Starter Girlz Podcast

For entrepreneurs and aspiring founders, skincare entrepreneur Sarina Pilaroscia shares how her dad’s struggle with psoriasis led her to build a lab and launch a skincare brand. Watching her father struggle with severe psoriasis led Sarina to research ingredients, approach laboratories, and eventually hire her own chemist. She wasn’t a chemist herself, but she had a clear idea of what she wanted t...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, this conversation explores how nearly dying changed what it means to be alive—and what that means for personal growth and success. Career success can become part of your identity while creativity, happiness, and personal ambitions get pushed aside. What changes when you stop waiting for permission to pursue what matters to you? In this epi...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, rethinking the clothes we buy connects sustainable fashion with a bigger question: how can a business make everyday life better while reducing waste? A full closet doesn’t always make a style decision easier. Wardrobe organization can help us see what we own, discover outfit combinations, and use our clothes longer. But textile waste also...

For founders and entrepreneurs, The Two Warriors Within explores leadership, emotional intelligence, and personal growth. TJ Baird, the Warrior Dad, asks: Which One Are You Feeding? Drawing on 32 years of military leadership, TJ examines how anger, self-awareness, and your actions affect the people you lead. His philosophy connects the battles within us to the trust we build—or damage—in our busin...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, growth can bring a difficult question: are you building a business you can lead, or one that demands more of you every day? In the messy middle of entrepreneurship, business growth can come with shrinking profits and mounting business debt. Brent Garrett’s story shows why moving forward means facing the numbers, setting the culture, and gr...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, leaders, and anyone navigating a new chapter, this episode explores why you don’t have to start over to reinvent yourself—and how taking action can create clarity when the path ahead feels uncertain. Change often challenges more than our plans. It can disrupt our identity, confidence, and sense of direction. Whether you are facing an empty nest, career...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, leaders, and professionals navigating career transitions, this episode explores why your humanity matters more in an AI-driven job market—and how personal branding and authentic storytelling can help you stand out. AI job search tools can be helpful, but relying on them alone can make your resume sound like everyone else’s. Human experts can help uncov...

For founders, entrepreneurs, creators, leaders, and other growth-minded professionals, success can become so closely tied to achievement that it becomes difficult to know who you are without the title, trophy, or next win. In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with Dr. Angela Kerek—a former professional tennis player, global law firm partner, entrepreneur, autho...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, the drive to achieve can sometimes hide the very patterns holding us back. What looks like strength on the outside may be carrying a hidden cost. In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with structural engineer, entrepreneur, and speaker Jasper Calcara to explore what nearly three decades of building busin...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, success isn't only about strategy—it's also about recognizing the blind spots that influence how we think, decide, and respond under pressure. In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with cybersecurity expert Robert Siciliano to explore what more than 30 years of studying risk, deception, and human behavio...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, the spaces we live and work in can influence far more than how they look—they can quietly affect our focus, energy, stress, and overall well-being. In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with interior designer Loren Ng to explore how psychology-led design considers both the conscious and subconscious need...

For founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, growth doesn't always come from competing harder. Sometimes the biggest opportunities appear when you're willing to think differently, specialize, and create a lane of your own. In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with DLE Event Group founder Daniel Linares to explore how specialization, strategic thin...

What happens when everything looks successful on the outside, but something still feels “fine”? In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with leadership coach and Limitless partner Tiffanie Janowitz to explore self-trust, personal growth, intentional living, and the hidden cost of settling for “fine.” Growing up with a checklist of expectations, Tiffanie believed s...

What happens when you spend years climbing the corporate ladder, building someone else's dream, and checking every box society tells you will lead to success—only to realize you're living a life that no longer feels like your own? In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with author, speaker, and transformational guide Becca Eve Young for a powerful conversation ab...

Most people think healing from trauma begins by talking about what happened. Danielle Adams Johnson discovered something different. After surviving childhood trauma, sexual abuse, divorce, single motherhood, and homelessness, she found that movement, creative expression, and serving others became powerful tools for emotional healing. What began as her own healing journey eventually became the foun...

What happens when one decision changes the course of your life forever? After hearing his young children cry, "Daddy, don't leave us," Scott Curry made a decision that would eventually change not only his own future, but his life's mission. What began as a desire to create more freedom for his family led him to build a successful YouTube business and recurring membership community. But after navig...

What if the biggest obstacle to your success isn't failure... it's what happens when success finally gets within reach? Most people think the hard part is getting the opportunity. Actress, producer, and filmmaker Belle Guillory discovered something different after spending eight years building a career in Hollywood: every new level requires a new version of you. In this episode of the Starter Girl...

What happens when you stop waiting for the “right” opportunity and start creating your own? In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with filmmaker Jamila Sangare for a conversation about storytelling, culture, creativity, and the courage it takes to build your own path. From Paris to international creative spaces, Jamila shares how her love of art, fashion, travel...

What happens when the treatments keep changing—but the symptoms never truly go away? In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with Ayurvedic doctor Dr. Rohan Nagar for a thought-provoking conversation about chronic illness, symptom management, and why so many people feel stuck in an endless cycle of searching for answers. After working with more than 150,000 patien...

What happens when a police canine is given just two weeks to live? For Chris Bingham, Tambo’s cancer diagnosis became more than a fight for survival. It became a story of loyalty, hope, healing, and reconciliation. In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with Chris Bingham, veteran law enforcement officer and handler to retired federal police K9 Tambo, for a power...

What happens when the options you’re given don’t feel like the right fit? In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with neurologist and regenerative medicine specialist Dr. Fawad Mian for a conversation about pain, healing, and the power of asking better questions. After facing his own injuries and being told surgery was the answer, Dr. Mian began searching for ano...

What happens when anxiety, self-doubt, and fear of being seen become the very things that push you toward your voice? In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with singer-songwriter True Istina for a powerful conversation about music, vulnerability, creativity, and learning to trust yourself before the world gives you permission. True began singing and writing musi...

What happens when a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis forces you to re-evaluate everything? In this powerful episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with happiness coach and Stage 4 cancer survivor Amie Jelich Yaniak for a deeply personal conversation about adversity, identity, forgiveness, and what it truly means to live. After facing both a devastating diagnosis and a painful di...

What happens when the biggest bottleneck in a business isn’t the product — but the systems, leadership, and pressure behind it? In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with Ashish Gupta, founder of ScaleUp Exec and recipient of CEO of the Year in the fractional executive consulting industry, for a conversation about scaling businesses, founder burnout, leadership,...

Why do some people feel constantly overwhelmed, overstimulated, emotionally exhausted, or unable to slow their thoughts down? In this episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer Loehding sits down with neurodivergent occupational therapist Nikki Smit for a powerful conversation about overthinking, stress, emotional overwhelm, nervous system regulation, and what it really feels like to move thro...