Women's Perspectives: Recent Episodes
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The Daily Record's Women's Perspectives Podcast, updated the first Wednesday of every month, features conversations with the most influential women leaders in Maryland. The Daily Record's Top 100 Women and Leading Women Under 40 honorees will share their path and the keys to their success with host Sloane Brown.
This podcast is made possible thanks to the support of the Harford County Public Library, Keswick and the Towson University Tall-Wiedefeld Society.
Angie Barnett, Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland president/CEO and Executive Alliance’s new board chair, joins Sloane Brown to share some of the surprising details of her work helming the BBB, what she’s learned along the way and how that translates into her efforts supporting other professional women.
Shelonda Stokes, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore president, fills in Sloane Brown on why both her professional and personal experiences have made her such a strong – and optimistic – advocate for Baltimore.
The AFRO-American Newspapers CEO/publisher — and a Circle of Excellence winner — Toni Draper joins Sloane Brown to talk about how she “did her homework” for the job she now holds. She shares some valuable lessons she learned along the way, plus advice she continues to pass on to other women as they forge their own career paths.
Maryland and DC AFL-CIO president – and Top 100 Women honoree – Donna S. Edwards talks to Sloane Brown about her more than 40 years of union work and how one of her top priorities is bringing women forward.
Sandy Angello, Pohanka Automotive Group of Salisbury vice president/dealer operator and a Top 100 Women Circle of Excellence winner, joins Sloane Brown in a down-to-earth conversation about how she approaches life and succeeds at work in a field that is still male-dominated — with some great advice to other women about how to do the same.
Traci Kodeck, CEO of HealthCare Access Maryland, talks to Sloane Brown about how her organization has grown across the state, helping those in need navigate the health care system. She also opens up about how some of her personal experiences have created an even greater connection with some of the women HCAM serves, and how important self-care is for women in general.
Dottie Li, Maryland’s Top 100 Women Circle of Excellence honoree, joins Sloane Brown to talk about how she created her company, TransPacific Communications, because of her own professional journey, and what she’s learned along the way that she passes on to other women.
Circle of Excellence winner Carla Hayden reveals lessons learned from her 23 years as CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore and from the past six years as the librarian of Congress. Plus, she offers valuable advice to other women who are in leadership roles or are aspiring to them.
Faith Thomas, Baltimore County assistant county attorney/chief of real estate compliance — and a recent Circle of Excellence winner — speaks with Sloane Brown about her career in real estate law and how strong women shaped her strong spirit of volunteerism.
Michelle Siri, executive director of The Women’s Law Center of Maryland and Circle of Excellence member of Maryland’s Top 100 Women, spoke with Sloane Brown about the center and the issues it has dealt with in its 50-year history, as well as how some of those issues have a bearing on her own history.
Mary Ann Scully, a Top 100 Women Circle of Excellence winner, joins Sloane Brown to talk about the momentous changes in her professional life in the past year – the sale of Howard Bank, which she founded almost two decades ago, and the announcement that soon she will be taking the position of dean of Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business.
The Daily Record's Women's Perspectives Podcast features conversations with the most influential women leaders in Maryland. The Daily Record's Top 100 Women and Leading Women Under 40 honorees will share their path and the keys to their success with host Sloane Brown.
We kick off our series with Alicia Wilson, a 2017 Top 100 Women winner, who lets us in on what drives her in her high-profile involvement in a number of nonprofits and community projects, and has led her through a career that began as a practicing attorney, then working for Under Armour founder Kevin Plank on his Port Covington project, and now as vice president for economic development for Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System.