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Bryant Hawkins Sr. (00:01):
Welcome to HTM On the Line with Brian
Hawkins Sr.
In this episode, we're thrilledto reconnect with five
extraordinary HTM women leadersAmber Sportsman, april Lebo, kim
Rowland, danielle McGarry andAdriana England.
Since January, they havesignificantly expanded the Women
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in Leadership LinkedIn group to188 members across 19 states,
launched War Story Wednesdaysand organized their first
networking event at Amy Exchangein Phoenix, arizona, this past
June.
We'll explore their journey,highlighting the power of
authenticity, mentorship andcollaboration in leadership, and
how these elements havefostered a supportive and
empowering community.
We will celebrate theirachievements and gain invaluable
insights into creating positivechange in the healthcare
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technology management industry.
Let's get into this week'sepisode with Women in Leadership
how you ladies doing.
Danielle McGeary (01:31):
Wonderful Great.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (01:36):
Let's start with introductions.
Can everyone please share whowe have on the line today?
Danielle McGeary (01:42):
I'm April Lebo , kim Rowland, danielle McGeary.
Adrianna England (01:49):
Adriana England.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (01:51):
Great, there they are.
So it's still the same crew andwe have Amber out there
somewhere.
Amber Sportsman (01:56):
She's with us in spirit In spirit.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (01:58):
All right, ladies, the last time you was on
my show, let's do a quickwithout peeping.
Do y'all know the date y'allwas on my show last?
Anyone knows?
Amber Sportsman (02:11):
was it back in February?
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (02:13):
no, wow, I thought y'all would know at
least a month.
January yeah, any browniepoints for the day.
Adrianna England (02:23):
January 24th, but I cheated.
I looked under my excel sheet.
I can't believe any browniepoints for the day January 24th.
But I cheated.
I looked under my excel sheet.
Danielle McGeary (02:28):
I can't believe it's been that long
actually it was January.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (02:32):
Yeah, that was it.
You're right, she's cheating,I'm cheating.
So it popped in my head.
I said, man, I just wanted todo like a six month rendezvous
with you guys because y'all beenall over the circuit.
Rendezvous with you guys,because y'all have been all over
the circuit, everybody's beengravitating to y'all, talking to
y'all.
So I was jealous, I wanted tobring y'all back and get with
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you guys and just to see howthings have been going.
So let's just maybe reflectright now on the past almost six
months.
Just maybe reflect right now onthe past almost six months.
Can one of you or two sharesome significant achievements?
Adrianna England (03:16):
You could say that the women in leadership has
reached in the past six months,you guys this is Adrian.
Oh no, go ahead, adriana.
Ok, I just want to give a quickstatistic, because I did look
it up, and then I'll let Apriljump in, because she has led a
lot of good things in the lastsix months.
But since we've spoken to you,brian, we have currently 188
Will members in our LinkedIngroup, which is huge.
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So we are very, very close tohitting 200 members Across the
US.
We are covering 19 differentstates and with April's War
Story Wednesdays, we put out 20war stories highlighting some of
the industry experts.
April Lebo (03:53):
So I just I kind of want to share those statistics
with you, that's, you know whatwe've done statistically over
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the last six months Awesome kindof skyrocketed in terms of
people knowing and understandingwhat Will is about, which we
didn't have in the beginning.
No one really understood whatwe were doing or what our
mission was, and now I feel likepeople are coming up to us and
asking about the society and howthey can become a member.
(04:40):
And then just again, otherpeople asking us to be on their
podcast.
Being able to do the interviewat Amy with Danielle and Robert
was incredible to be able tohave that exposure and get the
word out.
And then having our firstnetworking event at Amy and the
turnout that we had and theamount of women that showed up
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it was just absolutelyunbelievable.
So again, the exposure, theamount of people that now know
about us and are happy to helpspread the word, has just been
extraordinary from where we werein January.
Kim Rowland (05:22):
I agree, I think, having the avenues that we've
had with Bryant and withDanielle I was talking to Bryant
and Adriana.
You took all of my statisticsthat I wrote down too, but
Bryant and I were talking theother day about just the overall
numbers of biomeds in thisspace male, female, and the
number of people that we have onthe WIL group, in our private
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group, and it equates to around1% of total biomeds, which is a
huge success.
I think that's awesome.
Danielle McGeary (05:51):
I was blown away by the amount of people
that showed up to the Women inLeadership Happy Hour at the Amy
Exchange.
I mean we had probably 70people there.
We have a beautiful grouppicture of all the ladies that
showed up and it was just suchan unbelievable event um to meet
.
I mean I it was so nice meetingnew people, connecting with um
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people we already knew, and justreally seeing the excitement
around this, this group wow, 70,that's that.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (06:19):
I thought that picture.
That was amazing.
Now, if you had 70 at the eventand you had 188 total, were
there any new ladies at theHappy Hour in Amy, or was that
all current members?
Danielle McGeary (06:35):
I think it's hard to know.
I mean, some folks did askabout the LinkedIn groups.
I would say those aredefinitely new people that were
not part of our LinkedIn group.
Those are definitely new peoplethat were not part of our
LinkedIn group.
As I was walking around too, Iwas telling people about the
event.
We did have an RSVP form withinthe Women in Leadership
LinkedIn group, but I think itjust spread, People told their
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friends and it just seemed tocontinue to grow.
The excitement throughout theevent just continued to grow.
And having April and Kim on ourshow on live at AB exchange you
know we also plugged it thereas well.
So I'm sure there are manyavenues, like even being at the
show, that people were able tofind out about the event.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (07:14):
Well, I know I sent one lady to you guys.
Danielle McGeary (07:18):
Well, thank you.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (07:20):
Okay, Now we mentioned that you guys
accomplished some milestones.
Now did y'all set any specificgoals since January and have you
achieved those goals or are youstill progressing toward them?
Kim Rowland (07:36):
As organically as this has been formed.
It's sort of progressed thatway as well.
I think that trying to find, aswe talked about before, trying
to find the gaps in what we'reneeding to bridge, has really
opened up during theseconversations.
So getting to talk to theseladies and getting to develop
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resources and the people thatare supporting and offering
resources to this group has beenoverwhelming and offering
resources to this group has beenoverwhelming, I know.
April Lebo (08:07):
I think for all of us in the beginning, the goals
were just you know, how do weget the word out?
How do we, you know, get morewomen to want to be a part of
this?
And I feel like we've done agood job achieving some of those
goals, doing the differentpodcasts, doing different
interviews I know Danielle and Idid an interview with a few
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people from Trimedics talkingabout their women-led
initiatives so little goals likethat that we had set in the
beginning I feel like we'veaccomplished.
And now, as we have gottenbigger and this has expanded,
we've had opportunities to cometogether as a board to
brainstorm and come up with newgoals.
(08:51):
And I think, especially at theexchange, having different
conversations with differentpeople and again for me, that I
never in a million years wouldhave thought we would have been
able to have conversations withsome of these people has really
set things in motion for new,bigger goals.
Now we haven't achieved themquite yet, but we've got them on
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our inspiration board andthey're definitely in the works.
So, as time continues, moregoals come about, especially how
we can bring value to the womenthat are a part of the group
and value to the industry anddefinitely excited to see where
we're going to be in the nextsix months.
Danielle McGeary (09:34):
And I think just the outpouring of support
from the greater communityaround this initiative has
really helped to make it groworganically as well.
I think, throwing it out thereinitially, and then just all
these different initiatives thatwe've worked on together being
on different podcasts, themeeting with Trimedics and I
think it's huge becauseTrimedics also wants to promote
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that video that we created sonow their audience is seeing it
and then more people will see it.
And same thing with you, brian.
I think we can attribute a lotof the success and the growth to
you as well, because peoplewatch your show and they hear
about it and they want to bepart of it, and I think it's
just so, so nice to really seeeveryone coming together to
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really support this initiative.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (10:21):
Now, I know you mentioned that you have a
lot of support and it's women inleadership, but how have the
male colleagues been supportingyou guys in this mission in
these last six months and yourinitiatives?
Danielle McGeary (10:38):
Well, from an Amy perspective, I can tell you.
When I first talked to my boss,robert Burroughs, about this,
who's our chief learning anddevelopment officer, and I told
him about the group and what wewanted to achieve, he like
smiled and said we need to leanin and lean in more and lean in
as much as you can.
You know Amy's here to supportthis and you know that's from a
male boss.
Kim Rowland (10:59):
Well, after you posted the link, danielle, about
our specific, you know WILinterview about Amy.
I don't know if you guys sawthe comment from Monty but I
know that CBET has been a bigsupporter and specifically in
this question around the malesupport roles and how we're all
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making progress and how much thefemales on his team has brought
value to the Seabedorganization.
Yeah, monty is so supportive.
Danielle McGeary (11:33):
He's a great guy.
April Lebo (11:35):
Absolutely To the point where he even talked to us
about possibly a scholarship,like a women in leadership
scholarship for one of thefemale students.
So there has been I can't tellyou how many people that I've
seen while I've been out,especially at the shows the
males that have come up and justsaid how much they commend what
we're doing and really trulybelieve in this networking and
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in the society.
So I do.
I feel like the support thatwe've gotten from so many of the
men in the industry has justbeen fantastic.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (12:10):
I can recall one guy had y'all on his show
and y'all had all y'allbeautiful blue dresses and
shoots and yes there you go.
That's my guy.
He's a good guy.
Tell me about that.
How was that experience?
April Lebo (12:26):
He rolled out the red carpet, that fella.
He was fantastic.
So you know, getting to sitdown in this beautiful house
with all of us together and somemimosas and some food and he
had little gift bags for us andgetting to meet the rest of his
family.
Danny really put on a fantasticshow and it was so comfortable
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and having all of us there andgetting to wear our power blue
colors for the women inleadership.
I was, I felt like a movie star.
To be honest with you, bryant.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (13:00):
Can you give like a collaboration that you
may have had that gave apositive impact toward the
group's progress moving forward?
April Lebo (13:12):
I'm going to jump in and say the collaboration with
Amy.
You know Danielle has beeninstrumental and just through
her affiliation and the supportthat we've gotten from Amy we've
been able to do that liveinterview.
They gave us access to be ableto have our first networking.
They helped us promote it.
(13:32):
They've helped with multipledifferent interviews, giving us
access to the virtual studio,doing all of the editing.
You know just have been sowelcoming in offering any of the
resources that we mightpossibly ever need that I don't
think we would be where we areright now without that.
(13:52):
So the collaboration and justwhat we've been able to do with
Amy, I think has just been, likeI said, been instrumental.
So that's one of thecollaborations I feel like has
really propelled us to where weare right now.
Danielle McGeary (14:09):
Well, thank you, and it's been a
professional honor to work withyou as well.
We are just honored to be ableto do it.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (14:23):
Do y'all have any skills or I guess I
should say knowledge areas thatthe group is focusing on?
As far as when you talk withindividuals in your society, are
there any specific knowledge orskill you would like to bring
the light to help?
Amber Sportsman (14:40):
like to bring the light to help.
I think I can pop in.
You know, one of the thingsthat we discussed in our last
board meeting was how strong theword mentorship is and setting
up a mentorship program.
We discussed the fact that someof us are in administration,
some are in sales, some are inHTM and being able to pair those
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women that are looking for sometraining or just advice from
someone that may be moreexperienced.
I would think that would be oneof the things that we've been
talking about doing.
Ladies, would you agree?
April Lebo (15:19):
Absolutely.
Kim Rowland (15:20):
Yeah, I think that we've got a great opportunity to
now and I'm going to go aheadand reflect back about the Amy
Exchange.
That was incredible andconnecting everybody together in
Provo Medical doing thesponsorship.
But we don't always have thatopportunity to find sponsors and
find meeting spaces.
You know a lot of them are busy, but we came up with an idea
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about connecting everybody andit's going to be twofold, so
we'll be able to shake hands,introduce people around, make
them more comfortable with thetrade show experience, new
people getting into the space,make them more comfortable with
the trade show experience, newpeople getting into the space,
but also supporting the keynotespeaker and the luncheons.
That's a time that we can allparticipate.
(16:03):
We can all learn a lot.
You know there's a lot ofthought and effort that's put
into the keynote speaker andthen we, as women in leadership,
can go and reserve a table, andthat's a table that people are
welcome to join and to connect.
And there was also an emailthat went out I mean a post,
rather that on LinkedIn thatAdriana shared that we will
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reach out to us via text, viamessaging.
If you're coming to a showyou're not familiar, any of the
board members are happy to help.
Most of us are at.
At least one or two of us areat the shows and members are
happy to help.
Most of us are at.
At least one or two of us areat the shows and we're happy to
help introduce people around.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (16:41):
And there's so many ways you can go with
this mentor program.
Just thinking and I talked to somany people and I don't know,
kim, you might have talked aboutthis, but at the shows where
maybe a mentor can be like atour guide for someone that
might be their first time,because you can tell the first
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timers at any trade show, youjust can look at them like the
first day of school and I justthink that would.
I could tell you it works.
I tried it with a guy in theexpo.
He was walking by himself.
I just walked up to him, walkedhim around, introduced him to
some exhibitors, some people inthe industry, and I looked up
like a day later and he waswalking around with a new guy.
(17:26):
So I don't know if that mightbe part of it where they take
him.
Maybe get with some new personand show him around, show him
really what the show is about,because some just don't know
exactly what to get out of atrade show.
They just go to the show, butyou can probably show them the
benefits of the trade show.
Adrianna England (17:46):
Just throwing one out there.
Hey, brian, this is Adri.
At our last board membermeeting last week, we actually
discussed just that and weactually have it in the works an
ambassador program.
So right now we have fourladies that we've internally
nominated to kind of cover, youknow, the US.
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So that's something that we'redefinitely doing.
We're going to start promotingnow, every month, who's going to
be at the shows so that we canlink up and we can have, you
know, direct ambassadors out ofour women in leadership group.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (18:19):
I mean you ladies, what you're doing I
don't know if y'all are lookingat it from the inside y'all
can't really see the gravitationto what y'all doing is amazing,
but it's something that's Iguess it's a one-on-one.
I've never seen it in ourindustry before.
So I think what y'all doing isit needs to be commended, and
you guys are creating somethingthat's probably going to be a
legacy as far as this industrygoes, moving forward, because
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y'all are one of one and it'sjust growing and growing, and I
think y'all sometimes need tosit back and just smell your
roses and appreciate what'sgoing on.
I hope y'all doing that.
You know, don't just keep yourhead down all the time.
Lift it up every now and thenand breathe and enjoy the hard
work y'all putting in, becauseI'm telling you from what I see,
it's awesome.
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I mean, I'm proud of all of youguys.
Danielle McGeary (19:06):
Thank you.
We couldn't do it withoutsupport from people like you too
, brian, and I hope you alwaystake a step back and look at all
that you've done too.
I know this is a women inleadership interview, but you
are just as important to the HTMcommunity as well.
You're just a breath of freshair.
You use your platform soeloquently to really bring
forward positive messaging andreally just uplift the community
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as a whole.
So you know you have a hugepart in all of this as well.
Amber Sportsman (19:33):
Absolutely.
And to add to that, danielleBryant, you've been.
You've been, I would dare tosay, our biggest supporter from
the very beginning.
So a lot of our success is dueto the support that you've shown
, publicly and privately.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (19:48):
So thank you for that All right, good, all
right, now leave me out of this.
Guys, come on, I see y'all show.
Send me, y'all show, send me atext message.
No, I'm joking, but okay, nowI'm gonna ask this question and,
if you had to, I know you knowhow you go on the interviews and
they, they always ask where doyou see yourself in five years?
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Where do you see women inleadership in one year?
I mean, y'all did so much insix months, I can't even go five
years.
I mean, where do y'all seeyourself if we was to come back
this time?
Kim Rowland (20:24):
next year this day, where do you think y'all would
be?
I think you're going to getfive different answers from this
.
I think that we all have a lotof different ideas of the way
this is going to progress, and Ithink that's the value of this
diversity of the people sittingon this board.
We have to focus on the femaleversus, you know, the male
population, the percentage ofwhat we've got in this industry,
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which is the whole reason whywe created this group.
But that's what I would like tosee.
I would like us to talk aboutthis on a human level rather
than by a gender.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (20:55):
Talk about this on a human level rather
than by gender.
How do you join WIL?
I guess I should have mentionedthat.
How can someone join your group?
Could you say it is private onLinkedIn, but if someone is
listening and they want to comejoin Women in Leadership Society
, what should they do?
Amber Sportsman (21:11):
reach out to any one of the board members.
Reach out to you.
Reach out to anyone you knowthat's in will already.
It's so simple.
Danielle McGeary (21:22):
And they can request to join our group as
well on LinkedIn.
Adrianna England (21:27):
One thing that makes me excited right is that
you know who our members are, sothat itself should say words
that I can't even put out rightnow the fact that you know who
our members are.
Like April said, you can findus on LinkedIn, but we also are
branding our personal photos, soyou'll see that will image
across our face as well, soclick on any of those we're
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constantly promoting.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (21:53):
What keeps you motivated to do this?
Is it just that, trying to?
What keeps you motivated?
I don't want to put answers inanyone's mouth.
What motivates you?
Say a name, okay.
Adrianna England (22:08):
I'm going to be honest, Kim Rowland.
She keeps us motivated.
So what we're doing is we'retrying to bring the personal
side into the will group as well.
So every weekend, Kim is likehere, I am hiking, and we put a
post out and trying to learneach other personally.
And April threw a photo outthere and we're like you do what
?
So we are learning so muchabout the ladies that we're
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interacting with.
So not only at the trade show,not only business-wise, but
personally, we are learning eachother's grandkids and dogs and
hobbies and it's just refreshingand to me, that's what
motivates me to be part of thisgroup.
Amber Sportsman (22:45):
I love that.
You said that, adri, and methis is Amber being the old lady
in the group these girlsTechnology challenged.
I am not a big poster.
I like it.
It's so many posts and I'lllove posts, but putting my own
stuff out there I'm like how doI have to get my kids?
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How do I do this?
So forgive me all for my myignorance, but I love seeing.
I love seeing the content and,yes, like you said, adrienne, I
love seeing Kim's hiking and thefact that April posted about
collecting the old bottles andthat opened a conversation with
April and me that my husbandused to work for the water
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company and dig up these oldbottles.
I had no idea.
So, yeah, I love the personalside of it too, just like you
said, adrienne.
So thanks for bringing that up.
Danielle McGeary (23:37):
And I think the goal is really just to leave
the field a little bit betterthan we found it.
At the end of the day, I thinkwe've all been in the position
of being the sole female and, Ithink, really connecting with
people who maybe may not have astrong network.
I think it's so important thatwe be that you know we're
stronger together and I thinkthat's really what we're seeing
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is the power in the numbers andbringing people together and
sharing experiences and lettingpeople know that they're not
alone and that you know thesesituations aren't mutually
exclusive, even though peoplemay feel that they are.
You know, and I think when,when we bring people together,
you know, it really helps, and Ithink when we bring people
together, it really helps,because I think the most
important thing is we want toretain the women in the field
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too.
We don't want them leaving andgoing to other industries.
We've done so much work topromote the field and we were
only 10% female when we did asurvey in 2021.
And we're going to redo it nextyear, in 2025.
And hopefully we'll see a spikein those numbers.
But we don't want it to startgoing in the other direction,
and I think that can sometimeshappen when people feel isolated
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and don't have a strong network.
So I think, bringing everyonetogether, letting people know
that there's a network here, andto even go back to the
mentoring comment, I think a lotof that happens organically.
People come to these networkevents, find someone that they
really connect with and youbuild relationships and they
become your mentor.
So I think there's just so muchgood in what's going on beyond
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probably what any of us evenrealize.
I think it's hard to reallymeasure.
You can't always measure thesuccess, because we could go to
an event and talk to someone andnever know the impact of that
conversation.
But we know through what we'redoing, that we're making change
and we're here to you know.
Like I said, just leave thefield a little bit better than
we found it.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (25:26):
I'm going to tell you one way.
You know you're making adifference.
They walk three blocks in thathot heat in Phoenix to come to
your happy hour.
So trust me, because it was hotand never, you know, and you
can look at the smiles on theirfaces.
I mean I don't think I saw oneperson not smiling in the
picture.
I mean that is a testament towhat you guys are doing.
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You guys are really.
You might not want to say it orthink it, but you guys are
pioneers right now and whaty'all doing is y'all are true
pioneers in this industry.
Y'all are setting a mark thatcan't get wiped away, moving
forward.
I mean, it's going to be hereand that's something that a lot
of folks can't say and y'all toohumble to say it.
(26:09):
So I say this for you and Ijust think y'all legacy is it's
already set to me personallyy'all just building on it, and
I'm think y'all legacy is it'salready set to me personally
Y'all just building on it andI'm just excited to see what's
next from it.
But I wanted to keep it at 30minutes, but we just went over,
of course.
But I just want you guys at theend, each one of you guys to
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say something that can spread,if you had to.
If you was able to tell someoneabout WIL and what it means to
you personally, I want you toshare that.
We'll start with.
I'll say the name, so we don'thave, we'll start with you
Adrienne.
Adrianna England (26:43):
Alphabetical order we have a lot of A's in
our group.
Kim Rowland (26:49):
Brian, just so you know.
Adrianna England (26:52):
OK, there you go.
So for me again, this group hasbrought more than just the
business side of it the dailyinspirationals, having somebody
to collab with at the tradeshows If I'm having a hard day
or a personal situation that'swork related.
I jump on the line with one ofthese ladies in our group.
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Work related, I jump on theline with one of these ladies in
our group.
Brian, I'm going to be honest.
I've called you a couple oftimes.
You've just opened that door ofwisdom and kindness and for me,
joining the will group has donewonders for me, mentally,
physically, personally andprofessionally.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (27:32):
Right, let's go with you now.
Amber, right, let's go with younow um amber.
Amber Sportsman (27:38):
Well, obviously I feel the exact same way that
adri feels.
I have such a sense of peacewithin myself with when I talk
with these ladies.
I I want the whole group tofeel that way.
I want all of us at some pointto be able to perhaps get
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together and have thesediscussions and just get to know
one another.
We've always known one anotheron a professional level and to
some degree, on a personal level.
Degree on a personal level, butjust the sense of empowerment
that I feel.
I've always kind of felt alonein my role as a leader in my
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company, so it's just given mesuch a sense of sisterhood.
So I want the other ladies inour group to feel that same
level of peace that I feel.
Yeah, that would be that.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (28:38):
Well said, well said, danielle.
Danielle McGeary (28:42):
I love HTM and I think most people know that I
couldn't imagine doing anythingelse with my career.
It has just been so rewardingand I want others to feel that
same spark.
At the end of the day, we arethe path to the patient, no
matter what our role is whetheryou're selling parts, whether
you're working in-house, whetheryou're fixing the equipment and
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you know, if we build strongconnections in this field and
retain folks in the field, weprovide better patient care,
because that's what we're herefor.
Hospitals can't functionwithout equipment and at the end
of the day, it all goes back tothe patient and by building
strong bonds, retaining women inthe field, keeping, building
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them up and letting and likewhat all of my colleagues in
this group have said, you knowit ties back to the patient and
I think this group does, like Isaid, does way more than we ever
imagined, because the strongerHTM professionals and leaders we
have, the better patient care,the safer the equipment is,
because hospitals can't functionwithout every single one of us.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (29:51):
And we'll finish it off with Kim.
Kim Rowland (29:54):
And how do you follow that?
That sums it up perfectly and Ithink the connectivity with
like-minded people being aroundthis group I don't take for
granted.
I love that we get to haveconversations about paying it
forward and what brought us tothis space and all the stories
that we're collecting at the WarStory Wednesdays and what
brought us to this space and allthe stories that we're
collecting at the War StoryWednesdays.
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But Danielle said it earlierand I think it's the most
beautiful thing that I heard inthis whole conversation is we
all have each other and noteverybody has that same network,
and we get to hopefully extendthe invitation and if somebody
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feels that they want toparticipate, they're welcome to
to join us and to have theseconversations and know that
they've got a place at our table.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (30:52):
Amber, april , adri, kim and Danielle I thank
you all once again for comingof HTM on the Line.
It's clear that Amber Sportsman, april Levo, kim Rowland,
danielle McGarry and AdrianaEngland have made remarkable
strides in fostering women'sleadership within the healthcare
technology management industry.
Their journey underscores thepower of authenticity,
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mentorship and collaboration inbuilding a supportive and
empowering community.
By expanding the WIL LinkedIngroup, launching impactful
initiatives and organizingsuccessful networking events,
they have set a powerful examplefor current and future women
leaders.
Powerful example for currentand future women leaders.
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Thank you for joining us and wehope their stories have
inspired you to embraceauthenticity, seek mentorship
and cultivate strong networks inyour own leadership journey.
Till next time, y'all be safeout there.
Welcome to HTM On the Line with Brian
Hawkins Sr.
In this episode, we're thrilledto reconnect with five
extraordinary HTM women leadersAmber Sportsman, april Lebo, kim
Rowland, danielle McGarry andAdriana England.
Since January, they havesignificantly expanded the Women
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in Leadership LinkedIn group to188 members across 19 states,
launched War Story Wednesdaysand organized their first
networking event at Amy Exchangein Phoenix, arizona, this past
June.
We'll explore their journey,highlighting the power of
authenticity, mentorship andcollaboration in leadership, and
how these elements havefostered a supportive and
empowering community.
We will celebrate theirachievements and gain invaluable
insights into creating positivechange in the healthcare
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technology management industry.
Let's get into this week'sepisode with Women in Leadership
how you ladies doing.
Danielle McGeary (01:31):
Wonderful Great.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (01:36):
Let's start with introductions.
Can everyone please share whowe have on the line today?
Danielle McGeary (01:42):
I'm April Lebo , kim Rowland, danielle McGeary.
Adrianna England (01:49):
Adriana England.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (01:51):
Great, there they are.
So it's still the same crew andwe have Amber out there
somewhere.
Amber Sportsman (01:56):
She's with us in spirit In spirit.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (01:58):
All right, ladies, the last time you was on
my show, let's do a quickwithout peeping.
Do y'all know the date y'allwas on my show last?
Anyone knows?
Amber Sportsman (02:11):
was it back in February?
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (02:13):
no, wow, I thought y'all would know at
least a month.
January yeah, any browniepoints for the day.
Adrianna England (02:23):
January 24th, but I cheated.
I looked under my excel sheet.
I can't believe any browniepoints for the day January 24th.
But I cheated.
I looked under my excel sheet.
Danielle McGeary (02:28):
I can't believe it's been that long
actually it was January.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (02:32):
Yeah, that was it.
You're right, she's cheating,I'm cheating.
So it popped in my head.
I said, man, I just wanted todo like a six month rendezvous
with you guys because y'all beenall over the circuit.
Rendezvous with you guys,because y'all have been all over
the circuit, everybody's beengravitating to y'all, talking to
y'all.
So I was jealous, I wanted tobring y'all back and get with
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you guys and just to see howthings have been going.
So let's just maybe reflectright now on the past almost six
months.
Just maybe reflect right now onthe past almost six months.
Can one of you or two sharesome significant achievements?
Adrianna England (03:16):
You could say that the women in leadership has
reached in the past six months,you guys this is Adrian.
Oh no, go ahead, adriana.
Ok, I just want to give a quickstatistic, because I did look
it up, and then I'll let Apriljump in, because she has led a
lot of good things in the lastsix months.
But since we've spoken to you,brian, we have currently 188
Will members in our LinkedIngroup, which is huge.
(03:38):
So we are very, very close tohitting 200 members Across the
US.
We are covering 19 differentstates and with April's War
Story Wednesdays, we put out 20war stories highlighting some of
the industry experts.
April Lebo (03:53):
So I just I kind of want to share those statistics
with you, that's, you know whatwe've done statistically over
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the last six months Awesome kindof skyrocketed in terms of
people knowing and understandingwhat Will is about, which we
didn't have in the beginning.
No one really understood whatwe were doing or what our
mission was, and now I feel likepeople are coming up to us and
asking about the society and howthey can become a member.
(04:40):
And then just again, otherpeople asking us to be on their
podcast.
Being able to do the interviewat Amy with Danielle and Robert
was incredible to be able tohave that exposure and get the
word out.
And then having our firstnetworking event at Amy and the
turnout that we had and theamount of women that showed up
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it was just absolutelyunbelievable.
So again, the exposure, theamount of people that now know
about us and are happy to helpspread the word, has just been
extraordinary from where we werein January.
Kim Rowland (05:22):
I agree, I think, having the avenues that we've
had with Bryant and withDanielle I was talking to Bryant
and Adriana.
You took all of my statisticsthat I wrote down too, but
Bryant and I were talking theother day about just the overall
numbers of biomeds in thisspace male, female, and the
number of people that we have onthe WIL group, in our private
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group, and it equates to around1% of total biomeds, which is a
huge success.
I think that's awesome.
Danielle McGeary (05:51):
I was blown away by the amount of people
that showed up to the Women inLeadership Happy Hour at the Amy
Exchange.
I mean we had probably 70people there.
We have a beautiful grouppicture of all the ladies that
showed up and it was just suchan unbelievable event um to meet
.
I mean I it was so nice meetingnew people, connecting with um
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people we already knew, and justreally seeing the excitement
around this, this group wow, 70,that's that.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (06:19):
I thought that picture.
That was amazing.
Now, if you had 70 at the eventand you had 188 total, were
there any new ladies at theHappy Hour in Amy, or was that
all current members?
Danielle McGeary (06:35):
I think it's hard to know.
I mean, some folks did askabout the LinkedIn groups.
I would say those aredefinitely new people that were
not part of our LinkedIn group.
Those are definitely new peoplethat were not part of our
LinkedIn group.
As I was walking around too, Iwas telling people about the
event.
We did have an RSVP form withinthe Women in Leadership
LinkedIn group, but I think itjust spread, People told their
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friends and it just seemed tocontinue to grow.
The excitement throughout theevent just continued to grow.
And having April and Kim on ourshow on live at AB exchange you
know we also plugged it thereas well.
So I'm sure there are manyavenues, like even being at the
show, that people were able tofind out about the event.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (07:14):
Well, I know I sent one lady to you guys.
Danielle McGeary (07:18):
Well, thank you.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (07:20):
Okay, Now we mentioned that you guys
accomplished some milestones.
Now did y'all set any specificgoals since January and have you
achieved those goals or are youstill progressing toward them?
Kim Rowland (07:36):
As organically as this has been formed.
It's sort of progressed thatway as well.
I think that trying to find, aswe talked about before, trying
to find the gaps in what we'reneeding to bridge, has really
opened up during theseconversations.
So getting to talk to theseladies and getting to develop
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resources and the people thatare supporting and offering
resources to this group has beenoverwhelming and offering
resources to this group has beenoverwhelming, I know.
April Lebo (08:07):
I think for all of us in the beginning, the goals
were just you know, how do weget the word out?
How do we, you know, get morewomen to want to be a part of
this?
And I feel like we've done agood job achieving some of those
goals, doing the differentpodcasts, doing different
interviews I know Danielle and Idid an interview with a few
(08:30):
people from Trimedics talkingabout their women-led
initiatives so little goals likethat that we had set in the
beginning I feel like we'veaccomplished.
And now, as we have gottenbigger and this has expanded,
we've had opportunities to cometogether as a board to
brainstorm and come up with newgoals.
(08:51):
And I think, especially at theexchange, having different
conversations with differentpeople and again for me, that I
never in a million years wouldhave thought we would have been
able to have conversations withsome of these people has really
set things in motion for new,bigger goals.
Now we haven't achieved themquite yet, but we've got them on
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our inspiration board andthey're definitely in the works.
So, as time continues, moregoals come about, especially how
we can bring value to the womenthat are a part of the group
and value to the industry anddefinitely excited to see where
we're going to be in the nextsix months.
Danielle McGeary (09:34):
And I think just the outpouring of support
from the greater communityaround this initiative has
really helped to make it groworganically as well.
I think, throwing it out thereinitially, and then just all
these different initiatives thatwe've worked on together being
on different podcasts, themeeting with Trimedics and I
think it's huge becauseTrimedics also wants to promote
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that video that we created sonow their audience is seeing it
and then more people will see it.
And same thing with you, brian.
I think we can attribute a lotof the success and the growth to
you as well, because peoplewatch your show and they hear
about it and they want to bepart of it, and I think it's
just so, so nice to really seeeveryone coming together to
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really support this initiative.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (10:21):
Now, I know you mentioned that you have a
lot of support and it's women inleadership, but how have the
male colleagues been supportingyou guys in this mission in
these last six months and yourinitiatives?
Danielle McGeary (10:38):
Well, from an Amy perspective, I can tell you.
When I first talked to my boss,robert Burroughs, about this,
who's our chief learning anddevelopment officer, and I told
him about the group and what wewanted to achieve, he like
smiled and said we need to leanin and lean in more and lean in
as much as you can.
You know Amy's here to supportthis and you know that's from a
male boss.
Kim Rowland (10:59):
Well, after you posted the link, danielle, about
our specific, you know WILinterview about Amy.
I don't know if you guys sawthe comment from Monty but I
know that CBET has been a bigsupporter and specifically in
this question around the malesupport roles and how we're all
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making progress and how much thefemales on his team has brought
value to the Seabedorganization.
Yeah, monty is so supportive.
Danielle McGeary (11:33):
He's a great guy.
April Lebo (11:35):
Absolutely To the point where he even talked to us
about possibly a scholarship,like a women in leadership
scholarship for one of thefemale students.
So there has been I can't tellyou how many people that I've
seen while I've been out,especially at the shows the
males that have come up and justsaid how much they commend what
we're doing and really trulybelieve in this networking and
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in the society.
So I do.
I feel like the support thatwe've gotten from so many of the
men in the industry has justbeen fantastic.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (12:10):
I can recall one guy had y'all on his show
and y'all had all y'allbeautiful blue dresses and
shoots and yes there you go.
That's my guy.
He's a good guy.
Tell me about that.
How was that experience?
April Lebo (12:26):
He rolled out the red carpet, that fella.
He was fantastic.
So you know, getting to sitdown in this beautiful house
with all of us together and somemimosas and some food and he
had little gift bags for us andgetting to meet the rest of his
family.
Danny really put on a fantasticshow and it was so comfortable
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and having all of us there andgetting to wear our power blue
colors for the women inleadership.
I was, I felt like a movie star.
To be honest with you, bryant.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (13:00):
Can you give like a collaboration that you
may have had that gave apositive impact toward the
group's progress moving forward?
April Lebo (13:12):
I'm going to jump in and say the collaboration with
Amy.
You know Danielle has beeninstrumental and just through
her affiliation and the supportthat we've gotten from Amy we've
been able to do that liveinterview.
They gave us access to be ableto have our first networking.
They helped us promote it.
(13:32):
They've helped with multipledifferent interviews, giving us
access to the virtual studio,doing all of the editing.
You know just have been sowelcoming in offering any of the
resources that we mightpossibly ever need that I don't
think we would be where we areright now without that.
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So the collaboration and justwhat we've been able to do with
Amy, I think has just been, likeI said, been instrumental.
So that's one of thecollaborations I feel like has
really propelled us to where weare right now.
Danielle McGeary (14:09):
Well, thank you, and it's been a
professional honor to work withyou as well.
We are just honored to be ableto do it.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (14:23):
Do y'all have any skills or I guess I
should say knowledge areas thatthe group is focusing on?
As far as when you talk withindividuals in your society, are
there any specific knowledge orskill you would like to bring
the light to help?
Amber Sportsman (14:40):
like to bring the light to help.
I think I can pop in.
You know, one of the thingsthat we discussed in our last
board meeting was how strong theword mentorship is and setting
up a mentorship program.
We discussed the fact that someof us are in administration,
some are in sales, some are inHTM and being able to pair those
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women that are looking for sometraining or just advice from
someone that may be moreexperienced.
I would think that would be oneof the things that we've been
talking about doing.
Ladies, would you agree?
April Lebo (15:19):
Absolutely.
Kim Rowland (15:20):
Yeah, I think that we've got a great opportunity to
now and I'm going to go aheadand reflect back about the Amy
Exchange.
That was incredible andconnecting everybody together in
Provo Medical doing thesponsorship.
But we don't always have thatopportunity to find sponsors and
find meeting spaces.
You know a lot of them are busy, but we came up with an idea
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about connecting everybody andit's going to be twofold, so
we'll be able to shake hands,introduce people around, make
them more comfortable with thetrade show experience, new
people getting into the space,make them more comfortable with
the trade show experience, newpeople getting into the space,
but also supporting the keynotespeaker and the luncheons.
That's a time that we can allparticipate.
(16:03):
We can all learn a lot.
You know there's a lot ofthought and effort that's put
into the keynote speaker andthen we, as women in leadership,
can go and reserve a table, andthat's a table that people are
welcome to join and to connect.
And there was also an emailthat went out I mean a post,
rather that on LinkedIn thatAdriana shared that we will
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reach out to us via text, viamessaging.
If you're coming to a showyou're not familiar, any of the
board members are happy to help.
Most of us are at.
At least one or two of us areat the shows and members are
happy to help.
Most of us are at.
At least one or two of us areat the shows and we're happy to
help introduce people around.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (16:41):
And there's so many ways you can go with
this mentor program.
Just thinking and I talked to somany people and I don't know,
kim, you might have talked aboutthis, but at the shows where
maybe a mentor can be like atour guide for someone that
might be their first time,because you can tell the first
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timers at any trade show, youjust can look at them like the
first day of school and I justthink that would.
I could tell you it works.
I tried it with a guy in theexpo.
He was walking by himself.
I just walked up to him, walkedhim around, introduced him to
some exhibitors, some people inthe industry, and I looked up
like a day later and he waswalking around with a new guy.
(17:26):
So I don't know if that mightbe part of it where they take
him.
Maybe get with some new personand show him around, show him
really what the show is about,because some just don't know
exactly what to get out of atrade show.
They just go to the show, butyou can probably show them the
benefits of the trade show.
Adrianna England (17:46):
Just throwing one out there.
Hey, brian, this is Adri.
At our last board membermeeting last week, we actually
discussed just that and weactually have it in the works an
ambassador program.
So right now we have fourladies that we've internally
nominated to kind of cover, youknow, the US.
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So that's something that we'redefinitely doing.
We're going to start promotingnow, every month, who's going to
be at the shows so that we canlink up and we can have, you
know, direct ambassadors out ofour women in leadership group.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (18:19):
I mean you ladies, what you're doing I
don't know if y'all are lookingat it from the inside y'all
can't really see the gravitationto what y'all doing is amazing,
but it's something that's Iguess it's a one-on-one.
I've never seen it in ourindustry before.
So I think what y'all doing isit needs to be commended, and
you guys are creating somethingthat's probably going to be a
legacy as far as this industrygoes, moving forward, because
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y'all are one of one and it'sjust growing and growing, and I
think y'all sometimes need tosit back and just smell your
roses and appreciate what'sgoing on.
I hope y'all doing that.
You know, don't just keep yourhead down all the time.
Lift it up every now and thenand breathe and enjoy the hard
work y'all putting in, becauseI'm telling you from what I see,
it's awesome.
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I mean, I'm proud of all of youguys.
Danielle McGeary (19:06):
Thank you.
We couldn't do it withoutsupport from people like you too
, brian, and I hope you alwaystake a step back and look at all
that you've done too.
I know this is a women inleadership interview, but you
are just as important to the HTMcommunity as well.
You're just a breath of freshair.
You use your platform soeloquently to really bring
forward positive messaging andreally just uplift the community
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as a whole.
So you know you have a hugepart in all of this as well.
Amber Sportsman (19:33):
Absolutely.
And to add to that, danielleBryant, you've been.
You've been, I would dare tosay, our biggest supporter from
the very beginning.
So a lot of our success is dueto the support that you've shown
, publicly and privately.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (19:48):
So thank you for that All right, good, all
right, now leave me out of this.
Guys, come on, I see y'all show.
Send me, y'all show, send me atext message.
No, I'm joking, but okay, nowI'm gonna ask this question and,
if you had to, I know you knowhow you go on the interviews and
they, they always ask where doyou see yourself in five years?
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Where do you see women inleadership in one year?
I mean, y'all did so much insix months, I can't even go five
years.
I mean, where do y'all seeyourself if we was to come back
this time?
Kim Rowland (20:24):
next year this day, where do you think y'all would
be?
I think you're going to getfive different answers from this
.
I think that we all have a lotof different ideas of the way
this is going to progress, and Ithink that's the value of this
diversity of the people sittingon this board.
We have to focus on the femaleversus, you know, the male
population, the percentage ofwhat we've got in this industry,
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which is the whole reason whywe created this group.
But that's what I would like tosee.
I would like us to talk aboutthis on a human level rather
than by a gender.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (20:55):
Talk about this on a human level rather
than by gender.
How do you join WIL?
I guess I should have mentionedthat.
How can someone join your group?
Could you say it is private onLinkedIn, but if someone is
listening and they want to comejoin Women in Leadership Society
, what should they do?
Amber Sportsman (21:11):
reach out to any one of the board members.
Reach out to you.
Reach out to anyone you knowthat's in will already.
It's so simple.
Danielle McGeary (21:22):
And they can request to join our group as
well on LinkedIn.
Adrianna England (21:27):
One thing that makes me excited right is that
you know who our members are, sothat itself should say words
that I can't even put out rightnow the fact that you know who
our members are.
Like April said, you can findus on LinkedIn, but we also are
branding our personal photos, soyou'll see that will image
across our face as well, soclick on any of those we're
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constantly promoting.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (21:53):
What keeps you motivated to do this?
Is it just that, trying to?
What keeps you motivated?
I don't want to put answers inanyone's mouth.
What motivates you?
Say a name, okay.
Adrianna England (22:08):
I'm going to be honest, Kim Rowland.
She keeps us motivated.
So what we're doing is we'retrying to bring the personal
side into the will group as well.
So every weekend, Kim is likehere, I am hiking, and we put a
post out and trying to learneach other personally.
And April threw a photo outthere and we're like you do what
?
So we are learning so muchabout the ladies that we're
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interacting with.
So not only at the trade show,not only business-wise, but
personally, we are learning eachother's grandkids and dogs and
hobbies and it's just refreshingand to me, that's what
motivates me to be part of thisgroup.
Amber Sportsman (22:45):
I love that.
You said that, adri, and methis is Amber being the old lady
in the group these girlsTechnology challenged.
I am not a big poster.
I like it.
It's so many posts and I'lllove posts, but putting my own
stuff out there I'm like how doI have to get my kids?
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How do I do this?
So forgive me all for my myignorance, but I love seeing.
I love seeing the content and,yes, like you said, adrienne, I
love seeing Kim's hiking and thefact that April posted about
collecting the old bottles andthat opened a conversation with
April and me that my husbandused to work for the water
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company and dig up these oldbottles.
I had no idea.
So, yeah, I love the personalside of it too, just like you
said, adrienne.
So thanks for bringing that up.
Danielle McGeary (23:37):
And I think the goal is really just to leave
the field a little bit betterthan we found it.
At the end of the day, I thinkwe've all been in the position
of being the sole female and, Ithink, really connecting with
people who maybe may not have astrong network.
I think it's so important thatwe be that you know we're
stronger together and I thinkthat's really what we're seeing
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is the power in the numbers andbringing people together and
sharing experiences and lettingpeople know that they're not
alone and that you know thesesituations aren't mutually
exclusive, even though peoplemay feel that they are.
You know, and I think when,when we bring people together,
you know, it really helps, and Ithink when we bring people
together, it really helps,because I think the most
important thing is we want toretain the women in the field
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too.
We don't want them leaving andgoing to other industries.
We've done so much work topromote the field and we were
only 10% female when we did asurvey in 2021.
And we're going to redo it nextyear, in 2025.
And hopefully we'll see a spikein those numbers.
But we don't want it to startgoing in the other direction,
and I think that can sometimeshappen when people feel isolated
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and don't have a strong network.
So I think, bringing everyonetogether, letting people know
that there's a network here, andto even go back to the
mentoring comment, I think a lotof that happens organically.
People come to these networkevents, find someone that they
really connect with and youbuild relationships and they
become your mentor.
So I think there's just so muchgood in what's going on beyond
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probably what any of us evenrealize.
I think it's hard to reallymeasure.
You can't always measure thesuccess, because we could go to
an event and talk to someone andnever know the impact of that
conversation.
But we know through what we'redoing, that we're making change
and we're here to you know.
Like I said, just leave thefield a little bit better than
we found it.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (25:26):
I'm going to tell you one way.
You know you're making adifference.
They walk three blocks in thathot heat in Phoenix to come to
your happy hour.
So trust me, because it was hotand never, you know, and you
can look at the smiles on theirfaces.
I mean I don't think I saw oneperson not smiling in the
picture.
I mean that is a testament towhat you guys are doing.
(25:48):
You guys are really.
You might not want to say it orthink it, but you guys are
pioneers right now and whaty'all doing is y'all are true
pioneers in this industry.
Y'all are setting a mark thatcan't get wiped away, moving
forward.
I mean, it's going to be hereand that's something that a lot
of folks can't say and y'all toohumble to say it.
(26:09):
So I say this for you and Ijust think y'all legacy is it's
already set to me personallyy'all just building on it, and
I'm think y'all legacy is it'salready set to me personally
Y'all just building on it andI'm just excited to see what's
next from it.
But I wanted to keep it at 30minutes, but we just went over,
of course.
But I just want you guys at theend, each one of you guys to
(26:29):
say something that can spread,if you had to.
If you was able to tell someoneabout WIL and what it means to
you personally, I want you toshare that.
We'll start with.
I'll say the name, so we don'thave, we'll start with you
Adrienne.
Adrianna England (26:43):
Alphabetical order we have a lot of A's in
our group.
Kim Rowland (26:49):
Brian, just so you know.
Adrianna England (26:52):
OK, there you go.
So for me again, this group hasbrought more than just the
business side of it the dailyinspirationals, having somebody
to collab with at the tradeshows If I'm having a hard day
or a personal situation that'swork related.
I jump on the line with one ofthese ladies in our group.
(27:15):
Work related, I jump on theline with one of these ladies in
our group.
Brian, I'm going to be honest.
I've called you a couple oftimes.
You've just opened that door ofwisdom and kindness and for me,
joining the will group has donewonders for me, mentally,
physically, personally andprofessionally.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (27:32):
Right, let's go with you now.
Amber, right, let's go with younow um amber.
Amber Sportsman (27:38):
Well, obviously I feel the exact same way that
adri feels.
I have such a sense of peacewithin myself with when I talk
with these ladies.
I I want the whole group tofeel that way.
I want all of us at some pointto be able to perhaps get
(28:01):
together and have thesediscussions and just get to know
one another.
We've always known one anotheron a professional level and to
some degree, on a personal level.
Degree on a personal level, butjust the sense of empowerment
that I feel.
I've always kind of felt alonein my role as a leader in my
(28:23):
company, so it's just given mesuch a sense of sisterhood.
So I want the other ladies inour group to feel that same
level of peace that I feel.
Yeah, that would be that.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (28:38):
Well said, well said, danielle.
Danielle McGeary (28:42):
I love HTM and I think most people know that I
couldn't imagine doing anythingelse with my career.
It has just been so rewardingand I want others to feel that
same spark.
At the end of the day, we arethe path to the patient, no
matter what our role is whetheryou're selling parts, whether
you're working in-house, whetheryou're fixing the equipment and
(29:05):
you know, if we build strongconnections in this field and
retain folks in the field, weprovide better patient care,
because that's what we're herefor.
Hospitals can't functionwithout equipment and at the end
of the day, it all goes back tothe patient and by building
strong bonds, retaining women inthe field, keeping, building
(29:29):
them up and letting and likewhat all of my colleagues in
this group have said, you knowit ties back to the patient and
I think this group does, like Isaid, does way more than we ever
imagined, because the strongerHTM professionals and leaders we
have, the better patient care,the safer the equipment is,
because hospitals can't functionwithout every single one of us.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (29:51):
And we'll finish it off with Kim.
Kim Rowland (29:54):
And how do you follow that?
That sums it up perfectly and Ithink the connectivity with
like-minded people being aroundthis group I don't take for
granted.
I love that we get to haveconversations about paying it
forward and what brought us tothis space and all the stories
that we're collecting at the WarStory Wednesdays and what
brought us to this space and allthe stories that we're
collecting at the War StoryWednesdays.
(30:15):
But Danielle said it earlierand I think it's the most
beautiful thing that I heard inthis whole conversation is we
all have each other and noteverybody has that same network,
and we get to hopefully extendthe invitation and if somebody
(30:42):
feels that they want toparticipate, they're welcome to
to join us and to have theseconversations and know that
they've got a place at our table.
Bryant Hawkins Sr. (30:52):
Amber, april , adri, kim and Danielle I thank
you all once again for comingof HTM on the Line.
It's clear that Amber Sportsman, april Levo, kim Rowland,
danielle McGarry and AdrianaEngland have made remarkable
strides in fostering women'sleadership within the healthcare
technology management industry.
Their journey underscores thepower of authenticity,
(31:15):
mentorship and collaboration inbuilding a supportive and
empowering community.
By expanding the WIL LinkedIngroup, launching impactful
initiatives and organizingsuccessful networking events,
they have set a powerful examplefor current and future women
leaders.
Powerful example for currentand future women leaders.
(31:39):
Thank you for joining us and wehope their stories have
inspired you to embraceauthenticity, seek mentorship
and cultivate strong networks inyour own leadership journey.
Till next time, y'all be safeout there.
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