Invest In Her with Catherine Gray

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Julie DeLucca-Collins , the Founder and CEO of Go Confidently Services, the host of the popular Casa DeConfidence Podcast®, and her weekly Radio Show Confident You featured on a global talk radio network.   As a Business and Life Strategist Coach, Julie helps women business owners launch or grow their businesses, get clients, be productive, and achieve...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Manuela Seve , co-founder and CEO of Alpha'a & alphaa.io through which she is changing the way we think of asset ownership by connecting the physical and digital realms via: blockchain certification, licensing and dropshipping. She has been in the tech and art sector for the past 8 years successfully raising funds from industry leaders such as: Metaprop...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Cindy Gersch the Founder and President of NEU Marketing Group, an award-winning branding, marketing, and communications strategy firm founded with the goals of providing personal, thoughtful, and strategic leadership to clients. In addition, Cindy has started, and now runs the extremely successful Facebook Group, Supporting Small and Local Businesses Ev...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Amanda Botfeld , the author of "A Girl's Guide to Poker" & CEO, Finally Get Your Book Done. Amanda is an author-turned-book-coach who helps women write books from start to finish. Previously she has written for The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Los Angeles Times . Now her mission is to empower women to tell their stories and share their expe...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Sylvana Q. Sinha , the founder and CEO of Praava Health , a leading healthcare company focused on improving health outcomes and patient journeys in emerging markets, where 85% of the world lives but whose current systems typically prioritize profits over patients. Since launching in 2018, Praava has become Bangladesh's fastest-growing consumer healthcar...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Tamearra Dyson , the Executive Chef and Owner of Souley Vegan LLC ., a nationally known brand of restaurants that now has 6 locations. One being full service and the others being take-out only. As a single mother with no savings or experience in the restaurant industry, Dyson left the medical field only one pre-requirement away from nursing school to pu...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Amy Hanlon , president of Blue Meta Design , visually showcases the impactful stories of startups through graphic design, partnering with VC's on cutting-edge investments.  A small branding agency located in the Mid-South, Blue Meta Design is client-focused, servicing companies that are changing the world and their communities. With a goal to create mem...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Mika Leah who has survived 5 heart stents and 3 invasive heart procedures, all before turning 36 years old. With a new lease on life and a calling to help others, Mika launched her corporate wellness company Goomi Group , to make health and happiness accessible to everyone. With 17 years as an executive in a corporate environment for companies such as D...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with the Founders Blink Date, the first, voice dating app, designed to enable authentic connections that was inspired by a revelatory experience at a blackout restaurant. Making connections with strangers based on conversation alone, free of looks-driven assumptions, sparked the thought: would people date a wider variety of people and make more genuine conne...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Ande Lyons, a 4 time founder, a startup champion, and host of the popular live stream show Startup Life LIVE. Using her deep toolkit of hard-earned business skills from her 4 prior businesses, combined with an abundance of enthusiasm, aka Andelicious Advice, Ande educates first-time founders through conversations with diverse founders, investors, and ex...

INVEST IN HER with Catherine Gray Ep. 317 Innovative Wearable Tech for Women w/ CEO of Embr Labs, Elizabeth Gazda   Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with the CEO of Embr Labs, a Boston-based wearables company that developed the Embr Wave – a wrist-worn, personal thermostat that improves sleep, relieves anxiety and helps with hot flashes.    Prior to Embr Labs, Liz was a member of several fo...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Fran Dunaway is a media executive-turned-fashion entrepreneur and co-founder of TomboyX, a Seattle-based gender-neutral underwear and loungewear brand launched in 2013. The brand started as a passion project in collaboration with her wife and co-founder Naomi Gonzalez to create the perfect button-up shirt, pivoting to focus on underwear based on the ove...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Dayn Conrad, John Ehlers and Tracey Mays discuss how they started out in different industries and eventually transitioned into land investing and have become experts in their fields. Listen along to find out how and why you should be a land investor. And today…the Girls Just Wanna Have Funds movie grassroots fundraiser rolls out! Click here to learn mor...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Liz Giorgi who is a media entrepreneur and Emmy-award winner. She is currently working as the co-founder and CEO of soona , a revolutionary virtual photoshoot platform providing the fastest and most affordable way to create professional content online. She's a passionate advocate for women in business and created the Candor Clause to promote equity in b...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Julie Peterson Klein , the Chief of Staff & EVP, the Chief Culture Officer of Bell Bank. Julie leads the mission of Happy Employees! Happy Customers! She inspires passion in Bell team members to live the company's values of promoting a family atmosphere, providing unequaled personal service, and paying it forward by giving back to the community.  Julie...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Emily Best who is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark , a unique organization that accelerates the cultural impact of storytelling.  Seed&Spark's crowdfunding platform and national education program have helped thousands of bold storytellers raise tens of millions of dollars to bring to life entirely new stories, and they've built an engaged community of...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Vicky Pasche , the Co-Founder of Dapper Boi, Inc.  Within five years of starting her online genderless clothing brand, it is now a seven-figure company on a mission to revolutionize the genderless fashion movement.  Vicky has always had a passion for compassion and believes that so many of us do not fit in today's binary norms in the retail world.  By c...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Vicki Saunders who is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change-makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. She is the founder of #radicalgenerosity and Coralus (formerly SheEO) , a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventu...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Kelly Ann Winget , the Founder of Dallas-based private equity company, Alternative Wealth Partners. Kelly Ann has over a decade of experience in the alternative investment space, sourcing creative capital for startups, oil & gas companies, manufacturing ventures, real estate, and several other emerging markets. She has helped companies raise almost $1B...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Shira Yevin who is an Entrepreneur, Artist, Activist, and Founder of Gritty In Pink, which was launched in January 2020, and is a new female-led platform to empower women within the music industry. On a mission to achieve gender equality in the music industry and beyond, Gritty In Pink has featured 250+ emerging artists with 27M collective followers on...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Cheryl Melendez who is the Associate Director for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses (10KSB) Programs in the Southern California area at Long Beach City College and Los Angeles City College. This business and management education program is funded by the Goldman Sachs Foundation, using a curriculum designed by Babson College, a leader in entrepre...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Dawn Lafreeda , who is one of the largest restaurant franchise owners in America, owning over 115 restaurants in career, as well as the largest female employer in San Antonio, Texas, and one of San Antonio's largest private companies. She bought her first franchise from Denny's at age 23 and presently owns 80 Denny's restaurants, employing over 3,000 in...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Pocket Sun who is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at SoGal Ventures , a top-performing early stage venture capital firm backing world-class women and diverse entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley. She founded SoGal at age 23 to solve the deeply rooted inequity in VC and to deliver superior, consistent financial returns by investing in underestimat...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with B. Pagels-Minor discusses their background and becoming an investor. B. loves product development and improving the processes of developing successful products. B. has worked with small ( 100,000+) companies to increase product adoption, improve the product experience and design, and evolve the product vision. B. is a thought leader on product and cultu...

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with Ann Metzger who is known as the "Mayor", and is the General Partner of 360 Venture Collective which is a woman-founded and led venture firm based in Miami, Florida with an intentionally inclusive investment thesis, funding & accelerating pre-seed & seed stage venture scale tech-enabled companies led by historically underestimated founders building in th...