In today’s episode, founder and author, Claire Wasserman, shares her insights and wisdom described in her book and platform, Ladies Get Paid. Claire champions the advancement of women and is a highly sought-after expert for Fortune 500 companies. She’s taught thousands of women how to negotiate millions of dollars in raises, start businesses, and advocate for themselves. Motivated by a friend’s experience uncovering a serious difference between men and women’s salaries, Claire is an educator and an advocate for women everywhere, teaching them how to advocate for themselves. Named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women, Claire is sharing with us how to know what to ask and get paid. 

As women, conversations about money have been hiding behind closed doors. This conversation with host Natalie Benamou and Claire Wasserman opens the door and shows you how to start talking about money and knowing your worth. 

What to Ask:

Claire recommends getting the conversations started:

• What’s your salary range?
• If you work for an agency-ask about the value or your contribution to the company. For example, ask how much was the campaign worth they signed for?
• Include your contribution value when negotiating your salary

Stop

• Hiding from conversations about money; it’s a disservice to yourself and everyone
• Questioning your work and your value
• Equating self-worth to net-worth

Start

• Being a self-advocate
• Thinking big
• Combining activism with doing well for yourself and other women

Thank you, Claire Wasserman, for this conversation, your advocacy and for opening the doors to talking about money in a way to help women achieve gender parity.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Harvard Business Review article: The Average Mid-Forties Male College Graduate Earns 55% More Than His Female Counterparts

Claire Wasserman Founder and Author Ladies Get Paid

LinkedIn: Claire Wasserman

Website: Ladies Get Paid & Claire Wasserman

Instagram: Claire Wasserman

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.

HerCsuite™ is an online membership platform where executive women meet, engage and thrive together in personalized board of directors advisory circles.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™.

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It is a gift when we encounter leaders like Anna Maria Chávez, who inspire us all to level up our dreams and strive to contribute to the greater good. Anna Maria Chávez is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer at National School Boards Association, an organization with over 90,000 elected school board members. Imagine the magnitude this role has had during the pandemic and she took it on in June 2020! Staying true to who she is as an authentic leader, Anna has led NSBA as she has done so for other organizations, with authenticity and a desire to make an impact. Inspired by her mother who served on the school board, Anna shares how important serving on a school board is in our communities.

We have in our power to create lasting change, and this discussion with host Natalie Benamou and Anna Maria Chávez will inspire you to pay it forward so that the next generation of leaders knows what is possible.

How to Lead Authentically:

● Stay focused on what’s important.

● Be a mentor and pay it forward.

● Leaning in and taking a chance doesn’t have to be starting your own business but it does mean living your authentic self.

● Leadership is about transformation and innovation.

Thank you to Anna Maria Chávez for this interview, for your leadership at the NSBA and all the ways you are paving the way forward for us all.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

LinkedIn: Anna Maria Chávez Website: NSBA

Anna Maria Chávez Executive Director and CEO National School Boards Association

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.

HerCsuite™ is an online membership platform where executive women meet, engage and thrive together in personalized board of directors advisory circles.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou HerPower2 Lead HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos. Listeners can get your free 30 day trial here

Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!

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We have in our power to create lasting change, and this discussion with host Natalie Benamou and Anna Maria Chávez will inspire you to pay it forward so that the next generation of leaders knows what is possible.

How to Lead Authentically:

● Stay focused on what’s important.

● Be a mentor and pay it forward.

● Leaning in and taking a chance doesn’t have to be starting your own business but it does mean living your authentic self.

● Leadership is about transformation and innovation.

Thank you to Anna Maria Chávez for this interview, for your leadership at the NSBA and all the ways you are paving the way forward for us all.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Girl Scouts
• National Council on Aging 
• Ban Bossy

LinkedIn: Anna Maria Chávez
Website: NSBA

Anna Maria Chávez Executive Director and CEO National School Boards Association

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.

HerCsuite™ is an online membership platform where executive women meet, engage and thrive together in personalized board of directors advisory circles.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou HerPower2 Lead HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos. Listeners can get your free 30 day trial here

Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!

Let's enjoy walking and listening to this interview with Carolyn Buck Luce, inventor of The Decade Game®, co-founder Imaginal Labs LLC. Carolyn is a culture shifter, talent innovator, executive coach and speaker shares how women need to stand up for their power and their purpose. Carolyn has been a diplomat in the Soviet Union, an international and Wall Street banker who reinvented herself and created The Decade Game®. One of the amazing things about The Decade Game® is Carolyn can trace its origins from when she was 8 years old. Carolyn has been on a journey of reinvention and showing women how to choose to be epic.

Listen to this conversation with host Natalie Benamou and Carolyn Buck Luce as they discuss how you can rewrite your future starting today.

Get Started with Choosing to be Epic:

Other Inspirational Notes:

Create meaning for others in 3 ways:

"There is no such thing as the wrong move. It's only the next move." - Carolyn Buck Luce

Song by Maura Rampolla on YouTube: “I’m Gonna Love You”

LinkedIn: Carolyn Buck Luce Facebook: The Decade Game® Websites: 

Carolyn Buck Luce, inventor of The Decade Game®, co-founder Imaginal Labs LLC

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.

HerCsuite™ is an online membership platform where executive women meet, engage and thrive together in personalized board of directors advisory circles.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou - HerPower2 Lead - HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos. Listeners can get your free 30 day trial here

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Let's enjoy walking and listening to this interview with Carolyn Buck Luce, inventor of The Decade Game®, co-founder Imaginal Labs LLC. Carolyn is a culture shifter, talent innovator, executive coach and speaker shares how women need to stand up for their power and their purpose. Carolyn has been a diplomat in the Soviet Union, an international and Wall Street banker who reinvented herself and created The Decade Game®. One of the amazing things about The Decade Game® is Carolyn can trace its origins from when she was 8 years old. Carolyn has been on a journey of reinvention and showing women how to choose to be epic.

Listen to this conversation with host Natalie Benamou and Carolyn Buck Luce as they discuss how you can rewrite your future starting today.

Get Started with Choosing to be Epic:

1. Commit to being epic by making the choice.
2. Be the heroine of your own story.
3. Center on the fact that it is your choice to be Epic.

Other Inspirational Notes:

• Imagine what would be the most epic identity that reflected your greatest power, 10 years from now.
• Visualize how you will know yourself and be known by people you love.
• Embrace that identity and make it as epic and bold as possible.
• Stop waiting for something to happen, for something to change.
• When thinking about the past year with COVID-19 rethink it as happening for you, not to you.

Create meaning for others in 3 ways:

1. Go inside yourself and listen to what's longing to happen.
2. Listen closely to the people who you love and say, what can I do that matters to them?
3. Commit to your own mastery and that requires you to lean into what's really longing to happen.

"There is no such thing as the wrong move. It's only the next move." - Carolyn Buck Luce

Song by Maura Rampolla on YouTube: “I’m Gonna Love You”

LinkedIn: Carolyn Buck Luce
Facebook: The Decade Game®
Websites: 

• Decade Game
• The Decade Game with Imaginal Labs
• Imaginal Labs

Carolyn Buck Luce, inventor of The Decade Game®, co-founder Imaginal Labs LLC

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.

HerCsuite™ is an online membership platform where executive women meet, engage and thrive together in personalized board of directors advisory circles.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™.

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou - HerPower2 Lead - HerCsuite™

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Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!!

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Let's take a walk and listen to this interview with Pattie Grimm, speaker, trainer, coach, and author of, "Quiet Women Never Changed History," and shares five best practices that all women need to do. Pattie started her career as a teacher then after being laid off due to budget cuts, went from being a part-time teller to one of the youngest female vice-presidents for a big California bank by age 28. It was at that time that she decided to quit and start her own business. In 1998 she was hired by Microsoft and in 2010, 2011 faced a health scare that almost ended her career. Since then she has made it her mission to help women help themselves.  

Listen to this conversation with host Natalie Benamou and Pattie Grimm as they discuss action steps you can take today.

5 Best Practices Every Woman Should Do:

1.  Be strong, play of your strengths, find roles and opportunities that fit your strengths so that you can be more productive.

2.  Stand up-and you need someone to stand on.

3. Stand out, be valuable, be visible and be vocal.

4. Put yourself number one on your things to do list

5. Pay it Forward by lifting other women up.

"You have to fill yourself up and take time to invest in yourself, your own self-care." -Pattie Grimm

Positive Inspiration:

Dr. Susan David author of #1 Wall Street Best Seller, "Emotional Agility" amazing YouTube videos about the dangers of being overly positive.

Pattie Grimm is an author, speaker, trainer, and coach. Get a copy of Pattie's book on her website, “Quiet Women Never Changed History”. 

LinkedIn: Pattie Grimm

Email [email protected] to get free PDF.

Facebook: Women Kicking Glass

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.

HerCsuite™ is an online membership platform where executive women meet, engage and thrive together in personalized board of directors advisory circles.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™. 

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou HerPower2 Lead HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos.  Listeners can get your free 30 day trial here

Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!!

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Let's take a walk and listen to this interview with Pattie Grimm, speaker, trainer, coach, and author of, "Quiet Women Never Changed History," and shares five best practices that all women need to do. Pattie started her career as a teacher then after being laid off due to budget cuts, went from being a part-time teller to one of the youngest female vice-presidents for a big California bank by age 28. It was at that time that she decided to quit and start her own business. In 1998 she was hired by Microsoft and in 2010, 2011 faced a health scare that almost ended her career. Since then she has made it her mission to help women help themselves.  

Listen to this conversation with host Natalie Benamou and Pattie Grimm as they discuss action steps you can take today.

5 Best Practices Every Woman Should Do:

1.  Be strong, play of your strengths, find roles and opportunities that fit your strengths so that you can be more productive.

2.  Stand up-and you need someone to stand on.

3. Stand out, be valuable, be visible and be vocal.

4. Put yourself number one on your things to do list

5. Pay it Forward by lifting other women up.

"You have to fill yourself up and take time to invest in yourself, your own self-care." -Pattie Grimm

Positive Inspiration:

Dr. Susan David author of #1 Wall Street Best Seller, "Emotional Agility" amazing YouTube videos about the dangers of being overly positive.

Pattie Grimm is an author, speaker, trainer, and coach. Get a copy of Pattie's book on her website, “Quiet Women Never Changed History”. 

LinkedIn: Pattie Grimm

Email [email protected] to get free PDF.

Facebook: Women Kicking Glass

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.

HerCsuite™ is an online membership platform where executive women meet, engage and thrive together in personalized board of directors advisory circles.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™. 

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou HerPower2 Lead HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos.  Listeners can get your free 30 day trial here

Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!!

Suzanne Coonan, Senior Executive Coach for a Fortune 10 company shares insights on how to make career decisions and lead during difficult times. In this episode, Suzanne shares with Natalie Benamou, how to develop resilience in order to be able to thrive in evolving times.

Episode Key Points:

-How to recognize opportunities and decide to go for it

- Get clear on what your values and priorities are

- During difficult time it is important to focus on taking care of yourself to be able to take care of others

- Figure out what you need to move into future

- Be creative and open to new ways of doing things

Positive Inspiration

"If you can put yourself in a place where you're experiencing positive emotions, you're going to perform better and our emotions are contagious."

 Doris Kearns Goodwin on what we can learn from presidents on leadership past president in history. 

One of the quotes that got Suzanne through difficult times is from Howard Thurman, especially when times are really difficult is he says, “Don't ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”

Reach out to Suzanne Coonan on LinkedIn.

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.LinkedIn Connections

HerCsuite™ is an online advisory and networking platform for executive women leaders.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™. 

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou  HerPower2 Lead  HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos.  Listeners can get your free 30 day trial here

Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!!

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Suzanne Coonan, Senior Executive Coach for a Fortune 10 company shares insights on how to make career decisions and lead during difficult times. In this episode, Suzanne shares with Natalie Benamou, how to develop resilience in order to be able to thrive in evolving times.

Episode Key Points:

-How to recognize opportunities and decide to go for it

- Get clear on what your values and priorities are

- During difficult time it is important to focus on taking care of yourself to be able to take care of others

- Figure out what you need to move into future

- Be creative and open to new ways of doing things

Positive Inspiration

"If you can put yourself in a place where you're experiencing positive emotions, you're going to perform better and our emotions are contagious."

 Doris Kearns Goodwin on what we can learn from presidents on leadership past president in history. 

One of the quotes that got Suzanne through difficult times is from Howard Thurman, especially when times are really difficult is he says, “Don't ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”

Reach out to Suzanne Coonan on LinkedIn.

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.LinkedIn Connections

HerCsuite™ is an online advisory and networking platform for executive women leaders.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™. 

LinkedIn: Natalie Benamou  HerPower2 Lead  HerCsuite™

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos.  Listeners can get your free 30 day trial here

Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Business Podcast Editor for editing our podcast!!

Have you been thinking about landing a paid board role? Host Natalie Benamou interviews Naomi Kent, President, North America - In Touch Networks, The world leader in career transition.   Naomi got her start serving on boards in London and has had an extensive career serving in a variety of board roles. Take a walk and discover what you need to get a paid board role!

Episode Key Points:

- Corporate board roles oversee the CEO of a company.

- Having the proper pitch for a board position is critical to landing a paid board role

- Non-profit versus corporate boards - what you need to know.

- The differences in public versus private companies.

Naomi Kent, President of North America - In Touch Networks is the world leader in career transition.  Naomi is also a member of HerCsuite™.  Find out more about the partnership between HerCsuite™ and In Touch Networks at HerCsuite.com

In Touch is a Deloitte-awarding-winning company, recognized as one of the fastest growing technology businesses in Europe. We are experts in bringing elite professionals and employers together. We have revolutionized how companies hire board members and senior freelance professionals by eliminating recruitment costs from the process. Our members have access to the best jobs, the best training and all the tools they need for a successful career, while employers can list jobs and connect directly with the best talent, completely free of charge.

In Touch Networks

LinkedIn Naomi Kent

Natalie Benamou is the CEO of HerPower2 Lead and HerCsuite™ an online platform for Executive Women.

LinkedIn Natalie Benamou 

LinkedIn HerPower2 Lead

LinkedIn HerCsuite™

HerCsuite™ is a Mastermind platform for executive women leaders.

If you have any questions about this episode, reach out to Natalie at HerCsuite™. 

This podcast is sponsored by Aaptiv, our favorite health and wellness app with over 4,000 videos.  Listeners can get your free 30 day trial here

Credits: Thanks to Julie Deem and the Businesspodcast Editor for editing our podcast!!

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