CEO School with Suneera Madhani

In this episode, you'll hear from Rebecca Liu, a principal investor at Insight Partners focusing on areas such as high-growth software, marketplaces, and consumer internet. Rebecca shares how she went from majoring in politics and economics and working on Capitol Hill to entering the finance industry and discovering the world of start-ups and venture capital. You'll learn what it means to be an op...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera shares the importance and impact of having an accountability structure in your business whether that is a board of directors, mastermind, peer community or coach. You'll learn what the function of a board of directors is, how it can help grow your business, and considerations when forming one. Suneera discusses how you can utilize a customer advisory cou...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Shannan shares the primary needle movers in each stage of business as you grow from zero to 7 figures You'll hear what your priority should be at the very beginning if you haven’t hit six figures yet or have inconsistent income months, and the importance of getting proof of product. Shannan gives considerations when hiring team members and how bringing people in...

In this episode, you'll hear from Avani Desai, a Partner and President at Schellman & Company, LLC, the largest niche CPA firm in the world that focuses on technology and security assessments. Avani shares her journey from majoring in computer science, landing a job growing her career with a top accounting firm, and then choosing to step away to focus on being a mom. You'll hear her share the real...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera shares the weekly scorecard process she uses so she can successfully manage being a mom and CEO and achieve work/life integration. You'll learn that the trick to work life balance, and how to zoom out and identify the three buckets of your life that are most important to you. Suneera breaks down how to build out the weekly habits in each bucket to help c...

In this episode, you'll hear from Trudi Lebron, a diversity, equity and inclusion coach who teaches individuals and institutions how to build successful, anti-racist businesses. Trudi shares how her professional background in nonprofit led her to teach entrepreneurs and business how to make a good living and be socially responsible in business. You'll learn how we can find a balance between fighti...

In today's Wine Wednesday, Shannan celebrates her 10 year entrepreneurial anniversary and shares what she would do if she were to start again from scratch today. You'll hear why the very first thing that Shannan would do is to triple down on social media and how to do that in today’s market. Shannan emphasizes he importance of owning a niche and becoming as specific as possible in order to stand o...

In this episode, you'll hear from Arlan Hamilton, Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a fund that is dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Arlan shares her journey from being broke to investing in 100 companies led by unrepresented founders. You'll hear the mindset and impact of someon...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera shares her own quarterly planning process she uses to set goals and map out how to achieve them. You'll learn how to assess the year so far and then create tangible and attainable, as well as exciting, goals for the quarter ahead. Suneera gives listeners a walkthrough of the zoom out process used in CEO School, available in the CEO School Planner, to ide...

In this episode, you'll hear from Molly Fienning, CEO of Red Clay Hot Sauce, a modern, Southern hot sauce and hot honey company that brings a new kind of heat by putting flavor over fire. Molly dives right in and shares what it’s been like to run a food service company during the pandemic and survive all the changes. She shares the background story of how Red Clay hot sauce came to be with a date...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Shannan and Suneera share the lessons they have learned the last year as their business and personal lives pivoted during the pandemic. Suneera discusses learning to let all the expectations and pressures go, and how the pandemic helped her to stop and smell the roses and positively changed views on professionalism. Shannan shares that her first lesson from the...

In this episode, you'll hear from Elise Darma, an Instagram educator who helps entrepreneurs turn their Instagram account into the next revenue stream in their business. Elise shares her 8 year journey to build a business, grow a platform, and join the 2% club through building a personal brand. You'll hear how for the majority of the people out there, you're not going to go viral overnight and be...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera discusses a reality near and dear to Suneera’s heart; the leadership gap that exists in corporations everywhere in America today. Suneera shares statistics showing that while women are more educated than men, we not only earn less, we actually hold less positions of leadership in almost every industry. You'll hear several ways we can positively improve s...

In this episode, you'll hear from Raena Boston, table shakin', sailor talkin', and truth teller at her expanding corner of the internet, The Working Momtras community. Raena shares why she chose to create Working Momtras and the supportive community she wanted to build for working moms. You'll hear Raena's advice for moms whose identity lines are blurred, and her favorite rituals, habits and routi...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Shannan shares confessions from fellow entrepreneurs sent in via Instagram to help one another know we are not alone in the journey. You'll hear how the fear of failure is more commonly talked about than the fear of fear of success and why it’s important to open up this conversation, and a confession about intellectual property and asking for help in the entrepr...

In this episode, you'll hear from Nicole Walters, CEO of Inherit Learning Company and star of the USA network show, "She's The Boss." Nicole shares what made her choose to leave her job when she was at the top of her career and how she went from one on one client work to earning passive income as the CEO of a female, black owned business. You'll learn why she said no to TV opportunities, book deal...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera answers a question she gets frequently in the DM’s and shares how she manages her inboxes so she can remain productive and not feel overwhelmed by email. You'll hear about the importance of decluttering your inbox why you should create rules in your inbox to bring the most important emails to the top so you can prioritize them easily. Suneera explains wh...

In this episode, you'll hear from Selena Soo, a publicity and marketing strategist for visionary entrepreneurs, experts, and authors who want to reach millions with their message. Selena shares how she became interested in marketing and publicity after experiencing a quarter life crisis and being a part of a group coaching program. Her journey to becoming known as the top person for media connecti...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, you'll hear from Reese Evans, Mindset + Abundance Coach and Creator of the YES SUPPLY METHOD, who is on a mission to teach the world the power of their subconscious mind, universal laws and how we have infinite potential to create the life we're all meant to live. Reese shares how we can stop resisting money and why it’s our duty to make more of it. 2.0 Mastermi...

In this episode, you'll hear from Kristen Wiley, an award-winning marketer, startup founder, speaker and CEO of the innovative word-of-mouth marketing platform, Statusphere. Kristen shares how she knew she’d study marketing in college and discovered a second passion, entrepreneurship, when she started a blog. You'll hear how Kristen identified a problem in the marketplace and decided to create a s...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera shares the reality of mistakes happening, or things being missed no matter how organized we are. You'll learn Suneera's process for thinking through every system in her life, from family to streamlining two businesses, and how even with the automation and hyper organization in place, mistakes can still happen. Suneera gives a reminder to give yourself gr...

In this episode, you'll hear from Liv Conlon, The UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year and CEO & Founder who built a £1m brand in her teens. Liv shares her journey of declining the traditional route for university and choosing her own path instead that led her to launching a home staging business. You'll hear about the challenges rapid growth of the business brought on and how she navigated them. Liv...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Shannan shares four things you need to do to shift your money mindset and feel confident asking for more. You'll learn how your money stories can have an impact on your ability to sell when you project it onto others and the importance of rewriting them. Shannan outlines why you need to find out what is important to the other person, and the benefit of taking th...

In this episode, you'll hear from Sheena Melwani, singer and creator of the “Interrupted Series” on TikTok which amassed hundreds of millions of views. Sheena shares her journey as an artist before hitting 150 million views on accident. You'll learn one simple way to hit the restart button after pausing the career journey, and the significance of finding a group of women that can help raise each o...

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Shannan shares the biggest limiting beliefs and blocks that she had to work through to hit 1 million in revenue and join the 2% Club. She shares some core limiting beliefs around gender roles, and how being successful doesn’t mean you’re selfish or taking away from the success of anyone else. You'll learn the limiting belief she continues to work on daily to ful...