Organize Your Butterflies

In this week's episode, we are joined by Business Development Manager in Amazon Logistics Kimberly Hill. We discuss the importance of human resource management and hiring the right employees to get the job done. We also provide tips to help entrepreneurs learn about creative ways to employ staff on a budget, and learn how to build teams to start running dream businesses.

Personal money management is complicated but entirely necessary for ambitious women who struggle to maintain their homes and families while also building a sustainable business. This episode provides a plan for getting started on the right path to managing finances and meeting short and long term financial goals. We are joined by experts LaPiere Carby, Financial Advisor at Northwestern Mutual and Angel Rich, Founder and CEO of The Wealth Factory.

YWCA USA CEO Alejandra Y. Castillo sits down for an engaging conversation with Mónica Ramirez, who is the Gender Justice Campaigns Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance and President of Justice for Migrant Women. During this interview, they discuss the fight to end gender-based violence and promote gender justice. Mónica shares her story and legacy as the daughter and granddaughter or migrant farmworkers, who taught her that every person has value and is important. She shares her determination to uplift communities and build power, how she ended up creating her dream job, and her belief that by focusing on what is right … we can build the world of our dreams.

This episode discusses landing your first check during the start-up stage and operating a successful business by understanding revenue basics. This includes debunking myths about financial options that are available to help entrepreneurs start, manage, and grow their business. This episode features a guest interview with Dee Claxton, director of the DC Women's Business Center.

As a blueprint to starting a business, this episode will help aspiring women turn their innovative ideas into successful startups. From registration requirements to branding basics, listeners will be prepared to begin an exciting experience as a business owner. This session will discuss six easy steps to help the audience plan, prepare and launch their dream business. This episode features guest interviews with Margarita Dilone, Chairman of the Board, Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and President/CEO, Crystal Insurance Group and with Bridgett Gagné, CEO, Gagné Associates CPAs PLLC and Co-Founder, Not Your Average Bean Counter (NYABC).

Former XM Radio Talk Show Host, Blanche Williams, earned her reputation as a gifted communicator, debating current issues and topics from a woman's perspective. She has conducted one-on-one interviews with extraordinary women including Dr. Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, Laila Ali, Kerry Washington, Charles Osgood, Quincy Jones and more. Williams is also the Founder and Moderator of the National Black Women's Town Hall, Inc., which was established in 2008 with its inaugural meeting in association with Dr. Dorothy Height. Listen to YWCA USA CEO Alejandra Castillo and Williams share the importance of the Sisterhood of Greatness, paying it forward and how meeting Dr. Dorothy Height helped design this podcast.

In this episode of "Organize Your Butterflies," YWCA USA CEO Alejandra Castillo holds a delightful conversation with Valerie Jarrett, former Barack Obama Administration Senior Advisor and Author of "Finding My Voice." Jarrett chronicles her journey from growing up in Iran, to returning to the U.S. and finding her inner voice as a student, a single mother, a private lawyer and influential player in the West Wing. They also discuss politics in Chicago, the importance of being an advocate and mentoring, women in particular—among them First Lady Michelle Obama.

In July 2008, the first annual National Black Women's Town Hall (NBWTH) meeting convened at the historical headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C. Dr. Dorothy Height invited NBWTH founder Blanche Williams, with whom she had previously worked with on The Souls of Black Girls, a film about the media impact on the self-esteem of Black women and girls, to her office to chat. Williams was feeling anxious and nervous about this first-of-its-kind, sold-out, standing-room-only event, which was being covered by C-SPAN for a national audience and featured panelists that had flown in from across the country. Seeing this, Dr. Height – a civil rights icon, longtime leader in the fight for women's rights and racial justice, and advisor to U.S. presidents – gave Williams this profound advice: "All you need to do is organize your butterflies." As Williams tells it, once Height imparted this piece of wisdom, it was "as simple as that... The nervousness didn't go away, but it sort of was shifted and it became more of an energy and more of a commitment for me to make sure that this was something that she was proud of...You organize those butterflies and you continue to get it done." Dr. Height, well known for her leadership role with the YWCA and the National Council of Negro Women, was one of our nation's most fierce and steadfast advocates for civil rights and gained notoriety in pioneering the intersection of gender and race activism within the civil rights movement. We are thrilled to honor Dr. Dorothy Height, one of our great leaders, by naming our podcast "Organize Your Butterflies."