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The Femails from Career Contessa: Season 2 Trailer Jan 22, 2019

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Welcome back to The Femails, a podcast that covers all things women, work, and what it takes to build a successful and fulfilling career on your terms.

Last season we brought you stories of meltdowns followed by swift comebacks from 12 dynamic women.

We’re back in the studio for season 2 of The Femails where will be focusing on disruption. You see, last year I wrote about how 2018 was going to be the Year of The Woman and huge kudos to all of us because we definitely left our mark. This year I’m seeing that movement continue but in a more fearless way. This is why I’m deeming this the Year of Disruption.

Disruptive times mean disrupting narratives, disrupting old ways of thinking, and disrupting entire industries. It might even mean disrupting our long-held definitions of our own success.

This season, I’ll be asking lots of questions and finding answers for how we can incorporate disruption into our daily lives. Subscribe today and you'll be the first to listen to season 2 when it premieres on February 5th, 2019! Theme music: Ethan Edenburg

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Paige Adams-Geller: You've Made It Nov 27, 2018

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Meet Paige Adams-Geller, Founder and Creative Director of PAIGE, a highly successful premium denim and lifestyle brand.

Paige’s journey began in Los Angeles, where her entrepreneurial spirit took her from working as one of the top fit models in the industry to launching her namesake collection in 2004. However, as you’ve heard throughout season one of this podcast, no journey to success happens without some bumps along the way.

Today, she sits at the helm of PAIGE as the only female founder in the denim industry. On this episode, Paige is getting vulnerable—we cover things like

How she manages her perfectionism
The two traits she relies on in order for her to continue to dominate the premium denim industry
And what she does to strengthen her confidence muscles each day.

Show Notes:

NEDA Helpline: (800)-931-2237
PAIGE Website

Paige Adams-Geller Instagram

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Amanda Enayati: Managing Anxiety, Managing Yourself Nov 20, 2018

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Meet Amanda Enayati, a stress expert, author, and cancer survivor. If you’ve ever looked at the headlines around stress and anxiety, the message is very clear: Chronic stress is on the rise. But what about the research that tells us how we can manage our stress or even turn our anxiety into positive action? And is there a difference between professional stress and personal? With so many questions about the topic, I was eager to find a stress expert who could actually provide some answers.

Amanda’s path to becoming a stress expert is a combination of both personal and professional experiences, starting around age 10 when Amanda became a child refugee because of a revolution in Iran. And later, when Amanda was also hit with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis.
That’s when Amanda started to write and record a new narrative for herself. A narrative that eventually turned her into the nation’s premier stress columnist and expert, a published author, and even launched an entirely new career. On this episode, we’ll cover:

How to stress better and lean into more of the good stress

What we can learn from elite athletes and how they react to stress

And how to develop a better sense of control that you can use in your career and life

Show Notes:

Hire a Mentor Career Coaching

Seeking Serenity

The 3% Movement

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Jill Abramson: Recovery Mode Nov 13, 2018

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Meet Jill Abramson, author and Harvard college professor. She also happens to be the first and only woman to hold the position of Executive Editor at The New York Times, a role she’d lose in a very public way

Jill Abramson’s ascent at The New York Times makes perfect sense considering Jill is a native New Yorker through and through and she spent years in journalism including in the managing editor role at the Times before taking the top spot in 2011. But Jill's leadership role didn't last long and when she was fired in 2013, the whole world talked about it, wrote about, and speculated on why it happened. From her leadership style to personality, the media covered it all. Jill's story is about resilience, female allyship, and why every woman should ask the tough questions around salary—just because you're holding the top position in the company, doesn't mean you're free from experiencing gender inequality at work.

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The Gimmie Script

Jill Abramson Twitter
Strange Justice

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Christine Hassler: Break on Through (To The Other Side) Nov 06, 2018

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Meet Christine Hassler, an author, speaker, and life coach who is committed to guiding people and organizations to reach their highest potential.

At age 25 Christine had a successful career as a Hollywood agent, was engaged to the love of her life, and literally hanging out with the likes of George Clooney at parties. It was a pretty glamorous set-up, but there was one (huge) thing missing: fulfillment and love for herself.

Christine’s pursuit for the image of success led her to a massive meltdown that forever changed Christine and guided her to become a life coach helping people overcome their expectation hangovers, learn how to silence their inner critics, and manage their relationship with their authentic selves. Get ready to learn:

How to slow down so you can get what you need to be more successful in your career and life
The importance of internal tools and why it's OK to not know what you’re doing or what you want
The 40-day behavior-changing plan you can put into action immediately
What it takes to break through to the other side of a meltdown

Show Notes:

Hire a Mentor Career Coaching

ChristineHassler.com
Over It And On With It podcast

Expectation Hangover

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Aliza Licht: Leaving Your Mark Oct 30, 2018

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Meet Aliza Licht, the senior vice president of brand marketing and communications at Alice + Olivia and author of Leave Your Mark, a bestselling career advice book.

Aliza started with aspirations to become a plastic surgeon before she let her creative side take over and moved into the media world. And it’s a good thing she did because Aliza’s been a major player in fashion PR for over 20 years—thanks to ingenuity like her notorious role as the voice behind the DKNY PR Girl Twitter feed.

Aliza quickly became every woman’s favorite mentor with her book, Leave Your Mark—where she shared her honest experience with ditching her dream job to pursue entrepreneurship—spoiler alert! being a CEO of Nothing wasn’t her thing

Get ready to learn:

How to say “no” more often at work
Why entrepreneurship is not as glamorous as it looks on social media
What it means to leave your mark on your career and life

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Jennifer Romolini: The Power of Odd Jobs and Being Weird Oct 23, 2018

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Before she wrote the CliffsNotes on career truths, Jennifer was the Chief Content Officer at Shondaland.com with yes, that Shonda, formally known as TV producer Shonda Rhimes, and was also Editor in Chief at some pretty prominent companies like Hello Giggles, Yahoo Shine, and Lucky Magazine. All that sounds glamorous, but before Jennifer became a star in the world of online content, she suffered setbacks, feelings of otherness, and self-doubt, just like the rest of us.

In this episode, she’s answering all the tough questions like:

What to do when you feel jealous about another person’s job
How to manage millennials
And why we’re so obsessed with an image of success that’s also...a complete fallacy.

Show Notes

Unhappy at Work Quiz

Weird In a World That’s Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures
Jennifer Romolini Instagram

JenniferRomolini.com
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Aditi Javeri Gokhale: Underdogging Your Way To The Top Oct 16, 2018

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Meet Aditi Javeri Gokhale, the first Chief Marketing Officer for Northwestern Mutual, a mother and a very interesting woman who’s worked hard to overcome her “underdog” position at work to become a female role model we can all look up to. In addition to working hard and making proactive career choices, Aditi’s also mastered the art of a career transition—something I know many of you listeners probably have on your minds. She’s worked in industries like management consulting, technology, nutrition, finance, and even took a career break to raise her son. If you’ve ever wondered how you can do it all and still build a career full of interesting roles, great colleagues, and be the type of leader whose motto is “failure should be part of your DNA,” then Aditi’s story will really resonate with you. Plus, Aditi’s about to school all of us on what digital marketing really means in 2018, which is fascinating even if you might think otherwise. Promise. Show Notes:

Figure Out Your Next Career Move

Aditi Javeri Gokhale’s LinkedIn

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Ann Shoket: The Ambition Trap Oct 09, 2018

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Meet Ann Shoket, the former editor-in-chief of Seventeen Magazine, author of The Big Life, and a champion for millennial women who are redefining the meaning of power and success. But championing women isn’t why I asked Ann Shoket to join us—although we’ll definitely cover that. I wanted Ann to come talk about what I call The Ambition Trap. Sometimes drive and direction don’t work in tandem, and that can feel really, really frustrating. All that mess is something Ann totally understands—she’s a bit of millennial woman guru—and I’m sure many of you can relate to the internal battle you have with your ambition as well. Which is why on this episode we’ll be discussing:

What exactly ambition means and why women struggle with the ambition trap
How to deal with the “itch” or that feeling that something better might be out there
And the different meanings and outcomes behind side hustles.

Show Notes:

Unhappy at Work Quiz

The Big Life
AnnShoket.com

Ann Shoket Instagram

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Farnoosh Torabi: Overcoming (Financial) Meltdown Oct 02, 2018

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Meet Farnoosh Torabi, a personal finance expert, 3-time author with her latest book called “When She Makes More,” and host of the popular So Money podcast. Farnoosh isn’t your typical money expert with years working at a bank or managing other people’s portfolios. It was actually through a career in journalism, coupled with her first-hand experience of working her way out of thousands of dollars of debt, that helped her carve out a niche in personal finance—proof that we can all become experts without ivy league educations. In today’s episode, we talk about: