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The amazing Madona S. Wambua joins us for Episode 21.Madona is an inspiring CTO, Founder, Google Developer Expert for Android. Keynote Speaker, Author, and passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology. Expect inspiring insights on:- Becoming a Google Expert in Android - Hacks to Skyrocketing Your Productivity; Goodbye Procrastination - Creating Accessible & Inclusive Events For Parents/Careers- How Passion Supercharges Resilience- Balancing Career & Family Life: Debunking Parenthood Myths: - Nailing Your Tech Talk: Tips for a Standout CFP (Especially for the Grace Hopper Conference!)

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We are joined by the inspiring ⁠Elaine Montilla. CTO, ⁠TEDx Speaker, Founder.

Who is recognised as Technology Magazine 2023 Top 100 Women in Technology, HITEC 100, Top 100 Outstanding LGBTQ+ Executive Role Model, Top 100 Latinas of 2024.

We dive into so much empowering stuff that you don’t want to miss like:

• Practical Tips to Transform Your Thinking

• Secrets to Creating Safe Spaces

• How Mentorship Reshaped Elaine’s Life

• Becoming a TEDx Speaker

• Books that deeply impacted Elaine's life, shaping her journey

• Being a True Ally and Supporting LGBTQ+ Individuals Beyond Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

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Our first episode of 2024! With a very special guest, 10-time award winner in Artificial Intelligence and Open Source, Co-author of the book 'Sculpting Data For ML', Machine Learning Google Developer Expert and Google Women Techmaker Global Ambassador...The incredible Jigyasa Grover.We dive into:- Modern-Day Approaches to Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning: With Example Techniques - Mastering the Art of Data Curation for Machine Learning- Deploying Machine Learning Models at Scale- Game-changing advice for building a successful career in ML- The Power of Open Source and Collaboration Engagement in Tech- 2024 predictions for the evolution of Data-Centric Approaches to AI- A Guide to Becoming a Published Author in Tech

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Our final episode of 2023! Honoured to welcome the incredible Steffi Sylvester. Implementing World Class SAAS ERP Systems with passion | Information Systems Enthusiast | Culture Champion | Women in Tech |Ambassador Kids Hack Day.Get exclusive insights from Steffi on:- Her Beginner's guide to getting the most out of a Hackathon- Strategies for conquering pre-event anxiety- Top tips for initiating conversations, with examples!- Non-coding skills you can develop to thrive in tech- Top 3 tips to maximize security when setting up a systemWe also explore Steffi's spectacular career journey to becoming a Solutions Manager. Uncovering and celebrating her inspirational role models along the way.

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Join us for our Nordic Women in Tech Awards special episode!

NWiTA's phenomenal Founder & CEO, Plamena Cherneva joins us.

We learn more about Plamena's story, which paved the way for the Nordic Women in Tech Awards.

In our chat, be prepared to:- Learn about the evolution of NWiTA: From a simple addition to a summit → To an event as grand as the Oscars in the Nordics

• Hear stories from attendees, volunteers and sponsors positively impacted by the awards

• Discover how NWiTA works

• Get a sneak peek of what to expect at NWiTA 2023 in Iceland

NWiTA takes place on 9th November 2023, in Iceland (https://nordicwomenintechawards.com/)NWiTA is aimed at celebrating the achievements of women in the tech industry and inspiring diversity in IT.

Their mission is to inspire, educate, and support women pursuing careers in IT and create a safe environment where everyone feels they fit in.

Follow their incredible work

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nwitawards/

Twitter: @NWITawards

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Adaptability. Resilience. Triumph. This is the journey of Swetha Dua.

Join us, as Swetha Dua (Project Manager and Career Mentor) shares her journey of relocation and navigating carving out a career path in an unfamiliar territory. With countless setbacks.

Swetha emerged from these setbacks stronger than ever

Today, she is thriving and mentoring others. Paying forward the support and inspiration she received.

We dive into:

• The transformative power of mentorship

• The secrets to establishing vital relationships in a new country

• How to persist and maintain a positive mindset, even in the face of adversity

• Game-changing resources that can fast-track your integration into the Swedish job market

• Becoming a mentor at Beela

and so much more.

This episode is your ultimate guide for navigating the job market and achieving success. Even in the most challenging circumstances!

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A career in SalesForce will change your life...It changed Heather Black’s.

As a new mum, Heather relaunched her career as a Salesforce Consultant.

Enabling her to:

• Work remotely 3 days a week
• Earn £60,000 annually
• Craft a career that aligned with her need for flexibility

Now, as the CEO of Supermums. Heather helps parents to upskill and transition into a career in the Salesforce ecosystem.

Heather joins us on our new Equal Inspired Episode. Where she demystifies the myths about relaunching your career after kids.

Sharing her inspiring wisdom on:

• Ambitious Women’s Mindset
• Taking back control of how to be happy
• How to become a super Salesforce Consultant
• Setting and communicating boundaries
• Using transferable skills to ignite your journey
• Weathering storms as an entrepreneur

Striving to craft a fulfilling career on your terms? This episode is for you!

Follow Supermums: https://supermums.org/

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From a single tweet to a thriving global community of 20,000+ members. Black Girls in Tech has been making waves since 2020!

BGIT's ever-inspiring Founder, Karen Emelu joins us for episode 014 of Equal Inspired.

We explore:

• The birth of BGIT
• How BGIT is making tech accessible for Black women
• Strategies for maintaining smooth operations at BGIT whilst scaling 
• The secret sauce for creating a sense of community and sisterhood
• Karen's own journey into UX/UI and Product Design
• Tips to navigate the transition into tech

and so much more!

This is a powerful episode for anyone seeking inspiration, guidance, and empowerment in the tech world.

BGIT is dedicated to increasing the representation of black women in the tech industry: https://www.blackgirlsintech.co.uk/

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We are thrilled to welcome, Founder of Femme Lead Podcast, Alexandra Ciobotaru.

Alexandra is a source of inspiration and a true embodiment of a role model who is actively involved in promoting women in STEM. She has been nominated for Nordic Women in Tech Awards several times and in 2022, was named one of the Top 100 Talents in Denmark by Berlingske.

In this empowering chat, we discuss:

🌟 The power of self-reflection to align with your North Star 🌟 How to discover your non-negotiables 🌟 Investing in yourself; the transformative impact of having a life/career coach 🌟 Embracing change and discomfort to unlock your full potential 🌟 How to best understand our strengths and weaknesses to gain confidence and overcome negative self-talk 🌟 The uplifting strength of community and how it has helped shape Alexandra today 🌟 All things Femme Lead Podcast

This episode is your key to igniting a life of fulfilment and empowerment. Tune in now and unlock the secrets to aligning with your true purpose!

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Author of Thriving in a Data World (Business Expert Press, December 2022) and engaging Business Intelligence and Analytics Leader, Sangeeta Krishnan joins us. She has worked with Fortune 500 organizations, not-for-profits, and everything in between, helping various organizations build their operations and monetizing data products from the ground up.

We discuss:

🌟 Transitioning from Software Engineer to Analytics

🌟 Key Skills Needed to Thrive in an Analytics Career

🌟 Data-Driven Culture; Why is it Important?

🌟 Techniques for Fostering a Data-Driven Culture

🌟 Strategies For Building Effective, Diverse Data Teams from the Ground Up

🌟 Creating Collaborative and Inclusive Spaces for Growth

🌟 Becoming an Author; The Process and Biggest Lessons

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Moran Weber, CEO & Founder of Women on Stage; a platform to showcase, book, and train women professional speakers for any tech event, conference, meetup, or webinar (https://www.womenonstage.net/) joins us!

We explore:

🌟 Why Women on Stage Exists

🌟 Lessons of a CEO & Founder

🌟 The Technical Speakers Academy

🌟 Moran's Public Speaking Journey

🌟 Tips for Becoming a Key Note Speaker

🌟 Strategies for Overcoming Nerves

🌟 Code Like a Girl: Breaking the Gender Stereotype

🌟 Attracting more Women and Girls to Tech

🌟 The Best Things About Working in Tech

Moran also shares a powerful snippet from The Computer Girls article from Cosmopolitan, 1967 that reinforces how gender stereotypes have impacted and shaped the tech world today.

Register as a speaker on Women on Stage today! https://www.womenonstage.net/

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Sara Smolley (Co-founder and Head of Partnerships) & Dr. Rachel Levy (Lead Customer Success Manager) from Voiceitt join us to discuss the world of voice recognition technology.

Voiceitt (https://voiceitt.com/) is a digital health startup that has developed a unique speech recognition technology to help people with disabilities live more independently.

We explore:

🌟 The origin story of Voiceitt
🌟 How Voiceitt's proprietary automatic speech recognition (ASR) was developed
🌟 The main use cases and features of Voiceitt's iOS and Web app
🌟 How Voiceitt is positively impacting the lives of its users; Dr. Claire Malone's story
🌟 The mission of making speech truly accessible to all
🌟 Disability to Diffability; The importance of celebrating and accommodating DIFFabilities
🌟 Accessibility and Inclusion; "When you design for anyone, it benefits everyone"

You will also get to hear Voiceitt in action as we end with a powerful demo of the app!

Ways to get involved with Voiceitt (support@voiceitt.com)

✅ Sign up to join their development programs
✅ Become an ambassador
✅ Participate in research
✅ Partner with Voiceitt
✅ Sponsor devices for beta testers at nonprofit partners

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Keeya Wang-Jones joins us who is an award-winning international Human-centered design leader and advocate for equality, equity, as well as inclusive and diverse methodologies across digital platforms.  

She’s now betting on herself and her trusted cofounder to bring the general public a digital platform that helps them run their media teaching and coaching business online (WRKiiT). Their goal is to remove 90% of administrative works from Creators and Educators. So that they can show up and do what they do best. Share knowledge and build communities.  

We discuss:  

🌟 WRKiiT's mission and journey  
🌟 Becoming a Cofounder; taking the leap; moving away from stability & making sacrifices
🌟 The importance of self-care as an Entrepreneur and how to approach it
🌟 Leveraging skills from previous roles to pivot to a CTO/Cofounder  
🌟 How are biases and inequalities affecting technology & products?
🌟 Questions we can ask ourselves to challenge our own biases
🌟 The Curb-Cut Effect

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Jonah Andersson, Founder of the Azure User Group Sweden, Senior IT Consultant, Microsoft Certified Azure Developer, DevOps Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer joins us. 

Jonah is passionate about making a difference by advocating tech, gender equality, diversity and inclusion.

We discuss:

• Jonah's inspirational career journey

• Effective ways to bounce back from adversity

• Becoming a role model in tech

• Actionable steps to be more authentic and confident

• Powerful advice for pursuing a career in tech

• Founding a community; from conception to launch

Resilience and adversity being the fuel of greatness is a theme we explore. Jonah speaks from the heart and her openness and humbleness in sharing the highs and lows of her journey is truly admirable.

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Toju Duke, Responsible AI Programme Manager at Google & Ambassador for Women in AI UK joins us.

Toju designs Responsible AI programmes focused on the development and implementation of Responsible AI frameworks amongst Google’s product and research teams, with a focus on Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, and Generative models.

We discuss:

• All things responsible AI

• How to ensure bias-free AI to reduce systemic injustices and further equality

• Celebrating 9 years at Google

• Women in AI UK's mission and upcoming projects

• Strategies for building unshakable confidence as a woman in tech

• How to create a safe environment for women to improve inclusion and reduce bias

& so much more!

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Brianne Caplan joins us, who serves as the Executive Director of Code Your Dreams (an initiative with the mission of driving equity in computer science education and building pathways for underrepresented groups to enter into the technology sector) and the Founder and CEO of CoderHeroes, a buy-1-give-1 platform for children to learn coding through play.   

We discuss:  

• Why coding education for kids is so important.

• Inequalities in the coding education system.

• How to create an inclusive, engaging and accessible computer science curriculum.

• Code Your Dreams & CoderHeros's mission.  

• The journey of founding a non-profit; lessons learnt, challenges & valuable advice.

• How to reframe networking so you can thrive (an introvert's guide).  

• Belonging as a Woman in Tech.  

• Common mistakes companies make that hold women back.  

& so much more!

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We speak with award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker, and global startup mentor Kay Kukoyi CSM FITOL who has been recognised on the #IB100, the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards list of the 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in the UK Technology Sector.  

Kay is the Founder of Purposeful Group, an online centre for learning focused on entrepreneurship, technology and digital skills training (https://www.purposefulgroup.com/).

We discuss all things tech entrepreneurship, exploring: 

- Biggest mistakes first-time entrepreneurs can make.

• How to research and develop your business idea and plan for success.

• Building a tech business the SMART way.

• The must-know technical essentials for non-technical founders starting tech-driven businesses.

• How to take advantage of tech to lighten your workload and reduce procrastination.

• Kay's inspiring entrepreneurial journey and Purposeful Group's mission.   

& much more!  🌟 

Tech Startup Academy, Kay's meetup group (discussed in video at 26:32)  https://www.meetup.com/techstartupacademy/

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We dedicate Episode 004 in honour of Learning Disability Week. 

Jannie Fernandez joins us who is the Program Manager at Reboot Representation.  Jannie has a deep commitment to correcting over-representation in tech and uplifting historically marginalized communities by advancing programs and initiatives that highlight the contributions of women of colour.  

Jannie has taught various Science subjects, including Biology and Physics while serving as Special Education Department Head for a public high school in Miami, FL.  She obtained her BS in Special Education with a focus on learning disabilities from Florida International University and a MS degree in Organizational Leadership from the University of Colorado Boulder.  

We discuss:  

• The key components to help young women thrive in STEM.

• Allyship for our BLNA community.  

• Common challenges associated with learning disabilities.  

• How you can best support those around you with learning disabilities.

• Top tips for building an inclusive community.

• How to continue uplifting and energizing your community.  

• An introvert's guide to networking.  

& much more!

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We dedicate this episode in honour of Mental Health Awareness Week, with our inspiring guest Stacy Cashmore, Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan in Amsterdam.  She has worked in IT since the middle of the 1990s, for the last couple of years has been honoured to be able to call herself a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.   

Stacy has been giving talks at conferences and meetups since 2019, using her love of learning to look into new technologies and ways of working. She is also passionate about raising awareness of mental health issues and removing the stigma of talking about them.  

In this episode, Stacy talks openly about her own mental health journey & we discuss:

• How we can break the stigma surrounding mental illness and treatment. 

• The importance of normalizing conversations around our mental health. 

• Overcoming the feeling of being a 'burden' when seeking help.  

• How we can best support those around us who are suffering from Mental Health or Anxiety. 

• Why vulnerability is our greatest strength.  

• The benefits of coming out of your comfort zone.  

& much more! 

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We speak with Melenie Schatynski, a people-centric Developer, Educator and Entrepreneur who loves the work she does. Whether that's collaborating with a client on their new website, creating new educational workshops or as the Co-Founder of My Code Kit, driving their mission to demystify coding with Ocobox - the coding tool which uses a growth mindset approach to encourage users to experiment without fear of failure.  

We discuss: 

• Being a Young Innovator Award Winner.

• Reinventing attitudes to failure.

• All things My Code Kit.  

• Being a Co-Founder: Challenges, overcoming fears, lessons learned & keeping motivated.

• Demystifying the myths of being a Self-Taught Programmer.

• Key pieces of advice for a beginner pursuing tech. 

& much more!

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Excited to welcome our first guest Susanne Tedrick, an infrastructure specialist for Azure. Susanne is fiercely committed to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion within the tech industry. Susanne is the author of the critically acclaimed Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators for publisher John Wiley & Sons (2020).  We discuss: 

• Susanne's 'non-conventional' journey into tech.  

• How to sell your non-STEM skillset to a tech company. 

• All things Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.  

• Susanne's book Women of Colour in Tech. 

• How we can be better allies. & so much more!

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Welcome to the Equal Inspired Podcast.

Join us on our mission to create a diverse, inclusive, equitable universe.