Leading Female Insider

Lauren is a serial entrepreneur, International Lawyer, Realtor and Cross-Border Expert. Originally from Toronto and now living and serving clients from her headquarters in South Florida, she is also a best-selling author and sought-after speaker. She launched her podcast, Investing Across Borders in November 2020. Real estate investors and entrepreneurs hire her turnkey team as they believe in overcoming obstacles and navigating business and investment opportunities so clients can invest, live, work and play across borders.

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Di Di is the Co-Founder and President of FutureProof Retail, a mobile checkout and order-ahead shopping app. She became an entrepreneur right after finishing her graduate studies at NYU. In this episode she talked about:

- How listening can set you apart from your competition.

Di Di Chan is is a global entrepreneur that's passionate about education, technology, and sustainability. Her mission is to maximize human potential by removing friction in time, aligning profit with value, and paying it forward. She has an MA in Economics from New York University and a BA in Global Studies from University of California, Los Angeles. 

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Susan Adams Loyd - CEO Better Business Bureau for MN and ND is a strategic thinker who has a proven track record of building collaborative teams that deliver stellar results. She has successfully led complex organizations through opportunities and challenges, always developing talented contributors along the way. As well, she has held top-seated positions within industry professional associations and  community non-profits, and is widely regarded as an experienced leader,  media expert, mentor and an accomplished public speaker.

Susan has 3 decades of experience in the Media industry including as the Former VP & General Manager at  CBS, Clear Channel Broadcasting and  Cox Broadcasting. As a lifelong learner, she recently graduated from Harvard University complementing her Graduate Degree from Minnesota  State University and Bachelor Degree from University of Minnesota.

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Becoming a CEO - step by step guide

Raise your hands and take on assignments

Stating aspirations

Hire people smarter than you

Skills that can set you apart and how to develop it

Take calculated risks

Susan Adams Loyd - CEO Better Business Bureau for MN and ND is a strategic thinker who has a proven track record of building collaborative teams that deliver stellar results. She has successfully led complex organizations through opportunities and challenges, always developing talented contributors along the way. As well, she has held top-seated positions within industry professional associations and community non-profits, and is widely regarded as an experienced leader, media expert, mentor and an accomplished public speaker. 

Susan has 3 decades of experience in the Media industry including as the Former VP & General Manager at  CBS, Clear Channel Broadcasting and Cox Broadcasting. As a lifelong learner, she recently graduated from Harvard University complementing her Graduate Degree from Minnesota State University and Bachelor Degree from University of Minnesota. 

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How to negotiate your salary:

- Importance of preparation

- How to frame negotiations that leaves both parties better off

- How to make it a pleasant experience

Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor at the Harvard

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How to be time smart

- What does it mean to be time smart

- Strategies to fund time

- Tips on how to be time smart in your everyday life that cost nothing but saves you a lot of time

- How can Leaders lead the way in creating a time smart environment

- Practical advice on how to create cultural change

Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor at the Harvard

Be open to things you might not thought you are capable of doing or wanted to do - with Darcey Matthews former Senior Managing Director New York Stock Exchange Client Service and Business Development. Today she is the Founder & CEO of The Greenhouse Day Spa.

Darcey is an NYU graduate and has a 30 year experience in Finance and Investor Relations including 9 years with the NYSE working in New York, Europe and Houston.

Tune-in to hear about:

- Be open to opportunities

- Handling the Enron Situation

- Who gets to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange

- How to be an advisor to public companies and influence senior management

- Why is it important to be take on assignments no-one wants to sign up for

- How to use knowledge learned in corporate as an entrepreneur (she recently opened a Spa Business)

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In this episode I am talking to Amanda Latifi who has done it all. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hafta Have which is the only personalized mobile messaging platform that uses offline data to drive conversion for retailers in-store. Her company was selected to be the member of the 2020 cohort of the New York Fashion Tech Lab.

Amanda started to work with brand strategy and consumer behavior with big companies such as McDonalds, SC Johnson, Mars in Chicago and Tech in California before she founded her company.

Tune into this episode to hear about her entrepreneurial journey, a deep dive into how to go from idea to startup, the challenges of starting a company and to be first to market and her take on what it takes to find investors and raise money. You will find this conversation useful regardless the industry you are in, her story is very relatable and her learnings can be applied to other industries as well.

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In this episode, I have a chat with Beatriz Ayala. She is an award-winning Advertising and Communications executive with over 10 years of experience. She was working for global and local agencies including as a Group Account Director for BBDO Puerto Rico. She worked with brands such as Cover Girl, Pantene, Medalla Light, Bacardi, Snickers, M&M’s, Pedigree, and Hyundai for the US Hispanic market, Central America, the Caribbean, and Puerto Rico.

Today she is leading her tech music startup called Musicasa pioneering the future of live entertainment. Musiscasa is a live music platform discovering and exposing undiscovered musicians and connecting them with music lovers through highly intimate concerts both online and offline.  By focusing on community building, they are sparking joyful human connections through the power of live music and live interactions.

Tune into this episode to hear about her biggest learnings of her many years in advertising summed up in a few minutes, the reason why she left corporate and went on a year-long trip around the world and how all this led her to disrupt the music business. We also uncover the secret behind the success of big brands and how can she use her learnings as an entrepreneur and how to find and bring your purpose to life.

2020 was a very challenging year for all of us. As we come to the year end and also to the 3 months milestone of this podcast, I really came to think about the importance of celebrating your wins. Tune into this episode to hear about why is it important to celebrate wins and a sneak peek into the upcoming episode. 

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