Voice Is

Julie and Casey sit down with Master Chiller Audrey Holst, founder of Fortitude and Flow, to talk all things perfectionism and burnout—and how to find our way through, back to ourselves.

Top Takeaways:

• Perfectionism is a survival mechanism...but what got you here, won't get you there.
• Perfectionism isn't just limited to the people who seem "perfect". It's an internal experience of trying to prove yourself as worthy in a world that benefits from keeping that knowledge from you, deeply rooted in Patriarchy and Capitalism.
• Individualism is counter to how we are built as humans. We are designed to work collectively, and collective resilience is more powerful than individual resilience.
• Getting out of perfectionism is not about mindset or manifesting. It's about getting out of your head and into your perception.
• Your perception is in your body. Your body not an afterthought to the brain! It's a whole system of perceiving and functioning in the world that actually informs the brain.
• Noticing is the first and most important step.

Audrey Holst helps people reform their perfectionism so they can reclaim their agency and put their full energy into what really matters. Her work uses a combination of mindfulness and neuroscience tools and combines over a decade of experience teaching yoga with deep knowledge of the nervous system and extensive training and work as a Certified Professional Coach through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). Through her Fortitude & Flow® Process, Audrey guides individuals and groups through a holistic experience to shift the way they approach themselves and the things that matter to them – for good.

Audrey's upcoming book You're Not Perfect — And Here's How to Deal With That teaches people how to tap into their unique Operating System to un-velcro from the status quo and reclaim their agency. She leads a virtual membership collective that works with the lunar calendar called Renew, which prioritizes healing, rest, self-care, and community. Her 1:1 work with clients in Emerge reconnect and heal their relationships with their Operating Systems through intensive support and custom-designed practices.

Audrey's work pushes back on the spiritual bypassing and mindset-is-everything narrative that is rampant in the coaching and wellness industry. Perfectionism is a manufactured distraction designed to keep people from reclaiming their energy and agency while upholding Systems of Oppression. It's time for something new.

Julie and Casey sit down with their brilliant business coach, Tosca DiMatteo, to talk about authenticity in business and marketing, her own "leap" moment away from corporate and toward her new mission, and being a truth-seeker. Along the way, they'll discuss why it's so hard to ask for help, and what it really means (and why it's difficult) to "hold space".

TOP TAKEAWAYS

• Can marketing be truth-seeking? Yes, when brands connect to their original missions and core understanding of why people come to them.
• Brands embracing social positions - the benefits of being polarizing.
• Sometimes standing up for what you believe in means NOT having the direct confrontation over messaging but about doing the work in other tangible ways. What is most visible isn't always real, and isn't always most effective.
• "What do I not want to leave on the table before I leave this world?" - the question that ultimately inspired Tosca to jump the corporate ship.
• Sometimes you need to have the epiphany that you CAN'T do it by yourself - that you need support and you need an outside eye.
• There are all kinds of reasons why it's difficult to reach out for help: "do it yourself/bootstraps culture", organizations that don't support reaching out, burnout, or a lack of ability/time/energy to do a real "needs assessment" on yourself. What do I NEED is sometimes the hardest question to ask (until things get really bad).
• A very non-corporate idea: magic. We live in a world that majors on process and hard work, but when we can honor our needs and our bodies, we can allow for magic.
• In Tosca's coaching practice, the right tool for the moment comes when she's not attached to a particular outcome for the client, and also because she's done her own work on herself to try on new ways of thinking.
• Sometimes the hardest part for ambitious people is accepting your own pushing off point for the work you want to do. Meeting yourself—and other people—where they are can be a challenge, but it's necessary.
• Lesson: boundaries for coaches, boundaries for people being coached, the toxic pursuit of the "a-ha!" moment, and the murky territory between discomfort and pain

Tosca DiMatteo is a certified coach who supports working professionals and businesses to experience transformational change in their lives and organizations. Her mission is to detoxify workplace environments through advocacy, empowerment, shifting mindsets and supporting clients to approach difficult situations from a connected heart and mind.

Tosca helps her clients stand in their full power, find clarity, expand their impact, and improve communication and messaging, which results in her clients owning their truth and dreaming big. As a former marketing executive, she brings strategic and branding principles to life, while ensuring plans will work where the rubber meets the road.

Her qualifications and certifications include:

• 20+ years in the Marketing field (B2C and B2B) in blue-chip companies on iconic brands including Unilever, Kimberly Clark, Absolut Vodka and Univision.
• Michigan State University, MBA in Marketing
• ICF Certified Coach
• Guest speaker at top universities including NYU and University at Buffalo

Find out more about Tosca and her content here:

• Website: https://toscadimatteo.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toscadimatteo/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toscadimatteo/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-xxxFfEe1IsnljUI52R2eA/

Casey and Julie sit down with Beatriz Ayala (founder of Musicasa) to talk about her journey from the world of advertising to her creation of Musicasa. Her story takes us all over the world, and reminds us that connecting to pleasure, purpose and love help us connect better with each other.

TOP TAKEAWAYS

• The balance between doing and pleasure is not neat or easily defined. Sometimes it's the highest highs that balance the lowest lows.
• Choose people around you who recognize your potential.
• Learn to receive. Learning to receive is just as much a part of the journey as what you give.
• Create a "showing up" culture, where people can show up for themselves, and therefore show up for the collective.
• If you make a decision today and it's out of alignment tomorrow, you can change your mind!
• Setting your intentions and purpose will help plant seeds of your path for the future in many mysterious ways.

About Beatriz: "I've been referred to as a spark plug more times that I can count. I am high energy; my drive, passion, strategic wit, and love for music are the forces behind my latest venture, Musicasa. Musicasa is a tech music startup with aim to pioneer the future of live entertainment. With a focus on music, we help undiscovered musicians gain more visibility, exposure, and monetization opportunities through intimate, community driven, and highly curated intimate home concerts. We leverage the power of music to drive human connection. We launched on November 2019 and are currently 100% focused on virtual experiences. Check us out at www.musicasaa.com I am also an award-winning Advertising and Communications executive. I spent 10 years in the corporate world working for global and local agencies co-leading the planning, media and creative initiatives for larger-than-life brands such as P&G, Cover Girl, Pantene, Downy, Medalla Light, Bacardi, Snickers, M&M's, Pedigree, and Hyundai for the US Hispanic market, Central America, the Caribbean, and Puerto Rico. I've co-led key culture-driven strategies and initiatives, business operations, and new business development. I am a connector; I value creating meaningful relationships, and championing others throughout their journey. I am idealistic, daring, and see possibilities everywhere."

Julie and Casey sit down with Sam and Pauli, (our co-founder dopplegangers!) from Crew Events (crew-events.com).

Gatherings are on our minds. Sam and Pauli take us on a journey of what makes an event memorable: how to engage emotions, senses, and other unexpected mediums to make your events a gathering to remember.

We also get to share the very special relationship and magic of a co-founder small biz relationship, talk authenticity, and get to have some deep connections as we head into a holiday season like no other.

Top Takeaways:

• Events NEED to have an emotional connection, or what's the point?
• You can use all five senses to create connection- use your creativity! (Sam and Pauli give some ideas)
• Thinking Surprise/Delight or Shock/Awe: using down to the last detail to create something people will be talking about FOR you.
• Events are an investment- and a learning curve. Don't panic if it takes time!
• The co-founder relationship will make or break you- find someone you trust, or find a way to create that trust.

SAMANTHA (SAM) WEINGLASS, CMP

Favorite Weekend Activities:Running in Central Park, chasing after my 2 kids, and mixing up some of Sami's Signature Sangria

Most Memorable Events To Date: 2009 AOL Spin-Off2016 Democratic Debate

A Jersey girl with a New York edge, Weinglass found her passion for events early on, leading her to the University of Florida to earn a degree in Event Management and to college internships for esteemed event companies, BizBash Media and BKA (now FIRST Agency). After graduation, Weinglass moved to NYC, where she continued her love fest for events at AOL. As part of the Corporate Events team, Weinglass was responsible for the planning and execution of large scaled events such as the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Media Center, AOL's spin off from Time Warner at the NYSE, and client hospitality programs and sponsorship executions at CES, SXSW, and the Oscars.

In 2012, she took on a new and challenging role at Univision, where she helped establish the Event Marketing department from the ground up and led a team responsible for producing a range of internal and external events. At Univision, Weinglass worked on events such as the Latin Grammy Awards, the network's annual Upfront, consumer promotions for premieres, a client program at the World Cup in Brazil, as well as numerous sponsorship executions for notable brands such as McDonalds, T-Mobile, Cover Girl, Dr. Pepper and Verizon.

Most recently, Weinglass left the comforts of corporate America, hand in hand with her best friend and partner-in-crime, both in business and in life, Paulina Tapia Lee, to start Crew Events.

During Weinglass' 14+ years in the industry, she has earned the reputation of a collaborative and innovative event expert with a keen eye for detail. She is a mastermind when it comes to bringing a brand's story to life and has a proven track record of producing results.

Outside of planning events, Weinglass is a wife and mother of two wild and crazy toddlers. She lives in Manhattan, and while she was born and raised by the Jersey shore, she is obsessed with the unmatched energy of life in the city.

PAULINA (PAULI) TAPIA LEE

Favorite Weekend Activities:Yoga, gardening, and exploring Brooklyn's best cocktail bars

Most Memorable Events To Date: 2014 World Cup2018 Univision Upfront

With more than a decade of experience strategizing, planning, and executing mid to large scale events, Lee started her career as a corporate events intern at AOL and quickly fell in love with the creativity, adrenaline and relationships she was able to build through her role. Her goal since then was to not only gain experience in the corporate world but also engage in-house clients in a way to clearly understand business goals and how to obtain them through events.

As her role evolved and expanded at AOL, she planned, directed and executed events with vastly different scopes; from a 15-day, 10-events execution at SXSW, to a 32-country global employee volunteer day. After three years with AOL, Lee made the switch to advance her career with the Spanish-language broadcast network, Univision. During her time there, she helped develop an award-winning event marketing department producing global events. During her six year tenure, she managed a team that supported both B2B and B2C events, as well as CEO initiatives. Furthermore, earning recognition and nomination as a rising female leader in the company through the Women's Leadership Academy at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Throughout her career, Lee has produced best-in-class events alongside her best friend and business partner, Samantha Weinglass. Moreover, sparking a continued relationship and co-founding Crew Events, which has seen growth since its inception in 2018.

Lee was born in Mexico City, Mexico and moved with her family to the United States in 1991 in pursuit of the American dream. She grew up in McAllen, Texas and is a graduate of Stephens College with a BS in Marketing: Public Relations & Advertising. Currently, Lee lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Daniel, and their two fur-babies, Squid & Ziggy.

Julie and Casey chat with expert Manual Laryngeal Therapist Christine Schneider (who works with professional "vocal athletes" and saved Casey from the migraines caused by her Very Weird Jaw) about our weird and wonderful bodies and how interconnected everything within actually is. Along the way, we dive into emotional storage, what keeps us from accessing our full voices, nervous system safety, effort vs ease, and why you should probably consider hugging a tree right now.

TOP TAKEAWAYS:

• The TMJ is the most used joint in the entire body. (No wonder our jaws are a MESS.)
• Everything in the body is connected, literally, and in multiple ways. What affects one area will ripple throughout the body.
• Emerging research is showing visible light patterns that flash through the fascia—and some neuroscientists believe that they may actually be photographing our CONSCIOUSNESS.
• We carry and store emotions in our body. The mind, the body, and the emotions are all connected, therefore practitioners need to allow the body to lead the way in processing trauma.
• You can't declare a safe space before actually creating one.
• Our voices are the vehicle by which our heart and soul enters the world.
• Our nervous system is ALWAYS asking one question above all: "How safe am I?"
• Advice for managing our current "touch crisis"
• Why minimum effort/maximum ease is our goal with the body and voice
• Vocal injuries are common and nothing to be ashamed of— ESPECIALLY for professional voice users with extreme demands on their bodies. If you fall into that category, make sure you assemble your team to keep your voice healthy!
• You heart has a brain. No, seriously.
• This week's lesson: the four-step journey through your physical voice—impulse, breath, vibration, resonance. See vocal cords in action here.

Christine Schneider has been a pioneer for manual laryngeal therapy in the US for almost a decade. Her private practice in NYC, LifeLight Massage Therapy PLLC, specializes in laryngeal and TMJ treatments for professional voice users. Working alongside New York's top Laryngologists, Speech Pathologists and Voice teachers, she provides the manual component for vocal rehabilitation and vocal health maintenance. In addition to her practice, she created The Visceral Voice, a program and podcast which bring her passion and knowledge for vocal health and anatomy to the wide variety of vocal athletes throughout the world.

With the Barral Institute, Christine also has extensive training in Visceral Components of the Neck and Thorax, Visceral Manipulation, and Neuromeningeal Manipulation. Her other specializations include Myofascial Assessment and Release, Treatment of Whiplash and Related Disorders, and CranioSacral Therapy.

Graduating from Oklahoma City University with a Bachelor's in Music in both Vocal Performance and French Horn Performance, Christine's first expression of love for the voice was as a professional performer all around the world. She is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA, AEA, AGVA, and is a Voting Member for PAVA (Pan American Vocology Association). She is also The head of Research and on the Advisory Board for The Academy of Noise.

Julie and Casey chat with DC-based multipreneur, feminist business coach, and invisible labor expert Rachel Wynn about the feminine economy, the difference between emotional and invisible labor, who cleans out the fridge, and simple strategies for a division of labor at home that doesn't make you resent your partner. Along the way, they learn about the time when the USA had nationalized childcare and the definition of F.L.E.B.

TOP TAKEAWAYS:

• The Feminine Economy proposes a new model for doing business based in feminist principles: collaboration, interdependence, generosity, and equity.
• The US has a TERRIBLE track record of policies that actually help working women, pregnant people, and working families, but it wasn't always the case.
• The phrase "emotional labor" was coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild in her 1983 book The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, and refers to "a situation where the way a person manages his or her emotions is regulated by a work-related entity in order to shape the state of mind of another individual, such as a customer."
• Invisible labor refers to unpaid work that goes unnoticed, unacknowledged, and thus, unregulated. In recent years, "invisible labor" has become shorthand for the household maintenance and child-rearing activities that women, primarily in cisgender, heterosexual relationships, find themselves bearing the brunt of. This common usage gets its roots from the work of Berkeley sociologist Arlie Hochschild, says Cherry. Even as more women began working outside the home in the latter half of the 20th century, Hochschild found they were still picking up the bulk of household and childcare duties when they got home after their "official" work day. In 1989, Hochschild coined the term "the second shift" to describe that extra labor, which was generally unpaid and unrecognized. If you want to make a shift in the division of labor in your household, it's important to acknowledge the cultural factors at play and how society reinforces traditional gender roles (i.e. many men aren't taught how to do these things, but they can learn!). Then you can get clear on exactly what needs done (make a list!), and when dividing that list, make sure that it's equitable (it's not about the NUMBER of tasks, it's about the frequency and duration).
• Division of labor issues doesn't just affect cisgender, heterosexual couples, or families with children. These principles apply to all types of relationships, including roommates and business partners.
• Resources from Rachel: The Feminine Economy Model, Emma - You Should Have Asked, Overwhelmed

Rachel Wynn is a creative entrepreneur and founder of Starlight Social (est. 2015) where she and her team of 5 amazing women help businesses and brands implement social media and influencer strategies to drive website traffic, engagement, and follower growth.

While scaling her first business, Rachel launched Feminist Founder (est. 2016), where she offers feminist business coaching to help women get clarity on their dream entrepreneur lifestyle and create more balance in their homes through invisible labor consulting.

Wynn earned her B.A. in Business, Media, and Communications from Gettysburg College and has extensive experience in sales, event planning, and community management. She currently lives in a DC co-op near Malcolm X Park with her partner, David, and dog-child, Rufus on Piscataway territory that was stolen from the Nacotchtanks during North American colonization.

Julie and Casey sit down with Rahaf Harfoush, author of Hustle and Float to discuss her unusual journey to her speaking and writing career, reimagining work culture for creatives, burnout, and the impossible pursuit of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

TOP TAKEAWAYS

• Following the breadcrumbs of opportunity and listening to your intuition can lead you on some amazing adventures
• Burnout comes from trying to satisfy our obsession with productivity and our systems which were not designed for creatives. Burnout is real, and comes with a delightful range of scary physical and emotional symptoms.
• Just because you CAN do all the things doesn't mean you should.
• You are not your job. Your worth is not dependent on productivity or any other external signifier.
• Is Cordelia from Buffy the Vampire Slayer the ultimate example of authenticity?

Rahaf Harfoush is a Strategist, Digital Anthropologist, and Best-Selling Author who focuses on the intersections between emerging technology, innovation, and digital culture. She is the Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture and teaches "Innovation & Emerging Business Models" at Sciences Politique's school of Management and Innovation in Paris. She is currently working on her fourth book.

Her third book, entitled "Hustle & Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work," was released in 2019. She has been featured by Bloomberg, The CBC, CTV, and Forbes for her work on workplace culture.

Formerly, Rahaf was the Associate Director of the Technology Pioneer Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva where she helped identify disruptive-startups that were improving the state of the world.

Rahaf is the co-author of "The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know your Customers" It was published in early 2014 and was listed on both the New York Times and USA Today best seller lists. It won a 2015 Gold Axiom Award for Best Business Technology Book. The Decoded Company explores how big data is providing an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to dramatically improve their decision making, increase their performance and, most importantly, intentionally create happy and vibrant work cultures.

Julie and Casey sit down with Maria Yuan of Issue Voter to talk all things political engagement: the what, the how and the impact.

TOP TAKEAWAYS

• How Issue Voter can help you sift through and engage with your reps and what's important to you.
• Why the primaries are a critical time to choose candidates that represent you
• Forget petitions- Maria tells us what and who your reps are really listening for (it might not be what you think).
• What to say to your reps to get them to pay attention to issues you care about.
• How issues with overwhelming voter support can still fail in congress.

Julie gives a short lesson at the end on the art and power of debate, and the two elements that are crucial to balance.

Bio: Maria Yuan is passionate about fixing significant, systemic problems by leveraging creativity and determination to achieve world-changing results and impact. As the Founder of IssueVoter, our mission is to give everyone a voice in our representative democracy. Individuals from all 435 Congressional Districts already use IssueVoter and we have sent over two million alerts to individuals and opinions back to Congress. IssueVoter has motivated Americans to vote, stay informed, and make their voices heard between elections, when the real work that affects our lives gets done. IssueVoter also collaborates with organizations to engage and activate their communities in impactful ways.

Maria's political experience includes introducing and passing a bill as a constituent, working for a Representative, and managing and winning one of the most targeted races in Iowa - an open seat in a swing district. Maria's professional experience includes investment banking, strategy, corporate development, recruiting, social enterprise, and consulting. She currently serves on the Bridge Alliance Board of Directors and Keep Families Giving Foundation Advisory Board and has served on the boards of Gibney Dance, The University of Texas Co-Op, and Friends of the Children New York.

Maria's interviews and writing have appeared in Real Clear Politics, The Hill, PBS, MTV, Fast Company, and more, and she has spoken at conferences, companies, and universities across the U.S. on civic engagement, technology, and democracy. Maria earned degrees from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and The University of Texas at Austin.

Julie and Casey chat with Tech Humanist, Optimistic Futurist, and in-demand keynote speaker Kate O'Neill about the future of technology. As the lines between the digital and physical worlds blur, as AI, automation, algorithms, and data mining increasingly affect our lives, how can we prepare for the future? Along the way, Kate gives us insight into virtual presenting, what it's like to go viral, why you should think pretty hard before posting those "viral challenges", and revealing hidden truths without feeding conspiracy theories.

TOP TAKEAWAYS:

• Optimism is not about ignoring the bad stuff, it's about envisioning and working towards the good.
• Virtual Keynotes are a great leveler and an opportunity for more immediate and purposeful audience connection.
• Every opportunity to be authentic is a strategic choice.
• How can we expect to build products for all of humanity if we don't have a wide representation of human experience in the room?
• Data is important because humans create data, and because it represents what we find meaningful. We need to get savvier about how companies are using our data, and about what we give them to use.
• Sometimes, you gotta reject "A to Z" in favor of "A to . . . Kumquat"

Kate O'Neill is known as "the Tech Humanist." She is helping humanity prepare for an increasingly tech-driven future by teaching business how to make technology that's better for humans.

Kate has led innovations across technology, marketing, and operations for more than 20 years in companies from startups to Fortune 500s. Among her prior achievements, she created the first content management role at Netflix; developed Toshiba America's first intranet; led cutting-edge online optimization work at Magazines.com; was founder & CEO of [meta]marketer, a first-of-its-kind analytics and digital strategy agency; and held leadership and advisory positions in a variety of digital content and technology startups.

Kate is a favorite keynote speaker for audiences of leaders from companies such as Google, Etsy, Coca Cola, McDonald's, Cisco, Adobe, Kelly Services, and Charles Schwab, as well as the city of Amsterdam, the University of Cambridge, and the United Nations. Her insights and expertise have been featured in outlets like WIRED, and she has appeared as an expert commentator on the likes of BBC, NPR, Marketplace, and NBC News.

Kate now lives in New York City, where she writes prolifically and contributes to numerous outlets on an eclectic array of topics, but her primary focus as both a writer and speaker is on the future of meaningful human experiences. Kate's most recent book is Tech Humanist: How You Can Make Technology Better for Business and Better for Humans, and she now hosts a weekly live program and podcast called The Tech Humanist Show.

More about Kate: www.koinsights.com

Follow Kate on Twitter: @kateo

Watch/listen to The Tech Humanist: https://www.thetechhumanist.com

Julie and Casey sit down with Cindy Gallop to learn the secret to saying what you really think. Along the way they discuss all kinds of "taboo" subjects, including ageism, anger, the future of porn and social sex, what the tech bros get so very wrong, why Cindy can't get funding for her world-changing startup, and how she plans to bring about world peace.

TOP TAKEAWAYS —

• Be your own filter to attract "your" people and repel the ones who don't get you.
• The future of business is doing good and making money simultaneously.
• Her company, Make Love/Not Porn, came out of her real-life experience with the consequences of the convergence of two real world problems: our inability to talk about sex, and the ubiquitousness of access to hard core pornography. Her giant goal is to socialize real world sex and good sexual practices and values, so that we can talk about it both in public and in private.
• When you concept a venture around existing bias and prejudices, you only reenforce them. You have to build the future into your product from the beginning, and you design with enormous respect for your community.
• Ageism affects EVERYONE at every single point along the age spectrum.
• "Sexual harassment has kept out of leadership and power the women leaders who would MAKE diversity and inclusion happen"—and it's time to both legitimize women's anger and encourage men to get angry about it too.
• Identify your values so that you can act upon them - then, instead of worrying about being brave or feeling confident, you simply act in the way that honors that.
• Women should "bullshit like the men do", because chances are, you'll just finally be giving your talent, experience, and brilliance what they're worth.
• VITAL VOICE TRAINING COMMUNICATION SKILL: Define your communication core values to understand your habits and make powerful choices to show up the way you want to be seen in the world.

Cindy's 2017 Keynote for the 3% Conference— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruowB5L33gY

Cindy's TED Talk— https://www.ted.com/talks/cindy_gallop_make_love_not_porn

CINDY GALLOP is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, whose background is over 30 years in brand-building, marketing and advertising - she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. She is the founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, co-action software launched in beta at TED 2010 and subsequently written up and taught as a Harvard Business School case study, which enables brands to implement the business model of the future – Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit (financial and social). She is also the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn – 'Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference' - a social sextech platform designed to promote good sexual behavior and good sexual values, which she launched at TED 2009, and for which she has raised $2million to build out mlnp.tv as 'the Social Sex Revolution'. As a result of the funding challenges she has encountered, she is raising the world's first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings. She acts as board advisor to a number of tech ventures and works as a personal brand/life/executive coach and a consultant on brand and business innovation for companies around the world, describing her consultancy approach as 'I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.' BusinessInsider named her one of 15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today, alongside Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin, and cited her as number 33 on their list of 100 Most Influential Tech Women On Twitter, and number one on their list of Top 30 People In Advertising To Follow On Twitter. Campaign named her number one on their list of Top 10 Trailblazers for both 2016 and 2017 and number two in 2018. She has a reputation as a highly compelling and inspirational speaker at conferences and events around the world on a variety of topics: her talks on the future of advertising and marketing have been tweeted as: 'The most brilliant speech on the future of advertising ever – not the usual buzzword-laden bullshit'; 'Watching @cindygallop slice and dice the ad industry status quo like a ginsu knife. #purewin'; and 'There must be a DeLorean parked outside, because Cindy Gallop is from the FUTURE!' InfluencerCon NYC introduced her as 'Cindy Gallop is the truth Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise he couldn't handle.' Together with Susan Credle of FCB and Margaret Johnson of Goodby, Cindy is one of three Campaign Review Committee chairs for the AdCouncil in the US, helping to make the work great. Cindy is an outspoken advocate of diversity and inclusion in advertising, tech and business - she was Jury President at CannesLions 2015 for the inaugural Glass Lion awards, proposed by Sheryl Sandberg to celebrate advertising that shatters gender stereotypes in advertising, and in 2017 was turned by digital agency R/GA into a chatbot for Equal Pay Day that helps women ask for a raise – search AskCindyGallop on Facebook and chat to CindyBot on Facebook Messenger. Cindy recently partnered with AARP on their DisruptAging initiative to challenge and change ageism. Cindy has published 'Make Love Not Porn: Technology's Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior' as one of TED's line of TEDBooks. You can follow her on Twitter @cindygallop.