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.
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Episode 45: Enhancing Your Inner Fempreneur — An interview with co-host Tera Wozniak Qualls
In this episode, we turn the mic on co-host and fempreneur Tera Wozniak Qualls. Tera’s entrepreneurial journey began in the nonprofit sector where in addition to her full-time gig, she founded and led the Grand Rapids chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network. She has built four different companies, written a book, became a realtor in less than a month (including the testing) and is currently managing a handful of business ventures. Tera shares a bit about her journey and her hopes for the future of Lean the F*ck Out.
Episode 44: Making Awesome Happen — An interview with co-host Gretchen DeVault
In this episode, we turn the mic on co-host Gretchen DeVault. Gretchen has run marketing and design consulting firms for the last decade, while making music, and supporting women in making their own awesome happen. She talks about her history in business, how she balances being creative with running a business, and gives her secrets on how to make a business partnership work.
During the interview we also talk a lot about why we started Lean the Fuck Out and what we hope to do in the future. After the episode before to hop over to our website leanthef-ckout.com to download our new starter kit for how you can start leaning the fuck out too!
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Episode 43: The Business of Blogging — An interview with founder and fempreneur Corissa Enneking
In this episode, we talk about the business of blogging with fempreneur Corissa Enneking, founder of fatgirlflow.com. Corissa was fucking sick of working in an office, so she just went ahead and did something about it. She started a blog with the plan to lean out and in just six months she left her day job to run Fat Girl Flow full time.
Today, Corissa is managing a business model focused on building a community, running affiliate marketing, and selling merchandise that is all about body positivity and plus size fashion. She is simply killing it and taking back terms that have been brought her community down.
Episode 42: Awkward Feminist Comedies — An interview with writer and director Juani Begood
In this episode we talk with awkward feminist comedy writer and director Juani Begood. Juani has been making comedy videos since 2013 with a mission to empower women and disenfranchised people to own and tell their stories. Juani walks us through a bit of her process and why she writes and creates the videos she does. We get deep into the topics that are on many of our minds right now, including sharing #metoo and what it really takes to make money as an entrepreneur in our current cultural environment.
Episode 41: Funding and Launching a Tech Startup — An interview with fempreneur Diva Tommei
In this episode we talk with fempreneuer Diva Tommei, founder and CEO of Solenica a hardware startup committed to transforming the power of our indoor spaces. Diva spoke to us from Rome and shared with us what it really takes to get a hardware tech startup off the ground, including those crowdfunding campaigns that make funding look so easy. She shares really valuable info on the episode so take notes.