She Had A Vision

Meredith Noles is the founder of Noles Studio, a knitwear consultancy that partners with fashion brands to design and develop elevated, sustainable collections. Drawing from experience at luxury houses and years of guiding emerging labels, she bridges creative vision with technical rigor to help brands scale with confidence. Her approach is rooted in craft, clarity, and storytelling, helping desig...

Luna Marketing Studio is a boutique marketing agency whose mission is to empower women entrepreneurs and brands by providing bespoke digital marketing solutions that elevate their unique narratives. Founder and CEO, Drew DeFir and their paid media and search expert, Claire Reed, will share more insights on the 2025 marketing landscape and also best practices and tips for building a successful mark...

This is the 2nd episode with comedian, Katherine Blanford. We last checked in with her in April 2021, so we are excited to hear an update of her amazing growth as a comic over the last few years. This is a good reminder that it takes time to get to your destination and to enjoy the journey along the way.  Katherine Blanford has brought her human Golden Retriever presence across the country and int...

Sarah Collins Lawler, is the designer and owner of Tela Mercantile, a one-size fits all kaftan line that brings leisure and luxury and is meant to make everyone look and feel beautiful. Since launching in 2021, Sarah has been designing with more and more unique textiles from all around the world and could now be in a store near you! 

Michelle Jacobs  is the designer and owner of the well-known  swim and resortwear brand,  Sister New York. Michelle set out to create swimwear for her sister and friends, with the mission to design swimwear that not only enhances but also celebrates the innate beauty of every woman. Since college she has worked in many fashion houses and showrooms and in 2017 began making swimsuits for her friends...

Holly Shae is the designer and owner of her signature clothing line, Holly Shae. After 18 years of teaching she decided to go back to her creative roots where she learned from her mother and grandmother. In 2020, she started with an accessories and jewelry brand but it quickly evolved into apparel where she created fresh, custom prints on quality dresses that led to her tagline, “Elevate with Ease...

Taylor Simmons, is the designer and owner of Coco Shop, a resort wear  clothing brand which was first established on the island of Antigua in 1949. Taylor relaunched the brand in 2019 carrying on the historical silhouettes and style and beautiful island prints that have  been so beloved by the island’s residents for over 75 years. She has recreated the entire operation in New York while holding on...

Based in Westbrook, Connecticut, Modatrova was founded by Caroline Barton in 2019 as an e-commerce destination for emerging designers. Caroline saw an opportunity to merge her love of fashion and travel to craft her own platform, creating a cohesive experience that gives shoppers that feeling of exploration from home. Today, Modatrova carries brands across clothing, jewelry, shoes, and accessories...

Based in Columbus, Ga, Shuler Studio designs and crafts digital monograms for print and embroidery including fonts, monograms, & designs. It is owned and operated by mother daughter duo, Pam Shuler and Carolyn (Shuler) Bettin. Their shop opened in 2016 and their designs have been featured all over the world and they have also been featured in Traditional Home, Style Me Pretty, Martha Weddings,...

Based in Greensboro, NC, Morgan Hood and Ally Holderness launched Elliston House in early 2022 and are creating unique, custom textiles that not only sell to the trade but also to the end consumer. They have found a way to make interior design more accessible to a home owner. Elliston House makes it easy to achieve a timeless, yet curated look. Elliston House is a combination of Morgan and Ally’s...

Lux Perry is the founder and CEO of s omedays , a company focused on period pain relief. Period pain impacted every aspect of Lux’s life from school and work to infertility and mental health. After 15 years of being dismissed by doctors Lux was finally diagnosed with endometriosis — one of the most painful diseases in the world and a leading cause of infertility that affects 1 in 10 women. Frustra...

Tinsley Merrill Paul is the co-founder and CEO of Support HerStory, a social business and platform for women-led brands across the globe to share their stories and sell their luxury products. Based in Dallas, she along with Whitney Rowell, founder of Miracle Milkookies and Brittany Underwood, founder of Akola came together in 2020 during the pandemic to find a solution to better support women busi...

Nancy Jarecki is the founder of bettybeauty, inc. in New York in 2006 with the innovative idea to develop color for “hair down there.” She got the idea after visiting a hair salon in Rome, Italy where she discovered an untapped market that women indeed were searching for ways to color match their hair down there and cover grays. She worked with medical professionals to develop a safe formula. The...

Sallie Holder is an author, speaker, podcast host and business coach with a mission to support female entrepreneurs that are ready to  grow and scale their business. She wants to help more women become millionaires.  This final episode with Sallie explores the society constraints and challenges women face when it comes to fundraising or financing their business and how to counter objections during...

"Post and prey" is not a sales strategy. Sallie Holder is an author, speaker, podcast host and business coach with a mission to support female entrepreneurs that are ready to  grow and scale their business. She joins us for 2nd episode as part of her interview series on She Had A Vision. As a former lawyer and COO of six different companies across six different industries, she’s seen it...

Sallie Holder is an author, speaker, podcast host and business coach with a mission to make more female millionaires.  As a former lawyer and COO of six different companies across six different industries, she’s seen it all. That’s why she founded The BRIMM, which stands for the Beyond Rock Middle Movement. Through 20 years of experience she has developed the only 12-month group coaching experienc...

Jourdann Lubliner is the founder and CEO of Electrify PR, full-service public relations, influencer marketing and consulting firm for consumer-facing companies and personalities. Jourdann is a seasoned publicist based in New York and with experience in publicizing brands, products and personalities across various industries and has placed brands in well-known publications from GMA, CNBC to Cosmopo...

Jess Hunichen and Emily Ward are the co-founders of Shine Talent Group, an influencer talent management agency located in Los Angeles, Toronto and now London! With the rise in influencer marketing, Jess and Emily saw the opportunity to represent influencer talent to better serve brands and the influencer profile. Their team of talent agents has grown to over 50 and they continue to seek opportunit...

Olivia Bordson and Jessica Landzberg are the co-founders of Pareto, a direct to consumer women’s apparel brand on a mission to make getting dressed the easiest part of your day. They met as undergrad students at WashU and then both went on to work as retail consultants with McKinsey & Company. They began building the brand at the start of the global pandemic and officially launched their first...

Katherine Mason is the founder and CEO of Sculpthouse, an innovative fitness boutique studio and online athleisure boutique. Katherine immersed herself in the industry as a fitness model and trainer in New York and discovered the forward thinking exercise techniques such as the megaformer and the woodway curve treadmill - she noticed sculpting and toning plus cardio was the perfect workout and wan...

Heather Eaton and Jane Dong are the co-founders of Frankly Apparel, a braless clothing brand that started as a class project in business school and officially launched in 2021. These pieces of clothing range from bodysuits, dresses, tops and are constructed with innovative sewing technique and high quality fabrics to allow for better sizing and support for a variety of chest sizes. We will discuss...

SJ Bailey is the founder and designer of Spence Designs, an ecommerce custom jewelry line based in Atlanta. SJ began making jewelry for herself as early as 16 and wanted to make pieces that had that feminine and whimsy touch. As family members continued to keep asking for her pieces, she started her jewelry line with no expectation of it growing beyond a hobby. SJ officially launched her jewelry b...

Sammy Handler is the Founder,  CEO and Artist of KicksBySammy in New York, a custom and one-of-a-kind e-commerce accessories company featuring Sammy’s artwork on a variety of goods that started with sneakers and now has expanded to a variety of products across home, art and fashion. She has tapped into the gifting industry that celebrates the many milestones of life such as baby showers and birthd...

Alix Greenberg is the Founder and CEO of ArtSugar in New York, an ecommerce platform that enables emerging, underrepresented artists to market and sell their work while also giving back to charitable organizations that they care about. ArtSugar launched in 2017 and helps bridge the gap for those artists that do not have bandwidth or expertise when it comes to selling their art and scaling their bu...

Sarah Pierre is the owner of 3 Parks Wine Shop in Atlanta and bought the wine shop in 2013. She discusses her original career path, but began building a passion in the hospitality and restaurant industry and began taking jobs in New York and Atlanta in restaurant management. We will explore Sarah’s thought process when it came to the ultimate decision to buy a business and how she transformed this...