Women Leaders on the Move - by HerCsuite® Radio

In today's episode, special guest Heather Tolley-Bauer, a stand-up comic, cancer survivor, and super mom, offers a fresh perspective on how we can leverage the power of laughter to overcome our personal challenges. She urges us to embrace the humorous side of life, even during tough times in this conversation.

Thank you Heather for being a guest on HerCsuite® Radio and helping us laugh at the small stuff especially this time of year! Big thanks to Bobbie Carlton and Innovation Women, where we met Heather Tolley-Bauer.

About Our Guest:

Heather Tolley-Bauer is a wife, mom, cancer survivor, speaker and stand-up comic. Everything she does is with women in mind.  From her wildly popular show called Laugh-Lines & Stretch Marks to the women's conferences and moms night outs she speaks at and performs for, it's all about encouraging women one laugh at a time.

Connect with Heather Tolley-Bauer:

• Heather’s go to place for a laugh: Noodles the Pooch
• Hyphenup
• Instagram
• LinkedIn

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HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Wendi Brown, Founder and CEO,  iSupportYou LLC, shares her insights on how to thrive in these adverse conditions with host Natalie Benamou. Discussing her transition from military to corporate life, Wendi emphasizes the importance of authenticity, leadership, and resilience. Her new book, Leadership Confidence vs Confidence: Do You Know the Difference? 10 Proven Strategies on How to EXCEL and THRIVE in a Toxic Workplace, provides practical strategies for excelling even in challenging situations.

Thank you Wendi for being a featured guest on our podcast, and a valued member and speaker for HerCsuite®! Shoutout to our speaker bureau Innovation Women and Speaker Friend Fridays where we met!

About Our Guest:

Faced with adversity early in her military career, Wendi’s life changed when a mentor said she was a lamb in a lion’s world. She needed to defend herself or else get destroyed. Wendi strategized being successful in cut-throat, toxic, and competitive situations. She discovered 10 crucial strategies for incredible success.

Wendi became a senior officer in the U.S. Army Reserve who routinely executed duties in the role of a Chief Strategist. Wendi advised at the highest levels of leadership in U.S. and global governments, including NATO.  As a successful Chief Strategist, she has proven leadership experience in risk management, crisis management, and strategic and operations planning.

Connect with Wendi Brown:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Facebook

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Theresia Intag, Founder and CEO of IntagHire and co-founder of Tag4HR, offers insights into business growth with host Natalie Benamou. Theresia offers advice on overcoming self-doubt and the importance of maintaining an abundant mindset.

We thank Theresia for being a featured guest, speaker and member of HerCsuite® Entrepreneur mastermind program. Special thanks to Anastasia Lipske and Access Speakers for introducing us to Theresia Intag!

About Our Guest:

Theresia Intag, Founder and CEO of IntagHire, Co-Founder of Tag4HR, has deep experience in Human Resources. Theresia has worked with amazing brands from tech giants to startups. Theresia values innovation, flexibility for life’s challenges, and creating human spaces in business. Theresia’s a 2023 Impact Award finalist for Vistage, a global CEO network.

Connect with Theresia Intag:

• IntagHire
• LinkedIn

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, Cait Donovan, an international speaker, author, and acupuncturist, discusses burnout with host Natalie Benamou. Cait found a unique method to regain control: who'd have guessed that a resentment journal could provide powerful insights into our personal boundaries?

Special thanks to Cait for being a featured guest on our podcast today and to our alliance partner Bobbie Carlton, Founder of Innovation Women.

About Our Guest:

Cait Donovan is an International Keynote Speaker, author, host of “Fried – The Burnout Podcast,” author of the book The Bouncebackability Factor, and an acupuncturist with a master’s degree in Chinese medicine. Her creative burnout recovery solutions have been featured on podcasts and online magazines such as “Forbes”, “NPR,” and “The New York Post”.

Connect with Cait Donovan:

• Website
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Podcast

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, Claire Chandler, President and Founder of Talent Boost, discusses growth on purpose with host Natalie Benamou. Join us as we explore how Claire is helping businesses to grow purposefully by aligning their culture and leadership.

Connect with Claire Chandler:

• Website
• Talent Boost
• LinkedIn
• Growth on Purpose Road Map

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Sally Wolf, CEO and Founder of LightWorks, embraces positivity and resilience with host Natalie Benamou. Sally shares her personal journey living with metastatic breast cancer and her career journey after a successful media career.

When we recorded this interview it was on World Gratitude day. We are so grateful to Sally Wolf for all the ways she shines her light out in the world.

Thank you Sally for sharing your story.

About Our Guest:

Sally Joy Wolf's company, LightWorks, advises corporate clients in their wellbeing strategies through executive advisory work, team workshops, and individual coaching. Her work integrates her studies at Harvard (AB, psychology) and Stanford (MBA, MA Education), her certifications in positive psychology, coaching, resilience, meditation, and Sparketype advising, and her lived experience with metastatic breast cancer. She also regularly speaks about authenticity, vulnerability, post-traumatic growth, resilience, and positivity, and advocates for health equity, inclusivity and safety, particularly on behalf of cancer survivors and those who are immunocompromised.

Connect with Sally Joy Wolf:

• Website
• LinkedIn

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Jen Pestikas, a Senior Vice President at a Chicagoland credit union, discusses journeys to leadership with host Natalie Benamou. Discover their step-by-step formula that includes ten strategies for winning leadership buy-in, developing a compelling business case, and mastering the art of self-promotion.

Thank you for spending your time with us today. If you found this episode helpful, we would be so grateful if you would rate and review and share it with a friend or colleague today. 

About Our Guest:

Jennifer Pestikas is a HerCsuite® Coach for Accelerate, Speaker, and Member and is a  bestselling author, and podcast host, and helps women advance through their careers. Jen’s superpower is negotiation! Just this year, she’s helped her coaching clients negotiate and bring in over $70,000 - and the final quarter isn’t over yet!

Connect with Jen Pestikas:

• Winning Leadership Buy-In - Workbook
• Winning Leadership Buy-In - Webinar Recording
• Brave Women at Work 
• LinkedIn

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Katie Horwitch explores the transformative power of self-talk with host Natalie Benamou. Katie talks about her new book WANT Your Self, released October 3rd. Dive deep into the importance of self-realization and empowerment through positive self-talk, and the significant role it plays in personal and professional growth.

About Our Guest:

Katie Horwitch is a nationally recognized writer, speaker, mindset coach, and activist who has spent over a decade working to shift the cultural self-talk paradigm.

She is the founder of the multimedia platform WANT: Women Against Negative Talk, which gives you tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk patterns, and the author of the new book WANT YOUR SELF: Shift Your Self-Talk and Unearth The Strength in Who You Were All Along.

Connect with Katie Horwitch:

• Women Against Negative Talk
• Website
• Want Your Self (Book)
• Women Against Negative Talk (Substack)
• Instagram
• WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Katherine Wintsch, Founder and CEO of the Mom Complex and author of the transformative book Slay Like a Mother, shares how she realized that companies weren’t understanding the true needs of their consumers after she became a mom. From breaking down barriers in the workplace to slaying the dragon of self-doubt, this episode is a powerful call to action for women and men to work together for better outcomes.

Thank you Katherine Wintsch for the important work you are doing for mothers and women and for being a guest today on HerCsuite® Radio!

About Our Guest:

Katherine Wintsch is the founder and CEO of The Mom Complex where she helps some of the largest companies in the world such as Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Pinterest, and Chobani develop better products and services for mothers. She is also the author of the popular book Slay Like a Mother – which Parade magazine recently named one of the “top 10 life-changing self-help books of the year.”

Katherine’s sought-after research on women and mothers has been featured by The Today Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Working Mother magazine.

Connect with Katherine Wintsch:

• Slay Like a Mother
• The Mom Complex
• Instagram 
• LinkedIn 
• Blog

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, special guest Lisa Sakai and host Natalie Benamou discuss bucket lists. Whether you're in your 20s, your 60s, or someplace in between, there's no time like the present to start manifesting your dreams into reality. Lisa shares valuable insights on how to turn your 'someday'  into tangible goals that you can start achieving today.

Thank you Lisa Sakai for being a featured guest today!

About Our Guest:

Lisa Sakai is a Financial Consultant who works with clients on Bucket List Acceleration and getting to live the life they want now. As the co-founder of One Vision Retirement, she has been working with clients across the country for over 12 years. Lisa's advice provides easy-to-understand, logical steps and exercises that people can take action on right away.

Connect with Lisa Sakai:

• One Vision Retirement
• LinkedIn

Keep shining your light bright. The world needs you.

HerCsuite® is a leadership network where women build what's next. Our members land board roles, grow businesses, lead the AI conversation, and live their best portfolio career with our programs. Join us at HerCsuite.com, or connect with host Natalie Benamou on LinkedIn.