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Podcast – Women in Leadership

Angela Mezzettiwomeninleadership.ie
Women in Leadership is a podcast about inspiring women in Ireland. Each week Angie Mezzetti speaks to a special guest to discuss their experiences and answer listener submitted questions.
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Sarah Perugia Be Authentic Not Perfect

Sarah Perugia talks to Angie Mezzetti and discusses the challenges women face in leadership, including imposter syndrome and micro-aggressions. She highlights the importance of leadership development, noting that 94% of people cite it as a factor in their job retention

Jun 12, 202537 min

Carolyn Watson Conducting Her Way

Women Conductors of orchestras, why do reviewers comment on their costume rather than their conducting? Why do women conductors still face unconscious bias? Dr Carolyn Watson shares insights from her research, also optimism and wisdom on this podcast.

May 26, 202529 min

Dr Jackie Maalouf – Motivate yourself and don’t expect support

Dr Jackie Maalouf says that despite advances for women worldwide, there will always be impediments because of the pull of the motherhood and caring roles she believes. Her motherhood role however was her ignite button, she is unstoppable! She shares her Pearls of Wisdom and ideas about not setting limits for yourself. You'll be amazed what you can achieve she says in the latest podcast. Listen Now!

Apr 23, 202532 min

Nuala Walsh Tune In to Lead Smarter

Nuala Walsh author of "Tune In, How To Make Smarter Decisions In A Noisy World" joins the podcast with Angie Mezzetti to discuss the importance of making better not quicker decisions when in leadership roles. Walsh emphasises the need to confront biases like overconfidence and to challenge confirmation bias. As a neuroscientist as well as a banker for many years, she has researched the whole area of whistleblowers in particular - people who were not listened to when they should have been!

Mar 05, 202534 min

Prof Jacqueline Dunkley Bent Advocating Takes Courage

Advocating for women before during and after birth is the life's work of Prof Jacqueline Dunkley Bent OBE Chief Midwife with ICM International Confederation of Midwives. She used to work for the NHS now she is working at a global level where the need is as great as ever. It takes takes courage to face those who hold the levers of power in society, politically and sometimes even within a family or a relationship. Women are at their most vulnerable when giving birth. While the ideal image we have ...

Dec 02, 202425 min

Ali Cox Getting Serious About Sustainable Farming

Ali Cox CEO of Noble West believes consumers, especially women consumers want to see food become safer and farming become more sustainable. That involves telling stories about the individuals especially the women who farm and care about their products. Ali Cox is the storyteller.

Sep 19, 202436 min

Regina Mangan Smarter Faster Better

Regina Mangan Liberty Blue Estate Agents and Author is the guest on the Women In Leadership podcast. She talks about the need to live by your values and make sure your actions align to those values. She also advises not to be afraid to let people off the boss if their values don't align with yours.

Jul 18, 202444 min

Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride Self Care and Reflection

Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride on Challenges In Nursing Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride Chair of the NMBI talks about the retention of nurses and midwives, something the NMBI have as a priority. In the podcast she talks about the various challenges facing nurses and the profession in general. She also advocates for nurses to acquire microcredentials and continuous upskilling in the profession. Advocating for the patient when they are at their most vulnerable is a key part of every nurses job she believes...

Apr 29, 202445 min

Nina Noonan Power of Reflection and Blossoming

Nina Noonan is the guest on this episode of Women In Leadership. She says systemic barriers still exist for women in the workplace and often companies are not aware of it until someone points it out. "Some organizations have picked up on that and are trying to create a different system around that. But you know, very often, if there's a systemic barrier, we might not even know it is one, until somebody points that out. But if a meeting is being scheduled for five o'clock, and we don't stick to a...

Mar 26, 202435 min

‘The World Needs More Women in Leadership Mnà’ UCC IWD 2024

International Women's Day in UCC University College Cork was celebrated with a series of presentations and discussion on the subject of 'why the world needs more women in leadership'. After the event, the co-chairs of Mnà UCC, Emma Connolly and Clíodhna O'Callaghan together with Dr. Lee Ann Burke the Mnà Treasurer, recalled highlights of the IWD event in UCC. They are terrific women and recalled the messages they took from the morning and are well worth a listen.

Mar 12, 202435 min

Learning the Secret Sauce of Leadership

Learning The Secret Sauce of Leadership for women. Navigating the territory of leadership for women is not easy. There are unwritten rules that are not often shared naturally with women in the workplace or in political life. Dr Melrona Kirrane DCU Business School and Andrea Dermody give a taster of that secret sauce.

Mar 03, 2024

Aine Murray It’s A Balancing Act

Aine Murray podcast guest says women still need reminding of their potential and their achievements especially when it comes to promotional opportunities. The example of how differently men and women judge themselves is well known. Aine says that women should be prepared to have a go and that they should encourage other women to apply for positions they might not think they are qualified for. Ireland's business community has much to learn from France when it comes to diversity and inclusion acco...

Feb 19, 202436 min

Sue Deagle Illuminating and Living In The Moment

Sue Deagle talks about surviving grief and loss and even daring to thrive. "We're told in society, when you go through grief, it's this five stages, it's very linear. But no time after loss is linear. Some days you're up, some days you're down. One of the hardest things to accept is that you can't control where your emotions are from day to day. Sue talks about connecting with nature, resilience and her need to survive and thrive because of her experience in this Women In Leadership podcast.with...

Jan 04, 202436 min

Dr Orlaigh Quinn Trail Blazing Secretary General

Dr Orlaigh Quinn the guest on this podcast is one of a rare breed. She rose through the Irish Civil Servant to become the Secretary General or head of the government Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment in Ireland. There have only ever been 13 women to reach this position. What is even more impressive is that she was a trail blazer with few women role models. This reason there were so few women in senior leadership ranks was in no small way due to the fact that the Marriage Bar was in p...

Dec 05, 20231 hr 6 min

Katie Honan ‘How To Fall Flat On Your Face’

Actor Katie Honan talks about becoming a successful playwright thanks to the pandemic which gave her the headspace and time to work on creating work she never quite found the time to do before. In the process of writing 'How To Fall Flat On Your Face' she also learned how to pull a piece of theatre together from the business end and how to assemble a team of successful creatives. Katie has a new fascination with neuroscience thanks to the development research for the play which explores how a fa...

Oct 24, 202338 min

Marah Curtin It’s Your Money So Let It Grow

Marah Curtin Director of Client Engagement and founder of femolutionist talks about women and investing in this podcast with Angie Mezzetti. The biggest investing mistake that women make isn't over trading or overconfidence or panicking during downturns, or any of the other behavioral mistakes that tend to trip up investors, our main issue is simply not investing at all.

Jun 14, 202343 min

Sara Phelan SC Practical, Paperless and Pro Diversity

Sara Phelan Chair Bar of Ireland says Equitable briefing really means equality across the profession of barristers. She talks about the new Equitable Briefing Policy of the Bar of Ireland in this podcast

Mar 16, 202336 min

Get Into Honest Communication – Sabrina Shaheen Cronin

Wise Counsel Sabrina Shaheen Cronin Sabrina Shaheen Cronin is not your typical lawyer. She is also a musician and actress who takes the job title of counselor very seriously and literally. “I always say if you don’t have difficulties, will then you won’t grow, you won’t know what true growth is and hard lessons can […]

Mar 03, 202333 min

Susan Hunt Stevens on Leading Sustainably

Susan Hunt Stevens – Leading Sustainably Susan Hunt Stevens is CEO of WeSpire a technology company that runs employee engagement campaigns using proven behavioural science techniques. Younger employees in particular she says are purpose driven and think about the ethics and integrity of the organisations they work for. Environment Social and good Governance principles ESG […]

Apr 26, 202242 min

Caitriona Gleeson – Getting Women Elected

Catriona Gleeson CEO of Women For Election says men or women don't have to be up in Dublin for the sake of it. "There's actually an opportunity to represent your community nationally, but remaining within your region reasonably, the practical things that can be done in terms of length of meeting times, notice around meetings, and the efficiency of meetings, the chairing of meetings, particularly within local government, it doesn't have to be the way it always has been if it's not efficient."

Apr 11, 202242 min

Dr Catherine Day Citizens Hungry for Change on Gender Equality

The Citizens' Assembly is strongly calling for change, and not just change at the margins, but big changes in our system to make it more gender equal. Catherine Day Chair of The Citizens' Assembly on the Women In leadership podcast

Mar 08, 202242 min

Seonadh Johnson Three Pots Philosophy

There is also a fear of wealth destruction by taking risk. Investing for long term takes a bit of thinking about Seonadh Johnson believes. "The temptation is often to leave the excess liquidity in cash because they think it's safer. But actually really understanding and compartmentalizing the different parts going okay, well, if I need this in the next year or two, yes, keep it in cash. But if you don't need it for five years plus, then really thinking about trying to get a better return than no...

Feb 03, 202242 min

Dr Joanne Kenney – Champion of Women In Research

Dr Joanne Kenney Champion of Women In Research Dr Joanne Kenney is one of the Co Directors and leaders of WIRI, Women In Research Ireland, with Dr Susan Fetics. They are an innovative group who support women and minorities in research and academia in Ireland. WIRI provides support, advocacy and networking and learning opportunities for […]

Oct 08, 202133 min

Rachel Hussey The Serious Business of Gender Equality

Rachel Hussey Gender Equality is Everyone’s Business When Women Thrive, Everyone Thrives Gender equality is now a serious business matter and one that both business men and women are on board with. “It’s really important to remember, this isn’t a zero sum game, we’re not saying let’s promote the women at the expense of the […]

Sep 07, 202131 min

Dion Johnson Healing Collective Trauma

"This is in the ether this is in the atmosphere and this is what we women are up against when it comes to being seen, being heard and taken seriously as credible high level influencers.' Dion Johnson on Women In leadership podcast

Jun 03, 202137 min

Prof Maura McAdam Navigating family business

McAdam believe we all need our tribe around us. We are not born having the right people to turn to. We need others with similar experience to share our vulnerability with and to build up our confidence. It is good to have like minded people around us, McAdam believes. Women are great at networking and connecting women with other useful contacts or sharing their experience and useful learning in entrepreneurship and it can be a lonely journey otherwise.

Apr 26, 202137 min
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