Baddies Mean Business

Join powerhouse hosts Taryell Simmons (RISE Urban Nation) and Rylie Jennings (Baddies Mean Business) as they dive deep with five groundbreaking San Diego founders who are revolutionizing social innovation in 2024. Recorded live during San Diego Startup Week, this special collaboration brings you intimate conversations with leaders who are tackling society's most pressing challenges head-on. Whethe...

Welcome back, baddies! It's been a whirlwind of travel, reflection, and embracing change. What do you really want in life? As we hit milestones and navigate transitions, it's natural to ponder our path. From career shifts to personal growth, when do we truly realize what we want in life? I share about what I've been thinking about lately rounding the corner of my 3-month mark for my ne...

Welcome Baddies! Swimsuit USA in the house. Meet my friend Tiffany GIl. We met in college and she's now the founder of TIktok viral CPG brand, Shezza. She developed the idea to save us from the pain of Doc Martin heel crushers. She's spent the last few years traveling the world and taking advantage of new friendships across the world. Also share about her experience participating in Swimsu...

Welcome Baddies. This episode is putting the car in reverse and take a 3-point turn. Starting off the episode with five things that are pissing me off. Yes, you read it right. I'll also share a bit about how I feel about ego. This is your episode if you have an egotistical nuisance in your life and need a safe place to let out steam. Agressive? No. Effective. Baddies Mean Business is the podca...

Welcome Baddies! We're bringing the girl chat to the mic and unleashing our thoughts on managing friendship in your late-20's. Why? They are so confusing! Who's getting married this year? Who's in a relationship now? Who's moving away to another city? Who's moving back home to YAKIMA?? My cousin, Morgan Kline, is like a sister to me and tonight we share our transparent thou...

Welcome back Baddies! You read the title correctly. Introducing the woman who raised me, Slay Lia J. She's all the spice with sugar on the side. Many of the themes I believe in and the skills I learned came from her hard work and drive while I was growing up. Together, we share stories from my childhood as well as this year's new segment, Unpopular Opinions! Chapters: 00:00 Welcome back Ba...

Welcome back Baddies! Introducing a brand new segment in this episode titled, "Unpopular Opinions". Is small talk a sign of low intelligence? What's more important in life, book-smart, street-smart or a healthy balance of both? Introducing Shivi Singh to the pod, Founder of Legacy. She's a software engineer turned entrepreneur on a mission. With a solid foundation in technology,...

Re-brand? Cherry mocktails? Funny Slack memes? Welcome to 2024 Baddies! In this episode, we catch up like old friends do and I share all the updates on my new job and visiting my family's Village in Samoa. Also, I share my 2024 "Ins and Outs" list. Listen and see whether you agree with me. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome back Baddies! 4:38 Baddies Briefing 19:20 My trip to Samoa (check it out on my person...

Let us say it again for the back row. You are MORE than just a cheerleader. Today Lori and I talk about embracing the sides of us suppressed by others who don't understand. This is about more than your career. This is about your life's purpose. Lori Wallace is the founder of Career Ecology which empowers human connection at the front door of recruiting and the back door of layoffs. She cul...

From vegan cookies fit for that 9 pm sweet tooth to sustainable surfboards doubling as functional pieces of art, Baddies Mean Business and Rise Urban Nation are back again with another live podcast at San Diego Startup Week 2023! Watch and listen as San Diego start-up founders share the WHY, WHAT, and HOW behind their company's genesis and what their vision of the future looks like from their...

*cue the Jay-Z voice* Allow me to reintroduce myself...🎶 In this episode, I'm riding solo and re-telling my story of the moment that changed my life forever. I've been meeting a lot of new faces and so today I share about my thoughts visiting Samoa for the very first time (where my family came from). Also, why hearing different perspectives and promoting free-thinking is so important to m...

From breast milk, to adaptive surfing, to how one founder went from homeless to winning her very first pitch competition sharing her latest invention. This week's SPECIAL EPISODE we're teaming up with Village Up San Diego and Rise Urban Nation to share the stories of founders creating change in the world in their own unique way. Leaving a legacy in society doesn't have one single defin...

Today's about new beginnings. Give a warm welcome to Liz Trower, the Chief of Staff at Olipop and frequent tiktoker expressing her witty satirical videos about corporate life. Liz shares about her next chapter leaving Olipop after 5 years and appreciating the confidence she's built along the way. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 2:42 Baddie Briefing 10:42 Doja Cats biggests hits 17:07 Growing Up 27:36...

Yes, baddies. We're splitting up. In this episode, we talk about what comes next for Baddies Mean Business and the details behind our separation. Regardless of what comes next, we want to thank the OG Baddies for always being there for us and our little community. 👋🏼Welcome to Baddies Mean Business: Creating positive media for ambitious people. Baddies Mean Business shares the real stories o...

Baddies! Knowing when to make major decisions in your life doesn't necessarily come with a handbook. For Quynh Vu, Founder of Secureland Co and Our San Diego Home, it was the matter of whether she gets to spend holidays with her family or not. Proper motivation? We think so too. Quynh is a full-time real estate investor and in this episode, she shares her story of what motivated her to take ri...

Welcoming Jordan Loufas to the podcast. Jordan is a full time content creator and wedding photographer who has built a community around her genuine love for life as a 27 year old live in southern CA. Very early on, she knew college wasn't for her, and decided to create a career in creativity. Earlier in her content creation career, she courageously shared her eating disorder recovery journey a...

We all know green flags, red flags, but have you heard of "beige" flags? We share some of ours and the crazy finds from Tiktok. We also chat about some of our latest pop culture obsessions including Vanderpump Rules, "It Ends With Us" starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni and "The Summer I Turned Pretty". Are you team Jeremiah or Conrad? Baddies Mean Business is a...

Yes, you read that correctly. We were laid off on the very same day from our jobs. It's an uncomfortable and scary experience for most, so let's talk about it. LET'S GET VULNERABLE with a positive spin to how we felt in the first 48 hours, what steps did we take to find our next opportunities, and setting standards for ourselves. Baddies Mean Business is a perspective-driven podcast, t...

The day has finally come and today officially marks our 50th episode of Baddies Mean Business! Today we are answering 50 questions for 50 episodes from anything to coffee orders, to how we would title our memoirs! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you Baddies for being apart of our podcast journey this far. We are so thankful you are here and can’t wait for all more years of episodes to come! B...

Welcome back Baddies! Today's special guest was an early employee at Hulu, and previously worked at firms such at Canaan Partners and Kleiner Perkins. Her wisdom is rooted in experiences focused on collaboration and tapping into the topics that people care about most. We talk about her early days working for one of the biggest streaming services today and how her career has evolved based on th...

Calling all self-proclaimed “generalists”. This episode is for you. We remember the fear we felt when it came to choosing a career path as a “generalist”. We’re here to share the true value generalists have in the workplace. We share about our personal stories of how we became “generalists”, how it affected our careers, and why it’s okay to have a “mile wide, inch deep” skill set if you approach i...

Welcome back Baddies! After a heart-to-heart conversation between two besties, we decided to talk about the thoughts that hover over our heads. Feeling stuck and trying to find a sense of direction in our lives. We're bringing real conversations about what feeling "stuck" felt like to us and what helped us take a few steps closer to security and confidence.  Baddies Mean Business is a perspec...

Welcome back, Baddies! This week, Rylie and Makenzie are back with a solo episode chatting about all their life updates. Highlighting Makenzie's move to Kansas City and her recent travels to Mexico. Rylie discusses her work evolving as she is now in person most days of the week and the events she has been attending in San Diego over the past few weeks.  Baddies Mean Business is a perspective-...

Welcome back Baddies. Taylor Fields is on a mission to build the world's gold standard for coffee. Coming from the corporate world, she founded Nostalgia Coffee, a female, and LGBTQ ran coffee company supporting both its customers and their producers. She shares the story of how her journey in social entrepreneurship is more than a utopian practice of mixing capitalism with social impact. It's a r...

She's a ROCKET SCIENTIST. She's a FOUNDER. She's a soon-to-be famous DJ. Welcome back Baddies to this week's episode with Jasmine LeFlore the founder of Greater Than Tech where her team creates the next generation of technology leaders by teaching aspiring STEM students how to become the engineers of tomorrow.  Baddies Mean Business is a perspective-driven podcast, tells the impactful stories of a...