The SHECAN Podcast
30 episodes Last Updated: May 15, 25
Welcome to The SHECAN Podcast, where women role models lead by example by telling their stories & insights.
Our Shecan Podcast features inspiring and bold women who tell their stories and lead by example to mentor others, and sometimes we invite men who fill the gaps with us.
At Shecan, we champion and push for women's insights and experiences to be included at decision-making tables around the world.
SHECAN is a movement and media platform amplifying women’s voices through storytelling, education, and community. By showcasing diverse stories from women across industries, we empower the next generation of female leaders to rise with confidence and purpose. Her story matters. We share it with purpose — so she knows...SHECAN.
SO WECAN: https://www.youtube.com/@shecanworld
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Thank you to our sponsor, the company "We are Shine" and their founder Anna Barez Brown for supporting our work. They ignite equity in business by teaching women the tools to play a bigger game. Anna and her team consult businesses to become more inclusive, collaborative and open.
A huge thank you goes to Anna Krantz for lending us her song: "Worth my weight in gold".
Shecan's Podcast supports the Lucy Rayner Foundation and is raising money for their new well-being hub in Surrey | UK, for young people struggling with their mental health: https://thelucyraynerfoundation.com/about-us/
I am Stephanie Ferrario, the founder of SHECAN MEDIA and host of this show.
Join us on the journey to build the largest library of women role models, by telling your stories to support others. Use SHECAN as a tool to find inspiration, motivation, guidance, to feel less alone and find community. We are excited to have you here with us.
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Episodes
Elizabeth Sheinkman joins Stephanie to chat about how she went from turning her passion for reading and writing into her profession of being a Literary Agent. Elizabeth is a native New Yorker whose publishing career has spanned both sides of the Atlantic. She worked within the US editorial department of Oxford University Press and Alfred A. Knopf before joining the Elaine Markson Literary Agency in 1996. In 2004, she moved to London to set up and run their UK office before joining Curtis Brown in 2006 as a Senior Agent and Director, where she continued to represent the Markson Agency in the UK and further develop her own list. In 2012, she moved to WME, representing a broad range of award-winning and best-selling authors, including works of literary fiction, biography, journalism and cultural history. Elizabeth is on the Creative Council of the Aspen Institute’s Summer Words Festival; has served on the faculty of the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont; and has been a featured speaker at the University of East Anglia MFA writing program, the Oxford Summer Books Program, and Trinity College Dublin.Elizabeth can be found working at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kate Daly joins Stephanie to discuss everything from becoming a divorce expert to amicable separations. Kate is one of the country’s leading experts on divorce, separation relationships and family law reform. As a co-founder of Amicable, the leading online divorce services company, Kate helps couples and separated parents navigate divorce and separation amicably. She is a certified Relationship Counsellor and resolution-trained Family Consultant, having worked with many of London’s top collaborative lawyers before starting Amicable in 2015. She co-founded Amicable after her own highly acrimonious, costly, and lengthy divorce. She is now a regular and respected commentator on divorce, separation, and relationship issues. Kate is passionate about changing the way couples divorce and campaigns for fairer divorce laws and access to justice. Although she is not a lawyer, she firmly believes that the emotional and psychological aspects of divorce should be central to the process. Kate is also the host of the well-respected fortnightly Divorce Podcast, in which she is joined by other experts to explore relationships, separation and co-parenting, among other issues. Amicable: https://amicable.io/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Sustainable Angle was established By Nina as a not-for-profit organisation in Switzerland in 2010 to initiate and support projects that lower the environmental impact of industry and society. The fashion and textile industries are amongst the world's most polluting industries, and as such, they have become the main focus of Nina's work. The Future Fabrics Expo was initiated to effect positive change within the industry by connecting and promoting innovators and suppliers of sustainable materials with fashion brands. To achieve this, they established a set of criteria, and researching sustainable materials that meet them became their main task. The Sustainable Angle contextualises this activity by providing much-needed educational information regarding sustainability in textiles, via workshops and informative events. In today's episode, Stephanie chats with Nina Marenzi, the Founder and Director, about the decisions that led her to start her not-for-profit, the challenges she faced along the way, her plans for the future, her top tips, and more. The Sustainable Angle: https://thesustainableangle.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Christine Murphy has lived, worked, and travelled in more than a hundred countries, including eleven months in a tent on the African continent and a year as a resident in a Buddhist nunnery in the Himalayas. She is a trained Buddhistologist with a Ph.D. in religious studies. Murphy joins Stephanie to discuss everything from her top tips to writing her first novel, Notes on Surviving the Fire. Notes on Surviving the Fire is a story about vengeance, the insidious nature of rape culture and ultimately, a woman's journey to come back to herself. When Sarah’s only friend in her graduate program is found dead of an alleged heroin overdose, Sarah is forced back into the orbit of the man in their department who assaulted her. A hurtling ride of a novel—darkly funny and propulsive. “A thriller’s bones, a satire’s glare, and a comeuppance story’s anarchic spirit.”—The New Yorker More about Christine and her book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742169/notes-on-surviving-the-fire-by-christine-murphy/Christine is an anarchic spirit according to The New York Times and is very good at deciphering the times we live in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist based at Imperial College London. Her work at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics won her the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2020. She is a tireless campaigner against the underrepresentation of girls in physics and frequently speaks in schools and for other organisations about diversity in the sciences. Her book The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity tells the fascinating personal story of de Rham’s quest to gain intimacy with gravity, to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature. An aspiring astronaut whose opportunity to go into space was unexpectedly snatched away from her, de Rham has instead played with gravity as a diver, a pilot and – above all – an award-winning researcher who, in redirecting her energy towards physics, made a breakthrough at the very frontiers of gravitational science. Her expertise lies at the interface between Quantum Field Theory, Gravity, Gravitational Waves, Cosmology, Particle Physics, Numerical Simulations and Theoretical Mathematical Physics, where she leads the development and test of new models and paradigms to probe the fundamental laws of Nature and uncovers new layers in our understanding of Science. Her research has been ranked among the most impactful in fundamental physics in the past decade, recognised by multiple major grants, prizes, and awards. Among other roles, she is chair of the PPGP theory STFC panel, director of the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics, and editor of three scientific journals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Melissa Petro joins Stephanie to talk about her journey around Shame on You, her book and how, as a former sex worker she turned into an expert on shame and became an author, coach and speaker. As a former sex worker and survivor of sexual exploitation and mass media humiliation, Melissa knows personally the devastation that weaponised sexist shame can have on a woman’s life. She has also experienced and seen firsthand that when girls and women develop a greater awareness of how shame functions in our society and manifests in their lives, we free up the mental space, emotional energy, and time needed to fulfil our purpose. Melissa has been a freelance cultural journalist following the pulse of sexuality, trauma, motherhood, and feminism for over two decades. She is also a leading expert on the topic of shame and vulnerability. Her debut book, SHAME ON YOU: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification, was an Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Nonfiction Book of the Month. Since 2010, she has helped hundreds of girls and women push through fear, write, share and even publish their most vulnerable stories in national publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, Washington Post and elsewhere, and have helped still more individuals re-envision their lives by making meaning of their past and transcending traumatic experiences. Melissa Petro: https://www.melissa-petro.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stephanie chats with Vivian Eni, the founder of The Incredible Everyday Woman and author of How to Build a Corporate Career: Lessons from a First-Generation Migrant. In her book, Vivian draws from nearly 20 years of experience in HR and leadership roles across diverse sectors, this book is packed with insights to kick-start your career journey. Meanwhile, @incredibleeverydaywoman is a community which showcases everyday women from all walks of life, telling relatable, incredible stories of confronting obstacles & impostor syndrome to achieve their definition of success. "One winter evening, founder Vivian pondered the lack of media inspiration that related to the lives of the everyday woman. As Vivian reflected on the stereotypes of women and the insurmountable pressure we are subjected to... she came up with a plan... That plan was The Incredible Everyday Woman." The Incredible Everyday Woman: https://incredibleeverydaywoman.com/ Vivian Eni: https://vivianeni.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 27, 2025
A Shortcut to your Fertility with Aneta Grabiec
Aneta Grabiec, MA, is a Psychologist, Nutritional Therapist, Hormonal Wellbeing Expert, and Award-winning Author of Shortcut to Your Fertility. She works with individuals and couples on their emotional and physical well-being and fertility. Her over 20 years of experience are shaped by a no-nonsense mentorship style and a non-conformist approach to life. How To Get Pregnant: Shortcut To Your Fertility was acknowledged by Her Majesty The Queen, and listed in The British Library. An award-winning book that will help you to shortcut and navigate on your fertility journey and solve so-called ‘unexplained infertility. The structure is simple and allows you to work on your own time, with your own ability and convenience. The tips, exercises and practices in this book are designed and sequenced to better and deeper your self-awareness, building up your knowledge of what works and is important to you, your well-being, your fertility and your overall life. How To Be Good Enough: The Practical Book On Living Joyfully is a practical and simply written book that has helped many with dilemmas such as subconscious programming, unresolved trauma patterns, nervous system dysregulation, psychological conflict, environmental toxins, poor diet, unhealthy lifestyle, poor sleep quality, information overload, lack of joy, overworking, toxic relationships, destructive thinking patterns, and lack of self-worth. This and more are achievable through the reading of this book. The New York Journal named Aneta one of the Top 30 Inspiring Women to Watch in 2024. She continues to attract international clientele seeking her advice, consolidating her effect on the fertility and wellness discourse. Visit her website for more: https://anetagrabiec.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
One can easily describe Carmel Rafaeli as a serial entrepreneur with an incredibly diverse career. She is an investor and entrepreneur, who invests in climate-positive, industry-agnostic ventures led by women. Leveraging her experience, curiosity and creativity to support bringing innovation to life. Carmel supports early-stage climate ventures - as an advisor, mentor and Investor -and has been an entrepreneur for the better part of her career - with 15+ years of experience in bringing innovation to life, with a variety of products and platforms in the tech and non-tech sectors. Doing everything from brick-and-mortar fashion to hospitality tech and IP tech, she has been focusing on Climate and Sustainability for the last 5 years, spending much of my time helping to accelerate sustainable innovation by creating better connections between innovators, corporates and investors. Carmel is a dynamic Venture Partner at Conduit Connect and an investor in the Conduit EIS Impact Fund. Her diverse career has included radio news production, marketing communications in Japan, eCommerce development, and the hospitality industry. She has continuously embraced new challenges. Her journey into sustainability and climate investment highlights her passion for creating impactful change. Carmel joins Stephanie to shed some light on angel investing, her career choices, challenges she has faced along the way and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kelsie Brook Eckert (she/her) is on a mission to transform social studies to be rigorous and accurate. As the Coordinator of Social Studies Education at Plymouth State University, State Coordinator for National History Day in New Hampshire, and Executive Director of the Remedial Herstory Project, Kelsie is a leading voice in bringing diverse histories into the spotlight. Her efforts have earned her prestigious accolades, including being a two-time New Hampshire History Teacher of the Year and receiving the 2024 Transformative Teaching Award and Theo Kalikow Award for advancing women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.