Join us as we talk getting motivated, staying focused and overcoming obstacles! Our guests are Olivia Knox & Megan Toratone who organized the North Shore BLM March, The James Family and Rob and Amy Mansfield from Grassroots.

Join us for a very special Girls Rising Virtual Connect LIVE! as we chat with 2015 The Voice Contestant, Tonya Boyd Cannon and Sr. Director, Strategic Audio + Vertical Marketing at Pandora, Lauren Williams. We will also be joined by Glen Cove High School Class of ‘18 graduate for a real and honest discussion about women thriving and surviving in today's racially charged and troubled climate. We welcome everyone to please join us and listen.

Today we sit down with Suzanne Westenhoefer and if there is one thing Suzanne does is tell the truth and the truth is that life is funny, especially when it’s fermented in Suzanne’s mind. She also happens to be a very generous treasure trove of life experience. A trailblazer who started doing stand-up in the 1990s, she was the first openly lesbian comedian with an HBO Special and the first openly lesbian comedian on “Late Night with David Letterman.” As only Suzanne can do, she takes us from damsels in distress to Karen Carpenter to how female performers will change the world! So join us as the conversation goes on and off the rails. Suzanne wouldn't have it any other way!

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On today's podcast, Cathy Henderson, Antigone Risings lead guitar player by night, roving pod caster by day, spends some time with Marla Kaplowitz.  

Although soon leaving to become President and CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (also known as the 4A's). Marla has been the CEO of MEC North America (the fifth largest media agency network in the world) since 2011. 

So listen along as this titan of industry shares some laughs, experience and golden nuggets of hard earned wisdom such as “focus not only on where you are in the moment but where you want to go”. 

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Today we have a special podcast recorded at 3rd and Lindsley, one of Nashville's premier live music venues and host to our 2017 Girls Rising benefit concert. Backstage, Cathy Henderson (lead guitar player for Antigone Rising), gets into sound production and engineering with Kathy Mac. With a few decades in the music industry, Kathy Mac has seen it all. From playing bass with her chart topping, ground breaking, all female country band Wild Rose to major sound design and install as an engineer for Prince at Paisley Park. Enjoy as the 2 Cathy's talk shop.

Today Cathy, Dena, Nini and Kristen from Antigone Rising talk with former NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman while sitting in the tour van outside of The Iron Horse Music Hall. Cady shares her experiences and journey to space and beyond! Among topics we discuss are her inspiration to become an astronaut, gender bias discrimination and not giving up, how we learn from those that came before us and how mistakes aren't always a bad thing. For more visit us at www.girlsrising.org.