We talk with Windy Borman, award-winning director and producer about women in the cannabis industry and her groundbreaking documentary, “Mary Janes: The Women of Weed”. She talks with us about how women are changing the face of today’s fastest growing industry – cannabis. Windy talks about how she got into documentary filmmaking and her award-winning films “The Eyes of Thailand”, narrated by Ashley Judd and “The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia“, which premiered at Sundance and on HBO.
Does the phrase “cold calling” terrify you? Are you a fempreneur that didn’t realize sales would be such a big part of running your own business? Leah Neaderthal teaches women entrepreneurs how to sign new clients. She is founder of Smart Gets Paid and joins us this week to talk sales and how selling doesn’t actually have to suck!
[Read more…] about Episode 54: Selling doesn’t have to suck — An interview with Leah Neaderthal
In this episode we talk with Ashley Wilson founder of Everest and Company about how she launched her online boutique e-commerce business after spending several years working in the music industry. Ashley talks about how she used social media (Snapchat in particular) in partnership with a local launch party to kickoff the company. Ashley also talks about tools like Shopify that she uses on a daily basis. She also shares a bit of her social media strategy. Lots of great info for fempreneurs and in particular those launching e-commerce businesses.
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This week we talked with fempreneur Charlene Dipaola founder of Hip Shake Fitness about how she started and runs her online fitness business. Charlene shares why she decided to take the leap into entrepreneurship even though she was very successful in a corporate career. She also talks about her own health journey including a Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) diagnosis. Charlene also shares how she started an online dance workout studio even though she considers herself to be an awkward dancer. In the conversation, we dive deep into how analytics can drive business decisions and help increase conversion rates, how Hip Shake Fitness uses Facebook and YouTube to grow community and drive sales and how to maximize content creation.
In this episode we talked with Nicole Carrier, co-founder of Throwback Brewery, New Hampshire’s only 100% women-owned brewery about growing a brewery. Nicole shares with us how she and her co-founder started the brewery, how they funded the venture and their expansion from a nano-brewery to full brewhouse located on an historic farm property. Nicole talks about what it takes to run a craft brewing operation and full restaurant on an historic farm. Nicole also shares her experiences being a female brewery owner in a male dominated industry.
This week we had the opportunity to talk with Maegan Carberry, founder of Birdbrain, non-profit clothing line seeking to comfort rape victims and help others support them. We talk to Maegan about how she took the bold move to truly lean the f*ck out and create the life she wanted for herself and others like her.
