Brittany Driscoll is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Squeeze, a way better massage experience from the founders of Drybar. She also Co-Founded and leads The Feel-Good Company, a service agency set out to transform the way people experience retail by building and scaling a collective of female-founded wellness brands dedicated to bettering the mind, body, and soul for good. Brittany is also the co-host of the Girlfriends & Business podcast. In this episode, Nada sits down with B...
Oct 27, 2021•57 min
In 2003, Chelsea Shukov and Jamie Grobecker came together with a common goal: to develop a collection of fine stationery for a new generation. Sugar Paper would have the quality of the fine paper goods they saw on their mother’s desks, but with an aesthetic and feel that was made for the modern girl. Armed with an antique letterpress, they brought their vision to life in a stationery collection centered on quality, love and dedication to the craft. Nearly twenty years later, that quality, love a...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Julie McClure is the CEO and Founder of Hello.Me, a brand focused on helping women take back control of their hormones so that they can get back to looking and feeling their best. Hello.Me’s innovative, science-backed supplement products solve for the root cause of wellness & beauty challenges - hormonal balance. Julie’s own personal experiences became the springboard for her mission to help others and she prides herself on championing women in the entrepreneurial and femtech spaces. In this...
Oct 13, 2021•52 min
In the sixth and final episode of this mini-series, Nada walks you through creating a business plan. This is not a 50-page document but instead a high-level plan of action—one that helps you to communicate, manage and guide your vision. Your business plan is both your blueprint and roadmap and will be a constant reference when building your team of advisors, employees and partners. It’s a tool to help you monitor and evaluate your progress. Every good business plan also includes an Executive Sum...
Sep 29, 2021•17 min
In the fifth episode of this mini-series, Nada discusses all things paperwork—or as she calls it “framework”. Like constructing a building, the framework gives everything structure. Nada says, “without giving your venture the framework it needs you won’t have a proper foundation with which to build a thriving business upon.” Nada leads you through everything from selecting your business entity to creating budgets that track your finances. She breaks down the definition and purpose of Start Up an...
Sep 22, 2021•21 min
In the fourth episode of this mini-series, Nada guides you through developing a plan of action to achieve your business goals. She does this by focusing on the 5 P’s Plus: Product, Positioning, Pricing, Promotion, Placement, and the Plus is for Customer Service, something so many of us forget to create a strategy around. Nada defines each “P” and helps you to define each “P’s” as it relates to your specific business. As with each of these mini-series episodes, Nada offers plenty of questions for...
Sep 15, 2021•21 min
In the third episode of this mini-series, Nada focuses on identifying, understanding and building a relationship with your target market. Your research and findings will be used to develop your brand to build a longstanding relationship with your future customers. Nada guides you through a series of questions you should be asking to better understand your target market. And yes—there's homework! There are exercises and questions to answer so keep that notebook handy! You will walk away with more...
Sep 08, 2021•21 min
This season, we are producing a 6 episode mini-series with our Founder and Host, Nada Jones, to get you from idea to launch. And for those of you past the start-up phase, stay tuned, these mini-episodes are a great way to refresh, retool and rethink the way you currently run your business. In this second episode, Nada focuses on researching your industry and your competition before you say YES to launching. Doing your homework now is the key to walking into your future with eyes wide open. Nada ...
Sep 01, 2021•16 min
Everything we do at LIBERTY is to inspire AND equip and after so many inspiring stories from founders, we thought it was time to equip those of you ready to launch or re-launch and get down to business. This season, we are producing a 6 episode mini-series with our Founder and Host, Nada Jones, to get you from idea to launch. And for those of you past the start-up phase, stay tuned, these mini-episodes are a great way to refresh, retool and rethink the way you currently run your business. In thi...
Aug 25, 2021•22 min
We've come to the end of our Female Founder Over 40 Season! In this episode, Nada shares a recap of each episode in our Female Founder Over 40 Season and highlights her favorite quotes from our guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 21, 2021•27 min
April Uchitel is the Co-Founder of THE BOARD, a vetted network of value-driven consultants bringing C-level “dream team” expertise to brands. April most recently held CEO positions at ONDA Beauty and at Violet Grey. Before that, April was the Chief Brand Officer and founding team member at Spring where she led brand strategy and curation. Prior to Spring, she spent 25 years in the fashion industry. April is a self-proclaimed “accidental activist” and is a founding member of IAMAVOTER. In this ep...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Susan Feldman is the founder of In The Groove, a new lifestyle destination for age-defying women. In The Groove is a community that celebrates and engages their audience as the evolving and relevant women they are. Founded with a sense of humor, community, and self-awareness, In The Groove is on a mission to free women from rules, age limits, and expectations. In this episode, Nada sits down with Susan Feldman to discuss her passion for helping women age confidently and stylishly, specifically w...
Jun 16, 2021•59 min
Shari Boyer founded Plant Society with the mission of educating and providing access to natural remedies for optimal wellness. She was motivated to action by seeing the influence of pharmaceutical companies on our health care system, as well as the poor food available through most mainstream food companies. In this episode, Nada sits down with Shari Boyer to discuss her passion and her company, Plant Society. With the legalization of Cannabis in California, Shari entered the wild wild west by la...
Jun 09, 2021•58 min
Nan Simonsen is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and author of Aging Powerfully: Accept Your Past and Take Control of Your Future. In this episode, Nada sits down with Nan to discuss her many reinventions and the success she has found, and the lessons she has learned along the way. Nan has had many amazing careers simply by choosing to walk through doors that opened to her. As a young mother she was determined to have a career and quickly found her talents for sales and managing pe...
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr
Alli Webb is the Co-Founder of Drybar and Squeeze and an N.Y. Times Bestselling Author. After spending 15 years as a professional hairstylist, Webb left the hair industry in 2005 to start a family. Alli was a stay-at-home mom for 5 years before deciding it was time to pursue the creative side of hairstyling at a new mom-pace. She began offering affordable in-home blowout services to her mommy friends, which quickly expanded into a mobile operation. 10 years later and over 150+ locations across t...
May 26, 2021•57 min
Erica Reitman is teaching online coaches to break the rules in order to break through the noise and find their voice and their people. She is helping them reinvent their businesses, make money and change their corner of the world. In her past life, she was a successful interior designer, and her home has now appeared in two best-selling design books. She’s written for HGTV, Elle Decor, House Beautiful and the Huffington Post. She is now on a mission to help 1,000 women build online coaching busi...
May 19, 2021•55 min
Heidi Krupp is the founder and CEO of Krupp Kommunications. She is a powerhouse in the world of marketing, promotion and media. Over the last 25 years, her namesake PR agency specializes in creating moments and movements for brands and products. By consciously connecting her network of influencers, media, and personalities, she has cultivated unparalleled relationships across the industry, advocating for clients and the media. In this episode, Nada sits down with Heidi Krupp to discuss her journ...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Dr. Sophia Yen is the Founder of Pandia Health is the only Doctor-Led, Women-Founded, Women-Led birth control delivery company. In this episode, Nada sits down with Dr. Sophia Yen to discuss her passions: women’s health, birth control, and female founders. As a woman over 40 and someone who had a career before becoming a founder, Dr. Yen speaks on how life’s experiences equipped her to successfully start her business, Pandia Health. She dives deep into the world of Telemedicine and the need for ...
May 05, 2021•49 min
Maha Ibrahim is a General Partner of Canaan Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, where she has worked since March 2000. Maha isn’t our typical guest...Maha isn’t a female founder but she is a female “FINDER”. In this episode, Nada sits down with Maha and discusses how she approaches her decision-making to invest in early-stage ventures. For many female entrepreneurs, raising capital seems unattainable but Maha breaks it down. Whether you’re raising millions or thousands, this episode w...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 1 min
We've come to the end of our Pivot Season! In this episode, Nada shares a recap of each episode in our Pivot Season and highlights her favorite quotes from our guests. Follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertyforher and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Apr 07, 2021•35 min
Jessica Comingore Donais is an entrepreneur and creative consultant living in Portland, Oregon. With a deep-rooted passion for design and an intrinsic eye for aesthetics, she finds great satisfaction in helping business owners construct and elevate their brands through meticulously crafted identities, refined art direction, and strategy-driven consulting. Regardless of the project at hand, Jessica’s primary objective is to help her clients work more mindfully, grow more holistically, and lead mo...
Mar 31, 2021•51 min
Marrin Costello is an American businesswoman, designer, and brand-architect. Her entrepreneurial journey began at age 10 after falling in love with the art of jewelry making. Just two decades later, Costello has built a luxury lifestyle brand that has been featured in Vogue, Huffington Post, and Who What Wear, amongst many others — and whose collection can be found in over 100 retailers nationwide. In this episode, Nada sits down with Marrin to discuss how she listened to the market when they as...
Mar 24, 2021•56 min
Shira Gill is a home organizing expert, author, speaker, founder of the #15minwin, and the creative force behind Shira Gill Home. Shira’s mission is to inspire people to clear physical and mental clutter so they can reduce their environmental footprint, create space for what they truly care about, and live lives more aligned with their core values. In this episode, Nada sits down with Shira to discuss how she pivoted the majority of her business online due to the pandemic and found a new revenue...
Mar 17, 2021•57 min
Kimberly Lewis is the owner and buyer of Emerson Grace, a women’s elevated-casual contemporary boutique in Nashville, Tennessee. Kimberly oversees the creative and fashion direction for the store alongside a team of stellar managers and stylists who go beyond selling to build relationships to encourage women to discover and realize their own personal style. Amy Williams is the CEO of Citizens of Humanity, a premium denim company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. In her role, Williams ove...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Angela Mayhoe is the Founder of Angela Mayhoe | KNIT, a slow fashion, handcrafted knitwear brand. In addition to offering her knitwear line, Angela is creating a space for a community that longs to come back to their authentic selves. In this episode, Nada sits down with Angela to discuss how her 15 years of retail experience led her to launch her own company. Her love for knitting became a requested commodity from her friends and family. Understanding herself and her ‘Authentic Code’ guided her...
Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Lindsay McCormick is the founder and CEO of Bite. Bite is an all-natural, zero-waste, tube-free, 100% vegan, gluten-free and cruelty-free toothpaste tablet on a mission to become the world’s most sustainable personal care company. In this episode, Nada sits down with Lindsay to discuss how Bite’s business model for direct to consumer has flourished during the pandemic. Lindsay and her team have navigated how to continue to manufacture their products despite the lockdown protocols and also produc...
Feb 24, 2021•49 min
LaKeithea Nicole Anderson is the founder of For Us. The Agency, a creative agency that works with Black-owned brands and talent to expand reach and impact. LaKeithea is also the Community Engagement Coordinator for Nashville Community Education, board member of Tennessee Craft Midstate, and on the Marketing Committee for Free for Life International. In this episode, Nada sits down with LaKeithea to discuss the challenges that Black-owned businesses face on a daily basis and the heightened challe...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr
Molly Sonsteng is the Co-Founder of Madcap Factory and Caveday. Molly’s work focuses on experiences. Whether it is playful and eccentric in-person community events, a perfect s’more, or leading focused productivity sessions in The Cave, Molly is supporting humans to experience. In this episode, Nada sits down with Molly to discuss Caveday’s unique experience of exponential growth due to the global pandemic and the pivot to scale the business to adapt to the growth. Molly shares the importance of...
Feb 10, 2021•54 min
This season on LIBERTY For Her we are discussing the importance of pivoting. We are grateful to be launching this important discussion with Erica Courdae. Erica Courdae is what you call a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She is the owner of an inclusive beauty salon, Silver Immersion, and the host of Pause on the Play podcast and a certified diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) coach. Nada sits down with Erica to discuss all the different facets of each business but also the way her work has pri...
Feb 03, 2021•54 min
We’re back! LIBERTY listeners, it has been a minute. We are excited to let you know that this podcast is now called LIBERTY For Her to match our brand. This year we will be bringing you 4 seasons. Each season has a specific theme and starting next week our theme will be PIVOTING. Join Nada each week as she sits down with a female founder sharing her story of pivoting due to the pandemic or the racial uprising that has marked the last year of our collective lives. Listen to how each founder has r...
Jan 27, 2021•4 min
