Baddies Mean Business

"Today, we'd like to introduce you to a very special Baddie, Senna Bayasgalan! Senna is the Head of Partnerships at Asians In Advertising, an inclusive community connecting Asians in the advertising, marketing, & comms industry. In her position as a board member and Head of Partnerships, she supports over 3,500 members in more than 30 countries globally. She finds joy in furthering diversity, equi...

Happy Wednesday Baddies! Today we are back with a solo episode full of our 2023 Predictions. Specifically within social media and where we think platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok, and BeReal are going to be by the end of 2023. Listen as we chat through our hot takes and opinions about what 2023 will look like based on what we have seen in current trends! Let us know your 2023 predictions...

Happy 2023 Baddies. You already know the deal. We're talking about the highlights and lowlights of 2022, and bringing in the new year with positivity, lots of water, and, of course, vision boards. Whether last year was the best year of your life or something you rather forget, spend this first Wednesday with us as we share stories about traveling through Tuscany, building confidence in the workpla...

Happy Wednesday Baddies! We are joined today by a very special Baddie, Lexi Bradley! Lexi is a 22-year-old Founder of Digital LB, a Social Media Management company for brands and businesses who want success without stress, through services such as branding, SM management, and strategy coaching. She graduated from APU with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, where her passion for marketing was born...

Are you a woman interested in being an investor one day? Today, we'd like to introduce you to a special Baddie, Maria Gonzalez Blanch. Maria is a partner at Crescent Ridge, a female-led VC firm that’s invested in companies such as Nostalgia Coffee, Needed PBC, Walla Fitness software, and many more. Maria previously worked at Bain & Company and held executive roles at a multi-billion Private Eq...

Happy Wednesday, Baddies! Today we are joined by a very special Baddie, Erica Wenger . Erica is a social entrepreneur, angel investor, community builder, and champion for founders! She is a twentysomething venture capitalist with a TEDx Talk on how social entrepreneurship will change the world, a sold B2B apparel business called Mahkana, and the host and founder of a successful podcast called Dear...

Today, we'd like to introduce you to two very special Baddies, Adesola Akindele and London N oble , co-founders of Hygear Technologies, a Pan-African Women Owned Hygiene Tech Company focused on research, development, distribution, marketing and education of UVC disinfection technology. Patent pending. Also, both the General Partners for Sheba Ventures where they've invested in companies such as La...

Welcome back Baddies, happy Wednesday! We have two very lovely Baddies joining us in today’s episode, Gail Zelitzky and Catherine Marienau. Gail and Cathrine are the Co-Founder’s and Hosts of the Women Over 70 Podcast , a podcast for innovators in their respective fields of business and higher education and now has over 200 episodes. In 2019 they launched Women Over 70–Aging Reimagined to shatter...

Welcome back Baddies. Introducing you to this week's featured Baddie, Kalina Bryant. Kalina is the Founder and CEO of UnapologeTECH, a professional training, and coaching firm dedicated to bettering corporations' customer growth engine, building up diverse talent, and creating inclusive communities at scale. A 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 Honoree, community curator, and public speaker, Kalina has helpe...

Welcome back Baddies. This week we talk about the who, what, and why behind side hustle culture. We've all heard of hustle culture, but today we chat about the choices we make to maintain our financial freedom, mental health, and overall fulfillment. We've discovered some shocking statistics that prove that the next generation of business owners is taking unconventional measures to take their prof...

Welcome back to this week's episode of Baddies Mean Business! We are, once again, bringing you all a solo episode. Today, we are chatting about Key Moments in our lives, good and bad, that we have experienced and have even changed who we are today as individuals. Your story matters and we want to help you share it. What Key Moments do you distinctly remember that ultimately shaped who you are? In...

Welcome back Baddies! In today’s solo episode, we chat about social media. As we are continuing along in our first chapter of our new careers, we are finding more and more areas where social media is coming relevant in our day to day. With Makenzie working in Social Media as her job and Rylie working in Venture Capital with a huge focus in the creator economy and future of work, we are passionate...

Welcome Baddies! In today’s episode, we are joined by a dear friend and mentor, Gary Weiss. Gary is a licensed commercial broker in Century City LA and a principal member of LA Realty Partners. He’s an SDSU alumni and Rylie’s mentor in college for 2 years through the Lavin Entrepreneurship Program. Listen as we converse with Gary about Commercial Real Estate in LA, what to know before leasing comm...

Welcome Baddies. This week we bring on very special guests, Girl and the Gov co-founders Sam Kanter and Maddie Medved. Their mission since 2020 is to give politics a facelift, and make political conversations more approachable and dare we say...enjoyable. Together we break down ways to approach difficult political conversations, share your own personal views on social and economic issues, avoiding...

Welcome back to this week's episode of Baddies Mean Business! We are joined today by Rebecca Driscoll, Founder and CEO of SWELLTER + Chief Executive Officer of Cancer Commons. A passionate, focused, and driven healthcare leader who cares tremendously about impacting change in cancer care. Today, she shares with us the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly, in her journey that has brought her...

Good Morning Baddies. Welcoming Audrey Flowers and Sarah Alice Lidy to the group chat, co-hosts for Completely F****** Clueless, the podcast for those who have no idea what they're doing in life. Together we open up the conversation of encouraging each other to do what we love to do regardless of external expectations.  Audrey and Sarah come from musical theater backgrounds based in NYC. The...

Today on Baddies Mean Business we talk with Taryell Simmons, host of the Rise Urban Nation Podcast and an active San Diego DEI Leader. Together we chat about celebrating individuality, developing programs to create opportunities for diverse groups of people, and discovering life pathways beyond our original plan.  ✨ If you are new to the Baddie Community -- Baddies Mean Business shares the s...

End of Season? Just kidding. We are honored to be initiating Alex Denoble, Executive Director of the SDSU Lavin Entrepreneurship Center to the Baddie Class of 2022. Alex shares with us stories from his early days earning his PhD while living in a cabin solely heated by a wood burning stove, moving across the country to San Diego, and the student stories he's accumulated ever since. In this episode...

Welcome back to Baddies Mean Business. The ideal podcast for individuals navigating their way personally and professional. Follow along our life's journey as we share the stories of our own lives and the lives of others who have found ways to pursue what they're most passionate about. On today's episode, we share the stories of what we've been up to these last few months. Traveling to Venice, Ital...

Are we already at episode #24? "Transitioning" into the summer season (you know what that means), we have our baddies who are winding down, ramping up, and moving forward. OG Baddies will be closing out the season with talking about Kenz's new role in digital marketing and Rylie's new position in Venture Capital. We share about our thoughts, feelings, and Rylie attempts to create her own theory ab...

Breaking barriers together baddies as this week's guest see's no limits to her own potential. This week we discuss how STEM majors can expand their minds beyond the scientific and linear world they have come to know. Jessica Octavio is a soon to be San Diego State University student about to embark on her own journey of working with a STEM focused non-profit, moving across the country to work for...

Han Solo? Solo Cup? Hope Solo? Nope just lil' ole me (Rylie) doing my very first solo podcast. Today I want to talk with you about having authentic conversations with people you meet. Conversations that make you enjoy creating human connections with strangers and exchanging stories. Also, I want to talk to you about the incredible hangover of regret. Regret plus life do not mix, so how can we do o...

Celebrate the end of National Women's History Month as we share our perspective on important questions focusing on women in leadership, defining a powerful women and who we admire. Focusing on females this week and honoring the incredible women breaking barriers, making the difficult decisions, and shifting the perspective on what women are truly capable of.

"Google. Please search up the definition of Baddie?" Searching...searching...*ding ding ding* MOLLY DELMORE everybody! Molly started her very own blog called "Mind Over Molly" in college and it has ended up changing her life ever since. In this episode, Molly shares how to take your life into your own hands and start a career doing what you love. She is a passionate freelance writer, San Diego's u...

Baddies, listen up! Feeling pressured that you need to accomplish something by a certain age? Career by 21? Married by 25? Kids by 28? Today we talk about how to enjoy the process and not the destination. We want everyone to know that there is no standard as to what milestones to accomplish by what age. Trust me. We understand and we want to share our perspectives with you. Rylie's Favorites: F45...