Earlier this year, I accepted the opportunity to host the FINTECH.TV series, Dangerous Women, Leading Onward. There are more than 50 interviews on the FINTECH.TV platform and airing on CNBC Africa, CNBC Arabia, Times India and Bloomberg Europe—conversations with a wide diversity of women whose journeys to becoming dangerous are a learning journey for me …and hopefully for viewers wherever they live. Here are seven takeaways from just a few of the inspiring conversations, and I’ll share more in the New Year.

This week, I am in conversation with The B Team CEO Halla Tómasdóttir to explore the many innovative ways that she is applying her leadership position to identify and implement just and sustainable solutions to the climate crisis.

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This week, I am joined by the former president of Ireland and chair of The Elders, Mary Robinson, to discuss climate justice, COP 26 and the three actions we all must take to combat climate change.

Today’s Dangerous Women: Leading Onward episode features one of the world’s most admired and accomplished women leaders. Indra Nooyi is the former CEO of PepsiCo and the author of a new memoir, My Life In Full. Her journey from a close knit Indian family to the top job at one of America’s iconic companies is a compelling, powerful story of courage, hard work and lessons learned.

On today’s episode of Dangerous Women, I had the pleasure of speaking with former executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka.

Michelle LeClair wrote her book, Perfectly Clear, about her life as a scientologist and the decisions and choices that lead her to leave the cult and build a different life. Together, we discussed the culture of cults, the psychology behind recruitment, and her life inside the cult.

Developing strong and lasting relationships is more difficult than ever in this digital world. Susan McPherson, my guest this week and author of ‘The Lost Art of Connecting,’ is the founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies - a boutique agency focused on the intersection of communications and social impact.

This week on Dangerous Women, Leading Onward, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mona Sinha, board chair for Women Moving Millions. Together, we discussed the $100 million commitment WMM made at the Generation Equality forum.

I spoke with Ndidi on this episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward and listened as she shared her lens from agriculture all the way to distribution.

My guest today on Dangerous Women: Leading Onward is Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, a woman leader in Rwanda whom I’ve had the privilege of knowing for several years. As the former Minister of Health in Rwanda during the AIDS and Ebola epidemic, and now as Vice Chancellor and Co-Founder of the University of Global Health Equity, Dr. Binagwaho’s story is one of courageous leadership.

I had the honor of speaking with renowned photographer and filmmaker Beverly Joubert on this week’s Dangerous Women: Leading Onward episode. During our discussion, Beverly spoke of the dangers of her work and of the life changing lessons she learned from a near-death experience.

Co-existing is possible, and conservation can come from the community itself.

Kathy’s organization, the Creative Visions Foundation, emboldens creative activists. Their mission is to spark awareness of critical issues and ignite change through impact media, art and technology: creative activism. I had the pleasure of speaking with Kathy in the most recent episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, and discovered just how dangerous she can be when chasing a story.

Ljungberg is a co-founder of The Case For Her and an investor in women’s storytelling. Her organization works to raise awareness for women’s health issues that have been long underfunded and overlooked such as menstruation and sexual health and pleasure.

Today’s episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward features Deborah Calmeyer, founder and CEO of Roar Africa — a luxury African safari company for women and by women.

This week on Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, I spoke with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, Georgia. We discussed standing up for our communities, staying calm in adversity, and what it means to be a dangerous woman.

25 years after Beijing, no country is even close to fully delivering on true gender equality. As we begin to recover from the pandemic, we must put gender equality at the heart of that process. Later this month in Paris, the United Nations will convene the Generation Equality Forum. This week I talk with UN Assistant Secretary General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia about the Generation Equality Forum.

In this episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, I have the privilege of speaking with the Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, Kimberlé Crenshaw. She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and we talk about some of the myths surrounding intersectionality today.

As Covid-19 has swept the world there has been an explosion of violence against women, and a full-blown assault on their rights. It’s time to fight back against a system that allows women to be sacrificed, erased and violated.

This week on Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, I had the pleasure of speaking with Musimbi Kanyoro. She told me about what she has learned from women leaders in the over 130 countries she has visited as the CEO of Global Fund for Women. "Every kind of liberation or freedom that happens to one woman, will impact other women,” she tells me. Watch now.

I’m back on TV with a series, DANGEROUS WOMEN: LEADING ONWARD, as part of Fintech.TV’s commitment to IMPACT, elevating opportunity for the financial markets, private investors and philanthropists to get engaged in initiatives, organizations, and movements led by women for social change and impact.

In this episode of Dangerous Women: Leading Onward, I speak with Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen. Together, we discuss her journey to social finance, investing in entrepreneurs, and standing with the poor.

In this “Dangerous Women: Leading Onward” episode, I talk with V (formerly Eve Ensler) about what’s next as we come out of the pandemic. She says that now is the time to address the inequities and power structures that are hurting us all starting at the local level.

Soiya Gecaga joins me in this week’s Dangerous Women: Leading Onward episode to discuss the We The Change Foundation, of which she is Founder and Executive Director.

Join me as I speak with activist and author Mia Birdsong about how we must show up to stay connected during and after COVID.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Christine Schuler Deschryver on Dangerous Women: Leading Onward. Christine is the Co-Founder and Director of City of Joy, a transformational leadership community for women survivors of violence in the DRC.

I’m joined in today’s Dangerous Women: Leading Onward by Dr. Lucy King, leader of the Elephants and Bees Project. In this discussion, we dive further into the project and speak about the ways in which it relies on the women in each community to help the project succeed.

Watch profiles of four extraordinary women that are making a difference on the African continent – Christine Schuler Deschryver, co-founder of City of Joy in the DRC; Soiya Gecaga, founder of We The Change Foundation in Kenya; Dr. Lucy King, leader at Elephants and Bees Project in Kenya; and Juliet Asante, CEO of the National Film Authority in Ghana.

In this conversation, Catalina Escobar, founder and president of Foundación Juanfe, discusses how to lead women from the poverty cycle into economic prosperity.

Investor, philanthropist and activist Jacki Zehner has a lot of wisdom to share about women and finance. In this interview, she reflects on her first job at Goldman Sachs, where she became the first female trader ever at the company and the youngest woman ever to be made partner, and how everyone can use money as a tool for social change.