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.
Head Over Heels 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 Head Over Heels, 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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The Opt-Out Phenomenon: Why Are Women Leaving the Workforce?
Almost half the labor force in America is women. Yet college educated women with children are leaving the workforce in significant numbers in the last few years. Why are educated talented women with children deciding to “opt out”? and what does this say about gender and society in America and women’s relationship to work? My guests today, Karine Moe and Diana Shandy, co-authors of Glass Ceilings and the 100-Hour Couples, will share with us their insight on what this trend is all about and why this is happening now.
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Karine Moe is a Professor of Economics at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics at the University of Minnesota, a Master of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. in economics from Saint Olaf College. She is a labor economist with particular interests in how the use of time (especially for women and girls) affects labor market outcomes. She is the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters and the author/co-author of two books: Women, Family, and Work: Writings on the Economics of Gender (2003) and Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us About Work and Family (2009, with Dianna Shandy).
Dianna Shandy is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of African Studies at Macalester College, where she has been teaching since 1999. She earned a Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. in Anthropology at Columbia University and a B.S. in Languages and Linguistics with Certificates in African Studies and Russian Area Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of three books and more than 30 articles and book chapters.
Listen to the August 31, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Corporate Board Diversity: How Companies Can Accomplish This and How Women Can Position Themselves for Appointment
Today’s show addresses the issue of corporate Board diversity. My guest, Janice Reals Ellig, is a subject matter expert in this area who will share with us the importance of board diversification, the obstacles that still exist and specific strategies companies can adopt to achieve results. Janice will also help us understand how we, as professional women, can work towards Board appointment. What qualifications are necessary? What can we do to create the visibility in our own careers to become viable candidates?
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Janice has more than 20 years of experience as a senior-level corporate executive and 10 years as a search consultant working extensively with senior management and Boards. Janice is a board diversity expert who often speaks and writes on the topic and moderates board director panels on “Building Stronger Boards.” She has also co-authored two books: Driving The Career Highway, 20 Road Signs You Can’t Afford To Miss (2007) and What Every Successful Woman Knows: 12 Breakthrough Strategies to Get the Power and Ignite Your Career (2001). Janice is an excellent source on recruiting and retaining C-suite executives and directors, best practices to strengthen boards, and diversity in the workplace.
Listen to the August 24, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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New Moms At Work: How to Get it Together Even if You Never Had it in the First Place
You’ve had your first baby and now you’re back at work. What can new moms do to get it back together in their post-baby professional years, even better than their pre-baby years?
My guest today, Dana Wood, author and beauty and fashion editor, was pregnant with her first child at 43. She found that many professional women were facing the same type of challenges post baby that she did, and so she started a blog which later became her book, Mom-Over: Getting it Back Together (even if you never had it in the first place).
Dana shares with us some of her best advice on work/life balance, productivity and maintaining your sanity, marriage and career.
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Prior to writing Momover, Dana Wood was a magazine journalist for 20 years, including stints as the Health & Beauty Director at Cookie Magazine, and Beauty Director and Senior Fashion Features Editor at W. In addition, she has written for numerous national publications, such as Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Women’s Health, InStyle and Self. Dana has also spent several years as Assistant VP of strategic development for the luxury products division of L’Oreal USA, working on brands like Kiehl’s, Lancome, Ralph Lauren Fragrances and Giorgio Armani Cosmetics.
Dana’s book, Momover: The New Mom’s Guide to Getting Back Together (even if you never had it in the first place) began as blog when Dana, then 43 and pregnant with her first child, was Health and Beauty Director at the now-defunct Cookie Magazine. Dana wrote Momover, a mashup of “Mom” and “Makeover,” to help new moms everywhere successfully navigate their way back to amazing health, restored self-confidence, and a happier family life.
Listen to the August 17, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Workplace Bullying and Conflict: How to Recognize It and Deal with It
There has been a lot of media coverage recently on workplace bullying and conflict and women are often the focus of this discussion. What is the best way to handle workplace bullying and conflict? What resources are available to assist anyone who is a victim? My guest today, Kathleen Schulweis, is an expert on this topic and today we’ll learn from her how to identify the different types of conflict and where to turn for assistance.
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Kathleen Schulweis, Sociologist and Certified Professional Coach, attended Coaches Training Institute and has advanced degrees from both UCLA & USC. With over 20 years experience as an executive coach, she focuses on workplace conflict and stress. Kathleen’s clients include research scientists and engineers in academia and corporate managers and executives as well as government agencies and national non-profits. As founding President of The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs in Southern California, she coached and guided entrepreneurs to raise venture capital by improving their self-confidence and teaching best business practices. Kathleen presented her research on workplace bullying and abrasive behaviors at the 7th Annual International Conference on Workplace Bullying in July 2010. She is now also affiliated with the Boss Whispering Institute.
Listen to the August 10, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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What Women Need to Know About Leadership
With the right leadership skills, women can reach the highest levels of career success. According to my guest today, CEO and author Susan Colantuono, much of the conventional wisdom about leadership, however, is outdated, incomplete and ineffective, and does not help women to reach leadership positions. For women, the success equation fails because of a vital missing 33%. Today’s show focuses on what is the important missing piece of the leadership equation that most women do not know. Susan will share with us the “why” and “what” of leadership with practical tips from her recently published book, No Ceiling, No Walls.
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Susan L. Colantuono is the CEO and Founder of Leading Women, founder of the Women’s Institute for Leadership at Bryant University and author of No Ceiling, No Walls: What women haven’t been told about leadership. For over 20 years, she has specialized in leadership development solutions for leaders at all levels. Susan was recognized for her contributions in this area when Providence Business News named her Business Woman Ally/Mentor of the Year.
She has advised women leaders in organizations such as Amgen, MetLife, SAIC, the US Bureau of Land Management, Pfizer, Fidelity, Dow Chemical, CVS/Caremark and Marriott International.
Susan is the author of two other books. Build Your Career — a guide for using the job you have to get the job you want — was featured in Money magazine and hailed as “a comprehensive guide for charting your career.” Her Make Room for JOY! has been described as “heartware and software for the soul.”
Listen to the August 3, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Gen Y Women at Work
How does the new generation of women approach career and family? Today we’ll learn directly from the source as my show features a panel of three young professional women in their twenties and early thirties who are at the beginning of their career. Our discussion will cover what these women see as their opportunities, what obstacles they may see to their career success,if any, and how they plan to overcome what they consider to be their challenges now and in the future.
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Amy Cantando is a Senior Manager in the Operations division of Microsoft. In her role on the Incentive Compensation Design Services team, Amy is responsible for ensuring that Microsoft’s sales incentives programs are properly administered, communicated and understood by over 25,000 field employees in subsidiaries around the world.
Jenna Goudreau, 24, is a reporter for ForbesWoman in New York. She writes about women in business, covering workplace issues, female entrepreneurs and work-life balance.
Erica Frontiero is a Senior Vice President in the Capital Markets division of GE Capital, with over 10 years in sales and debt capital raising; Erica currently sells commercial loans raised for corporations and private equity clients, across a wide spectrum of industries. She is the co-leader for the NY/NJ chapter of the Women’s Network at GE, which fosters women’s professional development; helping to attract and retain successful women across GE. Erica worked as an Account Executive at NBC Universal. She began her career at Banc of America Securities.
Listen to the July 27, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work and Gender in America
The gender revolution in America has opened up many doors for young professional women. They now have many options to build their careers, family and relationships. However, it remains difficult to negotiate their lives when many obstacles still exist. My guest today, Kathleen Gerson, is an expert on work, gender, and family life in America and she will share with us what this generation of women thinks about work/family balance and the challenges they face in creating the lives that they desire.
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Kathleen Gerson is Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science at New York University. A recognized authority on work, gender, and family life in America and beyond, she frequently contributes to media such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the PBS Newshour, NPR, and CNN. She is the author of the recently published book, “The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America.” Her other award-winning books include “Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood,” “No Man’s Land: Men’s Changing Commitments to Family and Work,” and “The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality” (with Jerry A. Jacobs). As member of the NYU faculty for several decades, she has served as chair of the Sociology Department, Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on the Family, and President of the Eastern Sociological Society and contributed to many policy initiatives supporting gender equality and work-family balance.
Listen to the July 20, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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You’re Not Alone: Initiatives Supporting Women Entrepreneurs
There are more women starting businesses than ever before. In startling numbers, women entrepreneurs are vigorously launching businesses here in the U.S. Today’s show focuses on what type of support is available for women business owners and how they can best access that support.
My guest today, Fran Pastore is the founder and CEO of the Women’s Business Development Center in Connecticut. Widely known for the initiatives the WBDC provides to women entrepreneurs and Fran’s personal commitment to empowering women to be successful in starting and running their businesses, Fran was recently appointed to the Executive Council for Peace and sent to Rwanda to help women survivors of genocide launch a micro business.
Today, Fran will provide information on what initiatives are available for women entrepreneurs and tell us how her experience in Rwanda can be a lesson for all of us starting our own business.
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Fran Pastore is the Founder, President & CEO of the Women’s Business Development Center, the leader of entrepreneurial training for women in Connecticut. A devoted catalyst for women seeking economic self-reliance through small business ownership, WBDC has helped create thousands of jobs in Connecticut. Fran’s entire career has been dedicated to helping women achieve their dreams of economic empowerment for themselves and their families.
An ardent supporter of equality for women, Fran is a member of the Association of Women’s Business Centers, a political advocacy group to the U.S. Congress. Since 1999 she has served on the Economic Development Commission in Stamford. The U.S. Small Business Administration honored her as the Women in Business Advocate in 2000.
Fran was appointed to the Executive Council of The Business Council for Peace whose mission is to foster world peace in formerly war torn countries by creating jobs through business development. In Rwanda, she helped teach women who are survivors of the 1994 genocide how to launch and operate a micro business.
Listen to the July 13, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Women Lead the Way: A Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World
Linda Tarr-Whelan was fired her first day as a nurse for not standing up when a male physician entered the room.(That was in the 1960’s) Since then, Linda Tarr-Whelan has had a remarkable career in government and the non-profit world, and has been named one of the most powerful women in Washington. Today, Linda will tell us about her new book, Women Lead the Way. Her book provides the business case for gender balanced leadership across all sectors of business, politics and non profits as well as some tips on the must-have skills that women need to become leaders.
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Linda is the author of Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World and directs the Women’s Leadership Initiative at Demos, a New York-based thinktank. She has been named by Ladies Home Journal as “One of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Washington”.
As managing director of Tarr-Whelan & Associates, Inc, Linda built the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) into a leading state policy and leadership center. She initiated and led CPA national policy campaigns and Leadership Institutes for elected leaders and created a bi-partisan and multi-cultural research and communications initiative, “Women’s Voices”, and two economic summits on the role of women and the economy with the White House in 1997 and at 11 Downing Street Summit in London in 1999.
She was appointed as Ambassador by President Bill Clinton in 1997 as the US Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Linda was Deputy Assistant to President Jimmy Carter in the White House, director of government relations and chief lobbyist for the National Education Association.
Listen to the July 6, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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Women in Film and Television
When we think of industries where women have been successful, the film and television industries might come to mind. Women are quite visible in movies and television and the types of roles now available for female actors seem to be much more powerful. Today, we’ll hear first hand from Terry Lawler, the Executive Director of New York Women in Film & Television, what the current status is for women both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. What opportunities are there for talented women and what challenges, if any, still remain?
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Terry Lawler has been the Executive Director of New York Women in Film & Television since 1997. She is a Vice President of the Board of Directors of the New York Production Alliance and serves on the Board of Directors of Manhattan Neighborhood Network and the Katahdin Foundation. Previously, Terry served as Director of Development and Production at Women Make Movies, and as National Director of Film and Videomakers Services at the American Film Institute. She has worked as a media consultant for the MacArthur Foundation, the Astraea Foundation, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Goethe Institute, among others. She has served as a production executive on several network television specials and was an Executive Producer of Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography, which won Best Documentary awards from the American Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle, and Hollywood Mavericks, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Terry received the NY Women in Film & Television Muse Award for Vision and Achievement in 2007
Listen to the June 29, 2010 show, or visit our VoiceAmerica archive to hear any of our previous shows.
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