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Thriving Women Leaders in Higher Education

https://www.thrivingwomenleaders.com/

Imagine a safe space to talk about your career, life challenges and aspirations with fellow high-achieving women leaders in Higher Education.

Imagine an intimate cohort of national women that distinctly understand the challenges you face - a group who inspires and supports you to achieve your unique goals to live a meaningful life and career.

Thriving Women Leaders is a virtual executive coaching program specifically designed for successful women leaders in the field of Higher Education.

Rising Women Leaders

This program is designed for high potential women on the rise. Leaders at the Director/Senior Director, Executive Director, and Assistant/Associate Vice President level with an eye towards career growth. We'll tackle managing and leading, influencing and negotiating, delegating, and giving/receiving feedback – plus communicating up, down, and across the organization, so you can lead with confidence.

Executive Women Leaders

This program consists of high achieving senior women leaders at the Vice President level and above in higher education. Exclusive programming that tackles the scenarios unique to senior women leaders like leading transformational change, leading from the inside out, navigating challenges your male colleagues don't face, and leading with coaching.

Kim Van Lue, ACC, MBA, Founder Northspring Leadership and Co-Founder Thriving Women Leaders

Kim has lead teams for more than 20 years in a wide variety of environments. She has learned from some incredible mentors who taught her how to gain trust, manage competing priorities, address conflict in healthy, productive ways, make decisions despite insufficient or incomplete information, and motivate others around a common vision. She has experienced firsthand how great leadership can act as rocket fuel propelling everyone on the team to new heights. And, she knows that weak leadership and toxic cultures can be soul-crushing and can drive even the most resilient talent to burnout.

Kim has executive roles in diverse organizations ranging from the VP of Talent Management for a large industrial distributor to the chief HR leader for a non-profit with a large public higher education institution. For two decades, she has partnered with senior leadership teams to deliver strategic HR and talent solutions that enable the business. From being voted employee of the year by her peers at a family-owned software company to receiving multiple CEO Awards as an executive in a Fortune 500 company, Kim has been consistently successful no matter the industry, size, ownership structure or culture.

She has been a culture chameleon who quickly identified the unspoken norms that were key to success in each environment. As a strategic HR leader, she is eager to champion and model the healthy organizational or group norms, and other times, she has worked to shift or alter group norms in ways that more fully aligned with the intended business culture and outcomes.

https://northspringleadership.com/

Chastity Carrigan, Vice President of Development, Texas A&M Foundation

Chastity Carrigan has built her career on her passion for higher education

philanthropy. Currently serving as Vice President for Development with the Texas

A&M Foundation, she has more than 22 years' experience matching donors'

passions with university's needs. Ms. Carrigan provides development leadership

for Texas A&M Health (including the School of Medicine, School of Dentistry,

School of Public Health, and the School of Pharmacy), Texas A&M University -

Galveston, the School of Law, the School of Engineering Medicine and the School

of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. Prior to this position, she served

Mays Business School as well as led the development teams at the School of

Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the University of Tennessee

College of Business Administration. Ms. Carrigan, a Lexington, Kentucky native,

earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Florida in Advertising and her

master's degree in higher education administration from Texas A&M University

but considers herself a Kentucky Wildcat and Texas Aggie at heart.

Personally, Chastity is an avid college sports fan and animal lover. She enjoys

traveling, reading, music, exercising, and celebrating her blessings of the closest

circle of girlfriends and family. She shares her home with her significant other,

Dennis and their 11 year-old Yellow Labrador, Gus.

Siobhan McHale has worked across four continents, helping thousands of leaders to create more agile and productive workplaces. She also has been on the "inside" as the executive in charge of culture change in a series of large, multinational organizations. One of these inside jobs was a radical seven-year change initiative at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) Bank that transformed it from the lowest-performing bank in the country into one of the highest-performing and most admired banks in the world. Professor John Kotter used her work with ANZ as a Harvard Business School case study designed to teach MBA students about managing change. Her book, The Hive Mind at Work: Harnessing the Power of Group Intelligence to Create Meaningful and Lasting Change, will be published on Sept. 3, 2024 from HarperCollins Leadership.

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Growing up on a farm in Finea, a small village in southern Ireland, McHale watched the bees as they swarmed in the orchard of her family's farm. This fascination with bees led her to investigate the intricacies of human ecosystems and she would go on to spend three decades studying groups in the workplace. This experience taught her about the power of harnessing the Hive Mind and the group intelligence needed to create meaningful and lasting change.

Over the past 30 years, McHale has helped thousands of leaders to create more agile and productive workplaces. Her approach comes – not from the ivory tower – but from her insider role as the executive in charge of transformation in a series of international firms. One of these inside jobs was a radical seven-year change initiative at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) Bank that transformed it from the lowest-performing bank in the country into one of the highest-performing and most admired banks in the world. Professor John Kotter used her work with ANZ as a Harvard Business School case study designed to teach MBA students about managing change.

In The Hive Mind at Work, McHale answers:

• What are some of the lessons we can learn from how bees operate?
• Why is group intelligence (GQ) more effective in bringing about workplace change than the traditional IQ and EQ options?
• What can leaders do when workplace change is too slow?
• What skills are necessary for navigating change in today's more complex work environment?
• Why do so many workplace change efforts fail to deliver?

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Gina Battye is the Founder and CEO of the Psychological Safety Institute. Her mission is to create work environments where people thrive. Gina's expertise has been sought after by the world's largest multinational corporations, spanning countries and cultures. As the visionary behind the 5 Pillars of Psychological Safety, the Hierarchy of Psychological Safety and Lux, the psychological safety diagnostic tool, Gina's contributions have earned widespread recognition.

Her work has been featured extensively in global press outlets, and she serves as an advisor for TV and film. Gina is also the author of The Authentic Organization: How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Mastering Psychological Safety: Your definitive guide to cultivating a psychologically safe workplace

In The Authentic Organization: How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace, CEO of the Psychological Safety Institute Gina Battye, delivers a hands-on manual to create work environments where people thrive. You'll discover actionable strategies to establish a psychologically safe workplace; challenging and transforming workplace attitudes and outdated workplace cultures. Expect to experience a paradigm shift where psychological safety is at the core, enabling an inclusive culture and catalyzing organizational success. This book goes beyond the mechanics of creating a safe workplace, it also empowers individuals to unleash their authentic selves, not just surviving, but truly thriving, both professionally and personally. You'll gain valuable insights and practical guidance to bring your authentic self to work, effectively navigate workplace interactions and create a highly conducive environment for teamwork and collaboration. Ultimately, you will have everything you need to drive cultural change and take an active role in creating a psychologically safe environment that empowers your team and transforms your entire organization.

Gina masterfully navigates you through her distinctive approach, the world-renowned 5 Pillars of Psychological Safety framework, meticulously designed to cultivate an environment where your organization and people thrive. Within these pages you will encounter:

• A transformative process that empowers individuals to bring their Authentic Self to work, tapping into hidden capabilities to excel in their professional lives.
• A comprehensive communication framework that equips individuals to effortlessly master effective workplace interactions.
• A ground-breaking methodology that cultivates an environment where teams thrive and collaborate effectively in a calm and focused workplace setting.

Social media:

· https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ginabattye

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· https://www.facebook.com/gina.battye/

Mindy Vail has more than two decades of experience in leadership development, change management, education, and public speaking. Working with emerging leaders to veteran executives, her focus is cultivating a growth mindset and fostering resilience. Her new book, The Mindshift Effect: Where Change Management Is Redefined and Leadership Is Defined (April 16, 2024), provides a wellspring of inspiration for leading meaningful organizational change. Learn more at themindshifteffect.com.

GUEST WEBSITE: www.themindshifteffect.com

Segment-- Creating a Supportive Environment for Organizational Change

This segment is about what leaders can do to promote a growth mindset, organization wide that embraces change.

The Big Idea: Today, change management is an integral part of organizational strategy. Yet change in any form or context tends to disrupt our sense of stability and security. Whenever new concepts, methods, or ways of thinking are introduced, they inevitably come up against resistance. Apprehension about the future impedes progress and undermines well-conceived change efforts. Yet leaders who turn a blind eye to these issues erode trust and morale, while triggering defensiveness and opposition.

The So-What: Effective leadership during times of change involves recognizing and empathizing with the responses of others. It requires that leaders acknowledge employees' struggles, facilitate open communication, and offer support. Adhering to a thoughtful approach throughout any change initiative enables leaders to strengthen their own and their teams' resilience. In doing so, they promote change not as a disruptor of stability, but as a catalyst for the organization's necessary growth and evolution.

Key Messages: A seasoned change management consultant, Mindy Vail applies her expertise to address:

· What neurological processes and instinctual responses get in the way of effectively navigating change

· How to support employees who perceive change as a threat to their sense of stability, competence, or identity

· How to embrace change as a natural and necessary part of organizational growth and evolution

· How to promote collaboration and cross-pollination to build agile teams

· How to foster a culture of creativity and experimentation to drive innovation

Bio/Website:

· https://smartnotloudbook.com/

· https://soulcastmedia.com/

Book: SMART, NOT LOUD: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons

Jessica Chen is an Emmy-Award winner, top virtual keynote speaker, and CEO of Soulcast Media, a global business communication training agency. Her client list includes Google, LinkedIn, the CDC, Medtronic, Mattel, HP, DraftKings, and many more. Prior to starting Soulcast Media, Jessica was a broadcast television journalist. She is also an internationally recognized top LinkedIn Learning Instructor where her communication courses have been watched by over 2 million learners and featured in Forbes, Fortune, and Entrepreneur. She lives in Los Angeles.

Ever wonder why the "loud" people at work get noticed, rewarded, and promoted? Do you worry that you need to be loud to succeed at work, too? When Jessica Chen entered the workforce, she felt like everything she had been taught growing up in a Quiet Culture household—where deference, humility, harmony, and dogged hard work were praised—failed to set her up for success in the "real world." Her ingrained values were in direct contrast with what was actually needed to stand out in a Loud Culture workplace. The result? Feeling underappreciated, passed over for opportunities and promotions, and completely stuck. Building on the lessons she learned as an award-winning TV news journalist, Chen—who now speaks at Fortune 100 companies and whose LinkedIn Learning courses have been watched by over 2 million people—introduces a new way of getting noticed at work, without being loud, aggressive, or boastful. In Smart, Not Loud, Chen teaches readers how they can look within, to the values they already hold, to more effectively show up. Packed with actionable tips, Smart, Not Loud unveils a new path to getting noticed and getting ahead at work. This is the road map readers need to authentically show up in the workplace and truly feel seen.

Topics:

· 5 tips for advocating for yourself at work—and why it matters

· Why you don't have to be the loudest one in the room to get noticed (at work and in life)

· How to confidently say "no" with the TEF (Tone-Explain-Follow) Approach

· Why avoiding conflict won't help you to avoid conflict—and what to do about it

· How to celebrate your wins at work (it may take practice!)

· Why Western and global company cultures value and reward those with Loud Culture traits: they aren't afraid to speak up and make themselves known

· The differences between Quiet Culture vs. Loud Culture and why we can tell the difference the moment we start working

· The way we were raised affects how we show up in the workplace—and the world—today

· What to do when our Quiet Culture values mute us, and hold us back

· Don't underestimate Quiet Culture people – they are overcoming obstacles every day to show up

· The Four Cultural Reframes and how we can use them for self-reflection

· Why avoiding conflict won't help you to avoid conflict—and what to do about it

· How we reframe being assigned work we don't want to do from a "waste of time" to "time well spent"

· Don't allow fear to derail you -- things to considering when circling back

· How to set boundaries and set expectations at work—and in life

Social Media Link + Followers

· Twitter: @jessicachenpage

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicachenpage/

Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey are the co-founders of The Convincing Company, a crisis communications and training firm, and co-authors of Convince Me: High-Stakes Negotiation Tactics to Get Results in Any Business Situation

Adele owned an award-winning PR agency in Washington, DC for 15 years, where she served as spokesperson for a variety of Fortune 100 companies, including DuPont, Deutsche Bank, Lockheed Martin, SAP, and Verizon. She has also served as PR strategist, corporate counsel, and crisis management for clients that include the United Nations, Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, and President Biden. She has taught crisis communications and business at Princeton, Cornell, George Mason, and Georgetown, and is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Inc., and Entrepreneur.

Chip is a former FBI hostage negotiator and special agent. In his 22-year career in the Bureau, he has led high-profile cases, spearheaded the New York FBI Office's Crisis Negotiations Teams, and won the prestigious FBI Directors Award. He is the co-founder, with Adele Gambardella, of the Convincing Company, a crisis communications and training firm, where he guides executives and their teams in how to apply the Bureau's negotiation techniques to business situations.

Book: CONVINCE ME: High-Stakes Negotiation Tactics to Get Results in Any Business Situation

In the book, they share fascinating stories—including life-or-death scenarios from Chip's FBI days—and blend the tactics of hostage negotiation and crisis PR to teach people how to persuade others in any business situation.

Learn how to master the art of convincing others in any business situation―with insider tips from a former FBI hostage negotiator and a top DC publicist.

From CEOs communicating with board members to managers negotiating salary increases and entrepreneurs looking to raise capital, it's impossible to overstate the role of persuasion in making your personal and professional goals a reality. The ability to convince others―respectfully and effectively―is one of the most important skills you can master, whatever your profession. In Convince Me, you'll find eye-opening, behind-the-scenes details revealing how some of the best in the business ply their trade.

Delivering compelling, real-life stories that give you an inside look at the kinds of techniques and strategies that prove effective in high-risk situations, former FBI hostage negotiator Chip Massey and top DC publicist Adele Gambardella show you how these tactics can be used in any business situation you'll face. You'll find fascinating tips on how a hostage negotiator reads people, rooms, and situations at a glance and gain insights from the neuroscience of convincing. Armed with useful, ready-to-use strategies and insightful advice as to how, when, and with whom each tool can best be used, you'll finish Convince Me feeling more capable and confident about your own powers of convincing others.

Topics of discussion:

· The four essential elements of effective convincing: Timing, believability, likability, and repeatability.

· How to use a technique called "forensic listening" to get better results when selling, negotiating, managing a crisis, interviewing potential hires, in board meetings, defusing a stressful situation, and more.

· Tips from an ex-FBI hostage negotiator on how to get people to open up and reveal their "unstated narrative" – the thing they're really after – so you can better persuade them.

· The five steps that FBI hostage negotiators use to defuse a situation – and how you can use them at work.

· How to read people in just 22 seconds

· Four FBI tactics for gaining someone's trust

· The FBI behavioral analysis tools that will help you master the art of reading people

· The two convincing styles – heart (emotion)-led or head (fact)-led – and how to change your convincing approach depending on the situation and person

· Business negotiation tips from an ex-FBI hostage negotiator

· In a crisis, your instincts are your worst enemy. The most common mistakes leaders make when facing a crisis – and what to do differently

· How to master your fear and make better decisions in a crisis

Social media:

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Convince-Me-High-Stakes-Negotiation-Situation/dp/126504757X

Company: https://convincingcompany.com/

LinkedIn (Adele) https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelecehrs/

LinkedIn (Chip) https://www.linkedin.com/in/chip-massey-23787b106

Selena Rezvani is a recognized consultant, speaker and author on leadership and self-advocacy. Named by Forbes "the premier expert on advocating for yourself at work," she's the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book Quick Confidence, and also wrote the award-winning Pushback and The Next Generation of Women Leaders, all about ways to make your voice heard and negotiate your needs at work. Selena addresses thousands of professionals each year at places like The World Bank, Under Armour, Microsoft, P&G, and many others. Today, she's a columnist for NBC News' Know Your Value. Selena is based in Philadelphia where she lives with her husband Geoff and 11 year old boy-girl twins. www.selenarezvani.com

Book: Quick Confidence: Be Authentic, Boost Connections, and Make Bold Bets on Yourself

In Quick Confidence: Be Authentic, Create Connections and Make Bold Bets On Yourself, best-selling author and renowned leadership speaker Selena Rezvani delivers an effective and eye-opening new approach to building confidence and presence for professionals. In the book, the author walks you through―and helps you leap over―the 9 most common obstacles that stand in the way of building authentic confidence. She offers digestible actions, behaviors, and exercises you can use to change the way you think and the way you present yourself to others.

Relying on sound, scientifically validated data, the book helps you zero in on one actionable method at a time, from making a memorable entrance to stoking confidence in those around you.

You'll also find:

• Mental, physical, and interpersonal routines that will lock in your new and confident persona for lasting change
• Techniques for using silence strategically and refusing to overexplain to enhance your credibility and presence
• Ways to overcome the intimidation factor that goes hand-in-hand with dealing with powerful people

A hands-on playbook for professionals at all stages looking for effective confidence-building advice that goes beyond "fake it 'til you make it," Quick Confidence is a fun and rewarding journey to a renewed self-image and enhanced well-being.

Social Media:

• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@selenarezvani
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/selenarezvani/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selenarezvani/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SelenaRezvaniOfficial

Roberta Matuson, The Talent Maximizer®

Matuson Consulting

LinkedIn Top Voice in Workplace and Leadership

For more than 25 years, Roberta Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting, has helped leaders in highly regarded companies, including General Motors, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and Microsoft, and small to medium-size businesses, achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. She's the author of seven books including, the newly released, third edition of Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around, a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leaders, Can We Talk? Seven Principles for Managing Difficult Conversations at Work, and Evergreen Talent: How to Seed, Cultivate, and Grow a Sustainable Workforce.

Literally two books in one, Suddenly in Charge provides all of the tools necessary to be successful at managing up and down the line of any organization. With a foreword by Alan Weiss, bestselling author of Million Dollar Consulting, this handy little book is a must-have resource to help the new manager truly shine from day one.

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Jessica Calarco is a sociologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an award-winning teacher, a leading expert on inequalities in family life and education, and the author of Holding it Together: How Women Became America's Social Safety Net (Portfolio/Penguin, June 2024). Jessica has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and CNN. She also blogs at ParenthoodPhD and is a mom of two young kids.

Book synopsis:

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo.

Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies.

Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country's social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women's labor as the reason we've gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women's work maintains the illusion that we don't need a net.

Weaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, Holding It Together is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it.

Questions/topics of discussion:

· What is a "DIY society" and how does it differ from a society with a safety net?

· How does women's labor maintain the illusion that we don't need a social safety net?

· Why shouldn't we celebrate the fact that mothers are back at work in a post-pandemic world?

· Why won't advising women to make traditional "good choices," like obtaining a college degree, securing a job with a high salary, or working in STEM, help solve the gender pay gap?

· How does denying women access to paid leave, and affordable, reliable childcare force them to stand in for a safety net?

· How do women keep the economy from crumbling?

· How would businesses benefit from universal paid family leave and universal childcare?

· What would a robust safety net actually look like?

Social media:

· Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessicaCalarco

· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesscalarco/

· Threads: https://www.threads.net/@jesscalarco

· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-calarco-93085928/

Website: https://www.jessicacalarco.com/

Website: www.haileymagee.com

Hailey Magee is a certified life coach who helps people around the world stop people pleasing and find their power. Her refreshingly nuanced perspectives on boundary-setting and self-advocacy have captured the attention of millions on social media, and her public talks and virtual workshops have welcomed tens of thousands of participants. Certified by Erickson Coaching International, Hailey is dedicated to offering clear, research-supported strategies for change, helping recovering people pleasers rediscover not only their power and agency, but their pleasure, joy, and sense of wonder. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Book: Stop People Pleasing and Find Your Power

A viral life coach offers a practical, empathetic, and inspiring guide to breaking people-pleasing patterns that can harm our careers, relationships, physical, and psychic health.

For most of Hailey Magee's life, people-pleasing came so naturally to her that she didn't even have a word for it. When somebody wanted something from her—even a stranger—she gave it, no matter how uncomfortable, exhausted, or resentful she felt inside. People-pleasing, she learned, was a coping mechanism that had kept her physically and emotionally safe in the past, but wreaked havoc on her life in the present—and she was committed to breaking the pattern once and for all.

The solution that social media and self-help shelves gave her was to "Advocate for yourself! Speak up! Set boundaries!" But after years of ignoring her feelings and needs, Magee needed more than boundaries; she needed to reconnect with the "self" who was supposed to be doing the advocating. You can't express yourself if you're cut off from your feelings. You can't fight for your needs if you don't know what they are. And you can't set boundaries with others until you believe you're worthy of more than the bare minimum. Radically reconnecting with herself gave Magee the confidence and self-respect she needed to stand up for herself in her relationships. As she experienced a freedom she never thought possible, she became a certified life coach with the mission of helping others do the same.

Stop People Pleasing explains how anyone can break the pattern by learning their own feelings, needs, values, and desires; ending cycles of enmeshment and codependency; overcoming guilt; developing physical and sexual agency; and more. It is a refreshingly nuanced guide, exploring fundamental questions like:

· How can I tell when my genuine kindness veers into people-pleasing?

· How can I set boundaries while maintaining my empathy and generosity?

· When is it appropriate to compromise on my needs, and when is it not?

Combining social science, psychology, and hands-on coaching exercises, Stop People Pleasing teaches you how to connect with your own feelings, needs, and dreams; courageously advocate for yourself in your relationships with friends, family, and colleagues; soothe yourself through the growing pains of healing; and dive headfirst into pleasure and play. With fresh insight, heartfelt empathy, and a keen personal understanding of the pitfalls of people-pleasing, Magee helps you say what you need and get what you deserve.

People-pleasing is a coping mechanism that kept us physically or emotionally safe in the past⁠, but wreaks havoc on our lives in the present. Hailey Magee will teach you how to break the people-pleasing pattern and master the art of self-advocacy.

STOP People Pleasing and Find Your Power shows you how to break the pattern by learning your own feelings, needs, values, and desires; setting empowered boundaries with friends, family, and partners; ending cycles of enmeshment and codependency; overcoming guilt; developing physical and sexual agency; and more.

STOP People Pleasing is a practical, inspiring, and nuanced guide for recovering people-pleasers who are ready to find their voice, speak their truth, and build the vibrant life that they deserve.

Social media:

Instagram - @HaileyPaigeMagee

Link to Instagram videos: https://www.instagram.com/haileypaigemagee/p/C35F50BPIMA/