Podcast appearances and mentions of wendy foster

I want to hear your thoughts about the show and this episode. Text us here...In this episode of Casa De Confidence, host Julie DeLucca-Collins welcomes Wendy Foster, a counselor and empowerment coach, who shares her journey from a challenging childhood to personal growth and healing. Wendy discusses her experiences as the unplanned third child of an alcoholic father and how early trauma shaped her life. She delves into the therapeutic approach of Internal Family Systems (IFS), which helps individuals understand and integrate different parts of themselves. The conversation is heartfelt and insightful, offering listeners valuable lessons on resilience, self-acceptance, and the importance of seeking support. Join us for an inspiring chat that feels like a warm hug from your best girlfriend!Personal experiences and insights related to early childhood education and trauma.The impact of childhood experiences on adult life and personal growth.The significance of counseling and empowerment coaching in healing.Exploration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a therapeutic approach.The concept of self-sabotage and its relation to past traumas.The importance of sensitivity and emotional responses in personal development.The metaphor of broken pottery repaired with gold illustrates resilience.The role of epigenetics in passing down trauma through generations.The value of community and support in the healing process.Encouragement to embrace personal journeys and seek help when needed.This is an invitation to join a supportive community of purpose-driven entrepreneurs who are creating an impact in the world.A mastermind is a community of peers who exchange ideas, provide support, and offer sound advice for running a successful business.Join the Confident YOU Mastermind now at https://goconfidentlyservices.myflodesk.com/confidentyoumastermindSupport the showOther helpful resources for you: Learn more about my Confident You Mastermind Today! Here's your Guide to Starting A Podcast in 30 days, download yours today! For more about me and what I do, check out my website. If you're looking for support to grow your business faster, be positioned as an authority in your industry, and impact the masses, schedule a call to explore if you'd be a good fit for one of my coaching programs. Thank you for listening to our podcast. Please Subscribe! Join our Facebook GroupInstagram, TikTok We love reviews! Please leave us a review.Contact us if you want to Launch, restart, or grow your podcast.

Content Warning: This episode contains mentions of suicide and suicide attempts. The trauma we experience as children stays with us and can manifest into mindset blocks, negative self-worth, and coping mechanisms that turn into addiction. Today's guest Wendy Foster shares how, through recovery, she was able to overcome her addiction, take her power back, and help others do the same. This week's episode 260 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast is about loving what is!Support the show by becoming a Patreon member! In this episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, my guest Wendy Foster shares the importance of taking your power back from trauma and addiction and her journey back to loving and honoring herself.Some of the talking points I go over in this episode include:Traumatic experiences in childhood can have a lasting impact on one's life and behaviors, holding space in the body long after the event(s) occurred. Finding a higher power and embracing spirituality can profoundly impact personal growth and well-being.A coach, sponsor, or mentor can help people discover their true identity, find their voice, and create healthy boundaries by acting as a mirror to reflect on.Recognizing and addressing underlying issues is essential for personal growth and healing.Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on living a more whole life and to hear even more about the points outlined above.Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me!  And don't forget to follow, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Fragmented to Whole at https://higherpowercc.com/podcast/ CONNECT WITH WENDY FOSTER:Contact Wendy at wendyfostermueller@gmail.com CONNECT WITH BARB NANGLE:Subscribe to “Friday Fragments” weekly newsletterFree boundaries resourcesFacebookInstagramPatreonWork with Barb! Buy Barb a tea

Content Warning: This episode contains mentions of suicide and suicide attempts. The trauma we experience as children stays with us and can manifest into mindset blocks, negative self-worth, and coping mechanisms that turn into addiction. Today's guest Wendy Foster shares how, through recovery, she was able to overcome her addiction, take her power back, and help others do the same. This week's episode 260 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast is about loving what is!Support the show by becoming a Patreon member! In this episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, my guest Wendy Foster shares the importance of taking your power back from trauma and addiction and her journey back to loving and honoring herself.Some of the talking points I go over in this episode include:Traumatic experiences in childhood can have a lasting impact on one's life and behaviors, holding space in the body long after the event(s) occurred. Finding a higher power and embracing spirituality can profoundly impact personal growth and well-being.A coach, sponsor, or mentor can help people discover their true identity, find their voice, and create healthy boundaries by acting as a mirror to reflect on.Recognizing and addressing underlying issues is essential for personal growth and healing.Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on living a more whole life and to hear even more about the points outlined above.Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me!  And don't forget to follow, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Fragmented to Whole at https://higherpowercc.com/podcast/ CONNECT WITH WENDY FOSTER:Contact Wendy at wendyfostermueller@gmail.com CONNECT WITH BARB NANGLE:Subscribe to “Friday Fragments” weekly newsletterFree boundaries resourcesFacebookInstagramPatreonWork with Barb! Buy Barb a tea

On this special end of the year episode, we revisit conversations with two data science leaders in the e-commerce space:Wendy Foster, Director, Engineering & Data Science at Shopify.Olivia Liao, Senior Director of Data Science at Stitch Fix.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • Amazon •  RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Today we're back with another installment of our Data-Centric AI series, joined by Wendy Foster, a director of engineering & data science at Shopify. In our conversation with Wendy, we explore the differences between data-centric and model-centric approaches and how they manifest at Shopify, including on her team, which is responsible for utilizing merchant and product data to assist individual vendors on the platform. We discuss how they address, maintain, and improve data quality, emphasizing the importance of coverage and “freshness” data when solving constantly evolving use cases. Finally, we discuss how data is taxonomized at the company and the challenges that present themselves when producing large-scale ML models, future use cases that Wendy expects her team to tackle, and we briefly explore Merlin, Shopify's new ML platform (that you can hear more about at TWIMLcon!), and how it fits into the broader scope of ML at the company. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/592

We are delighted to be speaking with a legend in our industry today! Steven Foster is the Managing Partner of Foster+Fathom, a Leadership Training and Goodness Alliance in Dallas, Texas. Steven is the author of Full-Throttle Leadership: Passion, Power & Purpose on the Edge of America. He joins us today to tell the incredible story behind his solo motorcycle ride around the perimeter of the US and share some stories about leadership. He also gets into what he has written in his book about passion, power, and purpose and talks about workshops, advisory, and veterans. We hope you enjoy listening to our super-inspiring conversation with Steven Foster today! Bio: Steven G. Foster, CMP, is Managing Partner of Foster+Fathom, a Leadership Training and Goodness Alliance in Dallas, TX. that provides opportunities for organizations and individuals to connect and create meaningful engagement, influence, and impact in the communities where they live, work, and meet.  An award-winning speaker, author, business consultant, and team-builder, Steven is a 32-year member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), where he has served in a variety of leadership roles at both the chapter and global level. In 2004 he was inducted into the MPI Community of Honorees, and in 2022 was named one of MPI's Top 50 Most Influential Members.  Steven also is a Harley-Davidson LIFE Member who took a 13,000-mile solo motorcycle ride around the perimeter of the United States in 2013 to support the Boot Campaign, a national veteran's organization where he serves as an Ambassador and Advisory Board Member. That journey is chronicled in his new book, “Full-Throttle Leadership: Passion, Power & Purpose on the Edge of America.” He also has a “Full-Throttle” resume receiving more than 15 top industry awards. In 2000, Steven and Wendy Foster became the first husband/wife business team to earn the Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation. Both of them have been profiled by CNN/Fortune as a Small Business Success. How Steven got into the meetings and events industry Steven stumbled into the meetings and events industry almost before it became an industry. He was living in Hawaii and working as a journalist when Hawaii State certified tour guides for the first time and offered a series of certifications and classes to train tour guides. Steven's editor selected five reporters to go through the training. One of them got sick, so Steven was sent in his place. To acquire the certification at the end of the training, they had to take a written test and then get onto a bus to give an eight-hour “Circle Island Tour” to 16 proctors who graded them afterward. Steven found it fascinating and started working part-time as a tour guide. He loved it and decided to make a career change several months later.  Acquiring a business Steven met his wife, Wendy, while working at the destination management company where she worked. Wendy eventually left that company to work for a family-owned meeting and event ranch in north Texas. She and Steven then acquired that business. They got a great team together, rebuilt the business to host corporate and association meetings, and ran it for eighteen years. A husband and wife team  Steven and Wendy each had their own strengths and talents and did their best to play to them. When people saw them working together, they saw genuine affection and respect. They focused on growing the business and building a great team and did tons of amazing events!   Learning and growing They learned a lot as business owners. It pushed them to live in their lane and keep growing.  Things he would change Steven tended to move too fast at times. So he did not always share his intended route with the team or thank them enough for all they did. Drawing from his experiences Steven has worked for the best and the worst business leaders, and he learned from all of them! As a business owner, he constantly draws from his experiences as an employee. He also draws from his more than fifty-five years of riding motorcycles. Leadership Steven believes that leaders are not born. They become. That means that leaders should constantly be learning and serving their teams. Lessons from motorcycling Many lessons about leadership are to be learned from motorcycling. One is that leaders cannot constantly stay in the front because there is too much resistance and blowback there, and intense focus is required. So motorcyclists ride in a coordinated and staggered formation, use hand signals to communicate, rotate back into the pod, and allow their wingmen to assume the number one position. Steven's definition of winning Steven's definition of winning in life is moving together, working together, and serving everyone who rides with you every day to do the job you do- whatever it is.  The Boot Campaign In 2010, Steven was introduced to a non-profit veteran's service organization called the Boot Campaign, founded by five Texas women who read a book called Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and wanted to do something to help returning veterans. Steven had also read the book and felt motivated to help returning veterans.  The tagline of the Boot Campaign is: “When they come back, we give back.” A US perimeter ride The grand-daddy of all the rides a real biker would do is the perimeter ride of the US, which takes a minimum of thirty days to complete. In 2011, Steven came up with the idea of doing a US perimeter ride as a fundraiser to raise awareness and support for the Boot Campaign. It took him and a group of bikers about a year to map out the route, and they decided to do the ride in 2013. Over time, however, everyone slowly dropped out, so Steven decided to do the ride alone. Riding alone made the trip much more memorable, and he met some amazing people along the way. Service and sacrifice  Doing the US perimeter ride was the greatest accomplishment of Steven's life! He feels that it changed him fundamentally as a person because it allowed him to see people who were overcoming insurmountable challenges, setbacks, and losses getting up every day saying they wanted to make their piece of the world a better place. Weathering storms A core part of leadership is realizing that you need to constantly be learning and building up your skills so you can weather the storms when things go wrong. Passion, power, and purpose  In his book, Steven talks about passion, power, and purpose as the three lessons of leadership. Passion is about finding the right ride. Power is about fueling the ride with skills and capability. Purpose is the focus of the ride. Be like the Boot Campaign girls Steven encourages everyone to do what the Boot Campaign girls did. They were not in the non-profit space, nor were they professional fundraisers. They just read a book that touched their hearts and decided to do something simple and profound to connect people. They truly understood that to understand somebody, you have to walk a while in their shoes. Connect with Eric On LinkedIn On Facebook On Instagram On Website Connect with Steven Foster On his website   Foster + Fathom on Facebook  Foster + Fathom on LinkedIn  The Boot Campaign:  www.bootcampaign.com or www.bootcampaign.org   Books mentioned: Full-Throttle Leadership: Passion, Power & Purpose on the Edge of America by Steven Foster Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson

This week's guest is Wendy Foster, Director of Engineering & Data Science at Shopify. We discussed applications of data science within Shopify, how they organize their data teams, the lifecycle of a data science project within the company, and how they approach emerging challenges like Responsible AI, large language models, and multimodal models.Download the FREE Report: Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?utm_source=DEpodcastSubscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

AI ethics is often treated as a dry, abstract academic subject. It doesn't have the kinds of consistent, unifying principles that you might expect from a quantitative discipline like computer science or physics. But somehow, the ethics rubber has to meet the AI road, and where that happens — where real developers have to deal with real users and apply concrete ethical principles — is where you find some of the most interesting, practical thinking on the topic. That's why I wanted to speak with Wendy Foster, the Director of Engineering and Data Science at Shopify. Wendy's approach to AI ethics is refreshingly concrete and actionable. And unlike more abstract approaches, it's based on clear principles like user empowerment: the idea that you should avoid forcing users to make particular decisions, and instead design user interfaces that frame AI-recommended actions as suggestions that can be ignored or acted on. Wendy joined me to discuss her practical perspective on AI ethics, the importance of user experience design for AI products, and how responsible AI gets baked into product at Shopify on this episode of the TDS podcast. --- Intro music: - Artist: Ron Gelinas - Track Title: Daybreak Chill Blend (original mix) - Link to Track: https://youtu.be/d8Y2sKIgFWc --- Chapters: - 0:00 Intro - 1:40 Wendy's background - 4:40 What does practice mean? - 14:00 Different levels of explanation - 19:05 Trusting the system - 24:00 Training new folks - 30:02 Company culture - 34:10 The core of AI ethics - 40:10 Communicating with the user - 44:15 Wrap-up

Dr. Stafford is joined by Wendy Foster, the Enrollment Director for Brain Balance Tualatin in the Portland area. Brain Balance is a program dedicated to helping kids of all ages overcome challenges with behavior, academics, and socialization. Topics discussed in this episode: What is the Brain Balance program? The initial intake and assessment process. Some common struggles seen in kids at different stages. How BB can address specific issues. Story behind the owners of the local BB locations. Success story from a local family. Learn more about Brain Balance HERE. You can browse all previous episodes on Anchor and Youtube!

Find out how partnerships can succeed and when they might fail and learn the origin story of the successful partnership between Uber and Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

Find out how partnerships can succeed and when they might fail and learn the origin story of the successful partnership between Uber and Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

Find out how partnerships can succeed and when they might fail and learn the origin story of the successful partnership between Uber and Big Brothers and Big Sisters. The post Ep 89: Nonprofit Partnerships, Mergers, and Acquisitions (with Wendy Foster) appeared first on Joan Garry Nonprofit Leadership.

Julian Campbell talks about family business with Wendy Foster, from Family Business Australia, and discusses the business planning process.

Julian Campbell talks about family business with Wendy Foster, from Family Business Australia, and discusses the business planning process.

Julian Campbell talks to Wendy Foster, from Family Business Australia, and to Christina Gerakiteys.

Julian Campbell talks to Wendy Foster, from Family Business Australia, and to Christina Gerakiteys.

Mental health issues impact a staggering amount of people worldwide and is yet simultaneously one of the most misunderstood topics. The stigma surrounding mental health and the effect it has on us all is enough to fill countless episodes. However, today’s episode is a brief- yet crucial- entry point on how to deal with mental health issues with a guest who knows first hand what it’s like, Wendy Foster. Living with borderline personality disorder, Wendy’s story is truly inspiring. Instead of allowing her mental health to get the best of her, Wendy made a change when she decided she would spend her life advocating on behalf of women’s mental health. Her diagnoses is not uncommon but her tenacity is what truly separates her from the crowd. Too many people not only live with mental illness but refuse to get help due to misunderstandings or fear of what other’s may think or say. There needs to be a shift in how we think and speak about mental health in order to properly address and help those affected. By going out and speaking about this as someone living with her own mental health issues, Wendy  is not only becoming the face of change but the voice for a silent majority. I highly recommend listening to this episode and checking out more from Wendy because this problem impacts so many of us, whether it be personally or through our loved ones.   More info at FrancescaAnastasi.com

Listen in as Wendy Foster shares the power of gratitude, support, and taming the Monkey Mind.

Wendy Foster, President & CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay, discusses engaging and transforming the communities of Massachusetts Bay by helping youth achieve their full potential through professionally supported one-to-one relationships with caring, responsible adults.