The Females in Tech Show with Tamara Johanna

Would you like to work from home but you’re too scared to ask, or don’t know how to approach it with your boss? In this episode Joel and Tamara share 7 steps on how to ask your boss to work from home.

Here’s an outline of what we cover in this episode:

• The different philosophies of global tech giants Google (04:50) and IBM regarding working from home (10:45)
• We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working from home for individuals (14:18), as well as organisations (20:30)
• I share a personal story on why working from home is beneficial for me and my employer (26:26)
• And we share 7 steps on how to ask your boss (32:01)

Episode Resources:

• In the Plex - Steven Levy
• Costs and Benefits of Working from Home, Global Workplace Analytics
• Trello
• Joel Norton

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Thank you for listening

I am grateful for the opportunity to serve you. Thank you for taking the time to listen to the Females in Tech Show.

My aim is to inspire and support you to reach your goals, and provide you with practical tips on how to be the best version of yourself.

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How can we better serve you?

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Tell us what topics you’d like to learn more about, or will help advance your career in technology. Complete the form at this link and suggest a podcast topic.

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Many people blame technology for being unproductive, and for making us impatient, however ultimately it’s the way we use (or abuse) technology that creates the negative impact. If you want to use technology in alignment with your goals, you need to make a conscious choice to:

• Use it intentionally and mindfully to improve your productivity, increase inspiration and accelerate our goals, or
• Allow the in-built distractions of technology and the lure of instant gratification control how we use it

 When we are clear on our goals, and what we value, and we set our intentions we’re able to use technology in a way that will help accelerate our career and personal goals.

 In this episode of The Females in Tech Show we cover:

• Why technology isn’t to blame for decreased productivity (04:04)
• Statistics on how much time we spend on our phones and social media (05:16)
• The science of why we’re addicted to technology (10:10)
• The negative impact technology has on our productivity (15:05)
• 3 steps on how to use technology to achieve your goals (20:13)
• How to remove distractions from your devices (25:26)
• What you can start doing today to use technology in alignment with your goals (29:42)
• And so much more]

Episode Resources

• Tom Cronin: Meditation Coach
• The Portal Movie and Book
• Phone statistics
• Social media statistics
• Dr Demartini, highest priority actions
• Flo App
• Keep It Cleaner App
• JSHealth App
• Insight Timer App
• Down Dog App

Thank you for listening

I am grateful for the opportunity to serve you. Thank you for taking the time to listen to the Females in Tech Show.

My aim is to inspire and support you to reach your goals, and provide you with practical tips on how to be the best version of yourself.

If you did enjoy the show, then I'd like to ask three things, so I can inspire and support more career motivated women ( and men).

1. SUBSCRIBE: to the show to ensure you never miss an episode.
2. REVIEW: write a review for the show in your favourite podcast app telling us what you love, and also where we can improve.
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How can we better serve you?

Ultimately the show is for you, the females in tech community, which begs the question… How can we better serve you?

Tell us what topics you’d like to learn more about, or will help advance your career in technology. Complete the form at this link and suggest a podcast topic.

I’ll be sure to give you a shout out in the podcast episode if your topic is chosen.

Sam Mcintyre is passionate about helping women excel in the workplace, and has seen first-hand the benefits of having women involved in the decision making process. She has spent 30 years working in tech, and her career journey has seen her progress from IT Help Desk to CIO.

She has worked in Australia, UK, Asia and the US for a variety of retailers and manufacturers including brands such as Tesco, Coles, Woolworths and L’Oreal. Sam loves problem solving, and that technology continues to evolve and change. She has built her career by continuing to learn new skills, being brave and creating solutions that deliver business results.

Sam currently works as Group CIO at the Sussan Group, which incorporates Sportsgirl, Sussan and Suzanne Grae brands. She is on the Advisory Board for One Roof, a women's co-working and networking space, and also has her own startup, BeautiFinda, a marketplace for beautician services.

Sam is also a mother to two young boys and loves spending time with them, her husband and her horses.

Here’s an outline of what we cover in this episode:

• Sam’s career journey and how it led her to becoming CIO at Sussan Group
• One Roof, and what her advisory role covers
• Sam shares a few of her biggest learnings throughout her career in tech
• We talk about motherhood, and how it’s helped, not hindered her career. And how she juggles a successful career as CIO, being a mother of two and her own side hustle.
• We talk about some of the challenges women in tech face and how to overcome them
• We then discuss her side hustle BeautiFinda
• Sam then shares advice for anyone looking to start their own business

Episode Resources

• One Roof (Instagram and website)
• BeautiFinda (Instagram, Facebook and website)
• Sam McIntyre (Instagram and LinkedIn)
• The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates 
• Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
• My Year of Saying Yes by Shonda Rhimes
• Mia Freedman No Filter podcast
• Sylivia Jeffrey’s Future Women podcast

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Thank you for listening

My aim is to inspire and support you to reach your goals, and provide you with practical tips on how to be the best version of yourself.

If you did enjoy the show, then I'd like to ask three things, so I can inspire and support more career motivated women ( and men).

1. SUBSCRIBE: to the “The Females in Tech Show” in your favourite podcast app, to ensure you never miss an episode.
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Organisations invest significant time, money and resources into building their brand. They do that to grow awareness of the brand, establish their competitive positioning and to build trust and credibility. And ultimately that leads to increased sales. Personal branding is no different.

As individuals we all need to establish our point of difference within (and outside) the organisation, and grow awareness of our capabilities. We need to build credibility about our skills and experience in order to be considered for a promotion or salary review.

The better you define and manage your personal brand, the more opportunities you will get.

Here’s an outline of what we cover in this episode on personal branding:

• What is personal branding, and why it’s important (6:19)
• Examples of people who have a great personal brand, and why (12:45)
• Joel and I share examples of how personal branding has both hindered, and helped accelerate our careers (20:43)
• How you determine your personal brand (28.07)
• 4 steps on how to start building your personal brand (28.43)
• Tips on how to start building your brand today (35:43)

Episode Resources

• Emma Watson - Feminist Book Club, Our Shared Shelf
• Jack Delosa (Instagram), founder of The Entourage
• Radical Candor - Be a Kick-ass Boss Without Losing your Humanity (reference to “Superstars and Rockstars”)
• Joel Norton

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My aim is to inspire and support you to reach your goals, and provide you with practical tips on how to be the best version of yourself.

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Tell us what topics you’d like to learn more about, or will help advance your career in technology. Complete the form at this link and suggest a podcast topic.

I’ll be sure to give you a shout out in the podcast episode if your topic is chosen.

Head to https://fiitcollective.com/5 for the podcast show notes, and download a full transcription.

It's interesting what happens to the brain when you practice gratitude. Dopamine is released into two areas of the brain, which controls our movement and speech, and our sense of reward. So when a person expresses gratitude, the dopamine creates a connection between the behaviour, and feeling good. Therefore the more a person practices the gratitude, the more often that dopamine releases.

The power of gratitude is not some passing fad, or latest trend. There are genuine benefits to practicing gratitude every day. Particularly when you’re able to be grateful for a challenging situation.

Many successful people have a daily gratitude practice.

For example, Arianna Huffington bases a lot of her success to practicing gratitude. Tony Robbins believes that being grateful first thing in the morning helps him have a more successful day, as well as staves off anger, or fear that leads to poor investing or life choices.

Oprah Winfrey says that appreciating whatever shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. That generates more goodness for yourself when you are aware of all that you have, rather than focusing on what you’re missing.

Gratitude doesn't have to be big, extravagant events. In fact, it’s best when you’re grateful for the simple things in life.

Here’s an overview of what we cover in the power of gratitude:

• What a gratitude practice is, and the benefits of practicing gratitude, including the scientific evidence: (5:05)
• Chemical reaction that occurs in you brain when you practice gratitude: (9:05)
• 7 areas of life and how you can implement these into your gratitude practice: (14:46)
• We explore into the different ways you can practice gratitude: (18:42)
• How to take your gratitude practice to the next level: (28:45)
• Some examples of really big challenges in our lives and how we used gratitude to get through them - Tamara gets really vulnerable: (29:26)
• AND so much more!
  
  

Episode Resources

• Kikki-K Gratitude Journals
• Dr John Demartini, 7 Areas of Life
• Joel Norton
  
  

Thank you for listening

I am grateful for the opportunity to serve you. Thank you for taking the time to listen to the Females in Tech Show.

My aim is to inspire and support you to reach your goals, and provide you with practical tips on how to be the best version of yourself.

If you did enjoy the show, then I'd like to ask three things, so I can inspire and support more career motivated women ( and men).

1. SUBSCRIBE: subscribe to the show to ensure you never miss an episode.
2. REVIEW: write a review for the show in your favourite podcast app telling us what you love, and also where we can improve.
3. SHARE: this episode with friends and colleagues who might benefit from the content, as well as grow and support our community.
   
   

How can we better serve you?

Ultimately the show is for you, the females in tech community, which begs the question… How can we better serve you?

Tell us what topics you’d like to learn more about, or will help advance your career in technology. Complete the form at this link and suggest a podcast topic.

I’ll be sure to give you a shout out in the podcast episode if your topic is chosen.

Head to fiitcollective.com/4 for the podcast show notes, and download a full transcription.

Periods and productivity. It’s important to understand the different phases of your menstrual cycle, and how to use that to their advantage to be more productive at work. It’s not just a case of having your period, and not having your period. There are 4 distinct seasons.

In the 3rd episode of the Females in Tech Show, we talk about the perception society has about periods, and how women are charging through life, acting like men.

Tamara shares an example of when she didn’t honour her menstrual cycle, and how her body started to shut down as a result. She provides an overview of the 4 seasons of your menstrual cycle, and the superpowers women possess in each season.

We also talk about how women can sync their work schedule to align with their monthly cycle.

Here’s an overview:

• The perception society has about periods: (7:05)
• Example of when Tamara did not honour her menstrual cycle, and what happened to her body: (12:59)
• Overview of the 4 seasons of your menstrual cycle, and the superpowers women possess in each season - this is a biggie!: (16:19)
• Feminine and Masculine energy, and how to play to these strengths during your cycle: (25:15)
• How women can sync their work schedule to align with their monthly cycle: (29:55)
• And so much more!
  
  

Episode Resources

• How women can boost productivity by harnessing their monthly cycle
• Love Your Lady Landscape: Lisa Lister
• Code Red: Lisa Lister
• Open Wide: Melissa Ambrosini
• About Bloody Time: Karen Pickering and Jane Bennett
• Flo period app
• Joel Norton
  
  

Thank you for listening

Thank you for taking the time to listen.

My aim is to inspire and support you to reach your goals, and provide you with practical tips on how to be the best version of yourself.

If you did enjoy the show, then I'd like to ask three things, so I can inspire and support more career motivated women (and men).

1. SUBSCRIBE: to the show to ensure you never miss an episode.
2. REVIEW: write a review for the show in your favourite podcast app telling us what you love, and also where we can improve.
3. SHARE: this episode with friends and colleagues who might benefit from the content, as well as grow and support our community.

How can we better serve you?

Ultimately the show is for you, the females in tech community, which begs the question… How can we better serve you?

Tell us what topics you’d like to learn more about, or will help advance your career in technology. Complete the form at this link and suggest a podcast topic.

I’ll be sure to give you a shout out in the podcast episode if your topic is chosen.

Head to https://fiitcollective.com/3 for the podcast show notes, and download a full transcription.

The first question is, what is work life balance?

There’s a false perception that a work life balance is where you balance work equally to life. I think that's completely unrealistic. Life is so big, you can't just say work, and then life.

Work life balance is one, unique to the individual, and two, depends on a range of different factors. For example, your career, what your values are, your personality type, if you have kids.

Also, it’s important to acknowledge there are different aspects to life. We follow a program developed by Dr John Demartini, acknowledging 7 areas of life. Listen to the show to find out more.

Here’s an overview of what we cover:

• Tamara’s definition of work life balance, and how it’s different to Joel: (3:07) 
• The 7 areas of life: (5:47)
• Some of the signs you’re not living to your purpose: (18:04)
• 5 steps to achieve a work life balance: (20:58)
• How couples can achieve a work life balance together: (27:13)
• Defining what quality time is, and how it’s different for each person: (28:49)
• The perception it’s not acceptable for men to leave work early to pick up their kids, and how to change it: (31:14)
• How organisations can help their employees achieve a better work life balance: (36:05) 
• And so much more!
  
  

Episode Resources

• Dr John Demartini, 7 Areas of Life
• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
• Joel Norton
  
  

Thank you for listening

I am grateful for the opportunity to serve you. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my first episode.

My aim is to inspire and support you to reach your goals, and provide you with practical tips on how to be the best version of yourself.

If you did enjoy the show, then I'd like to ask three things, so I can inspire and support more career motivated women ( and men).

1. SUBSCRIBE: to the show to ensure you never miss an episode.
2. REVIEW: write a review for the show in your favourite podcast app telling us what you love, and also where we can improve.
3. SHARE: this episode with friends and colleagues who might benefit from the content, as well as grow and support our community.

How can we better serve you?

Ultimately the show is for you, the females in tech community, which begs the question… How can we better serve you?

Tell us what topics you’d like to learn more about, or will help advance your career in technology. Complete the form at this link and suggest a podcast topic.

I’ll be sure to give you a shout out in the podcast episode if your topic is chosen.

Head to fiitcollective.com/2 for the podcast show notes, and download a full transcription.

Welcome to the first podcast episode of The Females In Tech Show with Tamara Johanna.

In this episode Tamara provides an overview of the show, who it's for, and what to expect in Season 1 of the podcast. Here’s an overview:

• Overview of Tamara’s career: (3:51)
• Tamara’s definition of a female in tech: (7:57)
• What the Females in Tech Show is about, and how it's different from other podcasts: (10:44)
• Who the show is for: (13:02)
• What to expect in Season 1, and Season 2: (13:59)
• Why Tamara’s partner Joel is on the show: (14:35)
• Overview of FIIT Collective, and how we support women in tech: (16:39)
• How to contribute to FIIT Collective: (31:30)
• Why Tamara believes in being vulnerable, and so much more

 Episode Resources

• Tamara’s career story
• Graphic designer Linda Ashby
• Joel Norton

 Thank you for listening

I am grateful for the opportunity to serve you. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my first episode.

My aim is to inspire and support you to reach your goals, and provide you with practical tips on how to be the best version of yourself.

If you did enjoy the show, then I'd like to ask three things, so I can inspire and support more career motivated women ( and men).

1. SUBSCRIBE: to the show to ensure you never miss an episode.
    
   
   
2. REVIEW: write a review for the show in your favourite podcast app telling us what you love, and also where we can improve.
    
   
   
3. SHARE: this episode with friends and colleagues who might benefit from the content, as well as grow and support our community.

How can we better serve you?

Ultimately the show is for you, the females in tech community, which begs the question… How can we better serve you?

Tell us what topics you’d like to learn more about, or will help advance your career in technology. Complete the form at this link and suggest a podcast topic.

I’ll be sure to give you a shout out in the podcast episode if your topic is chosen.
 
 Head to https://fiitcollective.com/1 for the podcast show notes, and download a full transcription.