Together Digital Power Lounge, Women in Digital with Power to Share

A 20 year digital marketing veteran on spotting the gap nobody else is filling, building the nerve to step into it, and why the skills you take for granted are usually the ones that move your career.

A volunteer class teaching Excel and Word at a church is what got Kristi Daraban hired at NBCUniversal. Not the film degree. Not the festival work. The computer.

White space is not the thing everyone is already chasing. It is the room le...

Cassy Kohs, fractional marketing strategist, on why confidence comes from evidence and not from positive thinking.

Cassy Kohs spent most of her career steering clear of risk. She over-researched. She polled her friends, her peers and her family before she made a move. Then she had her son, became a single mom, and something shifted. The professional risks that had felt impossible started to feel survivable.

This is not a conversation...

Carissa Richardson on starting your own marketing agency, paid advertising transparency, and building a business around the life you actually want.

Carissa Richardson spent more than twenty years inside traditional and digital media agencies. Then her school district moved to half-day kindergarten, she had two kids back to back, and no version of the job worked anymore. She left without a plan. What grew out of that is Kindred Strat...

Marketing channel integration, clean customer data, and the AI search work that actually moves revenue.

Most teams do not need more marketing activity. They need their channels to talk to each other. In this episode of The Power Lounge, Amy Vaughan sits down with Amanda Friedt, founder of FRDTLAB, to unpack what an integrated growth system really looks like when SEO, paid media, content, email, and social are all running at once.

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A VP of strategy and innovation on career pivots for women in digital, and why you are never starting from zero.

Shannon Lewandowski has moved from software developer to IT manager to digital agency leader to AI and product consulting, and she says none of it was starting over. She joins Amy Vaughan on The Power Lounge to talk career transitions for women in digital, how to tell ordinary restlessness apart from real curiosity, and w...

A leadership and visibility strategist on why women over-explain, and the four-part shift to executive presence and real authority in any room.

Dr. Rita Renee spent 30 years in executive healthcare leadership learning the difference between explaining yourself and owning the room. On this episode of The Power Lounge, she joins Amy Vaughan to unpack why so many high-performing women shrink their language before they even finish a sen...

Why your nervous system, not your willpower, decides how you lead

Your brain decides whether to trust someone in about three seconds, long before you have said a word. Dr. Zakia Ghafari says that same wiring is running the show every time you walk into a hard meeting, and most leaders have no idea they are fighting their own nervous system instead of leading. This episode breaks down the actual neuroscience of leadership behind that...

The warning sign almost nobody catches is not exhaustion. It is guilt.

What if the thing burning you out is not your inbox, your clients, or your calendar? What if the call is coming from inside the house? This conversation went somewhere most burnout talks never go, and I am still thinking about it.

Burnout prevention is not a luxury topic for women in digital. It is survival. So many of us are high functioning, holding it together ...

What happens when a digital strategist stops fighting reality and starts leading from it.

There are conversations that feel like a strategy session and a therapy session at the same time. This one was both. Mary Brodie came into the Power Lounge and did something rare. She made acceptance sound like the most powerful leadership move you can make.

If you work in digital, lead a team, or run your own business, you know the pressure to ...

Two sisters from rural Appalachia wrote the playbook they wish they had.

What does it actually take for a woman to lead herself forward when no one handed her a roadmap? That question sits at the heart of this conversation, and the answer is more honest, more practical, and more urgent than most career advice you have heard.

Self leadership is not a title you earn or a milestone you reach. It is a daily practice, and for women naviga...

What happens when clarity, consistency, and a cell phone replace the need to go viral.

What if everything you believed about building income online was wrong. No viral moment. No massive following. No polished studio setup. Just you, your story, and the willingness to hit record.

This episode of The Power Lounge is for every woman who has been getting ready to get ready. Dianna Nicole built a million dollar business starting with $39...

Alicia Couri is the Founder and CEO of Audacious Concepts Inc., a boutique leadership firm that helps organizations boost performance by aligning action with instinct. She is a Kolbe-Certified Consultant, Predictive Index expert, TEDx speaker, and cancer survivor. Her diverse background informs her unique approach to leadership development, emphasizing not just what you think or feel, but how you instinctively act.

She is also the f...

Lauren LeMunyan is breaking down the myths of goal setting, helping leaders embody their future selves, and building psychological safety from the inside out.

This one hit different. I sat down with Lauren LeMunyan — certified master coach, CEO of Spitfire Coach, and creator of Future Self Design — and walked away with a completely new way of thinking about transformation. We talked about burnout, the fear of success, wh...

Welcome to this week’s episode of The Power Lounge, where authentic conversations reveal the real power behind the stories of remarkable women in business. Hosted by Amy Vaughan, chief empowerment officer at Together Digital, today’s episode dives deep into the often-overlooked gap between women’s contributions in B2B sales and how they’re actually recognized, compensated, and promoted.

Our guest, Lori Richar...

Most women in digital can do the work. The harder part is explaining it in a way that actually lands — with the right clients, in the right rooms, at the right price.

That's the problem host Amy Vaughan tackles in this week's episode of The Power Lounge with guest Orly Zeewy, author and self-described "facilitator of light bulb moments." Orly has spent years helping women entrepreneurs cut through the noise of their own messag...

This episode features Sheryl Daija, founder and CEO of Bridge, a global trade organization transforming how marketing, media, and technology industries approach inclusion. Sheryl's journey began in apartheid-era South Africa, profoundly shaping her lifelong commitment to equality. She leads Bridge in turning inclusion from a buzzword into a strategic business driver, creating IMAX (Inclusive Marketing Advantage Index) - the first o...

When a young Christy Harst first announced she would one day replace Barbara Walters, her father laughed. Years later, that spark of determination would carry her through the competitive world of marketing, television, and eventually, voiceover—where she discovered just how few women were given the mic. Instead of waiting for an invitation, Christy decided to build her own door—and open it for others.

In this Power Loung...

Welcome to The Power Lounge! In this episode, "Marriage, Marketing & Making It Work," Amy Vaughan engages with Rhea Allen, the driving force behind Pepper Shock Media and host of the highly acclaimed Marketing Expedition podcast.

For over two decades, Rhea and her husband Drew have achieved what many couples only dream of: running a thriving business while nurturing their family and marriage. Join Amy as she uncovers the authent...

In this episode of the Together Digital Power Lounge, Amy Vaughan talks with Emmy-nominated producer and video marketing strategist Deborah Mitchell about the real power of showing up on video. Deborah breaks down why perfection holds women back, how authenticity builds trust, and what it takes to turn visibility into real influence and business growth.

She also opens up about balancing entrepreneurship with caregiving, and how that...