Today we are celebrating the incredible Francilia Wilkins Rahim for Women Making History. Francilia is a thought leader, a staunch advocate for diversity in procurement, development, and management, and the founder and CEO of RF Wilkins Consultants. and the Founder and CEO of AYO Labs the nation’s first modern-day, African American women-owned accelerator.To date, Francilia has led RFW in raising more than $900 million for clients, completing more than 1000 unique projects and growing into the ranks of the top .1% of management consulting firms, owned by an African American woman in the United States. In 2020, she was awarded 3.5M from the City of New York and has since raised 14.5M which she will be leveraging to build AYO Labs anchored in a 40,000-square-foot contract manufacturing facility. The project will scale more than 500 businesses annually and create more than 400 jobs citywide. Ms. Wilkins Rahim is a sought-after speaker on equity and inclusion, minority & women business development, and the creation of economic opportunities for disadvantaged communities and the diversification of corporate America.  Francilia serves on various boards including Greater Allen Development Corporation,  Allen Community Non-Profit Programs, St. John’s University’s Tobin College of Business, and New York State’s Housing and Community Renewal’s Multifamily Advisory Council. She also serves as Vice Chair for Brooklyn’s Pitkin Avenue Business Improvement District. In 2020 she was appointed as a member of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s COVID Advisory Council for Real Estate and Infrastructure as well as NYC’s Department of Education MWBE Advisory Committee.   Francilia has received numerous awards and accolades for her work. In 2022, Crains named her NYC’s Emerging Leader in Diversity Equity and Inclusion. She was named Power Woman of New York by Schneps Media.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood of Grace Adipiena from Ghana, Africa. A daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate, counselor, philanthropist, politician, and a midwife practicing and supporting her community for over 20 years.Grace works at one of the renowned hospitals in the Eastern Region of Ghana the Volta River Authority Hospital Akosombo. The VRA is crucial for the Eastern Region's rural communities. This hospital is more than a healthcare center; it's a beacon of hope for millions in the surrounding areas. Grace helps people in and around the community with maternal health, delivering babies, and with other medical and access needs. She has been serving this community for several years and the hospital authorities look at her as a leader in their organization.She is also the Founder of a-zqualityhealthfoundation.com a not-for-profit that provides health insurance and health programming for communities in need. Grace not only supports the maternal health experience she and her organization are also leading and supporting women’s health education programs such as Cervical Cancer Prevention Programs, Breast Cancer Screening programs, and more. She helps provide education and intervention tools for women in her community who do not have access to critical health screenings and proper care.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re celebrating women making history with the inspiring Dr. Dale Atkins a mother, grandmother, sister, friend, women’s advocate, author, speaker, and psychologist.Dale Atkins is a licensed psychologist with more than forty years of experience as a relationship expert focusing on families, wellness, managing stress, and developing compassion for resilience needed to live a balanced, meaningful life. Author of seven books and numerous chapters, articles, and journals for popular and professional audiences, Dale is a featured speaker who lectures and leads seminars worldwide. For her entire career she has served as a guest expert/consultant to the media, and for 22 years, appeared as a regular guest expert on NBC’s TODAY  and CNN.  She created and hosted “Dr. Dale’s Life Issues”, a 48-episode talk show series about relationships, broadcast on JTN and PBS.Dale has a private psychology practice in New York City and has been a member of, and advisor to several nonprofit national and local non-profit boards, whose foci are literacy, tolerance, women’s health, wellness, child protection, and community action. She is particularly proud of her 25-year association with Jumpstart for Young Children, from whose board she recently retired after serving twenty-two years, since its founding, and for whom she served as the National Spokesperson for their Read for the Record initiative, launched on NBC’s TODAY show. Additionally, she is an active founding board member of WHAM! (Women’s Health Access Matters!)Dale has been recognized locally and nationally for her philanthropic work and is the recipient of several awards for community service and leadership.  Among these are: “The distinguished Alumni Award” from Teacher’s College, Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute,  YWCA “Brava Award”,  Jewish Women’s Foundation “Women Who Inspire Award”, Harmony with No Limits “Spirit of Leadership Award”, Jumpstart for Young Children’s “Leadership Award”;  and Anti-Defamation League’s “Leadership Award”.Dale has two children and six grandchildren and lives in Connecticut.  She and her dog, Samson are a dog-therapy team!If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re celebrating women making history with the inspiring Zarifa Ghafari a mother, sister, friend, women’s advocate, human rights activist, author, Netflix documentarian, and the former Mayor of Maidan Shahr Afghanistan.Zarifa Ghafari was one of the few Afghan female mayors and was also the youngest to be appointed, at the age of 24. She is known for her efforts to advance women's rights in Afghanistan. Zarifa was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in 2020 by the US Secretary of State. And received the 2022 International Women's Rights Award at the United Nations Geneva Summit. She was included by the BBC in the list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019. And she was included in The Badass 50 list. In 2020, she received the award: “Women Who Can Change the World by InStyle.” Her book, Zarifa, A Woman’s Battle in a Man’s World is a poignant memoir and the inspiration for her Netflix documentary, In Her Hands. Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan’s government in mid-August 2021, Zarifa fled with her husband, mother, and five sisters. The German government granted her asylum, and she now resides in Germany.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re celebrating women making history with the inspiring Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli a mother, daughter, sister, friend, and an expert on food ecosystems, entrepreneurship, social innovation, and philanthropy. She has over 25 years of international development experience and is the founder of LEAP Africa and African Food Changemakers. She is also the co-founder of Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. and AACE Foods Processing & Distribution Ltd. Ndidi serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, AGRA, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. India, Stanbic IBTC Group, the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, and the Bridgespan Group.Ndidi holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting Scholar at Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, an Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, and an Eisenhower Fellow. Ndidi is a TED speaker, was recognized as a Schwab Fellow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has received numerous awards and recognitions including a National Honor by the Nigerian Government and the Harvard Business School Distinguished Alumni Award. She is the author of "Social Innovation in Africa: A Practical Guide for Scaling Impact," and "Food Entrepreneurs in Africa: Scaling Resilient Agriculture Businesses," both published by Routledge, and “Walking for God in the Marketplace.”If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood of Dr. Kattayoun Kordy, a mother, daughter, sister, friend, adventurer, mentor, leader, scientist, big pharma executive, and physician passionate about advocating for women's and children’s health and endlessly in pursuit of curiosity. Kattayoun is the Head of Rare Disease and Maternal-Fetal Clinical Development at Johnson and Johnson. Triple-board certified in general pediatrics, pediatric gastroenterology & hepatology, and clinical pharmacology, her journey in medicine started off traveling the world providing HIV clinical care in developing countries from the Andes Mountains in Ecuador and Malawi to Thailand and rural South Africa. Her love of the transformative impact of science and medicine led her to pursue an academic career in pediatric liver transplantation and gastroenterology in prominent pediatric transplant centers in the country. She ran her own translational research lab studying the intersection of HIV and the gut, and the pharmacologic interventions preventing infection. Her appreciation of the power of research led her to pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry, and the foundation of her career has been informed by her belief that drug development enables her to more effectively work in service to save millions of lives on a global scale.Kattayoun’s pharmaceutical career started in Novartis, leading innovative drug development strategies on a wide range of pediatric diseases across indications ranging from ultra-rare conditions to diseases with significant burdens on childhood mortality such as malaria. She transitioned to Johnson and Johnson to take on new and challenging areas of developing medicines for rare diseases and maternal-fetal conditions, including treating pregnant women to prevent poor fetal/neonatal outcomes. She is working to disrupt the drug development paradigm by innovating successful clinical trials among pregnant people to encourage the greater community to pursue research and therapeutics for this historically neglected population and to ultimately bring equity and life-saving therapies to women and children globally.The views expressed are her own, and not reflective of JnJ.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood of Bethany Corbin a Bethany a daughter, sister, women’s advocate, and a healthcare innovation, femtech, and privacy attorney on a mission to help thought-leading companies revolutionize the global women’s health sector. She is the Managing Partner of Women’s Health Innovation Consulting and the co-founder of FemInnovation. Through her companies, she partners with emerging businesses at the forefront of healthcare transformation to ensure they are building robust, scalable, and legally compliant structures ready to lead the industry. Bethany is a recognized thought leader at the intersection of women’s health, law, and technology, and was named a Top 200 Trailblazing Leader in Women’s Health and Femtech. She is a recipient of the 2023 Champion in Healthcare Award (Global HEaL Awards) and was a 2023 recipient of the American Bar Association’s On the Rise Top 40 Young Lawyers Award. Her strategic insights have been featured in top news outlets, including Forbes, Fortune, Bustle, NPR, BBC, Cosmopolitan, and Teen Vogue, and she is a guest contributor to Entrepreneur, Med Device Online, and MedCity News. Bethany has testified about the importance of data privacy for reproductive health before the Maryland Cybersecurity Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Privacy and is an Advisory Board Member for Kisaco Research’s Women’s Health Innovation conference series. Her guest episode on the HIT Like a Girl Podcast discussing the impact of the Dobbs decision won a 2022 Power Press Award.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under hood of Jess Karr a daughter, sister, friend and women’s advocate and the Founder & General Partner of Coyote Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund investing in women’s health and wellness. Jessica’s experience launching novel impact-focused products began when she joined Impossible Foods as the 12th employee, where she helped develop and launch the Impossible burger. She has since worked with startups internationally as an innovation consultant and as a Principal with a family office. She is an LP in women-led funds and her angel investments have all become unicorns. Jessica holds a MS in Biochemistry from UC San Diego, an MBA from Presidio Graduate School, and a BA in Philosophy from Texas State University. Jessica lives in the Bay Area with her rescue Pom and enjoys swimming in the bay.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood of Carli Sapir a daughter, sister, friend women’s advocate, and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Founding Partner of Amboy Street Ventures – an early-stage VC fund dedicated to women’s health and sexual health startups. Carli has an affinity for startups in the women’s health & sexual health landscape due to personal health experiences. She is also the Founder of the Female Founded Club (FFC), a global platform that introduces VC investors to high-quality female-founded startups.While running the FFC, she recognized that the lack of venture capital flowing to the women’s health and sexual health market is stunting the growth of startups that tackle significant health problems for all genders. Carli founded Amboy Street Ventures to initiate a shift in the funding landscape that, until now, dictated the innovation in the women’s health and sexual health space. Carli has a background in Private Equity and Engineering.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood of Linda Greub a mother, daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate, and the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures.For over 30+ years, Linda has invested in public and private life science companies as an institutional investor, a corporate M&A executive, a hedge fund analyst, and a private venture investor. She's held roles at companies such as Essex Investment Management, Bank of America Securities, Novartis Diagnostics, Applied Biosystems (sold to Life Technologies Corp.) as well as at venture-backed life science companies such as VitaPath Genetics, Singulex, Raindance Technologies (sold to Bio-Rad), and Linkage Biosciences (sold to Thermo Fisher). In 2010, Linda started angel investing with two of her Harvard Business School classmates, focusing on female-founded startups. One of the companies in their portfolio was nVision, a female-founded, women’s health-focused startup that was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2018 for up to $275 million. The trouble that nVision had fundraising from the male-dominant venture capital industry - and its subsequent success nonetheless - led Linda and one of her fellow angel investors to found Avestria Ventures in 2019 to focus exclusively on early-stage women’s health and female-led life science ventures.Linda’s areas of expertise include finance, operations, and mergers as well as the life sciences, specifically, diagnostics, genomics, healthcare services, and life science tools.Linda received her B.A. from Yale and her MBA from Harvard Business School. If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood of Alice Zheng a daughter, sister,  women’s advocate, and a Principal at RH Capital, a Rhia Ventures fund, leading investments in innovative women's health companies across the life sciences, digital health, and consumer health.Alice has been a women’s health enthusiast throughout her career spanning global health, clinical medicine, and the private sector. She was previously a women’s health practice leader and management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she served biopharma, diagnostics, global public health, and private equity clients across R&D and commercial strategy topics.Earlier in her career, Alice’s passion for improving lives for the underserved led her to work in East Africa and Asia in reproductive health and family planning. As a clinician, she focused on women’s health globally and published articles examining healthcare in low-income countries.Alice holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MD and MPH from the University of Michigan, where she was a Dean's Merit Scholar. Alice is a frequent speaker on FemTech and women's health innovation and holds advising and mentoring roles with multiple women’s health accelerators and forums. She has also been a patient in many women’s health areas including infertility, termination, and pregnancy complications. If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood with Jessica Federer a daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate, board member, big pharma executive, managing director, and investor adept at deploying technology to make meaningful advancements for both business and society. She serves on the boards of Sage Therapeutics, Pluto Health, and Angelini Ventures. She was one of the first Chief Digital Officers for the life sciences industry, leading the global digital transformation for Bayer A.G. across the Pharmaceutical, Consumer Care, Crop Science, and Animal Health businesses. Her data-focused career includes regulatory, market access, record-breaking product launches, and enterprise readiness. After almost a decade in Germany, Jessica returned to the US and advised both Fortune Global 100 companies and industry-disrupting start-ups on digital innovation across the life sciences continuum. During the pandemic, she joined Europe’s fastest-growing digital health company, Huma, as Managing Director / US CEO, establishing a U.S. team and expanding into decentralized clinical trials for international Covid-19 vaccine studies. Jessica is recognized as a 2023 “Icon” by Rock Health, one of the top 100 CDOs, and a leading health tech influencer. She is the founder and chair of the NYSE Women’s Health Investor Summit, bringing together investors representing over 100 billion USD. She serves on the Yale Ventures Blavatnik board, and the Yale IRB, and previously was on the United Nations ITU advisory board, and the BHP Technology Advisory Board. Jessica began her public health career as an analyst at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the US Department of Health and Human Services. She earned a Bachelor of Science from George Washington University and a Master of Public Health from Yale.PreviousIkram GuerdNextDr. Rachael B.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood with Myra Kinds a a mother, daughter, sister, wife, friend, minister, trainer, facilitator, and community champion! Myra is a GERI Trainer and BIPOC and Intersectionality Leader. A licensed American Baptist Minister, she serves as the Minister to Youth at the Peoples Baptist Church, and serves on the advisory board at Gordon Conwell’s Campus for Urban Ministerial Education (CUME). She is a recognized leader in underserved communities, specializing in youth programming, addiction and recovery, mental health, and domestic violence. She holds numerous training certificates in Mental Health First Aid, Recovery Coaching, and Trauma First Responder. Myra collaborates with The Black Ministerial Alliance and MENTOR, and consults with faith-based groups around women in ministry, youth, and gender-based violence. She is also a contributing author to Gender Equity and Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family.She is an international consultant on gender equity and reconciliation, and her work is grounded in her commitment to healing, belonging, equity, and the betterment of people. Myra believes in the transformative power of mentoring and that it is an act of love and action–not perfection. She knows that everyone needs someone in their corner.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood with Mette Dyhrberg a mother, daughter, sister, friend, women’s advocate and the CEO and founder of Mymee, a leader in personalized trials and care for autoimmune non-responders, and a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in startups and building businesses.Mette’s lifelong journey with autoimmune disease started at age 14 and included managing several diagnoses such as psoriatic arthritis and Sjögren’s syndrome. After testing the best that modern medicine had to offer and hearing from experts that “there is nothing more we can do”, she decided to take her health into her own hands. An economist by training, Mette began collecting and analyzing her own data until she could directly correlate her symptoms to external factors in the exposome that were triggering her flares. Sixteen months later, Mette was able to reduce her symptoms, successfully bringing herself into remission to improve her quality of life. In 2013, she filed her first patent, now cited by companies like Apple and officially began the journey to help others with uncontrolled autoimmune disease flares, ultimately founding Mymee in 2017. Today Mymee is transforming autoimmune care for people with debilitating autoimmune symptoms who experience poor quality of life due to an inadequate response to medication.As a recognized authority on autoimmune disease and digital health, Mette speaks regularly on rethinking the standard of care for autoimmune non-responders through data-driven personalized trials and care. She has appeared at events like Stanford Medicine X, Exponential Medicine, and CureX and is a frequent guest on health industry podcasts. Mymee has been recognized by the Galien Foundation, the American College of Rheumatology, the Institute of Functional Medicine, and Fast Company. In 2022, Mette received the Health 2.0 Outstanding Leadership Award. This year Mette received the Springboard inaugural “Rising Star’ Award.Mette holds a Master’s in Economics from Aarhus University/UCLA and is a certified health coach.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood with Shannon Cohn a mother, daughter, friend, women’s advocate, lawyer, social impact producer and filmmaker.Shannon has worked across Africa, Europe, the Middle East & the Americas on topics related to gender equity and combating stigma and taboo. Her films and TV series have aired on @PBS, Nat Geo, Discovery Channel, Amazon and Netflix. Her new PBS documentary BELOW THE BELT, executive produced by Hillary Clinton and Rosario Dawson, approaches endometriosis as a social justice issue. The film is one element of a larger social impact plan to create meaningful change in endometriosis and women's health including increased research funding, policy changes, medical education initiatives and widespread awareness. Her previous film ENDO WHAT? was called "the first step in a plan for change" by NEWSWEEK and "film of the year" by THE GUARDIAN. Before becoming a filmmaker, Shannon practiced international law and was part of the legal team that prosecuted Enron in the largest white-collar crime investigation in FBI history. She has endometriosis and has two young daughters who have a 7x increased risk of having the disease.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood with Dr. Rachel-Yvonne Talton a daughter, sister, friend, women's advocate, author, and founder/CEO of Synergy International Limited, Inc. Dr. Rachel is a visionary leader, pioneering in leadership, diversity, and organizational transformation. Her firm, Synergy International Limited, Inc., exemplifies her commitment to inclusivity, effectiveness, and trust in diverse organizational environments.Synergy’s transformative work includes collaborations with Amazon on leadership development and inclusivity, with Pinterest on inclusive leadership strategies, and with Rag & Bone on talent management and leadership development. These projects highlight Synergy's significant role in driving organizational change and promoting diversity and inclusion.Dr. Rachel's contributions have earned her numerous accolades. In 2023, she was honored as a BOW Knows Growth Awardee and received the Trailblazer Award from Derby Diversity Week. She was also named one of the Enterprising Women of the Year in 2022, and in 2021, she received multiple awards including recognition from the Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce, Smart Business Magazine, and The Soul of Philanthropy.As an author, Dr. Rachel's bestseller, "Flourish: Have it All Without Losing Your Self," offers insights into achieving success with personal well-being. Her upcoming book, "The Sixth Level," advocates for Sixth Level Leadership, focusing on human connections in organizations.In her leadership roles, Dr. Rachel has been influential as the Chair of the Governance Committee on the Akron Community Foundation Board, co-founder of the Black Giving Collective, and Chair of the Programming Committee of the BOW Collective. She also served as the chair of the Marketing Committee for Destination Cleveland, demonstrating her expertise in strategic marketing and community development.Join us today as we delve into Dr. Rachel's world and explore the impactful insights from her books, “Flourish” and “The Sixth Level."If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood with Elsy Boglioli a mother, daughter, friend, women’s advocate and board member of women's health and parenting support companies, and the CEO of Bio-Up. Elsy created Bio-Up in 2019 to support biotech and medtech companies in strong scale up or transformation phases, when they need to raise capital, grow their organization and structure their operations. She is particularly passionate about women’s health and a proud Board Member and Advisor to Womed, a company changing the paradigm of women’s health through targeted treatments, tailored to women’s needs. As part of her activities within Bio-Up, Elsy is also a board member of several other companies. She chairs TreeFrog, an innovative cell therapy company with a program in Parkinson’s Disease, and she is also an independent board member of HealthTech companies in cell & gene therapy, oncology, and digital health, and of FTI Consulting, a global business consulting firm. Previously Elsy was Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer at Cellectis, a French biotechnology company focused on gene editing and its applications in oncology. Prior to joining Cellectis, Elsy worked at the Boston Consulting Group where she served as Partner Managing Director and leader of BCG’s biotech-focused business in Europe. Outside of business, Elsy is passionate about raising her 7-year-old daughter, and making the world a better place for her. As part of this mission to support women, she mentors Israeli women from the 8200 intelligence unit who want to build an ambitious career and find their optimal work-life balance. If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood with Marie Wislande Cherise, a mother, wife, sister, aunt, women’s advocate, student, community resource specialist, and nurse resource assistant.Marie was born and raised in Haiti. After high school, she traveled to the Dominican Republic to pursue an undergraduate program in computer science at the Universidad Catholica Santo Domingo and later graduated with an Associate of Arts degree. Over the years Marie traveled back and forth to her home country, Haiti ultimately settling in Connecticut where she has been working in healthcare for over 12 years as a Nursing Assistant and Nurse Resource Assistant at various health systems. She currently works in a Connecticut hospital as an NRA as well as at City Hall as a Community Resource Specialist serving her community while continuing her studies in social work. Marie was recognized at Greenwich Hospital with the Great Catch Award for modeling HRO safety behaviors and taking action to improve patients’ safety. Her passion lies in helping change people's lives. During COVID-19 Marie felt the need to get out and help swab people, she wanted to be part of the covid 19 solution and be part of the change when a lot of people were uncertain about the future. She was recognized in her local newspaper for her efforts. At this time she also started working remotely for a translation company where she could apply her multi-linguistic skills (Marie speaks 4 languages) to be able to hear urgent stories and help serve her Haitian community, she knew she must use her voice, for those who cannot hear. And this is where her vocation to become a social worker began. Marie is always for the fight against the mistreatment of women and anything that she can do to help improve the lives of women in society, She is for it, as a feminist. Today she is working towards her bachelor's degree, in social work where she will help serve even more people in her community.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we are getting under the hood with Dr. Kathy Overbeke, a mom, daughter, sister, wife, friend, entrepreneur, executive coach, family business advisor, international speaker, and advocate for women.  She is passionate about raising awareness of gender bias in family businesses and helping daughters and families understand the drivers, effects (including mental health effects), and advantages of resolving this unrecognized and tough issue.Overbeke co-founded and operated two businesses for over 25 years.  Her career path pivoted in her late 50s when she grew curious about the role of daughters in family businesses.  She returned to school, entered the Doctor of Management program at Case Western Reserve University, and conducted empirical research on daughters in family businesses while studying leadership development and other aspects of management.  She has published her research in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and has presented her research internationally.  Overbeke has also written articles for popular publications such as Psychology Today.Since completing her doctorate, Overbeke has worked with family businesses addressing daughters’ roles and helping owners keep the entrepreneurial fire alive while maintaining family harmony and an appreciation for the family that built the business.  She is also an executive coach and works with Fortune 500, mid-size businesses, non-profit organizations, and Master’s level leadership classes.Overbeke recently co-authored The Sixth Level, a book about how women lead in large and mid-size organizations using the ethic of care and connection.  The book centers on narratives from 16 women CEOs and senior executives and presents an innovative leadership model based on the narratives and women’s social psychology. The book will be released in December.Overbeke is most proud of her accomplished, beautiful daughters and is energized by helping women who have breached gender barriers and women who continue to struggle with this deterrent.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Today we’re getting under the hood  with Dr. Latha Alaparthi a daughter, sister, mom, wife, women’s advocate, and a physician. Latha completed her medical degree in India and moved to CT in 1993. After completing internal medicine Gastroenterology and Hepatology training at the Yale University hospital system, she began her career as a gastroenterologist in private practice in 2001.During her nearly 22 years of practice, Latha was involved in several leadership roles within and outside of her practice, including running the practice for 6 years as Managing Partner, President of the medical staff of a Community hospital, and recently President of a physician and patient advocacy non-profit organization.She is most proud of her strong beautiful daughters and the women she has crossed paths with during her personal and professional life. She believes in lifelong learning (recently received an MBA online), women in leadership, and equal opportunity, and is passionate about access and quality in healthcare.If you haven’t already, please give us a quick review and rating on Apple podcasts and Spotify and don’t forget you can follow us FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.