Founding Fearless

#8. In this episode, we are interviewing Natalie Holloway, the co-founder of Bala. Bala is a fitness company that is on a mission to empower everyone to move; through creativity and self-expression. Natalie and her fellow co-founder and eventual husband shipped the first 75,000 units of their now infamous Bala Bangles from their garage before appearing on Shark Tank, where they secured an investme...

#7. In this episode, we are interviewing Lesley Robinson. Lesley Robinson is the founding director of the Kendra Scott Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute (KS WELI) at The University of Texas at Austin, where she empowers students - especially women - to find the best path to their own destination. She supports curricular and co-curricular efforts to equip, build community, and empower th...

#6. On this episode, we are interviewing Deborah Gorman and Nicole Cardone, co-founders of Sorbabes! Nicole Cardone was born and raised in Alaska but moved to NYC in 1999 lured by a career on Wall Street. After having children Nicole became passionate about feeding her family only the best. Determined to not abandon her love of frozen desserts, she began to reinvent sorbet with Chef Deborah, and S...

#5. In this episode we are interviewing entrepreneur Alexa Curtis. In 2011, at just 12 years old, Alexa started a fashion blog, called A Life in the Fashion Lane. It became a platform for her to express her feelings around everything relating to teens, body image and mental health. As Curtis evolved as a person,  A Life in the Fashion Lane was changed to Life Unfiltered with Alexa Curtis and becam...

#4. On this episode we are interviewing Vaishali Jadhav. Vaishali has spent over 20 years building purpose-driven leaders for purpose-driven companies. She started her career as a Consultant with the Gallup Organization where she used its powerful Q12™ and StrengthsFinder™ assessments to help clients cultivate engaged leaders and cultures. After receiving her M.B.A., and a successful career in Was...

#3. On this episode we are interviewing Jen Shultz, Founder of The Non-Nine-to-Five.  For over 8 years Jen has been educating and coaching High-Level  Women who are willing to do whatever it takes so they can successfully quit their  job, stand on their own two feet, and pursue their Non-Nine-to Five purpose faster. Jen is a highly intuitive educator and coach as well as a national speaker on a mi...

#2. On this episode, we are joined by Jan Ryan. Serial entrepreneur and tech executive, Jan Ryan has focused on building expansion stage companies for 30 years, resulting in four successful acquisitions and one IPO.  With a passion for tomorrow's change leaders, Jan served as Executive Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Texas in the College of Fine Arts.  She was...

#1. Welcome to the Founding Fearless Podcast! This is a podcast to inspire, empower, and support college-aged women on their entrepreneurial and leadership journeys. Our conversations focus on the entrepreneurial lifestyle with topics ranging from wellness to academics to embracing failures to networking. We created this podcast to uplift female voices through conversations with fellow entrepreneu...