Whether you are a corporate executive, entrepreneur, or business owner, as a woman in business you face similar challenges relative to advancing your career and reaching your goals.
Women Mean Business is a weekly radio talk show that addresses the challenges that women face in the business world and offers advice from subject matter experts to help women overcome these issues.
Tune into Women Mean Business, live every Tuesday at 11 AM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel, and listen to the experts discuss important topics such as how to successfully climb the corporate ladder, how to overcome gender related workplace issues, how to effectively promote yourself and your business, how to jump start your own business, how to capture the female market, how to address work/life balance issues and much more.
Archived Shows
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Happy For No Reason
There has been much attention paid lately to the subject of happiness; happiness in the workplace; women and their lack of happiness. What does this all mean? Are we an unhappy culture or is it our present economic circumstances that have led to this pre-occupation with our lack of happiness?
My guest today, Marci Shimoff, wanted to find out if it’s possible to be Happy for No Reason and the result is a blockbuster bestseller that helps us to increase the happiness in our lives. Her methodology helps us to create lasting happiness from the inside out. Today, Marci will share with us the seven steps to achieve happiness from the inside out and some insightful tips she learned from interviewing 100 unconditionally happy people.
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Marci Shimoff is the author of the runaway bestseller, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out. Her book, which offers a revolutionary approach to lasting happiness, soared to #1 on Amazon and many other national bestseller lists, and debuted at #2 on The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. It’s now been translated into 31 languages.
Marci is also the host of the Happy for No Reason PBS special that has aired nationwide, and is a featured teacher in the hit film, The Secret. Her books, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, have met with stunning success, selling more than 14 million copies. She’s one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time.
Marci is a professional speaker and one of the nation’s leading experts on happiness, success, and the law of attraction, She has inspired millions of people around the world and is dedicated to helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives.
Listen to the March 9, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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What’s Your Story? Women in the Media Today
How difficult is it for women to be successful in journalism and other media today? Certainly, we can learn many tips from award winning journalist, Toddi Gutner, not only about what it takes to make it in this field, but as women, how do we present ourselves to the media and what lessons can we learn to better positions ourselves and our companies.
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Toddi Gutner is an award-winning journalist who has covered the financial markets, personal finance, small business and women in business for print, television, radio and the web for the Wall Street Journal, BusinessesWeek and Forbes. She is currently a contributing writer for the Wall Street Journal,
and a columnist for MSN Small Business Channel.
In 2007, Toddi launched a communications strategy firm, TLGutner LLC, that helps companies identify and create an effective message to market to the new media landscape as well as potential clients.
Toddi became the first woman columnist at BusinessWeek magazine when she created and wrote a well-respected weekly column called HERS, which focused on women and their financial and professional lives. Before joining Businessweek, Toddi wrote for Forbes magazine for five years.
Toddi’s has made TV appearances on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Power Lunch, Good Day New York, Weekend Today, Lifetime Live, Fox News, and This Week in Business.
Listen to the March 2, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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ENCORE PERFORMANCE:Body Language at Work: Your Secret Weapon
Did you know that you have a built-in competitive advantage ready to be deployed in any important professional situation? It’s literally at your fingertips and waiting for you to grasp and turn into a powerful, yet subtle key to success.Body language cues are especially important for women in the workplace, and they differ markedly from those of a man. Women are better than men at reading nonverbal signals, but women are less aware of how to present themselves in ways that optimize their credibility, confidence and power. My guest, Carol Kinsey Goman, PhD, is an expert in this field and will help us to understand how to use body language to our advantage in the workplace.
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Carol Kinsey Goman, PhD. is a keynote speaker and author of The NonVerbal Advantage-Secrets and Science of Body Language at Work. She is president of Kinsey Consulting Services. Carol has worked with over 130 organizations in twenty-one countries. Her work has been featured on CNN, Bloomberg Television, and NBC News. Carol addresses associations, government and business audiences around the world on this and other strategic business issues. Her website is www.NonVerbalAdvantage.com
Listen to the February 23, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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You CAN Have it All: Lessons fromTop Leaders on How to Combine Work and Family
Is it possible for women to have it all; to successfully combine work and family and still advance their careers? Professional women everywhere want to know if this is possible and what it takes to do this right. My guest today, Diane Halpern, interviewed 62 powerful women leaders for her book, Women At The Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family, which she co-authored with Fanny Cheung. She will share with us what these women in top leadership positions do to manage their careers without sacrificing their family lives. Learn valuable tips from Diane on how to succeed in your profession when you are also a wife, mother, or family caregiver.
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Diane F. Halpern is a past-president of the American Psychological Association. She is Professor of Psychology and the founding Director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children at Claremont McKenna College. Diane has published over 350 articles and many books including, From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction: Changing the Metaphor in 2005, and Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family (co-authored by Fanny Cheung), in 2008.
Diane was president of the Western Psychological Association, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and the Division of General Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She has won many awards for her teaching and research including the 2002 Outstanding Professor Award from the Western Psychological Association, Her recent work includes studies of the effects of California’s paid leave insurance, and how flexible work policies affect stress and health.
Listen to the February 16, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Say It Better: Simple Tips for Improved Communication and Collaboration
Good communication skills are extremely important for success in business, whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner, or corporate professional. Verbal and written communication reflects your professional image and impacts your credibility. If you want to be heard and you want to be influential, communication skills are of paramount importance. Good communication to connect with others and collaborate with others is essential to build your business as well, and my guest today, Kare Anderson, is an expert in both communication and collaboration. On the show today, Kare will share with us some simple tips to hone our skills to project a professional image and give some practical advice on how to use collaboration and cross promoting to build our businesses and advance our careers.
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Kare Anderson is an expert on communicating to connect and collaborate. This once “phobically shy” stutterer turned Emmy-winning former NBC and Wall Street Journal reporter was recently voted one of the Top 5 speakers on Communication.
As the Obama campaign’s Team Collaboration Director she formed and led 200 issues teams.
Kare reaches over 45,000 people monthly through her Say it Better newsletter and blogs, Moving From Me to We and How We Partner. Her books include Resolving Conflict Sooner, Getting What You Want and Walk Your Talk. Her clients are as diverse as Google, Human Rights Watch and Legos. Two of her blogs are now featured on top of the Alltops Collaboration page
As David Rockefeller Jr., said after hearing her speak, Kare forever changes how you see yourself and your world.
Listen to the February 9, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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The Female Advantage in Leadership
According to my guest today, Sally Helgesen, women have a distinct advantage in leadership. Sally has done extensive research on women leaders and we will learn from her what are the characteristics of outstanding women leaders and why these characteristics are so desirable and necessary. In our discussion today, we will learn not only the advantage to female leadership but much about leadership in general. Sally will also share with us a successful strategy for building great organizations with what she calls a web of inclusion architecture. The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, Sally’s newest work which she co-authored with Julie Johnson, was just released and we will get a sneak peak at what to expect in this new work
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Sally Helgesen is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and leadership development consultant. Her five books include The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time, and The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed as “the classic work” on women’s leadership styles.
Sally has developed and delivered customized programs for hundreds of the world’s leading corporations, partnership firms, universities, and non-profits. She also works privately with entrepreneurs as a strategic communications coach.
Sally has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Smith College, been visiting scholar at Northwestern University, and has worked with The United Nations in Africa and Asia.
Articles about Sally’s work have been featured in Fortune, Business Week, and Fast Company, and she has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows.
Listen to the February 2, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Access to Capital for Women Entrepreneurs:Practical Advice and Global Trends
How and where do you find the money to start and grow your business? Given the current global financial crisis, is there even money available now for women owned businesses? Today’s guest, Teri Cavanagh, is the best person to ask. She is a global consultant for women entrepreneurs and today she will give us her best practical advice on what women can do to access capital for their businesses and she will share with us what is happening in the global arena for women’s business initiatives.
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Teri Cavanagh is an international gender and business strategist who enables corporations and organizations to unleash the productive power of women’s businesses. A visionary who built one of the most innovative small business
banking programs for women in the U.S., Teri has created models in developing and developed countries to propel women’s business growth. As President of Teri Cavanagh Associates, she advises leaders across the public
and private sectors on how to understand, assess, market to and profit from women’s businesses.
Prior to launching her company in 2004, Teri was SVP and Director of the award‐winning
Women Entrepreneurs’Connection at Fleet Bank. Teri was honored for her work there at a White House ceremony where she was named National Women in Business Advocate by the SBA.
Teri graduated from Harvard University. She has served on the Board of Directors for Ms.
Magazine, the Center for Women & Enterprise, and the Center for Women’s Business Research. She is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board at the JFK School of Government at Harvard.
Listen to the January 26, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Tune Up Your Pitch: How to Create a Great Elevator Pitch
Is your pitch falling flat? When people ask you what you do, do you stammer and stumble on your words? Or do you have a pitch but no one seems to connect with it; it doesn’t seem effective or memorable? Today’s show will give you coaching tips on how to create a great message. Three entrepreneurs are on the show today, Stefanie Muscat, Angela Wyant and Lael Couper Jepson. They will go through the coaching process with me to illustrate to all of you how you can create your own great message.
Joining me on this show are three women entrepreneurs; Stefanie Muscat from Bevara, Angela Wyant from AHF Communications and Lael Couper Jepson from SheChanges.
Listen to the January 19, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Playing to Win in Business
If business is a game, then women need to learn the rules in order to succeed. According to my guest today, Gail Evans, men function better in the workplace because they recognize the object of the game of business is to win. Gail’s own successful career demonstrates that she has mastered the game and she is passionate about helping other women to understand the rules in business so that they can also be successful.
Today’s insightful conversation with Gail will reveal the lessons she learned in the male dominated environment at CNN and how she rose to become Executive Vice President. She will give us some practical tools so that we can make the right decisions at work to give us an advantage.
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When it comes to the success of women in the workplace, Gail Evans is a leading source. Her books, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman and She Wins, You Win have been best sellers around the world. Her weekly radio show, “It’s Not Just a Man’s World” was syndicated to 1900 CNN Radio affiliates.
Gail began working at CNN in 1980 and when she retired in 2001, she was EVP. At CNN, she was responsible for program and talent development at all CNN’s domestic networks overseeing national and international talk shows and Network Guest Bookings.
Gail worked at the White House in the Office of Special Counsel to the President during the Johnson administration and was instrumental in the creation of the president’s Committee on Equal Opportunity Employment. In 1997, she was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission on White House Fellows.
Gail has appeared on The Today Show, Larry King Live and has been featured in The New York Times and USA Today.
Listen to the January 12, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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A Lesson in Leadership
Women have a unique relationship to power and leadership and this topic is of special interest to my guest today, Gloria Feldt. Her own story is inspiring and unique. Going from being a teen mom in rural Texas to the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Gloria has been described as “part den mother, part businesswoman, and part Mae West”. My conversation with Gloria today is a lesson in leadership as we discuss the current state of women leaders in business and politics, what tools are necessary for women’s leadership success, and how women relate to power.
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Gloria Feldt is a nationally renowned activist, speaker, and author on women’s rights, health, lives, and leadership.
Gloria’s most recent book, co-authored with actress Kathleen Turner, is the New York Times best seller Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles. She’s currently writing a book titled Woman Unlimited: Your Power-to Tools for Life and Leadership.
People Magazine calls Gloria “the voice of experience.” A teen mom from rural Texas, Gloria became president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. At PPFA, she led the nation’s largest reproductive health and advocacy organization with almost 900 health centers and combined annual budgets approaching one billion.
Now an independent commentator for many media outlets and her website Gloria Feldt.com with its popular blogs: Heartfeldt Politics, Courageous Leadership, and Powered Women, she teaches at Arizona State University and serves on the board of the Women’s Media Center.
Listen to the January 5, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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