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Prolific angel investor and blogger Joanne Wilson, aka the Gotham Gal, has long been a champion of the female entrepreneur. On her podcast, Positively Gotham Gal, she brings you conversations with female-identifying leaders, makers, and rule-breakers who are pioneers in their fields, disrupting the status quo and paving the way for the next generation. Failures and triumphs, nothing is off-limits in these frank and funny discussions about business, life, love, and everything in between. Toge ...
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Gina Duncan started her career in film programming, with a lifelong focus on diverse programming that led her to become the president of BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This episode will highlight Gina’s career working within and running cultural institutions such as Sundance and BAM, focusing on rethinking the role of cultural institutions to …
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Lauren Yoshiko is a freelance writer and editor, who writes the Broccoli Report, a bi-weekly newsletter for creative cannabis entrepreneurs. Lauren has been blogging through the unprecedented wave of growth and change in the Cannabis industry, as recreational use is slowly getting legalized throughout the country. This podcast episode will highligh…
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Ep 180: Space Is The New Frontier - Rema Matevosyan, Near Space LabsRema Matevosyan is a scientist turned entrepreneur, who co-founded Near Space Labs, a start-up that provides timely, wide-scaler, commercially available imagery with the largest zero-emission balloon fleet in the stratosphere. For Rema and her cofounders, space is the exciting new …
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Natasha Halesworth is the founder of the Consistency Project, a new women-led sustainable fashion and lifestyle studio, focusing on secondhand and reworked vintage. Through The Consistency Project, Natasha is reimagining the relationship between fashion and sustainability. She is also changing the retail experience, imagining shopping appointments …
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Robin Steinberg is an American lawyer and social justice advocate, with over 30 years of experience as a public defender. Robin also is the founder and CEO of the bailout project, the first-of-its-kind nonprofit revolving bail fund. Robin is a friend of the podcast, having been one of the early guests on the Pod three years ago. For this second epi…
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Amy Chin is the founder of Calm Better Day, a cannabis and CBD consultancy company that educates and guides her clients toward their custom CBD regimens. Amy's career has spanned across different industries, from the retail world with experience in buying and merchandising, to hospitality. As always, the dots connect, and in 2019, Amy decided to tu…
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Joy Howard is the founder of Early Majority, a new women-led, membership-based outdoor brand, and community. Joy's career has spanned across different industries, from being a full-time musician in the indie-rock band Seely to marketing, working for iconic brands such as Coca-Cola, Converse, Patagonia, and Sonos. As always, the dots always connect,…
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Kelly Perez and Courtney Mathis are the brains behind Cannabis Doing Good, a cannabis consultancy that inspires a standard for social responsibility in the cannabis sector. As the Cannabis industry is going through an unprecedented wave of growth, new challenges--ranging from sustainability to social responsibility, are emerging. Through CDG, and t…
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Samara Daly is a nonprofit expect who launched Let's Talk about Menopause. After making a career working in city government, nonprofits, and community development, she created Let's Talk about Menopause in 2021, hoping to break the taboo of that highly stigmatized period of a woman’s life. This episode will highlight Samara’s entrepreneurial journe…
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Pelin Thorogood is the tech executive turned impact entrepreneur behind Radicle, a health tech company revolutionizing clinical trials for natural medicine. After a successful career in tech, she co-founded Wholistic Research and Education Foundation: a public non-profit dedicated to cannabis & CBD research, education, and advocacy, before co-found…
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Amanda Feilding is a scientist, veteran drug policy reformer, lobbyist, and the founder of the Beckley Foundation, which initiates research into the effects of psychoactive substances on the brain and uses the results to advocate for drug policy reform. We talked about her journey advocating for drug policy reform, and she shared her musing about t…
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Fanny Gerson is a chef, consultant, speaker, and cookbook author known for a unique approach to food that deeply respects her Mexican-Jewish heritage while also innovating by offering her very own personal and modern twist. She is also the owner of Fan Fan Doughnut, a Mexican-inspired American doughnut shop, and La Newyorkins, a Mexican ice cream s…
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Cristina Mittermeier is a photographer, marine biologist, activist, and author who pioneered the concept and field of conservation photography. She is the founder of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) which provides a platform for photographers working on environmental issues. More recently, she co-founded SeaLegacy, a no…
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Shelley Kleyn Armistead is the CEO and a partner at Gjelina, a food group in LA famous for revitalizing the Venice food scene. Starting at Soho House in the very beginning, Shelley joined Gjelina early on and helped expand the brand and the vision, now helming their expansion eastwards. She is known for her unique approach to food, hospitality, and…
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Pamela Danzinger is the speaker, author, and market researcher expert behind Unity Marketing. She specializes in studying the world's most influential consumers, the HENRYs (which stands for High Earning Not Rich Yet). We talked about women and consumerism, and the rise of the HENRY phenomenon.Av Positively Gotham Gal
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Rachel Uffnel is the woman and brain behind New York's Rachel Uffner Gallery. Since opening shop in 2008 in the Lower East Side, she has grown and expanded her gallery, discovering some major female-identifying artists in the process! We talked about the challenges of running a mid-size artist-focused art gallery, and the evolution of the art marke…
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Catherine Balsam Schwaber is the CEO of Kindra, a new direct-to-consumer company that focuses on accompanying women through menopause and breaking the taboo. Her career has spanned across the corporate media sector before diving into entrepreneurship with Kindra. We talked about the challenges of launching a feminist direct-to-consumer brand in the…
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Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization expert, award-winning broadcaster, and author. Her career has spanned across the public and the private sector creating and successfully implementing numerous economic developments, technology & green infrastructure projects. We talked about her new book, her career, and lessons learned…
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Anne-Marie Slaughter is an American international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, writer, political scientist, public commentator, and the head of the think tank New America. Her career has spanned across the different areas of policy work, from three decades in academia to public service to running a major think tank. We talked about her newest bo…
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Eleanor Kuntz and Kerin Law are the co-founders of LeafWorks, a botanical identification company that does DNA sequencing for cannabis. As the Cannabis industry is going through an unprecedented wave of growth, and recreational use of the plant is slowly getting legalized throughout the country, new challenges emerge, ranging from safety and fraud …
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Alison Roman is a chef, cookbook author, and youtube personality. Her career has spanned across various areas of the food industry at large, from the kitchens of high-end restaurants to food magazines. Known for her accessible writing style and her warm approach to cooking, Alison has empowered many of her readers to become home chefs. We talked ab…
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Arianna Simpson is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she helms the largest crypto fund in the world at just 30yo. Her career has spanned across the various areas of tech, from early-stage startups to Facebook, before discovering her passion for investing. She developed a strong interest in crypto early on and founded Autonomous Partner, an inv…
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Varsha Rao is the CEO of NURX, the leading female-focused telehealth platform disrupting the healthcare industry in the US. We talked about the unique entrepreneurial experience that led her to healthcare, lessons learned amongst the way, and taking over a telehealth company amidst a pandemic.Av Positively Gotham Gal
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Charmine Davis is the director of behavioral health services at the Jenesse Center, an institution that supports victims of domestic violence, and the founder of the social impact app Just Us App. Charmine's career as a therapist with over 25 years of experience servicing families of Southern California motivated her to start Just Us, a smartphone …
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Myra Laldin is the founder of VR Perspectives, and a pioneer in harnessing the potential of VR storytelling in diversity and inclusion training. We got together to discuss how she combines her background in business and behavioral science to improve strategic business performance through XR.To learn more about VR Perspectives, you can visit the web…
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Francesca Donner is the New York Times gender director, and the editor of In Her Words, a 3x weekly column that examines women’s issues globally. We got together to discuss women’s position in the workforce and the labor market amidst covid.To hear more from Francesca, read the NYT column In Her Words at https://www.nytimes.com/series/in-her-wordsO…
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Andrea Schneider is an academic, driven negotiator, and the head of the Institute For Women's Leadership at Marquette University. She has dedicated her life to making the ADR fields more attractive, approachable, and inclusive. We got together to discuss Andrea's work with IWL in advancing women’s leadership on a local and global level.…
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Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau are the founders and CEOs behind the new independent publishing house Spiegel & Grau. We got together over zoom to discuss their entrepreneurial journey, the challenges of creating an independent publishing house in the pandemic age, and the release of their first title, Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship.…
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Malene Barnett is an artist, activist, and the founder of Black Artists + Designers Guild, a global platform and curated collective of independent black artists, makes and designers. We got together over zoom to talk about her entrepreneurial journey, inclusion in the design field.Av Positively Gotham Gal
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Joan Fallon is a doctor, an academic, and the entrepreneur behind Curemark, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies to treat serious neurological diseases for which there are no or limited treatment options. We got together over zoom to discuss her unusual take on medicine and her path to entrepreneurship.…
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Alexandra Fennell & Mia Abbruzzese are the founders and co-CEOs of the new direct-to-consumer company Attn: Grace, which focuses on intimate products for aging women. We got together over zoom to discuss their entrepreneurial journey, and the challenges of creating a personal care brand and disrupting the incontinence segment.…
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Lisa Switkin is a multidisciplinary architect working in urban planning and landscape architecture, and the Senior Principal at Field Operations. We got together over zoom to discuss her journey towards a practice focused on creating forward-thinking public spaces, and the renewed importance of landscape architecture during covid.…
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Whitney Donhauser is the president of the Museum of the City of New York. We got together over zoom to discuss how she is changing and rethinking the role of cultural institutions to be more inclusive and accessible, and the challenges that cultural institutions have faced during the pandemic.Av Positively Gotham Gal
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Hadiya Masieh is the founder and director of the Groundswell Project, a non-profit that fights against extremism and promotes community building. We got together over zoom to discuss her experience of 22 years in the field, and the unique methodologies she is pioneering with Groundswell.Av Positively Gotham Gal
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Nicole Hockley is the co-founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, and mother of Dylan, who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy on 12/14/12.We got together over zoom to talk about her personal journey from tragedy to activism, and the impact the organization is making using research-based methodology, education, and te…
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Yelena Kovacevic, a scientist, researcher, and, most importantly, a driven educator, is the chair of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.We got together over zoom to discuss the future of education post covid, and the ways in which Jelena is changing Tandon to make STEM fields more attractive, approachable, and inclusive.…
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For the next 2 weeks, we are spotlighting women hot on the campaign trail in Local NY politics.Diana Florence has dedicated her entire career to public service, beginning as a prosecutor in the Manhattan's DA 25 years ago. We got together over zoom to talk about her candidacy for the upcoming DA elections and her plans to reform the office to bette…
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Sharleen Ernster is the founder and CEO of We Are HAH, a company pioneering sustainable fashion in intimate apparel and redefining sexy for a new generation of women.I sat down with Sharleen in the pre-covid days and we talked about her many years of experience as a fashion executive, and the reasons that led her to launch her own company. A couple…
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Alicia Glen is the Founder & Managing Principal at MSquared, a nationwide real estate development and investment platform building the next generation of mixed-use, mixed-income projects in rapidly evolving cities. Alicia is a nationally recognized expert in urban development, infrastructure finance, job creation and housing policy. She’s worked bo…
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Stephanie Caudle is the owner and founder of Black Girl Group, an online freelance marketplace that connects African American women freelance creatives to companies seeking to market and advertise to African American consumers. Stephanie and I got together over zoom to talk all about how her company came to be, and about the future of freelance in …
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