This episode features Melody Wilding, the author of Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. Recently named one of Business Insider’s Most Innovative Coaches for her groundbreaking work on “Sensitive Strivers”, Melody has been featured in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and is a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Psychology Today, and Forbes. 

 In this episode, we take a deep dive into the book and the journey which led her to write it. Melody shares some key insights into how you can regain your confidence and turn your sensitivity into a superpower. She also shares some wise advice for young professional women as they navigate their careers.

Order Melody's book: https://melodywilding.com/ 

This episode features Ife Babatunde, Agency Lead at LinkedIn where she is responsible for managing strategic partnerships with the company’s largest media and advertising agency clients. Prior to LinkedIn, she was Vice President of Brand Marketing at Guggenheim Partners and a Senior Brand Planner at Ogilvy & Mather. She is a frequent speaker at industry events including SXSW, Advertising Week, and Cannes Lions. 

Additionally, Ife is a passionate angel investor committed to closing the funding gap for women and backing the companies she wants to see in the world. She is a member of various investment networks including Pipeline Angels and Portfolia and holds a BA from Columbia University and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

• Sign Up for Masterclass with Ife: Building Your Professional Brand on Linkedin
• LinkedIn: Ife Babatunde
• Pipeline Angels
• Hurry Home
• Ask An Angel
• Record and Display Your Name Pronunciation on Your Profile
• The 7 Habits

Our guest is Patricia Karpas. Patricia leads content for both Muse, the brain sensing headband and Meditation Studio, the 5-star app that Apple named as one of its top 10 of the year. She is also the co-host and founder of the popular podcast, Untangle, where she has interviewed over 200 thought-leaders, authors and experts in areas related to meditation, mindfulness, neuroscience and other contemplative practices. Patricia is a former television and media executive and has worked at CNBC, NBC, AOL and Time Warner. She has her MBA from the University of Denver.

Untangle Podcast: https://meditationstudioapp.com/podcasts

Meditation Studio: https://meditationstudioapp.com/

Muse: https://choosemuse.com/

Our guest is Susan Sandler, an integrated marketing expert and entrepreneur. Susan founded PopUpSummer!, one of the first Pop-Up Retailing companies in 2001 and has worked with hundreds of designers and brands in single and multi-brand activations across the country, including Adidas, BirchBox, Lululemon, and many more. We discuss the impact of the pop-up industry to date and address its role in the current and future retail and brand marketing environments.

Show Notes

• PopUpSummer!
• Pop-Up Survivor Workshop
• Follow PopUpSummer! on Instagram

This episode features Fran Hauser, the best-selling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate. 

• Fran Hauser Website
• The Myth of the Nice Girl
• From the Desk of Fran Hauser 

Our guest this episode is Dr. Wayne Baker. In his new book All You Have To Do Is Ask, Baker offers us numerous tools—favored by companies from Google to GM—that transform asking for help from an uncomfortable burden, to an advantageous skill and catalyst for success.

Music Credit
"Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Notes

• All You Have To Do is Ask (Book): https://allyouhavetodoisask.com/order
• Asking-Giving Assessment: https://allyouhavetodoisask.com/assess
  Infographic: https://allyouhavetodoisask.com/news/the-all-you-have-to-do-is-ask-journey-infographic

Our first guest is Deborah Barta, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Startup Engagement at Mastercard. We discuss her career journey and the important role that intrapreneurship can play in women's careers. Deborah shares her advice on how to succeed as a female intrapreneur, ranging from "finding your true north" to honing your ability to lead change and unlock human innovation potential inside our most influential institutions.

Music Credit
"Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Notes

• Deborah Barta Bio: https://newsroom.mastercard.com/people/deborahbarta/
• Stanford University, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program:
  https://online.stanford.edu/programs/stanford-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-certificate
• Mastercard Start Path: https://www.startpath.com/
  Start Path (@MAStartPath) is an award-winning program that enables later-stage tech startups to rapidly scale through unparalleled access to Mastercard’s technology, solutions expertise and partners around the world. #startpathglobal
• Click here to learn more about gender equality and engaging, enabling, and empowering women at Mastercard: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/corp-responsibility/social-sustainability/women-empowerment-at-mastercard.html 

Hi everyone, I’m Jennifer Scott Mobley.  And welcome to the Early Career Women Podcast.

As a communication professor, Forbes author, and founder of the Early Career Women Collective, I’ve spent over 10 years studying the experiences of young professional women and if there is one thing I know for sure it’s this: there are two things that matter in life: people and time. If you manage those well, everything else will take care of itself.

 As the founder of the Early Career Women Collective, I have been creating a space for young women to do just that. If you’re not familiar, The Early Career Women Collective is a global online community for young professional women/ connectors and leaders to practice the mindset and skill set of designing their careers and lives with purpose, particularly during the first 10-15 years of their careers. We offer career and leadership coaching, live events and a membership community which is launching in February.

 But here’s the thing: prioritizing what matters and focusing on people and making the most of our time here together requires conversations that prompt us to learn, grow, challenge what we think we know about ourselves, about each other, and about this world.

That’s why I decided to start this podcast. I want the Early Career Women Podcast to be a podcast that’s real, unpolished, honest, and reflects both the magic and the messiness of what it means to be a young professional woman. I invite you to join us as we unpack and explore the ideas, stories, challenges, experiences, books, films, and music that reflect the universal experiences of being a young professional woman, from the bravest moments to the most brokenhearted.

Episodes will include conversations with the people who can teach us, challenge us, inspire us, or yes even tick us off a little. I’ll share evidence-based strategies and resources and have direct conversations with you about what I’m learning from new research and we’ll do some episodes dedicated to answering your questions.

And at some point, I am also going to hit the road and do some live shows from our meetups and conferences.

There is power when a group of people becomes aware of their commonality and thinks and acts as a true community, by sharing their knowledge, thoughts, and resources both offline as well as online.  That’s why this podcast will have the opportunity to join us in person as well. We’ll leverage this power of community by generating real world solutions in real time both through this podcast as well as continuing the conversation through the Early Career Women Collective online community and in person via our live meetups and conferences.

We don’t have to do life alone. We were never meant to.

I’m officially launching the podcast on….and that episode will be released on. Then episodes of the Early Career Women will be dropping every…/twice a month. You can find us where you normally listen to your podcasts.

You can subscribe now, invite your friends, and I really cannot wait to have these conversations with you as we learn, grow, and lead together.

Join me for the Early Career Women Podcast when we launch!

• Music:
  "Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/