Chicks Who Give a Hoot

Maia Bittner is the Co-founder of Pinch was previously the Co-founder and CTO Rocksbox. She's passionate about empowering women in tech. She's an Angel investor in women-owned startups. She was included last year's Forbes 30 under 30 and she runs a brunch called Series XX that connects female investors, engineers, and startups.

In this episode, Maia is sharing how she's created an inclusive hiring system that challenges traditional practices and how her app Pinch is helping minimize income and housing inequality by making good credit accessible to those who rent their homes.

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In this episode, Founder and Executive Director of PERIOD, Nadya Okamoto is sharing all about PERIOD and the key reasons that menstruation is one of the foundational issues in the fight for general equality. She's talking about how her own personal experiences with housing instability led her to start PERIOD, how starting a movement at any age all comes down to passion, and why men need to be just as invested in the conversations around periods.

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Maline is the woman behind Nooma Consulting, which helps adoptive parents better understand their children, giving them a perspective on adoption that is not sold in the media, through agencies, or in orphanages. She helps parents explore the difficult truth that the completion of one family is the loss of another, giving them advice and resources for their journey. She's also the author of several books on adoption.

In this episode, Maline is sharing her extensive knowledge and personal experience around the difficulties of adoption. We're talking about the connections between adoption and human trafficking, the complexities of interracial adoption, and resources that prospective adoptive parents can access when considering adoption.

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Ann Muno has been doing girls' empowerment work for over 20 years. She co-founded Powerful Voices and directs a statewide non-profit called The Justice for Girls Coalition of Washington State. Her articles that capture what works to empower girls have been published in academic and peer-reviewed journals including Social Work in Education, Crime & Delinquency and After School Matters.

In this episode, Ann and I are chatting about the issue of girl's empowerment and what that really means. Ann is sharing her extensive knowledge and experience on how she helps girls realize their power by overcoming a scarcity mindset, redefining what a leader looks like, learning how to have healthy conflict, and letting go of the shame associated with our identities.

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Taylor Morrison is a quasi-creative, communicator, and a change agent. She leads employee engagement at a telematics startup by day, a brand strategy firm and an e-commerce shop by night, advocates for water and sanitation health in her spare time, and writes every moment in between.

In this episode, Taylor and I are chatting about the importance of diversity and representation across industries, the reasons that water and sanitation are women's issues, and how to have hard conversations with people who have opposing views.

Promise Tangeman-Wurzell (and yes, that's her real name) is a graphic designer, certified digital marketing strategist, style curator, and owner of the web design firm, Go Live Hq. She's also the co-founder of Designer Vaca, an annual collaborative vacation for female designers in Palm Springs.

In this episode, Promise is sharing about her business, how she copes with perfectionism and the importance of cultivating a spirit of generosity by giving back.

In this episode, content creator Caroline Lee is sharing about her travels as a humanitarian photographer, her thoughts on the future of social media, and the way that she's helping other photographers use their talents for good.

In this episode, Arielle Estoria is sharing about how being vulnerable in her spoken word poetry is vital to her art, the importance of an arts education, and how a trip to Thailand led her to be involved in a mission to end human trafficking and exploitation.

In this episode, Blythe Hill is sharing about how her fun fashion challenge of wearing a dress everyday in December morphed into an anti-trafficking movement, how she started the Dressember Foundation even through she didn't have a background in nonprofit, and how you can get involved.

In this episode, Sandra Chile is sharing how she uses her wedding photography business to give back to her community and how she encourages her couples to make small intentional choices that create social change for others.