Where authentic leadership meets real-life reinvention. Each episode is a conversation that sparks clarity, courage, and change, from redefining success and women’s health at work to the power of storytelling and sponsorship over mentorship.
Join Sabine as she speaks with leaders, innovators, and changemakers who are creating ripples of impact in their industries and communities. Together, they explore how clarity fuels confidence, how courage drives transformation, and how each of us can lead with intention — one ripple at a time.
Explore The Ripple Network → https://theripplenetwork.com
Building What Was Missing: A Global Circle for Female Founders
Jen Sato and Kathrin Schoenborn share a commitment to female founders that grew into the Global Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, a global network that gives women building healthcare and life sciences ventures access, expertise, and trusted peer support.In this episode, we explore what makes the program so distinctive: twenty founders across seven countries, meaningful connection across markets, and a design grounded in the realities women entrepreneurs face. Jen and Kathrin reflect on the importance of access, the loneliness of leadership, the courage it takes to speak honestly about failure, and why founders need relationships long before they need to call on them.The conversation also asks a bigger question. What happens when you build generosity into a network from the beginning? This is a story about two women creating what was missing, and a ripple that will continue through the founders who give, share and open doors for others.Find The Ripple Network at theripplenetwork.com.Key topics: female founders, trusted networks, peer circles, life sciences entrepreneurship, feedback without judgment, leadership as self-leadership, legacy as daily practice
17 Sept 2026
For Such a Time as This, with Carolyn Hantz | A Ripple Talk
How many of you know what it feels like to give your absolute best, to be the one people rely on, and still feel overlooked?
Carolyn Hantz opens with that question because she has lived the answer. She spent forty six years in federal service across eight presidential administrations, sixteen of them in the Senior Executive Service, a group that makes up 0.4% of the federal workforce. She started as an entry level secretary paying her own tuition, and she was selected into the SES less than a year after losing her husband to cancer, while raising two young children on her own.
In this talk she lays out what the rise actually requires: closing your experience gaps instead of waiting to be noticed, building strategic relationships rather than surface connections, being visible in the rooms that matter, and making the mindset shift that holds it all together.
After the talk, Carolyn joins Ripple Network founder Sabine Hutchison to talk about coming back to public speaking after retirement, what she learned from hearing her own story played back, and why sharing the hard parts makes room for other people to do the same.
Ripple Talks are built inside The Ripple Network, a twelve week speaking practice for women professionals who want to speak with more confidence, more clarity, and more of themselves. One ripple can change the tide.
Applications for the next cohort: www.theripplenetwork.com (http://www.theripplenetwork.com)
3 Sept 2026
More Than Ever Now, with Ibiere Addey | A Ripple Talk
"I wish I had seen the signs."
Ibiere Addey opens with the words of a colleague who had just lost his fourteen year old son, and then walks through five real cases, including her own child's, of young people slowly losing themselves in plain sight.
Her point is not that any single moment breaks a child. It is that nothing about it is sudden. Children are gradually taught to hide their pain until it becomes harm, and the adults around them are often too busy to notice the window closing.
More Than Ever Now is Ibiere's initiative and her call to action: be intentional about parenting, about mentoring, about knowing who and what is shaping the rising generation. Not the next generation. The one growing up right now.
After the talk, Ibiere joins Ripple Network founder Sabine Hutchison to talk about what changed for her over twelve weeks of practice, why a talk without real connection to your own life is so much harder to deliver, and the power she found in slowing down.
Ripple Talks are built inside The Ripple Network, a twelve week speaking practice for women professionals who want to speak with more confidence, more clarity, and more of themselves. One ripple can change the tide.
Applications for the next cohort: www.theripplenetwork.com (http://www.theripplenetwork.com)
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