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Product VoicesThe Importance of Communities, Mentors, and Side Projects in Your Product CareerHow can community of peers, mentors, and select side projects help your product management career? In this episode, Naimeesha Murthy, VP Product at New Venture Labs and Founder of Products by Women, shares her journey in product management - including founding and growing a global networking and education community, leveraging mentors across her career and life, and finding side projects that stoke her passion - and how all of these have made her a better product person.
2022-11-1625 min
Talk Of Her TownNaimeesha MurthyNaimeesha Murthy, Founder at Products by Women - A diverse global community offering skill-based mentorship and professional development opportunities for women in tech and beyond! Naimeesha is also a tech conference speaker, start-up advisor and mentor specializing in product and GTM. She also serves as an advisory board member at Pace University, New York, and is a Forbes Council Member.
2021-04-2039 min
Products by Women"My mission is to make PR accessible for early-stage entrepreneurs without breaking the bank." - Gloria Chou, PR GuruIn this episode, we'll be chatting with Gloria Chou - a PR guru, former Diplomat, and TV producer.
Gloria has never worked at an agency or had any formal training, ever. She learned how to "hack" her own PR by cold calling/emailing thousands of editors and learned what works, and now she teaches her winning methods to early-stage founders.
Gloria is a PR coach at many organizations like Barclays RISE, IFW, Freelance Founders, and more.
Key Take-Aways:
How to get started with your PR journey
Why it's important to start thinking...
2021-02-1121 min
Products by Women"I realize that some days are smoother because I've invested in myself" - Ruchika Mishra, Product Owner | Meditation TeacherRuchika Mishra is a mother, a product owner for a top financial firm, and a meditation teacher. Listen to her inspiring story of finding balance in these roles and moving forward with equanimity during the pandemic. She gives practical advice on how to take care of one's mental health and easy self-care tips that can be applied in one's daily routine.
Key Takeaways:
- How to break into product management
- Overcoming imposter syndrome
- Prioritizing self-care, mental health and dealing with stress during the pandemic
- And more...
2021-01-2617 min
Products by WomenMeet Erin Flynn, Co-founder and CEO of Cladwell - An app that helps you experience the freedom of a capsule wardrobeMeet, Erin Flynn, Co-founder and CEO of Cladwell - An app that helps you experience the freedom of a capsule wardrobe.
Erin has 10 years of experience in taking ideas or insights and transforming them into products that people use daily. She’s spent the majority of her career starting and creating new businesses both on her own and within a corporation.
In 2009, she grew her fashion blog, Reality Chic, into a business and was featured as a Microsoft Champion, appeared on a reality tv show ALL ON THE LINE on with Joe Zee (Creative Director of...
2020-12-2814 min
Products by WomenMeet, Ire Aderinokun - Nigeria's first female Google Developer Expert, Cofounder and COO of BuyCoins (YC S18), a cryptocurrency exchange for Africa.Ire Aderinokun is a self-taught Frontend Developer and User Interface Designer from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the Cofounder, COO, and VP Engineering of BuyCoins (YC S2018), a cryptocurrency exchange for Africa, and previously worked with eyeo, the company behind products like Adblock Plus and Flattr Plus, building open source software to make a better internet.
Ire is a Google Expert, specializing in the core frontend technologies HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but is passionate about all aspects of technology. She has written over 100 articles on these topics on her blog, bitsofco.de, and regularly shares her knowledge through...
2020-12-2717 min
Products by Women“Don’t just inspire people, but show them how it is done”, says Upasna Gautam, PM at CNN.Upasna is the Product Manager on the E-Commerce team at CNN where she develops and optimizes the technological infrastructure that powers the domain. Prior to her Product Management role at CNN, Upasna worked in SEO and data science for a decade and has architected and managed the organic search strategies for PCMag, Mashable, Ford Motor Company, Valvoline, Mars Corporation, Mars Pet Food, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, and Kimberly-Clark. She has presented her thought leadership on product and search optimization at major tech conferences across the globe, including the Digital Summit series, INBOUND, SMX Advanced, Conductor C3, State of Search...
2020-12-0127 min
Products by Women"Educate yourself! A lot of people will try to take things away from you, but they can never take away your knowledge" - Elaine MontillaMontilla shares her experience overcoming the biases and how valuable it is to constantly learn and grow. Also, as Montilla suggests, everyone's success is unique and so is the magic formula to succeed. And it's up to us to explore the different avenues and find what's best for us!
Elaine is recognized as a dynamic and solutions-oriented IT Executive with 20+ years of progressively responsible experience providing vision and leadership while developing and implementing large-scale IT strategies and initiatives within the higher education industry. She drives operational excellence through improved business processes and enterprise systems, while also managing...
2020-10-1212 min
Products by Women“There will be setbacks, but you need to have the patience and the tenacity to keep going because the person who keeps at it is the one that wins in the end.” - Dr. Elina Berglund ScherwitzlLocation: Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Co-founder and CEO of Natural Cycles - the world’s first, and only, app to be certified as a contraception by the FDA in the U.S. and CE marked in Europe. Prior to founding Natural Cycles, Elina was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson at the CERN laboratory, which led to the Nobel Prize in physics in 2013. Following this success, Elina was looking for an effective, natural birth control and decided to apply her skills from particle physics to create a unique algorithm that could accurately pi...
2020-10-0513 min
Products by Women"Resist Fitting in a Box" - Zeenia Framroze [Head of Sales and Business Development at Smartcar]Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Zeenia Framroze is the Head of Sales and Business Development at Smartcar - the first and only car API for mobility applications. Our platform allows web and mobile apps to locate, unlock, and read the odometer from vehicles across brands.
Zeenia studied Political Theory and Social Policy at Harvard and Oxford. In her free time, she loves reading, hanging out with her family, and carefully rationing out episodes of the Sopranos to last her through the end of quarantine.
In this episode Zeenia will talk to us about:
2020-09-1517 min
Products by Women"Build something you are passionate about because in a day there will be more reasons to not do it than to do it." - Lina Chan, CEO and Founder at ParlaLina Chan is the CEO, Founder at Parla - An expert-led community changing the conversation around fertility.
Parla was inspired by Lina’s experience with fertility. She always felt on the back foot. Like many women, Lina found it difficult to understand what was going on with her body, get trusted support, and take care of my emotional health. Parla means to speak, and we believe it’s time to make women’s health an ongoing informed conversation. We’re breaking taboos and making misinformation a thing of the past by creating a space that empowers women as they...
2020-08-0417 min
Products by Women"When you are thinking about fundraising or to bootstrap, it comes down to looking at the financial model." – Neha GovindrajLocation: New York
In this podcast episode we are speaking with Neha Govindraj - the Co-founder, President & COO of Glowbar: a skincare concept disrupting the spa industry with no-fluff 30-minute, customized and solution-oriented treatments at $65. Prior to Glowbar, Neha was a management consultant at Bain & Company, where she focused much of her time in their retail practices consulting Fortune 500 and other companies on consumer strategy and operations. During her time there, Neha did an externship with the C-level team at the millennial beauty brand, Glossier, leading various strategic initiatives within the operations, marketing and finance functions. Shortly t...
2020-08-0113 min
Products by Women"To say that black women need this, is not to say that other people don't!" - Ashlee WisedomLocation: New York, US
Ashlee Wisedom is the Founder and CEO of Health In Her HUE - a digital platform that connects Black women to the healthcare providers, services and resources that are committed to their health and well-being. Our platform connects Black women to Black healthcare providers and offers culturally relevant, evidence-based health content.
In this episode Ashlee talks to us about:
What shaped her to be the person she is today
How her immigrant roots made her more resilient
How she built a team, tested and validated the market
Her vision for He...
2020-07-3119 min
Products by Women"If you’re thinking of building something, do it." - Karen RiosLocation: New York, US
Karen Rios is Lifesaver’s Co-founder and CEO. Prior to founding Lifesaver, Karen served as Chief Compliance Officer for Seminole Management Company. Karen was the first Latina and youngest C-level officer in the firm’s history. Prior to that role, she worked for an education technology startup. In another life, she worked as a beat writer in Paris while studying abroad at the Sorbonne, and would later return to the U.S. to work for the Obama Campaign. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University.
The Lifesaver app turns legacy fina...
2020-07-1120 min
Products by WomenJennifer Yeh, Jennifer Tsay and Kat Tchernavskikh | Executive Founding Team @ Shoott.com | USA and CanadaIn this episode, we spoke to Jennifer Yeh, Jennifer Tsay and Kat Tchernavskikh the executive founding team at Shoott.com, a female-run startup that celebrates diversity and seeks to provide accessible and quality photography to everybody.
Shoott was launched in the summer of 2018 in NYC and has since held thousands of sessions. Shoott’s elite team of talented photographers have shot for some of the world's biggest brands, including Forbes, Elle, GQ, The Cut, Buzzfeed and more.
How it works:
1. Book your free 30 min session
2. Enjoy a customized photo shoot
3...
2020-06-1024 min
Products by WomenNeeti Mehta Shukla | Co-Founder and Senior VP of Brand and Culture @ Automation Anywhere | San Jose, California, USANeeti Mehta Shukla is the Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Brand and Culture at Automation Anywhere - A robotic process automation (RPA) company based out of San Jose, California.
Neeti is an avid strategist with more than 20 years of business management, technology marketing, and entrepreneurial experience. A visionary and advocate of bot ethics, she's one of only five women globally who've founded companies worth more than USD $2 billion.
Automation Anywhere recently raised $290 million in series B funding at a post-money valuation of $6.8 billion. Salesforce Ventures led the round, with additional contributions from existing investors...
2020-06-0422 min
Products by WomenMargaret Wishingrad | CEO and Co-Founder @ Three Wishes Cereal | New York, USAThe cereal industry is mainly dominated by four large companies making the barrier to entry high and allowing minimal innovation in the space.
Margaret Wishingrad is changing that with Three Wishes Cereal: a high protein, low sugar, grain free breakfast cereal, that tastes like the cereals of your childhood, made with modern day clean ingredients.
In this episode Margaret talks about how she came up with the idea, developed the product by validating a need and brought it to market successfully by securing shelf space in large retail stores like Wegmans and Wholefoods. She also...
2020-05-2017 min
Products by WomenJulie Clark, Founder, Province Apothecary | Location: Toronto, CanadaJulie Clark is the founder of Province Apothecary – a best selling and an award winning Canadian organic skincare brand.
After struggling with allergies and eczema all her life, Julie Clark began crafting natural, organic beauty products out of her kitchen. Despite her busy schedule as a costume designer and stylist, Julie found herself drawn to holistic skincare, using her time off to experiment with oils, waxes and herbs- all in pursuit of the perfect skin care regime. In 2010 Julie began studying Aromatherapy, Holistic Health and Esthetics in Toronto. Here she formed the foundation of her skincare expertise, exper...
2020-05-0817 min
Products by WomenMichelle Kennedy, CEO, Peanut | Location: London, UKMichelle Kennedy is a lawyer, former board member of Bumble and CEO of Peanut - a social networking app to meet, chat and learn from like-minded moms and women.
For Michelle, Peanut is more than an app to connect mothers. It’s about recognizing a pain point that millions of women encounter and finding a solution. Motherhood can be challenging, and Michelle’s focus is to reduce these feelings and empower women to unite, all over the world.
So far, Peanut has raised $9.8 million in VC funding, and the app has over 1 million users.
At...
2020-04-2315 min
Products by WomenRoopa Pemmaraju, Founder, Sustainable Ethical Brand | Location: New York, USRoopa Pemmaraju is the Founder of a modern, sustainable and ethical luxury fashion brand. Roopa’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Cosmopolitan and various other mainstream publications - Her beautiful work has also been featured in prestigious fashion shows in Australia, Paris, Dubai and India.
“I love day dreaming, but at the same time to make it real, a lot of hard work is involved” - Roopa Pemmaraju
In this episode you will get a glimpse into what really go behind all the glamour and how luxury sustainable fashion products are mad...
2020-04-1521 min
Products by WomenIntroProducts by Women Podcast is a series dedicated to featuring the women behind innovative, sustainable, ethical and cutting-edge brands and products.
In this podcast, we’ll be talking to product innovators, change makers and leaders about how they built and scaled their companies and what motivates them and keeps them going!
2020-04-0200 min
This is Product Management238 Vulnerability is Product ManagementLina Bedi, Naimeesha Murthy, and Monica Rozenfeld, co-founders of Her Product Lab, discuss how their shared passion for empowering women in tech propelled them to build a community for the women in product development who build, design, and create. Get the latest updates from the show at www.thisisproductmanagement.com.
2020-03-1623 min
At The End of The Day with Anuz Thapa & Dipika ShresthaNaimeesha Murthy: My Career in Product Management (Podcast Episode 94)In this episode of podcast At the End of the Day, we talk to Naimeesha Murthy from India, about her career in Product Management.
Naimeesha’s message to the immigrant youth - “Your career and your life here in the U.S. is what you want it to be!… You know your potentials, you know your skills and limitations, and you work around that. You know how to connect those dots….You just have to keep going. One step in front of the other, take it slow and steady, and you just keep going!”
Naimeesha is the found...
2020-03-0813 min
TheProdcastEpisode 12 :Mountain Climbing and Product ManagementIn this episode Shrinedhi Rajan hosted Naimeesha Murthy, Founder WIP NYC.
2020-01-2618 min