How She Does It – Details, episodes & analysis

We’re kicking off Season 2 of How She Does It with a powerhouse first guest: none other than Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of TODAY’s fourth hour, bestselling author, and founder of the new production company and publishing imprint, ⁠Thousand Voices⁠. For nearly six years, Jenna and Hoda Kotb brought laughter, honesty, and heart to morning television. But when Hoda announced she was leaving the show, Jenna was suddenly faced with a major transition: stepping forward as the show’s solo anchor and leading an entirely new chapter — Jenna & Friends. Since then, she’s shared the screen with 50 different guest co-hosts (yes, 50!) while continuing to connect with audiences through joy, spontaneity, and total transparency. In this candid and unfiltered conversation, Jenna opens up about: The emotional moment Hoda told her she was leaving, how they said goodbye, and the generous way Hoda helped Jenna before she left What it’s like “dating” 50 different co-hosts on live TV Launching her production company and publishing imprint, Thousand Voices Her secret for reading so many books every week Her leadership style, learning to say “no,” and why you should always take the meeting How she and her husband Henry balance work, parenting, and privacy It’s the perfect conversation to kick off this season’s journey into how bold, brilliant women manage the messy, magical balance of work, life, and ambition. Resources: 📌 Follow How She Does It on Instagram: ⁠@hsdipodcast⁠ 📚 ⁠Conform by Ariel Sullivan⁠ hits shelves Fall 2025. 📌 Follow Jenna on Instagram:⁠ @JennaBHager⁠ 📺 Follow ⁠@JennaandFriends⁠ and ⁠@ReadWithJenna⁠ 🌐 Learn more at⁠ ThousandVoices.com⁠ 🎧 New episodes of How She Does It drop every Tuesday. Be sure to follow us so you never miss a story. … Does more financial confidence sounds good to you, then you might want to try:  🚀 ⁠FinanceFixx⁠ – HerMoney’s 4 or 8-week Money Makeover financial coaching program that will help you get your finances on track!  📈 ⁠InvestingFixx⁠ – HerMoney’s investing club for women who are ready to learn market lingo, and grow their wealth. Your first month with us is completely free!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time for another great season of How She Does It with Karen Finerman, full of insightful conversations with a diverse group of women leaders.  Each week, Karen brings her perspective as a CEO and mother of four (and not to mention, a big WNBA fan) to these discussions about women, money, and power.   We’ll hear from influential women across business, entertainment, and sports, who share their own triumphs and challenges.  You will come away from these episodes with insights and encouragement about how to navigate your own personal and professional life (and who doesn’t need that?)   Guests for the new season include: Jenna Bush Hager - TODAY Host & Founder, Thousand Voices Debby Soo - CEO, OpenTable Gretchen Rubin - NY Times Bestselling Author & Podcast Host Pritika Swarup - Model and Founder & CEO, Pratki Beauty And more! The new season starts on July 8th.  Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and share your favorite episodes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women often have a blur of busy days — going from meetings and important phone calls to the grocery store or soccer practice. It often feels like the day goes by in a blink of an eye. This, of course, leaves many of us feeling drained at the end of the day, or inspired to push off our most important tasks to next week — or we forget about them completely.  So how can we better juggle our busy work days, the challenges of raising a family, and all of the other tasks in-between, while still making time for fun? Laura Mae Martin has cracked the code. She’s Google’s Executive Productivity Officer, and she coaches Google’s top executives on time management and efficiency.  She offers her take on how to cut out time-suck meetings once and for all, and why discovering our “power hours” does wonders for our creativity and productivity.  Takeaways: Manage your email inbox like doing laundry - sort, prioritize, and focus on one task at a time. Use the list funnel method to organize tasks and prioritize based on timeframes. Limit and optimize meetings by setting agendas, evaluating their necessity, and providing feedback. Identify your power hours and schedule important tasks during those times for maximum productivity.  Minimize multitasking and manage email effectively to improve productivity. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 05:24 Optimizing Time for Emails 07:10 The List Funnel 13:58 Working with Executives on Productivity 15:06 Limiting Meetings 19.32 Power Hours and Structuring Productive Days 24:33 The Importance of Flexibility in Work Hours 26:01 Productivity Mistakes: Multitasking and Email Overload 28:06 New Research on Productivity 29:12 Lightning Round: Quick Questions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s been a major shift in the fashion industry over the past few years, with a noticeable shift away from Fast Fashion. H&M, once a stock market darling, is now well below 50% of its all-time high. This, in no small part, comes from the concern over the waste emanating from the fast fashion pieces that now fill our landfills. Jensen Neff and Ellie Chen found out just how much fabric goes to waste in the fashion industry (14 million pounds of fabric daily, to be exact) and created their sustainably sourced clothing brand Oddli as their senior capstone project at Stanford. Fast forward to today, they’ve grown into a multi-million dollar profitable brand. Listen in to hear how they used social media to build a following from the start, and their best advice for other young female founders. Takeaways:  The fashion industry is shifting away from fast fashion and embracing second-hand retail due to concerns over waste. Oddli was founded by Jensen Neff and Ellie Chen, who met at Stanford University and shared a passion for creating ethically sourced clothing that promotes community connection. Oddli sources excess fabric, known as deadstock, from warehouses in downtown LA to reduce fabric waste in the fashion industry. The founders of Oddli believe in staying true to their vision and have chosen a non-traditional approach to fundraising and scaling their business.  Balancing ethical production and affordability is a challenge in the fashion industry, but transparency and education can help consumers understand higher price points. Social media platforms like TikTok can be powerful tools for brand growth and reaching a wide audience. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Shift Away from Fast Fashion 01:21 Introduction to Oddli  10:23 Sourcing Raw Materials and Accessing Excess Fabric 15:50 Ignoring Conventional Wisdom in Fundraising 23:38 Navigating the Industry as Female Founders 31:22 Ambitions for the Future Join us! Snag all the latest episodes, savvy budgeting tips, investing advice and even giveaways via the HerMoney Newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the past 10 to 20 years, the sharing economy has taken over: In many ways, renting and returning is now our way of life. Think about it: We stay in strangers’ homes via Airbnb and VRBO, we borrow books on Kindle, Zipcars are viable alternatives to owning a car, and we rent a different dress for every wedding or event so we never have to be Instagrammed wearing the same thing twice.  But what about renting things for the smallest members of your family? Fran Maier, CEO and founder of BabyQuip, has made that possible. With BabyQuip, traveling families can rent high-quality everything from cribs and toys to car seats for when they’re on the go.  Listen in to hear Maier’s advice as a serial entrepreneur, her biggest regret when selling Match.com, and her hope for the future of female-founded companies. Chapters 00:00 Entrepreneurial Roots 03:29 Early Career and Match.com 15:44 Time After Match.com 22:12 Pitching BabyQuip on Shark Tank 23:45 Navigating the Challenges of the Pandemic 26:02 Competition and Market Strategy 29:46 The Gender Gap in Financing 31:24 Lightning Round 33:13 Where to Find BabyQuip More money news when you need it! Get the latest and greatest updates on all things investing, budgeting, and making money. Subscribe to the HerMoney newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Music is ever-present in our lives, from our morning exercise routines until bed. And we all have a "life soundtrack" of songs that transport us to a moment or an era — one note and you're right back there. Music is also a multi-billion dollar business. But who runs this business? Despite so many of the biggest performers being women, the industry itself has long suffered from a lack of women and diversity — not only on the talent side but also on the executive side.  One of the most powerful longstanding players in this business is Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group. She’s the first woman ever to hold the position at a major music publisher, and since joining UMPG in 2015, she’s transformed the company, which has now surpassed $2 billion dollars in revenue. Listen to how she got her start in the music industry, how she can tell the difference between a mediocre song and a hit, and why she is working to make the industry more inclusive for women.  Join us! Snag all the latest episodes, savvy budgeting tips, investing advice, and even giveaways via the HerMoney Newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s just admit it: Being a working mom in America is absolutely exhausting. Today, millions of women in our country are struggling to pay for their children’s care while they maintain their spot in the workforce. At the same time, American women are also fighting against the so-called “Motherhood Penalty,” which means that mothers earn just 58 cents for every dollar paid to fathers.  Allison Robinson found herself — like many women! — questioning whether or not it was even possible to have both a family and a career. So, she decided to do something about it. She left her job at Procter & Gamble to start “The Mom Project,” which is now the leading digital marketplace for moms offering hiring, education, and retention solutions. Listen in to learn more about her mission to connect moms with jobs that work with their schedules, and how women can stay engaged in the workforce while taking career breaks.  Join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does she do it? This week, we decided to ask our indomitable host, Karen Finerman, and co-host of InvestingFixx, HerMoney’s investing club for women, how she makes it all happen. Between her role as CEO of Metropolitan Capital Advisors, being a panelist on CNBC’s Fast Money, serving as a Wharton board member, and being a mom to two sets of twins, she does it ALL. We knew it was time to share her incredible story.  Listen in to learn why Karen decided she wanted to become a risk arbitrageur at age 15, how she worked full time while raising her kids, and her best advice for getting invested — and staying invested — as a woman. Join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are countless situations in which risky behavior can be detrimental to your life. But there’s one area though, where risk can be a very good thing — sometimes life-changingly incredible. That’s with entrepreneurship and your career. In fact, not taking risks is arguably one of the riskiest things you can do in your career, and perhaps no one knows this better than Pinky Cole, owner of Slutty Vegan, and author of “I Hope You Fail: Ten Hater Statements Holding You Back From Getting Everything You Want.”  Pinky Cole knows exactly what it means to take risks in her career, fail, and get back up again. When her first restaurant burned down, she didn’t let it break her. Instead, she took it as a sign that she wasn’t fully aligned with her purpose, and chose to completely reset. Fast forward to today, and she’s the owner of the multimillion-dollar vegan empire Slutty Vegan. Our favorite bit of Pinky Cole brilliance from this conversation? “The sky is not the limit, there’s so much more beyond it.” We couldn’t agree more.  Join us! Snag all the latest episodes, savvy budgeting tips, investing advice, and even giveaways via the HerMoney Newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While a whopping 25% of 40-year-old Americans have never been married, an all-time high according to Pew, engagements and weddings are still a huge business. Couples spent an average of $5,800 on an engagement ring in 2022. And with all of the different companies out there vying for your engagement ring dollars, how does a business target couples at the exact right moment when they’re ready to buy a ring?  Gina Drosos has that moment down to a science. She’s ​​the CEO of Signet Jewelers, the world’s largest diamond retailer. When she took over as CEO six years ago, she made a pivot into data-driven business decisions that studied couples’ 45 “trackable milestones” that lead them to get engaged — and it transformed the company. Listen in to hear her philosophy as a “spider web leader” and what she’s doing to lift up other women as she climbs.  More money news when you need it! Get the latest and greatest updates on all things investing, budgeting and making money. Subscribe to the HerMoney newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices