Products by Women

In this episode, we'll be chatting with Gloria Chou - a PR guru, former Diplomat, and TV producer.

Gloria has never worked at an agency or had any formal training, ever. She learned how to "hack" her own PR by cold calling/emailing thousands of editors and learned what works, and now she teaches her winning methods to early-stage founders.

Gloria is a PR coach at many organizations like Barclays RISE, IFW, Freelance Founders, and more.

Key Take-Aways:

Ruchika Mishra is a mother, a product owner for a top financial firm, and a meditation teacher. Listen to her inspiring story of finding balance in these roles and moving forward with equanimity during the pandemic. She gives practical advice on how to take care of one's mental health and easy self-care tips that can be applied in one's daily routine.

Key Takeaways: 

- How to break into product management 

- Overcoming imposter syndrome 

- Prioritizing self-care, mental health and dealing with stress during the pandemic 

- And more...

Podcast Host: Aratrika (Doni) R, Product Marketing Analyst at TransUnion 

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Products by Women is on a mission to help women find gaps in the skills and connect them with mentors, professional development and job opportunities to accelerate their careers. Our platform offers a global community for women in technology to develop personally and professionally. Founded in 2019, Products by Women has since expanded virtually and has partnered with speakers from Forbes, Glossier, Etsy, Amazon, Squarespace and more. We now have 8000+ members in 70+ countries, where professional women and founders continue to network, innovate and make lasting relationships.

Meet, Erin Flynn, Co-founder and CEO of Cladwell - An app that helps you experience the freedom of a capsule wardrobe. 

Erin has 10 years of experience in taking ideas or insights and transforming them into products that people use daily. She’s spent the majority of her career starting and creating new businesses both on her own and within a corporation.

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If you or something you know would like to be featured in an upcoming episode - drop us an email at [email protected]. You can learn more about Products by Women and our initiatives here!  

Ire Aderinokun is a self-taught Frontend Developer and User Interface Designer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the Cofounder, COO, and VP Engineering of BuyCoins (YC S2018), a cryptocurrency exchange for Africa, and previously worked with eyeo, the company behind products like Adblock Plus and Flattr Plus, building open source software to make a better internet.

Ire is a Google Expert, specializing in the core frontend technologies HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but is passionate about all aspects of technology. She has written over 100 articles on these topics on her blog, bitsofco.de, and regularly shares her knowledge through speaking at conferences around Africa and the world.

In this episode, Ire talks to us about: 

- How she transitioned from being a lawyer to a developer 

- Y Combinator application tips

- Tips on raising early stage funding

- Why diversity and inclusivity matter in tech 

- And a lot more... 

Upasna is the Product Manager on the E-Commerce team at CNN where she develops and optimizes the technological infrastructure that powers the domain. Prior to her Product Management role at CNN, Upasna worked in SEO and data science for a decade and has architected and managed the organic search strategies for PCMag, Mashable, Ford Motor Company, Valvoline, Mars Corporation, Mars Pet Food, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, and Kimberly-Clark. She has presented her thought leadership on product and search optimization at major tech conferences across the globe, including the Digital Summit series, INBOUND, SMX Advanced, Conductor C3, State of Search, Data Science Salon, and Advanced Search Summit. One of the highlights of her professional career was in May 2019, when she delivered her TED talk in Dallas, titled “Optimizing for the Next Billion.”

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Host: Shrinedhi Rajan | Editor: Stephan Cho

Montilla shares her experience overcoming the biases and how valuable it is to constantly learn and grow. Also, as Montilla suggests, everyone's success is unique and so is the magic formula to succeed. And it's up to us to explore the different avenues and find what's best for us!

Elaine is recognized as a dynamic and solutions-oriented IT Executive with 20+ years of progressively responsible experience providing vision and leadership while developing and implementing large-scale IT strategies and initiatives within the higher education industry. She drives operational excellence through improved business processes and enterprise systems, while also managing institutional risks and ensuring alignment with the academic mission.

Take a listen to Elaine's TED talk here

Elaine is also respected as a motivational, influential leader and collaborator who guides cross-functional teams in delivering complex projects that achieve long-term goals while fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and professional development. She continually researches and recommends emerging technology solutions to unique problems, elevating efficiency and effectiveness throughout the institution. Highly organized and self-directed, Elaine has a proven ability to manage large budgets, allocate resources, and handle all software licensing and vendor contracts. She builds and maintains lasting relationships with campus stakeholders to maximize project success, while also communicating the technology vision through a people-focused approach, and she thrives in fast-paced, diverse environments that champion inclusion and innovation.

Elaine has exemplary educational qualifications, including a Master of Science in Business Management and Leadership from the CUNY School of Professional Studies, combined with a Project Management Professional Certification to support her extensive experience.

Elaine is also the founder of 5xminority, whose mission is to demonstrate how businesses can be powerful platforms for social change. All companies must create workplaces that reflect the communities they are serving, and the voices of each employee need to be supported and celebrated daily. 5xminority was created to advocate for and support women and minorities to thrive in the workplace while being their whole self.

We hope you enjoyed the episode. Feel free to reach out to us and share your feedback at [email protected] . 

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Co-founder and CEO of Natural Cycles - the world’s first, and only, app to be certified as a contraception by the FDA in the U.S. and CE marked in Europe. Prior to founding Natural Cycles, Elina was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson at the CERN laboratory, which led to the Nobel Prize in physics in 2013. Following this success, Elina was looking for an effective, natural birth control and decided to apply her skills from particle physics to create a unique algorithm that could accurately pinpoint when a woman was fertile. From there, Natural Cycles was born. Today, Natural Cycles has over 1.5 million registered users across 162 countries and has raised ~ $37.5 million to date.

In this episode Elina talks to us about:

- Her background what inspired to be the person she is today 

- How she took her knowledge from particle physics, data and got started on Natural Cycles 

- Raising funds being a women entrepreneur  

- Resolving impediments 

- And a lot more...

We hope you enjoy this episode. We'd love to hear from you - so do drop us a line at [email protected].

Host: Naimeesha Murthy

Editor: Stephan Cho

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Zeenia Framroze is the Head of Sales and Business Development at Smartcar - the first and only car API for mobility applications. Our platform allows web and mobile apps to locate, unlock, and read the odometer from vehicles across brands.

Zeenia studied Political Theory and Social Policy at Harvard and Oxford. In her free time, she loves reading, hanging out with her family, and carefully rationing out episodes of the Sopranos to last her through the end of quarantine.

In this episode Zeenia will talk to us about:

We hope you enjoy this episode. We'd love to hear from you - so do drop us a line at [email protected]. 

Host: Naimeesha Murthy

Editor: Stephan Cho

Lina Chan is the CEO, Founder at Parla - An expert-led community changing the conversation around fertility.

Parla was inspired by Lina’s experience with fertility. She always felt on the back foot. Like many women, Lina found it difficult to understand what was going on with her body, get trusted support, and take care of my emotional health. Parla means to speak, and we believe it’s time to make women’s health an ongoing informed conversation. We’re breaking taboos and making misinformation a thing of the past by creating a space that empowers women as they become the authority of their health, body and choices.

In this episode, Lina talks to us about how:

We hope you enjoy this episode. We'd love to hear from you - so do drop us a line at [email protected]

Editor: Stephan Cho

Location: New York 

In this podcast episode we are speaking with Neha Govindraj - the Co-founder, President & COO of Glowbar: a skincare concept disrupting the spa industry with no-fluff 30-minute, customized and solution-oriented treatments at $65. Prior to Glowbar, Neha was a management consultant at Bain & Company, where she focused much of her time in their retail practices consulting Fortune 500 and other companies on consumer strategy and operations. During her time there, Neha did an externship with the C-level team at the millennial beauty brand, Glossier, leading various strategic initiatives within the operations, marketing and finance functions. Shortly thereafter, Neha left Bain & Company to form Glowbar, with a singular mission to fill a whitespace in the market and make it easier for everyone to take care of their skin– consistently.

In this episode Neha talks to us about:

We hope you enjoy this episode. We'd love to hear from you - so do drop us a line at [email protected]