Ideas Born From Rage w/ Lori LaLonde

In this episode of Women Making Moves, Amy Pons speaks with Lori Lalonde, founder of 'Her Executive Ascent', about her career journey from tech to building a leadership accelerator for senior women. They explore the systemic challenges women face in corporate environments, the importance of maintaining personal values in leadership roles, and the evolving workplace dynamics influenced by generational differences. Lori shares her experiences of advocating for work-life balance, the necessity of being a change-maker, and the significance of supportive communities. They also discuss the ethical concerns around AI and the critical need for due diligence in digital spaces, highlighted by recent changes in LinkedIn's terms of use. The episode emphasizes the power of women supporting women and the urgent need for progressive leadership practices.Find Lori at https://herexecutiveascent.com and follow her on LinkedIn. Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to rate and follow on your favorite podcast platform and follow along on Instagram. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic and be sure to follow her on Instagram and LinkedIn.Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Alexis Frank shares her journey as a biracial woman, mother, hip hop dancer, and advocate for women’s empowerment.The conversation explores breaking free from systems, redefining success, and the importance of self-acceptance. Alexis and Amy reflect on personal growth, setting boundaries, and the power of choosing oneself.The episode covers parenting, body positivity, and raising children to be free from societal expectations. Marketing and business: Alexis explains her approach to ethical marketing, rejecting manipulative tactics, and honoring clients’ autonomy.The importance of human design, intuition, and respecting individual decision-making processes in business and life. Alexis introduces her Institute of Unlearning and her new masterclass for projectors in business.The conversation closes with advice on unsubscribing from systems that don’t serve you, practical tips for reclaiming your energy, and where to find Alexis online.Check out Alexis' work and support her by following at:Instagram: @lexipcoachingTikTok: @femmefranktankThreads: Linked to InstagramLinkedIn: Alexis FrankWebsite: https://thefccoach.com Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to follow and rate on your favorite podcast platform and follow along on Instagram. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic, and follow on Instagram and LinkedIn.Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

When you know better, you do better, right? Thank you, Maya. That's exactly what Bridgette Washington had in mind when she created RaveVenn app that will bring folks 18-29 together in solidarity to understand the type of democracy they're creating. RaveVenn, available now in Google Play and next week in all other stores, is a place where you simply plug in your zip code and find out about local and national elections, news, and also how your lawmakers are voting. With more and more young people getting fed up with the way things are going, there must be something understood - opting out of this particular democracy doesn't ensure the one that you want is created, it simply creates more of what you don't want. Get involved. Run for office. Advocate for humanity. We're in this together and RaveVenn is the place to begin. Want to be a tester of the app? Go to https://ravevenn.com/; fund Bridgette Washington at https://gofund.me/38bdf63b and follow Bridgette on TikTok @ravevenn or email her at [email protected] Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to subscribe to and rate on your favorite podcast platform, and follow along on Instagram. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic, and follow on Instagram and LinkedIn.Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Content warning - episode contains reference to and personal experience of domestic violence and sexual assault.Who were you before the patriarchy and white supremacy told you who to be? Karen Fleshman is an activist and the Founder of the Interracial Sisterhood Coalition - she is bringing together ALL of the women of the world to remember how to navigate relationship and understanding of each other so that we can genuinely create the existence that is every single person's birthright.Hatred wants us to divide and separate, to be alone, to feel disengaged so that we don't organize. That's not the ask right now, it's to find yourself and to find your community so that you can actually, truly be the change you wish to see. During this time of great deconstruction, the path is being cleared so that we can create that new. Be open, be curious, and set your ego aside so that you can find your own innate brilliance, and also your own personal work to get to the place we all deserve.Join the Interracial Sisterhood Coalition; Subscribe to the Interracial Sisterhood Coalition Newsletter and Receive Our "Guide to Interracial Sisterhood"; attend the Interracial Sisterhood Retreat in Barbados November 6-10 2025; enroll in "Becoming Trustworthy" small group coaching program for white women who want to earn women of color's trust, and follow Karen Fleshman on LinkedIn. Also - call this number to tell them to release the files...202-224-3121.Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to rate and subscribe to the show on your favorite platform and follow along on Instagram. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic, and follow on LinkedIn and Instagram.Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Does this sound familiar to anyone in the workplace? It feels calculated, it feels intentional, it feels...like you're being pushed out. The number of women being pushed out of the mainstream workplace will reach 1 million this year - and often when it looks like she has voluntarily left, it was actually a planned takedown.So what is the planned takedown? Anywhere from 12-24 months, there begins to be a mobilization facilitated by someone in authority around both your day to day duties, and also your overarching responsibilities. There may begin to be questioning around your work or the value of it, when not long ago you had been receiving praise. The workplace was designed by white men for white men, and each day, organizations are becoming quite unabashed and unapologetic about their true desires. This transcends gender, and into the generational gaps that are being formed by younger generations who refuse to maintain the status quo of oppression. The solution, begin documenting, and get talking to one another. Follow Shannon on LinkedIn as she prepares to publish this data and this book. Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to subscribe to and rate on your favorite platform, and follow along on Instagram. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic, and follow on LinkedIn and TikTok,Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

How is your hormone health supported in your workplace, or is it at all? Lou Furby is setting the standard, along with UK law to establish what Menopause support looks like in the workplace. Her infamous "MenoTalk", an accredited organization within her workplace is to not only supply menopausers with the tools and benefits, but also the support. Unlike other employee resource groups, the members don't have to "do" anything, they just need to show up and be themselves. Often when menstruators are facing perimenopause or menopause, they're turned away from doctors, peers, and managers as we are still fairly new at understanding both the symptoms (since it varies by every single human) but also how to adequately support this stage in life when women seemingly restart puberty all over again. Right now, MenoTalk is only available at SpecSavers, Lou's employer, but wait until she white labels it and delivers it to every organization worldwide! You don't have to reinvent the wheel, Lou has done the heavy lifting and you get to simply receive and implement it in your own workplace. Connect with Lou on LinkedIn, or email her at [email protected] you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to give a rating and review on your favorite platform and follow along on Instagram. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic, and follow her on TikTok and LinkedIn.Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

What does it take to be a "good boss"? We all say it, that we'll never do XYZ that a boss did in the past, I"ll never be like that, etc. and then, as we navigate the oppressive systems in the workplace dating back to the days when auto manufacturing began, we find ourselves (oopsily) regurgitating the same problematic behavior that we swore we'd never do.In this episode, the ultimate workplace change champion, Mita Mallick shares insights from her new book, 'The Devil Emails At Midnight: What Good Leaders Can Learn From Bad Bosses'. We explore the ways that we experienced "bad bosses" but also, how we in fact were the bad boss at one point in our careers. Through incredible storytelling, similar to her first book, 'Reimagine Inclusion: Debunking 13 Myths to Transform Your Workplace', Mita shares her 12 worst bosses, and number 13 is her, in 'The Devil Emails At Midnight: What Good Leaders Can Learn From Bad Bosses'. We're not dwelling in what went wrong, we're sharing stories and examples to plant thoughts for how leaders can take just one behavior and change it, as early as tomorrow. Find Mita on LinkedIn and her website; pre-order 'The Devil Emails at Midnight' and also be sure to order 'Reimagine Inclusion'. Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to follow and rate on your favorite podcast platform and follow along on TikTok and Instagram. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic and follow on LinkedIn, TikTok, and Instagram.Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Shulamit Berlatov is the entrepreneur's therapist as it's a wild time to be creating and running a business, especially on your own right now.Amy and Shulamit discussed Shulamit's approach to work-life balance and her career transition from therapy to entrepreneurship, including her recent shift towards a more spacious and creative work style. They explored the challenges of balancing natural abilities with mainstream expectations in entrepreneurial and professional settings, particularly for women navigating difficult times and systemic issues. Re-introducing humanity into the copy/paste world of patriarchal entrepreneurship is not an easy feat and one that is not taken lightly...but the tide is turning.Find Shulamit on LinkedIn and on her website to subscribe to her newsletter and follow her work in creating the balance in personal and professional life.Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to subscribe to and rate the show on your favorite platform, and follow along on Instagram and TikTok. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic, and follow on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

How do we feel about this vibe? This is the energetic ask of humanity as we embark in creating the new Earth rooted in love. It's about being so rooted in your capacity to love yourself first that you radiate that vibration outward with such gusto that you become a magnet for those that are walking the path themselves. Love is the path forward, it's the "how" we ge through to the other side in this time and place that hurts. Elba and I know what it's like to be in a place around people that are not for us - and why it's so important to take action as early as you can so that it doesn't then impact your entire being and mission of why you came here. A proud Mexican-American woman, a daughter of immigrants, Elba teaches brown women how to hold their own in the workplace and to know their worth. As an intuitive coach, she already understands where you want to be and walks with you toward that purpose, with love.Find Elba at www.boldshadesofbrown.com and follow her on Instagram and her podcast 'It was All a Phase'.Thank you for tuning in to another episode of Women Making Moves, be sure to rate and subscribe to the show and follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic and follow her on LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, and Bluesky.Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.

Anna Frolik brings unique soul medicine to the world both through the work she supports for her clients, but also in her own expression! She is an expert at bringing card decks to life and that includes the integration of a person's unique soul medicine through the creative expression of the deck itself. Anna recently completed an exceptionally successful Kickstarter campaign to launch her most recent card deck and she will be launching further supporting components this fall once the dust has settled from the campaign. Be sure to check out her magic store when it launches!The "work" that we talk about is sacred and specific to each unique soul, and, the work that individuals submit to on their own journey directly feeds into the collective. Now is the time to feel your unique brilliance to the fullest expression so that you can provide the balance to the collective and to the world that is hurting. Trust your own unique authenticity. Find and support Anna at annafrolik.com as well as wonderlandpublishing.net; she also helped found the deckcreators.com which is a support community for deck creators; and lastly coming soon is her store on Etsy - magicalthingsca.Thank you for tuning in to Women Making Moves, please be sure to follow and rate the show on your favorite platform and follow the show on Instagram and TikTok. Visit Amy at Unlock the Magic, and follow on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok.Women Making Moves is for personal use only and general information purposes, the show host cannot guarantee the accuracy of any statements from guests or the sufficiency of the information. This show and host is not liable for any personal actions taken.