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Episode 28: Running an Online Business — An interview with female entrepreneur Molly Beane

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This week on the podcast, female entrepreneur Molly Beane, founder and CEO of From Molly With Love, an all-natural skincare company for radical self-care, talks about the impetus behind her online business and how she runs it from the high level tasks to the day-to-day tools that keep her company moving. Molly explains her plans behind optimal lead generation and expanding her product business to include a course to support women in holistic self care, which she refers to as a radically feminist act.

 

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Episode 27: Owning Your Social Justice Values — An interview with activist, organizer and entrepreneur Leslie Mac

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This week on the podcast, Leslie Mac, social justice activist and co-founder and creative director of Safety Pin Box, a subscription box service for white allies, talks about the phenomenon of women tearing other women down and further what white women can do to support their black femme peers in entrepreneurship and startup. Leslie gives some tips on how to do that and we talk about the history of mistreatment between women and how to take steps to move past this behavior.

Leslie also talks about her unique experience of starting a business with a social justice focus. She’s definitely in a unique position, considering many women who have start social justice organizations go nonprofit, but what we find out in our conversation is that the being a business gives her a grander opportunity to support the values, beliefs, and missions of the organization and get more done for black women across the country.

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Episode 26: Overcoming Fears — An interview with Beverly Walthour

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This week on the podcast, Beverly Walthour shares some great techniques for overcoming fears and specific things you can do to get yourself unstuck. She also talks about the importance of mindset, affirmations and visualizations, goal setting (yay for SMART goals) and a daily routine that ties it all together.

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

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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.

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Episode 24: Female Startup Founders — An interview with Natasha Zena and Dawn Leaks

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This week we talked with Natasha Zena and Dawn Leaks, co-founders of Lioness, a magazine for entrepreneurial women.  

Natasha and Dawn started Lioness magazine in 2011, because there was no mainstream media outlet focused solely on women launching startups across all industries. Lioness’ mission is to elevate, educate and support female entrepreneurs. And they truly embody that mission in all the work they do. Not only do they publish the magazine, but they work directly with women launching or running businesses to aid in their success.

The two women share insights from their work with women business owners and how to conquer the biggest downfall for many women, our own fears and self-confidence to be successful.

Dawn who is CEO of the Lioness Group, says just do it! We’ve heard this on the show before, so it must be true! Dawn adds that it’s imperative to get out there and make your dreams happen, don’t wait for an invitation.

Natasha, founder and publisher of Lioness is the driving force behind the magazine’s editorial mission. Natasha has successfully bridged the gap between featuring well-known women entrepreneurs as well as female startup founders disrupting industries.

Their advice on how to get past your fears is priceless, including tips on how to get yourself out a stalemate with your own mind, leveraging resources to overcome, and being responsive to the market.

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

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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.

 

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