Conversations from the C-Suite. A Girlfriend's Guide to Being a CEO Stephanie Barnes

Episode 27: It’s Not the Only Way! 

Every woman needs to be the CEO of her life! She needs to have a seat at the table and create a seat at the table for others. There is power when women gather. Conversations from the C-Suite 

is a power-packed hour that provides women a platform to share their business and career experiences. Conversations from the C-Suite is the girlfriend’s guide to being a CEO. It’s where women, and a few good men, have powerful conversations about real things that matter to real women who are ready to enter the C-Suite of their Life! The C-Suite is where women create the lives, careers, and businesses they desire and deserve! More than just talk, Conversations from the C-Suite will equip women to make C.E.O. Moves!

Women have a symbiotic relationship between who she is as an individual and who she is seen as in her physical environment—the social constructs that define who a woman is and who she should be. This can often present her with the choice of who she is going to be. Who she wants to be or who others want her to be? What brings her joy or what keeps the peace? Having a great career or having a great family? We must learn to build a Life in the And. “We can’t operate in the “or,” but operate in the a “and” b.” Living Life in the And helps women to truly have it all!

The Living Life in the And Series is a quest to find out how women can have it all? Over the next two years, I will interview 100 women to have poignant conversations about how they are Living their Lives in the And. Each episode with focus on women doing great things in the world. Women who are CEOs on every continuum of the spectrum—housewives, working women, professionals, and executives! Not only is this a great conversation, but a quest for the holy grail—What does a “successful life” mean to modern day women? This research project wearing a fabulous conversation will pose the same set of questions to each woman to get her definition of success for the woman CEO at the end of every episode. 

Is this all?

Join me for this episode as I interview the woman who inspired this series, the incomparable Katrina Campbell! Katrina Campbell, is a CEO Extraordinaire, Ethics Adviser for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), lawyer, and mother of two. In this power-packed conversation, get ready to have it all—Get ready to Live Life in the And!

Also, please check out article mentioned in the episode:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/my-love-hate-relationship-with-my-harvard-law-degree_us_57e0a994e4b053b1ccf2a440

Episode: 26:  It’s Time to Live Life in the And! 

Every woman needs to be the CEO of her life! She needs to have a seat at the table and create a seat at the table for others. There is power when women gather. Conversations from the C-Suite is a power-packed hour that provides women a platform to share their business and career experiences. Conversations from the C-Suite is the girlfriend’s guide to being a CEO. It’s where women, and a few good men, have powerful conversations about real things that matter to real women who are ready to enter the C-Suite of their Life! The C-Suite is where women create the lives, careers, and businesses they desire and deserve! More than just talk, Conversations from the C-Suite will equip women to make C.E.O. Moves!



Women have a symbiotic relationship between who she is as an individual and who she is seen as in her physical environment—the social constructs that define who a woman is and who she should be. This can often present her with the choice of who she is going to be. Who she wants to be or who others want her to be? What brings her joy or what keeps the peace? Having a great career or having a great family? We must learn to build a Life in the And. “We can’t operate in the “or,” but operate in the a “and” b.” Living Life in the And helps women to truly have it all!



The Living Life in the And Series is a quest to find out how women can have it all? Over the next two years, I will interview 100 women to have poignant conversations about how they are Living their Lives in the And. Each episode with focus on women doing great things in the world. Women who are CEOs on every continuum of the spectrum—housewives, working women, professionals, and executives! Not only is this a great conversation, but a quest for the holy grail—What does a “successful life” mean to modern day women? This research project wearing a fabulous conversation will pose the same set of questions to each woman to get her definition of success for the woman CEO at the end of every episode. 



Is this all?



Join me for this introduction to the series and a celebration of International Women’s Day as I share how this journey got started and launch this ambitious quest to help us learn how to have it all—How to Live Life in the And!



Also, please check out article mentioned in the episode:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/my-love-hate-relationship-with-my-harvard-law-degree_us_57e0a994e4b053b1ccf2a440

Episode 25 No Poop at the Holiday Table!

Do you have some people that you want to disinvite from the family dinner?  We have that one person who sees life through poop-colored glasses and wants to smear poop on you and anybody who will listen.  Or maybe it’s a relative or family friend that has hurt you in the past.  Some of us have to deal with former spouses and lovers for the sake of the children.  What wants to sit across the table from the joker you wish would rot in hell?  



Join me for this episode of Conversations from the C-Suite, A Girlfriend’s Guide to being a CEO! as CEO, Jocelyn Lane, and I have conversation about how to deal with toxic people during the holiday season!  Tune in with your favorite beverage as we complete our series on Creating Circles of Influence in our relationships—both in the office and beyond.

Episode 24:  What Do the Lonely Do for Christmas?  

The holiday season can be joyless for many.  Seasonal depression affects many!  The holidays can be especially difficult for those who have experienced a loss through divorce, death or breakup.  Not to mention the financial pressures that gift-giving expectations bring!  Joy to the world says who?  Don’t worry!  This is not a Grinch and Scrooge party!  

Join me in this episode of Conversations from the C-Suite, A Girlfriend’s Guide to being a CEO! as CEO, Jocelyn Lane, and I have conversation about how to create joy this holiday season!  Tune in  with your favorite beverage as we continue the  conversation about Creating Circles of Influence in our relationships—both in the office and beyond.

Episode 23:  Taking the Poop Out of Disappointments

Everybody experiences disappointment in their lives.  Big ones.  Small ones.  Facing disappointment is almost as inevitable as change.   Disappointment is like a dirty diaper.  You’ve got wipe that sh*t off and keep it moving!  Otherwise it will stink up your life and sully your outlook!  



Join me for this episode of Conversations from the C-Suite, A Girlfriend’s Guide to being a CEO! as CEO, Kim Martin, and I have conversation about how to break down the monuments of disappointment!  Tune in with your favorite beverage as we continue the  conversation about Creating Circles of Influence in our relationships—both in the office and beyond.

Episode 22:  Is love lost like Humpty Dumpty?  

Can we be put back together again?  What happens when love leaves us…or seems that it has gone?  Is it just ripples in the water?   

Join me this episode of Conversations from the C-Suite, A Girlfriend’s Guide to being a CEO! as CEO, Tanya Barnett, and I have conversation about how to rediscover love when it seems lost!  Tune in with your favorite beverage as we continue the  conversation about Creating Circles of Influence in our relationships—both in the office and beyond.