A REAL Badass Entrepreneur, Author, Radio Show Producer

Dr. Joanie Connell is your host of REAL Life Lessons, a show where REAL (resilient, empowered, authentic, limber) women speak about what it takes to be successful in the real world. Dr. Connell is the author of Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life, a book that helps people who grew up in today’s over-protected environments ready themselves for the unanticipated aspects of work life that no one prepared them for. She is a keynote speaker and the president of Flexible Work Solutions, a San Diego based organizational consulting firm. Dr. Connell received her doctorate in psychology from the University of California Berkeley and her bachelors in engineering from Harvard University and has over 25 years of work experience.