Women Killing It!

Regina Huber, Founder and CEO of Transform Your Performance, shares how she is closing the confidence gap by helping women find confidence and empower themselves. Regina spent 18 years working in business in six different countries. She is now a transformational coach for women, an international speaker with a passion for dance, and the author of Speak Up, Stand Out and Shine: Speak Powerfully in Any Situation. She shares some of her best tools to trick your subconscious into a more confident state and to prepare mentally, physically, and energetically for challenging situations in business and life.

"You have to be true to yourself in order to find who you are and be who you're supposed to be. And that's really difficult to do." Fine art and commercial photographer Tamara Staples has had her work appear in Harper's Magazine, Time Out NY, New York Times, Men's Journal, O Magazine, New York Magazine and Town and Country to name a few. In this episode, Tamara talks with host Sally Hubbard about how she forged a photography career that ranges from chicken portraits to her current project, Side Effects May Include. Tamara chooses projects that excite and inspire her, and doesn't shy away from challenges or fear. Get inspired by Tamara's story of ignoring the naysayers and reaching the height of her profession!

"I learned at a very young age…that if I didn't use my voice, if I didn't raise my hand, if I didn't speak out for me, I was never going to get anywhere. So I dared to risk." Angelica has had a fascinating career, starting out as a young girl working at a gas station to becoming the CEO of a Mexican energy company at age 29 and serving on Secretary Clinton's International Council on Women's Business Leadership. Today, she is the Founder and CEO of skincare company A Complete, co-chair of Mexico's Gender Parity Task Force, member of the Private Sector Leadership Advisory Council of UN Women, creator of the Equal Invest gender equity investment fund, and a goal advocate for the UN foundation program Girl Up. Listen to hear Angelica's inspiring story of success and stepping into her own power.

Jessica Lin is the Co-founder and General Partner of Work-Bench, an enterprise-focused venture fund and community in New York City. Work-Bench is rethinking enterprise VC and working to support more women in tech, building a hub to connect what Jessica calls "our suits and hoodies"— Fortune 500 companies and startups. Women only get 2% of venture funding, so Jessica is passionate about supporting more women founders. On this episode, Jessica shares how learning to embrace what sets her apart and creating community has been critical for her career path.

"Life is about risk in order to gain the reward." Alicia Tillman is the Chief Marketing Officer of SAP, the global market leader in enterprise software. Reaching the C-Suite in itself is a huge accomplishment when women account for only 18% of C-Suite executives, and Alicia has done it. Alicia speaks to the importance of collaboration and teamwork in creating success for herself and for the companies she has worked for. In fact, she believes that collaboration and other skills that typically come naturally to women are needed in today's environment for success and better business outcomes. In this episode Alicia also shares advice, including best strategies for prioritization and how to easily get mentors.

Victoria Fram, Co-founder and Managing Director of VilCap Investments and Allie Burns, Managing Director of Village Capital are funding and supporting startups that change the world – companies that make a profit and a difference. They're focusing on sustainable agriculture and energy, and increasing affordable access to education, financial services, and healthcare to create the world they want to see. 40% of the companies they support were founded or co-founded by women. Victoria and Allie share their career paths and provide pearls of wisdom, including: "Don't waste your time with people who don't believe in you."

"My mother would always say to me the fruit is always out on the limb, and so you may have to stretch yourself a little bit. That's where you actually get to grow." Tamika Tremaglio, Greater Washington Managing Principal for Deloitte, talks the importance of getting uncomfortable, and why being authentic, grateful, and present are key to success. Sally and Tamika discuss the difference between mentorship and sponsorship and how to create advisory boards or "squads" to help you. Hear about Tamika's inspiring career path and her wisdom learned on her path to success.

Jen Crozier, President of the IBM Foundation and Vice President of IBM Corporate Citizenship, shares the importance of living with intention. In college, Jen planned on becoming a professor of linguistics. But she worked at IBM for a summer gig and fell in love with all the amazing people and the important inventing, building, and designing work they were doing. In this episode, Jen shares why people pleasing is a real derailment to success, the importance of putting energy into bigger, higher-level things, and the best advice one of her mentors gave her.

Hear why Nilofer Merchant, author of The Power of Onlyness, believes each of us has the power to reshape the world – and learn how to do it! "Onlyness at its simplest level means that each of us, every single one of us, has a chance to add value to the world… Each of us stands in a spot in the world only you stand in. It's a function of your history and experience, visions and hopes."

Nilofer Merchant is an author and speaker based in Silicon Valley who has personally launched more than 100 products, netting $18 billion in sales, and has held executive positions at everywhere from Fortune 500 companies like Apple and Autodesk to startups. Her latest book, THE POWER OF ONLYNESS: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World shares her expertise to reveal new ways of connecting our ideas to the world around us.

If you build on the unique perspective that only you have and connect with others who share your purpose and passions, you have the power to dent the world. Listen and get inspired!

Klyn Elsbury is the author of I Am _____: The Untold Story of Success and co-founder of Landmark Makers. Klyn got the idea for her book when she was sitting in her hospital bed struggling with cystic fibrosis. She had lost most of her lung function and as she was laying there, she decided that instead of watching TV she was going to get on LinkedIn and reach out to some amazing people. That led to her book, which is a series of mindsets, events, and stories that anyone can use to hit their next level of success, whatever that means for them. On this inspiring episode, Klyn shares some of the lessons she learned from the people she interviewed and from her own life experiences, including why it's important to go all in in life and that there is advantage in adversity.