Successful Re-Entry with Candance Chow
05/17/22 • 36 min
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Raised by a single mom, Candance Chow credits her career journey to the social injustices she witnessed as a child through her mom’s experience. Motivated by the sexism she herself experienced while working at the State Department in Washington DC, Candance began advocating for gender equity and the advancement for women in the workplace. As co-founder and managing director of NEXT Group, Candance Chow is dedicated to engaging and empowering women to be fully valued, both in and out of the paid workforce. She started Next Group in 2019 to provide a supportive community for women looking to pivot or re-enter the workforce and to match these professional women with employers who want and need their talent. Before Next Group, Candance owned Insight Consulting Group, a management consulting firm that would partner with companies and nonprofits to develop growth innovation and operational strategy. She holds an MBA with distinction from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in strategy and non profit management and a BA in public Communications for American University in Washington DC. She currently serves on several non-profit boards and served 2 terms as board President in Finance Care for the Evanston Skokie District 65 School board which educates more than 7500 students.
What You Will Hear in This Episode:
Candances journey and her mother’s influence.
Evaluating self and building confidence.
Motivation, responsibility and being self-sufficient
Building Next Group.
Re-entering the workforce.
Talent, acquisition and retention processes.
Developing high level relationships.
Advice for women who want to re-enter the workforce.
The overqualified message
Quotes:
“Can’t, never tried.”
“Doing something is better than doing nothing.”
“What you do next may not be what you do forever.”
“You have to practice asking what you want.”
“More and more employers are thinking differently.”
Mentioned:
https://bonniemarcusleadership.com/
https://web.facebook.com/bonnie.marcus/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
Purchase my book Not Done Yet on Amazon: Not Done Yet
If you enjoyed this episode of Badass Women Podcast, then make sure to subscribe to the podcast and drop us a five-star review.
Raised by a single mom, Candance Chow credits her career journey to the social injustices she witnessed as a child through her mom’s experience. Motivated by the sexism she herself experienced while working at the State Department in Washington DC, Candance began advocating for gender equity and the advancement for women in the workplace. As co-founder and managing director of NEXT Group, Candance Chow is dedicated to engaging and empowering women to be fully valued, both in and out of the paid workforce. She started Next Group in 2019 to provide a supportive community for women looking to pivot or re-enter the workforce and to match these professional women with employers who want and need their talent. Before Next Group, Candance owned Insight Consulting Group, a management consulting firm that would partner with companies and nonprofits to develop growth innovation and operational strategy. She holds an MBA with distinction from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in strategy and non profit management and a BA in public Communications for American University in Washington DC. She currently serves on several non-profit boards and served 2 terms as board President in Finance Care for the Evanston Skokie District 65 School board which educates more than 7500 students.
What You Will Hear in This Episode:
Candances journey and her mother’s influence.
Evaluating self and building confidence.
Motivation, responsibility and being self-sufficient
Building Next Group.
Re-entering the workforce.
Talent, acquisition and retention processes.
Developing high level relationships.
Advice for women who want to re-enter the workforce.
The overqualified message
Quotes:
“Can’t, never tried.”
“Doing something is better than doing nothing.”
“What you do next may not be what you do forever.”
“You have to practice asking what you want.”
“More and more employers are thinking differently.”
Mentioned:
https://bonniemarcusleadership.com/
https://web.facebook.com/bonnie.marcus/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
Purchase my book Not Done Yet on Amazon: Not Done Yet
If you enjoyed this episode of Badass Women Podcast, then make sure to subscribe to the podcast and drop us a five-star review.
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Make Love Not Porn with Cindy Gallop
Through her experience of dating younger men, Cindy Gallop realized that when we don’t talk openly and honestly about sex, porn becomes sex education by default in not a good way. Determined to do something about her realization, Cindy launched a website in 2009 and gave a TED talk that went viral and in turn revolutionized her platform, her mission and her website. Cindy is the founder and CEO of Make Love Not Porn: Pro-Sex, Pro-Porn, Pro-Knowing the Difference. In 2013 she turned Make Love Not Porn into the world’s first user generated, human curated social sex video sharing platform. Socializing and normalzing sex in order to make it easier to talk about, to promote consent, communication, good sexual values and good sexual behavior. Make Love Not Porn’s mission is to end rape culture by spearheading the social sex revolution. Cindy says the revolutionary part isn’t the sex but the social. Cindy speaks at conferences globally and consults, describing her approach as, “I like to blow shit up, I am the Michael Bay of business.”
What You Will Hear in This Episode:
Cindy’s series of happy accidents
How Make Love Not Porn was created.
TED talk impact and intention.
Fear of what other people will think.
Being authentic and true to yourself by living and working your values.
The social sex revolution and mission.
Normalizing sex and ending rape culture through Make Love Not Porn.
Public response to the platform.
Early education, age appropriate content.
Investing and investors.
Quotes
“We don’t have enough role models in our society for women and for men that demonstrate you can live your life very differently from the way that society expects you to and still be amazingly happy.”
“Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. You will never own the future if you care what other people think.”
“I believe that everything in life starts with you and your values.”
“We (Make Love Not Porn) are the antidote to toxic masculinity.”
Mentioned:
Facebook: @cindy.gallop @MLNPTV
https://bonniemarcusleadership.com/
https://web.facebook.com/bonnie.marcus/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
Purchase my book Not Done Yet on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Done-Yet-Confidence-Workplace/dp/1989603785
If you enjoyed this episode of Badass Women Podcast, then make sure to subscribe to the podcast and drop us a five-star review.
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Claim Your Creativity with Christina Vo
A theme throughout Christina Vo’s life has been the search for home. Losing her mother as a teenager, Christina’s upbringing was nomadic. Moving from the East Coast to small towns in the South and Midwest she learned to create, and recreate, home — a perspective which has continued to shape her passions. Christina Vo is a writer who previously worked for international organizations in Vietnam and Switzerland and also ran a floral design business in San Francisco. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her debut memoir, The Veil Between Two Worlds, will be released in the spring of 2023.
What You Will Hear in This Episode:
Christina’s story.
What led Christina to commit to and claim her creative life.
Pulling together a full memoir.
Building a floral design business.
Healing through writing.
The Veil between Two Worlds.
Internal vs external influences.
Santa Fe’s deep creativite culture.
The benefits of writing.
Creating your own sacred space and reframing your narrative.
Intentionality
Quotes
“In my heart I’ve always wanted to claim my creative life.”
“It’s really never too late to do what you might know in your heart you were meant to do.”
“When you are re-typing somebody’s words their stories become part of you in a different way.”
“The most important thing is to learn to trust one's own inner wisdom and don't give spiritual authority to an external source.”
“The process of writing has become the reward in itself.”
“The power really lies with understanding and knowing yourself and creating a spiritual practice whatever that looks like to you.”
Mentioned:
The Veil Between Two Worlds
https://bonniemarcusleadership.com/
https://web.facebook.com/bonnie.marcus/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarcus
https://twitter.com/selfpromote
https://www.instagram.com/self_promote_/
Gendered Ageism Survey Results
5 Tips to own the superpower of your age
Purchase my book Not Done Yet on Amazon:
***If you enjoyed this episode of Badass Women Podcast, then make sure to subscribe to the podcast and drop us a five-star review.
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