Women Shifting Gears with Amanda Busick
75 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratings"Women Shifting Gears" is a weekly podcast that puts inspiring women from all corners of the automotive world in the left seat. Fasten your seatbelt as host Amanda Busick talks with women in motor racing, collector cars, national and international motoring events, publishing, rallies, and STEM education to hear what drives them to contribute their time and talent to the world of cars. Amanda moves our guests into the fast lane to explore her guest’s career insights, their mentors and influencers, and where they see the future of cars. Most importantly, “Women Shifting Gears” celebrates and collects stories about women’s contributions to the history of cars.
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Episodes
Season 1, Episode12: Kayla Bundle - Social Media Strategist / Marketing for INDYCAR
June 09, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBIf you do what you love, it doesn’t feel like work. That’s the case for INDYCAR’s Kayla Bundle. At the young age of 23, this rockstar is wise beyond her years. She’s always loved motorsports, especially INDYCAR, and now gets to live her dream by working in the sport. Kayla takes host Amanda Busick through the social media preparation for the "Month of May", all the way up to the craziness that is race day. Join us as she shares her life of capturing and creating social media content for...
012: Kayla Bundle - Social Media Strategist / Marketing for INDYCAR
June 09, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBIf you do what you love, it doesn’t feel like work. That’s the case for INDYCAR’s Kayla Bundle. At the young age of 23, this rockstar is wise beyond her years. She’s always loved motorsports, especially INDYCAR, and now gets to live her dream by working in the sport. Kayla takes host Amanda Busick through the social media preparation for the "Month of May", all the way up to the craziness that is race day. Join us as she shares her life of capturing and creating social media content for...
0011: Lyn Hiner - Automotive Fine Artist
June 02, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MB“Beauty from Ashes”-- Amanda Busick explores automotive artist Lyn Hiner’s remarkable journey, from her formative years with her dad’s car, to her horrific 2012 accident that galvanized her artistic career, to the light and happiness her acclaimed work creates today with collectors worldwide. Lyn’s story of family, life and navigating her personal journey, including ”building monuments to remember I survived” give remarkable insight into her drive to create.
011: Lyn Hiner - Automotive Fine Artist
June 02, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MB“Beauty from Ashes”-- Amanda Busick explores automotive artist Lyn Hiner’s remarkable journey, from her formative years with her dad’s car, to her horrific 2012 accident that galvanized her artistic career, to the light and happiness her acclaimed work creates today with collectors worldwide. Lyn’s story of family, life and navigating her personal journey, including ”building monuments to remember I survived” give remarkable insight into her drive to create.
Season 1, Episode 11: Lyn Hiner - Automotive Fine Artist
June 02, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MB“Beauty from Ashes”-- Amanda Busick explores automotive artist Lyn Hiner’s remarkable journey, from her formative years with her dad’s car, to her horrific 2012 accident that galvanized her artistic career, to the light and happiness her acclaimed work creates today with collectors worldwide. Lyn’s story of family, life and navigating her personal journey, including ”building monuments to remember I survived” give remarkable insight into her drive to create.
Season 1, Episode 10: Judy Stropus - Legendary Professional Timer/Scorer & 2021 Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee
May 26, 2021 03:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBLegendary professional Timer/Scorer and 2021 Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee Judy Stropus takes host Amanda Busick for a heck of a ride through her career, spanning five decades. Judy honed her skills in the 60s and 70s, and created bulletproof results for racers in nearly every discipline. In the era before computers, she twice kept times and scores for 100 cars in a single race, tracking results entirely by hand. “All I ever wanted in my life is respect”. Judy reminisces about working wi...
010: Judy Stropus - Legendary Professional Timer/Scorer & 2021 Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee
May 26, 2021 03:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBLegendary professional Timer/Scorer and 2021 Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee Judy Stropus takes host Amanda Busick for a heck of a ride through her career, spanning five decades. Judy honed her skills in the 60s and 70s, and created bulletproof results for racers in nearly every discipline. In the era before computers, she twice kept times and scores for 100 cars in a single race, tracking results entirely by hand. “All I ever wanted in my life is respect”. Judy reminisces about working wi...
Season 1, Episode 9: Courtney Force - NHRA Funny Car Winner, Daughter, Sister, Wife & Mother
May 19, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBThis week, Amanda Busick talks with Courtney Force about the pressure of growing up as John Force’s daughter and explores how Courtney has embraced each chapter of her personal evolution - daughter, winning NHRA racer, wife of IndyCar racer Graham Rahal, and now, a mom and committed fundraiser for veterans’ services non-profit Soldier Strong. Courtney discusses the importance of her close bond with her sisters, her decision to follow in her dad’s footsteps, and mastering the intensity of tho...
009: Courtney Force - NHRA Funny Car Winner, Daughter, Sister, Wife & Mother
May 19, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBThis week, Amanda Busick talks with Courtney Force about the pressure of growing up as John Force’s daughter and explores how Courtney has embraced each chapter of her personal evolution - daughter, winning NHRA racer, wife of IndyCar racer Graham Rahal, and now, a mom and committed fundraiser for veterans’ services non-profit Soldier Strong. Courtney discusses the importance of her close bond with her sisters, her decision to follow in her dad’s footsteps, and mastering the intensity of tho...
Season 1, Episode 8: Shay Hoelscher - CEO and Owner, privé products
May 12, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBAmanda Busick connects with privé products CEO and dedicated Porsche racer Shay Hoelscher. Shay shares stories about her lifelong love of scary rides, her first powder puff demolition derby sparking her love of racing, and her belief that if you think you can you will, if you think you can’t, you won’t. Shay’s commitment to personal growth for herself and the women she impacts through PCA driver coaching, and her lifetime dedication to community, manifest themselves in her career as a chan...
008: Shay Hoelscher - CEO and Owner, privé products
May 12, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBAmanda Busick connects with privé products CEO and dedicated Porsche racer Shay Hoelscher. Shay shares stories about her lifelong love of scary rides, her first powder puff demolition derby sparking her love of racing, and her belief that if you think you can you will, if you think you can’t, you won’t. Shay’s commitment to personal growth for herself and the women she impacts through PCA driver coaching, and her lifetime dedication to community, manifest themselves in her career as a chan...
007: Sabré Cook - Professional Race Driver, Mechanical Engineer and Driver Coach
May 05, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBPodcast host Amanda Busick takes some high speed laps around race car driver Sabré Cook’s life, education, motivations and career. Sabré tells it like it is-- the hard work, why losing can be more valuable than winning, her extraordinary experience of being selected to race in the international W Series. Sabré talks about “weaponizing being uncomfortable” and shares her advice to today’s thirteen year old aspiring racers.
Season 1, Episode 7: Sabré Cook - Professional Race Driver, Mechanical Engineer and Driver Coach
May 05, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBPodcast host Amanda Busick takes some high speed laps around race car driver Sabré Cook’s life, education, motivations and career. Sabré tells it like it is-- the hard work, why losing can be more valuable than winning, her extraordinary experience of being selected to race in the international W Series. Sabré talks about “weaponizing being uncomfortable” and shares her advice to today’s thirteen year old aspiring racers.
006: Christi Schimpke - Owner/Designer CRASH Jewelry
April 28, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBAmanda Busick talks with master metalworker and CRASH Jewelry founder Christi Schimpke about the power of mid-life career pivots, her a-ha moment looking at crashed exotic cars, and her love of the arts reflecting in the depth of automotive paint. Christi speaks about founding CRASH and the trials of building a start-up company in a traditionally masculine hobby. Christi and Amanda explore the creative process of finding and working with metal, paint, power tools, and the creative rush, as...
Season 1, Episode 6: Christi Schimpke - Owner/Designer CRASH Jewelry
April 28, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBAmanda Busick talks with master metalworker and CRASH Jewelry founder Christi Schimpke about the power of mid-life career pivots, her a-ha moment looking at crashed exotic cars, and her love of the arts reflecting in the depth of automotive paint. Christi speaks about founding CRASH and the trials of building a start-up company in a traditionally masculine hobby. Christi and Amanda explore the creative process of finding and working with metal, paint, power tools, and the creative rush, as...
005: Karen Brown - Vice President, Experiential Marketing & Events for Motor Trend Group, Part of the Discovery Networks
April 21, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBAmanda and Motor Trend’s VP of Experiential Marketing & Events, Karen Brown, have a candid conversation about life, perseverance, and how Karen has carried her love and appreciation for her Dad’s life lessons with her through her twenty-five years in the automotive and experiential marketing space. Karen shares her career high point, including a major activation around Paul McCartney’s World Tour, and shares her goals for her career and how she envisions impactful marketing activation crea...
Season 1, Episode 5: Karen Brown - Vice President, Experiential Marketing & Events for Motor Trend Group, Part of the Discovery Networks
April 21, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBAmanda and Motor Trend’s VP of Experiential Marketing & Events, Karen Brown, have a candid conversation about life, perseverance, and how Karen has carried her love and appreciation for her Dad’s life lessons with her through her twenty-five years in the automotive and experiential marketing space. Karen shares her career high point, including a major activation around Paul McCartney’s World Tour, and shares her goals for her career and how she envisions impactful marketing activation crea...
Season 1, Episode 4: Deb Pollack - Luxury Automotive Marketing/PR Executive | Founder - Drive Toward a Cure
April 14, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBDeb Pollack’s enviable career in automotive public relations and marketing has immersed her in projects for the world’s most famous marques, including Ferrari and Maserati. She has contributed her PR talent to concours and rallies around the world. To honor her mother’s 90th birthday, Deb founded “Drive Toward a Cure”, a non-profit that raises funds to combat Parkinson’s Disease through car rallies, track days, concours, and fundraisers. Deb’s mother suffered from Parkinsons, and Deb’s ...
004: Deb Pollack - Luxury Automotive Marketing/PR Executive | Founder - Drive Toward a Cure
April 14, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBDeb Pollack’s enviable career in automotive public relations and marketing has immersed her in projects for the world’s most famous marques, including Ferrari and Maserati. She has contributed her PR talent to concours and rallies around the world. To honor her mother’s 90th birthday, Deb founded “Drive Toward a Cure”, a non-profit that raises funds to combat Parkinson’s Disease through car rallies, track days, concours, and fundraisers. Deb’s mother suffered from Parkinsons, and Deb’s ...
003: Lyn St. James - Professional Race Car Driver, Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, Philanthropist and Motivational Speaker
April 07, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBAmanda talks with the legendary Lyn St James in an extraordinarily candid interview, covering topics as wide ranging as Lyn’s first meeting with Roger Penske, the core of a good race strategy, and how empowering it is to step into a race car. Lyn shares what it’s like to mentor up-and-coming racers and some of her proudest career moments. Amanda explores what it means to Lyn to be celebrated, and how Lyn is wearing her Amelia Island Concours 2021 Honoree mantle. As always, Lyn steps up t...
Season 1, Episode 3: Lyn St. James - Professional Race Car Driver, Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, Philanthropist and Motivational Speaker
April 07, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBAmanda talks with the legendary Lyn St James in an extraordinarily candid interview, covering topics as wide ranging as Lyn’s first meeting with Roger Penske, the core of a good race strategy, and how empowering it is to step into a race car. Lyn shares what it’s like to mentor up-and-coming racers and some of her proudest career moments. Amanda explores what it means to Lyn to be celebrated, and how Lyn is wearing her Amelia Island Concours 2021 Honoree mantle. As always, Lyn steps up t...
Season 1, Episode 2: Mercedes Lilienthal - Owner/Founder Crankshaft Consulting | The New York Times Contributing Writer | Freelance Journalist
March 31, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBMercedes Lilienthal uses her writer’s podium to shine a light on “women who are unseen and notable” in the automotive world through her stories for the New York Times, Tread magazine, Toyota Cruisers, and Trucks, and the communication platform “Crankshaft Culture” she shares with her husband, Andy Lilienthal. Her Twitter handle, “@WriterWithGrit”, captures her determination to focus on life’s great journey. Her travels include the Alcan5000 Arctic rally in a RHD diesel through -40 degree te...
002: Mercedes Lilienthal - Owner/Founder Crankshaft Consulting | The New York Times Contributing Writer | Freelance Journalist
March 31, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBMercedes Lilienthal uses her writer’s podium to shine a light on “women who are unseen and notable” in the automotive world through her stories for the New York Times, Tread magazine, Toyota Cruisers, and Trucks, and the communication platform “Crankshaft Culture” she shares with her husband, Andy Lilienthal. Her Twitter handle, “@WriterWithGrit”, captures her determination to focus on life’s great journey. Her travels include the Alcan5000 Arctic rally in a RHD diesel through -40 degree te...
Season 1, Episode 1: Waving the Green Flag on Women Shifting Gears with GSEvents' Cindy Sisson and Theresa Gilpatrick
March 20, 2021 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBWelcome to the first episode of “Women Shifting Gears”, where Amanda Busick gets GSEvents’ founders Cindy Sisson and Theresa Gilpatrick in the driver’s seat, talking about women and cars, empowering women with cars, the collaborative conversations that need to take place to grow the automotive space, and how they see GSEvents creating that platform. Why GSEvents was founded How Theresa and Cindy met, and why their unique partnership works Where they see the future of GSEvents and what th...
001: Waving the Green Flag on Women Shifting Gears with GSEvents' Cindy Sisson and Theresa Gilpatrick
March 20, 2021 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBWelcome to the first episode of “Women Shifting Gears”, where Amanda Busick gets GSEvents’ founders Cindy Sisson and Theresa Gilpatrick in the driver’s seat, talking about women and cars, empowering women with cars, the collaborative conversations that need to take place to grow the automotive space, and how they see GSEvents creating that platform. Why GSEvents was founded How Theresa and Cindy met, and why their unique partnership works Where they see the future of GSEvents and what th...