Gretchen DeVault

Episode 33: Scaling a Business – An Interview with Jennifer Masley

September 11, 2017 by Gretchen DeVault Leave a Comment

In this episode, we talk about scaling a business with health and wellness entrepreneur Jennifer Masley. Jennifer Masley is founder of Michigan-based Sip Organic Juice Bar and Jenergy Nutritional Food Bar and EiO & THE HIVE, an all organic restaurant in West Nashville. Jennifer shares with us how she started her first business the Jenergy Bar after the 2008 market crash left her then husband’s real estate development business at an overnight loss of $17 million. Her Jenergy bar led to starting Sip Organic Juice Bar which she scaled from her kitchen to a storefront to multiple locations and then began franchising.

Episode 32: The Business of Music with Musician Kerry Hart

September 5, 2017 by Gretchen DeVault Leave a Comment

In this episode, we talk with Los Angeles musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist Kerry Hart about the business of music. Kerry is a musician turned entrepreneur then back to musician. She has always written songs, but three years ago she decided to pursue her music career full force and started hustling to make it happen. She shares her approach to treating her music like she has with her multiple startups. She also talks about how she stays centered enough to write and manage her family of three, while also working with her husband in their tech company.

Stick around to the end of the episode to hear an exclusive and unreleased song of Kerry’s titled If Only. What an honor that she is sharing it with us!

Episode 31: How a little improv can help your business – An Interview with Pam Victor

August 31, 2017 by Gretchen DeVault Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard those voices in your head saying: “You can’t do this. You aren’t good enough. Why are you even trying, you will never succeed.”? We’ve all heard those voices at some point and as our guest, improv comedian and female entrepreneur Pam Victor says, it’s often the greatest among us who hear those voices most often. Pam created the F.U.C.K. I.T. philosophy to keep those voices at bay. She shares the techniques she teaches her students to get rid of those voices, which she lovingly calls Calvin or your Evil Mind Meany. Pam also talks about how she happened into becoming an improv comedian and then entrepreneur.

Episode 25: Running a female-centered business – An interview with Kristin Revere and Alyssa Veneklase

June 29, 2017 by Gretchen DeVault Leave a Comment

This week, business partners Kristin Revere and Alyssa Veneklase of Gold Coast Doulas join us to talk about how they run their female-centered business. In addition to overcoming many of the same hurdles as many female business owners, Kristin and Alyssa have also faced an added layer of running a business in a field that hasn’t always been taken seriously. They have worked hard to legitimize their business and support other women who are also building their own businesses.

What they have built is truly inspiring. Listen throughout their interview about how they intentionally support other women in building their own businesses. They also discuss how they’ve built systems to make it easy to support as many women as they can with this work.

Episode 23: Being a Rockstar Mompreneur – An Interview with Kristina Romero

June 14, 2017 by Gretchen DeVault Leave a Comment

This week, we talked with co-founder of RockStar Empires, Kristina Romero about her journey going from Daytime Emmy Nominated Actress to entrepreneur and now mompreneur. She shares the importance of being a good boss to yourself, setting boundaries and creating systems to balance life and work. Learn some of her methods for separating her work stress from home life and her family. Hint, it takes a bit of work, but is possible if you are intentional about it in the right ways.

Episode 19: Side Hustles — An Interview with Entrepreneur Brook Powers

May 18, 2017 by Gretchen DeVault Leave a Comment

This week we talk with entrepreneur Brook Powers about the art of the side hustle and the internal drive to build businesses. Brook offers great advice to other women entrepreneurs on how to trust your instincts in business and be confident in your own abilities. This is a conversation we know we needed and we’re certain you’ll also find some wisdom from Brook.

Brook is Chief Operations Officer of Griffin Properties, a residential real estate firm in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In just 5 years at Griffin, Brook has doubled the size of the team, added expansion partners, and grown sales volume from 27m to 60m. In this episode, Brook talks about how she has embraced leaning out and how she got her start as an entrepreneur with a myriad of side hustles or hobby jobs as she calls them, while working a full time job in the publishing industry in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her drive to build businesses always kept her going and she lept out of a job she’d known for over 20 years to be an entrepreneur full time.

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