WOMEN WHO WEB3: Achieving Economic Gender Parity With Shelley Zalis
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CoinDesk
4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Kamz is joined by Shelley Zalis, also known as “chief troublemaker”! Shelley Zalis is the CEO of The Female Quotient, an equality services company that creates platforms for women and solutions for organizations committed to closing the gender gap in the workplace. Through its signature Equality Lounge® at key industry conferences around the globe, Zalis and the FQ are connectors for the largest global community of mission-driven business leaders.
Shelley authors a Forbes column that provides virtual mentorship for women in middle management. She is co-founder of #SeeHer, a movement led by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to increase the accurate portrayal of women and girls in advertising and media.
She is a pioneer for online research, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25. Today, she works with Fortune 500 companies, impact organizations, and conscious leaders to advance equality in the workplace.
Shelley and Kamz discuss:
🤑the myth of work/life balance and how to reframe your mindset for success
✊how web3 companies and communities can level the playing field for women
🫂the unstoppable power of women and moms when we collaborate
🏗️what Fortune 500 companies, startups and everyone in between can start doing right now to build equality
🧘🏽♀️We end with a 2-min meditation focused on calming a busy mind.
See also:
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| 0:51.4 | Welcome to CoinDesk's Women Who Web3 podcast, your weekly podcast, celebrating women supporting women, |
| 0:59.9 | investing in women, and bridging the gender gap and wealth through Web3. |
| 1:04.3 | Blockchain technology can be anything. |
| 1:07.3 | That's what they're doing. |
| 1:08.2 | They're here to support other women, and they are supporting themselves in the process. You write your rules. That's what they're doing. They're here to support other women. And they are supporting |
| 1:11.4 | themselves in the process. You write your rules. That's what happens when the collective |
| 1:17.1 | minority becomes the new majority. And we actually have a country, Iceland, who is at 90% |
| 1:24.1 | parity. And guess what they have? 12 months maternity leave. Isn't that gorgeous? |
| 1:29.4 | Women, do you want to wait 132 years to have a year maternity leave? I don't. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, first, there's no such thing as perfection. Perfect people aren't real. Real people |
| 1:40.3 | aren't perfect. So that's the first thing you have to get out of your head. The second is |
| 1:45.0 | there's no such thing as balance. Take balance out of your vocabulary. You have one life with five |
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