WOMEN CHOICE - Key Persons
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- Principal, 360 Gateway Brands
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- Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur
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- Investor
- Bestselling Author, Startup Investor and Champion of Women
Fran Hauser is a long-time media executive, startup investor, keynote speaker and best-selling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl. She's held senior positions at some of the world's largest digital media businesses, including PEOPLE, InStyle, Entertainment Weekly and AOL. Now a startup investor who largely invests in female founders, Fran was named one of Business Insider's "30 Women in Venture Capital to Watch in 2018." Fran and The Myth of the Nice Girl have been featured on a wide range of outlets including NBC's Today Show, CNBC, PEOPLE, Fortune, TIME, Fast Company, Oprah.com, Business Insider, Elle, and many more. The Myth of the Nice Girl was named Audible's Best Business Book of 2018 and one of Amazon's Best Business and Leadership Books of 2018, among other accolades. Fran is a frequent speaker on women's leadership and writes a regular career advice column for Refinery29.
Fran Hauser, @Fransbookshelf Author Spotlight with Fran Hauser Each month, Fran will highlight a female author whose work inspires women to be their best selves. Fran is an author herself, as well as a keynote speaker and investor at the intersection of women's empowerment, new paradigms of leadership, and collective wellness. She is the best-selling author of The Myth of…
Fran Hauser is a bestselling author, startup investor and champion of women. For more of her book recommendations, follow her @fransbookshelf on Instagram.
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- Chief Education Officer at Acorns
Jennifer Barrett is the Chief Education Officer at Acorns, a financial wellness app with more than 9 million users. Prior to moving into FinTech, she spent many years as a journalist and editor for some of the biggest media companies in the world including CNBC and Hearst. In Think Like a Breadwinner: A Wealth-Building Manifesto for Women Who Want to Earn More (and Worry Less), Jennifer shares how she went from being thousands of dollars in debt to growing her household net worth to more than $1 million. She uses her journalism skills to unpack history and the fact that women aren't brought up to think like breadwinners. In this book, she emboldens women to have a breadwinning mindset. "Nothing is more empowering than knowing you can take care of yourself and your future without needing to depend on anyone."
Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise An Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second books is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. Her most recent book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is an inspirational work aiming to help humans lead a more authentic adulthood.
Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother.
Lindsey Pollak is a NYT bestselling author and an expert in navigating today's ever-changing, multigenerational workplace. In her new book, Recalculating: Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work, she shares with us specific mindset shifts and actions that can help you through a successful career transition. With 3 million women being forced our of the workforce, this book could not have come at a better time. I love the fundamental premise: when you embrace the art of recalculating, you accept the knowledge that your career path will not be a clear, straight line forward.
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- Member of the Executive Board
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- CEO & Founder, Collaborative Solutions
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- Founder of Anam Evolution
Paula Jennings, a highly respected female business leader and advocate for the empowerment of women in the Financial Services industry for 25 years, served as Chief Operating Officer of Finance for a Global Investment Bank. After a few life- altering pivots and ah-ha moments, Paula left Wall Street to dedicate her life mission to serving women to create joyful, passionate and vibrant lives. She is the CEO & Founder of Anam Evolution Inc., provides global leaders with holistic wellness services products and rewarding business opportunities designed to enrich their physical, emotional, spiritual & financial health. Also as an International Founder of Prime My Body, a plant based wellness company, our strategy Includes the distribution of hemp & natural beauty products in US, Japan & Mexico, soon to extend to South Africa & Europe. Paula, a highly trained Columbia College Executive & High Performance Coach, a Kundalini Yoga Meditation Teacher & Energy Intuitive who draws upon a deep well of knowledge of wisdom traditions to achieve her personal mission to raise the consciousness of the planet.
Rebecca Minkoff was 21 when Jenna Elfman wore her I Love NY t-shirt on Jay Leno, creating instant demand for Rebecca's 5-piece capsule collection. Four years later, in 2005, Rebecca launched the iconic Morning After Bag (M.A.B). It's easy to look at this success and label it "overnight". But in Rebecca's book Fearless: The New Rules for Unlocking Creativity, Courage, and Success, she takes us through the blood, sweat and tears that went into building her brand and her business.
She's a great storyteller. And this book is a beautiful extension of the work she does every day to inspire women as a business leader; by way of her nonprofit, Female Founder Collective; and through her namesake products.
"Being fearless doesn't mean you don't have fear. It means that as you look fear head-on, shaking in your boots, you do what's scaring you anyways." In her book, Rebecca shares 21 rules that she lives by when it comes to seeing fear, pushing it aside, and moving forward.
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- Psychologist & Founder, 93% Consulting
AboutSandi SaksenaMultiple International awardee for Women Empowerment, Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Sandi Saksena is a Queen, Femtor, Facilitator, Speaker, and personal finance influencer. As sales manager she leads her own team At Nexus Insurance Brokers. Sandi heads the ‘Family Matters' division at Echelon Advisors and Management Consultants her family firm and dedicates her energies to empowerment of women through financial independence.…
Susan McPherson is a master connector. It's her superpower, and, as she says, comes as naturally to her as breathing. "I've been called the Serial Connector, a human Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app - and I've spent the last 30 years of my career building relationships that are deep and expansive, " Susan writes in the introduction to her new book, The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships. Relationships are the cornerstone of one's career success - I know they've been invaluable to mine. We all need people in our corner, whether they're cheerleaders, motivators, listeners, sages, mentors, or connectors.
When my book The Myth of the Nice Girl launched, Susan generously invited around 20 friends and colleagues to her rooftop to celebrate. The connections I made at that gathering resulted in an important speaking engagement and an invitation to be a guest on a TV show. She brings people together so naturally and authentically.
And now, in her book, Susan shares her infinite wisdom and the tools you need so you, too, can be a master connector.