With over twenty years as a knitwear designer, Elisa has developed a refined aesthetic while working with luxury fibers from across the globe. After her studies at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and Polìmoda in Florence Italy, she spent her career designing for fashion brands and high-end retailers. She also found herself at the top of her professional game and living a comfortable life in Seattle with her family. That cozy life was upset by a layoff due to the pandemic and Elisa had...
Jun 01, 2022•53 min
Rachel worked with chronic pain patients for over ten years. She understood first-hand how food, nutrients, and movement can help people rebalance and heal themselves. After finding that her perimenopausal symptoms were disruptive to her life, Rachel did her homework, searching for helpful midlife resources, only to come up short. She also realized that women that looked like her were missing from the conversation altogether. She wondered if she could create a judgment-free space for midlife wom...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 2 min
This episode was originally released on April 28, 2021. 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. Whet...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 1 min
This episode was originally released on May 19, 2021 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 m...
May 11, 2022•56 min
This episode was originally released on June 16, 2021.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 a...
May 04, 2022•1 hr
This episode was originally released on June 16, 2021.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 helpi...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr
This episode was originally released on June 23, 2021.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 acti...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 13 min
In March 2020, Catherine Welch and her family left their lives in Southern California, on a 6-month sabbatical to travel through Central and South America. After arriving in Antigua, Guatemala on March 3, they found themselves in a precarious situation as the Coronavirus had quickly spread and was catching up to their exact location. The pandemic allowed the 40-year-old entrepreneur and mother of four to create a new normal upon returning home. Together with her husband, they rented out their pr...
Apr 13, 2022•48 min
Melanie Wolff is a mother of three under nine and knows a thing or two about juggling work and parenting. Armed with an undergraduate degree from Princeton and an MBA from Columbia, Melanie spent 15 years working in advertising, marketing, and technology for brands including; Schick, Johnson & Johnson, Bravo, and Amazon before launching Brella. After moving to the West Coast and starting a family, Melanie became aware of the lack of early child care services that matched a full-time work sch...
Apr 06, 2022•51 min
Toronto-based artist Michelle Vella is known for her colorful big eye portrayals of pop culture icons. Since childhood, she’s always been considered a talented artist. After graduating with a Fine Arts BA, the starving artist stigma didn't sit well with Vella so she made a choice to pursue art-related careers (and some not so related) instead. In the end, this allowed her to develop skills in sales, marketing, and business.After 10 years of running her graphic design business, Michelle knew it w...
Mar 30, 2022•53 min
Sylvana Ward Durrett is the CEO and Co-Founder of Maisonette, a curated children's marketplace. Before founding her own company she worked at Vogue for 14 years as assistant to Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and later as the director of special projects, producing the annual Costume Institute Met Gala. As a mom scrolling through various sites to find clothes, toys, and furniture for her kids, Sylvana realized that there was a need for a curated marketplace for parents. In 2017 Sylvana co-founded M...
Mar 23, 2022•54 min
Jeni Britton is an American ice cream maker and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the artisan ice cream movement, she introduced a modern, ingredient-driven style of ice cream making. In 1996 Jeni opened her first ice cream shop, Scream and later founded Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in 2002. Her first cookbook, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home, is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller and won a coveted James Beard Award in 2012. Her second cookbook, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream Desserts (201...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr
Molly Berry, a San Francisco native, has been living in Central America for over 12 years with her husband and two children. A lover of travel and a creative soul, she landed her dream job as the founder and CEO of her very own textile and lifestyle brand. What started as a search for a bedspread turned into the role of a lifetime. A world opened to Molly as she discovered the beautiful weaving by local Guatemalan artisans. Her inspiration led to opportunity when she connected the artisans with ...
Mar 09, 2022•58 min
Denise Boomkens was a fashion model turned photographer. Now behind the lens, her love of fashion and beauty took her all over the world, touching down in cities like Tokyo, New York, Capetown, and Seoul. As she neared the ‘BIG 4-0’, she left her camera behind to have her son and take a few years off to be with him. During that time she was looking for inspiration and began to notice a lack of social media platforms and blogs for women her age. She realized that women her age were worried about ...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Wendy Euler created Goodbye Crop Top when she couldn’t find what she was looking for on social media. She made it her mission to be that which she wanted to see. She decided to plant her flag not so much as an influencer, but rather as a kind of age-activist through writing, social media, and podcasting. She rejects the notion that women should fade into the background and knew instinctively that she wasn’t alone. Goodbye Crop Top is a place where women of any age——but particularly those with...
Feb 23, 2022•49 min
Stacy London is one of America’s foremost style experts. She is best known as the co-host of TLC’s iconic show, “What Not to Wear.” After a career as a stylist that included hosting, executive producing and writing a bestselling book, Stacy has taken on the role of founder and CEO of State Of Menopause. Her holistic product line for women addresses the symptoms associated with menopause and perimenopause. In this new phase of her career, Stacy is doing what she has done her entire career as a st...
Feb 16, 2022•48 min
Dr. Michaela O’Donnell is the author of, Make Work Matter: Your Guide to Meaningful Work in a Changing World, which is a guidebook for anyone walking the road of calling in a changing world. She’s also the executive director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership where she oversees the center's vision, strategy, program, and team, all with the goal of helping leaders reflect deeply in all seasons of life and leadership. In addition to her academic work, Michaela has over ten years of experienc...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 9 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 12 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 26 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 13 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 15 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 24 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 7 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 9 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 9 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 11 min
We’ve got lots of new things coming for 2022, but before we get into that I wanted to take a look back at our early episodes and rerelease my top 10 picks for the month of December. To be clear, picking my favorite episodes is like picking my favorite child—it’s impossible--so I based my decision on 3 criteria, 1) interviews of women who overcame something outside of the regular struggle of running a business, 2) a unique industry the guest disrupted and 3) guests that were just as much as teach...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Tiffany and Bentley founded Conscious Culture around the belief that your people are your competitive advantage. The two experts, along with their staff, partner with organizations to design and implement people-first solutions that enable teams to accomplish big things together. With over 25 years of experience in strategic people operations and leadership development, These two co-founders know what it takes to build high-performing teams. They share their knowledge and expertise with Consciou...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr
Christy Desai is the Co-Founder and CEO of Okay Humans. After unsuccessfully trying to outrun the stress of life, Christy finally looked for a therapist in hopes of catching her breath. What started as “3-5 sessions” turned into years of deep inner work. Her own experience turned into a personal mission to help other people feel better, stronger, and more alive. Christy returned to school to pursue a master’s in clinical psychology as well as become a licensed marriage and family therapist. Okay...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr
Dimitra Davidson is the President & COO of Indeed Labs. She is a champion of great skin for real people. As the driving force behind this global independent brand, Dimitra has built a reputation on asking tough questions about ingredients, formulations, industry trends and product usage so that everyone can get to real results faster. Since the brand's launch in 2011, Indeed Labs has been a pioneer of scientific, no-nonsense skincare. In this episode, Nada sits down with Dimitra to discuss h...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr
