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The Empower Podcast with Emily Kennedy

Mar 28, 2019

Rana is a serial startup founder and senior software engineer from the closed country of Gaza. She focuses on building technology companies that bring tech jobs to women in isolated communities. Despite the siege in Gaza, she is playing a leading role in fostering the tech ecosystem there. We discuss how to build a...


Mar 21, 2019

Tina Hovsepian is an LA based, LA native architect who is humanizing homelessness.  In a city where 1/3 of renters are paying over 50% of their income to rent, her non-profit, Cardborigami, provides immediate shelter to people who have lost their homes by manufacturing and deploying portable, origami-inspired shelters.


Mar 14, 2019

She is the CEO of WILD.AI which she created to empower female athletes to take advantage of their cycles instead of fighting against their bodies, and tracks data to improve female sports performance. With our guest Hélène Guillaume, we discuss building WILD.AI, how to create powerful habits, how ultra running and...


Mar 7, 2019

She’s a black belt, Carnegie Mellon alum, and one of my personal heroes. Jessica Dickinson Goodman is a multi-hyphenate who builds tech tools to power the movement for social justice.

We discuss how to build social capital, how to lend your privilege to help bring others up, her extensive work in the Middle East, and...