Behind Her Empire

Have you ever had a health goal in mind but you can’t seem to take the steps to get there? This episode is for you. Dr. Anjali Dsouza is our guest today, and in this episode we dive into ways for busy women to set up healthy habits and much much more.  In this episode you’ll learn…. * The connection between the gut microbiome and your hormones  * How to build a healthy gut microbiome&nbs...

Hard work, a good heart, and good intentions will get you everywhere. This week’s guest, Eilyn Jiminez believes that authenticity should always rule, and it shows. She’s the star of the hit Netflix show, Designing Miami, and the Founder and Director of Sire Design, an all-woman luxury interior design studio based in Miami.  Eilyn’s journey to success has been anything but straightforward, sta...

Have you heard of the cycle syncing craze?  This method uses our menstrual cycle to help us plan our diet, exercise routine, social calendar, and more. This means our cycles can actually be our super power!  Women’s hormones are dynamic and constantly changing throughout the month. How we feel and show up in our bodies and the world shifts with the fluctuations of our hormones. Our guest...

Shilpa Shah is the Co-Founder of Cuyana, a fashion brand that marries luxury-level branding with premium quality apparel and accessories, offering "fewer, better things" to women at accessible price points.  Shilpa spent the first part of her career designing web and mobile interfaces for Fortune 500 companies. Although she was passionate about design, it wasn't until she was pregnant with he...

Starting this week I’m launching a brand new health series called Hormone Happy Hour with Kaya Purohit, my co-host on this series and my co-founder in Beeya Wellness.  Every Wednesday Hormone Happy Hour will feature an in-depth interview with a leading women’s health expert.   Each expert will teach you, step by step, how to eat, think, and move in a way that is designed to help you...

Gala Darling is a bestselling author, speaker, professional optimist, and self-proclaimed tapping queen.  For over a decade, Gala has been a leader in promoting radical self-love. She offers a powerful collection of tools and techniques that have empowered millions of women to discover their voice, overcome fear, and fall in love with life. Gala is also an expert in EFT tapping, an energy psy...

Lisa Sequino is the co-founder and CEO of JLo Beauty & Lifestyle, a brand she founded alongside Jennifer Lopez that is focused on making self-care more simple with high-performance products that deliver incredible results for an inner and outer glow - at any age.  Although Lisa is a beauty veteran, her path was anything but straightforward. She always had a love for beauty but never reali...

Denise Woodard is the founder and CEO of Partake Foods, an allergy-friendly snack company. Denise's journey began back in 2016, while juggling a day job and the new role of mom to a daughter with multiple food allergies. Frustrated by the lack of tasty options available for her little one, she took the advice of her babysitter and decided to "do something about it." From there, Partake Foods was b...

Lele Sadoughi is the founder of her namesake accessories brand, Lele Sadoughi. Lele had over a decade of experience in the fashion industry before beginning her entrepreneurial journey, allowing her to give us meaningful insight into how she has built her own successful brand. Breaking into the industry with few connections (well before the world of emailing CVs), Lele has had endless opportunitie...

Hillary Peterson is the founder of True Botanicals, a clean skincare brand on a mission to deliver nontoxic and sustainable products.  After giving birth to beautiful twins, Hillary was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. A life-changing moment that got her invested in her health in every possible way. After extensive research, she soon discovered that the beauty care products she used were full o...

After dropping out of high school and trying to forge her own path in the world, serial entrepreneur and world-renowned celebrity makeup artist Jeanine Lobell fell in love with cosmetics. Thanks to her try-anything attitude and strong work ethic, she quickly moved up the ranks to work on famous faces like Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman for the covers of Vogue and Vanity Fair . When Jeanine foun...

Jesse Draper is the Founding Partner of Halogen Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in consumer tech companies led by female and co-ed teams. With women making up to 80 percent of household purchasing decisions, Jesse and her team are betting big on early-stage, female-founded companies with billion-dollar potential. Jesse is a fourth generation venture capitalist as...

Suneera Madhani is the co-founder and CEO of Stax, an innovative tech company that radically simplifies the payment ecosystem. After graduating from college, Suneera decided to work at a consumer goods company and after three years she realized that the corporate world wasn’t for her. She was later recruited by a payment-processing company, and it was then she realized she wanted to do someone on...

In this week’s episode, we’re mixing things up again! We’re doing a brand new behind-the-scenes podcast on my journey as an entrepreneur and podcast host! So this week, just like I’ve done before, I’ve handed over the mic to my husband, Dhru Purohit, who’s graciously stepping into the role of host. Our first behind-the-scenes episode was one of my most listened-to episodes of all time so I’m hopin...

Logan Hollowell is the designer, founder and CEO of Logan Hollowell Jewelry. Logan started with little more than a dream board, some affirmations, and the right mindset and manifested her way to a jewelry empire. Her jewelry is a cult favorite and has been spotted on the likes of Rihanna, Jennifer Lawrence, Meghan Markle, and Jessica Alba, among others.  Today she joins us to share her i...

Lisa Odenweller is the Founder and CEO of Kroma Wellness, a functional superfood nutrition company. Lisa entered the wellness space in 2011 upon founding Beaming Wellness, an organic superfood café concept with locations throughout Southern California. The brand quickly attracted a cult following and was a leader in the healthy grab-&-go food category. After exiting Beaming in 2018, Lisa had a...

Karen Young is the Founder and CEO of Oui the People, a body care brand designed to make you feel great in your own skin.  Karen has always been a problem solver, but one problem plagued her for years - debilitating razor burn which held her back from wearing many of her favorite skirts or shorts that showed her legs. In 2014, while working as an executive for Estee Lauder, Keren suffered a p...

Mona Vand is a wellness expert and pharmacist turned entrepreneur who is passionate about making the world a healthier place. After six years of studying, and only a short few weeks of work as a pharmacist, Mona quickly realized that she was in the completely wrong career. While medication and supplements can be part of the equation for leading a healthy life, Mona believes that food is the key fo...

Candace Nelson is a serial entrepreneur and a New York Times bestselling author.  Candace is well-known for co-founding Sprinkles Cupcakes, the world’s first cupcake bakery and ATM, and most recently, Pizzana, a fast-growing chain of award-winning pizzerias. She is also an expert in turning one’s passion into a profitable business and has a book launching on November 8th called Sweet Suc...

Kaisa Keranen (also known as KaisaFit) is the founder of Just Move, a company dedicated to changing people’s lives by showing them that movement isn’t always about weight loss and appearance but rather overall health. Having suffered from depression since the age of 13, Kaisa found movement to be a tool for survival and when she injured herself in college, she knew she needed to figure out ho...

In this week's episode, we're re-airing one of our top episodes with the lovely Noura Sakkijha, co-founder and CEO of Mejuri, a fine jewelry brand that introduces handcrafted, everyday jewelry without the traditional retail markups. Looking from the outside in, entering the jewelry market can seem like a daunting endeavor. Not only is it seemingly saturated, but it’s also exceptionally expensive....

Nicole Wegman is the Founder and CEO of Ring Concierge, the jewelry company making luxury accessible to the masses.   It was Nicole’s own engagement journey that opened her eyes to the void in the market for a more affordable, personal engagement ring shopping experience. At that time, she couldn’t find any brand or company that she connected with. Despite never having worked in the jewelry i...

Neha Kumar is a serial entrepreneur and investor. She’s the co-founder of Maie Wines, a California-made wine company focused on single-serve wine, and co-founder of New Money Ventures, a consumer fund and brand studio focused on empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs.   Beyond her reputable banking career, Neha has worked at several startups over the years and, most recently, se...

Rooshy Roy is the co-founder and CEO of Aavrani, a premium skincare company inspired by India's ancient beauty rituals. As a first generation Indian-American, Rooshy would often make her own skincare with her mom, who showed her how to harness the power of raw ingredients—like turmeric & raw honey—to maintain beautiful skin. As an adult searching for an easier way to access those transformativ...

Samia Gore is the founder and CEO of Body Complete Rx, a plant-based health and wellness nutritional supplement brand. After giving birth to her fourth child, Samia was on a weight loss journey and was looking for natural, organic alternatives to help jumpstart her healthier lifestyle. She was sharing all her personal routines and tips online, and after building a large community of like-minded pe...