CHRIS EVERT
Tennis legend Chris Evert visits with Ellen courtside at her Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida. Evert talks frankly about her life after tennis, which includes the challenges of being in a relationship, the organization necessary to raise three sons, and host her annual Celebrity Tennis Tournament, which funds efforts against drug abuse and child neglect.

DEBORAH WILLIS
Ellen talks with Deborah Willis about her pioneering work as an Afro-American photographer, teacher and curator/historian. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Willis describes her groundbreaking studies of the Black female body, her experience as a breast cancer survivor, and explains why photographs play such an important role in telling the stories of our lives.

CONSUELO MACK
Ellen sits down with longtime friend Consuelo Mack, host of the weekly half-hour personal finance program Consuelo Mack WealthTrack. A wife and working mother, Consuelo talks frankly with Ellen about having a child at age 38, becoming the major breadwinner in their family, and the most important thing for women to know when managing their finances.

ROSE MUTOMBO
Married to basketball superstar Dikembe Mutombo, Rose is a nursing student and the mother of 6 children, four of whom are adopted. Ellen visits with Rose in their Philadelphia home about the challenges of raising a large family while their dad is traveling, as well as the hospital she and her husband are building in central Africa to aid the community from which they came.

ROSANNE CASH
Ellen sits down with singer, songwriter, and author Rosanne Cash after a performance in Boulder, Colorado to talk about music, motherhood, and memories of her father, Johnny Cash. Find out what makes her call herself a "world citizen," how she captures her creative muse, and why New York City - not Nashville - is the place she calls home.

JANET GURWITCH
Janet Gurwitch is CEO and Co-Founder of Gurwitch Bristow Products, the multi-million company that produces, manages and markets Laura Mercier Cosmetics. Ellen talks with her about the risks involved in becoming an entrepreneur, the biggest challenge she has faced in her career, and the difference between working women today and those who started out two decades ago.

PING SUN
Attorney, mother, community activist, and “a bridge between cultures,” Chinese immigrant Ping Sun reveals the reasons she decided to put her legal career aside and move to Houston, TX when her husband accepted the position as President of Rice University. Ellen and Ping also discuss the challenges of a blended marriage, the Houston Chinese community, and shepherding students through the scare of Hurricane Rita.
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CELIA MASYCZEK
Discover what it’s like to be a winemaker as Ellen visits with one of California’s premier consultants.  Celia takes Ellen into the tasting caves at Vineyard 29 to explain the complexities of blending wine for a distinctive taste and offers tips on how to order the best bottle to accompany a meal. Recently divorced and a single mother of two teenagers, she talks frankly about the decisions and sacrifices she has made to accomplish a balanced life.

RITSUKO KOMAKI
A refugee from Hiroshima, Japan, Ritsuko Komaki changes lives every day as a world renowned oncologist at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.  Ritsuko talks about marriage, motherhood, and the loss of her closest childhood friend which inspired her to pursue a career of healing and helping others.

ELIZABETH MURRAY
Artist Elizabeth Murray is considered to be one of the most important abstract artists of our time.  In a special half-hour segment, Ellen discusses motherhood, making art, the trauma of experiencing 9/11 in her own backyard, the experience of seeing a retrospective of her own work at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and surviving cancer with this gently spoken painter.

MARIA BLANCO
As Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Maria Blanco has a passion for immigrant rights, women's rights and racial justice.  Ellen sits down with this award-winning lawyer to ask her what it was like to move to the States from her homeland of Mexico, why she decided to become an attorney, and what made her wait so long to become an American citizen herself.

LYNN REISER
Who said you can’t have more than one job?  Lynn Reiser, Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School and the award-winning author and illustrator of 25 children's books, has successfully combined both of her passions in an interesting and meaningful life.  Reiser reveals how the books she writes books allow her to connect with the child within herself and tells Ellen where she finds inspiration for her stories.

KAVITA RAMDAS
As a Hindu woman married to a Pakistani man, Kavita Ramdas is a living example of bridging cultures.  In Kavita’s ten years as Leader of the Global Fund for Women in San Francisco, she has helped women and girls around the globe gain economic independence and gain increased access education.  She speaks candidly about prejudice, motherhood, and what it was like to have a stay-at-home husband in the early years of their daughter’s life.

PEGGY SMITH
Most people think of cheese making as a pioneer pastime.  But Peggy Smith and her partner, Sue Conley, own and operate Cowgirl Creamery Cheese, a thriving business that produces delicious cheeses which are sold to restaurants, online, and in stores on the east and west coast! Learn about why they decided to become entrepreneurs in this unusual industry, their commitment to the environment in Marin County, and what makes their team really work.

EILEEN COLLINS
A former astronaut, two-time shuttle commander, wife and mother, Eileen Collins says her experiences have changed the way she sees our world. At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, she visited with Ellen about her legacy as the first female shuttle commander, her retirement from NASA, and the surprising ways her career helped her to be a better mother.

NELL MERLINO
As the creator of “Take Your Daughter to Work Day,” Nell Merlino has influenced a generation of young women.  Nell reveals the “ah-ha moment” behind her inspiration and the work she is doing with Count-Me-In, an organization that makes start-up loans to businesswomen throughout the country.

FRANCES BEINECKE
Frances Beinicke began working as an intern at the Natural Resources Defense Council during the 1970's.  Today she is their President!  Frances talked with Ellen about taking 7 years off to raise her children, why the environment is at a crucial juncture, and what we all can do to make a difference.

SUE NAEGLE
As co-head of the television department at United Talent Agency in Los Angeles, Sue Naegle’s specialty is television writers of programs such as "One Tree Hill" and "Six Feet Under" and comedians—something she knows a lot about since she’s married to Dana Gould, writer and Co-Executive Producer of "The Simpsons."  Sue shares with Ellen her strategies for balancing her job as a high-powered TV executive, surviving cancer, and being a mom to her two adopted daughters from China.

ANN CRITTENDEN
Former New York Times reporter Ann Crittenden has turned her interests to the undervalued occupation of motherhood and written two books on the subject.  Ellen and Ann talk about the difficult challenge of of balancing work and family and do a bit of investigative reporting on the streets of Manhattan for some firsthand responses from women.

JANE OLSON
Jane Olson has spent a lifetime volunteering for causes that promote international peace and justice.  This wife and grandmother of 8 talks with Ellen about the passion and commitment it takes to make a difference in the world and why spirituality and femininity are so important.

KUKI GALLMAN
Many people have heard of Kuki Gallman because of her best-selling book, I Dreamed of Africa.  Ellen visits with Kuki in New York City about the work she and her daughter, Sveva, are doing to help preserve the Kenyan environment and to educate young Kenyans about conservation through their “4 Generations Project.”

The program is generously underwritten by

The Joseph D. Jamail Foundation

Sara S. Morgan

Fred Baron and Lisa Blue

Laurie M. Tisch Foundation

Andrea and Jim Gordon