Tiffany Dufu is founder and CEO of The Cru. Their algorithm matches women in accountability circles to help them meet their life goals. She’s the author of the bestselling book Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less. According to foreword contributor Gloria Steinem, Drop the Ball is “important, path-breaking, intimate and brave.” Her writing has appeared in The Oprah Magazine, ESSENCE and the New York Times. Named to Entrepreneur's 100 Powerful Women and Fast Company’s League of Extraordina...
Aug 02, 2023•39 min
Kathryn Minshew is the CEO & Founder of The Muse, a career platform used by over 70 million people to find jobs at companies whose people, benefits, and values align with their unique professional needs. Under her leadership The Muse has pioneered the concept of values-based job search and was recently named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World. In 2022, Kathryn led The Muse's acquisition of Fairygodboss.com, the largest online career community for women. Fairygodb...
Jul 26, 2023•43 min
Gail is best known as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the Founder of CAULIPOWER, the most disruptive company in the better-for-you frozen food space. The company experienced hyper-growth, reaching over $100m in revenue in five short years. She has received recognition for her achievements in business from Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and Ernst & Young. Gail is a frequent media guest, sought out for her opinions on the rise of female-owned businesses, healthy food trends, and building gre...
Jul 19, 2023•39 min
Lydia Fenet is the founder and CEO of the Lydia Fenet Agency, a boutique agency representing best in class charity auctioneers. Over her two-decade long career, Lydia served as the Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for Christie’s and reshaped the fundraising landscape as the world’s leading charity auctioneer. She has single handedly raised over one billion dollars for more than 800 organizations and broken-down countless barriers for women in the auction industry. Widely recogn...
Jul 12, 2023•40 min
Founded in 2016, Pandia Health, the only doctor-led, women-founded, women-led birth control delivery company, is building the online health brand women trust. The brand improves women’s lives by providing a one-stop solution for prescription birth control and acne treatment. By providing online doctors' visits for prescriptions and automating medication delivery, Pandia Health empowers women with convenient, confidential, and reliable access to expert women’s healthcare. The company was named to...
Jul 05, 2023•37 min
Kathi Sharpe-Ross has been Reinventing her own life since she was eight years old when her parents pulled her out of school for six weeks and took the family on their first trip around the world. Having lived on three different continents, she learned at a young age how to adapt, try on new circumstances, make new friends, roll with the changes, create the tools to flourish in her world, and treat fear as an adventure. Her new cultures, languages, and environments ranged from living in Melbourne...
Jun 28, 2023•38 min
Dr. Noor is a Bangladeshi-American medical doctor turned health insurance expert from NYC. She currently runs her own health insurance consulting practice out of Tampa, Florida offering healthcare insurance strategy to female founders all over the nation. When she's not working on her health insurance company, she is hosting events for Think Like A Woman, a platform designed to amplify the aspirations and ambitions of female founders, worldwide. She lives with her toddler son and husband in sunn...
Jun 21, 2023•27 min
Cindi Leive is the CEO and co-founder of The Meteor, a new media company for audiences interested in modern feminism. She is also the cohost of the award-winning podcast Because of Anita, about the 30th anniversary of Anita Hill’s testimony. Leive is the former editor in chief of both Glamour and Self magazines, roles in which she won multiple National Magazine Awards and an Emmy, and the author and producer of bestselling books including Together We Rise, about the making of the Women’s March. ...
Jun 14, 2023•34 min
Christine Grimm has over 25 years’ experience helping executives grow organizations and lead meaningful change for themselves, their people, and their company. As a practice leader in the area of alignment, she guides major endeavors to grow, merge and restructure organizations, blend and improve the performance of leadership teams and move organizations forward, ensuring that individuals and teams perform better, sustainably. Her client list includes: Microsoft, Endeavor (WME-IMG), Lagardére Sp...
Jun 07, 2023•40 min
Zornitza is the Founder and CEO of BSPK, the top-rated SaaS clienteling platform for digital curation and personal shopping. Zornitza is also a serial entrepreneur and an accomplished builder, and leader of teams. She was among the first employees of Wired (acquired by Conde Nast), eGroups (acquired by Yahoo) as well as Six Apart, imeem, Prosper and other Silicon Valley technology innovators funded by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Accel, among others. Zornitza is a graduate of Stanford Universi...
May 31, 2023•33 min
Founder of Brandstyle, America’s fast-growing PR agency with one primary focus: to make the stories around Companies, Businesses, Founders and Entrepreneurs relevant and interesting. We're the PR behind the BRAND. In this episode of Takin’ Care of Lady Business®, Jennifer Justice speaks to Zoe Weisberg Coady, founder of Brand Style Communications, about the evolving role of PR in the digital age. Zoe discusses how her company utilizes earned media, thought leadership, and strategic partnerships ...
May 24, 2023•35 min
As TOKiMONSTA, Jennifer Lee has made a name for herself as a Grammy-nominated music producer, pioneering the L.A. Beat Scene and ranking as one of the top 100 DJs worldwide. Her entire discography has drawn critical praise, collaborating with a long list of artists including Anderson Paak, Earthgang, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, and remixing artists like Sia and Beck. In 2015, Lee was diagnosed with Moyamoya, a rare brain disease that left her unable to communicate or comprehend music, but she persever...
May 17, 2023•38 min
Vital Voice Training is a voice, public speaking, and communication coaching company on a mission to change the conversation about what leaders are “supposed” to sound like, help organizations revolutionize their communication culture, and help individuals communicate with savvy, charisma, confidence, and a deep connection to their core values. They work with top-tier executives and their teams, world-changing entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, legacy organizations, and high-growth startups, a...
May 10, 2023•38 min
Erin Spahn Erenberg is a mom of three, attorney, serial business builder, fund advisor, and the founder and CEO of Totum, an advocacy platform for modern mothers at the intersection of ambition and motherhood. She is also a co-founder and the executive director of the nonprofit the Chamber of Mothers. Erin maintains a part-time legal practice at Belzer, PC, where she assists women with business and intellectual property matters. Before launching Totum, Erin practiced as an IP attorney for Moore ...
May 03, 2023•38 min
Patrice is an award-winning former TODAY show producer who now runs a company helping brands and entrepreneurs tap into the power of their own stories in order to create the impact and income they want in life. Video and specifically storytelling on video is not a skill set every founder has, but it's a lethal skill to have and can be the reason smaller brands and first-time entrepreneurs can compete with more established businesses. Her NY-based video storytelling company has worked with brands...
Apr 26, 2023•47 min
Patricia Lizarraga is the managing partner of Hypatia Capital, an asset manager focused on investing in women in leadership since 2007. Hypatia Capital Management is the issuer of the Hypatia Women CEO ETF (WCEO), an ETF investing in American public companies with female CEOs, small to mega cap. The WCEO has been nominated for Best Thematic ETF of the Year for the ETF.com Awards, 2023. Hypatia Capital also publishes both the Hypatia Women CEO Index, and the Hypatia Women Hedge Fund Index, both m...
Apr 19, 2023•32 min
Kelly Coller is the Chief Marketing Officer at Haus Labs by Lady Gaga and has been a critical partner in rebuilding the brand (under Founder Lady Gaga’s vision) and leading its retail expansion. Coller rebuilt three departments within Haus and is part of the powerhouse team responsible for the highly successful, best-selling, reimagined Haus Labs - from brand DNA and strategy to positioning, product marketing, storytelling, viral campaigns including TikTok, and more. Prior, Coller drove unpreced...
Apr 12, 2023•36 min
Betsy Morgan is the Co-Founder of Magnet Companies, a private equity-backed company focused on media and commerce, and an Associate Professor at Columbia Business School and Columbia College. Prior to Magnet, Ms. Morgan served as an Executive in Residence of LionTree, an advisory and merchant bank firm specializing in technology and media. Ms. Morgan was the CEO of TheBlaze, an early multi-platform and direct-to-consumer news and entertainment company. Prior to TheBlaze, Ms. Morgan was the first...
Apr 05, 2023•34 min
Jenny Just is a visionary powerhouse, and one of the few self-made female billionaires in the United States. From the days of cutting her teeth on the trading floor in Chicago to now running a fintech empire, she has started and/or turned around more than fifteen companies. She has also made hundreds of private investments, including in such companies as Webull, Stash, QuantumScape, and Thrasio. Jenny co-founded PEAK6 in 1997 with $1.5M in seed capital as a proprietary options trading firm and s...
Mar 29, 2023•43 min
Lisa Sun is Founder & CEO of GRAVITAS, a company whose origin story dates back to Lisa’s first professional review: that she “lacked gravitas” and “should go buy a new dress, big jewelry, and great shoes.” Realizing the transformative power that clothing can have, Lisa secured the patent on building shapewear into dresses and launched Gravitas as a Confidence Company that offers innovative apparel and styling solutions designed to makeover women from the inside-out. Prior to founding Gravita...
Mar 22, 2023•38 min
Jamie Greenberg is a renowned celebrity makeup artist with extensive knowledge in the beauty industry. She has mastered her craft for over 15 years through her amazing work on celebrities such as Kaley Cuoco, Rashida Jones, Kristen Stewart, Chelsea Handler, Christina Applegate, Jessica Alba and many more. Founder of the beauty brand and digital platform, Jamie Makeup, Jamie is “Everyone’s Personal Makeup Artist”, supporting the beauty needs & personal growth of women everywhere. Jamie believ...
Mar 15, 2023•42 min
Alice Kim is the Founder and CEO of PerfectDD, a brand created from her own need to find clothes that fit and flatter women with DD+ cups, small to mid-frame. As a size 32DD, Alice struggled her entire life to feel confident in clothes that are not too tight at her chest or oversized on the rest of her body. Learning that the average bra size in the U.S. is a 34DD and millions of women struggle with the same problem, Alice was inspired to create style solutions and to be the voice for these unde...
Mar 08, 2023•29 min
In this episode, we talk with Sana Clegg and Fiona Simmonds, the co-founders of Pinkie, a company that fills an unmet need by making organic period pads custom-sized for tweens and teens. Sana and Fiona share their personal experiences with traditional period products and the lack of options available for young girls. They discuss how Pinkie pads are designed to be comfortable and provide confidence for young girls navigating their periods. SANA CLEGG is the co-founder of Pinkie, Inc., the only ...
Mar 01, 2023•42 min
After a successful 20-year career in technology, Alli founded The Forem to unlock opportunities for women across disruptive brands and Fortune 1000 organizations. As CEO, Alli oversees all aspects of The Forem, including corporate training and Executive Coaching. In her last role, Alli led Americas at Turn, a tech company in the middle of a challenging transition and exit. In her most prominent role, Alli led various sales teams over an 11-year tenure at Google, where she focused on strategic pa...
Feb 22, 2023•34 min
Named one of Inc. Magazines Top 100 Female Founders of 2020, Collette Courtion is a distinguished and award-winning consumer marketer, inventor (21 issued patents), and femtech leader who is revolutionizing the $600 billon dollar menopause market with Joylux—the leader in at-home medical devices, personal care products and digital tools for menopausal women experiencing vaginal and sexual health issues. With over 20 years of cross-functional expertise leading consumer product, retail, and medica...
Feb 15, 2023•41 min
Ali Koplar Wyatt is a veteran of the start-up world, having worked in a leadership capacity at iconic lifestyle and culture-shifting companies like Goop, Refinery29, and most recently, launching Female Founder Collective with Rebecca Minkoff. She is a business builder, advisor to start-ups, and an investor in female-funded businesses. Ali was one of the first employees at Refinery29 and was tasked with building an ad and brand partnership business from scratch, subsequently assembling a world-cl...
Feb 08, 2023•34 min
Anne Clarke Wolff is a 30-year transformational leader in the financial services industry with expertise in managing large-scale global businesses and working with companies through financial life cycles – from initial public offerings to mergers and acquisitions. In 2021, Anne founded Independence Point Advisors (“IPA”), a women-owned investment bank and advisory services firm, where she serves as its Chief Executive Officer based in New York. Prior to IPA’s launch, Anne spent the majority of h...
Feb 01, 2023•39 min
Angie Tebbe is the co-founder and CEO of Rae Wellness. A fruitful 13-year career at one of the world's most recognizable retailers, a lifelong commitment to well-being, and an endless thirst for knowledge led Angie to start Rae Wellness, a holistic wellness company that is committed to well-being for all by providing natural supplements at affordable price points. The North Dakota native grew up in a humble and holistic home. Angie's mother worked as a nurse, and her father had a deep passion fo...
Jan 25, 2023•33 min
With her finger on the pulse of better-for-you brands, Rachel Krupa is the Founder of The Goods Mart, a better-for-you convenience store that opened its doors in 2018 and now has three locations in New York City. As a professional “Snack Curator,” Rachel has deep insights into what makes a small brand stand out on the shelves and offers personalized and customized snack curation for corporations, hotels, and beyond. Rachel’s work as a leader in better-for-you food and wellness iterations has gar...
Jan 18, 2023•32 min
Kate Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Miss Grass, a brand on a mission to help the world get good at weed. Inspired by her stint working at a dispensary in college and powered by a decade-long career in entertainment where she worked alongside Ben Silverman (The Office, Ugly Betty) and led brand partnerships for Lorne Micheals’ Broadway Video (Saturday Night Live), Kate is dedicated to making cannabis accessible, rewriting the pervasive and shameful narrative around this plant, and building a...
Jan 11, 2023•35 min
