Women have been leading differently their whole lives and past many decades, and in success,

they show us what phenomenal leaders of this next generation should look like. They're not all white

men, and they're leading in ways that I hope everyone will lead, leading with empathy and vulnerability,

and these characteristics that for many years have been seen as flaws, but I have seen in my reporting

that can actually be leadership superpowers. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Mo News podcast,

as much as you know, we have a special edition for you today. I'm really excited about today's

interview. It's a conversation with Julia Borsten. She's the author of a new book that breaks down

why companies need more female leaders. In fact, she breaks down the data and shows that a company

is more likely to succeed and have a better bottom line if it has a female CEO. You might already

be familiar with Julia Borsten. She's the lead media and tech reporter over at CNBC where she has

spent more than 16 years interviewing every major CEO from Silicon Valley, from Hollywood.

She really does an incredible job breaking news every day for the business channel and all

things happening at all the companies that really manage our lives these days, Amazon, Netflix,

Google, and all the major studios in Hollywood. So in addition to all her day-to-day duties at CNBC,

managing the coverage there of all things tech and media, she somehow found the time to write a new

book, a really incredible book called When Women Lead where she interviewed more than 100 women

leaders breaking down the unique characteristics women bring to the C-suite. Julia also went through

hundreds of studies and what I love about this book is it really goes into the data. I think you're

really going to enjoy this interview and learn a lot. I certainly did. As Julia explains in our

conversation, she is not making the ethical case for more women leaders though that would certainly

be nice. What she's arguing is that it's actually better for the bottom line and has the data

to back it up. In the conversation, Julia talks about three of the key characteristics women bring

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