Belonging, it’s a significant key to a thriving workplace. But, for it to take hold, we all need to be bold. In this episode of Bold(h)er, Dr. Rumeet Billan talks to Lisa Bragg about what belonging truly means, why we all need to understand intersectionality and how those labels that we all so quickly put on each other are a trap to genuinely getting to know someone and helping them to thrive.

Join us for part two of Bold Moves: Past, Present and Future of Women In Business. On this episode of Bold(h)er, host Lisa Bragg is joined by leadership coach Jill Proud and Zuly Matallana, a small business owner. They’ll talk about the challenges of running a small business and what those who want to support women in business can do to help.

This next evolution of Bold(h)er aims to bring you professional insights and real advice to fuel progress for your business and your investment decisions. We’re looking at ‘Bold Moves,’ that’s our new tagline for the show. Our first two guests have made bold moves through their careers, and they’re working to ensure current and future entrepreneurs win big with their moves. As Wendy Cukier and Rhona Levine-Ruben tell our host, Lisa Bragg, while their goal is for women entrepreneurs to win, there’s a wider benefit to everyone who invests in this vital demographic.

Jenny Chen was a succesful financial planner, but then did a pivot most people wouldn’t have thought, into a corporate role as a Senior Advisor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for BMO Wealth Management.  

  As she tells Lisa Bragg, her goal is to make a stronger workplace where she would want her daughters to work. 

It’s Lynn Polsuns mission to combat brain-aging disorders. Most research on the brain doesn’t focus on women, but research shows that women are much more affected than men.

In this episode of Bold(h)er, learn about important lifestyle choices that protect your brain health as you age, starting as young as 20.

Keep. Throw out. Work on. Dionne Grayson, founder of Building Your Dreams says, we need to do that inventory from time to time to keep moving ourselves forward. As she tells Bold(h)er host, Lisa Bragg, there’s a life that you’re designed to lead, but you have to give it some help.

Your career is a long game. There are lessons, pivots, losses, wins and maybe some gaps. In this episode of Bold(h)er, BMO’s Chief Human Resources Officer and Head of People & Culture Mona Malone and Dr. Talia Varley of The Cleveland Clinic join Lisa Bragg to talk about the elusive idea that there’s a career path with definitive milestones. Encore presentation. Originally aired June 2021. 

Lisa Mattam named her business after the Hindi word for “intuitive” – Sahajan. Her beauty business is based on Ayurvedic traditions her family and generations before had used. They knew it worked, and Lisa set out to prove those claims with modern science. As she tells Lisa Bragg, her goal is to have a company with sustainability rooted in all of its actions.

When Anu Bidani decided to pivot from her corporate role, she took the leap knowing she had strong leadership skills and a willingness to always be learning. In this episode of Bold(h)er, she tells Lisa Bragg that finding others on a similar journey and building a community was critical to turning her idea into a global enterprise.

Most of the volunteers have quietly retired, but the impact of Vaccine Hunters in Canada is still a high point for many. The volunteer-based organization saw a need to be a beacon in a very chaotic and messy vaccination rollout. Those volunteers are now being recognized for the heroes they are. One of those heroes, Sabrina Craig, sat down with Lisa Bragg for this episode of Bold(h)er.