Dr Nancy O'reilly

Paige Oxendine co-founded Rosie with Rachel Anderson in 2016 with the purpose of helping women to connect and access resources for career development, business assistance, leadership, access board service opportunities and other alliances that would serve them professionally and benefit Springfield, Missouri. The network grew to over 1,000 very quickly and now has moved to a larger platform with even more opportunities with Leadership Springfield.

Adam Ramos is a partner with Hinkley Allen Litigation Group and became a board member with the Women's Fund of Rhode Island (WFRI) and serious advocate for women's equity. 

Andrea Grant, a Certified Diversity Search Professional (CDSP), has worked for over 25 years for major corporations and as a serial entrepreneur with a love for human resources. However, she says that DEI and all the other acronyms applied to diversity today doesn't mean we're being equitable and creating a culture of belonging, and that lack of belonging is keeping women from coming back to work.

Asha Dahya is a passionate storyteller, who writes, produces films, and speaks out about empowering women to share their stories and fight for Reproductive Justice and women's rights to freedom of choice without limitation and judgement. Asha founded GirlTalk HQ as a hobby, a digital support network to give women a place to share their stories, then she wrote a book, Today's Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing the World. Now she is in the final stages of post-production on a short documentary, Someone You Know, featuring three women who made three decisions amidst the hostile landscape that faces women who must get late term abortions.

Dr. Denise Caleb is president of HR Standards Institute. She admits that women are being impacted disproportionately by COVID, whether "by choice or by request, women did leave the workforce during COVID 19 at a higher level and rate." She says that we have to be very careful as a workforce to make sure we recapture those levels of talent among those that want to come back to work. She urges companies to make the processes of talent acquisition happen systematically and with ease, so women can be interviewed and able to re-enter the workforce. She also warns women not to end up being underemployed. She wants to make sure that women get hired at the same level or higher than they left at and are positioned with their seat at the table so they can contribute.

Katica Roy tells Dr. Nancy about her own journey as a breadwinner mom to achieve equal pay and decided there must be an easier way through advanced technology. She founded Pipeline Equity, an SaaS platform that provides companies with augmented decision tools to determine if decisions will result in equitable outcomes before they are made. Katica says that all decisions need to be made with a gender lens because it benefits everyone, increasing entire economies, peace and prosperity throughout the world.

Michelle Li is an award-winning journalist and news anchor in St. Louis, MO, who was also born in Korea and raised in the U.S. In this interview she tells about how on New Years Day, she was given a piece to read about foods to celebrate the New Year. After reading about the American traditions, she added that she had rice cake soup (Duk Guk) that a lot of Koreans eat for New Years. She received a voice mail criticizing her and telling her to keep her Korean to herself. She posted it on social media and #VeryAsian started trending world-wide. A short time later Michelle and Gia Vang co-founded the Very Asian Foundation to advocate for and celebrate Asians all over the world. Listen to hear the whole story.

Barclay DeVeau barely survived a rare bacterial infection that went undiagnosed by doctors for months. In fact no one would believe she was ill until she had a seizure. Now Barclay, an award-winning filmmaker, is basing a film trilogy called The Cassandra Project on her story and the stories of two other women who’s situations reached critical levels when they went unheard and ignored. Listen to hear her story and find out how to be a part of this important film event.

Dr. Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH, tells her personal story of not recognizing that she had burnout until it was almost too late and how she founded Platform Wellness and developed ReST Revive, Strive and Thrive (TM) using her expertise in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine to help others by working with corporations and individuals experiencing burnout. Her words of wisdom: Mindset is medicine.

Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr., speaks from a 40 year career in law enforcement and leadership of how the sudden death of his wife and losing everything while raising seven sons transformed his life, showed him his vulnerabilities and helped him understand the suffering of others. His book, Beyond Midnight, tells the whole story and this conversation shares wisdom about power and presence and receiving help from surprising places.

Cindy Couyoumjian shares her experiences from 36 years experience as a woman in the finance industry, founder of Cinergy Financial and the research and advice in her new book, The Rise of Women and Wealth: Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future. She urges women to become financially literate and take control of their money to provide for their futures and leave a legacy for their loved ones. Surprising fact: Women own 51% of assets today.

Marlene Chism tells her story of becoming a gifted speaker, narrative coach and author from work a 20 year career at a factory. Her fifth book, From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading, works through mismanagement of leadership in ways to help us all benefit from redefining conflict and developing the capacity to deal with it rather than avoid it.

Julie Castro Abrams tells about How Women Lead, her social justice organization that brings women together to make an impact. Over 14,000 women become fierce advocates for each other and help one another in many ways, including investing in women-owned businesses and recommending them for seats on corporate boards. Julie stresses the need for women to step out, speak out and work together for gender and racial equality.

Lucina Di Meco describes how #She-Persisted works to stop social media attacks against women leaders. False claims and targeted threats prevent young woman running for political office and threaten the safety of those in the spotlight. She calls it a threat to democracy and free speech. In fact there is no free speech for these targeted women. We can all help. Lucina explains how.

Jennifer Faust talks about Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara and how they equip girls with the confidence to become women who live successful lives. Besides being a voice for girls, the programs of Girls Inc. National and the affiliates in the US and Canada provide numerous supports including mentoring, sports and a network of girls who go on to lead as women.

Amanda B. Cunningham is COO of Her Future Coalition and the social profit partner, Yoga Medicine® Seva, which both serve the mission to end human trafficking in India and Nepal. These are the epicenter for the sale of human beings, mostly girls, throughout the world. Amanda describes cultures that see a girl's value as how much she will bring when she is sold. Her organizations provide education for girls to lift them out of poverty and give them worth beyond what they can bring as products. Successful graduates often serve their communities filling roles that need women to help with problems caused by viewing women as "less than."

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.