Conversations with Seven Sisters

On this episode of Conversations with Seven Sisters we are joined by Katrina McGhee (Smith College ℅ ‘01), a Career Break Coach, to discuss finding the right career for you, her own career break, the challenges of writing a book, and why you should take a career break too. 

Katrina is a Career Break & Sabbatical Fairy Godmother here to make your dreams come true. She is a certified master coach with an MBA, who help 9-5ers create successful, mind-blowing career breaks and fight through the fear of breaking from their conventional career paths to create a life that brings fulfillment, joy, adventure or whatever they are craving.

You can check out Katrina's coaching resources here.

Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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Seven Sisters Colleges are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

Join us this week on Conversations with Seven Sisters for a discussion with Reshma Saujani, who you may recognize from her work as the founder of Girls Who Code and currently the CEO of Moms First (formerly Marshall Plan for Moms), to learn more about how you can use your powers and advantages to support moms. Reshma shares about how she found her passion of supporting women and moms and has channeled that into her very successful non-profit ventures. She also discusses how now, more than ever, we need young people to enter government and how you can find different ways to support the causes you care about. 

We hope you enjoy listening to Resham and Jen chat about all things motherhood, supporting moms, and the current state of reproductive rights. 

Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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Seven Sisters Colleges are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

This week on Conversations with Seven Sisters,  Jennifer Pollock McNally, the Seven Sisters Founder & Smith Class of 94, is interviewed by fellow Smithie, Montserrat Coughlin Kim (Smith College ℅ ‘94).  Jen & Montse talk about all things Seven Sisters - how it started, what is new, how to get involved and what is on the agenda in the future.   We also learn about the origin of everyone's favorite verb, "Seven Sistering", Jen's first couple jobs out of college & how this podcast got started.

Montserrat is a published children's book author and founder of When a Dragon Comes. When a Dragon Comes is an independent publisher focusing on children's books about cancer and death. Montserrat oversees all aspects of book development, design, production, distribution, and marketing.  Learn more at www.whenadragoncomes.org.

A huge thanks to Montse for helping all of us learn something new about Jen & the Seven Sisters Alum Association.

Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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Seven Sisters Colleges are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

This week on Conversation with Seven Sisters we are honored to celebrate the Fourth of July with Becca Balint, D-VT, the first woman and openly LGBTQ+ person to represent VT in Congress.

She received her BA from Smith College, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Becca earned her masters in education from Harvard University in 1995 and her MA in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2001.

Rep. Becca Balint is a mom, teacher, and progressive leader who comes to Washington ready to fight for working families. As the daughter of a working-class mother and immigrant father, Becca is deeply committed to defending American democracy and protecting vulnerable communities.
 
Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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Seven Sisters Colleges are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

This week on Conversation with Seven Sisters we hear from Dorie Clark (Smith College ℅ ‘97) who you may know as a multifaceted author, marketing expert, coach, and speaker. Dorie’s most recent book, The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world, is all about how we can break past the fast paced nature of today’s work culture and stay focused on our long term growth goals. Dorie also wrote Stand Out, Reinventing  You, and Entrepreneurial You. 

Dorie attended Smith College at the young age of 16 and studied philosophy before attending Harvard Divinity School for a Masters of Theological Studies. She currently resides in Miami, Florida where she enjoys the sun and avoids the alligators. 

Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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Seven Sisters Colleges are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

On today’s episode of Conversations with Seven Sisters we have Valerie Kay (Vassar ℅ ‘89), a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, who shares advice on how to get your career started, being your own CEO and being intentional with your career. Valerie shares about how her career on Wall Street got started with an ad in the paper, being a woman in finance in the ‘90’s, and developing her personal brand. 

Valerie Kay has been working at Morgan Stanley for over 25 years in a variety of roles leading up to her role as a Managing Director of the International Securities Group. She lives in New York City with her husband, two daughters, and two big dogs. While at Vassar she played rugby, got involved in the community, and studied economics. 

Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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Seven Sisters Colleges are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

This week on Conversations with Seven Sisters Shastia Azulay (recent ℅ 2023 Smith graduate) tells us all about how she saw immense food waste problem on campus and found a way to use her resources as a student to combat it. She founded the Food Rescue Network that has successfully donated over $25,000 worth of meals to local shelters in Northampton. She discusses how she does it, how you can get involved in the food waste movement, and much more about her time at Smith and beyond. 

Interested in learning more about the Food rescue Network at Smith or potentially assisting with funding this program?  Find Shastia on IG and message here there: @smithfoodrescue

Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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Seven Sisters Colleges are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

This episode of Conversations with Seven Sisters Amy Walsh (Vassar ℅ ‘87) shares about her career trajectory starting as a philosophy major at Vassar, going to Fordham Law, working in the Southern District of New York as a young lawyer and eventually making her way to partner of an international law firm. This episode is filled with interesting stories of cases ranging from violent homicides, to the Theranos case, to a Voting Rights case. 

Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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Seven Sisters Colleges are Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.

This week on Conversations with Seven Sisters Jen recaps her weekend at the Smith College reunion and discusses the value of connecting with your fellow alums, seeing campus changes, and how reunions are a  great way to get involved with the community.

Here is the article on Maya Lin and the new Smith Library

Did you attend a Seven Sisters College?  Want to learn more about the Seven Sisters Alum Association?  We have over 80,000 Seven Sisters Alums and Undergrads connecting on our platform.

Click here to visit our website (www.sevensistersalum.com). On the website you will find our Seven Sisters Small Business Directory, links to our over 70 Facebook groups, our Merch Shop and more! Our Seven Sisters Job Board on FB has over 18,000 members, click here to join! 

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This week on Conversations with Seven Sisters Lori L. Tharps (Smith College ℅ 94) shares her story starting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to her current home in Malaga, Spain! Lori and Jen discuss what drew her to Smith, pursuing a career in journalism, balancing kids and writing, living as a Black woman in Spain, and much more.    

Lori L. Tharps is a Smith graduate as well as a journalist, author and creative writing coach whose work lands at the intersection of race and popular culture. She is the author of three critically acclaimed non-fiction books that deal with race, culture and identity; Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America (St. Martin’s), Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain (Atria), and her most recent, Same Family Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families (Beacon). Lori is also the author of the novel, Substitute Me (Atria).

In 2021, Lori moved with her family to the south of Spain and she now works full time as a creative writing coach and the host of the Read, Write and Create podcast and blog.

You can check out all of the literary resources on the Read Write Create website at ReadWriteandCreate.com.

You can listen to the Read Write Create podcast on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.

And you can follow Lori for more literary news and opportunities on Instagram @LoriLTharps and on Twitter @ReadWriteCre8

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