Bold Business Women

We are all much more than one thing. In this episode, Dr. Sarabeth Berk shares her journey of embracing her Hybrid identity and finding ways to support others to do the same. She shares a few tips from her new book "More Than My Title" and helps illuminate a few things that could help others in transition identify how to find their intersection of talents.

Plants with strong healing properties have been gaining support and legality in the US and the world over this past decade! Our guest for this final episode of the season is Heather Jackson, a strong leader of the revolution that is bringing plant medicine back to the public. She is a passionate change-maker and founder of two non-profit companies that focus on reimagining and changing how we think about, talk about, and respond to plant medicine and the people who use it. 

Heather has very personal reasons for being on the front lines of this revolution for legalizing plant medicine and getting these natural ways of healing into the hands of those who desperately need them. In this interview, she shares a little of her business journey on how she got to where she is today and offers many resources and great things to think about if you or someone you love are curious to find out more about these two powerful healing plants. 

https://realmofcaring.org

https://unlimitedsciences.org  

Emotional Intelligence, Rites of Passage, Creating Safe Spaces with music! In this episode, we talk about some of the business aspects of being a musician with Marya Stark. As a music therapist, Marya has worked with at risk youth, addiction recovery, mental health, hospice, autism, and many other special needs communities. She has also been a performing musician and active in theatre.

Her list on how to be a bold business woman is;  (1. Ask for what I want  (2. Say no regularly (3. Don't take others' upset at my 'NO' personally (4. Prioritize self care - because that will make me the most powerful version of me.  She encourages women everywhere to become familiar with their cycles and keep a womb journal, just write a word or few sentences about how your womb feels every day for a full month. By listening to your body, your power and joy will show itself to you in greater and clearer ways than you may have imagined. 

Marya is now offering online courses called "Voice of my womb" and "Honoring the losses of the Womb" at www.rosebardacademy.com 

You can also learn more about her at www.marya-stark.com and enjoy her music on www.spotify.com 

This is a short 12 minute episode recorded at the Denver Startup Week 2019. Enjoy a montage of women's voices speaking about what it is to claim the description of being a bold business woman. Refreshing to hear, so many people shared that is it much more about supporting each other than all the "have no fear" concepts of boldness!

Here is a short list of some of the women I spoke with and their businesses for you to check out:

Ronee Hagen has been a global leader in the industrial marketplace for over 25 years. She speaks about her career as "more of a jungle-gym than a path," possibly because she married and raised two wonderful boys before starting, growing and selling her first company, then taking the position of CEO at Polymer Group at the age of 50. "Age wise, I was pre-Title 9, just before Affirmative Action... people cared much more about how I was going to do business than what I was going to do." 

In this conversation, Ronee shares her insights and stories from inside global executive leadership roles and attributes much to embracing diverse thoughts and ideas in the workplace. "People respond to calm, confident leaders who are value-based." 

Learn more of how she continues to forge new pathways for gender diversity in executive leadership with the company Paradigm for Parity.

Dr. Nicole Gravagna is a translator between technical and scientific understandings of the brain and the practical application of learning and growth within the corporate workplace. As a Neuroscientist, Writer and Entrepreneur, she founded the company NeuroEQ to deliver swift insights and procedures to predict and develop behaviors in employees, teams and candidates.

Dr. Annie Bruns is a researcher and educator motivated by questions at the intersection of mental health and technology. She teaches at CU Boulder and encourages her students to do media fasts, track their emotional and mental response to such regulation, and challenge the norm of addicted behaviors concerning technology.

In this interview Annie shared several ideas and options to begin self study or self-inquiry practices if you are curious about a media fast or other options to help regulate your mental health through the lease of how technology may be impacting your life balance!

"Lean in. It doesn't have to be a lot, just start to lean in and life will reveal itself."

Rachel Euser is a Global Producer with a credit list in 30 countries spanning every continent. She has enjoyed a successful career as producer and director in television, music, documentary film and live events including multiple Olympic Games. Always open to adventure and growth, Rachel shares stories from the road and thoughts on how production is great training ground for both motherhood and being a therapist or coach.

Lisa Lewis is a Career Pivot and Courageous Living Coach who shares with us her journey of discovering that the life of "golden handcuffs" was not for her, and how she found her passion for life again after the many start-and-stops that often accompany a big life change.