Listen, Hear: 10 Best Podcasts For Women’s Leadership & Why

Lots of choices and options are good, but when you have close to 4.2 million podcasts around the world to pick from, which ones are best for you as a busy person interested in women’s business, leadership and entrepreneurship topics?

Take The Lead has selected 10 of the best podcasts for women—by women—that you can spend your time listening to—while doing other things, so you can be the multitasker you are. With a range of shows aimed at different generations, fields and identities, this list can perhaps validate choices you already made or introduce you to others you may not have known.

Media, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonDecember 13, 2024Podcast, Women LeadersComment

Take A Stand: 8 Strategies To Navigate Transparency In Global Workplace Statements

Colleagues, teams, clients, customers and mentees are looking to leaders now for direction in difficult global times. The words and phrasing all leaders and managers use in every discussion at work and in public statements are of crucial importance. Reactions can lead to firings, resignations—or support.

Care and fairness is critical. This is where leadership can shine or dissolve.

Sizeism at Work: What You Need To Know To Make Workplaces Safe, Inclusive

It’s holiday party time at work.

If you are spending your days in an office, or you are going in from your remote office for the special in-person occasion of a year’s end celebration, there will be an abundance of buffets, holiday treats and goodies.

That can be wonderful and it can also be dreadful, particularly if you are labelled as overweight, a person in a larger body and fatshaming, fatphobia and sizeism are prevalent in your workplace culture. Subtle or overt comments such as, “Thats a full plate!” or “Why not try the fruit instead of the cookies?” may make anyone want to opt out of any celebration.

Sizeism is defined as bias or discrimination against an individual based on their weight or size. Women and weight is a toxic workplace stew with millions affected.

Changing the Workplace, Career success, MediaMichele WeldonDecember 8, 2023Sizeism, Workplace Culture, InclusivityComment

Sex, Camera, Power: How Filmmakers Affect Gender Bias in Workplace and Beyond

What you see is what you get. And what you don’t see is what you don’t get.

Nina Menkes, award-winning filmmaker, director and creator of the new documentary, “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” anchored a recent panel following a screening in Chicago at Facets on the historic visualization of characters identifying as women and how that mandates how systems treat half the world.

Change Leadership, Gender Parity, Women Career Success, Parity, MediaMichele WeldonDecember 9, 2022women in film, media, gender bias, Leadership ToolsComment

Make The Most of Digital Marketing: 4 Tips For Nonprofits To Excel

Nonprofit organizations have traditionally used fundraising events to help achieve their goals. However, it’s not enough to only have a handful of people supporting their cause.

That’s where digital marketing comes to play. Digital marketing is usually attributed to for-profit organizations. While this is the case, nonprofits also reap the same benefits it has for businesses.

Finance/Money, Leadership/Organizational, Media, Tools and TipsDan MartinDecember 22, 2021digital presence, Nonprofit, funding, Social MediaComment

See Them, Hear Them: New CEO Aims For Media, Pop Culture To Drive Social Change

“What we don’t see, what we don’t hear, we cannot humanize,” says Nakisha M. Lewis, the new president and CEO of Breakthrough, a global nonprofit that uses the power of media, technology and popular culture to transform systems around gender, race, sexuality and immigrant rights.

Yes you can do something about unfair media coverage of women: here’s the secret

Issue 144 — October 5, 2020

I’ve gotta tell you, I get really tired of people complaining to me about something they saw in the news coverage of women. Whether it’s criticizing or loving Kamala Harris’s Chucks or the tone and timbre of a female leader’s voice, and don’t get me started on Hillary Clinton’s ankles and yellow pantsuit, women in leadership roles are scrutinized and stereotyped much more often than men. That’s surely true.

Show Us All: Why Media Visuals Need To Reflect BIPOC Women

Simone Biles is on the new August cover of Vogue. Viola Davis is on the August cover of Vanity Fair. It’s a good month for visual representation of strong BIPOC women leaders in mainstream media. But it’s been a long time coming. And it’s not nearly enough.

Even as the Biles’ photo shoot was criticized for how the lighting reflected the athlete’s skin tone as photographed by Annie Liebowitz, the trend of celebrating a wider range of women leaders is positive. Davis’ cover story was the first ever by a Black photographer, Dario Calmese.

Media Upheaval: Take The Lead Responds With Expanded 50 Women In Journalism Cohort

The media landscape is perhaps at its most chaotic and disrupted in history with firings of top editors, resignings, furloughs, shutdowns, accusations of racism and sexism in content, coverage and workplace culture.

Anna Wintour, the legendary Vogue editor, says the magazine’s culture is by her own admission “hurtful and intolerant,” and rarely promotes black staff. The co-founder and top editor of Refinery 29, Christene Barberich, resigned after accusations of racism. The Bon Appetit editor resigned over racist allegations. Conde Nast is accused of systemic racism.

Little Update: 9 Leadership Lessons From “Little Women” and Take The Lead

Louisa May Alcott is so 2020. At least her 1868 novel, “Little Women” in the hands of film director Greta Gerwig is. It’s a new feminist film far ahead of its time with lessons in leadership, ambition, motherhood, work and sisterhood that all women can use right about now. The lessons gathered from the latest iteration of the film also coincide with the 9 Leadership Power Tools created by Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead.

So Convincing: Persuasion Author’s 6 Tips To Get Others On Your Side

Persuasion had to start early in life for Lee Hartley Carter, author and president of maslansky + partners, a global language strategy firm based in New York with the tagline, “It’s not what you say, it’s what they hear.” Growing up the first daughter in a New Jersey family where her mother and most all female relatives stayed home to raise children, Carter says she still has to answer the question, “What do you mean you’re still working?”

Did “Bombshell” Bomb Because It's Too True? #MeToo At Work

“No one will believe you. They will call you a liar. Do you think women are idiots?” It’s a turning point in the recent movie, “Bombshell,” when Charlize Theron playing Megyn Kelly says it in a meeting at Fox News. The movie has many shocking and pivotal moments, from Nicole Kidman playing Gretchen Carlson who says, “Someone has to speak up, someone has to get mad,” to the emotional breakdown of Margot Robbie playing a fictional character, Kayla, who was sexually assaulted by FOX News head Roger Ailes in his office.

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