Today’s guest is Gillian Griffith. Gillian is the founder of GG Copywriting. She specializes in helping female business owners and creative entrepreneurs develop their distinctive brand voice. better tell their story. Equal parts analytical and creative, Gillian loves research and writing conversion-focused copy. With a background in both journalism and marketing, Gillian’s passion for writing helps her to tell compelling stories, change minds, and move people to action! Welcome Gillian to WTF! Women Talk Finance. https://ggcopywriting.com ..read more

     Welcome back as our WTF! Women Talk Finance hosts, Candace and Jackie, present shocking financial crimes. Our hosts, who love true crime so much they have been inspired to delve into true financial crime.      In today’s episode, Candace takes us back to the summer of 1980’s and to Lake Tahoe, specifically to Harvey’s Resort Hotel in South Lake Tahoe, NV.  Several men masqueraded as photocopier deliverers and were able to plant an elaborately booby-trapped bomb containing 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of dynamite within the front offices of Harvey’s Resort Hote ..read more

Welcome back as our WTF! Women Talk Finance hosts, Candace and Jackie, present TRUE ( and kind of shocking) financial crimes. Our hosts love true crime so much they have been inspired to delve into true financial crime. In today’s episode, Jackie brings us the story of Mark Dreier, the architect of a $400 million Ponzi scheme that was blown off the front pages by Bernie Madoff himself. Dreier’s arrest was referred to as “the most bizarre arrest in the history of white-collar crime.” 60 Minutes link to the Mark Dreier story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEH4fNOqIjM Candace chose a Canadian t ..read more

Meet Ciara Byrne the Founder & Co-CEO of Green Our Planet Ciara is a documentary filmmaker and social impact entrepreneur.  In 2013 Ciara and Kim MacQuarrie founded Green Our Planet and together with their team they helped create one of the largest and most comprehensive school garden and hydroponics programs in the United States.  Currently, Green Our Planet is operating in 10 states and impacting over 140,000 students.  In 2019 Ciara was selected from 5,000 applications along with 19 other nonprofit leaders to be a 2019 Obama Fellow. The Obama Foundation is supporting Ciar ..read more

Welcome back to the start of season 2 of WTF! Women Talk Finance! We’ve taken the show on the road, today’s episode was recorded in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Our guest is Athar Haseebullah. Athar is the Executive Director of the ACLU of Nevada. He is a local Las Vegas attorney as well as a community organizer.  Athar is the first person of color to lead the ACLU of Nevada since its founding in 1966. He most recently served as general counsel and director of strategic initiatives for Opportunity 180, a Nevada non-profit focused on improving education quality in Nevada.   Prior to his t ..read more

*TRIGGER WARNING*  We discuss delicate issues on this podcast related to trauma, mental health, and suicide.  The idea of “value” in our culture is one that we attach to the money we make, the weight we are, the age we are, and the job we hold. So often, our over-identification with the decimal points of a paycheck or the armor we don sets us up for failure in the remaining spaces of our lives.  When one of those pieces that we attach to our worth slips, a downward spiral can occur. All too often, we see this in the media with stories like that of the Bed, Bath, and Beyond CFO ..read more

Hi WTF! Listeners! Thank you so much for your support as we wrap up season one of WTF! Women Talk Finance podcast.  This was such a season of growth for us. We feel so blessed that we were able to speak to so many, intelligent, talented, generous, and just amazing women in season one. We brought you information on how to buy a house for the first time, how to ask for a raise, and inspiring stories from women from across the country.  We hope you enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed creating these podcasts for you. We're going to have a few special episodes that we will be drop ..read more

As we near the end of Season 1 of WTF!, we have a discussion around the many benefits millennials gained from coming of age in The Great Recession. From the well-informed buying prowess millennials show in the home-buying process to the resiliency in challenging moments, there are more silver linings than expected from The Great Recession.   Join our fearless female leaders as they commiserate the struggles and celebrate the wins.   You’ll hear:  Statistics on how millennials purchase   What millennials learned and created out of the strife of The Great Recession  What ..read more

Today we’re joined by strategic consultant and founder of Vancourage, Vanessa Vancour. As a DEI speaker and self-proclaimed status-quo skeptic, Vanessa works in the bilingual, strategic storytelling space for brands, organizations, and people who are deeply committed to amplifying diverse voices and doing things differently.  At the heart of her business is the desire to think critically about how we tell stories and use those stories to connect with others. The story we tell about ourselves through words or actions can shape how others see us. When we opt out of telling our own story, o ..read more

We’re back with episode 30 with the astonishing Isabelle Rodriguez-Wilson. Last week, Isabelle shared her journey from southern California farm girl to becoming the first woman to serve as Executive Director of The Office of Scheduling and Advance for the Clinton administration at the White House. From her seemingly unshakeable confidence to her honesty about her insecurities, Isabelle takes us along a journey of her life filled with teachable moments and hilarious memories.   If ever you wanted to sit by a fire and be told bedtime stories by your mentor and hero, this is your time and Is ..read more