Podcast appearances and mentions of steve shirley

Subscriber-only episodeSOEP meets Dame Steve Shirley – a coding female pioneer Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley is a game changer in whatever she does and we were delighted that she agreed to chat to Somewhere on Earth. She arrived in England as an unaccompanied child refugee on the Kindertransport in 1939. She convinced her all girls' school to allow her to learn maths at the boys' school and in 1962 started a software business from her dining table which grew to have 8,500 employees and was worth US$3bn. The company initially only employed women working from home. Since retiring in 1993, Dame Stephanie's life has been dedicated to philanthropy in IT and autism, including setting up the Oxford Internet Institute.  Brazil's Supercomputer to predict natural disasters Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has finally received funding for a new supercomputer that will significantly improve climate forecasting. The new supercomputer is 15 times more powerful than the institute's current one and scientists hope it can help the country deal with a massive rise in extreme weather events – last year they averaged more than three a day.  Angelica Mari speaks to Clezio Nardin, INPE's Director about the project.  The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell and the studio expert is Angelica Mari.   More on this week's stories:  Dame Steve Shirley   Brazil's New Supercomputer Editor: Ania LichtarowiczProduction Manager: Liz Tuohy Recording and audio editing : Lansons | Team Farner For new episodes, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or via this link:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2265960/supporters/newFollow us on all the socials: Join our Facebook group Instagram Twitter/X If you like Somewhere on Earth, please rate and review it on Apple PodcastsContact us by email: hello@somewhereonearth.coSend us a voice note: via WhatsApp: +44 7486 329 484Find a Story + Make it News = Change the World

SOEP meets Dame Steve Shirley – a coding female pioneerDame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley is a game changer in whatever she does and we were delighted that she agreed to chat to Somewhere on Earth.  She arrived in England as an unaccompanied child refugee on the Kindertransport in 1939. She convinced her all girls' school to allow her to learn maths at the boys' school and in 1962 started a software business from her dining table which grew to have 8,500 employees and was worth US$3bn. The company initially only employed women working from home. Since retiring in 1993, Dame Stephanie's life has been dedicated to philanthropy in IT and autism including setting up the Oxford Internet Institute.  Brazil's Supercomputer to predict natural disastersBrazil's National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) has finally received funding for a new supercomputer that will significantly improve climate forecasting.  The new supercomputer is 15 times more powerful than the institute's current one and scientists hope it can help the country deal with a massive rise in extreme weather events – last year they averaged more than three a day.  Angelica Mari speaks to Clezio Nardin, Inpe's Director about the project. The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell and the studio expert is Angelica Mari.   More on this week's stories:Dame Steve Shirley Brazil's New SupercomputerEveryday AI: Keep up and get ahead by making AI work for yourCan't keep up with AI? We've got you. Everyday AI helps you keep up and get ahead.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showEditor: Ania LichtarowiczProduction Manager: Liz Tuohy Recording and audio editing : Lansons | Team Farner For new episodes, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or via this link:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2265960/supporters/newFollow us on all the socials: Join our Facebook group Instagram Twitter/X If you like Somewhere on Earth, please rate and review it on Apple PodcastsContact us by email: hello@somewhereonearth.coSend us a voice note: via WhatsApp: +44 7486 329 484Find a Story + Make it News = Change the World

Today on Eden Exchanges, our Founder and CEO Raghu Rajakumar spoke with Steve Shirley who is the Director at Finstead Capital. Listen as Steve & Raghu share their thoughts on the integral partnership between Eden Exchange & Finstead Capital, two market leaders in the business buying and selling space, how changing interest rates are shifting a potential buyer's mindset and approach to buying a business (perhaps permanently), how technology, including AI, has changed the way financial institutions operate, tips & tricks to be finance and seller-ready, an upcoming business selling masterclass that you won't want to miss, and so much more. Want to learn more? Whether you're ready to sell your business this FY, or you're even just thinking about it, don't miss the opportunity to get prepared & maximise your business's sale value before it's too late! Secure your spot for our upcoming masterclass on July 11, and take the first step towards selling your business for top dollar today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eofy-success-proven-strategies-to-boost-your-business-sale-value-tickets-640262270687

Today on Eden Exchanges, our Founder and CEO Raghu Rajakumar spoke with Steve Shirley who is the Director at Finstead Capital. Listen as Steve & Raghu share their thoughts on the integral partnership between Eden Exchange & Finstead Capital, two market leaders in the business buying and selling space, how changing interest rates are shifting a potential buyer's mindset and approach to buying a business (perhaps permanently), how technology, including AI, has changed the way financial institutions operate, tips & tricks to be finance and seller-ready, an upcoming business selling masterclass that you won't want to miss, and so much more. Want to learn more? Whether you're ready to sell your business this FY, or you're even just thinking about it, don't miss the opportunity to get prepared & maximise your business's sale value before it's too late! Secure your spot for our upcoming masterclass on July 11, and take the first step towards selling your business for top dollar today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eofy-success-proven-strategies-to-boost-your-business-sale-value-tickets-640262270687

686: Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley, entrepreneur and venture philanthropist, reflects on her storied career as an IT pioneer. After escaping Nazi Germany and arriving in the UK as a child, she went on to hold a series of influential positions in the technology industry. Dame Stephanie describes the trials and tribulations of starting a company as a woman in the 1960s, building client relationships as a woman-led business, and adopting an ahead-of-its-time approach to workplace flexibility. She also shares her passion for autism research, her role as a “venture philanthropist,” in the space, and progress made in developing an autism treatment. Finally, Dame Stephanie discusses her memoir, Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story, and how she remains active and productive in the later years of her life.

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Friends Friday with long time friend Steve Shirley....

Dame Stephanie Shirley, known as ‘Steve' for reasons explained in the podcast, escaped Nazi persecution before founding a software startup in 1962 with just £6 which provided employment to hundreds of women when they weren't taken seriously in the workplace. “I remember selling a six figure software project to a junior minister, and he was trying to pinch my bottom. It was very hard to maintain a sort of professionalism.”  Steve's story is one that reminds us both how much the world has moved on since the early days of her startup, and sadly how little has changed. “I can't believe how today we're still talking about the same sorts of things that I was talking about 50 years ago: feeling undervalued, women's ideas taken and presented by men as their own, women being talked over, women being patronised, women being sexually assaulted.” From coming to England on the Kindertransport in 1939, to falling in love with mathematics, being appalled at pay inequality, founding her own company (Xansa plc, now part of the Sopra Group) in 1962, and navigating the 1975 equal opportunities legislation: “We tried to laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. But all in all, we realised that that was the way the world was going. And now of course, all of business is much more inclusive. But it was a struggle. In the early days, women were second class citizens.” Having retired from the business aged 60 (she's now 88), Steve is now a full time philanthropist, focusing on things she knows and cares about, treating her various charities as businesses. Her advice to listeners? “All the important things that I've done have been either disruptive or long term. Sticking with 11 years for this, 17 years for that, five years [there]. These are not things that are done overnight with a burst of energy.” We chat about: From refugee to entrepreneur Why she had to become Steve to get traction Surviving a nervous breakdown Becoming a good philanthropist Links: Book - Let It Go Book - So To Speak Want to receive our podcast on a weekly basis? Subscribe to our newsletter!

In this session, we continue our conversation from “Session 24: Skill VS. Talent”. I received so much positive feedback from that session so thanks you for your input! I didn't want to leave that topic alone yet because I felt there was more to add. What I had come to realize in addition to knowing your skill and talent is that repetition matters! Whatever you desire to accomplish in life, it will require you to be consistent. Here are some things to think through:Who does God want you to become?What is He trying to teach you?Pray for the PracticalRead Daniel 6:10 and Psalm 119:164Additional ResourcesRead an Article on “Jesus Lifestyle of Prayer” written by Steve Shirley available at https://jesusalive.cc/times-jesus-prayed/Read “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction” by Eugene H. Peterson available on Hoopla at https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11497657Read “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction” by Eugene H. Peterson available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0830848630?pf_rd_r=WDWP9S1STZGRAVRXER64&pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8&pd_rd_r=3ed610cf-0034-47c2-9a69-6119a2a003c7&pd_rd_w=Eaggu&pd_rd_wg=1hIgW&ref_=pd_gw_unkWant to hear more detail and how to apply it in your life? Take a listen to this session. You don't want to miss it!Want to chat? Let's Talk! You can find me at:Instagram: @markkbenton2 https://www.instagram.com/markkbenton2/Facebook: Mark K. Benton II https://www.facebook.com/mkbenton2Facebook: Group Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/351427136178806Website: https://www.markkbentonii.comIf you're enjoying this podcast, please leave me a review on Apple Podcast or on my Website. I'd be so grateful and appreciative of you! 

A principios de los años 60, el sector de la tecnología se burlaba de ellas. Las llamaban desde el diario The Times las "niñas del ordenador", y nadie tomó en serio al grupo de mujeres programadoras que, bajo el liderazgo de la matemática Stephanie Shirley y su compañía Freelance Programmers, revolucionaron el mundo de la empresa con una cultura radicalmente distinta y, contra los peores augurios, exitosa.Stephanie fue uno de los 10,000 niños judíos acogidos por Reino Unido en plena huida de la Alemania nazi. Embarcada sin sus padres a los 5 años en 1939, ella y su hermana llegaron a un pueblo cerca de Birmingham donde fueron abrazadas por la que se convertiría en su nueva familia, el matrimonio Guy y Ruby Smith.¿Pero cómo logró esta mujer, brillante matemática, alcanzar el éxito en un negocio masculino y poner en marcha una empresa vanguardista con un funcionamiento del que no existían referentes?Stephanie Shirley desarrolló, no sin trabas, su extraordinaria capacidad para las matemáticas y la computación, estudiando en horario nocturno y sin poder pasar por la universidad. El sector de la informática estaba en pleno despegue, y, pese a esto, Shirley se dio cuenta enseguida de que no había lugar para las mujeres ni en el sector público ni en el privado. Así, con un presupuesto de seis libras y una máquina de escribir en el salón de la casa que compartía con su marido y su bebé, Shirley fundó una empresa de software a los 29 años.Freelance Programmers -posteriormente y con su internacionalización pasaría a llamarse F International (FI)- vio la luz en 1962 y supuso una revolución del mundo empresarial en dos sentidos. En primer lugar, no existían firmas dedicadas a desarrollar y vender únicamente programas, ya que los ordenadores se comercializaban con el software incluido. En segundo lugar, la matemática huida de los nazis quería crear un sistema de trabajo que absorbiera a las profesionales con experiencia expulsadas del mercado laboral por su vida familiar. Antes de que ni siquiera existiese el concepto 'conciliación', Stephanie Shirley ya se entregó a hacerlo realidad. Y lo logró, con una batería de innovaciones que moldeó una cultura empresarial sin precedentes.De los 300 empleados de Freelance Programmers sólo tres eran hombres. Las 297 mujeres que llegó a tener su primera empresa eran profesionales con hijos y un hogar que requería atención. Para hacer posible compaginar ambas facetas, Shirley ideó una organización de horarios flexibles y con teletrabajo, en el que las empleadas se ayudaban mutuamente. "La gente describía mi modo de trabajo como 'matriarcal', pero el concepto de las mujeres ayudándose unas a otras me parecía muy natural, trabajando en equipo, ayudando a una empleada por la mañana, pidiendo su ayuda por la tarde... Éramos un 'nosotras'".Otro de los puntos más rompedores de la empresa fue que el salario no dependía de las horas trabajadas, sino de los proyectos o tareas finalizadas, un método mucho más elástico para la dosificación del tiempo de sus empleadas.En sus primeros tiempos, Stephanie Shirley se empleaba a fondo escribiendo cartas a potenciales clientes, ofreciéndoles servicios y proyectos de tecnología que pudieran serles de utilidad. Sin embargo, nunca recibía respuestas. Su marido olió a la legua el problema y ella recurrió a una vieja estrategia: "Empecé a escribir las mismas cartas pero firmando simplemente STEVE Shirley y... sorpresa, sorpresa, empecé a obtener respuestas, reuniones y a conseguir trabajo".La cultura del 'nosotras' creada por la matemática en Freelance Programmers, sin embargo, se granjeó las burlas y la suspicacia en el sector. Hasta que consiguieron amarrar contratos de primera fila como la programación de los horarios de trenes de carga en Reino Unido o su gran hito, el software de la caja negra del avión Concorde. La empresa de Stephanie Shirley comenzó a volar de verdad.Después de años de haber roto todos los esquemas en el mundo empresarial, a una ya millonaria Stephanie le quedaba un sueño más por cumplir: hacer copropietarios de su compañía a los empleados que la habían levantado junto a ella, una idea similar a la que tuvo el empresario suizo Scott Bader en los años 50.En el año 1993 acometió una retirada a su medida: cedió sus acciones a 70 trabajadores y les convirtió en millonarios. La emprendedora tenía entonces 60 años y se dedicó desde entonces a la labor filantrópica.

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In 1962 a fearless woman with 6 euros launched a software company that employed only women and later went on to make 71 of her employees multi millionaires by offering stake in her company.    This iconic woman's name is Dame Stephanie Steve Shirley.   Steve shares her life ́s inspiring story in her memoir Let It Go: My extraordinary Story from refugee to entrepreneur to philanthropist. She was one of the first women in the U.K to start a software business with the idea of working from home in the 1960's. Steve teaches us about the pioneering trail led by her and the women of her generation as well as how to master the art of letting go. This is one of our most powerful mentor episodes to date.    Ok MW the journey to getting closer to the best YOU continues on this episode!    Subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes and Spotify to help us continue to bring powerful conversations like these to you every week. GET 10% off each tee you purchase from our lifestyle brand and we will GIVE 10% to a covid19 relief fund. Visit www.IAmAMillennialWoman.com    Subscribe to our Newsletter for Perks and Resources: wearemillennialwomen.com   Millennial Women Community: MW Instagram MW Facebook

On Friday 18th October TechPixies went to Festival of Female Entrepreneurs, Bristol. Hosted by Enterprise Nation.At 2pm we had the absolute pleasure of listening to Dame Stephanie Shirley give an inspirational speech. Although recorded on a phone in a large auditorium, we have endeavoured to improve the audio to allow you to share our experience.Many thanks to Dame Stephanie Shirley CH for sharing her story at Enterprise Nation's Festival of Female Entrepreneurs.You can buy her book 'Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist' here. Or as I have you can download the audio book, here.If her story made you feel like you wanted to contribute towards autism research, then please follow this link to Autistica. Thank you.Enjoy!

Today, Steve and Lyndon are joined by guest Steve Shirley from Valiant Finance to discuss: How to pre-qualify for finance, Used machinery finance and how the royal commission affected the machinery finance game. Then, Jade is joined by new Digital Performance Manager Mackenzie to discuss what this information means for machinery dealers. 

Dame Stephanie Shirley's life has been described as one "without limits". Born as Vera Buchthal in Germany, 1933, she was five years old when she escaped Nazi Germany to Britain as a Kindertransport child refugee. The trauma shaped her early life and drove her to curating her own future: from a lover of mathematics and computing she rose to becoming a successful - and well-known - businesswoman in 1960s Britain, founding an all-female information technology company under the moniker "Steve" Shirley.It would become known for its pioneering employee packages - flexible working, zero-hour contracts, and working from home as standard. Over 11 years, Dame Shirley even gifted her employees 25% of the business, making several people millionaires in the process. It was just one of her philanthropic ventures, alongside numerous contributions to autism charities and initiatives, as well as founding the Oxford Internet Institute.For these reasons, Dame Shirley's voice and experience are a vital touchstone when considering today's purposeful business movement.In this interview with Peter Stojanovic, Deputy Editor of HotTopics.ht, understand how Dame Shirley capitalized on her gender in a male-dominated industry, championed a healthier, more respectful work-place culture for her employees and views today's batch of energized entrepreneurs.

It's always easier for the big players in an industry to implement new regulations than it is for smaller ones, having more manpower and money. So when the Pentagon announced new cybersecurity standards for defense contractors to implement in order to do business with the government, smaller companies were left worrying if they'd be able to comply. To help with that, the Defense Industrial Base Sector Coordinating Council, or the DIB SCC, is creating the Supply Chain Cybersecurity Industry Task Force. It will be made up of small, medium, and large companies to help all of them shore up the defense supply chain. To give Federal Drive with Tom Temin more details about it, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Mike Gordon, Chief Information Security Officer for Lockheed Martin and Chair of the DIB SCC, as well as Steve Shirley, the Executive Director of the National Defense Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and Vice chairman of the DIB SCC.

Women once made up 80% of the computer industry. They are now less than 20%. Mary Ann Sieghart explores the hidden and disturbing consequences of not having women at the heart of the tech. Who is the in room today when technology is designed determines how society is being shaped. Justine Cassell, from Carnegie Mellon University, says young men in Silicon Valley are told, “Design for you. Design what you would want to use” and so virtual assistants, such as the ever-female Siri, Alexa and Cortana play with “cute talk” and female game characters still have their “tits hanging out of their blouses.” Artificial Intelligence is now making life-changing choices for us - about our health, our loans, even bail. But it isn’t faultless; it is biased. AI is only as good as the data it’s been fed and if it’s learning from prejudice, it will only amplify it. Apps designed by men are overlooking women’s health, algorithms are rejecting women outright and as MIT Professor Catherine Tucker explains, they aren’t even being sent jobs adverts “because their eyeballs are more expensive.” Mary Ann looks at why women left the computer industry and what still deters them today. She hears the challenges that tech entrepreneur Steve Shirley faced in the 1960s are almost identical to those voiced by organisers of the Google walkout last year. Women are harassed, side lined and not taken seriously; they are put off by a cult of genius and techno-chauvinism. But there is hope. Mary Ann meets campaigners trying to regulate AI gender bias and those succeeding in getting more women into tech, finding a small tweak in classroom design or style of university marking can make a real difference. Producer: Sarah Bowen.

This week's construction tech news with James Benham (@JamesMBenham), Jeff Sample (@IronmanOfIT) and Josh Bone (@BIM2TheBone) Featuring: - Interview with Steve Shirley from University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors (UMEC) - Construction Tech News of the Week Follow @TheConTechCrew on social media for more updates and to join the conversation! Listen to the show at http://thecontechcrew.com Powered by JBKnowledge Learn more at http://thecontechcrew.com or follow @JBKnowledge & @TheConTechCrew on Twitter.

“I’d been patronized as a child,” Dame Stephanie Shirley — a.k.a. Steve — tells us this week. “I wasn’t going to be patronized as an adult.”The kind of company that Stephanie Shirley wanted to work for didn’t exist in 1962, so she created her own.“I wanted a company that was suitable for me [and] that I would like to work in,” Shirley says. “And I knew there were lots of women who had also hit the glass ceiling and were completely and utterly ignored by the industry.”She’s talking about the software industry, which was even more of a boys club in the sixties. So Shirley started her own business, hired a bunch of women from IBM, and even changed her first name from Stephanie to Steve — in order to get the attention of potential clients through promotional materials.Shirley tells us her incredible story, which includes creating a company that would later be valued at $3 billion, being made a dame by Queen Elizabeth, and keeping herself mentally and physically fit in the midst of life's many hurdles.Power Up is a Nerdette project where fascinating people explain how they set themselves up for success in an exhausting world. Tell us how YOU power up by recording yourself on your phone and emailing the audio file to nerdettepodcast@gmail.com.

We have seen and heard about psychics, mediums, channelers, and other people who participate in the occult that actually seem to provide true information. Does this mean they are legitimate? Who are they making contact with? We discuss this questions in this episode.   References Chronological Study Bible BibleGateway.com “What is Psychic Power? “ ,http://blog.psychicpower.com/articles/what-is-psychic-power “What is a Psychic?”, Craig Hamilton-Parker, http://psychics.co.uk/psychic.html “What is a Medium?”, Rebecca Rosen, http://www.oprah.com/spirit/What-is-a-Medium-Rebecca-Rosen “What is Psychic Channeling?”, https://www.bestonlinepsychics.net/psychic-info/psychic-channeling/ “What Is Tarot? A Professional Tarot Card Reader Tells All”, BARBARA HERMAN, http://www.ibtimes.com/what-tarot-professional-tarot-card-reader-tells-all-1938557 Palm Reading , http://www.yourchineseastrology.com/palmistry/ “What is Occult?”, http://www.allabouttheoccult.org/the-occult.htm "Did the witch of Endor really summon Samuel from the dead (1 Samuel 28:7-20)?", GotQUestions.org “The Witch of Endor and the Spirit of Samuel”, http://ichthys.com/mail-witch%20of%20Endor.htm “The Witch of Endor, a Familiar Spirit,and the State of the Dead”, http://biblelight.net/witch_of_endor.htm   “Q: #135. Did Samuel really come back from the dead to speak to Saul?” ,Steve Shirley, http://jesusalive.cc/ques135.htm “THE PSYCHICS: CAN THEY HELP YOU?”, http://www.christiananswersforthenewage.org/Articles_Psychics.html

On this episode, Tammy had the honor of speaking with Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley. In 1962, Dame Stephanie founded Freelance Programers, a software firm with innovative work practices — and (mainly) women employees. Dame Stephanie has often been called The first lady of technology. Today Dame Stephanie devotes her time to giving back to society. 

Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley is a philanthropist and The Shirley Foundation is one of the top 50 grant-giving foundations in Britain. She arrived in Britain on the Kinderstransport in 1939, aged five. In 1962, she founded her first software company and went by the name “Steve” to open doors in the male-dominated business world. She retired in 1993 with an estimated £150 million fortune. Dame Stephanie now concentrates on philanthropic work and donates to autism research.