The Her Platform Podcast Tonje Kristiansen

This Her Platform live event recording features Tonje in conversation with powerhouse entrepreneur Jaclyn Johnson and founder of Maed, Denise Vasi on how we can make young women aware, give them tools and a language that can advance their financial interests, how best to lay a foundation for their own financial future, how to achieve greater equality, how to influence the transitional gender role pattern and more 
 
 
Jaclyn Johnson is a powerhouse entrepreneur. By the age of 28, she had sold her first business, invested in multiple female-owned startups, and launched her second multi-million dollar company, Create & Cultivate – the wildly popular social media platform for female millennial entrepreneurs. Her latest endeavor, New Money Ventures, is a venture capital firm and brand studio that funds the next generation of female-led companies.
 
 
Denise Vasi Is the founder of Maed, a digital community and editorial website focusing on clean beauty, self-care, and conscious living. She has been mentoring other digital entrepreneurs on brand-building, creating community, and work-life balance. Denise has been named one of 2020’s Boss Women of the Year and was named to Create & Cultivate’s Top 100, in 2018. Recently, she has become a passionate investor in cryptocurrency, an avid NFT collector, and a leading educator for Web3 and the metaverse.
 
 

In this episode of The Her Platform Podcast Tonje talks to critically acclaimed two time primetime Emmy award-winning filmmaker Marina Zenovich about her films, the search for a good story and what makes a story worth searching for, her love for drama and complicated characters, the desire for creative connection, her journey as a female filmmaker, and what motivates her.
 
Marina Zenovich’s recent films include LANCE, a psychological portrait of cyclist Lance Armstrong (Sundance Film Festival 2020); Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (Sundance Film Festival 2018); Water and Power: A California Heist (Sundance Film Festival 2017) and Fantastic Lies — about the Duke Lacrosse scandal (SXSW Film Festival 2016).
 
Previous films include Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (Tribeca Film Festival 2013); Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals 2008 / Emmys for Outstanding Directing and Writing) and Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out (Toronto and New York Film Festivals 2012), among others.
 
Recent series credits include Roku’s What Happens in Hollywood which focuses on gender, sex, and power in Hollywood, and HBO Max’s The Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, which became the most viewed docu-series on the platform’s history. Season two will debut this spring.
 
She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Director’s Guild of America, and the International Documentary Association.

Erin Falconer is an author and digital entrepreneur who has been heralded as one of the most influential female voices online. In 2018, she released the critically acclaimed self-improvement/female empowerment book, 'How To Get Shit Done: Why Women Need To Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything'. Since 2008, she has been the editor-in-chief and co-owner of PickTheBrain, a self-improvement blog and podcast. Erin is also the co-founder of LEAFtv, a video lifestyle brand for the Millennial woman. She is a Canadian living in Los Angeles, with her new baby, George.
Friends hold an especially valuable role for women- few relationships have such power to fuel and inspire us. Yet even though we pride ourselves on our large networks, we tend to be afraid of rocking the boat and asking for what we really need. As a result, we end up accepting mediocrity in ourselves and our friendships far too often. we are celebrating the launch of Erin Falconer's new book ‘How To Break Up With Your Friends’, exploring the astounding importance of modern friendships and how to be a truly great friend yourself. This recording also marks the first Her Platform live event in two years and the launch of season two with the new name “ The Her Platform Podcast”

We're back for Season 2 under the new name 'The Her Platform Podcast'. We have cultivated a platform for inspirational, innovative, and mold-breaking women to share their stories, on everything from personal breakthroughs to professional triumphs, as a way to inspire people in their own lives. We believe that this type of interaction between women is more crucial than ever in today’s political climate and increasingly isolated environments in which we live. There are many ways in this world to be a woman, and it is through sharing these experiences that help us feel less alone. We can find the extraordinary rooted in topics that seem ordinary. We can find common threads that connect women in communities across the world. By getting together, we can see glimpses of ourselves in each other’s stories.

In this season's final episode Tonje talks to manifestation coach, certified yoga instructor, and co-founder of the lifestyle platform How You Glow about upgrading your software, redirecting your thinking process, how suffering can propel us forward, becoming a magnet for love, and how to vibrate at your highest frequency. 
 
Manifestation Coach, Certified Yoga Instructor, and Co-Founder of How You Glow, an influential lifestyle and wellness platform Jessie De Lowe provides life-enriching, experiences to clients across the globe. Through one-on-one Manifestation Sessions, Relationship Coaching sessions, and group Manifestation Workshops De Lowe inspires people to live the most vibrant life possible and step into alignment with themselves. With a Masters degree in Art Therapy from New York University, Jessie has always been intrigued by the power of alternative healing and passionate about helping others. 
Jessie is also the host of a podcast entitled Madly Forever, in which she explores the secrets to fulfilling relationships, Jessie lives (and loves!) in Montecito, California with her husband Brian and two daughters. 

In this episode, Tonje talks to Swedish entrepreneur, former COO, and CEO of kids app company Toca Boca and the CEO of Leap Caroline Ingeborn about the love of the unknown, risk-taking, the importance of play, her goal to create a social context amongst people and the creation of meaningful connections and conversations.
Founder and CEO of Leap. Swedish entrepreneur Caroline moved to San Francisco back in 2013 when she joined the kid's app company Toca Boca (25mn Monthly Active Users). After 8 years as COO and later CEO, she flipped her focus to a different demographic with the launch of Leap, a social learning platform for people over 55. Driven by Caroline’s passion to unite people via meaningful experiences, Leap hosts small-scale conversations and classes, designed to connect and inspire users.