The Girls in Tech Podcast Teresa Truda

From leading within the trenches (quite literally) to taking charge from the top, Dalia Feldheim is the ultimate force for good and an exemplar of modern leadership.
 
A Senior Executive with over 20 years of experience leading iconic and award-winning campaigns such as #LikeAGirl, Dalia has graced C-Suites and stages with an illustrious career that has empowered so many women to do the same — particularly from her passion for passion.
 
Hear about:
 
Why your first boss will have the biggest impact on your career.
How our brains are wired to listen for negativity five times louder than positivity.
Why you should focus on your strengths instead of your opportunities.
The moment that Dalia realized that she was in the business of empowering women.
Why the act of trying something new pushed her to get out of a toxic work environment.
 
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Meet Dr Swatee Singh, Chief Data and AI Officer at TIAA, and a big deal to the back-end of a Fortune 100 financial services company. Thanks to a rich and complex career journey across machine learning and data science, Dr Swatee’s guiding principles highlighted a pivotal question whenever an opportunity presented itself: Who would I be working with? A question that has influenced monumental moves in her life.
 
Hear about:
How a career starting in breast cancer research can transfer to techniques in machine learning and AI.
Taking data within enterprises and turning it into revenue and business value.
Why specialising in a skill isn’t limiting, but often transferable across multiple industries.
What you can do in a room to make sure all voices are heard.
This is a timely conversation if you’re ruminating on specialising in a niche area of tech, but also for anybody interested in how a leader actively makes room for more women at a table with up-and-comers waiting in the wings.
Connect with Swatee Singh on LinkedIn
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Meet Shelli Pavone, CEO and Co-Founder of Inlightened, a MedTech company that leverages data and technology to connect diverse healthcare professionals and providers. She’s passionate about bringing greater diversity to the healthcare industry.
In this episode, we delve into Shelli’s career journey, from pursuing psychology, to working in pharmaceutical sales, to building her own MedTech company – plus lessons learned along the way.
Hear about:
The importance of listening to feedback and building a thick skin so you can really take it onboard.
Why we need more minorities involved in clinical trials, and more medical providers with diverse perspectives.
The benefit of naivety when starting a business.
The challenges of building a tech product from the ground up, and how you can overlook simple things like including an unsubscribe option!
The importance of building a network and finding other people who work in STEM.
This is a great episode to listen to if you’re starting out your career in STEM, or planning a career transition in the future. Our discussion with Shelli will give you some interesting points to mull over, while bolstering your confidence and love of innovation.
Connect with Shelli Pavone:
Connect on LinkedIn 
Follow on Twitter
Visit the Inlightened website
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Meet String Nguyen, Founder and CEO of multi-million dollar NFT brand Chubbiverse.
In this episode, we delve into String’s passion for creativity, community and (importantly) fried chicken. Having started her career working for fast food chain KFC, she’s happy to share how the allure of entrepreneurship led her to create NFTs and carve out a space in the Web3 space.
Tune in for String’s top tips on creativity, productivity, finding your voice, overcoming imposter syndrome, and how to let your inner child direct your career path. Plus more!
This is a great episode to listen to if you’re passionate about Web3, content creation, blockchain, and how to be authentic in your career.
Connect with String Nguyen:
Visit String’s website Read String’s blog Follow String on Twitter Connect with String on LinkedIn And if you’d like to hear more inspiring conversations with women in tech, be sure to follow the Girls in Tech podcast and connect with us on our social channels:
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Meet Marva Bailer, female tech leader, author, speaker and DEI advocate. She may have started her working life as an aerobics instructor, then moving into sales – but by never saying no, she’s worked her way into executive level positions in tech without holding an official degree in the field!
In this episode, we delve into Marva’s passion for self-learning; her belief that your unique perspective is what makes you valuable; her incredible battle with breast cancer; and much more.
Tune in for exciting details of Marva’s career, interspersed with useful advice for anyone starting out in tech.
Connect with Marva Bailer:
Visit Marva’s website
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Follow Marva on Twitter
Follow Marva on LinkedIn
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Meet Brandi Riggins, the Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Guidewire Software. Brandi manages 4,200 employees in over 26 countries while being a full time mom – so as you can imagine, organization and time management are at the core of her life. 
Learn how Brandi makes it all work, how she refuses to hide her kids from her colleagues, and how she’s forged a successful tech career as an African-American woman.
 
Connect with Brandi Riggins:
Follow Brandi on LinkedIn
 
And if you’d like to hear more inspiring conversations with women in tech, be sure to follow the Girls in Tech podcast and connect with us on our social channels:
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