"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 

> >> "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  <<

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  << 

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

>> "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  << 

🇿🇦 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 

🥰 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

🇺🇬 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 

👧 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

👩‍👧 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 

👩‍💼 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

🌟 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

🙋‍♀️ 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

🙌 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

🇭🇰 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

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 

>> "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  <<

🩰 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

🌎 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

🍅 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

🤩 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

💲 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

💃 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

🧚‍♀️ 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

⛑️ 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

🌟 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

🌟 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

"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 

>> "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  <<

🌿 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

🎤 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

🤗 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

👩‍🎨 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

🌺 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

😍 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

🤩 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

😍 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

👩🏻‍💼 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/ 

🌺 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/ 

"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 

>> "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  <<

🎬 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

Join the She Leads Community for FREE at https://community.sheleadsmedia.com/ v

👠 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/

🙋‍♀️ 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/

🤩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

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

🙌 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 

🌷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

🌷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

🎤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

🥳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/

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  

>> "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 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

👋 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

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▶ 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