Podcasts about witchsy

All the things we love on the internet — from websites that give us information to services that connect us — are made stronger when their creators come with different points of view. With this in mind, we asked ourselves and our guests: "What would the internet look like if it was built by mostly women?" Witchsy founders Kate Dwyer and Penelope Gazin start us off with a story about the stunt they had to pull to get their site launched — and counter the sexist attitudes they fought against along the way. Brenda Darden Wilkerson recalls her life in tech in the 80s and 90s and shares her experience leading AnitaB.org, an organization striving to get more women hired in tech. Coraline Ada Ehmke created the Contributor Covenant, a voluntary code of conduct being increasingly adopted by the open source community. She explains why she felt it necessary, and how it's been received; and Mighty Networks CEO Gina Bianchini rolls her eyes at being called a "lady CEO," and tells us why diversifying the boardroom is great for business and innovation. IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla, maker of Firefox and always fighting for you. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org Help us dream up the next season of IRL. What topics should we cover? Who should we talk to? Let us know by filling out this survey. Coraline Ada Ehmke has been an open source programmer for over 20 years and created the Contributor Covenant. You can also learn about Mozilla's own community participation guidelines. Meritocracy as an open source practice is briefly mentioned in this episode. Mozilla has taken steps to discontinue using the word “Meritocracy” as a way to describe our governance and leadership structures. Here's why. Mozilla is dedicated to fostering both an inclusive web and also inclusive working places. Learn more. Firefox is open source and driven by a community of volunteers and contributors. However, in the past decade, representation of women in open source has inched up merely 1.5 percentage points to a shockingly low 3%. Read about the importance of — and efforts to realize — open source gender inclusion. Like society, the Internet grows stronger with every new voice. What's healthy and unhealthy on the web when it comes to inclusion? Mozilla Foundation's Internet Health Report has some of the answers. And, check out this article from Common Sense Media, on kids and technology use.

Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer talk to Natasha and Erin about the moments of difficulty that triggered their decision to become entrepreneurs. They started Witschy, a marketplace for artists, in part as a way to move on from personal struggle. And the site is highly personal for the co-founders—a curated extension of their mutual tastes. Gazin and Dwyer discuss their entrepreneurial philosophy and tell the story of how they built an Etsy competitor that became cash flow positive with hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue in the first year.

Kate Dwyer and Penelope Gazin are musicians, artists and co-founders of the online marketplace Witchsy.com. They talk to Brent and Doug about making art, being in bands, growing up with creative parents, their fake male co-founder, Keith Mann and lots of other stuff! Also, Doug gets busted for farting :( See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Penelope Gazin & Kate Dwyer, founders of Witchsy, stop by to talk creating a fake male identity to bypass blatant misogyny while building their business... and MORE!

Small Business America with Gene and John (two guys from Philly). 09-20-2017 (Photo: English: Samuel Luke Fildes - The Empty Chair, engraving of a water color (The Graphic, 1870) Date 1870 http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/fildes/drawings/7.htm)) Twitter: @SmallBusinessAmerica The Start-up Partner Named Keith Who Doesn't Exist. @GeneMarks @Batchelorshow @SmallBusinessAmerica @WashingtonPost "Keith is the co-founder of Los Angeles-based start-up Witchsy — a cool and quirky online store for illustrations, pins and patches made by artisans and craft makers. Keith’s kind of a dude’s dude. You know what I mean — the guy who played football in college and is now devoted to his wife of five years and can’t wait to be a dad. A real good guy. Except Keith doesn’t exist. He’s just a guy made up by the two real and female co-founders of Witchsy, Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer. Why would these two women create a fake guy to be their “co-founder?” To get people to respond to their calls and emails — and to get some respect. “It was very clear no one took us seriously and everybody thought we were just idiots,” Gazin told Quartz. But when “Keith” contacted collaborators, Gazin says, “they’d be like ‘Okay, bro, yeah, let’s brainstorm!’ ”…" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2017/09/01/these-two-female-entrepreneurs-created-a-fake-man-so-people-would-return-their-messages/?utm_term=.795b217ab712

Ophira Eisenberg, Bil Dwyer, Tom Bell and Holly Burn join host, Dave Holmes for vigilante justice stories, truly awful Doctor Who-inspired music, and first world problem-solving. Ophira Eisenberg wants to plug Ask Me Another on NPR and recommends Swing Time by Zadie Smith. Bil Dwyer wants to plug The Lying Bell and recommends Witchsy.com. Tom Bell wants to plug the fact that he and David Bowie have the same birthday and recommends The Groundhog Day Musical. Holly Burn wants to plug @HollyBurnComedy and recommends Brian Gitton's comedy . And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes and hosts his live quiz show, The Friday Forty at LA’s Meltdown Theatre on the second Friday of every month. Dave would like to recommend Gem and Dixie by Sara Zarr. You can let us know what you think of International Waters and suggest guests through our Facebook group or on Twitter. Written by John-Luke Roberts and Riley Silverman, recorded at MaxFunHQ in LA and GuiltFreePost in London, produced by Jennifer Marmor, Christian Dueñas, and Laura Swisher.

Kate Dwyer of Witchsy.com joins to tell us about being your own dream girl, her best dating strategies and answers listener questions. Kate wrote the theme song for this podcast, "I can't," under her band Feeling Feelings. Hear the bonus episode with Kate at patreon.com/vsingle. Leave us a voicemail or text us a question for the next episode at 323-435-6919. You can follow Witchsy at @shopwitchsy on Instagram. Follow us: @vsinglepodcast, @JustAboutGlad, @AlexandraTweten, @ByeFelipe. Find Alexandra’s book, “Bye Felipe” wherever books are sold.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/v-single/donationsWant to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.