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As a female Hollywood filmmaker, Rachel Feldman faced many of the same issues trying to direct movies as Lilly Ledbetter did as a female night supervisor in an Alabama tire factory. Both were excluded and outed in their industry; both were underpaid, yet both persevered. Lilly Ledbetter sued the company that paid her 40% less […]

Award-winning financial journalist Stacey Tisdale says that we are conditioned with “childhood scripts” that formulate our identities and behaviors about money. Just like actors on a stage, we follow those scripts into adulthood unless we accept responsibility to change them. Stacey says, “Our financial choices have got nothing to do with numbers.” While we are

Dr. Sheila Robinson became an expert in diversity and inclusion, and learned firsthand how racism holds Black women back during her 14 year career at a Fortune 100 company, working her way from the factory floor to the executive office. After stepping away from that career path, she founded her company, Diversity Woman Media, to

Angelina Rosario considers herself a role model for using the worst moments in your life as a way of transforming pain into purpose. She has influenced thousands of women by teaching them that trials and setbacks are their secret weapons for achieving success. Her own refusal to be a victim set her on a course

Dr. Phyllis Chesler is described as a “legendary feminist” and she has earned the title through decades of activism and purposeful work. She founded the course curriculum for Women’s Studies at City University of New York, where she is professor emerita, was profiled in Feminists Who Changed America,  co-founded several organizations including Association for Women in

Roxi Hewertson has revealed a lot of secrets to creating a successful workplace in her new book, Hire Right Fire Right, but the biggest secret to finding and keeping your best people is to remember that the hiring process is about creating relationships, not transactions. So why do so many companies make the mistake of

A. Margot Blair, founder of AMB Consulting and Company, is a business and partnership strategist whose central theme throughout all her initiatives is collaboration. It’s also the central theme to this conversation, or as Dr. Nancy says, “None of us gets anywhere by ourselves.” Margot specializes in creating strategic partnerships, marketing events, and developing social

Sharon Melnick, PhD, answers the question—why a woman needs to stay in her power—with a very simple answer, “When a woman is in her power, she raises everyone around her.” Dr. Sharon is a business psychologist who founded the virtual coaching initiative “Next Level Leader,” through which 92% of mid-career women of color and white

Renessa Boley Layne found that her own dream job is helping other people to find theirs and figuring out how to place a value on that so they can get paid very well for the work they love doing. Renessa took several wrong turns along the way. She was so good in math and science