Keynote Speaker
 Podcast Host
Operations Leader

Carole Podell is a Coach & Mentor, Motivational Speaker and host of the podcast She Takes the Lead. She is also a Fertility Warrior and a very proud Single Mom by Choice. Carole helps high-achieving, ambitious women navigate major life transitions, empowering them to confidently craft, execute, and embrace their next chapter with intention and joy—so they can fully embody the woman they've always dreamed of becoming.

Her diverse 25-year career has taken her from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Broadcast Producer to Vice President in the multi-billion-dollar financial services industry. With a Twice-Neurodiverse brain, she learned early on that if she wanted to succeed at anything, her process to get there would need to be of her own design. She nurtured what she now calls, her “Creatively Linear” thinking to successfully carve out a unique personal and professional path. These hurdles taught her that although we must live life on its terms, we do not need to be victims of someone else’s circumstance, diagnosis, or bad choices.

Our path need not be straight, but it should be of our own making.