Female Startup Club

Joining me on the show today is Ann McFerran, the LA based founder behind Glamnetic - the go-to magnetic lash company. Glamnetic is committed to providing the highest quality products and experience to customers and finding ways to continually make your beauty routine easier!  Ann launched her brand a year ago from her bedroom and within no time at all was doing 7 figures a month in sales! In this...

Joining me on the show today is the founder behind Sweet Reason. Sweet Reason is a hemp and cannabis beverage company that exists to calm your mind. The company is focused on bringing the health and calming benefits of CBD into the mainstream by offering consumers clean beverages that are truly healthy and taste great. Think of Sweet Reason as your guide to present mornings, productive afternoons,...

Joining me on the show today is Beatrice Dixon, Co-Founder of The Honey Pot, a plant based feminine care brand that cares about the health of our vaginas.  The Honey Pot has grown from being made in her kitchen for herself and her friends to being stocked in every Target and Walmart around America. What started as something that came to her in a dream changed the course of her life and millions of...

Joining me on the show today are two of the co-founders behind the luxury pet accessories brand Wild One. Wild One is a one stop shop for everything you need for your cute pooch and they’ve got the kind of job we all dream about - well, I dream about - puppies in the office, puppy photoshoots and hanging out at dog parks seeing what owners are into and talking about.  These two women and their thi...

Joining me on the show today is Alaina Moulton, founder of Baby’s Brew. The world's first portable bottle warmer. The Baby's Brew was created to solve a very LARGE need for parents who don't want to be tied down by a plug.  And while Alaina only launched a short year ago in July 2019 the brand has been growing exponentially ever since! This year they’ve surpassed 1.3m dollars in revenue and are qu...

Joining me on the show today is Coral Chung, Co-Founder and CEO of Senreve, the luxury San Fran based fashion startup.  Coral and her Co-Founder Wendy teamed up to redefine what it meant to build a luxury brand in today’s fashion landscape. They’ve been on a major journey in just 3 short years raising more than $23 million dollars in funding, expanding internationally at a rapid rate and being spo...

Joining me on the show today is Jennifer chow! One of the co-founders behind Nurture Life. A company that’s creating pre-ready healthy, nutritious meals for babies, toddlers and kids. Growing up learning about healthy food, and watching her mum build her own entrepreneurial pursuits, Jennifer saw a gap in the market for pre prepared, fresh meals delivered to your door that busy mums and dads could...

Joining me on the show today is Katie Sturino, dog mum, influencer and beauty entrepreneur! She’s the woman behind the brand Megababe, a brand creating products for women that no one seemed to want to talk about, products for booby sweat and thigh chafing. Katie found herself shopping for products that she couldn’t find anywhere else except the guys grooming department!! With her mega community be...

Joining me in today’s episode is the founder of a company that’s been dubbed the Warby Parker for kids, Pair Eyewear.  Sophia and her co-founder Nathan started Pair in 2017 after meeting at Stanford and decided to take on the challenge of designing beautiful eyewear that’s also customisable for kids while also giving back to children around the world who are in need of vision care.  We’re covering...

Joining me on the show today is Catharine Dockery, the founder behind Vice Ventures. A fund that invests in early stage startups from non-traditional verticals including cannabis, alcohol, CBD, e-sports, addiction recovery and sextech.  Catharine was going through a series of interviews for new jobs in the world of VC and was pitching in an alcohol brand only to be met with the same feedback on re...

Joining me on today’s show is Kristi Palmer, she’s the co-founder of California’s biggest cannabis company, Kiva Confections.  What started out of desperation in 2010 with duo Kristi and Scott Palmer has since grown into the best selling edibles company in California a decade later. Kristi bootstrapped her brand from her kitchen back when the landscape was very different and unregulated, through t...

Joining me on the show today is Emilie Hoyt, a seasoned entrepreneur of 20+ years who founded her clean beauty empire LATHER in 1999.  What started as a company to solve Emilie’s terrible migraine troubles slowly and surely grew into a full blown skincare company that’s taken her down the entrepreneurial path to success.  We’re covering how she bootstrapped her business and found creative solution...

Joining me on the show today is Lindsey Johnson, Co-Founder of the luxury towel company you need to know about, Weezie!  The duo behind the brand, Lindsey and Liz, have been friends for over a decade and after looking for a set of towels that we all dream about, Liz realised she couldn’t find exactly what she was looking for. And neither could her friends. The two set out to create a towel company...

Joining me on the show today are the two best friends behind the coolest wig company you’ve ever met, Jordynn and Sharon from Insert Name Here (or INH for short).  These two women were early employees of the beauty startup Colourpop and after spending a few years learning the ropes at the wildly successful business they decided it was time to get out there and launch their own thing. After connect...

Joining me on the show today is Melanie Masarin, Founder of the spirited booze free brand, Ghia. A Glossier alum, Melanie launched her brand earlier this year during the pandemic and it’s been on the tip of everyone’s tongue ever since.  We talk about the lightbulb moment she decided she was going to launch an aperitif, what actually happens in the lead up to the launch, the steps to doing a frien...

Joining me on the show today is serial entrepreneur Agnes Kozera, Co-founder of a marketplace called Podcorn! Podcorn is a platform built specifically for the podcasting community (hooray!) that matches brands with podcasters to help monetise podcast shows. Prior to that, Agnes was the co-founder of a super successful influencer platform called Famebit which was acquired by Google in 2016 for an u...

Joining me on the show today is Teresa Tsou, one of the co-founders behind the popcorn snack company called Pipcorn!  Launched in 2012 by Jen, Jeff and Teresa, with just $3,000, this is a snack company that’s gone on a rollercoaster of a journey since it started. They’ve gone from handing out popcorn in brown paper bags around Brooklyn to being on Oprah and Sharktank, to almost closing it down a f...

On today’s episode I’m joined by Rooshy Roy, Co-Founder of An Indian inspired skincare brand called Aavrani.  A first-generation Indian American, Rooshy grew up around her family making ancient Indian skin care treatments using ingredients like turmeric and almond oil, and through a chance encounter at business school on her second day there, she started her entrepreneurial journey with Aavrani. N...

Joining me on the show today is Laurel Angelica Myers, co-founder of the science led, purpose driven wellness brand that’s elevating CBD products, Prima.  The B-corp certified company’s core mission is to rise up against the modern day stress epidemic through education and products made with the highest standards of purity, potency and transparency. Recently called the Patagonia of CBD by Forbes,...

Joining me on the show today is Australia’s number 1 money podcast host, Victoria Devine. Founder of She's On The Money, the podcast for millennial women who want financial freedom in life.  Victoria launched her money related podcast, She’s on the money, in 2019 and since then it’s grown like crazy into a household show for women who want to change their money habits and learn where they can best...

Joining me on the show today is serial entrepreneur Nohémie Mawaka. We’re diving into her story of creating her first business that was started by chance, Stats Congo, and what it’s like to have the courage to step away from it all and start over. Now she’s taking her learnings from the first time around into her second venture Aluuka, a global healthcare platform that allows you to instantly pay...

In today’s episode I’m chatting to the queen of social media (literally), Rachel Pedersen.  Rachel has built a wildly successful digital agency and an even crazier social media following, and the purpose of this episode is to give you a step by step plan to launching your business TikTok account and reaching your goals. LINKS WE MENTION: Rachel Pederson In partnership with Klaviyo, the best email...

On today's episode I'm chatting with Olivia Landau, CEO and founder of The Clear Cut. Olivia’s business, The Clear Cut, is a direct to consumer jewellery business that’s completely disrupting the industry. They’ve flipped the traditional jewellery on its head through marketing, zoom call appointments and supply chain. She's a diamond expert, GIA Graduate Gemologist and 4th generation jeweller with...

Joining me on the show today is Jordan Jones, the Founder of sparkly lifestyle brand Packed Party. Packed Party launched 7 years ago in 2013 after a lightbulb moment she had late at night; her mum had told her she needed to throw herself a pity party and basically - the rest is history!  Fast forward today Jordan has been named one of Forbes 30 under 30, the brand has had explosive growth and expa...

Today I’m joined by someone I’ve been admiring from afar for a very long time, Carly Leahy, co-founder of Modern Fertility. Modern fertility is a women’s healthcare company that set out to launch the world’s first at home fertility hormone test in 2017 alongside Afton Vechery. Since launching they’ve successfully gone through Y-Combinator, raised 22 million dollars in funding, been named as Fast c...