What Do Women Know.?!

Jessica Lancaster: Actress, Producer and Instagram Guru

Actress, Producer and Instagram Guru Jessica Lancaster joins us to discuss the brilliant way we can all bring positivity into our lives. Jessica's tactics for discovering what sparks joy and then weaving that joy throughout her life is uplifting and inspiring. It is this positive outlook that brings beauty and happiness into the lives of others and in effect makes Jessica Lancaster a pleasure to work whether it be as an Actress, Producer or Instagram Guru. Jessica's deliberate decisions to choose the most empowering visualizations for her career and in her own self-talk are a mind-opening listen on how to carve a path for success. 01:25 min: Jessica Lancaster's advice for finding balance and working to have a creative life in an unpredictable industry is "you are gonna need a day job" and to "find what brings you joy." At its core, finding work is "all about setting myself up so I can live my creative life."08:11 min: Overcoming obstacles and finding what brings you joy. Everything "boils down" to what "makes you feel good." It's not selfish. It's that "only when you feel good can you project it out there" and bring that joy to relationships and the world around you. Discover a mantra that brings you joy. Something to drive you. Don't hit your head against the door. Focus on the positives to find that path forward. "You'll find the negative if you want to" so find the positive instead and move forward with that joy to keep you going. Go to the environment you want. Make it happen now.15:15 min: Remember to seek "that eternal youth feeling." "Feelings are eternal" and if you can "get your body healthy" and in effect uncover what lifts you up, rather than old habits which might bring you down, you will find more joy moment to moment.16:32 min: One tip to sleeping well at night is to avoid saying categorizing or ranking days a successful or not. "I try to listen to what I need in the moment" to find a moment, to find that thing that makes you happy. And find what your "saving grace" is: be it relationships, exercise, or discovering "me time."  If we try to "think about what was amazing today" instead of whether it was a successful day, then we come out with a positive view of our accomplishments.18:23 min: On raising money for films, getting movies distributed, and Jessica's films on Amazon Video: The Holy Fail, Choosing Signs -- and soon her third feature.19:17 min: "It's about creating the environment in your entire life for things to just find you and come to you" and opening the door to allow manifesting to happen. It's not this happens and then I'll be happy. It's discovering how to be happy now and then the other stuff will find you.

Allison Hainlen: Lawyer and 3rd Generation Business Owner of Gardner Insurance Agency

Allison Hainlen joins us to discuss her multifaceted career from lawyer to 3rd generation owner of her family's business, Gardner Insurance Agency. Allison is the first woman to own and manage Gardner Insurance Agency and in doing so has ushered in a new age for the company. From creating a maternity leave policy, to accommodating the developing needs of working women, to implementing her legal knowledge to helming a team of experience, professional, community-driven and bi-lingual insurance agents. It is refreshing and liberating to hear Allison's straight talk with her children to her team of employees "with plenty of respect but with very little sugar-coating". Allison highlights how you don't have to be warm and fuzzy but every perspective is worth hearing and considering. 01:11 min: How straight talk helps you to run your own business.01:53 min: Allison details how you can embrace your career and motherhood separately, that our drive for work can be for ourselves. "I also want something that's mine too. I'm a person walking around this earth too [...] It feels like something that really energizes me to be a better mom when I get home."06:14 min: "There's just so much pressure on moms [...] it's such a reoccurring theme, and it's not coming from a place of victimhood [...] there is a lot of pressure and the only way that comes off your shoulders is to take it off."07:11 min: "Self-care to me is have your career if you want it [...] once you start talking to other women they say yeah, I really do like my career."08:33 min: Allison on taking over her dad's business and merging her law knowledge with running Gardner Insurance Agency, a community, people-serving business where "doing a good job for people [...] and being available [...] doing right by the clients" is her company's core strength.11:01 min: How adding more technology benefits companies today.13:42 min: Allison explains how her own goals to balance work and home life drove her to implement policies and procedures that she would want from an employer. 18:44 min: Realizing "I can solve almost everything if I step back and I take a breath and I regroup" as a way to overcome obstacles.19:39 min: "A good day is just always going to come back for to balance. [...] For so long it was I want to be the best at my business" the best at everything we do " and that was unattainable. And it's exhausting [...] Once I started to let myself off the hook for the A+ report card every day I can be happier. I can enjoy every part of my life a little bit more."22:06 min: On being a straight talker and straight forward with language. "I want to consider everybody's input, everybody's ideas, but at the end of the day I want to be straight forward about how I feel, what I need, what my expectations are. [...] The truth is simple."24:37 min: Goals for the company moving forward are rebranding the business for younger consumers, taking their needs and wants into consideration and recognizing their influence.25: 29 min: Allison's quote to send out for listeners is "Do it from love, not for love. [...] Do something because you want to do it. [...] Ask yourself: Do I want to be doing this?"

Lindsey Washburn: Physician Assistant, Clinical Laboratory Science and Urology Expert

Recorded on January 28, 2020.... NEW Medical Information Has Already Emerged on COVID-19 and Vaccines.... Go to www.CDC.gov for the most up-to-date information.... "Travel increases your chance of spreading and getting COVID-19. Delay travel and stay home to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, even if you are vaccinated." https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/travel-during-covid19.html... Listen to science.Physician Assistant, Clinical Laboratory Science and Urology Expert Lindsey Washburn speaks on the pandemic, family and using action to overcome fear. Lindsey's follow-the-science advice, compassion and calling as a medical professional highlights her, and all health care workers', heroism.0:00 min: If you or someone you know is in need, please call The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255, The Trevor Project Lifeline 866-488-7386, The National Domestic Violence Hotline 800-799-SAFE [7233]01:36 min: How Lindsey's office is staying safe as well as precautions for family and travel.04:00 min: Lindsey discusses children's vaccines, how the U.S. plans for viruses and how we get boosters as viruses mutate.05:35 min: How Lindsey's children keep her grounded during this hectic time and how playing board games, going camping, listening to some Ryan Bingham, finding that little bit of time to take a deep breath and see the light at the end of the tunnel.08:54 min: Worries for patients who are suicidal, women who are in abusive relationships and have no where to go, worries about the country, how can she help and mitigating worry at night by doing things to help during the day. 10:23 min: How medicine is a calling and the pandemic has made it more apparent. That it's not easy. It's very hard. But those times you get somebody through it are the most rewarding parts.12:13 min: Hopeful words for all of us about the future. We are much closer to the end than we are to the beginning in terms of the pandemic. Continue to social distance, be safe, wear masks. Trust the science and we will get back to normal.13:03 min: A quote by Eleonor Roosevelt "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" helps to remember to do something, find the positive and take action to make the world better.

Kathleena Hanna Awad: 2nd Grade Teacher with Educational Technology Masters Degree

Second Grade Teacher Kathleena Hanna Awad discusses utilizing her Educational Technology Masters Degree during the pandemic and how her background in Improv and Musical Theater helps her use patience, gentle humor and listening to lift her students and assist them in gaining confidence in themselves.[Recorded on December 1, 2020]01:16 min: What it was like attaining an Educational Technology Masters Degree while teaching full-time.02:34 min: The intertwining power of teaching,  humor, musical theater and improvisation.03:43 min: How to roll with it and handle the rollercoaster with grace.05:04 min: Improv gave Miss Awad confidence as a child in school and she works to fit in encouragement and confidence to help her own students.06:35 min: We can all overcome personal frustrations and become gentle leaders for the children in our lives to help them grow and develop confidence.08:40 min: Creating balance during the pandemic is a struggle, but creating spaces for ourselves is extremely important for our own mental health.11:36 min: How being a sports fan has given us a sense of normality and finding joy in these moments of shared camaraderie.13:00 min: The importance of support, of having friends, family and fellow teachers to discuss frustrations and triumphs with while working remotely. 14:33 min: Contemplating the quote "You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."    

Carrie Cammack: VP of Box Office Operations, STAPLES Center & Microsoft Theater

VP of Box Office Operations, STAPLES Center  & Microsoft Theater, Carrie Cammack offer you her insights into how being a woman means we have unlimited potential, inclusion within the sports world and how you can figure out how to listen and respect differences because it's what our society is built on -- it's what the U.S.A. is built on.00:47 min: How being a sports fan nurtured Carrie's career path.02:32 min: How Carrie's mother Carla was a big influence on being a powerful woman who speaks her truth.04:07 min: You make it happen -- How Carrie's vision for her career led her to being Vice President of Box Office Operations [the first person ever to hold the position at Staples Center & Microsoft Theater].06:52 min: How you too can learn to listen to others and not kick them out the door for differences of opinion -- never diminish somebody else and don't burn bridges because of differences: "I don't want a bunch of me's running around -- nobody does -- even my family doesn't want that."10:26 min: The camaraderie and support she has encountered as a woman in the sports world: "The more women involved in this world, the better it will be, period."13:23 min: Gender balance within Carrie's own office and lifting others' careers as she rises.  14:14 min: Finding time for self and family in working from home.16:29 min: Blocking off time for walking and learning Samoan.17:47 min: Closing words of wisdom: "What makes us different is what makes us great."

Special Agent Allison Moore: U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division

Special Agent Allison Moore shares with you how humor is the great equalizer, ways that you can prepare and remain calm under pressure and managing your time for family and friends. Allison shares how you too can overcome fear and fake it 'til you make it.02:30 min: How you can use humor to navigate your career. 06:50 min: The importance of speaking Spanish today.08:41 min: How discomfort with inaction can actually help enhance your work ethic.10:38 min: Allison's motivation to pursue her career in law enforcement.14:34 min: How you can stay calm under pressure with preparation.16:11 min: Keeping your connections with family and friends strong.20:23 min: The way you too can fake it 'til you make it.

Marie Cammack Isaac: Financial Advisor and Wealth Manager

Financial Advisor and Wealth Manager, Marie Cammack Isaac shares with you her experiences: overcoming sexism and stereotyping, inside tips on work-life balance and how Marie's drive to create financial security for clients keeps her up at night. 02:41 min: How women excel in finance and overcome stereotypes.13:00 min: Navigating normalized sexism.14:20 min: Success versus perfectionism.15:35 min: Marie's life story nurtures her treating clients like family, we can change emotional money choices to rational money choices.24:07 min: Marie's philosophy of preparing for the unknown and how she helps clients make financial plans.