May 22, 2013

CBS Radio Interview

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by: Tanvi Gautam I had the honour of being interviewed on CBS radio (US) by Career Coach Caroline. I loved her book “This is not the career I ordered” which is a fantastic set of stories (you know I love storytelling!) on women who transitioned between careers (from Morgan Stanley to a cup cake empire [...]

PODCAST: InPower Interview with Jory des Jardins of BlogHer

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Jory des Jardins is an InPowerhouse. As one of the co-founders of BlogHer, she and her partners dedicated their business to helping empower women – personally and economically – and as a result, Blogher has become a hotbed of women on the web (full discloser, InPower Women shows up there from time to time!) Jory [...]

Podcast: The Role of Fear In Success

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I want you to meet an InPower woman. Dallice Joyner has risen above the most abject circumstances of poverty and prejudice to be an effective and motivating leader of an organization doing much needed work in our society. Dallice is the Executive Director of the Northern Virginia AHEC, an organization providing cultural competence and language [...]

Here’s To Your Health, and InPower Women’s New Health Blogger – Laurie Erdman!

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Staying healthy is a critical career and leadership skill. We simply can’t be powerful in the world and make the difference we want to make if we don’t have the energy to it all (whatever we believe “it all” is in our own lives). As I’m finding personally, as I age, my challenge to stay [...]

Should We Lean In to Combat Sexism?

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Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean In, has generated a ton of dialog about women and work – not all of it positive, and not all the criticism from men. Actually, the only criticism I’ve read or heard has been from women, and it seems to literally illustrate her point that sexism is very cultural and [...]

Podcast: Young Woman Doing Well By Doing Good

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I had the pleasure to chatting with a young woman recently who is living an amazing life and doing amazing things for a truly innovative organization here in D.C. called DC Central Kitchen. Abby Elsener has lived an exciting life, vising South Africa and exploring her personal drive to succeed. She is now working for [...]

Podcast: Get Out Of Your Own Way

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by: Tanvi Gautam Dr. Marcia Reynolds has a passion for discovering and sharing how the brain works, especially the brain of smart, strong women. She is also a world-renowned executive coach and presents leadership programs globally. In addition to Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction, she authored Outsmart Your Brain and has [...]

Executive Coaching Guru Joel Garfinkle [Audio Interview]

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As a part of our interview series with InPower people I am loving talking to so many executive coaching experts. Coaches are often, by definition, pulling from their InPower source. They have to in order to help their clients, and the best ones are helping you access your internal power source with a subtle combination [...]

Who Says It’s A Man’s World?

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I’m excited to make a double announcement here on InPower Women! We have a new blogger joining us – Emily Bennington – who just wrote a great book called Who Says It’s a Man’s World: A Girl’s Guide to Corporate Domination. (Buy it in the InPower Women’s Book Store) Emily and I took a few [...]

Entrepreneurial Work-Life Balance Success Story: Nellie Akalp [Audio Interview]

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Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing a very powerful woman, Nellie Akalp, Founder & CEO of CorpNet.com. She, along with her husband, has created two entrepreneurial ventures, the first of which she sold to Intuit 7 years ago. Through her entrepreneurial career, including with CorpNet.com (which helps small businesses file their corporate and [...]