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Influence, explained through women's lived experience.
SheSpeaks: Women of Influence follows women through the stories behind their work, from shopper marketing and PR to fertility advocacy and Latina leadership. The conversations are calm, practical, and mission-minded, with room for both career detail and personal turning points.
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SheSpeaks: Women of Influence is a polished interview series built around women with influence in business, media, marketing, advocacy, family-building, and culture. The show favors guided conversation over debate. It gives guests space to explain the path that brought them to their work, then steadily connects that story to a broader pattern. A discussion about shopper marketing becomes a lesson in how brands earn attention in a store. A conversation about PR turns into a reflection on reputation, body language, live events, and why public reaction now moves so quickly. The show is practical, but it is rarely only tactical. It is interested in what people learned the hard way. Episodes with marketing and communications leaders cover measurement, shopper behavior, paid media, social advertising, and the pressure to prove value while a campaign is still live. Other episodes step into more personal territory, including mindset, infertility, grief, egg donation, confidence, and the emotional cost of leadership. The tone stays warm. It can become grave when the subject requires it, but the conversations usually return to agency, transparency, and forward motion. The guest list gives the series much of its texture: sports representation, fertility advocacy, Forbes communications, PR leadership, Latina professional networks, and shopper marketing research all sit in the same editorial frame. That range makes the show feel less like a narrow marketing program and more like a running record of how women build credibility in public-facing work. It is not especially combative. The host's role is to open the door, summarize the point, and keep the guest moving from experience to insight. Listeners looking for snark, hot takes, or rapid disagreement may find it too patient. Listeners who want generous, career-aware conversations with clear lessons will find a steady rhythm here. SheSpeaks: Women of Influence is best understood as a professional growth show with a strong social-impact spine: influence matters, but so do access, trust, representation, and the systems that decide who gets seen.
Made for: For marketers, creators, communications professionals, brands, advocates, and career-minded listeners interested in women's leadership. It also suits listeners who like thoughtful interviews that connect personal experience to business and social change.
What sets it apart: The show blends marketing mechanics with personal provenance, moving from campaign measurement or shopper marketing into confidence, equity, advocacy, and trust. Its strength is the patient bridge between what a guest has built and why that work matters beyond one career.
Welcome to the Women of Influence podcast, hosted by Aliza Freud and presented by SheSpeaks. Each episode features candid conversations with creators, CMOs, and media leaders shaping today’s marketing landscape, exploring how storytelling, trust, and paid media work together to move consumers from discovery to purchase. Built for marketers, brands, and creators, the show delivers practical insight into the strategies shaping the next era of advertising.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its clearest family value comes from making fertility safeguards and the commercial forces around children's choices more legible.
Aliza Freud runs SheSpeaks: Women of Influence as an interview-led conversation about how women build careers, businesses, and public influence.
The grocery aisle becomes a strategy meeting, and suddenly your impulse buy has a backstory.
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A practical mindset conversation that turns a hard moment into a repeatable next step.
Sarah Centrella's story opens in panic and settles into a plain, workable idea: what if you can? The episode keeps its focus on catching negative, unhelpful thoughts and replacing them with something more aspirational and believable.
A practical look at women getting a wider stage and the business case that follows.
The segment treats women’s sports and women-led talent as something already moving into wider view, not as a sudden breakout. Thayer Leviel, a managing director at Wasserman and leader of the collective, keeps the focus on the business case for women as athletes, musicians,…
A clear-eyed fertility conversation about donor screening, transparency, and the questions families should ask.
Diana Thomas's conversation centers on infertility, donor-egg IVF, and the shift from personal difficulty toward practical guidance for other families.
A shopper-marketing discussion lands best when it connects retail media to YouTube toy requests and influencer-led coffee trust.
Shopper marketing gets a grounded pass through the grocery aisle, tracing how placement, packaging, promotions, and retail media help decide what ends up in a cart.
A sharp, grounded take on timing, visibility, and why brands should think twice before chasing the moment.
This episode turns on a timely PR question: whether a brand should grab onto the Coldplay concert kiss cam moment at all. Diane Schwartz makes the stronger case by widening the lens, moving from one awkward public incident to how people present themselves, how body language…
A clear, hopeful look at Latina leadership built on role models, guidance, and connection.
Cynthia Kleinbaum Milner and Claudia Romo Edelman frame A La Latina as a push for Latina leadership in a space still shaped by unequal pay and underrepresentation.
SheSpeaks returns for a new season after a hiatus with Sarah Centrella and a story that begins in a darkest-moment question.
Thayer Leviel joins the show to talk about how more women are being given the stage in sports, music, and entertainment.
The interview opens on Diana Thomas's infertility journey and her early donor-egg IVF experience.
Cindy Loza says a majority of shoppers react to TV screens, seasonal displays, and endcap displays in stores.
Diane Schwartz joins the show for a timely conversation about public relations and communication.
An interview with Forbes' Chief Communications Officer about the evolution of communication in the workplace and career advice.
Cynthia Kleinbaum Milner and Claudia Romo Edelman frame A La Latina as a way to widen what is possible for Latinas.
Interview with Tamsen Fadal about her book and documentary on menopause, plus a joint study on women's experiences.
Host Aliza Freud interviews influencer and creator Tiffany Knighton about building community, storytelling, and leveraging trends in social media marketing.
Host Aliza Freud interviews Keri Kirpin about building and selling a social media agency, and helping women turn lifestyle businesses into life-changing assets.
Host Aliza Freud interviews chef and culinary producer Courtney Futch about building community through accessible food content and influencer marketing.
Host Aliza Freud interviews Michelle Okeke about layoff trauma and its long-term impact on career confidence and workplace behavior.
A conversation with creator Jade Powell about authenticity in content and the evolving creator industry.
This episode features an interview with Jill Smokler, the founder of Scary Mommy, discussing her journey from starting a personal blog to building a major parenting community focused on authentic, relatable motherhood experiences.
Host Aliza Freud interviews Jo Piazza about the cultural impact of influencers on women and the marketing landscape.