Jordan Junge Head of Social Impact Strategy, chats with Kate and Simren about her career centred on purpose. Nothing short of ambition, Jordan has dedicated her professional life to making the world a better place, we discuss aiming long not short, keeping up motivation, and making change real and meaningful.

The theme for International Women’s Day this year is embracing equity, join Simren and Kate as they discuss what equity means to them and how they try to embrace it within their teams. And don’t worry, there’s definitely a few studies quoted and referenced throughout!

One year in and feeling all the feels! Simren and Kate share their AHA moments from the past 12 months — burnout levers, letting go of a competitive mindset, overturning your inner critic and more!

Join Kate & Simren and they chat with two experienced leadership coaches Lauren Leddy &  Jen Paterno on the ugly truths around burnout. Who the real culprit is and how to identify it/them and get yourself on a more healthy journey …

Simren & Kate host a conversation around invisible culture and how that impacts on how you show up within your community and workplace. Guest Hadeel Haje gets candid about what “living as a Muslim woman” in America means to her, especially as a mother of two young boys.

Holly Singh, founder of Wellhatched and finance sector veteran, tells us her personal fertility journey and how it drove her to start her own venture focused on corporate education and helping intended parents navigate fertility from life to work.

Data shows that women carry an outsized burden of allyship and advocacy for themselves and for others. In this panel, Kate Dobrucki and Simren Deogun unpack allyship, how we break the bias and discuss the actions that we need to take to close the allyship gap.

Marisa Sternstein, Associate General Counsel, Wife, Mother of 3 (with another on the way!), and an observant Jew sits down with Simren and Kate to discuss the finer points of employment law and the work she does to show up as her full self at work.

Following our words matter conversation with Krystle Tabujara (culture director at dentsu good), Kate and Simren have been thinking more deeply about inclusivity at work. What does it mean? What does it look like? And has anyone actually cracked systems that help make it part of how we run our teams and businesses?

Real discourse happens when we create space for all voices and perspectives – this week, we invite two senior male leaders at dentsu, Jeff Greenspoon (CEO, Canada and President, Solutions, Americas) and Stephen Kiely (Head of Creative, Canada), to join us in an extremely honest, eye-opening discussion on active allyship, white male privilege, and how men can support women at work every day. 

Krystle Tabujara (they/them), culture director at Dentsu Good, explores how language can hurt us at work by creating complexes of superiority while upholding patriarchal ideals to how it’s likely a critically overlooked tool that can turn supposedly woke co-workers into truly inclusive leaders.

Anita Patil-Sayed, EVP, Operations at dentsu, joins Kate and Simren with some of the best insights heard to date! We get into authenticity, awareness, empathic leadership, having uncomfortable conversations and overcoming barriers for women at work.

Claire Jones is the Global Wellness Director at MIQ -- she is a staunch supporter and driver of tangible change and is on a mission to transform mental health access and services at work. Simren and Kate have been itching to have her on, the future is bright with Claire at the helm. Special shout out to Archibald, Claire’s passionate pup who wiggles into the conversation too.

Join Kate & Simren as they moderate a candid conversation with female leaders on their career journey, lessons learnt and how they’re paving the way for future leaders.

Panel guests include: Caroline Breton, Carolyn Meacher, Jan Reischek, Jung Ahn, Leah Wilson, Mareme Toure & Ruth Murray.

This week Kate and Simren are in conversation with Helen Kontozopoulos—co-founder of Odaia.ai, and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto department of Computer Science.

This week Kate and Simren discuss the life lesson: "Thoughts are not facts". Just because you think something doesn't mean that you should believe it.

This week Kate and Simren discuss McKinsey's Women In The Workplace 2021 report: A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, women have made important gains in representation, and especially in senior leadership. But the pandemic continues to take a toll. Women are now significantly more burned out—and increasingly more so than men.

From childhood we’re exposed to all kinds of media serving up a skewed male-focused narrative - Kate and Simren review Geena Davis’s documentary, This Changes Everything, exposing the deep gender discrimination in TV and Film and its extremely detrimental affects on girls and women.

Finding the right mentor can mean the difference between accelerating your career or standing still – but mentorship can also happen when we least expect it. Kate and Simren dive into why mentorship matters for women in leadership.

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Part 3 is here with Lauren Leddy and Jen Paterno, Executive Leadership Coaches who keep blowing our minds! Suspend your perspective on achieving balance in life and instead trade it in for Harmony. We talk limiting beliefs, letting go of victim mode, boundaries, and reframing. Empower yourself to make decisions from a place of harmony.

Lauren Leddy and Jen Paterno, Executive Coaches, are back! After leading us through understanding and acknowledging our burnout last year, we knew we needed more! In this episode, we explore Fulfillment -- a state of being wholly alive, fully expressing who we are and doing what is right for us, in every situation work and personal. This episode will continue next week when we will explore Harmony.

We take your questions this time! And believe us, they did not disappoint. We get into advocating for yourself at work, best advice received, and Simren's continued issues with getting up early in the morning! To submit a question, simply send us a message @Womxn_Who on Instagram.

Content Director for Dentsu Good, Simmy Bhargava is a career builder, energetic worker and teammate, and advocate for work that creates positive change. Simren and Kate chart a path with Simmy on what it means to build a career, be focused on the future while not losing sight of the present and the successes and trials it brings us.

Alexandra Soloman, PMP, LSS Black Belt, is a VP of Business Transformation with a background of orchestrating lasting change at Fortune 500 companies. Kate and Simren dive down the transformational rabbit hole with Alexandra and talk career pathing, operational leadership, and never settling for mediocrity.

A few years ago DEI became the dominant revolutionary strategy for corporations, Simren and Kate chat with Marème Touré, VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dentsu Canada, about what we’re getting right, what we’re getting wrong, and what progress needs to look like to champion real change for all people.

What is a boundary? And why do we find it so hard to set healthy limits on our life: at work and at play? Simren and Kate are back with a honest discussion about what it means to make space for what we love, why it's hard to give ourselves permission for rest and fun, and how to say no at work.