Tech in the Right Direction

Get to know Jasmin Guthmann

Jennifer Didier and Jasmin Guthmann talk about how building a team of networks to support working together.  This network can help you source solutions in marketing that can provide encouragement and opportunity.
Jasmin Guthmann bio:
 Jasmin Guthmann is a marketing trailblazer on a mission to translate complex technology into compelling stories and amplify Contentstack’s reputation as the leading Content Experience Platform (CXP) platform. She currently serves as the Head of Corporate Communications at Contentstack. With more than 10 years of experience, Jasmin and her team elevate the business and help usher in a new era of content management. 
She currently serves as the Vice President and Executive Board Member of the MACH Alliance, empowering brands to adopt best-of-breed enterprise technology ecosystems that provide never-before-seen business benefits. She is a fierce advocate of Women in MACH, constantly pushing the envelope on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) in the tech industry. Additionally, she is the host of a new Contentstack thought leadership podcast, People Changing Enterprises, where she interviews people who have transformed big businesses from the inside to share their secrets for success. Before Contenstack, Jasmin held multiple executive positions at Valtech and served as a marketing leader at BlackRock. 

Creating opportunities to empower and influence.

Jennifer Didier and Stephanie Shreve have a great conversation about the ELITE group that finds ways to empower other Women and the next generation of women to join the world of technology. 
A little more about Stephanie Shreve:
Stephanie Shreve currently is the Chief Marketing Officer at PowerChord, Inc. She is a software and digital marketing executive with 20+ years experience leading high performing teams to support global brands and strategic partners. With a track-record of performance, her goal is to build strong relationships with customers to create solutions that drive business results. She embraces opportunities presented by emerging technologies to reach new markets and grow business.

Tips That Help Bolster Professional Confidence

Join Jennifer Didier and Beth Attwood as they share great tips and insight on how to build confidence.  Todays Technical Industry needs confident people to take the lead with bold moves to ask the hard questions and negotiate the best contracts. 
Bio:
Beth Attwood is Vice President, Growth Marketing for Nitro Inc, the document productivity company, specializing in market-leading PDF, eSign and Digital Identity solutions.With over 20 years’ experience in technology marketing, Beth’s had the privilege of working for leading brands such as Ingram Micro, Brocade, Veeam, Snow and Nitro Software. She believes in leading with authenticity, challenging the status quo and developing long-lasting connections with employees, partners and customers alike.Beth is passionate about mentoring and supporting young women navigating their way through the tech industry. Her hope is that through sharing inspiration, with a sense of humour borne of experience, she can make a positive difference to the new generation of female leaders.

Good Roots Created A Determined Spirit

Join Jennifer Didier and she speaks to Nimia Amaya. They will discuss the importance of education and the need to have confidence, even it it takes you in a different direction than you thought.
Bio for Nimia Amaya:
Nimia Amaya is the Demand Generation Director at Younium. A digital mediaand marketing professional with expertise in the North American and LatinAmerican markets. She holds a BA in Broadcast Media from theUniversity of North Texas and has worked with brands such as UnivisionCommunications, Verizon, Levi’s, Macy’s, and Cedar Fair Entertainment. Sheresides in Dallas, TX with her 9-year-old daughter.

MENtors that Make A Difference

Jennifer Didier sits down with co-founder of Kumospace Brett Martin.  Listen to their conversation about the changes that are available in the digital work space. (Virtual Office)
Brett Martin Bio:
I am an entrepreneur, angel investor, pragmatist, and optimist. Having spent most of my career in the startup trenches, I now focus on supporting other entrepreneurs as Managing Partner of a small seed-stage venture fund: Charge Ventures. Charge is a NYC-based pre-seed/seed stage venture fund. We invest 200-500k at the earliest stages of company formation and then help founders take things from 0 to 1.When not working directly with startups, I spread the startup gospel as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. My teaching focuses on product strategy and entrepreneurial finance but also have a few war stories to tell, having co-founded Switch, a mobile job discovery application, and Sonar, a location-based social network. I began my career on Wall Street as an equity research associate.In my spare time, I've been fortunate enough to write for Harvard Business review, launch a little website called Vice, found a rock band, and sail thousands of miles on a 30ft sailboat.
Brett’s Profile
linkedin.com/in/brettlucasmartin
Twitter
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Unexplained Fertility?

Join Jennifer Didier and Amy Buckley with a very frank conversation about fertility and some of her personal experiences with the currently available options.  Amy got tired of the process and decided to take actions into her own hands.  
Bio for Amy Buckley:
Many of our listeners are silently struggling with infertility. From mixed messaging in media to fear of failure, people often struggle to find the right path forward in their fertility journey. Amy Beckley is Founder and CEO of Proov.  She went through the exact same challenges and has used her experience to craft an accessible solution. For Amy and many others, the key to becoming pregnant was deceptively simple: learning about hormones, their individual functions, and how to keep them balanced. This knowledge completely changed Amy’s approach to fertility - ultimately resulting in the birth of her second child!

Talking Technical Certifications

Join the conversation as Jennifer Didier and Radhika Narayana discuss the opportunity of technical certifications.
Bio for Radhika Narayana:
Radhika Narayana is Director of Cloud and Managed Services for enterprise solutions provider, Calian ITand Cyber Solutions, where she is responsible for the Managed Services Network Operations Center forcollaboration, network, datacenter and cloud services. She brings over 20 years of experience inenterprise solution design, installation and complex global infrastructures support, and she is highlycertified with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Collaboration – 15670 (Emeritus) and ITILCertifications.Customer success and customer satisfaction drive Narayana. During her career, she has designed,planned, and executed several large Unified Communications and Contact Center deployments,migrations, and upgrades on new and existing telephony environments. Prior to joining Calian IT &Cyber Solutions, Narayana served as a Senior NOC Manager for General Datatech where she workedacross various managed services groups to standardize customer facing change management processes.Narayan holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications from Bangalore University.

How-to Push Beyond Your Comfort Zone and Reach Your Goals

This week's guest is Deanna Emery, a Lead Data Scientist at Aon - a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, reinsurance, retirement, and health solutions. In addition to her work as a Lead Data Scientist, Deanna heads a Sprinternship Program that focuses on growing women and non-binary presence in the STEM fields.
Today we talk about Deanna's jump from Astrophysics to becoming a Lead Data Scientist at Aon. Deanna also shares her experiences with growing women's presence in the industry. This focus on increasing women's presence is centered around the Sprintership Program Sponsored by Break Through Tech Chicago and Aon. The project they worked on this year revolved around building out diversity solutions for inventors and creators.
Thank you for listening; we hope Deanna's story helps inspire others to seek or grow their tech career.