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Please join host Barbara Trautlein as she interviews Newsha Ghodsi, who shares stories (and quotes – like the one in the title!) about her career rising through the refinery ranks to achieve her current position as Operations Manager responsible for leading over 200 union and salaried employees to conduct safe, compliant, and reliable plant operations. Newsha talks about career challenges and key learnings spanning from dealing with difficult people to challenging status quo to changing culture. She offers relevant and real-world tips for career advancement including the benefits of focusing on broadening and exploring interests verses on promotions, proactively pursuing career discussions with managers and mentors to see what’s out there for you, and doing what interests you instead of what you think you need to do to move up. Newsha’s bottom-line advise: speak-up for what you believe in, and never give up!

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Paige Kassalen understands the next generation of mobility. As the Market Analyst for the Future of Mobility at Covestro, Paige is not just a trend watcher but also a trend setter. At the age of 22, Paige was the only female engineer and only American on the ground crew for the world’s first solar-powered flight team, the Solar Impulse 2 (Si2). Paige challenges herself to always move out of her comfort zone. As one of Forbes 30 under 30, Paige is an active advocate, inspiring the next generation to pursue careers in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics). Her challenge to us all is to pay it forward with a compliment. Tune into Taking Flight in Manufacturing to hear Paige’s inspiring story.

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Host Linda Rigano welcomes guest Jami Bliss, Global Head, Procurement Center of Excellence at GSK to Women And Manufacturing. In this conversation Linda and Jami discuss techniques for finding a mentor and why mentorship should be a two way street. Jami also talks about the importance of doing work that supports something you can feel good about, why women hold back when they don't see themselves as a 100% match for an opportunity and other challenges women face. Spend some time with two accomplished women on this episode of Women And Manufacturing.

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The definition of self motivation is the ability to do what needs to be done, without influence from other people or situations. How do you keep motivated when we can quickly and easily be overwhelmed? Andrea Olson and Desiree Grace dive into the ways to stay self motivated, tricks to keep momentum, avoiding obstacles, and ways to maintain balance without burnout.

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What can women do to set themselves up for success in traditionally male-dominated fields? Learn to play golf! Why? If that’s the historical norm in your industry, men will appreciate the effort to embrace their traditions – and women will learn more about their colleagues than in any meeting! That’s some of the real-world, in-the-trenches advice shared by Anne Bigane Wilson, President of Bigane Paving, a fourth generation family firm specializing in asphalt paving, and Ogden Avenue Materials, Inc., an asphalt manufacturing plant, based on her decades of experience as an engineer and then owner of her businesses. Join Anne and host Barbara Trautlein, Chief Catalyst at Change Catalysts, as they explore how women can help themselves and help other women have enriching careers they love.

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On this episode of Women And Manufacturing, host Jennifer McNelly welcomes Altheha Drepaul, Key Account Manager with Ajax Metal Forming Solutions located in Fridley, MN. Follow Altheha’s journey from Ghana to the U.S. in search of the American dream, spurred on by her mother’s words “Every disappointment is a setup for something greater.”

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Join us for a candid conversation between Women And Manufacturing hosts Linda Rigano and Jennifer McNelly as they look back at Ms. McNelly’s humble beginnings and illustrious career in manufacturing. From her rural upbringing to the U.S. Department of Labor, serving on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's Manufacturing Research and Development Working Group to president of The National Manufacturing Institute where she led efforts to elevate the national dialogue on manufacturing with research. Jennifer is the very definition of an accomplished woman in manufacturing and this conversation between two WAM hosts is an intimate look at her amazing past and bright future.

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Amanda Dunlap from Abrasive West LLC, is a second generational manufacturing company that specializes in tungsten carbide inserts for the medical industry and OEM’s. We will discuss her journey running her father’s company, growing that company and her experience in navigating those aspects. Amanda was picked to be a part of Goldman Sachs 10,000 small business program and learned first hand skills on negotiation, marketing, employee management and how to immediately put it into action. Dunlap will discuss that program, her personal growth and how she has infused that cohort into her strategic growth plan to take her company to the next level.

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How do you motivate your team? Is it by incentives, recognition, promotion, or something else? Your employees aren’t assets or “human capital” - they are people, driven in a variety of ways. Andrea Olson and Desiree Grace dive into the real impact on motivation and the bottom line, how to motivate your team, what drives loyalty, the ways to increase employee retention and the drivers for stellar performance.

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Please join host Barbara Trautlein as she interviews Javeria Atique, and they journey together from oil and gas rigging job sites to the hallowed halls of academia. Javi encourages experimenting in one’s career, much like an engineer experiments on-the- job, and to invest in intentional self-advocacy and in building a supportive network. She is an engineer by training finishing her MBA with experience in industries ranging from energy to automotive to consumer goods. You'll benefit from hearing her reflections on her career challenges and her reactions to challenging comments from male colleagues – and moreover from her grounded, actionable insights.

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