Supporting Women Where It Counts with Shikha Bajaj

Regina McCann Hess | Sep 17, 2025

Main Episode Description:

Welcome back to another edition of Women and Wealth!

This week, Regina has on Shikha Bajaj – Shikha Bajaj is a globally recognized transformation expert, award-winning author, and visionary executive with over 25 years of experience leading innovation and impact across Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and mission-driven institutions.

Her new book, Own Your Color: How to Unleash Your Limitless Potential with One Secret Tool: MENTOR, explores three actionable steps: understanding your values, daring to dream big, and taking decisive action.

Shikha gives you and Regina a sneak peek into her book and what motivated her to put pen to paper.

As always, they also dive into the career challenges women face as well as Shika’s plans for retirement!

Listen To The Episode Here:

Episode Highlights:

0:00 - Introduction

0:42 - Introduction to Shikha

2:14 - The process of writing the book

4:53 - Gender equity vs. equality

11:32 - Where you can learn more about Shikha

15:30 - “What is your vision for retirement?”

17:30 - Action item and episode wrap-up

ABOUT REGINA MCCANN HESS

Regina is the author of Super Woman Wealth: How to Become Your Own Financial Hero. As an advocate for women’s financial freedom, she wrote this book to help empower women to take a bigger role in handling their money.

Regina has appeared on Schwab TV, Yahoo Finance, Forbes.com, NTD Television, CBS 3 Philadelphia, Fox 29 Philadelphia, King 5 Seattle, KTLA 5 Los Angeles and Scripps News. She has also been quoted in numerous articles in publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, USA Today, USA Wire, Word in Black, WTOP News, Mind Body Green, Money Digest, New York Post, Defender, Authority Magazine, GoBankingRates.com, Scripps and The Muse.

As Founder of Forge Wealth Management, Regina utilizes her 25+ years of financial services experience to help individuals plan, preserve and diversify their wealth. She focuses on educating her clients while building long-term relationships with them and their families. Her experience throughout major shifts in the markets, enables Regina to structure balanced portfolios to address specific financial goals.