My favorite quote of the episode was: “What’s interesting about success is, when it’s perceived it often manifests.” And Elissa's book recommendation was The Greater Freedom by Alya Mooro . You can find Elissa on Twitter and Instagram ******************************************************* Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com Let’s get social! When Women Win is @whenwomenwinpodcast on Instagram , Twit...
Feb 10, 2020•35 min•Season 3Ep. 14
My favorite quote of the episode was "I always used to think that if someone asked you to do something, your answer was either a yes or a no..." You can find Deborah at her website deborahmkolb.com and on LinkedIn . ******************************************************* Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com Subscribing to our podcast will notify you when new episodes drop. And if you happen to be on i...
Feb 04, 2020•36 min•Season 3Ep. 13
My favorite quote of the episode was “Actions speak louder than words, but results speak louder than actions". You can find Helena on Twitter and LinkedIn . ******************************************************* Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com If you’re on iTunes, would you kindly take half a minute to rate & review the podcast? It would help tremendously. Thank you, Rana...
Jan 26, 2020•42 min•Season 3Ep. 12
This episode is for people who want to learn more about investing cheaply, and those interested in entrepreneurship. My favorite quote was “You only incur the loss when you pull out of the market”. You can find Nadine on LinkedIn or at www.sarwa.co ***************************************************** Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com Let’s get social! When Women Win is @whenwomenwinpodcast on Inst...
Dec 16, 2019•37 min•Season 3Ep. 11
My favorite quote of the episode was “ you’re in year 1, I’m in year 35 – if at year 35 I don’t have the success that I do, then I’ve failed.” Too often we compare our results with those of someone who's been on the journey for much longer! You can find Norma on LinkedIn and Twitter . ************************************************************ Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com Let’s get social! Wh...
Dec 08, 2019•38 min•Season 3Ep. 10
My favorite quote of the episode was “The seed doesn’t see the petal….” You'll have to listen for context! You can find Arlan on Twitter and Instagram @arlanwashere. A huge thank you to the 2019 Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival – where this episode was recorded on the Main Stage in front of a live audience. ***************************************************************** Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpod...
Dec 02, 2019•33 min•Season 3Ep. 9
My favorite quote was “Before I became a refugee, I was not a sporty person!” If you would like to learn more about Marie-Christine's work and / or support her organization “ Safe Refuge Rwanda ”, do feel free to email her at: saferefugerwanda@gmail.com A huge thank you to naseba and their 2019 Women in Leadership Economic Forum for making this interview possible. ****************************************************** Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love...
Nov 25, 2019•41 min•Season 3Ep. 8
My favorite quotes of the episode were Kristin's take on: Hiring: “Look for people who know what to do when they don’t know what to do” How to support the advancement other women: “When a woman’s name comes up who’s amazing, you just say “oh my God, that Kristin, she really needs a bigger job”. Then stop. The seed’s been planted.” You can find Kristin on Twitter and Instagram . **************************************************** Would you like detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations...
Nov 18, 2019•44 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com Let’s get social! When Women Win is @whenwomenwinpodcast on Instagram , Twitter & LinkedIn . Would you kindly take half a minute to support our work by subscribing to, rating & reviewing the podcast? It would help tremendously. Thank you, Rana...
Nov 11, 2019•40 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com Let’s get social! When Women Win is @whenwomenwinpodcast on Instagram , Twitter & LinkedIn . Would you kindly take half a minute to support our work by subscribing to, rating & reviewing the podcast? It would help tremendously. Thank you, Rana...
Nov 04, 2019•35 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com Let’s get social! When Women Win is @whenwomenwinpodcast on Instagram , Twitter & LinkedIn . Would you kindly take half a minute to support our work by subscribing to, rating & reviewing the podcast? It would help tremendously. Thank you, Rana...
Oct 28, 2019•23 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Want detailed show notes? A list of book recommendations? To send us some love? To nominate a guest? Head to whenwomenwinpodcast.com Let’s get social! When Women Win is @whenwomenwinpodcast on Instagram , Twitter & LinkedIn . Would you kindly take half a minute to support our work by subscribing to, rating & reviewing the podcast? It would help tremendously. Thank you, Rana...
Oct 21, 2019•48 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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Oct 14, 2019•41 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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Oct 07, 2019•52 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Welcome to episode 60, the final episode of Season 2. Bozoma Saint John is the Chief Marketing Officer at Endeavor, a global leader in entertainment, sports and fashion with a portfolio of companies including WME, IMG, and UFC. Before joining Endeavor, Saint John served as Chief Brand Officer at Uber, Head of Global Consumer Marketing at Apple Music & iTunes and Head of Music and Entertainment Marketing at PepsiCo. While at PepsiCo, where she signed their first ever deal with Beyonce. Boz wa...
Jul 15, 2019•44 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Ghizlan Guenez is the Founder and CEO of The Modist , the world's first global e-commerce platform where luxury fashion brands are curated for women who dress modestly. The need to empower women through choice of attire stemmed from Ghizlan's own needs: working 14 years in private equity, she had to dress conservatively for years, but often struggled to find clothing that was also fashionable and contemporary. A market estimated at $260B. Enter The Modist. Originally from Algeria, Ghizlan lived ...
Jul 08, 2019•25 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Noor Sweid started her professional life as a strategy consultant in biotech and pharma; she then moved back to Dubai where she joined her family business, Depa, an interior contracting company. She helped grow it from $60M in revenue to $600M over 8 years. When it became the biggest such company in the world, Noor led its IPO on the London Stock Exchange. In parallel, Noor founded ZenYoga, the first yoga and pilates studio in the MENA region. It grew to become the largest chain of wellness stud...
Jun 24, 2019•19 min•Season 2Ep. 28
As a lover of history, I was delighted to catch up with Nicola at this year's Emirates Literature Festival . We talked about the Tudor period in general, and then dived deeper into various pivotal characters of the era... Did you know that Lady Jane Grey was Queen of England for 13 days and then executed at the age of 17? Shocking stuff. Nicola’s first book, Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey , was published in 2016 after five years of research. Her more recent book, Elizab...
Jun 17, 2019•27 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Manale focuses on the large transformation of Middle East governmental institutions, in particular the defence and education sectors. She also drives A.T. Kearney’s diversity and inclusion initiative for the Middle East, and heads the firm’s sustainability (social, economic and environmental) efforts in the region. Manale is an engineer by training and had a full professional career as a fintech entrepreneur before moving into the consulting industry. We talked about the workforce of the future ...
Jun 10, 2019•26 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Sally Helgesen is a best-selling author, speaker and women leadership expert. Over the last 30 years she has worked with women leaders to recognize and act on their greatest strengths. Her most recent book, How Women Rise, became the top-selling title in its field within only a week of publication. In this episode Sally shared a lot of valuable insights on the impediments preventing women from moving up and the behaviours and steps women need to take. We talked about several of the key habits fr...
May 27, 2019•38 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Hatoon Kadi is a Saudi Arabian comedienne, best known for her YouTube show Noon Alniswa , where she has over 355,000 subscribers. Hatoon uses satire to present social phenomena from a woman's perspective, and is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. Perfectly bilingual in Arabic and English, she also teaches Research Methodology at a private university. Hatoon started her career as IT support – that person you call if you’re computer gives you blue screen of death, or your hard drive self-co...
May 13, 2019•34 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Michaela is a Canadian Millennial and a LinkedIn expert, having written dozens of articles that have received millions of reads. Her LinkedIn journey started in March 2016 when an article that she wrote about landing her dream job went viral. Over the past decade, Michaela has managed the online presence of more than 100 high-profile brands and built her own personal brand to over 140,000 followers on LinkedIn. Michaela was one of the first people on LinkedIn to openly discuss mental health, sel...
Apr 29, 2019•44 min•Season 2Ep. 23
When Apple invited me to do a live podcast in their Dubai Mall store for International Women’s Day, I immediately thought of bringing Sharene and Morrad on the show. I love that this couple defies numerous stereotypes, and that their values seemed aligned with those of Apple: innovation and execution. This husband and wife team have together started and sold multiple businesses from the US to Dubai to Malaysia… All while raising 6 children. Sharene Lee is a Singaporean Chinese who I KNOW is alwa...
Apr 15, 2019•41 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This show is about women in space, in science and in history. It’s only becoming mainstream knowledge now that there were many women involved in global space programs in the 1960s. As part of the Mercury 13, Wally Funk was one of the pioneering women of space travel who often outperformed male astronaut candidates in tests of endurance. But just one week before the final phase of training, the programme was abruptly cancelled. Politics and prejudice meant Wally never flew into space. Undeterred,...
Apr 01, 2019•34 min•Season 2Ep. 21
My guest on today’s show was ranked by the Financial Times as one of the Top 5 “Global Champions of Women in Business” in 2017 and 2018. Rana Ghandour Salhab is the Talent and Communications partner at Deloitte, Middle East, covering 16 countries in the region and with numerous responsibilities, from building strategies in the field of human capital to overseeing Deloitte ME’s media, communications and CSR activity. Rana also advises governments across the Middle East on gender equality laws and...
Mar 18, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Reshma Saujani committed her first act of bravery at the age of 33 when she ran for political office in New York. She lost – badly. Instead of being defeated by it, she was set free… she discovered her bravery muscle and started to exercise it more. For example, she set up an NGO about coding when she knew nothing about start-ups – or coding. Girls Who Code is a US non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like. Reshma’s...
Mar 04, 2019•28 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Today’s show is about cultivating resilience. But before we get into Najla’s own path of navigating social norms and obstacles, we talk about her unusual job. Najla is the CEO of Sheraa, a government entity that has been tasked to turn a cultural city into a bustling entrepreneurship hub. We discussed why Sharjah has chosen this strategy and what the critical elements are to create a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem. Culture plays a huge role here, at a micro and macro level, as does the word “...
Feb 18, 2019•37 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Jeffery Tobias Halter is a thought-leader on how companies can recruit, retain and advance women in the workplace. He is the President of YWomen, a consulting firm focused on engaging men in women’s leadership issues. Prior to creating YWomen, Jeffery spent over 20 years in various sales roles at the Coca Cola Company, and was later appointed their Director of Diversity Strategy. We had a deep discussion about what male allies and advocates can do to support women in the workplace. We talked abo...
Feb 04, 2019•35 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Linda was named one of TIME’s “Innovators for the 21st century” and “the Entrepreneur Whisperer”. Linda Rottenberg is an expert on entrepreneurship and leadership. For years she was known as "La Chica Loca” (the crazy girl) for insisting that high-impact entrepreneurs exist in emerging and developing markets. And in 2014, she published her best-selling book, Crazy is a Compliment. As co-founder and CEO of Endeavor, Linda has led the global entrepreneurship movement for over two decades. With 60 ...
Jan 21, 2019•41 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Seta Tutundjian is the Director of Programs at the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), a non-profit joint venture between the UAE Govt and the Islamic Development Bank. She had spent 15 years working with USAID in Jordan, strengthening institutions and working on policy reform. During her last 4 years at ICBA, Seta has focused on breeding crops in the world’s most challenging environments. I was shocked to learn how few crops are being farmed commercially relative to the huge ...
Jan 15, 2019•23 min•Season 2Ep. 15
