VMLY&R Podcasts

During Beth's last trip to San Juan, she had the chance to catch up with Catalina Sánchez.

Since joining the team, Catalina has worked hard to raise the creative bar and boost the agency's reputation in the region as CEO of VMLY&R Colombia. They dove into the reasons why women sometimes hold themselves back and how can women continually support and raise each other up as both a co-worker and as a leader.

Suba Nadarajah, one of VMLY&R's director of diversity, equity & inclusion, speaks to Joel Barrett, speaker, writer, and survivor of conversion therapy. Joel shares his compelling coming out story and living an authentic life.

For our next episode of VMLY&R: Women Around the World Beth Wade sat down with Kylie Scheicher, managing director of technology.

Kylie is passionate about mentoring and is making strides to get more women into the technology industry. Beth and Kylie spoke about how everyone can develop their own front row of support, stop self-criticism and practising self-compassion.

In addition, Kylie is also a working mother to triplets, so Beth had a chance to chat with her about work-life balance and the benefit of being a working mom and the incredible attributes that show up in her kids.

Enjoy!

During Beth’s last visit to Shanghai, she had a chance to catch up with Camy Tan, managing director of network development for Asia.

Camy plays a huge part in bringing new talent and capabilities into our growing family across the entire network. She has an incredible desire to get to know people and build relationships.

Based out of our Singapore office, Camy was also able to talk about some of the unique advantages for women in the country.

Enjoy!

For our third episode of “VMLY&R: Women Around the World,” Beth Wade sat down with Stephanie DeCelles and Shali Wade in her hometown office in Kansas City. Stephanie is managing director for VMLY&R KC and Shali is executive director in the office of the Global CEO, Jon Cook.

Stephanie and Shali are both amazing leaders and wonderful mothers to their children. This episode is a fantastic, honest discussion about how they best navigate the pressures to be good mothers at the same time as bringing their best to work every single day. They also touched on the kind of examples they love to set for their children by being a working mom and building up a supportive community around yourself.

For our second episode of VMLY&R: Women Around the World, Beth Wade sat down with Karen Boswell who joined our VMLY&R family as Chief Experience Officer, EMEA earlier this year. In this episode, Beth speaks to Karen about her incredible career journey, particularly taking risks and the importance of opening up, being vulnerable, and having the confidence to ask for what you want.

At the end of VMLY&R’s incredible week at the Cannes Lions Festival, Beth sat down with two VMLY&R attendees, Tasha Gilroy and Jasmine Green. Tasha is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion director based in New York, and Jasmine is a senior connections manager in our Kansas City office.

In this episode, Tasha and Jasmine discuss their different experiences at the festival. Jasmine attended as a Young Lion in the Media Academy and was involved with the Diversity Collective, while Tasha attended from a leadership position focusing on the evolution and importance of diversity within our industry.

Enjoy!