Start 2025 Inspired And Refreshed | Best of Women Amplified

We’re off enjoying a break this holiday season — and we hope you’re getting a break, too — but we wanted to make sure you still had something to nourish your heart and mind during the holiday season. So, here’s a few episodes we did this year that you might want to revisit: 

• If you’re freaking out about money, you’re not alone — and you should listen to our interview with Kara Stevens, the Frugal Feminista. 
• If you’re weighing a fresh start in 2025, try out Lisa Hellmann’s advice to one of our listeners grappling with impostor syndrome.
• And if you’re feeling just plain burnt out, Pooja Lakshmin has some funny, healing, and candid insights to help you practice self-care in a way that will really work.

We’ll see you in 2025 for more amazing episodes and Conferences. If you want to give yourself the gift of inspiration, career development, and growth, visit the Conferences online and make a plan to join us next year — in person in California, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Massachusetts, or virtually at the National Conference.

Kara Stevens

Kara Stevens is the founder of The Frugal Feminista, a thriving personal finance and personal development company committed to helping people heal their relationships with money and themselves. Her relatable financial advice has been featured on Forbes, CNN, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Yahoo Finance, ESSENCE, Women’s Day Magazine, The Washington Post, and other nationally recognized media outlets. She is also the author of heal your relationship with money, The Happy Finances Challenge, and Unmasking the Strong Black Woman. 

Lisa Hellmann

Lisa Hellmann is a global Human Resources leader with extensive experience building people strategies in fast-growing medical technology, biotechnology, and healthcare environments.  From 2017 to 2023, Lisa led significant Human Resource advances for Hologic Inc., a global medical technology provider focused on women’s health and medical devices. Lisa is a devoted leader in community organizations (The California Conference for Women and the City Heights Preparatory High School) where she serves as a member of the Board of Directors.

Pooja Lakshmin

Dr. Pooja Lakshmin MD is a board-certified psychiatrist whose private practice specializes in women’s mental health, as well as a clinical faculty member at George Washington University School of Medicine. Her debut book, REAL SELF-CARE: Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble-Baths Not Included, was named an NPR Best Book of 2023 and is a national best-seller. Dr. Lakshmin’s essays for The New York Times, including her 2021 essay “This Isn’t Burnout, It’s Betrayal,” have gone viral. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee is a communication and human nature expert, and an award-winning journalist. She is a professional speaker, and also the author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism—and How to Do It, Do Nothing, Heard Mentality, and We Need to Talk. In her twenty-year career in public radio, she has been the executive producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio, and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as cohost of the national morning news show The Takeaway from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Headlee’s TEDx talk sharing ten ways to have a better conversation has over twenty million total views to date. @CelesteHeadlee

Additional Resources

More from Women Amplified

• Call for submissions! Tell us what you’re dealing with at work or at home and you could be paired with an expert for an upcoming episode of “That’s A Good Question” on Women Amplified! Learn more.
  
• Sign up for our email list to receive a notification every time a new episode drops.
  

More from the Conferences for Women

• If you’re in California, join us at February 12th California Conference for Women at the San Jose Convention Center. Learn more and get your ticket now.
  
• Join Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Steinem, and thousands of women around the country this Women’s History Month at the virtual National Conference for Women.
  
• Check out the FREE Career Connections Program from the Conferences for Women for expert tips, connections, and career opportunities at companies that support women.