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She Sparks Tech
by Casey Bertelsman
She Sparks Tech is a podcast where we highlight the stories of womxn using technology in their careers and the paths that got them to where they are today. Our goal is to inspire women to embrace technology and find their unique career path using it and represent diverse voices so we can all start to see someone who looks like us in tech.
Episodes
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Going on Hiatus 2024 - Cheers to She Sparks Tech
Hey She Sparks Tech community! As 2023 wraps up, Casey here with some news— She Sparks Tech is taking a break in 2024 after three fantastic years. It's not a goodbye but a chance for Casey to dive into new opportunities and projects. She's pumped about some exciting prospects, especially after...
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Building a Tech Career Out of Your Unique Experiences with Michelle Cherian
Michelle Cherian is a Product and Go To Market Expert helping companies and established online entrepreneurs transition their IP into SaaS products and apps so they can scale their business, while growing their impact in the world. After working with big companies like Adobe, Yahoo! Intuit and…
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Community Led Growth with Mariana Padilla of KIKrr
Mariana Padilla is the co-founder and CEO of KIKrr. She is a self-described smasher of status quos and there’s nothing she hates more than being told “this is the way we’ve always done it.” This mentality is what led her to sign as a co-founder of KIKrr. KIKrr is the disruptive software sales...
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Exploring Ai with Ioanna Mantzouridou Onasi, an Applied AI Evangelist
Ioanna Mantzouridou Onasi is an ambitious and purposeful Community Builder, Talent Development Strategist, and Applied AI Evangelist. She is the Co-founder & CEO of Dextego. Dextego is an AI Coaching Platform for reducing top talent attrition by half via personalized soft skills training. Ioanna…
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From Corporate Leadership to Fintech Startup with Sasha Yablonovsky - Women Redefining Entrepreneurship
Sasha Yablonovsky is a trailblazing executive and a passionate advocate for gender diversity in the technology industry. As the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Loanspark, a fintech startup revolutionizing business lending, Sasha has not only redefined her career but is also reshaping the tech landscape....
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Building diverse and inclusive workplaces with Selma Hadzic
Selma Hadzic is a freelance data science tech lead with 10 years of experience building end-to-end data products in production in the Energy, Digital Marketing and Logistics industries. She has 5+ years of experience leading and scaling teams of international data scientists, analysts and machine...
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Exploring the Clean Energy Tech with Sugandha Talwelkar
Sugandha Talwelkar is an Electrical Engineer with a Masters Degree in Power and Control Systems. She has rich experience in the clean energy sector and has worked with the North American distribution utilities to modernize the electric grid. Her latest stint as a product manager building…
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Breaking into the Start Up Industry with Nicole Coustier
Nicole Coustier is a veteran medtech advisor, consulting on innovative products for over 20 years to align incentives to embrace and scale disruptive technologies. She currently specializes in clinical evidence development for AI/machine learning applications in medtech, and she is an executive...
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Re-building with Sarah Ing
Sarah Ing coaches women in tech - leveling up their career & confidence to feel belonging. Previously, she was a career changer, going from English major to senior software engineer to engineering manager at a number of startups and consultancies. She is passionate about empowerment, building...
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Mace Cheng: Scientist Turned Product Manager
Mace Cheng is a geneticist turned product manager. She started her career as a scientist, performing biological and neuroscience research for over 10 years before going into industry. Since then, Mace has spent her career working at the intersection of healthcare, tech and data. She has worked at...
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From Idea to Launch with Indy Greg, Founder of WeDo
Indiana Gregg's story is one of innovation, reinvention, and an unrelenting pursuit of excellence. Her journey in tech comes from her background as a rockstar. In looking for other opportunities for music performers as the internet grew, Indiana founded one of the first on-demand streaming...
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Maintaining your Wellness while Building your Career with Julie Zaruba Fountaine
Julie Zaruba Fountaine is a well-being Specialist based in Duluth, MN, who specializes in health promotion and change management. She has her MBA in Change and Leadership and an MS in Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Science and over ten years of experience guiding leaders and learners from a…
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Pitching Yourself to a Start-Up with Julia Kim
Julia Kim helps technology startups drive revenue growth by increasing forecast accuracy, accelerating sales pipeline velocity and reducing customer churn. She specializes in data driven predictive analytics, enabling automation through the GTM tech stack and using revenue intelligence to reduce...
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Privacy Tech & Policy with Debra Farber - Part 2
Debra J. Farber is the Host of The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast show; globally-recognized Privacy, Security and Ethical Tech Advisor; and CEO of Principled LLC. Through Principled, she works with early and growth stage startups to craft go-to-market messaging that resonates with privacy…
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Privacy Tech & Policy with Debra Farber - Part 1
Debra J. Farber is the Host of The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast show; globally-recognized Privacy, Security and Ethical Tech Advisor; and CEO of Principled LLC. Through Principled, she works with early and growth stage startups to craft go-to-market messaging that resonates with privacy…
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Building a Sales Career in Tech with Mikael Austin
Mikael Austin is an account executive at Cockroach Labs, moving her way through the company from SDR, to AE, to manager, back to AE. She's passionate about negotiation and empowerment for women in business. In her free time she loves dancing, golf, cooking, and exploring restaurants. She is...
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Explore Product Marketing with Melanie Crissey
Melanie Crissey is a Product Marketing Manager with more than 11 years of experience in high-growth SaaS startups. She is passionate about customer experience and product-led growth. With a background in customer service and marketing operations, she has most recently been focused on developer...
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Transitioning into Tech for a More Flexible Career with Anna Miller
As a Product Manager + Career Coach, Anna Miller creates user experiences that are easy to follow and create intended results. With 10+ yrs experience working in tech, she has been through enough job searches herself, to learn a great deal about the job search process. If you are looking to grow...
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GIS Tech Applications with Diana Hu
A native of Taiwan, Diana Hu (she/her) started her leadership journey at the age of 6, reigning over her neighborhood streets. Since 2005 she has worked in technology groups dominated by a patriarchal culture where she was often the only minority. Her work titles have included: Geospatial...
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Tech Sales & Being an Ally with Jennifer Pollock
Jenny Kay Pollock leads monetization at Together Labs, where she focuses on strategies that help keep IMVU a top 5 social app by spend in the US. Jenny routinely speaks on mobile monetization, women in the workplace, and building a tech career. She has published on these topics in outlets like...
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Transitioning into Tech with Polina Norina
Polina Norina is an account manager at a SaaS company specializing in project management software. Before working in tech, she was a content manager and led projects in publishing and consumer insight research. She delivered projects for companies such as Meta and Google, and now uses her project...
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There is no such thing as "too young" with Anemari Fiser
The combination of analytical thinking, a realistic way of looking at the world and the passion for solving problems, drove Anemari Fiser to a career in Software Engineering without giving it a lot of thought. Once she had her first job as a Developer, she quickly identified her next career goal:...
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Exploring Cybersecurity with Schlaine Hutchins
Schlaine Hutchins is a Cybersecurity Professional with over 20 years of experience in Information Technology. Her responsibilities have grown from the helpdesk to leading Cybersecurity teams. Throughout her career she has worked in the healthcare industry, banking and insurance industries. Ms....
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Celebrating Women in Tech for Black History Month
History serves as an important way of recording the past. By being able to recognize important figures, people can understand current circumstances and pave the way for a better future. However for centuries, Black voices have been erased from the historical narrative, as storytelling has been…
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Exploring People Ops & Tech Foundership with Jen Paxton
Jen Paxton is an HR and recruiting leader experienced in high growth tech startups whose degree was NOT related at all. She committed to really learning about the tech industry after starting her career in technical recruiting. That commitment led her to amazing HR success, focused on building HR...
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Leaving Education for Instructional Design with Sarah Sterner
Sarah Sterner is a former science teacher turned instructional designer and learning design strategist. Her passion is creating innovative and engaging experiences for learners of all ages and professional backgrounds. Her career has allowed her to wear many hats. In my second year of teaching…
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2022 She Sparks Tech Reflections with Casey
For the last episode of the year, I want to celebrate everything that has come from She Sparks Tech. 30 episodes Doubled listener-ship Listeners in over 20 countries I launched my How to Identify Transferable Skills Guide this month. And if you aren’t following along on instagram @shesparkstech,...
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Ep 30: Using Tech to Build Life Improving Devices with Sideny Collin
Sidney Collin is the creator of NexStride, a small, versatile device that attaches to canes, walkers, or walking poles to help people overcome mobility issues. Sidney created the device as a student at Cal-Poly, after befriending a local veteran named Jack - who suffered from freezing of gait...
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Ep 29: How to Identify your Transferable Skills
This episode is all about TRANSFERABLE SKILLS. Yes, transferable skills are communication, teamwork, problem solving, organization, analytical, technical, selling – but you can represent them SO MUCH better than that. I’m sharing my process for finding transferable skills for a new role, walking...
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Ep 28 Tips for Applying for Roles in Tech with Expert Recruiter Sanja Mitar
This episode digs into applying for roles from the perspective of a recruiter. For anyone getting ready to apply for a new role - this is must listen! Sanja was oblivious to tech throughout her undergraduate schooling, having majored in Child and Youth care. She began her tech career by fluke…
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Ep 27 From Teaching to Tech with Nicole Mills
Nicole Mills started her career in a classroom as an excited foreign language teacher, but she quickly found herself burntout and overwhelmed trying to be the best educator for her students. She knew she has to leave behind the teaching job she had long since worked for to save her well-being. So...
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Ep 26: Unboxing Humans with the Power of SaaS Solutions Featuring Danielle Boris
Danielle Boris is the author of The Energy of Weirdos and the founder and CEO of Sandbox, a SaaS platform that acts as your personalized guide to consistently high-performing teams. Danielle believes that far too often, corporations put employees in boxes, labeled by job title. This siloing not...
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Ep 25 Overcoming Challenges in Tech as a Woman of Color with Trina L. Martin
Trina L. Martin is the founder and CEO of Trina L. Martin International. She is a technologist, international speaker, advocate for women of color in tech, and best-selling author. Trina is a retired US Naval Officer and former computer programmer. She has over two decades of computer…
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Ep 24: Baby Feeding Education with SimpliFed CEO + Founder Andrea Ippolito
SimpliFed is the telehealth platform democratizing access to baby feeding and breastfeeding services. By providing high-quality virtual care covered by insurance, the Ithaca, New York-based company envisions a world where every parent feels good about feeding their family – because baby feeding…
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Ep 23: How I Went from Engineer to Business Owner & Reignited my Passion for Tech
Like so many women in tech, I struggled to find the right balance for myself - the work-life balance, the unpaid additional work balance, the bullshit balance. In this episode, I share my story that takes you through my engineering career, how I struggled with uncertainty and the need for change,...
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Ep 22: Constructing your Unique Career Path with Elinor Moshe
Elinor once stood at the periphery of her own career, feeling lost, invisible, confused. She gave away power and agency over her own trajectory, feeling dulled and limited. She then realized diminishing herself to fit in will never work, as standing out is her prerogative. She realized there is…
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Ep 21: Bringing Event Planning to the Tech Industry with Alexandria Tomayko
Alexandria Tomayko is a nature advocate, sustainability connoisseur, nomadic traveler & experience planner. Her life work has been in creating memorable experiences for others as an Experience Coordinator. The main reasoning behind her success is her understanding of the need for human connection...
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Ep 20: Product Marketing in Healthcare Tech with Courtney Greenwood
In this episode, Courtney Greenwood digs into health data and how she made a way for herself in tech with no STEM degree and no coding. We talk about how she found her path, the major work in healthcare tech, and how it's improving our lives after being pushed live during the pandemic. Connect…
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Ep 19: The power of Video Marketing with Nina Froriep
In this conversation, Nina Froriep and I discuss her background in tv and video and how that love of storytelling has brought her to what she does now - video marketing. This is one you won't want to miss f you create and consume video content! Connect with Nina: LinkedIn Consistent Video Quiz...
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Ep 18: Nonprofits and Equal Opportunities with Lorena Soriano
Lorena Soriano is on a mission to create a world where Sci & Tech products are representative of the population that uses them. Growing up Lorena wanted to be a scientist and doctor but due to the lack of representation, she didn’t think her dream was possible. While completing her degree in...
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Ep 17: Breaking Latinx Stereotypes in Talent Acquisition with Virgginnia Buccioni-Hillmann
Virgginnia is a talent acquisition professional based in the Bay Area with a proven record of building and improving processes that help find companies find the right talent when they need it as well as orienting candidates on career advising and interviewing coaching. She has a passion for...
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Episode 16: Using Tech to Build Financial Independence with Daniella Flores
Daniella Flores is a software engineer, a serial side hustler, entrepreneur and cat lover. After her wife Alexandra and her were able to pay off $40,000 of debt with the help of side hustles, she fell in love with dabbling and the idea of financial freedom. Now she helps other multi-passionates...
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Episode 15: Breaking the Glass Ceiling with Toni Collis
Toni Collis is an award-winning leader in the field of Supercomputing/High-Performance Computing, turned Executive and Leadership Career Coach for Women in the Tech sector. She is the Founder of Women in High-Performance Computing - a non-profit operating across more than 70 countries - as well…
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Episode 14: #MorethanGraphics with Danielle Meadows-Stinnett
In this episode with Danielle Meadows-Stinnett we are talking all things graphic design and being true to who you are. Danielle is the owner of minority-led branding agency Octane Design Studios and is also a podcaster, mentor, wife, mom of 4, and lover of cosplay, comics, chai tea, and live MMA....
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Epsiode 13: Afifa Siddiqui on Executing Ideas and Professional Pivoting
Afifa Siddiqui started her career as an electrical engineer and then worked to build several successful companies for herself, based in improving systems with technology. From recruiting to job board software to payroll services, she has worked to continuously challenge the status quo for the...
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Episode 12: Improving Feedback with Libby Robinson
Libby Robinson has spent her career doing many things. Settling for the status quo isn't one of them. And her new app BackFeed+ is helping to breakdown the current standards of feedback to help people have feedback that is actually helpful and actionable. You can download the app BackFeed+ from…
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Episode 11: Kelli Lucas on User Experience
In this episode, Kelli Lucas shares her story of how her art degree led her to the user experience world. Not only has she held many high achieving roles in the industry, she also started a company to help people build apps by designing the user interaction components - which is important to...
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Episode 10: Supporting Women in STEM with Stephanie Slocum
In this interview with Stephanie Slocum, she is sharing a story that I find inspiring. She is an engineer, turned project manager, turned author and coach for women in STEM. Dream job trajectory if you ask me. She is sharing some great information about navigating the career fields as a woman and...
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Episode 9: Creating Widespread Awareness of Palm Oil Conservation with Chelsea Whelmer
This episode is another great one covering environmental applications using technology. Chelsea Whelmer works as the Palm Oil and Conservation Program Coordinator at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and she is sharing the conservation work she does for sustainable palm oil, how it impacts our lives…
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Episode 8: Marine Science Technology with Melissa Cristina Marquez
In this episode, I’m speaking with Melissa Cristina Marquez, who works as a marine biologist and Shark Behavioral Ecologist. Melissa’s research has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and she hosts her own podcast, ConCiencia Azul. She is also a freelance wildlife writer,...
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She Sparks Tech is a podcast where we highlight the stories of womxn using technology in their careers and the paths that got them to where they are today. Our goal is to inspire women to embrace technology and find their unique career path using it and represent diverse voices so we can all start to see someone who looks like us in tech.
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Casey Bertelsman
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