The Power of an Extraordinary Woman: A Talk with Author Kim Bendheim about the extraordinary Maud Gonne, the subject of her new book THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT, A Life of Maud Gonne, published by OR Books.

For Women's History Month, let's celebrate the legendary Maud Gonne who left her mark on everyone she met in our special book launch event. 

Former publishing executive Lisa Faith Phillips interviews author Kim Bendheim about her excellent book on Maud Gonne, with an introduction by CUSWF Executive Director Leslie Worlf-Creutzfeldt.

Born into tremendous privilege, Maud Gonne allied herself with rebels and the downtrodden and openly defied what was at the time the world’s most powerful empire. An actress and journalist, a muse to the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, Maud dedicated her life to the cause of Irish independence and prisoner rights and changed the world.

What a perfect time to tell Maud Gonne’s story! A style icon with a Parisian education reminiscent of Colette’s Gigi, legendary Maud defied convention to become an influencer who used the media to make a difference decades before women had the right to vote.

Women's Power Toolkit Talk
Recorded on March 25th, 2021

Praise for The Fascination of What’s Difficult, A Life of Maud Gonne
“A Victorian debutante who became a radical with a flair for self-promotion, Maud Gonne was far more interesting – and complicated – than her renowned beauty as a poet’s muse. With clear-eyed forays into obsession, love, and friendship, Kim Bendheim fleshes out one of the most enigmatic and alluring women in the history of European letters and politics.”
– Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix
 
About the author
Kim Bendheim is a poet, performer, and writer. Her byline has appeared in The Forward, The Nation, The Chicago Tribune, Ladies Home Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Bomb magazine, which published her poetry. A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, she received two Masters degrees. She lives in New York City. This is her first book.

Executive Producer: Lisa Faith Phillips
Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
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A Life Of Maud Gonne: A Talk with Author Kim Bendheim

Women’s Power Toolkit Podcast explores with Paula Rizzo how to improve your life and productivity with Listful Living. 

Hear from productivity expert Paula Rizzo with her indispensable tips on getting organized, improving productivity, saving time and money, and reducing stress. Interviewed by former publishing executive and co-founder of Women's Power Toolkit Podcasts and Talks, Lisa Faith Phillips.

Women’s Power Toolkit Talks
Improve your Life with Listful Living
April 22, 2021

About our speaker 
Paula Rizzo is an Emmy-award winning television producer, best-selling author, speaker and a media trainer and strategist. She coaches authors, experts, and entrepreneurs to perform better on camera and produce their own videos. She’s personally media trained executives from Fortune 500 companies and privately-owned organizations as well. A seasoned speaker, Paula’s presented at Women Influencing and Impacting Toyota, Chief, MA Conference for Women, HOW Design Live, New York Women in Communications, National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), and many others.

She's the founder of ListProducer.com and the author of Listful Thinking: Using Lists to be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed and Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You. Paula is also a LinkedIn Learning Instructor of several courses including, “Organizing Your Remote Office for Maximum Productivity,” and “The Power of Lists to Get Things Done.” 

A media veteran for nearly 20 years, she also worked in local news in New York City as a producer for WCBS, WPIX, and WLNY. As a former senior health producer for Fox News Channel for more than a decade, she produced segments with a range of top experts, including JJ Virgin, Jillian Michaels, and Deepak Chopra.
Paula has been featured in major media outlets like FoxNews.com, Business Insider, and The Daily News. She’s a contributor to MindBodyGreen.com, Entrepreneur.com, and Thrive Global. Go to PaulaRizzo.com for more.

Lisa Faith Phillips is CDO of CUSWF.org and co-founder of Women's Power Toolkit. An award-winning digital, publishing, marketing and business-development strategist, she ran Random House’s direct-to-consumer business as VP and GM, overseeing publishing, product development and marketing for iconic brands from Bon Appétit to Star Wars. As Director of Digital Strategy and Development at Hachette Book Group, she launched digital sales channels from public and school library.  Lisa holds a Digital Marketing Certificate from NYU, a B.A. from Wellesley College, and a M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Executive Producer Lisa Faith Phillips

Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
https://filmmusic.io/genres/lounge-relax

Productivity Expert Paula Rizzo - Improve your Life with Listful Living

A conversation with China expert Isaac Stone Fish on U.S.-China Relations in the Era of Biden for Women’s Power ToolKit Podcasts.

Where are US-China relations heading? The Trade War. Hong Kong. Tech Walls. Climate Change. Xinjiang. What issues will define the U.S.-China relationship in the Biden era? Will relations improve, or continue to worsen? And what does this mean for Chinese in America and Americans in China? 

Women’s Power Toolkit Talks
U.S.-China Relations in the Era of Biden 
April 29th, 2021 
Interview and moderation by Executive Producer of WoPoTK Lisa Faith Phillips with introduction by CUSWF Executive Director Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt.

Isaac Stone Fish is the CEO and founder of Strategy Risks. He is a contributing columnist at the Washington Post, a visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund, an on-air contributor to CBSN, and the author of a monthly column on China risk for Barron's. 

A fluent Mandarin speaker, Isaac lived in Beijing for six years. He is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman National Security fellow, an alumni of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers program, and the author of a forthcoming book on Beijing’s influence in America (Knopf). Find out more at Isaacstonefish.com

China Expert Isaac Stone Fish on US-China Relations in the Biden Era

A discussion with famed singer, writer and vocal coach Judith Mok on her fascinating career and how music comforts and inspires with Lisa Faith Phillips for Women’s Power Toolkit Podcast. 

When Dublin, Ireland was locked down due to COVID-19, Judith began to give free weekly concerts from her balcony. Word spread and crowds gathered to enjoy her beautiful voice. For her inspiring work she was awarded the 2020 Covid–19 Response Award.

Hear about Judith's life and the power of music to increase resilience and joy during times of stress and despair.

Women’s Power Toolkit Talks Podcast
The Power of Music to Soothe and Inspire
May 6th, 2021
Introduction by CUSWF Executive Director Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt

Judith Mok is a singer, writer, and vocal coach. A graduate of Royal Conservatory of The Hague, as a singer she has appeared at numerous festivals including Salzburg, Edinburgh, Paris and the Holland Festival and toured North and South America and throughout Europe.
Judith has been working for years on her extended vocal techniques, experimenting with her voice and presentation, and has coached performers from Grace Jones and Glen Hansard to Dermot Kennedy and Thom Yorke.
Her desire to combine her love of literature with music led to the creation of her one-woman show “Molly Says No” about Molly Bloom, the heroine of J Joyce’s Ulysses, which has toured worldwide from India to the United States, including Lincoln Center and The Academy Hollywood. 
Judith’s books of poetry, novels and short stories have been published in Dutch and English, for which she received various awards. She has also sung and acted in several feature films, including the award-winning Goodnight, Vienna. Find out more at Judithmok.com.

Executive Producer Lisa Faith Phillips

Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
https://filmmusic.io/genres/lounge-relax

Singer and Author Judith Mok on the Power of Music

Entrepreneur Mei Xu shares the secrets of her career as a successful innovator and founder of three global companies, including Chesapeake Bay Candle, and talks about her new memoir, Burn: How Grit, Innovation and a Dash of Good Luck Ignited a Multi-Million Dollar American Success Story with CUSWF Executive Director Leslie Wolf Creutzfeldt for  Women's Power Toolkit podcasts.

You'll learn how to be successful despite challenges and setbacks. 
Key Lessons from Mei Xu:
•	How to turn challenges into opportunities
•	How to build your small business by finding ways to differentiate and stay ahead of the curve
•	How to network and learn from other thought-leaders and experts
•	How to allow yourself to learn, fail and succeed as a businessperson without apology

Recorded June 10th, 2021

Mei Xu is a Chinese American entrepreneur, author, founder and CEO of three global companies, Yes She May, BlissLiving Home® and Chesapeake Bay Candle®. Xu successfully negotiated the sale of Chesapeake Bay Candle to Newell Brands in 2017, a conglomerate with a $14 billion portfolio of consumer goods. Mei is now focused on helping women-owned consumer product companies grow and prosper with e-commerce platform, Yes She May.
In June 2020, Mei created Yes She May (www.YesSheMay.com) to help women-owned brands survive and thrive. Her team aims to provide consumers a choice to shop from talented and thoughtful women vendors from around the world! Mei hopes to turn consumers into supporters and use their purses to show who they really care about
In addition to fostering women's entrepreneurship, Ms. Xu also actively participates in impact investing and is a member of the Investment Committee of Halcyon Fund in Washington, DC and serves as a trustee of the University of Maryland Baltimore.
Her business achievements have repeatedly been recognized by prominent organizations, such as Politico's 2019 Woman of Impact Award; Smart CEO with the Brava Award; and the Asian American Chamber of Commerce with the Business Leader of the Year Award.

Executive producer Women's Power Toolkit Podcasts Lisa Faith Phillips
Music by Sascha Ende, Dreamsphere 7 
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Learn the secrets of successful entrepreneur Mei Xu

Hunter College Political Science Professor Charles Tien shares analysis of President Biden's political agenda and chances for success.  Professor Tien gives background and insights about the key issues as well as the future of China-US relations under a Biden Administration. 

Women's Power Toolkit Talks
Recorded September 9th at 4:00 pm ET

About the Speaker
Charles Tien is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He has served as department chair at Hunter College and was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar in American Politics at Renmin University in Beijing, China. He has taught classes on American politics, women, and minorities in politics, voting and elections, American foreign policy, research methods, and polling. He has published over 30 scholarly articles, most recently in Presidential Studies Quarterly, and International Journal of Forecasting. He received his BA from the University of Michigan, and his PhD. from the University of Iowa.

Moderated by Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt
Executive Producer Lisa Faith Phillips

Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
https://filmmusic.io/genres/lounge-relax

Professor Charles Tien on Biden's Challenges and Opportunities

Women’s Power Toolkit Talks invited Dr. Ye Liu, a Lecturer at King’s College London, to share her insights on how youth and women in China partake in civic engagement, the differences between Western and Chinese youth activism, and the present issues that are the focus of activism efforts in China. 

Moderated by CUSWF’s Executive Director Leslie Wolf- Creutzfeldt with co-host and interviewer Victoria Mora.
Recorded September 16th, 2021 

About our Speaker:
Dr. Ye Liu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. Her research focuses on the long-term impacts of China’s one-child policy on women’s life chances, family formation and intergenerational relationships. She is currently writing a book manuscript about siblingless urban women from the one-child generation and on how patriarchy still holds those women back during their adult life course transitions to the labor market, marriage, and motherhood. She is also the author of Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China (Springer 2016).

Lisa Faith Phillips., Executive Producer for Women’s Power Toolkit Podcasts 

Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
https://filmmusic.io/genres/lounge-relax

Dr. Ye Liu On GenZ Activism In China

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on women. In a recent poll, the majority of women said they were worried about their financial situation and uncertain about the future. 

For Women’s Power Tool Kit Podcasts join financial advisors Chunyee Miot and Susan Ng for an informative session about key issues for your financial health and well-being. They will tell you what you need to know and action steps to help you ensure your financial future.

Monthly Financial Fitness Classes 
Recorded Monday, September 27, 2021 

As part of the SAGE Initiative focus on Education, CUSWF.org hosts hosting monthly Financial Fitness Classes with topics like: Women and Entrepreneurship 101, International Business Must Knows, Careers and Finance, and more. The goal is to empower women to be resilient through knowledge sharing, discussions, and support for one another.
The class and discussion is moderated by CUSWF Executive Director Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt

About our Class Leaders: 
Chunyee Miot is passionate about educating individuals and entrepreneurs. She actively participates in corporate and community events to provide financial wellness information. She received her B.S. in Accounting from Baruch College and is a licensed CPA. Chunyee started her own CPA firm in 2005. She is also a licensed financial adviser with Transamerica Financial Advisor. 

Susan Ng has spent her career in investment banking, corporate finance, and business management. She has held several different positions at Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup and Morgan Stanley. She worked at the NY State Executive Department, Division of Budget. She is passionate about helping women to be resilient through financial literacy. She has an MBA from Hofstra University.
 
Women’s Power Toolkit Podcasts Executive Producer Lisa Faith Phillips
Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
https://filmmusic.io/genres/lounge-relax

Financial Fitness Class 1

Naomi Gleit, one of Facebook's first employees and Vice President of Product and Social Impact, discusses her career and the lessons she's learned on how to succeed in the tech world with CUSWF.org Executive Director Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt and Executive Producer Lisa Faith Phillips.

With a Chinese-American mother and Jewish-American father, Naomi also shared her thoughts and insights about the positives of her background.

Women's Power Toolkit Talks
October 20th, 2021
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About the speaker:
Naomi Gleit, Vice President of Product and Social Impact at Facebook, leads the team building products and tools that work across our family of apps, helping people do good on and off Facebook. Naomi also oversees the growth of Facebook's core app and manages the product management organization and team working to keep people safe on Facebook.
 
One of Facebook's first employees, Naomi has worked on almost every major initiative at the company, including most recently the COVID-19 Information Center and the Voter Information Center. She was a founding member and leader of the Growth team that helped Facebook grow from 1 million people when she joined 16 years ago to over 3 billion today.

Naomi graduated from Stanford with a degree in Science, Technology and Society; she wrote her thesis on Facebook. She’s now on the board of The Primary School, serving children and their families in East Palo Alto. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she lives in Palo Alto, California.

Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
https://filmmusic.io/genres/lounge-relax

Facebook's Naomi Gleit on her Remarkable Career and Advice for Success

Join us for a conversation on the exciting changes in online education and education technology in China and the US with Juliette Li, an expert in the EdTech market, and CUSWF’s Executive Director Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt. 

With the COVID pandemic the importance of online education skyrocketed as students had to stay home and learn remotely -- find out how you can benefit from this new market.

Women's Power Toolkit Talks
January 27th, 2022

About our speaker:
Juliette Li is passionate about connecting people to bridge education exchanges between the East and West and to expand education opportunities globally.
As a senior strategy consultant, Juliette regularly advises education and EdTech companies on cross-border expansion and capital raising and leads due diligences processes for acquisitions and investments. Ms. Li also serves as managing partner of HolonIQ China Edtech 100.
Ms. Li has held positions at Navitas (Head of Greater China, East and North Asia), Columbia University (Director for Asia Programs at Columbia’s Earth Institute), and with other private investors. She has worked in New York, London, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong.
Currently, she is on the advisory board for EdTechX Holdings (NASDAQ:EDTX), and teaches a master class for WISE Accelerator run by QIA. 
Ms. Li speaks frequently at education conferences and platforms, such as TEDx, GET, Edtech Asia, Edtech Israel, and SETV, in Asia, the US, Europe and the Middle East. She was born and raised in China and holds an MBA and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.

Executive producer: Lisa Faith Phillips

Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
https://filmmusic.io/genres/lounge-relax

Online Education and How You Can Benefit with EdTech Thought-Leader Juliette Li

Listen as Gwen Moten, a White House-appointed American Cultural Specialist, and Kevin Peters, a financial services executive and thought leader, discuss the opportunities, benefits and best practices of making real changes in the business world to achieve strategic diversity goals.

Women’s Power Toolkit Talks
Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace
Recorded on February 11, 2021
The conversation is moderated by CUSWF Executive Director Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt. 

About our speakers:
Gwen Moten is a White House appointed American Cultural Specialist, CEO of Theatre World Music Service, a City of Newark Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commissioner, and former City Director of Arts and Culture. She served as the United Nations’ Non-Governmental Organization representative and corporate executive for the Newark Performing Arts Corporation/Newark Symphony Hall. She is an arts and cultural educator, events planner and producer, Broadway and international concert artist, music conductor, researcher, lecturer, and published columnist.

Kevin R. Peters is a Regional Development Director with Thrivent Financial. Kevin currently manages 25 Financial Representatives across the New Jersey Region. His commitment to diversity to empower customers and employees and grow financial services is a model for good business practices in 2021.

Executive producer: Lisa Faith Phillips

Music by Sascha Ende 
Dreamsphere 7 
https://filmmusic.io/genres/lounge-relax

Diversity Empowered: Best Practices, Opportunities and Strategy

The Women's Power Toolkit brings together experts, thought-leaders and creative visionaries to share their insights and ideas. We inspire, teach and learn together to reach our full potential. Remember there is only one you. Bring your authentic self.

Online Education and How You Can Benefit with EdTech Thought-Leader Juliette Li

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