The incredible Viveka Rydell-Anderson joins us. A visionary leader with over two decades of experience in healthcare, law, and business. Who thrives at the intersection of strategy, technology, and innovation. Viveka is on a mission:To serve the underserved.To close the healthcare access gap.To reimagine what’s possible and who gets to benefit from it.In this deeply honest and powerful episode, she shares the mindset, moments, and mission driving her work to transform care for the communities wh...
May 27, 2025•44 min
The incredible Emma Smedslund, Engineering Manager, Spiritual Wellbeing Coach, Certified Agile Leader joins us! For a heartfelt chat packed with transformative insights to help you reconnect with your purpose, manage burnout, and take your career and life to the next level. Gain practical strategies for: - Leading with authenticity and intention - Combating your inner critic to grow confidence - Managing stress and burnout in high-pressure roles - Building self-awareness through mindfulness and ...
Apr 17, 2025•40 min
The amazing Ruchi Yadav, Integration Consultant at Avella AS joins us. Ruchi is recognised as Top 50 Women in Tech Norway 2024 | Board Member DevOpsDays Oslo | IBM Champion 2025 | 2024 | Microsoft MVP 2025 | IBM & Azure Certified Solutions Architect. In this inspiring interview, we explore how to overcome rejection and find success in the tech industry. Along with: - How to Personalize Networking - Building a Nonprofit from the Ground Up - The Power of Kindness and Empathy in Tech - Navigati...
Mar 17, 2025•43 min
The amazing Director of Technology & Innovation, Christopher Klint joins us! Christopher's on a mission to build inclusive, high-performing teams that create innovation. With a deep commitment to amplifying diverse perspectives, he’s passionate about fostering a culture of belonging, collaboration, and growth. In this episode, we dive into: - How To Ask For, Receive, And Give Feedback That Actually Drives Growth - Why Skills-Based Hiring Beats "Gut Feeling" Every Time - How To Create A Cultu...
Jan 30, 2025•42 min
We’re wrapping up the 2024 season of our Equal Inspired Podcast, with a very special guest. An HR expert with two decades of experience in hiring, training, development and retention-promoting relationship building. The incredible Yosra Söderberg. Yosra's proven track record in scaling high-performing organizations and fostering meaningful relationships is just the beginning of what she brings to the table. In this episode, we dive into: - Design Thinking Recruitment - Building Synergy Between T...
Dec 18, 2024•46 min
Senior Engineer, Mentor & DEIAB Advocate Scott Josephson joins us. Scott's passion for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging. Drives his mission to empower women from underrepresented communities. Through mentorship, he is helping others build confidence. Overcome challenges, and stand out in today’s competitive job market. In this episode, we delve into: - Unlocking Confidence - Turning Failure into Fuel - Networking with Impact: Building Authentic, Human Connections - ...
Nov 28, 2024•48 min
Senior Engineering Manager, Gavin van Lelyveld joins us. Who is on a vital mission to transform the tech industry by empowering people from underrepresented groups to take on leadership roles. With a deep passion for building high-performing, inclusive engineering teams. Gavin has seen firsthand the incredible power of Diversity, Inclusion, Psychological Safety and Equity. In this episode, we delve into: - The Power of Genuine Listening - What True Inclusion Looks Like - The "Curb Cut Effect" fo...
Oct 30, 2024•44 min
Simone Gemkow brings over a decade of accomplishments in the field of automotive product engineering. Now, she is dedicated to building and leading a highly productive and engaged teams. To deliver the attribute performance across all automotive programmes. Throughout her journey, community and mentorship have been guiding lights. Drawing from her own experiences, Simone is now paying it forward. As President of the International Association of Women (IAW), London chapter, she is committed to cr...
Sep 25, 2024•41 min
Honoured to welcome the incredible Edwige A. Robinson. From her native Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa to leadership roles at major U.S. companies including Comcast and Verizon, Edwige's ascent in technology is a testament to her faith, family, and indomitable spirit. Today, Edwige is not just a leader; but a transformative force in the world of technology. Breaking barriers and shattering ceilings in the tech world. Join us for a beautifully enriching conversation exploring: - Facing the Unknown w...
Aug 20, 2024•44 min
The amazing Madona S. Wambua joins us for Episode 21. Madona is an inspiring CTO, Founder, Google Developer Expert for Android. Keynote Speaker, Author, and passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology. Expect inspiring insights on: - Becoming a Google Expert in Android - Hacks to Skyrocketing Your Productivity; Goodbye Procrastination - Creating Accessible & Inclusive Events For Parents/Careers - How Passion Supercharges Resilience - Balancing Career & Family Life: Debu...
Jul 03, 2024•46 min
We are joined by the inspiring Elaine Montilla. CTO, TEDx Speaker, Founder. Who is recognised as Technology Magazine 2023 Top 100 Women in Technology, HITEC 100, Top 100 Outstanding LGBTQ+ Executive Role Model, Top 100 Latinas of 2024. We dive into so much empowering stuff that you don’t want to miss like: - Practical Tips to Transform Your Thinking - Secrets to Creating Safe Spaces - How Mentorship Reshaped Elaine’s Life - Becoming a TEDx Speaker - Books that deeply impacted Elaine's life, s...
Jun 05, 2024•43 min
Our first episode of 2024! With a very special guest, 10-time award winner in Artificial Intelligence and Open Source, Co-author of the book 'Sculpting Data For ML', Machine Learning Google Developer Expert and Google Women Techmaker Global Ambassador...The incredible Jigyasa Grover. We dive into: - Modern-Day Approaches to Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: With Example Techniques - Mastering the Art of Data Curation for Machine Learning - Deploying Machine Learning Models at Scale - Game-cha...
Mar 13, 2024•33 min
Our final episode of 2023! Honoured to welcome the incredible Steffi Sylvester. Implementing World Class SAAS ERP Systems with passion | Information Systems Enthusiast | Culture Champion | Women in Tech |Ambassador Kids Hack Day. Get exclusive insights from Steffi on: - Her Beginner's guide to getting the most out of a Hackathon - Strategies for conquering pre-event anxiety - Top tips for initiating conversations, with examples! - Non-coding skills you can develop to thrive in tech - Top 3 tips ...
Dec 13, 2023•46 min
Join us for our Nordic Women in Tech Awards special episode! NWiTA's phenomenal Founder & CEO, Plamena Cherneva joins us. We learn more about Plamena's story, which paved the way for the Nordic Women in Tech Awards. In our chat, be prepared to: - Learn about the evolution of NWiTA: From a simple addition to a summit → To an event as grand as the Oscars in the Nordics - Hear stories from attendees, volunteers and sponsors positively impacted by the awards - Discover how NWiTA works - Get a sn...
Oct 25, 2023•47 min
Adaptability. Resilience. Triumph. This is the journey of Swetha Dua. Join us, as Swetha Dua (Project Manager and Career Mentor) shares her journey of relocation and navigating carving out a career path in an unfamiliar territory. With countless setbacks. Swetha emerged from these setbacks stronger than ever Today, she is thriving and mentoring others. Paying forward the support and inspiration she received. We dive into: - The transformative power of mentorship - The secrets to establishing vit...
Sep 27, 2023•52 min
A career in SalesForce will change your life...It changed Heather Black’s. As a new mum, Heather relaunched her career as a Salesforce Consultant. Enabling her to: - Work remotely 3 days a week - Earn £60,000 annually - Craft a career that aligned with her need for flexibility Now, as the CEO of Supermums. Heather helps parents to upskill and transition into a career in the Salesforce ecosystem. Heather joins us on our new Equal Inspired Episode. Where she demystifies the myths about relaunching...
Aug 23, 2023•44 min
From a single tweet to a thriving global community of 20,000+ members. Black Girls in Tech has been making waves since 2020! BGIT's ever-inspiring Founder, Karen Emelu joins us for episode 014 of Equal Inspired. We explore: - The birth of BGIT - How BGIT is making tech accessible for Black women - Strategies for maintaining smooth operations at BGIT whilst scaling - The secret sauce for creating a sense of community and sisterhood - Karen's own journey into UX/UI and Product Design - Tips to nav...
Jul 26, 2023•51 min
We are thrilled to welcome, Founder of Femme Lead Podcast, Alexandra Ciobotaru. Alexandra is a source of inspiration and a true embodiment of a role model who is actively involved in promoting women in STEM. She has been nominated for Nordic Women in Tech Awards several times and in 2022, was named one of the Top 100 Talents in Denmark by Berlingske. In this empowering chat, we discuss: 🌟 The power of self-reflection to align with your North Star 🌟 How to discover your non-negotiables 🌟 Inves...
Jun 08, 2023•49 min
Author of Thriving in a Data World (Business Expert Press, December 2022) and engaging Business Intelligence and Analytics Leader, Sangeeta Krishnan joins us. She has worked with Fortune 500 organizations, not-for-profits, and everything in between, helping various organizations build their operations and monetizing data products from the ground up. We discuss: 🌟 Transitioning from Software Engineer to Analytics 🌟 Key Skills Needed to Thrive in an Analytics Career 🌟 Data-Driven Culture; Why i...
May 11, 2023•38 min
Moran Weber, CEO & Founder of Women on Stage; a platform to showcase, book, and train women professional speakers for any tech event, conference, meetup, or webinar (https://www.womenonstage.net/) joins us! We explore: 🌟 Why Women on Stage Exists 🌟 Lessons of a CEO & Founder 🌟 The Technical Speakers Academy 🌟 Moran's Public Speaking Journey 🌟 Tips for Becoming a Key Note Speaker 🌟 Strategies for Overcoming Nerves 🌟 Code Like a Girl: Breaking the Gender Stereotype 🌟 Attracting mor...
Mar 29, 2023•43 min
Sara Smolley (Co-founder and Head of Partnerships) & Dr. Rachel Levy (Lead Customer Success Manager) from Voiceitt join us to discuss the world of voice recognition technology. Voiceitt (https://voiceitt.com/) is a digital health startup that has developed a unique speech recognition technology to help people with disabilities live more independently. We explore: 🌟 The origin story of Voiceitt 🌟 How Voiceitt's proprietary automatic speech recognition (ASR) was developed 🌟 The main use cas...
Feb 22, 2023•41 min
Keeya Wang-Jones joins us who is an award-winning international Human-centered design leader and advocate for equality, equity, as well as inclusive and diverse methodologies across digital platforms. She’s now betting on herself and her trusted cofounder to bring the general public a digital platform that helps them run their media teaching and coaching business online (WRKiiT). Their goal is to remove 90% of administrative works from Creators and Educators. So that they can show up and do what...
Jan 31, 2023•58 min
Jonah Andersson, Founder of the Azure User Group Sweden, Senior IT Consultant, Microsoft Certified Azure Developer, DevOps Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer joins us. Jonah is passionate about making a difference by advocating tech, gender equality, diversity and inclusion. We discuss: - Jonah's inspirational career journey - Effective ways to bounce back from adversity - Becoming a role model in tech - Actionable steps to be more authentic and confident - Powerful advice for pursuing a c...
Oct 26, 2022•52 min
Toju Duke, Responsible AI Programme Manager at Google & Ambassador for Women in AI UK joins us. Toju designs Responsible AI programmes focused on the development and implementation of Responsible AI frameworks amongst Google’s product and research teams, with a focus on Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, and Generative models. We discuss: - All things responsible AI - How to ensure bias-free AI to reduce systemic injustices and further equality - Celebrating 9 years at Googl...
Sep 28, 2022•56 min
Brianne Caplan joins us, who serves as the Executive Director of Code Your Dreams (an initiative with the mission of driving equity in computer science education and building pathways for underrepresented groups to enter into the technology sector) and the Founder and CEO of CoderHeroes, a buy-1-give-1 platform for children to learn coding through play. We discuss: - Why coding education for kids is so important. - Inequalities in the coding education system. - How to create an inclusive, engagi...
Aug 31, 2022•47 min
We speak with award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker, and global startup mentor Kay Kukoyi CSM FITOL who has been recognised on the #IB100, the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards list of the 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in the UK Technology Sector. Kay is the Founder of Purposeful Group, an online centre for learning focused on entrepreneurship, technology and digital skills training (https://www.purposefulgroup.com/). We discuss all things tech entrepreneurship, exploring: - Biggest...
Jul 26, 2022•45 min
We dedicate Episode 004 in honour of Learning Disability Week. Jannie Fernandez joins us who is the Program Manager at Reboot Representation. Jannie has a deep commitment to correcting over-representation in tech and uplifting historically marginalized communities by advancing programs and initiatives that highlight the contributions of women of colour. Jannie has taught various Science subjects, including Biology and Physics while serving as Special Education Department Head for a public high s...
Jun 22, 2022•38 min
We dedicate this episode in honour of Mental Health Awareness Week, with our inspiring guest Stacy Cashmore, Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan in Amsterdam. She has worked in IT since the middle of the 1990s, for the last couple of years has been honoured to be able to call herself a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. Stacy has been giving talks at conferences and meetups since 2019, using her love of learning to look into new technologies and ways of working. She is also passionate about r...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 16 min
We speak with Melenie Schatynski, a people-centric Developer, Educator and Entrepreneur who loves the work she does. Whether that's collaborating with a client on their new website, creating new educational workshops or as the Co-Founder of My Code Kit, driving their mission to demystify coding with Ocobox - the coding tool which uses a growth mindset approach to encourage users to experiment without fear of failure. We discuss: - Being a Young Innovator Award Winner. - Reinventing attitudes to ...
Apr 25, 2022•40 min•Ep. 2
Excited to welcome our first guest Susanne Tedrick, an infrastructure specialist for Azure. Susanne is fiercely committed to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion within the tech industry. Susanne is the author of the critically acclaimed Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators for publisher John Wiley & Sons (2020). We discuss: - Susanne's 'non-conventional' journey into tech. - How to sell your non-STEM skillset to a...
Mar 08, 2022•59 min•Ep. 1
