Breaking Glass

Jeffery started his career in human resources and sales but pivoted when he realized that if he was not advocating for women’s issues at work, then he was not shaping the world that his daughter would inherit. Since then, Jeffery has built yWomen, a consulting firm with deep expertise on creating space at the table for women in corporate America. He addresses questions of his white male privilege head on, shares how he's leveraging his position to invite more men to be better advocates for women, and reflects on how companies benefit from gender diversity across all levels. 

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Carol Fishman Cohen is an expert on helping mid-career professionals - the vast majority of whom are women - relaunch their careers after extended breaks. The global pandemic and its crippling impact on the female workforce has made Carol's expertise especially valuable to women. Carol’s story starts more than two decades ago when she stepped out of a successful finance career to raise her children. More than ten years later she navigated the complex path of rebuilding her career and ultimately pivoted to founding a company specifically focused on helping other women do the same. We're talking about what women can do to relaunch their careers, how to advocate for ourselves in the workplace and what we can do to resuscitate our careers after COVID. 

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Suzi Weiss-Fischmann's parents were Holocaust survivors and her country of birth was overrun by the oppressive communist party of the 1960s. There was nothing easy about her origin story. Suzi fled Hungary as a child and capitalized on the American Dream to become co-founder of one of the largest beauty corporations in the world, OPI. Having built a billion dollar company, Suzi reflects on a lifetime at the top of the beauty industry and its complex relationship to the unattainable beauty standards of American society. She shares her journey of moving from immigrant to CEO, the lessons she's learned about female leadership, and how she's trying to pay it forward.

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Tena Clark has never been one to question her own integrity. A songwriter and producer with one of the most impressive careers in the music industry, Tena's story starts in rural Mississippi where she embraced her own sexual identity and defied tradition, her family, and gender boundaries to pursue a career as a female drummer and live her most authentic life. In this episode we explore the male mentors who shaped Tena's career before there were many women in the music industry, the confidence she cultivated in her identity and her talent, and the ceilings she shattered as a female music producer. She's sharing her journey through music to activism and the works she's doing today to end violence against women.

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Ifrah Ahmed's childhood was fraught with violence. There were no educational opportunities for young girls, there was only survival. Against this backdrop of instability, Ifrah was one of hundreds of millions of girls worldwide who endured female genital mutilation (FGM). She was a teen when she fled the country alone and resettled as a refugee in Ireland. Connected with medical professionals and free from cultural expectation, Ifrah navigated the complex journey of becoming a global advocate to eradicate the world of FGM. She shares her struggles straddling two disparate cultures, how she's building trust among other refugees in Ireland, and what it looks like on the ground to change a deeply ingrained cultural practice so that girls or women no longer have to endure being cut against their will.

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Robert Egnell is an unassuming feminist. Vice-Chancellor of the Swedish Defence University, Robert is internationally renowned for his expertise in women in combat and gender in the military. Based in Sweden, he shares his perspective on gender neutral conscription, the implications of integrating women into the armed forces, as well as the complex relationship between strength, masculinity, and gender in the military.  Not one to shy away from hard questions and uncomfortable situations, Robert shares his perspective on white male privilege and how he leverages his access to move the needle toward gender equity wherever possible. 

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A decade ago, Erin Loos Cutraro founded She Should Run, a nonpartisan nonprofit encouraging women from all walks of life to run for public office. Today, her work is even more relevant and timely than ever before. Erin shares the great strides we have made as a nation to lift up women to public office, the long way we have yet to go to achieve equity and representation in our government, and why it all matters so much. 

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A problem solver and entrepreneur, Tina Hay believes that every woman should have a strong foundation in financial literacy. Money touches every aspect of our life - from relationships to health to job opportunity - and as the Founder of Napkin Finance Tina has dedicated her career to making financial literacy resources available to more than 80 million households. Today, we're unraveling the connections between financial literacy and gender dynamics while exploring Tina's own journey as a female entrepreneur in the finance industry.

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Dr. Agnes Binagwaho did the unimaginable and returned to her home country of Rwanda just 2 years after the mass genocide of one million Tutsis. An outsider in her home country, Dr. Binagwaho worked tirelessly to save lives and was eventually appointed Minister of Health. A pediatrician by training, she has spent the past 25 years rebuilding the Rwandan health care system from the ground up, ultimately achieving some of the highest rates of pediatric vaccinations anywhere in the world. One of the only women at the table, Dr. Binagwaho shares her story of innovation and social service, how she's shifting her focus to transform gender equity in global health education.

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For decades, a scarcity of opportunity created a culture of women undercutting each other to ascend. But what happens when women support each other and create community in order to push forward? They become stronger, more influential, and open spaces for more women to join the movement. In this conversation, best-selling author and philanthropist, Angella Nazarian talks about the benefits and need for women to empower and supporting other women. Angella is a first generation American who is not afraid of hard work. Raised by her siblings before her parents were able to join them in the United States, Angella's feminist values belie her conservative Iranian roots. She's sharing her personal struggle to find female role models and how she's leaning into the energy of women empowering women as she carves her own path.

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