June 4, 2012
I'm delighted to report that the first three epidoes of The Broad Experience are airing in several countries this week, thanks to The Women's International News Gathering Serive (WINGS). Producer Frieda Werden has edited those three shows into one and woven in a few snippets about my own story along the way.
Find out more and listen here:
The show is distributed to community radio stations in the US, Canada and Australia.
May 19, 2012
I just found this video of (then McCann Erickson) executive Nina DiSesa on BigThink.com and thought it was worth posting - relates to a lot of what we talk about in the show. Apparently she's the author of a book called 'Seducing the Boys' Club'...
May 18, 2012
Here are a couple of articles that got me thinking earlier today. The first is from the Wall Street Journal. It was spurred by the small storm caused by former GE CEO Jack Welch and some of the comments he made at the recent WSJ Women in the Economy conference (among other things he equated women employee groups to 'victims' units'). The Journal responded by talking to many of the 18 female CEOs in this country about what they think it takes for women to get ahead. I saw two of these women speak at a Catalyst conference last month - sister CEOs, no less. Both had many interesting things to say (both also have stay-at-home husbands, which has to make being a chief executive and having a family a lot easier then it might be otherwise).
Then I saw this on Forbes Woman - it's about Make Mine A Million, the group that helps women-owned businesses get to the point where they're bringing in more than $1 million in revenue. It has an arresting headline - 'Why Women-Owned Businesses Don't Grow' - and goes on to quote Nell Merlino of Make Mine A Million saying that too many women try to do it all, don't delegate, and therefore don't have time to make more sales. I've never run a business - until now - but I can believe this. As reported in episode 2 of The Broad Experience, women, in general, DO try to do everything ourselves, and when you're juggling absolutely everything single-handedly, there's only so much you can actually achieve.
May 15, 2012
Here's a post I wrote about my strange journey to entrepreneurship - and this podcast - for the female entrepreneurs' site Women 2.0. This went up the very same day my CUNY entreprepreneurial journalism class had to present to a panel of judges who will decide whether or how much seed funding to allot our enterprises. Thankfully I was about the sixth person to speak out of 16, so my nerves didn't have too much time to go crazy. That said, my mouth was so dry by the time my turn came I had to grab a bottle of water with shaking hands before I went on. It all went by in a blur.