Women's Wealth: The Middle Way

Understanding Body Language with Linda Clemons Linda Clemons, a renowned sales and body language expert, joins us today to share her thoughts on how important non-verbal communication is to success in life and business. Linda is the CEO of Sisterpreneur®, Inc., an international business organization focused on empowering women entrepreneurs. Listen in as Linda, also known as the “Queen of Networking,” discusses how we can become masters of our destiny through the art of networking and by understanding body language cues. Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks!   Helpful Links:  Linda Clemons: Sisterpreneur®, Inc.: Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way®:    

Conquering Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Valerie Young Dr. Valerie Young joins us on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way® today to share her advice and tips on dealing with impostor syndrome. Dr. Young is an internationally recognized expert in the field, an accomplished speaker, and the author of an award-winning book, Listen in as she explains what imposter syndrome is and gives helpful tools to overcome it.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful Links:  Dr. Valerie Young:  The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®:   Glen Eagle:

A Driving Force with Rosemary Swierk Entrepreneur Rosemary Swierk is an advocate for women-owned businesses, particularly in the construction industry. She joins us today to share how her journey in the construction business began and what she has learned along the way. Rosemary is the Founder and President of Direct Steel® and Construction and a State of Illinois appointee to the Small Business Development Center Advisory Board.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful Links:  Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®: Glen Eagle: Direct Steel® and Construction: WBENC:    

Emotional Wellness During Uncertain Times with Faith Saunders Faith Saunders, founder and CEO of Discover a New Future, joins us today to discuss emotional wellness during these uncertain times. Faith is involved in New Jersey Hope and Healing, an initiative created in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and designed to help individuals and groups cope and adapt to the new norm. Listen in as Faith shares insights about coping during stressful times.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful Links New Jersey Hope and Healing: Mental Health America National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)  

Making A Difference, One Mask at a Time with Dr. Sheri Mello Our guest today is Dr. Sheri Mello, an audiologist at the Raleigh Hearing and Tinnitus Center. While conducting curbside appointments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mello realized that her patients were struggling to hear and understand her because she was wearing a face mask. Now, she's working on an innovative solution to that problem.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful Links:  Dr. Sheri Mello, AU.D., F-AAA, DOCTOR OF AUDIOLOGY Raleigh Hearing and Tinnitus Center: Clear Mask Video: How to Make a Clear Mask: May is Better Hearing Month:

Adapting to Remote Teaching with Mary Ann Jones & Kelly Jones With the COVID-19 pandemic, the teaching world has seen incredible change over the past few months. Our special guests today are Mary Ann Jones and her daughter, Kelly Jones, and they are fourth-grade teachers in New Jersey. Mary Ann and Kelly have transitioned from teaching their students at school and in-person to teaching through a fully remote, distance learning program. This has brought both challenges and benefits. Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks!

Leading From the Front Line with Ann Logan Ann Logan is a medical professional with more than 30 years of leadership experience. She works for CarePoint Health and is the Chief Hospital Executive at Hoboken University Medical Center in New Jersey.  Listen in as Ann shares an inside view of what she and her team are experiencing on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks!   Helpful Links:  Ann Logan: CarePoint Health: Hoboken University Medical Center: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®:

Making the Most of Your Time with Laura Vanderkam Laura Vanderkam, a productivity and time management expert, joins us this week to share practical, easy-to-follow tips on how to make the most of your time and establish what you want to get out of life. Laura is the author of several time-management books and co-hosts the podcast, . She blogs at . Laura lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and four children. Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful links: Laura Vanderkam’s Blog: Juliet’s School of Possibilities: Off the Clock: I Know How She Does It: 168 Hours: Before Breakfast Podcast: Best of Both Worlds Podcast: Women's Wealth: The Middle Way® Podcast:    

Rebuilding a Life with Cara Brookins After surviving domestic violence, Cara Brookins was faced with the stark challenge of providing for her four children, with no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home—but without the means to buy one—she did something incredible. She built her very own 3,500 square foot home from scratch by using YouTube tutorials while rebuilding her family. Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks!   Helpful Links:  Cara Brookins  Rise: How a House Built a Family Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®

Making A Difference with Ruth Riley In 2019, Ruth Riley was named to the 21st Class of Inductees to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. She led Notre Dame to their first national championship in 2001, and she is one of the few players to win an NCAA title, two WNBA titles, and an Olympic Gold Medal. Ruth joins us today to share her journey as a professional basketball player, an Olympic athlete, a radio and TV broadcaster with the Miami Heat - and how she is making a difference by giving back at every possible opportunity.   Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful Links:  Ruth Riley Website:   Nothing But Nets: No Kid Hungry: . Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way®: Interview Show Notes:

Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®:  Starting A Business With Power, Passion & Purpose with Kate Nowlan and Kimberly Caccavo Kimberly Caccavo and Kate Nowlan are founders of the women’s apparel brand GRACEDBYGRIT and co-authors of an international best-selling book “Graced by Grit: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Guide to Starting a Business With Power, Passion and Purpose.” Today they share how they took their women’s athletic apparel store, GRACEDBYGRIT, the first community-driven, direct-to-consumer premium athletic apparel brand for women, and transformed it into a nonprofit foundation focused on empowering young women. The foundation offers athletic scholarships for young women and encourages them to develop their GRIT while embracing their GRACE.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful Links:&nb

Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®: Good Food, Good Life with Colleen Kavanagh When Colleen Kavanagh couldn’t find companies that made nutrient-dense foods that would meet the dietary restrictions of her family, she was inspired to build her own firm. Listen in as Colleen shares the incredible story behind ZEGO. Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks!   Helpful Links: ZEGO: Glen Eagle:   Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC): WBENC-Certification: Women Presidents' Organization (WPO): Show Notes: Interview Transcript:  Susan Michel: Welcome back to Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, the show that answers your questions about work, money and family. My name is Susan McGlory Michel, and I am the CEO and founder of Glen Eagle, a wealth management firm in New Jersey. Today, I am joined by Col

Living Your Life with Purpose with Jodi O’Donnell-Ames  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a neurological disease that takes a heavy toll on those who are diagnosed with it, as well as their families. Jodi O’Donnell-Ames came to understand how difficult it was when her husband was diagnosed with ALS. As Jodi cared for both her husband and her 2-year-old daughter, she found that there was a serious lack of resources for children whose parents were diagnosed with ALS. When her husband, Kevin, died in 2001, Jodi knew that she had to keep fighting, so she served as director of communications for the ALS Hope Foundation in Philadelphia from 2001–2003. While working there, she met Warren Benton Ames, whose wife Tina had passed away from ALS in 2000. Warren and Jodi married in 2003, and she became the mother of Ames’ two children. Inspired by the strength of their united family, this led her to found Hope Loves Company, the only non-profit organization in the country dedicated to p

The Value of Recycling with Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao Today, less than 10% of packaging plastics are recycled. The rest is sent to landfills or becomes pollution. Our special guests today are long-term friends who are working together to change that statistic. They are entrepreneurs, environmental advocates and inventors, Miranda Wang and Jeannie Yao, are co-founders of BioCellection, a company that turns unrecyclable plastic waste into valuable chemicals. Their work with BioCellection has earned them many accolades, including Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate, and the Forbes 30 under 30. Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including , , , . See you in two weeks! Helpful Links: Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way® Glen Eagle BioCellection 2019 Rolex Awards Laureate Documentary: Miranda Wang Forbes: BioCellection cofounders named Forbes 30 Under 30

Women's Wealth: The Middle Way® Presents It’s the Journey, Not the Destination with Sylvia Alcala Sylvia Alcala, President and Founder of J. Anthony Group, a supply chain consulting and contract labor firm in the aerospace & defense industry, has a closely-held belief that education is the key to opportunity.  Throughout her career, she has had an interest in helping students obtain a college degree, particularly those who want to further their education but might think that it’s beyond their reach. As someone who benefited from guidance and direction that allowed her to obtain an education, she considers it her responsibility to “pay it forward.” Join us today to hear how what Sylvia originally had planned for her life changed, and how she overcame obstacles she faced along the way.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including Libsyn, Sou

Women’s Wealth: The Middle Way® Presents Building Strong Women Leaders with Sangeeta Rao Sangeeta Rao, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Student Mentoring Programs at Rutgers University, is passionate about empowering women. Sangeeta oversees Women BUILD, a leadership program designed to give high achieving, talented women undergraduates at Rutgers Business School the opportunity to reach their full leadership potential as business students. She also co-leads a new Women's Initiative at Rutgers Business School that seeks to build stronger connections between students, faculty, alumni, and corporations with a goal of addressing systemic gender biases in business.  Join us as Sangeeta shares what mentorship means to her and the personal effect that Women BUILD has had on her life and career.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including Libsyn, Soundclou

Lynn Griffith, CEO of Welcome Events and President of Welcome Walks, has multiple successful businesses under her belt. After 25 years of working in the corporate events industry, Lynn has turned her focus to something new. In fact, she’s altering the travel landscape with digital walking tours. An active member of the WBENC Women’s Enterprise Forum, Lynn has been honored as a WBE Star. Join us as Lynn shares her journey and how everything that has happened in her life is an extraordinary chapter that leads to the next exciting one.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including Libsyn, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts. See you in two weeks!  

Rebecca Grzybowski shares her journey from collegiate rower, to training for the Olympic trials, to becoming a head coach, and what motivated her through each step. As a mother of two, Rebecca had to adjust to not only leading a team of women, but to also caring for her two sons, and learning how to “flex the muscle” of asking others for help along the way. Named the head coach of Temple University’s women’s rowing team in 2012, Rebecca led the team to win the Dad Vail Regatta in the 2019 season.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including Libsyn, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts. See you in two weeks!

Hetal Parikh is a dynamic entrepreneur who drives innovation with a culture of empathy. She co-founded Rangam Consultants, a minority, woman-and disability-owned workforce solutions company, with her husband in 1995. She has worked to create a company culture of inclusion and collaboration through innovation in special education, disability hiring, and reemployment of veterans and with mottos of “Employment for Everyone” and “Empathy Drives Innovation.” Hetal’s commitment to empowering and supporting women in the workforce is a part of her DNA. She believes knowledge is power, and sharing it is even more empowering. Hetal was awarded the WPEO-NY Star Award by the Women Presidents’ Educational Organization (WPEO) in 2018.    Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including Libsyn, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts. See

This week, Susan is joined by Judith Germano. Judith is an adjunct professor at NYU Law, the founder of Germano Law, a senior fellow at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, a mother of two, and a triathlete. Judith joins Susan today to talk about cybersecurity law and women in the field of cybersecurity. She gives helpful advice on the importance of blending together multiple disciplines in cybersecurity, as well as how blending carries over into our everyday lives, including how she blends being in business, being a mom, and being a triathlete.  Join us every other week on Women's Wealth: The Middle Way®, a radio show aimed at helping women navigate questions about work, money, and family. You can find us on your favorite podcast app, including Libsyn, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts. See you in two weeks!