by Andrea Janzen | Jul 31, 2019 | Podcast
The gender gap is big deal in the corporate world, women make less money and rise to leadership at a lesser rate than men. For entrepreneurs it isn’t much different. The amount of women starting businesses each year is growing exponentially, however from a...
by Andrea Janzen | Jul 18, 2019 | Podcast
Fotini Iconomopoulos shares negotiation strategies that you can implement right away to get what you want at work. Fotini is an MBA professor, a keynote speaker, a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and soon to be published author. We talked about the gender pay gap...
by Andrea Janzen | Jul 10, 2019 | Podcast
Brian Duggan is an executive coach who is passionate about diversity in the workplace. He is on a mission to start conversations about how unconscious bias shows up. In this episode I asked Brian some pretty loaded questions about unconscious bias. The truth is, we...
by Andrea Janzen | Jun 30, 2019 | Podcast
When it comes to gender diversity initiatives, the idea of setting goals or targets makes everybody really uncomfortable. We get images in our heads of people getting put into positions that they aren’t ready for, or of people getting jobs just because they are a...
by Andrea Janzen | Jun 21, 2019 | Podcast
In this episode I interviewed Lindy Sood and Anna Lozano, the founders of Love Powered Co. We talk about self-confidence, self care and most importantly how to model these practices for the next generation. We all want our kids to be resilient and self-confident....
by Andrea Janzen | Jun 11, 2019 | Podcast
Have you ever heard the quote “You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with”? I recently ran a 10km road race, and I really felt the impact of this. During the race, I was in a pack of people all striving to achieve a goal. The fact...
by Andrea Janzen | Jun 4, 2019 | Podcast
Reva Bond Ramsden is the Dean of Construction for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). After learning that females represented only 2% of the student population in the School of Manufacturing, she got really curious about the the gender gap. This...
by Andrea Janzen | May 24, 2019 | Podcast
Professor Maja Jovanovic is an author, TEDx speaker sociologist and apology-hater. Apologies are confidence killers. So, why are women apologizing all the time? Apologies matter, and with every unnecessary apology we give, we chip away at our confidence. In this...
by Andrea Janzen | May 16, 2019 | Podcast
One reason why women rise to leadership at a slower rate than men, is their lack of social capital. In this episode I explain why putting your head down and working hard just isn’t enough to get ahead. What you really need to do is to understand the value of...
by Andrea Janzen | May 10, 2019 | Podcast
Mary Bicknell helps women to regret proof their lives. She helps women to take chances and create opportunities for themselves. What she really wants is for women to be able to enjoy their success. She is sick and tired of women feeling like they aren’t good...