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Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainConnect great people to do great things with Sherry Shannon-VanstoneSherry Shannon-Vanstone is a mathematician, cryptographer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded Profound Impact in 2018? Profound Impact's mission is ‘to connect great people to do great things’.She had an early interest in mathematics and learned along her dad who’s was studying to be an electrical engineer. By the time she was in 5th grade, she tested her aptitudes and she scored 10th grade.Sherry started her career working as a cryptographer for the US government before moving on to start-ups in Silicon Valley and then Canada. She was an innovator in technology and in leadersh...2023-07-021h 04
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainPushing against cultural traditions with Lilian SueLilian Sue is a PR coach and publicist. She helps creative entrepreneurs to build healthy PR mindsets and a successful PR strategy.Lilian grew up in a very traditional Chinese Canadian family. She explains the difficulties that she's had in pushing against the cultural traditions and the strict family roles, and what it's meant to her to live the life that she wanted.She learnt very early on to put boundaries in place and have ‘No Go Zones’ in order to maintain somewhat of a positive relationship with her parents.One of the earl...2022-11-2351 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainWhy women sabotage other women with Jennifer HicksJennifer Hicks is the Director of Client & Business Development at Capital Fund Law Group. She speaks about transitioning from her role as a police officer to working in corporate. She is also a strong champion of women and specifically addresses why women sabotaging other women.When she first started her career as a police officer, she was treated with a lot of respect. But when she moved into another department, she experienced harassment and discrimination. She finally spoke out, filed a complaint and managed to restore her reputation. But she was emotionally broken.She left...2022-10-1150 minBrave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainIndian railways with Sheena SimpsonSheena Simpson completed a Master's degree in Asian History at the University of Sydney and specialized in the development of the Indian railways. She traveled to India on five separate occasions from 1989 to 2005 where she experienced first hand what it was like to travel on the railways.In her thesis, she studied the economic and social impact of railways on the Indian population, but also the harsh working conditions. The British had started to build railways in India because of the flourishing cotton trade - the railways and the cotton trade were run by the East India...2022-09-1330 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainGrowing up in postwar Central London with author J M PhilipsJill Philips is the author of "Lamlash Street, a portrait of 1960s, postwar London through one family's story". In this episode, Jill talks about why it was so important for her to write a book about growing up in Cockney London after the war.From food rationing to swimming lessons, Jill gives us an insight into the reality of life in the heart of Cockney London only a few short decades ago.She talks about her relationship with her mother and how unusual it was for her mother to have insisted on Jill pursuing an education...2022-08-0434 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainReducing orphaned wells methane emissions with Staci Taruscio and Brooke SwainStaci and Brooke work together at rebellion energy in Oklahoma. Staci is the president and CEO and Brooke is the senior engineering and geological technician. They are also the co-founders of Fellow Environmental Partners, a non-profit focussed on plugging orphaned oil and gas wells in an effort to reduce methane emissions.Staci and Brooke wanted to do something different for their next project. They were throwing around ideas and started to think about abandoned wells. The more they learnt about the methane emissions and water contamination caused by abandoned oil wells, the more they realised that no...2022-06-2553 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainLa rage de réussir avec Paoline EkambiPaoline Ekambi est la présidente et fondatrice de Sportail Community, une entreprise de l'économie sociale et solidaire. Elle a été joueuse de basket professionnelle pendant 18 ans, dont 13 ans dans l’équipe française.Pour Paoline, le sport est avant tout une passion qui lui a offert une ouverture sur le monde, une connaissance d’elle-même, des valeurs, des voyages et des amitiés, comme elle le raconte dans cette interview. A 14 ans, elle intègre un parcours scolaire qui lui permet de mener à bien le sport et ses études, un moment qu’elle décrit comme une opp...2022-06-1730 minBrave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainDe la psychologie à directrice de laboratoire au CNRS avec Claudine HerzlichClaudine Herzlich était directrice de laboratoire au CNRS et a été la premiere femme a créer un laboratoire qui appartenait a la fois au CNRS, a l’INSERM et a l’EHESS.Elle est aujourd’hui retraitée et partage son incroyable parcours.Claudine a étudié la psychologie dans les années 1950 et nous raconte l’ambiance de l’époque à La Sorbonne, où la psychologie était une nouvelle discipline. Durant un séminaire avec Claude Lévi-Strauss, elle décide de son sujet de thèse et se focalise sur la santé et plus particulièrement la perception des mal...2022-06-171h 11
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainProtecting marine megafauna in Bangladesh with Elisabeth Fahrni MansurElisabeth is the Senior Manager of the Marine Conservation Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Bangladesh. Her main focus is on protecting threatened marine megafauna.Elisabeth grew up in Switzerland and started her career as a teacher. In 2002, she moved to Bangladesh, married a Bangladeshi and ‘fell into’ conservation work. When she was working as a tour guide in the Sundarban forest, she and her husband became aware of the lack of protection of aquatic ecosystems in Bangladesh. Thanks to her encounter with Brian Smith, a mentor from the Wildlife Conservation Society, she began a prog...2022-05-2628 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainBeing a doctor and a performer with Cindy PanCindy Pan is a general practitioner, dancer and writer who has had a career on television and has written many magazine and newspaper columns as well as books.Most of all, she has always loved dance and she is dancing more today than she ever did!Cindy’s interview is about following your passions and interests and not letting anything stop you. Cindy studied medicine but she never let a chance to perform slip past her: if something came up and she thought that it might be a good idea, she just did it! From th...2022-05-251h 07
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainBecome a speaker with Getrude MatsheGetrude Matshe was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in London and New Zealand. Her main activity is her company ‘Her Story Circle’ and she is also a writer, a coach and a textile artist.Getrude is a life force. She is aligned with her gifts and follows her intuition - she has had an incredible life! She was not afraid to quit a job with no Plan B and 3 children to feed and she is always coming up with new business ideas!After a period of depression and a strange accident, Getrude set up Wome...2022-05-1843 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainPodcasting original plays with Diane QuinnDiane Quinn is the co-founder and artistic director of ‘Unseen Theatre’, an audio podcast showcasing original plays featuring female protagonists.She is also a professional dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, director, company manager and playwright.Diane trained in ballet as a child and then went into musical theatre, regional and national theatre and film and television. Eventually, through dancing and singing and focusing on the musical aspect of her career, she transitioned into becoming an actor.She always knew that she wanted to perform in character because she loved reading plays as a child and enjo...2022-05-1846 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain'Arracher sa place' avec la rappeuse tunisienne Medusa TnMedusa Tn est une rappeuse tunisienne qui s’est faite connaître pendant le printemps arabe avec son titre ‘Tounsiya Fière De L'être’. Aujourd'hui elle habite en Île-de-France où elle poursuit ses études d'ingénieur.Initialement elle a voulu rapper pour donner le point de vue d’une femme tunisienne dans un contexte où il n’y avait que des rappeurs hommes. Elle aborde des sujets politiques et sociaux mais toujours d’un point de vue féministe. Son message et ses chansons sont devenus un porte voix pour beaucoup de femmes dans le monde arabe, en particulier...2022-04-2839 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainMentoring and finding your joy with Pamela JohnsonPamela was the director of learning and development at Freddie Mac and a mentor for many. She is now an instructional designer and continues to act as a mentor.Helping and advising people brings a lot of joy to Pamela, so it’s no surprise that she found herself mentoring people quite organically.In the corporate world, people tend to use mentoring as a tool to jump to the next level. For Pamela, advancement comes naturally when you find your joy and your niche at work.As she puts it: ‘It would be real...2022-04-2232 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainWorking with crocodiles in Cuba with Natalia RossiNatalia is the country director at the Wildlife Conservation Society in Cuba. She is a herpetologist, has a PhD from Columbia University and is a specialist in the American crocodile.From Columbia University in New York to working with crocodiles in the mangroves of Cuba, Natalia tells us about her work as a woman in conservation and particularly with crocodiles. From surveying nesting sites to jumping out of boats to capture crocodiles in nets at night, her job is definitely not for the faint hearted!Natalia also participated in the creation of a new marine...2022-04-2247 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain‘There is always a way’ with Hanan NayelHanan recently retired from her position as General Secretary for Northeast Africa for Danone.She was born in Egypt but has lived in many countries and her career has been far from to linear.Hanan chose to stay at home when she had her two children and was terrified when she returned to work. She felt as many women do - that the world had changed. However, Hanan persisted and, when she moved from Amsterdam to Saudi Arabia, had the courage to pitch a programme proposals directly to the head of a Saudi TV station.Hanan's story...2022-04-1547 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainOffering free education in Tanzania with Gemma SisiaGemma Sisia grew up in Australia and has been living in Tanzania for the past 20 years. In 2002, she founded the School of St. Jude, a charity school in the Arusha Region of Tanzania. Today the school has more than 1800 students.Gemma saw for herself how her parents always made school fees the priority, even when times were tough. When she graduated as a maths and science teacher and had the opportunity to teach in Tanzania, she did. But in the mid- 90’s, many of the students she was teaching had to leave because they were losing their pa...2022-03-251h 12
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainBeing a woman and a mother in the film industry with Nikki PetersenNikki is an American film director and producer based in Paris. She speaks about working in the film industry as a woman and as a mother.Nikki studied film in Paris and quickly realised that it was a male dominated industry. Luckily, she had a lot of support from women. She started freelancing as a journalist and producer for CNN in Paris straight out of school, then freelanced for a few years until she created her own creative agency.Nikki is passionate about avoiding biais towards women in the film industry. ’It’s important to have...2022-03-241h 10
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainGiving education and equal opportunities to girls and boys with Janepher NansubugaJanepher has been involved with School for Life Uganda from the very beginning (2009). She is now Director of Community and Welfare.She lived a happy life in Kampala until she was 16 years old. Both her parents then died within a year and she became responsible for her 3 younger siblings. Life was tough. She remembered her father's words: "It is only you who can support yourself to get out of any kind of situation. And you have the solution to every problem that comes your way".She saw how hard it was for her to acquire...2022-03-1628 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainLiza Jane - a film about a song, with Emily CohenEmily Cohen runs a community radio station in the state of Wyoming called the Jackson Hole Community Radio. She started as a DJ and after a few months became the executive director.This is a fascinating interview about her role as the director and producer of a film about the song Liza Jane, a tune that has been passed back and forth between black and white musicians since the 1800s. Liza Jane is perhaps the most recorded song in America.Emily has worked in teaching, city planning and ecological design. She has always been fascinated...2022-03-0938 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainA wild success for the Wildlife Conservation Society with Susan LiebermanSusan is currently the Vice President International Policy at the Wildlife Conservation Society. The Wildlife Conservation Society are active in more than 60 countries around the world. They are on the ground, working with local people in conserving wildlife, wild places and their habitats.Susan tells us what it takes to change policies and mentalities in the topic of conservation. From international ban of ivory trade to today’s consumer consciousness, every choice we make has an impact on a global ecosystem.Her work involves working both with local communities and with governments to change policy....2022-02-2431 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainShanghai Pride, Ladies Who Tech and more with Charlene LiuCharlene Liu has become one of the iconic figures of the LGBT movement in Shanghai. She is also a co-founder of ‘Ladies Who Tech’ and a diversity and inclusion consultant.She somehow always knew that she was gay but it’s only when she organised the Shanghai Pride festival that she finally accepted who she was, and then had the confidence to come out to friends, colleagues and even her family.She is also an engineer and in 2016 she became the co founder of ‘Ladies Who Tech’, a convention that advocates for women working in tech indus...2022-02-1846 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainFeeding elk in Wyoming with Rita HogganRita is a nuclear scientist who resigned 3 years ago. Now, she spends her winters in a remote cabin in the mountains with her father and son, cut off from the world, feeding elk.Rita enjoyed her career as a nuclear scientist but at some point, she heard her inner voice telling her that she had to quit. She was missing out on her son's life, she felt her career was not progressing and she just had renovated a house.She had no idea what to do next. It was the fall and she said to...2022-02-1440 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainA career in journalism with Anne BagameryAnne Bagamery had a fantastic career as a journalist and editor working, among others, for the New York Times Style magazine and the International Herald Tribune. In 2017, she started a business providing communication services to corporations, nonprofits and news organisations.At 14, Anne’s English teacher handed her an essay she had written and told her she should write fiction or be a journalist. She chose the latter and took any opportunity she could to write!If you want to know what it takes to have a career as a journalist, you'll love hearing how Anne ma...2022-02-0450 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainUpgrade your business and your life with Shilpa PanchmatiaShilpa Panchmatia grew up as an Indian girl in London. She is an extremely successful business woman and is currently running a business as a Business Growth Coach called Shilpa P.This interview covers a lot of ground. We talk about how Shilpa’s ancestors came to be living in East Africa and why they had to leave. We talk about the influence of the Hindu culture and her caste on her life and her career. We talk about the subtle but very real discrimination she suffered as a woman and an Asian in the corporate world....2022-01-2053 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainWomen entrepreneurs with Ines GafsiInes is the co-founder of Female Entrepreneur Worldwide (FEW) and also leads the Hong Kong chapter of Inspiring Girls, a charity that is empowering girls by connecting them with female role models.For many years, Ines tried many careers but felt she hadn’t found her calling yet. She kept exploring the world. When she volunteered for TEDx, she found exactly what she wanted to do, plus a business partner! She talks about how they started FEW and their mission of helping women entrepreneurs grow their business to the next level.With Inspiring Girls, she pa...2022-01-1425 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainMaking academia work for women scientistsThree biologists speak about a scientific paper written by 24 women academics on how the way in which scientific careers are assessed works against women and minorities. From language barriers, number of citations, inadequate mentoring to lack of funding for publications, a myriad of factors determine how successful a scientific career is. These women are looking to promote more inclusive metrics of success.They give a fascinating inside in the scientific community and how papers are published, the biaises that exists, the difficulty of accessing funding, the importance of a great mentor and much more!I...2022-01-0645 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainWomen's speeches with Dana RubinDana Rubin is a speaking coach and a women’s voice advocate.She is currently researching speeches by women across time and around the world, a project called Speaking While Female Speech Bank.She has an incredible vision for it to be used in history books so that girls grow up to see that anything is possible! It’s been a long time coming..I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or o...2021-12-2353 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainHow stories can help make sense of the world with Kelly RigbyKelly Rigby is a writer, a book editor and a writing coach.She talks about the joy of writing and making sense of the world through stories. Working as a story doctor for many years, she discovered that she was really good at kicking people’s writing to the next level while preserving their inspiration. She adds that it's not all about commercial work, it’s about creativity and getting that important story out. Your life will be richer from it!I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to a...2021-12-1634 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainDajena Victor et sa passion pour la poésieDaj Vic enseigne les soins infirmiers à Montréal. Mais sa vraie passion est ailleurs. Elle est poète. Elle raconte comment elle est devenue poète, son processus d'écriture et la manière inhabituelle dont sa poésie a été découverte.Vous pouvez trouver la poésie de Daj ici : Daj VicSon podcast 'La Vie en Poésie' est disponible sur les plateformes habituelles.Je serai ravie de savoir ce que vous pensez de cet épisode et de répondre à vos questions éventuelles. Vous pouvez me trouver sur Linkedin, la page Brave New Women d...2021-12-0937 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainWhy so few women are at the top with Gill Whitty-CollinsFor the first 20 years of her career, Gill Whitty-Collins didn’t see the gender equality issue. Then she became Senior Vice President of Procter & Gamble Beauty and entered a male dominant culture. At that point, she saw it, she felt it, she even tried to fit in. Her latest book ‘Why Men Win at Work’ explores the psychology of gender diversity. She shares insights from her personal experience and encourages men to sign up to be femanists!Gill now is a career coach and has her own consulting company, which works on building brand, gender equality and diversity.2021-12-0252 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainBuilding schools in rural Uganda with Annabelle ChauncyAnnabelle Chauncy, CEO of The School For Life and changemaker, is a living example that everything is possible. At 21, with a $10 000 cheque in hand and a lot of passion, she took on to buy land and build a school in rural Uganda.Her unshakable belief that education is freedom led her to build an holistic and sustainable school system that has transformed the community. The School For Life now runs three primary, secondary and vocational schools.For more infos and/or sponsor a child, visit: www.schoolforlife.org.auI would love to...2021-11-2340 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainDaring to be vulnerable with Kamel HothiKamel Hothi speaks about her extraordinary personal journey and career in banking. At times, she felt as though she was being torn apart, no longer knowing whether she was a high-powered banker or the maid. It was only when she let herself be vulnerable at work, and shared her difficult home life, that she was able to find support... and find herself.She now works with individuals and corporates on vulnerability and making our workplaces more human.I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You...2021-11-181h 23
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainThe book about restoring Collit's Inn with Christine StewartChristine Stewart has just published a book called "Collit's Inn - Uncovering the Past". The book is about her restoration of the first inn to be built on the other side of the Blue Mountains from Sydney. But it's a whole lot more than that. It is also about the history of the Collit's family, the history of the whole Hartley Valley area and a tribute to the wide group of people who Mum worked with while doing the restoration. A recent reader said: "Your amazing book has been on my kitchen bench since arriving here and I am lovi...2021-11-1132 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainChanging the lives of Vietnamese children with Judith NguyenJudith talks about how she met her husband, a Vietnamese, about living and having to flee from Vietnam during the war, and setting up The Haven, a school for poor but bright children in Vietnam, and the difference this has made to the lives of the children and their families. I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website: www.ceciliapoullain.comCecilia PoullainFounder of Brave New W...2021-11-0847 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainCoaching creative women with Ali MapletoftAli Mapletoft is an independent print designer with a brand name "Age of Reason Studios”. She is also a Creatrix coach and see herself as both a business coach and an alchemist of the divine feminine and the divine creative.She discusses her unusual childhood and her own journey of transformation and self-development along with building a successful creative business.I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website: ww...2021-11-041h 01
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainLes pratiques narratives pour soigner nos histoires avec Dina ScherrerDina Scherrer est la thérapeute des pratiques narrative la plus connue en France et vient d'être nommée Présidente de la FFPN - Fédération Francophone des Pratiques Narratives.Elle raconte ses difficultés à l'école et comment elle a été soutenue au travail pour passer d'un poste d'assistante administrative à celle de directrice du développement et de la communication dans une agence de publicité internationale. Lorsqu'elle quitte le monde de la publicité, elle s'inspire des travaux de l'australien Michael White sur la thérapie narrative afin de développer sa propre pratique en...2021-10-2238 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainThe strength of women: managing a high-powered career and a child with cystic fibrosisDemet has just retired from her position as senior partner at Ernst&Young in Istanbul. She talks about how she combined her high-power career with caring for her son with cystic fibrosis. I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website: www.ceciliapoullain.comCecilia PoullainFounder of Brave New WomenCoach - Empowering Women to Find their VoiceMusic: Stephen Marquis www.songsta.com.a...2021-10-1442 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainLa voix des femmes avec Aline JallietAprès une carrière impressionnante en tant que chanteuse classique, Aline s'est formée en tant que coach Tomatis. Aujourd'hui, elle travaille avec les managers, les comediens, les professeurs et les chanteurs sur leurs voix. Je lui parle de sa recherche sur les voix des femmes et comment leurs voix sont perçues. Je serai ravie de savoir ce que vous pensez de cet épisode et de répondre à vos questions éventuelles. Vous pouvez me trouver sur Linkedin, la page Brave New Women de Facebook ou sur mon site web.Cecilia PoullainFondatrice de Brave Ne...2021-10-0647 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainSaving coral reefs with Adriana HumanesAdriana Humanes talks about her work on coral reefs - why they are important, why they are under threat and why it is so important to protect them. She also touches on what it was like growing up in Venezuela before - and after - Hugo Chavez and the difficulties faced by women in academia.I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website: www.ceciliapoullain.comCecilia Poullain2021-10-0651 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainOn bringing the best out of migrant and refugee children with Dorothy HoddinottDorothy talks about her work as the principal of a school with a large migrant and refugee population in Sydney and her on-going work in ensuring that migrants and refugees are able to go to university. Dorothy is witty, intelligent and unbelievably inspiring. The world would be a very different place if every school principal was like her.I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website: www.ceciliapoullain.com2021-10-041h 01
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainBringing the world together with Corinne WeberCorinne is a film producer from California who is now based in Marseilles, France. Her work is about bringing people from all cultures together to make a difference in our world. She has been behind some extraordinary, creative, ambitious projects, including a film about a river in Athens that was covered by a road for the Olympic Games, photos of privileged and under-privileged children, "Be the Change", where 26 cities in different countries exchanged photographs. Corinne dreams big and realises her dreams, spectacularly. I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to...2021-10-0446 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainAgnès Giraud-Passot m'interviewe...Eh oui, un entretien de moi sur ma vie... Agnès Giraud-Passot est une journaliste et biographe, donc parfaite pour l'entretien. Je serai ravie de savoir ce que vous pensez de cet épisode et de répondre à vos questions éventuelles. Vous pouvez me trouver sur Linkedin, la page Brave New Women de Facebook ou sur mon site web.Cecilia PoullainFondatrice de Brave New WomenCoach - pour que les femmes trouvent leurs voixwww.ceciliapoullain.comMusique : Stephen Marquis https://songsta.com.auMontage : Talal Bouroki2021-10-0156 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainHuman trafficking with Linda LangLinda Lang is a tireless campaigner on human trafficking. Her experience of being sexually molested as an adolescent sensitised her to the fate of so many millions of women and children, and some men, that are the victims of human trafficking. As she says: "these women are being raped several times a day, day in, day out." I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website: www.ceciliapoullain.comCeci...2021-10-0159 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainThe challenges of women in the workplace with Rosalind CardinalRosalind is an organisational change specialist. She talks about the particular challenges faced by women in the workplace, and how so many of them are based on women not having confidence in themselves. We talk about how women can use their voices to be heard, why workplaces correspond to men rather than women and how women can build their quiet power. I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website: www.c...2021-09-2651 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainSyntropy with Christine McDougallChristine is the founder of a company called Syntropic World. Syntropy is the opposite of entropy, and means making more out of the sum of the parts. We talk about what syntropy is, the way in which it has already changed so many people’s lives and its potential. In addition to working tirelessly to teach, write about and promote syntropy, Christine has also run multiple marathons and ultra-marathons. I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook pag...2021-09-0959 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainHow critical thinking can protect women with Annie McCubbinAnnie calls herself an “Expert in elevating the quality of critical thinking in business and life”. She started her professional life as an actor before becoming an executive coach. She now works with management teams and executives across ASX-listed companies, private businesses, industry associations and women’s business groups. I talk to Annie about her fabulous new book: “Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions and how critical thinking can protect them”.For European readers, the book is available at WH Smiths. I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questio...2021-09-0342 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainTransatlantic Calls with Shirley ReynozoShirley is of Dominican origin and grew up in New York City. She studied sociology and anthropology, focussing on colonialism and racial and feminist dynamics. She has multiple mediums of communication - writing, singing and photography - and speaks multiple languages. But her message remains the same: what is it to be a black woman in today’s society? She has just released her fabulous new single, "Transatlantic Calls" under the stage name "møya rey".I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can...2021-09-031h 03
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainOn rehumanising organisations with Meredith MarshallMeredith Marshall worked for a Fortune 50 financial institution for close on 20 years, first in risk management then in coaching leaders and executives in transformational leadership. We talk about what transformational leadership is and how organisations can be healed and re-humanised.I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website: www.ceciliapoullain.comCecilia PoullainFounder of Brave New WomenCoach - Empowering Women to Find their Voice2021-08-2654 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainShowcasing Latam Environmentalists: Sonia Maria Gonzalez MolinaSonia is the Director of the Directorate of Capacity Building, National Forest and Wildlife Service of Peru. 40% of Peru's forests are old-growth forest, and it is disappearing at the rate of 30% a year as a result of burning to create agricultural land, gold mining, illegal logging and narco-trafficking. Sonia's role within the Forest and Wildlife Service is to protect these forests. She talks about the enormous challenges and some of the successes. She also talks about how challenging it has been to be a young woman in conservation in PeruThis mini-series, interviews of women conservationists from Latin Am...2021-08-0634 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainShowcasing Latam Environmentalists : Marisi LopezMarisi López is from Corrientes in the north of Argentina. In 2005, she joined the Tompkins Conservation team in their work on the stunningly beautiful Iberá Park. The Tompkins started buying up land several decades ago, much to the dismay of the local people. However, when they realised that the park was bringing them jobs and saw the land regenerating, they became huge supporters. Current projects within the park include reintroducing species such as the jaguar and the giant otter. Marisi herself is working on opening up “Tourist Gateways” in order to provide more points of access for tourists and the l...2021-08-0251 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainShowcasing Latam Environmentalists: Rebeca GonzalesRebeca is a fire-fighter for the State of Jalisco on the west coast of Mexico. She trained with the Fulton Hot Shot Type 1 brigade in California, one of the toughest fire brigades in the world, coordinated and carried out the first course for women on forest fire and created the first all-woman forest fire brigade. She talks about her experience as a woman fire fighter and why she created the all-woman fire brigade.This mini-series, interviews of women conservationists from Latin America, was created with the help of Erin Hicks of the Centre for Protected Area Management at...2021-07-2229 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainShowcasing Latam Environmentalists: Daniela Droguett CaroDaniela is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Magallenes in Chile and is responsible for an area of 300 000 hectares. Only 33 people work for the Wildlife Conservation Society in the whole of Chile. Funding is a constant issue, as is making sure that conservation stays on the agenda of politicians and decision makers. One of the biggest problems is the invasion of exotic species which are wiping out the indigeneous animals. Beavers, for example, are destroying the forest. Daniela trained as a marine biologist and works with marine elephants and other species that are endemic to her area. 2021-07-1522 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainShowcasing Latam Environmentalists: Marysol Torres Aguilar on Guadalupe IslandMarysol is the Director of the fabulous Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve off the Western Coast of Mexico. The island is the home to many endemic species include sea lions, white sharks, cyprus, pine tree and the black-footed albatross, and a fishing village of 180 people. Marysol talks about how for many years, people came from all over the world to hunt the seal lions and brought many species with them. The introduced species are gradually being exterminated and the native environment is recovering.Marysol talks about what her role involves and some of the great successes her team has ha...2021-07-0532 minBrave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainThe World According To Women - Better ConversationsOn Tuesday 29 June 2021, we held the first "World According To Women", a forum for the women I have interviewed for this podcast to come together and go deeper on the issues, observations and concerns I am hearing from so many of them. For this event, Meredith Marshall and Camilla Borrevik shared their observations on “Better conversations: How we might communicate to bring out the best in us". Meredith talked about how she changed communication styles in one of the biggest financial organisations in the US and Camilla talked about her work as a Norwegian anthropologist who wo...2021-07-011h 07
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainMaking the seemingly impossible, possible with Anjani Amriit Anjani Amriit left her home in a small mining town in Yorkshire at the age of fifteen. She studied law and worked for one of the biggest law firms in the world until she burnt out. She went to a single meditation class and had a profound experience which changed her life and switched on her psychic abilities. Today, she combines her spirituality with her understanding of how to run a successful business in order to help her clients create their highest vision of themselves and make the seemingly impossible, possible. To find more about Anjani: https://anjaniamriit.com/2021-06-2446 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainTout au service de la thérapie avec Karla Gouyou Beauchamps“C’est comme s’il y avait des morceaux de puzzle qui s’étaient reliés. Je vois que tout ce que j’ai fait à un sens et un fil conducteur et m’amène à ce que je suis aujourd’hui. J’ai traversé des moments de doute, d'errance. J’ai beaucoup cherché ma place. J’avais une passion, j’allais vite et puis je m’ennuyais. J’ai compris que ce n’était pas à un endroit que j’allais le trouver, dans une méthode ou un outil, c’est comme si je devais créer mon propre art. J’ai compris que ce que j...2021-06-2051 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainRestoring Collits Inn with Christine StewartThis is a very special episode, because the person I am interviewing is... my Mum. Mum is hugely creative but she is also a doer - she will have an idea and the next thing you know, the project will be up and running or even finished. She is a drawer and a painter, was a potter for a while, she ran an arts and crafts shop for many years, and I don’t remember a time when she wasn’t doing up houses. She organised her last painting exhibition at the age of 82. In this int...2021-06-1946 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainOvercoming child sexual abuse with May Baxter-Thornton“It was when the leaders on the course were describing how a child would feel when they had been sexually abused and I remember thinking: I don’t need you to tell me this, I know already. This was the first time I knew, if that makes sense. It had never really dawned on me that that’s what that was. I had nothing to compare it to. When you’re a small child, you only know what the adults around you tell you. So I didn’t know that what I was going through was any differ...2021-06-1050 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainFirst woman to swim around Lord Howe Island - Lauren TischendorfLauren is the first woman to have swum 35 kilometres around Lord Howe Island, a stunningly beautiful island located 600 kilometres off the east coast of Australia. She talks about why she did the swim and the mental state she had to be in to cope with challenges such as a huge swell, swimming into a current that kept her in the same place for two hours and dealing with the sharks... A short documentary film is being made about Lauren, the swim and women and girls in ocean swimming. You can find out more about Lauren here: https://la...2021-06-0540 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainSpirituality in public life with Marea DonovanThe year she graduated from law at Sydney University, Marea was one of the five women and perhaps eighty men. She became the senior partner in a law firm in Port Macquarie on the north coast of NSW in Australia. She was also the mother of five children, Deputy Chair of the NSW Catholic Education Commission then Chair of the Governing Council of the Catholic Theological Union. Marea talks about her work in involving parents in schools and the profound impact this can have on children and on communities. She is currently Chair of the Australia-wide Spirituality in the...2021-06-0147 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainLa créativité débordante avec Maria-Laura Baccarini, chanteuse, actrice, danseuse, écrivaine, compositrice“Ce qui me plaît dans cette histoire c’est que Atalante est un personnage de la mythologie. Pas une déesse. Au contraire, elle une femme symbole de l’indépendance. De féminité et en même temps de force. Elle est très pure et très intelligente. C’est une femme qui aime. C’est une femme pleine de passion. Ce n’est pas une femme qui veut être un homme. Mais par contre elle met des hommes dans l’embarras.” - Maria-Laura BaccariniMaria-Laura est chanteuse, actrice et danseuse. Aujourd’hu...2021-05-271h 02
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainSuccess with obesity by Dr. Caetlin JopsonIf you have ever struggled with losing weight, this is the interview for you. Dr. Caetlin Jopson shares the cutting-edge techniques she has used successfully with hundreds of patients. Not only do they lose weight. As the pounds drop off, their other health issues miraculously disappear as well.I would love to hear any comments you might have on this episode and respond to any questions. You can find me on the Brave New World Facebook page, on Linkedin or on my website.Cecilia PoullainFounder of Brave New WomenCoach - Empowering Wome...2021-05-2043 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainFumi Suematsu sur l'intégration des immigrésFumi Suematsu travaille à Tokyo comme enseignante de la langue japonaise. Elle a voyagé en Nouvelle-Zélande et en Australie lorsqu’elle était jeune. Quand elle est revenue au Japon, elle ne voyait pas d’avenir, donc elle est partie à Paris - une échappatoire. Une fois arrivée, la beauté de la pluie, le ciel gris et les bâtiments correspondaient à son état intérieur. Fumi est restée en France pendant 16 ans. Elle décrit sa passion pour le travail - lorsqu’un sujet l'intéresse, elle se dévoue complètement. Mais ce dévouement l’a aveuglé à son éta...2021-05-141h 12
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainRed Tents - Unravelling our past and weaving our shared future - a new book on places where women can connect“Red Tents are places for women to connect, to relate to one another, to support one another. Red tents were inspired by the book “The Red Tent'' by Anita Diamond, which is a fictional account of women in Biblical times meeting in a red tent, but they also share a lot with cultures around the world, such as women’s circles, educating women about patriarchies in the 60s and 70s and indigeneous practices where women have met in different communities in the world.” - Mary Ann ClementsAisha Hannibal and Mary Ann Clements have just...2021-05-0640 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainAudrey Le Roux sur la gestion du stress en milieu professionnel et la guérison de sa propre sclérose en plaques.“On m’a diagnostiqué une sclérose en plaques le 28 septembre 2020, à 24 ans. J’étais journaliste et tout juste propriétaire d’un pavillon avec mon conjoint. J’ai eu l’impression que le ciel me tombait sur la tête. Tout était très lourd, la maladie en elle-même et tous les changements que cela impliquait dans ma vie. Mais au quotidien, ce sont les différents traitements et leurs effets secondaires qui ont été très compliqués à supporter. Des injections plusieurs fois par semaine, des symptômes grippaux, des marques sur le corps, une humeur changeante… Ils é...2021-04-2950 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainSonia Marshall on her impressive work in environment and sustainability on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia"Lucky for me, I have really, really grey hair. At about the age of 35, I decided to let my hair go completely grey. I would sit in the board room meetings with mainly men around the table and me in a more junior position and I'd watch their body language. Things like if you don't agree, you put your hands behind your head or your hands down on the table or sit back in your chair. And me and my grey hair walked in there. The body language and the colour of my hair gave me authenticity in male...2021-04-2256 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainHarriet Spalding on her extraordinary life in the film industry and in the Camargue“On some level I felt like there is a part of me that is in a new location, a new scene, a new set of lines but it’s life, it’s not fantasy.I feel like this is where I’m meant to be. I’ve always felt like I’m on a journey to somewhere but I don’t think I’ve felt as at home anywhere else I’ve been than where I am now. It just makes sense.” - Harriet SpaldingHarriet Spalding has had an amazing life...2021-04-1548 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainRomy Voos Andrianarisoa sur son incroyable travail à Madagascar pour les plus vulnérablesBrave New Women avec Cecilia Poullain“Je m’adresse à toutes les femmes issues de pays en voie de développement, que ce soit des femmes africaines, que ce soit des femmes asiatiques, même celles dans des pays développés : nombreuses femmes sont encore lourdement privées de leurs droits les plus basiques aujourd’hui. Mais une femme qui a décidé, une femme qui est convaincue, une femme qui a confiance en elle, est inarrêtable. Elle devient une machine de guerre ; elle devient une machine à succès, elle devien...2021-04-1055 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainAurélie Cros parle de son chemin pour devenir praticienne ayurvédique et yoga doulaBrave New Women avec Cecilia Poullain “Quand je pense à l’intimité de la naissance, je pense à la communauté des éléphants. Quand une femelle éléphant met bas, il y a toute une communauté d’éléphants qui l’entoure pour la protéger et pour la laisser son intimité pour qu’elle puisse vivre et arriver dans les profondeurs de cette naissance la mère - car c’est la naissance d’un enfant mais aussi la naissance d’une mère.” - Aurélie CrosAurélie Cros est praticienne ayurvédique et yoga doula. Toute petite...2021-04-0857 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainKatherine Roberts on her role as senior curator at Manly Art Gallery and Museum in SydneyBrave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain Katherine is the senior curator at Manly Art Gallery & Museum in Sydney. We talk about what it takes to become a curator and dig deep into the role. We talk about how the gallery combines art with other disciplines, including science and social issues, such as: “Refugee Art Project” where the work of four high profile artists/advocates will sit alongside work by newly arrived refugees connected with Settlement Services International in Sydney, and “Manly Dam Project” where eight artists were inspired by the water projects of...2021-04-0151 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainCécile Marcenac sur son expérience de prof dans les banlieues compliquées de Paris et son activité de coaching d'orientationBrave New Women avec Cecilia Poullain “Etre une femme prof, ça pouvait être bien ou pas bien. Ca dépendait de la vision de la femme de mes élèves. S’ils étaient entourés de femmes avec un petit peu de caractère, ils pouvaient l’accepter. Mais ça m’est déjà arrivé d’être en face des élèves hommes qui n’acceptait pas qu’une femme leur dise quoi faire. Après, il y a la question de toutes les femmes, le fait d’être regardée, dévisagée, quelle tenue on met. Pendant...2021-03-2526 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainSelina Spowart on the extraordinary difficulties of living with children with disabilitiesBrave New Women hosted by Cecilia Poullain “Things deteriorated badly when Liam was about 15, when he hit puberty. He’d always been pretty strong and reasonably tall but he was very soon stronger than me and very determined. Once he hit about 15, things got really dangerous and we saw an escalation in behaviour that led to a lot of aggression. Scratching, biting, kicking, throwing objects. He threw a steak knife at his brother once. He threw a drink bottle in my face, great big black eye, it was the week I started a new job in a...2021-03-1858 min
Brave New Women hosted by Cecilia PoullainAnnick Bergdoll sur comment le yoga et les textes sacrés indiens peuvent changer nos viesBrave New Women avec Cecilia Poullain“Le Hatha Yoga est une approche du corps très ancienne qui a évolué au fil des transmissions. C’est avant tout une philosophie millénaire que l’on découvre par l’étude des textes. Pourtant les questions qui se posaient sont les mêmes qui se posent encore aujourd’hui. Les manières d’y répondre par le hatha yoga sont toujours d’actualité et la pratique est complètement cohérente et intégrable dans notre vie d’aujourd’hui.” - Annick Bergdoll Comme bea...2021-03-1141 min