Kate Gordon on job growth via the green economy and what we can do TODAY to boost it Listen to nationally-recognized expert Kate Gordon as she talks about what the green economy really is and the jobs it is creating, including the skills required for those jobs. She talks about what President Obama have done… Continue reading Clean Energy & Jobs – Kate Gordon, Center for American Progress
“It’s easier to change the world with money…Ideas are out there…the trick is in the execution. It’s not always the best technology that works…Be persistent.” Julie Lenzer Having a great idea for a new technology or new business model that you think can change the world is terrific. But it will only make that change… Continue reading Start-up Resources – Julie Lenzer, UMD Entrepreneur Program
Women triumphed in part “by bringing in elites, both society and social women and men of position, power and influence, and many of them were publishers, editors…and had direct access to the levers of media.” Brooke Kroeger on Electric Ladies Podcast (then known as Green Connections Radio) As we embark on a crucial presidential election… Continue reading Strategies for Women’s Rights – Brooke Kroeger, Professor, Author, ‘The Suffragents”
“You have to give up a little bit of control in that (creative) process….it is an iterative process and allowing people to be as creative and crazy as you possibly could imagine and then noticing when there was really a fantastic moment that we all had to say, ‘Ah-ha! that’s it, let’s go there.’” Deborah… Continue reading Managing Creativity – Deborah Rutter, President, John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts
As we commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which confirmed women have the right to vote, here is a glimpse into an untold part of the story. It’s about a rare female journalist in the then male-dominated field of journalism who used her platform to keep the movement in the headlines. She also wrote… Continue reading 100 Years of Women Voting – Lori Harrison-Kahan, Author of Book on Suffrage Journalist Miriam Michelson
“When you think about what you are claiming from an insurance perspective, it’s partly property damage, but it’s largely also business interruption. So, your lack of sales, your lack of being able to produce things, your lack of being able to distribute things.” We all have way too much experience with disasters after the past… Continue reading Insurance Climate Protection – Tina Kirby, Insurance Innovators
“You have to know when to you have to know an opportunity when it’s in front of you and you have to have the courage to take that opportunity…” This week we air an episode that was previously only available on our youtube page – Joan Michelson as a guest on another podcast, On Point… Continue reading Joan’s Career Tips – Joan Interviewed on Carlette Christmas’s “On Point TV”
“Sometimes I find that the assumption that you’re making is what’s keeping you from seeing other possibilities.” In this episode, we turn the tables on our host, Joan Michelson, and air a recent interview of her on another podcast, All In with Daniel Giordano. Here are some of the key topics Daniel says she talks… Continue reading Flipping Tables, Joan As Guest – GCR Host Joan Michelson on All In Podcast
Goal-setting is a year-long and life-long process. No matter your age, status, or career industry, if you’re a human being, you have goals, things you want to accomplish in your life. Here is a podcast of a process that I presented in a goal-setting workshop earlier this year. I cover both career and personal goals… Continue reading Goal-Setting Session! – Joan Michelson’s Ground-Breaking Process
Women did not have the right to vote when the U.S. was founded; that’s a fact many still do not know. Listen to the group of prominent women journalists and an historian talk about the women journalists behind the scenes using their stories, influence and access to help the 19th Amendment, which acknowledged women have… Continue reading Women’s Voting Rights – Women Journalists Give Bird’s Eye View at The Newseum
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