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Susan Whiting is Chair of the National Women's History Museum Board and is excited to announce that after 26 years of offering online programs about women's contribution to the founding and development of our country, NWHM is to become a museum in residence at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Washington, D.C., It's a museum reimagined, still offering online programs and events, but reaching out to the community to help foster and continue women's stories through recording and exhibition of women in history who have remained unknown until now.

Gary Lee Price summarizes the story of his horrific experiences as a child and how teachers in school lifted him up by recognizing his talent as an artist, however no one stopped it. Gary has written a memoir, Divine Turbulence about his life, and his passion to install 305 foot The Statue of Responsibility, the brainchild of Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankel, which Gary has designed and built replicas of as a symbol that we have to act responsibly to keep our freedom.

Kelli Thompson talks about advice from her book to be released this fall, Closing the Confidence Gap, a leadership book for women that guides them past the barriers they have created trying to adapt to male-dominated business practices, upper level jobs and doing business as usual. Kelli says, "By changing the workplace, women can change the world."

Tiffany Shlain tells about her new program for companies called The Future of Work and Wellbeing based on the 15 years of using a hybrid work model at her workplace, Let It Ripple Film Studio, which allows for two days of collaboration and three days of working at home. She has combined several films about character and neuroscience with her book, 24/6--about unplugging from screens once a week to recharge and get more creative and productive--to produce a 4-week program to help companies transition into a new work model that supports employees and management to get people back to work.

Michele Meyer-Shipp tells about her career full of pivots based on building relationships and engaging the power of the collective--moving from law into DEI, she became a transformational leader in multiple industries including Major League Baseball, where she brought together DEI strategies for 30 major league and 120 minor league teams at the height of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. Now she had joined Dress for Success Worldwide as their new CEO where she will bring together over 140 chapters in 25 countries to empower women at this very challenging time.

Jensine Larsen founded the online platform World Pulse when she recognized the power of interconnectivity of the internet. Her original attempts to share heart-breaking stories from women fighting for their survival amidst war and environmental catastrophies as a journalist won awards as a glossy magazines, but it's the 80,000 voices in over 200 countries that are changing live s for women around the world today. Listen to her story and heroic women's stories in this conversation and how you can help lift women up and use technology for good.

Dr. Jacqueline Sanderlin tells how her "Why Not" attitude ignited a positive attitude among students and engaged the community to provide resources in a very challenged LA school district. Reaching out to everyone from The Grammys to mom and pop shops, Dr. Jackie recruited help to elevate student performance beyond anyone's expectation. As CEO of The Why Not Incubator and author of The Why Not Challenge, Dr. Jackie offers guidance to other educators to follow this path asking "Why Not?" for their own schools.

Tara Jaye Frank discusses how anyone not in the learning loop (women, black or brown people) need someone to make a way for them to enter top management. An executive for many years herself, she says many upper managers want to do the right thing, but they don't know what that is and fear making a mistake. Her new book, out in May, The Waymakers, show them how, and Tara's consulting business walks them through the process, bridging where they are to where they want to be.

Bobbie LaPorte talks about how training and participating in six Ironman Triathlons have changed the way she thinks about leadership. She stresses that you cannot plan, but you can prepare. In business and in endurance events, you can't know anymore what will happen moment to moment, so you need to prepare for change and use that change to discover the possibilities, focus on the strengths of your team and connect them to stay in the race and come out ahead.

Samantha Karlin describes the events that lead her to pursue a course to found Empower Global and broadcast her podcast Samanthropolitics to advance social change and women's rights around the world. With advanced degrees in law and diplomacy with a specialization in global gender analysis and conflict resolution, she is especially equipped to reveal ways to make significant change that cause women to be pawns in the world's struggle for power, and also train women to use their own power to lead, which she does through her Women's Leadership Challenge.

Katie Steele Danner tells how the Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge educates emerging women leaders about the needs of the communities throughout Missouri and how their abilities can help to solve problems and provide opportunities for leadership in areas that may be new to them. Now in its 32 year, the Challenge has more than 1,300 graduates leading in the state and around the world providing a vast network among a large array of industries and public service.

Kelly Nevins, CEO of the Women's Fund of Rhode Island shares how WFRI advocates for change at the systems level to benefit women. Although some women run for office because of what they learn from WFRI training, the group is non-partisan, supporting advocacy and training to help women create and advise the decision makers in their communities and workplaces. Kelly also gives advice to women looking for jobs and career change today, plus resources for women's funds throughout the country.

Colonel Ron Garan shares the story of how he became an astronaut and how his experiences in space elevated his perspective to see the unity of everything and everyone on earth. Working with people from 15 other countries taught him the power of diversity of perspective, and the awe and wonder of seeing earth from space showed him how interconnected we all are and expanded his view of how even the small things we do shift the trajectory of everything and everyone we touch into the future.

Dr. Sheila Robinson's message of knowing you have the power in you to be happy, work hard, fix broken systems for win-win results orbit around her own story of being raised to do that. She was not raised to take care of herself. Now, having lost 25 pounds, she feels younger, is more productive and much better at taking care of others. So her 2021 National Diversity Woman Media Business Leadership Conference is about being "Empowered to Lead." Sign up now for the virtual experience coming up November 4-5.

Gloria Feldt tells about her new book, INTENTIONING: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good, and how she made up the word to differentiate from ambition. Ambition is the hope and the dream--the fuel to start it. And intentioning is the action. Now I'm doing it. Nine power tools for leadership are contained in this newest book, which is available now where ever books are sold.

Terra Renee tells the story of why and how she founded African American Women in Cinema, the trajectory of her career in filmmaking and the qualities in women that have held them back, and more recently how she has seen women supporting women in various places and careers around the country. Terra is hopeful about the advancement of women and has numerous programs to support them in filmmaking.

Jon Macaskill describes how he learned about mindfulness and meditation as a Navy Seal Commander, but called it "taking control." Later he volunteered to help vets with the skill and learned how he could take control of his own emotions through a counselor. Now, he has a podcast "Men Talking Mindfulness" and is a keynote speaker and corporate consultant where he shares how it works to increase productivity in high-achieving teams.

Linda Rendleman talks about ways she has helped women from founding one of the first women's websites to her charity, Women Like Us, which has helped transform womens lives in the U.S. and the world. Currently the Women Like Us Center educates women in Kenya skills to make them economically independent and help them feed their families. And Linda has also started coaching women to rediscover their self worth and redefine their life path.

L.Y. Marlow shares her life story about intimate partner abuse through 5 generations of her family and how it took a life-threatening moment to make her vow to "save promise," which became the name of her organization focused on preventing the cycle of abuse. Prevention is key , she says and her latest book, Don't Look at the Monster, examines how the monsters within us keep us from changing ourselves to look at our lives in terms of "a gift, a lesson or a blessing."

Former FBI Agent and Corporate Security professional, Allison Sands describes the soft skills she teaches in her company, Project Hummingbird to derail violence and potentially life-threatening confrontation. Everything from police and front line workers to individuals in daily life are covered in this conversation. Listen and stay safe.