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She Leads

She Leads

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 She Leads is a leadership archive documenting women who are shaping Rochester through clarity, conviction, and conscious authority.For decades, business growth and power structures have followed a single dominant blueprint; one built on competition, hierarchy, and pursuit. While that model built infrastructure, it was never designed for how women naturally lead.This podcast explores a different framework.Hosted by Stephanie Armstrong, brand alchemist, authority architect and founder of Moxie Creative Studios, She Leads features thoughtful, prepared conversations with women whose decisions, discipline, and discernment are influencing business, community, culture, and systems in real time.©2026 Moxie Creative Studios Management & Leadership Ökonomie
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  • Want More: Leading with Courage in a Changing Climate

    Want More: Leading with Courage in a Changing Climate
    Mar 30 2026
    Dr. Sara Taylor has spent her career advancing opportunities for women of color in leadership. As a leadership development strategist and equity-centered practitioner, she operates at the intersection of systems, power, and people.
    This conversation does not shy away from what is happening right now.Dr. Taylor speaks candidly about the national backlash against DEI and inclusion work, the fear organizations are carrying, and what it means to stay committed to equity when the language itself has become political. She talks about how she meets companies where they are, without letting them abandon their values, and how internal messaging matters more than ever when employees are watching every policy change and wondering if any of it was real.We also go deeper.
    Dr. Taylor reflects on her own leadership evolution. The wounds that go unspoken in organizations. The unintentional harm of a hands-off style. The hard conversation of hiring a close friend and what accountability actually required of her. She is clear that leadership development cannot only face outward, and she models what it looks like to turn that lens inward.
    We talk about the fractures between women. Colorism. Unspoken competition. The wounds we carry into workplaces and the healing circles beginning to name them. The allyship work that is no longer optional. And the Women of Color Summit's Ally Institute, a brave space being built intentionally for everyone ready to show up and learn.The conversation moves into AI, workforce disruption, and the disproportionate impact on women. Dr. Taylor holds space for both the fear and the possibility, and she does not pretend either side is simple.Her closing message is simple and direct.

    Want more.

    Show up in spaces where no one you know is going.
    Go for yourself. Expand your horizon.
    Do not wait for others to come aboard.
    This is what courageous leadership looks like in real time.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios Rochester, NY www.rocvox.com
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    47 Min.
  • Lead the Team, Not the Game: Confidence, Capacity, and the Courage to Be Seen

    Lead the Team, Not the Game: Confidence, Capacity, and the Courage to Be Seen
    Mar 17 2026
    Aubre Fox builds rooms where ambition becomes visible. As CEO of A Fox Interiors and founder of the Next Level Collective, she brings ambitious women together to grow, collaborate, and stretch beyond the limits they once placed on themselves. In this conversation, Aubre reflects on the moment she stopped writing resumes and started designing her own path. She realized she was not just good at her work. She was a problem solver who loved building systems, creating solutions, and leading teams. She shares a simple leadership philosophy that shaped her approach to entrepreneurship. You can lead without being the MVP. Leadership is not about knowing everything. It is about building the right team and trusting people to do the things you do not need to master. We also talk about confidence and visibility. Aubre noticed a pattern among many women she worked with. If they felt uncomfortable in their bodies or worried about how they looked on camera, they hesitated to step onto stages, into interviews, or behind microphones. Their ideas were strong. Their voices still mattered. Motherhood, chronic illness, and a journey through autoimmune disease also reshaped Aubre’s leadership. Studying neuroplasticity helped her retrain her mind through chronic pain and develop a deeper empathy for what women carry while building businesses and families. This conversation explores confidence, leadership, and the courage to be seen.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios Rochester, NY www.rocvox.com
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    53 Min.
  • Equity Is Not a Slogan: Designing Systems That Change Lives

    Equity Is Not a Slogan: Designing Systems That Change Lives
    Mar 16 2026
    Constance Mitchell Jefferson grew up at the center of Rochester’s civil rights movement. Her mother, Connie Mitchell, was a pioneering political leader who helped establish Action for a Better Community and worked inside government to expand access and opportunity. Their home was filled with community leaders, organizers, and difficult conversations about justice.Constance grew up listening.

    She watched policy debates unfold at the dinner table. She saw the courage required to stand for change when systems resist it. She also experienced the cost. Bomb threats against her family home. The tension of carrying a public legacy while trying to build an identity of her own.

    Those early experiences shaped the work she would later lead inside city government.
    As the City of Rochester’s MWBE officer and procurement leader, Constance stepped into the systems that determine how public dollars move through a community.

    • Contracts.

    • Purchasing.

    • Infrastructure.


    The mechanics that quietly shape economic opportunity.

    She studied the system closely before changing it.Instead of treating equity as a symbolic commitment, she redesigned procurement structures to make accountability measurable. Supplier diversity requirements. Compliance systems that ensured subcontractors were paid. Processes that expanded access for minority and women owned businesses.

    Her work helped transform Rochester into one of the most respected supplier diversity models in New York State.In this conversation we explore what equity looks like when it becomes operational. What integrity costs when you challenge entrenched systems. Why accountability is the backbone of real change.Constance also reflects on the unfinished work of the civil rights generation. Housing. Education. Economic opportunity. The same issues her parents fought for decades ago still shaping communities today.Real change requires courage, structure, and leaders who are willing to choose what is right over what is popular.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios Rochester, NY www.rocvox.com
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    59 Min.
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