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Pivot with Jenny BlakeStealing Wi-Fi as Career Strategy with Jenny WoodBelieve it or not, you can get mentorship from anyone you’d like by employing a strategy today’s guest calls “stealing Wi-Fi.” According to today's guest, Jenny Wood, the creator of Own Your Career at Google, you can get mentorship from anyone you like by paying closer attention to what they do and how they do it. In this episode, The Jenny-s dig into multiple elements of career strategy, including navigating plateaus, sidelining imposter syndrome, and course-correcting when you screw up. More about Jenny Wood: Jenny is mom to Ari, ag...2022-08-2852 min
52 Weeks of MeEpisode 33: Breadwinning Women with Bethanie BaynesStill bound by the societal stigma and the negative narratives around breadwinning women? It's time we speak more about it and normalize it. Alongside her family, this is Bethany's true passion, and we all can advance this feminine cause by amplifying her voice.Overview of Breadwinning Women - what it does as a community and who are the membersDiscussing the possible difference it had made among women and their families had these conversations been present a decade ago or soClarifying the importance of setting the family values and weighing the factors of deciding who gets to become the...2022-03-1727 min
Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 42 - Working Moms & Entrepreneurship with Erin Erenberg, Totum WomenDid you find yourself at a loss for support when you became a mom? Did you feel like EVERYTHING was geared toward motherhood and not the other aspects of your life and identity? Were you looking to be welcomed and lifted up as a “whole” woman versus bits and pieces of who you were and what you needed? Enter this incredible woman, someone I consider a dear and immediate friend, Erin Erenberg. Erin is a mom of three, an attorney, a serial business builder, fund advisor and the founder and CEO of Totum Women, a community-powered platform to he...2021-10-2658 min
I ALSO Want Money#39 - Breadwinners, Revisited with Bethanie BaynesThe definition of breadwinner is wider than what society leads us to believe. In this episode, Bethanie Baynes, the Breadwinning Women’s community founder at Google, shares how she helps those who identify as breadwinners manage relationship dynamics, tough conversations, forward financial planning, self-confidence and more. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Bethanie began her career in the photo industry before joining Google in 2004. Throughout her 17 year career at Google she has spent 12 hour days reviewing ads, sold the first campaigns on You...2021-10-1533 min
Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 41 - Power Moms with Joann S. Lublin Joann S. Lublin is an extremely established and recognized leader in the journalist world who raised two children while rising to management news editor of the Wall Street Journal, where she’s been recognized with a shared Pulitzer Prize and the highest accolade in business journalism, the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award. She also inaugurated the Journal’s career advice column in 1993, continuing to write its “Your Executive Career” column until May of last year. She’s now written two books, her first: Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World and now POWER MOMS...2021-10-1358 min
Sustainable Ambition32. On Building Endurance for Work+Life & Effective Leadership with Katie CeccariniI’m thrilled to be joined in this episode by Katie Ceccarini, founder of Endurance Management Coaching. She is an executive coach and trainer who works with leaders to empower their vision and unleash their strengths. She is also an endurance athlete and mom.In this conversation, we cover a lot of ground. Katie first shares her own career journey and her career transition to becoming a business owner, trainer, and coach. She shares what prompted her to leave Corporate, lean into what was drawing her next, and how a shift in life stage coupled with the pa...2021-09-2946 min
Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 40 - Workparent with Daisy DowlingOK, we know ALL parents work, they just don't all get paid. For those of us that DO work for pay, are we thriving or just surviving?! Is parenting harder now than ever? Is that generational, or the pandemic? What gives? And how do we give...to ourselves, our families and our work in a way that feels fulfilling and sustainable? Today’s episode will unpack just this. Daisy Dowling is the Founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives. She began Workparent with...2021-09-2150 min
Sustainable Ambition30. On Work + Life as a Breadwinning Woman with Bethanie BaynesToday I’m joined by Bethanie Baynes, a tireless women’s advocate and recognized leader on the topic of breadwinning women and host of the podcast, “Working Wife, Happy Life.” A proud breadwinning woman herself, Bethanie has created awareness, built community, and provided resources for women who are the sole or primary earners for their households.In this conversation, we dive into what it means to be a breadwinner and how societal constructs limit women in not seeing themselves in this role. We explore the question of “how to manage it all” (or not!), and Bethanie passes on some grea...2021-09-1545 min
Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 39 - Money Magic with AJ BishopI just can’t get enough of women talking about money, amirite!? What is your relationship with money? Can money be spiritual? How do you define wealth? What does wealth mean to you? Joining the WWHL podcast, we are so lucky to have AJ Bishop, the most down-to-earth and honest real-talk financial leader, entrepreneur, stepmom, and yoga teacher. She combines all of her incredible talents into her mission to build wealth consciousness for ambitious women, helping them to build mindful strategies that increase their financial confidence, redefine wealth, and secure their financial legacies. She’s the founder of M...2021-08-0350 min
Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 38 - Advancing Women & Girls w/ Author & Founder Joan KuhlDo you sometimes feel like you are crazy or alone in your experiences in the workplace? Do you struggle to put a name or phrase to some of the behaviors you swear you see, but others dismiss...or miss altogether? Well get ready to feel seen, heard and valued with today’s guest whose primary goal is to champion girls’ leadership and advance women in the workforce. Joan Kuhl joins us to discuss the many struggles girls and women face, across generations through a systemic, pragmatic, informed and empathetic lens. She is the author of Dig Your Heel...2021-07-2059 min
EntreprenistaFrom Ice Cream to Breadwinning with Bethanie Baynes, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Google and Founder of Breadwinning WomenAfter being drawn to the company by a promise of free ice cream seventeen years ago, Bethanie Baynes is now Google’s Director of Strategic Partnerships. She is also the founder of Breadwinning Women and the host of the Working Wife, Happy Life podcast.Today, Bethanie joins us to share how she climbed the corporate ladder over the years by establishing and nurturing relationships and how she’s giving back with Breadwinning Women. She talks about the community she wishes she had when she first started at Google and...2021-06-2555 min
Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 37 - Father Figure with Jordan ShapiroOh hey, Dads! Oh hey, Feminists! Now let’s talk Feminist Dads ... and who better to do it with than with today’s guest, Jordan Shapiro, PhD. This conversation is equal parts hilarious and compelling. Jordan is a globally celebrated American thought leader, speaker, consultant and professor who is deeply committed to the topics of education, psychology, digital play, kids, culture and food. His first book, The New Childhood: Raising Kids To Thrive in a Connected World (Little, Brown Spark 2018) changed the cultural conversation about parenting and screen time. In his new book, Father Figure: How to be a Feminist Dad...2021-06-091h 07
Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 36 - When Women Win w/ Rana NawasToday’s conversation will bring you so much joy and hope through the pragmatic assessments and optimistic mindsets shared by one woman whose singular mission is to help other women. Rana Nawas is an entrepreneur, a keynote speaker, a strategic advisor and the host of iTunes’ number one podcast in the Middle East, When Women Win. Prior to this, she was the youngest sales executive globally, at GE Capital and the president of the Ellevate Network chapter in Dubai. With justice as her #1 value, this cancer-surviving, no-BS Mama shares how she remains focused and intentional amidst chaos. Addi...2021-05-2553 min
Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 35 - Sensitive Strivers w/ Melody WildingAre you sensitive and ambitious? Do you go through life and work battling with what you "should" do/say versus what feels more natural? Do you hate the idea of office politics? Well, get ready to feel seen ... Melody Wilding is with us to discuss her new book, TRUST YOURSELF: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions at Work. Melody is a Licensed Master Social Worker, and executive coach, who has coached hundreds of private clients, from CEOs and Fortune 500 execs to leaders from the US Dept of Education, the Federal Reserve and the United Nations. Being highly attuned to...2021-05-1156 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 34 - Think Like a Breadwinner w/ Jennifer BarrettOh hey, breadwinning ladies! So excited to bring this episode your way!! Jennifer Barrett is the Chief Education Officer at Acorns, a saving and investing app and the author of the new wealth-building manifesto for women, Think Like A Breadwinner. This book is the cultural fix we need to reframe expectations that we as women are likely to, at some point, be financially responsible for ourselves and our families. How different would it have been if we expected this versus the “Oh wow! I’m the breadwinner!” awakening so many of us had?! Together, we discuss becoming a brea...2021-04-2755 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 33 - Talking about Money & Wealth w/ Jennifer RisherWhat’s your relationship with money? How about your partner’s relationship with money? Do you talk about it? Does it make you uncomfortable? What do you wish you could say but don’t to those around you when it comes to money? Unpack all of these questions and more with today’s guest -- Jennifer Risher joins us as the author of the memoir “We Need to Talk: A Memoir about Wealth”. Jen grew up with middle-class values, saving her pennies, wary of the rich... and then she joined their ranks. She is an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot co...2021-04-1352 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 32 - Career (& Life!) Advancement w/ The ForemIn a bit of a career rut? Feeling like investing in yourself but unsure how to get the most bang for your buck? Want a personalized program that also allows you to engage with others? Curious how these types of programs and businesses even get started?! This episode covers career advancement and development programming soup to nuts with Alli Young and Katie O’Malley from the Forem. Alli is the Founder and CEO of the Forem, and Katie is their newly appointed Chief Revenue Officer; they are also both former Google colleagues. The Forem is a platform of career ad...2021-03-3055 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 31 - The Lost Art of Connecting w/ Susan McPhersonDo you dread networking and small talk? Wonder why we always talk about the weather? Lose sleep about what the future of interaction looks like post-pandemic? Well listen up because today’s guest Susan McPherson, Founder of McPherson Strategies and Author of the new book “The Lost Art of Connecting” offers ways to build and maintain your community as well as tips on how we can all re-emerge from this odd world in terms of human interaction with intention. Susan is warm, funny, thoughtful and sincere. By fully embodying all of these traits, she guides you with recomm...2021-03-2341 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 30 - Beating Burnout At Work w/ Paula Davis#Burnout We all know it, we’ve all felt it. But do we really know what it is, where it stems from, and how it differs from stress? Paula Davis is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience, a training and consulting firm that partners with organizations to help them reduce burnout and build resilience at the team, leader, and organizational level. She has an incredibly impressive journey from law firms to working with the military to founding her own Institute to author of her new book, BEATING BURNOUT AT WORK: Why Teams Hold the Secret to...2021-03-1645 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 29 - Launching your Inner Entrepreneur w/ Charlene WaltersOH MY GOD, this episode needs to be a meditation. Not like, pull over and close your eyes-style meditation, but like write the advice nuggets on a post-it and stick it on your bathroom mirror-type meditation. Charlene Walters is an entrepreneurship coach, a branding mentor and the author of LAUNCH YOUR INNER ENTREPRENEUR: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity and Achieve Financial Success. This book serves as a guide for any fledgling entrepreneur with her candid, compelling, and practical playbook for building a business—and a life—from the ground up. Charlene is compelled to support women-many of w...2021-03-0244 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 28 - Fast Forward To Your Bold Vision with Lisa McCarthyLisa McCarthy, CEO and Co-Founder of the training and coaching company The Fast Forward Group is an absolute force. Throughout her decades in corporate America, Lisa experienced first-hand the toll that the pace and pressure of the modern workplace takes on all areas of life. Focusing only on what’s urgent and deprioritizing personal commitments thinking “this is what it takes to be successful.” She knew it could be different. So she started a business focused on creating a new kind of workplace: one where professional and personal success go hand in hand. Fast Forward’s program, used by...2021-02-1646 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 27 - Investing in you with Class Rebel! Lifelong education and finance strategies w/ Brooke HarleyBrooke Harley is the Founder & CEO of ClassRebel, an education company on a mission to deliver modern skill sets- taught live - accessible to all - affordable to all. Kicking off with Side Hustle & Wealth streams, ClassRebel currently offers 8 hour courses (live & on-demand) on Fundraising 101 (Money for Your Startup) and Angel Investing 101 for $50 - and its pay once, attend forever – refresh live as much as you need to, to cement the knowledge! In our chat, we discuss how foundational education is to our happiness in this new 100-year life, and the social change that could follow if we got mor...2021-02-0257 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 26 - Inclusion, Current Events & Parenting w/ Stephanie LeBlanc-GodfreyIn today’s episode I sat down with Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfery (@i_am_slg) who I am so honored to call a friend. She is also a colleague at Google who is the Global Head of Inclusion Programs for Women of Color. Additionally, she is a Thought Leader in doubling-down on support and advocacy for caregivers globally. Prior to this role, she was a Retention Strategist, acting as a coach, advisor, and advocate for underrepresented employees to get satisfaction in their role, feel included at work and find opportunities to develop and grow. This mother of three is a force of...2021-01-191h 00Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 25 - Board Service & Senior Leadership w/ Coco Brown of The Athena AllianceIt’s a new year, and whether you are looking for a new, improved or same you, WWHL is here with more conversations to address just that! In today’s episode, we hear from Coco Brown, the founder and CEO of The Athena Alliance, a digital ecosystem and platform designed around community, learning and access to opportunity for the top women in business. Throughout this conversation we cover the many resources found through The Athena Alliance as well as Coco’s POV on how corporate governance boards are strategically evolving, including some of the new formalized recommendations addressing diversity on boa...2021-01-0548 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 24 - Girls in STEM, Educators View with Urban Assembly InstituteIt’s been said that children are 1/3rd of our population yet they are all of our future. How we invest, focus and strive for the betterment of our children is a direct investment in a better world. In this episode, I sit down with the Co-Founder and Director of Student Support Services of the Urban Assembly Institute of Math & Science for Young Women in Brooklyn, NY (@uaimathandscience). UAI’s mission is to empower all students. Through a rigorous curriculum engaging students in science, technology, engineering & mathematics, their students develop their voice, confidence and capacity to thrive and...2020-12-1547 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 23 - Wealthy Single Mommy with Emma JohnsonThe stigma of the single mom. She’s harried! She’s sad! She’s lonely! She’s broke! Get the picture? Emma Johnson is on a mission to debunk these stereotypes. As the Founder of Wealthy Single Mommy, Emma aims to close the pay gap by helping #singlemoms build family, career, money & dating. Emma promised herself she wouldn’t be a single mom, and guess what. Life turns out a little differently than we all expect. So how do you turn surprise into success? What are the best first steps you can take when facing a divorce? Why is equal pare...2020-12-081h 09Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 22 - Fairygodboss, Women in the Workplace with Romy NewmanHow do you really know what it’s like to work at a company? Sure they have great DEI initiatives splashing across their careers page, but are they really doing the work? Where do women turn when they have a career conundrum they can’t express freely within their own organization? How about those who are “lonely” or “only’s” at the top? Enter Fairygodboss. The largest community for women whose mission is to improve the workplace through greater transparency. Get the real skinny on a company’s culture, get actionable tips on how to negotiate or navigate your ca...2020-11-1748 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 21 - I Took Her Name with Shu Matsuo PostEver wonder if it’s just women who struggle with the emotional and logistical hurdles of changing our name after we get married? Do men feel the same angst as they prepare for, and take, parental leave as women? While it’s certainly not as common for men to consider these issues, it is increasingly more common. Tune in to hear from Shu Matsuo Post, author of the new book, I Took Her Name. Shu is a successful businessman in Japan, known to be one of the most gender-rigid nations on the planet. When he got married and...2020-11-1047 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 20 - Adventures of Women in Tech with Alana KarenAdventures of Women in Tech with Alana Karen. We've all heard so much about the bro culture and tech's early beginnings. We've heard a lot about tech's diversity issues. But what have we actually heard from the women in tech other than anecdotal articles or major lawsuits? 20 year tech leader, @alanatkaren replaces what we think we know about women in tech with more than 80 stories of what it’s like in today’s top companies with her new book: Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay. Order now: ow.ly/8Wti50BAwcN2020-09-2954 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 19 - The Fifth Trimester: Working parenthood with Lauren Smith Brody!After a successful 16-year career in magazine publishing, Lauren Smith Brody had a new calling, that of supporting working moms and generally working parents as they reconcile their professional and personal selves. Through her incredibly insightful best-selling book, The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby, she has launched The Fifth Trimester movement which emphasizes the support and understanding so necessary to ensure all working parents can succeed, both inside and outside the home. Lauren is a compassionate, articulate, funny and engaging champion of calling out the pitfalls of working parenthood, bo...2020-09-1657 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 18 - Views from a stay-at-home dad with Jason Basa Nemec“I love being a stay-at-home dad. And I still struggle with what it says about me as a man.” Wow. That was the title of the article I read in The Washington Post that instantly grabbed my attention as so few men are comfortable sharing their vulnerability with this role. I immediately reached out to Jason Basa Nemec, the author of this incredibly enlightening piece, a worldly freelance writer with a PhD in English, and yes… a full time dad. In this episode, Jason shares his perspective on defining masculinity, unpacking the ways society tells our narratives, challenging people’s script...2020-08-121h 00Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 17 - Working parents, burnout and WFH with Kari Clark of Uplift Parents!Kari Clark is the Founder & CEO of Uplift, a platform supporting working parents. She's also just launched her newest venture, Breakout, which helps companies navigate supporting their employees and strengthening their company culture in this time of virtual workplaces. Kari has long been an advocate for working parents and continues this work with actionable insights for how to thrive, rather than just survive, this very challenging stage in life, compounded by this very challenging stage of the world. We discuss how to support working parents, how working culture is shifting, tips to prevent burnout, the unique needs...2020-07-2846 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 16 - Men, Women and Invisible Labor with Matthew Fray“She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By the Sink”. That was the title of this week’s guest, Matthew Fray’s heart-wrenching and totally relatable post about the dissolution of his marriage and his subsequent quest to understand what had actually gone wrong. Was it the dish? No. Was it the consistent, daily reminder to his partner that what was important to her was not important to him? Yes. Was it the dish, on top of the laundry, on top of the camp scheduling, on top of the school forms that all fell on her shoulders? Yes. Did Matt lov...2020-07-211h 09Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 15 - Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One with Jenny Blake!“If change is the only constant, let’s get better at it.” This is the statement that has been Jenny Blake’s north star for her proprietary go-to career development framework, the Pivot Method. Her book, Pivot: The Only Move that Matters Is Your Next One is the top career pick by Axiom Best Business Books. Jenny is a plethora of insights and empathy toward working women and particularly breadwinning women. This episode is chock-full of mindsets and resources to help you think about your life and your career like how she “earns twice as much in half the time, with...2020-06-231h 01Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 14 - Career & Personal Finance Expert Nicole Lapin“How do you know you’re off balance, or off budget, if you don’t define what that is for YOU first?” Buckle up! This is just one of the many a-ha questions Nicole poses to our community throughout this insights-packed episode. Hear tips to avoid burnout, practical guidance on developing a spending plan (plan vs. budget ← muy importante) as well as details of her mental health struggles and her success with DBT Therapy (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). The self-described finance nerd, Hush Money podcast hostess, former anchor on CNN/CNBC/Bloomberg AND NY Times bestselling author of Rich Bitch...2020-06-161h 02Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 13 - Mental Health in Times of Crisis w/ Dr. Jessica DiVentoMental Health in Times of Crisis: 1 in 5 adults in America suffer from a mental illness in a given year according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Sadly, nearly 60% of adults with a mental illness did not receive any treatment. During this month of mental health awareness, we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jessica DiVento, a clinical psychologist who is an employee mental health program manager and business advisor with YouTube/Google. Listen as Jessica expertly talks us through the phases of disaster recovery, what the community is collectively going through as well as what...2020-05-2659 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 12 - Working Parents w/ Sarah Lux Lee, CEO MindrWhen we become parents, our worlds completely change forever. But the workplace doesn’t. This notion is behind everything that drives today’s guest, Sarah Lux Lee, in her relentless mission to better the lives of working parents. As the Founder of Mindr, known as the Ted Talks of Parenting, Sarah has built a community for support and resources for working parents as well as working with top companies to attract, engage and retain women and parents. Especially during this time where the lines have blurred even more between our responsibilities, Sarah brings insights from her impressive Mindr community to b...2020-05-1956 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 11 - Personal Finance w/ Stacy Francis, CEO of Francis Financial & Savvy Ladies“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” --Eleanor Roosevelt Join us for some knowledge and wisdom in this episode as we sit down with Stacy Francis, Founder & CEO of Francis Financial; a wealth management investment firm built to ensure clients, particularly women, have the support and insight they need during critical times of life transition such as retirement, divorce, inheritance and widowhood. From a young age, Stacy personally witnessed how devastating life could be for women who were not empowered through financial education. With that experience, she...2020-05-1242 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 10 - Children's Mental Health w/ Child Mind Institute“Young people and their parents and teachers are all struggling with the ‘new normal’ while trying to keep worries under control. You don’t have to do it alone.” This incredible message is the latest support initiative (#wethriveinside) from the inspirational community at the Child Mind Institute (@childmindinstitute), an independent, national nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. For those of you caring for or caring about young minds during this critical time, you’ll want to tune in to hear Andrea Pascarelli PsyD and Jennifer Louie PhD! They sha...2020-05-051h 00Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 9 - Women in the Workplace w/ Michelle King, Author of The FixEpisode #9: “What are the barriers to women’s advancement at work? Why are there so few women leaders? Why isn't anyone doing anything about this?” These were just the initial questions asked by this week's acclaimed guest, Michelle King (@michellepenelopeking) during her PhD studies. The responses she heard from the folks in a position of power were infuriating and ultimately propelled her mission to try and solve gender inequality at work. "We can't fix inequality if we don't see it." For those of you who don't know Michelle, you will want to know her after this conversation! She is a fierce...2020-03-1750 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 8 - Health & Wellness w/ Michele Promaulayko, Author Sugar Free 3On Episode #8 I welcome Michele Promaulayko (michprom) to the Working Wife, Happy Life! podcast. Michele is an award-winning print and digital editor, specializing in wellness. She has authored two books and is now releasing her third, "Sugar Free 3" (sugarfree_3) a simple 3-week plan to improve energy, sleep, and weight loss. She is currently the Editorial-Director-at-Large for THE WELL (thewell) and an advisor to several healthy lifestyle brands. Most recently, she was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the largest women’s media brand in the world, and the editorial director of Hearst’s Young Women’s Group, which also includes Women’s Health a...2020-03-101h 07Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 7 - Women's Return to Work w/ Tami Forman, CEO of Path ForwardAre you looking to restart your career after taking time away to focus on caregiving? Well you've come to the right place! On Episode #7 I sit down with Tami Forman, the Executive Director of Path Forward, a nonprofit organization that creates programs to ease the transition back to work for women (and men) after taking a break for raising children (or other caregiving responsibilities). Tami has built the organization from the ground up and is working tirelessly with some of the largest corporations in America to train HR teams and hiring managers on how to best structure and support these...2020-03-031h 08Working Wife, Happy Life!Ep 6 - Fitness & Finance w/ Elise Young (Elise's Body Shop) & Carmen Perez (Make Real Cents)Turning your passion into a career. On Episode #6 I sit down with the uber talented and fiercely driven couple, Elise Young (@elisesbodyshop), fitness professional and founder of Elise's Bodyshop, and her wife, Carmen Perez (cperez_1), a financial services professional, turned tech entrepreneur. These women are a dynamic duo who have fought to stay unwaveringly authentic, all while building their own businesses centered around their individual passions. In this conversation we discuss conquering debt and achieving financial freedom, the value of branching out and building a network, and the true benefits, both personally and professionally, of putting in hard work...2020-02-2554 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 5 - Female Entrepreneurs & Funding w/ Karen Cahn, Founder iFundWomen“Do not quit your day job to become an entrepreneur.” On Episode #5 I sit down with Karen Cahn (@karencahn) the founder of iFund Women (@ifundwomen), a startup platform providing funding for early stage female entrepreneurs. Karen is a fearless leader who has pivoted her career from the early days at Google/YouTube and AOL to launching iFund Women to fulfill her mission to help entrepreneurs fund and launch their ideas. In this conversation, nothing is off limits! Karen is candid about the challenges of parenting, the reality of going out on your own and starting a company, and is bruta...2020-02-1845 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 4 - Personal Finance & Breadwinning Women w/ Farnoosh Torabi, So Money Podcast HostOn Episode #4 I welcome good friend and fellow breadwinner, Farnoosh Torabi to Working Wife, Happy Life! Farnoosh is a personal finance expert, a frequent guest featured on CNBC and the TODAY Show, the author of “When She Makes More,” and the host of the “So Money Podcast,” which hit 1,000 episodes last week! We discuss the different and unjust expectations and values placed on women and men in society. We also share our perspectives on what it means to be a breadwinning woman, mother, and wife in today’s world and the financial pressures we face in that role. I’m so excited t...2020-02-1145 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Episode 3 - Dr. Victoria MedvecOn Episode #3 I sit down with Dr. Victoria Medvec, a Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Co-founder of the Kellogg Center for Executive Women, and the CEO of Medvec & Associates, a consulting firm focused on high-stakes negotiations and decision making. We dive deep into the differences between how men and women negotiate for themselves in the workplace and Vicki shares her expertise in helping women become more effective negotiators and develop as leaders throughout their career. Grab a pencil and paper because this episode is filled with advice on how to get women onto corporate boards...2020-02-0452 min
Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.How Female Breadwinners (Really) Make It WorkOutdated gender roles persist both at home and in the office, here’s how one woman makes it work. Our guest today the Director of Global Partnerships and founder of Breadwinning Women at Google, and the host of her own podcast Working Wife, Happy Life. Bethanie Baynes. She talk about her experience being a bread winning woman.
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Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.How Female Breadwinners (Really) Make It WorkOutdated gender roles persist both at home and in the office, here’s how one woman makes it work. Our guest today the Director of Global Partnerships and founder of Breadwinning Women at Google, and the host of her own podcast Working Wife, Happy Life. Bethanie Baynes. She talk about her experience being a bread winning woman.Bethanies Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-02-0353 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Ep 2 - Equality in the Home w/ Eve Rodsky, Best-Selling Author of Fair PlayTalking Trash (literally) with Eve Rodsky. On Episode #2 we sit down with Eve Rodksy, author of the New York Times Bestseller, Fair Play and Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick! We get candid on the importance of redefining traditional gender roles within the home, navigating complex family systems, and unveil the ugly truth around the invisible labor that women often bear (yes we do!). Eve shares tools to help partners communicate and connect on issues within the home and she dishes on why she's made it her life mission to bring 21st century solutions to age ol...2020-01-281h 13Working Wife, Happy Life!Episode 1 - Fran Hauser: Best-Selling Author of The Myth of the Nice GirlOn this week's episode we welcome our first guest and my good friend, Fran Hauser, to the Working Wife, Happy Life! podcast. Fran is a long-time media executive, startup investor, keynote speaker and best-selling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl. We discuss everything from what motivated her to write her book, to how to quit saying "sorry," start setting boundaries, and ultimately achieve a successful career without compromising who you are. Please tune in because this is an episode you don't want to miss! And don't forget to follow Fran across social channels @fran_hauser To co...2020-01-1745 minWorking Wife, Happy Life!Welcome to Working Wife, Happy Life!Welcome to the Working Wife, Happy Life Podcast! Settle into my first introductory episode where I spend time giving you a window into my life, my mission, and my inspiration for launching this podcast. We'll hear from entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, celebrities and industry leaders who are reshaping the roles of working women in today’s society. You’ll be inspired, you’ll be moved, and you’ll hear firsthand about the triumphs and tribulations of being a breadwinning woman. My goal is to expand conversations about societal gender norms surrounding success, money and household roles. To contact me with c...2020-01-1508 min
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi928: Thriving as a female in tech and family breadwinner with Google's Bethanie BaynesBethanie Baynes is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Google and has been with the company for 15 years. She’s worked to overcome gender bias in tech and is a strong female advocate. She’s also a breadwinning woman and has, what she calls, a Flip Family. When her husband was laid off, it felt natural for him to become a stay-at-home dad. They soon realized that many of their friends and family saw it differently. In her efforts to create a community for fellow female breadwinners, Bethanie founded the Breadwinning Women at Google.
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Ellevate Network: Conversations With Women Changing the Face of BusinessEpisode 136: Breadwinning Women, with Bethanie BaynesAfter a start in the photography industry, Bethanie Baynes, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Google, realized she wanted to be in the fast-paced tech world, making her way to the executive level at Google. On this episode, she talks about ageism at work, the pressure of being an ideal mother, and how her experiences inspired her to use her platform to uplift other women. Bethanie also shares how masculinity and femininity are defined in a capitalist society, gender roles and dynamics within her own relationship, and the perils of “momsplaining.”2018-11-1334 min