The Purse Podcast

Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership  experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker. She is co-founder and President of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life’s passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel  women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by  providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership. 

She  is the bestselling author of four books; No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, plus her own real world experience, forms the core of Take The Lead’s programs. 

Gloria's forthcoming book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead is available by September 28, 2021.

She is formerly president and CEO of the world’s largest reproductive health and advocacy  organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was named by Vanity Fair one of  “America’s Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour’s “Woman of the  Year,” She Knows Media Inspiring Woman, Women’s eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century,  Women Economic Forum Circle of Light award, Texas Monthly’s Texas 20, Martin Luther King  Living the Dream Award, and Forbes 40 Over 40.

She teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University. Feldt has been  widely quoted and published, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today,  The Daily Beast, Forbes, Fast Company, Time, Huffington Post, Glamour, Elle and Ms. She has  appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America and The Daily Show, and  an infinite number of podcasts. Her own podcast is “Power TO You.”

We cover the following in our conversation:

• Women and power
• What does 'intentioning' have to do with power?
• What has been women's experience during the pandemic? And what has it taught us?
• Women's relationship to money: what does power have to do with it?
• Women investors: how critical are they to the future we want to see?
• How do we encourage more women to invest?
• Gender parity and women in leadership: what would you do to affect change immediately?
• What message do you have for women of today about stepping into their power? And stepping into power with money?