Listen While You Work: Inspirational Stories from Women Overcoming Career & Life Challenges

Listen While You Work: Inspirational Stories from Women Overcoming Career & Life Challenges

Kristen is a successful San Francisco Bay Area Human Resources and Recruiting professional with experience consulting and working for Google, Microsoft, Activision, and frog Design. She stared successful consultancies in both the US and Canada and all with a GED and an Associate’s Degree from a community college. Kristen is now opening up about her journey, introducing you to her great network of women, and sharing stories to enlighten, educate, and sometimes make you laugh. Listen While You Work is brought to you by The Bossy Sauce https://www.thebossysauce.com

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February 8, 2021 33 mins

In this interview, I sat down with Liz to discuss the recent NYT and SF Chronicle articles on alleged sexual misconduct within the Court of Master Sommeliers. For show-notes, please visit: https://www.thebossysauce.com

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In this episode, I interview Dawn Galante of Dawn's Dream Winery in Carmel, California. We talk about how she's adjusted business operations due to Covid, how Carmel has evolved into a wine destination, and how she unfortunately lost this year's Pinot Noir harvest to the wildfires... For an exclusive 20% off Dawn's Dream Wine, visit TheBossySauce.com 

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Did you know that business cards cost our planet 7.2 billion trees and cost companies thousands of dollars a year, and most of them are thrown away? Listen to how I've transitioned away from them in recruitment and how you can too! Show notes and episode offers at TheBossySauce.com

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Emily Strauss is the Founder of Mural Painter and she was recently on an episode of The Shark Tank where Barbara Corcoran invested in her art business. Check out the exclusive interview with Emily about her experience from GED to success, and her experience with the Sharks. Visit TheBossySauce.com for episode details!

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Niani Tolbert is the Creator and Founder of #HireBlack, the initiative with a goal to get 10,000 black women hired, trained, and promoted. Niani has been awarded the 30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30 by Business Insider & #HireBlack was just featured in Forbes. Details @ TheBossySauce.com.

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July 28, 2020 19 mins

I've been working as a Career Coach and helping candidates with their resumes, and I've been experiencing some of the same area for improvement among many resumes. Here are six of them! For an InfoGraphic and more details on this episode, visit TheBossySauce.com.

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In this episode, I interviewed Actress and Comedian Lureena Cornwell on her experience transitioning from improving at a theatre in Chicago, to creating and sharing video content online due to the theatre closures for Covid. Visit TheBossySauce.com for episode info.

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Career heartbreak is not the kind great country songs are written about. It's a less talked about kind. The loss of a promotion, a job or the respect of coworkers... These are the things that break hearts. For more info on this story, and the written version, please visit... TheBossySauce.com

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There's so much division in our communities, and it feels like we're getting further and further apart. My Grandma is one of the people I have the strongest bonds with, yet, we don't agree on most anything. I wanted to share some stories through humor and humility to bring perspective to togetherness, through division of beliefs. 

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My favorite teacher who was adored by many was investigated for misconduct and sexual abuse of at least one student, and a good portion of prior-students defended him. This is a story of my perspective as an outsider to the abuse, but an insider to the community that victim blamed the survivor. 

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I’ve traveled to over 50 countries, I’ve led recruitment and human resources for San Francisco Bay Area companies/locations, and I’ve consulted on-site for Google, Microsoft and Activision. I’ve lived and worked in both the US and Canada, where I’ve also run successful independent consultancies. I’ve accomplished all of this with a GED, and an Associate’s Degree from a community college. In this podcast, I tell my story from GED to...

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