You’ve Read the Boundaries Book. This Is the Harder One. Nedra Glover Tawwab already changed how a lot of us think about relationships. Set Boundaries, Find Peace became an instant New York Times bestseller, translated into more than 35 languages, and handed millions of people the language to protect their time and energy. The Balancing […]
Your Most Valuable Leadership Asset Isn’t on Your Resume Not your network. Not your experience. Not your strategic instincts, though all of those matter. The resource that determines whether any of them get deployed well is your attention. And it’s probably the one thing you’ve never been formally trained to manage. Amishi Jha has spent […]
What if creativity is a cure for anxiety? That is the radical possibility bestselling author Martha Beck explores in her latest book, Beyond Anxiety. She says the two states–anxiety and creativity–simply cannot exist at the same time. In this episode, Women Amplified host Lisa Bennett and Martha explore how society often makes us anxious today, […]
Your Job Is Quietly Working Against Your Body It’s the end of the workday: your shoulders are rounded, your eyes strained, lower back complaining, brain somehow both exhausted and wired. You’ve been productive, technically. You also haven’t moved in four hours, and your body is making sure you know about it. For most professional women, […]
At 64, Diana Nyad became the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida unassisted — 110 miles, 53 consecutive hours, through sharks, jellyfish, and open ocean. She’s 76 now and still going. In a conversation with Women Amplified host Lisa Bennett, she broke down what actually separates people who achieve their dreams from […]
Communication is one of those things we all do every day and still manage to get spectacularly wrong. Charles Duhigg has spent years studying why that happens. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, and author of the new book, Supercommunicators. In this episode of Women Amplified, host […]
Amie Sheridan has helped hundreds of women get visible: executives, founders, CEOs. And every single one of them, no matter how accomplished, was scared to hit publish the first time. So was she. Amie is the founder of WINS, a visibility advisory firm serving executives and founders. Her work is about helping women be seen, […]
AI is one of those topics everyone has feelings about. Some people are excited. Some are distressing. Most of us are trying to figure out what it means for our work, our relationships, and our future. Dr. Angela Jackson has spent years studying those questions. She is the CEO of Future Forward, a lecturer and […]
Your Brain Isn’t Broken. It’s Overloaded. You can’t focus the way you used to. You lie awake at 2am running through tomorrow’s to-do list. You reach for coffee in the morning and a glass of wine at night, and you’ve been doing this long enough that it just feels like your personality now. You’ve been […]
The Person in the Room Everyone Wants to Talk To You know who she is. She’s the one who can walk into a tense meeting and somehow defuse it without anyone quite knowing how. The one who gets the resistant stakeholder to come around. The one who leaves difficult conversations with relationships intact — sometimes […]
You Already Know What You Need to Say. This Book Will Help You Say It. Most of us have a voice we use at work, a voice we use at home, and a third voice — the quieter one — that we’ve learned to keep mostly to ourselves. The one that knows what we actually […]
In challenging times, it can be hard to feel truly joyful. So, how do some people manage to face difficult realities straight-on while still radiating authentic, even contagious joy? New York Times best-selling author Tomi Adeyemi seems to have figured it out — and part of it has to do with embracing the joy of […]
Abby Nydam is the Founder and CEO of SAM, a platform offering curated expert guidance, practical tools, and community support for women navigating life transitions. Inspired by personal experiences and the quiet burnout she witnessed around her, Abby created SAM to fill the systemic gaps in care and support that women too often face. Here’s how […]
Your Team Isn’t Overwhelmed by the Work. It’s Overwhelmed by the Thinking. Here’s a question worth bringing to your next one-on-one: when did you last feel truly focused at work? Not just busy — actually in deep, uninterrupted concentration on something that mattered? For most leaders and their teams, that feeling is increasingly rare. And […]