Shilpa Shah is the Co-Founder of Cuyana, a fashion brand that marries luxury-level branding with premium quality apparel and accessories, offering "fewer, better things" to women at accessible price points. Shilpa spent the first part of her career designing web and mobile interfaces for Fortune 500 companies. Although she was passionate about design, it wasn't until she was pregnant with her first son that she felt empowered to do more in her life. Unsure what the right next step was, Shilpa de...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 142
Starting this week I’m launching a brand new health series called Hormone Happy Hour with Kaya Purohit, my co-host on this series and my co-founder in Beeya Wellness. Every Wednesday Hormone Happy Hour will feature an in-depth interview with a leading women’s health expert. Each expert will teach you, step by step, how to eat, think, and move in a way that is designed to help you feel great and create an abundance of energy in your life so you can build your own empire. In this week’s episode, w...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 141
Gala Darling is a bestselling author, speaker, professional optimist, and self-proclaimed tapping queen. For over a decade, Gala has been a leader in promoting radical self-love. She offers a powerful collection of tools and techniques that have empowered millions of women to discover their voice, overcome fear, and fall in love with life. Gala is also an expert in EFT tapping, an energy psychology technique that she has utilized to manifest her own dream life and conquer limiting beliefs. Her w...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 140
Lisa Sequino is the co-founder and CEO of JLo Beauty & Lifestyle, a brand she founded alongside Jennifer Lopez that is focused on making self-care more simple with high-performance products that deliver incredible results for an inner and outer glow - at any age. Although Lisa is a beauty veteran, her path was anything but straightforward. She always had a love for beauty but never realized how to make it a career. She had plans to be an attorney, ended up dropping out of law school, and fou...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 139
Denise Woodard is the founder and CEO of Partake Foods, an allergy-friendly snack company. Denise's journey began back in 2016, while juggling a day job and the new role of mom to a daughter with multiple food allergies. Frustrated by the lack of tasty options available for her little one, she took the advice of her babysitter and decided to "do something about it." From there, Partake Foods was born. Denise started creating recipes in her home kitchen and began selling cookies out of her car to...
Jan 23, 2023•50 min•Season 2Ep. 138
Lele Sadoughi is the founder of her namesake accessories brand, Lele Sadoughi. Lele had over a decade of experience in the fashion industry before beginning her entrepreneurial journey, allowing her to give us meaningful insight into how she has built her own successful brand. Breaking into the industry with few connections (well before the world of emailing CVs), Lele has had endless opportunities to discover her strengths and weaknesses, and build her skills in operations and sales: the revenu...
Jan 16, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 137
Hillary Peterson is the founder of True Botanicals, a clean skincare brand on a mission to deliver nontoxic and sustainable products. After giving birth to beautiful twins, Hillary was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. A life-changing moment that got her invested in her health in every possible way. After extensive research, she soon discovered that the beauty care products she used were full of toxins, and no strict regulations around the chemicals existed. Hilary began searching for products free...
Jan 09, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 136
After dropping out of high school and trying to forge her own path in the world, serial entrepreneur and world-renowned celebrity makeup artist Jeanine Lobell fell in love with cosmetics. Thanks to her try-anything attitude and strong work ethic, she quickly moved up the ranks to work on famous faces like Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman for the covers of Vogue and Vanity Fair . When Jeanine founded Stila in 1994, with its professional-grade colors and ultra-wearable formulas in recyclable pack...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 135
Jesse Draper is the Founding Partner of Halogen Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in consumer tech companies led by female and co-ed teams. With women making up to 80 percent of household purchasing decisions, Jesse and her team are betting big on early-stage, female-founded companies with billion-dollar potential. Jesse is a fourth generation venture capitalist as well as the creator and host of the Emmy-nominated television series, The Valley Girl Show. She is a...
Dec 26, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 134
Suneera Madhani is the co-founder and CEO of Stax, an innovative tech company that radically simplifies the payment ecosystem. After graduating from college, Suneera decided to work at a consumer goods company and after three years she realized that the corporate world wasn’t for her. She was later recruited by a payment-processing company, and it was then she realized she wanted to do someone on her own. At age 26, without money, an MBA or any corporate leadership experience…and after being lau...
Dec 19, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 133
In this week’s episode, we’re mixing things up again! We’re doing a brand new behind-the-scenes podcast on my journey as an entrepreneur and podcast host! So this week, just like I’ve done before, I’ve handed over the mic to my husband, Dhru Purohit, who’s graciously stepping into the role of host. Our first behind-the-scenes episode was one of my most listened-to episodes of all time so I’m hoping today’s vulnerable episode brings a lot of value to you! Here are just a few of the topics we’ll b...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 132
Logan Hollowell is the designer, founder and CEO of Logan Hollowell Jewelry. Logan started with little more than a dream board, some affirmations, and the right mindset and manifested her way to a jewelry empire. Her jewelry is a cult favorite and has been spotted on the likes of Rihanna, Jennifer Lawrence, Meghan Markle, and Jessica Alba, among others. Today she joins us to share her inspiring story with us. She tells us about her early fascination with gemstones, crystals, and spirituality and...
Dec 05, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 131
Lisa Odenweller is the Founder and CEO of Kroma Wellness, a functional superfood nutrition company. Lisa entered the wellness space in 2011 upon founding Beaming Wellness, an organic superfood café concept with locations throughout Southern California. The brand quickly attracted a cult following and was a leader in the healthy grab-&-go food category. After exiting Beaming in 2018, Lisa had a bigger vision with a more ambitious reach: a direct-to-consumer brand that could simplify people’s ...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 130
Karen Young is the Founder and CEO of Oui the People, a body care brand designed to make you feel great in your own skin. Karen has always been a problem solver, but one problem plagued her for years - debilitating razor burn which held her back from wearing many of her favorite skirts or shorts that showed her legs. In 2014, while working as an executive for Estee Lauder, Keren suffered a particularly bad case of razor burn and decided enough was enough. With $1,500 in her savings, Karen launch...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 129
Mona Vand is a wellness expert and pharmacist turned entrepreneur who is passionate about making the world a healthier place. After six years of studying, and only a short few weeks of work as a pharmacist, Mona quickly realized that she was in the completely wrong career. While medication and supplements can be part of the equation for leading a healthy life, Mona believes that food is the key for taking a holistic approach to wellness. Since then, Mona has spent countless hours building a side...
Nov 14, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 128
Candace Nelson is a serial entrepreneur and a New York Times bestselling author. Candace is well-known for co-founding Sprinkles Cupcakes, the world’s first cupcake bakery and ATM, and most recently, Pizzana, a fast-growing chain of award-winning pizzerias. She is also an expert in turning one’s passion into a profitable business and has a book launching on November 8th called Sweet Success: A Simple Recipe to Turn Your Passion into Profit. Today’s conversation is jampacked with actionable advic...
Nov 07, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 127
Kaisa Keranen (also known as KaisaFit) is the founder of Just Move, a company dedicated to changing people’s lives by showing them that movement isn’t always about weight loss and appearance but rather overall health. Having suffered from depression since the age of 13, Kaisa found movement to be a tool for survival and when she injured herself in college, she knew she needed to figure out how to move her body her own way. In this episode, we discover how Kaisa’s depression and alter-ego helped ...
Oct 31, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 126
In this week's episode, we're re-airing one of our top episodes with the lovely Noura Sakkijha, co-founder and CEO of Mejuri, a fine jewelry brand that introduces handcrafted, everyday jewelry without the traditional retail markups. Looking from the outside in, entering the jewelry market can seem like a daunting endeavor. Not only is it seemingly saturated, but it’s also exceptionally expensive. Growing up in Jordan as a third-generation jeweler, Noura noticed that traditional high-end jewelry ...
Oct 24, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 125
Nicole Wegman is the Founder and CEO of Ring Concierge, the jewelry company making luxury accessible to the masses. It was Nicole’s own engagement journey that opened her eyes to the void in the market for a more affordable, personal engagement ring shopping experience. At that time, she couldn’t find any brand or company that she connected with. Despite never having worked in the jewelry industry, Nicole has single-handedly built a multi-million-dollar diamond ring-centric business in less than...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 124
Neha Kumar is a serial entrepreneur and investor. She’s the co-founder of Maie Wines, a California-made wine company focused on single-serve wine, and co-founder of New Money Ventures, a consumer fund and brand studio focused on empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs. Beyond her reputable banking career, Neha has worked at several startups over the years and, most recently, served as the COO and CFO of Create & Cultivate which sold to Corridor Capital in 2020. Neha shares her unique...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 123
Rooshy Roy is the co-founder and CEO of Aavrani, a premium skincare company inspired by India's ancient beauty rituals. As a first generation Indian-American, Rooshy would often make her own skincare with her mom, who showed her how to harness the power of raw ingredients—like turmeric & raw honey—to maintain beautiful skin. As an adult searching for an easier way to access those transformative rituals, Rooshy was inspired to create her own Ayurvedic brand. In this wide-ranging interview, we...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 122
Samia Gore is the founder and CEO of Body Complete Rx, a plant-based health and wellness nutritional supplement brand. After giving birth to her fourth child, Samia was on a weight loss journey and was looking for natural, organic alternatives to help jumpstart her healthier lifestyle. She was sharing all her personal routines and tips online, and after building a large community of like-minded people on her social, she decided to create her own supplements that would cater to women like her. Af...
Sep 26, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 121
This week, we’re mixing things up! In this behind-the-scenes Behind Her Empire episode, we take a look at our very own Yasmin Nouri’s journey as a podcast host and first-time entrepreneur. Yasmin’s husband, Dhru Purohit, graciously steps into the role of host to talk to her about the origin story of Behind Her Empire and why she decided to start the podcast. You’ll gain some insight into the ups and downs that Yasmin experienced along the way as we dive into what motivated her to start her compa...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 120
Starting a business is always a risk, particularly if you’re forfeiting a stable career trajectory to do so. Our guest today is living proof that pursuing your passions pays off. Natalie Mackey is the founder and CEO of clean makeup and skincare brand, Winky Lux. Natalie took the bold leap of leaving her career in finance to start her own business (which came from a “failed” idea) and Winky Lux has now grown to over $100 million in sales, both online and in Target and Ulta Beauty stores nationwi...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 119
We’re back to new episodes starting this week (yay!) and we’re beyond excited to have the lovely Cayli Cavaco Reck, skincare entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Knockout Beauty, a full-service beauty business that is focused on conscious beauty for the modern-minded. Cayli has always been always dealing with some kind of skin issue throughout her life. As a teenager, Cayli struggled with acne and the medication that she was put on to resolve her skin issues sent her into a state of emotional turmoil...
Sep 05, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 118
MaryRuth Ghiyam is the founder & CEO of MaryRuth Organics, a family-friendly wellness brand offering over 130 high-quality, vegan, non-GMO vitamins and supplements. MaryRuth began her personal journey into the health and wellness space after the unexpected passing of her brother and her father, as well as her mother’s diagnosis of two benign brain tumors. While working as a health coach in 2013, MaryRuth struggled to find supplements to recommend to her clients that were easy-to-take and did...
Aug 29, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 117
Payal Kadakia is the founder of ClassPass, the revolutionary fitness and wellness platform which provides people access to the best boutique fitness classes, gyms, and wellness experiences around the world. Prior to its acquisition by MindBody in October 2021, ClassPass was valued at over a billion dollars, with members logging more than 100 million workouts across 30,000 partner studios in over 30 countries. If that wasn’t impressive enough, Payal is also the founder and artistic director of th...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 116
Jane Wurwand is the Founder and Chief Visionary of Dermalogica, the number one professional skincare brand in the world. At the young age of 24, Jane immigrated to California and saw a distinct lack of continuing education with skin therapists in the US. Without a college degree or network, she set out to launch her own skin therapy education with only $14,000 in a small classroom in Los Angeles. This led her to also develop a line of skincare products and a system of teaching salon owners how t...
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 115
Loren Ridinger is the Co-Founder of internet retailing giants, Shop.Com and Market America. Although Loren is now recognized as an internet mogul who has changed the face of the beauty and e-commerce industries over the past two decades, her life started with very humble beginnings. She moved to Greensboro, NC at a young age, worked in retail when she was sixteen, and at eighteen, Loren and her husband, JR, took a chance on their dream to make it easy for people to shop online at a time when mos...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 114
Dr. Sara Gottfried is a World-Renowned Physician, Hormone Expert, Speaker, and 4x New York Times Best Selling Author. Dr. Gottfried’s interview marks the start of our first podcast in the world of health and wellness. One of the biggest myths that women have on their path to building their empire is that they have to sacrifice their health in order to be successful. This couldn't be further from the truth! Starting this week, in addition to my interviews with incredible founders, I’m going to be...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 113
