About Lifting Up: Lessons from Verizon Women Leaders
Welcome to Lifting Up: Lessons From Verizon Women Leaders. In each episode of this special series, we celebrate a Verizon role model. We hear their success stories and glean wisdom from the ups, downs and detours of their journey. By amplifying diverse voices, we discover the unique superpowers that each one of us brings to the table, and gain tools to achieve personal and professional fulfillment - whatever form that takes.
Season 6, Ep. 8: Wendy Taccetta + Sonia Murray - Unleashing Your Own Operational Excellence (Plus Season Wrap Up Intro with Jacinda, Adriana and Gabrielle)
And that’s a wrap (with a bow on it!) Gabrielle, Jacinda and Adriana share personal highlights from Season 6 - filled with lots of powerful collisions, varying lived experiences and embracing the power of the pivot. Including pivoting into our final episode, with Wendy Taccetta and Sonia Murray.
Wendy and Sonia bring a powerful episode sharing their journey and stories of the importance of owning your own personal operational excellence, while paying it forward. Through the power of community, vulnerability, and fearlessness these ladies share how they have achieved many professional wins, while managing all the challenges and joys life brings with perseverance.
“I always embrace challenges. Sometimes when I do something I'm like, Oh wow, I did that. But I know I can do it.” -Sonia Murray
“If you're living your life fully, you're gonna make mistakes, and you're gonna fall down. Falling down, doesn't matter. It's getting up.” -Wendy Taccetta
“I try to challenge myself to be in rooms where the information is new, the perspective is different, where I expect someone to disagree with me. Because I find that it helps me either clarify what I believe, or it expands what I know to be true.” -Wendy Taccetta
“We need to be curious. We need to be learning from each other. We need to be inspired by this next generation. Not threatened by it. We still need to learn from our elders. We need to be curious about each other. And if everyone you know thinks the way you think, you are not in the right ones.” -Wendy Taccetta
Wendy Taccetta
Instagram: vztaccetta
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendytaccetta
Sonia Murray
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonia-murray-25132576/
31 May 2024
Season 6, Ep. 7: Kuulei Jacubczak+ Alecs Lifschultz -The Power of Sacrifice and Resilience
Kuulei Jacubczuk (Director - State Government Affairs; Tribal Liaison) and Alecs Lifschultz (Senior Director - Great Lakes Market) get real about how meaningful their work is to them, the strengths they finetuned by taking risks and breaking barriers on their journey, and the very real sacrifices made along the way. Both women share setbacks, caretaking challenges, and how they navigated it all to become the leaders who inspire so many others today.
On becoming a role model: “These were women who stood up in ways culturally, but also professionally, to break barriers and to do things. And they were my role models. So that was something that I think is in the core of me, but I never realized how much it was part of the core of me until I started getting into the professional world.” - Kuulei Jakubczak
On being authentic to stay inspired: “So showing up and having the ability to be me, keeps me going and keeps me inspired. And hopefully by me showing up as me that inspiration is allowing others the space to show up as themselves as well.” - Alecs Lifschultz
Alecs Lifschultz
Instagram: alecs_southsidechi
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecsandria-lifschultz-ma-4654327b/
Kuulei Jacubczak
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuuleijakubczak/
31 May 2024
Season 6, Ep. 6: Susan Kim + Jenny Weeditz - Enthusiastically Understanding Your Business
Jenny Weeditz (Associate Vice President - Global Corporate Security Operations) and Susan Kim (Finance Senior Director) bring unending energy to this episode of Lifting Up, where they share how they have earned the admiration and credibility of the business teams they support - and so many others. Despite sitting in two very different organizations - security and finance - they are united in their focus on authenticity, learning from setbacks, and delivering value - and a vision for what is possible.
On confidence: “Some of the benefits of getting older and having experience is having more comfort and confidence in yourself and being self secure. And it allows you to be vulnerable…. And so when you start doing that, I think you're just natural, and people respond to your natural authenticity, and it feeds into that self. And then you just develop more credibility, and it builds trust.” - Susan Kim
On collaboration: “it's a lot of negotiation, and making sure you're being the best version of you to get the best out of them.” - Jenny Weeditz
Susan Kim
Instagram: susan_kim_vz
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-kim-b78628a0/
Jenny Weeditz
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-weeditz-7b7660184/
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