Podcasts about GoldieBlox

Could a unicorn pillow or a spinning toy change the face of the tech industry? In this episode, Lindsay Pedersen talks with Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, about how a simple idea to get more girls into engineering turned into a multimedia movement. Debbie shares the story behind building a brand that challenges gender stereotypes in toys, the decision to grow as a for-profit business, and what it takes to stay playful and purposeful as a leader. This is a conversation full of insight, honesty, and practical inspiration for anyone building something with heart. You'll hear them discuss: Representation - the moment Debbie realized how few women were in her engineering classes and how that sparked a mission to change the narrative. Stereotypes - why toys still fall into “pink” and “blue” aisles, and how GoldieBlox is working to redefine what's seen as “for girls.” Evolution - how GoldieBlox has grown from building toys to creating videos, apps, and games that make STEM fun and accessible. Business model - what influenced the choice to go for-profit and how that decision has shaped the company's impact and reach. Partnerships - how working with organizations like Black Girls Code is helping to expand access to high-quality, free STEM content. Culture - how the company has matured over time and what it looks like to stay focused without losing its creative spirit. Wellbeing - the simple but powerful habits Debbie relies on to stay energized, present, and effective as a leader. Resources: Debbie Sterling on the GoldieBlox | GoldieBlox Instagram | GoldieBlox YouTube | LinkedIn Lindsay Pedersen - Contact me to tell me who you'd like to hear as a guest! | Connect with me on LinkedIn

Paul Kelly is the chief revenue officer of A Million Ads, a leading firm specializing in dynamic audio ads for hundreds of brands, like Target, Under Armour and Ford. His role allows him to speak to brands daily and manage a new era of personalization in audio that is both privacy compliant yet still capable of meeting the individual customer's needs. Prior to A Million Ads, Paul shaped and actively scaled the commercial strategy for a number of high-growth digital companies including Viacom, AwesomenessTV, Watchmojo and GoldieBlox. His experiences gave him first-hand knowledge about brand activity outside above the line advertising, including advanced customer service and product development. In this episode, you will learn How has the rise of podcasting and streaming services influenced the growing importance of audio advertising in the ecommerce marketing world The concept of hyper-targeting in the context of audio ads and how it can lead to significant cost savings for businesses What sets audio ads apart from traditional advertising mediums when it comes to personalization and audience targeting Key elements that make an audio ad campaign successful and memorable for listeners Example of a brands that have seen significant success by leveraging hyper-targeted audio ads For show transcript and past guests, please visit https://www.ecommercemarketingpodcast.com Or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3PgT0NOGzpdPGQtBK0XLIQ Follow Arlen: Twitter: https://twitter.com/askarlen  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arlen.robinson.7  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arlenyohance/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlenrobinson/  Past guests on the ecommerce marketing podcast include Neil Patel, Nemo Chu, Luke Lintz, Luke Carthy, Amber Armstrong, Kris Ruby and many more. Thanks for listening. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review.

Sarah from the Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber, invites you to see Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, a driving force in the STEM industry, a powerful voice for women, and a leader for the next generation of female engineers, as she speaks at the Mendel Center on March 14th. Get details and tickets at the link at smrchamber.com!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sarah from the Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber, invites you to see Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, a driving force in the STEM industry, a powerful voice for women, and a leader for the next generation of female engineers, as she speaks at the Mendel Center on March 14th. Get details and tickets at the link at smrchamber.com!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Samantha and Jenny speak to Debra Sterling. Debbie is the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, a toy company that uses storytelling and games to inspire more young girls to pursue a life in STEM. She's since been rewarded as a Time Magazine ‘Person of the Moment,' and a Forbes 40 Under 40. Debbie is also an If / Then Ambassador and as you'll hear in this episode, an inspiring Brunch Host. Techsetters is Executive Produced by Kode With Klossy and made possible by If / Then. This episode was recorded in April 2021.

Show Notes and Links to Megan and Jorge Lacera's Work   On Episode 34, Pete is honored to speak with talented writers and artists and creators, Megan and Jorge Lacera. Artist Jorge Lacera was born in Colombia, and grew up in Miami, Florida drawing in sketchbooks, on napkins, on walls, and anywhere his parents would let him. After graduating with honors from Ringling College of Art and Design, Jorge worked as a visual development and concept artist for major gaming studios and entertainment companies. As a big fan of pop culture, comics, and zombie movies, Jorge rarely saw Latinx kids as the heroes or leads. He is committed to changing that, especially now that he has a son.  Jorge is currently helping to create the next chapter in the Bioshock franchise as the Associate Art Director at Cloud Chamber Studios in Montreal, Quebec.                                                                                                                 Writer ​Megan Lacera grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, with a book always in her hands. She became a writer and creator of characters and worlds for entertainment companies like American Greetings, Hasbro, and Goldieblox and later formed her own creative company where she creates original content and consults on marketing, social media, and strategic direction for start-ups and large corporations. After reading many stories to their son, Megan realized that very few books reflected a family like theirs--multicultural, bilingual, funny, and imperfect. She decided to change that by writing her own stories.      Personal Website Storyline Online Reading of Zombies Don't Eat Veggies! By Jamie Camil Storyline Online Reading of ¡Los Zombis no Comen Verduras! By Jamie Camil (en Español)  Jorge talks about growing up with Spanish as his first language after moving from Barranquilla, Colombia, as a toddler, as well being a heavy reader of all books, and especially comic books as a kid; he also discusses solidifying his English reading abilities due to his older cousins' influence on his reading material and how his parents joked that they had to tear books out of their print-curious young son's hands-at around 3:00   Pete and Jorge bond over Batman: The Animated Series-at around 7:30   Jorge talks about going from children's books and comic books to supernatural books to Star Wars and Animal Farm, which “blew [him] away”-at around 8:30   Jorge talks about Frank Miller and lines that provide him “chill at will”; and he does it off the top of his head!-at around 10:30   Megan talks about her childhood in Ohio and her love of reading sports books, particularly sports history-at around 11:40   Jorge talks about Gabriel García Márquez's influence in his life-at around 15:30   Pete hopes to manifest the appearance of Marquez's son, a writer himself, on a future podcast episode-at around 17:40   Jorge talks about his art-heavy education from middle school on-at around 18:00   Jorge talks about the intricacies of art education-fine art/illustration, storytelling etc.-at around 19:30   Jorge talks about the lack of representation in picture books and similar content as he was growing up-at about 21:40   Jorge talks about his college thesis and his conscious decision to create more diverse characters in response to the lack of diversity in so many areas of literature and pop culture-at about 24:00   Megan talks about writers and writing that have given her “chills at will”-at around 24:50   They begin to discuss their children's book, Zombies Don't Eat Veggies!, and its background in the shared job that Jorge and Megan had and their desire to create more inclusive stories-at around 27:05   Jorge and Megan talk about their desire to create fun and silly multicultural/bilingual books for children-at around 29:20   Megan talks about the increased appeal of zombies in recent years and the impetus for creating a book about zombies and as a vessel for a lot of topics they had wanted to include-at around 30:00    Megan and Jorge talk about their separate and shared duties as writers/illustrators-at around 32:00   Jorge talks about the pitching process for the book-at around 32:40   Jorge and Megan discuss the thought process of writing the book using Spanglish-at around 33:30   Jorge talks about the “balancing act” between commerce and art and the seeking out of the proper audiences, and Megan talks about the importance of creating interesting content-at around 36:50   Jorge talks about the vegetarianism theme of the book and the dining habits of young children-at around 40:22   Jorge discusses the themes of the book and how to avoid bringing these themes in a heavy-handed manner; he discusses the importance of “authenticity”-at around 44:15   Jorge discusses the structure of the book and Pete, as a reader, affirms the power of the cliffhanger set up by Jorge and Megan-at around 46:20   Jorge and Megan read from Zombies Don't Eat Veggies!-at around 47:30   Jorge and Megan shout some smaller bookstores from which the book can be bought: Book Shop, Drawn and Quarterly in Montreal, Lee and Low Publishing, Blue Willow Books in Houston, Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley--at around 50:35   Megan and Jorge talk about the first time seeing their finished, published book-at around 51:50   Jorge and Megan talk about Storyline Online and how Jamie Camil got involved-at around 53:35   Jorge and Megan talk about balancing life and writing and how they complement each other-at around 58:00   Jorge and Megan talk about their The Wild Ones book, set to be published in 2022, as well as themes/ideas therein-at around 1:02:30   Pete and Jorge and Megan talk -at around 1:06:50

GoldieBlox's Chief Marketing Officer, Ferrell McDonald, and Chief Content Officer, Melissa Schneider, join Coruzant Technologies for the Digital Executive podcast. They discuss their passion for innovating and creating great content and STEM interest for kids through a unique partnership with Toonz Media Group.

I was anxious to talk to Jules Pieri and Joanne Domeniconi about what happened at The Grommet, a company they founded together about 12 years ago. They are no longer there. What happened?A company that was formed to be a platform for the "little guys." For the "Makers", folks who had a dream, started small by making and selling products to friends and family and then needed help to grow into a real business. Jules and Joanne share with us their journey from the beginning to their departure from the company. "Building a business over 12 years is HARD! An unhappy investor complicates things even more. It was actually becoming unhealthy." If you want to grow your business and are considering taking on an investor, this is a must listen to interview. Some brands that we all recognize were launched during Jules and Joanne's tenure at The Grommet: Bombas Socks, Fit Bit, Goldie Blox, Love Pop, Otter Box, Soda Stream - impressive lineup!Thank you for taking time to listen and learn with us on the Business Builders Show with Marty Wolff. Find all our shows and other fine podcasts at businessbuildersmedia.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode of The Cassandra Daily Podcast our host Nina Rupp is joined by Ferrell McDonald, the Chief Marketing Officer of GoldieBlox. GoldieBlox is an award-winning, mission-driven company fighting to close the gender gap in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) by equipping girls with tools—including awesome toys, games, and entertainment—to build their confidence and pursue their dreams. GoldieBlox's Curiosity Camp was recently featured in Cassandra Daily, and Nina and Ferrell fully explore this exciting initiative.

Debbie Sterling is the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, an award-winning children's multimedia company known for disrupting the “pink aisle” in toy stores around the world, and challenging gender stereotypes with a girl engineer character. In 2015, Sterling was inducted as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship under the Obama administration and honored by the National Women's History Museum with a “Living Legacy” Award for her work to empower girls around the world. Here, she explores the strategies, pivots, and mission-driven commitments that have helped GoldieBlox thrive.

The STEAM-based education company GoldieBlox expands their C suite with a new Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Content Officer. https://edge.winmo.com/hubnews/articles/31118 Also, Wyndham Hotels makes a big shift in their marketing strategy through a focus on generous promotions and local advertising. https://edge.winmo.com/hubnews/articles/31121 Bonus Article: Socially Distant “Vertical Concerts” are Gaining Popularity in Ukraine https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/vertical-concerts-ukraine-video/

Watch this podcast here: https://youtu.be/4T7UKVQTXLg Watch PART 1 of this podcast to see Debbie's amazing toys: https://youtu.be/OzrF-rSvGwoCheck out GoldieBlox here: https://goldieblox.com/ GoldieBlox is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/goldiebloxLeave a review or listen to our podcast at the following platforms:Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j-house-podcast/id1513638805 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6NwNzAGuTosuA860u2LbuQ?si=n1pusi_VQIilFVOwkJFltg Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2pob3VzZXBvZGNhc3QvZmVlZC54bWw&ved=2ahUKEwjJ84OJienpAhVdRTABHXYOCkwQ4aUDegQIARAC&hl=en-PR Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/j-house-podcast 

Watch this podcast to see Debbie's amazing toys: https://youtu.be/OzrF-rSvGwoWatch part 2 of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/4T7UKVQTXLg Check out GoldieBlox here: https://goldieblox.com/ GoldieBlox is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/goldiebloxLeave a review or listen to our podcast at the following platforms:Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j-house-podcast/id1513638805 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6NwNzAGuTosuA860u2LbuQ?si=n1pusi_VQIilFVOwkJFltg Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2pob3VzZXBvZGNhc3QvZmVlZC54bWw&ved=2ahUKEwjJ84OJienpAhVdRTABHXYOCkwQ4aUDegQIARAC&hl=en-PR Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/j-house-podcast 

Youtube: @flippingthebarrel Yogashri always had a knack for math and science. Starting at a young age her parents enrolled her in a life changing engineering camp. She went on to write a paper on CO2 Flooding, in High School, that won the SPE International Student Paper contest. Her first internship in the field started her career in Oil and Gas. She never turned down an opportunity to network, which helped grow her career further then she could imagine. She goes into detail about her cold emails, calls and landing her next job. Since her first paper she has written 12 more and she is the SPE Section Chair for the Permian, while being a full time reservoir engineer at Endeavour Energy Resources. Yoga goes into detail on diversity in the workplace and how as an industry we can become more inclusive. She is a reservoir engineer for Endeavor Energy Resources. At Endeavor, she is involved with field development planning for unconventionals in the Midland Basin. She's also worked as a senior production engineer for Texas Oil and Gas Institute and Devon Energy, overseeing various production optimization studies and field operations in the Permian Basin. Yogashri is the recipient of Houston Engineers Week Young Engineer of the Year representing SPE-Gulf Coast Section for 2018 and the International Young Member Outstanding Service Award from SPE in 2018. She graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor's in Petroleum Engineering in 2015 and is pursuing her Masters in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University.Reach out to Yogashri: LinkedIn | InstagramCome hang out with us:Download on Apple Podcast——>> ClickDownload on Spotify———>>ClickConnect with Maisy and Jamie:Connect with Massiel Diez: Instagram | LinkedInConnect with Jamie Elrod: Instagram | LinkedInFollow FTB on Instagram | LinkedInJoin FTB NationIf your interested in sponsoring please contact : flippingthebarrel@gmail.com Sources mentioned in the podcast:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/big-oil-battles-gender-problem-that-may-take-generations-to-fix https://pubs.spe.org/en/jpt/jpt-article-detail/?art=6046 https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/conferences/amp/African-American-leaders-call-on-oil-and-gas-to-15324167.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldieBlox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEeTLopLkEohttps://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14791https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/oil-and-gas/our-insights/oil-and-gas-after-covid-19-the-day-of-reckoning-or-a-new-age-of-opportunity#https://pubs.spe.org/en/ogf/ogf-article-detail/?art=7061

Successful people don't wait for proof that their idea will work. They learn to trust their gut and go. In Hunch, international bestselling author and business adviser Bernadette Jiwa shows you how to harness the power of your intuition so you can recognize opportunities others miss and create the breakthrough idea the world is waiting for. She explores inspired hunches, from one that led to the launch of the breakout GoldieBlox brand to another that helped a doctor reduce infant mortality rates around the world.

Meet Debbie Sterling, the Founder and CEO of GoldieBlox and a woman disrupting the pink aisle.For many women, our childhood toys consisted of Barbies, kitchen sets, and other variations of princess obsessions. And while we may have fond childhood memories with those toys, our male counterparts were being introduced to Legos, video games requiring strategy, and, following the male daredevils they saw projected on the screen. What we didn’t know was that those gender stereotypes and messages would stick with many of us long-term and even impact our career choices. And that’s exactly why Debbie Sterling, a Stanford-educated engineer, created GoldieBlox, a media and toy company that helps tackle the gender gap in STEM for young women. From years spent researching gender difference and talking with neuroscientists to a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised over $1 million dollars in pre-orders, GoldieBox is empowering girls every day and Debbie’s story is one you just have to hear directly. On this episode, you'll start to rethink pink and learn: How Debbie turn rejection into a major success, including winning a coveted Super Bowl ad The science behind the importance of role models for girls The impact of STEM careers for women   Show Notes: 28-Day Career Kickstart Career Contessa Instagram GoldieBlox

CHECK OUT THE FULL EPISODE 197 WITH HAL BELOWHal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results. He is a Senior Fellow at Innosight and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. To grasp how leaders can ask catalyic questions - ones that disrupt the world - Gregersen has studied 200+ renowned business, government, and social enterprise leaders for a forthcoming book "Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life" with HarperCollins (2018). This question-centric research project is surfacing insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. The first article from the project -"Bursting the CEO Bubble" (March/April 2017 Harvard Business Review) - explores how senior leaders can ask better questions to unlock what they don't know they don't know - before it's too late. Gregersen is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation.Gregersen has co-authored ten books, including his most recent, The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, which flows from a path-breaking international research project (with Jeff Dyer & Clayton Christensen). They explored where disruptive innovations come from by interviewing founder entrepreneurs and CEOs at 100+ of the most innovative companies in the world and by assessing how 15,000+ leaders leverage five key innovation skills to create valuable new products, services, processes, and businesses.Putting his insight into practice, he is the creator of a unique executive development experience "Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making." The workshop draws on Gregersen's two passions - photography and innovation - to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders. Ranked as one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Gregersen regularly delivers high impact keynote speeches and executive workshops with companies like Adidas, AT&T, Christie's, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Danone, Discovery Chanel, EY, Genentech, GM, IBM, IMF, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Lilly, McAfee, Marriott, MasterCard, SAP, Vivendi, WalMart, & World Economic Forum. He also works with governments, not-for-profit and NGO organizations to generate greater innovation capabilities in the next generation of leaders.Gregersen has lived and worked outside the United States for over a decade - in England, Finland, France, and the UAE. He and his wife now reside in Boston where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, sculpture.What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem—in your workplace, community, or home life—just by changing the question?Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question.Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained about too few women in engineering and Sterling wondered aloud: "why are all the great building toys made for boys?" Or consider Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, who asked: "would it change economic theory if we stopped pretending people were rational?" Or listen to Jeff Bezos whose relentless approach to problem solving has fueled Amazon’s exponential growth: “Getting the right question is key to getting the right answer.” Great questions like these have a catalytic quality—that is, they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. Often, the moment they are voiced, they have the paradoxical effect of being utterly surprising yet instantly obvious.For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clear—but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn’t we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including over two hundred interviews with creative thinkers. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions—and breakthrough insights—and how anyone can create them.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results. He is a Senior Fellow at Innosight and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. To grasp how leaders can ask catalyic questions - ones that disrupt the world - Gregersen has studied 200+ renowned business, government, and social enterprise leaders for a forthcoming book "Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life" with HarperCollins (2018). This question-centric research project is surfacing insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. The first article from the project -"Bursting the CEO Bubble" (March/April 2017 Harvard Business Review) - explores how senior leaders can ask better questions to unlock what they don't know they don't know - before it's too late. Gregersen is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation.Gregersen has co-authored ten books, including his most recent, The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, which flows from a path-breaking international research project (with Jeff Dyer & Clayton Christensen). They explored where disruptive innovations come from by interviewing founder entrepreneurs and CEOs at 100+ of the most innovative companies in the world and by assessing how 15,000+ leaders leverage five key innovation skills to create valuable new products, services, processes, and businesses.Putting his insight into practice, he is the creator of a unique executive development experience "Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making." The workshop draws on Gregersen's two passions - photography and innovation - to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders. Ranked as one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Gregersen regularly delivers high impact keynote speeches and executive workshops with companies like Adidas, AT&T, Christie's, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Danone, Discovery Chanel, EY, Genentech, GM, IBM, IMF, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Lilly, McAfee, Marriott, MasterCard, SAP, Vivendi, WalMart, & World Economic Forum. He also works with governments, not-for-profit and NGO organizations to generate greater innovation capabilities in the next generation of leaders.Gregersen has lived and worked outside the United States for over a decade - in England, Finland, France, and the UAE. He and his wife now reside in Boston where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, sculpture.What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem—in your workplace, community, or home life—just by changing the question?Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question.Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained about too few women in engineering and Sterling wondered aloud: "why are all the great building toys made for boys?" Or consider Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, who asked: "would it change economic theory if we stopped pretending people were rational?" Or listen to Jeff Bezos whose relentless approach to problem solving has fueled Amazon's exponential growth: “Getting the right question is key to getting the right answer.” Great questions like these have a catalytic quality—that is, they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. Often, the moment they are voiced, they have the paradoxical effect of being utterly surprising yet instantly obvious.For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clear—but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn't we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including over two hundred interviews with creative thinkers. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions—and breakthrough insights—and how anyone can create them.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research by exploring how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and deliver positive, powerful results. He is a Senior Fellow at Innosight and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. To grasp how leaders can ask catalyic questions - ones that disrupt the world - Gregersen has studied 200+ renowned business, government, and social enterprise leaders for a forthcoming book "Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life" with HarperCollins (2018). This question-centric research project is surfacing insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. The first article from the project -"Bursting the CEO Bubble" (March/April 2017 Harvard Business Review) - explores how senior leaders can ask better questions to unlock what they don't know they don't know - before it's too late. Gregersen is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation.Gregersen has co-authored ten books, including his most recent, The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, which flows from a path-breaking international research project (with Jeff Dyer & Clayton Christensen). They explored where disruptive innovations come from by interviewing founder entrepreneurs and CEOs at 100+ of the most innovative companies in the world and by assessing how 15,000+ leaders leverage five key innovation skills to create valuable new products, services, processes, and businesses.Putting his insight into practice, he is the creator of a unique executive development experience "Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making." The workshop draws on Gregersen's two passions - photography and innovation - to teach participants how to ask radically better questions and change their impact as leaders. Ranked as one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, Gregersen regularly delivers high impact keynote speeches and executive workshops with companies like Adidas, AT&T, Christie's, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Danone, Discovery Chanel, EY, Genentech, GM, IBM, IMF, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Lilly, McAfee, Marriott, MasterCard, SAP, Vivendi, WalMart, & World Economic Forum. He also works with governments, not-for-profit and NGO organizations to generate greater innovation capabilities in the next generation of leaders.Gregersen has lived and worked outside the United States for over a decade - in England, Finland, France, and the UAE. He and his wife now reside in Boston where he pursues his lifelong avocation, photography, and she her lifelong love, sculpture.What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem—in your workplace, community, or home life—just by changing the question?Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question.Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained about too few women in engineering and Sterling wondered aloud: "why are all the great building toys made for boys?" Or consider Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, who asked: "would it change economic theory if we stopped pretending people were rational?" Or listen to Jeff Bezos whose relentless approach to problem solving has fueled Amazon’s exponential growth: “Getting the right question is key to getting the right answer.” Great questions like these have a catalytic quality—that is, they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. Often, the moment they are voiced, they have the paradoxical effect of being utterly surprising yet instantly obvious.For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clear—but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn’t we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including over two hundred interviews with creative thinkers. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions—and breakthrough insights—and how anyone can create them.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

Debbie Sterling is the Founder & CEO @ Goldieblox, an award‐winning toy company on a mission to “disrupt the pink aisle.” An engineer and entrepreneur, Sterling has made it her mission in life to tackle the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Sterling was named TIME's “Person of the Moment” and Business Insider's “30 Women Who Are Changing the World” and is regarded as one of the leaders of the movement toward getting more girls interested in engineering and technology. In January 2014, GoldieBlox beat out more than 20,000 businesses in a contest run by Intuit to become the first‐ever small business to air a commercial during the Super Bowl. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Debbie overcame the "engineering boys club" at Stanford and the a-ha moment that led to the creation of Goldieblox? 2.) How does Debbie look to overcome those really tough times as an entrepreneur, from exclusion to the "engineering boys club" to a harsh reception at an accelerator, how did Debbie look to deal with that personally? 3.) Question from Kanyi Maqubela: Is the gender diversity issue primarily a pipeline problem? Where are the key cracks in the system? What does Debbie believe is the point of key leverage? 4.) Question from Harley Finkelstein @ Shopify: How does Debbie ensure that everyone of Goldieblox's videos go viral as it does? What is both the content creation strategy? How does Debbie look to optimise distribution of their content to attain that virality? 5.) Why does Debbie believe that VCs are missing a massive opportunity by not investing in CPG and hardware? What single value add would be most attractive to Debbie for an investor entering the space? What must hardware and CPG founders really look for in their investor base? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Debbie’s Fave Book: The Brothers Karamazov As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Debbie on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Available in carry-on and check-in sizes, Raden is the case for better, smarter travel. By pairing the lightest and most durable materials with technology, travelers can charge their devices on the go, weigh, and track their cases. Visit Raden.com to use code 20VC at checkout. After purchase, you will receive $25 credit to Uber this Holiday season. If a UK listener, head over to Selfridges.com and/or Selfridges on Oxford St. and farfetch.com to shop Raden today. The Simba Hybrid. The most advanced mattress in the world. With a unique combination of two thousand five hundred conical pocket springs and responsive memory foam, it offers the perfect support for two people. A mattress that responds to you and your partner’s sleeping patterns. Delivered free, with a one hundred night sleep trial, free returns and a ten year guarantee. Start your free trial at simbasleep.com

Risa Engel is Director of Communications at Stuart Country Day School, a PS-12 girls' independent private day school in Princeton, NJ and part of the Sacred Heart Network of Schools. Risa joined Stuart in the fall of 2010 with over 15 years of marketing communications experience in both non-profit organizations and corporate business. On April 8, 2017, Stuart hosted its first #LEADLIKEAGIRL: A Conference for Risk-Takers and Changemakers.  It was designed to showcase and inspire girls’ confidence, creativity, and leadership in STEM and entrepreneurship. The conference featured two notable speakers: Dr. Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA and Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox.  $8,000 in cash prizes were awarded to young women in high school for outstanding performance in the Business Fair and STEM Talks. This event was a roaring success for Stuart and brought hundreds of new faces to the Stuart campus, extending and boosting the Stuart brand. For show notes and more brilliant ideas and brain food for school MarCom, go to http://www.inspiredsm.com/podcasts/. While there, sign up for our newsletter to make your job easier.

Sheila C. Boyington President, Thinking Media-Learning Blade; National States Chair, Million Women Mentors Sheila is a successful serial entrepreneur leading the creation of several products. Her company, Thinking Media is the creator of ACT’s KeyTrain® system for WorkKeys® and career readiness (acquired by ACT in 2011), PictureRx® for health literacy, and CharacterEd.Net® for K-12 character education. She is well-known for her passion, strong management, and leadership skills and has been credited for gaining high adoption of the Thinking Media tools including over 30 statewide contracts. Sheila has won numerous awards for her Entrepreneurship and Leadership and is Professional Engineer. Priya C. Boyington Marketing Manager, Stitch Fix Priya is an e-commerce marketer, passionate about the intersection of retail and technology. She currently resides in San Francisco and is a marketing manager for Stitch Fix’s newly launched men’s business and has previous experience at GoldieBlox, and Bain & Company.

Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, shares her evolution from lonely inventor to inspiring entrepreneur with a vision to give young girls the confidence to become engineers through hands-on play. Sterling talks about overcoming gender stereotypes and her own fears, as well as the entrepreneurial challenges of embracing failure and succeeding despite scant resources.

Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, shares her evolution from lonely inventor to inspiring entrepreneur with a vision to give young girls the confidence to become engineers through hands-on play. Sterling talks about overcoming gender stereotypes and her own fears, as well as the entrepreneurial challenges of embracing failure and succeeding despite scant resources.

Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, shares her evolution from lonely inventor to inspiring entrepreneur with a vision to give young girls the confidence to become engineers through hands-on play. Sterling talks about overcoming gender stereotypes and her own fears, as well as the entrepreneurial challenges of embracing failure and succeeding despite scant resources.

00:16 – Welcome to “The Netherlands Invented Gay Marriage, So We Should Be Scared of Them Now!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Origin Story 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 06:12 – Teaching Programming as a Language; Aha! Moments Scratch Programming (https://scratch.mit.edu/) GoldieBlox (https://www.goldieblox.com/) 12:26 – Identity and why do we so often use the phrase “not real programming”? What do we define as software? Tooling Microsoft Excel (https://products.office.com/en-us/excel) Expector (http://www.felienne.com/Expector) 20:13 – Should everyone know programming? Why? What should they know/be able to do? (Digital Literacy) 28:27 – What is the programming equivalent of a library/librarian? 33:06 – Does STEM education make other forms of education obsolete? Why not? 35:15 – Things to Get Better at Programming Other Than Programming CodeKata (http://codekata.com/) 48:58 – Fighting Against “Real” Programming and Being Hesitant to Let in Newcomers 50:40 – What can we do to help spread the knowledge? Reflections: Felienne: If people say they are programming, they are. Limit belittling and surprise. Do not contaminate others with what your own idea of programming is. Jessica: Value on reading through code and forming a model of it. Astrid: Thinking about programming as in thinking about writing. Rein: Some programming does involved math, but it is not (for the most part) the math you hated in high school. A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart Sam: You can be fluent at a very low level of proficiency and still be fluent. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Felienne Hermans.

On a special episode of Shopify Masters, Goldie Blox's Debbie Sterling talks about winning Shopify’s 3rd Build a Business competition, and her role as a mentor in the upcoming Build a Bigger Business. Topics we cover: How to use networking to improve your Kickstarter campaign. How to create easily shareable assets for influencers. How to keep telling your story in new and exciting ways.

There is a big problem with girls in STEM fields. But thanks to Kickstarter originated GoldieBlox, that may soon be a thing of the past. Little girls have a wide variety of engineering and other STEM related toys geared directly for them. This week we have the privilege of speaking

JJ DiGeronimo is president of Tech Savvy Women, a national organization of experienced women in technology that fosters a competitive edge for organizations. JJ was longing for girlfriend time, but traveling the world for her high-tech job, being the mom of two small kids and nurturing her relationship with her husband left no time for her. Eventually, she listened to her heart and started a social group for women in the high-tech industry. This grew into a successful consulting and speaking business that gives JJ the lifestyle and impact that she loves today. Plus, how to keep your kids interested in math and science! On a personal note: I bought a GlodieBlox for my 4-year old granddaughter at Christmas and she LOVES it. She built a zip line! Connect with JJ: www.techsavvywomen.net www.jjdigeronimo.com www.journeycharms.com   Tech toys for your children: www.littleBits.com :Kits come with individual Bits and detailed, step-by-step instructions for building your very first inventions. www.GoldieBlox.com :Award winning constructions toys for girls http://www.roominatetoy.com/ : Roominate's unique blend of building, circuits, design, crafts, storytelling, and creativity teaches kids while they play. Using motor and light circuits, modular furniture building pieces and walls, Roominate empowers kids to build endless amazing creations! https://bitsbox.com/ A subscription box that teaches kids to code! For resources listed on this episode visit our resource page at: www.kickassbizcoaching.com/resources  

There’s still time! Check out and get your JS Remote Conf tickets!   JavaScript Jabber Episode #184: Web Performance with Nik Molnar (Part 1)   02:04 - Nik Molnar Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Glimpse [Pluralsight] WebPageTest Deep Dive 02:58 - RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) 06:03 - How do you know what is being kicked off? How do you avoid it? 08:15 - Frame Rates frames-per-second.appspot.com CSS Triggers 16:05 - Scrolling requestAnimationFrame 19:09 - The Web Animation API 21:40 - Animation Accessibility, Usability, and Speed haveibeenpwned.com Ilya Grigorik: Speed, Performance, and Human Perception @ Fluent 2014 27:14 - HTTP and Optimization Yesterday's perf best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns by Ilya Grigorik Ruby Rogues Episode #135: HTTP 2.0 with Ilya Grigorik Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2) Can I use... Server Push 35:25 - ES6 and Performance ES6 Feature Performance six-speed 40:46 - Understanding the Scale Grace Hopper: Nanoseconds Grace Hopper on Letterman 43:30 RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) Cont’d 46:15 - Navigator.sendBeacon() 47:51 - Memory Management and Garbage Collection Memory Management Masterclass with Addy Osmani Addy Osmani: JavaScript Memory Management Masterclass Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management by Chris Farrell and Nick Harrison (Nik) Memory vs Performance Problems Rick Hudson: Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem @ GopherCon 2015 Picks Hardcore History Podcast (Jamison) Static vs. Dynamic Languages: A Literature Review (Jamison) TJ Fuller Tumblr (Jamison) Pickle Cat (Jamison) WatchMeCode (Aimee) Don’t jump around while learning in JavaScript (Aimee) P!nk - Bohemian Rhapsody (Joe) Rich Hickey: Design, Composition and Performance (Joe) Undisclosed Podcast (AJ) History of Gaming Historian - 100K Subscriber Special (AJ) 15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck) JS Remote Conf (Chuck) All Remote Confs (Chuck) Clash of Clans (Chuck) Star Wars Commander (Chuck) Coin (Chuck) The Airhook (Chuck) GoldieBlox (Chuck)

There’s still time! Check out and get your JS Remote Conf tickets!   JavaScript Jabber Episode #184: Web Performance with Nik Molnar (Part 1)   02:04 - Nik Molnar Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Glimpse [Pluralsight] WebPageTest Deep Dive 02:58 - RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) 06:03 - How do you know what is being kicked off? How do you avoid it? 08:15 - Frame Rates frames-per-second.appspot.com CSS Triggers 16:05 - Scrolling requestAnimationFrame 19:09 - The Web Animation API 21:40 - Animation Accessibility, Usability, and Speed haveibeenpwned.com Ilya Grigorik: Speed, Performance, and Human Perception @ Fluent 2014 27:14 - HTTP and Optimization Yesterday's perf best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns by Ilya Grigorik Ruby Rogues Episode #135: HTTP 2.0 with Ilya Grigorik Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2) Can I use... Server Push 35:25 - ES6 and Performance ES6 Feature Performance six-speed 40:46 - Understanding the Scale Grace Hopper: Nanoseconds Grace Hopper on Letterman 43:30 RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) Cont’d 46:15 - Navigator.sendBeacon() 47:51 - Memory Management and Garbage Collection Memory Management Masterclass with Addy Osmani Addy Osmani: JavaScript Memory Management Masterclass Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management by Chris Farrell and Nick Harrison (Nik) Memory vs Performance Problems Rick Hudson: Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem @ GopherCon 2015 Picks Hardcore History Podcast (Jamison) Static vs. Dynamic Languages: A Literature Review (Jamison) TJ Fuller Tumblr (Jamison) Pickle Cat (Jamison) WatchMeCode (Aimee) Don’t jump around while learning in JavaScript (Aimee) P!nk - Bohemian Rhapsody (Joe) Rich Hickey: Design, Composition and Performance (Joe) Undisclosed Podcast (AJ) History of Gaming Historian - 100K Subscriber Special (AJ) 15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck) JS Remote Conf (Chuck) All Remote Confs (Chuck) Clash of Clans (Chuck) Star Wars Commander (Chuck) Coin (Chuck) The Airhook (Chuck) GoldieBlox (Chuck)

There’s still time! Check out and get your JS Remote Conf tickets!   JavaScript Jabber Episode #184: Web Performance with Nik Molnar (Part 1)   02:04 - Nik Molnar Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Glimpse [Pluralsight] WebPageTest Deep Dive 02:58 - RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) 06:03 - How do you know what is being kicked off? How do you avoid it? 08:15 - Frame Rates frames-per-second.appspot.com CSS Triggers 16:05 - Scrolling requestAnimationFrame 19:09 - The Web Animation API 21:40 - Animation Accessibility, Usability, and Speed haveibeenpwned.com Ilya Grigorik: Speed, Performance, and Human Perception @ Fluent 2014 27:14 - HTTP and Optimization Yesterday's perf best-practices are today's HTTP/2 anti-patterns by Ilya Grigorik Ruby Rogues Episode #135: HTTP 2.0 with Ilya Grigorik Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2) Can I use... Server Push 35:25 - ES6 and Performance ES6 Feature Performance six-speed 40:46 - Understanding the Scale Grace Hopper: Nanoseconds Grace Hopper on Letterman 43:30 RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) Cont’d 46:15 - Navigator.sendBeacon() 47:51 - Memory Management and Garbage Collection Memory Management Masterclass with Addy Osmani Addy Osmani: JavaScript Memory Management Masterclass Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management by Chris Farrell and Nick Harrison (Nik) Memory vs Performance Problems Rick Hudson: Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem @ GopherCon 2015 Picks Hardcore History Podcast (Jamison) Static vs. Dynamic Languages: A Literature Review (Jamison) TJ Fuller Tumblr (Jamison) Pickle Cat (Jamison) WatchMeCode (Aimee) Don’t jump around while learning in JavaScript (Aimee) P!nk - Bohemian Rhapsody (Joe) Rich Hickey: Design, Composition and Performance (Joe) Undisclosed Podcast (AJ) History of Gaming Historian - 100K Subscriber Special (AJ) 15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck) JS Remote Conf (Chuck) All Remote Confs (Chuck) Clash of Clans (Chuck) Star Wars Commander (Chuck) Coin (Chuck) The Airhook (Chuck) GoldieBlox (Chuck)

Debbie is a female engineer and Founder of GoldieBlox, a toy company out to inspire the next generation of female engineers. She has made it her mission in life to tackle the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math. Below are two free resources to IGNITE your Entrepreneurial journey!FreePodcastCourse.com: A free 15-day course that will teach you how to create, grow, and monetize YOUR Podcast!TheWebinarCourse.com: A free 10-day course that will teach you how to create and present Webinars that convert!

links: DOD Civil unrest study Facebook’s research (the actual study) New York Times Pew Research the Atlantic Wired James’ Hypothesis: Priming New York Times article on strangers People feel better if they talk to a stranger The audibility and clarity of MTA subway announcements has declined, but it was worse before 2006 Thankfully, Straphangers.org work was (indirectly) recognized and the MTA launched their first Rider Report Card Writing class with Richard Price at Baruch College Movie from the poster in his bathroom, New York Stories First nuclear weapons were not megaton bombs, they were much smaller (like 12k tons) Tsar Bomba (~50 megatons) Words That Are Most Known to Only Men or Women The History of Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys Lots of internal links within, for delightfully curious minds Goldie Blox (music: Happiness by Tondrae Kemp)

Chris Castle on Goldieblox, Inc. vs. Beastie Boys Part 3: Goldieblox's change of counsel and public "peace offer",a MusicTechPolicy Podcast. Terms of Use: www.musictechpolicymonthly.com/podcast, Copyright 2014 Semaphore Music LLC, All Rights Reserved

Chris Castle on Goldieblox, Inc. vs. Beastie Boys Part 1, a MusicTechPolicy Podcast. Terms of Use: www.musictechpolicymonthly.com/podcast, Copyright 2014 Semaphore Music LLC, All Rights Reserved

Chris Castle on Goldieblox, Inc. vs. Beastie Boys Part 2, a MusicTechPolicy Podcast. Terms of Use: www.musictechpolicymonthly.com/podcast, Copyright 2014 Semaphore Music LLC, All Rights Reserved

This is Part II of David Newhoff’s conversation with technologist and industrial designer, Carla Diana. In the final half of this podcast, the discussion focuses on the GoldieBlox copyright case and the future of 3D printing.  Diana originally studied mechanical engineering, but early in her career, she shifted her focus to industrial design, which demands a broad set of disciplines that sound more sociological than technological.  In January of 2013, Diana wrote an article for The New York Times about how we interact with robotic machines, and how that interaction is anticipated by designers in the early stages of development.  Most recently, Diana published a book called LEO the Maker Prince, a children’s story that works in conjunction with projects kids can do using a consumer-grade 3D printer. 

In our inaugural episode of 2014, we discuss how a company called GoldieBlox is helping to create the next generation of female engineers, how the three of us got bitten by the science "bug", and what can be done to get kids more interested in STEM fields.

The controversial copyright battle between GoldieBlox CEO, Debbie Sterling, and the Beastie Boys has brought the subject of women in engineering to the foreground.  In this podcast, David Newhoff speaks with technologist and industrial designer, Carla Diana. In January of 2013, Diana wrote an article for The New York Times about how we interact with robotic machines, and how that interaction is anticipated by designers in the early stages of development.  Most recently, Diana published a book called LEO the Maker Prince, a children’s story that works in conjunction with projects kids can do using a consumer-grade 3D printer.  This is Part I of David’s interview with Carla Diana.  They discuss design, smart objects, and the responsibility of designers to consider the social implications of their products. Listen to Part II next.

Debbie is a female engineer and Founder of GoldieBlox, a toy company out to inspire the next generation of female engineers. She has made it her mission in life to tackle the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math.

A shortened show this week as we take a look at the week's news. Goldieblox changes their tune on a promotional video after the Beastie Boys raise copyright concerns, and a new streaming box that will run live video to YouTube without a computer.

Podcast: The Beastie Boys v Goldie Blox This month on the Business Entertainment Sports and Technology Law Podcast, ARC Law Group partner Mark A. Pearson and Podcast Managing Editor Ben Shaw present a special end-of-year podcast discussion about the marketing backlash against one of the hottest toys of the 2013...

Dan and Eric talk about football, Le'Veon Bell, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, airport security, Beastie Boys, Goldie Blox, Comcast, Lulu Lemon, Brown Friday, Elan Gale, World Cup stadium collapse, scarce resources, dead bodies, Apple, sick weather, extra-terrestrial communication, Home Movie, The Aggression Scale, The Lords of Salem, Oldboy, and Nick Cave.

In this episode, Jon Samuelson @ipadsammy, Curt Rees @curtrees, Jeremy Macdonald @mrmacnology, and Dave Guymon @daveguymon will talk about the world of educational technology. We will give out 4 apps, 4 Twitter users to follow, and give some great things happening in the classroom. Be sure to check out all the links on our Learnist boards found at learni.st yes, that is a real web address.

Allison Benedikt, Hanna Rosin, and June Thomas discuss the feuding Cheneys, Goldieblox feminism, and Thanksgivvukah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While Debbie Sterling was an engineering student at Stanford University, the small number of female engineers got her thinking about how to engage young girls in STEM fields. Cristen chatted with the engineer-turned-entrepreneur, about her invention of Goldieblox, a toy designed to teach girls engineering principles within a narrative framework, and why toys for girls should diversify beyond pink princesses. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Sharing photos online (Flickr, Picasa), getting back a hacked Facebook page, disk storage usage (TreeSize free), malware that takes over webcam, LikedIn vs Facebook, Profiles in IT (Douglas Carl Engelbart, inventor of mouse and GUI interface), MIT Immmersion Tool analyzes your Gmail metadata (graph your interactions), part of the brain responsible for things going viral (temporo-parietal junction activates when when an item could be shared), automatic gate opener (smart phone enabled, iSmartGateOpener), human-powered helicopter wins Sikorsky Prize (64 second flight, 3.33 meters altitude, used four large propellers), and an engineering toy for girls (GoldieBlox, girls solve problems by building simple machines, Kickstarter project). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Sharing photos online (Flickr, Picasa), getting back a hacked Facebook page, disk storage usage (TreeSize free), malware that takes over webcam, LikedIn vs Facebook, Profiles in IT (Douglas Carl Engelbart, inventor of mouse and GUI interface), MIT Immmersion Tool analyzes your Gmail metadata (graph your interactions), part of the brain responsible for things going viral (temporo-parietal junction activates when when an item could be shared), automatic gate opener (smart phone enabled, iSmartGateOpener), human-powered helicopter wins Sikorsky Prize (64 second flight, 3.33 meters altitude, used four large propellers), and an engineering toy for girls (GoldieBlox, girls solve problems by building simple machines, Kickstarter project). This show originally aired on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

On Broad Topics with Laura Nickerson we dig into the issue of working vs staying home parenting with the help of Working Mom Lara Baden, Stay at Home Mom Tracy Labat, and Working from Home Mom Amberly Crouse Knox. Also don't miss interviews with Debbie Sterling from the engineering toy for girls Goldie Blox (www.goldieblox.com), Kathleen Rubin from "Happy Face, Sad Face" (https://www.facebook.com/SFaceHFace?fref=ts), and The Movie Guys www.themovieguys.net) Oscar Picks.

An entrepreneur concerned about the lack of women in engineering has decided to do something about the problem…through toys.

An entrepreneur concerned about the lack of women in engineering has decided to do something about the problem…through toys.

Sara Wilson is the founder of SW Projects, a content consultancy that crafts platform-first content strategies and unique creative ideas that help build social-first communities for brands and digital publishers. SW Projects has advised on digital content, influencer and innovation strategy for Bumble, WeWork, the New York Times, Bustle, National Geographic, Playboy, Ouai Haircare, GoldieBlox, and others. For nearly five years, Sara ran lifestyle partnerships at Facebook and Instagram, where she developed relationships with many of the most influential food, fashion, home, health, wellness and travel publishers and personalities in the world by helping them grow their brands on the platforms, and built Instagram's game-changing fashion vertical, essentially creating the playbook for how to "win" a vertical on a social platform. Before that, she was a journalist and editor. She ran several sections at the Huffington Post—where she pioneered concepts of social-first storytelling at scale—and wrote for multiple publications including The Economist, Los Angeles magazine, People and The Independent (UK).  Because Sara has deep experience on both sides of the equation—journalist and platform—she knows how to help both brands and publishers deliver killer content optimized for the ever-changing ecosystem of today ’s content consumer. In This Episode, You Will Learn: How Sara knows when it’s the right time to make a career move. How to create a position that doesn’t even exist yet. The power of G&T to take your career to the next level Whether or not to focus on building your personal brand while working for someone else. Why brands need to function like publishers, and publishers need to function like brands. Connect with Sara: www.SWProjects.co The Short of It (past issues) Facebook Instagram - Sara Wilson Instagram - SW Projects Twitter Don’t Miss A Single Episode: Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Music. Leave a quick review on any of the podcast apps to tell people what you think about the show. Take a screenshot of the podcast and post it on Instagram or Instagram Stories. Tag us @insporising. We’ll repost and give you a shoutout! Ready to rise? www.insporising.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspiration-rising/donations