• Julie Uhrman, Angel City Football: "Bet on yourself"

    Julie Uhrman, Co-founder and president of Angel City Football, shared the story behind her title with us on March 13, 2024.

    Julie is an American soccer executive and entrepreneur who is president of Angel City FC, a National Women's Soccer League team based in Los Angeles, California, that Uhrman also co-founded. She was previously an executive at Playboy Enterprises, Lionsgate Entertainment, IGN, and Vivendi Entertainment, and founded the former video game console company Ouya.

    In 2020 Uhrman co-founded Angel City FC with venture capitalist Kara Nortman of Upfront Ventures, and actress Natalie Portman. The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club signed 21 sponsors and sold 14,300 season tickets before its first season of play, and attracted a $14 million investment round from numerous celebrities, including lead investor Alexis Ohanian. Nortman recruited Uhrman in 2019 from the pickup basketball league both women competed in and tasked her with building the team's business plan, despite Uhrman not previously knowing that the NWSL existed. The NWSL granted Uhrman's group an expansion team on July 21, 2020, for play in the 2022 NWSL season.

    SUE SAYS

    "I sit down with Julie Uhrman, the President of Angel City Football to talk about women in sports, pay equity, the value of sports for young girls and her surprise when she found out she'd be working with Natalie Portman!"



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    42m | Mar 13, 2024
  • Kimberly Lee Minor, Bumbershoot: "Let people know who you are

    Kimberly Lee Minor, CEO of Bumbershoot, shared the story behind her title with us on February 28, 2024.

    Kimberly is a creative executive with over 25 years of senior and c-suite leadership experience in maximizing brands, connecting communities, and growing businesses.

    Her international professional experience spans from Macy’s Executive program to Footlocker Global, Inc, to Brand President of London Fog and Joe Boxer to brands, where she led the $2+B Home business. She is currently CEO of Bumbershoot, LLC, a boutique firm that provides cultural and market insights for inclusive, equitable, and diverse representation across brand, content, and customer experience.

    She serves on the Advisory Board for MIVE: Slow Fashion E-Marketplace, as Director, National Board of Together Digital, Inc., Secretary for the New Vision Dance Co. BOD, Trustee for NA Foundation Board, and the Nominating Chair, Marketing, Youth programming, and Fundraising Chair for several organizations. She has also served as a Director on the Board of the Center for Arts Education in NY, NY, and was an active member of C-Suite, Partnership in Boston, MA.

    Her personal passions bring people and ideas together for inclusive engagement, creating safe spaces for community connection and personal growth for everyone, the arts, and continuous learning.

    SUE SAYS

    "I sit down with Kimberly Lee Minor, CEO of WOC Retail Alliance to talk about the high expectations her parents had for her, the special relationship she had with her grandmother, wanting to be Oprah and having a nervous breakdown in an airport."



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    54m | Feb 28, 2024
  • Bronwen O’Keefe, Globe Trotters: ""What are we leaving for our children?"

    Bronwen O'Keefe, Global Head of Content, Globe Trotters, shared the story behind her title with us on February 21, 2024.

    Bronwen is a seasoned media executive with over 25+ years of experience across production and development. Previously she led her own production company, Two Bears Productions, where she consulted for various brands and platforms. Before that, Bronwen spent over 20 years at Nickelodeon, where she rose in the ranks to become an Executive Vice President, overseeing all “Live Action” production and development for the #1 global kids content brand.

    SUE SAYS

    "The Global Head of Content for The Harlem GlobeTrotters talks about growing up in a divorced family, living in a high-rise in New York City, falling in love with the gift of imagination, and landing a job at Nickelodeon where she worked her way up from assistant to EVP of Production."



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    46m | Feb 21, 2024
  • Molly Ruland, Heartcast Media: "I'm here for a reason."

    Molly Ruland, Founder & CEO of Heartcast Media, shared the story behind her title with us on February 14, 2024.

    Molly is a leading expert in the field of branded podcast production. Her agency specializes in creating top-notch branded content that helps businesses generate revenue and cultivate strategic relationships through the power of podcasting. With extensive experience and knowledge in the business of podcasting, podcast booking, and content creation, Molly frequently shares her insights as a speaker. Her belief that listening is the revolution is what has driven her success, and she currently resides in Costa Rica with her 3 dogs, nestled next to a volcano, where she manages her global business remotely. Pura vida!

    SUE SAYS

    "Molly discusses living with a debilitating disease, leaving home for good at 17, how she landed her first job from the phone book and her goal to hit 2M in revenue every year."



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    58m | Feb 14, 2024
  • Joy Fan, Re/tell: "From Excess to Access"

    Joy Fan, Founder & CEO of Re/tell, shared the story behind her title with us on February 7, 2024.

    Joy Fan is a 2x founder, operator, and urbanist - democratizing access to affordable real estate.

    Previously, Joy popularized the pop-up retail industry as a founding member of Storefront - the largest marketplace for short-term retail with over 150,000 brands (acquired in 2016).

    Joy is known for building consumer enablement technology, and created the "retail-as-a-service" model adopted by thousands of DTC brands, REITS, mall operators, developers, and landlords; is an active committee advisor for Women in Proptech and a part of Mayor Eric Adam's NYC Small Business Advisory Commission.

    Today, with the height of the pandemic leaving cities vacant; small businesses crushed with displacements, and online brands competing for expensive digital ad space (moving 20% of marketing spend to physical retail) – the $17 Trillion Real Estate industry is due for further disruption.

    Joy and her team built a B2B marketplace + booking platform that lands online/DTC brands into shared retail by instantly matching them with their end consumer (a $120 Billion dollar annual opportunity).

    Re/tell has oversubscribed brand partners, a growing waitlist, e-commerce marketplace partners (Verishop, Marmalade, Pattern Brands, Sharma Brands, We Are Women Owned, Ladies Who Launch, New York Naturally), enterprise space partners (Jamestown, Brookfield, Westfield), BID (Business Improvement District) demand from 3 major cities, and an official partnership with New York Mayor Eric Adams and NYC/EDC to drive economic growth and innovation.



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    45m | Feb 7, 2024
  • Julia Stewart, Alurx: “Stick to your plan”

    Julia Stewart, Founder & CEO of Alurx, shared the story behind her title with us on January 24, 2024.

    Julia is on a mission – to enable wellness for all. As a member of Fortune magazine’s list of Top 50 Most Powerful Women in the U.S., Julia has built and grown successful brands for over 40 years. She has climbed the ladder up to executive leadership for companies like Taco Bell, Applebee’s, IHOP, and Dine Brands Global, Inc.  Julia has always understood the benefits of maintaining a balance between body, mind, and spirit and holds this philosophy as the foundation of her endeavors. 

    In 2020, Julia launched Alurx to offer health-conscious individuals with a consistent, proven line of wellness-based solutions that can be personalized to match their goals. Its wellness information, advice, and products are developed and curated by the AMEC, Alurx Medical & Expert Council.

    SUE SAYS

    "The idea of having a plan has always been a struggle for me. I am one of those people who truly lives in the moment. What I learned from Julia is that having a plan can actually be fun! And having some kind of direction is the best way to relieve stress in life."



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    1h 2m | Jan 24, 2024
  • Jamie Mittelman, Flame Bearers

    Jamie Mittelman, the founder and host of Flame Bearers, shared the story behind her title with us on January 17, 2024.

    Flame Bearers is an award-winning podcast and the world's first storytelling platform specifically for women Olympians and Paralympians. Her background is in media, having managed a $30+ Million media portfolio on behalf of the conglomerate of Yahoo, The Huffington Post, AOL, and Verizon. She founded Flame Bearers while receiving her Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School where she received an award for her significant impact on the Harvard community. Jamie's work with Flame Bearers has reach in 49 countries and won countless international awards for her work in video and podcasting including being a Webby’s Finalist, Davey Awards “Best in Show,” Signal Awards in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as well as Public Service & Activism, Telly Awards and Communicator Awards. Prior to Harvard, Jamie received her MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.



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    43m | Jan 17, 2024
  • Sandra Lawrence, Author & Community Champion

    Sandra Lawrence, Author & Community Champion, shared the story behind her title with us on October 4, 2023.

    Sandra was raised in a loving family with her brother and parents in West Philly. She is a Deaconess, Drama director, and choir member, at Vine Memorial Baptist Church.

    Sandra began her professional career as an educator. Early on she recognized that our children bring many social service issues to the classroom that greatly impact their success in life. She left the field of education and entered the social services. Sandra retired from Philadelphia Corporation for Aging in 2018 where she was employed as the Interfaith Outreach Coordinator.

    Sandra is the founder and CEO of ICAP, Inc (Intergenerational Community Alliances & Programs) a non-profit as part of her mission work assigned by God. She provides workshops and motivational speaking on select topics. She is a board member to FUNTIMES Magazine. She has been blessed to parent her son, Rasheen who is a strong Black man with Christian values and lifestyle.

    Sandra was co-founder of The Black Adoption Consortium, Inc , agency from 1991-2000. (She retired from the agency to become a Caregiver for her father and then mother.)



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    49m | Sep 27, 2023
  • Biquan Luo, LumosTech

    Biquan Luo of LumosTech sits down with us to talk about her upbringing in East Asia, the difference between the "success model" in Asia and the U.S., and how her curiosity of nature led to her development of a product that is helping individuals attain optimal sleep.

    Biquan Luo, co-Founder and CEO of sleep tech startup LumosTech, shared the story behind her title with us on September 20, 2023.

    Dr. Luo developed the algorithm to shift circadian clocks against jet lag based on Dr. Jamie Zeitzer’s research at Stanford and created the Lumos Smart Sleep Mask to help everyone improve their sleep. She built the company’s circadian rhythm optimization IP portfolio and product roadmap, and she is the inventor of 1 issued and 2 pending patents on circadian rhythm adjustments. She has been working closely with military sleep scientists and human performance leads to enhance mission readiness.

    Dr. Luo is an alumna of the Ignite Program for Entrepreneurship at Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Stanford-affiliated accelerator StartX, and the Sleep Cohort of the Philips Healthworks Accelerator. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Personalized Medicine at Stanford University and has a Ph.D. in Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Southern California.



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    46m | Sep 20, 2023
  • Dr. Erin McNamara Horvat, Drexel University

    Drexel University's Senior Vice Provost of Faculty Advancement joins us for an intimate conversation on her life growing up with a mother who suffered from Bipolar, receiving her MA and PhD in Education and why she hopes her daughters will uncover who they are and live their lives writing their own stories.

    Dr. Erin McNamara Horvat, the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement for Drexel University, shared the story behind her title with us on September 13, 2023.

    An ethnographer and sociologist of education, Dr. Horvat’s research agenda has explored how race and class shape access throughout the educational pipeline, focusing especially on the role of social and cultural capital in shaping families’ interactions with schools, students’ college experiences, college access, and high school dropout and reentry. She has been deeply committed to work with out-of-school youth through her support of YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School as a longtime board member and 4-year board chair. 

    Since joining Drexel in 2015 her research has focused on the groundbreaking and visionary civic engagement efforts being undertaken by Drexel University in the West Philadelphia neighborhood in which it resides. She has Co-Chaired the Education Committee for the Federally designated Promise Zone and served as the education lead on the 30 million dollar Promise Neighborhood grant submission. 

    Her publications include Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement (coedited with Carla O’Connor), and Doing Qualitative Research, published by Teachers College Press as well as peer reviewed articles in Sociology of Education, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Youth and Society and American Educational Research Journal. Her work has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and The Ford Foundation.

    A native Californian, proud Philadelphian and mother to Katherine and Margaret, Dr. Horvat currently serves at Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Drexel University. She is an avid oarswoman continuing to row competitively as a Masters rower in local and regional regattas and enjoys all aspects of food, especially cooking and eating.



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    53m | Sep 13, 2023
  • Sylvie Lorente, Villanova University

    Chair Professor and Dean of Research & Innovation joins host Sue Rocco for a conversation about why she wanted to leave her rural town in the south of France, how she discovered her calling in research, and how she dealt with gender bias that she faced in school and among her peers.

    Sylvie Lorente, Associate Dean for Research & Innovation in the College of Engineering at Villanova University, shared the story behind her title with us on September 6, 2023.

    Sylvie is also a Professor (Exceptional Class) at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), University of Toulouse, France. In 2019, she joined Villanova University where she holds the position of College of Engineering Chair Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering.

    She was appointed Hung Hing-Ying Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Science and Technology at Hong Kong University (Hong Kong) in 2017. Sylvie Lorente is also an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and an Adjunct Professor at Duke University, USA. She is a member of the Academia Europaea.

    She is editor of the International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer and a member of several other editorial boards. Sylvie Lorente has a passion for flow architectures and works on thermal design, energy storage, vascularized structures, porous media, biological flow networks, urban design, and organisations. Together with her group, she uncovers the engineered and biological hierarchical flow pathways that endow complex systems with efficient properties and behaviors. She is the author of 7 books, 10 book chapters, and 200+ peer-reviewed international journal papers. She is listed amongst the 2% most cited scientists worldwide.



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    53m | Sep 6, 2023
  • Maggy Wilkinson, Athena Global Advisors

    Athena Global Advisors Founder and CEO joins us for an intimate conversation on her early years steeped in Latin studies and education to a transition into business stemming from a desire to have and explore more in life.

    Maggy Wilkinson, Founder & CEO of Athena Global Advisors, shared the story behind her title with us on August 30, 2023.

    Maggy is known to say "all talk, no do" when colleagues bring her a strategy not underpinned by practicality. While big-picture ideation and strategic discussion play a critical role in making progress, she truly subscribes to Thomas Edison’s adage, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” A concept with no potential for fulfillment holds little interest for her. And neither do unambitious goals. With that thinking as a backdrop, she founded Athena to be a force for positive change, creating a company that functions as the indispensable link between ideation and execution.

    This unwavering pursuit of results has required Maggy to build a company that values impact over convention. With teams of project managers, designers, data analysts, marketing experts, content creators, copywriters, researchers, video producers, event specialists, and much more, Athena serves best in the collective. It is the confluence of these seemingly disparate practices that enable Athena to wear the many hats necessary to address complex and ever-evolving client needs.

    Maggy and her team have brought their skills to bear for clients around the globe in media, telecommunications, professional sports, fashion, healthcare, hospitality, and much more.



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    48m | Aug 30, 2023
  • Gabrielle Fitzgerald, The Panorama Group

    Panorama Founder & CEO Gabrielle Fitzgerald joins us for a conversation on her eclectic career working at the White House with the Gates Foundation, and ultimately starting her own company using everything she's learned related to philanthropy and social change.

    Gabrielle Fitzgerald, Founder and CEO of The Panorama Group, shared the story behind her title with us on August 16, 2023.

    Gabrielle has spent her career working in politics, policy and philanthropy—and Panorama works at the intersection of all these fields. The Panorama Group is made up of three entities: Panorama GlobalPanorama Strategy and Panorama Action. Gabrielle created Panorama to serve as a platform for social change, with a mission of maximizing social impact by partnering with visionary leaders to co-develop solutions with audacious thinking and bold action.

    Prior to founding Panorama, Gabrielle spent more than a decade working in philanthropy, serving as the Director of Global Program Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, plus a year managing the $100m Ebola program at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. Earlier in her career, she led the public affairs strategy for HIV/AIDS at the U.S. Agency for International Development and served as the Communications Director for the U.S. Committee for Refugees. She also served as a speechwriter for President Clinton at The White House.

    Gabrielle lives in Seattle with her husband and two daughters.



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    46m | Aug 16, 2023
  • Khazar Fatemi, Press Officer, Journalist & Filmmaker

    Khazar Fatemi, Press Officer, Journalist and Filmmaker, shared the story behind her title with us on August 9, 2023.

    Khazar Fatemi has a Kurdish ethnicity and was born in Iran and raised in Afghanistan. Her family fled to Sweden when she was seven. 

    For the last 15 years, Khazar has worked as a bilingual journalist and presenter on Swedish television. As a broadcast journalist, she has reported from 20 different countries. The main focus has been coverage of poverty, war, conflict, climate crises, and endangered cultural heritage at risk.

    Khazar has been lecturing for over ten years. Her lectures highlight the importance of democracy, freedom of expression, and cultural heritage. But also her experience covering wars and conflicts with a special focus on women and youth.Her clients have been the UN, the Swedish Defence Forces, the Swedish Parliament, schools, universities, and many others. The "Culture, Identity and Belonging" lectures received the Swedish Unesco Award 2020.

    Since 2015 Khazar has been working closely with Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll and as project manager and producer for the TAPS film team. She has produced several short films from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kurdistan. They tell the stories of some surviving families that TAPS has worked with and about the work that TAPS does in the US and the region.* Bonnie Carroll was awarded America's highest civilian honour by President Obama. "President's Medal of Freedom."

    SUE SAYS

    "Amnesty International Press Officer joins us for an intimate conversation on her documentary, her career as a journalist covering war in the Middle East and why meeting people up close and personal in these areas gives her hope."



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    53m | Aug 9, 2023
  • Kira Strong, Philadelphia’s Rebuilding Community Infrastructure Initiative

    Kira Strong, the Executive Director for the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuilding Community Infrastructure Initiative (Rebuild), shared the story behind her title with us on July 26, 2023.

    Rebuild is an over $500 million historic investment in improving parks, recreation centers and libraries across the City. The program focuses on physical improvements, promoting economic inclusion by ensuring diverse businesses have access to work on Rebuild sites, and engaging residents and stakeholders to help determine the future of their facilities. Before leading the program, she served as Rebuild’s Deputy Director of Design and Construction.  

    Kira previously served as the Vice President of Community and Economic Development for the People’s Emergency Center, a non-profit community development corporation in Philadelphia, and has been honored as a 40 Under 40 by The Philadelphia Business Journal. She currently serves on the Advisory Committees of the Community Design Collaborative and the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations.

    SUE SAYS

    "In Kira's role as Executive Director for Rebuild, she leads a team in a massive project to update over 400 public spaces in Philadelphia. We talked about her discovery of a passion for transforming spaces at a young age and how a defining moment in her life was when she was working in community development and felt as though she found her path in life."



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    46m | Jul 26, 2023
  • Mori Taheripour, The Wharton School

    Mori Taheripour, a globally recognized negotiation expert, an award-winning faculty member at the Wharton School, a highly sought-after speaker, and the author of Bring Yourself: How to Harness the Power of Connection to Negotiate Fearlessly, shared the story behind her title with us on July 19, 2023.

    With over 20 years of experience in negotiations, DE&I and sports business, Mori's impressive roster of clients includes Fortune 100 companies, major sports leagues, leading charitable institutions, and government agencies.Top business publications and media outlets have featured Mori's work, including ESPN, Forbes, INC., Marketplace, Money, NPR, and the Next Chapter by American Express. She regularly contributes to sports discussions on Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM. 

    Mori is a member of the Board of Directors for USA Track and Field (USATF) and the Advisory Board of the Sports Leadership & Administration Undergraduate Degree Program at UMass, Boston, Mori earned her BA from Barnard College of Columbia University and MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

    SUE SAYS

    Mori was born in Iran and came to live in the U.S. at the age of 7. She has fond memories of her time in Iran and struggled a bit with her identity while becoming acclimated to a new culture here in the U.S. After significant self-reflection, she would ultimately discover that being authentically who we are is when all of our negotiations in life have the best outcome.



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    52m | Jul 19, 2023
  • Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon

    Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon shared the story behind her title with us on July 12, 2023.

    Mary Gay is a life-long advocate for children and families. In November 2018, she was sworn into Congress following a special election victory - the first woman of the new wave of representation to be sworn in.

    In her second full term in Congress, Mary Gay has continued her relentless advocacy on behalf of children and families in Pennsylvania’s 5th District and across the country. She was appointed, by her peers, to serve as Vice Chair of the prestigious House Judiciary Committee, and also serves on the House Rules Committee and the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. She is a member of dozens of important caucuses, including the Bipartisan Working Group on Addiction, the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, and the Equality Caucus.

    Mary Gay has cosponsored over 400 bills to improve the lives of families in our region and across the country. When roughly 4,000 jobs at the Boeing Plant in Ridley were on the chopping block, Mary Gay led the charge to successfully restore funding for this critical program in the National Defense Authorization Act. She also helped secure a $650 million contract to produce new ships at the Philadelphia Shipyard. Congresswoman Scanlon has introduced legislation to reduce the burden of student loan debt and the costs of prescription drugs. She led House floor debate on critical legislative victories, including the Equality Act and the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women’s Act. Mary Gay also helped push forward two critical pieces of commonsense gun violence prevention bills, which earned bipartisan support in the House. Congresswoman Scanlon has been tirelessly fighting for the people, working to restore faith in our democracy, and has been a leader in the House effort to hold the Trump Administration accountable.

    SUE SAYS

    "Mary Gay grew up in Watertown, NY, as an Irish Catholic and one of three girls. While her initial aspirations were to practice law to help the less fortunate, Congresswoman Scanlon would later discover a new calling in politics to have an even greater positive impact. Her goal remains to protect and improve the lives of American children, families, veterans, and seniors."



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    49m | Jul 12, 2023
  • Christina M. Wallace, Harvard Professor, Entrepreneur & Author

    Christina M. Wallace, Harvard Professor, Entrepreneur & Author, shared the story behind her title with us on July 5, 2023.

    A self-described “human Venn diagram” CHRISTINA WALLACE has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is currently a Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School, where she co-leads HBS Startup Bootcamp, and is an active angel investor and startup advisor. Her latest book, The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build A Life Bigger Than Your Business Card will be published in April 2023 (Hachette). 

    She co-authored New To Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth (Penguin Random House, 2019) with David Kidder, co-founder of growth advisory firm Bionic, where she worked as the Vice President for Growth before joining the HBS faculty. Early to the podcast scene, she co-created and co-hosted The Limit Does Not Exist, a podcast about portfolio careers produced by iHeartRadio with 125 episodes over 3 seasons and millions of downloads by passionate listeners.

    She regularly speaks, writes, and consults on a wide range of topics, ranging from failure and resilience to corporate innovation, from K12 computer science education to her viral TED talk detailing her unique approach to hacking online dating. Mashable called her one of “44 Female Founders to Know” and Refinery29 named her one of the "Most Powerful Women in NYC Tech." She has been profiled in Elle, Marie Claire, the Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company, among others.

    Originally from Lansing, Michigan, Christina is pleased to serve as a mentor for several accelerators, including Techstars Anywhere and the NEW INC accelerator for startups at the intersection of art and technology. A lifelong musician, she earned her high school diploma from Interlochen Arts Academy, where she studied piano, cello, and classical voice. In her free time, she sings with various chamber choirs, embarks on adventure travel, including summiting Mt Kilimanjaro and trekking to Everest Base Camp, and is an endurance athlete, with 22 half marathons, 3 triathlons, and 3 marathons under her belt. She lives in Cambridge with her husband Chas Carey and their two children.

    SUE SAYS

    "Christina grew up with a love of both music and math. While she thrived academically, she also had a love of the arts. When she combined the two she would learn that the perfect route for her was to become an entrepreneur. Many twists and turns that took place in her life led to her latest book, The Portfolio Life which details the importance of diversification in both finance and life."



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    59m | Jul 5, 2023
  • Stacy Ike, human2human

    Stacy Ike, Host of human2human a new digital series and podcast, shared the story behind her title with us on June 21, 2023.

    human2human is a space to reimagine interpersonal relationships with others and ultimately ourselves. Created by Stacy Ike, a recovering perfectionist on a deep quest to live more spiritually, healthy and free, she connects to the hearts of some of your favorite celebrities, thought leaders, and tastemakers in an honest, curious, and thoughtfully critical way — largely holding up a mirror for herself, her guests, and the audience to dive into a brave space of self-reflection, healing and human connection, one conversation at a time.

    Stacy Ike is a content creator, entrepreneur, and inquisitive storyteller who drives every conversation with passion, purpose, and ease. Her luminous and charismatic personality along with her ability to disarm any guest has allowed her to build a reputation as the host to share the best moments. Memorable interviews with Oprah, Tom Ford, Viola Davis, and Melissa McCarthy amongst others pair well with working alongside companies such as the OWN Network, Hollywood Reporter, Essence, Warner Brothers, and more! Stacy is a content creator, who enjoys partnering with brands to tell stories through elements of healing, abundance, love, and diversity.

    Currently, Stacy is the creator and host of a new digital series and podcast, human2human brought to you by the Revolt Podcast Network. Her mission is to bridge the gap through stories and share collective experiences in a safe space of curiosity, community, and connection. When she’s not recording you can find her cancelling plans, re-watching a show she has already seen, or on the phone with one of her siblings. Catch up with Stacy at StacyIke.com, or on Instagram and Twitter @onetakestace.

    SUE SAYS

    Stacy Ike grew up in Houston TX, the oldest of four with parents she attributes to being the ones who believed in her from the start. They saw her innate curiosity of people and supported her inquisitive nature. When a pastor told her parents that Stacy asked good questions, a light went off for Stacy and opened her up to explore a career in journalism. It's been her passion ever since.



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    58m | Jun 21, 2023
  • Dr. Kristen Willeumier, Neuroscientist

    Kristen Willeumier, Ph.D., a neuroscientist with research expertise in neurobiology and neuroimaging, will share the story behind her title with us on June 14, 2023.

    Dr. Willeumier is a leading advocate for brain health and wellness and a frequent contributor to top media outlets. She has been featured on Radio MD with Your Brain Health with Dr. Kristen Willeumier and the Salem Radio Network with Here’s To Your Health. She has appeared on Good Morning America (GMA3), Good Day LA KTTV-TV FOX Los Angeles, Good Day NY WNYW-TV FOX New York, FOX 32 Chicago, KMIR-TV NBC Palm Springs, KING5-TV CBS Seattle, KDVR-TV FOX Denver, WATN-TV ABC Memphis, WSFA-TV NBC Montgomery, KSWQ-TV FOX San Diego, Signal Boost with Zerlina Maxwell, Salem Radio, Coast-to-Coast, The Michael Savage Show, and on-line/print magazines including Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Shape, Science Times, Yahoo News, PopSugar, Niki Swift, HelloGiggles, mindbodygreen, Well+Good, Verywell Health and Psychology Today. She is the author of the new book Biohack Your Brain: How to Boost Cognitive Health, Performance & Power, published by the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins.

    SUE SAYS

    "From a young age Kristen found herself interested in the workings of the brain, from small creatures the size of bugs to eventually pro-athletes who suffered from repetitive head trauma. What she is most excited about is what her research has proven. We can improve our brain health!"



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    1h 4m | Jun 14, 2023
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