The Game Changer

Beyond Price - EGG Interview w/Kay Plantes. This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Tiffany Topcik is interviewing Mary Kay Plantes. The original live interview was 3/5/10. .

Mary Kay Plantes is the author of Beyond Price. Kay Plantes is a Ph.D. economist out of MIT who has more than 25 years of experience helping leaders make better strategy decisions, faster. As a corporate strategist, Kay brings a unique blend of strategic thinking, creativity, candor, pragmatism, and market insights that help leadership teams and boards transcend the landscape of their current thinking and move to stronger and more exciting levels of performance.

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Google Exec on Leadership and Life - EGG Interview w/Jane Butler. This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. EGG Founder Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing Jane Dougherty. The original live interview was 2/26/10. .

Jane Butler is the Head of Travel for Google.  Jane has had an amazing ride in her career, and many of us have watched her with awe over the years as she has skillfully navigated the oft' male dominated executive ranks of major companies in our industry with brains, determination and grace.   We will hear about that ride today and hope to also get in a glimpse of how marriage and motherhood have fit into this media executive's career! 

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2010 Online Trends Experian Hitwise - EGG Interview w/Heather Dougherty. This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. EGG Founder Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing Heather Dougherty. The original live interview was 2/12/10. .

Heather is the Director of Research for Experian Hitwise.

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Olympic Report - EGG Interview w/Tonya Fitzpatrick. This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing Tonya Fitzpatrick. The original live interview was 2/19/10.

This segment features Tonya Fitzpatrick, co-host of World Footprints. Tonya comes to us live from Vancouver from the 2010 Winter Olympics.

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Nice Girls DO Get the Sale - EGG Interview w/Elinor Stutz. This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Tiffany Topcik is interviewing Elinor Stutz. The original live interview was 1/29/10.

Published by Sourcebooks, Elinor's book is a corporate tell-all about her corporate sales experience and lessons learned along the way. From the beginning and against all odds, she became the top producer by the 4th month of selling and retained that title throughout her career. She began selling an unknown brand of copier door to door facing hostile management trying to toss her out - but she refused to go!

Eventually she made it to high tech where it was so unethical that she quit and said "never again". The book was featured in TIME Magazine business supplement, translated into several languages and sells worldwide. Many thousands of copies have sold.

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Rock to the Top - EGG Interview w/Dayna Steele. This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. EGG Founder Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing Dayna Steele. The original live interview was 2/5/10.

Dayna is engaging, inspiring and downright funny. She is an entertaining motivational speaker and corporate emcee, successful entrepreneur, media consultant and the author of the best-selling business book Rock to the Top: What I Learned about Success from the World’s Greatest Rock Stars. She travels the world teaching the four rock star principles of success in her popular presentation, “Find Your Inner Rock Star!”

For years, Dayna was one of the top female rock radio personalities in the USA. With a legion of fans that referred to themselves as Steeleworkers, Dayna was known for her sultry voice, music knowledge and entertaining celebrity interviews. During her career and reign as Houston’s “First Lady of Radio,” she was named one of the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts by Talkers Magazine and nominated as Local Radio Personality of the Year by Billboard Magazine.

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Your Idea Inc - This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. EGG Founder Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing Sandy Abrams. The original live interview was 1/28/10. Sandy is the author of Your Idea Inc. and founder of www.moisturejamzz.com.

The Story Factor - This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. EGG Founder Chicke Fitzgerald is interviewing Annette Simmons. The original live interview was 1/15/10.

Nearly everyone responds to a good yarn, and that's precisely the point behind The Story Factor by Annette Simmons. A "collaborative behavior" consultant to public and private organizations, Simmons argues that storytelling may just be the best management tool available to modern business leaders because it exerts influence in ways that other techniques cannot. And she doesn't suggest that stories be exclusively reserved for formal presentations, either; on the contrary, Simmons shows how they can be used effectively in small group settings and even one-on-one situations.

Annette Simmons is a vibrant keynote speaker, consultant and author of four books: The Story Factor named as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins , A Safe Place for Dangerous Truth (AMACOM, 1998), and Territorial Games: Understanding and Ending Turf Wars at Work.

Annette started with a business degree from Louisiana State University in 1983, spent ten years in Australia in international business, attained a M.Ed. from NC State in 1994 and started Group Process Consulting in 1996. Annette is surprisingly honest, ferrets out hidden opportunities, joyfully takes risks and tells a good story.

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Annette's website is  http://www.annettesimmons.com/

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2010 Trends Forrester Research - In our first call of the new year for the Executive Girlfriends' Group, we welcome Vice President & Principal Analyst, Airline & Travel Research Forrester Research, Henry Harteveldt. Henry is friend of EGG and an honorary member! Henry will give us his insights into the key trends, opportunities and challenges facing us in 2010. And he may even tell us what Sir Richard Branson is like up close and personal! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFYHybtGEXA

Whether or not you are directly related to the travel industry, you will enjoy this insightful look at 2010.

Intellectual Gumbo with Chris Bradshaw - Hosted by Chicke Fitzgerald, CEO Solutionz Media