Dr Nancy O'reilly

Bobbie LaPorte talks about how training and participating in six Ironman Triathlons have changed the way she thinks about leadership. She stresses that you cannot plan, but you can prepare. In business and in endurance events, you can't know anymore what will happen moment to moment, so you need to prepare for change and use that change to discover the possibilities, focus on the strengths of your team and connect them to stay in the race and come out ahead.

Samantha Karlin describes the events that lead her to pursue a course to found Empower Global and broadcast her podcast Samanthropolitics to advance social change and women's rights around the world. With advanced degrees in law and diplomacy with a specialization in global gender analysis and conflict resolution, she is especially equipped to reveal ways to make significant change that cause women to be pawns in the world's struggle for power, and also train women to use their own power to lead, which she does through her Women's Leadership Challenge.

Katie Steele Danner tells how the Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge educates emerging women leaders about the needs of the communities throughout Missouri and how their abilities can help to solve problems and provide opportunities for leadership in areas that may be new to them. Now in its 32 year, the Challenge has more than 1,300 graduates leading in the state and around the world providing a vast network among a large array of industries and public service.

Kelly Nevins, CEO of the Women's Fund of Rhode Island shares how WFRI advocates for change at the systems level to benefit women. Although some women run for office because of what they learn from WFRI training, the group is non-partisan, supporting advocacy and training to help women create and advise the decision makers in their communities and workplaces. Kelly also gives advice to women looking for jobs and career change today, plus resources for women's funds throughout the country.

Colonel Ron Garan shares the story of how he became an astronaut and how his experiences in space elevated his perspective to see the unity of everything and everyone on earth. Working with people from 15 other countries taught him the power of diversity of perspective, and the awe and wonder of seeing earth from space showed him how interconnected we all are and expanded his view of how even the small things we do shift the trajectory of everything and everyone we touch into the future.

Dr. Sheila Robinson's message of knowing you have the power in you to be happy, work hard, fix broken systems for win-win results orbit around her own story of being raised to do that. She was not raised to take care of herself. Now, having lost 25 pounds, she feels younger, is more productive and much better at taking care of others. So her 2021 National Diversity Woman Media Business Leadership Conference is about being "Empowered to Lead." Sign up now for the virtual experience coming up November 4-5.

Gloria Feldt tells about her new book, INTENTIONING: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good, and how she made up the word to differentiate from ambition. Ambition is the hope and the dream--the fuel to start it. And intentioning is the action. Now I'm doing it. Nine power tools for leadership are contained in this newest book, which is available now where ever books are sold.

Terra Renee tells the story of why and how she founded African American Women in Cinema, the trajectory of her career in filmmaking and the qualities in women that have held them back, and more recently how she has seen women supporting women in various places and careers around the country. Terra is hopeful about the advancement of women and has numerous programs to support them in filmmaking.

Jon Macaskill describes how he learned about mindfulness and meditation as a Navy Seal Commander, but called it "taking control." Later he volunteered to help vets with the skill and learned how he could take control of his own emotions through a counselor. Now, he has a podcast "Men Talking Mindfulness" and is a keynote speaker and corporate consultant where he shares how it works to increase productivity in high-achieving teams.

Linda Rendleman talks about ways she has helped women from founding one of the first women's websites to her charity, Women Like Us, which has helped transform womens lives in the U.S. and the world. Currently the Women Like Us Center educates women in Kenya skills to make them economically independent and help them feed their families. And Linda has also started coaching women to rediscover their self worth and redefine their life path.

L.Y. Marlow shares her life story about intimate partner abuse through 5 generations of her family and how it took a life-threatening moment to make her vow to "save promise," which became the name of her organization focused on preventing the cycle of abuse. Prevention is key , she says and her latest book, Don't Look at the Monster, examines how the monsters within us keep us from changing ourselves to look at our lives in terms of "a gift, a lesson or a blessing."

Former FBI Agent and Corporate Security professional, Allison Sands describes the soft skills she teaches in her company, Project Hummingbird to derail violence and potentially life-threatening confrontation. Everything from police and front line workers to individuals in daily life are covered in this conversation. Listen and stay safe.

Elissa Fisher Harris shares her childhood story steeped in adversity and how she channeled that into stepping outside of herself to help others. Her podcast, "A World On Purpose," features people who have pivoted to living a life of purpose and helping others, and her position as Chief Impact Strategist and Partner of 5th Element Group where they unite organizations and people to amplify their efforts to make a global impact.

Helen Knost tells Dr. Nancy her story of multiple cancer diagnoses and her progress of fighting it and recovering and doing what doctors said she wouldn't do, her discovery and work with the Livestrong Foundation and her new business using skills of being a friend to others and helping them make the world a better place, which she named "My Friend Helen."

Libby Tyson is heading up The Women Writing History: A Coronavirus Journaling Project for the National Women's History Museum. She tells Nancy why she chooses to work as a curator and archivist, why history is important as the story of humanity for future generations and what she finds hopeful about the journals currently submitted during the pandemic crisis.

Anne Beiler shares her life's story of growing up in a loving Amish household, living a fairy tale life, then losing her daughter in an instant. The journey through abuse, and out again, starting the largest soft pretzel franchise in the world, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, then turning the whole experience into her life's purpose to help others "Overcome and Lead" became the topic of her new book.

Dr. Barbara Walker Green shares her insight into the importance of being accountable for your actions and of the power that women have when we come together. We are born sheroes and her new book and website urge women to unite and contribute to the Shero Nation to promote positive change for women and all people of the world.

Rachel Feldman tells about what it's like to be a female director in Hollywood and about her new screenplay "LILLY," a political thriller which tells the personal story of fair pay icon Lilly Ledbetter who took her case against Good Year Tire Company to the Supreme Court and to Congress to get the fair pay act passed in 2009.

Award-winning financial journalist, Stacey Tisdale shares insights into how our attitudes about money are formed in childhood and why it's important for us to change them to our advantage, For Example: only 7% of women graduates negotiate the pay of their first job and it costs $500,000 by the age of 60. Also introduction of Wealth Wednesdays, a program targeting the Black community to manage their money.

Dr. Sheila Robinson founded Diversity Woman Media to help promote diversity and inclusion in corporations and help women of all colors, cultures and backgrounds achieve equality in the workplace. She provides her perspective of how systemic racism holds us back and how we can overcome it with systems that promote diversity and inclusion like the more than 100 corporations she partners with.