🏆Find out why we just won a Signal Award!
The podcast is just one tool in our tool box to help you thrive in work and in life
We have some great tips and insights for you today, straight from 6 incredible women who participated in this great collaboration just for YOU. And, they are so easily accessible on our podcast. You may recall our earlier post asking for your vote on this very podcast. Well, we won! Thank you.
I love podcasts and audiobooks. They are a great way to learn something new, or to work out something you already know but need to refine… or to just relax while doing something else. As a hard-core multi-tasker, I have always loved the radio, and then the podcast. Modern technology offers so many ways to select, shuffle, store, and share really useful and enjoyable content. But there’s a lot out there. A cacophony of advice, recordings, empowerment quips, how-to guides, and more. It can be as overwhelming as the cereal aisle at the grocery store. Or worse.
This is one reason, we founded Monumental Me and The Mindshare Podcast. A resource to cut through and curate the stories and specific tools that we think work for people like you, a selected and self-selected group of ambitious people who want to thrive and can use this resource. Sometimes we just need some support and guidance to thrive.
So today, we celebrate this win! A Signal Award 2023 in the category of “Advice & How To.” This global Women in Tech series is a special collaboration between Fiftyfaces Productions and Monumental Me. Aoifinn Devitt and I spoke to six senior female tech executives about what drove their success, how the tech industry is changing, and advice they wish they had learned sooner. Advice applicable to so many industries and to men as well as women. We break it down for you here…
Our first episode is with Jessica Kosmowski, a Managing Principal at Deloitte, where we start by discussing the most exciting tech trends surrounding us today and Jessica reflects on how she has managed to normalize being a mother and raising a family while rising in an industry where women are still not well represented.
We hear then from the venture capital investor Katie Jacobs Stanton. Katie is the founder and general partner of Moxxie Ventures. She talks about areas that excite her today- particularly climate tech and healthcare and shares the tips she believes will get more women the skills they need to get funded by investors like her. She talks about hiring talent, and the imposter syndrome that is felt universally.
Our next guest, Alicin Reidy Williamson, believes in the power of networks. She is the chief diversity and culture officer for Yahoo! She describes the importance of having a personal board of directors, but also believes in the importance of strong leadership, of a very particular kind - feminist leadership. Alicin also believes in creating a culture of belonging, and she gave an example of what that means.
Our guest Fiona McDonnell, a tech executive of Booking.com, describes what it is to have full self-awareness and how we can learn it. She discusses her recent book, Two Mirrors and a Cheetah: Think Differently, Own Your Career & Succeed by Being Yourself. Fiona reflects on what it was that stopped her from bringing her whole self to work. A link to her book can be found in the episode notes.
Guest Madeleine Dassule is Partner & Co-Head, Technology at Wellington Management, previously a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the area of equity trading technology. Madeleine has always placed a high priority on career development and mentorship, and we pose the fundamental question as to whether the wisdom that we internalized - as a certain generation - is necessarily the wisdom that we wish to pass to future generations. She reveals the lessons that frank and honest feedback has taught her and suggests how we should all give and receive feedback ourselves.
Guest April Rinne is a “change navigator,” author, speaker, investor, and adventurer whose work and travels in more than 100 countries have given her a front-row seat to a world in flux. In this podcast episode, April brings us real tools to help any executive or individual manage constant change and uncertainty, and we ask April to apply her navigation tools and insights to the individual guests in our Women in Tech series! A link to her book FLUX: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change can be found in the episode notes.
You can access the full episodes of this series on our website, MonumentalMe.com, or check out The Fiftyfaces Hub, or listen on Apple or Spotify Podcasts. So many choices, but we promise, that when you get to your desired content platform and chosen episode, you can relax and listen and learn, or simultaneously get to that pile of laundry that doesn’t fold itself.
🧡Liana