If you’re a woman creator or entrepreneur, you’ve likely faced the universal experience among women of having your ideas ignored, brushed off as a natural creative project, or generally having people diminish the gravity of what you have to offer. It’s time to explore the gender biases that devalue women’s innovations, and why women are excluded, underpaid, undervalued, and undercited when it comes to technical innovations.

Financial journalist and best-selling author on women and innovation, Katrine Marçal discusses the core themes exposed in her book, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men. Katrine paints a devastating picture of how women’s ideas and contributions have been ignored to the detriment of our planet, why failing to recognize the gender lens has created catastrophic consequences, and how women can begin recognizing and releasing their full human potential within.

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If your business is anchored in driving social change like ours is at Safi Media, you’ll resonate with the challenge that exists around using your business as a container to drive systemic change in the world. Eleanor’s guest this week is a powerful example of a woman entrepreneur who is using the vessel of entrepreneurship to right a global wrong, specifically, the wrong that is chronic disease.

Dr. Andrea Feigl, PhD MPH, is the founder and CEO of the Health Finance Institute, a former researcher at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and a former health economist with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Her work is all about solving some of the thorniest issues that continue to plague the world, and she’s here this week to share how she’s using her business to make a difference in the international development space.

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