Kristin Lemkau was thriving in her job as CMO of JPMorgan Chase, a job she thought would be her last, when CEO Jamie Dimon and his leadership team threw a new challenge her way.  They wanted the company to become more competitive in the wealth management space, and offered Lemkau the job as CEO of J.P. Morgan Wealth Management.  Despite some significant hurdles that would come with building the business, Lemkau took on the role in late 2019.  

A few years into this professional challenge, she experienced a tectonic shift in her personal life.  Lemkau’s husband, who had stayed at home with their two children, passed away.  Overnight, she became a single mom.  She found herself trying to figure out all the details of the family’s day-to-day life that he had handled, from multiple school apps, household bills, her kids’ sports schedule, and more. 

After taking some time off, her two teenagers encouraged her to return to work, where she thrived.  Under her leadership. J.P. Morgan Wealth Management has grown from  $500 billion to $1.3 trillion dollars in assets, an accomplishment she confidently takes credit for.    

”What I've done over the past six years was really, really hard.I genuinely believe a lot of people couldn't have done it. We had a lot of headwinds, but we did it,” Lemkau said. 

 💬 In this episode, we explore:

• Why Kristin Lemkau said “yes” to the CEO job, despite really “loving” her marketing job and the people she worked with
• Lemkau’s approach to re-making and growing the wealth management business 
• How her personal loss has impacted the way she manages her team 
• Her secret for getting a full-night’s sleep, and why that’s been so critical for her well-being 
• Her thoughts on being the oldest of four very high-achieving siblings, and what about their upbringing may have helped them all to succeed
• Some of the perks of working at JPMorgan, including being front and center for one of the wildest US Open Women’s Finals ever

Resources:

🔗 Visit J.P. Morgan Wealth Management 

📸  Follow @JPMorgan Wealth Management on Instagram

📸  Follow @JPMorgan Wealth Management on LinkedIn

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Kecia Steelman was a 20-year-old single mom living in government housing when she faced a realization: if she wanted a better life, it was up to her.  She became determined to find a job where she could learn and grow.  From the men’s department at Target, she buckled down, worked holidays and weekends, and transformed what started as an $8 an hour gig into something much more. She built a career path that would lead her to become one of the most powerful women in the beauty business. 

On this episode of How She Does It, Kecia opens up about her first year as CEO at ULTA Beauty, the country’s largest beauty retailer.   With 30 years of retail experience, including almost five years as ULTA Beauty’s COO, she was able to take on this new challenge and “hit the ground running.”  From expanding the brand into international markets to working closely with brand founders like Beyoncé, Kylie Jenner, Paris Hilton, and more, the company has seen growth across both their e-commerce and retail sales.  

 💬 In this episode, we explore:

• Kecia’s rollout of ULTA Beauty’s most recent strategy, from the C-Suite to the employees on the sales floor
• The approach Kecia takes when it comes to setting expectations for Wall Street 
• What her “best day” and “worst day” working in retail look like
• The three factors Kecia looks for when making a new hire
• What happens when Kecia visits an Ulta Beauty store unannounced 
• The profound way Kecia’s mother inspired her 

Resources:

🔗 Visit Ulta.com

📸  Follow Kecia Steelman on Instagram 

📸  Follow Kecia Steelman on LinkedIn

📸  Follow Ulta Beauty on Instagram 

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We’re all likely to encounter some change in life that’s unwelcome:  a scary health diagnosis, the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, or the end of a dream.  Maya Shankar, PhD, deeply understands the concept of change and offers a roadmap for navigating it.   

She is a cognitive scientist and Senior Director of Behavioral Economics at Google.  But she is perhaps best known for her side gig: being the creator and host of the award-winning podcast A Slight Change of Plans.  Her fascination with how we navigate change started when she was a teen, and a hand injury forced her to give up her dream of becoming a professional violinist. 

In this episode, Maya speaks with Karen about that first pivot as well as some difficult challenges she faced later, and how she has built a successful career teaching others how to learn from the unexpected.  It’s all in her New York Times Bestseller, “The Other Side Of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans.”  

 💬 In this episode, we explore:

• Maya’s biggest piece of advice for transitioning through change: finding your “why”
• Tools that can be helpful during the most difficult periods of change 
• How Maya’s mother taught her the importance of the cold call / cold email (or, in her mom’s case, the cold drop-by-Julliard) 
• Maya’s view of imposter syndrome and how one can leverage it into becoming better at your job 

Resources:🔗 Visit Dr. Maya Shankar’s website 

📕 For Information on “The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans.”

📸  Follow Maya Shakar on Instagram 

📸  Follow Maya Shakar on X

🎧 Listen to A Slight Change of Plans 

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“I don’t sweep the floor with my uterus,” asserts Corinne Low, Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.  It’s a stark statement, but her underlying point is to urge men and women to re-examine gender roles around the work needed to maintain a home and family: cooking, cleaning, making the kids’ doctor’s appointments, and so on.  

Low was on the tenure track when her first marriage fell apart.  She was overwhelmed with her job, a bad commute, a new infant, and housework. She was the higher earner of the couple, and the division of labor at home felt way too lopsided.  So she used her know-how as an economist to study the data on how men and women divide tasks at home and develop strategies for how couples can create a system that’s fair.  

Today, Low is a tenured professor and is remarried to a woman. (She notes that it is not a prescription for everyone, but it works for her.) She writes about her research and her experience in HAVING IT ALL: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours, which is a USA Today National Best Seller and an Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.

💬 In this episode, we explore:

• How to approach a conversation with a partner about re-allocating work around the house 
• Why parents today are feeling “the squeeze” - when time pressures and money pressures hit at the same time - more than previous generations.
• What concerns Low about the “tradwife” trend
• Questions to ask yourself about your career path to determine if it’s compatible with the life you want outside of work 
• Why a job with “boundaries” is better for women than a job with “flexibility.” 

🔗 Visit Corinne Low’s website

📕 Find out more about Corinne Low’s book: HAVING IT ALL

📸 Follow Corinne Low on Instagram 

📸 Follow Corinne Low on Substack

📸 Follow Corinne Low on LinkedIn

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The markets are still riding high, but if 2025 taught us anything, it’s that not everything that glitters is gold. In this episode of our sister podcast HerMoney, Jean Chatzky sits down with legendary investor and How She Does It Host Karen Finerman to unpack the wild ride of 2025: the highs, the flops, the lessons learned, and the big bets she’s making in 2026.

We also talk about what makes a winning portfolio, how our InvestingFixx club beat the market, and how you can start building confidence with your own investments, one smart move at a time.

In this episode:

• What Karen’s biggest winner of 2025 says about the market’s resilience
• Karen's biggest regret and what she’d do differently
• Whether or not the AI hype is starting to look like 1999
• How to use the volatility index to make better decisions
• Why banks might be the most overlooked opportunity of 2026
• What our InvestingFixx community got right and how they keep winning

Looking for more?

• Join our InvestingFixx club
• Listen to HerMoney with Jean Chatzky 
• Karen Finerman’s viral end-of-year thread on X

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We love hearing insight and hard-won wisdom from some of the most exceptional and accomplished women. In this episode, we’ve put together some particularly insightful moments from a few of our guests from across our first 70 episodes. We cover how to push through those tough moments, trust your gut, and do what it takes to build the life you want (and not the life other people think you should be living.) 

So, as you take a moment to think about your own plans and dreams for the year ahead, we know listening to these smart and talented women share their own experiences will help inspire, clarify, and motivate you as you move forward on the path you are uniquely creating for yourself. 

💬 In this episode, we hear from:

• Rachel Webber, CCO & CBO for Paris Hilton’s 11:11 Media, on the bold, split-second decision that changed her career-trajectory 
• CNBC Host Melissa Lee on listening to her gut, despite disappointing her parents
• Filmmaker and author Crystal McCrary McGuire on the chance meeting that challenged her and helped her turn her dream career into a reality 
• OpenTable CEO Debby Soo on finding the company where she could be her authentic self, and how she fought to become CEO 
• Bonnie Hammer, Former NBCU Vice Chair, on the magic of asking for and getting what you want 
• Chelsea Sodaro, 2022 Ironman World Champion, on pushing through the really tough moments 
• Broadway producer Carmen Pavlovic on working through and learning from failure 
• Actress Renée Elise Goldsberry on the best advice she’s received on managing anxiety 
• Journalist Leigh Gallagher on her decision to become a single mom and how she did it 
• Best-Selling Author Gretchen Rubin on the question that helps her tackle tough life choices

🎧Listen To Rachel Webber on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 52

🎧Listen To Melissa Lee on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 1

🎧Listen To Crystal McCrary McGuire on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 54

🎧Listen To Debby Soo on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 50 

🎧Listen To Bonnie Hammer on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 57

🎧Listen To Chelsea Sodaro on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 59

🎧Listen To Carmen Pavlovic on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 30 

🎧Listen To Renée Elise Goldsberry on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 61

🎧Listen To Leigh Gallagher on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 45 

🎧Listen To Gretchen Rubin  on HOW SHE DOES IT Episode 51

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It was a “gigantic” role: one that required Gina Raimondo to engage in high-powered meetings with heads of state and be called on in the White House Situation Room to weigh in on critical decisions of national security.  After serving as Secretary of Commerce during the Biden administration, Gina Raimondo is now taking time to consider what her next move will look like.  But there’s one thing the former Governor of Rhode Island knows for sure: she wants to stay in public service.  

Listen as Gina Raimondo, now a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, looks back at her career in venture capital and politics.  She shares what motivates her, what she’s proud of, and what she wishes she had done differently.   She also opens up about the defining moments from her upbringing as the granddaughter of Italian immigrants, as well as how she and her husband raised their two children as they navigated life in the public eye. 

💬 In this episode, we explore:

• Gina Raimondo’s perspective on a woman running for President of the United States, and why there hasn’t been a female in America’s top job
• Her views on how to best foster economic security for the U.S. 
• What it’s like to be involved in White House Situation Room meeting 
• Why she is passionate about keeping America as competitive as possible
• The advice her mother gave her that has stayed with her to this day
• The strategy she uses to motivate teams working for her

🔗 More on Gina Raimondo’s work for the Council on Foreign Relations Here

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Selling subscriptions door-to-door. It was difficult work and a worst-case scenario for Angie Hicks, a self-proclaimed introvert. Straight out of college, Hicks went to work with a former boss from an internship to help launch a new business. The idea: create a resource of home repair and renovation service providers curated by customers, along with reviews.   They called it Angie’s List.  

Now, 30 years later, the company known today as Angi is a billion-dollar brand. Angie Hicks built the foundation of the company, signing customers up one at a time and creating her famous list of service providers from scratch.  Since then, she’s had a front row seat as the company has evolved from a subscription-based newsletter to an online platform that has helped 150 million people maintain, repair, and resonate their homes, as well as supported the growth of hundreds of thousands of small local businesses.  

💬 In this episode, we explore:

• Angie’s advice for hiring the right pro to do work in your home and avoid having your project turn into a nightmare

• How Angie managed angry service providers who would call and yell at her after a poor review

• The quality that she thinks makes her a great businessperson, despite her inclination toward being an introvert 

• Why every week she makes time to speak directly with customers and service providers

• Her experience going to Harvard Business School, and why she chose to return to Angie’s List once she finished 

• The reason her husband opted to be a stay-at-home dad with their two kids, and how that impacted Angie’s approach to her career  

🔗 Check out Angi.com

📸 Follow @Angi on Instagram 

📸 Follow Angie Hicks on Instagram 

📸 Follow Angie Hicks on LinkedIn

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Talk about a tough day at work. NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were the first to fly the Boeing Starliner into space in June of 2024. The plan for the test mission was to pilot the new spacecraft into orbit, dock with the International Space Station for 8 days, and return home. But when the two astronauts first attempted to approach the ISS, five of the Starliner’s critical thrusters failed for a time, and the astronauts were in the unenviable position of piloting a potentially unreliable spacecraft. 

Their story grabbed headlines around the world. After successfully docking with ISS, the decision was made to return the Starliner unmanned and have the astronauts stay aboard the ISS until they could be returned safely. That decision extended their stay to 286 days in space, and they finally returned to Earth in March of 2025.  

It’s the type of high-stakes situation Sunita Williams, who goes by Suni, has trained for much of her professional life. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S Naval Test Pilot School, she has spent years learning how to calmly solve potentially life-threatening problems in air and spacecraft. It’s the type of work that underscores the importance of collaborating well with others, doing your homework, and trusting your team.   

💬 In this episode, we explore:

• Highlights of Suni’s three missions to the ISS, including how she sleeps, exercises, and showers in space
• How her career proved to be a series of unexpected pivots, how she handled it, and her advice to young women starting out 
• Why she never felt “stranded” on the ISS and remained convinced that she & Butch Wilmore would eventually return home to Earth safely 
• What’s involved in the high-pressure task of space walks, and the awe-inspiring sights she witnessed 
• What her plans are for the future, and her thoughts on sending crews to the Moon and to Mars.  

🔗 Check out NASA.gov

📸 Follow @NASA on Instagram 

📸 Follow Suni Williams on X

🔗 Check out info on NASA Expedition 72 & Expedition 71  

 💻Video of Suni Williams & Butch Wilmore working & exercising on the ISS

 💻Video of Suni Williams & Butch Wilmore on a spacewalk on November 12, 2024

 💻Video of Suni Wiliams & Butch Wilmore’s return to Earth on March 18, 2025 

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Carla Hall is a force. Her effervescence is a welcome ingredient in the many shows she has fronted, including “The Chew,” Fox’s “Next Level Baker,” and Food Network’s “Holiday Baking Challenge” and “Worst Cooks in America.” But what might surprise you is that she began her professional career as an accountant after being rejected from her chosen college and a dream of studying theater.  

In her conversation with Karen Finerman, Carla shares how she has dealt with disappointment and setbacks, inevitably turning them into triumphs.  A creative and curious entrepreneur, she has authored award-winning cookbooks, created a line of cookware for QVC, and established an online platform to guide women through personal and professional challenges. She is not afraid of embracing what’s new and next, and she is on a mission to encourage other women to approach life the same way. 

💬 In this episode, we explore:

• The life-long dream Carla is making come true in 2026
• Her thoughts on reuniting with Clinton Kelly and Michael Symon on  their “Chewed Up” show and podcast 
• Why she decided to go grey on national TV 
• How she advocated for herself on “The Chew” when she was being passed over for opportunities 
• Her story of meeting her husband and getting married - after 40 

🔗 Check out TheMeMenu.com

🔗 Visit Carla Hall’s website

🎧 Check Out The Chewed Up Podcast & YouTube Page 

📸 Follow @CarlaPHall on Instagram 

📸 Follow: @ChefCarla Hall on Facebook

📸Follow  @CarlaHall on X

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Women often have a blur of busy days — especially this time of year - going from meetings and important phone calls to the grocery store or soccer practice. It often feels like the day goes by in the blink of an eye. This, of course, leaves many of us feeling drained at the end of the day, or inspired to push off our most important tasks to next week — or we forget about them completely. 

So how can we better juggle our busy work days, the challenges of raising a family, and all of the other tasks in between, while still making time for fun?  We’re sharing one of our favorite episodes from season 1 to help you do just that, because Laura Mae Martin has cracked the code. She’s an Executive Productivity Advisor at Google and she coaches Google’s top executives on time management and efficiency. 

She offers her take on how to cut out time-suck meetings once and for all, and why discovering our “power hours” does wonders for our creativity and productivity. 

💬 In this episode:

* Manage your email inbox like doing laundry - sort, prioritize, and focus on one task at a time.

* Use the list funnel method to organize tasks and prioritize based on timeframes.

* Limit and optimize meetings by setting agendas, evaluating their necessity, and providing feedback.

* Identify your power hours and schedule important tasks during those times for maximum productivity. 

* Minimize multitasking and manage email effectively to improve productivity.

🔗 Resources & Links:

👩‍💼 Learn more about Laura Mae Martin at lauramaemartin.com   

📚 Check out Laura Mae Martin’s Book Uptime at lauramaemartin.com/book

📲 Follow Laura Mae Martin on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lauramaemartin/

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