Christina was born and raised in Raleigh NC and graduated high school early to attend Paul Mitchell the School of Raleigh to pursue her dreams in the beauty industry. She has always been a girly girl and knew this was the type of career she wanted to be in from day one! But like most business owners she had to overcome some adversity and deal with some setbacks. Christina shares her raw and unfiltered story of opening her business " PInup Studio " in Raleigh. A perfect mix of shabby chic and mod...
May 19, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 18
The major part of business prosperity starts with inspiration towards your vision, your dreams. You must envision your why to the vision and then work backward from that dream. I can attest to this from her own experience. Katia has an amazing podcast called Rave with Katia Rave. "I am not going to apologize for winning just because other people around me are losing." - Katia We talk about the importance of your vision for your life (your life's mission) matching your values. There are two kinds...
May 12, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Alicia shares her story: There I was—a rock star attorney with my own law firm—whose personal life was in total disarray. Perhaps I wasn’t cut out to be a lawyer after all… but it was all I had ever wanted. By the time I hit 30 I had hit a wall. I was exhausted inside and out. I had pushed myself to the limits physically, mentally, emotionally , and spiritually. I had been fighting my way to the top. Been fighting for the rights of victims and my clients. Been taking on the weight of the world a...
Apr 28, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 15
We spent time talking about the quality culture of the Raleigh area and growing up in the area. What inspired Sarah to start her business? It was more necessity than inspiration which is very common for women entrepreneurs. She was experienced in helping companies explain difficult concepts in a way that is easy to understand. She was writing technical manuals and studying technical communication. Sarah, who was 26 when she started Reify, continues to be the sole owner of the self-funded company...
Apr 23, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 14
How do you discover your innate gifts? How do you find out what they are? Traci shares about her process that came from her own life experience. How do you discover your "zone of genius." Zone of Genius is what you were made for, it's the shape of the puzzle piece that is "you" and how you "fit" into the world around you. She asks people to have people ask themselves: What are things that people have said about you over the years that has surprised you? The irony for many people is that their gi...
Apr 14, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 13
The reason Deb first joined LinkedIn was during the stock market crash of 2008, soon after she was asked to talk about social media at a networking event. She just started talking about what she had been doing on LinkedIn. This led to a passion for training. She has spent years crafting her skills and now trains others on how to be LinkedIn experts. She will be releasing a new two-hour Virtual networking with LinkedIn training on April 20th to address the issues of what's happening in our job ma...
Apr 07, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Syliva is an author and financial wiz for small businesses. She shares her story about how she created her dream job. Sylvia shares ways to make more money as a small business owner Increase the number of clients (this one is the most common but also results in you working every night until midnight) Rasing the average order value, VistaPrint is really good at this Some examples of add ons for service products are private coaching photos of events for portraits Decreasing your costs (all the lit...
Mar 31, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Haley Lynn Gray founded Leadership Girl with the radical notion that women can harness their unique power and skills to become highly effective leaders. She is the best-selling author of Leadership Girl and a graduate of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business with an MBA with a concentration in entrepreneurship and Innovation. She has experience with starting up successful small businesses, growing them, then selling them. Haley has worked with hundreds of small business owners since Leadership Girl wa...
Mar 24, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Many of us were taught that you don't talk about money. The topic is especially taboo for women. The Girls Who Do Stuff share their experience with their money mindset. Is money bad? Is wanting money bad? Are the views you had of money that you were brought up on still true for you today? We have a great conversation about setting pricing. What pricing yourself too low does to you, other business owners, and your customers. Melissa realized she had a mindset problem after she had racked up over ...
Mar 17, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 9
The ladies of Vibe share with the Girls Who Do Stuff the journey of how they went from knowing they wanted to start a business, to running the successful coworking space inside of the Cary Towne Center Mall. Learn how Vibe discovered their signature vibe on this episode. Leah Campbell has a varied 20-year career working in the fields of public relations, marketing, and administration. One common thread with all of them -- and what she enjoys doing most – is connecting people. Whether it was arra...
Mar 10, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Revolution Studios owner, Somer Handley has been recognized not only as a leader in photography but also serves as a business mentor to those in her industry. Somer and her studio have been named the Face of Boudoir and Glamour Photography for four consecutive years by MidTown Magazine and is most recently featured in The KNOW the past two. The KNOW is a publication of Women Leaders, Mentors, Creators, and Entrepreneurs you need to “KNOW” and be doing business with! In 2019-2020 Somer was chosen...
Feb 25, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Katie understands the challenges of returning to work after a career break because she'd been there! As the Founder of Back to Business, her mission is to help women re-enter the paid workforce by providing professional job search advice and resources, and by encouraging their connection with employers who are interested in this untapped talent pool. Kaite shares about her experience of wanting to return to the workforce but finding it very challenging. In fact, it took nearly two years! And whe...
Feb 18, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Tango is not just another sex box. Candice went to Harvard and had to overcome the stigma of being more than a "Birchbox for dildos". She learned how to apply science to intimacy and created her company. After taking sexuality studies at Harvard she learned to critically analyze porn. This was for her, like many people, her first introduction to sex ed, but she learned quickly that pornography didn't translate into relationship success. She dedicated herself to figuring out what makes for health...
Feb 04, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 3
MeiLani unpacks some of the practical aspects of how her business ( Why NOT ME? AirBnB ) works for our listeners. She shares the story of her son being diagnosed with cancer and how it caused her and her husband to evaluate how they were spending their time. They had reached the point in their cancer journey where she felt she could no longer "sit around and wait for him to die." Struggling to find the time to spend more time with her four kids she returned to her dream of entrepreneurship that ...
Feb 04, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Sarah shares about her struggle with launching her second business because she had an idea of what she wanted it to be and it wasn't until she embraced the surrender and let it be what it was meant to be. Joe Woolworth from Relevant Media Solutions and Podcast Cary shares about his first year in business and goals that he set for his business. Creating the habit of identifying and celebrating the win is important for business owners and entrepreneurs. We address the idea of a "Stupid Goal". Your...
Feb 04, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Your hosts Jenny and Sarah are soul sisters with a passion for creating a space for authentic storytelling. Their guests will make you laugh, cry, and leave you with all-the-feels while you learn from thought leaders like sex educators, coaches, real estate moguls, speakers, reality stars, and creative geniuses.
Jan 24, 2020•2 min
