping right as like, “You think I'm attractive. Done deal.” Swipe right for assault is the name of our chapter. So as you're doing these studies, was there a particular part that connected with you, or that you were particularly surprised by? I would say we were surprised by quite a bit of what we found in this book. And I go back to our original impetus for the book: I mean, we really didn't understand why people did not identify the ongoing need for feminist activism and reform in the culture, and we felt it involved an ignoring of the experiences of everyday sexism – that women do confront sexual harassment, they confront discrimination, they confront an inordinate set of burdens when combining work and family that's not shared by men in their lives. And what was keeping people from identifying this as gender inequality and identifying the need to change this kind of inequality. Seeing that the media do not present it as such, that they gloss over pervasive gender inequality, and they continually support the idea that feminism is no longer needed. That is something that we didn't really expect to find so strongly across media platforms, but it added up to quite a system. And we felt like we were getting into the real inner workings of the way a patriarchy is reproduced. And that's what we felt we found. That kind of goes into one of my next questions. So if audience reaction plays a role in creating or changing the meaning of a piece, or even what goes out there, how can we better represent feminist ideas in media, and more accurately show these everyday sexisms? Well, I think media producers – and it's great to be in an interview here with a media producer – I think we all need to be including media producers much more conscious of the tendency to downplay the continuing need for struggle around gender equity. Because the data show that there is a continuing need for struggle around gender equity. There is harassment, there is assault, there is discrimination. There is a double standard. I didn't talk about this, but we look at double standards around sexual activity, and the way it's just assumed that women should engage in much less sexual activity than men – and they're still called a series of names when they're considered to be too highly sexual. And media need to really be committed to representing this data. I mean, it's there. We know, we're sociologists. It just doesn't really get covered in a way that people pay attention to it. I think the other much more pervasive issue, really, is that people need to not accept the way society is. And media play a big role in that. People need to understand that it is only through action and debate and activism that social change occurs. And we've seen vastly important social changes around issues of gender equity, around racial equity, around sexual discrimination and sexual equity because of the role activists have played in these issues. We see that we have an imperative to work to make our society better and more equitable. And people need to take that responsibility seriously. And I think the media can help this to happen. Our next guest is a New York Times bestselling author, a renowned speaker on women's rights and leadership, and a former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood. Gloria Feldt is also the co-founder and president of Take the Lead, a nonprofit bringing leadership training to women and businesses with the mission of achieving leadership gender parity across all sectors by 2025. In her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good, Feldt shares the stories of various women during the COVID-19 pandemic to detail the power of intention, and offers her tips to help women reach their goals. She spoke with Dr. Sharon Ufberg, co-founder of the California-based personal development company, Borrowed Wisdom, for her 51% segment, “Force of Nature.” How did Intentioning get started? I had started writing Intentioning before the pandemic, and I knew that I wanted to build on my previous work, which focused on women's relationship with power, and gave women leadership and power tools to thrive in the world as it is while changing it. I realized after I had been teaching from that book for almost 10 years, that once you have embraced your power, the next question that has to be asked is, “The power to what?” The power to what? And that's where intention comes in. And I found that, because women have, often, an ambivalent relationship with power, and have to really claim power or learn the power that they have in their hands and their hearts and their minds – that often they don't have the level of intentionality that boys and men are socialized to have. None of this is hardwired, by the way, I'm not saying men or women are better, or boys and girls are. But there are culturally learned traits that we have, and one of them is that we, as women, often don't even hold up our hands and say we want that position, because a.) maybe we don't see ourselves in it, and b.) we haven't been taught to self-advocate as much. So once you know you have power, you have to ask, “The power to what?” Now, I started writing the book by interviewing women, knowing that they would organically give me ideas for a new set of nine leadership tools, which indeed are in the book Intentioning. But when the pandemic came around, I also realized that I had to talk about the pandemics plural, as a social context within which we are all living right now: the pandemic of coronavirus and the pandemic of racial injustice that has been in this country forever, but we've finally started recognizing it on a larger basis. So the book then talks about the opportunity in disruption, the fact that disruption is also rebirth, that race and gender equality have to go forward together, and that traits we've learned as women that used to be things that set us back now can become our superpowers. And then I provide nine leadership and intentioning tools. So that's the framework of the book as it ended up. Books write themselves eventually, you know. You use inspiring individual women's stories to discuss the important concepts and leadership tools in the book. Can you share one with us? I'm going to share first, the story of Marina Arsenijevic. And Marina is a composer and a concert pianist. And the reason I want to share her story is it is such an amazing example of someone who could not practice her profession once the pandemic started. After all, a concert pianist can't perform if you can't go to where the people are. And instead of stepping back, she entered the most productive time of her professional life. She literally turned her house into a recording studio, she began to write music, more so than she had ever done before, because she had more time to do it. She began to, as she calls it, “I'm using my voice now,” so she's singing in some of her music. She has actually acquired, gosh, like 600,000 Instagram followers. And millions, millions of people watch her music on YouTube now. So she has never been more productive, creating new music, recording music. She literally rethought – she didn't change her purpose. In other words, her answer to the question of, “The power to what?” is still her music, but she found a completely different way to deliver it to the public. I love the book, and it's no surprise that my favorite leadership tool in the book is #7: be unreasonable. Can you tell us more about that one? I take it, first of all, from one of my all-time favorite quotes, that stood me in good stead through most of my life as a leader. And it's George Bernard Shaw, who said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adopt the world to Himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Now, he was a little bit of a feminist in his time, so I would sort of give him some slack and assume he would use “women” also, if he were saying that today. But I feel so much truth in that, so much reality in it. And some of the women that I profiled in this particular chapter are women like Charlotte George, who just took rejection after rejection after rejection, and turned it into two very profitable businesses. First, she co-founded Skagen, the watch company that's now been bought by Fossil. I used to have five or six of those watches, because they were so beautiful and affordable at the same time. And then, after she sold Skagen – she actually had skin cancer a couple of times – and so because she's outside a lot, she's an equestrian, she created a new company called Castle Denmark that designs and creates sunscreen, beautiful sunscreen clothing that you can wear outside and protect your body from the sun. So Charlotte is one of those women who, I will tell you, it's like she's just a force of nature. It's always about, “Well, what does the world need or want right now? I'm going to figure it out. And I'm going to do it, and I'm not going to adapt myself to the way it is.” The other woman that I am in awe of, I have to tell you, is Rupa Dash. And I hadn't ever heard of Rupa when she contacted me and asked me to speak at a conference that she put together at the Clinton Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, just a few months before everything shut down. So I'm glad I went – I was like, “Why would I go to Little Rock? It's hard to even get there from anywhere.” – and I was blown away by how she had taken every one of the world's biggest challenges, everything from food insecurity, to women's rights, to the environment, and she had created what she called “her moonshot.” And she's on a mission to engage all the women of the world in solving these problems. And never mind that people may say they're unsolvable. She's going to do it with her moonshots. I just know it, I feel it, it will happen. Take the Lead has a goal of pay parity by 2025. Are we going to make that 2025 parity deadline? What's the prognosis for making that goal? That's the big question right now, Sharon, but I believe we can do it, and I'll tell you why. So we were clipping along at a nice pace. We had moved from 18 percent of the top leadership positions when I co-founded Take the Lead in 2013, to about 25 percent before the pandemic. Now most of the data says that women have been set back by 10 years as a result of the pandemic – but the way I see it is this: that in times of massive disruption, you also have massive opportunity for rebirth, rethinking and reconsidering things. And even old institutions have to be open to new ideas, because otherwise they will not survive. And we now can see that it's perfectly possible for women and men to work from home if need be, to have flexible hours, to have flexible location, to be able to be more flexible in their work and be able to take care of their family responsibilities as well as their work responsibilities. These kinds of flexible accommodations have been asked for by women since we've been in the workforce in large numbers, and yet, our institutions have been very slow to adopt them. Well, now, they all know that it's actually to their advantage [to adopt them], and in fact, if they want to bring these talented women that they have invested in back into their workforce, they're going to have to have those flexibility opportunities, and they're going to have to provide family leave, and they're going to have to do many things that don't actually hurt their business. In fact, it adds to their bottom line ultimately, but they've been very reluctant and unwilling to try. I actually see that in the next three years – if we do it now, things don't just happen on their own, people have to make them happen – but if we gather together and we are absolutely committed to achieving gender parity by 2025, I believe we can still do it. I love your optimism, and I do believe in these moments of great change, great leaps are possible. So where can people find you, Gloria, and where can they find your book? People can get Intentioning at any of their favorite booksellers. You can find out more at my website, gloriafeldt.com. You can also find out about Take the Lead services, where we do training for individuals and companies, and also coaching, and provide many other kinds of programs and services at taketheleadwomen.com. I am a bit of a social media fiend, so people can always find me @gloriafeldt on any platform. You've been listening to 51%. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by me, Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. A big thanks to Andrea Press, Gloria Feldt, and Dr. Sharon Ufberg for taking part in this week's episodes. Thanks to you for joining us this week — until next time, I'm Jesse King for 51%.

Gloria Feldt joins The Feminist Agenda to discuss her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good. Gloria is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator and feminist leader who has gained national recognition as a social and political advocate of women's rights. In 2013, she co-founded Take The Lead, a nonprofit initiative with a goal to propel women to leadership parity by 2025. She is a former CEO and president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, directing the organization from 1996 to 2005. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Time, NBC, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, and much more. Download the Intentioning workbook Ways to support The Feminist Agenda podcast: Archer & Olive: Use code feminista10 to save 10% Bookshop affiliate link Follow The Feminist Agenda on Twitter

Gloria Feldt is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator and feminist leader who has gained national recognition as a social and political advocate of women's rights. In 2013, she co-founded Take The Lead, a nonprofit initiative with a goal to propel women to leadership parity by 2025. She is a former CEO and president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, directing the organization from 1996 to 2005. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Time, NBC, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, and much more. www.gloriafeldt.com/Intentioning

Hi, Podcast Episode "The Courage to Desire Greatly and Be a Leader in the 21 st Century with Chrisy Whitman and Gloria Feldt" is now out.   Quantum success in your career unfolds naturally and exponentially once you learn how to harness the power of the universe. Learn how, as Ken D Foster interviews NY Times Best-Selling Author Christy Whitman.   Leadership is changing in the 21 st Century. My guest today is New York Times Best-Selling Author Gloria Feldt. She was named by Vanity Fair one of “America's Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers.” Don't miss this in-depth conversation on Leadership in the 21st Century.   Link: https://lnkd.in/gXQfR-a9   Visit our website: voicesofcourage.us Or Subscribe to our youtube channel: http://tiny.cc/vocyoutube   #VOC #voicesofcourage #KenDFoster #ChrisyWhitman #GloriaFeldt #podcast

On today's episode, I had the pleasure to talk with the Gloria Feldt, former CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and is currently the cofounder and President of Take The Lead. Gloria has just published a new book called Intentioning, a guide to achieving the life and career you want, which is aimed specifically at women. Gloria encourages women to step into the post-pandemic power vacuum to build a better and more equal society. I found this book such a good read, because not only is it so useful, it's also really fun and lighthearted. Intentioning lays out nine leadership tools that readers can use to get comfortable with being powerful. Gloria and I discussed each of these tools in depth, along with the demons that can undermine us. One of my personal favorite tools is her adage that you should “Research your worth.” Our worth isn't just limited to fair compensation, although that's important, but it's also thinking about your unique qualities and the ROI that these resources bring to others. Listen in to hear us discuss the tools, and why Gloria's optimistic about the future of gender equality in our post-pandemic society. To learn more about Gloria, click on the links below: Gloria Feldt website Gloria Feldt on Instagram Intentioning website Sign up for your 15 Minute consultation with me below: https://calendly.com/advocatetowin/15min Also, don't forget to Subscribe to the Advocate with Elegance FREE private podcast here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/613921e87accb4c0210201c5 To learn more about my services and to stay connected, visit me at: Website: Advocate to Win Instagram: @imheatherhansen

This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with best-selling author Gloria Feldt, an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership. Feldt is co-founder and president of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life's passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors. She is the author of five books. Her latest, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead, examines how people can seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of massive disruption to build back stronger with women at the center of the recovery. Through the lens of women's stories, Intentioning delivers a fresh set of leadership tools, skills, and concepts that help all women reach their own highest intentions, purposefully creating new norms, while guiding institutions to break through the remaining barriers to gender and racial parity for everyone's good. Feldt is formerly president and CEO of the world's largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood. She teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University and has been widely quoted and published, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Daily Beast, Forbes, Fast Company, Time, Huffington Post, Glamour, Elle and Ms. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America and The Daily Show. In this episode host Michael Shields and Gloria Feldt examining exactly what the word "Intentioning" means while conversing upon how the disruption of the pandemic can lead to positive changes (if we #putwomenatthecenter). They talk about Feldt's Nine Leadership Intentioning Tools, how men can be a part of the movement towards women's parity, the difference between power “over” and power “to,” and much, much more! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In "Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good," Gloria Feldt inspires diverse women to embrace their personal power to lead with intention, confidence, and joy. It comes as no surprise to her that women flexed their formidable muscles when needed most, representing a disproportionate number of essential workers during the darkest days of the coronavirus global outbreak and leading the charge against racism in the United States. But this book is decidedly about the future, taking the leadership lessons learned from this disruption and creating a better world for all.

Kathryn interviews Author Gloria Feldt.In the wake of two pandemics that shook our world to its core and revealed deep fault lines in our culture, NY Times best selling Author Gloria Feldt shows how we can seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity created by massive disruption to build back stronger, with women at the center of the recovery. Through the lens of women's stories, we learn a fresh set of leadership tools, skills, and concepts that help women reach their own highest intentions, purposefully creating new norms while guiding institutions to break through the remaining barriers to gender and racial parity—for everyone's good. She urges all who identify as women – of all diversities and intersectionalities – to embrace their personal and collective power to lead with intention, confidence, and joy. She is a former CEO and president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, Time, NBC, Fast Company and Vanity Fair. Kathryn also interviews Author Dr. Michele Kambolis.The Gabby Petito story is heightening anxiety for women. From mothers who are thinking of their own daughters, to women who are playing the dating field. It's one more example of how stress is a feminist issue, according to Dr. Michele Kambolis, a mind-body health specialist and registered therapist. This step-by-step guide includes 25 QR codes to access guided meditations and exercises well-proven to calm your nervous system, steady your mind, and heal your heart. It's like a therapist in your pocket. These evidence-based practices are an all-encompassing guide deeply rooted in neuroscience, psychology, and integrative medicine. Kambolis has been featured on Goop, Good Morning America, Huff Post Live, Sirius Satellite Radio and Raw Beauty Talks podcasts.

Kathryn interviews Author Gloria Feldt.In the wake of two pandemics that shook our world to its core and revealed deep fault lines in our culture, NY Times best selling Author Gloria Feldt shows how we can seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity created by massive disruption to build back stronger, with women at the center of the recovery. Through the lens of women's stories, we learn a fresh set of leadership tools, skills, and concepts that help women reach their own highest intentions, purposefully creating new norms while guiding institutions to break through the remaining barriers to gender and racial parity—for everyone's good. She urges all who identify as women – of all diversities and intersectionalities – to embrace their personal and collective power to lead with intention, confidence, and joy. She is a former CEO and president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, Time, NBC, Fast Company and Vanity Fair. Kathryn also interviews Author Dr. Michele Kambolis.The Gabby Petito story is heightening anxiety for women. From mothers who are thinking of their own daughters, to women who are playing the dating field. It's one more example of how stress is a feminist issue, according to Dr. Michele Kambolis, a mind-body health specialist and registered therapist. This step-by-step guide includes 25 QR codes to access guided meditations and exercises well-proven to calm your nervous system, steady your mind, and heal your heart. It's like a therapist in your pocket. These evidence-based practices are an all-encompassing guide deeply rooted in neuroscience, psychology, and integrative medicine. Kambolis has been featured on Goop, Good Morning America, Huff Post Live, Sirius Satellite Radio and Raw Beauty Talks podcasts.

In this episode, Dr. Green sits down with Gloria Feldt, a best-selling author, speaker, and advocate who has dedicated her life to empowering women financially, emotionally, and politically. Together, they discuss the specific barriers that women face in achieving power, and how we must support each other to build a generation of "dangerously successful" women.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We had Gloria on the show last season and I have invited her back to talk about her new book ‘Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good'.   Gloria is a New York Times bestselling author and an absolutely amazing woman.    We talked about racial and gender injustice, what the pandemic has meant to women, and what men can do in this fight for women's rights.   Gloria also explained why there's such a need for systemic change in society, the problem with power positions, and what it's like for women in the restaurant industry...   “The pandemic caused me to write a different book than I had intended to write.” - Gloria Feldt   Time Stamps: 00:00 - Introducing our guest Gloria Feldt. 06:24 - How common mask-wearing is in New York compared to Texas. 10:40 - What ‘intentioning' means and how Gloria came up with the title for the book. 18:16 - How major disruptions like Covid give opportunities for systemic change. 23:01 - The increase of women entrepreneurs and minorities starting businesses. 26:00 - The benefits of diversity, and how we decide who gets liberty and justice. 35:53 - Our power narrative and the power of working together. 40:49 - Women in the restaurant industry and the change that needs to happen in the industry. 43:03 - How some of the women Gloria wrote about have progressed since the book's release. 50:25 - What men can do and the power of listening. 54:16 - How common it is for women to abuse power positions. 57:20 - The social construct of gender and the question of trans rights.   Resources: - Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good by Gloria Feldt https://www.amazon.com/Intentioning-Power-Pandemics-Women-Everyones-ebook/dp/B0968Q5J9W - Take the Lead https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/ - Uchi https://uchiaustin.com/ - Lets Talk https://letstalkwomxn.com/ Connect with Gloria Feldt: - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gloriafeldt - Twitter https://twitter.com/GloriaFeldt - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GloriaFeldt - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gloriafeldt/ Connect with Patrick Scott Armstrong: - IG: @patrickscottarmstrong - https://www.facebook.com/patrickscottvideos/ - patrick@texasrealfood.com Follow The Lone Star Plate: - Follow us on Twitter: @lonestarplateTX - Follow us on Instagram: @lonestarplateTX - Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoneStarPlateTX More From The Lone Star Plate: https://thelonestarplate.com - Texas Real Food: https://www.texasrealfood.com

Winstead Shareholder Corinne Smith speaks to Gloria Feldt, Co-Founder and President of Take the Lead. Corinne and Gloria talk about her life's passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors.

Leadership expert Gloria Feldt on her new book Intentioning and how it can help us build back stronger post-pandemic and find new ways to magnify our talents. TWE Host: Catherine Anaya. To learn more about The Women's Eye, an online magazine and podcast, and to connect with us: Website: Podcast: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: About Gloria Feldt:

When we give women the same respect and opportunities as men, we give the world its best chance for peace, prosperity, and survival. Angry about sexism and misogyny and what you personally have endured? Sad for those who suffer because of inequality and greed? Afraid the world won't get its act together in time to save itself? Care about human rights and want to be part of the solution? Laurie Levin's Call Me a Woman: On Our Way to Equality and Peace (One More Page, 2021) begins with a personal story of Levin's early years. She describes how the loss of her mother and multiple sexual assaults, including rape, led to her life's calling. Inside you'll discover: The most important thing parents can do to change the world Our unconscious habits that perpetuate inequality Inspiring stories to shift resentment to empathy, hope, and action The 7 Habits of Equality to speed our way to gender equality and peace Inner peace and freedom as you become the solution Personal interviews with: Lynn Povich, first woman senior editor Newsweek magazine; Maxine Clark, founder Build-A-Bear Workshop; Gloria Feldt, former CEO and President Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NY Times Best-Selling Author; Mark Levin, biotech industry leader, founder, and CEO; Zaron Burnett III, investigative journalist and writer. Call Me A Woman: On Our Way to Equality and Peace provides real life experiences, global studies, and insights, and the 7 Habits of Equality that will reshape the world into one where all children have equal opportunities, from the beginning to the end of their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

When we give women the same respect and opportunities as men, we give the world its best chance for peace, prosperity, and survival. Angry about sexism and misogyny and what you personally have endured? Sad for those who suffer because of inequality and greed? Afraid the world won't get its act together in time to save itself? Care about human rights and want to be part of the solution? Laurie Levin's Call Me a Woman: On Our Way to Equality and Peace (One More Page, 2021) begins with a personal story of Levin's early years. She describes how the loss of her mother and multiple sexual assaults, including rape, led to her life's calling. Inside you'll discover: The most important thing parents can do to change the world Our unconscious habits that perpetuate inequality Inspiring stories to shift resentment to empathy, hope, and action The 7 Habits of Equality to speed our way to gender equality and peace Inner peace and freedom as you become the solution Personal interviews with: Lynn Povich, first woman senior editor Newsweek magazine; Maxine Clark, founder Build-A-Bear Workshop; Gloria Feldt, former CEO and President Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NY Times Best-Selling Author; Mark Levin, biotech industry leader, founder, and CEO; Zaron Burnett III, investigative journalist and writer. Call Me A Woman: On Our Way to Equality and Peace provides real life experiences, global studies, and insights, and the 7 Habits of Equality that will reshape the world into one where all children have equal opportunities, from the beginning to the end of their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

We sit down with the inspiring Gloria Feldt, Former CEO and President of Planned Parenthood to discuss the world of working women, health, and her new book "INTENTIONING: Sex, Power, Pandemics, & How Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone's) Good"The SEAMLynne Cohen FoundationGuest: Gloria Feldt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gloria Feldt – Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) GoodAired Thursday, September 30, 2021, at 5:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM ESTIt comes as no surprise that women flexed their formidable muscles when needed most, representing a disproportionate number of essential workers during the darkest days of the coronavirus global outbreak, and leading the charge against racism in the U.S. And abroad, it was female national leaders who reined in infection and death rates in their countries to the lowest levels worldwide.My guest this week on Vox Novus, Gloria Feldt, the “Practical Activist,” says it is women who will turn our world around using “Intentioning” and accomplish this by 2025. Gloria Feldt is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator, and feminist leader who has gained national recognition as a social and political advocate of women's rights. In 2013, she co-founded Take The Lead, a nonprofit initiative with a goal to propel women to leadership parity by 2025. She is a former CEO and president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, directing the organization from 1996 to 2005. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Time, NBC, Fast Company, Vanity Fair, and much more. Her website is https://gloriafeldt.com/, and she joins me this week to share her “practivism” and new book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good. Visit the Vox Novus Show Page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/vox-novus/ Connect with Victor Fuhrman at http://victorthevoice.com/#GloriaFeldt #Intentioning #VoxNovus #VictorFuhrman

Joanne welcomes back to the podcast, Gloria Feldt, best-selling Author, Co-Founder, and President of Take the Lead and acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership to discuss her brand new book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics And How Women Will Take The Lead For (Everyone’s) Good. In this inspiring discussion, they discuss Gloria’s Leadership Intentioning Tools that […] The post Gloria Feldt On Why Intentioning Is The Secret Sauce For Women Leaders: Episode #43 appeared first on joanne tombrakos.

SEGMENT 1 with Gloria Feldt: What will it take to achieve gender parity and propel more women to leadership roles? Gloria Feldt, a nationally recognized social and political advocate of women's rights, is here to share how we can move toward gender equality.SEGMENT 2 with Zeke Bronfman: How do you start a beverage company from your dorm room? Zeke Bronfman, grandson of the late Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman, and his roommate Nate Medow did just that, and Zeke is here to share their story.SEGMENT 3 with Libby Hikind: What grants are available to small businesses and nonprofits that are not well known? Libby Hikind, founder of Grantwatch, is here to share tips for finding and applying for grants to help fund your organization.Sponsored by NiceJob and Plastiq.

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

This week, guest host and Left, Right & Center contributor Keli Goff takes a deep dive into two issues in the news right now. First: she speaks with Geraldo Cadava about what Democrats and Republicans misunderstand about the “Latino vote” and what they get right. Geraldo says the parties oversimplify voters' profiles and overlook important factors like geography, the rural/urban divide, class, and many others. Keli and Geraldo discuss the faults of thinking about groups of voters as monoliths — Keli points out that she longs for the day that campaigns approach Black voters like they would swing voters. What do we know about the appeal of the Republican party to Hispanic and Latino voters over the past few decades? And should Democrats be more concerned about whether their strategy is effective? Then, Keli discusses the new laws restricting abortion access in Texas with Gloria Feldt, former president of Planned Parenthood and president of Take The Lead, a national organization advocating for gender parity. Gloria talks about the slippery slope of similar laws, what she fears is ahead for abortion access, and makes a case for new laws that would guarantee women's rights to live as full citizens in the United States.

Keli Goff speaks with Geraldo Cadava and Gloria Feldt about two topics in the news: the “Latino vote” and abortion laws and access.

Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and an in-demand keynote speaker. She is co-founder and president of Take The Lead. She is the bestselling author of four books;  No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, plus her own real-world experience, forms the core of Take The Lead's programs. She is the former president and CEO of the world's largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was named by Vanity Fair one of “America's Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour's “Woman of the Year,” She Knows Media Inspiring Woman, Women's eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Women Economic Forum Circle of Light award, Texas Monthly's Texas 20, Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award, and Forbes 40 Over 40. She teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University. Feldt has been widely quoted and published, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Daily Beast, Forbes, other major media outlets and an infinite number of podcasts. Her podcast is “Power TO You.” Her forthcoming book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead is available for presale from your favorite bookseller and will be in bookstores by September 28, 2021. In this episode, we discuss: Redefining power as a hammer that can build and break something apart The turning point where Gloria realized she needed to speak in her own voice How to take the locus of power back inside you Her new framework called “Intentioning” Why you need Conscious intention about how you want others to define you  V.C.A - three basic parts to intentioning She showed courage to open up about using her power as a leader to create a movement and new policies in our culture “Abortion is not about abortion. It is about power.” Four things that ‘Take the Lead' does to support women to create gender parity Get ready for another powerful episode here on The Power Shift Podcast! Please let me know your thoughts!   Connect with Gloria Feldt   Website: https://gloriafeldt.com/ twitter: https://twitter.com/GloriaFeldt Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gloriafeldt/ Connect with Dr. Sharon Melnick Website: https://www.sharonmelnick.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonmelnick/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest for this episode is Gloria Feldt. Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership. She has frontline leadership experience and is a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker.   She is cofounder and president of Take The Lead, a nonprofit whose mission reflects her life's passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership.   She is the bestselling author of four books; the latest is No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, the research for which plus her own real-world knowledge forms the core of Take The Lead's programs. Her forthcoming book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead will be in bookstores in September.   Gloria is formerly president and CEO of the world's largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was named by Vanity Fair one of “America's Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Other recognitions include Glamour's “Woman of the Year,” Women's eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, the Women Economic Forum Circle of Light award, Texas Monthly's Texas 20, and Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award among others.   She teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University. Gloria has been widely quoted and published, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Fast Company, and the Huffington Post to name just a few. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America, The Daily Show, and many, many podcasts. She hosts her own podcast “Power TO You.”   Gloria is an awesome chili maker. She and her husband Alex Barbanell live in New York City and Scottsdale, Arizona; they share a combined family of six children and 15 grandchildren, so there is never a dull moment in their lives.   Here's what to expect during the episode: Tackling the gender inequality that exists in the nonprofit sector. It's the same as any other! Power and women. Why weren't women using the power that they had? It's DEFINITELY not because of a lack of ambition! The importance of giving an opportunity for women (especially in nonprofit) to get the training they need. “What does the world need from you now?” It's essential to keep your organization looking outward when planning. The importance of creativity, innovation, and flexibility, especially in unprecedented times. It's high time for women to take advantage of this opportunity!   ~   You can see Gloria on her website https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/ You can also find @GloriaFeldt on all social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram   You can also get Gloria's book on https://www.intentioningbook.com/ Check out Take the Lead Women on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn   Be sure to check out Mary's free training: 3 Mistakes Nonprofit Leaders Make Orienting Board Members and learn how to avoid them. Go to: www.nonprofitboardorientation.com   Mary's book is now available on Amazon or wherever books are sold: Love Your Board! The Executive Directors' Guide to Discovering the Sources of Nonprofit Board Troubles and What to Do About Them.     Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated!     Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.   Connect with Mary! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/inspirednonprofitleadership Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

My inspiring guest today is Gloria Feldt, who is an expert on women, power and leadership, a New York Times bestselling author and keynote speaker. She is the co-founder and president of Take The Lead, whose mission and ambition is to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their share in leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. Previously she served as the president and CEO of the world's largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she spent 30 years of her career.  Gloria was named by Vanity Fair one of “America's Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,”, Women's eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Texas Monthly's Texas 20, Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award, and Forbes 40 Over 40. I've had such a great conversation with this powerful woman, as we talked about her career, about the touchy subject of abortion, what men can do to contribute to the conversation about women's leadership, but also about Gloria's passion for baking challah bread. Now matter who you are, you're going to love this interview.  "Busineses that have more women in leadership, and more diversity in general, make more money." - Gloria Feldt Time Stamps: 00:57 - Introduction to our guest Gloria Feldt. 03:00 - Bet you didn't that segment - fun facts about farms and millennial farmers, kale, and sharp knives. 08:15 - How things are in New York where Gloria lives. 12:45 - Why Central Park is keeping New Yorkers sane. 17:15 - Gloria's 30-year career with Planned Parenthood. 18:52 - What Planned Parenthood does. 21:35 - Pro-Life and Pro-Choice terms and why we should stop using them. 23:20 - What the essence of women's rights and women's leadership is. 28:40 - Why Planned Parenthood has been under attack lately. 30:30 - What are the nine leadership power tools. 33:50 - What men can bring into the conversation about planned parenthood and women's bodies. 36:54 -  Advice for women at the time of pandemic. 42:20 - The interest in delivering Gloria's training programmes in different languages. 44:38 - What can men do to help women in the parenting process. 47:35 - Why this time can bring innovation in social movements. 49:15 - Bread and the art of leadership. 54:00 - Why you should avoid Mexican restaurants in Europe. 55:15 - The secrets of challah bread. 1:00:10 - What food Gloria misses most from Texas. Resources: Planned Parenthood No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a book by Gloria Feldt Take the Lead Power to You Podcast Texas Real Food Connect with Gloria Feldt: Website LinkedIn Twitter Instagram YouTube Connect with Patrick Scott Armstrong: Instagram Facebook Email More from The Lone Star Plate: Adaire Byerly: Brains Behind Fame Supermajority: Bringing Political Power to Women BBQ Pitmaster Roasts the Competition

Do you feel confused about why women still earn less than men?  Do you wonder why successful women still bump into the glass ceiling?  Are you ready for more parity and satisfaction in personal relationships? The most confounding problem facing women today isn't that doors of opportunity aren't open, but that not enough women are walking through them. From the boardroom, public office to personal relationships, nobody is keeping women from parity-except themselves. Gloria Feldt is the co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a non-profit dedicated to achieving gender equality by 2025, a nationally renowned leadership expert, she is the best-selling author of four books, the latest being Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power.  In this episode, Gloria shares how women are still ambivalent about the idea of power. With women bearing the brunt of the negative aspects of power, it dampens its generative power to be creative, innovative, and make a better life for her family and society. Reframing power in women's minds is a serious undertaking.   What you will learn from this episode:   ● Learn about the challenges women face in an organization and society even amidst laws being structured with women in mind ● Find out how to shift women leaders' attitudes about power, manifest the change you desire, and live life without limits ● Discover actionable tips on how women leaders can reframe power “It's just fair for every human being to have the opportunity to use their highest and best gifts. You can't use your highest and best gifts if you don't have the opportunity to have different kinds of positions in organizations or society.”     - Gloria Feldt Valuable Free Resource:   Gloria Feldt's Book: Get the Language of Leadership: Use The Power You Have! Topics Covered:   01:09 - Women have an ambivalent relationship with power. Gloria is on the mission to reframing power in women's mind   03:49 - Before seeking help, women have these self-limiting beliefs which are culturally instilled. And for companies, they are thinking that they already know it all and that they are already doing it all.   06:30 - One free actionable tip to take action now:  For individuals - list three points of power that you know you bring to the workplace, think about how you can best leverage them to bring recognizable and actionable value to the organization   For companies - to intentionally structure meetings so that all voices are heard, whether that's using a round table instead of a long, skinny one, whether it is having each person in the room get to speak once before somebody else gets to speak twice.   08:25 - One free resource to help you understand the challenge better: Go to GloriaFeldt.com and read "Language of Leadership: Use The Power You Have!"    10:02 - Why does it matter that we have parity or equality between the two genders in terms of their work, their positions, their leadership roles? Key Takeaways: “If we redefine power from the negative connotation of power over us and things to an innovative, creative, generative idea of power as being the power to innovate, create, make life better for ourselves, our families, the world.” - Gloria Feldt “We have imposter syndrome. We have an implicit bias that has made women more risk-averse and reluctant to raise their hands or self-advocate, but we can change that. Those are learnable behaviors, teachable skills.” - Gloria Feldt “The thing that holds women back the most is feeling like they haven't been heard or they've given an idea and nobody paid attention and then a man said this same thing and everybody claps.” - Gloria Feldt   “If companies allow voices to be heard and structure meetings intentionally so that people will feel their voices are heard, the results will be more and better ideas, more innovations, and more profits.” - Gloria Feldt Ways to Connect with Gloria Feldt: Website: https://gloriafeldt.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GloriaFeldt.Fanpage/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gloriafeldt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GloriaFeldt YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/GloriaFeldt Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gloriafeldt/ Ways to Connect with Sarah E. Brown Website: https://www.sarahebrown.com Twitter:  https://twitter.com/knowguides LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahebrownphd

Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with decades of frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker.She is cofounder and president of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life's passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership. Its signature 50 Women Can Change the World program is an immersive version of her 9 Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career customized by industries for women in early career, midcareer, and executive levels.She is the bestselling author of four books; the latest is No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, the research for which plus her own real world knowledge forms the core of Take The Lead's programs.She is formerly president and CEO of the world's largest reproductive health and advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, capping a 30-year career that included serving as CEO of affiliates in West Texas and Arizona as well as the national CEO. She was named by Vanity Fair one of “America's Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour's “Woman of the Year,” She Knows Media Inspiring Woman, Women's eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Women Economic Forum Circle of Light award, Texas Monthly's Texas 20, Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award, and Forbes 40 Over 40.She teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University. Feldt has been widely quoted and published, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Daily Beast, Forbes, Fast Company, Time, Huffington Post, Glamour, Elle and Ms. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America and The Daily Show. She recently served on the board of the Women's Media Center, the Jewish Women's Archive, and Emerge America and remains on their honorary boards. She currently serves on the board of Women Connect 4 Good Foundation. She is a member of the New York Women's Forum, the International Women's Forum, and the World Academy of Art and Science and is an advisor to the ERA Coalition.Gloria is an awesome chili maker. She and her husband Alex Barbanell live in New York City and Scottsdale, Arizona; they share a combined family of six children and 15 grandchildren, so there is never a dull moment in their lives. She spends too much time on social media and invites you to connect with her there. Some great takeaways from Gloria:We have the power if we choose to use itWe have the responsibility to move ourselves and others with us forwardGo beyond your comfort zone - it'll get betterChange can be madeNothing happens by itself. People make things happenTake the lead to changeBreak gender stereotyping______________________________________The Change Makers are doing a fundraise for their #NoMoreBoxes Online Training and Collaboratory Center. A platform designed to teach you how to create safe space for a deep-dive conversations that open up for the conscious and unconscious bias behaviours, placing ourselves and others into boxes, that places our focus on what separates us as human beings, not what unites us. Your help is highly appreciated.Just go to www.Patreon.com/NoMoreBoxes today! GRAB A COPY OF GLORIA'S FAVORITE BOOKS“No Excuses” MAKE SURE YOU DON'T MISS AN EPISODE OF THE CHANGE MAKERS PODCASTSUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL ON APPLE PODCAST OR STITCHER The Change Makers Podcast RSS Subscribe to The Change Makers Podcast Get the latest transformational out-of-the-box Leadership and Communications Tips, Insights, Tools & Stories from other change makers delivered directly to your inbox. First Name Last Name Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you!Please check your inbox for an email from me, Rúna Magnúsdóttir. Inside that email is a link to verify your subscription.Looking forward to having you onboard.My bestRuna

In a small town in Texas, Gloria Feldt, NY Times best-selling author and founder of Take the Lead, applied to work for Planned Parenthood, after writing a paper about them. Rising up to become the President of Planned Parenthood, Gloria talks about her learnings as a single mother and as the President inside a highly-disputed organization. Gloria offers her tips on the place of innovation and creation of meaning through organizational leadership, as well as what she is currently doing to give women an equal shot in the world through Take the Lead. She also shares her experiences in creating Planned Parenthood's new mission, values, and its 25-year vision as a part of reshaping the organization.

Gloria Feldt is a former Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year and CEO of Planned Parenthood.