Podcast Episode 020: Giving Back With Gratitude: Making a Difference
Episode Summary:
In this Thanksgiving Week episode of the Take The Lead podcast, guest-host Jovanka Ciares, Take The Lead’s Operations Director, welcomes to the show Tamra Ryan, CEO of Women’s Bean Project, and Mae Whiteside, president and CEO of CKE Engineers, to discuss how we can all contribute to causes we feel passionate about and say thank you in ways that enable all of us to make a difference.
If you think you aren’t wealthy enough to make a difference YET, listen up, and learn how you can have a big impact.
The included interview first aired live on YouTube during Take The Lead’s Virtual Happy Hour. Watch the video here.
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Resources
- Sign up here for the Take The Lead This Week Newsletter.
- Learn more about Take The Lead’s Leadership Tools.
- Free Download: Giving Back with Gratitude
- Stanford Social Innovation Review: Philanthropy for the Women’s Movement, Not Just ‘Empowerment’
- Women and Girls Index from the Women’s Philanthropy Insitute
Books Mentioned
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The Third Law, by Tamra Ryan
No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, by Gloria Feldt
Social Links
TAMRA RYAN
MAE C. WHITESIDE, PE
TAKE THE LEAD
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.