Hi Everyone! Welcome back to Wise Women Once Said podcast! We were on a bit of a break but are excited to share this episode with you all where we dive into a topic that many professionals navigate frequently: work travel tips. Whether you’re a seasoned road warrior or new to corporate trips, we’ve got some invaluable insights to make your travels smoother, more productive, and even enjoyable!

In this episode, we cover practical strategies and thoughtful tips for work trips, including:

• The Power of Preparation: From planning your itinerary to packing smart, preparation is your best friend.
• Maximizing Rewards and Streamlining Travel: Build loyalty with airlines and hotels while choosing flights that save time and reduce stress.
• Packing with Purpose: Keep it light and functional to make moving through airports and cities effortless.
• Staying Healthy and Energized: Snack smarter, stay hydrated, and fit wellness into your travel routine.
• Turning Transit Time into Me Time: Use downtime at the gate or on the plane for productivity or personal growth.
• Getting the Inside Scoop: Why connecting with colleagues or locals before your trip can make all the difference.
• Keeping it Together: Track expenses and manage reimbursements seamlessly to avoid post-trip headaches

Whether traveling solo or with a group, preparation and setting boundaries are key to successful work trips. Stick around until the end for our top tips on staying organized and turning travel challenges into opportunities for personal and professional growth!

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Hi Everyone! Welcome back to Wise Women Once Said podcast! This week, we’re diving into a topic we all grapple with: navigating those tough, sometimes awkward conversations. Whether you're dealing with a work dilemma or a personal conflict, we’ve got you covered.

In this episode, we delve into effective strategies for managing these challenging conversations such as:

• Preparation is Key: How to come into tough conversations armed with talking points and evidence to make your case.
• Effective Communication: Why “I” and “we” statements work better than “you” statements and how to find common ground.
• Listening and Staying Cool: The power of listening more than you talk, staying calm, and not letting emotions drive the conversation.
• Keep It Professional: Don’t take things personally; remember business is business. Don’t let emotions take over or let hurtful comments get under your skin.
• Understand and Relate: Acknowledge the other person's viewpoint, show some vulnerability, and look for where you can agree.
• Descalation Techniques: If tensions rise, suggest taking a break or addressing the "elephant in the room" to keep the conversation genuine.
• Building Relationships: Avoid winning arguments at the expense of goodwill; focus on building bridges and understanding

Stick around until the end for our top tips on handling tough conversations and turning them into opportunities for growth.

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Hi Everyone! We hope you are having an amazing summer and welcome back to Wise Women Once Said! We have an important episode for you this week all about friendships because let's be honest, its hard to make friends as an adult!  Rachel and Paige have both had friendships (old and new) come in and out of thier life.  They provide their personal experience on how to navigate friendships through different seasons of life. 

In this episode, Rachel and Paige deep dive the following:

• reasons we outgrow friendships
• when you know which friends are there for a reason, season or a lifetime 
• when to take a pause from friendships
• how to not have resent in friendships 
• how to make new friends during different seasons of life 

Listen at the end for Paige and Rachel's top tips on making meaningful friendships. 

As always if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a rating or review wherever you listen!

Better yet, tell a friend about the podcast!

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Hi Everyone! Welcome back to Wise Women Once Said! We have an exciting episode for you this week all about how to use technology in your everyday tasks at work! Rachel and Paige are both mechanical engineers by degree but know there is substantial value and efficiency that can be realized when technology is integrated into your day to day.   Rachel and Paige are not technology experts by any means (in fact quite the opposite) however they deep dive how technology like AI can be used to help the ordinary career person. 

In this episode, Rachel and Paige deep dive the following:

• misconceptions about technology
• how to start using technology in different ways
• how AI can help your day job
• Ways to use AI 

Listen at the end for Paige and Rachel's top technology tips and tricks. 

As always if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a rating or review wherever you listen!

Better yet, tell a friend about the podcast!

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Hi Everyone! Welcome back to Wise Women Once Said and we have a milestone to celebrate this episode!   Paige recently finished her first year at her new job and she provides some reflections on this past year, the ups and downs and everything in between. Paige gets particularly candid about how her perfectionism hindered her growth and development in this new role and what she is doing today to overcome these perfectionist tendencies. Rachel is a fully recovered perfectionist and shares her perspectives and ways to get the job done even if its isn't (you guessed it) perfect!

In this episode, Rachel and Paige deep dive the following:

• Gaining clarity on your perfectonist tendencies
• How to overcome Perfectionism and embrace mistakes
• How Perfectionism can lead to procrastination
• Don't let Perfect be the enemy of Good or Good Enough

Listen at the end for Paige and Rachel's biggest revelation that helped them on the road to recovery of their perfectionism. 

As always if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a rating or review wherever you listen!

Better yet, tell a friend about the podcast!

If you are interested in learning more about Wise Women Once Said, connect with us on Instagram!  

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References: 

WebMD- How to Overcome Perfectionism

28 years of perfectionist tendencies from personal experience:) 

Hi Everyone! Welcome back to Wise Women Once Said and our first official episode with Paige and her new co-host Rachel! 2024 has big things in store for both Paige and Rachel as they both prepare to marry their fiancés later this year. Weddings and marriage can be overwhelming so Rachel and Paige break it down for you as they themselves work through planinng thier own wedding celebrations. 

This episode is helpful in gaining clarity and confidence in your wedding plans as Rachel and Paige deep dive the following:

• Establishing your wedding goals as a couple
• Pros and Cons of Elopements vs Weddings
• How to say YES to what YOU want and no to everything else!
• Handling Family Dynamics and Expectation

Listen at the end for Paige and Rachel's personal tips on planning your wedding while working full time (as it can often feel like its own full time job) plus our biggest takeaway from the wedding planning process!

As always if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a rating or review wherever you listen!

Better yet, tell a friend about the podcast!

If you are interested in learning more about Wise Women Once Said, connect with us on Instagram!  

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References: 

Zola.com

Lazy Genius Podcast by Kendra Adachi

Hi Everyone! We hope your new year is off to a great start! We are excited to kick off Wise Women Once Said Podcast with a BIG change in 2024!

This is definitely an eventual episode where Brooke and Paige deep dive the following:

• Reflections of 2023
• Catch up after the Holidays
• Setting goals for the new year 
• The Future of Wise Women Once Said 

Listen at the end for our BIG announcement in 2024!

As always if you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a rating or review wherever you listen

Better yet, tell a friend about the podcast!

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Welcome back everyone, we hope you had a wonderful holiday and New Year! We're so excited for you to listen to our guest Kathy. She's an exceptional human being with an amazing background of experience.

• Kathy has over 30 years of experience in STEM related fields
• She worked in Utilities for over 25 years as an Electrical Engineer
• She hosts a podcast called Ordinarily Extraordinary Conversations with Women in STEM

With such an incredible resume, this podcast went extra long because of all the questions and conversations we had. Be sure to tune in for the entire episode to learn about;

• How to thrive in a male dominated industry
• Taking leaps of faith in your career
• Change / Comfort Conundrum
• Giving Technical Presentations

If you enjoyed this episode let us know! We're always looking for more ways to provide value to the community. And check out Kathy's Podcast here: Ordinarily Extraordinary - Conversations with Women in STEM

Hey everyone! We're back with another amazing episode. Today Brooke and Paige interview a rising star in the computer science world, Mackenzie! 

Mackenzie's has one of the most impressive backgrounds we've ever had on the show!

• She took AP Computer Science in High School
• She started a non-profit while in High School
• She went to Villanova to study Computer Science and Philosophy
• National Center for Women in Information Technology award winner
• She studied at the University of Oxford in England for a semester in college
• She is now living in London and working on her PHD.

Did we mention she's only 24 years old!!

This episode was so fun and so insightful. We dive into:

• What is life like as a woman in Computer Science?
• How to find your STEM Community?
• How A.I. will change how we work in the future
• Is A.I. discriminatory against certian races/cultures?
• How will ChatGPT, OpenAI, Google Bard, affect humans in the future?

This is one of our favorite episodes to date so we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

As always, connect with us on Instagram @wisewomenoncesaidpodcast

Hello fellow listeners!

We're back with another episode talking all about Clean Energy, Climate Crises, and Sustainability. Claire talks about her experience graduating as an Environmental Sciences student at THE Ohio State University and later went on to get her Masters in Energy and Sustainability at Northwestern. Claire currently works at a MicroGrid Startup and is looking for other opportunities to help in sustainability and climate change.

Claire answers fascinating questions like:

• What comes first, the Electric Vehicles, or the EV Chargers?
• How much charging power do you need to drive a EV as your daily commuter?
• Is driving an EV a good financial decision?
• When is the right time for a city to replace their gas vehicles with EV's?
• How can you shop local and sustainable as a consumer?

If you're interested in Clean Energy, Electric Vehicles, and Sustainability, this episode is for you! If not, please consider sharing this with someone who would be interested!

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See you next week!

This podcast was originally recorded on May 1st, 2023. Some of the newsworth events might be out of date but the stories and insights are as valuable as ever!