The Game Changer

This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Susan Spencer.The original live interview was 9/14/12.

After Susan Spencer graduated Villanova Law School she joined a large Philadelphia law firm and worked as in-house counsel of the Philadelphia Eagles. After several years handling all the legal matters at the Eagles she was promoted to VP and General Manager–the only woman to ever hold all three positions with a professional football team.

Five years later, after the team was sold, she started her own food distribution company. Within three years her company was doing ten million in sales.

Briefcase Essentials, Susan’s first book, has received the Axiom Award as one of the best business books of 2011. Briefcase Essentials was written to share her stories about working in male dominated industries and describe how she used 12 natural talents that all women possess, to succeed in a business world that is currently dominated by men.

Her series of articles about women’s issues and professional football have been featured on CNBC.com, The Huffington Post, and Reuters.com among others. Susan is a featured lecturer, and provides commentary on numerous sports radio shows. She also finds time to mentor young entrepreneurs.

Susan’s websites are: http://www.briefcaseessentials.com/

http://www.briefcaseessentials.com/qb-talk/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Futurist, Edie Weiner.The original live interview was 9/7/12.

In FutureThink, two leading futurists reveal the breakthrough thinking techniques they've developed to liberate the mind from its old assumptions, and sensitize it to the earliest signals of change. Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown show how to overcome both personal and institutional biases, to see the big picture.

Learn how to recognize when trends aren't linear, and when tomorrow won't be 'just like today'.  The authors show how a football game can help clarify priorities in attracting and retaining customers; how the history of railroads can put the Internet into perspective; how the 'Law of Large Numbers' helps one recognize the drivers behind such powerful forces as deviancy and terrorism; and much more.

Edie Weiner is president of Weiner Edrich Brown, Inc., a leading futurist consultancy based in New York City. She has 30 years experience in issues analysis and strategic planning, and was the youngest outside woman elected to the Board of a major financial institution. She is a world-renowned futurist and acknowledged as one of the most influential practitioners of social, technological, political and economic intelligence gathering.

Edie’s website is http://weineredrichbrown.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Jill Flynn & Mary Davis Holt The original live interview was 8/31/12.

Women hold just 11 percent of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations—a number that hasn't changed in over 30 years.

How can women break through? Break Your Own Rules distills the six faulty assumptions (or "rules") most women follow that get in the way—then delivers the correlating new rules that promise to clear that path. For example, the old rule of "Focus on Others" must be replaced by "Take Center Stage," "Hard Work Will Get You There" must yield to "Be Politically Savvy." "Play It Safe" must give way to "Play to Win." "Ask Permission" must be replaced by "Proceed Until Apprehended."

This hands-on guide is for women who are ready to transform their assumptions and join the senior ranks of American business.

Jill Flynn, M. Ed., is founding partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership (FHHL) whose goal is to move women and organizations forward, faster.

Mary Davis Holt is a partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership (FHHL), an executive coach and keynote speaker on business, women, and leadership.

Co-author, Kathryn Heath (not interviewed) is managing Partner of Flynn Heath Holt.

Author’s website is http://flynnheath.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Harvard Business Review Blogger and TEDx speakerWhitney Johnson. The original live interview was 8/24/12.

Whitney Johnson, popular Harvard Business Review blogger, has a goal: to help us identify and achieve our dreams. In this inspiring book, Johnson directs her attention to teaching women, in particular, a three-step model for personal advancement and happiness.

She first encourages us to DARE to boldly step out, to consider disrupting life as we know it. Then she teaches us how to DREAM, to give life to the many possibilities available, whether to start a business, run a marathon, or travel the world. Finally, Whitney's model brings out the businesswoman in her; she teaches us to DO, to execute our dreams. Rich with real stories of women who have dared to dream, DARE, DREAM, DO offers a practical framework to realize one's true potential.

Whitney is currently the president and co-founder of Clayton M. Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors (Disruptive Innovation Fund), a former Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side analyst on Wall Street, a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Senior Advisor to the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, and a TEDx speaker.

Whitney’s website is http://whitneyjohnson.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviewsShaunti Feldhahn. The original live interview was 8/17/12.

Never before has an author gotten inside the hearts and minds of men in the workplace—from CEOs to nonprofit managers, from pastors to factory workers—to discover how they perceive the way women often approach things on the job, what their expected “rules” of the workplace are, what “managing emotion” means, and what factors improve or harm a man’s respect for a female co-worker.

Shaunti Feldhahn is a popular public speaker, research analyst and best-selling author with 2 million copies of her books sold in 18 different languages. She holds a Master in Public Policy with a concentration in business from Harvard University, and worked on Wall Street as an analyst and on Capitol Hill before becoming a surprise bestselling author and relationship researcher. Her popular “Only” series includes for adults: For Women Only, For Men Only and For Parents Only and for teens: For Young Women Only, and For Young Men Only. Each book is based on a nationwide survey and more than 1,000 personal interviews.

Shaunti’s website is www.shaunti.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviewsMaria T. Bailey. The original live interview was 8/10/12.

Maria Bailey is the most respected voice on moms and for moms.  Unlike other mom experts and spokespersons, she has studied the behaviors of mothers for over a decade and is herself immersed in motherhood as a mom of four. 

BSM Media founder and CEO, Maria Bailey is an award-winning author, radio talk show host, nationally known speaker and the foremost marketing authority on marketing to moms. Her newest book, Power Moms: The New Rules for Engaging Mom Influencers Who Drive Brand Choice, offers a guide to engaging the Power Moms—influential mothers who help spread the word about products and services—to drive sales to your bottom line by creating a buzz online and offline.

Maria is also the co-host of Mom Talk Radio, the first nationally syndicated radio show for moms, Founder/CEO of BlueSuitMom.com, the award winning Website for executive working mothers and the creator of Smart Mom Solutions, a product line that offers solutions to everyday challenges for busy moms.

Maria’s websites are

http://www.mariabailey.com/

http://www.bsmmedia.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews investor & author LouAnn Lofton. The original live interview was 8/3/12.

Investing isn't a man's world anymore—and that's a good thing for individual portfolios, Wall Street, and the world's financial system.

Warren Buffett and the women of the world have one thing in common: They are better investors than the average man. Psychologists and scientists have shown that women have the kind of temperaments that help them achieve long-term success in the market.

This book shows that women, with their patience and good decision making, epitomize the Foolish investment philosophy, as well as the investment temperament of the most successful investor in history: Warren Buffett.

LouAnn Lofton has been proudly investing "like a girl" since she was a girl. After losing her father at age 14, she resolved to take control of her own financial future and became obsessed with learning how to invest. Her quest led her to Warren Buffett in 1994 and The Motley Fool in 2000, where she rose to the position of managing editor of Fool.com. The book allowed her to finally meet her investment idol.

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews motivational speaker Stephanie Staples. The original live interview was 7/27/12.

Stephanie Staples has created a book that balances laugh out loud humor with excellent insights into human psycho-social growth and behavior. Readers will not only be entertained by Stephanie's stories, they will be invited to examine their own "enlightening strikes," while learning concrete, useable strategies for happier lives.

Stephanie is a talented Professional Speaker, Certified Life Coach, Keynote Speaker, Motivational Speaker and offers Motivational Retreats for those people who are ready to take their lives and careers to the next level.

Stephanie has founded three businesses (two successful - one a nightmare, you can’t win them all!) and is a multiple nominee for Winnipeg’s Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award (always a bridesmaid - never a bride!), most proudly she is the founder and owner of Your Life, Unlimited.

Stephanies’s website is http://yourlifeunlimited.ca/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Traveler-In-Chief, Kathleen Ameche. The original live interview was 7/20/12.

Throughout her career, Kathy has logged nearly 2,000,000 miles of business travel. That led her to write her first book, The Woman Road Warrior: A Woman's Guide to Business Travel.  The second edition of, The Woman Road Warrior: An Expert's Guide to Domestic and International Business Travel was released in May of 2007.

Kathleen Ameche has faced all the nightmares of travel, among them facing a loaded gun. But instead of just letting it take its toll, Kathleen's collected her miles of travel notes and published a comprehensive guide, The Woman Road Warrior: A Women's Guide to Business Travel (Agate Publishing), on how to look like a pro and be treated like royalty every time you travel. Although the book was written mainly for businesswomen, it has been described as a must-read for women who travel for any reason.

A “road warrior” for the last two decades, Kathleen (Kathy) Ameche is the CEO and President of the Ameche Group LLC a company she founded to help businesswomen maneuver through the business travel maze.

Katheen’s website is http://www.womanroadwarrior.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Jane Pollak. The original live interview was 7/13/12.

Art teacher Jane Pollak's career shot to a new level when she was invited to the White House to decorate an egg for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Not long after, this wife and mother was running a full-blown home business, speaking internationally, and appearing on television.

Having transformed her art into a thriving, profitable business, Jane now guides other remarkable women entrepreneurs in their own journey toward uncommon success.

Soul Proprietor is not only inspiring and motivating for the entrepreneur or small business owner, it is a handbook of lessons that one could apply to the business of everyday life. Her anecdotal stories add humor and though-provoking insight into what it really takes to launch a successful business. Jane’s practical wisdom and tactical strategies will help you chart your own course for success.

A nationally recognized speaker, certified coach, author, blogger and lifestyle entrepreneur with over 30 years of business experience, Jane loves sharing inspirational, yet practical, lessons with like-minded entrepreneurs.

Jane’s website is http://janepollak.com/                                   To order Jane’s book click HERE

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