Confident

Welcome to the Confident podcast with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. Season 5 brings us more conversations with fierce female leaders. We’ll be tackling a range of career readiness and leadership topics ranging from defining your career purpose to leveraging your superpowers, and exploring key questions, like, is it okay to cry in the boardroom?

Nadia Hashimi is a pediatrician turned bestselling author who draws on her Afghan culture to craft internationally bestselling books for adults as well as young readers. Her novels span generations and continents, taking on themes like forced migration, conflict, poverty, misogyny, colonialism, and addiction. With translations in seventeen languages, she’s connected with readers around the world. She is also the co-founder of the Afghan-American Foundation and an advocate for women & girls in Afghanistan.

https://nadiahashimibooks.com/

Follow to amplify Afghan women’s voices-

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https://www.instagram.com/afghanwomenstrong/?hl=en

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

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Welcome to the Confident podcast with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. Season 5 brings us more conversations with fierce female leaders. We’ll be tackling a range of career readiness and leadership topics ranging from defining your career purpose to leveraging your superpowers, and exploring key questions, like, is it okay to cry in the boardroom?

This month, Sheri and Olivia discuss visualizing your own outcomes with Katie Fischer, Managing Director at Daversa Partners.

Katie Fischer is a Managing Director at Daversa Partners, a strategic talent partner of choice for founders, venture capital, and private equity-backed companies.

Katie has built teams in healthcare, defense tech, fintech, insurtech, crypto, gaming, cybersecurity, climate and clean tech, ecommerce and edtech. 

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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Welcome to the Confident podcast with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. Season 5 brings us more conversations with fierce female leaders. We’ll be tackling a range of career readiness and leadership topics ranging from defining your career purpose to leveraging your superpowers, and exploring key questions, like, is it okay to cry in the boardroom?

This month, Sheri and Olivia assembled a focus group of high school and college women to unpack what’s going on at the intersection of social media and mental health. The conversation will help you better understand how girls are using social media, the challenges they face, and the strategies they use to navigate these challenges. Be sure also to check out our list of helpful resources.

SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157180971/10-things-to-know-about-how-social-media-affects-teens-brains

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-bold-glamour-filter-ai-mental-health/

FOR PARENTS - SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/social-media

https://ifstudies.org/blog/new-tools-to-help-parents-navigate-teens-social-media-use

https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/social-media-advice-hub2/

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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Welcome to the Confident podcast with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. Season 5 brings us more conversations with fierce female leaders. We’ll be tackling a range of career readiness and leadership topics ranging from defining your career purpose to leveraging your superpowers, and exploring key questions, like, is it okay to cry in the boardroom?

This International Women’s Day we are taking a mental health break with Mental Wellness Practitioner, Humanitarian, Author, Life Coach, Herbalist, Yogini and founder of Serenity For Mothers, Nyeesha D. Williams.

About Our Guest:

Nyeesha’s twenty years of experience in women’s health, clinical research, consulting, trauma release, and urban community risk mitigation shines through in her newest book titled, “Forgiveness: Overcome Emotional Trauma, Heal Relationships And Find Inner Peace In Just 8 Simple Steps”.

SHOW NOTES:

https://www.nyeeshawilliams.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/serenityformothers/about/

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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Welcome to the Confident podcast with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. Season 5 brings us more conversations with fierce female leaders. We’ll be tackling a range of career readiness and leadership topics ranging from defining your career purpose to leveraging your superpowers, and exploring key questions, like, is it okay to cry in the boardroom?

Today we discuss the question “How do we fix the ‘broken rung”?” with Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and the Founder of RISE Career Launch, Dr. Gail Ayala Taylor. Dr. Taylor is a career-readiness expert on a mission to build the pipeline of tomorrow’s diverse business leaders by giving talented individuals from underrepresented groups the tools and strategies to launch and accelerate their careers.

SHOW NOTES:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gailataylor/

https://www.risecareerlaunch.com/

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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Welcome to season 4 of Confident with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. This season, we’ll be talking with some fierce female leaders about things we care about, including the gender gap and social justice. We hope these conversations will spark your passion and sense of agency to affect positive change. Are you ready?

Today we sit down with Helen Fanucci, an MIT-trained engineer with over 25-years on the front lines at top tech companies including Apple, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Microsoft. She hosts the Love Your Team podcast and is now the best-selling author of the Love Your Team book released last month.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenfanucci/

DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION? Visit www.golivegirl.org/what-do-you-care-about to submit a question YOU want us to answer on an upcoming episode. 

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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Welcome to season 4 of Confident with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. This season, we’ll be talking with some fierce female leaders about things we care about, including the gender gap and social justice. We hope these conversations will spark your passion and sense of agency to affect positive change. Are you ready?

In this episode of Confident, Sheri and Olivia talk to Fraidy Reiss about the reasons behind #ChildMarriage, the challenges it poses, and the progress made in ending it across the U.S.

Child marriage, or marriage before 18, was legal in all 50 U.S. states as of 2017. Thanks to Unchained’s relentless advocacy, that is changing.

Delaware and New Jersey in 2018 became the first two states to end this human rights abuse, followed by American Samoa in 2018, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania and Minnesota in 2020, Rhode Island and New York in 2021 and Massachusetts in 2022.

About Our Guest:

Fraidy Reiss is the Founder of Unchained At Last, the only nonprofit in the US dedicated to helping women and girls escape arranged/forced marriages. Through Unchained, Fraidy has helped hundreds of survivors across the U.S. to escape forced marriages, and she now leads a growing national movement to end child marriage in every U.S. state and at the federal level.

https://www.unchainedatlast.org/

@unchainedatlast

DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION? Visit www.golivegirl.org/what-do-you-care-about to submit a question YOU want us to answer on an upcoming episode. 

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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Welcome to season 4 of Confident with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. This season, we’ll be talking with some fierce female leaders about things we care about, including the gender gap and social justice. We hope these conversations will spark your passion and sense of agency to affect positive change. Are you ready?

This week we sit down with author of "A Hundred Other Girls', Iman Hariri-Kia.

About Our Guest: 

This week we sit down with Iman Hariri-Kia, an Iranian-American, New York-based writer, editor, author, activist, and musician. A 2017 recipient of the Annabelle Bonner Medal and a nationally acclaimed journalist, having been published in Vogue, Teen Vogue, Bustle, HuffPost, and other outlets. Her debut novel, A HUNDRED OTHER GIRLS, was published in July to critical acclaim.

https://www.imanharirikia.com/about

DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION? Visit www.golivegirl.org/what-do-you-care-about to submit a question YOU want us to answer on an upcoming episode. 

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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Welcome to season 4 of Confident with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. This season, we’ll be talking with some fierce female leaders about things we care about, including the gender gap and social justice. We hope these conversations will spark your passion and sense of agency to affect positive change. Are you ready?

This week we discuss closing the pay gap with CEO of the National Association of Colleges and Employers, Shawn VanDerziel.

ABOUT OUR GUEST: Shawn VanDerziel is the CEO of the National Association of Colleges and Employers. He leads the association of 14k+ professionals at more than 3,100 employing organizations and educational institutions engaged in the career development and employment of college students and alumni. He regularly presents on trends and issues in the employment market for new college graduates, including career readiness, internships, and recruiting strategies.

[I was recently reading an article in the Wall Street Journal “Gender Pay Gap Opens Early”, and my old college friend Shawn VanDerziel’s name was all over it…]

LEARN MORE:

https://www.naceweb.org/

DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION? Visit www.golivegirl.org/what-do-you-care-about to submit a question YOU want us to answer on an upcoming episode. 

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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Welcome to season 4 of Confident with me, Sheri West, and my fearless daughter, Olivia. This season, we’ll be talking with some fierce female leaders about things we care about, including the gender gap and social justice. We hope these conversations will spark your passion and sense of agency to affect positive change. Are you ready?

This week we discuss being the change you want to see with fearless Gen Z leaders of the organization, Women In Politics.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS:

ABOUT WOMEN IN POLITICS: Founded by Rebecca Joseph, Women in Politics grew exponentially after a viral TikTok took the mission world wide. Women In politics strives to ensure that politics is a tangible career path.

Rebecca Joseph is a 16-year-old high school senior located in California. She founded Women In Politics in May of 2020 during her first year of high school. Rebecca found her passion for politics through her high school Speech and Debate team and is now dedicated to serving her community. 

Katherine Bronov is is a 19-year-old sophomore at American University in Washington D.C where she studies political science and international relations. She serves as the Co-Executive Director of Women In Politics (WIP), a non-partisan organization dedicated to making politics a tangible career path for young women. 

LEARN MORE:

https://womeninpolitics.co

https://www.instagram.com/womeninpolitics_/

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DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION? Visit www.golivegirl.org/what-do-you-care-about to submit a question YOU want us to answer on an upcoming episode. 

As always, stay true to yourself, stay kind, stay confident and show up as your best self every day!

Connect with us on social media @goLiveGirl and be sure to subscribe, rate, review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Read Sheri’s blog post on the story and launch of Confident! 

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