Deirdre McGinn is a founder of StepUp StepIn. She is a career and confidence couch for women.

Before setting up StepUp StepIn, she has spent 25 years working in senior roles for big corporations. At the age of 49, she 'redesigned' her life and now she helps women with their confidence, taming their imposter syndrome, building their personal brand through individual and group sessions.

In this episode we spoke about: what is confidence?, why are we lacking confidence?, what are the biggest killers of confidence in our adulthood and what we can do to overcome our self-limiting beliefs.

We touched on shame, perfectionism, comparison, procrastination.... sounds familiar?

If so... press play :)

Janet Lavelle is a HR professional with many years’ experience of working in different HR, People and Talent  roles including Leadership Roles. She has experience in working in startups as well as in bigger international companies. For the last couple of years she has been a Head of People for an IT company and currently she works as a Head of People Operations in Ireland.

In this episode we explored:

1) What is Gender Pay Gap report

2) The Difference between The Gender Pay Gap and Equal Pay

3) The challenges companies are facing and the opportunities companies have in creating more equal work places.

Enjoy 😊

Christina Wallace is a senior lecturer of business administration at the Harvard Business School, a book author, Angel investor, mentor, podcast host and public speaker. She describes herself as human Venn diagram. Christina crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology and arts. In her new book ‘The Portfolio Life', she talks why pouring yourself into a single full time job is the riskiest move you can make and why diversification will help you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.

Christina has been profiled in Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan and was named by Mashable as one of "44 Female Founders to Know" and Refinery29 as one of the "Most Powerful Women in NYC Tech." She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.

In this episode we talked about:

1)    Why we need to pursuit multiple interests and opportunities and not limit ourselves to one career

2)    The benefits of coming out of our comfort zone

3)    The need of redefining a failure and why a failure is an integral part of our progression rather than a mistake