Podcast appearances and mentions of Rachel Sklar

Happy Friday, you pop culture junkies! Well, better late than never as the saying goes? Thank you for your patience this week. We had some technical difficulties which prevented us from publishing on Thursday. And while the audio is still a little wonky in areas, it was saved! And I would like to personally thank the incredible Rachel Sklar and Ron Passaro the producer extraordinaire who made this entire thing possible and brought it back to life. I am SO grateful. This was the first guest we have had in a long time so it was so sad to think it would never see the light of day. We have the LEGENDARY Alyssa Mastromonaco who was the youngest White House Deputy Chief of Staff who served under Obama. She is a best-selling author of TWO books, She is the podcaster behind the hit podcast, Hysteria. She is a jam maker. A cat mom. And just an incredible friend. And we get INTO it. We do a little DC dish because we HAVE to, of course. We talk Harry and Meghan. Gaga and Rio. And of course, the MET GALA. Keep in mind, this was recorded before the new Pope so you have to read next week's newsletter for that. And housekeeping news. We are going to take a little break from the pod while I build up the team and bring it back to life in a format that will be delightful. Stay tuned! Order “Who Knew” by Barry Diller https://www.amazon.com/Who-Knew-Barry-Diller/dp/1668096870 PCM Newsletter/The Royal Edition https://popculturemondays.com/2025/05/05/the-royal-edition/

Let us know how you enjoyed this episode!How can we raise boys who are kind, calm, and emotionally intelligent in today's world?In this episode of the podcast, I am joined by parent coach, Rachel Sklar who shares invaluable insights and strategies for nurturing boys' emotional intelligence and connection.Rachel, a mother of three, delves into the differences in raising boys and the importance of customizing parenting techniques. Join us for this essential guide to fostering healthier, emotionally intelligent relationships with our sons.02:13 Challenges and Realizations in Parenting Boys04:04 The Shift in Parenting Approach05:01 The Impact of Societal Messages on Boys06:49 Understanding and Addressing Behavioral Issues15:42 The Importance of Compassion and Patience19:10 Effective Communication and Collaboration28:37 Teaching Problem-Solving to Children29:18 Effective Use of Scripts in Parenting30:32 The Importance of Timing in Parenting33:26 Understanding Children's Intentions35:13 Addressing Power Dynamics Among Siblings37:53 Connecting with Boys Through Shared HobbiesGrab your 5 Free Scripts to End Power Struggles with Your Son here!Connect with Rachel!www.sklarparenting.comwww.theboymomacademy.comwww.instagram.com/momsofstrongwilledboys/www.facebook.com/groups/momsofstrongwilledboysThanks for listening!Connect and send a message letting me know what you took away from this episode: @michellepurtacoachingIf you would like to support this show, please rate and review the show, and share it with people you know would love this show too!Additional Resources:Ready to put a stop to the arguments in your marriage?  Watch this free masterclass - The #1 Conversation Married Couples Need To Have (But Aren't)Want to handle conflict with more confidence? Download this free workbook!Wanna stop feeling like roommates and bring back the romance and excitement in your marriage? Learn more about how coaching here!

Welcome to the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast! In this episode, we dive into strategies to foster positive behavior, improve communication, and build a strong parent-child relationship. Rachel is a dynamic speaker, parent coach, and incredible resource for parents who long for an easier life with their sons. She helps moms of boys who are emotionally explosive, highly sensitive, defiant, hyperactive, or aggressive when they don't get their way.  Rachel is on a mission to help parents raise future leaders with high levels of social-emotional health, confidence, and great relationships with their parents.   Rachel speaks on a variety of topics including navigating boyhood, motivating kids without bribes and threats, mindful parenting, sibling rivalry, getting organized with routines, and practical strategies, especially for working parents.    Rachel holds certifications from Seattle Pacific University's Parent Coaching Institute and from the Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum. She also holds an MSW from UC Berkeley and completed her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz.    She's a proud mother to 3 of life's best teachers, all boys.  Connect with Rachel here: https://www.instagram.com/momsofstrongwilledboys/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/momsofstrongwilledboys https://www.linkedin.com/in/viaparenting/ Download the App to ask your parenting questions in real time: https://www.agentwire.ai/boymom Grab the freebie here: https://www.theboymommethod.com/scripts =================================== If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends. Thanks for watching the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com. Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we'd love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers.  Request to join here:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitablecoursecreators QUICK LINKS:  APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-application GET MORE CLIENTS: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/client-acquisition-accelerator-pdf DIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/ JOIN OUR FREE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/profitablecoursecreators

If you're coughing, you're not alone. Respiratory viruses are surging in our area. Rachel Sklar, who wrote about this recent trend for The Cut, and Dr. Mark Horowitz, a family physician, join us to talk about what's going on, when to see a doctor, and how treatment is changing.

Your daily highlights of Toronto Today with Greg Brady, Sheba Siddiqui & Gord Rennie. On today's episode: 1 - What will the week hold for the Prime Minister as the interest over China's election interference won't go away. (0:15 - 8:11) 2 - Greg gives an update on the Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown and his "altercation at an Arizona hotel" (8:17 - 13:54) 3 - Nate Erskine-Smith, Liberal MP for Beaches-East York. (14:00- 25:06) 4 - Rachel Sklar, NY-based commentator/author - Toronto native, on Sarah Polley's Oscar win & impact in the industry (25:12 - 34:09) 5 - Morgan Hoffman, ET Canada Reporter (34:15 - 41:47) 6 - IN or OUT: Daylight Saving Time (41:53 - 51:38)

Your daily highlights of Toronto Today with Greg Brady, Sheba Siddiqui & Gord Rennie. On today's episode: 1 - What will the week hold for the Prime Minister as the interest over China's election interference won't go away. (0:15 - 8:11) 2 - Greg gives an update on the Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown and his "altercation at an Arizona hotel" (8:17 - 13:54) 3 - Nate Erskine-Smith, Liberal MP for Beaches-East York. (14:00- 25:06) 4 - Rachel Sklar, NY-based commentator/author - Toronto native, on Sarah Polley's Oscar win & impact in the industry (25:12 - 34:09) 5 - Morgan Hoffman, ET Canada Reporter (34:15 - 41:47) 6 - IN or OUT: Daylight Saving Time (41:53 - 51:38)

ABOUT RACHEL Rachel is a dynamic speaker, a parenting expert, and an incredible resource for parents who long for an easier life with kids, especially boys. Listen up if you struggle with kids that are emotionally explosive, don't listen, or get wild and aggressive if they don't get their way. Rachel is on a mission to help parents raise these kids into future leaders with high levels of social emotional health, confidence, and great relationships with their parents. She does that by teaching, speaking, running small groups on and off Facebook, and working with parents individually. She speaks on a variety of topics including navigating boyhood, motivating kids without bribes and threats, mindful parenting, sibling rivalry, getting organized with routines, and practical strategies, especially for working parents and moms of boys. Need to know her credentials? After receiving her certification in the Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum, Rachel graduated from Seattle Pacific University as a PCI Certified Parent Coach®. She holds an MSW from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz And she's a proud mother to 3 of life's best teachers, all boys. Website: www.sklarparenting.com Facebook Group: bit.ly/momsofstrongwilledboys Free Gift: https://endpowerstruggles.pages.ontraport.net/ Quick Tips/Quotes from Rachel -- Prioritize your relationship with your child over being right. -- Listen to repeat, not to respond. -- Ask your child what they'd like to be complimented for today. -- End power struggles with scripts that invite connection. -- Use scripts that invite connection and end power struggles at the same time. ABOUT HEYKIDDO™ The HeyKiddo™ podcast is just one of the ways we can help you build social, emotional, and leadership skills with kids of all ages. HeyKiddo™ Talk is our award-winning pocket coach that sends quick and easy parenting tips right to your phone. For classrooms and homeschooling families, HeyKiddo™ Huddle is a full school year social emotional learning curriculum for elementary school-age kids. Get all the details and sign up today at hey-kiddo.com Thanks for listening to HeyKiddo! If you like what you hear, give us a review wherever you listen. Have a question for our experts? Email us at hello@hey-kiddo.com. Follow us on Instagram at @heykiddoapp --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heykiddo/message

As entrepreneurs, we are often so focused on our businesses that we don't take the time to think about how our actions (or inactions) in our personal lives can affect our businesses. This is especially true when it comes to parenting. Many times, when women become mothers they quickly realize that their goals of being super-mom and having a perfect home life might need to be adjusted.In this episode I chat with Rachel Sklar about being an all star parent. While maintaining your focus as an entrepreneur. Rachel is a dynamic speaker and an incredible resource for parents who long for an easier life with kids, especially boys. She supports working parents, industry leaders, and their partners with an eye toward brain development, core needs, systems, routines, and relationships. Her approach to parenting is heart-centered, no-nonsense, and fully customizable to the individual strengths and challenges of every family.  links for this episode: www.warriormamaceo.com    

SaksWorks presents a live taping of Farnoosh's podcast and celebrates the release of her "So Money Page-A-Day Calendar 2022" in a lively (and servicey!) conversation about creating a secure financial future, one day at a time. Hear Farnoosh and host Rachel Sklar, head of programming at SaksWorks, exchange personal money stories. Learn Farnoosh's take on how to create lasting financial habits, how to delay gratification, learning about money as the daughter of immigrants and how we demonize the "rich." SaksWorks is a new membership club for life and work. The spaces offer beautiful, spacious work environments with a full suite of business amenities, plus wellness and fitness studios, dynamic speakers, and access to a range of services to elevate the every day. Learn more at saksworks.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greg talks to Peter Mansbridge, Joe Walsh, Rachel Sklar & Rob Tannenbaum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg talks to Peter Mansbridge, Joe Walsh, Rachel Sklar & Rob Tannenbaum.

Entrepreneur and writer Rachel Sklar joins the podcast to share the behind-the-scenes of selling her company The Li.st, a global community of high impact women in media, technology & entrepreneurship, why being a single parent has proven to be her greatest joy in life and Rachel's experience buying and selling bitcoin. Learn more about Rachel and her work at RachelSklar.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We chat with Rachel Sklar about her epic 2019 year when she attempted to complete 12 Ultras in 12 Countries in 12 Months.   She tells us all about the good, the bad, and the ugly on this journey and what lies ahead in 2021.   You can also check out the Vodcast of this interview on our Youtube Ch at Gottarunracing   Check out GottaRunRacing website here: gottarunracing.com Check out GRR Facebook here: GRRFacebook Check out GRR Instagram here: GRRInstagram  

On this episode, writer, journalist, activist, and community builder Rachel Sklar joins us as we discuss how she got her start and continues to wear so many different hats. Rachel also shares the ins and outs of community building and capitalizing on your voice publicly all while being a single mom. 

Presented by the Ultra-Trail Harricana (UTHC)In this new podcast Free Your Wild, meet with Rachel Sklar as she was in the middle of a great journey in 2019, a year where she raced 12 ultra marathons in 12 countries over 12 months for a total of 5 continents visited and covering over 1,300 kilometres on foot. Sklar hopes that her journey will inspire others to set grand goals.With a background in the combat sport of Muay Thai, she began running in 2016 but quickly fell in love with that new sport.Listen to this interview with this great athlete. Learn more about her story, her mindset, how she developed her interest in trail running, how she trains, and a lot more.Have fun listening to this very inspiring podcast with Rachel! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode, writer, journalist, activist, and community builder Rachel Sklar joins us as we discuss how she got her start and continues to wear so many different hats. Rachel also shares the ins and outs of community building and capitalizing on your voice publicly all while being a single mom. 

We get tipsy with Alise Morales (Our Cartoon President, The Betches Sup), Rachel Sklar (Founder of TheLi.st, contributor at the Washington Post), and Dan Perkins (aka Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World)

This week, we're sharing a thoughtful, revealing and intimate chat between Liz and author/single mom advocate Rachel Sklar about the term "single mom" -- who gets to use it, why it's a loaded phrase, why there's a single mom heirarchy, and how race, age, and income are a factor in how single or solo parenting is perceived. Liz reveals some personal details she hasn't shared on the show before, and Rachel helps all of us rethink the complex and nuanced world of single parenthood.  // We are grateful to the support of this week's sponsors, BiOBUDDi eco-friendly building blocks (20% off through this link with code SPAWNED) and Ritual Vitamins (10% off your first 3 months through this link). // Full show notes on the Spawned podcast page or join the discussion in the Spawned Facebook community. // Thanks so much for listening, subscribing, telling friends (you are telling friends, right?) and all of your amazing five-star reviews!

On this week's episode, we are bringing one of our favorite segments from the 2019 Mobilize Women Summit right to you. Tony Prophet, Chief Equality Officer, Salesforce; Kiersten Barnet, Global Head of Gender-Equality Index, Bloomberg; Susan Lee, Chief People Officer, SeatGeek; and Rachel Sklar Co-Founder, Change the Ratio, TheLi.st,  have a discussion on bringing cultural changes to businesses, particularly as it relates to diversity and equality in the workplace. The speakers also focus on the role of employees at every level, instead of focusing on the leadership. 

On this week's episode, we are bringing one of our favorite segments from the 2019 Mobilize Women Summit right to you. Tony Prophet, Chief Equality Officer, Salesforce; Kiersten Barnet, Global Head of Gender-Equality Index, Bloomberg; Susan Lee, Chief People Officer, SeatGeek; and Rachel Sklar Co-Founder, Change the Ratio, TheLi.st,  have a discussion on bringing cultural changes to businesses, particularly as it relates to diversity and equality in the workplace. The speakers also focus on the role of employees at every level, instead of focusing on the leadership. 

Feminist activist and single mom Rachel Sklar talks about being disrespected, political awakenings, and where "leaning in" falls short. Then Jordana's mom discloses the one failproof item that will get a parent through the night. Music notes: "Voicemail" by Khronos Beats "State of Guanarrrrbara (Electromagnetic Mix)" by Boss Bass "Spills" by Blue Dot Sessions "Best I Can" by Jasmine Jordan (ft. Habit Blcx)

Single Motherhood is a whole different beast. This episode’s guest Rachel Sklar talks about the importance of self care and working hard while not feeling guilty. This episode is sponsored by Moshi Monsters (code: JJSLEEP) and The Real Real (www.therealreal.com code: REAL).

Three years ago Rachel Sklar decided to run her first marathon. The ghostwriter from Thornhill had a background in the combat sport of Muay Thai but was far from an experienced runner. That all changed following her first race in 2016. Eight months after her marathon debut, Sklar challenged herself to a 50km trail ultra, and she hasn't looked back. This year, Sklar is setting a much bigger challenge for herself: to race 12 ultra marathons in 12 countries over 12 months. Throughout 2019, she will travel to 5 continents, covering over 1,300 kilometres on foot. Her destinations will range from desert climates, to snow capped mountains, to tropical rainforests, to regions with active volcanoes. Sklar hopes that her journey will inspire others to set grand goals and to trek boldly into the unknown.  

Katie and her roundtable of guests talk about becoming a mom when you're over 40. Writer and entrepreneur Rachel Sklar, as well as Broadway actresses Jennifer Bullock and NaTasha Yvette Williams share their experiences. Rachel gave birth to her daughter at 42, NaTasha gave birth to twins at 40, and Jennifer gave birth to her daughter at 44. They discuss how they dealt with medical hurdles, the physical and emotional toll of pregnancy, labor, and delivery, and the advantages of being an older mom.

If you worked in media in New York in the mid 2000s, you read the Fishbowl on MediaBistro. Our podcast guest today is the writer of that indispensable, gossipy blog, Rachel Sklar. We'll track her unconventional path from Mediabistro to Mediaite and Huffington Post, then on to co-found The Li.st, a network and visibility platform for professional women. Now she's at work on a newsletter called The Luckiest.

Rachel Sklar takes the guest seat this week to tell us how the Finding Impact Podcast is helping her with her business in Rwanda. Rachel runs Pit Vidura, which offers pit latrine emptying services in dense urban areas where there are no sewers. On this episode you'll learn Apart from helping to improve her business, the podcast has helped Rachel get back into long distance running! When she's back at her desk Rachel listens to bits again and writes down the parts that were the most insightful and sends it to members of her team, inviting them to listen and come back to her to have a conversation about it. The podcast is confirmation to Rachel that they're on the right track. Sometimes they have to make stuff up on the fly and under pressure. So later when they listen, they realise others have taken their course of action as well. The podcast also confirms that not everyone has the answers before they start. Rachel and her team are not from a business background so some of the knowledge, in the form of frameworks or processes, is really useful. They also hear that others are doing the same thing they are, but they speak about it using more formal language and approaches. So it allows Rachel and her team to redevelop their strategy in a more structured way and speak to people externally using the right language. She loved the episode with Lauren from GetIt about how her food distribution business soon became a logistics business, since this is what their pit emptying business has become. Fausto's episode was also instructive in that he shared how the early days were so scrappy, and they survived from winning a few prizes and surviving off of customer revenues, which is how it's been with Pit Vidura. Fausto was also open and honest about the emotional side of a startup, and the thoughts of failure, which Rachel experiences. The interview with Jonathan Lewis also resonated with Rachel, about a sector-wide problem which is the lack of diversity in social enterprise, and which she's now building into the values of her company to intentionally confront this. The episode with Rob Mills helped Rachel talk about social enterprise to more traditional investors, and help them understand what a social enterprise is. Rachel really enjoyed the episode on unit economics with Steve Andrews. As with many social enterprises serving the base of the pyramid, you need to be so clued-up on your unit economics and use it as a management tool for decision making. We talk about imposter syndrome, where you feel you don't have enough of experience, knowledge, skills, (insert next one here!)... to build a business. Rachel has found listening to the podcast has made her realise that everyone's in the same boat - no one really knows everything they're going to do from the beginning and there are times you've just got to do your best. Human capital is a constant struggle and something that doesn't just go away, but needs constant effort behind a clear strategy. Cycling through employees, particularly during the early days, is an approach others take as well, whilst jealously guarding culture. Also, we discuss a very open style of management, where you get to know your team personally, as described by Raghu Krishnasway. Rachel suggests a way to improve the podcast could be to touch on people's personal careers or lives, maybe even an activity, a quote, a joke, or something, so that listeners get a little more sense of their personality. Links to resources: Lauren Russell Nkuranga from GetIt Episode 57 Fausto Margicot from PayGo Episode 44 Audrey Cheng from Moringa School, Episode 43 Pit Vidura's IndieGoGo Campaign A Fireside Chat with John Lewis Episode 21 Rob Mills from Social Finance Episode 8 Steve Andrews from New Light Africa on Unit Economics Episode 46 Anastasia Uglova from MindSky Episode 61 Raghu Krishnaswamy from Off Grid Electric Episode 78 Pitvidura.com Pit Vidura on Twitter Pit Vidura on Facebook Connect with Rachel: Rachel on LinkedIn  

Morra recorded this episode with writer, attorney, entrepreneur, founder of #Changetheratio and The List, and feminist thinker Rachel Sklar during the fall 2016 Trump campaign. We talked about sexual predation at work and how to negotiate dealing with predators while advancing in your career. Our conversation is even more relevant right now, in January 2018. We talk about the temptation to "grade" severity of your harassment ("it's not that bad"), resisting the temptation to write men off as "handsy" and diminishing outrageous behavior because that's what we've always done. Plus single momming. Rachel Sklar is funny and honest and always, ahead of her time. Morra also interviews her mother Pamela Aarons about how it feels to be triggered by Trump and #MeToo.   

Jeff Kreisler (Dollars and Sense) and Rachel Sklar (TheLi.st) join Negin to talk about Trump’s response to the Halloween terrorist attack in New York. Plus, they discuss the Mueller indictments and some of the conservative media’s favorite topics: Hillary Clinton, the Russia dossier, and Uranium One.This episode is brought to you by Modcloth (www.modcloth.com code: FAKE30), Saffron Road (www.saffronroad.com/fake), and littleBits.

Gather round! This episode features an all-star lineup of some of Negin’s funniest and brightest guests. Rachel Sklar (TheLi.st) and Sarah Rose Siskind (StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson) take on lifestyle feminism. Is it a gateway to activism or just a ploy to sell more t-shirts? Greg Proops (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) and Tom Shillue (Red Eye) get into their personal budgeting habits. Plus, Dan Pashman (The Sporkful) and Andrew Heaton (Mostly Weekly) discuss our biological fixation on the short term and how this plays out personally and politically.

Rachel Sklar (TheLi.st) and Sarah Rose Siskind (StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson) join Negin to talk about Ivanka Trump’s puzzling role in the White House, so-called school ‘lunch shaming’, and Trump’s proposed tax plan. Plus, they get into regulation on Wall Street. This episode is brought to you by Credo Mobile (www.credomobile.com/fakethenation), Aaptiv (www.aaptiv.com code: FAKE), FilterBuy (www.filterbuy.com/FAKE), and 2 Dope Queens (www.spotify.com/dopequeens).

Morra talks with Rachel Sklar, former lawyer and co-founder of advocacy organization Change The Ratio, about why "handsy" men get away with sexual harassment and how to make it stop at the work place. They also discuss the intense effect of Trump's assaults and the current national discussion on consent, triggers, and rape culture. Morra also interviews her mom, Pam Aarons, about the intense effect it's having on women of all ages, and how to take back power.

Listen to Slate's parenting podcast where we one New York's school controverserial program to teach children about race and the decision to become a single mom at 41 with Rachel Sklar.   Mom and Dad Are Fighting is sponsored by Bluum, helping new families find the products they need, from pregnancy to preschool. Discover a personalized box of new goodies for your child, delivered to your doorstep every month.  Get 40 percent off a new subscription when you visit bluum.com/momdad and use the promo code: MOMDAD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audio File:  Download MP3Transcript: Lucy Sanders:  Hi this is Lucy Sanders, the CEO, co‑founder of NCWIT. The National Center for Women and Information Technology. We have another one of our really fabulous interviews today with women who have been very successful in the entrepreneurial space. Today we're interviewing a woman who has experience across for profit and the non‑profit entrepreneurial sectors. Larry Nelson:  Good. Lucy:  Good. With me is Larry Nelson, w3w3.com. Hi Larry. Larry:  Hi, I'm really happy to be here. I really loved your site and our listeners are going to learn it. A number of wonderful lessons and were posted on our home page and NCWIT channel as well as a podcast directory and blog. Of course, we're in really shine is on the ncwit.org site. Lucy:  Yes, very excited about that. Today we're talking to Christina Wallace and as I mentioned before, Christina has a lot of experience in both for profit and the non‑profit sectors. She was also named as one of Mashables 44 female founders to know. Now, all of our listeners are going to know Christina. Larry:  There you go. Lucy:  That's absolutely awesome. Today she's the founding partner of BridgeUp: STEM and certainly near and dear to our heart. For those of you listening, STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and BridgeUP: STEM is a new educational initiative at the American Museum of Natural History and it's focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science again, something that we care passionately about. Before her role at BridgeUP STEM, she was vice‑president at Startup Institute and the founder and CEO of Venture Back eCommerce brand, Quincy Apparels. A management consultant with Boston Consulting Group, who we used to hire when I worked at AT&T, and an arts manager at the Metropolitan Opera. Wow, what a span of things. I can't wait to hear about it in addition to, she has an MBA from Harvard University. Christina, welcome. We're really happy to have you here. Before we start and get into the interview questions maybe just a little bit more for listeners about BridgeUp: STEM. I'm sure they'll be curious to know what you're up to there. Christina Wallace:  Sure, we're very excited. We're about six months into a five year grant to build BridgeUP: STEM. Helen Gurly Brown Foundation was very generous in being our founding partner to support this. It is a new portfolio of programs actually. There's several pieces of this that we're building over the next five years at the museum, really focused on diversifying the pipeline of talent going into STEM. Really trying to get more girls, more minorities, under‑served students into the pipeline, getting them into computer science and encouraging them and inspiring them. Our first piece of initiative is what we call our Brown Scholars Program and that is intended as an intensive two‑year after school program for 9th and 10th grade girls to come to the museum two days a week after school and we'll teach them to code in python. We'll introduce them to some statistics and data science and a little bit of algorithms and databases and data visualization. We'll do that through using the scientific data sets here and letting them become mini data scientists. Getting to play with genome data, getting to play with our digital universe atlas of the universe and, in their second year, do real research with some of our scientists here and the opportunity to really contribute to some of the work being done. That's our first big kick off for this program. Our girls start in our first cohort in February and we'll do another cohort sort of every trimester. Fall, Spring and Summer for the next few years. Then we're adding additional programming this summer for middle school students, boys and girls, trying to get out into the boroughs of New York City so it's not just something we have on the upper west side. Then we're really looking into professional development and curriculum development opportunities for public school teachers. Trying to bring computational thinking and computer science into existing math and science classrooms. Trying to really give the students of New York an opportunity to get exposed to this discipline and hoping to piquÈ their interest so that they're, you know, thinking about this as a real opportunity when they go to college. Lucy:  And we like that at NCWIT, I'll tell you what. [laughs] Larry:  Yes. Ain't that the truth. Lucy:  That is the truth. Christina, why don't you tell our listeners a bit about how you first got interested in technology and, as you look out there with all the great technologies you mentioned, data science for example. What other kinds of technologies do you see that you think are really exciting? PARTICIPANT:  Sure. So, I got into technology pretty young without realizing that it was a thing, or a thing that I could get into. My mom was a secretary in the computer science department and Michigan State University. We got to play with one of the very first laptops. It didn't have an internal hard drive, it was a dual floppy with a green screen so you could boot it up on one floppy and then you could run a program off the other. And got to participate in some of the early experiments that some of the professors at Michigan State were doing with fingerprint scanning, which seemed so out there in 1991. And really got to see that this was something kind of cool and exciting from the future. I've always was a math nerd, was a math major all through college and took some early programming classes as part of that major. I didn't really put one and one together until business school. I started my career, as you said, at the Metropolitan Opera, I started off on the art side. I've always been both the technologist and a creative artsy person and sort of thought the arts was where I was going to be where I made my home. When I got to business school and discovered there were all the tech start‑ups and sort of the creativity that came with creating something from nothing from a product and a business and really getting to kind of imagine something and then go build it, combined with the power of technology and computer science and data and all of those pieces. It just kind of clicked for the first time. That's how I made my path back into this. It's a little bit secluded, but technology is always been there from the beginning. In terms of the stuff I'm really excited about, I think data science is the thing right now. Computer programming, web dev, it's exciting. I like to make pretty things and I like to have them live online. Certainly mobile apps have been of focus for a long time. Being able to ask big questions from giant data sets and really get those in place that can help you design better products. It can help you think about customer segmentation a little bit better. In our case, to help you understand the human body or how different fossils might have originated from different family trees within evolution. In the case of our digital universe, finding new XO planets or seeing what else is out there in the giant universe. I think that's what's really exciting because there's more data now than there's ever existed ever. Larry:  [laughs] Christina:  It just seems to be compounding. Learning the tools and the skill set to be able to ask those questions and answer them is what gets me excited. Larry:  Wow. That's really interesting. Lucy:  What's an XO planet? Larry:  Yeah. What is an XO planet? Christina:  An XO planet is a planet that exists outside of our solar system. Our planet all rotate around the sun. Lucy:  I'm such a moron. Christina:  The sun isn't the only star that has planets. Our astronomers that search for XO planets are looking for planets that rotate around other stars. Lucy:  Thank you for that. [laughs] Christina:  You could tell I work at a science museum now. [laughs] Lucy:  Yup. That's awesome. Larry:  With all of these, this is very fascinating. Just why is it that you are an entrepreneur? What is it about entrepreneurship that makes you tick? Christina:  Oh, man. The creating something from nothing is just the thing that drives me. I was a theater director and a producer all throughout college. Going from that, spark of an idea to the plan of how we're going to do it, and then actually building it even if it requires some duct tape and holding two sticks together. Larry:  [laughs] Christina:  Hoping no one pushes a little bit too hard on the scenery. That's always been the conception to the execution in its first, second and 12th iteration, ideally under intense time, pressure with fewer resources than you would like is just what gets me excited, I think. I've never been at the point of scaling companies. I certainly haven't been at the point to make them big and IPO or any of that. It's sort of that zero to two that gets me really excited. When I created Quincy Apparel with my co‑founder, it's sort of the first time that we got to take this experience from the arts and kind of throw it onto a business model and see how that works and just...I don't know. Butting your head against the wall a hundred times and having it work 101 is just so exciting that I had to do it again [laughs] . When I moved onto Startup Institute and got to open a New York office, it was great to be given a product and ideas that they already figured out, but the question of how do we make it work in New York or will it work in New York? Larry:  [laughs] Christina:  If it works in New York, how do we make it work in other places too? Then, now getting to be able to start‑up inside a museum that has such an amazing brand and cultural trove. Everyone thinks who about MNH, their first reaction was always, "I love that museum. It's love." Larry:  [laughs] Christina:  You don't get to build something that's attached to love very often. Lucy:  Awesome. I loved the Night at the Museum movie. [laughs] I love them also. Christina:  We just had our first hackathon here at the museum, which was a big deal. To say the word "hackathon" in the museum and to let people spend the night and create something on our digital universe is exciting. Lucy:  It was at the museum? Christina:  It's the best of both worlds. The Night at the Museum, the 3:00 AM in the Hall of the Universe combined with, "Here, take our data. Build something cool on top of it." Lucy:  It's so cool. That is awesome. Along this pathway, who has influenced you? You have mentors, role models, or people you've admired from afar? Christina:  Yeah. There's been quite a few. One of them that stands out so immediately was a professor I had at business school, Dr. Noam Wasserman. He teaches this course called Founder's Dilemmas. It basically goes through all the ways that a start‑up could fail. It had nothing to do with your products sucking. Larry:  [laughs] Christina:  It's mostly about interpersonal skills, founder things, legal things, and how to think about who you need on your team. It's just the nuts and the bolts and the playbook for how to actually take an idea and turn it into a business that can continue to exist. It was a complete accident that I got into this class as a virtue of our class selection process. Maybe the second time he was teaching it, it wasn't in demand then as it is now. I actually tried to get out of the class, and I told him that. Lucy:  [laughs] Christina:  I was going to take this other education class and I couldn't get out of it. I was like, "I'm so sorry. Please forget that I told you I was trying to leave the class." [laughter] Christina:  It ended up being one of the best experiences that I had at school. He stayed as one of my close mentors throughout this thing. Always on speed dial when I needed him during Quincy and even post my startup as I thought about, "What do I do next?" "How do I build a career within the start‑up world without being always the founder or always kind of driving this?" He's just been always there for me. I try to pay it back when I can, going back and teaching in his class or contributing when I can. He's been just a huge supporter, from the beginning, even when I told him I wasn't interested in being there on purpose. Larry:  [laughs] Christina:  And then I think the other person that really just has been driving me, especially in New York is Rachel Sklar. Lucy:  Oh sure. Christina:  She's the founder of "Change the Ratio" and "The List" and just has been on the forefront of trying to get more visibility and opportunity and access for women in tech, trying to make sure that not every conference is the stale pale male lineup of speakers. Trying to really call out biases when she sees them in media, or in companies, in the way that funders and VC's think about the work they're doing. She's unflagging in this regard. She takes a lot of criticism sometimes. It's hard getting to the forefront of a revolution, but she just does it and she always looks great doing it. She has so much energy and has been one of the reasons I've gotten such a great network of women in New York, from the beginning that have exponentially helped me succeed here and have become some of my best friends, which is pretty awesome to have that kind of a community. Lucy:  Absolutely. Larry:  Boy, that's better than dessert. Yes, that's good. Christina:  [laughs] Lucy:  Better than dessert. Larry:  Though, Christina, let me ask this, with all the things you've been through and you've developed and you've been a part of and everything else, what's been the toughest thing you've had to do in your career? Christina:  The toughest thing I've had to do in my career was to get back up after my company failed. It's something that I try to talk a lot about, because I don't think failure is something that high‑achieving, go‑getter people really think about it until the moment that they're in it themselves. It can feel really, kind of career ending or overwhelming or any of those things, and it's not, at least in the start‑up world. The moment that I knew that we were going to shut down and went through that whole process of unwinding the company. Then I went home and I crawled into my bed and I didn't leave for three weeks. There was this moment of paralysis, of like, "Well what do I do now? " In addition to the, "I have no skills. I'm generalist. I'm a little bit of everything and no one's going to want to hire me," through to the like, "How do I look my investors in the face again," and say, "I lost your money. I'm so sorry. That was never something that I thought would happen." To, "What about my employees?" They pay their rent with paychecks that I was giving them and they don't have them anymore. I've had kids on my health insurance plan. All of these things are going through your head and it can feel overwhelming. I gave myself a couple of weeks to watch The West Wing and to eat seamless and not see anyone. Then I got back up. That four‑week period was probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do personally or professionally, but I did it and it all worked out. I don't think any point in the last two years, anyone has asked me, except from a "I want to learn perspective," no one's asked me "Why did your company fail? That's such a terrible reflection of you as a human being or an indication of your ability or your potential or your worth as a person." It's never came up. That was surprising and something I hope especially more women experience, at least in a lot of the public speaking I do and the mentoring I do. High achieving young women have never really failed at basically anything. The potential for failure, I hope, doesn't prevent them from trying. Lucy:  That is so well said. In many of these cases, in both of the last questions you answered, you said like in the case of your professor, you know, "I didn't want to be there and yet, I learned so much." Nobody wants to fail, but definitely it's one of the places you learn a lot. Larry:  Yep. Christina:  Oh yeah. Lucy:  You learn how to lead in hard times. That's very hard. I don't want to say it's remarkable experience because you don't say, "I hope you fail," but there's a lot of learning that can happen there. Sort of along those lines, you've already given us great advice about being an entrepreneur. If you were sitting here now, with young people talking about entrepreneurship, what other advice would you give them about being an entrepreneur? Christina:  Not everyone should be an entrepreneur. Right now, it's being very popularized. It's in the Zeitgeist. We're sort of turning a lot of entrepreneurs into these rock stars. That's great that we're giving the visibility and the platform to sort of show off that this is one potential path, but it's not the path for everyone. There's also a lot that can be done, and it can be very fulfilling. It can be the right path to be an early hire at a start‑up, and to be employee number two or number one or number ten. To recognize that I want to be in a place that creates value. I want to be at a place that is very close to it's customers and listens for their feedback and iterates. I want to be at a place that values learning of it's employees and is really focused on professional development and opportunity for us as well as creating value for investors. Identify that start‑ups or technology companies or however you want to define this is a sector that you would really like to be part of without being the first one off the ship, with the idea and no money and living on the couch and taking all the risk. There's a lot of great experiences and obviously, we need entrepreneurs in order to drive innovation. But you don't have to be an entrepreneur to be entrepreneurial. That's the distinction that, when I'm talking to a lot of the young students that I'm mentoring, really trying to help them define "Why do you want to be an entrepreneur? What specifically are you impassioned about solving a specific problem. Do you just see a potential opening in a market that you want to take advantage of?" Or, do you say, "I'm looking at the jobs in front of me in consulting and banking and brand management. None of those look exciting. I really liked that startup movie. I'm going to go start a company because it's not that hard to get $25,000 and two friends to build something at a hackathon." Those are very different things. To really identify where you think you sit and that it might change over time. You might not be ready to be an entrepreneur right out of school, or even in your 20's, but you want to get that experience. At some point, when you find that thing that you can't stop thinking about, and that opportunity that you just have to build, because no one else can build it except you, then you go and take that plunge. You risk everything to build it and that's totally legitimate. It doesn't have to be just his second and you don't have to be the founder to still get that entrepreneurial experience. Lucy:  That's very wise. Larry:  Boy, that's for sure. Christina I want to thank you for sharing the experience that you went through a few years ago. It's really a great turn on for a lot of people who really could use that extra push. Now I'm going to ask you another question... Christina:  Sure. Larry:  ...That kind of ties in with that. What are the personal characteristics that you have that given you the advantage of being an entrepreneur? Christina:  This is a great question. I was reading a Steve Blank blog post on this today on the "First Round Capital" blog about what to look for when you're basically dating for co‑founders or what specific traits to look for. I don't remember the exact quotes that he put in there, but he basically outlined it as someone who can focus in the midst of extreme turmoil. Larry:  [laughs] Christina:  And it's function and moving pieces. Someone who is resilient and has endurance, that this is not a sprint, and it's such a clichÈ but it's so important to especially if you've never run a marathon. To understand what it means to run a marathon because it's not a sprint, it's a marathon. To have that resilience to keep getting back up and continue to try and push through. Someone who just has that work ethic to put in the hours. It's not just about long nights so that you can claim that you're working hard. But it's not like a work‑life balance thing. At least that's the beginning. To have that understanding of the discipline required for the home marshmallow test. Can you wait till tomorrow to get two marshmallows versus getting one marshmallow right now? Do you have the discipline to push through for a delayed gratification? Do you have the resilience and the endurance to pick yourself up even after you've been thrown to the ground 20 times? Do you have that ability to focus and make decisions when you're in sort of extreme chaos and dysfunction? Or does that paralyze you? Because that's an early stage company, the very beginnings of entrepreneurship. It's not about executing against an idea, it's trying to narrow down what that idea is. Triggering out what type of business plan that you are trying to execute against his and being able to prioritize and assign resources to different things when everything is priority number one. Some people have life experiences that just naturally prepare them for it. Thanks to you for saying that the ideal founder in his opinion of someone who grew up in a dysfunctional family and was a platoon army leader. [laughter] Christina:  That gives you that perspective of chaos but decision making and leadership. Some people have those experiences. I would argue that, I was a costly trained pianist, and challenged for 16 years. That honed my discipline side of my brain, the ability to sit still and practice six hours a day. In hopes that three months from now, this piece will be ready to perform. I certainly grew up in a slightly dysfunctional, crazy things moving around and changing all the time kind of home life. From the endurance and the resilience piece, I run marathons and I climb mountains. I don't do either those things because I really like sweating. It's a way to sort of build that endurance muscle to push through and kind of recognize that head space that you've been there before and you can kind of get to the end of it. Lucy:  Here in Boulder we have mountains and marathons. [laughter] Larry:  Uh‑huh. Christina:  There you go. Lucy:  We have all those things here and we have craziness too. Larry:  That's true, that's true. Christina:  I believe that. Lucy:  Totally crazy. You mentioned the work‑life balance and that's actually our next question around. How do you then sort of in some sense blend your personal and professional lives? Because we all have something that we do outside, what we call "work." Right? Larry:  Yeah. Christina:  Again, it's sort of a horrible not answer, answer. But it also sort of depends. It depends on what stage of life you're in, it depends on how you need to balance those things to make it work. It depends on who else is involved in the room with you right? So with Quincy, I made the decision very early on that it was all I was going to do. I worked seven days a week at it. I didn't sing in a choir, I didn't run marathons, I didn't date, I didn't see my friends, I didn't really see my family. It was just all I did, seven days a week. All I could think about even when I was sleeping. It was the one I needed. At the beginning we were getting from a running start with no money. We had a very specific length of time before we were out of money so that was the runway we had, it was about eight months. It either had to work or it was over. At the end of those eight months, we did managed to raise a venture capital. We had some resources and we were able to hire some people and my co‑founder and I looked at each other and said "We have to have slightly more work‑life balance, or we're going to burn out." So now we're in a different stage in our company. We're able to say, "OK, now we're working six days a week. We'll take one day off every weekend." She was married so she tried to find time and space to make room for her husband. I decided to take up long distance running and I got to go back on audition for a choir, so I'd have something. We got eight months more into that and we were nearly to a point where either was going to work or we were going to have to shut down. In either case, killing ourselves wasn't going to make that difference. We said "OK, now we're going to work five and half days a week" and make a little bit more space for ourselves. In the case of per jobs done at MNH, it's a very different culture here. It's a museum, it's a non‑profit. We have hours that the museum are open, we have hours that the education programs happen. A lot of the partners that I meet to interact with in order to build this program, they're not going to be on their email at four in the morning on a Sunday. There's no point in me being on email at four in the morning on a Sunday. There's a lot more space for me to have a work‑life balance here because the other partners in the room, insists on it. It's the culture that we have here. It can be frustrating sometimes. It can feel a little bit slow sometimes and that's the pay off, right? The nice thing is, I'm not competing with other companies to be the first to market with our product. It's a different type of a start‑up and a different type of an organization. Larry:  Wow, that's really something. One of the things I would like to ask is, what mountain are you going to climb next but I'm... [laughter] Christina:  Well I can tell you, I leave in two days. I'm going to Nepal to go to average base camp. Lucy:  Oh my gosh. Wow, be careful. Larry:  Oh wow. Christina:  Thank you. Larry:  Yeah, you have a great time. Yes. [crosstalk] Larry:  Well, you've already been through a great deal, you achieved a lot. What's up for your next? Christina:  I mean, I'm excited for project STEM. This could be a program that isn't just something we run at the American Museum of National History. But something that other museums and other informal learning areas might be able to adapt. One thing that we're already seeing in our early development here, is that by teaching coding in computer science through the lens of a subject that girls and minorities already know and are familiar with. We're getting a much higher sort of response rate to the applications and to the programs than we were expecting because if you look at biology, they don't have the gender gap that we have in computer science. Or at least not nearly as much, and certainly in a place like museum where a lot of these kids have been going on school trips since they were in kindergarten. It's a place that they recognize and that they feel comfortable in. We're not having this "Oh I'm not sure I fit in there" piece. For me, the big question that I wanted to ask with this program and I hope that will be able to publish the results and help others think about replicating is, can we teach computer science a lot like we teach English? Which is a tool to help you do other things. If the thing that you're interested in is biology or if it's fashion, or if it's art, let me teach you different languages and process season. Algorithms and things that it might be interesting tools for you to do that other thing that you care a lot about. We might be able to really see this change in this diversity of the talent that's interested in it. This is my big focus, what's got this grand for five years and I intend to take the most of it. But I really want to see this as something that scales beyond just MNH and beyond just New York City. As a way to think about computer science and STEM education. Or populations that aren't necessarily just attracted to the idea of "Let me learn to code, cause I want to learn to code." Lucy:  Amen to that. If NCWIT can help you, we are here. Christina:  Excellent. Lucy:  We are absolutely here. Larry:  Wow I'll tell you, that's a fact. We'll have your interview course up on our home page at w3w3.com, in our blog, in our podcast directory, in our newsletter. Most of all, go to ncwit.org and you'll see some fantastic information and stories. Lucy:  Well, thank you Christina, very much of just great advice. We always love these interviews. We ask the same questions to everybody and they're all different, the answers of course. Very interesting, thank you very much. Christina:  That's awesome. Thank you, I was so happy to be here. This is such a great initials of you guys have. Lucy:  Thank you very much. Larry:  Christina, I'm glad you didn't ask me to carry your bag on a couple of days so... [laughter] Lucy:  Well, thanks very much. We're sort of done with the interview now. But I should just reinforce that offer to help, in any way, NCWIT got a lot of research and practice. What you're doing with bridge up STEM is very much in our will house in terms of interest. Larry:  Yes. Christina:  Excellent. I will absolutely follow up with you guys on that. Lucy:  Yeah. We have a K12 alliance and all the organizations are working together in different things. There's no membership fees for non‑profits so could be some natural affinities there. Christina:  Excellent. I will look into that more when I'm back from Nepal. Series: Entrepreneurial HeroesInterviewee: Christina WallaceInterview Summary: Christina Wallace is the founding director of Bridge Up: STEM which is a new educational initiative at the American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. Before her current role at BridgeUp: STEM, Christina was a Vice President at Startup Institute, the Founder and CEO of venture-backed e-commerce brand Quincy Apparel, a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, and an arts manager at the Metropolitan Opera. "I'm excited for project STEM," said Wallace about her program. "This could be a program that isn't just something we run at the American Museum of National History. But something that other museums and other informal learning areas might be able to adapt.  One thing that we're already seeing in our early development here, is that by teaching coding in computer science through the lens of a subject that girls and minorities already know and are familiar with." Release Date: March 22, 2015Interviewer(s): Lucy Sanders, Larry NelsonDuration: 27:52

Superstar feminist icon and rad chick Rachel Sklar talks about challenges and opportunities for women in the industries that rule our lives. Also, being pregnant and single. RiotCast.com

Melissa Ho shareholder of the national law firm Polsinelli in Phoenix office.  She focuses her legal practice in the areas of government investigations and white-collar criminal defense.She was honored by the Phoenix Business Journal as a recipient of this year's Forty under 40 award.  Brannon Buck founding partner in the firm of Badham & Buck, LLC, which was formed in January 2008.  Brannon has a civil litigation trial practice, focusing on business and commercial disputes.He currently serves as a Commissioner for State Bar Board of Bar Commissioners Rachel Sklar  writer and social entrepreneur based in New York City whose single-minded focus is promoting fantastic women everywhere. She started Change The Ratio to increase the spotlight on women in tech and new media, and followed up with her new venture, TheLi.st     

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