Episode 117 - Terri is taking a break from Piloting Your Life to explore the wild world of YouTube.

Show Highlights 

• Terri is taking a break from Piloting Your Life (the podcast) to focus on her YouTube channel 

• She shares her thoughts on how we can use this time to plant the seeds for what we want in the world moving forward 

• Terri is planting seeds for a more equitable and just society 

• Stay safe and healthy, my friends 

Terri’s Key Takeaway 

Think about what you want to keep from this time of sheltering in place and the big reset.  

References in the Podcast 

• Terri Mead YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPDlEQPOq3_sBGKmSMyjMZQ 

Contact 

You can find Terri on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPDlEQPOq3_sBGKmSMyjMZQ 

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.  

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.   

Terri is active on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/terrihansonmead/ 

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com. 

Episode 116 - Terri talks with Crystal Cannon Flores about how, through death, she learned about living

Show Highlights

·      Crystal explains what a death doula does, how they are difference from hospice care and how they complement each other

·      Terri asked about who pays for a death doula and who tends to bring one in

·      Crystal shares her experience with the death of her parents and how it led to her becoming a death doula and how through death, she learned about living

·      Crystal talks about the different ways in which people use death doula services and the different services that are available

·      Crystal explains why we need death doulas and how we are getting back to death and dying being part of the human experience

·      Crystal explains that death doulas meet the dying person and their families where they are at

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Through death and grieving, we can learn how to live. 

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life (the book):  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

Crystal can be reached through her website, www.thegratefuldeath.org and by email crystal@thegratefuldeath.org.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Episode 115 - Terri is flying solo and shares what’s top of mind for her this week.

Show Highlights

·      Terri is focusing on self-care and finding peace within this month

·      Terri shares what she’s been listening to the past two weeks

·      Terri talks about how Melinda Gates influenced her to change her investing thesis to focus on the startups who have products and services that expand the influence and power of women

·      Terri purchased a new sports bra from Bloom Bras and is focusing on getting fit before 50

·      Terri talks about recapping 2019 and planning for 2020 in all aspects of her life

·      Terri offers to be a part of book club conversations in 2020

·      Terri is looking to do more library talks in 2020 and is open to suggestions and connections

·      Terri shares her plans for the Terri Hanson Mead YouTube channel

·      Terri talks about her 2019 investments including SendaRide, Astarte Medical, Via Global Health, Silk + Sonder, SMBX:  Bernal Cutlery, CrowdFund MainStreet:  Absinthia, and Jane VC.

·      Terri reminisces about Slush in Helsinki in 2016 and 2017.  Sigh.

Terri’s Key Takeaway

The holiday season is a great time to focus on finding peace within. 

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      It’s Been a Minute: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779757232/alicia-menendez-wants-women-to-stop-falling-into-the-likeability-trap

·      The Secret Lives of Black Women: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-secret-lives-of-black-women

·      Likeability Trap by Alicia Mendez:  https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062838766/the-likeability-trap/

·      Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250313577

·      ReedsyDiscovery:  https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/piloting-your-life-terri-mead

·      C.E. Flores:  https://ceflores.com/

·      Magnus Chase series:  http://rickriordan.com/series/magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard/

·      Bloom Bras:  https://www.bloombras.com/

·      SendaRide: https://www.sendaride.com/

·      Astarte Medical: http://astartemedical.com/

·      Via Global Health: https://www.viaglobalhealth.com/

·      Silk + Sonder: https://www.silkandsonder.com/

·      SMBX: https://www.thesmbx.com/

·      Bernal Cutlery: https://bernalcutlery.com/

·      Absinthia: https://www.absinthia.com/

·      CrowdFund MainStreet: https://crowdfundmainstreet.com/

·      Jane VC:  https://www.janevc.com/

·      The Coven: https://thecoven.com/

·      Slush:  https://www.slush.org/events/helsinki/

·      Slush panel on Shifting Demographics:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP-1LQ3838s&feature=emb_logo

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Episode 114 - Terri talks with Emma Payne about how to support loved ones through grief and how it has inspired her to take more risks.

Show Highlights

·      Emma shares why she is so interested in improving our ability to process grief and support others

·      Emma talks about how we can better support our friends and family members as they are grieving for lost loved ones

·      Emma talks about how it is reasonable to feel angry, or guilty, and extraordinarily sad when someone is no longer in our life

·      Emma says that every grieving person she talks to says they hate the platitudes; that we don’t need to put a positive spin on death and loss

·      Terri asks Emma about supporting grieving teenagers

·      Emma explains grief.coach and who can benefit from the text based service

·      Terri asked about grieving when family members are older or there were longer declines before death

·      Emma talks about how her work with grief has expanded her risk tolerance and has fueled her determination to live life to the fullest

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Extra kindness matters.

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      Grief.Coach:  www.grief.coach

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

Emma can be reached through the website www.grief.coach and on Instragram @grief.coach. 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Episode 113 - Terri talks with Candice Smith about caring for loved ones during their end of life journey.

Show Highlights

·      70-80% of caregivers are women and caring for aging parents is the new ‘mommy shaming’

·      Candice talks about how difficult it is to be in the position of taking care of an aging or disabled parent because of the decisions made by or the actions of a parent

·      Candice shared that the average caregiver journey for a senior or someone with a serious illness, is four years

·      Candice shared the statistics around the caregivers in the workplace and what is happening to women in senior leadership and the impact on women’s financial situation

·      Terri asked if anything is being done to address the gaps in caregiving

·      Baby boomers are driving change in this space because they recognize the gaps in caregiving for the aging

·      Women want to continue to have the choice around caring for their aging parents

·      Terri asked about how employers are viewing this issue and whether they are becoming more sensitive to the issues

·      Candice talks about how difficult this time is when you know you are going to lose the battle and feel like you are failing at work and at home and with your aging parent.

·      Candice talks about why she created Caregiven based on her experience with her own father’s life ending

·      Candice shared the gap in caregivers and those who need it

·      Terri asked how we can better support our friends who are struggling with the caregiving and Candice offered some practical suggestions

Terri’s Key Takeaway

By having this conversation, we can begin to make positive changes toward addressing the gaps in caregiving and the negative impact on women.

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      Death Over Dinner: https://deathoverdinner.org/

·      Caregiven: https://caregiven.co/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

Candice can be reached by email at candice@caregiven.co or through the Caregiven website https://www.caregiven.co

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com

Episode 112 - Terri talks with De’Anna Nunez about how we can eliminate mental blocks to achieve personal freedom.

Show Highlights

·      De’Anna shares why she loves to work with women to encourage them to be explorers of their own truths in finding their life’s purpose

·      Terri asks De’Anna about the roadblocks or mental blocks women encounter in midlife in achieving personal freedom

·      De’Anna believes we are all born worthy and shares why

·      De’Anna believes that we shouldn’t bring the troubles from our 20s and 30s into our 40s and 50s and beyond

·      De’Anna explains how we can go in and out of the state of consciousness to tap into our creativity and suggestibility to move into a more purpose driven state

·      Coaching prompt after taking a breath and closing your eyes:  what did I make it mean that it doesn’t? 

·      Terri asks De’Anna about how important it is for women to get back to a heart connected space, especially in a male dominated world

·      Terri shares how she’s been motivated by fear but is exhausted and wants a healthier, more value aligned way to be motivated

·      De’Anna believes that when we aren’t heart centered, we cannot be fulfilled

·      Coaching prompt after taking a breath and closing your eyes:  based on the past, based on my struggles, what do I now value?

·      De’Anna shares her FIT method: focus, inward target to create meaningful goals and heart centered peak performance

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Anyone with a goal is worthy of the goal – De’Anna Nunez

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      Letting Go by David Hawkins: https://veritaspub.com/product-category/dr-hawkins-published-books/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

De’Anna can be reached through her website wakeupyourbest.com, by email deanna@deannanunez.com, or by phone 619-993-9855.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Terri talks with Naama Barnea-Goraly about the tech savvy and socially minded Gen Z.

Show Highlights

·      Naama explains that Gen Z covers people born between 1997-2010/2012 but it’s not just the year they were born.

·      Naama shares that Gen Z grew up after 9/11, in an era of war, during the financial crisis, and with technology

·      Naama explains that Gen Xers grew up after Watergate, with high divorce rates for their parents, and grew up to be cynical; this influences the way Gen Xers parent their kids along with having access to technology and resources on parenting

·      Naama said that the data shows that Gen Z is the largest generation in terms of numbers, is the most diverse, is shaping up to be the best educated, is very socially minded, and is less trusting of institutions

·      Naama said that the data shows that Gen Z tends to stay at home more, gets into less trouble, starts having sex later, has fewer teen pregnancies, do less drugs and drink less, but they do feel lonelier and are more depressed.

·      Terri asks Naama about Gen Z and the gender spectrum

·      Naama shares what she and her team have learned about what girls are looking for and why they’ve create an app for them

·      Terri asks Naama for ideas to get her second child to interact and socialize in real life with their friends

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Even though her second child isn’t getting out more to meet with their friends in real life, the interaction that they are having in chats, through Facetime and other means of communicating are just fine to build relationships and feel connected to others.

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      Telle App:  https://telleapp.com/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

Naama can be reached at naama@telleapp.com or through their website www.telleapp.com.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Terri talks with Erin Levine of Hello Divorce about a healthier approach to divorce.

Show Highlights

·      Erin provided her background and the trends she is seeing in divorce and how divorce has changed over the last 15 years

·      Erin said that women want to feel alive and make deliberate choices; we want to live more intentionally

·      Erin shared the following:

o   It takes 5-7 years of relationship trouble or contemplating divorce before a woman files for divorce

o   75% of divorces are filed by women

o   Women want to feel alive, we want to make deliberate choices, and we want to live more intentionally

o   Women want to model positive relationships for their children

o   The divorce industry is $50B/year

·      Divorce is the dissolving of the most complicated financial contract we will be involved in

·      Divorce does not mean failure; a lot of relationships don’t work out; people shouldn’t feel terrible and ashamed if they get divorced

·      Erin talked about how the fear of the unknown is terrifying in divorce; the fear can turn into anger and a messy divorce which can be avoided through education, self-care, and goal-setting for after the divorce

·      Terri asked Erin for ways in which we can better support our friends and family going through divorce

·      Erin talked about how millennials love their pets and there are pre-nups, post-nups that address this in relationships

Terri’s Key Takeaway

There are healthier ways to end marriages than in years past with a shift from attorney-centered to individually centered and leveraging the services of divorce coaches, co-parenting coaches, financial planners, and other non-legal resources. 

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      Hello Divorce:  https://hellodivorce.com/

·      Divorceify:  https://divorceify.com/home

·      Breaking Free:  A Modern Divorce podcast:  https://www.breakingfreepod.com/

·      F It, Get a Divorce:  The Guide for Optimists by Steven Kane: https://www.amazon.com/F-Get-Divorce-Steve-Kane/dp/1794600795/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1572114806&sr=8-3

·      October Crew Chat topic on Money:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead/piloting-your-life-crew-chat-money-beeba0ffa570

·      Sluts and Scholars:  Spooky Sex with Dr. Amie Harwick:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/123-spooky-sex-with-dr-amie-harwick/id1223781930?i=1000454766632

·      Finding My Yum:  https://www.facebook.com/findingmyyumpodcast/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

Erin can be reached by email at hello@hellodivorce.com, through LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinlevine/ and on Twitter @hellodivorce.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Episode 109 -Terri talks with Stephanie Sammons, CFP about the four steps to improve your financial health.

Show Highlights

·      Stephanie shares what she is seeing with the midlife women she works with as a Certified Financial Planner and how they are asking, “Where am I going next?”

·      Stephanie includes your mental health, physical health, spiritual health, financial health when defining your financial life

·      Stephanie believes the first step to taking charge of your financial situation is to be aware of the need to do so.

·      Stephanie shares the four steps for women to take charge of their finances and wealth in midlife

o   Create a master inventory of your assets, debts, insurance policies, employee benefits, wills, etc.

o   Define your life vision

o   Shore up your health and wellness

o   Identify and close the gaps

·      Terri shares her quarterly financial summary process and how she has a death binder to capture her family’s inventory

·      Terri asks Stephanie about how to handle the emotional baggage we might have around financial planning or money in general

·      Stephanie offers up some suggestions for how to view your wealth, and some tools to help with it, when you don’t feel wealthy

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Our financial health includes our mental health, physical health, spiritual health, and our finances.

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      LGBTQ Midlife Money Gal podcast: https://lgbtqmidlifemoney.com/category/podcast/

·      Stephanie Sammons CFP blog: https://sammonswealth.com/blog/

·      Funerals360:  https://www.funerals360.com/

·      Death binder alternative:  https://www.everplans.com/

·      True WELLth podcast: https://www.brightonjones.com/podcast/true-wellth

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

Stephanie can be reached through her website https://sammonswealth.com/or https://lgbtqmidlifemoney.com/.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Episode 108 -Terri talks with Susan Bratton, the Trusted Hot Sex Advisor to Millions about opportunities for great sex in midlife.

Show Highlights

·      Susan shares how she decided on the title ‘Trusted Hot Sex Advisor to Millions’

·      Susan answered Terri’s question about how to get our sexy back in midlife

·      Susan shares the differences between estrogen driven and testosterone driven humans

·      Susan shares some things we can be doing as women to wake up our inner sex kitten

·      Susan emphasizes the need for a sexual soulmate pact to create trust in the bedroom

·      Susan talks about libido, desire and arousal

·      Terri asks about rebuilding trust in the bedroom in long term relationships

·      Susan shares her favorite vibrators and the results of a 30-day masturbation challenge

·      Susan goes into detail about the entire clitoris and the importance of self-pleasure

·      Terri summarizes opportunities for women in midlife:

o   Let go of body image issues

o   Ask for what we want

o   Self-pleasure

o   Sexploration

o   Getting the blood flowing (engorgement)

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Women follow a monthly cycle while men adhere to a daily cycle. 

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      PYL008:  Piloting Your Life interview with Andrea Barrica of O.School : http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/2017/10/2/piloting-your-life-episode-8-andrea-barrica

·      Susan Bratton:  https://susanbratton.com/

·      Sexual Soulmates by Susan Bratton (includes the sexual soulmate pact): https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/sexandrelationships

·      Finding My Yum podcast episode with Amy Harwick: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rebroadcast-15-theres-doctor-in-house-dr-amie-harwick/id1446362861?i=1000452164707

·      Lady Bi Vibrator:  https://us.funfactory.com/en/vibrators/lady-bi/

·      #LiftNotDrag 31 Day Challenge:  https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead/liftnotdrag-31-day-challenge-6395dc27e37b

·      Pinterest #LiftNotDrag 31 Day Challenge:  https://pin.it/62iluqdk226qal

 Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Susan Bratton on Instagram @susanbratton, on YouTube on her Better Lover channel, and learn more on her website www.personallifemedia.com. 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Episode 107 -Terri talks with Meha Agrawal about health, happiness, community, purpose and meaning for women.

Show Highlights

·      Meha talks about how we learn from our community and are able to apply these learnings within our own lives

·      Meha suggests giving time and space to yourself to reflect on your own needs

·      Terri and Meha discuss the grounding effect of daily journaling

·      Meha shares how journaling helped her get out of a vicious spiral of negativity

·      Meha discussed the research around the healing power of bringing pen to paper

·      Terri and Meha discuss the power of community, listening to others and the importance of reflection, intention and action

·      Meha encourages women to take the pressure off the long term when defining your purpose and meaning (ikigai) and appreciating the small things

·      Terri emphasizes the importance of women focusing on their own journeys and learning through exploration, experimentation, and failure

·      Meha reminds us that happier women make for a happier world.

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Bringing pen to paper slows the brain down. 

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      Silk & Sonder: https://www.silkandsonder.com/

·      #LiftNotDrag 31 Day Challenge:  https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead/liftnotdrag-31-day-challenge-6395dc27e37b

·      Pinterest #LiftNotDrag 31 Day Challenge:  https://pin.it/62iluqdk226qal

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

Meha Agrawal can be reached through Instragram @mehaagrawal and @silkandsonder and through the Silk & Sonder website silkandsonder.com. Or by email at hello@silkandsonder.com.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

Episode 106 -Terri talks with Annie Rogaski about the 31 day #LiftNotDrag challenge to lift up women.

Show Highlights

·      Terri and Annie talk about the importance of actively supporting and promoting other women

·      Terri raises the challenge for all of us women to do one thing every day in the month of October:  #LiftNotDrag

·      Terri and Annie discuss ways in which we can provide lift for other women each and every day during the month of October in ways that might just become second nature.

Terri’s Key Takeaway

It’s time for us to actively look for opportunities to promote and lift other women.

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      Unraveling Pink podcast: https://unravelingpink.com/blog/

·      Piloting Your Life book signing event on October 5, 2019 at Pomegranate Seeds in Redwood City: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-signing-with-terri-hanson-mead-author-of-piloting-your-life-tickets-72151050735

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Annie on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnnieRogaski and reach her through her personal website http://www.annierogaski.com/ and the podcast website https://unravelingpink.com/ .

Episode 99 -Terri talks with Dr. Samantha Nazareth to discuss and dispel the myths around the gut microbiome.

Terri talks with Dr. Samantha Nazareth about the evolution of our gut microbiomes, the importance of diverse data in gut research, and ways for us to improve and monitor our gut health.   

Who is Samantha Nazareth? 

Dr. Samantha Nazareth, MD, FACG is double board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology/hepatology, who practices in New York City. She is also a noted researcher, writer, and speaker on nutrition, wellness, and the microbiome. Dr. Nazareth has research published in The New York Times and continues to be sought out by the media as an authoritative source on a wide range of topics that include eating, wellness and gastrointestinal health. Her work has been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, US News & World Report, Women’s Health, Bustle, POPSUGAR, Shape, and Reader’s Digest, to name a few. She is also a medical advisory board member for Women’s Health magazine 

Show Highlights 

• Sam talks about the various microbiomes and how the gut microbiome is the body’s first interaction with the outside world 

• Sam explains how delivery at birth, how you were fed after birth, and the other factors that continue to shift our microbiomes 

• Sam talks about age 3 when the gut microbiome reaches its ‘adult’ state 

• Terri and Sam talk about the importance of diverse data in the research and tech around the gut microbiome and how we need to move away from self reporting 

• Sam shares her tips for women to better and proactively manage our health through adding more plants to your diet, reducing sugar, and checking out your poop 

Terri’s Key Takeaway 

Younger people are dying from colon cancer and screening starts at age 45 now! 

References in the Podcast 

• Floragraph: http://www.floragraph.me/ 

• uBiome: https://ubiome.com/ 

• Viome: https://www.viome.com/ 

• Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP: https://foodfoundation.guru/ 

• HITLab:  https://www.hitlab.org/ 

Contact 

You can reach Sam through her website www.drsamnazareth.com and on Instagram/Twitter: @drsamnazareth. 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.  

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com. 

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife. 

Episode 98 -Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP and Terri talk about how we can make small but impactful changes to improve our overall health through healthy eating, rest, and education.

Terri talks with Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP about how we can make small but impactful changes to improve our overall health through healthy eating, rest, and education.

Who is Jessica Campbell? 

Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with a master’s degree in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. She sees patients at the Freyja Clinic in Redwood City and Love Heal Thrive in San Carlos. Jessica runs seasonal detoxes to help you fall in love with your food, your body, and your life. You can find her blog at http://foodfoundation.guru where she shares holistic health tips and healthy recipes for families that love comfort food. Jessica speaks yoga, Ayurveda, paleo, keto, ancestral diets, microbiome, mindfulness, and her superpower is the language of dance. 

Show Highlights 

• Jessica shares her journey into human nutrition and functional medicine 

• Terri and Jessica talk about lifestyle changes we can make to improve our health and the importance of reducing the stress in our lives by getting our bodies into parasympathetic response 

• Jessica talks about the work she does with her patients to help them improve their health and how she works with them 

• Jessica and Terri discuss hormone changes in perimenopause/menopause and how we need to talk about this and do more to help our bodies better deal with the changes 

• Jessica talks about how our bodies are bombarded and are having trouble with dealing with the bombardment 

• Terri asks about how Jessica’s services are paid…out of pocket or with insurance and they discuss health inequities 

• Jessica loves working with postpartum, working moms to design programs that work for them and fits within their lives with their families 

• Terri comments on how confused we are about what is healthy and what we should be consuming, and Jessica goes on to talk about how our bodies don’t recognize certain foods any longer 

Terri’s Key Takeaway 

Making small and incremental lifestyle changes can have major impact on our lives.  

References in the Podcast 

• Planned Parenthood:  https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/facts-figures 

• University of Western States:  https://www.uws.edu/ 

• Article on listening to Mozart reducing allergic response: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14977243/ 

• Article on how being outside is good for your health:  http://bit.ly/HealthBenefitsArticle 

Contact 

You can follow Jessica on Twitter @JessicaFoodF, on Facebook @foodfoundationguru and her blog http://foodfoundation.guru.   

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.  

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com. 

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife. 

Episode 97 -Terri talks with her son Adam about launching into adulthood as he turns 18 this week.

Terri talks to her son, Adam, about turning 18 and preparing to launch into the real-world.  They talk about philosophy, mental health, and how he has learned to feel and display his feelings. 

Show Highlights 

• Terri asks Adam about turning 18, looking forward to college, and working with his therapist for the last year 

• Adam shares the four truths he knows about himself and how he’s learned to feel and display his feelings 

• Terri encourages Adam to seek help when he needs it in college 

• Terri comments on how, as GenXers, she and her husband have parented by providing love, support, and have been intentionally more permissive 

• Adam talks about being an outlier, playing a part in life, and shares his thoughts on hype beasts (Urban Dictionary:  a hype beast is a kid that collect clothing, shoes, and accessories for the sole purpose of impressing others) 

Terri’s Key Takeaway 

Life is going to be pretty dull in the Mead household when Adam goes off to college.   

Contact 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.  

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com. 

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife. 

Episode 96 -Terri talks with her second child Rei about their GenZ life in the Silicon Valley.

Terri talks to her second born child, Rei (born Rachel), about GenZ life in the Silicon Valley including Rei’s drive to learn, stress and anxiety, mental health awareness, social media pressures, their health journey, and being a part of a maker generation.

Show Highlights 

• Rei shares their experience as a GenZ non-binary kid in a public high school in Silicon Valley and their drive to learn 

• Rei talks about teenage stress, anxiety, the importance of having positive friends, and being comfortable talking about mental health 

• Terri asks Rei about their health journey and impact of changes in health habits 

• Rei explains why they think they are part of the GenZ maker generation and why it’s import to share content they have created 

• Rei and Terri talk about what it’s going to be like when Rei’s brother Adam goes off to college 

Terri’s Key Takeaway 

Terri is much more optimistic about the future if it is full of teenagers like Rei.  

Contact 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.  

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com. 

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.  

Episode 82-Educating and inspiring Angel Investors through OSEA Angels in Orange County with Xandra Laskowski

Terri talks to Xandra Laskowski about her own angel investing journey which has led to her desire to inspire and educate more female investors through OSEA Angels in Orange County.

Who is Xandra Laskowski?

Xandra Laskowski is a startup consultant with over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience with large multinational tech companies as well as startups as founder, investor, advisor and board member. She has held positions as Worldwide Commodity Manager and National Major Accounts Managerial roles before moving into the angel investment and startup worlds.   She founded OSEA Angel Investors in 2017, a women focused angel investment group based at the UC Irvine Cove, UCI Applied Innovation.  OSEA Angel Investors is a partner angel group with Tech Coast Angels and Angel Syndication Network.

Show Highlights

·      Xandra shares her journey into investing beginning in 2012 including some of her favorite investments and how they are faring.

·      Xandra talks about her investment philosophy which has evolved since she started investing.  She makes sure they are in revenue and that she is strategically aligned to be able to provide support before she writes her first, small check. 

·      Xandra’s leverages her professional experience and network in addition to her experience managing her family’s asset as an angel investor. 

·      She created Osea Angels to help other women in her community learn about investing in startups and get access to deals to make those investments. She is bringing education, inspiration, and connections to her members for startup opportunities. 

·      Xandra saw a need to support small businesses in Orange County that need access to resources to build and grow their businesses and she partnered up with someone to provide these services. 

·      Xandra most felt like the pilot in her own life when she took over her family’s finances to better manage her family’s wealth.    

Terri’s Key Takeaway

It’s time for women who are building the female founder / female investor ecosystem begin to benefit financially. 

References in the Podcast

·      Hera Venture Summit: https://www.heraventuresummit.com/

·      Osea Angels: https://www.oseaangelinvestors.com/Page/Home

·      Liquid Biosciences: http://www.liquidbiosciences.com/

·      Tech Coast Angels: https://www.techcoastangels.com/

·      UC Irvine Cove: http://innovation.uci.edu/the-cove/

·      First Republic Bank: https://www.firstrepublic.com/

·      Changing Tides: https://thinkresultsmarketing.com/books/changing-tides/

·      AngelList:  https://angel.co/

·      Jane VC:  https://www.janevc.com/

Contact

Xandra can be reached by email at xandra@oseaangelinvestors.com.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead. 

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Episode 81-Finding Tailored Funding strategies for Female Founders and Business Owners with Jenny Kassan

Terri talks to Jenny Kassan about alternative funding mechanisms for female founders and small business owners and how she works with them to provide tailored fundraising strategies.

Terri talks to Jenny Kassan about alternative funding mechanisms for female founders and small business owners and how she works with them to provide tailored fundraising strategies. 

Who is Jenny Kassan?  

Jenny Kassan has over two decades of experience as an attorney and advisor for mission-driven enterprises and is a certified coach.  She has helped her clients raise millions of dollars from values-aligned investors.  She is the author of Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul (Berrett-Koehler, October 2017). 

She served on the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies and submitted the petition to the SEC that led to the passage of the 2012 JOBS Act. 

Before becoming a securities lawyer, Jenny worked for eleven years at a nonprofit community development corporation in Oakland, where she served as staff attorney and managed community economic development projects including the formation and management of several social ventures designed to employ and create business ownership opportunities for low-income community residents. 

Jenny is a fellow at Democracy Collaborative and the co-founder of the Force for Good Fund, is the President of Community Ventures, and co-founded the Sustainable Economies Law Center.  She was a director of Berrett-Koehler Publishers and is a member of the Content Advisory Panel of Conscious Company Magazine and serves on the advisory boards of Lioness Magazine and Investibule. 

Jenny earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.     

Show Highlights 

• Jenny talks about her journey into working with startups and businesses on tailored fundraising strategies and the importance of Title III of the JOBS Act.   

• Jenny talks about how her frustration with fundraising options and meeting Michelle Thimesch led to the recent launch of CrowdFund Main Street to take advantage of Title III of the JOBS Act.   

• Terri and Jenny talk about how crowdfunding can fit into a startup’s fundraising strategy and how the definition of success for a startup is not based on funding rounds. 

• Jenny is now focusing on the investor side and educating a lot of Americans on investing opportunities through her new organization called Angels of Main Street.   

• Terri talks about how important it is for some us to see the direct impact of their investments and/or time.     

• Jenny talks about how she works with her clients to structure their financing strategies in alignment with their goals, values, and short/long term strategies.  She also talks about the various options available to founders.  

• Jenny felt most like the pilot in her own life when she went out on her own with her own firm.  She now has the business of dreams.   

 

Terri’s Key Takeaway 

Taking the first step is important to opening up new opportunity paths.   

References in the Podcast 

• CrowdFund Main Street: https://crowdfundmainstreet.com/ 

• JOBS Act, Title III:  https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/jobs-act.shtml 

• Gabrielle Katsnelson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-katsnelson-6a73958/ 

• SMBX: https://www.thesmbx.com/ 

• National Venture Capital Association:   

• Changing Tides:  https://thinkresultsmarketing.com/books/changing-tides/ 

Contact 

Jenny can be reached through her website http://www.jennykassan.com/ 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.  

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com. 

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife. 

Episode 80-Supporting an Ecosystem for Women of Color to be Startup Founders and Investors by leveraging Angel Investing

Terri talks to Tawana Murphy Burnett about how joining and getting active with Pipeline Angels has led to her becoming an active leader in the startup ecosystem for women of color.   

Who is Tawana Murphy Burnett?  

Tawana Murphy Burnett, former consultant turned startup employee and entrepreneur, is now a global marketing leader at Facebook helping the top 30 Global Advertisers like Estée Lauder and Johnson & Johnson become the best mobile marketers. Prior to Facebook, Tawana led brand and product teams at Intuit, LeapFrog, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, leading P&L, Brand Growth, integrated marketing strategies and new product innovation for brands like Listerine, Advil, and ChapStick.  

Since 2017 Tawana has become an active investor in women and women of color owned businesses primarily through Portfolia and as a Member and Due Diligence Lead with Pipeline Angels. She has served on numerous Diversity and Inclusion councils, most recently joining Digital Undivided as an Advisory Board Member for StartUp Newark. 

Show Highlights 

• Tawana talks about being inspired to get involved in angel investing because of what Terri shared with her about her desire to get more capital into the hands of female founders when they met in the Lufthansa lounge in Frankfurt. 

• Tawana joined Pipeline Angels and shares her experience learning about angel investing, leading a deal, and getting more involved to invest in more women of color.   

• Tawana has made 9 investments since she started less than two years ago.  She talks about being excited about the community building piece, hosting more events, and getting involved with Digital Undivided in Atlanta and Startup Newark.   

• Terri talks about leveraging AngelList as a ‘poor woman’s VC’ to be able to bring deals together and give women who are leading these deals some sort of compensation for the work associated with this.  She also talks about the importance of building the ecosystem but also finding ways for women to get compensated for all the work we are doing for free.   

• If Tawana could wave a magic wand, she would improve the public education system in the US and make sure it is financially supported.   

Terri’s Key Takeaway 

Be open to conversations with people; be open to new ideas; be open to education.   

References in the Podcast 

• 4YFN: https://www.4yfn.com/ 

• Mobile World Congress: https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/ 

• Joanne Wilson (Gotham Gal):  https://gothamgal.com/ 

• Portfolia: https://www.portfolia.co/ 

• Pipeline Angels: http://pipelineangels.com/ 

• Kishau Rogers: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kishau/ 

• Mented:  https://www.mentedcosmetics.com/pages/ourstory 

• Sephora Stands Accelerator:  https://www.sephorastands.com/accelerate/ 

• Nancy Hayes:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyhayes2/ 

• Fempire:  https://www.fempiregroup.com/ 

• Digital Undivided: https://www.digitalundivided.com/ 

• Project Diane: https://www.inc.com/kathryn-finney/innovating-inclusion-digitalundevided-and-project-diane.html 

• AngelList:  https://angel.co/ 

• Lynn-Ann Gries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-ann-gries-44440/ 

Contact 

Tawana can be reached through LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tawanaburnett/ 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.  

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com. 

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife. . 

Episode 79-Transparency in the venture funding process with Jane VC founder Maren Bannon

Terri talks to Maren Bannon about what drove her to launch Jane VC, a fund focused on investing in female founders in the US and Europe along with a fellow Stanford grad, Jennifer Neundorfer. 

Who is Maren Bannon?  

Maren is Co-Founder and Partner at Jane VC, a venture fund to invest in female-led technology startups.  Maren is an entrepreneur at heart who has been building tech businesses for the past 15 years. Previously, she was CEO and Cofounder of LittleLane. Her operating experience also includes leadership roles at health tech startups as well as leading consumer marketing for a $1B product at Genentech. She is the mother to three young daughters and feels energized each day by her vision of creating a different world for them. She has an MBA from Stanford and an Engineering degree from Dartmouth.  

Show Highlights 

• Maren talks about joining forces with one of her fellow Stanford grads, Jennifer Neundorfer, to create a new fund, Jane VC, to not only get more capital into the hands of female founders, but to activate more female investors. 

• Maren shares the journey from reconnecting with her partner Jenn in January 2018 and leveraging AngelList to quickly create and raise the fund by bringing on supportive people in their network.   

• Terri asked Maren about Jane VCs plan to get access to deal flow, being open to anyone, and their plan to provide transparency to the VC process to work towards leveling the playing field.  

• Maren shares their plans for Jane VC in providing transparency, investing in women, and actively looking for investing opportunities outside of the Silicon Valley.  

• With Jane VC, they are focused on investing in pre-seed and seed stage rounds, but they will also invest in Series A. With Maren based in London, they will have the opportunity to focus on startups not only in the US, but also in Europe including London, Berlin, Paris, and the Nordics.   

• If Maren could wave a magic wand, she would shift the power dynamic to make it more equitable for women.   

 Terri’s Key Takeaway 

To shift the power dynamic and improve the world, we need to activate more female investors and invest in more female founders.  

References in the Podcast 

• Jane VC: https://www.janevc.com/ 

• Jenn Neundorfer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkneundorfer/ 

• Lynn-Ann Gries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-ann-gries-44440/ 

• Komae:  https://www.mykomae.com/ 

• Women’s Startup Lab: https://womenstartuplab.com/ 

• Joanne Wilson (GothamGal): https://gothamgal.com/ 

• Sallie Krawcheck:  https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/team/sallie-krawcheck 

• AngelList:  https://angel.co/ 

• Guy Fawkes Day:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night 

• White Fragility:  Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism:  http://www.beacon.org/White-Fragility-P1346.aspx 

• Becoming by Michelle Obama: https://becomingmichelleobama.com/ 

• Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smitth:  https://www.facebook.com/redtabletalk/videos/343064719835818/ 

Contact 

Maren can be reached by email at hello@janevc.com.   

Founders interested in pitching to Jane VC can do so here:  https://www.janevc.com/contact-us 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.  

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com. 

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.