This is a must-listen series for ladies who love to soar above the clouds but are still looking for the tools needed to crack the glass ceiling. Empowering women is at the heart of what this podcast does, while recognizing that the heart itself is an important foundation for women to thrive in the workplace – and this should not be overlooked.
Mentoring Matters: Creating Change For Those In Our Footsteps
In many industries, the change in % of women in the industry, especially in senior positions, is still painfully slow. By sharing our experiences, mentoring provides an opportunity to accelerate the numbers breaking through the ceiling. In this episode we discuss the importance of mentoring, the benefits of both formal & 'accidental mentoring, how to find a mentor, and the importance of looking outside of your existing circles.
31 Dec 2021
Don’t Let Labels Define You
Bianca's story is one of triumph. From almost being homeless, to being chosen to work on NASA's Insight Mars Mission, her story is one of amazing accomplishment despite early adversity. In this podcast we discuss how to ignore the labels given to us by ourselves and others, how what happened to you doesn't have to become your story, and why we must speak up to support others that are being labelled.
29 Nov 2021
Success Starts At Any Age: Strategies To Stop Holding Back
What can adults learn from this hard-working high school student? A TON! Gitkia Gorthi is our youngest ever podcast guest, but her advice is awe-inspiring. At age 14 she founded her own non-profit, Ignited Thinkers, and later completed an internship at NASA’s Gene Lab. This inspiring young lady demonstrates how you can find the courage to build anything you want, regardless of age and lack of connections. She’s built her very own network of industry leaders that are supporting her with inspiring the next generation through her endeavors.
19 Nov 2021
The Beauty In Being The Outlier
You could never have predicted the trajectory of Christina’s life as a singer and musician would lead to her managing astronauts and space events and experiences. But that unique background has given a much needed perspective to help connect the space industry and the mainstream world to remember why everyone loves space. In this episode, we discuss how even though it might not be easy to be the outlier, there is a tremendous amount of benefit it can bring – to individuals, to organizations, and even entire industries.
19 Nov 2021
Breaking Barriers By Changing Perspectives
We’ve said it many times – we have to break our own glass ceilings before we can break THE glass ceiling. We can’t change others’ perceptions until we change our own. So how do we do this? Captain Erika Armstrong, author of A Chick In The Cockpit, believes it begins with understanding our own sterotypes that are holding us back, because this knowledge changes everything. In this episode we discuss how to stop holding back on ourselves, and how use our perspective to turn the barriers of today into little hurdles of the future – so with enough determination and momentum we can leap over them.
19 Nov 2021
Managing Mindset To Drive Change
Matt Higa is the man behind 'The Top 62 Women In Aviation & Aerospace To Follow On LinkedIn List.' In this podcast you'll get to hear more about the man behind the list, his reasons for creating the list, his plan to get an all-female crew to Mars, and how managing mindset is critical to meeting big, audacious goals.
31 Jul 2021
Male Allies: Their Role In Cracking The Ceiling
Men can be powerful forces when it comes to creating an equal playing field for women. From creating safe environments for women to speak up, to educating colleagues, to kicking down the doors that allow the real and needed work to happen, there are many roles a man can play. Learn from Rear Admiral Jim Macleod on how he has empowered his team to drive positive changes for gender diversity in the British Military and how this is lifting the entire organization.
31 Jul 2021
Being Bold To Change Perceptions
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Continuing with our theme of young leaders, in this Podcast we explore what it means to be a young business owner, and how to deal with potential clients that may making false assumptions about you based on what you look like. We mustn't be afraid to call out the elephant, and to stop and remind ourselves, 'I'm capable, I've seen this before, I can overcome this. Resilience, facts and persistance can sway the most challenging of minds.
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Welcome back for another exciting episode of the Leading Ladies podcast. Today, we have Chelsea Meggitt joining us. She is the CEO of Collaborative Compositions, she's a business strategist and a government contracting expert with more than a decade in the industry. She works with small businesses well, small to medium-sized businesses, to launch or expand their government contracts. She firmly believes that small businesses are the backbone of our economy and the cumbersome bureaucracy should not stand in the way of providing critical products or services to our government. She puts her passion for small business into her work by finding ways of cutting through the red tape to make the government more accessible. And she's actually secured contracts valued at over 6 billion for her clients in just her first year of business. So it sounds to me like we're dealing with just a little bit of a badass, welcome Chelsea!
Hey, great to be here. We are excited to have you,
And do you want to tell our listeners where in the world you are Chelsea.
I am in Washington state. So just about 30 minutes north of Seattle.
Ah, excellent. So not too far from me. For our listeners, I'm also based in the Seattle area. And Chelsea has joined us today to talk about being bold in order to change perceptions, which is something that I know will be important to all of you, because there's a lot of perceptions out there about women, about young people, about older people,
12 Jul 2021
From Bravado To Badass
We could all do with a little more badassery in our lives. But what is it and how do you develop it? In this epidose, Rachel McKay discusses the difference between bravado and badass, and the importance of both in our journey to increase our self confidence, enabling us to take a seat at the table, start to acknowledge our worth, and step into our full potential.
12 Jul 2021
Top 30 Under 30
While experience can create great leaders, not all great leaders have decades of experience. So how do you handle being promoted to a leadership position when you are decades younger than your peers? In this podcast, Fiona and Emily discuss some of the hurdles young leaders face, how to overcome perceptions that you are not experienced to lead, and ways to keep going when faced with challenging situations.
3 Mar 2021
Negotiating Your Worth
Negotiation is a daunting concept for many, but if we aren’t compensated for our true value, how can we get others to uphold it? To break through the ceiling of the gender pay gap, we need to step up and remove the fear. In this episode Fiona McKay interviews Angela Ambrose on how to ask for what you are worth, prepare for negotiations, and manage the fear associated with the process.
21 Jul 2020
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
When it comes to our internal glass ceiling, Imposter Syndrome is a major contributor to people holding themselves back. And it’s something we need to work on to prepare ourselves to break through the ceiling. Fiona McKay interviews Rachel Camarillo who shares her story of overcoming this. They discuss the the inner work that we can do for ourselves to tackle it, and how some of the uglier parts of our story are key to this.
21 Jul 2020
Like Hires Like: Barriers To Employment
Why are some workplaces so homogenous? What are the risks of only hiring ‘culture fit’ candidates? In this episode, Fiona interviews Tiffany Nicolow on her experience of ‘like hires like’ and what that’s meant for women of color in the workplace. Together they will explore how we can challenge and change that, build strong relationships with people from other backgrounds, advocate for one another…and maintain grace for ourselves in the face of injustice.
21 Jul 2020
Being More Than
We’re More Than businesswomen, we’re More Than co-workers, we’re More Than wives, we’re More Than mothers, we’re More Than friends. We are so many things and we’re really just More Than. In this episode, Fiona McKay interviews Gina Radke, CEO of Galley Support Innovations and author or More Than. They discuss how being ‘More Than’ is embracing everything that we are and moving forward with it and saying, ‘I’m proud of this.’
21 Jul 2020
Turning Your Differences Into Your Competitive Advantage
So often we worry that our diversity holds us back. But what if we were to turn it on it’s head? What if we were to view it as an advantage, how would things change? Fiona McKay interviews Dr Fariba Alamdari, a seasoned leader in aerospace, renowned TEDx speaker and advocate for diversity, about her journey and the power of viewing your diversity through a different lens.
21 Jul 2020
Honing And Owning Your Power In The Workplace
“If you peel away the onion and get to the core of what the source of your power is, it's usually one of a couple of things.... and it's not work that we typically do at the office.”
“There's a sense of authenticity that is consistent across all of those women with power. They know what their values are, and they know how they play out in the facets of life, and they know how they get nourished.”
Being authentic also includes really being authentic about our messiness, our humanity, and the mistakes, and the roadblocks and the challenges, and the real vulnerability. Because I do think that there has historically been this notion that women have to be, or they have to show up, perfect. As collected and emotionally having it all together.
“Developing emotional fluency is what changes our brain. It allows us to think in different ways. It allows us to see things in new and innovative ways... in places that never existed before."
Blow up the idea of a career. The idea of a career path is passé and it does not serves us anymore. Instead of asking what kind of career you want, there is a better question.
21 Jul 2020
Introduction To The Leading Ladies Of…Podcast
In this first “official” podcast, I introduce what the Leading Ladies Of…Podcast is about. I talk about the glass ceiling and how – even though it has changed – it is still preventing women from reaching higher levels in the workplace.
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