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Rebecca Minkoff: Be Fearless & Follow Your Passion

Welcome to Episode 100! We’re ending Season 4 of When Women Win with a fearless bang – talking with world-renowned & industry-leading fashion designer, Rebecca Minkoff. Her massively popular line of handbags, accessories, and footwear are distributed in over...

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How to Lead Diverse Teams – Sebnem Avsar Tuna

Sebnem Avsar Tuna is the Senior Vice President at Novo Nordisk, a global pharmaceutical company and the world leader in treating diabetes. She is based in Dubai and runs the Asia Pacific region (APAC) – an extremely diverse territory....

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Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram: How to Build a Business That Saves Lives

Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram is a doctor and entrepreneur: she is the founder and CEO of Proximie, a technology platform that allows surgeons from across the world to collaborate and assist virtually in any operating room on the planet. The...

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Bola Adesola: Crafting Your Own Corporate Path

Bola Adesola is the Senior Vice Chair of Standard Chartered Bank, Africa. She is also on several boards including the United Nations Global Compact and the Women Corporate Directors (WCD), an organization that represents female business leaders around the...

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Catriona Wallace: Artificial Intelligence 101 and The Heroine’s Journey

Dr. Catriona Wallace is the Executive Chair of Boab, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) accelerator, and the Founder of Ethical AI Advisory. Catriona is a serial entrepreneur, having started a consulting business, a research business and a co-working space. She...

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Elif Shafak, Award-Winning Author: Why Storytelling Matters

Elif Shafak is a world-renowned and multi award-winning author. She has written 18 books in both English and Turkish, and her work has been translated into 54 languages. The Forty Rules of Love was a game changer for me,...

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Farah Foustok: Invest in Yourself

Why must you invest in yourself? On the Forbes list of power women every year since I’ve known her is Farah Foustok, the CEO of Lazard Asset Management in the Middle East. She is also the founder of the...

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Zélika García: The Business & Pleasure of Art

Zélika García is the founder and director of Latin America’s biggest art fair, ZONAMACO. She has been running this fair in Mexico City for the last 20 years and her journey certainly did not come without obstacles. Despite literally...

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Hoda Mansour: How Challenges Drive Success

Hoda Mansour is the first woman ever to lead a global software company in Egypt. Overcoming numerous challenges, she has worked across 3 continents during her 25 year career. Hoda joined SAP, the German software giant, in 2013 and...

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Ibtihaj Muhammad: Persevering in the Face of Adversity

Ibtihaj Muhammad is an Olympic medalist and the first woman in a hijab ever to join the U.S. Olympic team. She is also a New York Times bestselling author, having written two books: a memoir and a children’s book....

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Rana’s 5-minute POV: How to Network Remotely

In my second “point of view” episode, I explore how to build a business network remotely. Even after Covid passes, online networking will remain strong and necessary – so let’s get better at it! For more points of view,...

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Nathalie Haddad: How to Build a Business That Keeps on Growing

Nathalie Haddad is a career dietician. One day, she realized that her clients were not able to implement her health advice because the meal options were not available on the market. She decided to solve this problem, and in 2004...

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Silvia Davila: How to Evolve Your Leadership & Confidence

Silvia Davila is the Regional President of Latin America for Danone Dairy & Plant-Based, one of the biggest food companies in the world. They own brands like Activia, Silk, Alpro and many more… Next time you see a Danone...

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Jennifer Petriglieri: How Dual Career Couples Can Work

Jennifer Petriglieri is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, and one of the world’s leading researchers on dual career couples. In fact, she recently released her first book Couples That Work, a study of how dual-career couples...

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Rana’s 5-minute POV on Gifting & Receiving Feedback

Dina El-Shenoufy: Egypt, Start-ups & Funding

Dina El Shenoufy is the Chief Investment Officer of flat6labs, a leading startup accelerator and seed funding organization based in Cairo. Prior to that, she was at Al-Ahly Capital Holding, managing an oil & gas portfolio worth $200 million,...

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Mariate Arnal: From Corporate to Entrepreneurship to Corporate

Maria Teresa Arnal – or Mariate – is the first ever Venezuelan guest on When Women Win, and she’s based in Mexcio City. After studying engineering, Mariate started her career as a management consultant and then spent 8 years...

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Amy Edmondson: How Psychological Safety Boosts Performance

Amy Edmondson, is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a department that studies human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society. Amy has been...

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Dominique Crenn: From Abandoned Child To World-Famous Michelin Starred Chef

Dominique Crenn is the co-owner and chef of the three-Michelin-starred restaurant Atelier Crenn in San Francisco. Driven by her passion to create a deeply personal project, in January 2011 Crenn opened Atelier Crenn, to express her modern vision for...

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Ann Cairns: Changing Careers & Being The Only Woman In The Room

Ann Cairns is a Vice Chair at Mastercard, a role she took after running all of Mastercard’s business in 200 markets, outside the US. Before joining Mastercard, Ann had spent 20 years as a banker at Citi and ABN...

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Bernadette Abraham: Stress! And How to Unjunk Your Diet

Welcome to Episode 80, the final episode of Season 3 of When Women Win. This show is for everyone, because it is about food, exercise & wellness. Bernadette Abraham is a highly respected Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who has...

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Rana Dajani: Using Science To Redefine Success & Get Kids to Read for Fun

This episode is for everyone: corporate executives, entrepreneurs, men, women, young, old – all. Rana Dajani is a teacher turned molecular cell biologist specializing in stem cell research and the epigenetics of trauma. A visiting professor and fellow at...

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Nisreen Shocair, Serial CEO: Leading Teams, Loyal Customers & IVF

Nisreen Shocair has held various positions within the music, entertainment and retail industries at Virgin, Sony Music, and others. While she’s worked in the United States, UK & Germany, she’s spent the last 12 years in Dubai, managing brands...

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Blockchain 101 – Plus Entrepreneurship & Zebras

This episode is for people who have felt intimidated or excluded by Blockchain conversations and want to understand the basics. We also get into the reality of entrepreneurship. A huge thanks to the Australian Government for supporting When Women...

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Carla Harris: Navigating Wall Street Through Sponsorship & Authenticity

Carla Harris is a gospel singer who has sold out 5 concerts in Carnegie Hall. She is also a Vice Chair and Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, the global investment bank – and is responsible for increasing client connectivity...

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Kristalina Georgieva: Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

How did a woman born into communist Bulgaria rise to lead one of the most powerful institutions on earth? This is the question I asked Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and the first person...

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Elissa Freiha: An Entrepreneurial Pivot That Brought Success To Purpose

Elissa Freiha is an entrepreneur, investor, public speaker and women’s rights advocate. At the age of 24 she started an angel investment network – and when the business tanked, she pivoted Womena towards an accelerator that promotes female inclusion...

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Prof Deborah Kolb: How to Negotiate Better at Work

Professor Deborah Kolb teaches Negotiations at Harvard Law School. She is an authority on gender issues in negotiation and leadership, and has written many books on the subjects. Her most recent book, Negotiating at Work: Turn Small Wins into...

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Dame Helena Morrissey: Corporate Warrior & Mother of 9

Dame Helena Morrissey spent 15 years as CEO of Newton Investment Management, taking its assets under management from £20bn to £50bn.  She joined Legal and General Investment Management in 2017, leading a drive to engage the nation to invest...

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Nadine Mezher: Owning Your Financial Independence

Most women on earth will have to make financial decisions on their own at some point in their life, due to divorce or longer life expectancy. We therefore need to educate, enable and embolden ourselves – as well as...

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Norma Taki, Partner at PwC: Winning in the Corporate World

Norma Taki is a partner at PwC, has over 21 years of experience with the firm and leads their Retail and Consumer Markets Practice across the Middle East. She has executed numerous financial due diligence deals and valuation projects...

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Arlan Hamilton: Built a Venture Capital Fund While Homeless

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the 2019 Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival, an incredible get-together that’s been running for 3 years… Each of those 3 years, I’ve been invited to do a When Women Win...

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Resilience & Surviving Genocide: Marie-Christine Nibagwire

Rwanda, 1994. Marie-Christine was an accountant and a young mother of a two-year-old daughter, when the genocide came to her doorstep. She escaped her house, without any luggage, money or documents. Carrying her daughter on her back, Marie-Christine crossed...

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Kristin Lemkau: Chief Marketing Officer of JP Morgan Chase

As well as being CMO of JP Morgan, Kristin is co-founder of the bank’s initiative to advance women, a program called Women On The Move. The focus on gender equity has yielded solid results at JP Morgan: 50% of...

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Zoe Kinias: Research That Helps Women Rise In Your Workplace

This episode is a manual for CEOs, managers and male allies on how to support the advancement of women in the workplace. Zoe Kinias is Associate Professor of Organisational Behavior at INSEAD, and is Academic Director of INSEAD’s Gender...

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Dima Ayad: the Business of Inclusive Fashion

Dima Ayad began her career in hospitality, developing restaurant and entertainment concepts for leading hotel chains like Kerzner, Raffles and Jumeirah. During her 15 year tenure, she launched restaurants like Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen, and award-winning music festivals...

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Anne-Marie Slaughter: Journey to Parity For Men and Women

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing America in the Digital Age. She has been a law professor at Harvard, as well as a professor of Politics and International Affairs...

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Supercar Blondie: the World’s #1 Reviewer of Supercars

Alex Hirschi, otherwise known as Supercar Blondie, does video reviews of the world’s fastest and rarest cars. She is an Australian woman living in Dubai, and has 16 million followers across multiple social media channels. Alex & I talked...

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Elissar Farah Antonios – CEO of Citi UAE & Levant

Elissar leads Citi’s largest and most diverse franchise in the Middle East and Africa, where she oversees Corporate, Investment Banking and Wealth Management services. Her banking career started 29 years ago in the London office of the Bank of...

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Jessica Matthews on her Unlikely Path to Solving Energy Poverty

Welcome to Season 3! I’m thrilled to be back on this journey with you, and am super excited to kick off with an episode about courage, confidence, innovation, science, social impact and entrepreneurship: a heart-to-heart with inventor and tour...

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Season 2 Finale with Marketing Guru Bozoma Saint John

Welcome to Episode 60, the final episode of Season 2. Bozoma “Boz” Saint John is the Chief Marketing Officer at Endeavor, a global leader in entertainment, sports and fashion with a portfolio of companies including WME, IMG, and UFC. Before joining...

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Purpose, Execution and Building a Successful Business – Ghizlan Guenez

Ghizlan Guenez is the Founder and CEO of The Modist, the world’s first global e-commerce platform where luxury fashion brands are curated for women who dress modestly. The need to empower women through choice of attire stemmed from Ghizlan’s own...

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Top Business Tip: Tell A Good Story – Noor Sweid

Noor Sweid started her professional life as a strategy consultant in biotech and pharma; she then moved back to Dubai where she joined her family business, Depa, an interior contracting company. She helped grow it from $60M in revenue...

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Dr. Nicola Tallis on Queen Elizabeth’s Surprise Rival

As a lover of history, I was delighted to catch up with Nicola at this year’s Emirates Literature Festival. We talked about the Tudor period in general, and then dived deeper into various pivotal characters of the era… Did you...

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Developing the Workforce of the Future – Manale El Kareh

Manale focuses on the large transformation of Middle East governmental institutions, in particular the defence and education sectors. She also drives A.T. Kearney’s diversity and inclusion initiative for the Middle East, AND heads the firm’s sustainability (social, economic and...

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How Women Rise – Sally Helgesen

Sally Helgesen is a best-selling author, speaker and women leadership expert. Over the last 30 years she has worked with women leaders to recognize and act on their greatest strengths. Her most recent book, How Women Rise, became the...

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Hatoon Kadi on Reinventing Yourself, Getting Grit and Creating Content

Hatoon Kadi is a Saudi Arabian comedienne, best known for her YouTube show Noon Alniswa, where she has over 355,000 subscribers. Hatoon uses satire to present social phenomena from a woman’s perspective, and is one of the funniest people I’ve...

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How to Make the Most Out of Your LinkedIn Presence – Michaela Alexis

Michaela is a Canadian Millennial and a LinkedIn expert, having written dozens of articles that have received millions of reads. Her LinkedIn journey started in March 2016 when an article that she wrote about landing her dream job went...

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The Hilarious Melltoo Co-Founders on Their Marriage and Serial Entrepreneurship

When Apple invited me to do a live podcast in their Dubai Mall store for International Women’s Day, I immediately thought of bringing Sharene and Morrad on the show. I love that this couple defies numerous stereotypes, and that...

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The Untold Story of Women & Space History – Sue Nelson

This show is about women in space, in science and in history. It’s only becoming mainstream knowledge now that there were many women involved in global space programs in the 1960s. As part of the Mercury 13, Wally Funk...

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Rana Salhab on Business Skills, Policies & Practices of Tomorrow

My guest on today’s show was ranked by the Financial Times as one of the Top 5 “Global Champions of Women in Business” in 2017 and 2018. Rana Ghandour Salhab is the Talent and Communications partner at Deloitte, Middle...

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Be Brave, Not Perfect – Reshma Saujani

My guest on today’s show is an acclaimed author and the Founder of Girls Who Code. Reshma Saujani committed her first act of bravery at the age of 33 when she ran for political office in New York. She...

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Cultivating Resilience, Cultivating Entrepreneurship – Najla Al Midfa

Today’s show is about cultivating resilience. But before we get into Najla’s own path of navigating social norms and obstacles, we talk about her unusual job. Najla is the CEO of Sheraa, a Govt entity that has been tasked...

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How to Engage Men in Advancing Women – Jeffery Halter

Tips and tools from a corporate gender strategist. Jeffery Tobias Halter is a thought-leader on how companies can recruit, retain and advance women in the workplace. He is the President of YWomen, a consulting firm focused on engaging men...

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Linda Rottenberg On Empowering High-Impact Entrepreneurs To Scale Up

Linda was named one of TIME’s “Innovators for the 21st century” and “the Entrepreneur Whisperer”. Linda Rottenberg is an expert on entrepreneurship and leadership. For years she was known as “La Chica Loca” (the crazy girl) for insisting that...

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The Future of Food – Seta Tutundjian

60% of our diet today comes from just 4 crops – out of a possible 30,000 farmable, palatable crops. This limited diet causes multiple health issues. How did we get here? What’s going on with agriculture? How do we...

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Step Up and Transform Your Fitness Routine – Shona Vertue

An all-fitness deep dive with the trainer David Beckham described as “the best.” Shona Vertue is a personal trainer and yoga teacher whose clients include David Beckham. She has over 300,000 followers on Instagram and one of the most...

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CNN’s Hala Gorani Flips The Script on Rana

The When Women Win Podcast has featured over 40 boss ladies and we’ve covered everything about them and their lives. In this episode, however, we are going to do something different. I’ve asked someone very special to take over...

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From Corporate Veteran to Entrepreneur – Amira Rashad

Amira Rashad is the founder and CEO of the first bulk grocery e-commerce platform in the Middle East, BulkWhiz. A working mum, Amira felt like there were not enough hours in the day – and grocery shopping was the...

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Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia – Claude Silver

Claude Silver is the Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia the advertising company co-founded by Gary Vaynerchuk in 2009. Prior to joining Gary Vayernchuk, Claude spent 20 years in the top tiers of the advertising world, working for Publicis and...

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How to Invest in Start-Ups – Viktoriya Tigipko

Viktoriya Tigipko is a hugely successful venture capitalist from the Ukraine. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of TA Ventures, an international early-stage VC fund primarily focusing on Transportation and Digital Health. A Tech Crunch report put TA...

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Having Impact the “Multi-Potential” Way – Rozan Ahmed

Rozan Ahmed is a “multi-potentialite” – someone who has multiple passions and takes pride in working across all of them, rather than having a single track. She is known affectionately as “Renaissance Woman” and her vision is to solve...

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Twitter Head of Marketing and People – Leslie Berland

My guest on today’s show has one of the most-faced paced jobs on the planet. Leslie Berland is both the Chief Marketing Officer and the Head of People at Twitter, known affectionately in the company as “tweeps”. She joined the company in 2016 amid a...

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Cheryl Strayed – Author of Best-Selling Memoir, Wild

Cheryl Strayed is the award-winning author of Wild, the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon. Cheryl has written several New York Times bestsellers and her books have been translated into...

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Passion, Parkour and Societal Expectations – Amal Murad

Parkour is “the activity or sport of moving rapidly through an area, typically in an urban environment, negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing.” Amal Murad spent her childhood barefoot, jumping up walls, climbing trees and running around outdoors. She...

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How Blockchain and AI Are Transforming Marketing – Michelle Peluso

Michelle Peluso is the Chief Marketing Officer of IBM. And she leaves the office at 5 pm. IBM is a 107 year-old company that employs over 380,000 people. Michelle reports to Ginni Rometty, the Chairman and CEO, and oversees...

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The Science of Goal-Setting, Grit & Happiness – Caroline Miller

Caroline Miller is a pioneer in the areas of goal-setting, grit, happiness and success She is one of the world’s leading experts on the science of goal setting and grit. She’s spent more than 30 years helping individuals, leaders...

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Sara Al Madani on How To Succeed In The Face of Demoralizing Adversity

She started her first business at the age of 15, and her fashion label is still running today. Sara Al Madani is a well-known Emirati fashion designer, partner in a tech company and owner of a creative consultancy. She is the youngest board member at the Sharjah...

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Beth Comstock on Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change

Beth Comstock is former Chief Marketing Officer and Vice Chair of General Electric and is the author of Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity and the Power of Change. For the opening episode of Season 2 we are fortunate to...

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Season Finale with CNN’s Hala Gorani – Her Story, Parity in Media, and Patterns in Politics

Hala Gorani is an award-winning anchor and correspondent for CNN International, based in London.

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The Power of Networking and Your Personal Brand – Kristy Wallace

Kristy Wallace is the CEO of Ellevate Network, the world’s premier businesswomen network. She is a highly innovative leader and passionate advocate for change. Kristy is responsible for executing Ellevate Network’s mission to close the gender achievement gap in...

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Marshall Goldsmith on Breaking the 12 Habits Holding Women Back

This episode is packed full of actionable tips and truth bombs. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith has been named the World’s #1 Executive Coach and the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Marshall has coached over 150 major CEOs, is the author of...

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How to Get More Women Back Into The Job Market – Helen McGuire

How can “returners” overcome the huge obstacles they face to get back into the workplace after a career break? What can companies do to retain and re-attract talented women? Helen McGuire is the Co-Founder and MD, hopscotch.work, a platform...

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Karen Wazen on the Life of an Influencer

Karen Wazen Bekhazi is a Dubai-based fashion, beauty, and lifestyle influencer with 450,000 followers on Instagram. We got into Karen’s life story and her fascinating journey to this point. She also shared some great advice for anyone interested in growing...

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How to Have Difficult Conversations at Work – Dawn Metcalfe

My guest on today’s show is the author of The HardTalk Handbook and specializes in helping people have important but difficult conversations that they would rather avoid. Since leaving her native Ireland, Dawn Metcalfe has worked in seven countries...

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The Art and Science of Public Speaking – Saana Azzam

Saana Azzam is a power-house in the international world of public speaking. She is the founder of MENA Speakers, the leading speaker bureau in the Middle East, and has made it her life’s purpose is to change the world...

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Leaving a Successful Corporate Career to Start a Business – Lily Kandalaft

Lily Kandalaft had a fulfilling and successful career at one of the largest food companies in the world. After she had her first baby, she realized a large gap in postnatal care in the region and decided to take...

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Growing the Legacy of a Large Family Business – Muna Al Gurg

My guest on today’s show is a businesswoman and philanthropist from Dubai. She is director of retail at Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group LLC, a conglomerate of 26 companies founded by her father 58 years ago. Muna sits on...

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Philanthropy and Faith – Manika Kaur

Manika Kaur is arguably the world’s most famous singer of Sikh devotional music (known as Kirtan). And she donates 100% of her proceeds to her charity Kirtan for Causes, which campaigns for the eradication of poverty in rural Punjab....

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Mona Ataya: Being a Serial Entrepreneur

Mona Ataya is one of the Middle East’s most prominent entrepreneurs, having built two hugely successful online businesses in the last 18 years: Bayt and Mumzworld. Mona Ataya founded Mumzworld in 2011 to fill a void for mothers that...

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Women in Journalism and Wealth Management – Elizabeth Macbride

Elizabeth is a career journalist and communications expert with 25 years of experience writing and editing for such publications as CNBC, Forbes.com, Newsweek and others. Elizabeth MacBride is a freelance writer, editor and media consultant. She is an entrepreneur...

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Donna Benton on How to Build and Scale a Global Business

Donna is a serial entrepreneur whose first business – The Entertainer – disrupted the Middle East market by creating a new, two-for-one coupon culture. Donna Benton started the Entertainer in Dubai in 2001 after identifying a market gap in...

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How to Keep a Corporate Career Fulfilling – Maysoun Ramadan

Maysoun Ramadan is the Head of Communications & Public Affairs at Roche Diagnostics Middle East. She has carved for herself a highly varied corporate career at Roche, having changed industry vertical, function, location, coverage and team. She is a...

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Dubai’s Thriving Art Scene & Art Dubai 2018 – Myrna Ayad

Myrna Ayad is the Director of Art Dubai. Prior to this role, Myrna was an arts writer and editor for some 15 years and she’s written for the New York Times, The Art Newspaper, Artsy and many others. For...

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Spoken Word Poet Afra Atiq on Finding Your Voice

Afra Atiq was named Best Performer for 2015-16 by Rooftop Rhythms, and won the 2017 ADMAF Creativity Awards. She proudly gives back to her community through mentorships and workshops with Untitled Chapters (a thriving hub for Emirati women writers)....

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Literacy Activism and Serial Entrepreneurship – Isobel Belhoul

Isobel was awarded an OBE by HM Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain as “one of the most influential Brits” and Middle East Business recognized her “the most inspirational woman” living in the UAE 2 years in a row. In...

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The Future of Education and Philanthropy – Maysa Jalbout

Maysa is a global leader and true veteran in the field education and philanthropy, and leads one of the largest education foundations in the world. Maysa Jalbout is the founding CEO of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education...

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Lina Khalifeh on Building Confidence Through Martial Arts Training

Lina is a tour de force! She set up her training studio SheFighter to help women in Jordan defend themselves against physical assault. She trains all ages – even grandmothers. Lina Khalifeh has more than 17 years’ experience practicing...

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How a Deaf-Blind Lawyer Chooses Her Own Story – Haben Girma

In this episode we talked about reframing disabilities as another driver of innovation to meet the needs of the world’s largest minority. Haben Girma is the first deaf-blind graduate of Harvard Law School. She advocates for equal access to...

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Science and Business Together Can Be a Force of Good – Ozge Akbulut

Ozge is a real life Dr. Who. In this episode we talked about how she uses her expertise as a scientist, academic and entrepreneur to build business that solve global problems. Ozge Akbulut is a real life Dr. Who...

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Dr. Auma Obama on Dispelling Victim Mentality and Redefining Poverty

Dr. Obama is  also a published author, having released her memoir “And Then Life Happens” in both German and English. In 2010 Dr. Auma Obama founded the Sauti Kuu Foundation which seeks to give a voice to financially and...

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How to Support Women-Owned Businesses Through Angel Investing – Ida Beerhalter

If you’ve ever wondered how billionaires manage their wealth or how a family office operates, this is the show for you. Ida Beerhalter is the co-head of IOME, a Riyadh-based private investment partnership of women principals from the Gulf...

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Female Board Members and What Angel Investors Look For – Assia Grazioli-Venier

Assia deserves an award for the diversity of her life experiences. This show jumps around her life as we extract lessons from her wide array of experiences. We sat down together in Dubai and talked about women on boards, media...

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Kristina Kuzmic on Overcoming Depression and Building a Brand

With over 500 million views across media outlets and websites worldwide, and over one and a half million Facebook followers, Kristina already has a voice and personality that has proven to be a hit with a massive audience. Today’s...

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Princess Tessy Antony on the Military, Parenting, Diversity, and How Busy People Can Give Back

HRH Princess Tessy of Luxembourg has extensive experience in diplomacy, education, and fighting for human rights and women’s empowerment, all while raising her 2 boys. No personality has just one dimension – or even two. People are fascinating concoctions...

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How A Documentary Triggered a National Movement Against Rape in India – Vibha Bakshi

Vibha is an award-winning film director and producer. Her latest film “Daughters of Mother India” is the winner of the National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues. A small, personal decision can sometimes change the world. When...

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Building a Million Dollar Business on Amazon at 23 – Tatiana Buree

23 years old and running a booming online business… How do you go from zero business knowledge to manufacturing a garment to marketing with zero dollars to converting into sales on Amazon? Bosslady Tatiana Buree started her business, Luxx...

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Sophie Le Ray on Mixing Business and Marriage, and Promoting Female Leadership

Have you ever thought about setting up a business with your husband? Seeing them all day at work, and every evening at home… What about doing that for 15 years? Bosslady Sophie Le Ray has done just that. Sophie...

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Why Diversity Training Doesn’t Work and How to Overcome Unconscious Bias – Prof Iris Bohnet

Iris Bohnet changed the game with her best selling book What Works. In this episode she shared practical tactics and processes that corporations and women in corporations can use. Diversity training does not work. So what do we do...

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