The Rise of the Feminine Gina Lazenby

In this episode we look at Gender Economics and women's contribution to society: the key role of international policy-making organisations like the UN in making change happen for women: plus the need for more women policy makers. In our Country Report, we meet Madelein Mkunu in South Africa where we hear that women's contribution to the continent is so much more about buildings than it is about bangles and beads. Her organisation, Leading Women of Africa has developed an empowering platform that showcases and promotes women-owned businesses that are pitching to be part of creating new infrastructure. She is opening doors for women to play a bigger game and make their visions become reality, through her investment fund, and other initiatives. Finally our One Woman feature is on grandmother and retired guesthouse owner, Valerie Humphreys. She returned from an adventure holiday with an unexpected project - sponsoring a penniless porter in Uganda in his quest to be a medical doctor.

This episode covers the topic of Feminine Wisdom. We're going to look at the difference that women can bring when they participate in the workplace and anywhere that we can be fully represented. We also look at other environments where we can bring our wisdom and contribute what is different about the way we see the world. My first guest is Karen Wilhelm Buckley, who has been a champion for decades in the conversation of bringing feminine wisdom to corporate life. Next I talk to Betty Ann Heggie, a member of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame - she’ll present our Country Report. My third guest is leadership coach Nyali Muir. She’ll talk about her coaching in feminine wisdom and how her own experience, of walking her talk and living her life in trust brought her the opportunity to coach the Kenyan Olympic team.

In the early teen years, girls are at their most impressionable age with their self identity least formed. They are very affected by messages coming from mainstream media including magazines and movies, and particularly social media via the Internet. Today our focus is this period of time when girls are most influenced by others. The Rise of the Feminine is interested in the journey that we each make as individual girls and women to the point where we wake up and we realise we have power, we have a voice and we can determine our own life path. There comes a point in a girl’s or woman's life when she understands the power she has to influence the world. In this episode of I will be discussing teenage girls and the influences that affect their self-esteem. My guests are Jane Kenyon the founder of Girls Out Loud, Sheila Single Editor in Chief of Honore Magazine, Paris and Kate Byrne, co-founder of Global Girl Media.