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AI in Business: From Tool to Personal Assistant for Entrepreneurs with Michelle Hamilton

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0400

From glassblowing studios to AI boardrooms, Michelle Hamilton shares how she turned decades of commercial real estate experience into actionable AI strategies for businesses of all sizes. This episode explores how entrepreneurs can use AI in business as a personal assistant to improve productivity, protect intellectual property, and support business growth.

Michelle, founder and CEO of Spark AI Strategy and AI Class Lab, dives into the intersection of art, creativity, and artificial intelligence. She explains how entrepreneurs, especially women entrepreneurs, can use AI tools to scale their businesses, protect their intellectual property, and amplify their ideas and expertise without losing the human creativity that makes their work unique.

You’ll hear practical examples of how AI can become a true business partner for productivity, strategy, and business growth, from building personalized knowledge libraries with tools like NotebookLM and Gemini to using AI assistants for research, project planning, and everyday decision-making.

Michelle also shares why taking a human-centered approach to AI matters now more than ever. Instead of replacing people, she shows how the right AI strategy can free you from repetitive work so you can focus on relationships, creativity, and the decisions that actually move your business forward.

If you’ve been curious about AI but aren’t sure where to start, or you’re ready to use it more strategically in your business, this episode will give you practical ideas you can start using right away to work smarter, protect your expertise, and move closer to that million-dollar milestone.

Chapters:

🚀 02:23 How AI Can Support Women Entrepreneurs on the Path to $1M

🎨 03:43 Why Creative Thinking Makes You Better at Using AI

🤖 08:37 Turn AI Into Your Personal Assistant (Even Without a Team)

🧠 10:21 Run Multiple AI Assistants to Improve Your Results

📚 11:47 Build an AI Knowledge Library That Captures Your Expertise

🔐 14:34 The Truth About AI Privacy and Protecting Your Ideas

👥 20:37 Why the Best AI Strategies Start With People, Not Technology
🌍 28:01 AI Is the Great Equalizer: What That Means for Entrepreneurs

💡 34:40 Use AI to Unlock the Hidden Value in Your Content

🛠 41:53 Simple Ways to Start Using AI in Your Business Today

Links:

Website: www.sparkaistrategy.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/michellehamiltonai
Connect with Michelle Hamilton to explore AI strategy, access educational resources through AI Class Lab, and learn how to leverage AI for business growth while keeping creativity and people at the center of innovation.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

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We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

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Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere!
🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(02:23) - 🚀 How AI Can Support Women Entrepreneurs on the Path to $1M
(03:43) - 🎨 Why Creative Thinking Makes You Better at Using AI
(08:37) - 🤖 Turn AI Into Your Personal Assistant (Even Without a Team)
(10:21) - 🧠 Run Multiple AI Assistants to Improve Your Results
(11:47) - 📚 Build an AI Knowledge Library That Captures Your Expertise
(14:34) - 🔐 The Truth About AI Privacy and Protecting Your Ideas
(20:37) - 👥 Why the Best AI Strategies Start With People, Not Technology
(28:01) - 🌍 AI Is the Great Equalizer: What That Means for Entrepreneurs
(34:40) - 💡 Use AI to Unlock the Hidden Value in Your Content
(41:53) - 🛠 Simple Ways to Start Using AI in Your Business Today

How to Get Specialist-Level Menopause Care (Even When You’re Told You’re “Too Young”) with Madge Rumman

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0500

If you have ever walked into a doctor’s office with real perimenopause symptoms and been told you are too young, this conversation will feel validating.

In this episode, Madge Rumman, co-founder of Blair Health, shares how women can access specialist-level menopause care without waiting months for referrals or feeling dismissed in primary care. We talk about why menopause is diagnosed based on symptoms rather than blood tests, what often gets missed in traditional healthcare, and how to trust what your body is telling you.

Madge also explains how Blair Health combines licensed providers with structured digital assessments and responsible AI to deliver personalized menopause treatment plans in a regulated, clinically grounded way. Beyond individual care, we explore how midlife health affects career progression, leadership pipelines, and why employers should be paying attention.

This is a conversation about access, validation, and action. Whether you are navigating menopause yourself, supporting women in your workplace, or building in women’s health tech, you will walk away with clarity on what to look for and what to do next.

Chapters:

👋 00:56 Meet Madge Rumman & Blair Health’s Mission

💡 02:20 How a Personal Health Gap Sparked a Women’s Health Solution
🤝 06:09 Leverage Mentorship and Skills to Break Barriers in Tech
⚕️ 08:00 How Blair Health Delivers Faster Specialist Care
📊 15:41 Why Midlife Care Access Boosts Workforce Success
❌ 21:34 Stop Believing These Menopause Myths
🤖 32:42 How to Use AI Responsibly in Healthcare
🚀 40:32 How to Try Blair Health and What to Do Next

Links:

Website: www.blairhealth.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/madgerumman
Explore Blair Health’s platform, connect with Madge on LinkedIn, and discover how you can support women’s health and workplace equity today.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if y:ou would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:56) - Meet Madge Rumman & Blair Health’s Mission
(02:20) - How a Personal Health Gap Sparked a Women’s Health Solution
(06:09) - Leverage Mentorship and Skills to Break Barriers in Tech
(08:00) - How Blair Health Delivers Faster Specialist Care
(15:41) - Why Midlife Care Access Boosts Workforce Success
(21:34) - Stop Believing These Menopause Myths
(32:42) - How to Use AI Responsibly in Healthcare
(40:32) - How to Try Blair Health and What to Do Next

How to Turn a Real Customer Pain Point into a High-Value Company with Kelly Parker

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Solve a real buyer problem. Build enterprise value. Exit on your terms.

In this episode of the She Leads Podcast, Kelly Parker shares how she built Send Ribbon, a bootstrapped corporate gifting company acquired by UrbanStems, by focusing on one overlooked opportunity: solving real pain points for real buyers.

With just $5,000 and no outside funding, Kelly launched her business at 27 after years inside high growth companies like Indeed, WeWork, and DoorDash. Instead of chasing luxury products or hype, she spoke directly with office managers, the true gatekeepers of corporate purchasing, and realized they did not need more options. They needed reliability, speed, and zero friction.

That insight became her competitive advantage and ultimately positioned the company for acquisition.

In this conversation, Kelly breaks down how relationship first thinking helped her win Fortune 500 clients, why visibility matters more than perfection when positioning for acquisition, and how staying close to your buyer builds long term enterprise value.

She also challenges the pressure many women founders face to be “all in” at the expense of financial stability. From healthcare realities to diversified income strategies, Kelly shares practical advice for building sustainable companies that align with your life, not just your ambition.

Today, through her advisory platform launchgrowexit, Kelly supports female founders who want to launch, grow, and eventually exit their companies with clarity and confidence.

If you are building a business, thinking about long term value, or questioning the hustle culture narrative, this episode offers a grounded roadmap for turning customer insight into a high value company.

Chapters:

00:56 👋 Meet Kelly Parker: Bootstrapping, Exiting, and Giving Back
03:05 🎓 Break the Rules Early: From Catholic School to Startup Risk and Grit
09:41 🚀 Learn Inside High-Growth Teams: Mentorship, Culture, and Taking the Leap
15:36 🎁 Spot the Buyer Gap: Office Manager Insights and Frictionless Gifting
26:16 🏗️ Build for Sustainability First: Creating a Lifestyle Business That Attracts Opportunity
28:08 💐 Stay Visible to Get Acquired: UrbanStems, COVID Timing, and the Letter of Intent
31:14 🤝 Make Relationships the Asset: Why Trust Drives Enterprise Value
35:51 💡 Think Exit Early: Healthcare, Hustle Culture, and Funding Your Dream Strategically
44:37 🌟 Reinvent After the Exit: Becoming a Co-Founder on Demand and Building Accessible Advisory
53:04 🎁 Book a Free Call with Kelly Parker: https://calendly.com/kellyanneparker/15min?back=1

Links:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/launchgrowexit

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kellyanneparker

Book a free call with Kelly and connect with her on LinkedIn and Instagram to start building a business designed to launch, grow, and exit on your terms.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👋 Meet Kelly Parker: Bootstrapping, Exiting, and Giving Back
(03:05) - 🎓 Break the Rules Early: From Catholic School to Startup Risk and Grit
(09:41) - 🚀 Learn Inside High-Growth Teams: Mentorship, Culture, and Taking the Leap
(15:36) - 🎁 Spot the Buyer Gap: Office Manager Insights and Frictionless Gifting
(26:16) - 🏗️ Build for Sustainability First: Creating a Lifestyle Business That Attracts Opportunity
(28:08) - 💐 Stay Visible to Get Acquired: UrbanStems, COVID Timing, and the Letter of Intent
(31:14) - 🤝 Make Relationships the Asset: Why Trust Drives Enterprise Value
(35:51) - 💡 Think Exit Early: Healthcare, Hustle Culture, and Funding Your Dream Strategically
(44:37) - 🌟 Reinvent After the Exit: Becoming a Co-Founder on Demand and Building Accessible Advisory
(53:04) - 🎁 Book a Free Call with Kelly Parker: https://calendly.com/kellyanneparker/15min?back=1

Stop Trading Time for Money: How to Build a $100K Consulting Offer with Jessica Fearnley

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0500

What does it take to create a $100K consulting offer for corporate clients? Let's once and for all move on from trading time for dollars.

In this episode, Jessica Fearnley and I talk about what it truly takes to structure a high-value $100K consulting offer for corporate clients, without overcomplicating your services or building a massive team or charging an hourly rate.

But this conversation goes beyond pricing.

We talk about what happens after you leave corporate, recover from burnout, and rebuild your confidence. We unpack the emotional and strategic transition many experienced women consultants face when they hit six figures and begin asking what’s next.

Jessica shares how she moved from project management into building a multi-six-figure B2B consulting business rooted in high-value advisory retainers. We explore:

What a $100K advisory retainer actually includes
How to package your consulting services inside the budgets corporate already invests in
Why trying to “educate” buyers slows down the sale
The recovery phase after corporate trauma, and why many women underprice themselves during it
How to position yourself as a trusted strategic advisor instead of a service provider
Why “the more they pay, the less they get” can be true at premium levels

If you want to move from hourly work or project-based consulting into high-value B2B advisory retainers, this episode gives you both the strategic framework and the mindset shift required to do it.

This is about packaging expertise, reclaiming authority, and building a consulting business that aligns with your life, not just your revenue goals.

Chapters:

00:56 👩‍💼 Meet Jessica and Her Consulting Evolution

02:43 🔥 Recover from Burnout Before You Rebuild

04:49 🔄 Reevaluate What Comes After Six Figures

10:22 🤱 Design a Business That Works with Your Energy and Life Stage

15:32 🏢 Recognize Why Venture Funding Isn’t the Only Path to Growth

17:37 🤝 Step Into the Role of Trusted Strategic Advisor

19:44 📦 Package Your Consulting Offer Inside Existing Corporate Budgets

30:26 💼 Understand the $100K Advisory Retainer Model

Links:

Website: jessicafearnley.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-fearnley-47173019
Explore Jessica Fearnley’s work, tune into her podcast, and connect with her on LinkedIn to discover how you can build a premium consulting business that reflects your true value and ambition.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👩‍💼 Meet Jessica and Her Consulting Evolution
(02:43) - 🔥 Turn Burnout Into a New Business Direction
(04:49) - 🔄 Question What Comes After Six Figures
(10:22) - 🤱 Build a Business That Supports Your Energy and Life Stage
(15:32) - 🏢 Understand Why Venture Funding Isn’t the Only Path
(17:37) - 🤝 Step Into the Role of Trusted Strategic Advisor
(19:44) - 📦 Package Your Offer Inside What Corporate Already Buys
(30:26) - 💼 Structure a High-Value Advisory Retainer (Including the $100K Model)

How to Turn Your Lived Experience into Your Biggest Leadership Asset with Lindsay Greene

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0500

From Washington, D.C. to the Brooklyn waterfront, Lindsay Greene shares how a career in finance evolved into a mission to transform industrial spaces into engines of opportunity for underserved communities.

Lindsay Greene is the President and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she leads one of New York City’s most ambitious models for inclusive economic development. With more than 550 businesses and 11,000 employees on site, the Navy Yard is not simply a real estate portfolio but a living ecosystem designed to create quality jobs and connect local residents to meaningful careers. Her work blends business strategy, workforce development, and community engagement into a powerful example of how cities can rethink the purpose of former industrial spaces.

Her journey began in Washington, D.C., where daily exposure to economic disparities shaped her desire to work at the intersection of business and community impact. After studying economics at Harvard and starting her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, she discovered urban development through the Urban Investment Group under Alicia Glen. Mentorship from leaders like Glen and MIT professor Phil Thompson helped her shift from traditional finance to mission driven economic development. A detour into the food industry after Yale School of Management eventually led her back to this work, culminating in her leadership at the Navy Yard in 2022.

Lindsay explains how the Brooklyn Navy Yard goes beyond affordable real estate to support small, women owned, and minority owned businesses with mentorship, capital access, and technical advisory services. She highlights the Brooklyn STEAM Center, a public high school that gives 600 students hands on training with industry grade equipment, as well as new adult reskilling programs that recognize the value of both digital and analog problem solving. Through initiatives like the Micro Business Accelerator Program, she is building pathways for entrepreneurs to start small, grow, and scale within a supportive ecosystem.

This conversation explores leadership, economic mobility, and the importance of early exposure to career possibilities. Lindsay’s work demonstrates that revitalizing industrial spaces can do more than preserve history. It can create futures. Tune in to hear how thoughtful economic development can reshape communities and expand opportunity for the next generation.

Chapters:

01:01 👩‍💼 Meet Lindsay Greene President and CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yard

03:37 🗺️ Lindsay’s journey from Washington DC to New York City

05:30 🏦 From Goldman Sachs to a career in economic development

13:54 🏗️ Revitalizing the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a thriving hub

16:24 🌱 Community programs driving opportunity and impact

34:21 🚀 What is next for the Brooklyn Navy Yard

41:12 ✨ Closing reflections and final thoughts

Links:
Website: www.brooklynnavyyard.org
Connect with Lindsay Greene through the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s website to explore how this innovative model is creating jobs, supporting entrepreneurs, and opening new pathways for underserved communities.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:00) - 🎙️ Welcome to the She Leads Podcast
(01:01) - 👩‍💼 Meet Lindsay Green President and CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yard
(03:37) - 🗺️ Lindsay’s journey from Washington DC to New York City
(05:30) - 🏦 From Goldman Sachs to a career in economic development
(13:54) - 🏗️ Revitalizing the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a thriving hub
(16:24) - 🌱 Community programs driving opportunity and impact
(34:21) - 🚀 What is next for the Brooklyn Navy Yard
(41:12) - ✨ Closing reflections and final thoughts

Sales Is the Job: How to Sell Confidently Even If You Hate It with Julia Arpag

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0500

I’m saying the quiet part out loud: if you don’t build your sales muscle, growth stalls - no matter how talented you are. In this episode, Julia Arpag, CEO and Founder of Aligned Recruitment, shares with me how she went from five weeks postpartum and laid off to building a seven-figure tech recruitment firm by treating selling as service, investing early in mentorship, and using LinkedIn + networking like a real funnel.

Julia’s journey began in August 2023 when she was unexpectedly laid off while on maternity leave. What could have been a destabilizing moment became the catalyst for something extraordinary. While briefly accepting a W-2 role, she started selling for a friend’s startup recruitment venture on the side. Within months, she closed three retainer clients. That early traction forced a pivotal decision: continue playing it safe, or step fully into entrepreneurship despite fears around sales, taxes, and “not knowing enough.” She chose the leap.

Rather than trying to figure everything out alone, Julia invested her earliest earnings into mentorship by hiring an executive coach who had sold a recruitment agency for $28 million, a LinkedIn writing coach, and systems experts. Inspired by Carol Dweck’s Mindset and the philosophy of “Who Not How,” she built her sales muscle, reframed selling as service, and adopted a growth mindset that became foundational to Aligned Recruitment’s rapid success. She reminds us that for women entrepreneurs especially, seeking support is often the difference between staying small and scaling meaningfully.

We also explored Julia’s tactical wisdom as a recruiter, including why job seekers should treat their search like a sales funnel, how to optimize LinkedIn to be discovered, and why networking consistently outperforms cold online applications. At a deeper level, Julia challenges the idea that business success must come at the cost of personal well-being. Her philosophy is clear: build a business around your life, not the other way around.

This conversation is a powerful reminder for all of us that profitability, purpose, and peace can coexist. Tune in to hear my conversation with Julia Arpag and how she is redefining what it looks like for women to lead, sell, and scale without losing themselves in the process.

Chapters:

01:12 👩‍💼 Meet Julia Arpag Founder and CEO of Aligned Recruitment

02:34 🚀 From Layoff to Launch Building a Business After Maternity Leave

07:32 📈 Smart Strategies for Scaling a Recruitment Firm Fast

16:12 🤝 Why Sales Skills and Mentorship Change Everything for Women Founders

22:51 🔎 How Recruiters Really Search for Candidates

23:32 💼 Making Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You

24:50 ☕ Networking Tactics That Beat Online Applications

26:59 🌍 How Values Driven Tech Companies Hire Diverse Talent

36:59 ⚖️ Building a Business That Supports Your Life and Family

Links:

Website: www.alignedrecruitment.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-arpag
Connect with Julia on LinkedIn and explore Aligned Recruitment’s website to learn how values-based leadership and smart hiring strategies can transform the way you build teams and careers.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(01:12) - 👩‍💼 Meet Julia Arpag Founder and CEO of Aligned Recruitment
(02:34) - 🚀 From Layoff to Launch Building a Business After Maternity Leave
(07:32) - 📈 Smart Strategies for Scaling a Recruitment Firm Fast
(16:12) - 🤝 Why Sales Skills and Mentorship Change Everything for Women Founders
(22:51) - 🔎 How Recruiters Really Search for Candidates
(23:32) - 💼 Making Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You
(24:50) - ☕ Networking Tactics That Beat Online Applications
(26:59) - 🌍 How Values Driven Tech Companies Hire Diverse Talent
(36:59) - ⚖️ Building a Business That Supports Your Life and Family

Become the Obvious Choice: Brand Positioning That Turns Your Reputation Into Revenue with Paige Arnof-Fenn

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Paige Arnof-Fenn shares how to stop competing on price by sharpening brand positioning, owning a niche, and turning reputation + referrals into consistent demand.

In this episode, Paige Arnof-Fenn shares her journey from investment banking to branding powerhouse and discovering her true calling in marketing, building a distributed firm long before remote work was mainstream, and detailing how to turn expertise into profitable, high-impact businesses. Paige is the founder and CEO of Mavens & Moguls, a global branding and digital marketing firm that has worked with clients like Microsoft, Virgin, The New York Times Company, and Colgate. Her path to entrepreneurship didn’t begin with a clear plan, but with a series of courageous pivots that led her from Wall Street to marketing leadership at P&G and Coca-Cola, and eventually to building her own agency. Along the way, she learned that success is less about following a script and more about honoring the parts of work that energize you.

The turning points in Paige’s story are rooted in self-awareness and bold action. After realizing investment banking didn’t align with her values or passion, she shifted into marketing, first through business school, then by shaping brand strategy at major corporations and startups. She watched the internet industry emerge in the late ’90s and embraced it, later using the post-9/11 job market as a catalyst to launch her own business. What could have been a moment of fear became the start of a 24-year journey building a thriving firm with a distributed team across multiple cities and countries.

Paige’s most powerful insights center on clarity, niche, and validation. She encourages women entrepreneurs to treat themselves as a brand, not a commodity, and to build businesses based on real market research, not friendly feedback. She champions differentiation through specificity, sharing how dominating one niche beats trying to please everyone, and explains how profitability is the foundation for meaningful impact.

Paige’s story is a celebration of women’s leadership, resilience, and the power of building businesses that create real change. If you’re ready to rethink what entrepreneurship can look like, and how to build it with intention and confidence, this conversation is for you. Tune in and be inspired.

Chapters
00:56 👩‍💼 Meet Paige Arnof-Fenn From Stanford to CEO

03:13 💼 Paige’s Journey in Investment Banking

06:26 📈 Discovering a Passion for Marketing

09:40 🚀 Building a Successful Marketing Firm

23:42 🌍 Pioneering Outsourced Marketing

24:04 🏆 Early Success and Harvard Recognition
28:19 💡 Positioning Strategy for Women Founders: Brand vs Commodity

29:45 📣 Niche + Market Research: Validation That Creates Demand

35:18 🔁 The Referral Engine: Becoming the Default Choice

42:28 💖 Philanthropy and Legacy

Links
Website: www.mavensandmoguls.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/paigearnoffenn
Check out Paige Arnof-Fenn’s website, connect with her on LinkedIn, and explore her work with Mavens & Moguls to learn how to build a brand-driven business that scales with clarity, purpose, and impact.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👩‍💼 Meet Paige Arnof-Fenn From Stanford to CEO
(03:13) - 💼 Paige’s Journey in Investment Banking
(06:26) - 📈 Discovering a Passion for Marketing
(09:40) - 🚀 Building a Successful Marketing Firm
(23:42) - 🌍 Pioneering Outsourced Marketing
(24:04) - 🏆 Early Success and Harvard Recognition
(28:19) - 💡 Advice for Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs
(29:45) - 📣 Building a Strong Personal Brand
(42:28) - 💖 Philanthropy and Legacy

Why Emotional Intelligence Is Your Most Profitable Business Skill with Katherine Eisold Miller

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500

From courtroom litigator to emotionally intelligent mediator, Katherine Eisold Miller shares how she is reshaping divorce into a process grounded in clarity, compassion, and agency for women navigating one of life’s hardest transitions.

Today, I sit down with Katherine Miller, founder of the Miller Law Group and a New York-based divorce attorney, mediator, author, and podcast host who is changing the cultural conversation around divorce. Coming from a family of therapists, Katherine saw early in her legal career that traditional litigation focused on winning rather than helping people through deeply personal crises. Her work now centers on mediation and emotionally savvy decision-making, empowering women to move through divorce without losing themselves in the process.

Katherine opens up about her early years handling hundreds of child welfare and litigation cases and the moment she realized there had to be a better way. With nearly all divorces settling outside of trial, she chose to pursue mediation training to help people make thoughtful decisions aligned with their real priorities. That pivot marked a powerful shift from adversarial problem-solving to collaborative clarity, especially for women who often carry the emotional and financial weight of family transitions.

We dive into the art of listening beyond surface-level demands to uncover what truly matters, whether in divorce, entrepreneurship, or leadership. Katherine explains how interrupting destructive conflict patterns creates space for solutions that honor both parties’ needs. She also shares why conversations about money, prenuptial agreements, and financial values are not signs of failure, but foundations for stronger partnerships and healthier outcomes.

This conversation is a reminder that leadership begins with self-trust, preparation, and the courage to ask better questions. Katherine’s insights offer women permission to approach divorce without shame, fear, or defaulting to systems that do not serve them. If you care about agency, emotional intelligence, and building a life that reflects your values, you will want to listen all the way through.

Chapters
👩‍⚖️ 00:55 Meet Katherine Miller
🛤️ 03:03 Katherine’s Journey to Becoming a Divorce Attorney
🤝 05:30 Understanding Mediation in Divorce
🗣️ 10:14 The Importance of Listening and Understanding
📊 14:02 Divorce Statistics and Trends
💡 16:05 Preparing for Divorce with Confidence
💼 37:00 Impact of Divorce on Women Entrepreneurs
🔚 39:43 Conclusion and Resources

Links
Website: https://miller-law.com/
Socials: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kemiller1/
Katherine's Book - Promotional Offer: https://www.amazon.com/Emotionally-Savvy-Divorce-Smart-Negotiations/dp/1774586053
Connect with Katherine Miller through her website and social platforms, explore her work on The Emotionally Savvy Divorce podcast, and learn how emotional intelligence can help you lead yourself through change with confidence and clarity.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:55) - 👩‍⚖️ Meet Katherine Eisold Miller
(03:03) - 🛤️ Katherine’s Journey to Becoming a Divorce Attorney
(05:30) - 🤝 Understanding Mediation in Divorce
(10:14) - 🗣️ The Importance of Listening and Understanding
(14:02) - 📊 Divorce Statistics and Trends
(16:05) - 💡 Preparing for Divorce with Confidence
(37:00) - 💼 Impact of Divorce on Women Entrepreneurs
(39:43) - 🔚 Conclusion and Resources

Why the Rules of Money Were Never Written for Women — and How to Build Wealth Anyway with Emily Green

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500

From navigating Wall Street during the financial crisis to building wealth strategies for women who are reshaping the economy, Emily Green shares how she became a powerful advocate for women taking control of their financial futures.

In our conversation, I sit down with Emily Green, Head of Wealth Management at Ellevest, a company founded by Sally Krawcheck to close the persistent investment gap facing women. Emily’s career began at J.P. Morgan, where she quickly noticed a troubling pattern: male founders were consistently better prepared and better supported when selling businesses or going public, while women were left without the same level of financial advocacy. That realization led her to Ellevest, where she helped build the firm’s wealth management division from the ground up, effectively launching a startup within a startup.

Emily opens up about the pivotal transition Ellevest made after selling its robo-advisory business in 2024, a bold decision that required letting go of an early identity to gain clarity around serving high-earning and high-net-worth women more deeply. We talk about how women’s relationships with money evolve over time, shifting from budgeting and day-to-day decisions toward life trade-offs, fulfillment, and legacy. Emily also shares how her clients’ wealth comes from diverse paths, like corporate leadership, early tech roles, entrepreneurship, and investing, reflecting a growing desire for alternatives to traditional banking models.

This talk dives into the historic wealth transfer underway and why women will be at the center of it, controlling an estimated fifty percent of U.S. wealth by 2030. Emily introduces the idea of “wealth care,” reframing money as a tool to maximize life rather than an end goal. From examining inherited money beliefs to treating personal finances like a business, she offers grounded, actionable guidance that can save women millions over their lifetimes.

If you’re ready to rethink money, leadership, and long-term impact, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.

Chapters

👋 01:00 Meet Emily Green, Head of Wealth Management at Ellevest

🚀 01:52 Emily Green’s journey building a career in financial services

📈 05:12 How Ellevest evolved to serve women building lasting wealth

💸 14:49 The great wealth transfer and what it means for women leaders

👑 20:06 Women stepping into financial power during the wealth transfer

🧠 21:14 The real challenges women face in financial decision-making

👩‍👧 25:07 How generational views on money are changing for women

✨ 33:23 Emily’s advice for young women building financial independence

🎤 36:32 Closing insights and resources to continue the journey

Links:

Website: https://ellevest.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-green-2a98a81a/
Email: emilyg@ellevest.com
Explore Ellevest’s resources, connect with Emily on LinkedIn, and dive deeper into her work to start building wealth with confidence, clarity, and purpose.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Links

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(01:00) - 👋 Meet Emily Green Head of Wealth Management at Ellevest
(01:52) - 🚀 Emily Green’s journey building a career in financial services
(05:12) - 📈 How Ellevest evolved to serve women building lasting wealth
(14:49) - 💸 The great wealth transfer and what it means for women leaders
(20:06) - 👑 Women stepping into financial power during the wealth transfer
(21:14) - 🧠 The real challenges women face in financial decision-making
(25:07) - 👩‍👧 How generational views on money are changing for women
(33:23) - ✨ Emily’s advice for young women building financial independence
(36:32) - 🎤 Closing insights and resources to continue the journey

What Nobody Tells You About Growing Past $1 Million — and Why Women Are Choosing Impact Over Revenue

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500

I’m opening 2026 by claiming clarity as my word for the year and sharing an honest reflection on where She Leads has been and where it is going next.

In this solo episode, I share my personal journey after eleven years of serving women entrepreneurs through She Leads Media and what it means to step into a new chapter with sharper vision. A simple moment, getting new glasses, became a powerful metaphor for how deeply I’m craving clarity in my work, my focus, and the women I’m best positioned to serve. I talk candidly about the tension between wanting to help everyone and knowing that real impact requires intentionality, boundaries, and depth. At the heart of my work has always been deep listening, trusting that women already hold their own answers and need space, reflection, and support to access them.

I also unpack the realities of entrepreneurship that rarely get airtime, especially for women. The same habits we bring into life, procrastination, self-doubt, resilience, show up in business, shaping outcomes for better or worse. Drawing from my teaching at NYU and Rice, I explain why foundational self-awareness matters more than any tactic or trend. I challenge the glossy, quick-fix narratives that dominate online marketing and speak honestly about the sustained effort and inner work required to build something meaningful.

This episode is also a turning point. I reflect on my own realization that the current She Leads model will not reach the million-dollar scale needed to expand impact and why that matters. As I enter what feels like my third professional chapter, I share my vision for supporting women who have reached or are approaching seven figures and are asking deeper questions about purpose, burnout, and legacy.

If you are craving clarity, wrestling with growth, or sensing that your next level requires a different way of leading, this conversation is for you. I invite you to listen in, reflect alongside me, and help shape the future of She Leads as we redefine what it means for women to truly lead with intention, sustainability, and impact.

Chapters
✨ 00:56 Welcoming 2026 with clarity and intention

👩‍💼 02:46 Eleven years of serving women entrepreneurs

🔍 04:20 Why clarity matters in building a sustainable business

⚖️ 06:52 The real challenges and truths of entrepreneurship

🎓 09:05 Teaching early stage entrepreneurs at NYU and Rice

🌍 13:22 Choosing impact and purpose beyond revenue goals

👑 16:47 Lessons from women who build and scale successful businesses

🧭 18:27 Personal reflections on leadership and an evolving career journey

💬 29:32 An invitation to reflect, connect, and move forward together

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Links

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:56) - ✨ Welcoming 2026 with clarity and intention
(02:46) - 👩‍💼 Eleven years of serving women entrepreneurs
(04:20) - 🔍 Why clarity matters in building a sustainable business
(06:52) - ⚖️ The real challenges and truths of entrepreneurship
(09:05) - 🎓 Teaching early stage entrepreneurs at NYU and Rice
(13:22) - 🌍 Choosing impact and purpose beyond revenue goals
(16:47) - 👑 Lessons from women who build and scale successful businesses
(18:27) - 🧭 Personal reflections on leadership and an evolving career journey
(29:32) - 💬 An invitation to reflect, connect, and move forward together

The 3 Levels of Disruption: Why Women Start 49% of Businesses But Only 4.2% Ever Hit $1M

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500

From celebrating women’s representation to demanding true systemic disruption, I’m opening 2026 with a hard look at why nearly half of new businesses are started by women, yet so few ever cross the million-dollar mark.

In this solo episode of She Leads, I unpack a paradox that should stop every founder and leader in her tracks: women launched 49% of new businesses in 2024, but only 4.2% reached $1 million in revenue. This isn’t a conversation about confidence or competence, it’s about systems. And more importantly, it’s about how women who succeed within existing frameworks are rewarded, while those who challenge and redesign those frameworks face resistance at every turn.

I introduce a three-level disruption framework that reframes how we think about success in entrepreneurship. Level one is representation and women building profitable companies in spaces never designed for them. Level two is model disruption and changing how industries operate, from regenerative construction practices to ethical beauty brands that challenge labor and sourcing norms. And level three is systemic disruption, where success redistributes power itself, creating new pathways through employee ownership, transparent supply chains, and reinvestment into underrepresented founders.

This episode also confronts uncomfortable truths: how venture capital flows toward “acceptable” women-led industries, how algorithms and infrastructure quietly reinforce bias, and how family responsibilities still disproportionately force women out of business. The data is clear, and the issue isn’t ambition or ability, it’s a system built around invisible labor and outdated definitions of success.

As we step into 2026, I invite you to ask a bigger question: not just how much you want to build, but what you’re building toward. Because hitting a million dollars may require grit, but building something that lasts, scales, and changes the rules demands disruption. Tune in for a powerful redefinition of what it truly means to lead.

Chapters

🎉 00:56 Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs

⚡ 01:44 The Real Challenges Facing Women-Led Businesses

🧩 08:58 Understanding the Three Levels of Disruption

🏗️ 12:02 Representation and Rethinking Business Models

🌍 15:37 What Systemic Disruption Really Looks Like

💰 36:38 Why Capital and Infrastructure Matter

🚀 43:24 Expanding the Global Vision of She Leads

✨ 49:20 Closing Reflections and a Call to Action

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Links

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 🎉 Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs
(01:44) - ⚡ The Real Challenges Facing Women-Led Businesses
(08:58) - 🧩 Understanding the Three Levels of Disruption
(12:02) - 🏗️ Representation and Rethinking Business Models
(15:37) - 🌍 What Systemic Disruption Really Looks Like
(36:38) - 💰 Why Capital and Infrastructure Matter
(43:24) - 🚀 Expanding the Global Vision of She Leads
(49:20) - ✨ Closing Reflections and a Call to Action

When Bigger Isn't Better: How She Leads Reset After a Hard Year — and What's Coming in 2026

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0500

From scaling women-owned businesses past the million-dollar mark to rebuilding with clarity after burnout, I’m reflecting on the real work of leadership, discernment, and sustainable growth behind She Leads Media.

In this episode, I step out from behind the mic to share my own journey as CEO of She Leads Media and host of the She Leads podcast, rooted in a mission that’s bigger than revenue alone. Less than two percent of women-owned businesses scale beyond seven figures, and I’ve dedicated my work to changing that trajectory by helping women gain access to capital, confidence, and visibility. When women succeed financially, they reinvest in their families, communities, and causes, and that ripple effect is what drives everything we do at She Leads.

I open up about the non-linear realities of entrepreneurship, especially for women navigating gender, culture, and systemic barriers. I reflect on how pressure-based growth models and urgency-driven decisions caused She Leads Media to lose momentum in 2024, and how 2025 became a year of recovery, discernment, and realignment. That reset clarified that sustainable leadership is all about honoring values, resisting manipulation, and trusting your own judgment even when advice comes from impressive voices.

We also explore the practical work behind scaling with intention: building sound business models, strengthening financial health, developing media strategy, and using visibility as a tool for impact. I share what I’ve learned teaching entrepreneurship at Rice University’s Jones School of Business and NYU, and why critical thinking, not blind imitation, is essential when learning from other founders’ stories.

As I look ahead to 2026, I share what’s coming next for She Leads Media: personalized advisory work, curated global experiences, strategic partnerships, and renewed momentum symbolized by moving into the “year of the horse.” This episode is an honest invitation to lead with clarity, courage, and confidence, and to remember that extraordinary growth starts with conscious choice. Tune in and walk forward with me.

Chapters
🎙️ 00:56 An Unexpected Solo Episode

🚀 02:36 Adrienne Garland’s Professional Journey

💡 03:06 The Mission Behind She Leads Media

👩‍💼 05:03 Empowering Women Entrepreneurs to Scale

📅 08:06 Upcoming Events and New Initiatives

✈️ 11:27 Teaching Entrepreneurship and Traveling the World

🧠 23:34 Reflections and Lessons Learned Along the Way

✨ 31:26 Closing Thoughts and a Call to Action

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Links

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 🎙️ An Unexpected Solo Episode
(02:36) - 🚀 Adrienne Garland’s Professional Journey
(03:06) - 💡 The Mission Behind She Leads Media
(05:03) - 👩‍💼 Empowering Women Entrepreneurs to Scale
(08:06) - 📅 Upcoming Events and New Initiatives
(11:27) - ✈️ Teaching Entrepreneurship and Traveling the World
(23:34) - 🧠 Reflections and Lessons Learned Along the Way
(31:26) - ✨ Closing Thoughts and a Call to Action

Radical Self-Acceptance: Redefining the Foundation of Success with Nathalie Botros

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0500

From Swiss banker to international bestselling author, Nathalie Botros shares how choosing self-love over external success became the catalyst for a life and business rooted in joy, authenticity, and impact.

In this episode, I sit down with Nathalie Botros, known globally as The Bon Vivant Girl and a powerful Happiness Activator. Nathalie is an author, psychotherapist, mindset architect, and the Executive Editor of Ageless Living Magazine, where she curates stories that celebrate unapologetic living at every age. Our conversation begins with the magic of being together in person and the energy of women truly supporting women, not transactionally, but from a genuine place of “how can I help you.”

Nathalie opens up about the pivotal moments that reshaped her life, from leaving a prestigious banking career in Switzerland to searching for fulfillment through fashion, success, and external validation. Despite checking all the “achievement” boxes, she found herself deeply unhappy. That awakening led her inward, where she began dismantling perfectionism, diet culture, and self-criticism, and replacing them with radical self-love. One simple mirror practice changed everything, transforming not only how she saw herself but how the world responded to her.

We dive into the science of happiness, the myths women are conditioned to believe, and why self-love is the foundation of confident leadership, healthy relationships, and sustainable success. Nathalie also shares powerful insights for women entrepreneurs: why authenticity fuels growth, how setting boundaries protects your business, and why saying no, especially to unpaid labor, is an act of leadership, not selfishness.

This episode is a reminder that true success means building a life where joy, impact, and alignment coexist. Nathalie’s story will inspire you to stop chasing validation and start leading from a place of love, clarity, and self-worth. Tune in and let this conversation reset how you live, love, and lead.

Chapters

🌟 01:00 Meet Nathalie Botros The Happiness Activator

🚀 07:29 Nathalie’s journey from external success to self-discovery

💖 12:53 The power of self-love acceptance and inner happiness

🌱 20:52 Celebrating small wins and releasing comparison

✨ 25:20 Letting go of the illusion of perfection

👩‍💼 25:46 Empowering women entrepreneurs to lead with confidence

📈 27:56 Practical strategies for sustainable business growth

💎 30:12 Why self-worth is the foundation of leadership

⚖️ 42:03 Redefining success through life relationships and balance

Links
Websites:
https://nathaliebotros.com
https://thebonvivantgirl.com
Instagram: @thebon_vivantgirl
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebonvivantgirl/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-botros-5a4539/
Connect with Nathalie Botros through her websites and social platforms to explore her work, receive daily happiness insights, and continue the journey toward living and leading with joy.

Thank you to our podcast sponsor

Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

Links

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(01:00) - 🌟 Meet Nathalie Botros The Happiness Activator
(07:29) - 🚀 Nathalie’s journey from external success to self-discovery
(12:53) - 💖 The power of self-love acceptance and inner happiness
(20:52) - 🌱 Celebrating small wins and releasing comparison
(25:20) - ✨ Letting go of the illusion of perfection
(25:46) - 👩‍💼 Empowering women entrepreneurs to lead with confidence
(27:56) - 📈 Practical strategies for sustainable business growth
(30:12) - 💎 Why self-worth is the foundation of leadership
(42:03) - ⚖️ Redefining success through life relationships and balance

From Stage Performances to Soulful Studio Leadership with Amanda Bauman

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0500

From musician to movement healer, Amanda Bauman shows us what it looks like to build a career led not by strategy, but by soul, intuition, and a deep commitment to helping people reconnect with themselves.

Amanda is a multi-passionate entrepreneur whose work beautifully weaves together music, fitness, and wellness. As the co-owner and founder of Core Connection, she brings more than 15 years of experience in personal training, Pilates, and dance-based fitness, along with her creative world as a DJ and singer/songwriter. She’s also the creator of Groove Alchemy, a signature class that blends meditation, somatic movement, and live DJ performance into an experience that feels both grounding and electric.

In our conversation, Amanda opens up about the pivotal turning points that shaped her path, from moving to LA after college to chase acting and music, and navigating an autoimmune diagnosis that changed how she related to her body and her work. What started as spontaneous opportunities evolved into a meaningful shift toward fitness when her health required a new kind of presence. Years later, that winding, intuitive journey positioned her to step into entrepreneurship, purchasing the studio that would become Core Connection alongside her co-founder, Akiko Morrison.

Amanda offers profound insight into partnership, purpose, and resilience. She talks about how her diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis informed her compassionate teaching style, why choosing the right co-founder is critical, and how Groove Alchemy emerged as a healing blend of her passions. She also shares her current creative projects, like DJing at LA venues, remixing her original music with AI tools like Kuno, and envisioning a full live set built entirely from her own tracks.

This episode is a reminder that leadership doesn’t always begin with a business plan. Sometimes it begins with listening inward, trusting the next step, and allowing creativity to guide the way. Amanda’s story celebrates what’s possible when women build community-centered spaces rooted in authenticity, connection, and joy.

Tune in to hear Amanda’s full journey and the wisdom she brings to anyone navigating purpose, healing, and reinvention.

Chapters

👋 00:59 Meet Amanda Bauman and Her Multi-Passionate Journey

🎵 04:28 Amanda’s Path Through the Music Industry

💪 07:01 Navigating Health Challenges and Growing as a Leader

🏋️‍♀️ 11:47 Founding Core Connection Studio

✨ 13:58 Expanding the Vision for Core Connection

🎧 17:17 Balancing DJ Creativity with Studio Leadership

🤖 24:21 Exploring How AI Supports Modern Music Creation

💬 30:52 Final Reflections and Ways to Connect

Links
Websites:
www.djamabgrooves.com
www.coreconnection-studio.com

Social Media:
@ama.b.music
@core_connection_studio
Check out Amanda’s websites, follow her on social media, and explore her movement and music offerings to experience the soulful fusion of fitness, creativity, and community she’s bringing to Los Angeles and beyond.

Sponsor
Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.
Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com
Or, Check Out: geniusdiscovery.org

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:59) - 👋 Meet Amanda Bauman and Her Multi-Passionate Journey
(04:28) - 🎵 Amanda’s Path Through the Music Industry
(07:01) - 💪 Navigating Health Challenges and Growing as a Leader
(11:47) - 🏋️‍♀️ Founding Core Connection Studio
(13:58) - ✨ Expanding the Vision for Core Connection
(17:17) - 🎧 Balancing DJ Creativity with Studio Leadership
(24:21) - 🤖 Exploring How AI Supports Modern Music Creation
(30:52) - 💬 Final Reflections and Ways to Connect

From Unlikely Beginnings to Industry Trailblazer through Human Centered Leadership with Liza Streiff

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0500

From first-generation employee to visionary CEO, Liza Streiff shares how she grew a small training firm into the gold standard for Wall Street exam preparation while reshaping what leadership can look like for women in finance.

As the youngest and first female CEO of Knopman Marks, Liza has built her career on purpose, resilience, and a belief in what people can achieve with the right support. She joined the company straight out of college planning to stay only a year, yet quickly connected with the mission of helping students pass high stakes exams that unlock life changing careers. Today she is known for a transformative approach to learning and high performance coaching that helped quadruple the company’s size and earned her recognition as Female Executive of the Year at the 2023 Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

In our conversation, Liza shares the pivotal moments that shaped her leadership, including stepping into the CEO role just before the pandemic. She describes guiding the company through a swift move to digital learning, a shift that expanded their national reach and strengthened their impact. She also reflects on how her own learning disabilities became an advantage in creating training that blends structure, empathy, and innovation.

Liza offers practical insights on leading in fast changing environments, supporting Gen Z professionals, and cultivating entrepreneurial thinkers inside large organizations. She highlights the lasting importance of human connection in education and the mindsets needed to build meaningful careers. We also talk about her work through the Betty Kiernan Foundation, which provides targeted support to women pursuing nursing degrees and families in crisis.

This episode is a powerful reminder of what is possible when women lead with clarity, heart, and conviction. Tune in to hear Liza’s full story and the lessons she hopes will inspire the next generation of leaders.

Chapters
👋 00:56 Meet Liza Streiff the Transformative Leader

🚀 02:29 Liza’s Path to Becoming CEO

🌱 06:34 Navigating Challenges and Leading Growth

🔭 21:20 Liza’s Future Vision and Personal Impact

💛 26:02 Honoring Legacy with High Impact Grants

🌟 27:14 Empowering Early Career Professionals

🧭 29:01 Guiding Gen Z Through Today’s Workforce

💡 33:37 Building Proactivity and Entrepreneurial Thinking

📈 43:36 Advancing and Retaining Women in Finance

Links
Website: https://www.lizastreiff.com/
Social Media: https://knopman.com/performance-training
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liza-streiff/
Explore Liza Streiff’s work, connect with her on LinkedIn, and follow her leadership resources to support your own growth and impact.

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Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👋 Meet Liza Streiff the Transformative Leader
(02:29) - 🚀 Liza’s Path to Becoming CEO
(06:34) - 🌱 Navigating Challenges and Leading Growth
(21:20) - 🔭 Liza’s Future Vision and Personal Impact
(26:02) - 💛 Honoring Legacy with High Impact Grants
(27:14) - 🌟 Empowering Early Career Professionals
(29:01) - 🧭 Guiding Gen Z Through Today’s Workforce
(33:37) - 💡 Building Proactivity and Entrepreneurial Thinking
(43:36) - 📈 Advancing and Retaining Women in Finance

From Crisis to Purpose: Turning Life Transitions into Business Ventures with Liz Garcia

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0500

From graphic designer to multi-passionate CEO, Liz Garcia shows us what it looks like to build a life and business rooted in courage, clarity, and bold reinvention.

During our conversation, I sit down with Liz, the dynamic CEO of Storage Theory and co-founder of G.W. Spice Co., whose journey into entrepreneurship began not with a business plan, but with a life-altering wake-up call. Known for her contagious energy, heartfelt storytelling, and practical approach to product-based growth, Liz also hosts The Liz Garcia Show, where she champions purpose-driven action for busy go-getters.

Liz opens up about the pivotal moment in 2021 when her husband’s cancer diagnosis forced them to re-evaluate everything. That season became the catalyst for pursuing the dreams they had long postponed. After his remission in early 2022, they moved quickly to launching their first company, starting her podcast, and embracing entrepreneurship with a renewed sense of urgency. Liz also shares the unconventional, creatively structured deal that allowed them to acquire Storage Theory in 2024, proving that resourcefulness can open doors even without deep capital.

Throughout our conversation, Liz breaks down the practical systems that keep her thriving while running multiple ventures, from activity stacking and time blocking, to ditching multitasking in favor of focused energy. She shares grounded wisdom on conquering perfectionism, building momentum through “messy consistency,” and understanding the real complexities of scaling on Amazon. Her insights on delegation, SEO, branding, and leveraging PR firms like Chic Execs offer a roadmap for product founders ready to level up.

At its heart, Liz’s story is a reminder that reinvention is possible at any moment, especially when we lead with courage, creativity, and intention. This episode is packed with mindset shifts, tactical gems, and permission to start before you feel ready.

Tune in to hear Liz’s inspiring journey and the strategies she uses to help women build the million-dollar businesses they dream of.

Chapters

👋 00:55 Meet Liz Garcia and Her Entrepreneurial Rise

💫 02:31 Liz’s Journey from Health Crisis to Purposeful Entrepreneurship

🎨 05:23 How Liz Shifted from Graphic Design to People-Centered Sales

🏠 08:18 How Storage Theory Entered Liz’s Life

🤝 10:06 Navigating the Storage Theory Acquisition with Creativity

🛍️ 16:38 New Product Innovations at Storage Theory

⚡ 19:19 How Liz Balances Multiple Ventures with Intention

✨ 36:28 Final Reflections and Closing Inspiration

Links
Website: Storage Theory
Instagram: @lizgarcia.me
Instagram: @storagetheory
Check out Liz’s website and connect with her on Instagram to follow her journey, explore her products, and dive deeper into the bold, simplified approach to entrepreneurship she champions.

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Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:55) - 👋 Meet Liz Garcia and Her Entrepreneurial Rise
(02:31) - 💫 Liz’s Journey from Health Crisis to Purposeful Entrepreneurship
(05:23) - 🎨 How Liz Shifted from Graphic Design to People-Centered Sales
(08:18) - 🏠 How Storage Theory Entered Liz’s Life
(10:06) - 🤝 Navigating the Storage Theory Acquisition with Creativity
(16:38) - 🛍️ New Product Innovations at Storage Theory
(19:19) - ⚡ How Liz Balances Multiple Ventures with Intention
(36:28) - ✨ Final Reflections and Closing Inspiration

Reinventing Success through Clarity, Courage, and Confidence with Amy Nubson

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0500

From personal crisis to entrepreneurial empowerment, Amy Nubson shares her journey of reclaiming herself, building a business on her own terms, and guiding women leaders to achieve success with clarity, courage, and confidence.

Amy Nubson, CEO of Nufire Collective, is known for helping entrepreneurs and leaders break free from limiting beliefs and create businesses that reflect their values. She has transformed her own life after facing devastating personal and financial challenges, turning her experiences into actionable frameworks that empower other women to thrive both personally and professionally.

Her journey wasn’t easy. After her husband’s severe car accident left the family with overwhelming medical debt, Amy found herself paralyzed in her office, watching the snow fall and realizing that her old approach of relentless hard work no longer worked. This turning point forced her to examine deeply ingrained childhood narratives about sacrifice and success, ultimately inspiring her three C’s framework, clarity, courage, and confidence, which became the foundation for her business and coaching philosophy.

In our conversation, Amy shares practical insights for overcoming limiting beliefs, including the importance of storytelling, setting boundaries, and cultivating financial literacy. She emphasizes that recognizing and reframing internal narratives allows women to make courageous choices, prioritize personal well-being, and build meaningful businesses without sacrificing themselves. Her perspective on money, community, and collaboration encourages leaders to redefine success beyond arbitrary numbers and focus instead on impact and fulfillment.

Amy’s story is a testament to the power of resilience, intentionality, and the transformative impact of women supporting women. Tune in to hear how Amy teaches us that true leadership begins with knowing yourself and building a life that reflects your values, not just your earnings. Walk away inspired to challenge your own assumptions about work, success, and worth.

Chapters
👋 01:01 Meet Amy Nubson, CEO of Nufire Collective

💪 02:32 Amy’s Journey Overcoming Adversity

📖 07:05 The Power of Storytelling and Self-Discovery

⚖️ 15:23 Balancing Personal and Business Goals

📊 23:48 Understanding Growth Metrics

🚀 24:48 The One-Person Path to a Million-Dollar Business

🤖 26:02 Adapting to AI in Business

🤝 28:26 The Power of Collaboration

🎤 29:11 The Value of Live Events

Links
Website: https://nufirecollective.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nufirecollective/#
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amynubson-business-coach/
Special Offer: https://nufirecollective.com/exploring-your-story/
Connect with Amy Nubson to explore her 3C framework, learn how to align business with personal values, and engage with her community at Nufire Collective.

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Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(01:01) - 👋 Meet Amy Nubson, CEO of Nufire Collective
(02:32) - 💪 Amy’s Journey Overcoming Adversity
(07:05) - 📖 The Power of Storytelling and Self-Discovery
(15:23) - ⚖️ Balancing Personal and Business Goals
(23:48) - 📊 Understanding Growth Metrics
(24:48) - 🚀 The One-Person Path to a Million-Dollar Business
(26:02) - 🤖 Adapting to AI in Business
(28:26) - 🤝 The Power of Collaboration
(29:11) - 🎤 The Value of Live Events

Beyond the Million-Dollar Mark: Midori Verity on Redefining Success and Leading with Collective Genius

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0500

From co-founder to community builder, Midori Verity shares her evolution from running a business alongside her husband to launching Fuel to Fire, a growth accelerator helping entrepreneurs unlock their zone of genius, crush sales goals, and lead with unstoppable clarity.

In our inspiring conversation, Midori opens up about the pivotal transitions that shaped her journey, from navigating corporate dynamics to scaling multiple ventures and ultimately designing a business that empowers others to grow without burnout. She speaks candidly about what happens when women hit the million-dollar mark and realize their focus shifts from personal achievement to team empowerment and collective success. For Midori, that realization became the spark behind Fuel to Fire and her 21-Day PowerSprint — a focused experience that helps entrepreneurs achieve measurable progress, fast.

Throughout our conversation, Midori breaks down the mindset traps that keep even high-achieving women playing small, including fears like “I’m not ready,” or “I don’t have time.” She reminds us that success isn’t about doing it all; it’s about doing what matters most, surrounding yourself with the right people, and staying laser-focused on leads and sales — the lifeblood of every growing business. Her approach blends structure, accountability, and confidence-building so entrepreneurs can stop spinning their wheels and start scaling strategically.

At its heart, Midori’s story is about evolution of mindset, leadership, and self-belief. It’s proof that clarity, mentorship, and community can transform the way women lead and the way their businesses grow. If you’ve ever felt torn between doing more and doing better, this conversation will reignite your vision and remind you what’s possible when you fully commit.

Tune in to hear how Midori is helping women entrepreneurs accelerate with purpose and step boldly into their next level of success.

Chapters

👋 00:56 Welcoming Midori Verity and Her Leadership Journey

💡 01:47 Strategies That Help Women Entrepreneurs Overcome Challenges

🧠 05:45 Shifting Mindsets and Breaking Through Limiting Beliefs

🎯 09:03 Live Coaching and Actionable Insights for Business Growth
🗺️ 13:00 The Roadmap to 7 or 8 figures isn't so hard when you have the Roadmap

🤝 23:39 Building Collaboration and Collective Genius in Leadership

💪 24:59 Empowering Women and Expanding the She Leads Vision

🔥 27:59 Midori Verity’s Path from Entrepreneur to CEO of Fuel to Fire

🔍 29:56 The Power of Laser Focus for Sustainable Business Growth

⚡ 35:01 Accelerating Success with the 21-Day PowerSprint Framework

Links
Website: https://www.fueltofire.co/power-sprint
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/midoriverity/
Check out Midori Verity’s website to explore her 21-Day PowerSprint, connect with her on LinkedIn, and discover how her proven frameworks can help you sell with confidence and scale your business with clarity.

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Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👋 Welcoming Midori Verity and Her Leadership Journey
(01:47) - 💡 Strategies That Help Women Entrepreneurs Overcome Challenges
(05:45) - 🧠 Shifting Mindsets and Breaking Through Limiting Beliefs
(09:03) - 🎯 Live Coaching and Actionable Insights for Business Growth
(21:06) - 🚀 Go From Expert to Thought Leader with TalkToKent.com
(23:39) - 🤝 Building Collaboration and Collective Genius in Leadership
(24:59) - 💪 Empowering Women and Expanding the She Leads Vision
(27:59) - 🔥 Midori Verity’s Path from Entrepreneur to CEO of Fuel to Fire
(29:56) - 🔍 The Power of Laser Focus for Sustainable Business Growth
(35:01) - ⚡ Accelerating Success with the 21-Day PowerSprint Framework

From Determination to Global Impact: Building an AI Empire with Dr. Tamara Nall

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0500

From STEM trailblazer to AI visionary, Dr. Tamara Nall shares her extraordinary journey of perseverance, innovation, and purpose-driven leadership, showing women what it truly means to build with legacy in mind.

Growing up in Alabama and Georgia, Dr. Nall’s parents instilled a belief that education is the one thing no one can take away. When an Emory University counselor told her that STEM “wasn’t for women like her,” she didn’t retreat, she rose higher, applying that very night to a dual-degree program with Georgia Tech. She went on to become the first business student to graduate from that demanding program, blending business acumen with computer science — a foundation that would power her future as a global entrepreneur and change-maker.

That same determination has guided every step of her journey. From Harvard Business School to earning a doctorate in engineering and leading The Leading Niche, her award-winning systems integration firm serving agencies like the CDC, NIH, and VA. When told she’d lost a government contract for not having a PhD, Dr. Nall didn’t internalize rejection; she transformed it into action, completing her doctorate during the pandemic while running her company full-time. Her story is one of relentless learning, courage, and redefining what’s possible for women in technology and business.

In our conversation, Dr. Nall opens up about scaling sustainably, leading with empathy, and why women-owned businesses must focus not only on passion but profitability. She shares insights on strategic networking, purpose-driven culture, and her bold ventures in AI, from her platform Reli AI to Human AI Nation, where she’s exploring the evolving relationship between humans and technology. Through it all, her message is clear: innovation begins when you dare to claim the space others say you don’t belong in.

This episode is a masterclass in resilience, reinvention, and responsible leadership. Tune in to hear Dr. Tamara Nall’s remarkable story and be inspired to build your own legacy of impact and innovation.

Chapters

👩‍🎓 00:56 Meet Dr. Tamara Nall, Visionary Founder and CEO of The Leading Niche

🎓 02:48 A Journey of Resilience and Education That Redefined Possibility

🌍 11:01 The Leading Niche and Its Global Impact Through AI and Innovation

💼 14:08 Women in Business and the Path to Sustainable Success

🌱 18:13 Building Culture, Benefits, and a Growth Mindset in Leadership

🤝 18:32 The Power of Authentic Networking and Strategic Relationships

📣 21:24 She Leads Media Live 2025 – A Celebration of Women’s Leadership

🤖 26:19 How AI Is Transforming Business and Personal Growth

🚀 34:10 Go From Expert to Thought Leader with TalkToKent.com

Links
Websites: JuniaLegacy.com, The Leading Niche
Instagram: @iamtamaranall
TikTok: @iamtamaranall
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaranall
Book: Business Success Secrets
Check out Dr. Tamara Nall’s websites, connect with her on social media, and explore her visionary ventures like Reli AI to discover how she’s shaping the future of leadership, technology, and legacy.

She Leads Live Event Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/1043959088737/?discount=TheSheLeadsPODCAST

Connect with Adrienne Garland at the She Leads Live conference and visit the link to reserve your spot, take advantage of the special discount, and step into a room where your leadership and vision belong.

Find out more about the Genius Discovery Program: http://talktokent.com

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👩‍🎓 Meet Dr. Tamara Nall, Visionary Founder and CEO of The Leading Niche
(02:48) - 🎓 A Journey of Resilience and Education That Redefined Possibility
(11:01) - 🌍 The Leading Niche and Its Global Impact Through AI and Innovation
(14:08) - 💼 Women in Business and the Path to Sustainable Success
(18:13) - 🌱 Building Culture, Benefits, and a Growth Mindset in Leadership
(18:32) - 🤝 The Power of Authentic Networking and Strategic Relationships
(21:24) - 📣 She Leads Media Live 2025 – A Celebration of Women’s Leadership
(26:19) - 🤖 How AI Is Transforming Business and Personal Growth
(34:10) - 🚀 Go From Expert to Thought Leader with TalkToKent.com

How Courage Transforms Women’s Leadership and Financial Futures with Nancy Griffin

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From corporate executive to wealth and wellness visionary, Nancy Griffin’s journey is a powerful example of what happens when women choose courage over comfort and clarity over perfection.

In this episode, I sit down with Nancy, the founder of Women, Worth & Wellness®, to talk about the deep connection between health, wealth, and self-worth. Nancy’s story began in the corporate world at Procter & Gamble, where she climbed the ranks but felt the pull toward something more meaningful. Her decision to leave corporate life and eventually create a space where women could lead, give, and grow with confidence has since impacted countless lives.

What I love about Nancy’s story is how honest she is about the turning points that shaped her. She speaks candidly about the advice that once held her back, the glass ceilings she pushed through, and the moment she realized that courage was the key to everything. From running for political office to stepping into entrepreneurship, Nancy shows us that reinvention is not just possible but essential for women who want to lead on their own terms.

Throughout our conversation, Nancy shares practical wisdom that every woman should hear. She reminds us that wealth management is not simply about investments but about stewardship, confidence, and understanding the bigger picture of your life. Whether she’s explaining how to build trust with advisors, start saving with whatever you have, or integrate health and wealth as one holistic journey, her insights are grounded, empowering, and deeply human.

Nancy’s perspective is a beautiful reminder that courage is the bridge between self-worth and success. This conversation will inspire you to step into your power, make bold financial decisions, and care for yourself as your greatest asset.

Tune in to hear Nancy’s incredible story and learn how to lead and live with more purpose, confidence, and joy.

Chapters

👋 00:56 Meet Nancy Women Worth and Wellness

💡 02:39 Exploring the Intersection of Health Wealth and Self-Worth

🏢 05:18 Nancy's Journey From Corporate to Wealth Management

📚 13:57 Empowering Women Through Financial Education

🎤 19:14 She Leads Media Live 2025 Announcement

💬 24:51 The Importance of Dialogue in Financial Decisions

⚖️ 25:53 Understanding Gender Differences in Investment Strategies

🤝 27:26 The Role of Financial Advisors

🌱 30:19 Financial Advice for Young Women

🌟 39:40 Support for Leaders at TalkToKent.com

Links

Website: https://womenworthwellness.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womenworthandwellness
Visit Women, Worth & Wellness®, connect with Nancy Griffin on LinkedIn, and explore her work to start aligning your health, wealth, and self-worth today.

She Leads Live Event Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/1043959088737/?discount=TheSheLeadsPODCAST

Find out more about the Genius Discovery Program: http://talktokent.com

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👋 Meet Nancy Women Worth and Wellness
(02:39) - 💡 Exploring the Intersection of Health Wealth and Self-Worth
(05:18) - 🏢 Nancy's Journey From Corporate to Wealth Management
(13:57) - 📚 Empowering Women Through Financial Education
(19:14) - 🎤 She Leads Media Live 2025 Announcement
(24:51) - 💬 The Importance of Dialogue in Financial Decisions
(25:53) - ⚖️ Understanding Gender Differences in Investment Strategies
(27:26) - 🤝 The Role of Financial Advisors
(30:19) - 🌱 Financial Advice for Young Women
(39:40) - 🌟 Support for Leaders at TalkToKent.com

Your Invitation to Experience She Leads Live: Where Women Entrepreneurs Scale and Thrive with Purpose

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From intimate community to transformational business movement, She Leads Live is where women entrepreneurs step into their full power and scale with intention.

I am thrilled to welcome you back and to finally share everything we have planned for She Leads Live in New York City on November 6–7. This is not another overwhelming mega-conference. It is a curated, deeply connected environment designed for serious women entrepreneurs who are ready to expand their vision, their revenue, and their global reach. From the moment you arrive, every detail is crafted to support your growth as both a leader and a founder.

We kick things off Thursday at the stunning M.M.LaFleur Bryant Park Showroom for a high-quality networking session complete with a special $50 credit toward their incredible professional women’s clothing. For our VIP guests, the evening continues inside a multi-million-dollar Manhattan property staged by Cheryl Eisen of IMG New York City, featuring poet Janna Willoughby-Lohr and an investing panel focused on unlocking capital for women-owned businesses.

Friday is our full conference day at the Renaissance Marriott Chelsea Hotel, beginning with networking and vendors at 8:15 AM. You will hear from remarkable experts including Carol Frazier on dance as a high-performance tool, Dr. Sharon Melnick on AI and personal power, media leaders from Forbes Women on how to pitch your story, and entrepreneurs redefining leadership, digital presence, impact, and global expansion. These are high-value conversations that connect directly to the realities of running, scaling, and sustaining a business today.

What sets She Leads Live apart is not just the content, it is the environment. Women walk away with real deals, new partnerships, expanded confidence, and extraordinary momentum. This is your invitation to invest in yourself, make strategic connections, and step boldly into what comes next.

Join me for She Leads Live in NYC. I cannot wait to welcome you into the room!

Chapters

🎙️ 00:55 Upcoming She Leads Live Conference Overview

🌟 01:43 VIP Evening Experience with Women Leaders

📅 02:51 Inside Day One at She Leads Live

🚀 03:38 Celebrating Women’s Success Stories

🤝 09:04 The Power of Face to Face Networking

💰 13:14 Special Discount Offer Code for She Leads Live Tickets

📣 14:50 She Leads Live Event Invitation

🎤 22:06 Inside Day Two at She Leads Live

📈 30:43 How She Leads Live Drives Real Business Growth

✅ 36:26 Join Us and Take Action

Links
She Leads Live Event Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/1043959088737/?discount=TheSheLeadsPODCAST

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:00) - 13:14 Special Discount Offer Code for She Leads Live Tickets
(00:55) - 🎙️ Upcoming She Leads Live Conference Overview
(01:43) - 🌟 VIP Evening Experience with Women Leaders
(02:51) - 📅 Inside Day One at She Leads Live
(03:38) - 🚀 Celebrating Women’s Success Stories
(09:04) - 🤝 The Power of Face to Face Networking
(14:50) - 📣 She Leads Live Event Invitation
(22:06) - 🎤 Inside Day Two at She Leads Live
(30:43) - 📈 How She Leads Live Drives Real Business Growth
(36:26) - ✅ Join Us and Take Action

Crafting Purpose-Driven Success and Conscious Leadership with Janna Willoughby-Lohr

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From poet to paper artist and conscious entrepreneur, Janna Willoughby-Lohr shares how she built a purpose-driven company that proves creativity and sustainability can spark community, connection, and real economic change.

Janna is the founder and lead artist of Papercraft Miracles, an eco-friendly handmade paper art studio in Buffalo, New York, creating everything from plantable seed paper to realistic paper flowers for clients like Lionel Richie, Lowe’s, Pinterest, and Capital One. Named a Top 10 NAWBO Woman Business Owner of the Year and featured on discovery+’s Meet Your Makers Showdown, Janna has carved out a powerful space in the art and business world by choosing impact over unchecked growth.

Her journey began with financial limitations that led her to Warren Wilson College, where she unexpectedly discovered the book arts department and experienced a spiritual awakening through papermaking. When traditional programs failed to support her vision, she built her own major, combining business, creative arts, and social work, at just nineteen years old. That innovative mindset taught her early on that artists don’t just need technical skill, they need communication, confidence, and courage to own their voice.

In our conversation, Janna dismantles the myth that artists can’t thrive financially and challenges the toxic “fempreneur” culture selling unrealistic success. Instead, she offers a framework of conscious entrepreneurship grounded in sustainability, community, and stakeholder-focused models like B Corps. She shares practical insights on scaling with intention, overcoming imposter syndrome, and designing businesses that honor both people and the planet.

We also dive into authenticity in leadership, the evolution of women’s roles in business, and the rising demand for connection in a digital age. Janna’s work proves that handmade, meaningful experiences can combat isolation and rebuild community, and that women entrepreneurs are uniquely positioned to lead this shift. This episode is an inspiring reminder that your creativity, your voice, and your vision matter more than perfection.

Tune in to hear how Janna is redefining success and lighting the path for purpose-driven founders everywhere.

Chapters

👋 00:56 Meet Janna Willoughby-Lohr

🎓 02:47 Discovering Purpose and Building a Business

🎨 06:02 Navigating the Realities of the Artist’s Path

👩‍💼 13:56 Women Leading and Redefining entrepreneurship

📉 23:25 Rethinking Growth and Sustainable Business

🤖 24:54 Understanding AI’s Impact on Creativity and Society

🛍️ 29:20 How Consumer Choices Shape Corporate Behavior

🌿 34:24 Building Papercraft Miracles with Sustainability

❤️ 39:10 Human Connection as the Heart of Leadership

Links
Website: https://www.papercraftmiracles.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janna-willoughby-lohr/
Check out Papercraft Miracles, connect with Janna on LinkedIn, and explore her sustainable handmade creations to get inspired to build with purpose and lead with heart.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👋 Meet Janna Willoughby-Lohr
(02:47) - 🎓 Discovering Purpose and Building a Business
(06:02) - 🎨 Navigating the Realities of the Artist’s Path
(13:56) - 👩‍💼 Women Leading and Redefining Entrepreneurship
(23:25) - 📉 Rethinking Growth and Sustainable Business
(24:54) - 🤖 Understanding AI’s Impact on Creativity and Society
(29:20) - 🛍️ How Consumer Choices Shape Corporate Behavior
(34:24) - 🌿 Building Papercraft Miracles with Sustainability
(39:10) - ❤️ Human Connection as the Heart of Leadership

Balancing Hustle and Health While Building a Legacy with Dr. Christiane Schroeter

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From Germany to California, Dr. Christiane Schroeter shares how a lifelong fascination with creating value and visibility shaped her journey from professor to bestselling author, speaker, and business coach helping entrepreneurs thrive with clarity and confidence.

Christiane’s story begins in Germany, where childhood curiosity about TV commercials planted the seeds of her entrepreneurial spirit. That spark eventually led her to the United States, where she built an acclaimed career as a university professor in marketing, innovation, and entrepreneurship. But her impact soon expanded far beyond the classroom as she ventured into podcasting, publishing, and coaching, reaching thousands of entrepreneurs eager to learn how to scale with both purpose and wellness.

Along the way, Christiane faced pivotal turning points, from overcoming imposter syndrome to claiming her place in a saturated book market. She discovered the power of persistence through her Petite Practice™ framework, which emphasizes small, consistent actions over perfectionism. This approach not only helped her complete her dissertation but also fueled her rise as a three-time bestselling author and the host of the globally ranked Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast.

At the heart of her message is a refreshing reminder: success doesn’t come from burning out, but from building balance. Christiane models this truth by integrating fitness, wellness, and family into her entrepreneurial journey — proving that self-care is not a distraction but a strategy. For women leaders especially, her advice to cultivate quiet confidence, build community, and trust in their unique strengths offers a blueprint for scaling past barriers with grace and power.

This conversation is equal parts inspiring and practical, offering mindset shifts, business strategies, and wellness practices you can apply immediately. Tune in to hear Dr. Christiane’s wisdom and discover how to align your life, leadership, and legacy with what matters most.

Chapter
👩‍🏫 00:55 Meet Dr. Christiane Schroeter and Her Journey

🌍 02:21 From Germany to California Building a Global Career

💡 03:55 Growth Mindset Lessons for Entrepreneurs

🎯 08:28 Creating Impact with Purpose-Driven Business

🧘‍♀️ 18:40 Balancing Wellness and Entrepreneurship

✨ 30:57 Confidence as the Key to Business Success

🤝 34:46 Building Community to Strengthen Confidence

🌟 36:39 Discovering Superpowers Through Connection

Links
Website: doctorchristiane.com
Instagram: @doctor.christiane
YouTube: @doctor.christiane
Check out Dr. Christiane Schroeter’s website to explore her Petite Practice™ framework, connect with her on Instagram and YouTube for high-energy, results-driven content, and dive into her Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast for strategies to grow your business while living in balance.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:55) - 👩‍🏫 Meet Dr. Christiane Schroeter and Her Journey
(02:21) - 🌍 From Germany to California Building a Global Career
(03:55) - 💡 Growth Mindset Lessons for Entrepreneurs
(08:28) - 🎯 Creating Impact with Purpose-Driven Business
(18:40) - 🧘‍♀️ Balancing Wellness and Entrepreneurship
(30:57) - ✨ Confidence as the Key to Business Success
(34:46) - 🤝 Building Community to Strengthen Confidence
(36:39) - 🌟 Discovering Superpowers Through Connection
(38:46) - 🎧 Final Reflections and Invitation to Listeners

Navigating Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership with Cynthia Nelson

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From aspiring fine artist to co-founding a groundbreaking media company and advising Fortune 500s, Cynthia Nelson’s journey is one of resilience, reinvention, and relentless curiosity. With more than 25 years leading at the intersection of capital, innovation, and culture, Cynthia has proven herself a powerhouse in entrepreneurship and growth strategy.

Her story begins in the unlikeliest of places: a receptionist desk at a computer repair shop in the mid-80s. From there, she witnessed the tech industry’s birth, climbed the ranks at Ingram Micro, and navigated the turbulence of early startups, including a devastating betrayal by a business partner. But rather than stepping back, she leaned into every challenge, becoming one of the few Latina women to raise $15 million in private equity and ultimately selling her company Todobebé after a decade of pioneering media, parenting content, and cultural storytelling.

Cynthia shares the pivotal lessons that fueled her success, from the importance of listening deeply to your customers, to the courage of saying “yes” to unfamiliar challenges, to the discipline of surrounding yourself with advisors who tell you the hard truths. She reminds us that entrepreneurship is not just about scaling fast, but about staying grounded in what people actually need, not just what founders imagine.

Her reflections stretch beyond business into the deeper realities of being a woman in leadership: the sacrifices, the biases, and the double standards that continue to shape the funding landscape. Yet Cynthia’s approach is one of fierce generosity, mentoring other women, championing female investors, and encouraging founders to build smarter, more sustainable businesses.

This is a story of grit, creativity, and impact, and a masterclass in building with purpose. Tune in to hear Cynthia Nelson’s remarkable journey and her wisdom for the next generation of women entrepreneurs.

Chapters

👩‍💼 00:58 Meet Cynthia Nelson and Her Journey in Strategic Growth

💻 03:10 Early Career Lessons from the Tech Industry

📺 07:04 Building Todobebe for Hispanic Families

🚀 09:53 Entrepreneurial Insights and Consulting Wisdom

🎙️ 24:24 Launching a First Podcast on Video Commerce

🌟 25:52 The Innovators Podcast Celebrating Women Leaders

📈 27:05 How Podcasting Can Grow Your Business

💪 28:53 Challenges Women Face in Scaling Companies

💡 31:10 Women in Venture Capital and Driving Impact

Links
Website: https://luminacionlc.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthianelson/
Check out Cynthia Nelson’s work at Luminacion LC, connect with her on LinkedIn, and follow her journey as she continues to champion women entrepreneurs, innovation, and impact-driven growth.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:58) - 👩‍💼 Meet Cynthia Nelson and Her Journey in Strategic Growth
(03:10) - 💻 Early Career Lessons from the Tech Industry
(07:04) - 📺 Building Todobebé for Hispanic Families
(09:53) - 🚀 Entrepreneurial Insights and Consulting Wisdom
(24:24) - 🎙️ Launching a First Podcast on Video Commerce
(25:52) - 🌟 The Innovators Podcast Celebrating Women Leaders
(27:05) - 📈 How Podcasting Can Grow Your Business
(28:53) - 💪 Challenges Women Face in Scaling Companies
(31:10) - 💡 Women in Venture Capital and Driving Impact

Building a Billion-Dollar Network for Women Executives with Lindsay Kaplan

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From English major to billion-dollar entrepreneur, Lindsay Kaplan shares how her creativity, rebellious spirit, and refusal to follow the rules led her to co-found Chief, the premier network for executive women.

Lindsay’s journey is anything but traditional. She began her career with dreams of writing novels, moved into publishing and magazines, and then found herself on the cutting edge of digital marketing during the early days of Facebook and Foursquare. Her storytelling expertise eventually brought her to Casper, where she became a founding team member, built global campaigns, and helped turn a mattress startup into a cultural phenomenon. But it was her partnership with Carolyn Childers that sparked her biggest leap, co-founding Chief, now a billion-dollar company reshaping what leadership looks like for women at the VP and C-suite levels.

In our conversation, Lindsay opened up about the pivotal moments that shaped her leadership path, from building credibility as a nontraditional founder, to navigating the challenges of co-founding a VC-backed company, to realizing when it was time to step into a board role to protect her own health and longevity. She emphasizes the importance of finding co-founders who share your values, the realities of burnout that often accompany leadership, and why flexibility, not perks, is the true key to retaining women in executive roles.

What stands out most about Lindsay is her deep commitment to creating spaces where women leaders can both give and receive mentorship. Chief was built on the belief that even the most senior leaders need support, and Lindsay’s story is a powerful reminder that community is not a luxury — it’s a necessity. Listeners will walk away inspired by her candid reflections on career evolution, her practical wisdom on building and scaling companies, and her fierce advocacy for women at the top of their fields.

This is an episode you won’t want to miss! Tune in and hear Lindsay’s incredible story of creativity, resilience, and leadership redefined.

Chapters
👩‍💼 00:55 Meet Lindsay Kaplan and Her Leadership Journey

🚀 04:55 From Creative Roots to Entrepreneurship

🌟 08:15 Building Chief as a Network for Women Executives

🤝 10:56 Why Shared Values Make Partnerships Stronger

💼 13:49 Breaking Barriers for Women in Corporate Leadership

🏢 17:28 How Physical Spaces Strengthen Community

⚖️ 18:49 Finding Balance Between Work and Personal Life

🔮 24:34 The Future of Chief and Women’s Leadership

Links

Website: http://chief.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaykap/
Email address: lindsaykap@gmail.com
Check out Lindsay Kaplan’s work at Chief, connect with her on LinkedIn, and explore how she’s building the future of executive leadership for women.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:55) - 👩‍💼 Meet Lindsay Kaplan and Her Leadership Journey
(04:55) - 🚀 From Creative Roots to Entrepreneurship
(08:15) - 🌟 Building Chief as a Network for Women Executives
(10:56) - 🤝 Why Shared Values Make Partnerships Stronger
(13:49) - 💼 Breaking Barriers for Women in Corporate Leadership
(17:28) - 🏢 How Physical Spaces Strengthen Community
(18:49) - ⚖️ Finding Balance Between Work and Personal Life
(24:34) - 🔮 The Future of Chief and Women’s Leadership

Building Businesses with Authenticity and Connection featuring Olivia Shears

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From nannying and late-night valet shifts to building two thriving businesses, Olivia Shears shares how creativity, grit, and a willingness to pivot have shaped her journey as a leader and entrepreneur.

Olivia’s entrepreneurial story started in unexpected ways. Working double shifts while in college and missing out on time with her mom pushed her to launch a picnic design business in 2020. When rising costs and changing demand forced her to close that chapter, she discovered her real passion for social media marketing, which led her to found Social Bean Agency in 2021.

At Social Bean Agency, Olivia brings a hands-on, personal approach to every client, treating accounts as if they were her own. She has built her business through networking and referrals while navigating the challenges of perfectionism, encouraging other women entrepreneurs to show up authentically online, experiment, and stay consistent rather than waiting for perfection.

Her entrepreneurial leadership doesn’t stop there. Olivia co-founded Long Distance Besties with childhood friends Shelby and Mason, turning years of shared letters and creative games into a journal business that has grown to nearly 15,000 followers and sparked international sales. Their work highlights Olivia’s ability to identify overlooked needs and build meaningful, scalable solutions that celebrate connection.

In this episode, we dive into Olivia’s journey of leadership, creativity, and adaptability, exploring how she turns challenges into opportunities and grows businesses that matter. Tune in to hear her insights and learn how she approaches entrepreneurship with authenticity, strategy, and heart.

Chapters
💌 01:55 The Journey of Long Distance Besties
🌿 03:49 From Picnics to Social Media and Olivia’s Business Evolution
🔥 05:13 Overcoming Challenges and Finding Passion
📱 09:45 Building a Successful Social Media Agency
💡 12:32 Advice for Women Entrepreneurs on Social Media
✨ 17:01 The Importance of Authenticity in Social Media
🌍 21:32 Exploring Long Distance Besties in Depth

Links
Website: socialbeanagency.com
Social Media: @LongDistanceBestiesLDB / @SocialBean.Agency
Email address: socialbeanagency1@gmail.com
Check out Olivia’s website, follow her on Instagram, and explore Long Distance Besties to find inspiration for building authentic connections across every stage of life and business.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(01:55) - 💌 The Journey of Long Distance Besties
(03:49) - 🌿 From Picnics to Social Media and Olivia’s Business Evolution
(05:13) - 🔥 Overcoming Challenges and Finding Passion
(09:45) - 📱 Building a Successful Social Media Agency
(12:32) - 💡 Advice for Women Entrepreneurs on Social Media
(17:01) - ✨ The Importance of Authenticity in Social Media
(21:32) - 🌍 Exploring Long Distance Besties in Depth

Leading with Purpose: When Advocacy Becomes Entrepreneurship with Rijon Charne, J.D.

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From cancer survivor to pioneering fertility attorney, Rijon Charne has turned personal adversity into advocacy and entrepreneurship. In this episode of She Leads, she shares how battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma led her to challenge insurance denials, lobby for fertility preservation rights, and ultimately build one of the nation’s leading reproductive law firms.

Rijon shares how her battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma shortly after law school shifted her path from litigation to advocating for fertility preservation. Through her firm, Sunray Fertility Law, Rijon guides clients through surrogacy, egg and sperm donation, embryo agreements, and cross-border fertility matters.

Rijon’s journey was shaped by critical turning points, from confronting potential infertility at 26 to challenging insurance denials that threatened her own fertility. These experiences inspired her to ensure others wouldn’t face the same obstacles, turning personal setbacks into a purpose-driven venture that serves an important purpose. Her logical approach, strong support system, and determination were central to this transformation.

She offers practical guidance on navigating fertility law, emphasizing clear contracts, understanding insurance benefits, and advocating for parental rights in diverse family structures. Rijon also shares lessons in entrepreneurship, including hiring the right team, seeking mentorship, and balancing resilience with growth while running a law firm.

This conversation highlights broader themes of leadership, perseverance, and advocacy. Listeners will find inspiration in Rijon’s dedication to educating others, empowering informed reproductive choices, and creating smoother pathways for families.

Tune in to hear Rijon Charne’s story, gain actionable insights on reproductive law, and discover how one attorney is making a meaningful impact for families worldwide.

Chapters
🎙️ 00:56 Meet Rijon Charne, Fertility Attorney
🌟 03:22 Rijon's Personal Journey with Cancer and Fertility
⚖️ 06:00 Advocating for Reproductive Rights
🏛️ 12:06 Building Sunray Fertility Law into a Successful Practice
💪 18:17 Balancing Client Needs with Personal Health
📜 20:03 Navigating Legal Aspects of Fertility Treatments
⚡ 24:30 Addressing Controversies in Fertility Law
🌸 27:11 Empowering Women Through Advocacy
📚 28:37 Resources and Final Advice

Links
Website: https://sunrayfertility.com/
Social Media: @sunrayfertilitylaw
Email address: rijon@sunrayfertility.com
Connect with Rijon Charne to explore Sunray Fertility Law’s services, gain insights on reproductive rights, and access resources that empower individuals and families navigating fertility challenges.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 🎙️ Meet Rijon Charne, Fertility Attorney
(03:22) - 🌟 Rijon's Personal Journey with Cancer and Fertility
(06:00) - ⚖️ Advocating for Reproductive Rights
(12:06) - 🏛️ Building Sunray Fertility Law into a Successful Practice
(18:17) - 💪 Balancing Client Needs with Personal Health
(20:03) - 📜 Navigating Legal Aspects of Fertility Treatments
(24:30) - ⚡ Addressing Controversies in Fertility Law
(27:11) - 🌸 Empowering Women Through Advocacy
(28:37) - 📚 Resources and Final Advice

A Journey Through Cancer to Empowered Wellness and Holistic Health with Maddie Pollack

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0400

At just 24, Maddie Pollack faced a life-changing Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis—and transformed her healing journey into a mission to empower women through holistic health and entrepreneurship.

In this episode of She Leads, Maddie shares how her battle with cancer became the wake-up call that shifted her from an unhealthy lifestyle to becoming an integrative nutrition health coach. Now, she helps women reconnect with their bodies through a balanced approach that weaves together nutrition, mindful movement, and self-care. Her story is not only one of survival, but of reclaiming purpose and aligning wellness with leadership.

Maddie dives into the personal health challenges that can arise in the wake of illness, from hormonal imbalances to stress-related symptoms. Maddie candidly reflects on her own experience with recovery and the lifestyle changes that helped her restore balance, including shifting from high-intensity workouts to strength training and yoga, and prioritizing protein-rich meals to stabilize energy and hormones. The conversation expands to highlight the overlooked realities of women’s health, from PCOS and irregular cycles to the ways traditional studies have ignored female physiology.

Listeners will gain practical insights into building sustainable wellness habits: nourishing the body with balanced meals, syncing workouts with menstrual cycles, managing cortisol through mindful movement, and embracing daily rituals like journaling, gratitude, and deep breathing to calm the nervous system. Maddie emphasizes that health is not about rigid routines, but about tuning into the body’s signals and making adjustments that support long-term vitality.

At its core, this episode reframes leadership and entrepreneurship through the lens of well-being. Maddie challenges the outdated narrative that success requires burnout and sacrifice, instead advocating for a model where women prioritize health as the foundation for growth, freedom, and fulfillment. Her reflections serve as a powerful reminder that honoring your body is not just a personal practice—it’s a leadership strategy.

Tune in to hear Maddie’s inspiring story and learn how to cultivate balance, resilience, and true alignment in both business and life.

Chapters
👩 00:56 Meet Maddie Pollock A Journey of Resilience
💧 03:22 Diving into Wellness Maddie's Transformation
⚖️ 06:26 Understanding Hormonal Health
🌿 12:18 Practical Tips for Hormonal Balance
🏋️‍♀️ 22:03 Navigating Menopause with Strength Training Tips
📈 23:36 Balancing Work and Exercise for Entrepreneurs
🧘 26:30 The Importance of Mindfulness
😌 29:50 Managing Stress and Cortisol Levels
👩‍💼 33:07 Leadership and Self-Care for Women Entrepreneurs

Links
Website: maddypollackhealth.com
Social Media: @maddypollack_health
Email address: maddy@maddypollackhealth.com
Check out Maddy Pollack’s website, connect with her on Instagram, and explore her coaching resources to start living in sync with your body today.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

— Adrienne

(00:56) - 👩 Meet Maddie Pollock A Journey of Resilience
(03:22) - 💧 Diving into Wellness Maddie's Transformation
(06:26) - ⚖️ Understanding Hormonal Health
(12:18) - 🌿 Practical Tips for Hormonal Balance
(22:03) - 🏋️‍♀️ Navigating Menopause with Strength Training Tips
(23:36) - 📈 Balancing Work and Exercise for Entrepreneurs
(26:30) - 🧘 The Importance of Mindfulness
(29:50) - 😌 Managing Stress and Cortisol Levels
(33:07) - 👩‍💼 Leadership and Self-Care for Women Entrepreneurs

Strategies for Life Design & Meaningful Leadership with Gail Golden

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From psychologist to business strategist — Gail Golden shares her journey of curating life and leadership, helping overwhelmed leaders focus on what truly matters while scaling businesses with clarity and purpose.

In this episode of the She Leads podcast, host Adrienne welcomes Gail Golden, a seasoned coach, psychologist, and author of Curating Your Life. Drawing from her experience supporting executives and entrepreneurs, Gail introduces her framework for designing life as a personal exhibit — prioritizing what’s essential, discarding distractions, and embracing “good enough” in areas outside one’s true passions.

Gail reflects on her leap into entrepreneurship during the 2009 financial crisis, sharing lessons on adaptability, competitive positioning, and evolving strategies from startup survival to million-dollar growth. She underscores the importance of delegation, reminding leaders to focus only on what only they can do — whether in business or in personal roles like parenting and caregiving.

The conversation also explores the hidden costs of over-responsiveness, the mental barriers that hold leaders back, and the dangers of comparing private struggles to others’ public appearances. Gail highlights the power of self-awareness, managing inner critics, and working with a coach who blends business expertise with psychological insight.

With warmth and wisdom, Gail invites listeners to re-curate their lives as priorities shift, embrace meaningful relationships, and find strength in conscious choices. Hopefully, her insights will leave you inspired to design the next chapter of your life with intention and courage.

Ready to rethink how you’re curating your own life and leadership? Tune in to be inspired by Gail Golden’s story and practical framework for success!

Chapters
👩‍💼 00:59 Meet Gail Golden: Strategic Coach and Author

🧩 03:08 Curating Your Life Framework

🚀 10:42 Transitioning from Corporate to Entrepreneurship

📈 15:06 Scaling Your Business to the Next Level

📝 22:30 The Importance of Delegation

🔎 23:34 Assessing and Curating Your Life

⚡ 24:58 The Impact of Immediate Responsiveness

🧠 30:36 Understanding and Overcoming Mental Barriers

🎯 34:42 The Role of Coaching in Personal and Professional Growth

Links
Website: http://www.gailgoldenconsulting.com/
Social Media: @goldencoach
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gailgolden
Email address: ggolden@gailgoldenconsulting.com
Check out Gail Golden’s website, explore her book Curating Your Life, and connect with her for resources and coaching to start designing a life and business that truly matter.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(00:59) - 👩‍💼 Meet Gail Golden: Strategic Coach and Author
(03:08) - 🧩 Curating Your Life Framework
(10:42) - 🚀 Transitioning from Corporate to Entrepreneurship
(15:06) - 📈 Scaling Your Business to the Next Level
(22:30) - 📝 The Importance of Delegation
(23:34) - 🔎 Assessing and Curating Your Life
(24:58) - ⚡ The Impact of Immediate Responsiveness
(30:36) - 🧠 Understanding and Overcoming Mental Barriers
(34:42) - 🎯 The Role of Coaching in Personal and Professional Growth

Empowering Entrepreneurs & Franchise Success with Tara Gilad

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From superfoods to nationwide success — Tara Gilad shares her journey through building Vitality Bowls, balancing motherhood, and empowering women entrepreneurs through franchising.

Discover how Tara transformed a personal mission to create allergy-friendly dining for her daughter into a booming health and wellness franchise with over 120 locations. Starting from her roots in Northern California, she navigated the male-dominated restaurant industry with resilience, confidence, and a purpose-driven vision.

Tara opens up about the challenges of scaling a franchise while raising a family, the importance of surrounding yourself with the right team, and why passion and personality matter most in successful franchising. She also highlights the value of transparency, trust, and strong support systems in ensuring franchisee success.

Today, Tara continues to champion women in business, writing children’s books, prioritizing self-care, and offering aspiring entrepreneurs opportunities to grow with Vitality Bowls. She even shares a special offer for listeners interested in franchising.

Ready to hear how purpose, perseverance, and passion fueled one woman’s path from a single smoothie bowl café to a thriving nationwide brand? Tune in to be inspired by Tara Gilad’s remarkable story!

Chapters
💪 04:42 Building confidence through early businesses in Silicon Valley without fear
🚺 05:20 Breaking barriers as a female founder in the male-dominated restaurant and franchise industry
🌱 08:19 Balancing motherhood, entrepreneurship, and purpose-driven growth while staying adaptable
🤝 10:52 Entering franchising by networking, seeking mentors, and learning quickly
👩‍🍳 13:05 Leading with trust and clarity while supporting franchisees nationwide through data-driven decisions
🔥 15:13 Defining a great franchisee through passion and personality above all else
📚 21:45 Overcoming burnout, writing children’s books, pursuing personal passions, and creating space for joy
💲 25:50 A special Vitality Bowls franchisee discount code for listeners!

Links

Website: vitalitybowls.com
Social Media: @vitalitybowls
Email: thea@vitalitybowls.com
Check out Tara's website, or look her up on social media to learn more about the Vitality Bowls franchise!

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(04:42) - 💪 Building confidence through early businesses in Silicon Valley without fear
(05:20) - 🚺 Breaking barriers as a female founder in the male-dominated restaurant and franchise industry
(08:19) - 🌱 Balancing motherhood, entrepreneurship, and purpose-driven growth while staying adaptable
(10:52) - 🤝 Entering franchising by networking, seeking mentors, and learning quickly
(13:05) - 👩‍🍳 Leading with trust and clarity while supporting franchisees nationwide through data-driven decisions
(15:13) - 🔥 Defining a great franchisee through passion and personality above all else
(21:45) - 📚 Overcoming burnout, writing children’s books, pursuing personal passions, and creating space for joy
(25:50) - 💲 A special Vitality Bowls franchisee discount code for listeners!

Funding Women & Changing the World with Catherine Gray

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From Hollywood producer to venture capital advocate — Catherine Gray is on a mission to close the funding gap for women and ignite a global movement through film, books, and bold action.

Catherine Gray CEO of She Angel Investors, Executive Producer of the movie, Show Her The Money as well as Host of the Podcast Invest In Her, shares how she’s turning the tide on a staggering statistic: women receive just 2% of venture capital funding. In this insightful episode, she reveals how her award-winning film Show Her the Money is educating women on the power of venture capital, shifting mindsets about wealth, and inspiring women to invest in each other.

From producing movies to launching the She Angels Foundation, Catherine has spent her career spotlighting women founders and connecting them to the resources they need to scale. She discusses why finding “your people” is critical in fundraising, the overlooked opportunities in underserved communities, and the massive wealth transfer heading into women’s hands. Her approach blends storytelling with actionable strategies, proving that doing good and making a profit are not mutually exclusive.

Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, a future investor, or simply curious about how money can be a tool for change, Catherine’s story will challenge your thinking and inspire you to take action.

Ready to learn how investing in women can change the world? Tune in to hear Catherine Gray’s bold vision for funding the future.

Chapters
📊 02:55 Show Her the Money: The "moviement" helping to make venture capital more accessible and exciting for women
💡 11:40 Finding the right investors who see your vision instead of convincing the wrong ones
💖 15:01 Nonprofit investing is important, but investing in for-profit women and making good money from it is also a way to do great things for the world
📚 17:36 Go learn about investing! Starting small with angel investing and learn by doing
💵 20:58 IRA or other pension funds are an underutilized way to start making alternative investments
🎓 24:25 Inspiring young women to consider venture capital as a career path
🤝 27:17 Why underserved communities must be at the decision-making table as investors
♻️ 29:48 The cycle of getting investments and investing back in your own people
🎬 31:50 Building a movement with live and virtual screenings to spark action
📖 35:32 Launching the Show Her the Money book and combining screenings with book events

Links

Website: https://showherthemoneymovie.com
Instagram: instagram.com/showherthemoney
Facebook: facebook.com/ShowHerTheMoney
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/catherinelgray
Email address: catherine@sheangelinvestors.com
Check out Catherine Gray’s website and follow her on social media to learn more about investing in women and joining the Show Her the Money movement.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(02:55) - 📊 Show Her the Money: The "moviement" helping to make venture capital more accessible and exciting for women
(11:40) - 💡 Finding the right investors who see your vision instead of convincing the wrong ones
(15:01) - 💖 Nonprofit investing is important, but investing in for-profit women and making good money from it is also a way to do great things for the world
(17:36) - 📚 Go learn about investing! Starting small with angel investing and learn by doing
(20:58) - 💵 IRA or other pension funds are an underutilized way to start making alternative investments
(24:25) - 🎓 Inspiring young women to consider venture capital as a career path
(27:17) - 🤝 Why underserved communities must be at the decision-making table as investors
(29:48) - ♻️ The cycle of getting investments and investing back in your own people
(31:50) - 🎬 Building a movement with live and virtual screenings to spark action
(35:32) - 📖 Launching the Show Her the Money book and combining screenings with book events

Tennis to Tech: Rebekah Jenkins on Reinvention, Identity & Scaling as a Web3 CEO

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400

From D1 athlete to global entrepreneur — Rebekah Jenkins shares her journey to becoming a Web3 CEO, scaling with video and AI, and helping women hit $10K months and beyond.

Discover how Rebekah Jenkins, a former D1 tennis player and award-winning coach, boldly pivoted into the blockchain industry to become the CEO of Beks Media. This fascinating episode reveals how she leveraged her psychology background and competitive spirit to navigate the male-dominated tech world and build a successful media marketing agency.

Rebekah shares her journey from receiving a prestigious national tennis award to recognizing her true calling in business. Her story includes a pivotal moment at a Las Vegas investment conference that led to unexpected opportunities in Europe's blockchain scene. Despite experiencing some initial technical knowledge gaps, she went on to a successful exit. Rebekah, never one to sit on her success, decided to pursue her MBA at the prestigious Rice University to strengthen her business acumen.

Today, Rebekah is spearheading an innovative project in Berlin focused on affordable housing through tokenization and data centers, with speaking, writing a book, and living part time in the US & part time in Europe. Her experience underscores the power of embracing change, continuous learning, and trusting one's intuition to guide the path forward.

Ready to be inspired by this remarkable story of transformation and entrepreneurial courage? Tune in to hear how Rebekah Jenkins turned challenges into stepping stones for success!

Chapters

🎾 02:50 Rebekah’s journey from D1 tennis and national coaching awards to building businesses that change the world
🌍 05:18 A bold leap: Selling everything, moving to Europe, and jumping into blockchain with a German partner
💼 07:05 Becoming a Blockchain CEO: Co-founding a Swiss company after an initial failure and raising millions
🚧 10:33 Having incredible success in a male-dominated industry as a young woman
🎓 15:22 Pursuing a top-ranked online MBA while living globally
🧘‍♀️ 21:34 Minimalism & clarity: Cultivating intuition, identity, and laser focus through simplicity
👤 24:20 Know thyself: navigating identity issues
🚀 33:03 Building a following, teaching content automation and why you must be creating short-form video!
💖 34:45 Using business and money to serve others, not just profit

Links

Website: https://www.beksmedia.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekah-jenkins-mba-0739b051/
Check out Beks Media and Rebekah’s LinkedIn to learn more.

Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Join us at the upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(02:50) - 🎾 Rebekah’s journey from D1 tennis and national coaching awards to building businesses that change the world
(05:18) - 🌍 A bold leap: Selling everything, moving to Europe, and jumping into blockchain with a German partner
(07:05) - 💼 Becoming a Blockchain CEO: Co-founding a Swiss company after an initial failure and raising millions
(10:33) - 🚧 Navigating a male-dominated industry as a young woman
(15:22) - 🎓 Pursuing a top-ranked online MBA while living globally
(21:34) - 🧘‍♀️ Minimalism & clarity: Cultivating intuition, identity, and laser focus through simplicity
(24:20) - 👤 Know thyself: navigating identity issues
(33:03) - 🚀 Building a following, teaching content automation and creating short-form video
(34:45) - 💖 Using business and money to serve others, not just profit

Women Leading the Spirits Revolution with Anna Axster and Wendelin von Schroder

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0400

What happens when two cousins with a deep love for music, a sharp eye for branding, and a rebellious spirit decide to take on one of the most male-dominated industries in the world? You get Lodestar Whiskey — a bold, boundary-breaking brand co-founded by Anna Axster and Wendelin von Schroder, recently named two of Forbes' “10 Women Changing the Whiskey Industry.”

In this episode of The She Leads Podcast, host Adrienne Garland sits down with Anna and Wendelin to talk about how they transitioned from the film and music industry into spirits, why whiskey became their unexpected calling, and how they’re flipping the script on who whiskey is really for. From late-night artist management and cross-country tours to building flavor profiles and breaking into distribution, their journey is as rich and layered as the whiskey they’ve created.

You’ll hear how these powerhouse founders took a hobby born of travel and taste, turned it into a thriving business during the pandemic, and navigated every twist of regulation and red tape with tenacity and vision. They also dive deep into the intentional branding and community-building behind Lodestar, from creating a product that’s inclusive, contemporary, and “unstuffy,” crafted for both seasoned whiskey lovers and the whiskey-curious.

Whether you’re a spirits enthusiast, a budding entrepreneur, or just love a good founder story, this episode is packed with insight, grit, and inspiration. Pour yourself a glass and settle in because this is a masterclass in turning passion into purpose.

Chapters

🥂 01:06 Meet Anna & Wendelin! Cousins, co-founders, and women changing the whiskey industry.

🥃 04:19 When ordering whiskey exposed a cultural gap

🚨 05:36 Turning a music career that was halted by the pandemic into a new business

💡 06:30 How working together and an entrepreneurial spirit made co-founding easier

🔥 11:22 Crafting a whiskey flavor profile that’s delicious, inclusive, and unexpected

📦 16:19 From accelerator funding to getting the product on shelves

📣 19:05 The importance of clear branding and storytelling

📈 21:42 Distribution and the strategic expansion in the hospitality industry

🍸 23:43 Welcoming whiskey-curious women without excluding anyone

🌈 26:52 Intentionally avoiding gendered branding

☀️ 29:58 Reimagining how whiskey is served with contemporary cocktails and refreshing summer spritzes

🎢 34:35 The rollercoaster of starting a business with consumer feedback, licensing and fundraising

🚀 38:54 Find Lodestar Whiskey: Available in LA, and shipping to most US states via lodestarwhiskey.com

Links

Website: https://www.lodestarwhiskey.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lodestarwhiskey/
Connect with Anna & Wendelin, and order their whiskey!

hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Website: www.sheleadsmedia.com

The upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC will take place on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

— Adrienne

(01:06) - 🥂 Meet Anna & Wendelin! Cousins, co-founders, and women changing the whiskey industry.
(04:19) - 🥃 When ordering whiskey exposed a cultural gap
(05:36) - 🚨 Turning a music career that was halted by the pandemic into a new business
(06:30) - 💡 How working together and an entrepreneurial spirit made co-founding easier
(11:22) - 🔥 Crafting a whiskey flavor profile that’s delicious, inclusive, and unexpected
(16:19) - 📦 From accelerator funding to getting the product on shelves
(19:05) - 📣 The importance of clear branding and storytelling
(21:42) - 📈 Distribution and the strategic expansion in the hospitality industry
(23:43) - 🍸 Welcoming whiskey-curious women without excluding anyone
(26:52) - 🌈 Intentionally avoiding gendered branding
(29:58) - ☀️ Reimagining how whiskey is served with contemporary cocktails and refreshing summer spritzes
(34:35) - 🎢 The rollercoaster of starting a business with consumer feedback, licensing and fundraising
(38:54) - 🚀 Find Lodestar Whiskey: Available in LA, and shipping to most US states via lodestarwhiskey.com

The She Leads Podcast Evolution - Solo Episode with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0400

Welcome to the reimagined She Leads Podcast! We’re back—refreshed, refocused, and more committed than ever to spotlighting the women who are not only building thriving businesses but also redefining what success looks like in today’s world.

After a meaningful pause following our She Leads LIVE Los Angeles conference, we took time to reflect on how we could better serve our community. The result? A bold new direction that centers the stories of women founders who have crossed the $1M revenue milestone—and are continuing to lead with impact, innovation, and vision.

In this kickoff episode, we’ll talk about why we paused, what’s changing, and what you can expect moving forward. Our goal is to elevate conversations around leadership, power, wealth, and the systems women are building to replace outdated ones. If you’re a woman entrepreneur—or someone who believes in the power of women to shape the future—you’re in the right place.

Chapters
⏸️ 01:16 Why we took a break – She Leads Media is evolving
🎯 02:17 Our goals: To teach, inspire, and spotlight the success of women entrepreneurs
💰 03:26 We’re aligning our focus with the growing power and influence of women
🔮 04:03 Shifting from early-stage startup stories to long-term impact and legacy
💡 06:13 Breaking old patterns and highlighting successful women building thriving, future-focused businesses
🧠 07:51 Diving deeper into conversations on business, leadership, wealth, power, and influence
🌱 09:40 We need to showcase new, inclusive models of success
🚀 11:45 What’s ahead in future episodes

Links
hello@sheleadsmedia.com
Website: www.sheleadsmedia.com
The upcoming She Leads LIVE 2025 conference in NYC will take place on November 6th & 7th. Learn more at sheleadsmedia.com

"I love ♥️ listening to The She Leads™️ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, I’d love it if you would take a moment and give our podcast some love too. To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests featured on The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺 Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!
— Adrienne

(01:16) - ⏸️ Why we took a break – She Leads Media is evolving
(02:17) - 🎯 Our goal: To teach, inspire, and spotlight the success of women entrepreneurs
(03:26) - 💰 We’re aligning our focus with the growing power and influence of women
(04:03) - 🔮 Shifting from early-stage startup stories to long-term impact and legacy
(06:13) - 💡 What’s next: breaking old patterns and talking to impactful women of substance with businesses that are “humming” with success and thinking about the future
(07:51) - 🧠 We’ll thoughtfully talk about business, leadership, wealth, power and influence
(09:40) - 🌱 We need to showcase new models of success
(11:45) - 🚀 What’s coming in future episodes

She Leads LIVE Los Angeles April 24 & 25th DTLA

Adrienne Garland — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:52:22 -0400

Come out to She Leads LIVE LOS ANGELES
2 for 1 tickets here:
https://SheLeadsLA2025.eventbrite.com

She Leads LIVE LOS ANGELES is dedicated to women entrepreneurs like us that’s focused on stimulating important conversation and spurring decisive action so that we can achieve new heights in our businesses and our lives.

She Leads LIVE LOS ANGELES Conference Details:

📅 Date: Apr 25, 2025

🕒 Time: 9AM - 5:30PM (doors open at 8:30AM)

📍 Location: 612 S Broadway, Los Angeles (Downtown LA)

She Leads LIVE VIP Evening:

📅 Date: Apr 24, 2025

🕒 Time: 5:30PM - 8:30PM

📍 Location: 612 S Broadway, Los Angeles (Downtown LA)

She Leads LIVE LOS ANGELES is not your typical conference – it's an immersive experience packed with thought leaders, experts, futurists, women who think differently and who take inspired action to move toward a future that is more humane and considers the collective good rather than upholding systems and frameworks that are outdated and harmful.

What to Expect:

🎤 20+ Expert Speakers: Along with me, there will be other industry leaders and visionaries, each committed to helping women entrepreneurs succeed and stimulating conversation and our innate creativity so we can move forward together.

🎙️ Interactive Panels: Covering a wide range of topics such as the art of Pitching the Media, money mindset, selling with heart, how to forge our path forward in the future, the all in mindset, mental and physical health, podcasting, speaking, content creation, and so much more!!!

🍽️ Gourmet Food: Enjoy delicious food and snacks throughout the day – a unique feature that sets us apart from other conferences.

🤝 Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded women from all over, build truly valuable relationships, and explore collaboration opportunities.

🛍️ Vendor Showcase: Explore a dynamic showcase featuring products and services that can benefit your business.

🏢 Stunning Venue: Our conference is hosted in a fully renovated rooftop venue with breathtaking and expansive views.

Learn more about these speakers - and all the speakers -at She Leads LIVE LA at https://www.sheleadsmedia.com/she-leads-live-la

Exciting Changes Ahead for She Leads in 2025 - How Million $ Women Entrepreneurs are Making a Real Impact

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:09:28 -0500

In this special episode of the She Leads Podcast, we’re setting the stage for an incredible 2025! Host Adrienne GarlandCreators & Guests

She Leads® Media - Host

shares exciting updates about what’s to come, including new programs, a virtual event, and two live events in Los Angeles and New York. Tune in to hear how She Leads is gearing up to bring you more inspiring stories from women entrepreneurs and business leaders worldwide.

Discover how this platform will continue to help you grow your business, build wealth, and create a lasting legacy. Plus, learn how you can share your feedback to shape the future of the podcast. Don’t miss this preview of what’s in store and how you can be part of a global community of empowered women.

Subscribe, share, and stay tuned for more inspiring episodes in 2025!

📣Announcement of 2025 Plans and Break 1:39
🤝Commitment to Continuous Content and Community Building 2:58

Links:
hello@sheleadsmedia.com
Website:
www.sheleadsmedia.com

> >> "I love ❤️ Adrienne and The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, can I ask you to please take a moment and give our podcast some love? To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests of The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺️ Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!! XO -Adrienne <

Bold Moves for Women in Leadership: She Leads 2024 Recap & 2025 Preview Solo Episode with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:50:14 -0500

"Together, we can do incredible things, and we need to build community to make it happen. The challenges we face are real, but women are awake and ready to change the world.

She Leads Podcast hosted the amazing women and men who shared their leadership and entrepreneurial stories throughout 2024 showing us the inspiration to work towards our dreams. It is not an easy path to follow, and women need to build community, acknowledging the challenges we face in entrepreneurship but, also celebrating the bold change being led by women across industries. Women started to drive innovation and positive change, and we’re on the cusp of a wealth transfer that will empower women even further. In 2025 we are launching the She Leads community, which will offer women entrepreneurs a space to transform, scale, and grow their businesses. Connect with us and join the community as we prepare for the future.

👩‍💼 Sharing women’s leadership stories: be bold to dream and pursue what you love. 01:50
⚠️ Women need to build community: we are awake and the transfer of wealth will happen very soon. 03:11
🎯 Starting the She Leads Community in 2025: email us if you are interested. 05:16
🎄 Happy holidays.

Links:

hello@sheleadsmedia.com

Website:

www.sheleadsmedia.com

How to Leverage being a Podcast Guest for Business Growth with Jessica Rhodes

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:25:50 -0500

When your message is seen and heard by the right people, it will grow your business

Jessica Rhodes is the Founder of Interview Connections, a pioneering podcast guest booking agency, author, and podcaster. She wanted to build a life she wanted and she left a successful career in the non-profit to become a stay-at-home mom. Jessica has built Interview Connections into a nearly seven-figure business and has now booked over 30,000 podcast interviews for more than 800 clients.

Podcast guesting is a human-to-human relationship-building strategy, where entrepreneurs show up authentically and with presence, making a genuine connection with podcast hosts. Podcast guesting for online entrepreneurs is very important, especially for women entrepreneurs who want to expand their networks, build thought leadership, and attract ideal clients. She discusses how podcast guesting can help businesses gain visibility, make connections, and drive sales.

Jessica initially worked with podcast hosts to book guests but later shifted to focusing on helping entrepreneurs become successful podcast guests due to demand. She stresses the importance of being mindful and present during podcast interviews, having good preparation, and taking action rather than waiting for everything to be perfect. You will fall in love with your voice with time!

Women need to stop over-preparing and start taking action in sharing their message. It is important to see how men take immediate action while women often wait until they feel fully qualified. It is time to take action, be visible, and embrace the messiness of the journey!

Snow Notes:
▶️ Jessica started working on podcasts as a stay-at-home mom: her dad was her first client. 04:19
👩‍💼 Jessica's background was in sales: helping entrepreneurs do it in a way that builds their business. 7:14
📘 She wrote a book called: Interview Connections - How to Rock the Podcast from Both Sides of the Mic. 10:09
🎙️ The number one thing is human-to-human relationships: have a really present conversation. 12:44
🤓 Jessica leads a free podcast guesting masterclass almost every month: set a goal, know your audience, have good topics, and go get interviewed. 16:22
💸 Everyone can do it: you spend the time or you spend the money to have someone do it for you. 20:37
🎯 How to repurpose your podcast interviews as a guest, since they are being produced for you. 25:45
😍 Strategy for search engine optimization: hosts will put it up on their website and put a link back to your website. 28:37
⚠️ It's not about getting on one big podcast; It's about consistency. 31:13

Links:

Master Class: www.interviewconnections.com

Connect with Jessica: www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-rhodes-9a291020
-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

>> "I love ❤️ Adrienne and The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, can I ask you to please take a moment and give our podcast some love? To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests of The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺️ Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!! XO -Adrienne <<

How Women Can Harness Our Authenticity for Business Success with Robin Hamilton

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:24:52 -0500

If women truly knew our collective power, all the nonsense would have stopped a long time ago!

Robin Hamilton is an Emmy-award-winning TV Host, Producer, Filmmaker, Moderator, and Speaker specializing in creating impactful narratives that inspire transformation. As the founder of ARound Robin Production Company, she produces compelling films for non-profits, enhancing their fundraising and marketing efforts. Robin's documentaries, such as "This Little Light of Mine" and "Odessa’s Reign," highlight social justice and resilience.

It’s time we get real about the struggles women face in media, filmmaking, and business. Robin shares her raw journey—from fighting for an agent’s attention to carving her own path and creating impactful content. But here's the truth... it’s not just about working harder or being "smart enough." It’s about getting that leg up—whether it's an inheritance, a connection, or just finding someone who believes in you. And the system often isn’t built for us to win.

Robin talks openly about the challenges she faced in the media and filmmaking industries, and how women often struggle with a lack of support and access to opportunities. There are systemic issues that create barriers for women, especially women of color, everywhere. Her key is storytelling to boost the business and boost our values.

The power is in our hands to create a different system. Women need to collaborate, share openly, and support each other more. It’s about helping each other rise, not competing. When it comes to business, know your worth and double it. If you don't stand up for your value, the world won’t either!

Let’s not just break the glass ceiling—let’s shatter it. Together.

Show Notes:
😇 Not being good at playing the corporate TV game: a sentence her friend said made Robin start her own business. 03:39
🌟 Be careful who you talk to and what you read: Drawing inspiration from people and content around you. 09:30
🎯 Power of storytelling for women: Generating more business through your story, your value, and becoming a better networker. 13:00
💎 Shiny vs. tragic stories: middle-ground stories are needed, just like honesty. 16:05
🧐 The big secret to success no one tells you about: knowing the right person. 21:49
😍 Robin’s client work, nonprofit, and documentary work: Helpful women are out there, even if you’re considered competition. 24:51
🎥 Working in a very competitive industry: Being optimistic and cautious at the same time can be very hard. 29:44
👩‍💼 How to leverage storytelling to boost your business: Who you target and why. 33:43
💜 Entrepreneurial failures, dreams, freedom, and bumps: It’s a mess, but it’s your mess. 38:30
🎦 Robin’s films represent underestimated women who have left a remarkable impact on society. 40:50

Links:

Website: aroundrobin.com/speaking-engagements

Social Media Handles: linkedin.com/in/robinhamilton123
-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Backing Yourself and Others: Linda Duncombe on Advocacy, Compassion, and Leadership Success

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:53:16 -0500

Join us for an inspiring She Leads Podcast episode with Linda Duncombe, former EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at City National Bank ("the bank to the stars"), who shares her remarkable journey from Australian banker to Hollywood Executive Producer. Her debut film "The Queen's Jewels" is a family adventure inspired by true historical events from 1715 and follows a young boy's treasure hunt after a fleet of ships is lost in the Bahamas.

In this powerful conversation about leadership and self-advocacy, Linda delivers crucial insights for entrepreneurs on having your own back in male-dominated industries. She shares candid advice about effective fundraising, financial management, and why women must prioritize self-care alongside business growth. Drawing from her experience serving on boards including SAG-AFTRA Foundation, The Grammy Museum, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Linda demonstrates how to lead with empathy while maintaining strong boundaries and self-advocacy.

Whether you're scaling your business, transitioning careers, or seeking to make a bigger impact, Linda's journey from banking expert to film producer of "The Queen's Jewels" offers us, as women entrepreneurs, valuable lessons on embracing opportunities and trusting your expertise. Her story reminds us that our unique strengths - particularly in financial stewardship and empathetic leadership - are superpowers when combined with unwavering self-advocacy.

As Linda says, a good leader needs to have empathy and she strongly believes it’s women’s secret sauce!

Show Notes:
👩‍💼 Linda joined Citibank with the specific purpose of having the opportunity to come to the US from Australia. 4:16
🌟 Go live your dreams: women take their skills, power, and money, and it’s proven they use it for good. 7:21
🎥 Linda became involved with the movie "The Queen's Jewels" as a small investor: her banking background helped tremendously in the transition. 10:37
🎬 The role of executive producer: raising funds, creating efficiency, and a positive experience for the team. 16:44
📽️ "The Queen's Jewels" is a film that everyone can enjoy: the film follows a young boy and his friends on a treasure hunt. 19:49
👠 Linda reviews scripts and guides aspiring filmmakers, supporting women in the industry. 23:50
👩‍🍼 How advocated for and organized away time for an actor so she could spend time with her newborn child. 26:01
😇 Asking for help sometimes is hard, but there's not a single friend who has ever said no when she asked for help. 29:07
▶️ The film "The Queen's Jewels" will be released the first week of April 2025. 32:41

Links:
Website: www.thequeensjewelsmovie.com

Social Media Handles: @thequeensjewelsmovie
-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Breaking Barriers: How Women Are Leading with Capital Efficiency and Impact with Julie Castro Abrams

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:47:08 -0500

It's time to embrace your power and influence, no longer worried about societal expectations.

Julie Castro Abrams is an expert in board governance, investing, and is an experienced CEO, movement builder, and leader. As the CEO of How Women Lead, a network of over 24,000 women, she is dedicated to breaking ceilings for women both individually and collectively. She is the Managing Partner of How Women Invest, the country’s largest venture fund focused exclusively on women founders, and is passionate about helping women rise to positions of power.

Julie shares the concept of the middle essence—when women in their 40s need to have an impact, be happy, and do meaningful work. Women own 52% of the wealth and have the financial power to drive significant change. However, there is a disparity between wealth control and decision-making, and most financial decisions are still made by men.

It is time to break cultural barriers, and women should advocate for each other, reinforce women's voices, make introductions to expand networks, and be unapologetically visible through podcasts, books, and their communities. Entrepreneurship is key for women to take control and create more inclusive systems because women-led businesses often have a pro-social focus, addressing issues like climate change, good working conditions, and local community support.

The challenge of investment women are facing can be fixed with the help of women-run venture funds that are growing and funding solutions for women's businesses. All this information and encouragement can be found in this episode and also in women's circles. So, finding a community that aligns with your values and needs—whether for business or social purposes—will be very helpful.

Ladies, embrace every stage of your life, speak up, and pursue your dreams unapologetically.

Show notes:
⚡ Julie quit her job as a CEO: she felt the urge to impact the world by activating women to make systemic changes. 03:32
💰 Women own 52% of the wealth today, which is why women need to come together. 07:41
👠 Women should do the opposite of what the culture says: be fierce advocates for one another. 08:58
💸 Women need to see where they are putting their money: 98.6% of all assets are still managed by men. 13:02
🌺 When you have a woman CEO and founder, the result for the workers is family and medical leave, equal pay, and better working conditions. 16:20
🔥 The data shows that women return 34% more for their investors than men, and they have lower revenue per dollar of funding. 21:11
🤑 The wealthiest people in the US invest in venture firms and private equity, and this is an alternative way to grow wealth. 23:39
🎯 It's all about stepping into your power: the happiness that comes from having an impact. 27:05
💻 On Julie's website, you can sign up for a free leadership journey and get a self-assessment tool. 29:43

Links:

Connect: linkedin.com/in/julie-castro-abrams

Website: howwomenlead.com
-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Leading Through Chaos: Embracing Change in Business and Life, Solo Episode with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:08:47 -0500

Summary:

Sometimes, the path to clarity begins in the chaos—trust yourself to find the order that’s waiting to emerge.

We’ve all been navigating so much change recently, especially as women entrepreneurs. It’s clear that more than ever, we need to step up and help women-owned businesses break past barriers, especially when statistics are showing how many don’t even make it past the $100,000 mark.

Personally, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how we approach challenges. As entrepreneurs, we face problems daily, but it’s in those moments of difficulty that we can find opportunities to take action, experiment, and evolve. In my own life right now, I’m sitting in a bit of chaos but I’ve learned over the years that out of this mess, order will emerge. Trusting the process is key.

I want to know—what’s your environment like right now? Is it organized or chaotic? And are there things you need to shift to adapt to the changes happening around us?

In this holiday season, I encourage you to connect with your loved ones, seek understanding, and be kind to those with different perspectives. Let’s grow together and make the most of this season.

Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating in the U.S. And wherever you are, I’d love to hear what’s going on in your world.

Show notes:

💸 The majority of women-owned businesses are not passing the 100,000 mark.

👀 It is time for action and experimentation: what do you see in your environment? 06:17

😍 Women are leaning into their innate leadership capabilities: listening to intuition and heart. 09:32

🌺 What is changing around you: embracing changes and thinking about things that matter to you. 12:24

Links

- Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

- Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

- Email us at: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

The Power of Healing with Oxygen: The Groundbreaking Future of Medicine Through Hyperbaric Therapy with Nicole Garrett

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:20:46 -0500

Nicole Garrett, a certified hyperbaric technician (CHT), is the CEO of Under Pressure Hyperbarics and a recognized leader in hyperbaric medicine, with extensive experience in commercial diving, dive medicine, and hyperbaric therapy. She began her career at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), treating complex conditions like crush injuries, air gas embolisms, and diabetic wounds, and was part of a Department of Defense study on traumatic brain injuries. With over a decade of experience, Nicole has overseen the development of hospital-based hyperbaric centers nationwide and continues to consult and educate professionals globally.

Nicole shares how moving to California to train dolphins as a career choice led her to commercial diving and then to hyperbaric therapy. She discusses her journey into entrepreneurship and the challenges of starting a business, especially issues with income during the COVID pandemic. Hyperbaric treatments are amazing in treating carbon monoxide poisoning, diabetic wounds, radiation injuries, and even traumatic brain injuries. With dissolving oxygen into the body’s fluids, these treatments are stimulating stem cell release, and regenerating blood vessels has been a huge help for these and many more conditions.

We can say that hyperbaric provides miraculous healing but also provides anti-aging and cosmetic benefits through the stimulation of collagen on a cellular level and preventing aging on a DNA level. Brain fog and lack of energy can become a thing of the past with these therapies, and they even help with Alzheimer’s. For all with autoimmune issues like arthritis or any kind of pain or inflammation, this is a place to find relief.

After this conversation, we know why Nicole is so passionate about spreading the word about this therapy, bringing it to everyone through a franchise model, and changing the mindset about the power of our body to heal itself. Boosting our health with this revolutionary treatment is the groundbreaking future of medicine for fighting the effects of modern living.

Notes:
🏥 Nicole opened Under Pressure Hyperbarics: the first fully certified Medicare insurance facility that's not located in a hospital. 03:44
🐬 From training dolphins and commercial diving to entrepreneurship. 06:49
🧠 The mechanism of Hyperbarics: chamber gets the oxygen that you're breathing into all your body fluids. 10:50
👩‍⚕️ Treatment of infants and prevention of injuries. 14:35
🩻 It's used for cosmetic purposes: reversing aging on a DNA level, a special kind of anti-aging. 18:44
🎯 Nicole's goal is to franchise Hyperbarics so it can be accessible everywhere. 21:13
🫶 Your body decides what it needs to heal and prioritize: generally, the places with the most inflammation or acute injury. 24:29
😍 Hyperbarics also helps women with breast cancer reconstruction and mastectomies. 25:29
▶️ It usually starts with 10 treatments: how it works with autoimmune conditions. 28:33
🥅 Nicole's next challenges are opening another chamber and secure funding. 32:26

Links:

Connect with Nicole: www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-garrett-93a37426

Instagram: instagram.com/underpressurehyperbarics

Website: underpressure.com/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-beverly-hills
-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Post-Election Reflections: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs, Profitability, and Making Change - Solo Episode with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:03:00 -0500

Having a role as a woman entrepreneur is powerful and can truly make change.

Adrienne reflects on the recent U.S. election results and how the changing landscape could impact values, policies, and protections that matter deeply to so many of us. Now when mix of hope and concern is even more elevated, it is clear that women entrepreneurs should act more strongly in achieving economic power and creating positive change

Adrienne also takes us behind the scenes of the She Leads Live 10th Anniversary Conference—the highlights, heartfelt moments, and some real challenges of creating an in-person event. She Leads is dedicated to inspiring and empowering women entrepreneurs for years to come; let’s think innovatively and make a lasting difference beyond profit!

Show notes:

🗳️ Adrienne's thoughts about US elections and the effects of it. 2:03

🎤 Impressions from the She Leads Media conference. 4:29

😇 Business and entrepreneurship can help solve some of the world's stickiest problems: profit shouldn't always come first. 8:18

🎯 A focus of the She Leads Media conference is helping women who bring a unique and highly valuable perspective. 9:42

👩‍💼 Adrienne has spent her life solving problems and figuring things out in many areas. 12:20

⚠️ Conferences and events are so valuable; nothing compares to seeing someone face to face. 16:42

⭐ Everything that happens at the She Leads Media conference is magical; the only issue is the economic one. 18:02

💡 Adrienne has a very clear and definitive vision about the type of content and speakers she wants to bring on stage. 19:35

👠 Adrienne won't take her foot off the gas in helping women entrepreneurs achieve profitability and use that profit to help humanity. 22:01

Links:

-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Unlocking Event Magic: How a Pro Emcee Transforms Your Event Experience with Quinn Conyers

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:41:38 -0400

There is incredible power in amplifying women’s voices through speaking on stages and podcasts.

Quinn Conyers is a founder of Speaking to Society and she transforms average events into epic experiences. As a professional corporate event emcee as well as a compelling keynote speaker. She shares her journey of discovering her talent for public speaking in college to becoming a professional emcee, keynote speaker, and event strategist.

She explains that an emcee isn't just a speaker but an "event experience partner" who is responsible for managing the flow, handling unexpected challenges, and ensuring audience engagement from start to finish. For Quinn successful event marketing should go beyond demographics, connecting with attendees’ deeper motivations and challenges—what she calls their psychographics.

Quinn advises recognizing that emceeing and speaking require different skill sets and emphasizes the importance of identifying your specific strengths and energy levels for certain types of events, whether corporate conferences, multi-day engagements, or galas. She shares practical insights on how to sustain energy during long events and recommends that organizers collaborate with the right professionals to enhance the experience.

Get ready to spark and show your energy to others.

Show notes:
🎤 While taking public speaking in college, Quinn discovered that when she talked, people listened. 3:32
👧🏾 Quinn always had a voice even before she started speaking: she was sure about what she wanted and liked. 7:05
😷 During Covid, speaking took off for her as an emcee in Clubhouse. 9:29
🌟 It's just about doing your thing, and then what you're naturally gifted and talented will emerge. 14:22
🎯 Importance of starting your marketing and outreach earlier, and focusing on attendee experience. 16:42
🤓 Although Quinn calls herself an emcee, she is an event experience partner. 21:21
🤔 The difference between an emcee and a speaker. 26:04
🤩 As an emcee, it's best to take events in fields of your own background. 28:41
⚠️ It's about being proactive, and managing your energy: being an emcee is very demanding. 33:12

Links:

Connect with Quinn: linkedin.com/in/quinnconyers

Website: quinnconyers.com
-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Building Confidence, Community, and Impact: How Women Can Support Each Other’s Success with Cate Luzio

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:17:54 -0400

We have to build a bigger influence up, down, and across, in all of our relationships.

Cate Luzio, the founder and CEO of Luminary, a global professional education and networking platform addressing and impacting the systemic challenges faced by women throughout their professional journeys. Luminary now includes a 22,000 sq. ft. space in NYC and a virtual network.

The world still operates differently for boys and girls. Women are smart and capable but often don’t fully believe in their abilities. While women are breaking down barriers, many of these barriers are internal. Overcoming imposter syndrome requires an “action-oriented” approach, along with subtle shifts in language and mindset. Using “I deserve” rather than “I need” brings up the confidence and that is crucial for becoming a visible role model who inspires others. Our leadership sets the tone for collective growth and support—finding win-win relationships and moving away from competition with other women is key. Cate’s experience with Tiffany Dufu illustrates how competitive situations can turn into opportunities for mutual growth.

It is time to embrace your achievements unapologetically, and find a community where you get the support that you need and where you can also provide support for others.

Show notes:
👩‍💼 Cate was a panelist at She Leads Live 2018: she left a very successful career in finance to pursue her goal of creating greater impact. 04:33
👠 Luminary has a huge working space in New York and partners 40 women-led partners around the country and abroad. 7:06
🎯 The importance is in building confidence, becoming better self-advocates, influence, and relationship building 11:13
😇 Men have their insecurities but they don't say it outright: Cate don’t like the term imposter syndrome. 15:06
⚠️ Mindset shift: “When I get there,” not “If I get there”; “I deserve something” rather than “I need something.” 19:23
🔥 Am I competing with her: how can businesswomen turn from a competition into a collaboration? 25:06
🏆 “In life, you've got to make sure people know who you are, how good you are, and that you'll be a team player.” 30:00
▶️ Cate wants to keep expanding because the power of the impact is driving her every day. 33:05
🤓 A diverse board and a diverse leadership team, creates allies and foster inclusivity. 36:18

Links

LI: linkedin.com/in/cluzio

IG instagram.com/CateLuzio

Website: weareluminary.com

-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Breaking Barriers and Redefining Womanhood: Merging Fashion and Impact with Mona Patel

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:29:04 -0400

You don't have to be a certain brand of woman in order to deliver your message.

Mona is the founder of Couture for Cause, a nonprofit organization using fashion to fundraise and raise awareness for girls’ education and empowerment worldwide. She shares her journey from childhood in India to the recent Met Gala, where she turned heads in a stunning Iris van Herpen dress. With a blend of humor and vulnerability, she reflects on her struggles with identity, a tomboy image, and searching for her authentic self.

Mona has a strong entrepreneurial mind and a love for freedom mixed with a love for fashion She talks specifically of creativity and aesthetics, which she refers to as "aesthetic intelligence” which she used at Met Gala to showcase her nonprofit work. Multiple businesses she built taught her lessons about flexibility, learning skills, and the power of real estate.

Mona knows the power of connection and community along with the extensive education she got helped her to get out of the social pressures women face, especially in India, thanks to her parents’ open-mindedness which was the key to her empowerment. She had a desire to turn a "guilty pleasure" of fashion into something meaningful. Through her organization, she combines her passion for couture with efforts to support grassroots initiatives in India, particularly for young women and girls affected by sex trafficking and other challenges. Mona’s life was marked with resilience, seeking freedom, and breaking the norms in business and life but her mom taught her to balance between ambition and humility and that lesson has been a significant part of her growth.

Show notes:
👗 Mona made a splash at the Met Gala in a beautiful Iris van Herpen dress. 02:33
👧🏽 Mona's story as a child in India: her father's influence and help were significant. 08:12
👠 Only as an adult did she realize she didn't have to pretend to be a tomboy to be an empowered woman. 13:47
🏰 Her parents have been her fortress: they were very open-minded. 17:02
🦅 In the US, she truly felt freedom: she wanted to be known for who she was. 21:32
👩🏽‍💼 Mona's journey started with getting a broker's license in Florida in 2004. 24:36
🎯 She had an entrepreneurial mindset: "You control your destiny by not working for someone." 25:44
🏆 The first step to having a successful mindset is being the highest version of yourself. 27:55
🔥 Her mother's lesson: "Don't let the things that you own—own you." 34:05
😍 Mona and her husband have highly complementary skill sets: their partnership led them from one business to another. 38:51
😇 Couture for a Cause: that's a form of art. 43:09
🍀 She wanted to start initiatives that help women leave a legacy or impact. 46:27
🤩 During Covid, Mona had a reflective moment: "How can I serve the world?" 49:35
🌻 Perfectionism and high standards used to make her procrastinate, but now she has grown beyond that. 55:30

Links
Mona's website: hautemona.com

Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hautemona/

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

From Hustle to Flow: Authentic Business Strategies through Human Design with Mel McSherry

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:07:00 -0400

When you start living in alignment with your design, everything feels lighter—opportunities come more naturally, and there's no longer a need to push or force things.

Mel McSherry is a CEO, author, podcaster, business and life coach who helps overwhelmed entrepreneurs align their lives and businesses by integrating human design with traditional business development. Mel predominantly works with women business owners who are exhausted and overwhelmed by combining spiritual gifts, as well as their 14+ years of business-building experience.

Women entrepreneurs are disadvantaged when trying to mold themselves into systems designed for men. Mel shares how Human Design provides a way to design businesses that align with women’s natural strengths and energy patterns. Human Design can lead to more authentic business strategies and healthier work-life balance which are needed for women to thrive. Even though there are five overarching types, as Mel explains, nothing is a cookie-cutter solution because Human Design reflects deeper, unchanging truths and explains why certain behaviors don’t work for everyone.

Mel shares that from 2027 we will be witnessing a huge change in the energetic shift from hierarchical systems to more fluid ones, based on communities. Mel advocates for authenticity and finding your own purpose while leveraging Human Design as a compass for success.

Success isn't just about what you achieve—it’s about how authentically you’re living while you do it.

Show Notes:
🤸🏻‍♀️ Mel started in the fitness industry back in 2010; becoming a certified personal trainer. 4:11
🤓 The importance of prioritizing time and energy management is what drew people to Mel. 8:03
⏰ Mel’s mental and emotional profitability was slowly but surely losing itself: then Human Design arrived. 11:21
🎯 In business, we are very familiar with our why, but we are less confident in our how. 14:13
😇 Human design is the science of differentiation: it shows you who you are, energetically. 18:25
5️⃣ The five types of Human Design: there is no quick fix. 20:12
🍄 Toxic positivity one-liners don't apply to most of us: Human design is the iceberg underneath this. 25:54
🧠 Only 7% of the population is meant to initiate: how we should spend our time. 31:16
🌺 What are my most profitable practices, to continue to be myself and to create in my own way? 36:01

Connect: www.linkedin.com/in/melmcsherry

Web: www.melmcsherry.com/home

She Profits book: https://tinyurl.com/ynnp5jp4

-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

-🎟️ She Leads LIVE is on October 18 & 19th - Get your tickets NOW! https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

Delegate to Elevate: Entrepreneurial Finance and the Path to a Million-Dollar Company with Pam Jordan

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:59:34 -0400

"It's not about what you make, it's about what you keep. You can be a $2 million company and broke, or a $650,000 company and rolling in the money."

Pam, the CEO of Pivot Business Group, is a no-nonsense financial expert and speaker who specializes in analyzing and streamlining the back end of fast-growing companies, while efficiently creating more profit and strategic growth. Pam decided to create Pivot Business Group to ensure that no small business owner would face bankruptcy simply because they didn’t understand their numbers.

Pam shares her valuable experience and insights, noting that many entrepreneurs, especially women, undercharge for their services, undervalue their worth, and fail to set prices correctly. They also often neglect to pay themselves properly, have the wrong legal and tax structure for their company, and don’t track their numbers correctly.

For women, it is crucial to understand these financial aspects and stop undervaluing themselves. We aren’t always educated about the financial tools and strategies available, but there are professionals who can help avoid these pitfalls. Investing in their expertise from day one is worth the cost and saves you from future pain and financial mess.

Understand what your costs are, track your money in real time, and make sure you're setting money aside for yourself, delegate and enjoy your journey to success.

Notes:
📉 Pam is a CFO who has a broad-based financial background & experience: understanding your numbers is the key. 03:48
👠 Women entrepreneurs devalue themselves in the marketplace: STOP apologizing & raise your rates. 07:12
💰 What is cost accounting and how it is working: understanding the value you are bringing to the client. 09:34
📊 You might be fixing the wrong problem: entrepreneurs must look to their numbers to tell them the story 16:33
🎯 Don’t do bookkeeping if you are not a bookkeeper: fixing the mess is always more expensive than having a professional in from the start. 20:25
📈 Taking mom-guilt mentality into our businesses: how to get to the $1 million mark with your business. 22:43
🤓 How to think about delegating: getting from six figures to seven figures in your business. 25:36
⚠️ It's not about what you make. It's about what you keep: what to check about numbers - practical tips. 27:56
🥇 Profit First and meeting Mike Michalowicz. 32:01
💸 Why women don’t pay themselves salary: the usual mistake for business owners is being in the wrong legal and tax setup. 34:00
🎤 Pam will be a speaker on She Leads Live 2024 conference where she will share more tips about money management. 36:30

Links:
Website: www.pamjordan.com

Pivot Business Group: www.pivotbusinessgroup.com

-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

-🎟️ Buy tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 here:
https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

Aligning Purpose with Passion: Building a Legacy in Business and Life with Michelle Charpentier

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:20:56 -0400

"As women, we're always making excuses for why we can't do things for ourselves. But if you don't make the time, it won't ever happen."

Michelle Charpentier brings over 15 years of diverse experience, from startups to luxury brands. She founded Charp Consulting with a mission to empower all brands to reach their full potential. She is a leadership coach at Braven, a board member of the Columbia College Chicago National Alumni Board, where she contributes to mentorship and dynamic programming. Her focus is on supporting nonprofits, women-owned businesses, and fellow mom-preneurs through innovative consulting services and community-building initiatives. She's also a mom of three and an author.

Michelle’s journey to entrepreneurship started after spending nine years in the corporate world. Firstly in the fashion industry before leaping into entrepreneurship during the pandemic. Her love for mentoring and community building led her to found Charp Consulting.

Her upcoming book is a labor of love and will guide people through self-discovery, helping them unlock their potential at every stage of life. Michelle believes that by doing inner work, understanding your personal beliefs, and aligning them with your career, you can find your true calling, whether you're an entrepreneur or working for someone else.

The real fulfillment in your career doesn’t come from finding a job but from finding one that resonates with who you are. If you're unhappy, it’s not always about the company; it’s about being misaligned with your purpose.

Show notes:
⭐ Mentorship space: Michelle's focus on supporting nonprofits, women-owned businesses, and fellow mom-preneurs. 04:42
😇 Blessing in disguise: Being laid off gave her enough time to work on her business. 06:50
🤑 The biggest challenge was pricing and monetizing her services: 10:32
⚡ Power of partnerships and collaborations: Believing in some projects and working pro bono. 15:00
🧠 Utilizing both sides of the brain: Just try it and see if it works for you. 18:07
💪🏻 General rules for marketing and communications: collaboration to utilize strengths. 19:56
🤓 The importance of having a good strategy. 22:07
📙 Inspired by young professionals and inner development: The work on her book was a labor of love. 24:32
🏆 Having your own business is not working 24/7: working from love and inspiration. 28:34
👨‍👩‍👧 Leaving a legacy of peace and balance to her daughters: ‘Make the time to work on your dreams.’ 32:28

Links:

Connect : instagram.com/brooklyn_pioneer

Website: charpconsulting.com

-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

-🎟️ Buy tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 here:

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

Pitching with Purpose: How to Craft a Winning Pitch Deck Story for Investors with Heather Lawver

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:23:06 -0400

As your company's founder, you are Beyoncé, and your slides in the pitch deck are your backup singers.

Heather Lawver, the founder and CEO of Ceemo.ai, has helped underrepresented founders raise over $172 million in venture capital. Heather shares her entrepreneurial journey, starting from graduating high school at 12, launching her first startup at 13, and creating a platform designed to automate brand marketing and pitch deck creation, which helps founders look polished and market-ready.

She says that pitch decks are like children's books for grown-ups who love money, while underrepresented founders often face a lack of early funding and expertise in branding and marketing. Heather decided to help fix this gap with Ceemo.ai. The approach to pitch decks is usually totally wrong because the founder, not the slides, should be the focus, as well as the emotional core that grabs an investor’s attention. Founders should rethink stories by viewing them from various angles, incorporating classic storytelling methods, and avoiding getting lost in the weeds, which is the first mistake entrepreneurs make.

Unfortunately, research shows there is a difference in how messages are received. Male founders often receive more positive, promotional questions, while women are asked defensive, preventative questions, even when delivering the same pitch. Women bring knowledge, kindness, and empathy, and we don’t need to adopt toxic traits commonly attributed to male leaders. However, we often struggle with self-doubt and hesitation.

It's time for women to reclaim their confidence and speak with the certainty and power we deserve. Language matters – saying "WHEN I reach my goals" instead of "IF I reach my goals" changes everything. Let’s shed doubt and take up space!

Notes:
⭐ Ceemo is preparing founders for pitch decks: underrepresented founders start ‘one day behind’ even if they have the funds. 03:37
👔 If you don’t pitch to investors, you need strategic brand material for banks, family investors, and non-profits. 08:27
🤯 Elements of a good pitch deck: you are the star, not the slides - you have one minute to show it all in the first two slides. 11:59
⚠️ Founders usually get lost; these are the most important questions founders should ask to get a perfect pitch deck. 13:57
🆚 Being aware of the problem vs the solution: emotional feeling is the key. 17:29
😇 When the person is the base: you have that ‘specialness’ when you address friends and family, angels, pre-seed, and seed ventures. 19:34
🤓 Ceemo will create an AI pitch generator: framing and creating unique stories while challenging the narrative owners created. 22:19
🤷‍♀️ Differences in pitches between women and men: declarative, confident language vs. cautious and doubting. 30:19
🏆 Stella Foundation is an amazing organization and Heather is their finalist this year. 37:09

Links:

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/heatherlawver

Website: ceemo.ai

-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

-🎟️ Buy tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 here:

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

How Venture Studios Propel Women Led Businesses with Melissa Wallace

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:48:52 -0400

When you invest in women, you invest in all of humanity and the economy.

Melissa Wallace is the CEO of Fierce Foundry and co-founder of Fivefoottwo Marketing. Melissa has more than 25 years of marketing experience across many different areas - B2B, consumer, and the creative agency world, with a focus on pioneering technologies and entertainment. In 2023 Melissa launched Fierce Foundry - the first-ever FemTech Venture studio designed to reduce and equalize the deficit and funding for female founders.

Unlike traditional accelerators or incubators, a venture studio builds companies from idea to exit, offering full lifecycle support to founders. Melissa explained how Fierce Foundry provides both entrepreneurial and business expertise to help women founders launch and scale their companies, with the goal of driving these companies to exit and reinvest in other female-led ventures, creating a "flywheel" effect.

Male-focused startup model doesn't work as well for women entrepreneurs. Women face different challenges and need a tailored approach to success, one that better reflects our experiences and mindsets that don’t have drinking bourbon and smoking cigars mindset.

Women also have more phases in their lives, need reinventing, and as Melissa stated even middle of the life retirement. Reality is just different and career paths and models should be different as well. For Melissa resilience is a key trait for women in business but self-care is a critical component of success in entrepreneurship.

We are all equal, but we are different and that is why women should support other women in business, from investing in female-founded businesses to simply creating space for women to thrive without burning out.

Show notes:
👩‍💼 Melissa has been a huge proponent for women for decades: traction on the prototype was not possible, so she started bridging the gap through her venture studio. (3:59)
⭐ What is a venture studio: building products with creators to de-risk the investment, while incubators and accelerators only offer partial support. (08:15)
🤩 How the venture studio is funded: crowdfunding, donations, family offices, VCs, and angel investors. (13:07)
🆚 Female vs. male model of doing business: women need a model with flexibility. (16:48)
👠 Two phases of women’s lives: saving, reinventing, and being resilient. (20:49)
🗝️ Learning about yourself through entrepreneurship: mindset, self-care, and time management are key pillars. (24:58)
⚡Positive stress is energy that pushes and motivates you: learn your capabilities and work within boundaries that keep you happy and healthy. (27:24)
🌷 Learning from being laid off: take the opportunity to rethink your direction and focus on your happiness. (29:43)
🎤 Melissa will be a panelist at She Leads LIVE 2024: her membership includes a community for female founders. (31:55)

Links:

Connect: www.linkedin.com/in/melissahudsonwallace

Website: www.thefiercefoundry.com/about-us

-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

-🎟️ Buy tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 here:

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

Celebrating Consistency as the Key to Progress: Power of Community and Support at She Leads LIVE 2024 Conference - Solo Episode with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 17:59:48 -0400

The transformation happens with small and constant changes.

Consistency is the key to success, and it is the backbone of this podcast, where we have hosted amazing women entrepreneurs every week for over a year without pause. It’s Adrienne’s labor of love, connecting women entrepreneurs and leaders, and helping listeners grow their businesses, mindset, and even their lives.

But it’s not all work and no play—there’s a special 2-for-1 ticket offer for the She Leads Live Conference 2024, designed to make it easier for you and a friend to attend this transformative event. Expect over 300 women, 20 powerful speakers, and tons of networking, learning, and growth opportunities in NYC this October.

We are here to support all women entrepreneurs, and we’d love your support too. Take a moment to leave a review for the podcast, not just to elevate the show, but to help uplift the incredible women featured throughout the series. Let’s make this world a better place for all.

Notes:
🥳 Prepping for She Leads LIVE 2024: we will be having 20 speakers and 300 guests. 01:58
🤸‍♀️ Training at the gym regularly since January: working out with a trainer and regaining her strength. 03:08
🤩 She Leads LIVE 2024 Conference and proudly showcases various experts and leaders for a decade. 05:49
🎙️ Consistency is the key: She Leads Podcast is a place for inspiration and empowerment for all women. 05:49
🎁 Special offer for all listeners: buy one ticket, get one free – DM Adrienne on Instagram for this great offer. 08:53
⭐ Power of community support to accelerating your business: learn from others and take tools from your community of successful women entrepreneurs. 12:15
👠 Join us in NY at She Leads Conference on October 18th and 19th: listen to the podcast, get in touch with us on Instagram, and review the show. 15:25

Links:
Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

🎫 Buy tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 here:

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

She Leads Live 2024: 10th Anniversary Conference for Women Entrepreneurs

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:59:37 -0400

Join me for an exciting preview of the She Leads Live 2024 conference, celebrating our 10th anniversary! This two-day event in New York City is designed to inspire and connect high-level women entrepreneurs. Key highlights include:

Dates: October 18-19, 2024
Location: Civic Hall, Union Square, NYC
Features:
- Celebrity keynote speaker
- Interactive workshops
- Pitch the Media panel
- Women's health panel sponsored by Winona
- VIP networking events
- Financial and business growth sessions

Speakers include Alycia Huston, Diane Forster, Suzanne Evans, Pam Jordan, Alexis Caldicott, Dr. Paula Fellingham, and more industry experts. This conference is specifically designed for women entrepreneurs who are serious about breaking through the $1 million mark in their business. The 2 days will offer super-practical advice, networking opportunities, and expert strategies for business growth and funding.

Early bird tickets end August 31st. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with driven, high-vibe women entrepreneurs from around the world!

For tickets and more information, visit www.SheLeadsMedia.com or search "She Leads Live 2024 New York City" on Eventbrite. Can't wait to see you all there!!

Show Notes:

🌟 I am looking forward to seeing all the incredible women entrepreneurs at She Leads LIVE. 02:10
✨ Two full days of the conference in Civic Hall: VIP celebration and 10th-year anniversary in the heart of NY. 04:40
🗓️ Conference agenda and our amazing speakers: expo, registration, breakfast, and a secret celebrity speaker at the opening. 06:39
🤝 Workshop sessions: Miranda von Frickin, Francine Parnham, and Tina Brinkley Potts from Keep. 07:34
⚕️ Winona sponsored the healthcare panel: Angela Stubbs, Dr Kathleen Brown, Jessica Shepard, Vanessa Rossetto, and Heidi Diamilio. 08:56
🎯 Diane Foster will help us focus on our goals: a committed network of women who help other women grow their businesses. 11:39
🥂 A more intimate gathering for platinum ticket holders: early bids will expire today. 13:34
🗞️ Pitch the Media Panel: how to access the media - learn and test from the media experts. 14:28
📺 Jen Oliva, producer at NBC, and Dr. Paula Noble Fellingham with tips from TV media. 15:46
💰 Suzanne Evans will teach us how we can leverage our voices to create wealth. 18:04

💲 Know your numbers and finances with Pam Jordan. 18:40
💃 VIP party and surprise speaker at the end of the beautiful evening. 19:44
🩷 She Leads LIVE stories and moving connections are beautiful. 20:50
2️⃣ Day II: Alexis Caldicott, will teach us to be a master of messaging and Alicia Hudson will explain practical advice for culture creators for businesses. 21:46
⏰ NOW is the TIME: what we need to do to reach the $1M mark on the financial panel. 24:00

👩‍💻 Nellie Yousapova will teach us how to leverage tech to grow our businesses. 25:00
😍 Sponsors and vendors for She Leads LIVE: 26:19
🧘‍♀️ A relaxation lounge, great food, amazing speakers, and tons of fun: welcome to She Leads LIVE. 27:41
👠 Offers for podcast packages, help with publishing a book: find your platform and be heard. 29:38

🎧 Go binge the She Leads Media podcasts: we are the network for women created by women. 31:45

Links:
-Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

-Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

-🎟️ Buy tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 here:

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

>> "I love ❤️ Adrienne and The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, can I ask you to please take a moment and give our podcast some love? To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests of The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺️ Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!! XO-Adrienne <<

The Power of Podcasts for Creating Genuine Connections and Business Growth with Michelle Glogovac

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:00:42 -0400

Podcasting is a powerful tool for women business owners to share their stories and reach a targeted audience.

Michelle Glogovac, a former corporate aviation executive, is a passionate podcaster, CEO and founder of the MLG Collective, a podcast PR agency, and the award-winning author of “How to Get on Podcasts."

Michelle explains how she discovered her passion in podcasts as a space for changing the world and helping others genuinely share their stories. In 2018, she started to leverage the power of podcasting as a tool for entrepreneurs, especially women, to connect with their audience on a deeper level.

What does it mean to be a guest on a podcast? It isn’t just about self-promotion; it’s about sharing valuable knowledge and building trust with listeners. It can have a ripple effect, amplifying your message far beyond the initial interview. Michelle offers practical tips for podcast guests on how to make the most of their appearances, from creating shareable content to repurposing interviews for maximum impact and thanking the host for creating the space for all that to happen. Michelle walks the walk when it comes to the strategies she teaches! Thanks to Michelle for sharing so many gems of knowledge with us!

Women entrepreneurs who leverage the power of podcasting can more widely share their stories and amplify their voices to grow their businesses. Share your story to be told in your own words!

Notes
▶️ Launching a podcast, being a guest on podcasts, writing books, and getting media coverage: Michelle walks the talk! 03:08
✨ Michelle’s journey in the corporate world and the gift of being laid off: a blessing in disguise. 04:10
🎙️ Discovering the power of podcasts: changing the world one voice at a time. 05:54
🌟 The Podfluencer: being a podcast host or being a guest on podcasts provides trust and a special connection with the people. 09:26
🏆 How to be the perfect guest on podcasts: podcasts explained using a dinner party analogy. 15:00
🚀 Tips from Michelle on how to share your podcast interviews: repurpose your content. 17:37
🕵️‍♀️ Stalking tip: what are good guests and are people really promoting being on the podcasts? 20:26
🎯 The secret to success and longevity are process and templates: consistency is important. 23:03
😍 Podcasting creates relationships and opens doors that otherwise would remain closed. 28:03
👠 Getting to know people you've always wanted to connect with: being yourself on all platforms. 30:46
💯 Feedback from TV and journalists on pitches on the She Leads Media LIVE: how to pitch yourself to podcasts. 34:27
⚠️ Receiving a pitch from a PR agency is usually not worth paying for: questions to ask a PR agency. 38:45

Links:

Connect with Michelle: www.michelleglogovac.com

Website: www.themlgcollective.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Buy tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 here:

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

She Leads LIVE 2024: The Conference for Women Entrepreneurs in NYC & Path to Financial Advancement

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 13:42:19 -0400

Be inspired to take action at She Leads LIVE 2024 Conference for Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders!

Women are programmed from the beginning about their societal roles, and many of these outdated notions need to stop so we can make bigger progress in our businesses and our lives as female founders. Don’t let these outdated messages and second guesses hold you back. Invest in yourself -and your business! It is time. Learn, connect, and join driven, serious women entrepreneurs at the She Leads LIVE 2024 conference and take a big step forward to grow your business so you can make a positive impact in the world!

Adrienne discusses what to expect from the She Leads LIVE 2024 conference in New York City. The conference will cover content on mindset, finances, who you need to be to grow and scale your business, how to grow and scale your business, why finances are important, what you need to do to get your financial business house in order, how to make a profit, and how to pay yourself.

Among these questions every entrepreneur has, there will be practical workshops on how to show up on different social media platforms and how to build your platform of credibility with branding, podcasts, and books.

Entrepreneurship is the answer for women to get to wealth and make this planet a better place!!

Show notes:
👠 The 10th anniversary of the She Leads LIVE conference: happening on October 18 and 19th in New York City. 01:56
🌟 Create your platform of credibility to showcase your business: social media, podcasts, and books are essential tools for growing businesses. 03:30
🍎 New York is full of magical moments happening all the time: visiting or traveling to NY is a must. 05:57
🎤 She Leads LIVE was born out of frustration with corporate America: starting a business on your own is not easy. 10:11
🚀 The way we operate in the USA is going to change soon: it’s time to break through the $1M barrier. 15:35
💲 Women and wealth: it is important to have more access to wealth and generate revenue. 18:00
▶️ Be inspired to action: come to the conference, connect, learn, and change your business. 19:35
💰 Entrepreneurship is the answer for women to achieve wealth: get your ticket at a discount by the end of the month. 24:00

Links:

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

🎫 Buy tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 here:
https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

> "I love ❤️ Adrienne and The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, can I ask you to please take a moment and give our podcast some love? To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests of The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺️ Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!! XO -Adrienne <<

She Leads LIVE 2024: A Decade of Amplifying Women's Entrepreneurial Voices

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:18:04 -0400

Women are improving their communities and humanity.

Adrienne Garland CEO of She Leads Media is introducing the upcoming She Leads Live 2024 conference, which will take place on October 18-19 in New York City at Civic Hall. The event is dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs build strategic relationships, and gain practical life and business advice to push their businesses beyond the million-dollar mark.

The speakers at the conference are not just inspirational figures but are fully accessible mentors who are committed to the success of women’s communities. They are going to be diving into the mindset that will help in growing companies to that next level. And how to keep mind, body, and spirit healthy.

She Leads LIVE is for women entrepreneurs. She Leads LIVE is for women leaders. She Leads LIVE is for women who are serious about taking their businesses past the seven-eight-figure mark, because it's so important to get to profitability, to get to wealth. Why? Because when women have wealth, we solve society and humanities problems

Adrienne is very passionate about helping women’s voices be heard and taken seriously and She Leads LIVE this year celebrates its 10th anniversary. Come, learn, and celebrate women’s entrepreneurship with us!

Notes:
👠 The She Leads LIVE 2024 conference will occur on October 18-19 at Civic Hall.
🥳 We are celebrating our 10th Anniversary: a decade of empowering women entrepreneurs through networking and advice from experts. 03:18
👩‍🦰 Attendees of She Leads LIVE are women who want practical life and business tips and encouragement from other women entrepreneurs and experts. 07:00
🚀 Speakers at She Leads LIVE conferences have and will propel you to the right place so you can have your best year ever. 10:49
🌟 Covering themes every business owner struggles with: organization, health, mindset, and relationships.13:40
🤓 The She Leads community will expand: the conference will grow to other cities throughout the USA and internationally. 15:04
🌞 Women face incredible obstacles and challenges from a very young age; Adrienne is very passionate about showing the world women's value. 17:16
⚖️ The mission behind She Leads is, and always has been, about equality. 21:09
🩷 Join us at She Leads LIVE: 22:43

Links:

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Join Us at She Leads LIVE 2024 in NYC - Oct. 18& 19th. https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

Learn to Monetize Your Skills With Side–Gigs, with Christine Schaub

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 13:42:07 -0400

Women are natural multitaskers and can benefit from monetizing their downtime if needed.

Christine Schaub is the author of the book Queen of the Side Hustle: Unleashing Your Potential for Extra Income. She makes her living with six side gigs, including hosting the award-winning web series Come On Over. She co-authored the number one Amazon Best Selling memoir, and was a former press secretary for a US congressman. Christine also has a background in corporate communications within healthcare, pharmaceutical, real estate, and entertainment companies.

Women are master multitaskers. Christine explains all the options and skills women accumulate throughout life, often not recognizing these skills as opportunities for side gig income.

She shares how to learn more skills without financial risks and how to strategize for success in the side gig economy.

The side gig economy offers freedom and flexibility but lacks benefits like healthcare so keeping corporate jobs with side hustling is a win-win combination. However, just like any job, side hustling can lead to burnout, so balancing multiple side jobs and learning when to say no is crucial.

The key is to experiment with side hustles to ensure financial stability. Be flexible and open to all avenues to maximize your potential.

Notes
👑 Christine is great at everything except sports: putting together many side hustles. 03:34
🧁 How to find your market and niche: know your limitations and volunteer to try it first. 07:50
⏰ Christine has six side gigs, and she sometimes stacks them all in one week: the power of time management skills. 11:08
🤹‍♀️ The best multi-taskers are stay-at-home moms: women are multi-taskers by nature, and this is a money-making opportunity. 15:24
💲 Reading and getting paid: all options for side gig jobs. 18:37
🤓 Choosing your work zone will determine your side hustles: skills in marketing yourself or finding help, also make a difference. 24:24
🏥 Health insurance and freelancing: don’t leave corporate for side hustling but experiment with monetizing your downtime. 28:31
🔥 Don’t burn out yourself by being an overachiever: quitting is not a bad thing if it maintains your sanity. 36:08
🌸 Learn skills in corporate environments, which can lead to career growth: free classes in your company or volunteering in other companies are great learning opportunities. 44:22
📘 Christine has QR codes with lots of working sheets and webinars. 49:36

LINKS:

Come On Over website: www.comeonovershow.com

Queen of the Side Hustle: Unleashing Your Potential for Extra Income

https://amzn.to/3LKVOS5

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Join Us at She Leads LIVE 2024 in NYC - Oct. 18& 19th. https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

How Women Can Master Business Exits with Carrie Kerpen

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:40:26 -0400

Understanding how to build a sellable business is a game changer.

Carrie Kerpen is the founder of The Whisper Group, an exit-readiness advisory firm dedicated exclusively to women-owned businesses.

Carrie has built and sold one of the world's first social media agencies and has continued helping female founders build and sell their businesses and live their lives fully. She is on a mission to get as much money in the hands of women as possible.

Carrie has been a great friend and supporter of Adrienne and the She Leads LIVE conferences from the early days and has contributed her wisdom consistently.

Carrie says that women often start businesses driven by passion but rarely think about how they will exit. It's imperative to consider an exit strategy from day one. Creating sellable businesses rather than focusing on immediate monetization is a key point Carrie is very passionate about.

She says that so much about exiting is not just about the business but about us personally and being honest and relatable rather than projecting an overly polished image.

Many business owners face regret post-exit due to lack of financial planning. Women must realize that small businesses can exit with six times more value and we need to embrace the idea of extracting wealth from our businesses in order to provide the security and power for ourselves and our families that we so rightly deserve.

Notes:
🌸 The visualization exercise at the first She Leads LIVE event changed many lives: the power of women circles. 03:37
🤯 Getting married in front of 5000 people on the Minor League New York Mets field: sponsorships and charity funds raised and the birth of Carrie’s SM agency. 06:30
⏰ Timing is crucial: people who are prepared to capitalize on starting movements are the people who truly succeed. 10:45
🌟 The growth of Carrie’s company Likable Media was fast: switching gears to a side project and finding her passion and life purpose. 11:51
🔑 In The Whisper Group, women are sharing real experiences on business exits: providing women with the freedom to make choices is the key. 16:07
🙃 Do you think about how your business will end? The education-then-monetization approach was mind-shifting for Carrie. 19:33
⚠️ Challenges of exit strategies: plan your exit properly to avoid regret for selling the business. 23:52
✌️ We should normalize seeing exits for 6-7 figures for smaller businesses. 26:49
7️⃣ Seven tenets are required to build a healthy, scalable and saleable business. 29:50
😇 Anticipatory anxiety is so much worse than actual reality. 31:42
👩‍💼 Being a businesswoman, leader, and mom: the trick is having all the family participate in the work and family life. 33:19
🛑 Prioritizing business brings guilt in women: we put things on ourselves and that is just too much. 35:46

Links:

Connect with Carrie: www.linkedin.com/in/carriekerpen

Website: www.wearethewhispergroup.com

Personal website: www.carriekerpen.com

Gap reports: www.closetheexitgap.com

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Join Us at She Leads LIVE 2024 in NYC - Oct. 17 - 19th. Get Your Early Bird Tickets TODAY!

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

Financial Independence for Women: Making Smart Money Moves and Learning to Invest with Stephanie Xenos

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:04:51 -0400

Don’t be afraid to take control of your financial life.

Stephanie Xenos - Money Muse is a retired rocket scientist turned women's personal finance expert obsessed with helping women reach financial independence. She seeks to empower women of all ages and diverse backgrounds to jumpstart their journey toward financial freedom.

Stephanie shares her life story and how she chose to study physics in college, thinking it would lead to high earnings. During her work at SpaceX, she invested significantly in her future Stephanie retired at 32 and decided to help other women achieve financial independence.

There is a different perspective on retirement or taking breaks or sabbaticals instead of following a traditional work-retirement path. Leveraging your career to gain financial freedom is not hard. According to Stephanie, there is no need for having a financial advisor but with a bit of learning and time, building portfolios is not hard at all.

Stephanie invested for 14 years so she could fully ‘retire’. While she focused intently on living a super-frugal lifestyle in order to heavily invest, she advises against sacrificing pleasures for the sake of investing. Rather, she promotes a mindful and more balanced approach to spending and investing in order to enjoy life both today and tomorrow.

It would be wonderful for young women to get educated on investing early in life so that they can gain financial independence. When women have extra funds, they are more likely to invest in their families and their communities. With economic power, women will help humanity. Stephanie’s life and her commitment to women and their financial empowerment shows us that the sky is the limit - so let's go for it!

Show notes:
🚀 Stephanie is a retired rocket scientist who chose one of the hardest majors in college. 04:14
🆚 Fear vs. desire: fear is an incredible motivator, but not a good place to stay. 06:01
👱‍♀️ Starting investing at 18: Stephanie was able to retire early and discovered her passion for helping women. 07:47
🔥 F.I.R.E. stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early: investments don’t have to be perfect. 09:10
🤓 Take your finances in your hands now: beware of fees - they can eat away at your returns.13:01
😇 You can manage your portfolio on your own; there’s no need for a financial advisor. 15:22
⚠️ Not having proper information on what to do with money and who to trust are the primary reasons women don’t invest. 18:54
💲 Increasing the number of women millionaires is important: It took 14 years for Stephanie to retire. 19:59
⏰ Having the help of coaches can be a game-changer for your business: the best time for investing is now. 26:36
⚖️ Stephanie sacrificed a lot to achieve financial independence quickly, but now she recommends balancing saving with enjoying life. 31:36
🧠 Finding the balance between happiness and consumerism: how to spend your money wisely. 36:13
😍 Seeing investing as fun: Stephanie prepares group courses to help women more. 36:55

Links:

Website: themoneymuse.co/speaking

Social media handles: @money__muse

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Join Us at She Leads LIVE 2024 in NYC - Oct. 17 - 19th. Get Your Early Bird Tickets TODAY!

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

> > "I love ❤️ Adrienne and The She Leads™ Podcast!” If that thought crossed your mind at any time while listening to our special show, can I ask you to please take a moment and give our podcast some love? To do so, simply Rate, Review & Follow Us on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. Taking this simple action helps my team and I to spread the word about all the incredible guests of The She Leads Podcast and contributes overall to helping women leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere! 🗺️ Also, if you haven’t done so already, please +follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!! XO -Adrienne <<

How Well Being and Compassionate Therapy Helps Women Entrepreneurs with Dr. Nathilee Caldeira

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:38:02 -0400

Therapy is for everyone, including entrepreneurs, and not something to be ashamed of.

Dr. Nathilee Caldeirais a licensed psychologist and the founder and CEO of Let's Talk Psychological Wellness. Dr. Caldeirashares her journey from emigrating from Guyana at 19 to becoming a successful psychologist in New York. She started studying business, but she switched to psychology after a beautiful class experience and working at a camp for children who experienced trauma.

Bringing together the two disciplines of business and therapy, she created her hugely successful NYC private practice to gain more flexibility and positively impact more lives directly. However, Dr. Caldeira soon faced overwhelming demand, leading her to expand and hire additional therapists - which was very challenging.

Nathilee now seeks a more balanced approach to business as she is focused on optimally serving both clients and her employees. For her, there is great importance in defining personal success, valuing time over constant growth, and honoring the different seasons of life when making business decisions. Nathilee’s experience with the importance of self-reflection, adaptability, and prioritizing well-being is a great lesson for all entrepreneurs.

As women, we're often conditioned to keep pushing forward without considering how our goals and circumstances evolve. We have the freedom to redefine success and shape our businesses in a way that aligns with our personal values and life stages. Let’s use our inner power and command of our choices to create the life we desire!

Show notes:
👧🏽 Nathilee emigrated from Guyana at 19 years old: how her grandmother helped her take that journey. 04:09
🎓 She changed her major to psychology because of her experience of working with children who have been impacted by trauma. 06:11
👩🏽‍⚕️ After 10 years, she moved from research to clinical practice and soon started hiring other therapists in a group practice to impact more people. 09:32
⚡ Hiring one person at a time helped in managing other therapists. 14:34
😷 The impact of Covid: Nathilee’s staff quickly doubled. 19:22
🌸 We have the privilege to ask ourselves: what do I want my business to look like? 24:11
⚠️ Time is probably the most valuable asset for a business person. 26:59
😍 Our needs are changing as we go: it's freeing to be able to change your trajectory. 28:58
🤓 People want to talk to someone who looks like them, but only 15% of psychologists are people of color. 36:49

Links:

Talking For Wellness: www.talkingforwellness.com

Connect: www.instagram.com/talkingforwellness

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Join Us at She Leads LIVE 2024 in NYC - Oct. 17 - 19th. Get Your Early Bird Tickets TODAY!

https://bit.ly/SheLeadsLIVE2024

Inspiring Positivity Among Women and Underserved Communities with Kai Fuentes

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:46:56 -0400

Your personality is in your business.

Kai Fuentes is the President and Founder of Ebony Marketing Systems, Inc., a multicultural market research firm. With her experience in researching a broad perspective on African American consumer issues, from music, and health, to automobiles, she has specific cultural insights into the research arena, which facilitates ethnic-bound perceptions and attitudes of multicultural communities. She also conducts multicultural market research in various languages, giving a voice to underserved communities and helping them get better living conditions.

Kai’s sparkling personality empowers those around her, but she was not always kind to herself until she discovered the transformative power of self-awareness and positive self-talk. Replacing negative thoughts with positive ones is crucial, especially for women. Inner work and healing significantly can help in the growth of one’s business. Women must discover their own leadership styles, support their teams, give and receive compliments, and most importantly, value servant leadership by listening to their teams and intuition. Business leaders are like conductors creating a symphony, and that requires the efforts of many people.

So let's connect by building each other up, not by self-deprecation.

Show Notes:

👧🏽 Kai is a second-generation market researcher: Kai’s mom is a black Latina who opened her own market research company back in the 80s. 04:43
👀 When Kai’s trajectory changed: a car accident and subsequent biofeedback therapy positively changed her life. 09:07
🌸 The more we know about ourselves, the more we can help our business: your business will thrive when you beat the challenges in front of you. 13:26
⚠️ Women are queens of beating themselves up: Kai’s 3:1 cure for this is very powerful. 17:39
😍 Power of complimenting others and accepting compliments from others. 23:50
😇 Kai’s conversations with people in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Haitian, Creole, and Korean: some people are not heard and no one is advocating for them. 28:30
👩‍💼 Adrienne’s dream of showcasing amazing leaders through a book or a documentary: we are only as good as our team is. 31:41
🎶 As leaders, we are conductors - we are creating a symphony: be confident in your intuition’s calm voice. 34:29
💎 Tips for all entrepreneurs for growing: the power of listening to 3–5 clients and putting your ego aside. 40:43

Links:

www.linkedin.com/in/kai-k-fuentes-b80b2929

www.ebonysystems.com

Get Your Tickets to She Leads LIVE 2024 | NYC: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/she-leads-live-2024-conference-for-women-entrepreneurs-and-leaders-nyc-tickets-804287103377?aff=oddtdtcreator

Embracing Boldness and Asking For What You Want with Shira Yevin

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:50:32 -0400

Shira Yevin, founder of Gritty in Pink, shares her journey as an entrepreneur, musician, and activist. In this latest She Leads Podcast episode, Shira discusses her mission to achieve gender equality in the music industry and the creation of an online marketplace - INPINK - which connects women working in all aspects of the music business with industry pros who are committed to hiring a diverse talent pool of women.

Shira's tenacity, boldness, and belief in her cause have led to significant accomplishments, including investment from Live Nation in her company, Gritty in Pink, as well as the support of influential figures like Melissa Etheridge who is now a strategic advisor.

In her conversation with Adrienne, Shira emphasizes the importance of being bold, asking for what you want, and not taking no for an answer. This exciting conversation spans several topics including networking, confidence, and asking for what you want. Adrienne & Shira delve into the challenges faced by women in the business world and the importance of being bold and relentless. Shira shares personal stories and insights that will inspire and encourage listeners to step out of their comfort zones and advocate for themselves.

Adrienne and Shira’s challenge to listeners of The She Leads Podcast - Go out and ask for something you want — even if it feels out of reach!

Show notes
👧 Shira has been a performer since she was three years old: she loves to lead and she was always happy on the stage. 05:22
👩‍🎤 Shiragirl is her all-girl punk rock band: they are in the studio, recording a new album. 06:51
🦄 Shira’s band crashed the Vans Warped Tour in a pink RV to open the stage for women-led bands: crusades for carving a space for women in music and other industries. 08:36
👩‍💼 Girls in the Hood, beverage business, launching startups, fundraising: Shira loves marketing, sales, and branding. 09:49
🎤 Gritty in Pink community pivoted during COVID: fundraising, Instagram events, webinars, support for musicians, and jamming. 10:43
💼 Creating a marketplace for women: InPink is a place to find and hire female professionals with specialized talents.12:41
⚠️ Ask and you shall receive: Shira is bold & relentless, and she advises women not to take no for an answer. 16:20
🌺 Shira’s friend challenged and supported her: women tend to give up too soon. 26:17
💪 Today’s challenge is to flex your confidence-muscle: ask for something you want. 30:14
💲 NY Tech Week - Shira is the host of event Investor Roundtables: Women Who Wire. 33:12

Links:

Gritty in Pink: www.grittyinpink.co

INPINK: www.inpink.com

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The Power of Cultivating a High-Performance Team and The Right Mindset with Victoria Hajjar

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:40:21 -0400

To have a successful business, the first person we need to learn to lead is ourselves.

Victoria is the CEO of Ugli Ventures, a marketing consultancy for 6-figure female founders, and a podcaster. Victoria focuses on female entrepreneurs and optimizing sales and marketing strategies, team building and leadership development to establish sustainable, profitable 7-figure enterprises. She has cultivated global brands across various sectors and countries including the US, the UK, China, Sri Lanka, the UAE and Mexico.

Over the course of her career, Victoria has observed that men typically possess a mindset wherein they’re less likely to feel the need to perfect every aspect themselves before delegating tasks. Contrastingly - and generally, women entrepreneurs often feel the need to ‘do it all’ and end up focused on lower level tasks that hinder their businesses momentum. To move more efficiently towards success, it is essential to understand your business from a higher strategic level, envision what success looks like, and rise above the weeds. This high-level perspective allows one to more easily build a scalable marketing machine.

Victoria believes women must do all they can to learn to delegate more effectively and focus on team building to drive business growth. The commitment mindset is something every business owner needs: create the goal, write real numbers down on paper, and check in on them every single week so you can adjust and keep the eye on the prize!

Let’s all commit to delegation for success!

Notes:
👩‍💼 Victoria is on a mission to help women entrepreneurs to success by focusing on a more feminine approach to running businesses rather than adopting the male way of working. 04:13
🤷‍♀️ How to create a successful marketing department: don’t do things alone - nurture your team. 09:38
🗝️ Delegation is the key to growth. 16:27
🧐 Hiring a team when you don’t have enough funds: who do you need in the team? 21:07
🧠 Setting your mindset up for success. Adopt the founder mindset and hit targets: the line of questioning that gets us to our goals. 29:54
⚡ Power of design thinking, setting goals, setting targets, and checking in with them periodically. 34:35
🪞 Interact with women that have achieved great things. Find your accountability partner. 36:38
⚠️ The process for everyone is the same: no one has all the answers. 41:56

Links:

Website and free guide: www.ugliventures.com/overwhelm

Connect with Victoria: www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-hajjar
Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Get your tickets for the 10th Annual She Leads LIVE conference - NYC October 17-19 https://www.sheleadsmedia.com/she-leads-live-2024

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Revolutionizing Allergy Care, and the Power of Mission with Shani Bocian of Allermi

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:14:21 -0400

Understanding the uniqueness of people around you is a key to success.

Shani Bocian - the CEO of Allermi - started her career as an art historian, curator, and educator, but discovered that her passion lived in helping people feel well! The spark came by observing the incredible relief and improvement in lifestyle that her father- Dr. Bocian’s - custom allergy formulations brought to so many people in her local area. Shani knew that she could help even more people across the US and set about the business of scaling this into a profitable business.

Her innovative approach to personalized prescribed nasal sprays captured the attention of patients and investors, but the road was not without its bumps. After many rejections and tough meetings, Shani absorbed the feedback and after some internal searching, came to understand how to effectively pitch her business. This shift in focus and being growth minded is the key point of every successful conversation with VCs, and Shani shares her recipe.

Shani’s passion for her father's popular and effective treatments ultimately led her to the telemedicine field - which provides the ultimate convenience for patients with minor issues. Getting approval to operate Allermi in 45 states was certainly challenging, but Shani is exceptionally passionate about her mission to help people get relief!

It just goes to show that the power of mission and determination can help to break barriers!

Notes:
🤧 Allergy season is in full swing, and Shani also had allergies. 02:45
👨‍⚕️ Shani’s physician father developed “Bocian’s Potions” for nasal sprays: Shani combined her dad’s work and the convenience of internet selling. 03:25
😍 When she realized she was not a teacher but an entrepreneur: she became excited about the idea of entrepreneurship and startup and fundraising. 06:27
💦 Allermi customized nasal sprays and benefits of having customized products: reinventing the nasal spray industry. 09:05
👃 The nose is the most inflammatory-prone area of our body. 11:10
📺 Telehealth is revolutionary: getting evaluated by a physician online for minor issues.14:47
💲 Funding for Allermi started with friends and family but grew to institutional and angel funding: the shift women need to make when talking to investors. 18:47
💰 Rejections and feedback from VCs helped Shani modify her pitch: investors require data and financial projections. 23:26
🫂 The demoralizing and hurt feelings that come when investors don’t understand your mission: having good support from people around you is crucial. 27:31
📱 Old Girl’s Club on Slack: professional women support group for $12 /month. 30:02

Links:

Connect with Shani: linkedin.com/in/shani-bocian-steinberg

Allermi Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/allermi

Instagram: instagram.com/getallermi

Website: allermi.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Get your tickets for the 10th Annual She Leads LIVE conference - NYC October 17-19 https://www.sheleadsmedia.com/she-leads-live-2024

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

The Power of Authenticity: Finding Success from Brazil to Hollywood with Journalist Jana Nagase

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:11:06 -0400

Don’t be ashamed of your authenticity.

Jana N. Nagase is a film critic, columnist, and podcaster originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association & Film Independent, and Brazilian International Press Association.

Since 2012 she has supported the community with the columns she writes for Gazeta News, the biggest Brazilian newspaper in the US based in Florida. This year, her YouTube channel “Jana on Camera” celebrates its 10th anniversary. Jana on Camera provides behind-the-scenes interviews with artists from big studios, independent studios, and Latino newcomers in the entertainment industry.

Jana shares her success and how she overcame many of the hardships that immigrant women face in trying to navigate the entertainment industry. She reveals her process of securing red carpet interviews from celebrities and addresses the level of preparation that’s required.

Jana created a business from what she loves doing the most, despite many people telling her she didn’t have the right ‘look’ for this field of work. Naysayers can say what they want, but this tough lady proves that love, authenticity, and following the principles of good journalism can truly make miracles happen.

The most important thing is to trust yourself and not let anybody else tell you who you are! Jana’s advice is to hold on to who you are in your heart and don’t change your essence or your accent - for anyone!!

Notes
🇧🇷 Jana is a Brazilian immigrant: a broadcast communication graduate who transferred to the movie, entertainment, and TV. 03:06
⭐ Independent productions have more creative solutions. 04:56
🗞️ The Gazeta News is the biggest Brazilian newspaper in the USA: the Brazilian community is big and Jana is supporting it by writing columns for the last 12 years. 06:14
📺 Jana’s YouTube channel is about supporting and interviewing industry professionals like actors, directors, and producers from streaming platforms like Netflix and Disney+. 08:33
🎤 How to get interviews from celebrities: talking with movie and theater professionals has some rules. 12:14
🤓 Preparing for the interview for series and movies. 14:33
😇 YouTube channel as business and all its challenges: Jana is proud of herself and her accomplishments, even though she never dreamed this life could happen to her. 18:06
💎 Jane’s advice to immigrants: do what you love, believe in yourself, and nurture your authenticity. 24:21

Link:

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@janaoncamera

Website: janaoncamera.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Inner Prosperity as The Key to Financial Success with Ruchi Pinniger

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:33:36 -0400

Our inside wholeness is what creates prosperity.

Ruchi Pinniger is a former Wall Street executive and founder at Watch Her Prosper. Her company provides financial mentorship, support, and services to women-led service-based businesses. After personal and family struggles, Ruchi shared a story about how one Prada bag taught her that true prosperity is in inner wholeness rather than material possessions.

Even women would rather talk about their death than money, Ruchi explains that financial support and help are crucial to all businesses of all sizes. The numbers are data and when used properly can show a path one business should take, but creating a safe, non-judgmental space for women to discuss money is crucial for practical financial planning and support.

Not only the financial support matters for business success but also our internal beliefs and self-care. Ruchi’s RIR concept (Recognize, Interrupt, Reframe) helps women shift from disempowering to empowering thoughts about money and success. This involves recognizing negative self-talk, interrupting it, and reframing it with positive affirmations.

Both personal and societal conditioning are tough for women, and there is a need for a holistic approach that will include work but also balance it with well-being and self-compassion. Having more spaciousness and ease in our lives will lead to greater success. Reframing our habits and beliefs is the key and anything is possible for us after that.

Notes:
👧 Growing up without parents after 15: learning from an immigrant mom reinventing herself. 03:34
🌺 What is prosperity and how to get it: well-being, our spirituality, and then our relationship with people and with money. 07:00
⚠️ Asking for support is crucial for business owners: numbers are data that provide info for the next steps.10:19
😇 Planning and projecting in business: self-care is the first step in working things out. 13:58
⭐ Making yourself a priority impacts your business: let’s find time for ourselves. 17:17
⚡ Paying attention to the language you use with yourself: reframing it with the RIR concept. 18:41
🧠 Subconscious thoughts are the root of our deeds and actions: everything starts in your mind. 24:30
👀 Reframing the shame about loans: look at things from a different perspective. 33:30
💎 The power of gratitude and trust: getting through the hard situations in higher vibration. 34:32

Links

Connect with Ruchi: linkedin.com/in/ruchipinniger

Website: watchherprosper.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Understanding Power and Wisdom of Middle-essence with Voiceover Actress Dina Sherman

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 24 May 2024 09:00:00 -0400

Saying Yes to opportunities in front of you is the key.

Dina Sherman is a voice-over actress and the official announcer for the Annie Awards. She emphasizes the importance of storytelling, authenticity and the constant learning she gained through her extensive experience in animation, anime, commercials, radio, TV, and film.

Her creative career started in elementary school with prank phone calls with impressions and continued with National awards for speaking. The transition from TV and stage to voice-overs was pivotal for her career. Her work in charity and helping underprivileged groups is a way to get back to the community and world for having a great and interesting job she adores. Dina’s focus is on literacy so her charity work in reading to kids and adults transformed towards digital format during COVID through her YouTube channel for kids.

Women are usually pressured with all kinds of ‘shoulds’ and Dina shares how she is balancing this pressure from outside but also created within. As women go through different stages of life, exploring and enjoying all stages of wisdom and experience gained, is the road to happiness and a fulfilled life.

Notes:
👧 In times when Rolodex was in your brain: Dina’s prank phone calls with all sorts of impressions. 03:49
🎭 Humorous and dramatic interpretation in high school: UCLA and first work on voiceovers. 05:11
😍 Charity work, donations, working with kids and adults: reading and literacy is important for all groups. 10:14
😇 COVID shut down the world but created creatives blossom: Dina’s readings for kids and teachers on YouTube channel. 14:27
🤓 Being criticized and ashamed: don’t shoot yourself but appreciate your windows of opportunity. 22:00
🌺 Women have stages in their lives and we are growing differently in each: adolescence and middle-essence discoveries. 26:45
👂 Constant learning and the right approach to connection: hearing people and proper introduction. 31:49

Links:

YouTube: youtube.com/dinashermanstoriesandmore

Website: dinasherman.com
Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Shining Your Light: Claim Your Expertise with Amanda Samoyloff

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 17 May 2024 11:22:30 -0400

Women are real rock stars.

A woman of many talents and passions, Amanda Samoyloff, is an actor, writer, producer, poet, and the founder of SamoyloffPR, specializing in branding and PR. Amanda started her creative journey from acting as a kid, then continued in her college days through speech and debate, but working with musicians in Hollywood, gave her a specific view towards PR.

Combining her experience with rock stars, Amanda wanted to inject that Rock ‘n’ Roll vibe into clients’ branding while establishing women in the media landscape. As women are not being represented enough in the media, especially in male-dominated fields, women need to ensure diverse voices are heard out there. Women have the common issue of imposter syndrome, but we need to believe in ourselves and as soon as we pull from the backend into the spotlight it will significantly boost our businesses.

Today, Amanda shares strategies about personal branding, the best time to hire a PR, how to leverage your story, and how to prepare before a product launch. Women need to be recognized, but to achieve that, it's important to ditch perfectionism, find time for ourselves, and believe in our strength. Establishing a healthy reward system and finding time for creative activities is crucial for preventing burnout.

We need to shine our light, so let's just keep beating that drum and let’s get out there to rock!

Notes:
🧑‍🎤 National speech and debate award: after college, Amanda started doing PR for rock musicians in LA. 03:50
👩‍💼 In 2020, she applied this experience to female founders and startups. 06:32
🎭 Amanda has been acting since childhood, but her writing and poetry came in college. 09:47
⚡Steps for starts is getting to know your impact, and problems you are trying to solve: get to the podcast and then reverse engineer that to get a PR headline. 11:54
⚠️ Getting PR too late: get your PR campaign going at least 9 months before the product launch. 18:15
▶️ We have to claim our expertise: believe in yourself and stand in front of your company. 23:13
✍️ Poetry comes to Amanda usually when she's physically in motion: stories about relationships and growth. 28:17
🔥 If your reward system is only linked to work, you will become burnout. 32:30
🛑 If you don't work on yourself, your business isn't going to go anywhere: find time for yourself too. 34:14

Links:

Website: www.samoyloffpr.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-samoyloff-690448b5

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

How to Lead Our Businesses Into The Future with Latia Vaughan

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 10 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400

You must listen to this transformational, impactful, and thought-provoking episode with futurist and my new friend who I wish I could hang out with every single day, Latia Vaughan! Latia helps us to see that if you embrace who you are, and own your power, it will make the world turn!

Futurist, thought leader, strategist, and best-selling author, Latia Vaughan works with people and businesses, helping them evolve and own their power. She represents ~1% of African American Woman Futurists in North America, and her data-driven insight, and future foresight, have not only illuminated industries but have also ignited a transformative spark in individuals and organizations alike!

Latia left the corporate world to serve humanity in a more impactful way. She began coaching women and helping them build their businesses, as well as helping organizations with transformational consulting work. She emphasizes that evolution is not always pretty, but rather filled with messy parts and growth, as well as learning to collaborate together. She now leads a life dedicated to launching people and businesses into Evolution!

If it’s not a loss, it’s a lesson - let’s turn those lessons into even bigger wins!

Notes:
👩🏾‍💼 Latia started in corporate America, but now she helps people and businesses evolve. 3:59
🏫 The school system was built in the industrial age: think factories, you don't need to be creative, just comply. 8:24
👉🏽 The difference between marketing and branding. 11:45
🤯 Women are far behind in the business race: in the US, women couldn't own a business until 1988. 16:13
🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 Ways for collaboration: setting what the mutual intention is for us to come together. 20:17
💊 Latia's working with companies: the higher you go, there's less diversity. 24:07
🤓 Run your business, like a jungle, not a garden. 27:33
▶️ Setting the confines and the climate and then allowing people to live within that realm. 29:34
😇 We need our intuitive side when we are leading our businesses. 32:56
⚡ Latia is a futurist: she studies science, data, and politics to see what's coming next. 36:27
🧠 Older people have the mental fortitude necessary to lead. 40:04
💎 Unraveling who you are and owning your power is going to make the world turn. 42:13
🌺 The beauty is in the jungle: we can grow when we appreciate what each of us brings to this experience. 46:54

Links:
IG- @latiavaughan;

LinkedIn : linkedin.com/in/latia-vaughan-4a08a921

Website: latiavaughan.com

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Power of Body Language and Communication Skills in Life and Business with Jane Hanson

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 May 2024 09:15:39 -0400

If you don’t believe in what you’re doing, how can you expect anyone else to?

Jane Hanson is an Emmy award-winning television journalist, a coach, and a media trainer, working on helping people to communicate better. Jane believes in putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes, being respectful, and remembering there is no magic formula to good communication and relationship building.

Statistics tell us that most of the people who are becoming entrepreneurs now are women. Jane encourages women to look around and see how many opportunities there are to help each other on our journey. We are surrounded by community, there are many ways in which we can help each other spread the word about our businesses, and the things we are passionate about.

Never forget to have fun and not take anything too seriously!

Notes:
👠 Most of the people who are becoming entrepreneurs these days are women. 4:01
😇 Being your own self-advocate: if you don't believe in what you're doing, how can you expect anybody else to? 7:40
🤩 Jane never lets an opportunity slip by: don't say no, just hack it out! 11:38
⚠️ F.E.A.R. equals False Excuses to Avoid Risk. 15:35
🤓 Different ways and platforms for pitching. 16:40
👞 Putting yourself in someone else's shoes. 24:01
👩‍💼 Jane does media training: managing available time and preparing yourself. 28:23
🏆 Bridging - acknowledging what you can for the question, then, transition back to your message. 32:08
🎥 Video yourself and see what is good and what needs improvement. 35:56
🙃 Have fun with what you're doing: allow your passion to show because that's intriguing to people. 38:22

Links:

Website: https://www.janehanson.com/

Course: https://courses.genconnectu.com/courses/jane-hanson
Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

The Power of Continuous Learning and Being a Positive Contrarian with Carol Sanford

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:46:37 -0400

Experts get in the way of their own discoveries!

Carol Sanford is a positive contrarian who believes that no matter the outcome, it can be a meaningful one. As a professor, Carol ensures never to use the same idea twice, which provides a space for creating useful and valuable evolution in her thinking. Being an expert blocks people’s learning, as she emphasizes and Carol does not class herself as one.

Carol believes that discovering who you are, takes a lifetime - the secret is not in deciding who you are, but rather discovering it. We all have work to do, we show up for our businesses, whether we like it or not, and we will discover new things every year. We do not necessarily need to strive for new content, but rather an extension and evolution of something useful to the world.

You cannot do this alone - grow your capacity in a developmental community!

Notes:
👠 Carol doesn't view herself as an expert: experts get in the way of their own discovery. 3:36
😇 She's a positive contrarian: for Carol, no matter what the outcome is, she makes it a meaningful outcome. 8:56
👩‍💻 She has a School (with a capital S) where she works with business leaders. 10:53
🤓 Carol always disrupts certainty: in every book, workshop, or podcast, she disagrees immediately. 17:21
💡 As a professor, she never repeats the same idea she used before. 20:40
🧠 A mental artist: creating useful, valuable evolution in her thinking. 23:16
💎 Don't think about building something for you as a woman but for all humans. 28:22
💲 You make more money, because you make more of a difference without trying to make money. 33:23
😇 You can't do it alone: in a developmental community, you can grow your capacity. 34:53

Links:

https://carolsanford.com/

https://seedcom.org/

https://carolsanford.substack.com/
Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Staying True to Yourself While Building a Successful Fashion Brand with Nasrin Yafari

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:41:31 -0400

Take that chance - go down a different path!

Nasrin Yafari is a Japanese-Iranian-American, designer, and entrepreneur who began her career in education, straight out of NYU, where she worked with people, and learned and grew into marketing. Nasrin shares her experiences in building a successful Brooklyn-based fashion brand, with a focus on taking risks and being true to herself. Taking a chance, Nasrin started her own business, going from manufacturing face masks during the pandemic to colorful jumpsuits.

Nasrin believes strongly that it is good to go down a different path while trusting your gut. Following one dream does not mean other passions don’t exist, but rather that they can be executed over a long period of time. Many people end up jumping ship when things are difficult, but Nasrin teaches the power of pushing through dips and slumps.

We must remember that entrepreneurship is a marathon - don’t give up when things are hard!

Notes:
🗽 Nasrin went to NYU and chose education: she loved learning and growing and working with people. 3:39
😷 “Mixed” started with producing face masks during the pandemic: later it scaled into textiles, physical products, and manufacturing. 5:45
⚠️ The way education is set up, Nasrin couldn't execute her ideas: need for a shift in education. 7:11
🧥 A product journey from masks to jumpsuits: how Nasrin designs. 10:07
📩 Nasrin has a newsletter, which includes personal notes related to selling and empowerment. 15:52
👠 Her story just happens to resonate with women, not men: it wasn't a conscious decision. 20:09
🎯 In entrepreneurship, a lot of people jump ship, faced with difficulties: you just have to push through it. 23:37
🍃 The peak season for Mixed comes in the spring and summer, but they are a year-round brand. 26:23

Links:

Website: mixedbynasrin.com

Social Media Handles: @mixed_bynasrin @nasrinharumi

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Unlocking Our Entrepreneurial Superpower: Insights from Lucy Vincent

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:35:50 -0400

Your business is not your baby; it is there to help and support you - not the other way around!

With a degree in marketing, Lucy Vincent began her career in corporate sales and marketing where she worked for several top brands. Not wanting to build someone else’s dream, she quit without a backup plan. She knew she had the persistence it takes to succeed and launched The Agency Accelerator to equip women with strategy and support to build, grow, and scale their marketing businesses to six and multi-six figures online. Lucy helps freelancer social media managers make more than they ever thought possible without being glued to their phone 24/7 to build sustainable and profitable businesses. Her focus? Women entrepreneurs - which is why we love Lucy so much!

Lucy believes that creating inner trust is crucial, especially as women entrepreneurs, and this trust allows us to step up to the next level. Keeping promises and commitments to ourselves is what allows us to build confidence, trust, and belief in ourselves. This is not only life-changing for us, but also for those around us - our friends and family.

It is proven that when women have money to spare, they make the world a better place. So now it is time for us to both learn and unlearn what we need in order to reach that point!

📈 Lucy's lessons learned from mistakes allowed her to scale her business to seven figures. 03:35
😇 She let go of perfectionism: her advice? make as many mistakes as you can as fast as possible to scale efficiently. 07:22
👩‍💼 Transitioning from a freelancer role to running an agency: stepping into the CEO role. 11:09
🎯 Setting solid boundaries: you need to know what value you offer, and charge premium prices for expertise. 15:57
🤓 Sometimes you must clear the decks to go tothe next level. 19:39
🌸 Women entrepreneurship: creating an inner trust with ourselves is critical to step into your next level. 23:15
👉 The most important thing for women is keeping promises to themselves. 27:38
🤓 Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're correct! 30:38
💚 Community support is crucial for Lucy: Her Facebook group has 34,000 members. 34:52

Links

Social media handles: instagram.com/thelucyvincent

Website: thelucyvincent.com

Knowledge is Power with Dr. Cat Brown of Winona

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:15:43 -0400

Knowledge is power - and we can never have too much!

A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Cathleen Brown, is a board-certified OB/GYN, trained in Hawaii. She went on to serve on Army bases across the country, and is now the medical director at Winona. Dr. Cat has dedicated her career to women’s health and improving access to care and achieving positive health outcomes.

Winona is a tele-health company that aims to empower, educate, and treat women throughout the entirety of their menopause journey. Now available in 30+ states, Winona allows women to access healthcare without having to physically visit a clinic or hospital and get access to a physician at any hour of the day. Dr. Cat works collaboratively with patients. Together, the shared decision process empowers patients.

While every woman is different, there are core things for which Dr. Cat believes women need to focus. Two of these are nutrition and physical activity. As women, we need to take care of ourselves, slow down, and not allow ourselves to be spread so thin.

The more you learn about yourself, the more you will be able to recognize changes in yourself and the more you will be able to make the changes you need to in your own life!

Notes:
👩‍⚕️ Being a doctor is all Dr. Cat ever wanted to be: initially, she thought about being a pediatrician. 4:06
🩺 She gravitated to OB/GYN: her mission was to change all the negative experiences women have with it. 5:44
🤰 In 2021 she moved to Pennsylvania to work at Winona where she provides knowledge to patients. 8:28
👂Winona is an asynchronous telemedicine platform that constantly communicates with patients. 11:54
🧠 Going through hormonal issues and brain fog: all things that can affect your business. 15:56
👠 The basic things every woman needs to focus on are nutrition and body movement. 21:56
🛑 In our 40s and 50s, we need to slow down our lives and optimize our sleep. 26:01
⚠️ As women, we are conditioned to help everybody else: it disconnects us from ourselves. 28:35
🏋️‍♀️ Adrienne shares her experience of getting stronger by working with weights. 31:01
🌸 With Winona, the more you learn, the better you'll be able to recognize changes in yourself. 35:38

Links:

Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/drcatobgyn

Website: bywinona.com
Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

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Embracing Change and Finding Purpose in Entrepreneurship with Hayley Foster

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:13:21 -0400

It is important to give ourselves credit for what we have accomplished.

Hayley Foster, Founder & CFO of Foster Inc., began her career in advertising before the Internet became popular. Moving onto digital advertising, Hayley partnered with a friend to start her first business, a promotional marketing company with offices in New York, LA, and China. Hayley refers to her time building and running her business as attending the school of hard knocks for entrepreneurs, acknowledging the lessons she learned and what she had to offer to other women.

Haley's resilience and ability to pivot through many challenges in work and private life, but also honoring her desires, spurred her personal evolution. Crucial moments allowed her to find her passion. Hayley shares tips on reading books, building awareness, thinking about our intentions, and guiding women entrepreneurs through fast-changing circumstances.

Hayley believes that it is vital to engage and connect with people, and her Foster Women community is a specially vetted space for women to get stronger and better in business and life without feeling like we always need to control everything.

The way to experience life fully is only possible if we don’t control it constantly.

Notes:
🤩 How Hayley engaged and reconnected following the She Leads conference. 3:02
👩🏻‍💼 Hayley has always been into technology: running her promotional marketing company for 12 years. 8:28
👠 Many women come to her privately for advice on entrepreneurship: thus, the creation of Foster Inc. 10:11
🌸 Hayley realized she wanted to niche into technology and systems coaching for women in wellness. 12:46
😇 Life is continuously changing and if you're always trying to control it, you'll never be able to fully live it. 19:52
🥰 Everyone in Foster Women is vetted by Hayley: emotional connection is very important. 24:41
😊 Foster Women community members are all connected with the trust they have in Hayley. 28:49
😎 Foster Women is all about engaging and quality, not quantity. 30:51

Links:

Social Media Handles: instagram.com/iamhayleyfoster
Website: fostering101.com fosterwomen.com
Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com
Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

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Mindset Shifts and Sales Success: Lessons for Every Entrepreneur with Alexis Caldicott

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:31:29 -0400

When you do your marketing right, clients will come ready to buy.

With a background in psychology, Alexis Caldicott is known to many as the queen of event marketing. As an international speaker, messaging consultant and marketing strategist, Alexis supports entrepreneurs and business owners in creating six figures in three days from their events and marketing.

Not everyone who is successful is passionate about everything that they do each day, many people are passionate about what their business allows them to do and about the results clients will get. Good business decisions are not made on passion but rather based on data and numbers.

Remember to be passionate about the impact that you have and do not doubt the experience that you have!

👸 Alexis is a media guru, often called the queen of event marketing. 2:31
💲 Working with a business coach: Alexis was earning 120k for 3-day events. 6:09
👉 Successful people are not passionate about what they do each day, but they're just really good at their jobs. 8:22
🤓 People make decisions from intuition, from passion, and that can play tricks with us: we need data and numbers 10:51
🧪 Some people should not do events: if you can’t sell one-to-one, you can’t sell one-to-many 15:28
🤩 Alexis is now focused on marketing: when you do your marketing right, they come ready to buy. 18:35
😎 When you provide high-level content, whether people buy or not, they're happy. 23:44
🙃 A mindset shift regarding sales is essential: you'll make my life better and easier by selling me something. 27:22
🎯 Everyone is the best in the things we are most gifted with: “I get paid the most for what comes easiest to me”. 30:27
🎭 Difference between women and men: men align better with their masks. 33:16

Links:

Connect with Alexis: www.linkedin.com/in/ateamevents

facebook.com/alexiscaldicott
Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

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Defining The Purpose of Your Family Business with Guillermo Salazar

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:17:26 -0400

Being a part of family business means being a part of long-lasting values and reputation.

Guillermo Salazar, a renowned family business consultant and global speaker, brings invaluable insights into effective family business governance and communication, empowering enterprises for success.

Guillermo dives deep into the world of family business governance, communication, and legacy-building. Whether you're an entrepreneur or involved in a family business. He seriously takes into account the blood, sweat, and tears that the entrepreneur put into the business and describes owners as heroes who influenced and helped the whole family around them with the business.

Guillermo is opening our minds to other aspects of the entrepreneurial journey that we don't often think about, and educating us on all the different considerations that we need to be thinking about when we're either, involved in a family business or we've created our own family business.

Notes:
💼 Finances from a slightly different angle: family business finances. 02:30
🤓 Guillermo comes from a family construction business: all the situations you can have related to the family business. 03:41
😇 Helping people to make decisions regarding their family business: few options to move on. 08:11
3️⃣ Three steps in keeping family business: communication, purpose, and legacy as foundations. 12:10
⏰ Time matters the most: quality of values and reputation takes time not size. 13:55
🦸‍♂️ Retirement is the hardest part of being a founder: giving recognition to a family hero and receiving a legacy. 18:08
🤩 Training to be an owner or understand the responsibilities and emotional connection with the ownership is essential for good leading. 22:35
❓ Questions family business owners ask: differences between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation of owners and the motivations they have. 26:39
🏆 “A Road to Triumph in Family Business”: to reach the goal, there is a path that we have to work on together. 30:46

Links:

Connect with Guillermo: www.linkedin.com/in/guillermosalazar

Website: guillermosalazar.com

Get his book here: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HL9B5T4

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

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Celebrity Interior Designer Cheryl Eisen on Building a Luxury Empire — and How to Move Your Business Upmarket

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:58:07 -0500

If you believe in yourself, others will too!

A dear friend of the She Leads Media, Cheryl Eisen, is know as 'the celebrity interior designer', and she is a huge supporter of the female founder community and women entrepreneurs everywhere. Cheryl believes strongly in a solid work ethic, resilience, and learning as much as you can as you create your routine and build your business. To become the person you want to become, you have to dig deep and become passionate as well as tough. The reality is that only 2.1% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups go to women. Therefore, if feasible, self-funding is the way to set yourself up well for the future; a future without debt. Having begun her journey on a limited budget, without fancy degrees, Cheryl deeply understands the scrutiny that women can face. She knows the strength and creativity all women possess and encourages women to go for it, as there is power in knowing that you can do it yourself! Please enjoy the conversation between Tanya Klitch, accomplished editor and journalist, and Cheryl Eisen.

Notes
👠 She Leads Live 2023: Cheryl is a long time friend, supporter and advocate for She Leads Media, and the work we do to help bring visibility to women entrepreneurs everywhere. Cheryl has tremendously supported the conference for multiple years, as well as been a great friend to Adrienne Garland, CEO of She Leads Media. 01:48
🌟 Cheryl has designed interiors for Bezos, Kardashians, and many more celebrities and high net worth individuals. She is renowned both in her industry and within the female founder community. 05:10
✨ Luxury interior design and highest level of real estate properties: IMG is a unique company that takes care of everything needed to sell multi-million dollar properties. . 06:05
👱🏻‍♀️ Cheryl founded her first company at only 24 years old. 07:22
🏡 The challenges faced by being unemployed and broke for years: the move to real estate staging and the triumph of her first successful sale. 08:04
💸 Design on a dime: purchasing items on Craigslist from her own pocket to make properties look great and to get them ready for sale. 09:30
👉🏻 Lesson in organic marketing: boldly reaching out to brokers and offering staging services. Then, Fredrik Eklund hired Cheryl to solve a problem. 11:40
🚨 Fredrik’s listing remained empty and didn’t sell for years: Showcasing the James Bond vibe of Daniel Craigs’ duplex. 13:43
📩 What email marketing was like ‘back in the day’: Cheryl’s pivotal moment that launched her to the stars. 14:59
💣 Cheryl’s Advice: Dig deep to find your story and sell the person that you want to become: if you believe in yourself, others will too. 17:12
📈 Key hires and how to scale: rules of hiring and firing. 18:19
😷 The far and away most difficult time in her business journey: COVID. 21:46
👩🏻‍🏭🪛 New opportunities: When she could not find items she needed for staging, she decided to make them: an additional revenue stream for her company. 26:02
🎯 More great business advice: Figure out your unique selling proposition and strategy: how you market your business or product is the key. 29:25
👩🏻‍💼 While Cheryl has a gentle voice, she is direct and and employs a raw approach to business: When you both make things clear and set high expectations with employees, it may not always be comfortable, but greatness ensues. 30:40
🙃 How to create a company and hire people that match the culture: what happens when things aren’t all rosy with employees?. 31:38
⚠️ Reality check - VCs, the bank, and other lenders may not take your women-owned business seriously: Fact: only 2% of women entrepreneurs get VC funding. The answer: Self-Fund whenever possible. 33:37
3️⃣ Work ethic, passion, and toughness are the three hallmarks of Cheryl’s incredible success.35:52
⬅️ Ladies - Have An Exit Strategy! Selling your business, going public or having a liquidity event is important to operating as a successful entrepreneur. 38:15
🫂 Cheryl allows all of the conflict, the resolution, and the emotions to have space: after all, we are all humans doing business with one another. 39:37
💎 CEO with hands in the creative process: the necessary change in roles when businesses scale. 42:10

We would like to extend a very special thank you to Tanya Klitch, accomplished editor and journalist, and strategic content creation partner of She Leads Media, for her time, thoughtfulness and expert interviewing skills.

Links:
Interior Marketing Group: www.imgnyc.com

Connect with Cheryl: www.linkedin.com/in/cheryl-eisen-1a41bb3

Connect with Tanya Klitch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-klich-1950842aa/

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

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Turning Dreams into Reality: The IDEAL Method of Real Estate Investment with Lindsey Lovell

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 06:25:55 -0500

Real estate is a really just a simple math equation.

Lindsey Lovell, CEO and founder of the Millionaire's March is also a speaker, entrepreneur, and expert real estate investor who helps women learn how to reach financial independence.

Growing up, Lindsey believed that if you put your head down and worked hard, success will follow. However, she, like many women, was never taught to make money work for her in quite the same way that it is taught to men. Her aha moment happened during COVID when she decided to learn the secrets of real estate investing.

Lindsey shares practical tips, advice, opportunities, and challenges in real estate investing that have helped her achieve huge success in a short amount of time. She explains what real estate syndication is and how group investment can be used to gain income without any deep knowledge of real estate. Lindsey explains why real estate is I.D.E.A.L. (Income, Depreciation, Equity, Appreciation, Leverage) for investing and how women can be either passive or active investors on the road to achieving financial stability and independence. She is incredibly passionate about making real estate investing accessible to a broader range of individuals, including single mothers and those with limited capital.

Despite the sometimes intimidating real estate jargon, which pervades every industry, the world of real estate is really not that intimidating at all. Lindsey will help you to explore investment opportunities, check resources, set your goals and make our communities and lives better because – as the tide rises, all boats rise together.

Notes:
👧 Growing up believing in the American Dream: being a woman often means not being on ‘the deal side’. 02:35
🤩 The aha moment during COVID: getting into the real estate business and learning from podcasts with a huge, fast success. 04:26
🧲 Why real estate is the I.D.E.A.L way of investing: understanding simple math and variables around it. 08:14
🏘️ Find a market that works for your budget and KPIs: buying residential vs buying investment. 10:43
🤯 Hiring a contractor to uplift property value, and he disappeared: the power of milestones payments and contracts. 12:46
😎 Buying properties without seeing them: partnering with trustful agent and landlord. 14:38
🚪 What does the term “I have 100 doors” mean? 15:40
🤓 Real estate syndicates are great for certain investments: owning a piece of property but not doing the work as a general partner does. 17:56
🤓 Being an accredited or uncredited investor: some syndicates have lower entry points for uncredited investors. 19:35
✌️ Take your 401K from a previous employer, roll it into a self-directed IRA, and use that to invest. 22:27
🤗 The real estate community is very helpful: have at least part of your portfolio tied to real estate investments. 25:01
🎙️ Bigger Pockets Rookie is great show for learning and absorbing: tools and websites to use and learn from. 27:16
😇 The Millionaires March: Lindsay’s 1-on-1 coaching: focuses on women but also men. 29:18
🎯 Create your action date, find an accountability partner and real estate agent, and map your investment. 32:27

Links:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/lindsayzanelovell

Website: www.themillionairesmarch.com

Bigger Pockets website and podcast: https://www.biggerpockets.com/podcasts/real-estate

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Power of Meditation in Achieving Life and Business Goals with Sunaina Sinha Haldea

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:32:29 -0500

Life finds you while you're chasing it.

Sunaina Sinha Haldea is a Global Head of private capital advisory for Raymond James. She's a regular guest on CNBC and has written Five Habits to Build Mental Strength for Fast Company. She had been a senior meditator for over 15 years when she started her entrepreneurial journey.

Parallel with her entrepreneurial journey she started with meditation and that became a secret of her success in business and balancing her life - as she explained - she could not make it without it.

The superpower of meditation is in allowing us to control our thoughts and emotions, not to let our thoughts and emotions control us. Sunania felt incredible liberation and huge empowerment when she started controlling her mind and making decisions without her mind running her but learning and focusing clearly on all challenges in front of her.

Sunaina also enhances the role of meditation in managing the demands of entrepreneurship and maintaining mental strength. In the world where we started talking about mental issues but solutions for those should be proactive, and she advocates for integrating meditation into early education as a tool for building resilience and preventing mental health issues.

She discussed the importance of setting boundaries and staying true to our values, especially in the face of pressures and temptations, and how meditation helped her with mindfulness and balance. Even her children are practicing it. We control how we live our days, how we experience each day, so take control over your life!

Show notes
🎓 Sunaina’s journey from Stanford to Harvard to entrepreneurship: the toil that goes on behind the scenes while creating anything. 03:05
🧘🏽‍♀️ Her secret to resetting her mental state: learning to meditate and all the benefits meditation brought into her life. 04:26
☯️ Preventative mental health: tools and techniques that are building the resilience reserves of the mind. 06:45
😇 Sunaina has three kids, but they went to a meditation course: learning to quiet their minds. 08:23
🙏 Vipassana meditation is the purest type of meditation Buddha used: one type is for quieting the mind and the second type is for purifying the mind. 10:32
☮️ “You can have it all just not at the same time”: her life and work got very complicated and meditation taught her that peace and equanimity are the base to return to. 14:03
🪷 Meditation brings the ups and downs in level to a steady line. 18:38
🤩 Getting back to the driver’s seat with meditation. 22:08
👩🏽‍💼 Meditation gave her the power to work and strategize in the long run and face the founder’s fatigue more easily: how to focus on your values. 23:59
🤓 Selling her company to Raymond James: decision-making through the lens of empathetic leadership. 27:40
👠 Burnout in the corporate world: why so many women are moving towards entrepreneurship. 30:42

Links

Connect with Sunaina: www.linkedin.com/in/sunainasinha

Vipassana Meditation www.vridhamma.org/What-is-Vipassana

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Harmonizing Leadership: Energy Healing in Corporate Worlds with Alycia Diggs-Chavis

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:02:24 -0500

Alycia Diggs-Chavis, is an energy healer, intuitive coach, and CEO of BlueViolet Energy Healing. She shares her journey from studying international business at Harvard to working in corporate leadership for over 20 years. After she experienced the issues of becoming an empty nester, she transitioned to entrepreneurship and working with people in a completely different way. Through self-discovery and working with a coach, Alicia found her new calling in energy healing and became a certified master energy healer. Alycia helps leaders reduce stress and find their core through custom energy work in corporate environments.

Corporate wellness is very important because as human beings we don’t leave our lives behind, but take it with us to work as well. That is why self-awareness, growth, and achieving the state of flow are crucial for all leaders and their success.

Women especially need to step outside their roles built for everyone else but themselves. Women just don't build the same type of relationships with themselves as with other people. That is why it is crucial to look inward and figure out who we really are, make ourselves centered, and walk with confidence. A need to take time to reconnect with ourselves is huge and results in peace, confidence in decision-making, and getting back to balance is mirroring directly to the business success.

Only when you're learning yourself - you're loving yourself, you're investing in yourself. When you are showing yourself to others - you're investing in others. Let’s heal ourselves and the whole world.

Show notes:
🎤 Alycia spoke at She Leads Conference: Adrienne’s experience with Alycia’s energy healing. 01:56
👩🏾‍🎓 Harvard and Business undergrad school: major shift and going to Mali, Africa as a part of the Peace Corps. 06:00
👩🏾‍💼 Corporate job and consulting leaders in Nationwide insurance: moving to support the federal government in Health and Human Services. 08:14
🧘🏾‍♀️ Leader development and issues with empty nester: working with a coach and figuring out who she is. 10:26
🌸 Becoming a master energy healer in a couple of years: letting her intuition flourish. 13:29
☯️ The gap between corporate and spiritual worlds: the power of custom sessions for leaders and energy work in offices for reducing stress. 17:44
😇 Alycia’s story about her Native American ancestry: she has her guide with her all the time. 24:17
🤓 Types of organizations Alycia is working with: work and private life are so combined and tangled. 27:07
🎯 Leaders today realize that success comes from knowing yourself first: awareness, growth, and showing people how to do it. 28:56

Links:

Check Alycia’s website: bluevioletenergy.com

Social media handles: linkedin.com/in/alyciadiggschavis
Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Leading with Impact: Strategies for People-Centric Success with Kim Carpenter

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:40:05 -0500

Competence builds confidence.

Kim Carpenter, CEO and Founder of People at the Center, is a high-performance leadership & executive coach, as well as a corporate trainer and speaker. Using researched-backed tools and proven practices, she and her team help organizations shape leaders who bring their teams together. Kim shares her journey from corporate to entrepreneurship and her vision for creating people-centric work environments. She discusses the challenges of transitioning to entrepreneurship and offers insights on finding speaking opportunities. Kim emphasizes the importance of communication and connectedness in changing corporate culture to be more human.

Takeaways

Transitioning from corporate to entrepreneurship requires self-reflection and a desire to make a bigger impact.
Speaking engagements can be an effective marketing strategy for entrepreneurs, and finding opportunities can be done through networking, online platforms, and intern assistance.
Creating people-centric work environments requires a focus on communication, connectedness, and building trust.
Identifying the need for change in corporate culture often comes from feedback, surveys, and a desire to improve workability.

Show notes:
🖇️ Kim is a natural connector. 03:09
🤓 From corporate to entrepreneurship and coaching: how we can create more people-centric work environments. 04:03
😇 Kim suffered from stage fright: but competence builds confidence. 07:40
🌞 Not playing small: Kim set out to change the face of work. 10:26
🏆 Overcoming fear of speaking: practices, help from her husband, and competence building. 11:53
😍 How to get speaking engagements: start with community, then networking and platforms. 15:04
🤔 Speaking for free vs paid speaking. 17:19
🥅 Companies are changing and running the world: how to put people at the center of the working culture. 21:33
🗣️ Communication is the heartbeat of all: understanding the neuroscience of communication. 27:13
🎯 Is the way we're working workable?: differences and benefits women bring to the workforce. 32:36

Links:

Website: www.peopleatthecenter.com

Connect with Kim: www.linkedin.com/in/kimcarpenter/

Instagram: @the.kim.carpenter

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Unraveling the E-Commerce Revolution in Women Entrepreneurship with Lesley Hensell

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:58:55 -0500

Gain your independence with an additional stream of revenue with e-commerce and Amazon FBA.

Lesley Hensell is a co-founder of Riverbend Consulting and has been an Amazon seller for almost a decade. Lesley shares her journey from a work-from-home mom to a successful entrepreneur. She has personally helped hundreds of third-party sellers on Amazon to get back on track and thrive with an additional stream of revenue.

Discover the game-changing power of platforms like Amazon and eBay, and the transformative impact of fulfilling family needs through entrepreneurship. When women have an extra dollar to spend, they pour it into their community - and that just makes the world a much better place.

Are you ready for your entrepreneurial journey? Let's thrive together!

Notes:
👉 All the myths about e-commerce businesses: (FBA) Fulfilled by Amazon boom. 03:34
🏡 Lesley has worked from home for the last 23 years: consulting and family Amazon business 05:48
👩‍💼 Riverbend Consulting has 85 employees: helping clients solve problems with e-commerce businesses and Amazon. 09:50
😍 Use Amazon for building additional income for families: Lesley’s experience with a sick son and semi-passive income from Amazon. 11:03
▶️ Starting on Amazon with retail arbitrage: tips and tricks for women on how it all works. 15:27
🎁 Customer complaints and how to deal with them: ship items like you are sending to your mom for her birthday. 21:36
🤓 Suspension from Amazon and writing appeals: Amazon is a complicated company with its set of rules. 25:15
😎 Lesley’s business partner: teaming up with their strengths and skills. 27:00
😇 How Riverbend consulting started: AB testing, and documenting everything that worked in her business. 28:54
🥅 The Philippines and Costa Rica are amazing resources for Amazon sellers: diversify your team and outsource overseas. 32:21
📘 Book with basics: Amazon Incubator: Grow Your Business or Hatch a New One. 36:56
🌞 Teach your kids to run a business. 38:56

IG: www.instagram.comcom/lesleyhensell
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleyhensell/
Website: www.riverbendconsulting.com
Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network:

Resources/Data Mentioned: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Ingredients For Empowering Women Businesses Entrepreneurship with Kami Guildner

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:28:46 -0500

Our time is our most valuable asset.

Kami Guildner is the founder of the Extraordinary Women Ignite Conference and host of the award-winning Extraordinary Women Radio™. She is the best-selling author of Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose and was named to the 2020 Twenty-Five Most Powerful Women in Business List by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce. Kami believes women’s voices matter and that women are natural connectors, knowing how to support each other and collaborate in a more personal level.

As women, our natural ability to build relationships changes how we do marketing. New women leaders build businesses differently now than they used to, honoring relationships and leaning into each other. This is our advantage as women, embodying our message and seeing how it in turn changes our lives. When we smartly build businesses, Kami shares, we simplify our business models and realize that time prosperity goes alongside wealth prosperity, allowing us to flourish.

We get to choose where we set boundaries, giving us the ingredients necessary for success!

Notes:
👠 Kami is dedicated to empowering women and just like She Leads, Kami thinks women's voices matter. 01:11
👩‍💼 After being laid off, Kami started her own business: coaching and soul work for women in corporate, and building a business and brands. 03:35
👉 Women used to build businesses looking at men, or they were choosing nonprofits. 05:38
🤩 New women leaders want to build businesses differently - a new way of doing marketing and honoring relationships. 07:21
4️⃣ Pillars of prosperity: the vision of your business, voice, visibility, and prosperity. 11:02
🤓 The importance of simplifying businesses and ignoring mind games. 14:57
🌞 Women have a natural inclination to lean into each other: getting back to their roots. 18:00
🔥 Female advantage: light and inner fire in all women - embody your message. 19:57
📈 A combination of soul, fire, and strategy will result in profitability. 22:13
💎 Importance of consistency, showing up, and being visible: setting boundaries and finding your vision. 22:59
🌸 Women are good at caring for others: find a balance to make time for ourselves. 25:53
👩‍💻 Kami's free webinars and masterminds: building trust and getting people to know you. 28:18

Links:

Connect with Kami: linkedin.com/in/kamiguildner

Website: kamiguildner.com

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network:

Resources/Data Mentioned: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Embracing Mental Health in Entrepreneurship in 2024: Olivia Verhulst's Guide to Wellness & Success

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:01:45 -0500

Now is the time to destigmatize mental health!

Olivia Verhulst, a licensed psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, wellness consultant, adjunct professor at NYU, and media contributor at Forbes Health Advisor delves into ways we can set ourselves up for mental wellness and success.

Leading with vulnerability and destigmatizing mental health as entrepreneurs and accomplished women are keys to successfully improving our lives as we head into 2024. As we do so, we begin conversations that people want to hear, helping ourselves and others no longer suffer in silence. Allowing ourselves to be aligned with our values and becoming aware of what drives us as well as permitting our identities to evolve will allow us to become who we are meant to be.

The outcome we are striving towards in 2024 is lasting change, improving our lives drastically!

💥 “If we don’t discuss mental health, the less inclined others will be to continue to suffer in silence.” 02:06
🌞 Let’s set ourselves for mental wellness and success in 2024. 03:29
⚡ Leading with vulnerability is the key: now is the time to destigmatize mental health. 04:55
🤩 Be aware of what drives you: aligning with our values is crucial. 07:15
🤓 Olivia’s secret formula: being herself all the time and speaking her language. 10:09
👩‍💼 Leading with our humaneness: Olivia’s visceral experience at She Leads Conference. 12:34
💎 I can be me and be successful: relief and hope that there is not just one way of doing things. 14:55
👧 Olivia always wanted to be a therapist: being a playground psychologist from second grade began her path to success. 17:35
😇 Permitting ourselves to allow our identities to evolve: we are all growing and changing with the years. 22:01
📌 Difficulty transitioning from one chapter to the next: identify your needs in the current season in life. 28:02
🤝 Corporate vs entrepreneurship: certainty and unchartered territories. 30:15
🤩 Trusting our resilience, adaptability, and our ability to learn: different ways to say ‘I don’t know’. 32:53

Links:

Insta: @theinnerwork_witholivia

Connect: linkedin.com/in/olivia-verhulst-34098b136

Website: theinnerworkwitholivia.com

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network:

Resources/Data Mentioned: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Visualize, Believe, and Achieve with Bridgette I. Smith

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:13:47 -0500

Empowerment begins when you embrace the unknown, overcome fears, and boldly pursue progress. Break the taboo about money, set clear goals, and say “yes” to new opportunities.

Together with Bridgette L. Smith, an award-winning talk show host, three-time CEO, and founder, we delve into the dynamic world of women’s entrepreneurship, the challenges of the corporate world, the dynamics of risk, and the transformative magic that happens when women lead startups. Her career shifted from journalism to a pioneering self-made investor who’s leveling the playing field in venture capital with investments in over 150 companies so far.

Bridgette is very focused on helping women, people of color, and LGBT founders work their way up.

You hold the transformative power: accept it, live it, and use it to drive you toward a future in which your spirit of entrepreneurship knows no limits. The possibilities are endless, and the time is now.

Show notes:
🙌 Bridgette is “the Oprah of Investing”, advisor, visionary, disruptor, author and supporter of women and the LGBT community. 04:22
✅ You learn as you go: Bridgette embraces the unknown without fear. 08:06
❗ Don’t be scared to say yes: it helped Bridgette transition from corporate to entrepreneurship. 10:29
💜 People don't want to answer questions and help, but Bridgette bootstrapped her way into the ecosystem for venture capital and now is a huge investor who teaches other women, people of color, and LGBT founders to invest. 17:26
📈 Bridgette now has three companies and two angel groups: one of the companies provides funding to women entrepreneurs so they grow their businesses. 24:10
💵 it’s never too late to invest: we need innovation to make the world a better place, and improve women’s health, with important products and services.30:10
👉 Stay hungry and try to understand the world around you, join professional organizations and groups, build relationships with people, and keep saving. 34:25
🍫 You can create a vision board from old magazines that will help you stay focused on your goals for the year: if you care, test the products before you invest. 39:32
🧡 Bridgette will do live product demonstrations for diverse female founders with their products. 44:03
✅ Everyone has a personal touch, so we’re not competing with one another: if you think about competition, you’re competing with yourself. 46:04

Links:

Connect with Bridgette: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bridgette-l-smith-%F0%9F%A6%8B-verified-page-5b902b92_from-tv-personality-to-tech-executive-to-activity-7141112956926300160-OzlI

Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network:

Resources/Data Mentioned: https://www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Shopify: https://bridgettelsmith.myshopify.com

A Year-Long Global Voyage of Self Realization, with Yuri Chu Su

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:44:37 -0500

We all yearn to run away from everyday life sometimes, and now, some people are actually doing it! Living the digital nomad life offers so much experience, broadness, and self-reflection.

In this illuminating episode, Yuri Chu Su unveils the transformative power of a 20-month trip through 23 countries, 90 different beds, and 80 flights – a voyage that led her to a reflective pause in Argentina.

Yuri shares insightful life lessons gleaned from her experiences traveling across continents, as well as her deeper inner journey.

Choosing destinations is not as significant as seizing the chance to engage in intense self-work, make new friends, experience other cultures, and look for life-changing experiences that mold the core of who you are.

The act of planning life journeys proves to be profoundly beneficial and inspirational. What does your upcoming year entail? It need not solely involve travel. Consider embarking on a journey for 2024 that resonates with your aspirations!

Notes:
🎒 Being on a 20-month-long journey around the world: life has its own plan for you, and it might not coincide with what you have in mind. 06:41
😃 The biggest push for Yuri to live a nomad life was Remote Year’s program named “Yuri” - her own name: it was a gut decision to commit to a year-long journey. 08:11
💚 Nomad life shows you your resilience and adaptability, and it helps you find your boundaries and embrace JOMO (the joy of missing out): Adrienne noticed Yuri opened up what was already in her and gained confidence during the travel. 12:54
💟 Real travelers immerse themselves in the new culture with curiosity and open minds. 18:12
⚠️ Triggers that appear on the journey: Yuri had issues with jealousy and self-compassion and had to work on that. 20:49
💭 All of us are programmed in a very specific way, and our reptile brain tends to take over to protect us from pain: what we focus on grows, so choose helpful thoughts. 23:49
🛣️ Travel can be such a fast track to healing, looking at all your shit, and facing your demons: it’s almost like a mirror that reflects back to you. 27:03
🇨🇴 Yuri’s favorite country was Colombia: she shared her emotional impressions. 29:00
🩵 You can’t control some things when traveling: be thankful for the highest outcome that has already happened because everything happens for a reason. 32:42
🤗 Being human is hard: we need the luxury of slowing down and feeling good. 35:33
👫 Yuri found a best friend and a great group of friends from the program: you’re not going to vibe with everybody you meet, and that’s totally okay. 39:40
✅ Navigating hard emotions is part of life that’s more intense when traveling. 47:31
🔬 A 20-month nomad travel was like putting herself in a microscope for Yuri. 51:34
❣️ The best things in life come outside your comfort zone. 54:42
🌸 You will be your longest relationship: be kind and love yourself first. 56:42

Links:
Connect with Yuri on Instagram: @yurichusu
Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com
Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Breaking Stereotypes with Carole Montgomery

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:51:29 -0500

“Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose — to make people laugh,” said W. C. Fields. Also, comedy has a tremendous effect on our lives. It improves our social life, boosts brain activity, reduces stress, improves physical health, and makes us more attractive. Enter our esteemed guest for this episode, Carole Montgomery!

With a long and varied career and over two dozen television credits to her name, Carole Montgomery is a respected veteran of the standup comedy scene nationwide.

Beyond television appearances, Carole has headlined clubs and colleges across the USA and starred in two prominent Las Vegas production shows, and captivated more than five million audience members during her decade as a Las Vegas luminary. She is the creative force behind and stars in three Showtime specials for Funny Women Of A Certain Age.

This episode will inspire you to be a pit bull for your goals and possibly get Carole to keynote at your event! If you don't produce events, like we do here at She Leads Media, you’ll for sure get the urge to enjoy some comedy asap. Enjoy!

Show notes:
👭 Carol is a respected veteran of stand-up comedy, and she talks about the misconceptions in women’s comedy circles. 02:41
🤒 Juggling work and illness: performing 13 weekly shows in Las Vegas. 04:09
🩵 Blame Carole’s comedian career on her father: in 1979, comedy didn’t seem like a legitimate job. 06:38
🎤 Navigating the comedy circuit: when you’re a new comic, it's tough to get to the stage. 08:52
🌟 Vegas stardom at any age: Carole’s ten-year reign and selling her show at 59. 14:34
✅ Persistence pays off: earning the nickname "Pitbull” from her mother-in-law and clinging onto opportunities, showcasing that refusing isn’t inherently negative. 18:50
👉 Always ask, be persistent, and at least you’ll get an answer. 20:50
🎓 Carole and Adrienne shared examples of rejection: we can’t walk around constantly feeling rejected, just move on with your life. 24:10
💕 Inclusive comedy: supporting amazing undiscovered women's talents in the stand-up scene. 29:04
❣️ Leaving a meaningful legacy: “If I left the world tomorrow, my son could say his mom did something really important” is Carole’s inspiration. 33:33
📢 We all live so much in the present and future that we forget what we’ve done in the past: Adrienne inspired Carole to do a TED Talk, and if you want her to give a speech at your event, contact her! 38:16

Links:

Connect with Carole: https://carolemontgomery.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Resources/Data Mentioned:

https://www.funnywomenofacertainage.com

@carolemontgomerycomic

Robin Fisher - Style as a Canvas for Authenticity

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 09:00:36 -0500

Style isn’t just about clothes. It’s a canvas reflecting our authenticity, adapting to life’s changes, and crafting confidence in our journey of self-expression and success.

The personal narrative of Robin Fisher, an influential figure in the realm of image consultancy and style strategy, underscores the importance of embracing individual taste and navigating life transitions, especially in the wake of the global pandemic. The advice is curating a wardrobe that harmonizes with current lifestyles.

But it doesn’t stop there! Robin’s wisdom extends beyond personal transformation. If you’re ready for a positive energy boost and lots of freebies on personal branding, this episode is for you.

Notes:
💄 Robin is an image consultant and style strategist, named as one of the top fashion professionals in Washington DC by Capitol File Magazine: the pandemic has significantly influenced our dressing habits. 02:59
👩‍💼 Dress in a way that makes you feel confident and looks appropriate for your environment: confidence comes from showing up as a high-functioning professional woman. 04:59
🪡 Robin has a beautiful family background in sewing and clothing: how people treat you is directly connected to how you present yourself. 07:48
❤️‍🔥 Robin’s burning desire to succeed, and her resilience, were instrumental in her path to success. 18:28
🎨 Cultivate a personal taste, ensuring your polished identity reflects your age: the colors we wear should change with our age. 21:04
🦶 After two years of walking around with no shoes on, our feet changed: you can wear comfortable shoes without people realizing it. 27:48
❣️ We represent ourselves, even unintentionally: personal branding is what it's all about – we're the CEOs of our own lives, and we can dictate how things will go. 29:40
🌎 First impressions take only five to seven seconds to form: if we take that into our control, the world is the limit. 33:19
👉 Robin is launching a five-day clarity challenge to aid women struggling to define their personal branding. 35:00
💌 Subscribe to Robin’s mailing list for guidance on elevating your image. 36:47

Links:

Connect with Robin: https://polishedimageandstyle.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Resources/Data Mentioned:

The Quiz: https://getyourstyleback.polishedimageandstyle.com

From Corporate Professional to E-commerce Guru: Dylan Jahraus' Inspiring Path to Etsy Success

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:00:00 -0500

During the Covid-19 pandemic, e-commerce boosted. Some shops last to this day, and others just exist without any revenue. What makes the difference?

In this episode, Dylan Jahraus shares her journey from a successful corporate woman to founding the Multi-Six Figure Etsy Blueprint, coaching, and podcasting. What would make a 26-year-old woman make such a shift? Love, of course!

If you’re interested in e-commerce, you must check out this woman who went from 1 to 25 employees in 9 months and helped 1,700 people open e-shops in the past year. Tune into this episode to learn about online business growth, and check out a bunch of free resources Dylan has for you!

Notes:
💞 Dylan showcases the resilience of women challenging norms: transitioning from corporate life to founding the Multi-Six Figure Etsy Blueprint as a military wife. 02:24
💳 About 1,700 people opened Etsy shops last year with Dylan’s help: it’s never too late to start your Etsy venture! 06:14
🔵 Dylan’s coaching business stemmed from her e-commerce expertise and health challenges: creating a platform for educating through podcasts, and offering advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. 08:49
✅ If you’re not creative, you can do wholesale or reselling: Dylan shares her business approaches on Etsy, Amazon, and Shopify. 12:29
👰‍♀️ Etsy’s marketplace thrives on creativity, and it’s trendy for wedding ideas. 15:31
🟣 Dylan’s journey from a solo entrepreneur to leading a team of 25: highlighting the critical role of team dynamics for business growth. 18:28
💸 Financial prudence: Dylan discusses the importance of scalable pricing strategies and reinventing revenue for business sustainability and growth. 20:30
📈 The challenges of being a CEO and striving for exponential company growth: decisive leadership and a forward-thinking mindset. 23:19
❣️ Collaborative leadership: a team-driven strategy that values collective input over solo decisions, understanding that it’s the team that drives the business to 10x success. 26:26

Links:

Connect with Dylan: https://dylanjahraus.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Resources/Data Mentioned:

16 Daily Actions to Blow Your Listings Up: https://dylanjahraus.mykajabi.com/opt-in-7cbce5a9-e57e-4967-a4c3-6c85f523eaac

The podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/69lRRNA74Xc9iahdGKarTJ

YouTube: @dylanjahraus

Christina Smallwood - Every Woman Has A Story To Tell

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0500

Every woman has a story to tell. And every one of us can make an impact. Do you have a drive to share your story? Just start! Start that podcast and connect with people! Today's guest is Christina Smallwood - an adoptive mom of three - twin toddlers and her oldest daughter who has special needs. Christina’s background is in the beauty industry, but has used social media to grow multimillion-dollar home-based business. It's Christina's mission to spread the message that you can take serious charge of your life without taking life too seriously. Listen to this episode to fuel up with joy, inspiration, and motivation to speak your truth.

Notes
🥰 Inside who we are is the key that helps us unlock everything around us, and the better you know yourself, the more you become your own best guide: overanalyzing is our biggest hindrance as women. 03:40
✅ Deep down, we all know what is the next step in our business: action is the best step forward! 06:44
🃏 Christina's infertility and a child with special needs helped her stop being an overachiever: don't get stuck in grief because you got a new set of cards - just play them! 08:34
💎 Pre-mum Christina had a pedigree to her hairstylist career with her girlfriend, and she walked away peacefully from that business without asking for a percentage: the value doesn't always come in the form of money. 14:19
📢 Christina's platform is a free, valuable space for people to come, and the audience is mostly women 20 to 40 years old: everybody should have a podcast and make an impact because we all have a story to tell and the potential to change at least one person's life. 19:35
🎙️ More women should share the things they are accomplishing: if you have a story to share, start, and you will attract the right people. 24:59
❣️ Your story can be molded and shaped on the go, and you will uncover it, but don't forget to manage your expectations: discipline your disappointments, and you'll grow. 28:39

Links:

Connect with Christina: @christinaasmallwood

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Resources/Data Mentioned: https://christinaasmallwood.campsite.bio

You Can Retrain Your Brain, with ST Rappaport of LifePix University

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:27:03 -0500

Being aware of your mental strengths and weaknesses is paramount for success. ST Rappaport is the founder of LifePix University where she works as a brain engineer, helping rewire the brains of entrepreneurs and enabling them to accomplish their goals. There are 28 critical thinking skills that every one of us may excel at or have a weakness in, and this determines how our brain operates. Knowing your weaknesses is crucial because it allows you to exercise and improve the skills you are lacking in, or to work with other people who excel in areas that you don't. When you take the time to train your cognitive functioning and learn to utilize a new skill, or work with other people who have them, you begin to see the path to your goals with a new lens, which may be the key to unlocking growth and success in your business. Give yourself permission to ask for help, surround yourself with people who think about things differently, and take the steps you need to enhance your mind!

🧠 ST Rappaport is the founder of LifePix University, a podcast host, and a brain engineer who works with ADHD entrepreneurs: brain engineers helped ST learn to read and improved her life in many ways. 03:13
🏰 An ADHD brain works differently: ST learned a thinking skill called categorization and saved 10 hours every single week. 05:23
✅ There's no such thing as being perfect at a thinking skill - they can always be improved: the thinking skill of clear perception is how we take in information in a clear and organized way, and you can practice it with this brain exercise. 10:59
🤔 You don't have to have ADHD, just a wish to understand how your brain is thinking and a desire to improve it: when you have a big goal, ask yourself what will make it possible. 15:53
❣️ All the questions you're asking yourself and all the answers you're giving yourself are based on 28 strong/weak thinking skills: if you feel like there is something wrong with your brain, it could simply mean that there's a skill your brain hasn't learned yet. 20:33
🔵 You want people who are just one or two steps ahead of you to give you advice so the info is fresh and tangible. 23:07
🪻 ST works with groups, but everyone is split out into solo breakout rooms to do their exercises: There are many different paths to success, and ST created her own. 26:34

Links:

You can still get your ticket to attend She Leads LIVE 2023 TODAY at https://www.sheleadsmedia.com/conference-2023

Connect with ST: www.lifepixuniversity.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Resources/Data Mentioned:

Free Assessment: www.lifepixuniversity.com/cognitive-functions-assessment--81bee

How To Master Your Emotions for Business & Personal Success with Dr. Gurpreet Kaur

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 07:00:00 -0500

Emotional mastery is essential for steadiness and consistency in leadership and business. Dr. Gurpreet Kaur is a licensed professional counselor and the founder of Living Excellence Today, and shares her insight on emotional resiliency and wellness. We all use our right brains to tap into a force that drives our inspiration, motivation, intuition, and creativity, but it takes a level of preparation to receive this. Self-awareness is the key to finding the balance between the left and right brain and managing the mastery between emotional and rational decision-making. Once you have developed your emotional mastery toolkit, the communication and leadership skills required to be a successful entrepreneur are at your fingertips. Invest in the understanding of your feelings and emotions and break through your ceiling to greater success and prosperity!

Notes:
😍 Dr. Gurpreet is a licensed professional counselor, executive coach, and speaker: quantum mechanics is a bridge between spirituality and science that shows us we are a source of energy that has its own intelligence, and our core is goodness. 03:03
⚛️ The nucleus of the sub-sub-particle is empty energy, and when you play with them, you see how they are connected through energy: we drive our creativity, inspiration, and motivation from a collective consciousness that resembles those particles. 11:49
🧠 Integration of the two brain hemispheres gives you the platform to be your best in this world: the answers come from the right brain, but you prepare yourself to receive the answers with your left brain. 21:25
❤️‍🩹 Women are allowed to experience emotions a lot more, and that can get in the way: women struggle with self-worth far more than men. 27:54
💎 As a woman, when you are able to manage your emotions, you understand who you are, and it makes leading others easier: emotional mastery is the key to consistency and steadiness in business. 33:31
🤩 Hear more from Dr. Gurpreet Kaur as she takes the stage at She Leads LIVE 2023 on December 1st in NYC. 🎟️ Get your ticket 🎟️ to attend She Leads LIVE 2023 TODAY at https://www.sheleadsmedia.com/conference-2023

Links:
🎟️ Get your ticket 🎟️ to attend She Leads LIVE 2023 TODAY at https://www.sheleadsmedia.com/conference-2023

Connect with Dr. Gurpreet: www.linkedin.com/in/drgurpreetkaur

Living Excellence Today: livingexcellencetoday.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Join Me at She Leads LIVE 2023 In NYC! Solo Episode with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 05:11:04 -0500

Attending She Leads LIVE 2023 is one of the best things you can do for your business. This year's conference theme is all about visibility, and it will bring together successful and powerful women entrepreneurs from a variety of industries to speak about how to get visibility and leverage it for your business. The event will be packed with opportunities for business and personal growth, networking, and amazing content and insights from successful women leaders. Don't miss the opportunity to create a magical moment that could change the trajectory of your business! Come join us at the Triangle Loft in New York City on Friday, December 1st!

⭐ Adrienne shares how She Leads Media, conferences, and this podcast developed ten years ago: choice is power, and you need to know your choices when starting a business. 01:20
❣️ A new She Leads LIVE conference will be held at Triangle Loft in New York City on Dec 1st: everything in this community is about helping women take care of themselves and make the money that we need for ourselves, our families, and our communities to thrive. 05:32
😍 This year's theme is all about how to get and leverage visibility: the VIP evening will be hosted by the celebrity interior designer Cheryl Eisen at a multimillion-dollar property in Tribeca. 08:02
💎 Betty Hines, the CEO and founder of Women Elevating Women, will be a keynote speaker: this is a rare opportunity to get in front of actual journalists from the BBC, Black Enterprise magazine, Marie Claire, Forbes, and Shape. 12:36
😹 After an amazing program that includes panels about mental and physical wellness, sales, and purpose-driven content creation, the closing keynote will be the hysterical Carole Montgomery. 14:15
🔴 This event is an opportunity to invest in yourself and your business relationships: Adrienne shares three examples of great outcomes women had at her conferences. 15:16
👉 Be in the room and put yourself in the opportunity zone: the opportunities are numerous, but it's also what you make of those opportunities. 19:50
👩‍💼 Adrienne Garland is a producer of She Leads LIVE, and Tori Barker from Creative Visionaries is a co-producer. 20:51
💠 "I promise that you will take away something tangible that can help you to grow your business in 2024!" says Adrienne. 23:10

Links:

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Get Your Tickets NOW to the She Leads LIVE Conference on December 1st: www.sheleadsmedia.com/conference-2023

Empower, Connect, Transform: Building Communities for Change with Deb Schell

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:01:00 -0500

Community is the cornerstone of empowerment. It’s where connections flourish and transformation takes root.

Deb Schell, a global entrepreneur with over 60 businesses under her guidance, shares invaluable insights on online community building. From discovery to strategy and implementation, she simplifies user and backend experiences. In this enlightening episode, she offers her expert hacks from her book “The Creation to Community Builder”. Communities are a big part of our lives, but often lack intentional engagement. Maintaining relationships can be tough even in private life, and social media are more distractions than help. Online communities are great for building consistency, habits, and support for a business. Do you see yourself as a Community Builder?

If you are intrigued by community building and want to dive deeper into this topic, connect with Deb for an insightful conversation.

Notes:
⭐ Deb assisted over 60 entrepreneurs in building and growing their online communities through podcasting and consulting. 01:35
✅ Community builders must place a high priority on establishing psychological safety and purposeful connections among members in order to cultivate meaningful relationships. 09:32
🤝 Having a breakout room to mingle with a few people is a great way to make people feel at ease: retreats are also fantastic for online communities. 12:22
❣️ Community doesn’t solve every problem: to build a community, you have to work on connections rather than content and comprehend real people, not just their personas. 19:19
👉 Community is about consistency and habits: we can continue to forge deeper relationships in this way instead of expanding widely, as we do on social media. 25:16
🔵 The goal of the community is to connect people around a particular topic and solve a specific problem: priority is the value, not content frequency. 27:16
💵 Community is also a beneficial addition to the business: hiring community managers and making investments in communities. 30:41
❗ The frameworks that worked for six and seven-figure people don’t work for everybody: technology doesn’t matter if you don’t have people. 36:35
💌 Dab is open to chat: for any questions, email her. 38:48

Links:

Connect with Deb: @debschell

Website: https://findcalmhere.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Resources/Data Mentioned:

Deb’s book “Creator to Community Builder”: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJB87Q2C?

The Power of Creating the Right Content for Your Business with Reema Dutt & Sania Jhankar of Luminoustudios NYC

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:34:14 -0400

Things will always keep evolving, you just have to figure out what and who you are investing in.

Co-founders of Luminoustudios in New York City, Reema Dutt and Sania Jhankar share how they became business partners as well as friends. They believe that you have to have a strategy for investing in content; if you are starting a podcast you don’t need expensive lights or cameras, but you cannot skimp on ensuring you have good audio.

Life is far bigger than the work you do, a good work-life balance will ensure your focus is optimized. Once you have figured out your audience and solidified your strategy, do not forget to keep evolving and learning!

Notes:
🎦 Reema & Sania are co-founders of Luminoustudios in New York City: they are two ambitious friends who met at NYU and started a business in video art. 02:17
🧠 Good friends don't necessarily mean good partners: you need to have similar outlooks as well as emotions. 05:42
🤳 Social platforms don't really encourage cinematic content creation since the audience is wants authentic content that feels like it's created by the influencer in their backyard; Luminous Studios focuses on all-things video. 07:57
✅ When you invest in creating content, make sure you have a strategy; 6 tips for creating video on your own. 11:15
😅 It's funny how the Cobblers kids have holes in their shoes: after 10 years in marketing and video production, the studio decided to make a video about themselves. 14:10
💲 Choose the things you want to do and delegate the rest, but make the difference between what is nice to have vs. where the money comes from and what is an absolute must, to keep the business flowing. 18:05
📞 Life is far bigger than the work you do, and business owners often neglect that: how a 6-hour or shorter workday keeps productivity at its peak. 24:33
👉 If your consumer is also your buyer, don't wait to be completely ready: start doing it, post frequently, and you can fix it later. 29:54
❤️ Everything evolves: choose your niche and keep learning and evolving! 31:11

Links:

Connect with Reema & Sania: https://luminoustudios.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Resources/Data Mentioned:

Become the Best Video Version of Yourself with Free & Easy Tips: https://luminoustudios.com/become-the-best-video-version-of-yourself-with-free-easy-tips

Taking Action To Overcome “Climate Emotions” Effects on Our Mental Well-Being with Sarah Newman

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Taking action is an excellent way to counter the negative mental health impact of the climate crisis. Sarah Newman is the founder and executive director of the Climate Mental Health Network, where she helps to address the mental health consequences of climate change. We are all stuck living in a system that contributes to the climate crisis, but there are ways we can engage with it that can help support positive change. Sharing stories is a critical strategy that can help connect people, spread the message, and spark change in the overarching systems that are impacting the climate. There are many other roles and opportunities available that we can seek out to become a catalyst for change, and if we work together intergenerationally, we can chip away at the systems that are responsible for the environmental issues we are facing. If your mental health is suffering due to the climate crisis, get involved, and let the hope for a better future motivate you!

🌎 Sarah is the executive director of The Climate Mental Health Network, founded in 2021: we can engage in the climate crisis in a nourishing, and not overwhelming way. 02:49
🎞️ The movie An Inconvenient Truth had an incredible impact on Sarah: critical stories can shape and influence conversations and spark change at the individual and system levels. 10:04
🔄 It takes all of us to chip away in order to change the system: it's not about everyone needing to be out in the street like Greta Thunberg - there are so many different models and ways to engage. 13:22
✅ Having many different perspectives and voices together gives more strength and wisdom: young people don't like isolation when dealing with climate emotions. 16:40
👶 There's a range of ways people experience the mental health impacts caused by climate and data clearly shows the negative ones: Americans believe in climate change, but there are still the bully voices. 19:24
🥰 If you feel a sense of powerlessness or hopelessness because of the climate crisis, one of the most important buffers is taking action and self-care. 24:36
❤️ You can't lose hope!: if you don't have hope, what's motivating you? 29:52

Links:

Connect with Sarah: climatementalhealth.net

Social Media: www.instagram.com/climatementalhealth

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Resources/Data Mentioned:

Co-Generate Research: https://cogenerate.org/research/cogeneration

An Inconvenient Truth Documentary: www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Truth-Al-Gore/dp/B000KZ3BWE

Erica Carrico - Align With Your Purpose And Thrive

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:32:47 -0400

It's time to start following a new path and doing what you love and what you are good at before you burn out. Erica Carrico is an award-winning money and marketing coach who helps women transform their businesses to 6 and 7 figures so they can live their soul purpose. So many of us get stuck in the paradigm of slaving away in a career we don't really care about until we hit a devastating midlife wake-up call and finally get the spark we need to chase our true desires. Instead of treating our passions like side hobbies, we need to let go of our fears, reach out for help and fully pursue the careers of our dreams. External marketing, local publications and reaching out to mentors will set us on a trajectory to earning a living in a career that aligns with our ambitions. Burn all the bridges behind you and jump into your soul purpose!

Notes:
⭐ Erica is a money and marketing coach who has been in over 50 publications, including Forbes, The New York Times, and Yahoo Finance & she was the International Coach of the Year in 2020: kidney cancer was a point of change in her life and career. 02:40
🏫 The perfect business is what you're naturally good at combined with what you really love to do: we need to teach this to kids. 07:45
🤝 Treat your business like a business from the start, not like a hobby: Erica asked for help and hired people to do things. 12:47
⌛ Getting a mentor and not hiding behind the screen will help you not to waste years. 15:59
📺 Social media builds relationships with your existing followers, and that's internal marketing: external marketing is necessary for finding new customers, and Erica shares how she uses it. 18:51
🗞️ Local publications can get more business than bigger ones: fear and imposter syndrome block women the most. 23:11
💺 Fear will always be there: let it sit in the passenger's, not the driver's seat. 27:56
🤑 Erica has a program call Soul Business Accelerator for entrepreneurs that helps them get to six-figure business. 30:41

Links:

Connect with Erica: https://ericacarrico.com

Accelerator: https://go.ericacarrico.com/soul-business-accelerator43575332

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Unlocking Your Authentic Voice: Expert Tips from Jessica Doyle Mekkes

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:31:01 -0400

Your voice is a powerful tool that you can leverage for success. Jessica Doyle Mekkes is a renowned vocal coach who helps women find their powerful, authentic voices. Whether you are a public speaker, leading a meeting, or just want to be able to speak up confidently in a personal or professional setting, there are many ways we can learn to exercise and use our voice more effectively. Manage your stress with breath work and role-playing, and consider that even your clothing choices can have an impact on your ability to deliver a powerful message. Most sound equipment is designed for men, so advocate for yourself, be mindful of the equipment you will be using, and make sure that it is equalized and positioned for your needs. We are not spending enough time thinking about how our voices sound, but when we use them properly, they can (and will!) command the room!

Notes:
👄 Jessica is a vocal coach and the Head of Musical Theatre at East Carolina University, where she teaches voice and vocal pedagogy: the sound of power and authority are stereotypically associated with older white males. 03:21
🤐 We usually don't think about our voices until we need them, and they're not there. 06:48
🫁 If your voice is a car, your breath is the gas: the nerve endings that activate the fight or flight are at the top of the lungs, and the rest or digest ones are at the bottom. 09:47
⏺️ What you sound like in your head is different from what your audience hears: practice speaking through role play and recording yourself. 14:28
👠 The path is very circuitous: fail spectacularly while finding your direction. 18:16
👉 If you're privileged, acknowledge that you're coming from that place, but don’t brush off your hard work and achievements as luck. 21:34
🥤 A regular drinking straw can help you warm up your voice: steam is as good for the voice as the sauna for the body. 24:18
📗 Jessica is publishing "a bible for women on speaking up without trepidation": it's about physical and inner voice, and you can pre-order it right now! 29:34
🌬️ In her work, Jessica fights “Impost-Her” syndrome and shares tools that build brain pathways and help your vocal muscles. 34:26

Links:

Connect with Jessica: www.jessicadoylemekkes.com

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor: https://amzn.to/3YV0Eln

Fuck Being Humble by Stefanie Sword-Williams: https://amzn.to/45PfSec

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

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Unlocking Business Success: The Power of Self-Transformation with Mrs. Bob Gallagher

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:53:08 -0400

If your business is not doing well, it's because you are not doing well. Mrs. Bob Gallagher is the Founder and CEO of Mahalo Massage NYC where she uses Intuitive Massage to help her clients get more in touch with their body and mind. Many of us view a struggling business as a reflection of how successful we are as people, without realizing that this mindset is the real problem. We sacrifice ourselves with our work, and we worry about what others think because societal conditioning has convinced us that we need validation, so we must realize this and choose a new way forward. So much of the anxiety, tension and negativity in our lives is caused by us being stuck in these perspectives and choices that are holding us back, and living in that state creates a negative environment that hinders both our health and our business. Real success starts with recognizing that you have the choice to find and create the solutions you need to create positive change!

Notes
💆‍♀️ Bob's interest in meditation, body movement/mechanics, and many years of receiving bodywork inform her work as a massage therapist: promoting self-healing of the mind and body. 02:55
❗ Society has conditioned us to believe that we need to follow a certain path: it's a choice to make things happen because you attract what you reflect. 05:27
🎁 If you want things to change in a big way, you have to reach out and make a big choice: treat the negative like a gift. 10:20
❄️ We have been able to survive because of our relationships with each other, so why not call upon a friend or a therapist?: We are unique snowflakes. 18:45
🪞 I can see you if I can recognize where I am: you can't take care of anyone until you take care of yourself. 21:53
✅ What I do is not life or death because my primary goal is to live my life: if I sacrifice myself for my business, I create a dynamic of need and resentment. 24:52
⁉️ Business is a reflection of me: I kind of know what I'm doing, but I also have the humility to recognize that every situation is unique. 29:40
👌 We don't have accessory organs because our design is perfect: art is a practice of observation that opens the mind. 33:01
🪷 When you recognize that you have a choice, the possibilities are endless: one experience feeds the next one, so recognize everything you have done thus far and hang out in the present. 36:13

Links:

Connect with Bob: www.mahalomassagenyc.com

Instagram with Spotify: @bobofmahalomassagenyc

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Introducing SheCast Collective Community for Women Podcasters, with Tori Barker

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Podcasts are the best platform for growing your business and elevating your thought leadership. Tori Barker is a digital marketing specialist, an evangelist for women thought leaders, and will be joining Adrienne in hosting a new, membership-based podcast called SheCast Collective. This podcast will be an exclusive community for like-minded, entrepreneurial women seeking masterclass-level support and networking with other successful women podcasters. We aim to unite women thought leaders and deliver exceptional value in the form of high-value information and strategies from passionate female podcasters. This community can be your gateway to a thriving B2B network, filled with diverse perspectives and networking opportunities with other women entrepreneurs and leaders in the podcasting industry. Join our tribe and learn how to elevate your business, your marketing, and your network, by leveraging your podcast like the experts.

Notes
🎙️ Adrienne & Tori founded SheCast Collective to help women podcasters who are serious about podcasting and using it to help grow their business. 01:21
❣️ Use the content from your podcast for marketing and material for your business, email marketing campaigns, blogs and articles. 08:32
✅ SheCast Collective wants to make sure that when we are communicating with you, it is high-value information that's useful, and helps you drive your business and engagement forward: we'll bring in guests who can talk on specific topics that we all may need to learn from. 13:07
🥳 Everybody who joins in the next couple of weeks will be a founding member of SheCast Collective: this is not just some online group, but a master class, a place to network, and a lot of fun. 15:40
💟 SheCast Collective is incorporated into the She Leads Media live events: in-person connections will take it to the next level. 22:27

Links:

SheCast Collective: https://shecastcollective.com

Connect with Tori: Tori's LinkedIn

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Build Communities & Tell Stories That Ignite Change with Erin Prather Stafford

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:00:23 -0400

Education and support are crucial for helping more young women access and explore a future in the arts. Erin Prather Stafford is the Founder of Girls That Create, where she provides resources that help to empower women of all ages to think creatively and pursue their creative passions. Women creators are greatly underrepresented in the media, and because of this, we are seeing a lack of inspiring and motivational messages for today's young women. To start tipping the scales, we need to start having conversations with young women as early as possible, and educate them about the resources they need to pursue their creative interests. While respecting the boundaries of our time and value, we need to be more adamant about sponsoring and mentoring the women we believe in so they can chase the creative life of their dreams. Help support woman creatives by engaging with their work!

Notes
👧 Erin loves to build communities and tell stories that ignite change: she created a site that provides resources to help parents and caregivers of creative girls. 02:26
💲 Girls That Create helps parents talk with kids about substance abuse and financial skill sets and support them in their creative career choices: just because you're creative doesn't mean you'll be a starving artist. 09:07
👩‍🎨 Your biggest gift is time: study arts if you love it, but don't forget to take internships and jobs while pursuing the degree. 13:56
📣 One of Girls That Create’s most popular posts is about helping girls use their voice: take the Wonder Woman power pose before you act. 16:26
🤝 Mentorship and sponsorship are not the same thing, but both help people you believe in: if you're willing to go out and be vulnerable, many people will want to help you. 19:35
📚 When people ask for favors, you should have some resources available but also have boundaries and charging rates. 24:44
💜 The easiest, most simple way to support women creatives is to go see their work. 29:38

Links:

Connect with Erin: girlsthatcreate.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/girls_that_create

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

How To Monetize Your Podcast and Build Authority with Danielle Desir Corbett

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:03:36 -0400

Podcasting can be an intimate and lucrative platform that strengthens your business if you do it right. Danielle Desir Corbett is a podcast marketing coach who helps podcasters build authority, shows them how to monetize their podcasts and top the podcasting charts. To make the most of your podcasts, ensure that you narrow the focus of your topics and talk about subjects that can support and enhance your business. Monetization is an important aspect of podcasting, so ask for listener engagement, and seek out sponsorships from brands that align with your goals. Planning your future episodes is important, but so is maintaining and polishing your rich archive, and leveraging other platforms to share your content. Have patience while you build momentum and keep churning out your passionate content to grow your audience!

🎙️ Danielle is a podcast marketing coach: she helps to build authority and monetize podcasts through sponsorship and has her own podcast. 02:21
🌟 Danielle creates the same content distributed in a different format for a different type of interaction with her audience of financially savvy travelers. 05:27
❗ Podcasts and blogs are very different mediums, and those audiences look for different things: engagement is with a podcast and a blog together. 08:46
📊 Podcasts are trackable: goals for your podcast and business vision decide which metrics you should track. 13:33
💎 Every guest interview is an opportunity to open another door to another audience: the riches are in the archives - think about the totality of all the episodes you have. 17:45
📋 When you're starting a podcast, focus on 3-4 content pillars, prepare, have goals, and have 3 ways to make money in every episode. 20:18
💲 If you feel like you have some work to do on your podcast, start with polishing up your archives: to obtain sponsorship, you need to know who you are, and who your audience is. 24:17
🪻 If you're a guest on someone's show, be intentional and mention your products: leverage other people's audiences by giving a freebie. 32:37

Links:

Connect with Danielle: https://danielledesir.com

Freebie: Podcast Media Kit

Audio training: Stand Out & Secure Lucrative Podcast Sponsorships

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Miranda VonFricken - Find The Right Environment For Your Voice

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:30:00 -0400

Finding the right platform for your voice is essential for the success of your brand and business. Miranda VonFricken is a LinkedIn trainer who helps her clients create a powerful presence on LinkedIn and elevate their brand and business with the power of their true voice. Before choosing the right space for your voice, you must gain the confidence and freedom to clarify your message and embrace and embody who you truly are. Don't waste your time in a space that doesn't fit your energy, find the visibility you deserve with a platform that doesn't require you to filter yourself. Once you have a home for your voice, let go of your fears, and allow it to attract the clients that resonate with your unique energy. Your voice is your biggest gift, so use it to speak your truth and be a catalyst for your success!

Show notes:
✨ Miranda is the sparkliest LinkedIn trainer ever, and a female executive coach. 02:01
✅ You have to be seen to be paid: you need the right environment, clarity, and confidence to be who you are at work. 05:35
🧡 Miranda's specialty is visibility, LinkedIn, and personal branding: after being laid off from corporate, Miranda found the confidence to become her true self. 14:00
⚡ To get visibility and have an impact, you have to get your energy in check first. 17:56
💚 Miranda does motivational, inspirational, and educational posts, but her energy is always the same: put energy out and speak to those who need you, and those who don't can unfollow and move on. 22:17
🕴️ Once we start to speak our truth, other people will flock to us because it's their truth: when women own who they are, the definition of professional will change. 26:42
🏠 Where you're not censored and don't have to filter yourself: a podcast is your home that you can invite people into and really show them who you are - the right people for you will come to your next thing. 33:41
📣 A podcast connects on a deeper level than a copy: voice is our biggest gift - speak your truth to make an impact. 38:00
💛 It's not too late to start at 50: the best form of investment, besides financial investment, is investing in yourself in order to help yourself grow and expand. 43:33

Links:

Connect with Miranda: https://mirandavonfricken.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Kathrin Folkendt’s 'Be The Sponge, Not The Expert' Approach to Crushing Perfectionism and Igniting Business Success

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0400

When launching a service, not getting caught up in perfectionism is vital for success. Kathrin Folkendt is the CEO of Femtech Insider, where she is a leader and advocate in the women's health space. When you are first starting up any business, it is so common to let yourself get in your own way, so you need to overcome that drive for perfectionism and allow yourself to not be the expert. Once you have an idea for your service in place, launch fast, find your allies, and ignore the pessimists. Building your audience is crucial, and you must allow your audience to be your teachers, and reach out to them to get constant feedback so you can continue to improve your product. Don't succumb to imposter syndrome, just follow your vision, trust your gut, and learn as you go!

Notes:
👩 Kathrin is the CEO of Femtech Insider - an online publication about women's health and technology: she stumbled into this space when she was diagnosed with PCOS in her 30s. 01:56
📧 Femtech Insider started is a newsletter for the investment community and women's health startups - they speak to anyone interested in making a difference for women on a global level: we're in this together, driven by our joint mission to bring change to women's health. 06:20
🤝 Femtech Insider is now a traditional media company with advertising, sponsorships, newsletters, and guest posts: they also have a premium membership. 13:13
💜 Kathrin gets invites to sit on the advisory board for a bunch of VC funds and conferences in the women's health space: people tend to speak to her rather than a VC because she's not as threatening as VC, and there's a power difference. 16:21
📢 We need more education and to talk more openly about women's health because it's still very stigmatized: Kathrin had issues with what people may think when they Google her name. 18:51
🗝️ If you want to start some type of information property, launch fast, build an audience, and don't listen to the naysayers: if you're building a media property, distribution and reach are key. 23:31
💎 "Document, not create" is Gary Vee's expression that gave Kathrin permission to not be an expert and still talk about her passion. 30:33

Links:

Website: femtechinsider.com

Connect with Kathrin: kathrinfolkendt.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

The Transformative Strategy That Can Help You Scale Beyond $1 Million

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Market research and customer feedback could be the ticket to scaling your businesses beyond the $1 million mark. Without gathering insights from the market and listening to customer feedback, you are effectively running your business on guesswork, which is very costly. Researching the market gives your business and vision an informed direction to steer towards, and developing solutions based on customer feedback builds trust and loyalty. Once you have researched and utilized feedback, use your intuition to create a strategic, but flexible, business plan, so you can test, learn and iterate your way to success. With the right business strategy, you can tap into your unique strengths and flourish as a powerful and influential leader in the business world.

This week's challenge: Speak with 10 potential customers and ask them open-ended questions about their pain points and frustrations. Use #sugarcoatedfeedback to share your surprising insights with SheLeadsMedia on Instagram!

Show notes:
💲 Women in businesses have a difficult time scaling past the $1 million mark - only 4.2% of all women-owned firms have revenues over a million dollars or more: in order to achieve a million dollars, you must understand your customers. 01:11
📊 Market research is about gathering information to make informed decisions: when we start talking to customers, the journey never ends because customer preferences are always changing. 04:44
👂 Your customers are your best critics and allies: there's no better way to earn trust among your customers than by listening to them. 08:26
🎁 If we take feedback and don't do anything with it, it's like a wrapped gift that's never opened: when market research and customer feedback join forces, magic happens. 10:43
👔 Harness the power of community and relationships for market research and use your data: put strategic plans in place and move forward with certainty, but leave room for flexibility. 13:05
❣️ Sometimes we're afraid to be vulnerable, try a new idea or change direction: Adrienne challenges you to go out there this week and ask 10 customers open-ended questions. 16:26

Links:
Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

The Transformative Power Of Podcasting For Women Entrepreneurs

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 05:03:00 -0400

Podcasting is an excellent platform for women to grow their businesses, their network, and their brand. Starting a podcast offers a unique and intimate medium for women to create authentic connections while sharing their expertise and cultivating a growing network and audience. Making guest appearances on other podcasts is also extremely beneficial in that it allows you to gain exposure to a wider audience, build credibility and establish lucrative relationships. Not only can a podcast increase the revenue of your business, but it allows you to share the female perspective and empower other women with stories and knowledge that can change lives. Elevate your business, spread your message, and lift other women up with your passionate voice!

Notes
🎙️ Podcasting fosters authentic connections with your audience: there is no other medium that's as intimate as podcasting. 02:19
👍 Adrienne shares how to be the best guest possible on other people's podcasts: after your appearance, don't forget to review the podcast on Apple and other platforms. 04:21
📣 Once the episode is available for listeners, be sure to promote your appearance: repurpose that content to maximize exposure - Why would you go on a show to gain visibility and then do nothing with it? 09:35
🤝 Being strategic and genuine in your interactions with podcast hosts and their audiences can lead to a mutually beneficial relationship that goes beyond a single episode appearance. 11:41
✅ Women-led podcasts have been proven to generate more revenue when compared to their male-led counterparts: Adrienne shares examples of women who grew more successful through their awesome podcasts. 13:48
❣️ To become a podcast host, you don't need a massive budget or professional studio, you only need strategy, passion, and your unique point of view. 17:00

Links:

Join The SheCasts Collective as a Founding Member! https://shecastcollective.circle.so/checkout/shecast-founders

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

What Can AI Enable For Us?

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0400

AI is a revolutionary tool that has the power to help women overcome adversity. We need to start experimenting with AI so that we can leverage it for our success. Women must be at the forefront of the AI revolution so that our needs are built into these models and the platforms remain equitable and inclusive. With so many tools and resources available to help us increase our productivity, it is crucial that we use AI as a partner in education so we do not risk getting left behind. Harness the power of increased efficiency, unbiased access to information, and grow your business and influence along with the wake of AI.

Show notes:
🔪 AI, like a knife, can be used for good or evil, based on the intent behind it: it's important to have governance over AI, so it's not used for malicious purposes 03:24
👩‍💼 Women entrepreneurs and leaders must learn AI capabilities to leverage them and not get left behind: AI is a revolutionary force that can help women entrepreneurs break barriers, scale their businesses, and shape a more inclusive future. 04:50
✅ ChatGPT can be a partner in education because it has access to a wealth of information: there are hundreds of AI tools that can do so many different things, in so many niches. 08:10
👉 One of the barriers women face is a feeling that we must do it all: AI can help you be much more productive. 11:02
📈 AI is accessible to everyone, and it's evolving every single day: play with it to push your comfort zone, get better in your business, and not get left behind. 13:19
🤝 AI can help with hiring people in your company: it can also be used to match people for networking purposes. 16:23
💠 Some platforms connect women entrepreneurs and leaders with investors, mentors, and support networks like Alice, She Works, Elpha, Founder To Be, and CrunchBase. 21:19
❤️ Share your thoughts, questions, or success stories about implementing AI in your business. 25:26

Links:

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Summer Solo Series - Overwhelm

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0400

We all need to clear our plates a little bit. We're all taking on more than we can handle, and the older we get, the harder it gets. It's important to remember that you don't need to tick every box on the checklist to live in joy and be your best self. No matter how much you have on your plate, even if it's things you love, you have nothing to prove, so don't overdo it. You are not alone in feeling overwhelmed!

🎙️ Adrienne will create a solo series over the next couple of weeks: today's topic is 'Overwhelm.' 01:02
✅ Increasing responsibilities and changes caused Adrienne to have too much on her plate: you don't need to do all the things to be a fully self-actualized and happy, joyful person. 02:36
💞 Adrienne shares all the work she does and loves. 07:27
🐶 Besides her rich professional life, Adrienne helps her husband with his business and is a mom of 2 kids and a dog. 15:48
⏺️ You can use voicemail on the podcast website to send your questions and topics to Adrienne: one of the topics will be AI. 17:21
🔴 An important theme you can expect is an entrepreneurial mindset and the challenges women face when launching and growing businesses: the rest of the topics are on you - shoot Adrienne an email or voicemail. 19:19

Links:

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Podcast Pitching Strategies: Elevate Your Brand and Gain Authority in Your Niche with Alice Draper

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Podcasts are an excellent way to gain representation in your niche. Alice Draper is the founder and CEO of Hustling Writers and shares her passion for making publicity easier and more accessible for underrepresented entrepreneurs. In the digital era of media, podcasts are an important platform that can give you a body of work to help legitimize you and your business. When searching for podcasts to pitch to, it’s a good strategy to find people you respect in your industry and see what shows they have been a part of. Don’t discount your gut feeling, pick a podcast host that aligns with your values, and that you can see yourself building a personal relationship with. Pitch your power, elevate your brand and become an authority in your industry!

🌼 Alice is the founder and CEO of Hustling Writers: her business is on a mission to make publicity easy and accessible for under-recognized entrepreneurs. 02:34
📣 Underserved people, including women, should have a voice in the media: the positive side of this era of media is that people are more comfortable being themselves because they can see people like them being represented more often. 05:50
🇿🇦 Alice was born in post-apartheid South Africa: she resides between Dubai and South Africa. 08:49
📊 With podcasting, anyone can be a journalist: there are a disproportionate amount of female hosts in the world of podcasting. 12:41
✅ To be a guest on the right podcast, gather a list of people you respect, who are ahead of you in your industry, and who speak to a similar audience. 18:23
⭐ The biggest part of your pitch is the personal story - that's your make or break: Alice shares how to write a good story hook. 21:49
❤️ The corporate world tells us to ignore our gut: decision-making with the gut is easier for women - what's more emotional than trusting your gut? 27:23
🎙️ The fun of podcasting is the relationship building and meeting new people: podcasting is a foolproof method of figuring out if a person is someone you want to build a relationship with. 33:22
👍 We shouldn't be looking at the guesting strategy as a one-time transactional thing: even pitching the podcast host can be a good strategy if done elegantly. 37:59
🎯 It's not just about building the relationship with the podcast host, but also the host's audience: the magic happens after the show through relationships, so look at it as an investment. 40:26
🟢 When you go to a podcast, have a single lead magnet related to the topic you're talking about: learn more in the free resources below. 42:34

Links:

Connect with Alice: linkedin.com/in/alice-m-draper

Website: hustlingwriters.com

A basic guide to start pitching: https://hustlingwriters.com/podcast-pitch-template/

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

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Unveiling the Mindset Secrets to Business Success: In-Depth Discussion with Dorothy Illson, Digital Marketing and Data Expert

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0400

A positive mindset is the most important part of a successful business. Dorothy Illson is a digital marketing and data expert who shares her journey through finding her self-worth and accepting her success. The number one most important aspect of running a business is being able to have a positive mindset and truly believing you are worthy of success. In order to properly manage a business, you need to reflect on spendings and data, and these superficial problems will be impossible to tackle without the right mindset. Data tells the story of your business and offers insight, and we need to step back and analyze it with a logical business mindset, rather than an emotional reaction that is driven by negativity. Take some time to self-reflect, and find the positive mindset that you need to drive your business forward with success!

🌸 Dorothy is the founder of Needle's Eye Media and co-founder of The Gig. 02:12
💪 Do what needs to be done to move forward while building that muscle of resilience: Dorothy chose to freelance because it gives autonomy, flexibility, and remote work. 04:47
✅ Changes in the market don't tend to hit all market sectors equally: freelance is great in those situations because you don't have to change what you do, just who you do it for. 08:50
🎯 Approach conversations in business from the standpoint of problem-solving and value exchange: the biggest mindset hurdle that Dorothy fell into was feeling like she didn't deserve the success. 10:35
😓 You can make more money than you can imagine and still be in debt: you can have so much confidence in what you do, the services you provide, but have no confidence in yourself as a person. 17:40
❤️ If you strip away everything you do for other people and work, who are you?: all of that could go away tomorrow, but you would still have value to offer to the world. 20:23
🪞 Close friends can help you define who you are & journaling and reflecting can help you think about who you want to be. 23:14
📊 Data-driven businesses should not be led on emotions: the numbers tell you what to do - you can read the story that data tell you. 27:49
😎 Once you know where your leaks are in the funnel, you can work to plug those leaks: take a step back to approach things from more of a business mind and a logical perspective. 30:11
📧 Needle's Eye Media focuses primarily on digital product businesses and does a lot of webinar funnels: The Gig is an email newsletter that teaches you how to find clients, work with clients, work for yourself, and build a successful freelancing business. 34:05
🌷 Subscribe to The Gig to get The high-income skills guide. 36:55

Connect with Dorothy: www.linkedin.com/in/dorothyillson

Website: needleseyemedia.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

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From Resilience to Triumph: How Alexandra Navarro, successful C-Suite Latina Executive Is Redefining Success in Business

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 05:27:45 -0400

Honoring yourself with love and respect is the best way to reach your goals in the business world. Alexandra Navarro is a successful C-suite Latin American woman with a mission to help underrepresented women gain more opportunities in life. Navigating and advancing in the technology industry, and the business world at large, is difficult for women, especially Latin American women. One of the things that may be holding us back is a lack of love for ourselves and a fear of moving forward through all the hurdles in front of us. We must realize our visions and inspirations and honor them, so we can overcome our fears, take action and move forward with our dreams. Recognize your gifts, learn to value yourself, and the world will open up to you!

👩 Alexandra is a Latin American woman in tech and non-profit: unhappiness inspired her to learn about herself, find life balance, and write a book about her journey. 02:46
👩‍💻 Many women, especially Latina women, only get into entry-level technology jobs, 13% get an opportunity for a next-level position, and 56% have the most ridiculous salaries. 07:04
🌉 Alexandra was a passionate and positive kid: she dreamed about the bridge between Latin America and the US and found her life mission in that area. 11:00
🎾 Fear and challenges are just hurdles that make Alexandra a better player in life. 15:09
💃 Find inspiration and love yourself: Take on the role of your own big sister and protect yourself. 19:19
🌎 When you change yourself, the world starts to open up to you: Alexandra promotes men, but first checks are women taken care of. 23:55
😞 Women need to constantly prove something, so they end up doing work and moving forward with things that are either not acknowledged for or not paid for. 29:14
❗ Put yourself out and be able to speak - don't let anyone scream at you: we have a responsibility for the next generation. 30:47
💱 Blockchain can help underserved communities: it helps decentralize the financial world, the technology world, databases, and even votes. 36:58

Links:

Connect with Alexandra: www.linkedin.com/in/alexandranavarro1

Website: paystand.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

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Vicky & Charisse - Confidence Can Save Lives and Businesses

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Confidence is crucial in both business and life.

Vicky and Charisse are the founders of Dapper Boi, a clothing company that helps people feel comfortable in their own skin. Having confidence in yourself and your brand is essential for growing your customer base and funding. If you truly believe in yourself and your mission, you don't need to be a million-dollar brand to land investors and loyal customers. When you feel confident and comfortable in your own skin, you can show up as your authentic self in all facets of life and business. Dedicate yourself to your mission and values and take your entrepreneurial journey with confident strides!

👕 It all started when Vicky chopped off her hair and decided to come out and find her authentic self: she loved shopping in the men's department, but none of the clothes fit her. 02:05
👪 It's so beautiful to see parents supporting their children in their fashion expression. 05:38
❤️ Before entrepreneurship, Vicky was in casino marketing for a long time & Charisse was heavy in sales: they partnered with everything - family, home, and business. 09:06
🏡 Be confident that you are of value and align with investors who truly believe in you and your mission: Vicky & Charisse had weekly product launches in 2021, but it all stopped during the pandemic. 14:22
👖 A story of how Dapper Boi, and the values they represent, saved a life. 20:51
❤️ The right investor was the easiest to communicate with: customers regained faith - transparency saved the customer base. 26:41
✅ The brand is not lesbian, it’s mainstream: it's about fit and feeling competence in yourself. 28:57
📺 Vicky & Charisse shared their experience on Shark Tank: it aired on April 14th - go check it out!

Links:

Website: www.dapperboi.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

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Finding the Right Co-Founder with Henley Vazquez of FORA

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Finding the right cofounder is the recipe for a successful business. Henley Vazquez is the cofounder of FORA and shares her wisdom on finding the right partners to grow the business of your dreams. If you are thinking about starting your business, trying to decide if you need a co-founder, and who the right person is for the job, it can be a difficult task. You have to find people that have different specialties and views, and somebody that you are comfortable arguing and being honest with because a good co-founder relationship is similar to a marriage. The right fit will be so much more than somebody who is simply qualified and wants to take on the role, so you have to learn to trust your gut. If you don’t want to get caught in the echo chamber of solopreneuring, consider seeking a cofounder for your business!

🌎 Henley is a co-founder of FORA, an incredible travel business that has revolutionized the travel industry: her whole career has been in the travel sector. 02:16
👩‍💼 The list to become a FORA advisor is 1000s of people long: it's a very female-forward industry. 05:44
⏸️ The pandemic forced Henley to take a step back and evaluate her business: take a power pause and think about what you really love. 10:48
🗝️ Having the right co-founders is the key to having a successful business and happy life. 14:06
🤝 A mediator can help build empathy between company founders. 19:46
❗ Some businesses don't need money: follow your instincts on how to run your business but spend the money carefully. 24:53
💵 The right investor is ready to jump in and offer support: find somebody who understands the industry and the business you're building and trusts you to do the work. 28:44
👉 Your investors are not your bosses: they have seen more businesses than you, but it doesn't mean you do everything they tell you to - you are the expert in your domain. 30:54
🌹 FORA continues to support their community by making advisor jobs easier: planning travel is hard, and Fora wants to help people organize and execute those plans in a better way than what's currently available in the industry. 33:45

Links:

Website: foratravel.com

Connect with Henley: www.instagram.com/henleyv/?hl=en

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

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Emily Wilcox - Allow Yourself To Receive Money

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Many women struggle with making more money because they are stuck in a wounded masculine energy. If you want to attract more money into your life, you have to be in the right energetic mindset to receive it. We all have a mixture of masculine and feminine energy within us, but many women spend their lives exercising the masculine practice of “giving.” When we are ready to stop taking responsibility for everything, we can heal our money wounds by learning to embrace our “receiving” feminine side. Bring conscious intention to your life, and open yourself up to your receiving energy!

☕ Emily is a crystal-loving coffee-drinking money healer: she uses energies, woo-woo, and a sprinkle of strategy to help women call in more money and joy while they build their “fempires.” 02:30
👧 Emily connected to her inner child and left her wounded masculine energy behind: if I lean back a little bit, there's something that will catch me, so I won’t fall. 05:25
❗ If you constantly seek approval and belonging, you'll be a match for people who want you to earn their approval. 09:55
🧠 Play a little game with God/the Universe and use your conscious intention: it will help your brain decide what's relevant in life. 12:34
👔 Business is connected with masculine energy, but it starts with a feminine energy that naturally inspires masculine actions. 15:24
👩‍👧‍👦 Every human has masculine and feminine energy that we can break down into wounded and divine: mothering is actually masculine energy. 19:26
💃 How to get into the divine feminine and the divine masculine more easily: make your decisions consciously, surrender, trust, and relax - it's like a dance. 22:11
❤️‍🩹 We crave so deeply to be taken care of because it's like our gas pedal is stuck down. 24:37
💲 To earn money, we need to practice our receiving energy in other areas first. 26:27
◾ The shadow side of the feminine is leaky boundaries, like putting yourself last. 29:52
💕 The beautiful thing about inner work is that every area of life gets better: even in teen magazines, the subliminal messages taught us to “get,” not to “receive.” 31:23
🥰 You get to have wealth just because you want it: women are more community aware. 35:25

Links:

Connect with Emily: www.linkedin.com/in/emilyjwilcox

Emily Wilcox Coaching: www.explore.emilywilcox.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

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Be Your Authentic Self & Find Your Purpose with Melinda Watts

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Self-honesty and a positive mindset may be all it takes to discover your true purpose. Melinda Watts is a business coach and influencer who helps guide women toward the joy of embracing their passions in life. Everybody has it in them to be an entrepreneur and explore their passions, but many of us are restrained by the shackles of social programming and limit ourselves to playing it safe in our 9 to 5 jobs. To grow and succeed, you must embrace your most authentic self with honesty and confidence. When you dedicate your life to showing up as your true self, and believing you are worthy, you will discover your true purpose in life. Take a bet on yourself and pursue the life of passion you deserve!

💐 Melinda is a wife, mother of 4, pastor, singer, teacher, influencer, and CEO of Made for More: being a high school teacher inspired her entrepreneurship. 02:39
❤️ Melinda created a program for women entrepreneurs who never thought they could escape the “9 to 5 mentality.” 08:09
👩 There are so many avenues for passive income: women have incredible ideas and passion, but don't have the mindset to believe they are worthy. 11:10
📿 Melinda's true confidence developed through becoming an influencer: honesty and prayer helped her face herself and believe again. 15:47
🥰 We have to dedicate our lives to rising higher and walking in our true purposes: don't be afraid to get on social media and show up as your real authentic self. 22:15
✅ Coaching women who already have a business is even more fun: it's never too late or too early to start something new and create a business. 26:03
🔴 Take a chance on yourself, because you can always go back: the best time to invest and save money is in your late teens - building a business can be better than college. 31:49

Links:

Connect with Melinda: www.melindawatts.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Dr. Bonnie Wims' Advice - Stop Validating Negative Behavior and Maintain Your Mental Health

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 May 2023 06:00:00 -0400

Understanding and maintaining your mental health is the key to showing up positively in life and business. Dr. Bonnie Wims is a therapist who shares her wisdom on the cycle of self-sabotaging behavior and why women need to self-reflect to move forward with self-worth. It’s no secret that gender disparities show up in many social situations like work and family dynamics, and women are often talked over and ignored. Many of us are validating these behaviors by silencing ourselves and complying, even if we don’t agree, and this can lead to negative internalized messages and a lack of self-worth. It’s time for us to honor ourselves and understand our anxieties so we can learn from our insecurities and use them as tools to grow and move forward. Stop accepting less and find or create a place that deserves your talent!

Show notes timestamps:
👩‍⚕️ Dr. Bonnie worked in an insurance company, finished her undergrad and doctorate in her 50s, and became a therapist & a podcaster: It’s a great boost of confidence to see that you can still learn and grow in your 50s. 01:54
❤️ We should never totally put our dreams away: Dr. Bonnie had to learn to run her private practice. 06:26
🎓 Imposter syndrome goes hand in hand with perfectionism, and women often have it from childhood: Dr. Bonnie shares a bad experience from graduation that made her think she didn't deserve her doctorate. 08:51
🍀 Women and men have different perspectives and communication styles: we can control our self-talk and how we internalize messages. 17:15
💝 Women should know their worth and find a space that feels good: the difference between running away and the choice to move towards something else. 24:18
👉 We become anxious when we don't maintain our mental health: use your anxiety to move you forward. 33:16
🎙️ Dr. Bonnie created a podcast, Therapy Deconstructed: therapy doesn't mean you're weak - vulnerability is a strength. 40:58

Links:

Connect with Bonnie: www.bonniewims.com

Schedule a free consultation: https://calendly.com/bonnie-96

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

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How To Go All In - with Nim Stant

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 12 May 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Self-commitment and focusing on your goals are the simple steps to success. Nim Stant is the founder of Go All In Media and shares her inspiring success story, as well as tips on how keeping it simple and going all in can lead to business prosperity. Finding a balance is the wrong mindset for success, the secret to growth is going all in on one thing and not overthinking it. We must focus on our mission and stop wasting time worrying about other things because if you don’t stay in your lane and drive towards your goals, somebody else will. It’s your responsibility to set your objective, commit to yourself and your goals, market your true value and get your message out to the world. The journey may be difficult, but if you keep it simple and find the support you need, you are sure to succeed!

Show notes:
🌼 Nim is the founder of Go All In Media, an author, speaker, and yoga instructor: she was once called “the girl with a broken brain” but made it in every way. 02:03
🔴 You have something to lose if you don't start now: commit first & figure it out later. 06:43
💠 Go all in means going inside, not expanding the outside: if we don't do that, we'll break and burn out. 09:54
📢 If you have a business, and people don't know you, it's your fault: it's your responsibility to be visible. 12:46
📗 Before you write a book, think about your business hook, and focus on your value, not your hours. 15:43
❤️ You are as valuable as what you sell: stay in your lane and be the driver. 22:31
🤩 Women entrepreneurs are dreamers and have a hard time taking action: you can attach your emotions to your business, but don't let them in the driver's seat. 27:45
🔼 The higher you go, the harder it can be: expect challenges. 30:11
👭 Put yourself in a room with smarter women. 34:42

Links:

Connect with Nim: www.nimstant.com

Festival: www.goallinfest.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

How to Make Money by Gamifying Your Finances with Jenifer Sapel

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 05 May 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Gamify your finances and change your mindset to earn more and save more. Jenifer Sapel, ChFC® WMCP® - founder of Utor Wealth shares her financial expertise and wisdom on the steps to harnessing your financial power. We live in a profit-first society, where your finances can be tied to feelings of shame and self-worth. The truth is that finances can be viewed like a game, and you can improve your gaming skill sets to gain more financial confidence and freedom. Research your market worth, focus on saving, invest in diversity, and give and spend your money with JOY! Empower yourself with financial wisdom and win the game of making money!

💰 Today we invest differently than previous generations, and we can do even better. 02:05
🌎 When women have more wealth, we will have a healthier Earth: the whole world will be better when we get comfortable believing that we are worthy of wealth. 04:24
🖐 People would rather talk about death than money: being good with finances comes down to five skill sets. 07:13
🙈 Women feel shame when it comes to finances: Don’t tie your self-worth as a human being to anything around the construct of finances. 11:13
🎮 Making money is a game, and earning it doesn't make you a bad person: check the market rate for your skill sets. 13:23
😍 Gamify it for yourself - ask for three times what you've asked for before and you'll be shocked by how many people say yes: think of it in terms of self-care and financial health. 16:07
💲 Pay yourself first and automate your savings. 19:45
🛋️ Don’t try to go from couch to marathon - go with the least painful, lowest goal first. 21:36
🤑 Saving is accumulating wealth, and investing is getting that accumulation to work for you: you can do it by yourself, hire a professional, or do a hybrid. 24:25
📊 We can't eliminate the risk, but we can manage it. 27:41
👩‍💼 Jenifer created a “gender lens investment fund” that finds diverse companies to invest in. 30:03
🏢 More diverse companies are higher quality companies, which means higher profitability & better risk management: it's even higher with ethnic diversity. 35:40
❤️ A Donor Advised Fund is an opportunity for people to set up a private foundation. 40:39
🤩 Finding an advisor you trust can be really important as we move out of our comfort zone: you're not obligated to spend on tax-deductible gifts - spend with joy. 42:20
🔷 Utor is Latin for “to use, to employ, and to enjoy.” 45:23
❣️ Jenifer will talk to anybody for 20 minutes, just press a button on her website. 50:06

Links:

Connect with Jenifer: www.utorwealth.com

Hire a financial advisor guide: www.guide.utorwealth.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Money Is Independence with Rachel Grunn and Andrea Cwik

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 06:16:44 -0400

As a woman, understanding finances and learning to invest your money is the smartest thing you can do. Rachel Grunn and Andrea Cwik are co-founders of GoodGood Investing, where they share their knowledge on the world of commercial and real estate investments. The main message is this - when women have great wealth, they do great things for their communities and the world, but challenging the barrier to entry for investing can be difficult. The first step is to invest in yourself through education and learn how to take advantage of assets you already have so you can start to grow your independent wealth. Commercial investing is all about who you know, so network and find people like Rachel and Andrea who are already plugged into the real estate investing ecosystem and can help. Set up a legacy for yourself and invest in your freedom and independence!

👑 Rachel & Andrea have a common goal: investing and understanding finances is probably the single best thing we can do for ourselves as women. 02:46
📈 Repurpose your 401K to a self-directed IRA - that puts you more in charge of where to use that money: you may be richer than you think. 05:59
👛 There's a huge misconception that investing is reserved for crusty old men: do your research in finding a person or a team with the experience. 10:35
⚠️ The Investing industry is highly regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission: that's a huge barrier to entry, and nobody's allowed to advertise or solicit investments to the public. 13:31
💎 Rachel & Andrea paid a lot of money to get into the room with the right people, and they are sharing their knowledge for free: you just need to be curious. 17:36
❗ Take control of your finances: turn your 401k into a self-directed account to have the freedom to stay out of a bad relationship. 20:49
💰 There's a way to make sure your 18-year-old has 400k that you didn't pay anything towards. 25:37
🤷 Even if you don’t have a clue about the investing, you have a chance to grow. 27:14
📘 You can't build generational wealth working a W2 job - your investments will outlive you, but your W2 will not: Rich Dad Poor Dad is an awesome starter book. 30:02
🤑 Half of your money is going to taxes if you work a W2 job, but real estate bonus depreciation can counter that: make sure that you get a CPA that's familiar with the types of investments that you're doing. 32:51
❣️ The first investment you should make is in educating yourself - your investment of time: with education comes conviction, and with knowledge comes empowerment. 35:59

Links:

Connect with Rachel & Andrea: www.goodgoodinvesting.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Your Comfort Zone Is Your Power Zone with Hay House Author Kristen Butler

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Shifting your view of “the comfort zone” can lead to a more positive and fulfilling life. Kristen Butler is the CEO of Power of Positivity and shares her story about how getting back to her comfort zone and embracing positivity transformed her life. We have been socialized to believe that the path to success involves stepping out of your comfort zone, but it’s time to revisit this narrative. Putting your entire identity into a business and hustling to the point of discomfort and depletion is unhealthy. It’s time that we redefine our relationship with comfort and allow ourselves to live in a fulfilling and less stressful rhythm with our bodies. Bring balance back into your life by embracing comfort!

👱‍♀️ Kristen is the CEO and founder of the Power of Positivity: stop shaming yourself, a comfort zone is good! 02:30
✅ We confuse comfort with complacency: when we're growing, we feel discomfort. 07:22
🕴️ When Kristen lost her business, she felt like she lost herself because her identity was in her work: take a step back and evaluate things so you don't burn out. 10:46
❗ The business is there for you, it's not your baby! 15:09
💜 A comfort zone is your power zone - it has never been explained like this. 17:01
🥰 After hard work, you need to comfort yourself. 21:15
💆‍♀️ Tap into your body to know when it’s time to move or rest: don't obsess over what other people say. 23:50
🧡 Toxic positivity is ignoring feelings and letting them sit: release your emotions and train your body to find gratitude. 26:37
👛 Gratitude retrains your brain to look for the positive. 30:29
🌼 Take a lesson from the situation, but don't let it ruin your experience: grieving is natural - let yourself grieve. 32:41

Links:

Instagram: @powerofpositivity

Website www.positivekristen.com

New Book - The Comfort Zone https://thecomfortzonebook.com/

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women, on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Dr. Jody Carrington Says The Future Is Female - Leading With Kindness Is Your Biggest Superpower

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:04:36 -0400

Female leadership is essential for reconnecting a disconnected world. Dr. Jody Carrington is the founder of Carrington & Company, where she focuses her passion on tackling modern psychological issues with reconnection. With modern communication technology, the pandemic, and the mental health crisis making us feel more disconnected than ever, people are struggling to cope. The solution is having people feel seen and heard, and that requires integrating the emotional and personal influence of feminine leadership into the workplace. People become much more emotionally regulated and motivated when they are surrounded by personal connection and kindness, and that leads to productivity and success. Lead with kindness and get reconnected with your people!

👱‍♀️ Dr. Carrington's favorite quote is: “We are all just here walking each other home." 01:34
😍 In the history of the free world, we've never been more disconnected than we are at this moment: look at somebody you love for four minutes. 05:06
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Every parent wants their children to be happy, but nobody is always happy: the most significant sentence that allows Dr. Jody to hold space with kids is: "Tell me more." 09:25
👠 The future is female. 11:14
🧒 When we're not happy and say "I want you to be happy" we make the biggest mistake as parents. 15:44
🎤 Pink is an example of power - hard and soft: the healthier you are, the more vulnerable you are. 19:04
☺️ The most vulnerable emotion on the planet is joy: be kind and don't tolerate bullshit. 21:57
🔥 When the resources outside of work do not exceed what gets sucked from your soul at work - you burn out. 24:59
✅ When we put our worth in our outcome: the priority of how to look after things are - you, your team, and then the people you serve. 28:13
❗ You need to know who your people are: you'll be surprised how many friends you'll lose when you start a business. 31:39
💓 Death ends a life, not a relationship. 33:10
💆‍♀️ Drop your shoulders & take a deep breath: the more you drop your cortisol in a day, the more you have to give to your people. 35:43
🤝 Every single day, do the next best thing if you can’t do the best: reconnection is even more important than connection. 37:59
📕 Dr. Jody is starting a podcast: she has a book tour stop in the US, and it's on March 14th in New York! 41:10

Links:

Connect with Dr. Jody Carrington http://www.drjodycarrington.com

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/dr-jody-carrington/

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women, on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Veleke Brown - Feeding the Youth with Entrepreneurial Knowledge

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:26:49 -0400

Summary:
When kids learn the principles of entrepreneurship, it can heal families and communities. Veleke Brown is the CEO and founder of E-Roadmap, a nonprofit organization that teaches youth the mindset and skills associated with entrepreneurship. Today’s youth are missing out on the opportunity to develop the crucial skills that come with entrepreneurship, as it is not taught in many schools.

We must educate kids on financial literacy and problem-solving so they can develop solution-oriented thinking and tackle the problems that exist in their communities. With a positive mindset and hands-on training for critical life skills, these kids can grow up knowing they have what it takes to make a difference and succeed. Help support and educate the youth and create a generation of positive change!

Show timestamps:
🧒👧🏽 Veleke is the CEO and founder of E-Roadmap, a nonprofit that teaches entrepreneurial concepts and principles to kids. 01:45
💥 Entrepreneurship will wake you all the way up: the knowledge we get from watching our parents is important. 03:52
❤️ Veleke teaches youth about entrepreneurship: the projects are beautiful, vital, and growing. 06:34
💲 Your income is attached to the number of problems you solve: outstanding solutions come from understanding the core problem better than anybody else. 10:03
🎓 Kids need to know about financial literacy and budget creation: the first thing you do as an entrepreneur is - get out here, get the pulse of the city, and understand who the players are. 14:12
❗ You have to ask questions and put in the work, then partners and sponsors come: before you express your idea, ask questions and learn. 18:07
☑️ Be more proactive vs. reactive. 20:29
🏜️ A Food Desert is a community that doesn't have fresh food and grocery stores within a certain mile radius: when communities are healthier, they make better choices and improve their economic standing. 23:21
✅ Within each crisis, there lies an opportunity for the right entrepreneur. 26:39
💆‍♀️ Make sure you start your day right: we act after we perceive things. 29:42
🌬️ If you don't learn to calm yourself down, you will never win: meditation, mindfulness, yoga, pilates, stretching, deep breathing - everything matters! 31:16
🌺 We create a natural resistance to things that we don't understand: reframe it to benefit yourself! 33:58

Links:
🤩 Connect with Veleke: www.nofoodgap.org

✨ Find out more about RoadMap: www.e-roadmap.org/about

👠 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎙️ Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Build Confidence With Your Wealth, with Kelly Ann Winget

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:46:34 -0400

It’s time for women to subvert the pop-cultural prejudice that they aren’t good with money. Kelly Ann Winget is the founder and fund manager for Alternative Wealth Partners and shares her passion for helping women learn about finances and investing to become confident and empowered with their wealth. The world of investing and managing investments has historically been dominated by men, leaving generations of women uncomfortable with or unable to participate. The truth is that women are inherently good at managing finances and tend to invest in ways that positively impact local communities. Financial literacy tools and education are easily accessible online for free, so it’s time for us to get informed and stop being scared about making financial decisions. Start your wealth journey today and take control of your capital!

Notes:
💲Kelly is the founder and fund manager for alternative wealth partners: she helped raise almost a billion dollars in private capital. 02:13
👫 Women are great with money, pay more attention to small details, take the time to process information, and write bigger checks. 08:10
💵 You can be an investor without any entrance barriers by investing in property, cryptocurrency, or gold: private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, and these types of alternative assets require accredited and qualified investors. 13:09
❗ Everything you do is an investment. 16:29
🤓 An alternative investment is everything that's not cash or a stock-bond: Kelly explains what accredited investment, private equity, and venture capital are. 19:42
🔶 TikTok financial literacy courses are not a good way to get educated: Investopedia and government websites offer free financial information. 23:00
👧 Know your numbers and educate yourself: people who build curriculums are not business owners. 27:27
🏡 To start investing, you need some financial breathing room: financial literacy tools are built for people who have money. 30:31
👑 Female investors are impact investors: be cautious of where you're writing your checks. 33:56
👔 Fashion Full Circle is one of Kelly's companies that supports nonprofits that help build local communities. 36:44

Links:

Connect with Kelly: kellyannwinget.com

Investopedia: investopedia.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Regina Huber - Connect With Your Heart To Own Your Value

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:29:30 -0400

The key to being seen and heard is truly owning your own value. Regina Huber is the CEO of Transform Your Performance, where she coaches individuals and groups by finding and owning their own values. A common problem for women in the workplace is a lack of confidence and understanding of our beautiful strengths and talents. To realign with our values we need to reconnect with our hearts, learn to value the richness of our wisdom and story, and build up our confident presence with a positive “heartset.” Presenting yourself with an empowered and confidence-filled energy can help you show up with the courage and authority needed to be recognized for your true worth. Let your mind be led by your heart and own your true value!

🌸 Women entrepreneurs worldwide have a problem with owning their value: a lot of the decisions that did not work out were the ones where Regina didn't fully trust herself. 02:55
✅ Concretize your values - it's all about how we package the stories we tell ourselves and others: know, own, and show your worth. 05:46
❣️ Fear is in the mind, courage in the heart - when we let our minds be led by our hearts it's usually more powerful: use your energy to connect with your heart. 09:52
✨ Human Design is astrology that defines the 5 roles people can be in and helps them recognize the one that fits them best. 13:48
🤩 Different people go through different life paths and lessons: find your richness and value. 17:12
🧑 Leadership starts with self - if we are not self-aware, we cannot understand others. 19:52
🧠 Sometimes we need advice or information, but the decision must always ours: step out of the victim mode and into a self-empowering mindset. 22:45
➡️ It's more emotionally challenging to shut something down and let something go than it is to start something new because it's so hard to forgive ourselves. 27:23
🤝 Connecting to our hearts requires a little bit of trust and patience: we sometimes work best with a specific type of people. 29:42
💭 We need to remind ourselves that many thoughts are not even ours: don't listen to everything that's going on in your head. 34:06

Links:

Connect with Regina: www.linkedin.com/in/reginahuber

Transform your performance: www.transformyourperformance.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Living a Debt-Free Life with Vera Jimenez

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Learn how to be resourceful with your money, and you’ll be investing in a better future.

Vera Jimenez is a weather person, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who shares tips and tricks for making your money work for you. So many money-making gurus gatekeep their knowledge and make opportunities seem few and far between, but this is not the case because there are plenty of opportunities for smart investments and managing your money wisely.

The key is having the passion for obtaining your goals and starting your ventures, but quickly switching to business mode and knowing when it’s time to sell and move on. Seek out networking groups, take a course, listen to a podcast, and pay it forward by sharing what you learn with other women. Don’t let your money scare you, make it work for you!

🏭 Vera was the youngest of 6 kids in a family without a father: her mother dreamed a life for Vera that doesn't involve working in a factory. 03:29
💼 Vera's mother saw entrepreneurship as misery, uncertainty, and fear, but Vera wanted to be her own boss: she started working at 15. 05:32
🚘 You're allowed to go into debt only for a house and a car: Vera leads a debt-free lifestyle. 10:13
🔵 Entrepreneurs fall in love with their idea so much that they forget to take the emotion out and think logically: Vera sold the restaurant right before Covid, bought a property she fell in love with, and then had to short-sell it. 12:26
💰 We mom-mode our businesses, so we forget to be tough: if you're going to buy property, you have to make a profit the day that you purchase it. 18:09
✅ Always look at the market you're buying in if you want to be a real estate investor. 21:03
💲 Vera owns homes, invests in a commercial real estate trust, invests with partners, and lends finances: money is energy - it goes out and comes back in, so spending well is as significant as earning well. 23:54
❤️ People move to California to feel that connection with nature: the risk-reward is valid. 30:20

Links:

Connect with Vera: www.instagram.com/Verajimeneztv

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Franky Liu - Bettering with Music

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Be the inspiration you want to see in the world. Franky Liu is a talented young entrepreneur who shares inspiring words with the release of his self-produced album. In order to succeed in this world, you need to lean into your talents and advocate for yourself and others. In the advent of Covid19, we could all use a little more inspiration and encouragement, so make your voice heard and make it one of support and motivation. Discover your platform, share your talents and opinions, and lift up others in the process. Find your inspiration and pay it forward!

Show notes timestamps:
🎹 Franky graduated in resource economics and chose event management as a master's major: he has played piano since age 5 and loves music and events. 03:22
❤️ The album Franky released is written, produced, and sung by himself. 06:21
🎶 Listen to a song called Dear Franky: he wrote it as a letter to himself and was inspired by one of Adrienne's class assignments. 08:53
🧑‍🎤 Franky found a job in the music industry and plans to be famous: success doesn't come overnight. 14:38
🗣️ Every voice is powerful, and all the voices for women are precious until women's rights are no longer lacking in our society. 17:31
✅ The starting point from 0 to 1 in business is challenging - focus and practice are the way to go. 23:11
👉 Internships and work are a significant part of studies for a future job: don't limit your knowledge to books. 25:32
🧑‍🏫 Encouragement is more effective than punishment in education: professors should know that students want real-life scenarios and stories, to do stuff that makes them better people and more effective in the workforce, and to have more fun. 28:52
💟 When you start teaching people, you learn more. 30:19
🎤 Listen to a song called Bettering! 32:07

Links:

👨‍🎤 Connect with Franky: www.instagram.com/what_the_franky

🎼 Franky’s music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3YRhlI0dZS5BRrCNOyNiYf?si=GTmpm9SfT3OEFlpjzDQ4kg&nd=1

🌸 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Jevonne Bowman - Quality Content Creation Is Not A DIY

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 07:00:00 -0500

Quality content can increase the impact of your business and lead to more sales. Jevonne Bowman is an expert content curator that creates educational products for people that want to learn to create professional content.

Content creation is integral to many businesses, but creating meaningful, quality content on your own is very challenging. The problem with good content creation is that producing something of substance can be an intimidating task, so finding a team and strategizing based on your strengths is key. Joining a community to support and reassure you and offer outside perspectives and resources is an excellent step towards developing your skills and achieving your goals.

Overcome your content creation obstacles and become your very own content queen!

Show Notes - timestamps:

👑 Jevonne is a six-figure content queen: content creation is a full-time job, not a DIY - if you want to avoid burnout, be realistic about your skill set. 01:46
👔 The corporate world offers exposure to team building, strategies, and processes: necessity breeds invention - Jevonne changed her lifestyle to have time for her family. 06:21
🔥 Jevonne wears many hats: a mentorship program and an academy for female entrepreneurs on how to create content without burning out. 10:28
👗 You can still be feminine and create awesome-looking content: you have to be the one to take action. 13:49
✅ Content is information you disseminate on social media platforms: focus on mastery, not perfection. 18:17
❤️ We are bolder when we have a friend by our side: having the group is a vital part of the mentorship experience. 22:37
📹 Community is about empowerment: video can increase impact and income for different types of businesses. 25:05
⚠️ Content can get stale: come up with a strategy where you get to see the bigger picture. 28:12
💜 You don't have to be in front of a camera or listen to your voice if you don't like it - there are other forms of content: video editing is super easy to delegate. 30:49

Links:

✨ Connect with Jevonne: https://home.6figurecontentqueen.com

📲 For a free resource guide about content creation, text the word “content” to 518-707-1171

🎯 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Well Tech World Summit Series - David Lynch Foundation’s Sarah Sica on the Ancient Modality Of Meditation To Change Your Life

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:48:03 -0500

Sarah Sica is the director of programs for the David Lynch Foundation and shares her passion for Transcendental Meditation as a certified teacher. TM is a 5000-year-old meditation technique that is proudly endorsed by doctors, celebrities, and people from all walks of life. This technique is used as a self-care tool to aid veterans, abuse survivors, and people suffering from traumas and stress, but it requires a 4-day course and 1-on-1 time with a certified trainer to learn. Thankfully this course is now available via a digital format that broadly increases its accessibility so more people around the globe can enjoy the profound benefits of this powerful tool. To reduce stress and increase motivation as part of your self-care journey, research Transcendental Meditation and see if it’s right for you!

🧘‍♀️ Sarah is a transcendental meditation (TM) teacher that helped Beth release trauma and be more focused and calm: Sarah's first meditation. 01:54
🏫 Sarah’s consciousness-based education helped inspired her to become a TM teacher. 06:16
🙇 The David Lynch Foundation is a global charitable foundation that works with pupils, veterans, women, other vulnerable groups, and companies. 09:55
📱 There is now a virtual course option that is more flexible and accessible for everyone. 15:26
✅ TM is a simple meditation technique that allows the active mind to quickly settle down and experience a very profound rest: it benefits everyone, wherever you are in life. 20:07
‼️ If TM was a drug you could pop twice a day, it would become a multi-billion dollar industry: the only meditation technique that reduces blood pressure. 24:54
💕 Sarah will be a part of incredible Well-Tech World Summit panels: we need to take care of ourselves because the world benefits when women are in leadership. 26:00
🌸 Doing things for self-care can be challenging, and that is one more reason why these events are vital. 29:46

Links:

Connect with Sarah: sarah@davidlynchfoundation.org

David Lynch Foundation: www.davidlynchfoundation.org

Well-tech World Summit: www.welltechworldsummit.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Well Tech World Summit speaker Jennifer "Jaki" Johnson - A Digital Healing Space For Trauma

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 07:00:00 -0500

The help you need for your trauma-healing journey may be a click away.
Jennifer “Jaki” Johnson is the founder of WellMiss, a digital space created to offer holistic care to women dealing with trauma. Trauma is a profound inner wound that can manifest as a number of severe disorders and issues if not treated properly. Due to the cookie-cutter approach to today’s healthcare system, many people with trauma are left unhealed and continue to suffer mentally and physically.
Thankfully we are seeing the emergence of new digital resources that hold space and offer the holistic approach to healing that people truly need. Find care and support on your health journey with modern digital wellness resources! Hear from Jaki at the Well-Tech World Summit on March 20 & 21.

❤️ Jaki created a virtual healing space that provides holistic and integrative care to women healing from trauma: our true strength is in vulnerability. 02:40
⚠️ Women have various interconnected traumatic experiences: even entrepreneurs build their platforms based on personal traumatic experiences. 05:56
✅ Trauma is the wound within made from the impact of all the traumatic experiences we have been through - that puts them at a higher risk of PTSD. 09:25
💔 The heart is the first to feel and process anything: the ER and primary care are just not enough to deal with trauma because we all need a different holistic approach - talk therapy or other integrative approaches, not just drugs. 11:52
😢 Jaki lost her son, but someone has to hold space: she is still working on her own healing. 20:53
🌎 Well-tech World Summit is about helping humanity heal. 22:34

Links:

Connect with Jaki: www.hellowellmiss.com

Get Your FREE tickets to the Well-tech World Summit: www.welltechworldsummit.com

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Join Us at the Well-Tech World Summit Online - March 20 & 21, 2023

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 06:34:00 -0500

It’s time for everyone to honor and embrace the integration of wellness and technology. Beth Lauren is the co-founder of the WellTech World Summit, taking place online March 20 - 21, 2023. She shares her passion and excitement for the upcoming event. If the last few years of dealing with the pandemic have shown us anything, it’s that technology has really impacted our lives and changed how we can approach our daily wellness and self-care practices. The WellTech World Summit was designed to bring experts and thought leaders of wellness and technology together to celebrate and explore the growing junction between these two worlds. Steer your healthcare journey into the digital age and join us in March to learn about new trends and services in the ever-evolving healthcare industry!

Show Notes:
🧘‍♀️ The WellTech World Summit Online brings the worlds of tech and wellness together on March 20th & 21st: it starts with yoga and meditation to focus and relax for the exciting panels ahead. 02:25
🌷 Mind & body alignment for optimal health and happiness through Ayurveda and all your relationships: family, work, romantic, or affiliate. 06:03
❣️ David Meltzer and Brittany Barreto are the keynote speakers of the summit and are leaders in their fields who make innovative products for all of us to have healthier and wealthier lives more aligned with our minds, bodies, spirits, and environments. 09:43
🤝 It's designed for everyone - if you care about your wellness, show up on these two days online and connect with people: there's a limited number of VIP tickets so get yours today. 14:08
✅ Working privately with Beth as an Ayurvedic Counselor, you can incorporate a few basic practices to feel much better in your day-to-day life. 16:07

Links:

👉 Connect with Beth Lauren: www.healthysangha.com

✨ WellTech World Summit, March 20 & 21: www.welltechworldsummit.com

🌸 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to podcasts for women, by women on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

Mindie Barnett - Shifting Careers & Pitching Ideas

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 12:36:21 -0500

Become a thought leader to get you and your business exposure.

Mindie Barnett is the founder of MB and Associates and shares her expertise on how people can “get themselves out there.” If you want to get yourself seen and known in your local networks and communities, you will need some form of media coverage.

A great way to get eyes on your business is to pitch relevant and thoughtful stories and informational pieces to local media outlets like news stations and podcasts. It takes a lot of research, persistence, and professional attention to detail, but if you bring something helpful and trendy to the table, you can generate great advertising for your business.

Flex your creativity, get yourself out there, and promote your business!

Show Notes:
📣 Get to know Mindie: she is the type of person that will still be on stage in her 80s. 03:16
👜 In Mindie's 30s, she wanted more than just an excellent career: her path from journalism to PR, and now pursuing psychology. 08:48
👩‍💼 Mindie’s luck with getting clients: not having a lot of downtimes. 14:03
💗 Make the choice you want, even if your brain is not prepared. 17:37
💡 Know your lane when you promote your business and know who and where to pitch: be aggressive. 21:49
🎯 The hyperlocal news outlets are the best for local companies. 27:04
📺 See what's trending, seasonal, and what the news cycle looks like, and come up with something that makes sense: the media does not need you - you need the media. 29:17
🎙️ Mindie’s media platforms include 2 books and a podcast - it's useful for branding and media outlets. 31:58
📚 The third book will possibly be "Old Maid" - about the trend of women not getting married or waiting until later in life to get married. 36:38
👭 Women lean heavily on each other. 38:33

Links:

👉 Connect with Mindie: www.instagram.com/mindie.barnett

🎤 Mindie's company: https://mbandassociatespr.com/

🎯 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to women's podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Women Entrepreneurs - It May Be Time To Check Your Hormones with Dr. Michael Green

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:37:57 -0500

👶 Why Dr. Michael got into the field of hormone replacement therapy: hormones are not vitamins but are also really helpful. 02:39
❗ Some typical symptoms of dropping hormones: experiencing hot flashes, brain fog, sleep disturbances, night sweats, skin, hair, and vaginal issues, joint pain, and weight gain? 08:22
👩‍🦳 If you notice your body and mind changing you should check your hormones: the average age of completing menopause is 51, but symptoms start ten years earlier. 11:49
💊 If your doctor doesn't give you what you need, telehealth has become a viable alternative: there are various treatments out there.14:12
✅ Conveniences telehealth provides: it's a new safe way to do stuff when you don't need a physical exam. 17:25
📑 Medicine is steering toward education and shared decision-making: the website and social media are a robust library of content designed to educate. 21:04
🍀 Women are often transitioning to their second career at the same time that their menopausal transition tends to take place, but luckily it is treatable. 24:11
❤️ Women on hormone replacement therapy usually live longer and healthier. 25:24

Links:

👨‍⚕️ Connect with Dr. Michael: www.bywinona.com

🌸 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🌟 Listen to women's podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

Janet Wischnia: Big Dreams & Faded Jeans - From Retail to Ecommerce Business

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:51:39 -0500

🛏️ The story behind American Blossom Linens - focus on B2B paid off. 02:01
👩‍🎓 Janet's life through family business & how she started a new brand and a factory. 05:51
🇺🇸 USA had a very strong textile industry from the 40s to the 80th, and 'made in the USA' products are becoming popular again: with the online business, the schedule is a bit more flexible. 12:24
🎯 Starting a brand is learning from the ground up - a website and advertising are necessary, too: three reasons why business blossomed in covid. 15:54
✅ Digital marketing experience is universal for many products and companies - tips for people starting e-commerce. 21:35
👉 Listen to your customers, employees, suppliers, and your gut & know what not to listen to. 27:07
❤️ Janet is on the Forbes 50 over 50 list: the song Big Dreams and Faded Jeans by Dolly Parton has a lesson for us. 31:39

Links:

Connect with Janet: www.americanblossomlinens.com

Coupon for website: SHELEADS20 for 20% off

Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to women's podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com.

62. Yuri Chu Su - Travel, Work & Profoundly Getting to Know Yourself

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 11:39:33 -0500

🇿🇦 Yuri is in a travel program: she joined the podcast from Cape Town. 03:29
🤩 Travel emphasized Yuri's introverted side & taught her to deal with FOMO through JOMO: embrace the need to recharge. 05:49
🤔 Traveling is an invitation to get to know yourself deeper: big group conversations are usually very surface-level, but some people are more comfortable opening up. 12:06
👩‍❤️‍👨 A home base on this journey for Yuri is a new close friend. 16:15
💼 Aside from a buffet of things to do, Yuri and others work their regular jobs. 18:49
🍻 The happiest free moment, for now, is a beer Olympics on Christmas: the funny way Yuri chose her program. 22:14
🇵🇹 Lisbon was a dark hole into which Yuri dug a grave with her thoughts. 27:25
💭 Thoughts are annoying roommates that never shut up - we are not the thoughts but the awareness of the thoughts. 32:52
💗 Meditation helped Yuri deepen her love for herself: if you don't know who you are, you sabotage yourself & your body keeps the score. 35:11
🏕️ A strong sense of who you are helps with struggles: Yuri's goal is to find love & a home base. 40:34
🥳 Yuri loves being impressed: her inner circle of friends feels like home. 44:12
✅ The beauty of the journey: the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. 49:47

Links:

🤩 Connect with Yuri on Instagram: @yurichusu

💗 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

✅ Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

61. Jill Cruz - “Love & Loss” - Shaping A New Self-care Paradigm

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:03:00 -0500

🥰 Jill helps women lose weight in a healthy, sustainable, and pleasurable way: knowing your body and weight loss as a bonus. 02:44
🍀 We have to reprogram ourselves: once you shed the shackles, it doesn't have to be a lot of work. 05:55
⚖️ Find the balance between loving and accepting and taking action. 08:35
💞 Learn to love your shame - turn toward a negative emotion: recognize your signals, you are good enough. 09:59
😓 Chronic stress compromises our decision-making and eating habits. 16:25
🏞️ Let it flow & let it go - the opposite of “fight & flight” is “rest & digest.” 19:48
❤️ The 1980s model created a context based on fear, the new context is based on love. 22:43
🤝 Weight is not a problem, it’s a symptom: community is so important for support & enjoyment of the process. 25:19
💩 Women are victims of the system and we have to get ourselves out of it - stop sugarcoating!: ask questions, and don't carry the shit that others put on you. 29:33
✅ Negativity towards yourself shuts down productivity and creativity: entrepreneurship is a journey, let's get that mutual support. 34:43

Links:

🌸 Connect with Jill: www.wynweightloss.com

💜 Join our Love Challenge: https://members.wynweightloss.com/

🌟 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

60. Alicia Holmes - Why Women Must Shift Their Money Mindset Toward Wealth

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 07:00:00 -0500

🇺🇬 Alicia helped an entrepreneur in Uganda that hired 5000 women farmers. 02:36
💪 Women are the ones that want to help so badly that they scrounge for money. 06:50
❤️ Women need to be more financially empowered to make the world more heart-centered: rich vs. wealthy. 08:47
🎯 Be clear about what's most important to you and focus on discipline & choices: create a dream-building budget. 12:21
🤯 Importance of teaching the fundamentals of investing during this new industrial revolution: It takes a mindset shift to avoid being baffled with bullshit. 16:29
💰 What the internet did for communication, the blockchain will do for transactions: shareholder vs. stakeholder economy. 18:51
🏦 The economy and investments are going to be different than they were in the past. 23:41
🌌 You can have it all, just maybe not at the same time: investment tips & a zero-based budget: know what you want & the universe will conspire to give it to you. 25:51
🤔 A huge portion of Alicia's clients are women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s: most women are traumatized from the corporate world and need a mind shift and redirection of resources: 99% of the game is a mindset. 33:33
👉 Do you want to be sick and broke or healthy and wealthy? 37:03

Links:

👉 Connect with Alicia: www.instagram.com/journeytowealth_womeninaction

🌸 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

59. Kirsten Field - Empowering Youth Through Arts and Crafts

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 10:24:25 -0500

👧 Finding a better solution for all kids: how Kirsten founded her business. 01:46
😷 Starting from scratch due to Covid: how to differentiate in the market. 06:02
🃏 The hardest part of pivoting the company: the huge learning curve for Kirsten. 10:09
👩‍💼 Kirsten has a business background and was a stay-at-home mum for 10 years. 17:30
❗ 2 out of 3 girls don't think they can be whatever they want to be! 23:00
🧸 Tips for women in the product business. 24:14
🏭 How to choose the factories to work with? 27:07
🔧 Tweak as you go: Kirsten’s model from the start. 29:39
🤔 Supply chain issues: Where to find reliable manufacturing?? 32:41
🎯 When girls start to lose their confidence. 35:38

Links

🌸 Connect with Kirsten: www.kidscrafts.org

🎯 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

58. Ramona Cedeno - Financial Proficiency Equates Power

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:09:51 -0500

👩‍👧 Ramona's mom said she's good with money, so Ramona focused on that. 02:40
📊 Focus on the structure for gaining money, not just clients and services. 03:50
🤝 It's a person who deals with money: Ramona gives education through workshops, books, and personal talks. 04:30
😵 Women sometimes feel threatened by the financial aspects of their businesses: when financial planning often gets blocked out. 08:04
🤵‍♂️ Men don't think of 3k, they think of 20k and get disappointed if they get 15k. How should women elevate themselves? 13:05
🙋‍♂️ A real, balanced perspective: turn men into the conversation. 16:30
🤝 Don't do it alone - ask for advice. 17:40
⚖️ We need both - men's and women's help: use collective wisdom to move forward and find balance. 18:55
✅ How to go from solopreneur or consultant into growing a business where the services can be delivered? 23:28
🤷‍♀️ Ask other colleagues what are their fees, and check the market: raising prices sometimes means finding new clients. 28:25
👍 There is always the opportunity to correct and adjust. 33:25
❗ Don't feel guilty for charging what you charge. 34:00

Links

👉 Connect with Ramona: www.fibrick.com

🎯 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

57. Kim Liautaud - How to Find Financing for Your Business

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 08:12:00 -0400

👩‍💼 Kim is a member of BMO for ten years: a company that is advancing females within the organization. 02:58
👧 Child of two teachers who wanted to live in Chicago: pursuing all opportunities and stumbled into finances. 03:53
👍 BMO’s Women in Fintech program: an incubator that creates opportunities for women. 06:57
👉 US-focused program that is virtually based with a focus is on fintech and founded by a woman. 09:33
💲 $5 billion in capital BMO dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs. 12:54
💳 Harming your credit score: using a vehicle like a credit card for financing a business is not a good idea. 13:38
⚠️ Women have a harder time promoting themselves and being transparent: have a personal connection with your lenders. 15:30
🎯 Don’t express your story as talking to a man if a woman sits in front of you. 16:17
👛 Can we ask for a female banker: tips on how to find financing for your company? 17:35
🙃 Stories when men enter a bank vs when women enter a bank: changing dialogue and that narrative. 20:14
📈 Lots of companies support only women with non-profits: BMO helps all types of companies from the smallest to big ones. 24:19
✅ Do a little bit of research on BMO: why preparation, being intentional, and doing homework matter. 28:18

Links
👉 Connect with Kim: linkedin.com/in/kimliautaud
🏦 BMO for women: www.bmoforwomen.com
🎤 She Leads LIVE 2022: www.sheleadsmedia.com/conference-2022
🎫 Get your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/she-leads-live-2022-registration-277779304377?
🎯 Connect with Adrienne: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com/

🎧 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

56. Jaime Nolan - Who Do You Trust with Your Most Important Thing?

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0400

🌟 Birth of Las Comadres: in-person community with people that had very soulful businesses, and it grew super fast. 03:49
🥰 Who do you trust with your most important thing? 05:24
📈 The evolution of your business is where the fun is: everyone needs to evolve, so your business should too. 08:57
😎 Post-Covid entrepreneurial challenges: people are stepping into their power and claiming their truth. 11:26
🌸 We're supposed to live in a community: women are really ready to give but not that ready to receive. 14:25
⚠️ Getting answers from your community: the importance of asking very clear and direct questions. 18:31
🤓 Tips for finding your community: clarity that takes you to belongingness. 21:22
🤗 Las Comadres: soul development and entrepreneurship, courses, and helping people see themselves. 27:51
🤩 There are so many different marketing tactics you can use: systems and blame-game we put ourselves into. 30:32
😇 Running a successful business without a site: Yes, it is possible to do it in your own way. 33:00
📋 Understanding what your gifts are and then hiring the rest: make a list. 35:19
💲 How you take care of yourself, family, and community: calculating dollars and time wasted on things you really can delegate, hire, or get done in different ways. 40:47

Links

👉 Connect with Jamie: https://www.lascomadres.club/

🎤 She Leads Live 2022: www.sheleadsmedia.com/conference-2022

🎫 Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/she-leads-live-2022-registration-277779304377

🌸 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

55. Mills Bender - Financial Tips for Women Entrepreneurs

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:00:00 -0400

🙋‍♀️ Out of desperation comes innovation: Mills started her financial journey with only $1.50 in her bank account. 03:05
😇 We shouldn't shame ourselves for the place that we're in right now: it is time for action. 04:22
🥅 Have a grip on the money mindset: a budget is a tool and a monetary reflection of your priorities. 06:07
🤩 Most of Mill’s clients don’t value their time enough: metrics she uses to establish hourly rates and calculate the real value of her client's time. 11:55
📈 Undervaluing ourselves creates a domino effect in the market: women need to increase their rates dramatically. 13:43
🤔 How to start attracting the type of client that you want to be working with.15:47
💎 Is it a cost or is it an investment? A great tip about rephrasing your pricing. 18:49
🌟 The silence is your biggest player: how to increase your pricing with an existing client. 19:51
🤦‍♀️ Going out of the corporate world and lowering the prices: a weird phenomenon in not valuing yourself at the start of your business. 24:12
❗ “Until you start outsourcing and delegating, you don't own a business, you own a job.” 27:43
🍁 When business growth is bottlenecked by your capacity: there's a season for everything. 30:20
👠 Adopt the mindset that everything is changing around us: feminine energy fluctuates throughout the month naturally, so this should be easy for us. 34:02
🙌 Sara Blakely trusted herself, and we all should do it: women are amazing at building businesses, just do it! 35:54

Links

👉 Connect with Mills: www.millsknowsbills.com

📓 Free Mastering Your Money Mindset Guide.https://forms.gle/7NbLNVj6XAeXsuP97
🎤 She Leads Live 2022: www.sheleadsmedia.com/conference-2022
🎫 Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/she-leads-live-2022-registration-277779304377

🌟 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

54. Learning How to Have Hard Conversations with Veronica Marquez

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 05:06:49 -0400

🙌 Welcome, Veronica! 01:50
❎ Veronica’s career was interrupted by self-doubt: being at a crossroads. 02:58
🍽️ How Dinner Confidential and Between Us were created: women having intimate monthly thematic gatherings worldwide. 05:01
🤯 Some things that surprised Veronica from India to the US: patriarchal hierarchical, and highly materialistic culture affects us women in the whole world. 07:58
👘 Cultural stereotypes are holding women back: no spot for failure in Tokyo. 11:57
🎯 Listening to other women sharing their stories and navigating emotions in thematic gatherings, strengthening your true inner confidence14:57
😫 Complex relationships people have with social media: loops of triggers, stress, and disconnection. 17:37
👠 The spectrum of the feminine experience: Veronica realized she can’t host dinners in her house anymore. 21:35
🌸 New plans: book, tools, and solutions in helping people have better disagreements. 23:10
☯️ The world needs an intersection of feminine and masculine strength: let’s humanize one another and dismantle the power dynamics that exist in our society today. 25:30
🌟 Method of how to have hard conversations and facilitate your own dinners. 30:20

Links

Connect with Veronica: www.everythingbetweenus.com

Book: https://tinyurl.com/LTWist

Host dinners: https://everythingbetweenus.com/become-a-host

53. Mandy Cheung - Your Values Determine Your Profit

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0400

🇭🇰 Corporate financial advisor and a spiritual wealth coach from Hong Kong. 01:49
☹️ Despite having a good salary, some women don’t make responsible financial decisions. 02:52
😉 Working in a dominant male industry: stand up for yourself and love yourself radically. 04:45
👍 Importance of knowing your worth and not hating men: some great men helped Mandy in her career. 06:49
🎯 Mandy’s advice on regaining your passion and power when things don’t look great. 09:48
5️⃣ The five pillars of personal finances. 11:08
😇 Building confidence through taking a lot of action but also learning from your mistakes. 12:47
👠 Women are conditioned to compare themselves to other women: the patriarchal narrative has to change. 14:49
🙂 Differences between Hong Kong and the USA. 17:29
🌍 Adrienne thought equity issues will be extinct by now in corporate America: how women are respected in other countries around the world. 18:26
⚠️ Financial power is actually pure power: Consumerism is taking our pure power. 22:05
💩 The Girl-boss concept of women's entrepreneurship is fake. 23:06
🤩 There are many ways to be rich, but first, embrace our inner wisdom and find what truly matters to you. 26:28
✌️ Two methods Mandy uses to help herself in times of failure. 28:31
👉 Create more than you consume. 29:59

Links:
😎 Connect with Mandy: www.mandycheung.coach

🎤 She Leads Live 2022: www.sheleadsmedia.com/conference-2022

🎫 Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/she-leads-live-2022-registration-277779304377

🍀 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

52. Danielle Paige Jeter - Power of Creating Your Own Media Platform

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:54:16 -0400

🩰 Danielle was a dancer from a very young age: built character in the dance community and a way to express herself. 02:28
🤩 Working on the production team and promoting parties in Atlanta during college: building leadership skills and community around her. 04:44
👩🏽‍💻 The recession made Danielle find a way to build a business when she was 20: learning how to launch a business. 07:19
😎 Her event planning and staffing business evolved into PR services and media placement for her clients: becoming COVID-proof and niching down. 09:00
😍 The non-profit that equips and encourages women to own their voices in entertainment and media: WIM GLOBAL is like a sisterhood. 14:09
👩🏽‍💼 Building a woman's body of work through podcasting: Adrienne is passionate about changing the way women are seen across the board. 15:25
🎙️ Breaking the negative narrative: don’t lose the opportunity. Statistics show we need more women podcasters. 17:48
💃🏽 Who cares about saturation? 20:48
🆚 Having ultimate freedom vs following the rules women put in front of themselves. 21:18
✅ The mindset shift book Built to Sell made in Danielle’s business: the importance of succession planning. 22:36
🎯 Women need to have more seven and eight-figure conversations: building big businesses and influencing mindsets. 25:27
⚠️ Work yourself out of a job through replicable processes. 27:04
🤓 Having the right info sooner than later is so important so women can scale high enough. 30:10
💲 Meetup in Miami: mastermind for learning strategies in entrepreneurship. 32:00

Links

👩🏽‍💼 Connect with Danielle: www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-paige-jeter-57407b16

🌺 Women in Media Global: www.womeninmediaglobal.org

🧠 Mastermind: www.meetup2millionsmastermind.com

🎙️ Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

😍 Listen to women’s podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

51. Learning About Yourself Through Traveling The World, with Yuri Chu Su

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🌎 Yuri is 100% Chinese, born in Peru and living in Canada since nine years old. 02:21
👩‍💻 Adrienne and Yuri both worked at PwC: CPA who left corporate as soon as she could. 03:13
🙁 This is not the life I want: hardship and joyless feeling in the workplace. 04:50
🗺️ Her dream was to see the world: it started in the year when borders were starting to close. 05:50
✌️ Golden handcuffs in the corporate world vs. entrepreneurship in pandemic circumstances: freedom is so much better.
🛫 Traveling and working: epic nomad life takes a lot of discipline, good tools, and sometimes compromise. 10:32
🏝️ Dream come true: living in Bali for 4 months, seeing Singapore, Thailand, and Croatia. 12:23
🤯 Living with the community of the digital nomads: spending a month in 12 different countries through one year program. 13:45
⚡ New energy and new connections: plan activities, language learning, and experiences within the nomad community. 18:08
🧳 Understand the culture on a much deeper lever: having the year abroad but with your income. 23:22
♾️ Yuri is a proponent of experiential learning: changes and appreciation of experiences brought to through reflection. 25:33
😇 “The best people are the ones who have spent a lot of time going inwards”: your problems are traveling with you. 31:25
😎 The pandemic helped people to go inwards and reflect on themselves: wherever you go - there you are. 34:01
🗿 Traveling the Path and learning as we go along: Yuri Journey is the official name of the program Yuri is on. 36:02

Links

⛱️ Connect with Yuri on Instagram: @yurichusu

🌺 Connect with Adrienne:www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎙️ Listen to She Leads Media podcasts:www.sheleadspodcasts.com

50. Overcoming Ageism And Living Your Best Life with Cheryl Benton

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:38:33 -0400

🍅 The head tomato of the Three Tomatoes: ageism in the advertising and media business and Cheryl’s solution to it. 02:18
📚 The book publishing journey for Three Tomatoes started with Cheryl’s book Can You See Us Now? 07:11
✨ Dispelling the myth of what it's like to be growing older: Dream big. You’re never too old, and it’s never too late. 13:59
💃 Overcoming ageism: being more out there, helping younger generations realize that growing older is also good. 16:36
🦉 Cultural differences about the idea of growing old: mental decline vs. wisdom. 17:26
😎 Having a cool mom: traveling and having fun are not limited to your age. 20:34
🤔 Marketers are missing the purchasing power of middle-aged and beyond people: the importance of support and community. 21:59
💎 How to stop yourself from slipping down into a negative thought spiral: 24:43
🎯 Life is changing, and you are changing too - don’t be afraid. 26:52
🍷 Fun and signature events with The Three Tomatoes: Wine Days and Talent Shows. 31:06

Links

Connect with Cheryl: https://www.thethreetomatoes.com/

Connect with Adrienne:www.sheleadsmedia.com

Listen to She Leads Media podcasts:www.sheleadspodcasts.com

49. Use The Power of Negotiation To Maximize Your Income

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 10:42:58 -0400

🤩 Helping women to understand what it is they're worth and get paid what they deserve. 01:04
🖥️ Sophie’s background in structural engineering: lack of support and mentorship made her dive deeper into gender equity in the workspace. 02:09
🤯 Jillian started in executive compensation and realized so many women not negotiating their compensation. 03:51
🙃 Inherited biases: a gap in the data showing that no one knows why the gender pay gap exists. 06:10
👠 Understanding your value, articulating it well, and feeling confident in it. 09:15
🏋️‍♀️ Build a portfolio of your strengths. 14:39
😒 Everyone is for gender equity, but the numbers haven't changed that much. 16:33
⚠️ Don’t push it off, prepare and stand in your power: sooner is better than later to speak about your compensation. 21:26
🎯 How to ask for a meeting about compensation? 25:04
🤓 Most companies are having a hard time attracting and retaining talent: bugged problems and full compensation packages. 27:55
💲 Getting people to really understand equity: make material wealth over the long term. 30:22
👉 Resources where you can learn about equity if you are going in tech or towards director level and above. 32:31
💎 Compensation doesn't define your value as an individual: the baseline, openness, and sharing. 33:52
🤔 Defining what is an appropriate value charge. 37:22

Links
👀 Article: www.thethoughtfulco.net/post/charging-what-you-deserve

👉 Connect with Sophie and Jillian: www.thethoughtfulco.net

🤗 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎧 Listen to She Leads Media podcasts: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

48. Building Financial Freedom with Tamar Hermes

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:27:00 -0400

💲 Tamar guides women to become financially free through real estate investing. 02:29
🤔 Make sure that you have a handle on your finances: deciding between passive or active investing. 03:34
🤓 How to identify a credible person to partner with for passive investing? 04:47
👩‍💼 The deals are called syndications: 30% of investors are female. 07:10
🏘️ Tamara was an executive in the entertainment industry who decided to stop paying the rent: learning and getting deep into real estate. 09:34
✨ Breaking barriers and fears around the money: sharing vs. protecting. 11:17
💎 Most people only say more and chase more: find out how much money you need to have for your financial freedom. 16:30
🏝️ Getting property in Hawaii through different strategies: don’t be ashamed of your goal. Be bold and claim it. 19:18
📱 There is no reason not to create what we want to create: information and opportunities at your fingertips. 23:17
🤑 Money mindset: the inspiration vs. the perspiration. 24:49
👠 “Step into the vision of the kind of person you want to be in order to create what you want to create.” 25:58
🦸‍♀️ It takes a lot of stamina to achieve your dreams and to build wealth or a successful business. 28:44
📈 Finding opportunities in real estate nowadays: interest rates are climbing, and the market is increasing inventory. 32:29
📚 Tamar’s book: The Millionairess Mentality: A Professional Women's Guide to Building Wealth Through Real Estate 34:31

Links

🔗 Connect with Tamar: https://wealthbuildingconcierge.com/

👠 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎙️ Listen to She Leads Media podcasts: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

The Power of Combining Tradition and Technology for Entrepreneurial Success with Padma Ayala

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0400

💃 CEO but also a dancer, poet, book publisher, and founder of two nonprofit organizations. 01:12
🤯 Padma’s journey from rural India to the urban USA due to arranged marriage: losing confidence, being a mother, risk taking artist, and serial entrepreneur. 02:38
👩🏽‍💻 Upgrading her skills to a software engineer and working in big companies: her service mind and care couldn’t flourish in corporate. 06:56
👩🏽‍💼 The customer-focused consulting company become an AWS partner in data engineering, AI, and ML projects: good data is essential for making the right decisions. 08:24
📈 Being a female entrepreneur without mentors was hard: growing slowly, learning, and embracing remote working. 09:50
🖥️ Challenges with recruitment and inflation: core values for success of women in IT. 13:31
✨ Diversity is very important because of different perspectives on problem-solving: biased data is not good. 15:53
🛕 Passing ancient Indian knowledge to the next generations through non-profit: teaching kids art, old languages, traditions, and dance. 18:18
😍 Empowering women and children in Indian villages in an organic way: When women are strong, families are strong. 22:33
🙏🏽 The human race was not born yesterday—learn by looking into nature and at human experience: we learn to listen, think, and imagine using art and help from our ancestors. 26:06
🤩 Padma respects all the help she got from gurus, teachers, and an amazing team of women surrounding her: “When you want to do good, good will come back in many forms.” 29:41
💎 Padma recites one of her poems in the Telugu language: the irrelevance of the material world and the richness of nature and art. 31:34

🌸 Connect with Padma: https://www.virtuetechinc.com/

😇 Chanakyaleaders https://chanakyaleaders.org/index.php

🤩 Lakshmi Grama https://www.linkedin.com/in/lgrama

🌟 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

🎙️ Listen to She Leads Media podcasts: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

46. Creating a Movement with Magic Moments with Kylee McGrane

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 12:00:00 -0400

🧚‍♀️ Kylee’s fairytale started in a family deeply involved in the community: a big kid at heart. 02:31

🤡 Hospitals are too sterile for kids so Kyle got an idea to change it: “Oh, you kind of look like Elsa.” 04:04

🤩 Creating a movement: gathering college students who are passionate and driven to serve their communities. 05:36

💚 The driving force behind Kylie that helped her tremendously is family, professors, mentors, volunteers, and friends. 06:38

😇 Asking for help and learning the power of teamwork. 08:04

🆓 Non-profit with no barrier to entry: making services available to families free of charge. 09:21

📈 Growing from grassroots fundraising, charitable, corporation grants to government funding. 11:02

😷 The entire business model was disrupted during COVID: the solution was face timing in costumes with kids that were isolated in hospitals.12:02

💡 Streaming services and new creative solutions created from the pandemic. 13:22

🧑‍🎓 Magic Moments have branches all over the USA: students are the backbone of the organization. 15:44

🦸‍♀️ Costume as a vehicle for their mission: impacting volunteers and families with the cutest confidence booster. 17:47

🎯 The goal for A Moment of Magic is to never say no to a family in need: join their team. 20:34

👧 From a personal hobby to a serious organization: Kylie’s realizations in supporting children’s mental health. 22:34

🌸 The power of play and movement in expressing feelings and processing trauma for the youngest children is huge: more volunteers are needed! 26:29

👩‍💼 Kylee’s experience with She Leads Conference: having the support of women mentors beyond belief. 28:47

🌟 Connect with Kylee: www.amomentofmagic.org

🎙️ Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

45. Redefining the Narrative of Entrepreneurship with Alex Batdorf

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:16:35 -0400

⛑️ Practical and actionable help for women entrepreneurs: building wealth for future generations. 01:03
🤦🏽‍♀️ A sociologist who was sick of illogical messages about women's entrepreneurship: when narrative and math don’t match. 02:50
⚠️ There are no fast solutions: Investors don’t solve problems, but they do amplify what is already in your business. 04:35
⚡ Entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful vehicles to bridging wealth gaps for underserved communities. 05:35
🕵🏽‍♀️ Identifying what is the systemic barrier for women to grow revenue above $1M: raising capital is not a business model. 07:18
🤓 VC world and pattern matching vs building legacy business: the rules and biased data. 12:54
💰 A 19-year-old black girl raised money: dehumanizing shifts in people’s behaviors. 16:05
🤩 Pioneering something new: tracking outcomes and finding new business models that work through community and collective accountability 18:45
😇 Model the behaviors we want to show up in our lives: a healthy balance between masculine and feminine energy. 26:51
🙃 Scarcity and comparison is overwhelming: being aware of the impact social media consumption and biased behaviors and systems have on our mental health. 34:01
🛑 Modeling the same systems all over again: black women entrepreneurs’ revenues and new approach in modeling behavior in media. 36:35
✅ Learning from men: delegating and not trying to do everything yourself. 39:38
😰 No blueprint or silver bullet: trying to fit ourselves into a path that was never meant for us to follow. 41:51
🍀 Four main things all successful women entrepreneurs do: listening, collaborating, measuring & focusing on what matters now. 44:21
🌸 Going big, but your version of big: moving women into the revenue pipeline. 50:21

👉🏽 Connect with Alex: www.shegetsshitdone.com
👠 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com
🎙️ Listen to She Leads Media podcasts: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

44. Elevating Women’s Voices Through All Media Channels

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🌟 Shift in perspective: entrepreneurs need to start caring about the impact they are leaving in this world. 01:02
🧐 People still don’t realize the negative impact of the pandemic. 02:20
🌸 Road to freedom: from corporate world to entrepreneur, podcaster, and teacher. 03:28
😇 Traveling with MBA students. 07:19
👠 Being a CEO of She Leads Media: working with women on increasing their visibility through conferences, retreats, and a podcast network. 09:51
🎙️ How to help women podcasters. 11:19
📚 “I want to write a book”: SLM Publishing platform. 14:44
🎤 SLM conference is filled with love, care, and learning: experts helping women since 2013. 16:20
😨 “Who you are” shows up in your business: revealing and learning through business. 18:38
🤩 Helping as many women to move forward and share their gifts through as many media channels as possible. 21:45

👉 Connect with Adrienne: www.linkedin.com/in/adriennegarland
📣 Check out She Leads Media: www.sheleadsmedia.com
📻 Listen to great women’s podcasts: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

43. The Power of Focusing on the Youth and Influencing Our Future with Maria Dismondy

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🌟 Maria and Adrienne love conversations without sugar coating. 01:37
🎙️ Podcasts are an amazing place to have real conversations about all the things that are happening in the USA these days. 02:22
👩‍🏫 From teacher to writer and publisher who supports parents: open conversations with kids showed her how kids are embarrassed of their culture. 04:01
😇 Maria loves to present reality without sugar coating to the hesitant parents because there are too many bad things in front of our kids: “You are influencing the future”. 09:21
🎯 Maria’s focus is on targeting educators with free content and books because they can influence a lot of kids. 12:47
🤩 The importance of exposing youth to diverse ways of thinking: Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed. 14:40
😍 Teaching young children to be upstanders: giving hope, authority, and confidence to kids is important. 18:43
👂 The bystander effect appears in the crowd, and how female entrepreneurs can keep the movement forward by focusing on children. 23:09
🌷 Social media tends to show false glimpses, so reality has a hard time coming through: the importance of being real out there. 26:09
🚴‍♀️ Maria’s issues with business and why she decided nothing will take her bike time from her anymore. 30:30
👩‍💼 The negative narrative of entrepreneurial perfection. 31:56
🐌 Why a snail is Maria’s mascot and motto. 33:39
🤯 Leap of faith for Maria: purchasing a new business while having issues with the previous one. 34:24
👉 Positive reinforcement from her husband: women entrepreneurs don’t have to do everything alone. 39:41
💬 The importance of networking and being in the community of your industry. 41:41
🤓 Maria reads and answers all of her emails. 43:52

🌸 Connect with Maria: https://mariadismondy.com/
📚 Connect with CRP: https://cardinalrulepress.com/
🌟 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

42. Mother-Daughter Power in Business and Life with Ayelet Faerman

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🌿 Ayelet contributed to the Unbreakable retreat gift bag: a beautiful plant for each retreat participant. 01:52
👩‍💼 She was representing children in abuse cases but couldn’t do it anymore: Ayelet joined her family’s cosmetics business and learned e-commerce. 03:02
👩‍💻 Ayelet is passionate about plants and her plant business, but she also changed her specialization to influencer-law attorney. Now she runs two businesses. 04:22
🧱 Importance of being grounded and having stability in your life: Ayelet is now focused on business law because she was too emotionally involved when advocating for children. 07:50
👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Complexity in raising kids nowadays: so many things have changed. 09:11
👩‍👧‍👧 Ayelet’s husband keeps her grounded and reminds her to spend time with their daughters: organization in home life and pottery helps her maintain balance. 12:46
🍀 Learning to say no to clients that are not a good fit: plants are always there to support her. 15:17
🌓 Human beings need the natural cycle of sleep and rest. 17:20
🙏 Ayelet needs a good schedule to keep her mental well-being in check: leaning into religion for becoming grounded and appreciating the time for calmness. 18:07
🚉 When you are running your business, the office is like a train station: separation time and having a positive space to work in is helpful. 22:11
🖥️ Her family used help from influencers way back in 2015 and started using Shopify for hosting their store. 22:59
💰 Being her own store manager and not paying for consultants or outsiders while building an e-commerce store is a great advantage. 24:12
🧑‍⚖️ Learning to build relationships through experience in the courtroom and greenhouse. 27:29
🤩 Mother and daughter as co-founders is a wonderful, caring concept we don’t hear often enough in business. 29:45
📚 About reading books that have nothing to prove but are just good: give your brain a variety of thoughts and situations. 31:33
🏛️ Ayelet visits the library with her children: creating time to be in different worlds through books. 33:49
🌷 Being a plant-parent is a beautiful way to take your ‘Power Pause’. 35:22

🌺 Connect with Ayelet: www.verdantlyfe.com
🌟 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

41. Building Businesses and Aging Out Loud with Katie Fogarty

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:15:13 -0400

🎤 Katie was a speaker and amazing panel moderator at the She Leads conference: She Leads Live will be held in October 2022. 01:04
💃 Katie has two businesses now: a communications consultancy, and her podcast about ageism and growing old loudly. 02:06
🎙️ Using multiple platforms as your business booster: the power of LinkedIn, podcasts, and newsletters as your own platforms for networking 07:04
🌟 “Confidence comes from doing”: dive deep in to build your own skill set, and then see what other people in the space are doing. 10:54
😇 Be helpful and generous: Your voice and your way might be the only way that resonates with somebody at the exact time that they need it. 14:26
🤩 An MRI scan proves that love can last and we don’t fall apart with aging: some incredible stories from Katie’s interviews. 16:16
👩‍💼 Becoming a woman entrepreneur: fears, freedom, and challenges are real but the majority saw a need or a gap to fill based on their own experiences. 20:41
⚡ Don’t be afraid to start in one thing and end up in another: business building comes from building - just do it. 24:55
🙌 Adrienne’s teaching experiences revealed other ways and opportunities for traveling to Germany and teaching. 26:05
🤗 Katie is age-positive and grateful for her life: midlife can be hard but your age brings wisdom and experience important for building business. 27:58

👉Connect with Katie: www.linkedin.com/in/katiefogartymedia
👉 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

40. How to Overcome the Habits of Self Sabotage, with Dr. Candice Seti

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🤗 Memorial Day weekend is a great time for hugging your loved ones. 01:36

📒 Candice provided the UNBREAKABLE retreat with amazing workbooks about self sabotage. 02:11

👩‍⚕️ All of Candice’s specialties: Working with eating disorder population, weight & sleep management, and self sabotage. 03:09

😣 Pressure accumulates and changes our relationship with ourselves and things surrounding us. 05:38

😳 Fear of change: So much of our self sabotage is rooted in keeping ourselves comfortable. 07:03

🦺 The avoidance conflict approach: internally we’re drawn toward safety even if we don't like our position. 08:44

🕵️‍♀️ Recognition as a first step: when behavior is in conflict with the thing we want. 09:35

🎯 Our modes of self sabotage are habitual: replacing habits takes time. 12:50

👩‍💻 Self sabotaging entrepreneurs: factors that create fear of success and fear of failure. 16:54

🌞 When our needs don’t get met: looking inside to find what are our needs. 20:47

👀 Perception is probably 95% of the game: identifying values and trade offs. 22:20

👠 When women get stuck: career, family, and changes in life trajectories are normal. 23:26

🤷‍♀️ Entrepreneurship is not for everyone: what works for different personality types. 25:41

🧑‍🎓 College and grad school students don’t know who they are and what they want, so self reflection on Adrienne’s classes is essential. 27:24

🤩 Making long-term decisions without self assessment and self understanding is hard: we need this part in our educational and career path. 29:41

🤓 Successful career changes perspectives: look at your strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes. 31:35

🤝 Living and working as an entrepreneur with the things you don't like: power of acknowledgment and delegation. 33:59

🦸‍♀️ Confidence is a critical component to starting your own business. 35:43

↗️ Power of sharing in therapy: place, time, and space that is all about you in an unbiased, judgment-free environment. 37:11

Connect with Dr. Candice: www.meonlybetter.com

👉 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

39. Artistry & Storytelling Through Jewelry Design with Ashita Shah-Bohra

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 27 May 2022 10:09:37 -0400

👩‍🎨 Ashita and Arun created Arunashi as a reflection of their relationship: generational background in jewelry designing. 02:19

🎓 Ashita and Adriene both finished the Goldman Sachs 10KSB program. 03:28

🎯 Creating of Arunashi: Focused on quality, precision, and artistry storytelling through each piece of jewelry. 05:14

Working with Bergdorf “We have to have your pieces in our stores”. 06:58

💍 No mass manufacturing, unique pieces are offered to specific high-end retailers with deep dive into the story behind each item. 08:09

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Ashita and Arun moved to LA to be close to her family. 11:24

👩🏽‍💼 Self-proclaimed workaholic: returned back to work after being a stay at home mom to her kids. 13:02

🤹 Spending quality time with children: parenting while children are younger is different than when they’re emotional teenagers. 15:53

📈 Post COVID work has exploded and surprised Ashita: many new events and galas. 18:11

🤯 Celebrities don’t have time for shopping: business relationships with stylists. 19:35

😎 The learning curve in working with celebrities: specific placement of products. 20:45

😇 Emotional connection behind each jewelry collector: where secrets are going to be discovered, and open up slowly instead of just being presented. 23:25

🇮🇳 India’s deep jewelry history: family jewelers, heritage, and stories that stay in families. 25:08

🐌 Arun’s creative trajectories from the things that surround him: the snail whisperer. 28:03

💎 Jewelry that becomes part of you: time and effort needed to create one. 30:45

👉 Many business advice can’t be applied to Arunashi. 32:27

👠 Business models that match women's intuition: lead by your inner voice. 35:22

▶️ Courses and books are just the starting point in business: things to do when creating your business. 37:56

👂 Listening to the customers vs finding the solutions and products you want. 39:12

Connect with Ashita: www.shoparunashi.com

👉 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

38. Getting Back to Nature in Us with Anngelica-Marie Eshesimua

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 20 May 2022 10:18:50 -0400

🌺 Creating of Omekwa and Omekwa Oasis: benign cancer diagnosis and a need to support her body from natural sources. 02:15

👁️ The Great Resignation and Great Awakening. 03:43

🌞 The Self-care Success Assessment is a pillar to starting a mental, physical and spiritual healing journey. 05:14

😇 Utilizing community and communal care is a key to bridging the digital into more personal connection. 08:57

📱 Difference between prior and new generations: where are all the long talks gone? 10:16

🚨 When Anngelica-Marie felt she was off the track: disconnection from the present is an alarm. 12:36

😩 Corporate messes with your authenticity: reasons why Adrienne is an entrepreneur. 14:45

😨 Burnout feeds from these universal fears: Napoleon Hill’s book ‘The Law of Success’ and working on ‘reprogramming’ ourselves. 17:27

⚠️ Importance of recognition and making the active choice to not mask signals on your body and around you. 21:52

😍 Reasons behind creating her own business: jumping into it based on intuition was a huge leap of faith. 24:02

📺 Anngelica-Marie’s work is mixed with her experience in entertainment: creating interactive content, expressing creativity, and storytelling. 27:44

🧐 Gen X’s are not interested in just money, and they are not putting up with the nonsense of the ‘old’ corporate world. 29:07

⛑️ Trained to put up with a lot of things is really not healthy: taking the help and leap to back up your authenticity. 31:50

😎 Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘The Paradox of Choice’: the world is abundant in opportunities. 34:34

💚 Choices and questions you have in front of you every day: keep making the choice to be active participants. 35:27

Connect with Anngelica-Marie: www.anngelicaalways.com
👉 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

37. The Power of Giving and Receiving in the Community with Thais Eliasen

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 May 2022 10:53:22 -0400

😍 Thais contributed hair styling and hair care items for the UNBREAKABLE retreat 01:32

🎆 The work in Salvation Army: Growing up with amazing parents who were using their communicative skills for the benefit of the community. 02:32

👩‍💼 Transition from nonprofit to corporate and why Thais chose to open her consulting firm. 06:15

🦸‍♀️ Mom of four kids managing all situations: being authentic through serving others. 11:37

⚖️ She is very relational at college: pandemic and the balance of giving and receiving. 14:11

⚠️ Tradition and experience that is 100 years old: being locally and community-oriented gives huge growth in business. 17:30

😇 Adrienne’s philosophy is all about being good and fair: Atomic Habits book and power of constant tiny steps. 20:40

🤩 Don’t start without dreams: Thais makes the steps so her clients can start where they are with what they have, and what they know. 24:33

🌞 Getting yourself out there tips: try volunteering, learn from others - even your rivals and just do it! 26:59

🧹 Getting rid of all the excuses: longevity matters, don’t look for a magic pill. 34:17

🤫 Don’t make it about you: there’re so many reasons your business is not on the level you’d like. 36:36

🦋 Find a support system: being strategic about the leadership of your company is important because you just can't do it alone. 39:59

Connect with Thais: www.thaiseliasen.com

👉 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

36. The Power of Movement with Kodi Kitchen Berg

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 06 May 2022 08:00:00 -0400

🤩 Kodi is gifting her products to the women on the UNBREAKABLE retreat. 01:34

🌺 Reimagined traditional fitness equipment to be more beautiful: Ubarre and EQUIPT. 02:28

👗 Kodi realized modeling wasn’t for her when she heard “Your body is too active for your face”. 04:37

🤠 Riding steer and the Billabong ad campaign. 06:03

👩‍🍼 Unconventional problem solving: Going out to the steel yards with her baby strapped around her chest. 09:06

🎨 Conscious consumption and creation: journaling, museums, welding classes, and replicating shapes from nature. 11:41

💪 Discovering how she wanted to work and discovering her strengths. 16:13

🍺 Vegan leather ankle weights, love for beer, and love for movement: rewarding instead of intimidating. 20:30

😎 Balance, bilateral movement, and healthier moments: Changing the traditional fitness concepts. 26:03

📚 Book Atomic Habits is revolutionary, and Kodi is trying to incorporate many principles from it. 27:54

🤸‍♀️ Workout obsessed vs. movement obsessed. 29:41

👩‍💻 Kodi’s business journey: from studio, museum visits in London to slow implementation of beauty concepts. 32:07

🌞 Kodi’s idea is to build her business through community: traveling, hospitality, and the ability to move everywhere with Ubarre. 37:36

👉 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

👉 Connect with Kodi: www.equiptmovement.com

35. The Best Products Come From Motivated Women - with Joyce Dales

Adrienne Garland — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:58:13 -0400

😍 Adrienne’s allergies: Joyce is giving her products to all women on the UNBREAKABLE retreat. 01:51

👠 Support matters: Women would purchase from women more often. 02:30

🚧 Too many hurdles: Certification of a “Women-Owned Company” takes time and funds. 03:20

👃 Her baby was seriously immunocompromised: prepping products for the health of the nose. 06:35

⭐ The best products come from motivated women. 11:07

🔥 Great resignation is moving the mindset from corporate America: becoming makers again. 13:06

😇 Old fashion mindset: start locally; there is a trust issue within corporate. 14:18

🙌 Human connections and relationships vs. influences of shiny objects. 19:00

🙃 Riddle in entrepreneurship: FDA agents in Joyce’s house. 20:34

⚾ Red Sox had a cold: beginning an excellent business relationship and getting into CVS. 23:24

😫 Failure and the fear of whether or not you are making the right choices as an entrepreneur.

🤯 Joyce learned two important phrases: Kinkeeping and weaponized incompetence. 27:33

🥘 Feeding the monster with: “Oh, let me do it.” 35:36

🐝 Cold Bee Gone and Allergies Bee Gone are Joyce’s main products. 37:15.

👉 Connect with Joyce: www.buzzagogo.com

👉 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com

The Different Paths To Entrepreneurship, with Elizabeth Kramer

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:57:10 -0400

👩🏻‍💼 Elizabeth's corporate story and business experience working in London. 2:54

👔 When you get what you asked for, it may not be what you actually want. 04:42

🏋🏻‍♀️ Elizabeth took a leap into entrepreneurship in 2012 and bought an all-women's gym. 8:13

💫 Elizabeth was known as a turnaround expert in the corporate world and she was always inclined to operations, but she sees that women are often 'groomed out' of operational roles. 11:20

💵 By buying a business, you have an automatic revenue stream, and a paycheck which is rarely the case with startups.15:30

💰 How do you purchase a business without having full finances to cover the purchase? 18:58

🤸🏻‍♀️ The third business Elizabeth purchased was a franchise trampoline park that she improved and exponentially grew within a few short years. 23:14

😷 When she had just purchased the franchise in California, COVID hit. 26:00

🌺 Elizabeth started Empowered by E to help women with their careers without BS advice. 30:34

💎 Adrienne feels that Elizabeth is a rare gem and that more women should explore buying a business and to look to Elizabeth for advice. 34:08

Connect with Elizabeth

https://www.empoweredbye.com/

https://www.instagram.com/empowered.by.e/

https://www.facebook.com/empowered.by.e/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-kramer-4412267/

Join the She Leads Community for FREE at https://community.sheleadsmedia.com/

33. Leadership is Feminine, with Kris Plachy

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:08:34 -0400

🌺 When a woman thrives, everything and everyone around her thrive too. 2:12

😇 We're in the process of the entire system crumbling, and that's good news! 4:52

👩‍💼 Leadership is feminine because it comes through empathy and invention. 10:30

🎯 Don't play their rules, just go to a different place where leadership is a connection and a relationship. 14:39

👔 Posturing and positioning incorporate vs humanizing. 16:10

👥 'We will take care of our workers' shows also a high rate of disengagement among workers. 19:39

🍱 A cool office and organic snack can't substitute for good leadership and relationships. 21:18

🙆‍♀️ Women usually struggle to give themselves permission to nurture themselves and their goals and dreams without feeling guilt 23:47

👠 Do you ask your husband for permission or you will have an opinion and claim the space that you own in the world? 25:19

⭐ Step one: Decide that you already have it in you and lean into your greatness. 27:24

😎 There are so many ways to generate revenue and to have a self-sustained lifestyle--take back your power. 29:53

💆‍♀️ Build the business that serves you. 32:23

☀️ Tell the truth, decide on what you will do to solve the challenge ahead of you, and hang out with women-angels who are helping you. 35:30

🤩 'Let's see how it goes' approach vs. 'I'll make it work out the way I want it to be' approach. 40:30

🌅 Learn more about Kris' Hawaii retreats. 45:00

Connect with Kris:

https://krisplachy.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisplachy/

https://www.instagram.com/krisplachycoach/?

https://twitter.com/krisplachy?

https://www.facebook.com/krisplachy

https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/how-to-ceo-sales-page-waitlist?f

Join the She Leads Community for FREE at https://community.sheleadsmedia.com/

32. Shining a Light On Moms with Tonya McCornell of the MOM Film Fest

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:26:29 -0400

🎬 Tonya created an online film festival around her NYWIFT network, and moms around the globe submitted their movies to her first-ever MOM film festival. 2:44

🤱 Focusing on motherhood--we must give moms respect, because they deserve it. 8:15

🤕 All the challenges mothers are currently facing due to the pandemic. 10:42

☹️ Moms in the film industry are experiencing prejudices and are faced with “mothering in the shadows.”13:20

🎦 Tonya was a makeup artist on the set who soon started organizing sets and producing movies. 16:19

🎥 Film is a great medium to help create dialogues around uncomfortable issues and Tonya is using film to explore important themes. 18:16

🥳 It does not matter how young or old you are, a new voice is a new voice. 19:39

⚖️ How are you going to make money vs. what impact do you want to make in this world? 22:18

🎞️ Learning to create movies with the help of community and volunteering.

🔔 We need to get out of these patterns of thinking so we can make a change. 28:52

🌺 MOM Festival will take place on August 20th-23rd with amazing support to all moms and parents. 30:30

👍 Moms can create ads and commercials for products they are buying. 32:57

⏩ You can help and donate MOM Festival. 34:27

Connect with Tonya and MOM Film Fest.

https://momfilmfest.com/

Submit your movie to MOM Festival for only $10 https://momfilmfest.com/submit/

https://www.nywift.org/event/making-motherhood-work-in-the-film-tv-industry/

Insta: tonya_mccornell

Insta: @momfilmfest

Twitter: @MOMFilmFest

Twitter: @TonyaMcCornell

https://twitter.com/nywift

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From The Farm to the Best Planner Ever with Jennifer Dawn

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:40:48 -0500

👠 Welcome, Jennifer. 1:55

👩‍👴🦳 Growing up and spending summers with her grandparents around their chiropractic offices tickled her entrepreneurship ideas out. 3:19

🍎 When Jennifer was eight, she turned her idea into money. 4:48

😎 She worked all the way through her high school and started her software company at 23. 5:46

🤩 After the 2008 crisis, Jennifer wanted to work in a corporate, but soon after, she started leading a National Network of Women Entrepreneurs 8:15

💻 Jennifer lost her momentum in college because of a loss in a family but figured it all out very fast and started a software company with 23. 11:59

🌟 Starting your own business just because you don’t like your job is not a smart idea. There are many options out there. 18:03

💎 There is a noticeable shift in SheEconomy and Jennifer strongly decides to show up the best with things she has control of. 21:30

🌞 Getting clarity about yourself is the path for changes. Winning is done in the trenches. 24:50

🧠 Your mind is your most powerful asset, be careful what you are feeding it with. 25:49

💜 When you're putting your message out to the world, have that message come from a higher place. Love, not fear. 31:12

🤑 When COVID hit coaching businesses, Jennifer coached her clients 3 months for free and clients now have record profits. 32:36

😉 In times of crisis, everything is about your mindset. 34:01

💫 Losing revenue and getting it back via a combination of shifting and double downing. 36:43

😇 Jennifer is a genuine person with so much positivity and optimism. 38:34

Connect with Jennifer:

https://jenniferdawncoaching.com/

https://bestplannerever.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferdawn/

https://www.facebook.com/JenniferDawn8/

What It Means To Reinvent Yourself, With Lesley Jane Seymour

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0500

🙋‍♀️ Lesley was a speaker at the She Leads NYC conference and her story was an absolute hit! 1:19
⭐ On Covey Club’s ‘Positive Morning’ call, Lesley realized that she built another family for women in the second half of their lives. 2:13
📰 When she was a 10-year old, Lesley turned to magazines to remedy the isolation she experienced due to parent’s divorce. 5:05
💜 Covey Club was created after More Magazine folded and loyal readers approached Lesley’s social media channels, asking her to create something new for them. 7:39
🧚‍♀️ Everybody has a thread and it's not accidental, even if you get knocked off course, you will come back to the thread somehow. 11:35
🙌 The most important thing is to spend time finding the thing that highly motivates you.14:25
😲 The fashion industry told her ‘You're never going to make it here. You're too nice.’ 16:31
👄 Getting over a ‘Good girl’ complex. 19:55
💵 In your own business, you have to deal with everything, especially the money and charging for your services. 21:51
😇 Lesley is very open person who likes to welcome people around her as part of her family. 23:58
💃 When you are an entrepreneur you get to pick and choose your team and clients, and it is giving you such a relief. 26:36
🤸‍♀️ Reinvention is behind almost everything Covey Club does. 27:38
🎙️ Lesley is the host of the ‘Reinvent Yourself with Lesley Jane Seymour’ podcast where women talk about their amazing life stories and how they reinvented themselves. 29:13
🙏 There is so much to be grateful for in life even during the pandemic. 32:43
🚚 Lesley fell in love in New Orleans and moved away from New York after 40 years. 34:56
🦸‍♀️ In New Orleans you’re living very close to history and you either love it or not. 40:00
💣 Covey club has a book club, DIY articles, library of webinars, Positive Monday Mornings, B2B services, classes and events. 45:26
😆 Her Insta account is a meme account designed to make us all laugh in these crazy times.
👱‍♀️ Don’t forget to register for She Leads 2020 LIVE ONLINE - December 8th - to hear from more incredible women just like Lesley: https://hopin.com/events/she-leads-2020-online

Connect with Lesley:
https://www.coveyclub.com/
https://www.coveyclub.com/podcast/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lesleyjseymour/
Story everyone should read: https://www.coveyclub.com/blog_posts/my-daughter-my-enabler-linda-olson/

29. Using The “3C’s” to Get To Authentic & Genuine Communication, with Jill Katz

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:00:00 -0500

🤩Jill’s company focuses on the four critical C's of all company life, which is culture, communication, conflict and change. 2:33

🚦 Like every other entrepreneur, for years, Jill wanted to start her own business, but stopped herself on several occasions. 4:01

🤯 Jill observes the exact same issues across multiple industries. That’s why she focuses on opportunities to solve people’s problems. 5:20

🛑 People are oftentimes fearful in their workplaces, because of company culture, limited feedback mechanisms, which leads to workers shutting down communications completely. 7:46

💃 Jill’s 3C’s model of sharing feedback with Candor, Courage, and Care is bringing back personal authenticity to work lives and helps both productivity and stress reduction. 11:28

🫂 The 3C’s model is not good only for work but it highly improves all relationships because it is all about people. 14:00

✌️ HR Assemble is company agnostic, but focus on choosing to work with leaders that have the right mindset. 16:18

🙋‍♀️ We need a more humane corporate world and innovative leaders who recognize this. 18:16

🙃 It's not always easy to explain to a group of cross functional partners or a leadership team that everything's going to be done in a different way. 20:26

🌸 At the end of day, culture is how we live and what we choose to do. Every business owner should define it from the start of creating a business or it will define itself. 24:57

🔗Connect with Jill:

https://hrassemble.com/events

Twitter: @jillbkatz

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/hrassemble/

👱‍♀️ Plus, Don’t forget to register for She Leads 2020 LIVE ONLINE - December 8th - to hear from more incredible women just like Jill: https://hopin.com/events/she-leads-2020-online

28. The Unspoken Realty of Women NOT Helping Women

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 06:31:29 -0500

Notes
🔥 Adrienne boldly reached out to Antonia after reading her Swaay article about women who do not support other women. 1:03
🧱 Antonia is an Experience Collector. Her choices in life and career were centered around having incredible experiences and building something new. 2:46
📣 We need to talk about hypocrisy: Women are being disloyal to other women, but it’s not often spoken about. 9:07
😡 What to do when you experience a ‘mean girl from highschool’ comment? 10:54
☝️ Having systemic support and practicing diplomatic responses to inappropriate comments at work is essential. 14:52
🤯 The reactions to Antonia’s article were huge, but all reactions were sent in private messages, as this is still taboo. 16:58
🙈 Women focus on talking about men holding them down, but do not apply the same standard to other women. 21:06
😇 Concept of kindness and custodianship vs the concept of the power of a pronoun. 25:11
⚖️ These days leaders have to be able to adapt to new concepts: bias for action, and balance towards thoughtfulness. 28:07
👱‍♀️ Learn from the youth, open up your social circle and let people inspire you by who they are. 32:52

🔗 Connect with Antonia:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonia-hock

Read “Women Against Women: The Workplace Discrimination You Need to Know About” here:

https://swaay.com/women-against-women-workplace-discrimination

Register for She Leads 2020 LIVE ONLINE - December 8th - to hear from more incredible women like Antonia: https://hopin.com/events/she-leads-2020-online

27. Taking Flight - From the Navy to Advocate & Promoter of Women’s Voices

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

🙌 Hello again, Linda - an old friend and previous speaker at the She Leads 2016 Conference in NYC. 2:12

😇 Multi-passionate people like us are known as 'scanners', according to Barbara Sher, who recently passed away. 4:39

🪖 Linda joined the military when she was just 17 years old! 6:20

🌞 She is a huge proponent of mentorship, as she greatly benefited from people who were speaking positivity into her life. 9:26

🤯 Linda was a top-of-her class naval flight officer, flying from aircraft carriers. She was the first woman who was successfully ejected from an aircraft - to great honor. She went on to become a program manager for major aviation programs in the Navy. 11:40

📖 Linda’s book ‘Military Fly Moms’ was published in 2012 and recounts stories of 70 women in the military. 16:30

🙋‍♀️ We typically hear one or two ‘victim-y’ stories about women veterans, and there are much more positive and powerful stories. Linda had a vision to elevate women veteran’s voices in a different, unique and powerful way. 20:17

🇺🇸 “Proudly She Served” is a collaborative art project that honors active duty military and veteran women. 27:28

🌹 In addition to all of this, Linda is a full-time working mother of two incredible human beings! 31:29

🎤 Women Veteran Speakers bureau has so many amazing and talented ladies that event managers, conference producers and companies can benefit from inviting to speak. 35:03

Connect with Linda and check out her work:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lwomenveteranspeakers/

https://womenveteranspeakers.com/

https://www.facebook.com/WomenVetsSpeak

https://www.proudlysheserved.com/

To hear amazing speakers, and to connect with other powerful women like Linda Maloney on December 8, 2020 - please register to attend She Leads 2020 ONLINE LIVE at www.sheleadsmedia.com

26. How to Start & Grow Your Own E-commerce Brand, featuring Janis Carmina, the eCommerce QueenBee

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:16:32 -0400

🌷Janis Carmina - member of the 400+ member She Leads Media online community - shares her expertise. 1:15
🦄 Ex-police officer, the ECommerce Queen Bee, creates 6 figures brands on Amazon. 2:32
🌞 Welcome to the Sugar Coated podcast, Janis. 4:33
💰 Using Amazon FBA and retail arbitrage as a side gig for earning money. 6:43
🤩 Janis discovered Private Label companies and started selling products under her own brand 7:02
🚓The fateful night on patrol when her career was finished. 9:57
🤓 Keys to selling on Amazon and exactly how to develop your brand. 12:52
🧜‍♀️ Right is authenticity sells these days. 15:10
🦄 No Straw Challenge and how Janis created a brand of environmentally friendly straws. 17:39
⚠️ Smart go-to-market advice: do not launch a product without doing your research first! 19:51
😻 If you don’t have a company yet established, it’s better to start as a sole proprietor then incorporate after you have some success. 29:36
📚 Question answered about Self Publishing on Amazon. 31:44
🤗If you want to scale, you can’t do it by yourself. You must hire the right help! 34:36
😓 Working too much ‘in the business’ instead of ‘on the business’ can lead to frustration and burnout, so you must watch out for this. 47:42
🤑 Don’t be mistaken: There are many people who have money and time to purchase products and support the economy in these pandemic times. 55:26
👠 Join SLM online community at www.sheleadsmedia.com
🎟️Tickets are available for She Leads Online conference bit.ly/SheLeads2020

Connect with Janis:
Janis’ free bootcamp: https://www.ecommercequeenbee.com/home37012558
https://www.instagram.com/ecommercequeenbee/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ECommerceQueenBee/videos

25. Crafting Powerful Words with Eva Janotta, Marketing Strategist & Consultant for the Women Helping Women Ecosystem

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:55:43 -0400

🌷Welcome Eva! 1:39
👩‍💼Helping women in communication strategy through thought leadership perspective.2:16
🚧 Usual obstacles in front of us: curse of knowledge. 4:56
🌊 Dealing with criticism: Thought leader should be bold and "make the waves" 5:43
☯️ Working on inner self is crucial for all. 7:39
📝 Eva helps entrepreneurs by formulating their ideas into words. 9:19
👠 Her journey from college to corporate and to entrepreneur. 12:32
🙃 Eva was avoiding asking for help from professionals, and that delayed her progress. 15:16
🤩 There's a team behind an entrepreneur, it is not all solely achievement of one person. 20:39
👎 People pleasing ruins everything. 23:37
🧠 "The hardest thing about entrepreneurship is my brain." 27:36
🗣️ Networking and mouth referrals can grow your business. 29:49
🤓 It is easy to connect with people and make friends even during pandemic. 33:20
✌️ Shifting energy of interaction with people is important, don't go into sales pitching mode. 36:41
🌞 Forget about the goal, concentrate on the process. 37:35
🆓 A free email course about the five magnetic pillars of thought leadership.
🖇️ https://mailchi.mp/a48e58fa5cd7/5pillarscourse
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/evajannotta

24. Eradicating the All-Male, Pale & Stale Event Panels with Bobbie Carlton

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:22:15 -0400

🎤Bobbie and Adrienne meet at the She Leads Conference in NYC. 1:56
💃 Bobbie is a CEO & founder of three companies, and recently she bought two more. 2:32
🛣️From the corporate world to entrepreneurship: 2008 was a turning point. 6:10
🖥️Online tools & tech made continuing business relatively easy, in the face of a global pandemic. 11:12
🤝Innovation Nights is Bobbie's startup showcase event company that has always promoted diversity. 17:20
👚The “Pink Collar Ghetto” situation that afflicts women in PR. 23:18
👀Making personal networks aware of local companies and products. 26:42
🎆Creating an Innovation Nights style event in your local community can have a huge impact. 30:41
🖇️Innovation Women is a visibility bureau connecting event managers with women speakers, without speaker fees. 33:08
🤷‍♀️An explanation of the reason why women turn down speaking opportunities - it’s not what you think. 37:41
🎙️About expert speakers and “1 Google-search deep" speakers. 43:58
🤗Resources and tutorials Innovation Women provides--the differences between online + live speaking - it's not the same skillset. 46:41

https://innovationwomen.com/
https://mass.innovationnights.com/
https://carltonprmarketing.com/
https://lionessmagazine.com/
https://myspeakerleads.com/
Listen in to all podcasts on the She Leads Podcast Network www.sheleadspodcasts.com

23. On Meaningful Relationships

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 11:17:08 -0400

🥳Celebrating a 25th wedding anniversary. 1:20

👀Every relationship goes through peaks and valleys. 2:12

💖My husband is my best friend. 5:31

✨ What makes for a great relationship? 6:14

🔔 Commitment is the single most important element for long relationships. 8:04

🫂It is easier to bond with people when meeting face to face like at the She Leads Conferences. 11:40

🙃Commitment: more than a word, more than a feeling, and more than simply dedication.18:21

🥗Lunchtime can be a starting point to form relationships with colleagues you work with. 23:10

💌Send your thoughts about relationships and commitment to Adrienne at adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com 31:26

📧If you would like to start a podcast or join our network, please contact adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com

️🎙️Check out all the podcasts on our network: http://sheleadspodcasts.com/

22. Reflections On Picking My Brain

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400

🌪️The recent NY Hurricane. 1:02
🏡New circumstances and working from home. 1:56
🧠My brain is not open for picking. 3:28
🛑Stop being rude to people who provide you with knowledge or answer your questions! 4:53
😲Why ask the question, if you are not open to listening to the answer? 6:09
💃Ladies, your set of knowledge is important, share it only with someone who values it! 6:43

21. Confidence, Commitment & Campaigning, With Multi-faceted Expert Jade Simmons

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:30:29 -0400

👋 Welcome, Jade! 01:02
🎹 From a concert pianist to a presidential candidate. 02:21
💭 Re-inventing who you really are. 06:17
💗 Figuring out your purpose. 08:45
☝ The age of mentorship: giving and receiving advice. 11:18
😨 Don’t let fear dictate your mode of operation. 16:00
🔍 What kind of leaders does this country need? 19:29
👥 Society expectations vs. society needs 24:40
👣 How to think bigger, do bigger, be bigger? 29:05
😎 Look at your own track record to find your source of confidence. 32:07
🙏 Bless those who curse you. 33:42
👠 Women vs. women: Why sometimes women don’t support one another? 37:01
😕 Negative statements and their impact. 42:16
💡 Vision instead of fear. 44:15
💬Operation Restoration: https://jadesimmons.mykajabi.com/operationrestoration2020 47:17

Visit community.sheleadsmedia.com to join a community of like-minded women leaders and entrepreneurs.

20. Take Control of Your Financial Knowledge, with Wendy Cai-Lee, Piermont Bank

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:34:54 -0400

▶ Podcast intro 01:03
👋 Welcome, Wendy! 04:18
🏢 The Piermont Bank story. 06:51
👌 Finding the right banking partner. 09:25
💰 Bank loan or venture capitalists: What type of financing is the best? 12:32
🚫 What if your credit score is bad? 17:58
🆘 Bank resources: how to reach out for help. 22:34
👠 Wendy’s story: a woman in banking & finance. 24:13
👥 The finance industry’s attitude towards women. 29:26
🔁 Two-way street and value add. 34:47
😄 Attitude is more than half the battle. 42:11
💬 Reach out to Wendy https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendycailee and Piermont Bank https://www.piermontbank.com/ 44:44

19. Have You Ever Felt Like You Had Too Much On Your Plate?

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:47:40 -0400

🍛Having “Too much on my plate” syndrome. 2:10
⛑️Some tools I'm using - Brooke Castillo’s 'Monday Hour One'. 4:56
📝Think everything through, write it out on paper, and calendar it. 6:15
😟The system might not work for me? 8:34
📌What is your greatest tip for not feeling overwhelmed? 10:20
🎙️Would you like to launch a podcast? https://sheleads.podcastnetwork.io/ 13:02
😊Connect with me: adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com 14:01
Link: Instagram @SheLeadsMedia and Instagram@SheLeadsMedia 14:01

18. How to Move from a Corporate Employee to a Profitable Entrepreneur, with Debra Boulanger

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:49:56 -0400

👋 Welcome, Deb! 01:04
🙅 Getting out of the corporate mindset. 02:15
😏 Having the confidence to leave the corporate world. 05:24
😰 What are the greatest challenges for women when creating their own business? 07:23
💡 Does success in corporate = success in entrepreneurship? 10:00
☀ The importance of a healthy mindset. 13:41
⛔ Fear is a luxury. 19:08
✌ Building relationships and one-on-one connections. 21:59
💪 Entrepreneurship as the new feminist movement. 23:20
🎧 The benefit of podcasting: podcasts as tools to connect with your audience. 25:37
💫 The Launch Lab program. 30:18
💵 Pandemic and the market change. 33:32
🙋 Invest in yourself! 34:55
😓 Being open to the possibility of negative feedback. 38:09
💬 Connect with Deb and Life After Corporate https://thegreatdoover.com/ and https://sheleads.podcastnetwork.io/podcast/life-after-corporate/ 41:36
sheleadsmedia.com
www.sheleadsmedia.com/podcast-network
IG @sheleadsmedia

17. Big Breaths & Bold Moves - Using Your Mind To Create Radical Change

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:30:00 -0400

🎙️Podcasts: tools and resources for self-help and encouragement 1:46
👌Recommendation: Life Coach School Podcast by Brooke Castillo. 2:24
👣Steps on the path: Thoughts, Emotions, Actions, Results 3:47
🙌Tiffany Carter's podcast provided me with amazing tips: ProjectMe with Tiffany 6:44
🤬My corporate failure: well who needs you, mother**ckers? 9:35
🌾Some losses really show us that we have to rely on ourselves. 14:59
✨Anger is an energy: the birth of She Leads Media. 15:56
📻Fierce Feminine Leadership - Eleanor Beaton Podcast 17:18
🔥I had an epiphany! 18:00
🔔Don't slow down: just take a big breath! 18:46
🗣️Let me know what holds you back. 22:54
🎆Support She Leads Podcast Network: https://www.instagram.com/sheleadsmedia/ 23:00

16. Showing up in a heteronormative world, with LGBT Leadership Expert, Shannon Marie Whittington

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:00:00 -0400

🙋‍♀️Meet amazing Shannon Whittington. 2:29
🏆Interesting combination: nursing and leadership. 4:38
💎Shannon became the nurse leader she wanted to have. 6:15
🙌 Nurses rules! 6:30
😞 Health care professionals need more education about LGBTQ health. 13:12
🤯Fear and caution - gay couples experiences in a heteronormative world. 16:53
🌟Treat everybody like a human being. 28:55
😟Each company has a need for courses and teaching about LGBTQ. 30:39
💪When real life kicks in: everyone sees the product, no one sees the work. 32:33
🪨A false sense of stability and security. 38:06
👩‍❤️‍👩The loving support of a spouse is crucial in her work as a clinical transformer. 41:10
🌈Consult with Shanon on how to create an LGBTQ+ inclusive environment in your companies: http://www.whittingtonconsulting.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonwhittington 44:30

15. Kristin Molenaar - CEO of Yes Boss VA - Is On A Mission To Eradicate Entrepreneurial Stress

Adrienne Garland — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:00:00 -0400

👋 Meet Kristin and her work. 01:30
💗 Is it necessary to have a passion for what you’re doing? 03:59
🌱 Starting at the bottom - again. 07:35
😎 Keeping your confidence in solo-entrepreneurship. 10:19
👉 Don’t get caught in the comparison game! 14:03
👑 Don’t tie your business to your identity and your self-worth. 16:28
👶 Your business is not your baby! 19:30
😰 At what point do entrepreneurs realize they need help? 23:10
👪 The power of delegation. 25:47
😄 Replacing your income with a freedom mindset. 30:12
💵 What if you don’t have the money to afford these services? 33:48
💡Hire people who believe in the vision of your company. 36:48
👏 Partner with your clients. 40:20
💬 Get in touch with Kristin https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinmolenaar/ and Yes Boss VA https://yesbossva.com/ 42:18

14. Illana Raia, CEO of Être Girls, helps girls figure out exactly who they want to be

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:00:00 -0400

😔 The grim atmosphere we are living through, June 2020 01:25

👋 Meet Illana and Être Girls 05:33

🙋 Why is it important for young girls to meet female leaders? 08:11

💔 When do girls lose their confidence? 12:54

👭 Building a network of female mentors 16:48

🙌 The importance of male allies 18:41

👣 How can young girls get exposed to Être Girls? 21:40

☀ Bringing Être Girls into schools and after school clubs 25:08

📕Spotlight on our book: “Girls, Who Do You Want to Be? Wise Words for World-Changing Girls” 30:53

💬 Want to get involved with Être Girls? 35:30

👭🏽 Don’t underestimate girls. Speak out, stand up. You can do it too! 38:05

https://www.etregirls.com/
https://www.instagram.com/etregirls/
https://www.etregirls.com/our-book
https://www.etregirls.com/etre-campus
https://wethechange.net/
https://bcorporation.net/

13. Get more out of your work life & take yourself to the next level - with Stacey Staaterman, Career Strategist

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:00:00 -0400

Stacey Staaterman, leadership coach and career strategist. 3:36
Being adaptable to the new environment. 4:51
Learning to get comfortable speaking up. 8:03
The tools and techniques for getting a job have changed. 11:58
Being absent from professional social media can be damaging to your career. 15:40
How to make a difference? Nurture your network 19:00
Job seeking during the pandemic: Be brave and offer up your unique skills 24:59
Techniques for shifting your pattern of thinking. 26:15
Job searching is a marketing job: What to do if you aren’t good at self-marketing? 27:36
The power of a coach: offering new perspectives and a structure of support. 31:40
How do you choose your coach? 33:05
Pattern interruption: The difference between a coach and a consultant. 35:10
Do your homework before you partner with a coach. 40:45
https://staceystaaterman.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceystaaterman/

Genuine conversations that happen with women leaders - with Paulina Lopez, CEO & President of the Business of WE

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 22 May 2020 11:00:00 -0400

Meet Paulina Lopez 04:30
Why kind, genuine conversation is the key 07:22
Has your selflessness gone too far? 09:07
The importance of creating offline connections 10:26
How can women demonstrate that they are leaders? 14:57
The power of collective energy 17:23
Empowering women of color 20:33
The supportive environment of the WE business community 22:49
Women entrepreneurs and choices during Corona pandemic 26:05
Power pause: How to maintain high vibe energy 29:53
Faith over fear: focus on the good and tap into your creativity 33:02
How to get in touch with Paulina: http://bizofwe.com/ 33:55
Virtual Mastermind on May 27 – don’t miss it! 34:32
Check out the SheLeads Podcast Network for more empowering podcasts! 35:54*
* http://sheleads.podcastnetwork.io/

How Kristin Marquet, Fem Founder CEO launched, scaled, grew, sold & started another business!

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 15 May 2020 11:00:00 -0400

Kristin’s business story 02:07
You're only as good as your team 06:41
The Fem Founder – the website for female entrepreneurs https://www.femfounder.co/ 09:34
How to stay in the game during the pandemic? 15:31
How are beauty brands benefiting from people working from home? 19:00
From Nameless to Notable Book https://www.femfounder.co/the-book 22:31
The differentiating factor: how to be unique at what you’re offering? 26:18
What’s next for Kristin? 29:16
Creating an online presence: What does the audience want? 34:25
How to get visibility online: Paid adds vs. organic search 35:50
Get in touch with Kristin 39:33

Small Businesses - You’re Not Alone - The Attorneys of Ingram Offer Important Information & Resources for Small Business Seeking Assistance

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 08 May 2020 13:00:00 -0400

Meet Sheila, Jennifer and Warren 02:59
Looking at your revenue projections and expenses over the next few months 05:31
Take control of your financial situation and get to know your numbers! 08:24
Considering putting everything on pause for several months 13:42
Get creative and be flexible 15:16
Where can you get money if you fall short? 18:48
What about businesses with fewer than 3 employees? 22:06
Need to shut down your business? What financial resources are available? 25:24
Joining forces in difficult times – merging business with other companies 28:11
Be aware of scams and cyber frauds! 32:45
What categories of businesses are less affected by the pandemic crisis? 38:11
The business shift of the future – operating from the place of humanity 40:12
Contact Ingram: https://www.ingramllp.com/ 44:19

Practical, Evergreen PR Advice for Thought Leaders and Businesses with Annie Scranton, Pace PR

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 01 May 2020 16:00:00 -0400

Meet Annie Scranton: Founder & President of Pace Public Relations & Former TV producer 2.58
An Email that changed the course of her life 5.53
A secret for growing your network 8.27
Want to be a successful entrepreneur? Love what you do! 11:36
How to get noticed by traditional media? 12:11
Gain insight into your uniqueness - Just ask others what they think! 15:23
Use comparative analysis! 16:30
COVID entrepreneur challenges: Is it smart to put yourself out there now? 18:56
Do your research. 20:22
Don't randomly pitch yourself to journalists by email - build relationships. 21:42
How a PR can help in pandemic times? 24:53
Think about the specific trends that pertain to your industry. 28:39
Way to start: Power of Social Media. 31:11
Podcasts are a splendid way to gain visibility. 33:13
I can get you on TV: https://www.pacepublicrelations.com/ 38:49

*https://twitter.com/anniescranton
**https://www.instagram.com/annimal123/
**https://www....

A Deep Conversation with Lora Cheadle, Author, Speaker and Life Choreographer®

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:00:00 -0400

Meet Lora 01:34
Hypnotherapy - how to go out of your habits and really change the way you think? 05:58
How to reward yourself without sabotaging your goals? 11:57
Creating the next phase in your life. 13:14
Not living up to a certain success model – does it make you a “loser”? 16:06
How to rediscover who you are and find your inner sparkle? 19:30
The “FLAUNT” method. 20:21
Lora’s book: “FLAUNT: Drop your Cover and Reveal Your Smart, Sexy & Spiritual Self” 25:51
To purchase Lora’s book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1608686213/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_VbjZCbHDVRB1W
This is a link to her website https://loracheadle.com/

What young people are thinking and experiencing right now: A conversation about COVID and other world issues, with my son, Chris

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:00:00 -0400

Meet Chris 01:35
The biggest concerns about the pandemic from the perspective of a college sophomore 03:47
Are young people getting fatigued from the screen time during the pandemic? 06:28
Bad weather during quarantine – helpful or not? 08:38
What to do if the quarantine measures continue longer than we expect? 11:25
Having a concrete schedule vs. having all the time in the world 15:00
We’re all in the same boat 17:43
Quarantine after the quarantine? 18:56
What about the economy after the quarantine? 22:23
What are young people’s hopes for the future after the Coronavirus crisis? 24:00
Does money save you from the virus? 25:17
Everything will work out eventually 27:10

What is Sugar Coated Entrepreneurship? Solo Episode with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:00:00 -0400

Deep diving into the meaning of my business in this era 2:40
Transforming She Leads Media events to alternative reality 4:26
The best conference I attended was on Zoom call 6:33
Moderating space so everybody can see as one and be as one even if it is a Zoom 10:05
Sharing conversation with “my people” in small Zoom room 12:44
Learning from participants via questionnaire 13:54
Absorbing the phenomenon of 100 people sharing ideas in a Google doc 14:25
People moderate themselves in a truly collaborative space 14:42
A great recipe for creating conference: Bringing shared elements and tapping to emotions 18:27
Sugar Coated podcast being more genuine and authentic 20:19
Send me your questions and ideas and get in touch with me Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com 21:35
Cool ladies and their podcasts on She Leads Podcasts network: link 23:15https://sheleads.podcastnetwork.io/

Brand Building & Bold Approaches with Jessica Korthuis, CEO & Founder HER Brand & Co. - Branding and Marketing for Female Founders & Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 13:00:00 -0400

Meet Jessica Korthuis, branding expert, CEO and founder 01:49 Background of Sohuis – how it all started? 04:49 Do you recognize your entrepreneurial spirit? 08:21 Entrepreneurship – a safe career choice? 11:51 Are you following a path to nowhere? 14:08 The importance of Brand and Branding - driving all other areas of the business. 19:17 Understanding your customer – where does your product bring value? 21:25The struggles of content creators 23:20 Personal vs. Work - why are boundaries essential? 29:48 How to organize your day to successfully ladder towards your goals? 33:23 Entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint. 38:51 Thrive global podcast: why women entrepreneurs need to reclaim their time? 40:32 Entrepreneurship should make you feel happy. 42:38 Tapping into the new networks. 48:38 Sohius - an educational platform for branding and marketing strategies. 49:55 http://bit.ly/sheleads-sohuis 2:36
**https://sheleads.podcastnetwork.io/

04. Cultures & Corona Conversations with Julianna Garibay-Sparacio, Global Cultures Expert

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:00:00 -0400

Meet Julianna Garibay-Sparacio. 01:34
Appreciating different people and cultures. 05:45
What is ma multicultural marketing strategy and developing cultural products? 07:03
The Corona Virus impact 10:21
How do we learn from negative stuff? 15:59
Talking to different cultures and getting different perspectives. 18:25
Art as a form of cultural expression. 20:45
Forced fear of the unknown. 26:09
The importance of learning about other cultures. 28:35
Be kind to others. 32:32
Blog: culturallycognizant.com 37:44
https://instagram.com/culturally_you?igshid=c0ev2kpc5lpn

Let's Start at the Beginning, Solo Episode with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:00:00 -0400

How it all starts - leveraging what you know. 01:38
When you realize you don’t fit… 03:48
How to know when is the time to go out on your own? 07:13
The lessons you learn when you start a small entrepreneur business 09:34
Going back to the corporate environment – yes or no? 12:03
How to take an idea and turn it into a real business? 18:51
Doing what you like, or work with clients with more budget? 24:34
The She Leads Podcast Network 27:00
iTunes ratings 31:00

***https://sheleads.podcastnetwork.io/

Powerful Conversations With Internationally Recognized Bestselling Author and Leader, Hira Ali

Adrienne Garland — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:40:00 -0400

Projects that empower women leadership and ethnic minority leadership 02:04
The experience of networking and partnering with others on major projects 04:38
The new culture of women uplifting each other and collaborating to achieve great things 05:42
Collaboration as an idea of the collective 10:26
Clear and direct communication style will help you move forward and accomplish goals 11:11
Why is it important for women to be firm and assertive as well as polite and likable? 12:37
How cultural differences interfere with women expressing their voices? 17:40
How women can be bolder in their communication style without crossing the line? 20:10
How to get along with people who don’t share the same values and practices? 23:08
Be empowered from within and don’t be scared to ask for help 25:54
Let go of staging the perfect image and perfect behavior 30:12
Ask yourself “What’s the worst that can happen?” 33:49
Connecting eastern and western women through international women entrepreneur events 36:33
#inthistogether 40:55
How to reach out to Hira Ali on social networks? 43:43

**https://advancingyourpotential.com/

Trailer - The "Why" Behind The She Leads Podcast with Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 18:02:00 -0500

Why we need more diversity in leadership? 02:26
Stop backing away 05:19
Why we keep strategically deciding to answer back or walk away? 09:15
It’s not about making everybody feel good 12:17
The interview experience 14:24
Being a leader is not “ to command and control” 20:30
“She Leads” Podcast network 23:27